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Researchers at the Institute for Health Research and Policy of the University of Illinois at Chicago have been awarded a $3 million grant to study the effectiveness of two community-based health promotion programs for older adults with osteoarthritis.
Funded by the National Institute on Aging, the study will compare Fit and Strong!, an evidence-based physical activity and health behavior change program, with Fit and Strong! Plus, the traditional program with an added weight management/dietary component. Fit and Strong! has proven effective for older adults with osteoarthritis, the most common chronic condition and the primary cause of disability in older adults.
"Fit and Strong! can improve joint stiffness, pain and function, anxiety/depression, lower extremity strength and gait speed and enhance maintenance of physical activity in older adults for up to 18 months," said Susan L. Hughes, co-principal investigator of the project and professor of community health sciences in the UIC School of Public Health.
While the traditional program has been very successful, "we felt that we needed to address the underlying weight issues that cause or exacerbate lower extremity osteoarthritis," Hughes said.
In the new study, researchers will enroll 400 adults ages 60 and older with lower extremity osteoarthritis who have a body mass index of between 25 and 50. Half will be enrolled in Fit and Strong! and half in Fit and Strong! Plus.
Participants in Fit and Strong! Plus will participate in the traditional program and will also receive dietary and weight loss interactive sessions. The goal is to achieve a minimum 5 percent weight loss by increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables, decreasing saturated fats and sugar-sweetened drinks, reducing overall calorie consumption, and learning to manage triggers that can lead to overeating.
The weight loss component is adapted from a successful weight loss trial funded by the National Cancer Institute that was conducted by Marian Fitzgibbon, co-principal investigator of the project and deputy director of UIC's Institute for Health Research and Policy.
"Participants who are randomly assigned to Fit and Strong! Plus will learn strategies to increase their intake of fruits and vegetables and whole grains as well as monitoring their food intake," said Fitzgibbon, who is also professor and director of the Section of Health Research Promotion in the Department of Medicine in the UIC College of Medicine. "Participants will also learn more about what may be triggers for overeating and mindless eating that can contribute to weight gain."
Fit and Strong! was developed by Hughes and is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Administration on Aging. The program is used at 54 sites in Illinois, North Carolina, West Virginia and Florida.
The program provides 60 minutes of exercise and 30 minutes of education three times a week for eight weeks. The focus is on making exercises easy to do, developing individual routines, and reinforcing new behaviors, said Hughes, who directs the Center for Research on Health and Aging at UIC's Institute for Health Research and Policy.
The United States is spending billions of dollars on hip and knee replacements and there is an urgent need to develop effective and affordable solutions that can be implemented in the community, according to Hughes.
UIC researchers will partner with the Chicago Park District to conduct the study at three sites: Eckhart Park, Washington Park and Columbus Park. Nationally certified exercise instructors will be trained to conduct the programming.
All participants will be evaluated at two, six, 12, 18 and 24 months. The researchers will assess dietary changes, weight loss, exercise participation, measurement of osteoarthritis symptoms, anxiety and depression.
The researchers will also analyze Medicare claims data for participants before and after the intervention to evaluate health care use and cost.
Co-investigators are Carol Braunschweig, associate professor of kinesiology and nutrition, Pankaja Desai, research specialist, and Denise Hynes, professor of public health in medicine -- all of UIC.
The project is supported by a grant (No. AG039374) from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health.
For more information on Fit and Strong! visit www.fitandstrong.org.
This news release was written by Sherri McGinnis-González, associate director of the UIC News Bureau.


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Eadweard Muybridge
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Animal Locomotion - An Electrophotographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Plate 574. "Hansel" walking, free [Vol. 9 Horses],
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Muybridge was a pioneer in the advancement of photography and the development of the moving picture. Studies of movement became a widespread fascination later in the nineteenth century and improvements in photographic techniques allowed for a lower exposure time making these studies feasible. Having started his investigations in the 1870s, 'Animal Locomotion' is Muybridge's greatest work taking from 1884 to 1886 to complete. It contains 781 plates of animal and human movement for scientific and artistic purposes.
'Mr. Muybridge is not only an original but a daring man. He has smitten one of the gods of British ideology. Not the least instructive part of his lecture was his contrast between the positions of animals as shown in ancient or modern art with their true positions as shown by themselves in presence of the camera'. G.A. Sala, 'Tribune', New York, 24 June 1882.
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- 19.4 x 38.5 cm image; 48.6 x 61.1 cm sheet
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- Purchased 1989
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Jonathan Smith studied in the United Kingdom at the Kent Institute of Design and the International Center for Photography in New York. He has exhibited internationally and has been the recipient of a number of awards, including The Hearst Biennial Award, The Magenta Foundation, Flash Forward Award, the PDN Annual Awards and the Photography Book Now Blurb Award. His work has appeared numerous publications including Metropolis and View magazine, PDN, Art and Architecture and The Royal Photographic Society Magazine. Clients include: Hewlett Packard, The Metropolitan Museum of New York, Random House, None Such records, The Museum of the City of New York, The Design Trust for Public Space and Taschen. He is represented by Rick Wester Fine art Gallery in New York.
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A Pro-Russian militant walks past burnt cars near a checkpoint that was the scene of a gunfight overnight near the city of Slaviansk, April 20, 2014. At least two people were killed in a gunfight early on Sunday near a Ukrainian city controlled by pro-Russian separatists, testing an already fragile international accord that is supposed to defuse Ukraine's armed stand-off. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)
SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (AP) — Crimea's self-defense forces on Wednesday stormed the Ukrainian navy headquarters in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, taking possession without resistance a day after Russia signed a treaty with local authorities to annex the region.
An Associated Press photographer witnessed several hundred self-defense forces take down the gate and make their way onto the headquarters' premises. They then raised the Russian flag on the square by the headquarters.
The unarmed Crimean self-defense forces waited for an hour on the square before the moved to storm the headquarters. Following the arrival of the commander of the Russian Black Sea fleet, the Crimeans took over the building while Ukrainian servicemen did not offer any resistance.
The AP photographer was able to enter the headquarters and saw the Crimean self-defense forces roaming around while the Ukrainian servicemen were packing up and leaving.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed a treaty to incorporate Crimea into its territory following a referendum in which residents the strategic region overwhelmingly backed the move.
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A Ukrainian serviceman and a member of a local self-defense brigade were killed by gunfire in an incident in Crimea on Tuesday.
Thousands of Russian troops had overtaken Crimea two weeks before Sunday's hastily called referendum, seizing some Ukrainian military bases, blockading others and pressuring Ukrainian soldiers to surrender their arms and leave. Putin insisted the Russian troops were in Crimea under a treaty with Ukraine that allows Russia to have up to 25,000 troops at its Black Sea fleet base in Crimea.
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In 1919 Cramér was appointed assistant professor at the University of Stockholm. He began to produce a series of papers on analytic number theory, and he addressed the Scandinavian Congress of Mathematicians in 1922 on Contributions to the analytic theory of numbers detailing his work on the topic up to that time. One interesting paper by Cramér over this period which we should note is one he published in 1920 discussing prime number solutions x, y to the equation ax + by = c, where a, b, c are fixed integers. Note that if a = b = 1 then the question of whether this equation has a solution for all c is Goldbach's conjecture, while if a = 1, b = -1, c = 2, then the question about prime solutions to x = y + 2 is the twin prime conjecture. Cramér's work in prime numbers is put into the context of the history of prime number theory from Eratosthenes to the mid 1990s in [4].
It was not only through his work on number theory that Cramér was led towards probability theory. He also had a second job, namely as an actuary with the Svenska Life Assurance Company. This led him to study probability and statistics which then became the main area of his research. In 1927 he published an elementary text in Swedish Probability theory and some of its applications. In 1929 he was appointed to a newly created chair in Stockholm, becoming the first Swedish professor of Actuarial Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.
Cramér became interested in the rigorous mathematical formulation of probability in work of the French and Russian mathematicians such as Paul Lévy, Sergei Bernstein, and Aleksandr Khinchin in the early 1930s, but in particular the axiomatic approach of Kolmogorov. The results of his studies were written up in his Cambridge publication Random variables and probability distributions which appeared in 1937. This was to lead to later work on stationary stochastic processes. By the mid 1930s Cramér's attention had turned to look at the approach of the English and American statisticians such as Fisher, Neyman and Egon Pearson (Karl Pearson's son). These he described as admirable but [10]:-
... not quite satisfactory from the point of view of mathematical rigour.Masani in [9] describes the beginnings of Cramér's work on stochastic processes as follows:-
The first phase, beginning at the start of World War II, is devoted to extending the 1934 results of Khinchin on univariate stationary stochastic processes to multivariate stationary stochastic processes, and to studying the connections between Khinchin's work and the earlier cognate work on generalised harmonic analysis by Norbert Wiener [in] 1930.During World War II Cramér was to some extent cut off from the rest of the academic world. However he gave shelter to W Feller who was forced out of Germany by Hitler's anti-Jewish policies in 1934. By the end of World War II Cramér had written his masterpiece Mathematical Methods of Statistics. The book was first published in 1945, and republished as recently as 1999. The book combines the two approaches to statistics described above and the latest reprinting is described as follows:-
In this classic of statistical mathematical theory, Harald Cramér joins the two major lines of development in the field: while British and American statisticians were developing the science of statistical inference, French and Russian probabilists transformed the classical calculus of probability into a rigorous and pure mathematical theory. The result of Cramér's work is a masterly exposition of the mathematical methods of modern statistics that set the standard that others have since sought to follow.In 1950 Cramér became the President of Stockholm University. Despite holding this post until he retired in 1961, Cramér still found time to undertake research despite the large administrative burden placed on him. The second phase of Cramér's work on stochastic processes [9]:-
... began around 1950 and lasted until the early 1980s... [It] is devoted to the analysis of non-stationary processes, specifically to determining the extent to which the representations available for stationary process survive for non-stationary ones.Cramér's Collected Works were published in 1994. Paul Embrechts, in his review of the two volumes, writes:-
One finds treated such fields as number theory, function theory, mathematical statistics, probability and stochastic processes, demography, insurance risk theory, functional analysis and the history of mathematics. Such highlights as the probabilistic method in the study of asymptotic properties of prime numbers, the spectral analysis of stationary processes, the mathematical foundation of inference and the fundamental work on risk theory all add up to a brilliant career as a scientist.Another reviewer writes:-
This book is a classic, not least for its combination of lucidity and rigour. ... It belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in statistical methods.We should give two specific results which we have not mentioned previously which will be remembered as major contributions, namely his work on the central limit theorem and his beautiful theorem that if the sum of two independent random variables is normal then all are normal.
There have been many tributes to Cramér. Edward Phragmen wrote:-
Harald Cramér belonged to a generation of mathematicians for which it was self-evident that mathematics constitutes one of the highest forms of human thought, perhaps even the highest. For these mathematicians numbers were a necessary form of human thought, and the science of numbers was a central humanistic discipline with a cultural value of its own, completely independent of its role as auxiliary science in technical or other areas. This does not however mean that they underestimated the importance of 'using theoretical knowledge to obtain practical know-how'.Blom in [1] sums up Cramér's contribution with simple but effective words:-
He was a great scientist and a good man.
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Quote from: Samourai Pizzacat on November 24, 2009, 01:15:46 PM
There's a big difference between behavioral intent and actual behavior, and that is exactly what seperates humans from other animals. By far the biggest difference between humans and other animals is our cognitive abilitie: We can empathise, plan and understand consequences of our actions.
Yes, a lot of physical processes are pretty much analogous to human processes, not always the same. This is of course mirrored in research, where animal research is just the stepping stone towards studies on humans. This is especially poignant in psychological research, animal studies were mostly the domain of the behaviourists, a largely outdated school of thought on human behaviour.
I agree with the notion that life-long monogamy is an unrealistic notion. However, this does not move us in the direction of polygamy per sé. Relationships and feelings evolve, often at different speeds and directions. People get bored with each other, love wanes. We can opt to end the relationship and become available for a new relationship. Infidelity is the easy way out: I don't care what my primal instincts tells me,
I can still control my actions.
You can also choose to enter an open relationship, where both or more partners put their cards on the table at the start.
You've obviously never been left alone with a tub of Hagen Daaz, or had chocolate paraded in front of your face
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Quote from: jaguarenterprises on November 25, 2009, 04:23:52 AM
You've obviously never been left alone with a tub of Hagen Daaz, or had chocolate paraded in front of your face
Thank you for making my point, albeit with a less than germane example. All of human history (not to mention our individual personal histories) is filled with countless examples of people unable to control their actions, acting on instinct, or behaving irrationally. It is amusing to see people who really think they are immune to this.
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Quote from: jaguarenterprises on November 25, 2009, 04:23:52 AM
You've obviously never been left alone with a tub of Hagen Daaz, or had chocolate paraded in front of your face
I have remarkable self restraint, even on alcohol. I do allow myself some frivolities now and then
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I think it will end.
Stella, do you still think it will end?
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Quote from: Samourai Pizzacat on November 24, 2009, 01:15:46 PM
There's a big difference between behavioral intent and actual behavior, and that is exactly what seperates humans from other animals. By far the biggest difference between humans and other animals is our cognitive abilitie: We can empathise, plan and understand consequences of our actions.
dood i'm betting BGM HAD a wife and has kiddies...which makes it ABSOLUTELY inherent that he argue otherwise..
otherwise homosexuality goes from being a "choice" to " an orientiation" the latter of which CANT be helped since its genetic
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Stella, do you still think it will end?
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Quote from: STella on November 29, 2009, 08:37:51 AM
Interesting. What do you think is a reasonable or predictable time frame for a relationship to end over something like this? Based on what you said previously, I am assuming you would have left already if you were in Sildas shoes ? All relationships end eventually, but given that she is still there, within what time horizon do you think it is reasonable to say that she left because of
episode? If she leaves 5 years after the affair was this the cause? How about 10 years later? 20?, etc.
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Quote from: BayGBM on November 29, 2009, 09:04:01 AM
Interesting. What do you think is a reasonable or predictable time frame for a relationship to end over something like this? Based on what you said previously, I am assuming you would have left already if you were in Sildas shoes ? All relationships end eventually, but given that she is still there, within what time horizon do you think it is reasonable to say that she left because of
episode? If she leaves 5 years after the affair was this the cause? How about 10 years later? 20?, etc.
I think she would leave before or by mid 2011....but like I said they could make it work and maybe I am projecting my own feelings upon her.
Yes, although you can never be sure what you would do in a certain situation until it happens, I do believe I would have left immediately. If my husband was doing hookers (or whomever) for any amount of time let alone years, then he is not the person I thought he was. The only thing that might keep me from leaving if I were Silda is if he had some type of spiritual change....like if he went from an unbeliever to a believer. Even then I'm not sure I could stay because I would be really grossed out by him.
All relationships end eventually...because some people die. Not all relationships end in break-ups.
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episode" do you mean him having sex w/hookers for years?
"If she leaves 5 years later what is the cause?" The cause would be his character or lack thereof imo (plus she may be grossed out by him).
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Eliot Spitzers Long, Winding and Slightly Bewildering Road to Redemption
By JAN HOFFMAN
HERE is Eliot Spitzer on MSNBC with the host Ed Schultz, railing against fallen Wall Street titans who regain power (absolutely insane). There he is on Foxs Good Day New York, taking swipes at Andrew Cuomo (he has to answer the hard questions) and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (I dont like politicians who vacillate). Hes lunching regularly at power restaurants like Michaels (telling the waiter, Silda wants me to have the salad), holding hands with his wife at charity galas, attending a private salon at Tina Browns. Writing his twice-monthly Slate column, The Best Policy. Teaching undergraduates at the City College of New York, lecturing at Harvard about ethics, parsing the meaning of love on BigThink.com.
Its been scarcely two years since Mr. Spitzer, his ashen-faced wife at his side, seemed to have written his political obituary, with his taut-jawed, almost lipless grimace of resignation as governor of New York, following disclosures that he was a client in a prostitution ring. Now he is emphatically back, seemingly everywhere.
For public figures whose falls have been as spectacular as that of Mr. Spitzers, there are many time-tested paths to image rehab. Seclusion. Prison. Good works. The seminary.
None of those options, it seems, are for Eliot Spitzer.
Most people faced with that kind of disgrace would disappear off the face of the earth for a longer period of time, said Howard Rubenstein, the public relations impresario. But there is a lot of curiosity about him. And he is a publicity steamroller a reference to Mr. Spitzers expletive-garnished self-description as a steamroller. In time people will remember his strengths and his intelligence, Mr. Rubenstein said, and what hes showing now: determination.
During an interview this week in the Fifth Avenue offices of Spitzer Engineering, his fathers real estate business, Mr. Spitzer, 50, relaxed and ruddy from a family ski vacation in Utah, made it clear he was following a different path. The only thing I can try to do is contribute in a small way and not in a way that is designed to get forgiveness, he said. That would be too transactional: Im doing X, now you will forgive me. I dont think it can or should work that way.
He made no apology for his pervasiveness as a pundit, first joking: Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street! Then he grew earnest. You can view it as pure selfishness and hedonism, he said. But I care about this stuff. Obviously its more rewarding to participate when you can do something about it which is why I loved and sorely miss the jobs I had. He glanced over at Lisa Linden, a public relations consultant for Spitzer Engineering, whom he asked to be present.
After his resignation, Mr. Spitzer had a self-imposed exile that lasted about 8 1/2 months. On Nov. 16, 2008, 10 days after federal prosecutors declined to press charges, Mr. Spitzer had an opinion article on financial regulation published in The Washington Post. Two weeks later, at the behest of Cliff Sloan, Slates former publisher and a friend from Harvard Law School, he started his online column.
I keep pressing the button on the Slate column, Mr. Spitzer said, laughing, so it looks like Im getting a lot of hits.
As the first anniversary of his resignation on March 12, 2008, approached, Mr. Spitzer expanded his audience: Fareed Zakaria on CNN, Today, the cover of Newsweek.
Eliot is like the smartest kid in the room with his hand up, but the teachers not calling on him, said his former political advertising aide, Jimmy Siegel. He believes he has the answers to things, economically, and he would love to be in a position to do something about it.
By last fall, he was teaching at City College. He said his students told him they didnt watch mainstream news media, so he agreed to appear on Real Time With Bill Maher on HBO.
I always thought hed be a good guest as the Sheriff of Wall Street because of the financial meltdown, said Mr. Maher, referring to Mr. Spitzers nickname. Id seen him on shows with the de rigueur Lets beat up on this guy before we get to what matters. I wanted to be the first one to have him on a program and not bring up the scandal.
Indeed Mr. Maher did not; by the time Mr. Spitzer was a guest again in February, his onscreen identifier read, Eliot Spitzer, columnist, Slate.com.
Mr. Spitzer said he doesnt court appearances. This was a process over time of my accepting invitations from people that seemed would be fun.
While some muscular forays like his exchanges with Mr. Zakaria about the absence of Wall Street transparency may remind viewers of Mr. Spitzers finer moments in government, others recall his tendency to be tone deaf...
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"Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer" by Peter Elkind
The book offers more details of the prostitution scandal that felled Eliot Spitzers career as the Sheriff of Wall Street, and the personality problems that may have led him there.
By Walter Hamilton, Los Angeles Times
Not long after he burst into the national consciousness with his blistering assault on Wall Street, Eliot Spitzer began facing pressures of his own.
Even supporters were wearying of his constant criticism of federal regulators. Their failure to crack down on financial-industry malfeasance had opened the window for him to emerge as the "Sheriff of Wall Street." But Spitzer's inability to get along with his peers at the Securities and Exchange Commission was starting to cloud his hoped-for ascension to the New York governor's office, where collegiality was viewed as essential. Thus, Spitzer emphatically pledged at the start of a packed news conference to lay off the SEC.
Yet, moments later, he was at it again with a fresh diatribe this time with an ashen-faced SEC official standing just behind him.
As the Los Angeles Times' Wall Street reporter at the time, I chronicled Spitzer's blitzkrieg against disreputable stock analysts, mutual funds and others. No one at that news conference, of course, could foresee that Spitzer's career would eventually rupture in a prostitution scandal. But to those of us who watched him that day, the message was clear: Even when Eliot Spitzer knew better he just couldn't help himself.
That theme radiates throughout Peter Elkind's "Rough Justice," an absorbing account of Spitzer's improbable journey from New York rich kid to celebrated Wall Street scourge to infamous Client No. 9 of the Emperor's Club.
An editor at large at Fortune magazine and co-author of a book about the downfall of Enron Corp., Elkind captures the conflicting sides of Spitzer. He was an idealist who was genuinely outraged by the Wall Street pandemic. Yet Spitzer was also plagued by a volcanic temper and an over-caffeinated ego that was unable to keep his worst impulses in check.
In the end, Spitzer comes off as pitiable, painfully aware of the career he threw away.
"That's my life," Spitzer tells Elkind. "Is it pure agony? Yes, absolutely."
Thanks partly to Spitzer's willingness to be interviewed, "Rough Justice" adds fresh details to the prostitution furor that dethroned him. Elkind reveals that Spitzer hired prostitutes more extensively than previously revealed, dropping more than $100,000 on more than 20 assignations over at least two years. Elkind also tells us that true to character Spitzer offended some of his hires by rushing through the ritual pleasantries at the beginning of their sessions.
"He was not one of those people who I would have said went out of their way to make me feel lovely and nice, like many did," one woman laments. "It was very impersonal."
The book tantalizingly suggests that the disclosure of Spitzer's activities may have resulted from a conspiracy by his enemies to out him. Federal prosecutors normally don't pursue prostitution cases, Elkind explains.
A wire transfer that Spitzer made to pay for one of his dalliances triggered a suspicious-activity report to federal banking authorities who were on the lookout for terrorist activities. But there are so many such reports, Elkind writes, that it's unlikely prosecutors would have noticed it without being tipped off.
"Why did Spitzer's sexual habits become the target of federal investigative methods befitting an Al Qaeda terrorist?" he asks.
Elkind acknowledges, however, that he wasn't able to gather enough evidence to say for sure, leaving "nothing more than intriguing speculation."
Among those who think Spitzer was laid low by his enemies is Spitzer's wife, Silda, who, we're told, views him as a "felled crusader."
Elkind portrays Silda Spitzer as struggling to make sense of her husband's betrayal.
Early on, a Spitzer aide quotes her as saying she believed she was at fault for not satisfying her husband sexually. She later concludes that his straying was all about him
, not her, Elkind writes. Still, in some ways Silda apparently sees her husband as a victim himself of his own grueling expectations and his emotionally Spartan upbringing.
His demanding father presided over dinner-table debates with his children. Despite being co-captain of his prep school tennis team, his parents attended only one match.
"In Silda's eyes, he had remained true to his public promise " Elkind writes. "Yes, he had succumbed to temptation. But that was the result of the impossible expectations he had created, the brutal pressures he had faced in public life and his inbred inability to find a healthier way to deal with them."
The ultimate irony, of course, is that the type of abuses Spitzer spent his career railing against exploded during the global financial crisis. Instead of playing a lead role in the cleanup, Spitzer was confined to the sidelines, fulminating in TV interviews and a regular Internet column but mostly haunted by four words: what might have been.
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Butterbean do you still think it will end?
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Quote from: BayGBM on April 06, 2011, 10:42:18 AM
Butterbean do you still think it will end?
Quote from: Butterbean on November 29, 2009, 09:17:19 AM
I think she would leave before or by mid 2011....but like I said they could make it work and maybe I am projecting my own feelings upon her.
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Bay, I changed my mind....maybe she will never leave:
Still, this line in a Washington Post story about "Rough Justice," Peter Elkind's new book on New York's former governor, does make me want to fix Mrs. Spitzer up on a date: "The wife is supposed to take care of the sex.
This is my failing,'' Silda Wall is quoted as saying, in reference to her husband's hooker habit. "I wasn't adequate."
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Your deadline (mid 2011) has passed. Silda is not going anywhere. If she were going to leave she certainly would have done it already.
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Quote from: BayGBM on November 02, 2011, 06:29:56 AM
Your deadline (mid 2011) has passed. Silda is not going anywhere. If she were going to leave she certainly would have done it already.
Did you read her quote? Reminds me of a friend of mine that was in an abusive relationship.
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I take your point, but I do think spouses are under an obligation to recognize and meet one another's sexual needs. It is not reasonable to expect your spouse to go without sex.
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Quote from: BayGBM on November 02, 2011, 06:50:35 AM
I take your point, but I do think spouses are under an obligation to recognize and meet one another's sexual needs. It is not reasonable to expect your spouse to go without sex.
Oh, I agree 100%.... But who knows what was going on behind the scenes other than them. Maybe she felt inadequate because he wanted to do things she wasn't comfortable with. Maybe she only gave it up once a day. Maybe she was frigid. But he's still gross imo.
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In the film By Love Possessed (1961) Lana Turners character is married to a cripple (Jason Robards) who cannot perform in bed. He knows that he will never be able to rise to the occasion, and he refuses to give her a divorce. He suspects that she has (or will soon have) one or more affairs. She is sexy and men are after her! Eventually, he tells her to go out and get what you need, but dont make me know about it.
This is a weak film but you can stream it on Netflix.
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I love old movies about women having affairs... and murders. Another deliciously bad one is Dear Murderer (1947).
Jealous husband Lee Warren believes he has the perfect murder in the bag when he plots to kill the man sleeping with his philandering wife by making it look like a suicide. But the plan shifts when his wife reveals
she's got more than one lover!
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A better one is Portrait in Black (1960).
In love with her invalid husband's physician (Anthony Quinn), beautiful Sheila Cabot (Lana Turner) persuades him to murder her rich spouse in this glossy thriller. Believing they've committed the perfect crime, the lovers are shocked when an anonymous letter turns up congratulating them on the killing -- and soon Sheila and David have more blood on their hands. Will a guilty conscience drive one of them to turn on the other?
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Spitzer Quickly Hits Establishment Headwind
By MICHAEL BARBARO and DAVID W. CHEN
From corporate boardrooms to the headquarters of the citys Democratic political campaigns, phone lines lighted up and strategy sessions were organized on Monday with a single mission in mind: stopping Eliot Spitzer.
The surprise decision by former Governor Spitzer to run for citywide office startled and galvanized the citys political establishment, which worried aloud about handing the TV-savvy and self-financed candidate a new megaphone.
In candid conversations, some of the leaders expressed acute regret over their failure to swiftly undercut the mayoral campaign of former Representative Anthony D. Weiner, another scandal-scarred candidate for citywide office, and said they would not make the same mistake twice.
Behind the scenes, they began to lay out a blueprint for undermining Mr. Spitzers bid for comptroller, the citys third-highest elected office, and for propping up his lesser-known Democratic rival, Scott M. Stringer, the Manhattan borough president.
They quickly zeroed in on what they claimed were Mr. Spitzers vulnerabilities: an out-of-control ego; his lawbreaking patronization of prostitutes, which led to his resignation as governor in 2008; and his combative, go-it-alone style.
Strikingly, Democratic leaders drew parallels between Mr. Spitzer and Mr. Weiner, trying to lump them together as two wayward men obsessed with reclaiming power and unworthy of redemption, in a direct appeal to women voters who may decide the races.
For me the question with both Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer is what have they been doing to earn this second chance? asked Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker and a Democratic candidate for mayor. She said she had seen little that would redeem themselves from their selfish behavior.
Business leaders leapt into the ruckus, finding common cause with organized labor as they described Mr. Spitzer as ill-suited to the job of managing the citys multibillion-dollar pension system and policing city spending.
Such a post, said Kathryn S. Wylde, the head of the Partnership for New York City, made up mainly of real estate, Wall Street and insurance firms, requires intense collaboration and diplomacy with the mayors office, the business community and municipal labor unions.
The tone of the Spitzer announcement and history suggest thats not the way he would approach the job, she said in an interview.
In the corridors of finance, executives made little secret of their dismay at the thought of Mr. Spitzer, an often zealous adversary of Wall Street, assuming a job with some authority over the industry. Robert T. Zito, the founder of a brand consulting firm and a former executive at the New York Stock Exchange, which was a relentless target of Mr. Spitzers ire over executive pay, put it bluntly: I would love to see his opponent win.
Those involved in and briefed about the strategy discussions raised the possibility of organizing a super PAC to counter Mr. Spitzers self-financed campaign.
Eyes turned to Mr. Spitzers most fervent critics on Wall Street, like the billionaire Kenneth G. Langone, a co-founder of Home Depot and a former director of the New York Stock Exchange, who had relished the governors downfall.
According to a person told of his plans, Mr. Langone was mulling independent campaign expenditures against Mr. Spitzer. Mr. Langone was traveling in Europe and an aide said he was unavailable to talk.
Mr. Spitzer, in an interview, appeared to have anticipated the attacks, especially from Wall Street, and sought to turn them to his advantage, by portraying himself as a warrior for regular people.
When I was attorney general, I made some powerful enemies, he said. But I also made a lot of friends, which he described as the real people he had fought for.
The fierce debate about how to deny Mr. Spitzer a place in city government unfolded as he hit the campaign trail for the first time in five years, displaying the kind of studied discipline that characterized his previous runs for office.
Standing on the searing sidewalks of Union Square for over an hour, with sweat dripping down his face onto a pinstriped suit, Mr. Spitzer maintained a stoic smile as he endured loud hecklers and received unsolicited compliments.
An older woman in a straw hat leaned in to the giant scrum forming around Mr. Spitzer and declared: His wife and his daughters understand. Why shouldnt we? A few feet away, a man in a blue polo shirt castigated Mr. Spitzer, You slept with hookers, and you lied and cheated on your family.
It appeared that the muscle for the anti-Spitzer operation might emerge from the citys labor unions, which view Mr. Stringer as a reliable ally, and are wary of the less predictable Mr. Spitzer, who has not hesitated to confront them in the past.
Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, said all options including tapping its own campaign funds for television ads were under consideration. Were going to make sure that we do everything in our power to make sure Scott is the next comptroller, he said. Weiner has kind of been given a free pass.
Even as they grudgingly acknowledged Mr. Spitzers technical credentials for the job of comptroller, the union leaders cast doubt on his motivation for seeking a return to public life.
He is running to clear his name, to build a public persona again, said Héctor J. Figueroa, president of 32BJ, the city union of janitors and doormen, which has endorsed Mr. Stringer. He called the comptrollers office the wrong position for Mr. Spitzer.
Mr. Stringer, who had expected a smooth path to the Democratic nomination for comptroller, moved quickly on Monday to rally his most high-profile campaign supporters and surrogates, many of them women. Appearing alongside his wife on the Upper West Side, he dismissed reporters questions about whether Mr. Spitzer should be forgiven.
This isnt mea culpa time, he said. Im not getting into all that.
One of Mr. Stringers supporters, Gloria Steinem, the feminist writer, trumpeted Mr. Stringers record on issues like domestic violence and questioned Mr. Spitzers sudden yearning to be comptroller. This is the target of opportunity, she said. I would be surprised to learn that he had ever in his life expressed a wish to be comptroller.
There were signs that Mr. Spitzers opponents had already succeeded in complicating his plans.
According to people close to him, Neal Kwatra, a top city political strategist who had voluntarily helped orchestrate the rollout of Mr. Spitzers campaign, decided to cut his ties with the campaign amid signs that some of his clients, including the citys Hotel Trades Council, which is backing Mr. Stringer, were cool to the Spitzer candidacy. Mr. Kwatra declined to comment.
Mr. Spitzer insisted throughout the day that he was happy to have returned to the hurly-burly, even as he found himself unable to move at times in the crush of cameras and reporters. Its exciting, he said. Its fun.
Whatever the ultimate outcome of his campaign, it clearly had an immediate effect on Mr. Weiner. At a news conference he called to talk about bike policy, Mr. Weiner faced seemingly nonstop questions about the former governor.
Asked if Mr. Spitzer had stolen some of the political limelight, Mr. Weiner replied, Clearly, its shifted away.
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He is running against the pimp of his former prostitute....
you cant write a better script than this, only in NY!!!!
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Quote from: BayGBM on April 06, 2011, 10:42:18 AM
Butterbean do you still think it will end?
Several years later...? It is clear that Silda is not leaving her husband. Bah!
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Spitzer and wife announce marriage ends
NEW YORK (AP) Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer and his wife announced late Tuesday that their two-decade-plus marriage is over.
The couple issued a statement announcing the split, saying "We regret that our marital relationship has come to an end and we have agreed not to make any other public statement on this subject."
Spitzer and his wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, were married in 1987 and she supported his rise from state's attorney general to governor. They have three grown children.
She stood by his side in 2008 when Spitzer resigned after admitting he paid for sex with prostitutes, but largely stepped out of the public eye after that. A former corporate lawyer, she went to work in the business world.
Spitzer attempted a political comeback this year by running for city comptroller but lost in the Democratic primary.
Wall Spitzer did not campaign publically for him. They have been living apart for months.
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The March 21 issue of The Washington Post ran a review of a League of the Unsound Sound concert held March 19. The concert featured a performance of the piece "Selfish Houses on Blood Strange Roads" composed by Stephen Gorbos, assistant professor of theory and composition at the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music. See the review below.
From: Washington Post Date: March 21, 2011 Author: Stephen BrookesIt sounds like the title of a Sherlock Holmes story, but in fact the League of the Unsound Sound (stop giggling - they're good) is a newly hatched ensemble made up of some of the most interesting and high-powered musicians on the East Coast. Organized by the Peabody Conservatory's David Smooke, the seven-member collective is dedicated to experimental music in all its glories, and on Saturday night at Catholic University's Ward Recital Hall they put on a recital that showcased established composers, provocative newcomers and an improvisation by the entire ensemble that was absolutely riveting.
Smooke is one of the more engaging and unpretentious composers around, and his "21 Miles to Coolville" was a playful work built around a car trip to the actual town of Coolville, Ohio. Accompanied by a kaleidoscopic video of scenes from the trip (clouds, trees, other cars), bassoonist Michael Harley provided jaunty "road trip" music, which turned darker as they reached the disturbingly uncool Coolville itself.
Augusta Read Thomas's "Toft Serenade" from 2006 has so much presence it seems sculpted; perhaps that was due to the extraordinary performance by violinist Courtney Orlando, who has a grim stage manner but plays with jaw-dropping purpose and intelligence. She was equally impressive in the group improvisation that followed. Much improvised music falls in the "noodle; build to a feverish pitch, repeat until audience succumbs" school. But the focus and disciplined imagination of the League players made this a nuanced and fascinating musical conversation.
Baltimore composer Ruby Fulton's "Half the Way Down" explored the tragic mental breakdown of Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett and convincingly conveyed the sense of a mind becoming increasingly unmoored."Selfish Houses on Blood Strange Roads" was a lyrical work from Catholic University's Stephen Gorbos, warm and richly drawn. But it was a spectacular performance of Sofia Gubaidulina's "Quasihoquetus" from violist Wendy Richman, Shirley Yoo on piano and bassoonist Harley that really stole the show - a gripping work steeped in cosmic mysteries, from one of the world's greatest and too rarely heard composers.


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The KDE Graphics coding sprint 2009 will take place in Essen, Germany, from November 13th to 15th.
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The closest airport is Düsseldorf International.
There is a regional train from Düsseldorf airport. Go to "Bahnhof Düsseldorf Flughafen Terminal S" which is not the main train station of the airport ("Bahnhof Düsseldorf Flughafen"). From there, take the S7 direction Solingen. Get off after five minutes in Düsseldorf-Derendorf. From platform 2, take the S6 direction Essen Hbf. Get off at Werden S. The fare is €4.50 ("B"). Text me (Marcel) when you board the train in Derendorf or when you have got lost.
From either exit, follow the signs to Werden and Velbert. You will cross southbound the river Ruhr entering the little town of Werden. Follow the main route (B224) staying on the right hand lane. You will pass the basilica, then 1.5km further on you will pass an "Aral" petrol station on the left side. Turn left on the next junction into Fischlaker Straße (turn left before passing the traffic light!). Follow the Fischlaker Straße for 600m, then take the slight left fork into Bernhardstraße. It's house number 12, third on the right side.
Main train station is Essen Hauptbahnhof. From there
For either choice the fare is €2.30 ("A2"). Text me (Marcel) when you board the bus or the train to be picked up.
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Hi guys...
I just had someone PM me with a question about the MRBS. Are any of you thinking about it, or keen for it?
What are your thoughts?
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what did you tell the kid who asked?..
as this money is tax free will it not interfere with centrelink payments?
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I knew a girl who took an MRBS and she continued to get centrelink. I'm not saying that she was, or wasn't supposed to, but she was able to continue receiving it. My understanding was that she disclosed everything to centrelink... I never believed her to be the kind of person to defraud the government.
The advice I give anyone thinking about MRBS is this:
Do you need the MRBS in order to be able to manage? if the answer is yes, then take it.... if not, then think VERY seriously about the commitment you are signing up to.
This is going to mean you have to spend 4-6 years in a rural area, ten years from now. This scares me quite a bit..... because I'm a pretty well organised guy... I'm built my life, I know where I'm headed, and I'm not 20 anymore.... yet I wouldn't dare tell you where I'll be in ten years, yet alone what I will want.
If you're single, think about how that might effect your future relationships... its a huge roadblock.
Right now, the first MRBS students are just entering training programs, and after fellowship, they will have reasonable choices for where they go.... remember that you can only really go somewhere if there is demand.... otherwise you'll be struggling to fit into a town, build a life and a business if its already over supplied.
Here is my fear: right now, you can hit some pretty major regional centres... The Gippsland, Wagga, Bunbury, Geraldton are all reasonable places, or you could go to the postcard locations Broome, Margaret river, etc... but will those places be genuinely available in 10 years, when YOUR MRBS return is due? will you find yourself instead somewhere LESS than desirable, for 6 years.
In my intake (2009), we had 3 MRBS places..... but only 2 were taken up. Thats right, out of 100 students, they could only convince 2 that it was a good decision.
The government rarely gives you something for nothing.... remember that.
If you take it, good for you, and I respect your choice.... after all, I think that we all have to sometimes make deals with the devil to get where we want to be. I would have done anything I needed to in order to survive.... But don't do it so you have extra cash...... that would be very short sighted, EVEN if you intend to go rural.... because, and here's the thing, it takes away your choices, and if medicine does anything, it opens your eyes to just how many professional options you have.
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i really appreciate the follow up. thanks a lot for all the info
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ba, stupid forum didn't let me send my post because I put a link in... Have to start again. I hate when that happens!
Anyway, I recall reading that the rural regions depends on what was considered rural when you signed the contract. The contract you sign will be legally binding and so you will have on paper an agreement of where you can and cant work. Even if the area you originally wanted to work in becomes more urbanised, they can't change their minds once the contract is signed... However, I dont remember where I heard this so maybe look into it first. I think it makes sense though.
Secondly, where you can work depends on whether you want to do GP or a specialty. Some rural areas have huge demand for specialists. You can have a look at the regions on a map at the doctorconnect website once there click on search map.
Specialists can work in areas 2 (inner regional) and above
GPs can work in areas 3 and above.
Here in Adelaide theres a little regional hospital which now thanks to the expressway is only 10-15 mins down the road. Technically its still considered regional. I would totally take the scholarship if all I had to do was work there for a few years!!!
Peace out y'all!
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Ask yourself whether you really think there will be places there in 10 years time, when there are 12 cohorts of MRBS graduates, many of whom will have similar ideas to you.
It is my opinion that as the places fill, opportunities will dry up in regional areas, and you'll be forced into more and more remote areas.
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We have many other hard working, "behind the scenes," unsung volunteers here in our community, too. One example would be the efforts of those who helped with the recent Main Street Program.
I would also like to add kudos to you, our local newspaper and our local radio station, WJJQ, for the support of the many local groups that help to enrich our community. Many of these features I'm sure are gratis.
I'd like to include recognition of the many local business owners, too, who are so generous in their support of our community, including the schools.
I'm glad to say I am a native of Tomahawk and proud of my hometown.
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The example of lowering the basket is not relevant. The Course the racers have to do is the equivalent of the target.SBBeachbum wrote:Right on. That hit the nail on the head.ktouhey wrote:
But it also means that joe average is at a point now where he/she can go out and buy a current race board without it being obsolete in 10 days. Sure, new fins will help a bunch, but as a consumer it is easier to wrap your head around the idea of buying a board that might last you 2 or 3 years, given that you'll have the option to upgrade as required/desired.
@Fred: There is always a certain bodytype that has an edge for a given sport. Nobody in the NBA e.g. will lower the height of the baskets just so that a 4'11 guy can dunk the ball.
The idea of limiting board size would be more comparable to banning Shaquil O'Niel from basketball because he is to big.
True though there will always be a body type that will be ideal for a given sport, but in the case of kite racing size should be able to be compensated for freedom of gear.
What I don't get is why so many of you guys are scared of board size or a bit of freedom in the sport, especailly with it being so young.....


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If I have a subfield $F$ of a field $E$, and an algebraic (over $F$) $\alpha\in E$, I can form $F(\alpha)$ which is isomorphic to $F[x]/\langle f(x)\rangle$ for $f(x) = irr(\alpha, F)$. That is, $f(x)$ is the minimal degree and monic element of $F[x]$ such that $f(\alpha) = 0$.
The book I'm using defines $F(\alpha)$ officially as the image of $F[x]$ under $\phi_{\alpha}$, the map $f(x)\mapsto f(\alpha)$, and the isomorphism mentioned above comes from the fact that its kernel is $\langle f(x)\rangle$.
My question is: if there are other roots of the polynomial $f(x)$ in $E$, then are they necessarily contained in $F(\alpha)$? My intuitive guess is yes, since the field $F[x]/\langle f(x)\rangle$ doesn't know the difference between distinct roots of $f(x)$. But if this is correct then why?


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The exhibit, which now consists of more than 200 images, explore different themes, such as tribal beauty, portraiture and family relationships. Taliaferro said the title of the exhibit was inspired by hearing author Toni Morrison refer to African Americans as "New World Africans," as she was being interviewed on public radio. According to Yolada Sanchez, director of Airport Fine Arts and Cultural Affairs, the 17 women selected for the Mia Galleries exhibit were nominated by their peers, colleagues and/or supervisors. Their inclusion was based on a strong record of service to the Aviation Department as well as community service and volunteerism. The Mia Galleries is in the North Terminal, near Gate 26. Taliaferro and his wife Debra, lie in Charlotte. Continue
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Caring for patients doesn't just mean providing clinical support, but rather, we believe in a "Care without Boundaries" philosophy. We want to help our patients in every possible way while they are with us – from simply brightening their day with flowers to making a few important wishes come true, every effort is heartfelt and meaningful.
Recently, our team has gone above and beyond the call of duty for several of our patients, please see a few outstanding examples below.
Sentara Leigh Hospital's Healing Garden Horse Visit
Jenna Agnello, a hospice patient at Sentara Leigh Hospital, had a request to see her dog. We were able to coordinate a visit and while there, the Great Dane climbed into bed with her, prompting someone to remark that the dog was "as big as a horse." The comment led Agnello to share that she also owned a horse she would like to see. Upon hearing that, Sentara nurses and palliative care physicians developed a plan to enable Agnello, who was medically frail and receiving high-flow oxygen breathing support, to see her horse, Romeo, in the hospital's healing garden. Staff from her stable walked Romeo off a trailer and into the garden, where he laid his head in her lap and nuzzled her hand for apples while her extended family gathered around. Laughter, tears and gratitude signaled success.
Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center's Field of Dreams
Of all the things you might expect to see in a hospital setting, a baseball game is not likely at the top of the list – but that's not the case at Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center. Sherry Dunn, a patient who had been confined to the hospital for a month, got a special treat when she realized the grounds outside of the hospital had been transformed into an authentic baseball field complete with bases, a home plate and uniformed umpires. And, on one of the two teams ready to play was her son. Hospital executives and palliative care leaders teamed up with local landscaping and construction businesses to help make Mrs. Dunn's wish of seeing her son shine on the field come true, and she and her family were incredibly moved and grateful.
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A "Lil Positivity": Chris Brown Paints Street Art For Disabled Children's Charity With "Graffiti Master" Named Slick [Pics]
Can you believe he's NOT off somewhere being a jerk?!
Chris Brown Paints Graffiti For Charity
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Chris Brown has been on an artistic roll the past couple of days.
Breezy joined forces with famous graffiti artist Slick (real name Richard Wyrgatsch II) on Friday, tagging up a wall to raise funds for the Best Buddies International foundation.
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But that wasn't the end of Brown's artsy weekend. Chris continued expressing his creativity by painting a huge St. Patrick's Day-inspired mural yesterday, and sharing a photo of the finished product on Twitter.
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