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England's Heroes: Where are they now?
December 10, 2008
Current England manager Martin Johnson lifts the 2003 World Cup © Getty Images
Neil Back Iain Balshaw Kyran Bracken Mike Catt Ben Cohen Martin Corry Lawrence Dallaglio Matt Dawson Will Greenwood Richard Hill Richard Hill Martin Johnson Ben Kay Jason Leonard Lewis Moody Steve Thompson Mike Tindall Phil Vickery Dorian West Jonny Wilkinson Trevor Woodman
With the news of Josh Lewsey's international retirement, we take a look at where his fellow World Cup winners have ended up after their moment in the sun in Sydney five years ago.
Josh Lewsey: Continued as an important part of the Wasps and England set-up until announcing his retirement from international rugby in December 2008. Scored the try that saw England past France and into the 2007 World Cup final, but injury ruled him out of his second final and he was subsequently left-out of Brian Ashton's squad for the 2008 Six Nations. Lewsey was retained by Martin Johnson in his first Elite Player Squad, but a dip inform saw his place taken by Delon Armitage.
Jason Robinson: Hung up his international boots in 2005 after touring with the Lions, but was coaxed out of retirement by Brian Ashton before starring in England's run to the 2007 World Cup final. Made his final international appearance for the Barbarians against South Africa before giving up the game for good at the end of the 2007-08 season, retiring to his family's farm.
Will Greenwood: Toured with the Lions in 2005 before retiring from the game after helping long-time club Harlequins to promotion back into the Premiership from National Division One. Has since forged a successful career as a television pundit with Sky and ITV.
Mike Tindall: Made the switch from Bath to Gloucester and became an important leader for England before a broken leg ruled him out of the 2007 World Cup. Tindall suffered a torn liver and punctured lung in a freak collision with Wales full-back Lee Byrne in their Six Nations match at Twickenham in February 2008. Upon his return to fitness Tindall signed a new deal with Gloucester, but found himself demoted into the England Saxons squad by new boss Martin Johnson.
Ben Cohen: Cohen experienced a dip in form after the World Cup, admitting that his appetite for the game had slipped. Toured with England in 2007 with a view to the World Cup, but then ruled himself out of the tournament to spend time with his pregnant wife. Sought release from his Northampton contract upon the club's relegation in 2007, moving across the channel to play for Brive in the Top 14.
Jonny Wilkinson: Endured years of injury misery since his drop-goal won the World Cup. Three separate shoulder injuries, a lacerated kidney, neck problems, adductor muscle and appendix issues and most recently a dislocated knee cap suffered while playing for Newcastle against Gloucester in September 2008 have kept him from the world stage. Wilkinson originally returned from injury in time for the 2005 Lions tour and played an integral role ain England's run to the 2007 World Cup final after recovering from further injury problems.
Matt Dawson: Moved to Wasps from Northampton before retiring from the game to pursue his media interests. Came second in the BBC's reality dancing show Strictly Come Dancing behind cricketer Mark Ramprakash before winning Celebrity Masterchef. Occasionally commentates on rugby for Radio Five Live and presents a fishing show on UKTV Food.
Trevor Woodman: Forced to retire due to a back injury sustained in training in 2005, having moved from Gloucester to Sale in 2004. Currently scrummaging coach with Sydney University after heading down-under when his career ended.
Steve Thompson: Forced to retire on medical advice after damaging his spinal cord in 2007, but was subsequently passed fit to return to action. Thompson took up a contract with French Top 14 side Brive, alongside former Northampton colleague Ben Cohen.
Phil Vickery: Captained England under Brian Ashton and won a Heineken Cup with Wasps after making the switch from Gloucester in 2006. A series of back injuries have disrupted Vickery's international career since the World Cup, but he was the only member of the 2003 side on display against Australia in the 2008 autumn internationals.
Martin Johnson: England's talismanic skipper is now the man in charge at HQ after taking the reins as England manager in April 2008. Still a hugely influential and popular figure, Johnson has endured a difficult start to his tenure with England slipping the heavy defeats against the Tri Nations sides in the 2008 autumn internationals.
Ben Kay: Still packing down for Leicester Tigers and was an ever present during England's run to the 2007 World Cup final. Kay was called into Martin Johnson's 2008 autumn international squad as injury cover but did not feature.
Richard Hill: Battled on for Saracens until May 2008 when a knee injury ended his career. Put in an outstanding, grafting display to help Sarries defeat the Ospreys in the 2008 Heineken Cup quarter-finals. Now mentors young Saracens players part time whilst working as a business development manager.
Neil Back: Toured with the Lions in 2005 aged 36 before joining the coaching staff at Leicester. Has since moved on to become Head Coach at Leeds, and his side are currently unbeaten in national Division One this season.
Lawrence Dallaglio: Captained England following Martin Johnson's retirement before calling time on his international career in 2004. Selection for the 2005 Lions brought Dallaglio back into the England fold, and he helped them to the 2007 World Cup final before announcing his retirement after the tournament. He finally retired from all rugby after leading Wasps to a Premiership title in front of a packed house at Twickenham in May 2008. In November 2008 Dallaglio was announced as a Director at Wasps.
Dorian West: West was unfortunate not to make the field during the final and after his retirement he became Northampton Saints' forwards coach alongside Jim Mallinder.
Jason Leonard: England's most-capped player finally hung up his boots after winning his 114th cap against Italy in the 2004 Six Nations. Now works in the construction industry alongside his duties as a member of the Professional Game Board.
Martin Corry: Skippered England through a rough patch in the 2005 and 2006 Six Nations before retiring from international rugby following the 2007 World Cup. Corry currently captains Leicester Tigers and has moved into the second-row in recent seasons.
Lewis Moody: Recently returned to action for Leicester following a long-term layoff with injuries to his hip and Achilles. Will be back in the England reckoning for the Six Nations but faces tough competition from Wasps' Tom Rees and Bath skipper Michael Lipman.
Kyran Bracken: Retired from rugby in 2004 after a long-term back injury. Won ITV's reality show Dancing on Ice and now works as a professional ice skater.
Mike Catt: Catt soldiered on through England's run to the 2007 World Cup final before his controversial autobiography brought further scrutiny on Brian Ashton's tenure as England coach. Currently employed as London Irish's attack coach after a successful time with the club as a player.
Iain Balshaw: Moved from Bath to Leeds before settling at Gloucester. Started all of England's 2008 Six Nations matches but drew a great deal of criticism for some inconsistent displays. Balshaw was subsequently left out of Martin Johnson's Elite Player Squad and Saxons squad.
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I always encourage clients to send me a blog post after their birth. Here's a post that I asked dear Kate to write after she told me about one day in her "life as a new mum":
"This is for all the women who are doing very well... you know the kind - maybe you are one. One whose families are wondering, why does she keep calling her doula every two days? Surely a doula is just necessary for the labour part. Maybe even your husband, who was over the moon at having a doula present at birth, is a little skeptical:
"You like calling Jacquie, don't you?"
"I do! And she says we can call as much as we like anyway!"
"I guess she hopes that it tapers off after awhile, even though she says she's ours forever."
"Well she doesn't expect it to taper off THIS quickly!"
My father's partner calls this "the curse of the efficient woman".
I admit it, I'm doing well. My labour was short (so short, we didn't make it to the hospital - hurray for homebirths!), my stitches have healed, my breasts don't hurt, and we get some sleep every night. My baby is gaining weight and generally seems happy. Now he is five weeks old, and I made it out to stroller fit yesterday. Today,with Sacha happily sleeping in his baby wrap, I cleaned the garlic we've grown in our garden and made a fresh batch of granola, all before noon - perhaps I am an efficient woman. But even we have 24 hour periods like the one I'm going to tell you about, when Sacha was just 3 weeks old...
Nana, my mother-in-law, was visiting, and we decided to head out to Langley to pick up some berries. While we were there, I figured I ought to have lunch with my baby sister, still just 19, who lives there with her mother (who is not my mother). Anyhow, my sister has a stepsister, also 19, who had a baby 4 days after mine. I have worked hard to avoid jealousy over the fact that my own baby sister has another nephew to adore just when I have provided one for her... So when, during lunch, my sister holds Sacha the entire time, but talks steadily the ENTIRE time about the OTHER baby, I do my best to smile and encourage. After all, a teenage mum needs support, and I should be glad my sister is helping out so much. When we were sitting in the restaurant after my sister leaves, Nana takes Sacha and says to him, "Well, Baby X sure is a perfect baby, isn't he?". I laugh, relieved that I'm not crazy. And after all, I am doing well... so I still have a sense of humour.
Later the same day, Sacha, Nana and I are on our way home... Unfortunately, we overshoot feeding time by about 15 minutes. The last bit of the drive home is a combination of wild, distraught screaming from Sacha, punctuated by eerie minutes of silence in which I become terrified that he has screamed himself out of air... But, we make it home and he gets fed. I laugh, relieved that I can so easily meet my baby's needs. I am doing well...
Midnight that night, disaster strikes. I have fed Sacha, and burped him. When I lay him down right after a feed, he gets the hiccups, starts to cry, and things go downhill from there. So I am in bed, slighltly propped up, with him on my chest. Have I mentioned my son is strong? Somehow, while I am semi-dozing, he pushes up, rolls to the side...and right off me onto the floor. I jump up with a shriek, pluck my beautiful baby off the hardwood floor, and lay him on the bed to examine... he hasn't even woken up... his eyes open as and he sees me above him, talking hysterically to his father about whether he is concussed, whether we need to take him in to the hospital. Meanwhile, Nana runs into our room having heard the fuss... there I am half naked sobbing "I d-d-d-d-ropped him on the fl-fl-fl-floor..." We all notice that my nursing pillow is on the floor right where he landed.. Everyone concludes that he landed on the pillow. And, well, babies get dropped (I got dropped 3 times on my head according to family lore). I laugh, relieved that Sacha is ok, there are no bumps and bruises. Nana goes back to bed. But I am officially NOT doing well...
"Aren't you mad at me?" I ask my husband, still sobbing.
"Of course not. You didn't mean to, and he's perfectly fine!! "
"But if you'd done it, I'd be FURIOUS!!"
I cry some more over my own double standards... Eventually, my husband suggests that I take the baby downstairs for a cuddle so I can work out all my guilt. I follow his advice, and an hour later I manage to put the baby in the bassinet and throw myself back into bed for a few hours of desperately needed sleep.
The next morning, I am feeling fragile. But having been reassured by my husband, mother, and mother in law that I am still a trustworthy mother, I venture out. With the baby, the dog, and Nana, we walk to the grocery store. We get groceries (stored nicely in the stroller, while baby snuggles in a sling). I have overshot feeding time again, and since I'm not about to subject any of us to a long bout of crying at this point, we stop at an off-leash park. The dog runs after sticks while I feed Sacha. Suddenly, my friendly, bouncy lab-cross who still looks like a puppy at nearly 3 years old, starts barking and running towards somebody across the playing field behind us. I jump up, babe in arms, shirt half off, receiving blankets flying, and see that Nellie is headed toward a mother and daughter across the field. Now, I know my dog is all bark and no bite. But, THEY don't. They see a large, black dog tearing towards them. Unfortunately, the mother seems to have no sense of how to react to a dog, and starts screaming. Not just a yelp - repeated, high pitched, terrified shrieking. The daughter follows suit, and just to add to the effect, they both start running in circles. Nellie thinks this could be a fabulous game, and keeps on charging towards them. They keep shrieking and running in circles. I start to wonder how this is going to end as I'm yelling "SHE'S FRIENDLY, JUST STOP SCREAMING. PLEASE!!!!!!!!! STOP SCREAMING!!!!!!!!!!!". I alternate this with yelling at Nellie to come back. After a few crazy seconds that felt like minutes, Nellie comes prancing back, very proud of her efforts, and the mother and daughter aren't shrieking, but the mother is yelling at me from across the field, accusing me of having a vicious dog off leash (in an off leash park, of course). By this point, I am shaking, the baby is crying, and Nana is trying to pull the pieces together. We put Sacha in the stroller with the groceries, get Nellie on her leash, and make a beeline out of the park (as fast as we can considering Nana has recently finished a course of chemo, and I still have stitches on the mend.) I laugh, glad that Nellie didn't reveal any new aggressive tendencies, but there is more than a little hysteria in my voice. I'm not convinced that I'm doing so well...
We make it home. I go to use the washroom and see that I have acquired a blotchy rash all over my neck and face. Nice touch. Nana suggests that it might be stress related, takes the baby, and sends me for a nap. An hour of solitary sleep and a tearful phone call with my own mother later, and I feel like I could possibly soon be doing well again.
So, for all of you who generally do well, and maybe don't feel like the roller coaster ride of early motherhood is quite as crazy-making for you - don't fall prey to the curse of the efficient woman -- let everyone know that you need just as much TLC, and make those phone calls to your doula!"
- Kate, mum of Sacha James (and Nellie the dog)

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Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. It was originally classified as a comedy, but is now also classified as one of Shakespeare's problem plays.
The play deals with the issues of mercy, justice, truth and their relationship to pride and humility: "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall"
Language: English
Published in: 1604
Word count: 22,899 words (≈ about 2 hours)
Source: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/
Copyright: Public Domain
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APALACHICOLA, Fla. — The back porch of Boss Oyster restaurant, with tables covered in worn-out plastic cloths, is deserted. But the menu seems to have what we're after: fish, more fish, and cold beer. Out it comes on old Melmac plates: a giant griddled crabcake that has so little filler it falls into large, deliciously sweet flakes with the touch of a fork; grilled redfish with a hint of rosemary; smooth, cheesy, delicious grits; and golden balls of hush puppies.
We drove a long way for this simple, perfect meal. Boss was hard to find. Not geographically difficult, but hard because you would think a place like this exists at every curve of the Gulf Coast. We are in search of the Old South and though it's here, you really have to dig to get to it. We're on a road trip from New Orleans to Charleston, S.C., driving from Louisiana, through Mississippi, Alabama, then across the Panhandle to this stop in Apalachicola, a region Florida calls its Forgotten Coast, going east to Gainesville, then St. Augustine to Florida's First Coast (yes, they've named them all), Savannah, Ga., and finally Charleston for the flight home. One thousand miles in one week. We should have taken one month.
Ever since we left New Orleans two days ago, we have started to wonder if the combination of aggressive developers, Hurricane Katrina, and the BP oil spill had put the little mom-and-pops out of business. Roadside shacks and country stores are replaced in many areas by high-rise apartments in pastel shades, bearing such names as "Sands," "Marseille," and "Eden." In New Orleans we had to venture far from the French Quarter to find places where tourists don't go (that included Bacchanal Wine, in the Ninth Ward, where you sit outdoors with great music and exceptional food, and a $35 taxi ride to Ba Mien, a terrific Vietnamese restaurant in the ravaged east end of the city).
After miles and miles of pawn shops, tattoo parlors, Waffle House and Chick-fil-A locations, homes on stilts, casinos, fishing boats, sweet little towns that might have been set in New England, old oaks so tall you want to sit and stare at them, we come away satisfied. Some of it looks like Everyplace, USA, with too many chains of all sorts, other parts are untouched. The key to a Southern road trip, as one innkeeper tells us, is to "drive through the ugly parts without looking, and slow down where it's pretty."
Every innkeeper, every cabbie, every bartender along the coast mentions Katrina and what was before; the storm had a devastating effect. Sea walls are still going up, as are boardwalks, piers, and other construction on the water. Along the way, we tweet, using a "gulfroadtrip" hashtag, and when we're no longer there, "former gulfroadtrip," writing observations, counting the fast food locations, commenting when the seafood is tops, wondering how badly places called Payday Loans gouge the people who need them.
Apalachicola, established in 1831 and once the third largest port on the Gulf of Mexico, might be the city that time forgot. We imagine that aside from the pristine waterfront and a few chic shops, including Grady Market for clothing and housewares, this is the Old South. At the historic Gibson Inn, a little down at the heels, the front desk attendant is waiting on the porch. We'd called because we were lost and she makes us hustle so we won't miss dinner. We use her map to find Boss, and the following morning settle in at Caroline's River Dining, on the sunny water, watching fishing boats go by, eating eggs and more cheesy grits (on the best days we ate them at every meal).
Back in New Orleans, when we rented the car at a hotel, the concierge had told us, "Y'all headed to Charleston? Take Route 10 till you hit water, then turn left." We have every intention of never getting on Interstate 10 if we can help it. That means driving so close to the water's edge at times we're puzzled why road engineers ever did this. And after Katrina, rebuilt this.
Approaching Gulfport, Mississippi, we see white-sand beaches, neoclassical mansions under live oaks, fishing fleets. Midday in Biloxi, Miss., lost in a maze of seaside casinos, we note The Hook Up Bar & Restaurant, which serves a decent po'boy with shrimp and oysters. "There used to be lots of little seafood shacks and now no one wants to reinvest in them," our waitress tells us.
We pass through Ocean Springs, Miss., on Biloxi Bay where the homes are grand, little bungalows are charming, and massive trees, which must be a godsend in summer, loom. A sign reads: "David Krause: Lawdog." We Google him. The site says, "When you need a lawyer, get a dog . . . "
When we were children, road trips seemed endless. As adults, tweeting and Googling and giggling as we go, we love the adventure.
In Magnolia Springs, Ala., once a destination for Chicagoans in search of cures (Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad trains shot from the Windy City down to the Gulf), we stop at Magnolia Springs Bed & Breakfast in a renovated 1898 former hotel that sits on a street where oaks form an arch, and azalea and other shrubs bloom. We don't exactly need an English-to-English translator to understand delightful innkeepers David Worthington and Eric Bigelow, but boy do they have unforgettable Alabama accents. This is indeed the Old South. Mail is still delivered by boat on the Magnolia River in this former turpentine and lumber settlement.
It's late and we head for the closest eatery, Jesse's Restaurant & The Cold Hole, where grits come with big Gulf shrimp, smoked Gouda, and local hickory-smoked Conecuh sausage, and the bartender, who isn't Southern, is brusque, bordering on unfriendly. She didn't get the Old South memo.
Worthington, who is bossy in the nicest way, practically orders us to stay on coastal Route 98 to Apalachicola. The road is often two lanes, sometimes painfully slow, with stop lights in every town. As he warned, you have to endure miles of high-rise development, interspersed with houses built on stilts right near the water. Headed to the Gulf Islands National Seashore trails for a walk, we twice end up at the Naval Air Station Pensacola (our GPS was off). A 2-mile walk in the nature reserve is a lovely respite and the helpful National Park Service volunteer sends us to Peg Leg Pete's on Pensacola Beach for lunch. It's lively and fun, full of spring breakers, with a good grilled grouper sandwich. This is the Emerald Coast, known for its white sand beaches. College kids in packs of 10 are everywhere. We flee.
Then comes the night in Apalachicola, and after that, for about 70 miles, more Old South: Deal's Famous Oyster House in Perry, Fla., located in what looks like a makeshift motor home, signs for RV hookups, spruce forests, prisoners doing roadwork, cement churches with service times mounted on portable signs. At lunch, a guy nearby tells me he spent the morning "putting in 150 tomato plants, 50 pounds of potatoes, bunch of onions, and other stuff, on half an acre."
Approaching Gainesville, home of the University of Florida, the landscape changes. Horse farms on either side of the road are interspersed with gated communities. Names like "South Pointe," "Fletcher's Mill," "Broadmoor," affect Britishness. Then 1950s ranch houses, bungalows, and in the town center, on this day, a huge farmers' market. A dozen Hare Krishnas sing (we always wondered where they went after they left Logan Airport), Humble Pie Gourmet Pizza turns out wood-fired rounds, and a vendor from The Wild Woodstead sells smoked fish. All this becomes a picnic in our hotel that night. We overhear a conversation between a young man walking briskly to catch up with a pretty woman.
He: Can I buy you a beer?
No response.
He: Wine?
No response.
He: Pot?
She laughs and rushes off.
Later that day, we reach the Atlantic and St. Augustine, the oldest city in the country (Ponce de Leon landed here in 1513), with narrow streets and single-file sidewalks. A pedestrian-only historic section is, unfortunately, full of candy shops and trinkets with reminders of pirate history. Unlike New Orleans, anyone with a guitar and vocal cords can get a job at a bar here. The magnificent harbor ends at the huge stone 17th-century Castillo de San Marcos fort, which protected the city from invaders.
En route to Savannah, we stop at Jekyll Island, Ga., one of the state's Golden Isles, set off from the mainland by a long causeway with marshes on either side. Once home to some of the country's wealthiest families, who built "cottages" in the late 19th century, the island's grandest place is Jekyll Island Club Hotel, which looks like something out of "The Great Gatsby."
Fins on the Beach, near Great Dunes Park, is a pretty place with a big patio on the water. We eat shrimp po'boy sandwiches because the fish of the day, the waiter says, comes from the Far East.
Savannah could give the course on the Old South. The manicured squares that divide the city are surrounded by historic homes, some grand, some smaller. Horse-drawn carriages take you around. The city is walkable for miles along the waterfront, but more interesting is the historic district, once an open market.
The Gastonian Inn, where we stay, is the nicest place on our trip. The gracious staff hosts a cocktail hour before dinner and then dessert and coffee after. In the morning, cooks make eggs to order, and there are plenty of good grits.
We've done a lot of drive-bys in the last five days, and it's almost time to head to Charleston, a night on the town, and the flight home the next morning. Heading up Interstate 95, we pass turnoffs for Hilton Head Island, then Beaufort, and stop at Edisto Island for lunch.
Years ago, I spent a lot of time in Edisto but hadn't returned. It used to be a place where there was nothing but a couple gas stations and a few stores for basic provisions. Edisto has managed to stave off developers and for the first dozen miles along Highway 174, over a massive bridge, through a canopy of oaks with dried moss, some wetlands, more tree canopy, we see a bank, a fish market, and not much else. Down a side road along Edisto Beach, we stumble on Whaley's Restaurant & Bar, established in 1948.
After 1,000 miles, in this little eatery, built in a defunct gas station, is the Old South in all its glory: picnic tables outside, a waitress both friendly and delightfully sassy, a big basket of boiled peanuts (the menu reads, "Caution remove shells"), "raw" fries (homemade potato chips), and a grilled flounder sandwich so fresh, the fillet is practically still flipping.
Should we just stay and forget the flight home? The thought occurs to us several times that afternoon.
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I have mixed ideas about this intraoperative monitoring thing.... At the Univ. of Iowa where I work, there is a research scientist who specializes in electrophysilogical measurements who does monitoring for mid-cranial fossa approaches to acoustic neuromas. She also does monitoring of a different sort in the OR for cochlear implants. Since I work for her as a research assistant, I have accompanied her on many occasions to the OR and have done monitoring myself. Personally, I don't think monitoring of the 8th nerve is out of the range of potential job responsibilities for an audiologist. I don't think it to be an appropriate or beneficial use of an audiologist /research scientists time and skills to have them monitoring full time for neurology--we only do cases of tumor excision by our ENT staff. On cases where neurology is consulted and or part of the surgury, many times the tumor is too big to preserve hearing or the hearing has gotten so bad there's not much point to monitoring because you won't measure anything in the first place. We use the Biologic ABR system, and I could tell the group more I guess if people want more specifics about what and how we do what we do. I wasn't aware there was a separate organization to certify the various types of monitoring that can go on in the OR as was pointed out in a previous post. But, there's nothing to stop an audiologist with half a brain from monitoring. You aren't doing anything in the surgery other than telling the surgeon when there's been a change in the waveforms you are collecting. You aren't doing the surgery. You aren't in the way. I think if you haven't had the benefit of watching/being supervised by a person doing intraoperative monitoring, or if you know little and have little experience with electrophysiological measures you are the last person who should be thinking about going to the OR. Of course, whatever organization does do certify techs to monitor is going to scream and cry if anyone outside of their group tries to move into their territory. The question is whether they have reason to be concerned. I think you have to take this sort of thing on a case by case basis. It is a new area for audiologists and to have successful monitoring, you have to have a good working relationship with the ENT--one of mutual respect so that when you say "you're losing it" he/she will trust that you are correct and whatever they are doing to the nerve is making it unhappy and will stop. These are my meager opinions, while based on *some* experience, they are still only my opinions and do not reflect my employer's policies or opinions necessarily (Spelling?). Susan smoore at otolaryngology-po.oto.uiowa.edu


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Larry Mullen Jr and Irish actress Maria Doyle Kennedy (Downtown Abbey) have joined the cast of Erik Poppe's 'A Thousand Times Good Night', which began shooting in Dublin last week.
They join a previously announced cast that includes French actress Juliette Binoche and Danish 'Game of Thrones' actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Young Irish actress Lauryn Canny has also been cast as Binoche's daughter Steph.
The role is the second acting job for U2 drummer Mullen, whose first film role was in Irish director Mary McGuckian's 'Man on the Train' with Donald Sutherland in 2011.
'A Thousand Times Good Night' is inspired by Poppe's own experiences as a war photographer. It tells the story of a photographer, Rebekka, who is torn between the job and the family she loves.
Binoche and Coster-Waldau play the photographer and her husband, while Mullen Jr and Kennedy play their best friends in the drama, which will move to Morrocco following a five-week shoot in Dublin.
'A Thousand Times Goodnight' has been written by Harald Rosenløw Eeg and is a co-production between Ireland's Newgrange Pictures, Paradox in Norway and Zentropa International Sweden.
Jackie Larkin and Lesley McKimm will produce for Newgrange alongside Norwegian-based Finn Gjerdrum and Stein Kave for Paradox.The feature's budget is reportedly around €5m with the project having been offered €300,000 from the Irish Film Board in the last round of funding. The Norwegian Film Institute is also supporting the feature.


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The Maracanã is under siege. For a place of magic, Brazil's football cathedral is a magnet for a curse. The 1950 World Cup final defeat against Uruguay will return to haunt the hosts if the tens of thousands of Argentina fans camped in Rio de Janeiro end up celebrating victory with their bawdy rendition of Bad Moon Rising and its multiple insults to the home of Jogo Bonito.
In their VW camper vans, chaotically packed, an unshaven army of Argentines has flooded into Rio to drink, taunt, chant and parade their country's outlaw shtick. The apocalypse of an Argentina victory over Brazil in the final was averted by German brilliance and Brazilian ineptitude in the Belo Horizonte semi-final. But if the Germans fall in Rio, the city's mayor will still be tempted to revive his threat to "kill" himself to escape Argentine triumphalism.
Only an Argentina player, you might think, could tell reporters that he injured his "anus" making a match-saving tackle, as Javier Mascherano did after stopping an Arjen Robben run late in the Sao Paulo semi-final. On the beaches of Rio this weekend, Brazilian children are still observing the religion of keepy-uppy and sandy small-sided games. Yet the tone of the city is now overwhelmingly Argentine, with 140 motor homes parked in Rio's Sambadrome and a further camp site set up in Apoteosis Square.
Along Copacabana, which expresses Brazilian languor, Argentina's fans have added an antagonistic edge, flooding the Fifa fanfest and attempting to park their campers on the sacred Atlantica Avenue, which the city has no wish to see turned into Little Buenos Aires. A promise by Rio's Tourism Department to roll out "a red carpet" was doubtless made through gritted teeth. There is no escaping the potential for conflict as some Argentines scrawl '7-1' on their chests and sing the adapted Credence Clearwater Revival toe-tapper, Bad Moon Rising: "How do you feel, Brazil, having your daddy at home?" and "Maradona was greater than Pele." The Argentine Pope Francis is another stick used by the visitors to goad the hosts.
If this all sounds tedious from a distance, it does at least shine a light on the antipathies of South American football and culture as well as Argentina's outlaw pose, which is perfectly expressed by Diego Maradona, genius and villain. Julio Grondona, the 83‑year-old president of the Argentine Football Association, has survived numerous scandals to remain in charge since 1979. When Lionel Messi scored the winning goal against Iran here, Maradona had already left the stadium and Grondona ascribed the goal to the lifting of the Maradona "jinx". El Diego responded by raising his middle digit on Venezuelan television and saying: "Poor stupid man." Similarly Mascherano has become the rugged counterpoint to Messi. He is depicted as Che Guevara and the Argentine independence hero, Jose de San Martin. Back in England meanwhile Pablo Zabaleta is lionised by Manchester City fans, who sing: "Pablo Zabaleta, he is a f------ man, he comes from Argentina, he's harder than Jaap Stam." At the centre of this machismo is a resilient Argentina side with a defence better than anyone expected and a forward line less potent than it appeared on paper. Mascherano and the back four are resistance personified.
Gonzalo Higuaín, Ezequiel Lavezzi and the injured Sergio Agüero on the other hand have left only a faint mark on the tournament. Ángel di María missed the semi-final and remains a doubt for the Maracanã. Messi, the artist, the redeemer, is playing in brilliant spurts.
Alejandro Sabella's side have travelled a rocky path against Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nigeria, Iran, Switzerland, Belgium and Holland, who played conservatively in their semi-final. So Argentina have still not been fully attacked by a superpower opponent, which will change when Germany jog out at the Maracanã. Their defensive barriers may not look so robust when players of the calibre of Toni Kroos and Thomas Müller are probing them. For now, though, Argentina are flexing their pecs and taking over Rio, where the front page of the sports daily Lance! declared a marriage between Brazil and Germany. "Germans since we were little children," it announced. Then: "Germany ended the dream of a sixth championship for Brazil. Let them now prevent Argentina's third championship!"
Although this is a Germany‑Argentina final, there are really three countries in the relationship. Brazil are painfully absent but also ever present. "It's special for us to play in this country – especially because Brazilian fans have been against Argentina for this World Cup," Zabaleta said. "Sometimes, if you have all the people against you, you feel even stronger. I think that we showed that against Holland and we feel very proud to have made the final."
The Maradona-Pele debate is endless and unresolvable, but Brazil can at least respond that they have won five World Cups to Argentina's two. The 1,668 miles that separate Rio from Buenos Aires have shrunk to inches this weekend. Argentina shirts pack neighbourhood cafés where only 'Cariocas' normally gather. Brazilian workers engage in sporadic verbal skirmishes with Argentine fans, many of whom care little for local sensibilities.
"You can imagine people from Argentina selling their cars to come here, even without tickets," Zabaleta said. "This is something that happens in Argentina. We love football. We know how special it would be for this country to win another World Cup.
"But obviously we appreciate how Argentinian fans are doing everything to support the team. As a player, I feel very proud. Everyone feels very proud. Hopefully we can give them another trophy."
This has been a World Cup of largely sanitised spectating: Mexican waves, face paint and fans obsessed with seeing themselves on the big screen, even during penalty shoot-outs. In FifaVille, watching the World Cup is an entertainment experience – an exercise in consumption – at high prices. As the modern game seeks to pull away from the old venom and tribalism, the old antipathies show up in new forms, and via different means.
They come over the border in battered vans, expressing a spontaneity that cannot be erased by global marketing. The World Cup is still the people's tournament. What Argentina's fans lack in sophistication they make up for in authenticity.
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I got this recipe from my grandmother. My Mom and Grandma made them every year when I was little. I liked them then, but I love them even more now as I have gotten older. My husband begs me to make these year round. Though I probably could, I really enjoy looking forward to all your year getting to eat these tasty treats. I usually triple the batch since after we get our share, I like to share with others as well since they seem to be the hit every year. The recipe below is only a single batch, but works just as well if you double, triple or quad it. I can't even tell you how many it makes, since I have not made a single recipe in so long.
3/4 C Oil, 1 C sugar (plus 1/4 more for later), 1/4 C molasses, 1 egg, 2 tsp. baking soda, 2 C flour, 1/2 tsp. salt, 1 tsp. cloves, 1/2 tsp. ginger, and 1 tsp. of cinnamon
Add sugar, eggs and molasses to oil. Stir well.
Add dry ingredients and mix well again. Chill in the fridge about 2 hours until firm.
Roll into 1″ balls. (It will be oily and that is okay) and then roll in sugar.
Bake 375 degrees until done (approx 8-10 min). Don't leave in too long though, because they will get really hard. You want them nice and soft.
You can leave like this make a powdered sugar frosting and drizzle over. We make a little of both.


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Calendar of Events
- 1 Preliminary Program is Available
- 2 Events
- 2.1 World Premier of "The Hollywood Librarian: Librarians in Cinema and Society"
- 2.2 Free Preconference - Disaster Preparedness for School Library Media Specialists
- 2.3 Preconference: Creating A Staff Development Plan
- 2.4 ALCTS/CCS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group
- 2.5 Learning When There Is No Time or Money.
- 2.6 Learning for Library Staff: Make it Blended – Not on the Rocks!: Developing Blended Learning programs for Library Staff
- 2.7 4th Annual Training Showcase
- 2.8 Third Annual Bookcart Drill Team World Championship
- 2.9 CLENERT Staff Development Discussion Group
- 2.10 Library Day on the Hill
Preliminary Program is Available
A preliminary listing of programs and descriptions, organized by track, is now available on the Official Site.
World Premier of "The Hollywood Librarian: Librarians in Cinema and Society"
Friday, June 22, 2007
The Hollywood Librarian will be the first full-length film to focus on the work and lives of librarians in the entertaining and appealing context of American movies. American film contains hundreds of examples of librarians and libraries on screen -- some positive, some negative, some laughable and some dead wrong. Dozens of interviews of real librarians will be interwoven with movie clips of cinematic librarians and serve as transitions between the themes of censorship, intellectual freedom, children and librarians, pay equity and funding issues, and the value of reading. Join us for the premier of this film!
Free Preconference - Disaster Preparedness for School Library Media Specialists
Friday, June 22, 9am - noon
Visit http://www.ala.org/aasl to register
Preconference: Creating A Staff Development Plan
Friday, June 22, 2007, 1:00-5:00 pm
In today's environment, library staff have to work harder than ever to stay informed and keep up with changes. How can libraries encourage all staff to continually develop their skills? A systematic staff development plan can address the learning needs of library staff and increase their effectiveness on the job. This half-day session is a step-bystep introduction to the process of addressing the issue of staff development from needs assessment through planning. Do you need a staff development plan?
Speakers: Cal Shepard, SOLINET
Tickets: CLENERT Member: $110; ALA Member: $130; Non-Member: $180 Registration: Click here for registration.
ALCTS/CCS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group
Saturday, June 23, 2007, 1:30-3:30 pm
The ALCTS/CCS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group will present the following program at the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., on Saturday June 23, 2007, 1:30pm-3:30pm, Capital Hilton, Federal A:
Designing Workflows that Meet Local Needs: Two Case Studies
Jackie Shieh, Senior Associate Librarian, Data Loads & Development, Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, University of Michigan
In 1994-1999, the University of Virginia created TEI-header metadata for its Electronic Text Center collection, and then converted into SIRSI MARC ASCII to load to its online system. An original cataloger and a paraprofessional were responsible for all electronic resources cataloging, including Web sites, diskettes, discs, etc. The creation of TEI header metadata was part of their overall responsibilities.
University of Michigan, on the other hand, makes use of all existing MARC records by converting them to various project-based metadata formats for its digital library projects, e.g., BibClass, Dublin Core, DC for OAI-PMH, MODS, etc. A cataloger is in charge of the operation of providing MARC to non-MARC data, who is also responsible of ensuring quality for non-MARC metadata to MARC for local online system. The same cataloger is the person who communicates to System Administrator of specific Perl module needs regarding record conversion.
Integrating Non-MARC Metadata into the Workflow of a Traditional Technical Services Department: Perspectives from Librarians at the University of Tennessee Technical Services and Digital Access Team
Melanie Feltner-Reichert, Metadata Librarian and Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Hodges Library
Marielle Veve, Catalog Librarian and Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Hodges Library
What are the challenges and rewards of integrating non-MARC metadata production into a technical services department? Melanie Feltner-Reichert and Marielle Veve will explore their recent experience of adding the creation of Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) records to the traditional duties of technical services librarians and support staff at the University of Tennessee Hodges Library. The presenters will share their local process of integration, lessons learned from the early stages of implementation, and the surprising modifications to workflow that emerged out of practice.
Building Library 1.1
Charley Pennell, Principal Cataloger for Metadata, Metadata and Cataloging, North Carolina State University
Kristin Antelman, Associate Director for the Digital Library, North Carolina State University
Libraries operate within a culture that posits collaborating towards a common good, through resource sharing, cooperative development of standards, and the building of common work tools. The semantic Web, and the recent rapprochement between RDA and DCMI, have the potential to advance our contribution to the common good in ways that have never been possible before, yet there are still economic, legal, technical and cultural hurdles that are likely to conspire to keep libraries working within institutional silos. This talk will look at how the NCSU Libraries is trying to work toward a more open catalog platform by creating a web services layer to support features such as RSS and by integrating structured data from outside of the ILS, starting with classification and geographical hierarchies, and potentially extending to chronological hierarchies, FRBR "work-level" records, and academic discipline-related vocabularies. These efforts point to the need for access to additional data that is outside the local machine environment. We look at some of these data sources and assess the obstacles that will have to be overcome before library catalogs, and librarians, will be able to fully join the broader Web 2.0 discovery environment.
Learning When There Is No Time or Money.
Saturday, June 23, 2007, 1:30-3:30 pm
Are you running out of ideas for ways to keep your staff current, up-to-date, and informed when time and money are limited? If you're experiencing shrinking budgets, information overload, complex technologies and fast-paced change, you're not alone. Don't be frustrated! Instead, meet your training challenge with excitement, a fresh perspective and a renewed purpose. From training tracks to tracking training, you'll learn about a variety of training tools and resources which will energize your staff and create an environment where learning is fun and time is well-spent. Whether you have only 30 minutes, 60 minutes or 90 minutes to teach a skill or learn something new, you'll be able to use the ideas and resources from this session to put together an action plan to take back to your library.
Led by Pat Carterette, Training and Staff Development Coordinator, Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library
Learning for Library Staff: Make it Blended – Not on the Rocks!: Developing Blended Learning programs for Library Staff
Sunday, June 24, 2007, 10:00-Noon
4th Annual Training Showcase
Sunday, June 24, 2007, 1:30-3:30 pm This poster session celebrates innovative continuing education, staff development, and training initiatives and programs in libraries across the country. Always fun, informative, and chock full of good, practical ideas! Drop by anytime between 1:30-3:30.
Third Annual Bookcart Drill Team World Championship
Sunday, June 24, 2007, 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Washington Convention Center
The Third Annual Bookcart Drill Team World Championship will take place during the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. The event is always a good time! Registration for teams is now being accepted, or just come out and enjoy the show!
Visit YouTube for video of pervious year's fun.
CLENERT Staff Development Discussion Group
Monday, June 25, 2007, 1:30-3:30 pm
Library Day on the Hill
Tuesday, June 26, 2007, 12:00-4:00 pm
During Annual, library groups and associations will have a unique opportunity to showcase their value and importance in the Halls of Congress at Day on the Hill!
On Tuesday, June 26, the ALA Washington Office has secured the Gold Room of the Rayburn House Office Building for the sole purpose of letting Members of Congress know all about 21st century libraries. There will be displays from every discipline to show our legislators just what libraries mean to America; from public libraries to school libraries, research libraries to special libraries.
For more information, please visit http://www.ala.org/dayonthehill


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Fresh off the "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon, Cindy Crawford and husband Rande Gerber, along with Lenny Kravitz, have banded together with CAN-DO, an organization that provides relief in emergency situations, to provide help to the earthquake ravaged nation.
The stars have helped sponsor, in association with the charitable organization, a cargo plane filled with medical supplies. The first flight left for Haiti on Sunday loaded with triage stations. These triage stations are an all-in-one shipment of supplies, enough to treat 80 people a day.
For more information or to donate, visit www.CAN-DO.org.
The organization has pledged to document the flights to allow sponsors to view the group's relief efforts.
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If you use Creative Cloud Packager to create a package and choose the Match OS option, the products are installed in the language based on the locale settings on the host system.
When the installer is run, it checks for the locale on the host system. It must be noted that the locale check is done at the system level. This implies that if, on a host system, the locale for which the products need to be installed is set for a user (or set of users), the products will not be installed in that language but will be installed in the locale that is set at the system level.
To ensure that the products are installed in a specific language, you need to ensure that locale is set at the system level.
For the Windows OS, perform the steps detailed the Microsoft document to change the locale and region.
For the MAC OS, perform the following steps:
This section details the steps to change the locale and region on a computer running MAC and Windows OS.
Use the following command to change the OS locale at the system level:
sudo defaults write .GlobalPreferences AppleLocale de_DE
The new locale would be then sniffed by Creative Cloud Packager installer correctly.
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|Skiing with my friend and cross-country skier Simi Hamilton
It's easy to feel lucky or unlucky in life and as such to place blame on extraneous factors. After winning a bronze medal in the team event at the World Championships in Val di Fiemme, Italy, I felt the momentum building and wanted to carry it into our final events. The morning of the final individual event I felt great – mentally aware and acute, physically strong, and as pain-free as a child. It was going to be a great day…
I was the 29th skier to ski jump in the round and I executed my best jump of my year. I turned to look and I was in third place! With only 25 skiers left to go, I felt that I was going to put myself into contention in the cross-country race for my first individual podium of the season. I think the smile showed as I walked past media, friends and family and they asked questions thinking the same good thoughts as I. Then five skiers later, the wind changed. Massively.
It changed from 1 meter per second of tailwind to 4 meters per second of headwind. In the aviation world this would change the takeoff speed of a 737 by 11 mph! The tone of the event went from competitors trying to overcome the wind at their backs to nearly out-flying the hill. There were almost two competitions, the first 35 guys and the last 20.
Don't get me wrong, the event was far more exciting to watch after the wind changed. The ABBA song "It's Raining Men," came to mind as I watched the final jumpers fly 450 feet down the hill. Unfortunately, it took my hopes of a medal away.
Herein lies the confusing part: you want someone to blame, you want to feel as though it's somehow not your fault. You did everything right, right?
Having been on both sides of this equation I know the feeling well, but honestly many of the sports in the winter Olympics are outdoor events performed on snow and ice, where changing conditions affect the outcome. In my career, I can find dozens of instances where this has happened but the one constant is that the best competitors win. Yes, even when the favorite suffers misfortune, it is the person who keeps their mind in the game, who takes advantage of the situation and stays on task that stands on top at the end. They were the best there was in that condition on that day.
So when my mind starts trying to find a way to rationalize disappointment, I remind myself that there is nobody to blame; there is no such thing as "bad luck" or "lucky," merely that you do your best to make your own luck by training hard, staying in the moment and focusing on the task at hand and not the result.
There was nothing left to do but do some alpine skiing with good friends to clear my head, enjoy the final events and prepare to kill it in our final World Cups in Finland and Norway!
You can also follow my journey on Twitter.


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Since beginning collections in June 2007, UNYTS has already become the primary supplier of blood products for the entire Kaleida Health System. In keeping the operation community-based, UNYTS will decrease the cost of blood to area hospitals by as much as 15%. Outside of personnel, transfusion costs are among the highest regional hospitals face. As UNYTS' Community Blood Service begins to supply more facilities, the total five-year savings to the region is projected at millions. This is a savings which will positively affect Kaleida Health's operations- leading to improved patient care and better efficiency.
In an effort to make donating blood as convenient as possible, UNYTS' Community Blood Service and Oishei Children's Hospital have teamed up to bring the opportunity to you every two months from 7 a.m.-2 p.m. This partnership provides a great and easy way for donors to give back to our community and its patients, many of whom are right here at Oishei Children's Hospital. Whether you are visiting a patient, taking a work break, or just passing through, please consider giving the gift of life through blood donation with UNYTS. Help yourself pass the time by helping those in need receive a second chance at life.
In donating blood through UNYTS, you are making sure that your family, friends and neighbors have blood available when they need it. Our local hospitals need to maintain an adequate supply of blood for emergency situations and it is up to UNYTS' Community Blood Service and the generosity of our donors to help provide safe levels of blood inventory. It is truly a worthy effort. UNYTS' Community Blood Service is about empowering Western New Yorkers to take control of our own blood supply, helping local patients in need and helping local hospitals reduce costs.
You've been given the gift of life. Give it back.
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Missouri Family History Research
This entry was originally written by Marsha Hoffman Rising CG, FUGA, FASG, and Pamela Boyer Porter, CGRS, CGL for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
History of Missouri
Missouri became the twenty-fourth state with its admission to the Union on 10 August 1821. Its central location, navigable waterways, and variable terrain attracted settlers from every part of the country as well as from abroad. Missouri was settled by people from New England, the Ohio Valley, the Appalachian region, and the upper South, as well as from Germany and other European nations.
Four major migrations influenced Missouri's settlement. The first began during Spanish and French control when each encouraged American settlement due to their fear of British encroachment. A colony came with Colonel George Morgan and settled near New Madrid. This is known as the first distinctly American settlement. In 1797 Moses Austin helped develop a sizable settlement at Mine au Breton, and in 1798 Daniel Boone was offered 1,000 arpents of land if he would move to Missouri and bring new settlers with him. This group settled in 1798 in what is now the area of St. Charles County. That same year a group of German-Swiss from North Carolina settled near the Whitewater Creek bottoms in present-day Cape Girardeau and Bollinger counties.
The second wave of settlers came with the acquisition of the territory by the United States in 1803. The population of the state grew from 10,000 people in 1804, to over 65,680 by 1821 when the state was admitted to the Union. During this time period, boundaries were changing rapidly, and the researcher will find it necessary to follow these changes in order to locate required records. The third major wave was from 1820 through 1860 when the Ohio-Mississippi-Missouri river system and the extension of the Cumberland Road to the Mississippi River brought thousands of immigrants from the upper South and lower Midwest into Missouri, pushing the frontier to the Kansas border. Kentucky contributed the largest number of settlers during this period, followed by Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The mountaineers from middle or east Tennessee and North Carolina were especially attracted to the Ozarks. Many of the Missouri and Mississippi river settlements were established by Southerners who maintained their political sympathies, attitudes about slavery, and Democratic politics. They settled along the Mississippi River well north of St. Louis and across the Missouri Valley. Kentucky contributed a large proportion of settlers to the middle prairie regions, while the people from Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois concentrated along the northern border and the Mississippi River. During this period, Germany also contributed a large number of settlers who settled in St. Louis and along the river counties to the west.
The researcher working in this time and place should also be familiar with the rapidly changing county boundaries and names. Much of the land purchased during this period was through the federal land offices located in strategic positions throughout the state. The first land offices were established in 1818 at Jackson, Franklin, and St. Louis.
Immigration, for all intents and purposes, came to a standstill during the Civil War; but with peace, the fourth wave of settlers arrived. With the help of the railroads, Europeans as well as pioneers from the prairie states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa provided the major portion of newcomers. Northerners outnumbered Southerners nearly two to one. They occupied most of the remaining land north of the Missouri River, along the Kansas border, and along the Osage and Springfield plains. During this period the cities of St. Louis, Kansas City, Joplin, Springfield, and Jefferson City also grew rapidly.


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Two Judges Have Harsh Words for Federal Officials
(WASHINGTON) -- Two judicial opinions this week in two very different cases had scathing language for federal officials at the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice.
In the first case, Judge Edward R. Korman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York criticized Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius regarding emergency contraceptives that can be taken to reduce the risk of pregnancy after unprotected intercourse.
Last month, the court ruled against the administration and ordered that levonorgestrel-based emergency contraceptives be available over the counter and without point-of sale age restrictions. The government asked for a stay of that decision.
On Friday, Korman eviscerated Sebelius. He noted that the debate over the contraceptives has gone on for more than 12 years, "even though they would be among the safest drugs available to children and adults on any drugstore shelf."
In 2011, the FDA concluded that one version of the drug could be sold without a prescription or an age restriction. But Sebelius reversed the FDA.
The judge said that decision was "politically motivated" and was "so unpersuasive as to call into question her good faith."
He added that if a stay was to be granted, "It will allow the bad-faith, politically motivated decision of Secretary Sebelius, who lacks any medical or scientific expertise, to prevail – thus justifiably undermining the public's confidence in the drug approval process."
And he didn't stop there. He said the FDA was negotiating a "sweetheart agreement" with one drug manufacturer. He told the government that its appeal was "frivolous and is taken for the purpose of delay," but out of courtesy to the Court of Appeals he would allow the parties until May 13 to file their appeal in that court.
The other case, concerning the death penalty, included the dissent of a justice on the Mississippi Supreme Court.
Lawyers for death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning filed an emergency motion to stay his execution after the Department of Justice acknowledged errors in FBI hair analysis testimony during Manning's trial.
In an 8-1 vote, the court granted the stay May 7. But one justice, Michael Randolph, wrote a scathing dissent.
Randolph said that Manning had had access to hair and other forensic evidence for years and shouldn't have been granted the 11th-hour reprieve.
But what really set the judge off was DOJ's admission that it was conducting a review of the issues with the Innocence Project.
Randolph noted that the Innocence Project is opposed to the death penalty. And here's what he said about the review: "Although the connectivity and expediency by which this review was accomplished is mind-boggling, I should not be surprised, given that the families of victims of the clandestine 'Fast and Furious' gun-running operation can't get the Department of Justice to identify the decision makers (whose actions resulted in the death of a border agent and many others) after years of inquiry, and that this is the same Department of Justice that grants and enforced Miranda warnings to foreign enemy combatants."
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Study to look at green spaces' effects on crime in New Haven (video)
NEW HAVEN -- Stacey Maples wants to see if there's safety in, well, maples.
For the next few months, the Yale University data mapping expert and a cross-section of groups from around the city will crunch numbers involving crime and local green spaces. The idea is to learn whether the presence of a community garden, a park or trees makes an impact on criminal activity.
"It's not that a single tree has this effect, but that the activity of planting and maintaining a green space brings out people who want to do good things in a community rather than bad things," Maples said.
This is not the first such effort nationally. A handful of cities, including Baltimore and Portland, Ore., have quantified the positive effects of local greenery.
In Baltimore, for example, a study underwritten by the U.S. Forest Service and the National Science Foundation found that a 10 percent increase in tree canopy was associated with a 12 percent decrease in crime.
"If there is a connection, it's a sign of hope that anyone can have an impact by planting a tree or taking care of a local park," said Chris Randall, executive director of the New Haven Land Trust.
Lee Cruz, community outreach director at the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, has been itching to explore this topic in New Haven for several years. He saw a convergence of long-term data about trees and gardens, along with an expansion of interest in green spaces, better tools for digital mapping and a renewed interest by law enforcement in using such data to fight crime.
"Years ago, you didn't see the kind of drive over data that you do now," Cruz said.
So he brought those pieces together in a common cause. He enlisted the help of Charles Anyinam, the data guru at the New Haven Police Department; Maples, Yale's "map ninja"; Randall, from the local land trust; and Colleen Murphy-Dunning, director of Urban Resources Initiative, which has been spearheading innovative city projects for years.
Maples says New Haven has a database of about 36,000 street trees, with detailed information about the age, size, health and species of each. That data enables analysts to calculate how much storm water is absorbed by local plantings and how much energy they save the city by the shade they create.
"We'd like to show that the benefits are more than that," Maples said. "Reducing violent crimes in a neighborhood -- that is something very concrete. That's something people would like to know."
But it remains to be seen what the study will find. Maples expects to have preliminary results by the end of summer.
"It's a very debatable issue," explained Anyinam, at the Police Department. "There's no consensus at all. One group believes this has an impact, another group says no. There are so many variables that affect crime. It will be very interesting to look at the situation in New Haven."
On a more anecdotal level, city residents such as Pat Wallace see what a community green space means to the well-being of a neighborhood. For many years, Wallace has helped maintain Rainbow Park on Edgewood Avenue.
"It gives us a place to do things together, to have barbecues and to meet each other," Wallace said of the small, community park. "It's a good thing, but you have to stick with it. If you let your guard down, people can do some negative things."
Cruz sees much of the same throughout the city.
"It's an argument for making this kind of investment in our neighborhoods," he says. "It also adds weight to the broader argument that you have a more fertile ground for community policing if more people know each other."
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Primary care, the sort of routine, first line checkups that most people associate with the doctor's office, is incredibly important. When done well, it can help catch things early, helping avoid more costly care down the line.
Better primary care is essential if we're going to reduce the growth of healthcare costs.
Unfortunately, it's one of the weakest parts of our healthcare system. Specialty care is more profitable, so doctors and resources get diverted there.
Add to that the fact that we're going to see a widespread shortage of doctors, and you have a crisis in the making. At the same time, this is the type of care that's most in demand, so it could be a huge opportunity.
Part of the solution is getting the most out of doctors. Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Delos Cosgrove told us that his hospital does it with things like group visits. Doctors will see 10 people with the same problem at the same time, so they don't duplicate advice and effort. Hiring more nurse clinicians and physician assistants means doctors spend time on the things that only they can do.
But the real place we're going to see disruption is outside of the hospital.
"Disruption is going to happen at the pharmacy rather than the teaching hospital," Dr. Cosgrove said. "I mean, it's going to be hard to change heart surgery or neurosurgery very fast. But you can change that primary care stage, and you're going to be able to do more and more things at that primary care level as you disperse the care to where the population is."
When you have fewer doctors, you're going to have fewer doctors in less populated places. That first line of healthcare doesn't always have to come from doctors. It can be cheaper when it doesn't.
"We think everybody needs to see a doctor every time," Dr. Cosgrove said. "I talked to the CEO of Walgreens the other day; they have 8,000 facilities across the United States where their pharmacists have come out from behind the counter. They're now giving flu shots. I think that you're going to see a disruption in primary care from those locations."
We're already seeing the beginning stages, but given the sheer size of the demand for primary care services, there's a lot more to come.
Because large, established businesses don't want to focus on something that's difficult and has lower margins, there's a huge space for pharmacies and others to fill. It's a script that's played out before in many other industries.
"Disruption always starts at the bottom end of the food chain," Dr. Cosgrove said. "Look at the mini mills that started doing rebar. Honda started making motor cycles, then cheap cars, then very sophisticated cars. Clay Christensen talks about that all the time. Disruption starts where you don't expect to see it, at the low end of things. I think that's going to happen in healthcare, and I've been looking for it."
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My favorite alphabet book of all time is Chicka Chicka Boom Boom. :)
This classic is well loved in our home. Our books (yes, we have more than one copy!) are well worn, the Scholastic video is frequently played (you can see an excerpt to the cute video here!), and we sing the song all the time!
I definitely wanted to pay homage to Chicka Chicka Boom Boom with this ABC muffin tin meal! This ended up being so much fun to make and my three older kids all LOVED it. :) Ethan and Paige both snacked on it together, humming the familiar tune while they munched. Owen was so excited that he just had to get the dvd out and watch it...and his very loud singing was soon filling the whole house. ;-)
The coconut tree:
- large pretzel rod trunk
- granny smith apple for tree fronds
- grapes for coconuts
The letters:
- small letters scattered all around are all various flavors of fruit leather
- the square letter cookies in the middle spots are Newman's Own alphabet cookies
- big letter A is cheddar cheese
- big letter Z is open-faced bologna sandwich
The alphabet cutters I used to cut the tiny letters out are from JList (you need all 3 sets for the whole alphabet). I like the ones from JList because they are plastic. There is no fear of rusting and I don't feel I have to baby them as much as I do metal cutters.
If plastic or JList isn't your thing Wilton makes a nice set of metal ones. Just make sure you dry them well after using! :)
Want to see what other "abc" muffin tin meals were made for Muffin Tin Monday? Click on over to the official home of the Muffin Tin Mom to check them out. :)


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Ricker Polsdorfer, MD
William Danby, MD
Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS)
is an inflammatory condition of the hair follicle. Inflamed nodules and cysts
form in the armpits and groin. These may also be found under the breasts, and around the nipples and anus. Less commonly other areas of the body can be affected.
The hair follicle becomes blocked causing inflammation. The blockage may lead to absesses, infection, or scarring. The sweat glands may also become inflamed.
Menstruation in women, weight gain, stress, hormonal changes, heat, and excessive perspiration may trigger the condition.
HS is more common in women than in men. Other factors that increase your chance of HS include:
HS usually presents at puberty, but may occur at any age after that. It may cause:
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done.
In most cases, the doctor will be able to make a diagnosis by looking at the abscesses and nodules.
Sometimes cultures will be done of the drainage. Occasionally, other blood tests or an ultrasound of the lesions is done.
The treatment will depend on the stage of the disease. Talk with your doctor about the best treatment plan for you. Options may include one or more of the following:
You may be able to improve the condition by taking these steps:
If you smoke, talk to your doctor about finding a program to help you
quit. It is also important to maintain a
healthy weight
and eat a healthful diet. If you need help losing weight, consider talking to a dietitian who can help you with meal planning.
Your doctor may prescribe 1 or more medications depending on the severity of your HS.
Your doctor may recommend oral or topical antibiotics.
Corticosteroids may help improve symptoms. These can be taken by mouth, applied to the skin, or injected into the area.
Other medications called biologics, which decrease the body's immune response, may be used in severe cases. These medications have many risks, so your doctor will carefully weigh the risks and benefits of using these.
Hormonal medications, such as oral contraceptives can be used in some cases. At other times, medications called retinoids may be used.
Small lesions can be treated in the doctor's office.
The sores may be cut open and allowed to drain. If your condition is severe, then a wide area may need to be removed. In these cases, a
skin graft
may be needed.
Other procedure options include:
There are no current guidelines to prevent HS.
American Academy of Dermatology
Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation
Canadian Dermatology Association
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Hidradenitis suppurativa.
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Shah N. Hidradenitis suppurativa: a treatment challenge.
Am Fam Physician. 2005;72(8):1547-1552.
Fardet L, Dupuy A, Kerob D, et al. Infliximab for severe hidradenitis suppurativa: transient clinical efficacy in seven consecutive patients.
J Am Acad Dermatol. 2007;56:624-628.
11/30/2015 DynaMed Plus Systematic Literature Surveillance http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T115217/Hidradenitis-suppurativa: Tzellos T, Zouboulis CC, Gulliver W, et al. Cardiovascular disease risk factors in patients with hidradenitis suppurativa: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies. Br J Dermatol 2015 [Epub ahead of print].
Last reviewed June 2016 by Michael Woods, MD
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Maurizio Pollini - Chopin, 1 March 2010
Preludes, op.28 (complete)
Ballade no.1 in G minor, op.23
Two Nocturnes, op.27
Etudes, op.25:
No. 1 in A-flat major
No.2 in F minor
No.3 in F major
No.4 in A minor
No.7 in C-sharp minor
No.10 in B minor
No.11 in A minor
No.12 in C minor
The greatest living Chopin pianist, indeed the greatest living pianist, for an all-Chopin recital on the composer's (alleged) two-hundred birthday: how could it fail? Despite some reservations, or stronger, I heard from some of those attending, I had very few cavils with the performance, which on the whole I found stunning, especially during the second half. Yet this, sadly, was insofar as I was able to concentrate. On far too many occasions recently I have been driven to bemoan audience 'interaction'. (How very New Labour!) To have Maurizio Pollini perform the complete Chopin Preludes with a background – or should that be foreground – of incessant coughing, shuffling, chattering, and even, God help us, walking around the hall, was a dispiriting experience. One woman in front of me was sipping from a plastic cup of wine! I comfort myself with the fact that I shall hear him perform the same work next month in Berlin, in a Chopin-Debussy-Boulez programme, when I hope to be able to reach a more considered view.
What I can say is that, a few, largely irrelevant technical blemishes aside, Pollini presented a dazzling prospectus of Chopin's tonal journey. Each prelude was very much integrated into a greater whole: a homage to Bach, but equally a vivid demonstration of what piano and pianist can do. We heard not so much a set of character pieces but a more 'objective' – loaded word, I know – but a journey through the tonal and pianistic universe. This is not to say that none of the individual preludes possessed character. The A major and 'Raindrop' Preludes brought tears to my eyes in their noble, unassuming dignity, whilst the violence of the D minor Prelude looked forward to Pollini's (almost equally?) beloved Schoenberg's Op.11. Allegro appassionato indeed! Much of the audience, however, seemed merely to resent the lack of pauses in which to cough. I cannot imagine why, however, since those people carried on doing so anyway.
The proto-Schoenbergian – Brahmsian? – darkness of that final prelude was intensified in the G minor Ballade: a towering performance, more 'Romantic' or expressionist even, than much of the first half. The Devil-may-care attitude Pollini seemed to adopt was in many respects quite unlike that of his former crystalline self, perhaps more akin to the unpredictability of Daniel Barenboim. The two Op.27 Nocturnes, by contrast, were seductive in the extreme. Siren voices called and bewitched, yet they exuded authority by virtue of Pollini's supreme formal command. I do not wish to exaggerate, but there was perhaps a slight lessening of bronchial pollution here; otherwise, I might have found myself with little to say at all. Normal service, however, was resumed for the selection from the Op.25 set of Etudes. Here, Pollini's trademark éclat was once again on show, insofar as one could manage to concentrate. It was perhaps slightly odd to perform eight out of the twelve, but if selection there must be, it was done well here. The sense of Chopin marrying technical and musical innovation, till death them do part, was superbly captured, with prescient hints of Debussy's late marriage of classicism and experimentalism. Again, there were a few – and I mean a few – instances of less than perfect execution, but only a Beckmesser would care. Typically generous with encores, Pollini expanded Chopin's world with another study, a mazurka, and a scherzo. The Revolutionary Study should have brought the house down and did, though one can only assume that tuberculosis had already brought down many of those present.
What, then, is to be done about audiences, or rather about the selfish minority – at least, I hope that it is a minority – increasingly insistent upon ruining performances for the rest of us? Short of installing a Stasi-like system of surveillance and reporting, a tempting thought, it is very difficult to know. I was surprised to notice that the Royal Festival Hall had deleted the later part of Sir Ian McKellen's pre-concert announcement; the audience was no longer requested even 'to keep coughing to a minimum'. This may or may not have had any effect, but it seems odd. Allowing those who are ill, perhaps in practice just anyone, to return tickets on the day of the performance would surely be sensible. Perhaps we have to be more strenuous in our disapproval, mortally embarrassing though we English may find such direct action. At this rate, however, the full house achieved for Pollini will become a thing of the past, if those who care about the music begin to reject live performance in favour of the uninterrupted recorded version at home. A positive footnote, though: it was good to see Matthias Goerne in the stalls.
9 comments:
- mostly opera... said...
Thanks for the report. Good to hear he still gives the Revolutionary study as encore. Didn´t realize they allowed people to bring drinks into the RFH now..
- 03 March, 2010 19:24
- Gernot said...
Regarding coughing: The best solution I have experienced yet is practised (or at least was practised some years ago) by the Kölner Philharmonie - all over the building they distribute cough candies free of charge, wrapped in paper which does not crackle.
- 04 March, 2010 09:43
I have recently found your blog and have enjoyed reading your reviews. I can probably explain some of the ridiculous noises during the first half of the concert. I obtained a "balcony standing ticket" in the very last minute. In the balcony standing area, there was an old gentleman who at first sat on the floor near the center but constantly made rustling noises since the concert began. When Pollini was playing the 2nd or 3rd prélude (I guess), he walked from the center to a left-rear corner of the balcony area and prepared his seat on the floor without paying any attention to the music at all. (I guess I can say this because the rustling noises he made were so loud.) Even after he was more or less settled, he occasionally made loud and inconsiderately unnecessary noises like scratching his bag or dragging his feet on the floor, etc.
At first I thought he was incapable of standing throughout the whole concert, but for the second half he stood for the entire concert and listened to the performance very attentively (if I'm not mixed up)...
I liked the standing ticket: though it was a bit tiring to stand for the whole concert, I could choose a spot with the best view with no obstruction. In the meantime, Pollini's performance was utterly incredible and made me forget all these craps.
- 05 March, 2010 21:42
- Mark Berry said...
Thank you, Wansu. I can only admire you for being able to concentrate at all during the first half, given the trying situation you outline. I am grateful that I had bought my ticket more than a year earlier!
Part of the problem, I think, was the nature of this particular concert. A piano recital is essentially so intimate an experience, or should be, that the slightest distraction is magnified -and, in this case, many of the distractions were rather more than slight. Sadly, as a friend remarked to me, another issue was probably the music, not its quality, but whom it attracts; I cannot imagine that an all-Schoenberg recital would have garnered quite the same audience...
Whether the Royal Festival Hall is an appropriate venue for a piano recital is another question. It can work, I think, but one really does need a 'well-behaved' audience.
- 05 March, 2010 22:55
I found this concert incredibly interesting. The first half I found 'good', but the second half I will never forget. Perhaps it took me a while to settle in to the music, but something was lacking for me in the preludes - especially with Pollini's right hand. There were times (I fear to say) I wondered how Zimerman would have played it. I longed for a bit more clarity.. I couldn't care less about the technical blemishes (if Barenboim is acceptable for 'hitting the right notes', Pollini is faultless) but I just felt that it hampered his interpretation of a few of the preludes. Then came the Ballade of the second half and somewhere in the middle of it, something switched (for Pollini or for me). The rest of the concert was unforgettable. I have never heard the nocturnes played like that live. And he played the etudes with such concentration. And for the encore, the third scherzo - one of my Chopin favourites - he played it with such style I was completely convinced (despite having Argerich's several recordings firmly in my head as 'definitive'). What a second half it was!
Now, what to do with the audience, indeed? After my first recital box experience (with Zimerman the preceding week) I was once again in the same seat for Pollini. This time, guy next to me decided it was a good idea to play along with his fingers on the ledge. First of all, how in the world can people think it is acceptable to make tapping noises during a concert? Secondly, he clearly didn't know the pieces as his tapping was all out of time! Anyway, a very long dark stare from me in the second prelude put a stop to this for the rest of the concert. Once again, the box was rather good - much less distraction I found, compared with the stalls. What gets me even more than people coughing throughout, is the fact that so many of the coughs are 'un-muffled'.. people just coughing out loud.. like they're in the middle of a marketplace.
- 08 March, 2010 13:29
PS. Thought you might appreciate this quote from Pogorelich (rather hilarious!):
When asked "Do ringing telephones during concerts disrupt your concentration?"
He replied: "Ringing cell phones don't bother me. At a concert of mine in Rome a 94-year-old man died in the middle of my playing. I continued."
- 09 March, 2010 12:57
- Mark Berry said...
Wonderful! And from Pogorelich, I can well believe it...
- 09 March, 2010 17:40
- Tony said...
It seems dying is not an uncommon occurrence during recitals. Zimerman also mentioned it in a recent interview.
- 09 March, 2010 20:15
It's when the performer "dies" and he keeps playing anyway that bothers me...
- 19 April, 2010 06:27


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John Statz is a world-traveling songwriter, playing shows and writing and recording in places like Budapest, Slovenia, Quebec, and Anchorage. For his new album, Old Fashioned, he is bringing it back home. Whereas the previous album (Ghost Towns) was filled with worldly influences and subject matter, Old Fashioned brings us back to the heartland: Midwestern America.
Recorded in Iowa City with revered producer Bo Ramsey (Lucinda Williams, Greg Brown, Pieta Brown) this album is all about deep love, hard-working Midwestern folk, nostalgia for times past and of course, history.