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Patient Frailty Associated with Increased Morbidity for Common Ambulatory Surgeries in Older Adults
A new research study shows that patient frailty should be assessed in preoperative planning for surgery in older adults, even for common ambulatory general surgery operations. The study, led by principal investigator and lead author, Carolyn D. Seib, M.D., MAS, a general and endocrine surgeon at UCSF, was reported on in the journal JAMA Surgery and highlighted by the NY Times in a subsequent article.
Importantly, the study found that frailty is more closely associated with the risk of complications than chronological age. It has implications for both treatment planning and informed consent for older adults undergoing otherwise routine ambulatory surgery, but who are deemed frail. Dr. Seib underscored the significance of the study's findings.
Our JAMA Surgery study expands on the work of Dr. Emily Finlayson, director of the UCSF Center for Surgery in Older Adults and co-author, that evaluated survival and functional status after colon cancer surgery, finding that nursing home residents experienced substantial and sustained functional decline after surgery. While it is fairly intuitive that patient frailty can adversely impact outcomes for major operations like colon resections, our study shows that frailty contributes to morbidity even for common ambulatory operations that patients and providers often treat as routine. Thus, we should take frailty into account for any operation, big or small, and make screening for frailty a routine component of preoperative clinic visits. Surgeons will then be able to more accurately relay surgical risk to patients and their families during informed consent discussions, and ensure that the proposed surgical intervention is consistent with the treatment plan. It is essential that we provide specialized care tailored to the needs of the older adult to improve surgical outcomes and limit morbidity.
Frailty, Dr. Seib notes, involves decreased physiological reserve that determines how patients will respond to physical stress. In fleshing out this concept, she told the NY Times:
Surgery brings plenty of that, said Dr. Carolyn Seib, a general and endocrine surgeon at the University of California, San Francisco. The effects of anesthesia and inflammation, the risk of blood clots or infection, muscle weakness caused by days in bed — all can take a toll.
"The more frail a patient is, the higher the risk of complications," Dr. Seib said.
Researchers have shown that after major operations — including cardiac and colon cancer surgery and kidney transplants — frail older patients are more prone than others to longer hospital stays, being readmitted within a month of a procedure and winding up in nursing homes after they're discharged.
They're also more likely to die.
But a study that Dr. Seib and her colleagues published in JAMA Surgery this month shows that frail seniors face higher complications even after ambulatory surgery, outpatient procedures often considered routine.
Hernia repairs, thyroid or parathyroid surgery, operations for breast cancer — "patients and providers often don't think twice about these," Dr. Seib said.
Yet when the researchers looked at 141,000 patients over age 40 in a national surgical database, they found that serious complications were two to four times higher in patients with moderate to high frailty, although complication rates overall were low (1.7 percent, with .7 percent experiencing serious complications).
"We have to take frailty into account for any operation, big or small," Dr. Seib said. Although surgeons increasingly screen for frailty, "I wouldn't say it's routine yet," she added.
So she and other researchers recommend that before an operation, patients and families ask: Is my mother showing signs of frailty? Should we do an assessment that indicates how frail she might be?
The JAMA Surgery paper was co-authored by Emily Finlayson, MD, MS, Jessica E. Gosnell, MD, Insoo Suh, MD, Wen T. Shen, MD, MA, and Quan-Yang Duh, MD, all faculty in the UCSF Department of Surgery,
Related Links
One Last Question Before the Operation: Just How Frail Are You? (NY Times)
Perioperative Complications Linked to Patient Frailty (Medscape Medical News)


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WASHINGTON -- U.S. retail sales fell unexpectedly in January and the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose last week, in the latest signs of slowing economic growth early in the first quarter.
The Commerce Department said Thursday retail sales fell 0.4 percent last month, led by a drop in automobile sales.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast retail sales unchanged in January.
Sales in December were revised to show a 0.1 percent fall instead of the previously reported 0.2 percent rise. The second month of declines in sales likely reflected frigid temperatures across many parts of the country.
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Stripping out automobiles, gasoline, building materials and food services, so-called core sales fell 0.3 percent after rising 0.3 percent in December.
Core sales correspond most closely with the consumer spending component of gross domestic product. Economists had expected this category to advance 0.2 percent in January.
In a separate report, the Labor Department said initial claims for state unemployment benefits rose 8,000 to a seasonally adjusted 339,000 in the week ended Feb. 8.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast first-time applications for jobless benefits slipping to 330,000.
The reports added to data on factory activity and employment in suggesting a loss of steam in the economy this quarter, in part because of the unseasonably cold weather and payback after the brisk 3.7 percent annual growth pace in the second half of last year.
Economists are yet to quantify the effect of the relentlessly freezing temperatures, which have left large parts of the country shivering since December.
Last month, receipts at auto dealers fell 2.1 percent. It was the second consecutive month of decreases. Auto manufacturers complained last week that frigid temperatures had hurt sales.
Retail sales excluding automobiles were flat. Sales of building materials and garden equipment rose 1.4 percent. There were also gains in receipts at electronics and appliance stores.
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May 2001
This is a statement of the principles which unite the members of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. This statement represents our best understanding at this time of the important issues facing communists in the United States. To some degree, this is a work in progress. It will be more fully developed by our comrades, and by the rich experience of struggle for a socialist world without a ruling capitalist class.
The last decade of the twentieth century was a period of challenge for the communist movements in a number of countries. We saw the downfall of governments in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, and the rise of the United States as the sole superpower. This had a profound impact on movements for National Liberation and Socialism all over the world. Despite these setbacks, revolution, and the struggle for socialism advanced and a new generation of workers and peasants continue the struggle.
In both positive and negative ways, our organization was impacted by these changes. We set forth on the next century with a clearer vision of Marxism-Leninism and the tasks ahead because of those experiences.
We believe that capitalism threatens any hope for social justice, peace, and human dignity. We look out on a worldwide crisis of capitalism with mass hunger, disease, environmental destruction, poverty, and economic collapse. Imperialism threatens the survival of all life on this planet. Nothing short of revolution and socialism can answer this threat.
Now is the time to build revolutionary organization; to rebuild the struggle for revolution and socialism in the US, and to fuse Marxism with the working class movement. The challenge is ours to apply the lessons that we have learned in the last decade to the body of Marxist knowledge; to build a better socialist movement that can carry us through the next century.
A Brief History
The roots of our organization emerged originally out of the tremendous social ferment and revolutionary struggle of the 1960s and 1970s, as oppressed nationalities, women, and young people sought to bring genuine equality, justice, and peace to the United States. Our organization, and its immediate forerunners, arose in that section of the new revolutionary movement which looked to the People's Republic of China and Mao Zedong's theoretical contributions to Marxism-Leninism for inspiration and guidance.
FRSO grew out of an initial merger of the Proletarian Unity League and the Revolutionary Workers Headquarters, in addition to later mergers with the Organization for Revolutionary Unity and the Amilcar Cabral/Paul Robeson Collective. FRSO's roots are primarily in the labor movement, the African-American struggle, the gay and lesbian movements, anti-intervention movements and the student movement. FRSO merged with the Socialist Organizing Network, (SON) in 1993. SON emerged initially out of the dissolution of the League of Revolutionary Struggle (LRS), which itself was formed by the unity of the August 29th Movement, I Wor Kuen, and the Revolutionary Communist League. SON included members who were not part of the LRS. SON's roots are primarily in the liberation movements of oppressed nationalities and national minorities (Chicano/Latino, Asian American, and African-American), and the labor movement.
In 1999, a social democratic grouping left to pursue a strategy the splitters call "left refoundationism." "Left refoundationism" rejects Leninism in favor of the goal to build a "mass socialist party". While they continue to use the name of our organization to build a social democratic project, we continue to build FRSO as a Marxist-Leninist organization.
What We Stand For:
We Exist to Organize for Revolution and Socialism
We are Marxist-Leninists who believe that capitalism—as a system centered on private accumulation and profit—is inherently a system of inequality, injustice, and war. We want a social system where social wealth is not in the hands of a few billionaires, but is controlled by the people. We seek both economic and political democracy. However, genuine democracy is not possible unless the multi-national working class holds the reins of society. Human needs cannot replace profit as the driving force of society unless the people control their workplaces, their schools, their neighborhoods, and the institutions of government.
We support the existing socialist countries and believe that socialism is the only solution for the future of humanity. However, we recognize that major contradictions exist in building socialism. We continue to look to both the summations of socialists around the world and to our own practice to deepen Marxist-Leninist theory and practice to guide us in making revolutionary change here in the United States.
Marxist theory guides our participation in the people's struggles. We know that it is as alive today as it was 150 years ago. The primary theoreticians of Marxism-Leninism are Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. We also value the contributions of other socialists such as Amilcar Cabral, Fidel Castro, and Ho Chi Minh who applied Marxism to their own conditions. We seek to learn from Marxist-Leninists in the United States, such as William Z. Foster and Harry Haywood. Communists can also learn from revolutionary nationalists such as Malcolm X. Theory derives from social practice. We seek to grow from every new lesson our activism in all social movements teaches us.
As Socialists, We Make Our Home in the Working Class
The multinational working class has an objective interest in ending capitalism in this country. The working class looks somewhat different today than it did when large-scale manufacturing was the dominating relations of production in the US economy. Nevertheless, workers are just as exploited and alienated from the wealth they produce as ever.
To combat exploitation, the working class needs to struggle for its own interests. We organize in the trade unions to fight for workers' rights, higher wages, and for an end to racist, sexist and homophobic discrimination in the workplace. Our main task in the trade unions is to place them on a class struggle basis. We believe in the organization of all workers, including the unemployed, the homeless, undocumented immigrants, and prisoners. We organize in neighborhoods and communities of working people to struggle for a better life, for better housing, schools, and health care. We support the fight for welfare rights as an important struggle within the working class. In all of this work, socialists fight for the organization of oppressed nationality workers, to fight for self-determination and working class unity.
We Seek Unity with All Forces who are in Struggle against Imperialism
We seek to build a united front against imperialism. This united front consists of all forces aligned against imperialism with the strategic alliance of the multi-national working class and oppressed nationality movements at its core and the proletariat in the lead.
To that end, we seek unity with a variety of progressive and revolutionary movements in the US. The main way we do this is by building mass movements that bring people into progressive activism and introduce them to socialist politics and organization. We seek organizational unity with other socialists where possible but we see it as a secondary task in this current period.
Capitalism is the Enemy
Our main enemy is capitalism. In order to fight the enemy and win, we have to understand the enemy.
Under capitalism, a handful that own the factories, the mines, corporate farms, and the banks control the wealth that the majority produces. We are fighting this system.
Capitalism organizes globally. Three blocs of capital compete intensely for growth and profits. Capitalists either destroy the competition, or are destroyed themselves. This drive sends the giant corporations around the world, seeking cheaper raw materials and corrupt local governments that will ensure a "friendly investment climate." Capitalism continuously seeks cheaper labor costs.
The capitalist class rules this country. We are told that this is a democracy, where the people rule. It is, however, their democracy. It is not just that it takes millions of dollars to run for high office. The state, the government, and the legal system were set up and developed to serve the interests of capitalism, to uphold the rights of property over the rights of people. Capitalism is a system of violence. Poverty is built into its operation.
The capitalist class needs to maintain its grip on the levers of power. History has shown repeatedly that capitalists will stop at nothing to maintain their wealth and power.
Capitalist democracy is protected by the threat of force. We know that the US government does not just go to war to protect its profits overseas. It will also send the armed forces of the state out against its own people as well, to repress urban rebellions against injustice, militant strikes or student demonstrations.
Capitalism is a social system. US capitalism is not capitalism in the abstract: it is racist capitalism, based on white supremacy. The US was built on land stolen from indigenous peoples and by the labor of enslaved Africans. The capitalist class has kept the working class of this country divided along racial lines since colonization. The racist view of the world promoted among white people is constantly reinforced by the institutional racism of US society.
An important element in structural or institutional racism is the imposition of a differential in the treatment of white people over people of color. This system allocates real privileges to white people. To the extent that this system is either protected or ignored, real unity within the multinational working class and between the working class and the national movements cannot be sustained.
Due to institutional racism and national oppression, oppressed nationalities and national minorities suffer politically, socially and economically. The white supremacist world-view is internalized among oppressed nationalities/national minorities, producing self-hatred, and self-destructive behavior. White workers need to be educated to the fact that racism and white supremacy ultimately hurt all workers.
While the majority of white workers do not significantly benefit from the oppression of people of color, racism has been used to successfully divide and weaken progressive social movements throughout US history. This is just one example of how racism functions to the detriment of workers. Racism intensifies and prolongs the oppression of oppressed nationalities and national minorities. It is also a particular danger because, should fascism come to power in the US, it will do so by exploiting racial fears and divisions. A socialist revolution will require the unity of the working class with the revolutionary movements of oppressed nationalities, and this united front will be the primary social force to lead the charge and usher in socialism.
We Must Conduct a Consistent Struggle Against Racist and National Oppression
For five hundred years, capitalism has everywhere rested on colonization without and racist oppression of its minority nationalities within its borders. In turn, the freedom struggles of the African-American, Chicano, Native American, Pacific-Islander, Asian American, and Puerto Rican peoples have been the driving force of the people's struggles in the US. These revolutionary movements have led the fight against national oppression, and struggled for complete equality and national freedom. One consistent demand in the liberation struggles of the oppressed nations has been the demand for self-determination: the rights of oppressed nations to control their land and determine their national destiny free of imperialist domination. We stand in complete defense of this right and the ability of the oppressed nations to exercise it.
The course of struggle in the US forged a new nation among African-Americans based in the Black Belt agricultural region of the US South. Since before the Civil War, African-American fighters for liberation have asserted the demand for land and justice, as well as the demand for complete equality throughout the United States. We stand in that tradition. We support self-determination for the African-American nation. As this struggle gains momentum, this may eventually include the establishment of an independent African-American nation based in the South. We defend the right to independent African-American organization necessary to achieve this liberation, including the right to separate African-American revolutionary parties.
As a result of historical developments since the annexation of Mexican land by the United States, there emerged an oppressed Chican@/Mexican@ nation of Aztlan. Since annexation, there has been a continuous struggle for land and justice (tierra y libertad). We support the right to self-determination up to and including secession for that nation. We defend the right to independent Chican@ / Mexican@ organization necessary to achieve this liberation, including the right to separate Chican@ / Mexican@ parties.
We support struggles of national liberation for all other nations brutalized by imperialist oppression whose homelands are within the borders of the United States, such as the Native American nations of the US, the Hawai'ian nation and the Puerto Rican struggle for national independence.
The national liberation movements in the US include many different classes. In each movement, however, the overwhelming majority is from the working class. We support the whole national movement in the democratic struggle for self-determination. We recognize, however, that only under the leadership of the working class will the broad united front for liberation realize equality among nations.
Marxist-Leninists must be Leaders in the Fight for Women's Liberation and against All Forms of Male Supremacy
The oppression of women predates the rise of capitalism. Capitalism, together with male supremacy, intensified the subordination and degradation of women. Capitalism also manipulated family life and sexuality to ensure its control over the working class.
The fight for women's genuine liberation and equality is one of the central components of the communist movement. Countries that have had socialist revolutions have seen huge gains for women in terms of political representation and participation, as well as increased rights such as easier access to jobs outside of the home, easier access to divorce, and increased reproductive freedom.
The battle for women's equality is a long-term one that requires ongoing struggle before, during, and after revolution. Unfortunately, in some revolutionary movements and societies issues of women's equality have sometimes been on the back burner. Women's equality must be an integral, everyday part of our organization and the movement for social change. We place particular emphasis on the demands of working class and oppressed nationality women, including the right to welfare, decent housing, quality affordable child care and an end to the imprisonment of partners and children by the racist criminal justice system. In addition we support the demands of women which cut across class lines such as full reproductive freedom, an end to domestic violence and violence against women, affirmative action, and equal pay for equal work. We believe that the women's liberation movement can only achieve its objectives through the full participation and leadership of working class women and oppressed nationality women.
Because women's oppression is entrenched in the class system, the struggle for women's liberation will surely continue under socialism. Male supremacy will not magically disappear when workers rule is established. We struggle now against patterns of male domination within revolutionary and progressive movements, including the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. We are committed to advancing women's leadership in our own organization as well as in the mass movements.
Marxist-Leninists Must Uphold Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Liberation and the Fight Against All Forms of Homophobia and Heterosexism
The struggle for the rights of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgender people is a struggle for basic human rights. It includes the struggle to extend all democratic rights to LGBT people including immigration, parenting, and the right to be free from violence in society and for the opportunity to participate equally in all aspects of society.
The Right wing has mounted a full-scale assault on the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people seeking to dehumanize in order to justify persecution and the denial of basic human rights. Rather than buying into narrow definitions of family, we must support full legal and social acceptance of all forms of family. We know that this benefits not only queers but also takes in social and economic reality of the working class as a whole. Furthermore, we recognize the majority of queers are working class. We must actively oppose homophobia and heterosexism in all of their forms, in society and within our organization. We must also stand with Bisexual and Transgender people against attempts to submerge their struggles within the Lesbian and Gay rights movement. We work for the construction of a socialist society that will continue to fight for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender liberation in all of its institutions.
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender movement has effectively challenged social oppression and, by winning the freedom to come out, expanded the possibilities of human sexuality in this society. This movement has led the way in fighting AIDS, one of the most devastating health crises of our time. Throughout history, queers have also been front line fighters in both the workers and national liberation movements. It has inspired the entire progressive movement with its courage and militancy; this movement has fought for and won real gains and freedoms for all people. It is a progressive movement, and revolutionaries should encourage and help lead it. As in all the mass movements where we organize, we strive for the leadership and empowerment of oppressed nationalities and working class people within the Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, and Transgender liberation movement. Just as Lenin was the first to strike down anti-queer laws, so too will we fight to land a crushing blow to anti-queer oppression.
Socialism Must Protect the Earth
The struggle for a livable planet is a life and death issue. Corporate greed has polluted the air, destroyed the ozone layer, poisoned the waters, and drenched our food with dangerous chemicals. Our survival necessitates public control of technology and production and the elimination of the blind consumerism that causes us to squander so many of the world's resources needlessly.
The environmental movement has been on the cutting edge of struggle here at home and in many parts of the world. The environmental section of the anti-globalization movement has a correctly anti-capitalist stand. It should be an important part of our work, with special attention to the issues of environmental racism. These issues have caused oppressed nationalities / national minorities to suffer disproportionately from environmental destruction, as well as to be skeptical of an environmental movement that has often ignored their concerns, input, and leadership.
Unfortunately at times, some socialist countries have imitated capitalism in their environmental policy, paying little attention to the issue of protecting the earth for current and future generations.
On the other hand, socialist countries such as Cuba have developed innovative and forward looking environmental policies and programs to conserve natural beauty and resources while creating alternative models of development that don't destroy the earth. It is clear that capitalism's need to continually expand and consume more resources is a threat to the ability of the Earth to continue to sustain life. Only conscious socialist planning by all of society can make this a reality.
We Are Internationalists
The world situation has changed dramatically in the last several years, especially with the collapse of socialism in the USSR and Eastern Europe. The rise of revisionism paved the way for the end of socialism in the Soviet Union. Where the US and USSR used to be the major world powers, we now have Japan, the US and Western Europe led by Germany as three imperialist rivals, all trying to expand their markets and power internationally. One thing remains constant: the overwhelming majority of the world's people live in the Third World and are suffering because of imperialism. The aspirations of those peoples for national liberation, self-determination, democracy and social justice will ultimately assert themselves with decisive force on the world stage. We have a special responsibility, as Marxist-Leninists living in the last remaining superpower, to oppose any military, economic or political domination and to support national liberation struggles.
We stand for peace, independence, and the fight of all oppressed nations to self-determination, including the struggles of indigenous peoples. In the post-Cold War era, the US has weakened as an economic power, but remains a dangerous, aggressive military power. We oppose the US government's imperialist wars wherever they are fought. We oppose the new imperialist push to re-divide the world. We stand in solidarity with people's movements in the third world in struggle against this "New World Order." As socialists, we have been and are actively involved in supporting many revolutionary and national liberation struggles around the world. We have been particularly active in supporting national liberation struggles in Central America; the struggle to free and unite Ireland; the battle for the Palestinian nation; and the revolutionary movement of the Philippines. We support Colombia's struggle for national liberation and support Iraq in it's struggle for self-determination and to resist sanctions.
Electoral Politics are an Arena of the People's Struggle
Our organizations have extensive experience in electoral campaigns, having worked in the Jesse Jackson Presidential campaigns, in the Rainbow Coalition, and on local campaigns and issues. Electoral politics has been and will remain an important realm of political struggle for working people, to improve their daily lives, to gain a greater measure of political power (especially for oppressed nationality and national minority communities), and to win important reforms.
In recent history, we have pressured elected officials around legislation on military aid and attacks on welfare; and we have organized community campaigns to oppose racist ballot initiatives. We have no illusions about the nature of the bourgeois parties. However at times we work with these parties to advance the people's interests. We furthermore support progressive, independent Third party efforts.
Without revolutionary organization, we cannot advance the revolutionary movement. As working people, we need our own party to fight for our interests, to help unify our struggles, to broaden our leadership, and to enable us to bring about socialism. We intend to build a new communist party. We need to build a party of the working class, which can someday contend for power. This party is democratic centralist. Its leadership needs to reflect the composition of our struggle. The leadership will be predominantly oppressed nationality members and predominantly women, with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual and Transgender representation as well.
We cannot predict the exact road to socialism but history teaches us to expect that the capitalist class will take harsh and repressive measures against any and all challenges to their control of state power. Our enemies are organized; we must be organized, too. In the spirit of Malcolm X, all serious revolutionaries should affirm the necessity to use any means necessary to bring about socialism and the liberation of the oppressed nations and peoples in the US!


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Topological Light
October 20, 2013Topology -- the understanding of how things are connected -- remains abstract, even with the popular example of doughnuts and coffee cups. This concept, esoteric as it appears, is also neat because it is the basis for creating ultrastable quantum "playgrounds." In topological systems, certain quantum behaviors can be carefully probed and even harnessed for all kinds of practical applications—from metrology to electronics. Topological insulators, for instance, have garnered attention because they exhibit quantum Hall physics practically off-the-shelf—without the fuss of stringent laboratory conditions. More recently, scientists have sought to go beyond these exotic materials, by designing devices whose topological features can be tuned, or even generated on-demand, like a switch.
Quantum Hall physics, inherently topological, has been seen in electronic devices and in dilute atomic ensembles. In the two-dimensional electron case, current flows along an edge/interface ("edge states") even in the presence of defects or other physical distortions in the sample---this arises from global properties of the material. This is strange when contrasted with conventional conductors/insulators, where the transport is impeded due the presence of disorder.
In this week's issue of Nature Photonics (AOP DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.274) scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute (*) report the first observation of such topological effects for light in two dimensions. To accomplish this, they built a structure to guide infrared light over the surface of a room temperature, silicon-on-insulator chip. Amazingly, they directly observed light racing around the boundary, impervious to defects. These photonic "edge states" are directly analogous to the quantum Hall effect for electrons.
Since silicon is the preferred material for most electronics this novel design assists with the miniaturization of optical communication technology, bringing photons a little closer to their electronic circuit counterparts. The work is a realization of a theoretical proposal by this same group of JQI scientists and their collaborators more than a year ago.
Edge States and Ring Resonators
Electrons can occupy topological edge states because they are charged particles whose energy spectrum can be dramatically modified by large magnetic fields. To simplify, a magnetic interaction is key for realizing quantum Hall states. The question here to ask is how researchers can design a material where photons---massless, charge-free, packets of energy--- flow as if they are being manipulated by a super strong magnet. To put it another way, how can the energy spectrum of light be modified to support robust topological states? And what do these photonic edge states look like?
In the JQI design, the light moves through a 2D landscape consisting of nearly flat ring-shaped silicon waveguides called resonators. By comparison, the arena for electrons is typically at the two-dimensional interface between two sheets of semiconductor. What the JQI scientists showed was that indeed light can, under the right circumstances, circulate around the edge of the silicon chip, without significant loss of energy, and do so even in the presence of defects.
The array of silicon rings is designed to only let the light waves inside-- "resonate"-- if they have the right wavelength (the circumference of the ring equaling an integral number of wavelengths). In other words, if the light frequency matches the resonant conditions of the ring it will enter the waveguide and make many circuits. For an off-resonance condition less light will inhabit the ring. Light with one polarization (the light's electric field pointing up or down) will, furthermore, circulate preferentially in one direction around the ring, clockwise or anti-clockwise. For the enthusiasts, the clockwise and anti-clockwise modes, in combination with the resonator array design, allows the photonic system to be analogous to an electron (spin) interacting with a magnet. The researchers created a photonic system that experiences a so-called synthetic or effective magnetic field [[see this link on the design proposal by this same group and this link on synthetic fields in ultracold atoms]].
This breaking of the symmetry of travel around rings is what can cause the cancelling-out of light propagation through the body of the device but not around the edge. It is also what reduces the amount of light energy wasted when light scatters or moves backwards around the edge or meets with a defect such as a defective resonator ring. Thus the JQI device displays the hallmark of topological behavior: persistent flow in the form of an edge state and near immunity against defects. The scientists went out of their way to deliberately turn off some resonators, thus simulating the industrial conditions of mass production---a process prone to the presence of faulty components even in the best of fabrication circumstances. They also demonstrated the edge flow in the presence of unpredicted defects in the device.
In all of those resonator-to-resonator transfers, at least a little bit of the light gets lost, and this wasted energy is what the researchers use to image the light paths through the device. When the resonator array is tuned with the right frequency and temperature for general (non-topological) transmission, that's what you get: light moves through the whole of the array. However, when the system is tuned to facilitate edge states, sure enough, no light moves through the body of the array; it only skirts the edge of the array---in a direct analogy to electron movement in a quantum Hall state. Notably, this scheme is a realization of the quantum spin Hall effect, where photonic (pseudo-)spins take the place of electron charge.
Possible Applications
"By tuning the resonators with temperature, we can make this topological array quite flexible," says Jacob Taylor, one of the JQI researchers. "The array isn't designed for one frequency only." Furthermore, the architecture of the array, which can be expanded to suite the need, fits in with the expectation that components such as this will need to be scaled up for use in future quantum computers, especially those that use photons as parts of hybrid electron-photon-atom systems.
JQI scientist and lead author, Mohammad Hafezi explains why edge states for photons might have an advantage over electron edge states for certain applications: "Photonic systems are remarkably malleable since photons can be easily guided inside the waveguides. Therefore, one can think of making photonic systems with non-trivial topologies, like Mobius strip, tori etc."
What can be done with a photonic array like this? One immediate advantage of edge states is that the arrays can be used for producing delays in photonic chips, where it is desirable to slow down a signal without being sensitive to fabrication errors. Other future uses: as filters and optical switches. Furthermore, by concentrating light in only two dimensions rather than three, the JQI scientists believe they can achieve certain nonlinear quantum effects, which can only occur with intense light.
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Tom Andrews Memorial Reading
Tom Andrews (1961–2001) was born and grew up in West Virginia.
He graduated from �鶹��Ƶ and earned his M.F.A. at the University of Virginia. In his lifetime, Andrews published three books of poems and a memoir, Codeine Diary, about his coming to terms with his hemophilia and his determined refusal to let it circumscribe his life. He also edited two collections of essays, The Point Where All Things Meet: Essays on Charles Wright and On William Stafford: The Worth of Local Things.
In 2002, Oberlin College Press published Random Symmetries: The Collected Poems of Tom Andrews, a posthumous volume comprised of two previously published books of poetry, The Brother's Country and The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle, two unpublished manuscripts, 25 Short Films �鶹��Ƶ Poetry and The Temptation of Saint Augustine, and two late uncollected poems.
Charles Wright wrote of Andrews, "The leaves just burst from his fingers. He had that odd stance to the world and its language that made whatever he wrote seem new and undiscovered, like treasure hauled up into the sealight from the ocean floor."
How to Love the World: Remembering Tom Andrews
an essay by Jack Ridl
He always signed his letters, "Dumb ole Tom."
When Tom was a junior at Hope College, he was in a play writing class. One day I mentioned to him that I thought he might like to try his hand at writing poems. He was surprised. "I've never written a poem in my life," he said. He thought it over. Then he said, "What would you recommend I do to learn how?" I told him that over the summer he should take an anthology of contemporary American poets and choose 25-30 of them and write a poem in the manner of each. He said, "Ok." That fall when he showed them to me, I was dumbfounded. It was as if each of these poets he'd selected had written their next poem. It was uncanny. It was the stuff of prodigy. "Now what should I do?" he said matter-of-factly as if what he did was what anyone could do. "Well, now all you have to do is compose your own poems," was all I could think to answer. He enrolled in Introduction to Poetry writing. We'd talk for hours after class. During that fall term, Tom and I went to Kalamazoo College to a reading by Gwendolyn Brooks and David Young. Young was the editor of the prestigious literary magazine FIELD at Oberlin College. Half way through the reading, I asked Tom if he'd be interested to going to Oberlin to be an intern at FIELD if David took interns from outside the college. Tom whispered an enthusiastic, "Wow! Yeah!" After the reading, I asked David if he'd be willing to take a student from another college as an intern. He said no; they'd never do that. I said, "If I sent you poems by this student, would you be willing to say no again?" and I laughed. And David laughed, too, and said, "Yes, I'll say no again. Send them to me." I sent them to him. He called and said, "Send Tom Andrews here for the second semester." Oberlin is one of the colleges that annually awards a student one of the prestigious prizes from The Academy of American Poets. Tom won it. The Oberlin students all agreed that he deserved it. Tom graduated Summa Cum Laude from �鶹��Ƶ and won the Hoyns Fellowship to the University of Virginia where he studied with Charles Wright and Gregory Orr. After that, he went on to become the brilliant writer he was, published in the finest of places and winning critical acclaim and prestigious awards for individual poems, as well as for his collections and for his prose memoir and for his edited editions of definitive work on William Stafford and Charles Wright.
Hope graduate and founder/editor of Dirty Goat Press, Barry Hendges wrote to me soon after Tom's passing, "Barely knowing him, I feel a great sense of loss. I remember when I was a freshman or sophomore at Hope going to a Hope football game with my roommate at the time and seeing Tom and turning to my roommate and saying, 'Hey look, that's Tom Andrews, the poet.' I guess Tom was a bit of a rock star/celebrity to me. I think Tom heard me; I remember he gave a shy little amused smile. That was Tom Andrews, the poet."
Tom's temple was inclusive. Two of his favorite poets were William Stafford and John Ashbery. Now, in the poetry world these two are seldom if ever mentioned in the same admiring conversation. Tom could gently convince you in about thirty seconds that they were nearly exactly alike. He was right, of course. Tom would watch a British drama on PBS and then switch to ESPN for the latest NASCAR updates. He would carry around Wittgenstein's philosophy, a catalogue for motorcycle parts, and Mad Magazine. He'd work for the most esoteric of all the mathematics journals, Math Reviews and then go play pick-up basketball. He'd come into the house performing a new yo-yo trick and while doing so, ask if I'd seen the poems Marianne Boruch had just published. St. Augustine and the Marx Brothers were religious figures to him. He had the lightest touch with the heaviest material of anyone I've known. He could juggle.
Tom Andrews was once a champion motor cross driver. However, he found out that he had hemophilia. "I then retired," he said. "A hemophiliac motor cross racer is somewhat of an insurance risk." He held the record for continuous hand clapping for which he was published in the Guinness Book of World Records. He won the Iowa Prize and the highly prestigious Rome Fellowship and wanted to be a stand-up comedian. His work was selected for The National Poetry Series and he was awarded a Guggenheim. He edited the Opus at Hope College and was a fellow dreamer of a visiting writers series. We dedicate this year's series to him. His poems were selected for Best American Poetry and he'd just as soon write for a motorcycle magazine. His publications include "Hymning the Kanawha"(Haw River Books), "The Brother's Country" (winner of The National Poetry Series, Persea Books), "The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle" (Winner of the Iowa Prize, University of Iowa Press), the memoir "Codeine Diary" (Little Brown), "On William Stafford: The Worth of Local Things" (University of Michigan Press) and "On Charles Wright: The Point Where All Things Meet" (Oberlin College Press). He was amazing. While at Hope College, he published in OPUS and in The Wallace Stevens Journal. Tom could do a handstand on a skateboard that was sitting on another skateboard while rolling downhill. Yes, he was amazing.
Guy Davenport, one of this country's most powerful critics wrote of Tom's poetry: These are not poems about illness. They are about the dominion of the spirit when it is rich in imagination and courage.
Poet Jean Valentine wrote: He is a true poet, loving, tough, ecstatic.
And David Young, who had said, "Yes, I'll say no again," later wrote: [Tom] is wise for his years, perhaps because he knows how to love the world.
We hope that you will take a renewed or a new interest in Tom's work. I know that everything he wrote he wanted to give to us all.
Jack Ridl
August 1, 2001


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American Cancer Society Account
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Society Account?
On November 19, 2014, the American Cancer Society account login process was upgraded to ensure proper security and a consistent experience across all American Cancer Society applications. Also, for greater ease and convenience, you may now log in using your social media account.
The main benefits of this update are:
- Users will now be recognized on all our event websites, so there will be no need for multiple usernames and passwords.
- There will be enhanced account security across all Society applications.
- Users can log in using their preferred social account login credentials (Facebook, Google, and Apple) or with an email address.
What if I have questions about Society Account?
Please feel free to contact our web site support desk at 1-877-957-7848 or chat with us on cancer.org. We're always ready to assist you with any question you might have.
Which websites are impacted by this update?
Currently, the following websites incorporate a Society Account log-in:
- Relay For Life, Relay Connect, Bark For Life
- Making Strides Against Breast Cancer
- Coaches vs. Cancer
- Some DetermiNation, other marathon events, and Golf and Gala Events
- Service Match
- Volunteer Community
- Volunteer Learning Center
- My Society Source
Additionally American Cancer Society sites may be accessed via Society Account in the future.
What if I'm currently registered under an email address that is shared with others?
If your team captain, company, or event manager registered you under a shared corporate, organizational, or family email address, please contact our website support desk at 1-877-957-7848 so that we can add your personal email address to your account and create your new Society Account login.
My team captain/team leader always signs up my team. How do I sign up this year?
When you sign up for your event, select create your own account. By creating an account under your own email address, you will receive all event information directly, have access to the fundraising tool, be able to sign the event waiver, etc. Also, you will be able to change or reset your password and manage your links to social sites. (If you choose not to sign up with your email address, please see the question below regarding signing up offline.)
My child has always been signed up for an event by their teacher. How does my child now sign up?
Parents will need to create an account with their child's email address or use their own email address (and parent's name) when signing up. If you need assistance, please contact 1-877-957-7848. (If you choose not to sign up with your child's or your email address, please see the question below regarding signing up offline.)
What should I do if I change my email address?
Log in with your existing email address, and once you are in Society Account, you can manage both your email address and password.
If I'm having trouble signing up, will my account still be updated and receive donations if I am an event participant?
Yes. This is simply a login process. Your participant center website donation functionality will not change.
What should I do if my password doesn't work or I can't login?
Please select the forgot password link and follow the instructions. You may also contact our web site support desk at 1-877-957-7848.
What if I don't want to create an online account but still want to join a team an event?
Teams and participants may sign up using paper forms that will be entered into our fundraising system by your American Cancer Society representative. These forms do not require an email address; however, you will not have access to an online dashboard.
There are two ways you can sign up offline:
- Contact your team captain/team leader or an event committee member for a paper form and collection envelope (for fundraising). They will have the necessary information to help you sign up using paper forms.
- Alternatively, please contact 1-877-957-7848 and one of our specialists will help you sign up.
If you chose to join us on the event day, the offline paper form will also be available.
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We'll be happy to advise you on how to use a second e-mail address to create separate accounts and ensure your logins are correctly associated to the events of your choice. If you would like to use two different logins, please contact our website support desk at 1-877-957-7848.
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Time to get our attention back down to Earth from the lofty cupolas. But this time, we are not gazing at flowers, at least not directly: rather, people, in their most neighborly activity, is what we will be studying.
The cosy neighbors of Stuart Street, organized in SNAP, arrange a street party twice a year or more, called a "Potluck". For us Europeans, this means you bring your own food and drink and have a ball around a large common table. The place for this event is the street segment just above the signs you see in the above picture, the barrier fending off any unwelcome motorists who might interfere in the general fun.
I had heard this party mentioned some time ago, but it had slipped my mind until, Saturday last, I got the feeling in the morning of having missed something important. Sure enough, soon I got an e-mail from Mugur, Karl's partner, that a potluck was in preparation. Off I rushed, grabbing a bottle of wine on my way out, eager not to miss the fun. Karl was just about to put the above signs on the street, blocking off the second segment of Stuart Street between Fulton and Ellsworth.
No sign of a party yet, but, further up the street I could glimpse some activities on the roundabout at Ellsworth. It turned out that the good neighbors of Stuart had found it fruitful to start the event by doing a bit of gardening on the flowerbeds there. This gave me a sudden flash-back to the co-operative on Myrstuguberget in Huddinge, where I used to own a small house, and where all of us partners used to clean the commons twice a year.
Myrstuguberget, a nice residential co-operative south of Stockholm Architect: Ralph Erskine Photographer: Ambercroft |
Whilst this was going on, other participants started to put tables and chairs on the street, under the warm sunshine of a Californian morning. I was a bit ashamed of having brought only wine, but this did not prevent me from savoring all the delicious food being served smack on the street and having a good time, whilst observing the local mores.
In contrast to us Swedes (counting even myself among this tacit crowd) the Stuart residents are a mighty talkative bunch. During the meal, the latest news were being traded and an easy sense of comradeship reigned over this small enclave. With the food and drink all finished, and when us Swedes would tend to leave for home, the real fun began with a great round of story telling and joke rendering, to the great amusement of all of us. But why spill unnecessary words on this; better let the pictures below do the telling. But, dear readers, stay tuned; there is more text to come after those pictures!
Thank you, dear readers, for staying with me on the blog post. I would now like to take the occasion to present to you two Master Gardeners that happen to live opposite each other on that special stretch of Stuart Street where we are having the Potluck. Both have earned rewards from the City for their innovative and sustainable street gardens. The Gentleman below is Wilbur Hoff who, together with his partner Kris, keeps a wonderland of many flowered buds in front of his house. The small marvels are native plants, who are economical, if not to say parsimonious in their use of water. You see him standing in his backyard, who is no less colorful than the front.
Master Gardener Wilbur Hoff Below his Prize |
Master Gardener Karl Reeh To the left his Prize |


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Life is Good DTF transfer
Life is Good DTF transfer
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Approximate size in inches: 10.5" x 11"
Temp. for pressing is aprox. 305
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Use Teflon paper or any cover over this transfer when pressing
Commercial style heat press is highly recommended
These transfers can be used on garments that are 100% cotton or Polyester and cotton/poly blends.
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The original law began in 1984 and was then directed at promoting arrests in conventional international organized crime such as drug trafficking, and of terrorists. However, in the last two years, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Stephen Rapp has led a State Department effort to expand the law to include the atrocity criminals whom the ICC tries. The bill which became S.2318 was introduced in the House by Congressman Ed Royce (R-CA), who is chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs in the new Congress. It had 57 bipartisan sponsors and passed the House in July. Senator Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced S.2138 itself in the Senate which passed it on December 20.
The new law declares "the sense of Congress that the rewards program of the Department of State should be expanded in order to ... target other individuals indicted by international, hybrid or mixed tribunals for genocide, war crimes, or crimes against humanity." It then goes on to authorize the State Department to pay rewards for "the transfer to or conviction by an international criminal tribunal ... of any foreign national accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide, as defined under the statute of such tribunal."
Two provisions of the law show a continuing wariness about the ICC. One requires that 15 days before announcing a reward for the arrest of a particular foreign national accused of those crimes, the State Department must submit a report to Congress explaining why the arrest would be in the national security interest of the United States. The other declares that the law does not authorized activities precluded under the American Servicemembers' Protection Act.
The worldwide attention to the crimes of Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, and the previous individual laws referring to the ICC's work on specific cases were among the elements of the impetus for this new law. A future post will analyze the trends behind its passage, and its importance for our current advocacy and our strategy for the future.
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Comparison with SQL¶
Since many potential pandas users have some familiarity with SQL, this page is meant to provide some examples of how various SQL operations would be performed using pandas.
If you're new to pandas, you might want to first read through 10 Minutes to pandas to familiarize yourself with the library.
As is customary, we import pandas and NumPy as follows:
In [1]: import pandas as pd
In [2]: import numpy as np
Most of the examples will utilize the tips
dataset found within pandas tests. We'll read
the data into a DataFrame called tips and assume we have a database table of the same name and
In [3]: url = ('https://raw.github.com/pandas-dev'
...: '/pandas/master/pandas/tests/data/tips.csv')
In [4]: tips = pd.read_csv(url)
In [5]: tips.head()
total_bill tip sex smoker day time size
0 16.99 1.01 Female No Sun Dinner 2
1 10.34 1.66 Male No Sun Dinner 3
2 21.01 3.50 Male No Sun Dinner 3
3 23.68 3.31 Male No Sun Dinner 2
4 24.59 3.61 Female No Sun Dinner 4
In SQL, selection is done using a comma-separated list of columns you'd like to select (or a *
to select all columns):
SELECT total_bill, tip, smoker, time
FROM tips
With pandas, column selection is done by passing a list of column names to your DataFrame:
In [6]: tips[['total_bill', 'tip', 'smoker', 'time']].head(5)
total_bill tip smoker time
0 16.99 1.01 No Dinner
1 10.34 1.66 No Dinner
2 21.01 3.50 No Dinner
3 23.68 3.31 No Dinner
4 24.59 3.61 No Dinner
Calling the DataFrame without the list of column names would display all columns (akin to SQL's
Filtering in SQL is done via a WHERE clause.
FROM tips
WHERE time = 'Dinner'
DataFrames can be filtered in multiple ways; the most intuitive of which is using boolean indexing.
In [7]: tips[tips['time'] == 'Dinner'].head(5)
total_bill tip sex smoker day time size
0 16.99 1.01 Female No Sun Dinner 2
1 10.34 1.66 Male No Sun Dinner 3
2 21.01 3.50 Male No Sun Dinner 3
3 23.68 3.31 Male No Sun Dinner 2
4 24.59 3.61 Female No Sun Dinner 4
The above statement is simply passing a Series
of True/False objects to the DataFrame,
returning all rows with True.
In [8]: is_dinner = tips['time'] == 'Dinner'
In [9]: is_dinner.value_counts()
True 176
False 68
Name: time, dtype: int64
In [10]: tips[is_dinner].head(5)


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San Francisco, I Think I'm Over You
I'm kind of back to not liking living in San Francisco. Part of my disenchantment is probably my fault. I arrived here with big dreams I've yet to see realized. For one, I thought I'd fall into a good group of friends. Instead, someone I considered a good friend ghosted on me. Though I have made a few good friends whom I am grateful for, they're from disparate circles. My social life is unrecognizable to me.


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Maria Shriver, whose California Women's Conference is the preeminent forum by, for and about American women, is joining with the Alzheimer's Association — the leader in Alzheimer care, support and research — to release The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Takes on Alzheimer's on Oct. 15. The Shriver Report is a groundbreaking, comprehensive examination of the impact of Alzheimer's disease on American women as caregivers, advocates and people living with the disease.
This is the second in a series for The Shriver Report, an ongoing study of transformational moments in American culture and society. Last year, Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress published The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything, a landmark study looking at how Americans live and work today now that mothers are the primary or co-breadwinners in nearly two-thirds of American families. The Shriver Report launched a national conversation continuing today about the far-reaching consequences of women's shifting roles in American life.
This year The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Takes on Alzheimer's will provide a pioneering and comprehensive examination of the Alzheimer experience in our country. As the first of 78 million baby boomers are entering their mid-60s, an Alzheimer tsunami is approaching, and it will impact women disproportionately. Women are not only the majority of Alzheimer patients in this country. They are also the overwhelming majority of caregivers for people living with Alzheimer's and other dementias. This presents a huge and growing burden on millions of women — as people living with the disease, as caregivers and as half of the American work force. Is this country ready for the impact on family, the workplace, our healthcare system, our government? Is anyone ready?
The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Takes on Alzheimer's will be the first multi-disciplinary look at these questions — and intends to ignite a national conversation by asking questions and answering them in a comprehensive and accessible way. In addition to substantive chapters by scholars and experts mining the data and explaining the breakthroughs and trends in the medical research, the economic impacts, the sociology and the cultural shifts — there will be personal essays, original photography by award-winning photojournalist Barbara Kinney and the results of a new, largest-ever nationwide poll on the effects of Alzheimer's on women and families.
Maria Shriver's own father, Sargent Shriver, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2003. "Alzheimer's has had a profound impact on my family," said Shriver. "The Alzheimer's Association tells us as many as 5.3 million people, most of them women, are living with Alzheimer's disease in our country — and unless something is done, by 2050, it will impact up to 16 million families directly and millions more indirectly. We launched this edition of The Shriver Report to shine the spotlight on the fact that Alzheimer's is a national epidemic that affects all of us, not just the elderly, and cuts across economic and age groups to have overpowering implications on all aspects of American life."
The Shriver Report contributors include Barbra Streisand, Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker, Soleil Moon Frye, Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines, ABC News "Nightline" anchor Terry Moran, CBS News correspondent Barry Petersen, former First Lady Laura Bush, President Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis, Alzheimer's Study Group chairmen Newt Gingrich and former Sen. Bob Kerrey, and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. Personal essays by a diverse group of Americans — including women in their 50s and 60s with younger-onset Alzheimer's — will illuminate with unflinching honesty the effect of Alzheimer's on American families.
"Given the enormous impact Alzheimer's disease has on women and families in this country, we partnered with Maria Shriver to escalate the national conversation about Alzheimer's. Maria's personal experience with Alzheimer's is relatable to the American public and will help bring the disease to the forefront," said Angela Geiger, chief strategy officer of the Alzheimer's Association. "With a new person developing Alzheimer's every 70 seconds and women impacted disproportionately as both people with the disease and caregivers, the Alzheimer's Association sees this as an opportunity to illustrate further the devastating path this disease will continue on without adequate funding for care and research."
The Shriver Report supporters include Deloitte LLP and Visa, Inc., and the report's contributing partners include the UC Berkeley Center on Health, Economic and Family Security and the Families and Work Institute. The Shriver Report release will be accompanied by extensive coverage and outreach by our media partners ABC News, Time and grassroots outreach supporter AARP, which will help amplify the conversation. ABC News will provide a week of coverage across its broadcast platforms.
ABC News president David Westin said, "The ABC family knows how devastating Alzheimer's is and how important it is for families to have access to the information they need to help them cope. We are honored to be partnering with Maria Shriver and the Alzheimer's Association on the release of The Shiver Report and hope our reporting can help shed new light on this heartbreaking disease."
"Our research shows that the average American caregiver is a woman who holds down a paid job and juggles family responsibilities to find the 20 hours a week she devotes to caring for her parent, who has a one in four chance of having Alzheimer's," said Nancy LeaMond, executive vice president of social impact for AARP. "That is why AARP is proud to work with The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Takes on Alzheimer's to highlight this conundrum and inspire business, government and community leaders to become aware of this dynamic and get creative in seeking change."
"Time is committed to our ongoing coverage of important health issues like Alzheimer's, and we look forward to working with The Shriver Report to draw attention to the extraordinary challenges this disease presents," said Richard Stengel, Time's managing editor.
The coverage will lead up to Maria Shriver's March on Alzheimer's on Oct. 24, kicking off the annual Women's Conference in Long Beach, Calif. Shriver will be joined there by emcee and Alzheimer advocate Leeza Gibbons, actor Rob Lowe and co-chairs actor Peter Gallagher, Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines, actress and activist Soleil Moon Frye, Body by Jake CEO Jake Steinfeld and members of the cast of "Glee." Jane Fonda will lead participants in warm-up exercises before they begin the 5K March, which will be followed by refreshments, entertainment and a candlelight vigil honoring those lost to Alzheimer's disease and their friends and families. All proceeds from the March will benefit the Alzheimer's Association. For more information, visit www.womensconference.org/march-on-alzheimer-s/.
About Maria ShriverShriver is the author of six books and an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning broadcast journalist currently serving as California's First Lady. Shriver was co-executive producer of last year's Emmy Award-winning four-part HBO documentary series, "The Alzheimer's Project." It took an inside look at cutting-edge research in the country's leading Alzheimer laboratories and examined the effects of this disease on patients and families. One of the Emmy Award-winning films in the series, "Grandpa, Do You Know Who I Am?", was based on Shriver's best-selling children's book dealing with Alzheimer's. "The Alzheimer's Project" one of HBO's most-watched events ever, can be seen at www.hbo.com/alzheimers/the-films.html. A mother of four, Shriver has expanded the California Women's Conference into a star-studded, multi-day event for 30,000 participants, featuring newsmakers, cultural leaders and opinion makers, all with the goal of inspiring and empowering women to be architects of change in their own lives, their communities and the world.
The Alzheimer's Association is a worldwide voluntary health organization dedicated to Alzheimer's care, support and research. Our mission is to lead the way to end Alzheimer's and all other dementia — by accelerating global research, driving risk reduction and early detection, and maximizing quality care and support. Our vision is a world without Alzheimer's and all other dementia®. Visit alz.org or call 800.272.3900.
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Just thought I'd say hi with a few Aloha Cupcakes.
Hi there. Hello. Howdy. How ya doing?
These are Pineapple Mango Cupcakes. All tropical like. With graham cracker crumbs for sand and fondant flowers for the leis. They'd be super cute for a luau party. They're really pretty easy to make once you have all the pieces and parts.
First start with some cupcakes. Any cupcakes. But if you want to try the ones I made, here's the recipe.
Pineapple Cupcakes with Mango Frosting
Pineapple Cupcakes
- 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1-1/2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup milk, room temperature
- 20 oz. can of crushed pineapple, drained and pureed*
Mango Frosting
- 1-2 Mangoes
- 1 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 lb box of confectioners' sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line cupcake tray with 24 paper liners.
- Pineapple Cupcakes: Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl and set aside.
- Cream the butter and sugar together in a mixer for several minutes. Add the eggs one at a time scraping down the sides of the bowl with each addition. Add the vanilla and mix until combined.
- Add the flour mixture to the sugar mixture in three additions with the milk in two additions (flour, milk, flour, milk, flour) Mix until combined with each addition
- Add the pineapple and mix until combined.
- Fill cups about 2/3 full and bake for about 15 minutes.
- Mango Frosting: Cut mangoes. Instructions here. Place mango pieces in food processor and puree enough so you have about 1/3 cup.
- Beat butter and vanilla until creamy. Add confectioner's sugar in several additions. beating until well combined with each addition.
- Add 1/2 cup of mango puree and beat until completely combined. Spread frosting on cooled cupcakes.
* I pureed the pineapple in a food processor. I'm not a big fan of fruit chunks. Flavor yes. Chunks. Not so much.
So that's the cupcakes. But what about the fun stuff. Who's ready to play?
Okay, fondant first.
You'll need some to make these lovely little leis.
You'll need:
Icing colors
Powdered sugar
Wooden skewers
String or twine
Oh… and a Flower Plunger.
Break off a small amount of fondant. Dip your toothpick into the icing color of your choice and wipe it on your fondant. Begin kneading it to incorporate the color… but not all the way. Sprinkle a little powdered sugar on your work surface and rolling pin.
Then roll out the fondant evenly and pretty thin. By not kneading the color completely into the fondant, you'll get these marbled looking streaks.
Then use the flower plunger. Cut the shapes along the color variations to make flowers that appear to vary in shade.
Repeat with a few other colors if you like.
White works, too.
The flower plunger cuts the shape and also creates an indention in the center of the flower when you press down.
Then you can use wooden skewers to pierce through the center easily. Slide flowers on the skewers and let dry. Make these the day before so the fondant has time to dry out a little. I let them rest on a baking sheet overnight. Just make sure they aren't pressed together tightly on the skewer or they will dry attached to each other and be difficult to separate without breaking the little flowers.
When they are dry, slide about 50 flowers (depending on the thickness) on a string about 12 inches long and tie a knot.
That's it.
But what about the cute Aloha signs?
When the cupcakes are cool and frosted, dip them in a bowl of finely ground/crushed graham cracker crumbs.
Sorry, forgot the photo for this one. But you get the idea.
Then make your signs. Just kidding.
I made it easy for you with these…
You'll also need:
Wooden cookie sticks
X-acto Knife
Cut the cookie sticks down in size. Mine were about 12 inches long so I cut them down to pieces about 4 inches.
Print out the tags on heavyweight paper and cut them out individually. Then use an x-acto blade to cut two slits along the diagonal on each side of the tag.
Slip the sticks through the paper and then insert the sticks straight down into the center of the cupcake.
Like so.
When I first planned these out in my head, I thought they leis would be super cute draped over the signs. But in practice, they worked out better laying around the sign and on the sand.
Hope you like em!
Aloha and … Bye for now.


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