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Previous investigations have identified individuals who meet criteria for DSM-IV-TR substance dependence as applied to caffeine, but there is little research on treatments for caffeine dependence. This study aimed to thoroughly characterize individuals who are seeking treatment for problematic caffeine use. Ninety-four individuals who identified as being psychologically or physically dependent on caffeine, or who had tried unsuccessfully to modify caffeine consumption participated in a face-to-face diagnostic clinical interview. They also completed measures concerning caffeine use and quitting history, reasons for seeking treatment, and standardized self-report measures of psychological functioning. Caffeine treatment seekers (mean age 41 yrs, 55% women) consumed an average of 548 mg caffeine per day. The primary source of caffeine was coffee for 50% of the sample and soft drinks for 37%. Eighty-eight percent reported prior serious attempts to modify caffeine use (mean 2.7 prior attempts) and 43% reported being advised by a medical professional to reduce or eliminate caffeine. Ninety-three percent met criteria for caffeine dependence when generic DSM-IV-TR substance dependence criteria were applied to caffeine use. The most commonly endorsed criteria were withdrawal (96%), persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to control use (89%), and use despite knowledge of physical or psychological problems caused by caffeine (87%). The most common reasons for wanting to modify caffeine use were health-related (59%) and not wanting to be dependent on caffeine (35%). This investigation reveals that there are individuals with problematic caffeine use who are seeking treatment, and suggests that there is a need for effective caffeine dependence treatments.
Caffeine is the most widely used behaviorally active drug in the world. In the United States more than 85% of adults and children regularly consume caffeine (Frary, Johnson, & Wang, 2005). Mean daily caffeine consumption among adult caffeine consumers in the United States has been estimated to be 280 mg/day, the equivalent of about 2 cups of coffee, or 7 twelve oz cans of caffeinated soft drinks (Barone & Roberts, 1996). Caffeine is generally considered to be safe when consumed at normal dietary doses; however, it is not completely innocuous. Heavy caffeine use (> 400 mg per day) is associated with increased risk for health problems and pregnancy complications (Nawrot et al., 2003). Caffeine can increase symptoms of anxiety and insomnia. Moreover, caffeine has reinforcing effects and produces physical dependence such that acute abstinence results in withdrawal symptoms that at times can be severe (Juliano & Griffiths, 2004). Importantly, many regular caffeine users report an inability to quit or reduce caffeine use despite wanting to do so (Hughes, Oliveto, Liguori, Carpenter, & Howard, 1998).
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR) does not recognize a diagnosis of substance dependence on caffeine (American Psychiatric Association, 2000); while the ICD-10 does (World Health Organization, 1992a, 1992b). The rationale for the exclusion from the DSM-IV was that additional clinical data were needed that demonstrate that caffeine users have difficulty stopping use, difficulty switching to decaffeinated products, and continue to use caffeine despite having knowledge of that caffeine aggravates their health (Hughes, 1994). Since that time, one population study and four clinical studies have identified individuals who meet the DSM-IV-TR criteria for substance dependence when applied to caffeine use (Hughes et al., 1998; Jones & Lejuez, 2005; Oberstar, Bernstein, & Thuras, 2002; Strain, Mumford, Silverman, & Griffiths, 1994; Svikis, Berger, Haug, & Griffiths, 2005). These studies reveal that caffeine use can be problematic for some individuals and that professional assistance may be warranted. To date, there exist only a handful of empirical studies and case reports on individuals receiving treatment for problematic caffeine use (Bernard, Dennehy, & Keefauver, 1981; Bryant, Dowell, & Fairbrother, 2002; Foxx & Rubinoff, 1979; James et al., 1988; James, Stirling, & Hampton, 1985). No prior study has evaluated the demand for treatment for problematic caffeine use or the characteristics such treatment seekers.
The present study sought to identify and characterize individuals who were interested in treatment for problematic caffeine use. Participants were queried about their caffeine use and quitting history, reasons for seeking treatment, and treatment preferences and goals. Structured clinical interviews were conducted to assess mental health and drug use history, and DSM-IV-TR substance dependence criteria applied to caffeine.
Participants were adult men and women who responded to advertisements offering assistance to quit or reduce caffeine consumption for people who feel that that they "are psychologically or physically dependent on caffeine" or "have tried unsuccessfully to quit using caffeinated products in the past". There was no mention of monetary compensation in the ads. To be eligible for the face-to-face interview callers had to report using at least 100 mg caffeine per day and express an interest in receiving caffeine treatment. Callers were also informed that illicit drug users were not eligible and thus may have self-selected out of the study. A total of 275 individuals completed the phone screening and 94 individuals (55.3% women, 80% Caucasian, 75% employed) with a mean age of 41 years (range 18 to 65; SD=12.3) comprised the final study sample. (One individual with current alcohol dependence and one individual with a current psychotic disorder were excluded based on the face-to-face interview). All participants were high school graduates, 67% had earned a bachelor's degree and more than 30% had a graduate degree. Tobacco use was reported by 6% of participants (range was 4-40 cigarettes per day). Alcohol use was reported by 54%, with 32% reporting at least weekly use of alcohol as follows: 1-3 drinks per week (n=24); 4-7 drinks per week (n=4), and >15 drinks per week (n=2).
Upon arrival to the clinic participants provided informed consent and completed self-report measures and a structured clinical interview. Participants were compensated $20 for the 2-4 hr session. Specifically, participants completed a demographic and medical history questionnaire as well as the Caffeine Exposure Questionnaire (CEQ) (see Harrell & Juliano, 2009; Svikis et al., 2005), which instructed participants to indicate the number of servings and typical serving size of caffeinated products consumed in a typical day including coffee, tea, soft drinks, chocolate, foods, caffeine-containing medications/dietary supplements, and other1. Data were then entered into a spreadsheet that calculated total daily caffeine exposure based on standard caffeine concentrations and values obtained from manufacturers (Barone & Roberts, 1984, 1996; Juliano, Anderson, & Griffiths, 2011). Participants also completed a Caffeine History Questionnaire in which they documented caffeine-related advice received from health professionals, past attempts to quit or reduce caffeine use, and rated desire and confidence to quit caffeine use and to reduce caffeine use. They also indicated the latency to consume caffeine upon awakening. To characterize the emotional functioning of caffeine treatment seekers relative to normative data participants also completed the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) (Beck & Steer, 1987), State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) (Spielberger, 1983), and Profile of Mood States (POMS) (McNair, Lorr, & Droppleman, 1992). Following self-report assessments, the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis-I Disorders – Patient Edition (SCID-I/P) (First, Spitzer, & Williams, 1991) was administered by a Master's or Doctoral level clinician. Caffeine dependence, caffeine withdrawal, and other features of caffeine use (e.g., age of first regular use) were also assessed via the Composite International Diagnostic Interview, Substance Abuse Module, Section E Version 4.1 (SAM-Section E) (Cottler, Robins, & Helzer, 1989). To assess withdrawal participants were asked if they had experienced any of 14 possible symptoms of caffeine withdrawal (see Figure 1) when abstaining from caffeine, or had used caffeine to avoid experiencing withdrawal, as well as if withdrawal had ever interfered with functioning.
Telephone screening was completed for 275 individuals (60% female; mean age = 40.0 yrs). In response to the question "Are you interested in receiving assistance to modify your caffeine use" 91% responded "yes", with 51% reporting that they would like assistance to reduce caffeine use and 40% reporting that they would like assistance to quit using caffeine. Seven percent indicated that they might be interested in assistance and 2.3% said they were not interested. Among the 258 callers who responded, more than half were interested in face-to-face counseling (59.3%) with 47.3% interested in one-on-one counseling and 12% interested in group counseling. Nearly 25% were interested in a self-help booklet and 4.3% were interested in assistance via telephone. There were no differences between those not interviewed (n = 181) and the final interview sample (n = 94) in terms of age, gender, daily caffeine use, age of first regular caffeine use, desire to modify caffeine use or confidence, alcohol use, lifetime drug use, or history of drug, alcohol, or mental health treatment. However, those interviewed were significantly less likely to be smokers, 6% vs. 25%, X2 = 14.61(1, N =275) = p < .001, less likely to have been advised by a health professional to modify caffeine use, 43% vs. 58%, X2 (1, N = 274) = 6.17, p = .013, and had more years of formal education, X 2(7, N = 273) = 33.07, p < .001.
Participants (N = 94) reported consuming a mean of 547.8 mg of caffeine per day (SD = 470.4; Median = 387.5, range = 120 mg to 2667 mg). Participants reported daily consumption of soft drinks (74%), roasted or ground coffee (56%), cocoa/chocolate (36%), bag or leaf tea (34%), instant tea (10%), instant coffee (7%), and caffeine-containing medications (6%). The primary source of caffeine (i.e., 50% greater than next largest caffeine source) was coffee for 50% of the sample, soft drinks for 37%, and tea for 5%. Most participants (81%) reported having their first caffeinated product within 60 min of waking, with 30% reporting caffeine use within 15 min of waking. The mean age of onset of regular caffeine consumption was 15.9 yrs (SD = 6.4).
Eighty-eight percent reported at least one past serious attempt to quit or reduce caffeine (M = 2.7, SD = 3.1). Sixty-two percent reported at least one past attempt to quit caffeine use, with 62% unable to maintain abstinence for 30 days or more. Fifty-four percent reported a past serious attempt to reduce caffeine use, with 70% unable to maintain the reduced amount for 30 days or more. Forty-three percent reported being advised by a health professional to modify caffeine use for reasons including cardiovascular problems, fibrocystic breast disease, pregnancy, anxiety, headaches, urinary problems, gastric problems, hypoglycemia, and sleep difficulties. Some participants reported that a doctor had advised caffeine reduction as a means to reduce caloric intake from caffeinated sugary soft drinks. Only 20% of those advised to modify caffeine use reported having been given advice on how to do so. Mean desire to modify caffeine use on a 0 to 10 scale was 7.79 (SD = 2.18), while the mean rating for confidence in achieving one's ideal caffeine use goal was 4.16 (SD = 3.05). Sixty percent of participants reported a goal of caffeine reduction, while 40% reported a goal of complete abstinence. As shown in Table 1, health concerns were the most common reason for wanting to modify caffeine use (59%) followed by not wanting to be dependent on caffeine (35%).
When queried about 14 possible caffeine withdrawal symptoms, 96% of participants reported two or more caffeine withdrawal symptoms when abstaining from caffeine, with a mean of 6.8 symptoms (SD 2.82). The rates of endorsement of specific withdrawal symptoms are shown in Figure 1, with headache being the most frequently endorsed (89%). Forty-three percent reported functional impairment due to withdrawal and provided examples such as being unable to work, sleeping at work, missing activities on vacation, and being unable to attend church.
Table 2 presents the rates of endorsement (past year) of the seven DSM-IV-TR dependence criteria as applied to caffeine use. Ninety-three percent of participants fulfilled DSM-IV-TR criteria for substance dependence as applied to caffeine by endorsing at least three of the seven diagnostic criteria, with 55% of participants endorsing at least five of seven criteria. When only four of the DSM-IV-TR criteria that seem most applicable to caffeine were considered (i.e., withdrawal; persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control use; continued use despite knowledge of a persistent or recurrent physical or psychological problem; and tolerance, Strain et al., 1994), 89% of participants met criteria. As an even more conservative approach, when tolerance was omitted 79% met criteria (i.e., endorsed all three remaining criteria).
Anxiety and mood disorders were the most prevalent current diagnoses (17% each) and lifetime diagnoses (26% and 42% respectively). Twelve percent of the sample had a past history of alcohol dependence, while few had lifetime history of dependence on an illicit drug. The prevalence rates of these and other diagnoses are presented in Table 3. The mean STAI-state score for the sample was 35.1 (SD = 11.4), which is similar to adult normative data (Spielberger, 1983). The mean STAI-trait score was slightly elevated in the sample (M = 40.3; SD = 10.4), compared to adult normative data (M = 34.9: SD = 9.2) (Spielberger, 1983). The POMS Total Mood Disturbance score (Mean = 23.5, SD = 32.5) and individual factor scores were similar to scores obtained from adult normative samples (McNair et al., 1992). Nine percent of the sample scored greater than15 on the BDI (an indicator of depression, Beck & Steer, 1987).
Additional analyses were conducted to explore possible correlates of caffeine dependence (defined as meeting 3 of 3 of the most applicable criteria), and caffeine consumption. Caffeine consumption (log transformed for normality) did not differ among those who did (n = 74) and did not (n = 20) fulfill a caffeine dependence diagnosis [raw score mean = 549 mg vs. 544 mg, t (1, 92) = -.041, p = .967]. There were also no differences in the likelihood of caffeine dependence based on primary source of caffeine (coffee vs. soft drinks) or gender. Pearson correlations revealed that greater caffeine consumption was associated with older age, r = .285, p = .005, shorter latency to consume caffeine upon awakening, r = -.265, p = .019, and lower desire to quit caffeine use, r = -.370, p < .001. Caffeine consumption was not associated with desire to reduce caffeine use, confidence in achieving one's caffeine use goal, alcohol use, gender, or any of the affect-related measures.
This study identified individuals who were seeking assistance to modify their caffeine use and determined the characteristics and motivations of such individuals. Not surprisingly our sample on average had high levels of consumption -- nearly double the caffeine intake (548 mg) of the typical adult caffeine consumer in the U.S. (280 mg; Barone & Roberts, 1996). However, daily caffeine exposure varied widely (120 mg – 2667 mg), with a range similar to that reported in a prior study that assessed for problematic caffeine use (Strain et al., 1994). A diagnosis of caffeine dependence was not necessarily indicative of high daily exposure to caffeine as approximately 25% of those meeting dependence criteria consumed less than the U.S. population mean of 280 mg. This is not too surprising as experimental research has shown that daily consumption of as little as 100 mg caffeine per day is sufficient to produce physical dependence (Griffiths et al., 1990). Soft drinks were the primary source of caffeine for a substantial portion of the sample (37%), which indicates that problematic caffeine use is not limited to coffee.
Nearly 90% of those interviewed reported that they had tried unsuccessfully in the past to reduce or eliminate caffeine, with an average of 2.7 previous attempts. This is consistent with data showing that individuals seeking assistance for other drug dependencies typically have a history of failed quit attempts (Shiffman, Brockwell, Pillitteri, & Gitchell, 2008). It also provides evidence that not all caffeine users can simply quit using caffeine on their own, an attitude that is likely held by some health professionals, as has been in the past for drugs such as nicotine and marijuana (Budney, Radonovich, Higgins, & Wong, 1998).
Forty percent of the sample indicated a goal of complete caffeine cessation, whereas 60% indicated a goal of caffeine reduction. Greater caffeine consumption was associated with less desire for complete cessation. Caffeine is a unique drug of dependence in that it is difficult to completely avoid, and moderate use is not associated with harm in most cases. Thus, caffeine reduction appears on the surface to be a reasonable goal. However, in the present study, participants reported prior unsuccessful attempts at both caffeine cessation and reduction. Future research is necessary to determine the likelihood of achieving success with caffeine reduction and/or cessation. On average participants reported a strong desire to modify caffeine use but had relatively low confidence that they could achieve their ideal caffeine use goals. This is concerning because confidence that one can change behavior, or self-efficacy, is an important predictor of health behavior change (Shiffman et al., 2000; Strecher, Becker, & Rosenstock, 1986). The relatively low confidence ratings in the current study further suggest that individuals who identify as having problematic caffeine use may require professional assistance.
Forty-three percent of participants reported having been advised by a health professional to modify caffeine use for health (e.g., cardiovascular) or psychological (e.g., anxiety) problems, with only 20% reporting that they received any specific advice on how to do so. Patients may benefit from treatment assistance when advised by health professionals to curtail caffeine use. There are very few studies assessing physicians' knowledge and practices pertaining to caffeine (Hughes, Amori, & Hatsukami, 1988; Anderson, Juliano, & Schulkin, 2009).
The most common reason offered by participants for wanting to quit or reduce caffeine consumption were general or specific health concerns (58.9%) which is consistent with a prior population based study (Hughes & Oliveto, 1997). Interestingly, some participants reported that they viewed caffeine modification as a means to lose weight because their caffeinated beverages of choice were sugary soft drinks. There is evidence that caffeine in soft drinks maintains caffeine self-administration (Liguori & Hughes, 1997) and that soft drink consumption is associated with obesity and other negative health outcomes (Vartanian, Schwartz, & Brownell, 2007). Thus, it could be speculated that overcoming one's dependency on caffeine could have secondary beneficial effects on health and weight due to reduced exposure to caloric sugary soft drinks. This hypothesis should be evaluated in future studies.
Ninety-three percent of the sample fulfilled DSM-IV-TR criteria for substance dependence applied to their caffeine use. We also evaluated the rate of caffeine dependence using only the four DSM criteria that seem most meaningful to the assessment of problematic caffeine use (use despite harm, withdrawal, persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to control use, and tolerance) and found that 89% of participants fulfilled criteria. This high rate observed among caffeine treatment seekers contrasts with 9% fulfilling at least 3 of these 4 criteria in a non-treatment seeking population based study (Hughes et al., 1998).
The most commonly endorsed criterion was caffeine withdrawal (96%). Prior experimental research has demonstrated that habitual caffeine use is largely maintained by the avoidance of withdrawal symptoms (Juliano & Griffiths, 2004). The most common withdrawal symptom reported in the current investigation was headache (89%) and 43% reported that caffeine withdrawal caused significant functional impairment (e.g., unable to work). Future research is needed to evaluate the role of caffeine withdrawal in an individual's perception that his or her caffeine use is problematic as well as in the outcomes of caffeine quit attempts. The caffeine withdrawal syndrome is a research diagnosis in the DSM-IV-TR. The present findings add to the empirical database supporting caffeine withdrawal as a valid and clinically important diagnosis.
Eighty-nine percent of participants met the criterion of a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control use. This is not surprising given that this sample was actively seeking treatment and most had made previous unsuccessful attempts to reduce or quit using caffeine in the past. However, it is notable that this criterion was the most commonly endorsed (56%) in a (non-treatment seeking) population based study of DSM substance dependence criteria as applied to caffeine (Hughes et al., 1998). A total of 87% of the present sample endorsed continued use of caffeine despite knowledge of persistent or recurrent physical or psychological problems that they believe to be caused or exacerbated by caffeine. These data suggest that, like other recreational drugs, caffeine use can be difficult to stop even when there is awareness that caffeine is causing harm.
We also compared individuals who did and did not fulfill all three of the caffeine dependence criteria most applicable to caffeine, but we did not identify any differences in level of caffeine consumption, primary source of caffeine, or gender. Future studies, ideally with larger sample sizes, should evaluate the statistical and conceptual relevance of the individual substance dependence criteria to the caffeine dependence syndrome, as well as identify meaningful correlates of a caffeine dependence diagnosis.
The sample was comprised mostly of individuals from the greater Baltimore-Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Large scale epidemiological studies are needed to determine the prevalence of caffeine dependence and the demand for caffeine treatment in the general population. Our interview sample consisted only of individuals who were interested in face-to-face counseling for problematic caffeine use, which excluded 40% of callers who expressed interest in other forms of assistance (e.g., self-help booklet). Future research should address this gap. Our final sample did not include individuals who used illicit drugs, were alcohol dependent, or psychotic. It should be noted, however, that there did not appear to be high demand for caffeine treatment among such individuals. Although not formally excluded, callers who were smokers, less formally educated, and more likely to have been advised by a medical professional to modify caffeine use were less likely to attend the in person interview. Thus, our interview sample may not reveal the full range of characteristics of individuals who are caffeine dependent and/or who may benefit from assistance. Regular use of energy drinks was low among our sample, which could be a function of lower energy drink consumption in prior years, the older age of participants, or the fact that we did not explicitly ask about energy drinks. Energy drinks continue to grow in popularity and it is possible that a greater number of individuals will experience problematic energy drink use and may seek treatment in the future. The intentional combined use of caffeine and alcohol also appears to be increasing and may be associated with increased harm (O'Brien, Arria, Howland, James, & Marczinski, 2011; Reissig, Strain, & Griffiths, 2009). The need for treatments for the combined use of caffeine and alcohol is a potentially important area of inquiry.
A sample of individuals who were actively seeking treatment for problematic caffeine use and who were interested in participating in a formal structured treatment program were identified. These individuals were highly educated, had a wide range of caffeine consumption, were primarily coffee and soft drink consumers, and had high rates of clinical dependence on caffeine using generic DSM substance dependence criteria. Moreover, our sample did not have high rates of co-morbid psychopathology and were seeking psychological treatment specific to problematic caffeine use. These findings suggest that caffeine dependence should be recognized as a clinical syndrome and that effective treatments for problematic caffeine use should be developed.
The authors would like to thank Mary Cosimano, Jenna Cohen, Kristen McCausland, and Kimberly Mudd for their assistance with participant recruitment, data collection, and data management. This research was funded by a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01 DA03890).
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Beyonce Knowles Gossip
Beyonce Knowles gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Beyonce's flowers and leopard
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This is an aggressive mix of prints... Check out Beyonce in New York today in a flower print skirt and a leopard print bag. And in spite of all that, you know what I see? All I see is how great her skin looks. B's been on a break from The Mrs Carter Show tour. She doesn't perform again until next Friday in LA. Full Story
(Future) President The BIC
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Along with Salma Hayek and Frida Giannini, Beyonce co-founded Chime For Change, a women's rights advocacy charity to increase access to education, health care, and justice. The Chime For Change concert happened this weekend. Beyonce was the headliner, obviously, and JLO, Mary J Blige, Florence + The Machine, and others also performed. Full Story
Beysus cracks
Page Six was first last week with a report on Beyonce's second pregnancy. E! ended the week with their own exclusive, citing multiple sources who'd supposedly confirmed that she is indeed expecting again. Beyonce's response? Very uncharacteristic. She posted an angry note on Instagram that read as follows: "I can't stop the rumors from starting, and I can't really change peoples minds who believe them, all I can do is sit back and laugh at these low life people who have nothing better to do than talk about me. Full Story
The Spare ... is coming
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Page Six reported it first earlier this week -- that Beyonce is expecting it again. Both PEOPLE and US Weekly then cited sources that dismissed the rumours. But on Tuesday, Beysus cancelled her show in Belgium due to "dehydration and exhaustion". Full Story
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Beyonce is the honourary chair tonight of the Costume Institute Gala. As previously mentioned, the theme this year is "Punk". How will Beysus be punk? How will Beysus cockblock everyone else on the carpet? Will Beysus pose with her best friend Gwyneth Paltrow? Please, someone, get. Full Story
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The Blue Ivy Carter is in Paris with her parents. She let them take her out for lunch today. Check her out, obliging her dad who wants to come in for a kiss...but not really. YES. She's on her way. It's been a while since Beyonce and Jay-Z have allowed us to look upon their divine creation. Full Story
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Beyonce kicked off The Mrs Carter Show World Tour in Belgrade yesterday. It's always a spectacle where B is concerned and, obviously, a major part of that is the clothing. And all the Spanxing. Can you imagine singing and dancing in triple Spanx? I can't even lie down in bed in Spanx. But this is how you avoid camel toe. Full Story
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BOSTON -- Dave Roberts will forever be remembered for his stolen base against the New York Yankees in Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS.
Roberts' swipe of second base allowed him to score the game-tying run before the Red Sox ultimately won in extra innings and changed the entire series that led to Boston's first World Series championship in 86 years.
So the Red Sox understand the importance of having a bench player who possesses speed for that very reason. Enter Quintin Berry. The Red Sox recently acquired the speedy outfielder from the Kansas City Royals in exchange for pitcher Clayton Mortensen.
After spending two days with Triple-A Pawtucket, Berry was added to the 40-man roster and joined the Red Sox on Sunday.
"I know a little bit about him," Berry said with a smile when asked about Roberts and his contributions. "My agent called me and told me that's what they're looking for. That's a high pedestal, but I'm up for this challenge."
Berry was only a teenager when Roberts made history in 2004.
"It changed the whole game off of one move. That's the thing that's so exciting about being a guy to come off the bench and base run -- you can change the game," he said. "Everybody's on the edge of their seat, waiting for you to do it and I just hope I don't let anybody down."
Berry spent the majority of the 2013 season at Triple A, splitting time between Kansas City's affiliate in Omaha, and the Detroit Tiger's team in Toledo. He's 30-for-34 in stolen base attempts this season.
Berry made his major league debut with the Tigers in 2012 and was successful in all 21 stolen base attempts.
"We set out to find that type of player and Quintin is someone who has had a long track record in the minor leagues as a successful base stealer," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. "Even for the opportunity at the big league level, the success rate is probably as good as it gets, I think it's 20 stolen bases, zero caught. He fills a specific need in that role for us."
"It's a great opportunity," Berry said. "I can't believe I'm getting a chance to come here and trying to help this team that's in first place, on a roll and playing great baseball. I'll try to help as much as I can."
"I'm excited they think so highly of me that I can get on these basepaths and try to get an extra bag for them, or move up and try to steal these bases and score runs for this team. I'm pumped to do it and I'm looking forward to it."
During his brief stint with the PawSox, Berry's speed proved crucial and helped Pawtucket clinch the IL North division title when he scored the game-winning run in a 2-1 win over Syracuse Friday night at McCoy Stadium. In the ninth inning, he stole second and then scored on a shallow base hit to center field by Justin Henry.
"It was awesome," Berry said. "To get an opportunity to try to steal that base was a good leap going forward to come here. Man, it was fun. It was fun getting there for two days and jumping around and spraying champagne bottles all over everybody like I've been there all year. It was pretty cool."


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Barca target Eto'o stay
Barcelona president Joan Laporta says the club want to keep striker Samuel Eto'o ¿ but not at any price.
Last Updated: 11/06/09 9:17am
Barcelona president Joan Laporta says the club want to keep striker Samuel Eto'o - but not at any price.
The Cameroon international - a reported Man City target - only has one year remaining on his contract with the European champions.
Laporta hopes the striker will stay at the Camp Nou but insists his new contact must fit into the club's existing wage structure.
He said: "A lot of clubs would like Eto'o in their team.
"We will do our best in order to renew his contract because he, in my opinion, is the best striker in the world."
Two parties
Laporta added that extending his contract "depends on two parties, but we have a wage structure that we will respect."
He added: "We would like to renew the contract with Eto'o but not at any price because in this global economic crisis we have to be an example as well.
"I hope that he understands, and we will see in the next weeks."


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'A lot of people die out here' and 'all this blood…is on Obama's hands': Shocking images show corpses of illegal immigrants left to die after border crossings
The dead bodies of illegal immigrants are turning up in south Texas as Central Americans pour across the U.S.-Mexico border, and a veterinarian who ranches cattle 70 miles from ground zero has the photos to prove it.
Dr. Mike 'Doc' Vickers of Brooks County, Texas showed some of the grisly images to MailOnline, all of them far too grotesque to publish unedited.
One picture shows a corpse propped up against a tree near his ranch in Brooks County, his eyes missing and dried blood cascading down his shirtless body.
'This guy, obviously, had to lay down up against that tree, and that's where he died,' Vickers says in interview footage provided exclusively to MailOnline by documentary filmmaker Chris Burgard.
Falcons native to the Rio Grande river valley 'plucked his eyes out before he was dead,' the animal doctor concludes. 'He bled out through his eyes, which tells me that he was probably in a coma but they were eatin' on him before his heart stopped beating.'
Two graphic for words: The body of an illegal immigrant whose eyes were plucked out by birds of prey as he lay dying — Filmmaker Chris Burgard has published footage showing the uncensored images on YouTube
Burgard is working on a sequel to his 2007 documentary, 'Border,' which made a splash on the film-festival circuit years before illegal immigration swelled to what President Barack Obama now concedes is a 'humanitarian crisis.'
When he filmed 'Border' in 2005, he said, 'we had to go out and find illegal traffic.'
'This time it found us.'
He screened his film on Capitol Hill back then, telling members of Congress that children were becoming pawns in Mexican drug cartels' smuggling operations into the U.S. homeland.
'I am not surprised to find immigrants dying 70 miles north of the border,' Burgard told MailOnline, but 'I am surprised that nine years later it is still a secret to most of the American people.'
'The Federal Government has long known about this,' he said, ticking off Texas and Arizona counties where human remains are continually turning up.
'Local officials who deal with collecting the bodies are so overwhelmed financially that the cost of coroner inquests on each case is dramatically affecting their budgets.'
Vickers, 64, told MailOnline on Wednesday that since 2012 his organization, the Texas Border Volunteers, has counted 259 dead bodies in his native Brooks County alone, including those of children.
'And we're probably only finding 20 per cent of them. A lot of people die out here.'
'We find a hell of a lot of women,' he said. 'Three of the last ones who have died on my ranch have been women. We found a dead 12-year-old boy on my neighbor's property.'
Some have the good fortune to find Vickers and his crew.
'We've rescued some small children, quite a few,' Vickers recalled. 'One boy, 11 years old, was left behind 8 or 9 miles off the highway. He had no idea where he was.' The border volunteers gave him water and arranged for U.S. Border Patrol agents to pick him up.
'I've seen families out in my front yard under a tree,' he said, 'with little bitty toddlers with them.'
The group of about 300 amateur patrolmen go out in teams of up to 40 armed men at a time for 4- to 5-day patrols, reporting to Border Patrol agents and Texas Rangers on where the immigrant traffic is heaviest.
The closest U.S. Border Patrol station, at Falfurrias, Texas, is about 4-1/2 miles from Vickers' 1,000-acre ranch.
An official in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency confirmed that in the month of June more than 4,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended at or near that checkpoint.
About 82 per cent of them were so-called 'OTM' border crossers – 'Other Than Mexican.'
More than 400 were children.
The federal government doesn't keep statistics on how many dead immigrants' bodies are recovered, the DHS official told MailOnline.
Women and children: The Texas Border Volunteers group regularly rescues border crossers who walk to the point of dehydrated exhaustion, and some turn up on their doorsteps
Women and children: The Texas Border Volunteers group regularly rescues border crossers who walk to the point of dehydrated exhaustion, and some turn up on their doorsteps
He conceded to MailOnline that 'we don't know how many people are dying without reaching us, just like we don't know how many people are making it past the checkpoint without being detected.'
Most come from Central America and pay human traffickers known as 'coyotes' between $5,000 and $8,000 each to be smuggled into the United States.
Many don't make it alive.
'The fact is, they're all homicides,' Vickers said. 'These people pay coyotes who are affiliated with drug cartels big money to be brought here and dropped off at the checkpoint. And they go through our private property to avoid detection.'
'And the coyotes, a lot of times, by the time they get to the checkpoint, or even north of the checkpoint, run off and leave them. And you know, they'll point at a light up north, one of those radio towers, and say, "Just keep walking toward that tower. Houston's 20 minutes away".'
Houston is a 280-mile drive from Falfurrias.
'They've already duped them of their money,' he explained. 'And then some days later they're still walking around in circles up here with no water. And you know, a lot of them die.'
'A lot of coyotes don't leave them, but they put them on a fast pace. We're talking 3 to 4 miles per hour, through all this deep sand and all this brush, and real, real treacherous terrain. And if they can't keep up, they'll beat on them a little bit and tell them, "We're just going to leave you here to die." And they do.'
Vickers, a small-time cattle rancher who spends most of his days as a veterinarian caring for his neighbors' livestock, will play a significant role in Burgard's next movie.
In the filmmaker's footage, Vickers shows a photo he took of a gang-tattooed drug runner who was dehydrated when the Texas Border Volunteers stumbled onto him, near the point of death from heat exhaustion.
'We actually saved this guy's life,' he said.
'After we got the "pistolero" treated, we went another 300 yards and found this guy,' he says, pointing to a picture of a badly decomposed corpse. 'He wasn't so lucky.'


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Greek cuisine is a blend of indigenous traditions and foreign influences. Neighboring Italy and Turkey have left a major impact on Greek cuisine, and there are shared dishes with both of these nations. The traditional Greek diet is very Mediterranean, espousing vegetables, herbs, and grains native to the Mediterranean biome. Being a highly maritime nation, the Greeks incorporate plenty of seafood into their diet. The country is also a major producer and consumer of lamb; beef, pork, and especially chicken are also popular. Olive oil is a staple in Greek cooking, and lemon and tomatoes are common ingredients. Bread and wine are always served at the dinner table.
The cuisine in Greece can be radically different from what is offered in Greek restaurants around the world. Greek restaurants abroad tend to cater more to customer expectations rather than offer a truly authentic Greek dining experience. One example is the famous gyros (yee-ros), a common item on Greek menus outside Greece. While it is a popular fast-food item in Greece today, it is actually a relatively recent foreign import (adapted from the Turkish döner kebap) and is considered by Greeks as junk food. It is never served in the home and is generally not found on the menus of non-fast-food restaurants.
Eating out is Greece's national pastime and a rewarding experience for visitors; however, not knowing where to go or what to do can dampen the experience. In the past, restaurants that catered mostly to tourists were generally disappointing. Thankfully, the nation's restaurant industry has grown in sophistication over the past decade, and it is now possible to find excellent restaurants in highly-touristed areas, particularly areas that are popular with Greek tourists as well. Thus, it remains a good idea to dine where Greeks dine (Go search them at the times greeks dine: 21:00-23:00). The best restaurants will offer not only authentic traditional Greek cuisine (along with regional specialties) but Greece's latest culinary trends as well. A good sign of authenticity is when you get a small free dessert when you ask for the bill. Bad signs are when desserts are listed on the menue, and also when the waiter is taking your plates away while you are still sitting at the table (traditionally everything is left on the table until the customer is gone, even if there is hardly any space left).
Restaurants serving international cuisine have also made a presence in the country, offering various options such as Chinese, French, Italian, and international contemporary.
In Greece, vegetarianism never took off as a trend, and restaurants catering strictly to vegetarians are practically non-existent. However, Greeks traditionally eat less meat per capita than northern Europeans and North Americans, and there are countless vegetarian dishes in Greek cuisine. Greeks are meat and dairy eaters, but because such a large percentage of their diet consists of pulses, vegetables, greens and fruits, a vegan or vegetarian visitor will not have any difficulty in finding a huge variety of vegetarian food all over Greece. The Porto Club [36] travel agency offers a number of tours designed for vegetarians and vegans.
The traditional fast foods are gyros (γύρος, "GHEER-ohs", not "JIE-rohs" as in "gyroscope"), roast pork or chicken (and rarely beef) and fixings wrapped in a fried pita; souvlaki (σουβλάκι, "soov-LAH-kee"), grilled meat on a skewer; Greek dips such as tzatziki (τζατζίκι), made of strained yoghurt, olive oil, garlic and finely chopped cucumbers and dill or mint; and skordhalia (σκορδαλιά), a garlic mashed potato dip which is usually served with deep fried salted cod.
With its extensive coastline and islands, Greece has excellent seafood. Try the grilled octopus and the achinosalata (sea-urchin eggs in lemon and olive oil). By law, frozen seafood must be marked as such on the menu. Fresh fish, sold by the kilo, can be very expensive; if you're watching your budget, be sure to ask how much your particular portion will cost before ordering it.
Greek salad (called "country salad" locally, "HorIAtiki"), a mix of tomatoes, cucumber, feta cheese and onion – all sliced – plus some olives, and occasionally green bell pepper or other vegetables, usually garnished with oregano. Traditionally it is dressed only with olive oil; vinegrette or lettuce are added only in the most tourist-oriented restaurants.
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Fried potatoes (often listed on menus as chips) are a naturalized Greek dish, found almost everywhere. They can be very good when freshly made and served still hot. Tzatziki is usually a good dip for them, though they are still good on their own.
For dessert, ask for baklava, tissue-thin layers of pastry with honey and chopped nuts; or galaktoboureko, a custard pie similar to mille feuille. Other pastries are also worth tasting. Another must-try is yogort with honey: yoghurts in Greece are really different from what you used to see at Danone stores: to start with, genuine yoghurt in Greece is has 10% of fat. Fruit such as watermelon is also a common summertime treat.
For breakfast, head to local bakeries (fourno) and try fresh tiropita, cheese pie; spanakopita, spinach pie; or bougatsa, custard filled pie, or even a ""horiatiko psomi", a traditional, crusty village type bread that is a household staple, and very tasty on its own too. All are delicious and popular among Greeks for quick breakfast eats. Each bakery does own rendition and you are never disappointed. Go to the next Kafeneion with them and have it there with a Greek coffee to be local.
A popular drink is a frappe made with instant Nescafe, water, sugar , and sometimes milk. It is frothed and served over ice.
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text: Bamboo Memory There's a rattle and a twist needed to drive the skeleton key in. With a turn, the tumblers fall true and the bolt frees from the jamb. William O'brien needs to put a little shoulder into it, but the door opens into Uncle Jed's house. Just to be sure, Will calls out a hello, the only answer a background patter of rain on the tin that covers the awning. It's a comforting sound. It's musty, though dry, lots of boxes are lined along the floor half packed, or never unpacked, and the walls are decorated in a Japanese style. There are delicate watercolors of waterfalls, rivers, floating lanterns. And photos, lots of photos, framed and yellowed, mainly black and whites, but some with the colors starved and bleached with inks never meant to last thirty years. Will closes the door behind him and throws his bag by Jed's shoes, all lined up like he got religion. The bag slides and throws the neatness off. Jed doesn't need his shoes neat anymore, he's dead. This house is now Will O'Brien's. Before Jed died he said there were a few things the old owners left behind, by that Will expected something like yard tools, paints, and so on. He never expected the house to be full of ghosts, still staring out from pictures at him. The photos draw Will the most, Jed's not in any of them. They show a Japanese family, more than one generation. The older the photo the more Japanese they look. Not in terms of their bones and eyes, but their context, what they wear, the trditional kimonos and wraps, frozen poses, and pinned hair- perhaps the 1890's, the neat formal attire of the nineteen-twenties and thirties, and then a jump in time to progressively more Americanized. Tengu derby grins, graduation photos, white prom dates. The most recent photo appears to be an Amerasian kid high-fiving his grandma, both blue-jeaned. The kid's wearing an Uncle Tupelo T-shirt. And the woman is the same one that, if you looked closer, you see in many of the photos. She's younger but maintains a dignity and grace at every age that you'd be a fool not to call beautiful. It's a small house, a master room, a kitchen, a bathroom, the water almost evaporated out of the toilet. Will flushes it, making sure the hotcase food he'd eaten from the gas station on the way down has an escape. (It was moving through him faster than he anticipated, damn those chimichangas are good though.) Finally one last door, partially open. It's in this study, that Will finds what he's looking for. There's an old desk covered in the riff-raff familiar to anyone who's ever tied flies. The materials are ancient, they look like a museum diorama. A wood-thread vice, tiny faded paper bags of hackle, yarn, felt, fur and feather. Small pouches and tins of hooks. Surgical forceps and scissor, and a pair of old loupes, their bakelite handles chipped in places and one lens cracked above the meridian. There's a name on the sides, Eve Tanaka. A corrupted banker's light, single bulb and a shade of delicate paper, sits on the desk and lights the room. With the light off the shade's coated with watercolor waves and fish, and with the light on, they vanish. Someone's glued a collection of canned-fish labels onto a piece of salvaged marine ply, some of the labels are half peeled. And the photos here are almost predictable, shots of a boy and girl holding fish, of rods, of the rod, a backdrop of fir and cedar, and snow-capped mountains, it could be Japan, but the cars and boats in the background give it away. In the corner stand blanks and splines of bamboo, warped and still waiting to be matched, straightened, glued, and bound, and along one wall are the pins and racks for doing just that. The blanks, at first glance, look ready to go, but it's only threads of spiders that give that illusion. Tools for shaping, bevels, files, and tiny hand planes hang neat, like the shoes, in order of size. A simple chair is turned to let someone work. No one has sat here for years. In the other corner are three rods, complete, and one looks fully ready to fish. Will recognizes Jed's familiar green reel and yellow line, but the rod is unfamiliar and ancient, more of an artifact that a fishing tool. It was just as Jed had described. "Will, you'll find the finest rod I've ever fished in the shack." "A rod's a rod, it's the person holding the rod that matters." "Hey, you're here to be schooled, not the other way around. All's I need you to do is listen. And the tool you use does make a difference. Cheapskate like you is bound to miss out on life's joys with that attitude." "Where'd you get it?" "It's not something you'd ever think twice about using. It's bamboo, homemade probably. Looks like crap. All bent and sloppy. I found it in the house when I moved in. I only tried it because I was desperate." "Does it work?" "See that's the thing, I gave it a try thinking it would have all the action of fence-post, but it was unbelievable, unlike anything I've ever fished." "How do you mean?" Jed looked off, out the VA window over the fairway and towards the city. Golfers were teeing off. "Look at those guys down there. What a dumb, self-indulgent sport golf is. The only thing cool about it is sound of the ball being struck." I didn't mind golf, or golfers. They seemed harmless enough. "Jed, you're losing me again." He did that more than ever now, the tumor spreading through his frontal lobes, cutting his attention, removing his inhibitions, overtaking cell-by-cell a deep-seated self-loathing. That personality change proved a surprise and delight. Stories, tips, no more stoic, irritable, self-conscious, alcoholic Jed. A tradeoff for his insight was thought tangents. His legacy was delivered, hour by hour, in these semi-lucid conversations with his nephew. "What do you think is more selfish, fishing or golf?" He turned back to Will. "Use it, you'll see what I mean. You need to use it." The rod's made of bamboo, lacquered brown like long-steeped tea, a one piece. Some of the wrapping is frayed, one of the runners is loose, and there are cracks in between the splines just before the cork handle hides them. That cork is worn leather-smooth, it's freckles and dimples long since flattened in the grip of calloused hands. The steel tip is greened a little, like it might have seen some salt, and Jed has left his fly on. The leader is kinked tight over the last guide, a phantom streamer, its hook violating the cork. The rod has memory. When you hold it up and look along its spine, you'll see it's not true, there's a warp where its been placed against the wall of this shack. Deeper, within its parallel fibers you might see how the bamboo once grew with a helix twist, it was never straight or clear. It was one of Kano Tanaka's prides, the other being his wife and children. Taken as an afterthought, he'd packed a live bamboo cutting deep in his suitcase from Suki's garden prior to leaving the coast, he'd wrapped it in a wad of wet cotton and again by an oilcloth. And like their few jewels, his father's watch, a journal and their photos, it was carefully stowed for the unknown. It took two years, during which Kano and his eight-year-old Eve carefully tended and watered the shoot, babied it during cold snaps with blankets and a lantern, shielded from the harsh insults of summer sun, desert winds, and worst of all, the balls and terror of children who knew no meaning or use of bamboo other than for play swords. They talked to it too, whispered words of encouragement. It grew twisted, but tall and quick. Kano's stem from which the blanks were taken improbably made it to ten feet. There was no other alternative for a rod, bowed and turned as it was, it would have to do. Tule Lake is a harsh place in the Northeastern head of California. From 1943-6 Kano Tanaka and his wife Suki, their two children Alan and Eve lived here, along with ten thousand others of Japanese descent. Confined so as not to threaten other Americans. In context it was easier to understand than it is today.(1,2) Imagine a world where gardeners, children and fishermen are incarcerated. Maybe golfers too. In the frustrating boredom of camp routine, Kano worked on his rod, splitting the cane, drying the blanks, beveling them straight. He recognized there is nothing so dangerous or devastated as a man unoccupied, however mundane those tasks were, he needed everything to stay level. Named Kano, after the God of waters. He poured love and energy into construction, and Eve watched most all of it and Alan, younger by two years, helped where he could. They handed him tools and scrounged around for parts. She found him wire for runners, silk thread for binding, even jars of dope and shellac. Alan cannibalized a noteboard for sheets of cork. Even Suki worked on it, chiseling pine housings for a tin rectangle cut from can, hammered flat, a crude plane to taper the length with. One time a bobbin of silk fell from the table, unwound as it rolled across the floor, and when Eve tried to pick it, a birds-nest of tangle formed. She tried to unravel it but she pulled things tight. She fully expected to be told off, she would have been back home. But here, she sat on Kano's knee, as they worked their way through. "Eve, every tangle like this is a serious of loops, some big, some small. You have to search for how to bring the loop back through where it's trapped. Sometimes they'll twist, and sometimes they'll tie, but most of this is just loops. Either you find ends and work them backwards through the path, or you start with the loops and work toward the end. It's easier to do the loops." He would push them through, and in what seemed like minutes they'd be done, back winding silk to the spindle. Kano made it seem like magic. As they worked, Kano told Eve and Alan stories of the Cascades, the San Juans, the rivers and the fish that held within them. But not just of the familiar, he passed on ghost tales of Gaijin men, legends of mountain witches and wandering priests, grey whales moving on the currents like whispers. Sad tales of lovers forbidden to fall for one another, of tiny children thought to be slow or sick or dumb who ended up heroes. And funny ones of orphans (kids love orphan stories) helped by a rotating cast of sometimes foolish, sometimes sage, birds, bears and monkeys. Some of them acted out like Coast Salish dances. These imagined characters figured in games Alan and Eve would devise on their own, out by the boundary fences. Most often there were more stories than work. These were echoes from Kano's own childhood, from his family, an oral history that was as deep and rich as Tule Lake was silt-clogged, desolate and windblown. But Kano told better stories. New ones made up with pieces and fragments of their days at the camp. Stories that matched the migrations of birds, the puff clouds of a late Summer thunderstorm, or the purple hands and frost-breath of a winter morning. Stories that covered big issues: inevitability, injustice, love and loss, of ambition and change, pain and humor, fish and their pursuit, confinement and sickness. And tragedy too. It was one of the few ways they shared moments, imaginary at first, but over time, and with routine, they were wrapped together, bound up, glued tight. And if they were a little too serious or scary, then Kano tickled them loose, with laughs and shouts before kissing them good night. Kano's family would make their way back to the Pacific Northwest in the Summer of 1946, they would find their beach shack unchanged, weathered some, but fundamentally sound. Suki's Garden was a wild mess, windstorms had blown weak firs down. As a last act, just before leaving, Kano split his clump of bamboo and dug a trench over the drive, and planted a long line of shoots right across, sparing only the one that he packed away. It had become a living fence when they returned. It took three days of pickaxe and shovel to dig it up again. Relief work came so easy. Kano taught Eve and Alan to fish with this rod. Before the internment camp, he never thought they were ready. But they sure were now. The fished off the beach, the point, in the rivers and lakes nearby. One would fish and the others would watch, Kano would call out when it was time to switch. And every exchange they would comment on what they had seen. It was a peculiar way to do it, but for the three of them, they developed a common, hypervigilant style. It didn't seem a relaxing way to do it, but the lessons taken from those days would serve Alan and Eve well, and for them it was a joy to do something together and well. Kano died in the worst of ways. His mind stolen in his early fifties, one week at a time, with an insidious dementia. Each week his memory a little worse, the reminders more exacerbated, and the personality less vivid. And the stories repeated themselves, at first comforting, but then the details, as familiar to Suki, Alan and Eve as the rhythms of tide, became dull and confused. At first it was surreal and funny, a coast raven for instance would end up playing sneaky games in a Japanese moral tale about a mountain priest and a village thief. Soon though, they were nonsense. In the ten years it took Kano to die, Alan moved on to college, but Eve stayed to help her parents, her mother didn't cope with his change well. She had her own frailties. At some point a threshold was reached, where Eve, for she was the only one who had the patience, would tell her father the same tales she had heard decades earlier. Eve would take Kano to fish for searuns and silvers from the beach or the point that lay some three hundred yards away from where they'd converted the study to Kano's room. They'd fished the beach hundreds of times. But these days Kano's line would fall should, his casts were all false, and his knots poor on account of his tremor. How ironic it was that deep within his hippocampus, tangles and corrugated sheets of tiny, evil proteins were accumulating like little waves and rafts of seagrass, suffocating his good cells, corrupting his engines of memory. Alzheimer's disease. Waves and tangles, the familiar, the once navigable, were killing the seahorse. When at last he refused his food, Eve and Suki decided there was no merit to spooning fish and rice mush into a hole that dribbled. For a week she sat by him, tied flies in her vice while he slept. Told him some of the stories she'd helped invent. He'd stare blankly, and then she'd tickle him. His mind unoccupied. He was mute for most of it, but when he no longer giggled, she knew his time had come. Suki wanted him cremated, his ashes spread over the garden and into the water. They didn't say much and the relief was great. Liberated, Eve went on to college, to Med school, she excelled in surgery. She had seen death, and would go on to excise it nearly every day. In her spare weekends, she went to visit her mother, and fished the familiar waters, tied flies until late in the night, laughing with her mom when they thought of her father dancing like a monkey, or flapping his wings like an eagle while she clung to his back. She visited at least until Suki herself passed, a point which corresponded with Eve's own career momentum. And much as I'd love to tell you that these sweet memories were held close by Eve Tanaka, they too eroded over time. Not by dementia, but by the weight of her own responsibility and success. Like layers of silt in the last grand delta, this house, her gear, this bamboo rod are fossilized in Eve Tanaka's mind. Take her here and she could bring it all back, but in Seattle there was only the present, the living and the dying. There was little to be gained in thinking about the dead. And for her this was comforting, divorced from nostalgia and sentiment, she never found herself sad, concentrating on tasks at hand. She sold the place as is to Uncle Jed. So when Will O'brien lifts this bamboo rod he looks it over and concludes it's bent because it lay against a wall. But that's not the full story, the rod is bent and hardened, tempered and full of stories. Now Jed's also, and soon, Will O'Briens. He has come here, after all, to recover, and tomorrow he will fish. For tomorrow's day of fishing please see: http://www.washingtonflyfishing.com/board/showthread.php?t=38891 (1) http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/anthropology74/ce15c1.htm (2) Dave Guterson's outstanding novel Snow falling on Cedars does a good job in illustrating the circumstances and aspects of that novel remain influences on this piece. For background on Jed or Will O'Brien: http://www.washingtonflyfishing.com/board/showthread.php?t=38266 http://www.washingtonflyfishing.com/board/showthread.php?t=37983 http://www.washingtonflyfishing.com/board/showthread.php?t=37357


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How can I get students to revise their writing more authentically? Not just surface level edits, but deeper considerations for structure, organization, and style.
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11th grade "This I Believe" essay in unit on Transcendentalism. This is the first full essay of the course and the major essay of Marking Period 1.
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- Explain and interpret how they came to that belief or how it's grown over time
- Structure their writing (in paragraphs and essay)
- Format a word processor document in MLA format
A summative rubric, preceded by formative feedback on their outlines and rough drafts.
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Students use Google Drive to receive teacher feedback on the outline and to give peer feedback at the rough draft stage.
Students create and submit a screencast of their Google Doc's revision history, showing/explaining the big changes they made to the essay, and reflecting on their writing process.
Students find or photograph an image to accompany their essay, then pin it to a collaborative class Pinterest board. Students comment on others' work and interpret/critique the connection between the essay and the writer's chosen image.
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After the launch of Samsung's Galaxy C9 Pro phablet, Samsung Mobile India has today launched a smaller model of its C Series called the Galaxy C7 Pro. The Samsung Galaxy C7 Pro which recently became official in China sports mid-range hardware, but it all comes packaged in a premium metal body that is priced at Rs 27,999. The Samsung Galaxy C7 Pro will be available exclusively on Amazon from 11 April in Navy Blue and Gold colours.
The design and construction of the Samsung Galaxy C7 Pro is similar to what we have on the Galaxy C9 Pro, save for its smaller overall size. This would consist of a metal and glass construction with the back featuring an all-metal unibody design.
There's a 5.7-inch display on the front covered with 2.5D Gorilla Glass 4. It is a Super Amoled display featuring Full HD resolution.
Inside, the hardware is mostly mid-range. You get the octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 SoC clocked at 2.2 GHz that is also available on handsets like the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4, the Moto G5 Plus and more. It is a capable processor built using the 14 nm manufacturing process that makes power efficient as well.
Samsung has also included 4 GB RAM and 64 GB of internal storage that can be expanded further using a microSD hybrid card slot up to 256 GB.
At the back there is a 16 MP camera with Dual LED Flash along with phase detection for autofocus and even the front has a similar unit with a f/1.9 aperture. Rest of the specs include 4G LTE connectivity, dual-SIM support, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2, NFC, Samsung Pay, USB Type-C port, 3,300mAh battery and Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow.
The company has added accelerometer, gyroscope, fingerprint, gyroscope, geomagnetic, proximity and RGB light sensors in the smartphone. It comes equipped with Fast charging and Samsung claims that the it can charge from 0 to 100 percent in 100 minutes.
Sandeep Singh Arora, the Vice President for Online Business, Samsung India added, "At Samsung, we are committed to meaningful innovations that delight our consumers. Galaxy C7 Pro is a slim and stunning device, which comes packed with powerful features for unparalleled multi-tasking and multimedia experience making it a Lean and Mean machine for the millennials."
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Canberra Raiders hooker Adam Clydsdale will miss up to the opening three rounds of the NRL season with a shoulder injury after scans cleared him of any serious damage.
The results are better than first thought when Clydsdale left the field during the Raiders' 34-28 trial win against the Newcastle Knights in Orange last weekend.
There was also good news for winger Sisa Waqa and prop Shannon Boyd, both of whom will be available for the Raiders' season-opener against the Penrith Panthers at Canberra Stadium.
Both players sustained neck injuries in the trial game, but should be right to face the Panthers in round one.
Clydsdale is expected to miss between two to three games, meaning he could be available to make his Raiders debut in the round three clash against his old side, the Knights, at Hunter Stadium.
The 23-year-old played 40 games for the Knights during the past three seasons, but joined the Raiders for more opportunities in first grade.
Clydsdale's injury will open the door for Kurt Baptiste to retain the bench utility spot for the first game on March 5.
Baptiste performed admirably as the back-up hooker to English international Josh Hodgson last season.
Under-20s star Lachlan Croker is another option for the No.14 jersey, but is expected to start the year in the National Youth Competition.
Meanwhile, Joe Tapine will join his new teammates in Canberra for the first time on Thursday.
Tapine has secured an early release from his contract with the Knights to allow him to join the Raiders this season.
The 21-year-old back-rower was set to spend the season in the NSW Cup with the Knights after he signed a three-year deal worth a reported $1.5 million with the Raiders which was to begin in 2017.
Tapine also has a reported player option in his favour for the 2020 season.


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Katie Ledecky, 18, is not only a young U.S. swimming sensation, but has also casually broken a world record in her latest competition.
Participating in the 1,500-meter freestyle record at the FINA World Swimming Championships held in Russia, Ledecky ended up out-swimming her previous record by an approximate two-thirds of a second.
She also "accidentally" broke the world record by clocking in at 15 minutes and 27.71 seconds.
.@katieledecky keeps setting world records » http://t.co/SBQvKlfT64 pic.twitter.com/J56Lko4Ly8 — Stanford Athletics (@GoStanford)
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"I'm in quite a bit of shock right now,'' Ledecky said, according to the AP. ''I was barely even focusing on this morning's swim. I was so relaxed."
Speaking to The Washington Post, she also went on to add: "It's probably one of the coolest world records I've broken."
Read: 100-Year-Old Japanese Swimmer Sets World Record By Completing 1500-Meter Race
Even though Ledecky's coach Bruce Gemmell had told her to "take it easy" so that she could save herself for finals the next day, the teenager managed to outdo her own best, and shrugged her shoulders as she reached the finish line, realizing that she had just broken a world record.
The athlete has high hopes for herself in the finals, claiming that she's never been someone who's swam slower in the final show.
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