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Big Slide Mountain Climber's Log
birdny - Jun 27, 2007 9:23 am Date Climbed: Oct 15, 1993First solo
It was supposed to rain and be overcast, turned into a great day. Nice relaxing hike great views!
lalpinist - Mar 12, 2007 1:38 pm Date Climbed: Mar 11, 2007Sunny
Weird sunny day with the pressure dropping all day until about 5 pm. Lots of wind at 3,700 to 2,000 feet, but no wind at all on the summit. Trails in good conditions, well packed, with only a little ice. The warm weather, however, is creating postholing opportunities if you don't wear snowshoes.
doctorpeakbagger - Dec 12, 2006 2:41 am Date Climbed: Dec 10, 2006Awesome
Via Brothers and then return via Johns Brook. Amazing views all over. Great weather and a great, easy climb. Crampons needed in some spots.
danny-boy - Dec 2, 2006 2:57 am Date Climbed: Nov 24, 2006Amazing hike
Up the steep trail to Yard Mountain then accross to Big Slide. Amazing views of the Great Range. Then we decended on a very icy and challenging (no crampons) trail. Descending the slabs on Three Brothers in the dark by headlamp we heard wolves howl - perfect.
rasgoat - Aug 6, 2006 11:06 pmgreat views!
camped near johns brook lodge. took trail 13 steady climb to summit and the scamble on top is great! so are the views of the great range! descended over yard mountain
WalksWithBlackflies - Feb 22, 2006 2:50 pm Date Climbed: Feb 19, 2006Brothers Loop
The so-called "winter" conditions were disappointing. Wore crampons from the trailhead to the summit... basically ice the entire way. So little snow that leaves were mixed in at lower elevations. Strange weather this year in the 'Daks.
Seth Maciejowski - Oct 18, 2005 8:54 amRoute Climbed: From JBL Date Climbed: October 2000
Snowy on top, but we got some snatches of the view toward the North Face of the Gothics which was coated in snow and rime. We hiked over to Yard mtn and down to the Klondike leanto for a cold and wet night. The boots froze solid by morning.
woodstrider - Apr 30, 2005 1:00 pmRoute Climbed: Trail Date Climbed: Mar 6, 99 and Dec 7, 96
I have yet to get a view.
mike_lindacher - Mar 17, 2005 6:50 pmRoute Climbed: Via Brothers, Descent via Brook Date Climbed: January 2005
Submitted by Michael Lindacher
Excellent winter day. Fifth summit, first in winter. Probably one of the best approaches in the entire Adirondacks. Good stuff.
I was even treated to a good laugh as the indominable Chris Pierz fell into a frozen river. It wasn't so bad, we only had a 4 mile walk out. Nice move Chris !!
ADKMtnman - Oct 6, 2004 4:58 pmRoute Climbed: The Brothers Date Climbed: Oct. 4, 2004
Beautiful fall day.
The leaves vary depending on the elevation.
Everything above 3,000 ft. were brown and falling down, everything in the valleys are full of colors.
It will ideal if for photos if snow falls on the peaks this week, with weather forcasts in the low 20's at night this week, so snow is possible.
As noted in other posts, the trail up the Brothers is well worth the hike. It could be argued that this is one of the best views for the least amount of work in the 'dacks. But this trail starts up right away and is a steady climb the whole way. This trail should not be under estimated.
Many outlooks all along the trail with superb views of the Great Range. At different points, you can see from Porter all the way to Algonquin.
dspal - Aug 1, 2004 11:58 amRoute Climbed: Brothers Trail Date Climbed: June 1994
Very muddy, very buggy, some steep scrambles through the mud, in the trees most of the time...
kevsmith - Jul 16, 2004 12:21 pmRoute Climbed: from JBL Garden over the Brothers Date Climbed: May 31, 2004
This is definitely the right way to climb Big Slide, via the Brothers. There are easily gained, closeup views of the Great Range en route. The ups and downs are arduous, but well worth-it. Great views from the top, feels like you're in the middle of it all. I took the Slide Mtn Brook trail back for a longer, gradual decent. Clear, warm day.
mikethehiker - May 24, 2004 9:54 amRoute Climbed: brothers then JBL Date Climbed: april 2004
Great view from the brothers, nice day hike depending on the snow status, snowshoes can be necessary.
antonius2618 - Jan 12, 2004 8:32 amRoute Climbed: Trail 3 from Johns Brook Straight up Date Climbed: 1/10/04
My buddy Bob and I marched up Big Slide on Saturday, January 10th, 2004. We camped at Grace Camp, run by the ADK Mtn. Club. The night before was -20 below zero, and the daytime high was about 5 degrees F. We started at 10 AM. The climb is easy at first with a moderate grade. About a half mile in you reach a clearing which is in the summer, a rock face that water trickles over. It was all ice with snow over top. The clearing is a great place for catching a bite to eat and admiring the view of Gothics on the other side of the valley. The climb continues on at a little steeper grade. (It appears that the closer you get to the summit, the steeper the trail gets.) At one point you come to the base of the fairly steep section. It's densely wooded with small and large pines. Continue up this steep section until you get to the base of the summit which is .29 miles away from the top of the summit. Here it gets VERY steep. You MUST have snow shoes or crampons to climb this section. Once you get to the summit there is a natural rock face clearing with a 260 degree view of the mountain range. You can see Algonquin to your right and Gothics straight ahead across the Johns Brook Valley. An awesome hike. We hiked back down the way we came because the trail that traversed Yard Mtn would have added 2 miles to our trip and we wanted to get back to Grace camp before dark.
hillman - Sep 23, 2003 9:43 pmRoute Climbed: from johns brook Date Climbed: february 20 2001
Rented camp peggy obrien and brought some friends in for some backcountry. First date with my soulmate. Rode from the summit, and had an incredible weekend. Fell through ice and ripped off my thumbnail. Loved every freakin' minute of it.
climber46 - Aug 6, 2003 8:09 pmRoute Climbed: trail over the Brothers Date Climbed: Aug 22, 2001
This is a phenomenol hike! In August the blueberries on the Brothers complement the views of the Great Range very nicely! The outstanding thing about this hike is the large bald areas that contain great views of the surrounding mountains and valleys. The view from Big Slide is also a classic. There are also a couple of overlooks where you can look over the edge of the Big Slide if you are unafraid of heights! This hike is one I would definitely take a visitor on to introduce them to the Adirondack Mountains because this hike has just about everything that is good about these mountains.
JScoles - Aug 5, 2003 7:54 amRoute Climbed: The Brothers Date Climbed: Aug 3rd 2003
A day trip with my family and for once some great views. The other times I have been up it I was socked in weather wise.
The Blueberries were in and we managed to pick a nice big bunch for breakfast the next moring.
mt10climber - Feb 14, 2003 1:01 pmRoute Climbed: Garden lot via the brothers Date Climbed: November 24 2002
paying to park in a mud hole sucks! only in the state off ny, 3 highest taxes in the country, 49th lowest in sevices provided! make us proud pataki!
christoph wolz - Aug 14, 2002 6:47 pmRoute Climbed: Wittenberg - Cornell - Slide Trail Date Climbed: 8/03/2002
See Drazil´s description.
Strenuous, long, but enjoyable loop with great views, just one last mean ascent too much, when already expect to return to Woodland Valley Campground!
Anyway, good exercise!


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. . . "I don't believe that story for a second," said Chris Ciabarra, chief technical officer and co-founder of Revel Systems which makes a point-of-sale system built on the iPad. As with his own app, Revel says that the Apple Store app is "very clear about when you're done — it's very informational. It's really easy to know how to use the app; everyone knows if they've actually paid for it or not."
I have used the app several times to buy things in Apple retail stores, and it is incredibly convenient. You can see a receipt from one of those transactions above. It is clear when the transaction's complete, but I could see someone in a hurry tapping the Pay Now button and putting the phone away without checking to see if the sale went through. The fact that Shine asked for a bag, knowing a clerk was supposed to ask to see a receipt, is an indicator that he may be telling the truth.
Oh, there's also the fact that went back to another Apple Store after his overnight stay in jail and used the EasyPay system to buy the headphones . … this time making sure the transaction completed.
Clearly, this is a cautionary tale. If you take advantage of the convenience a self-checkout system offers, make sure you also don't become a victim of its downside – that, to a suspicious store employee, self-checkout looks very similar to shoplifting. Make sure you see a receipt on your mobile device before you head for the exit.
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South African comprehensive victory in banker's hours
Centurion show has come to an end, South Africa baffled their visitors by an inning and 25 runs, bull headed hosts ultimately achieved historical victory against world No.1 test side to take 1-0 lead, here on Monday, on the final day of opening test. Sachin Tendulkar's iconic stand with Dhoni changed the scenario for a while, but home side have performed bang-up job, and plucked Indian cross-purposes by their aggressive bowling department's attack. Sachin's 50th ton in test and South African mammoth victory are the gigantic factors, Centurion battle will be register in history book of cricket.
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Final Test Before Saturday's Ivy League Opener
Yale at No. 2 UConn, Tuesday – 7:30 p.m.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale's final tune-up before Saturday's Ivy League opener against Harvard will be a big challenge. The Bulldogs travel to No. 2 UConn on Tuesday. Kickoff at Morrone Stadium is slated for 7:30 p.m.
Yale (4-3-1) is coming off an impressive 3-1 victory at Rhode Island on Sunday. Peter Jacobson scored twice, including the game-winner. He was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll on Monday. Brad Rose, last week's Ivy League Player of the Week, added one goal and two assists. Rose is tied for second in the league with 11 points, 10 of which have come in the last three games.
Defensively, goalkeeper Bobby Thalman leads the league in save percentage (.840) and saves (42)
The Bulldogs are unbeaten (4-0-1) when they score but have been shutout in each of their three losses. In its last four games, Yale has scored 11 goals.
Goals don't figure to come easy against a UConn team that has outscored its opponents 15-2. By kickoff, the Huskies could be ranked first in the nation. Maryland, last week's No. 1, played a scoreless tie with Seton Hall, while UConn beat Boston College 2-0 and St. John's 2-0. Mamadou Diouf leads the Huskies with six goals.
Yale has played UConn tough over the years. The teams played a scoreless tie in 2008, but the Huskies have won each of the last two meetings – 2-0 in 2009 and 3-1 in the Bulldogs' season opener last year. Yale's last win in the series came in 2003, 1-0 when UConn was ranked 17th at the time.
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Complementary Therapies and HIV
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- What Are Some Common Complementary Therapies?
- What Kind of Complementary Treatment Will My Health Care Provider Suggest?
Decisions about your health care are important -- including those about what types of therapy to use. Most health care providers will agree that using complementary (also called alternative or integrative) therapies with standard medicines can help people living with HIV (HIV+) live longer, healthier lives. Most often, people living with HIV use complementary therapies to ease side effects of HIV drugs, boost their immune systems, or improve their overall health.
Complementary therapies refer to a series of health care treatments that are most often not considered to be part of conventional (Western) medicine. These types of treatments can include acupuncture, aromatherapy, biofeedback, homeopathy, hypnosis, massage therapy, Ayurveda, relaxation techniques, nutritional supplements, energy work, and traditional healing.
An important note: while it is important for everyone to tell their health care providers about any and all complementary or integrative practices they use, it is especially important for people living with HIV. Since HIV and HIV drugs affect the immune system, we recommend talking to your health care provider about any complementary treatments before you use them. This gives your provider a full picture of what you do to manage your health and makes sure the treatments you choose are safe and helpful for you.
What Are Some Common Complementary Therapies?
Acupuncture is a practice developed in China several thousand years ago. It involves the use of small thin metal needles that are inserted in the skin at particular points on the body. By activating these specific points, acupuncturists look to remove blockages in the flow of one's life force or vital energy, called qi (pronounced "chee"). In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), energy or qi is believed to circulate through the body. Proper circulation or flow of qi promotes health and well-being. Acupressure uses finger-pressure rather than needles to stimulate healing points on the body and achieve proper flow of qi.
There are now many studies that demonstrate the potential benefits of acupuncture. A partial list of conditions for which acupuncture can be helpful includes: pain, headache, nausea, diarrhea, menstrual cramps, and menopausal symptoms. In the US, many states require acupuncturists to be licensed (L.Ac), and an increasing number of insurance plans cover acupuncture. You can find a licensed acupuncturist through the organization that grants the licenses: the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). Be sure your acupuncturist uses only disposable, sterile needles.
Aromatherapy involves the use of essential oils to improve emotional or physical health. These oils are inhaled or rubbed into the skin, and are generally used to reduce pain, improve mood, and promote relaxation. There is not strong evidence to support the immune-boosting effects of aromatherapy. However, tea tree oil has a demonstrated anti-microbial effect on the skin. It is important that you discuss any use of essential oils with your health care provider.
Biofeedback is a technique that trains people to control some of the body's operations that usually occur without our having to think about them, such as breathing rate, heart rate, or blood pressure. By being connected to devices that measure these actions and watching these measurements (e.g., heart rate) on a monitor, people can affect the inner workings of their bodies and gain some control over the body's "involuntary" actions. Biofeedback is most often used to help people with headaches and pain.
Homeopathy aims to activate the body's own healing abilities by giving small doses of very diluted (thinned out) substances. It is based on the idea that "like cures like," or the Law of Similars. This law suggests that diseases can be cured by small amounts of substances that cause similar symptoms in healthy people. Homeopathic remedies are made from small amounts of a variety of plants, minerals, and animal products that are crushed and dissolved in liquid. By adding more and more liquid to the original mixture, the remedy -- a homeopathic 'tincture' -- is diluted.
The results of scientific studies of homeopathy are mixed. Some studies show homeopathy's benefits, while others do not show any difference between homeopathic treatment and placebo (no treatment). People most often use homeopathy to treat allergies, asthma, ear infections, digestive disorders, headaches, and menopausal symptoms. Because homeopathic remedies can include substances that affect your immune system, remember to talk to your health care provider before using them.
During hypnosis, or hypnotherapy, a trained therapist uses techniques to help you become deeply relaxed and enter a different state of consciousness called a trance. In a trance, your body relaxes while your mind becomes more focused. The hypnotherapist does not control your mind or your actions. Rather, you become very open to suggestion, such as the suggestion to quit smoking. The therapist makes suggestions for changing behaviors or relieving symptoms that are specific to your situation.
Hypnosis can help you relax, reduce stress, relieve anxiety, and ease pain. It is often used before surgical or dental procedures when someone is especially nervous. Hypnotherapy is also used to treat eating disorders, addictions, phobias, insomnia, and digestive problems.
Massage Therapy
Massage involves a trained therapist using their hands to physically handle the body's soft tissues and muscles. There are a variety of massage styles ranging from soft stroking to deep muscle kneading. Massage has been practiced as a healing therapy for centuries around the world. Massage therapy affects the whole body, and can relieve muscle tightness, improve circulation, clear waste products, boost the immune system, reduce stress, and help you relax.
Massage therapists in the US become certified after completing educational training and passing an exam. Many states recognize the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB; www.ncbtmb.org). You can also find massage therapists in your area by going to the website for the American Massage Therapy Association (www.amtamassage.org/index.html).
Since massage involves direct contact between the therapist's hands and your skin, you will be asked to undress when the therapist leaves the room. Professional therapists should provide plenty of sheets and blankets with which to cover yourself on the massage table. If you feel uncomfortable for any reason, do not hesitate to talk to the therapist or find a different therapist.
It is important for women who are pregnant to be cautious about receiving massages. If you are pregnant and want a massage, make sure you find a massage therapist who is specially trained to massage pregnant women.
Mind-Body Techniques
These activities enhance the mind's ability to affect bodily functions and symptoms. Mind-body techniques often include patient support groups, prayer, and therapies that use creative methods such as art, music, or dance. Practices such as biofeedback, hypnosis, journaling, and meditation are considered mind-body techniques.
Achieving a deep state of relaxation is one way to help ease stress and renew the body. Techniques for deep relaxation include meditation, mindfulness, guided visualization, progressive muscle relaxation, certain types of yoga, or Chinese exercises such as Qigong (Chi Kung), and Tai Chi. You can also use audiotapes or attend classes/workshops to guide you in accessing deep states of relaxation. Recent studies suggest that mindfulness meditation may prevent CD4 cells from decreasing when a person living with HIV is under stress. Similarly, a small study showed that transcendental meditation improved the quality of life of those living with HIV. Based on these encouraging results, a much larger study over a longer period of time is planned to examine the specific psychological and physical effects of transcendental meditation.
Herbs and Dietary Supplements
These therapies may involve the use of herbs such as echinacea, garlic, goldenseal, chamomile, and Chinese herbs (e.g., astragalus). Health professionals may also prescribe foods and vitamins as part of a biological-based therapy. Multivitamins often contain antioxidants, such as vitamins A, C, and E, which combine with particles called free-radicals to make them inactive and not harmful. Free-radicals are natural by-products of the body's functions that can cause damage to cells and lead to disease.
Because echinacea, astragalus, and other supplements affect the immune system, they may interact with your HIV drugs. St. John's Wort, which is an herbal treatment for depression, has been shown to affect how protease inhibitors and non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors act. As a result, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends that St. John's Wort not be taken by people who are also taking any kind of HIV drugs. It is important for you to discuss any herbs or supplements with your health care provider before taking them. For more details about supplements, please visit our Vitamins and Supplements article.
What Kind of Complementary Treatment Will My Health Care Provider Suggest?
When recommending complementary therapies, health care providers make decisions based on patients' conditions and other factors such as patients' strengths, lifestyle, medical history, support systems, and all other factors relating to patients' health and wellness. This enables the provider to knit together a program tailored for each patient and may involve the following:
- Diet change: Replacing refined/simple carbohydrates with whole grains, fresh vegetables, and fruits for overall health. Your health care provider may also suggest choosing low-to-moderate fat sources of protein such as turkey, chicken, and fish and limiting dairy and red meats.
- Vitamin and mineral supplements: Your health care provider may prescribe multivitamin/mineral supplements that include Vitamins A, D, E, and C (these are antioxidants), B-vitamins, calcium, magnesium, copper, zinc, manganese, potassium, chromium, and selenium (for more information, see our Vitamins and Supplements article)
- Herbs: A variety of herbs support body functions. These include garlic, goldenseal, and myrrh. Your health care provider may prescribe Chinese herbs, such as ganoderma, atractylodes, and schisandra, which support immune function and have anti-microbial properties.
- Digestive health treatments: Herbs such as barberry, ginger, goldenseal, peppermint, and parsley support digestive functions. Acidophilus and other 'healthy bacteria' help you to maintain a strong digestive system that absorbs nutrients as efficiently as possible.
- Physical activity and exercise: Each day, one half-hour of enjoyable exercise that causes sweating and removes waste from the body may help keep your viral load low. Cardiovascular fitness can strengthen the heart and circulatory system. This is done by increasing one's heart rate about 20 percent more than resting heart rate, and keeping it up for at least 30 minutes, at least five times per week.
- Stress reduction: Deep relaxation practice two times per day for 15-20 minutes can reduce many health risks and maintain one's focus on practicing good health and wellness.
Remember, since HIV and HIV drugs affect the immune system, it is important to talk to your health care provider about any complementary treatments before you use them. This gives your provider a full picture of what you do to manage your health and makes sure the treatments you choose are safe and helpful for you.
More and more, the medical community recommends complementary therapies for many types of conditions. Since complementary treatments have become more common. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has developed a department called The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine (NCCIM) that is dedicated to the study of these treatments. You can learn more about complementary therapy at the NCCIM website.


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FIR Interview: Jean Valin and Dan Tisch on the Melbourne Mandate
At the World Public Relations Forum 2012 in Melbourne, Australia, almost 800 public relations practitioners endorsed the Melbourne Mandate, a call to action of new areas of value for public relations and communication management. It was co-created by 1,000 people from 30 countries over the course of a year.
In this FIR Interview, co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz discuss this Global Alliance initiative with the two architects of the Melbourne Mandate, Jean Valin and Dan Tisch.
The interview begins with Valin and Tisch explaining what the Global Alliance is and its work.
The two men outlined the purpose and scope of the Melbourne Mandate and its set of roles, responsibilities and principles designed to provide practitioners with a new mandate to define and maintain an organization's character and values; build a culture of listening and engagement; and instil responsible behaviours by individuals and organizations.
The wide-ranging conversation embraced discussion on the Mandate's three pillars of character, responsibility - in particular, about trust and ethics - and listening; the Integrity Index, a tool designed to measure whether an organization lives up to its stated values in the minds of its internal and external stakeholders; and the Professional Development Wheel, a guide to the skills professionals need in order to practise to the full scope of the Mandate.
Valin and Tisch also spoke of the challenges in bringing the Melbourne Mandate to the attention of a wider audience within the public relations profession, and stimulating broader interest in it.
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Jean Valin, APR, FCPRS, founded Valin Strategic Communications after a thirty year career as a senior communication executive. He has advised senior officials and ministers of the Government of Canada on communication matters throughout his career.
Valin is active in his professional association, the Canadian Public Relations Society and served as its national president in 1996-97. He was awarded his accreditation (APR) in 1987 and was called to the College of Fellows in 2001.
In 2000, he became a founding member of the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management. He was Chairman for 2004 and 2005 and continues to serve as ambassador-at-large. In 2008 he received the President's medal from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations in the UK and the Award of Attainment from the Canadian Public Relations Society in 2010 as well as in 2013 for his leadership in developing the Melbourne Mandate advocacy platform for public relations. He is a co-author of the official definition of public relations adopted by the CPRS in 2008.
Connect with Jean on Twitter: @jeanvalin1.
Daniel Tisch, APR, FCPRS, was the 2011-2013 chair of the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management, a Fellow of the Canadian Public Relations Society and CEO of Argyle Communications, one of Canada's largest independent PR firms. He has lectured on public relations at Queen's University since 1996.
Dan led the Global Alliance to unprecedented growth, co-chaired the Melbourne Mandate process and the 2012 World Public Relations Forum, launched the GA COMM PRIX Awards and represented the profession with the International Integrated Reporting Council.
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2. Put pork belly into a large roasting pan and add cider, maple syrup, caraway seed, mustard, salt and pepper and toss it a bit to coat evenly. Cover with a tight fitting lid or make one out of foil. Place in oven and braise until tender, about 8 hours or overnight. You may prepare the pork belly to this point several days in advance. If you do, simply leave the meat in the braising liquid and refrigerate together until you are ready to proceed.
3. Take pork belly out of braising liquid. Cut it into large square chunks and place them on a baking sheet. Some of the chunks will need a slight bit of trimming to remove the thicker pieces of fat. Roast until heated through and crispy, about 15 minutes. Enjoy one of the most decadent treats you will ever eat!
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Theoretical Economics 2 (2007), 469–487
A non-differentiable approach to revenue equivalence
Kim-Sau Chung, Wojciech Olszewski
We give a sufficient condition on the type space for revenue equivalence when the set of social alternatives consists of probability distributions over a finite set. Types are identified with real-valued functions that assign valuations to elements of this finite set, and the type space is equipped with the Euclidean topology. Our sufficient condition is stronger than connectedness but weaker than smooth arcwise connectedness. Our result generalizes all existing revenue equivalence theorems when the set of social alternatives consists of probability distributions over a finite set. When the set of social alternatives is finite, we provide a necessary and sufficient condition. This condition is similar to, but slightly weaker than, connectedness.
Keywords: Revenue equivalence, mechanism design, incentive compatibility, non-differentiable approach, connected type space
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When the Douglas family moved to the mansion in 1906, the estate was renamed Brucemore. The family hired Chicago architect Howard van Doren Shaw, who specialized in North Shore mansions, to oversee the needed renovations (which exceeded $30,000). Shaw relocated the entrance to the south facade (see Photo 1) and built a terrace on the north side, which faced the extensive lawn. Inside, butternut paneling and ceiling beams were added to the great hall. In the 1920s, the Douglases enhanced this space with a dramatic mural depicting scenes from Richard Wagner's opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung.
Domestic servants were integral to the sophistication and decorum, much less the functionality, of the Brucemore estate. Their work touched every part of the estate, including the 21 rooms in the mansion.
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1. Examine Photos 1 and 2 and read the accompanying caption, what are your impressions of this home?
2. Does Photo 1 help provide a sense of the mansion's scale? Does it help create a better understanding of the amount of work involved in maintaining such an estate? Why or why not?
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"Hatha Yoga is the phenomenon of aligning the human system with the cosmic – a way to hold one's system in a way that it will become a receptacle to receive and hold the entire cosmos."
- Sadhguru
Sadhguru: Hatha Yoga means that you want to be in absolute sync with the life process, because for your life to find its full blossom, it has to be in sync. There is no other way.
When you try doing Hatha Yoga, the biggest barrier is the body's limitations. The biggest barrier for human beings to do anything is their body and their mind. What should have been a stepping stone has turned into an obstacle simply because it was not explored considerably. After a profound and through exploration of the human system, we arrived at ways to transform the body and mind into great possibilities. Hatha Yoga is about creating a body that is not a hurdle in your life. The body becomes a stepping stone in the progress towards blossoming into your ultimate possibility.
We want to take the physical form beyond its present level of limitations. In a way, Hatha Yoga means you want to make your comfort zone universal, instead of the small band that it is right now. Wherever and however you may be, you are at ease. You can naturally achieve a chemistry of health, joy, blissfulness and above all, balance.
Hatha Yoga stems from a deep understanding of the mechanics of the body, and uses yogic postures, or yogasanas, to enable the system to sustain higher dimensions of energy. By practicing this profound science, one can change and enhance the way they think, feel, and experience life.
This program is a wonderful opportunity to learn four ancient and powerful ways to transform the body and mind into great possibilities.
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Are a set of powerful postures through which one can elevate one's consciousness and activate energies powerfully.
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The geochemistry of biogenic carbonates: The skeletal chemistry of marine organisms may record information on the local environmental conditions prevailing at the time of their deposition and the analysis of fossil specimens can be used to estimate past climate. My research focuses on understanding the environmental and biological processes which affect the skeletal geochemistry of corals, foraminifera and sclerosponges.
Reconstruction of tropical and sub-tropical Pacific seawater temperatures: I am using measurements of Sr/Ca, δ11B and δ18O in fossil corals from Papua New Guinea, Hawaii and the Great Barrier Reef to reconstruct records of sea surface temperature, ice volume and regional salinity in the Pacific Ocean at key times in the Quaternary and beyond.
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A Taunton area veterans group is reminding the public about those who never returned from war.
TAUNTON — A Taunton area veterans group is reminding the public about those who never returned from war.
"It's difficult to find the remains sometimes, but you have to keep searching," said Dennis Proulx, vice president of the Taunton Area Vietnam Veterans Association, which has been holding events to draw attention to the cause for more than three decades. "That's what this country should be all about. If you go to war for your country, you should be returned home."
The Taunton Area Vietnam Veterans Association is holding its 32nd annual POW/MIA memorial on Sunday at noon on Church Green, the site of the city's Vietnam Memorial Fountain.
The Taunton-based Vietnam veterans group said that 1,642 prisoners of war (POW) and servicemen who went missing in action (MIA) remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia as a result of the Vietnam War. The group said that 39 of those POWs and MIAs are from Massachusetts.
Going further back, the group recognizes a total of roughly 90,000 U.S. POWs and MIA from World War I to the present.
Proulx, vice president of the Taunton Area Vietnam Veterans, said the group continues to do its best to also draw attention to current prisoner of war, Sgt. Bowie Bergdahl of Idaho, who reportedly remains a prisoner of the Taliban-aligned Afghanistan Haqqani network since he was captured in June 2009.
"I hope the government is doing all it can behind the scenes to help the poor guy," said Proulx, adding that it is a complex situation.
Proulx said that his group and others supporting the POW/MIA cause are constantly trying to raise awareness of and demand full funding for the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, which is the U.S. Department of Defense program that does research and missions to account for all POWs and MIAs that served the country's military.
The special guest speaker at this year's event is Barbara Grzyb, a regional coordinator of the National League of Families, whose brother was a POW who died in Cambodia in 1969 at age 21 but whose body was never returned.
"The message is that he'll always be remembered," said Grzyb, of Lowell, when reached on Tuesday night. "Right now, JPAC is in Cambodia. They've been there for four weeks. … I've always had hope that he would be recovered, and his remains would come home."
Grzyb said the feelings associated with POW family member are haunting.
"It's like a missing child or a missing person," she said. "There is no closure you know."
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2017 Week 0 (Tennessee)
I may have slacked the past two years remarking on trips around the country. But, this year I decided to try and write some about games outside Ohio. Less on the games themselves, and more on just notes and observations about how other states do things.
As has been the case, my season started once again in Tennessee. This works great because it combined both my anniversary and a football trip into one. Now, other states start in Week 0, such as Indiana and Kentucky. However, Tennessee is one of the few that opens with games on Thursday.
Just as in Ohio, there are schools who 'can't wait' to play and start on Thursday. There's also city schools in Memphis and near Nashville. And in one quirk of the schedule, the far northeast corner of the state plays ALL their Week 0 games on Thursday. The reason becomes obvious when you realize they're near Bristol.
The weekend features Bristol Motor Speedway's night race on Saturday, and to avoid the hassle that is 100,000 or more outside fans showing up for the weekend events, the football games get moved up.
My first ever game in Tennessee was a few years ago when ESPN aired the Station Camp-Beech game on a Sunday afternoon in Week 0. That game was miserable. It was hot, and the game was scheduled for early afternoon. The stadium was woefully inadequate for the fans and for the size of the schools. Akin to Mentor-Parma playing at Cuyahoga Heights, the stadium was miniscule.
Even arriving an hour early didn't help get a seat as the stands were packed and every square inch of available standing space along the railings and fences were taken. The only spot available? On a small mound located BEHIND the scoreboard and near a few of the temporary concession stands set up for the game. It was not entertaining or enjoyable.
And I didn't think I would return to Tennessee. Until I learned of the Stone Castle. Known by its much cooler nickname, Bristol Municipal Stadium is built in the style of a medieval castle. The entire grounds are surrounded by a real rock wall complete with lookouts, turrets, and spiked outcroppings.
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The stadium was recently redone with the old stone seating area replaced with the more conventional aluminum stands and the old grass field was replaced with turf. The game wasn't the greatest, but the venue for Tennessee High School is one of the most memorable in the country. It's a shame it's not well regarding in those 'ten stadiums to see' lists.
But, after seeing a second game in Tennessee, it opened up seeing other games in Week 0 as a night game in Tennessee, even with the summer heat, is much better and some stadiums aren't matchbox sized.
And that's when I stumbled upon Rivalry Thursday. It's a Knoxville-based television broadcast of regular season games on Thursday. Aired live. Last year, it was Clinton hosting Oak Ridge. Which was interesting as I had been in Clinton previously. And Oak Ridge, if you're even vaguely aware of country music, is the originator of what is known as the Oak Ridge Boys. But also, Clinton was home to another 'cool' stadium. Owned by the town, it's set apart from the school and features a concrete visitor stand and again a modern aluminum riser for the home. And in the endzone, another elevated concrete stand for the band and students. And next to it, a large metal dragon that breathes smoke.
Game didn't go well for Clinton, however.
This year, there were a few options for games. A return trip to the Stone Castle, another Johnson County school, or the Rivalry Thursday game. This year, that game was in the small 'town' of Strawberry Plains. Carter, a Knox County School, was hosting Anderson County. Coincidentally from the aforementioned town of Clinton.
If you're unaware, Jim Haslam, the owner of the Browns, has donated enough money to Knox County Schools to convert their fields to turf. Which was Carter's turn this year. It also coincided with some renovations to the fencing around the field.
Now, Carter Football Stadium is small. It's also compact. Located across the road from the school, this slightly rural stadium is stuck on a small plot of land. The visitors stand climbs the hillside and sits just above the road. During games, the road is closed.
Deciding on a game wasn't easy, but with the plan to visit Great Smoky Mountains National Park once again, it wasn't that far west of the main route to the park. So, eventually Carter-Anderson County won out.
Tickets for this single game were $8, and programs were $5. The school made an 'event' of this game. A half dozen tents setup in the endzone selling all different kinds of food. As well as a snow-cone truck parked by the field house building. Even arriving early, it was clear seating on the home side would be limited.
The $8 ticket was just general admission. However, the home side is setup in three small segments. The main stand sits atop the 50, and is for reserved tickets and students. Then, to the south, is a second small stand for the band. And to the north, a small stand for general admission. Meanwhile, the entire visitor section, roughly 8 rows tall, runs from the 5 to the other 10 yard line. What stands out about this stadium is that with the lack of a track and the elevated stands right behind the sidelines, is that you are incredibly close to the field. This also means there's no fence standing on the sidelines as the only walkway is in the stands. Though a small contingent camped out along the endzone fencing, the home side of the stadium did fill almost completely.
The visitors side was where I sat, and though it faced the sun for the first hour, had plenty of room as not many made the trip south for the game. Though, arriving early for a game, it's hit-or-miss where the student section or where the band would be and neither is conducive if you're there to watch the game as both stand for the bulk of the game. Anderson County, though, basically setup shop for the band in the very first 'small' section while the students took the small section at the far end of the field.
As for the field, aside from the usual team name and nickname, the field featured prominent "Pilot" logos for Jim Haslam's truck stop chain each end of the field near the 20s.
And for being on television, the game took a ridiculously long almost 4 hours. A 7:30 start featured plenty of scoring in the first half and was almost two hours in by the time halftime finished. And then, the second half began. A combination of penalties, frustration, and the home team struggling to move the ball.
Carter went into half up 27-25. However, 30 unanswered points by Anderson County in the second half sealed their fate, 55-27.
Overall, Tennessee cares about their football. Their stadiums, in general, are either ancient or undersized. This may make for 'packed' games, but it also makes for some miserable fans who at best can watch while standing behind the endzone or such.
I'll discuss the second part of Week 0 when I visited Kentucky soon. And Week 1 for my one-day trip to Michigan.
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One of these years, you need to get out to Memphis for a game. There are some cool old school stadiums in West Tennessee.
It's too bad the old Crump Stadium is no longer around. It actually hosted high school games, SEC football games, and Memphis State football games prior to 1964 when all of the college games shifted to what is now known as the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.
Believe it or not, the old Crump Stadium stood in its 25,000 seat configuration all the way up until 2004 when it was demolished, and replaced with a "normal size" football stadium.
Anyway, some goodies still exist around town. I really like Memphis Melrose's stadium. The neighborhood is a bit rough, but you should be OK at a high school football game. Just make sure you park where everyone else is parking, and it's well lit.
Cincinnati LaSalle played at Memphis Christian Brothers last year, and they have a nice stadium, too, although it's much newer than Melrose's.
Memphis University School also has a really nice home side, but the visitor side isn't much to write home about.
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There's a lot of options in Tennessee for a Thursday Week 0 game. Just depends on the schedule.
In 2018, the basic plan is to see the Corky Kell Classic at the new Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta during Week 0. Then go to Disney World, and see games somewhere else on the way back north.
Maybe in the future I can get further west for a Week 0 Tennessee game.
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LONDON — The World Health Organization urged nations worldwide Friday to donate money and resources to stop the spread of Ebola as it declared the outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency.
The current Ebola outbreak is the largest and longest ever recorded for the disease, which has a death rate of about 50 percent and has so far killed at least 961 people, according to the U.N. health agency. It emerged in Guinea in March and has since spread to Sierra Leone and Liberia, with a suspected cluster in Nigeria.
"Countries affected to date simply do not have the capacity to manage an outbreak of this size and complexity on their own," WHO chief Dr. Margaret Chan told a news conference in Geneva. "I urge the international community to provide this support on the most urgent basis possible."
She added that the world's "collective health security" depends on curbing the spread of the killer virus in West Africa, even as she acknowledged that many countries would probably not have any Ebola cases.
The agency convened an expert committee this week to assess the severity of the Ebola epidemic. WHO declared similar emergencies for the swine flu pandemic in 2009 and for polio in May.
Since Ebola was first identified in 1976, there have been more than 20 outbreaks in central and eastern Africa; this is the first to affect West Africa. The virus causes symptoms including fever, vomiting, muscle pain and bleeding. It is spread by direct contact with bodily fluids like blood, sweat, urine, saliva and diarrhea.
The impact of WHO's declaration Friday is unclear; its similar declaration about polio doesn't yet seem to have slowed the spread of the paralytic virus.
"Statements won't save lives," said Dr. Bart Janssens, director of operations for the Doctors Without Borders charity group. "For weeks, (we) have been repeating that a massive medical, epidemiological and public health response is desperately needed. ... Lives are being lost because the response is too slow."
"I don't know what the advantage is of declaring an international emergency," added Dr. David Heymann, who directed WHO's response to the SARS outbreak and is now a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. "This could bring in more foreign aid but we don't know that yet."
Earlier this week, the World Bank pledged up to $200 million in emergency funding to help the countries affected by Ebola and strengthen public health systems across West Africa.
On Friday, the European Union said it would chip in an additional 8 million euros ($10.7 million) to Ebola efforts and send a second mobile lab to help with diagnostics. USAID also announced it would invest an extra $12.45 million to support the fight against Ebola.
In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has already warned Americans against traveling to West Africa due to the Ebola outbreak. The agency also put U.S. hospitals on alert for symptoms so they can spot potential cases.
Two Americans infected with Ebola recently received a drug never before tested in people and seem to be improving slightly, according to the charity they work for.
Next week, WHO will hold another meeting to discuss whether it's ethical to use experimental Ebola treatments in the current outbreak. There is no licensed drug or treatment for Ebola and no evidence in people that the experimental treatments work.
Other experts hoped the WHO declaration would mean that send more health workers are sent to West Africa.
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WHO did not recommend any travel or trade bans Friday but said people who had close contact with Ebola patients should not travel internationally. For countries with Ebola, WHO issued various recommendations, including exit screening at international airports and border crossings to spot potential cases. It also discouraged mass gatherings.
WHO said countries without Ebola should heighten their surveillance and treat any suspected cases as a health emergency.
This week, two of the worst-hit Ebola countries — Liberia and Sierra Leone — brought in troops to enforce quarantines and stop people infected with the disease from traveling. Liberian authorities said no one with a fever would be allowed in or out of the country and warned some civil liberties could be suspended if needed to bring the killer virus under control.
The disease spread from Liberia to Nigeria when a man apparently sick with Ebola boarded a plane, according to the Nigerian government. Nigerian authorities say the man, who later died, was not placed into isolation for at least 24 hours after he was hospitalized. A nurse who treated him has since died from Ebola and authorities are monitoring seven other cases among people who had contact with him.
Chan said while extraordinary measures might be necessary to contain the Ebola outbreak, it was important to recognize civil rights.
"We need to respect the dignity of people and inform them why these measures are being taken," she said.
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The capital markets raise money for companies by selling what are termed cash securities, things that are familiar to most people like stocks and bonds. These are things people can buy or invest in and hold as assets to realize a return (although sometimes that return might be negative). There are also other hard assets like commodities and even real estate. These assets are all part of what is termed the "cash markets." Currencies are a little different: they are loosely considered part of the cash markets, although not a hard asset (a currency is a vehicle of investment and saving that has value only relative to other currencies). Derivatives by their nature are based on cash markets.
The definition of derivative is "something obtained from a certain source." A derivative then is a contract or agreement (this agreement almost always has a payoff and a time limit) whose value is based on the performance of a cash instrument (or more specifically its price movement). So a derivative contract basically says that if X happens to the price of the cash instrument over some specific period of time, one party will pay the other party Y. Common to all derivative contracts is an expiration date and leverage: In entering into the agreement, the parties are only required to post a fraction of the value of the eventual payoff.
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Former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., President Obama's nominee to succeed Leon Panetta as defense secretary, was confirmed this afternoon by the Senate Armed Services Committee, paving the way for his likely -- if unpleasant -- path to confirmation for the job.
Hagel, whose performance in last week's confirmation hearings was criticized as passive and at times confused, passed along party lines by 14-11 in committee, narrowly clearing the first hurdle to his nomination. For more than two hours before the vote, senators on the committee debated his abilities to lead the Pentagon.
His confirmation now depends on a full Senate vote, which requires majority support. No Democratic senators have signaled an intent to vote against Hagel's confirmation, which means that he should pass that 50-vote threshold. Even if Republicans choose to filibuster Hagel's nomination - which would be historically unprecedented - Democrats would need 60 votes to defeat that move. There are 55 senators who caucus with Democrats; meanwhile, at least five Republican senators have signaled that they would not support a filibuster on Hagel's nomination. Thus, it's likely Democrats would be able to defeat such an attempt.
Still, according to Senate historian Don Ritchie, Republicans who object to Hagel can still throw a wrench in the confirmation process by objecting to requests for unanimous consent and generally imposing infinite delays on the vote.
That's essentially what Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., is planning to do.
"Hagel may be passed out of the committee, but it's going to be a long, long time before he hits the floor," Inhofe told the National Review yesterday. "We're going to need as much time as possible, and there are going to be several of us who will have holds."
"Each day that goes by will make it more difficult for Democrats who say they are pro-Israel to hold out," he said. "I want everyone to be very clear about his past statements and his positions."
Even so, Ritchie says ultimately the Senate can "still operate," despite the "significant" delays a series of holds could impose.
Reid told reporters today he will not honor holds placed by Republican senators, and a Senate Democratic aide tells CBSNews.com they're "not concerned at all" about the threats to derail Hagel's confirmation.
"They know he's going to pass and they're just trying to get the headlines," the aide said, of Hagel's prospects. "There's very little concern on this."
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There are pretty much no rules when it comes to cartoon character names. So, if you had the exciting opportunity to name one, where would you look for inspiration? Your favorite weird friends? Your favorite politicians? Your favorite songs? Every now and then, we'll come across a well-known cartoon's truly peculiar background story. Really, who would've thought that Scooby-Doo would be the direct result of a Frank Sinatra song? Check out the fun inspirations behind ten cartoon character names after the jump, and hit the comments to let us know about the others that you've discovered over the years.
Have you ever listened to Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night" and childishly giggled to yourself, "Ruh-roh, he just sang, 'Scooby-Dooby-Doo'"? If so, you might find it reassuring to know that Ol' Blue Eyes is indeed the inspiration behind our favorite crime-solving Great Dane's name. Fred Silverman, a CBS executive in charge of children's programing, was intrigued by Sinatra's scatting and subsequently named the pup "Scooby-Doo" in 1969. Mystery solved.