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This page and associated links are designed to help to identify the emotional and psychological factors that play a role helping patients to manage diabetes. This is vital to consider as it allows for the patient to be seen as a whole person rather than just as a diabetic. In working with situational, cultural and lifespan issues with patients the key is to encourage empowerment and effective self-management of the whole of their lives.
People with diabetes experience disproportionately high rates of psychological disorders, with depression and anxiety being the most common diagnoses. Some studies have suggested that approximately 40% of patients will have significantly elevated symptoms of depression. As regards anxiety similar figures have been recorded.
Co-Morbidity and Psychological Disturbances
A diagnosis of diabetes and its subsequent management can potentially be associated with psychological problems. For example, one in three individuals with diabetes will suffer depression that impairs functioning, adherence to medical treatment and glycaemic control.
Most common conditions include:
Eating Disorders
Adjustment disorders
Sexual Dysfunction
Cultural origins will inform the decisions that most patients make about managing their condition
Problems may be caused by:
Lack of
knowledge about diabetes and available services for treatment and support.
Fatalism - "It
is God's Will"
Religious convictions
Barriers to diet and exercise interventions
Scepticism regarding the values of preventative health behaviours
Language and barriers to understanding
Issues of body weight, appearance, and what is considered culturally acceptable are also factors.
Remember - Information and treatment recommendations suggested may well be at odds with the patients cultural background, so cultural sensitivity and awareness will be more important than simply providing information about how to manage the condition
Diabetes may have a psychological impact on the outlook on life and lifespan that a patient may take. For example:
Parental concern about the possibility of their children developing the condition.
The need to manage the condition in addition to the psychological demands of meeting commonly experienced challenges faced throughout the life cycle, such as leaving home, marriage, and pregnancy.
The development of diabetic complications.
It is helpful for the health care professional to take time to find out what is going on
in the patient's life that may contribute to difficulties in managing the condition, and where appropriate, offer support and suggestions for how these 'life issues' might best be approached.
Adherence, Treatment, and Motivation
Sticking to treatment regimes for the condition is a challenge
This is determined by the extent to which a patient's behaviour coincides with health advice/recommendations
Remember that where diabetes is concerned effective recommendations are likely to be complex and vary from patient to patient (this is due to the need to balance the various components of treatment with each other and life issues outside of the condition)
As adherence to treatment and diabetic control is monitored it needs to be remembered that patients facing this challenge may well feel demoralised or depressed if outcomes are poor.
It is vital to ensure that the patient does not feel blamed for these as this could potentially undermine their motivation to comply with all aspects of treatment.
Remember it is not simply enough to educate and instruct the patient on how to manage their condition. Support and encouragement are vital if the patient is to feel empowered. In clinic the role of the professional should be one of facilitator rather than expert.
Coming to terms with a diagnosis of chronic illness is a process of adjustment and coping on an emotional and practical
Where the individual encounters difficulties with
adjustment, they may also experience distress. Often, the meaning attached to
the illness (the illness representation) can influence the adjustment process.
There are five broad cognitive illness representation dimensions that are thought to be:
Identity (the label given to the illness and knowledge of its symptoms)
Cause (beliefs about the cause of the illness)
Timeline (the perceived duration and course of the illness)
Consequences (the perceived short and long term effects of the illness)
Control / cure (beliefs about the degree of controllability / curability of the illness)
Some symptoms (hypoglycaemic symptoms such as irritability, loss of concentration/poor memory, shaking and sweating) of diabetes may be misinterpreted as anxiety and contribute to the development of health anxiety and poor coping: the reverse may also occur.
If there are concerns
that the patient is suffering from some form of mood disorder it may well be worth suggesting that they
consider the possibility of commencing on a short course of anti-depressant medication. However, in the first instance simply talking to the patient and providing some support and reassurance may be of help.
'The Listening Report' produced by Diabetes UK in 2001/2002 noted that a third of diabetic patients felt that they needed someone to talk to.
Therapeutic interventions have also been shown to be of help, however at primary care level it is perhaps more helpful to adopt a preventative approach in treatment. Helpful strategies include:
De-emphasising dieting
Counselling patients about the need to express negative feelings about diabetes self-management
Helping the patient with conflict over normal developmental and life-span struggles
Encouraging participation/support from other family members
Diabetes specific coping skills training - focusing on specific sticking points/active problem solving
The Expert Patient Programme may be helpful for patients
Local services/organizations that may be able to provide further information and support include:
The Expert Patient Programme
The Diabetes Centres at the L&D and Bedford Hospitals
For more severe and complex problems relating to
diabetes, the Clinical Health Psychology Service provides Clinical
Psychologist intervention for patients with diabetes under Bedford and L&D
Hospital Diabetes Centres, as described below.
What Next?
If you are presented with a patient in the surgery and feel that they perhaps need more specialist input an onward referral may be appropriate. This could include the following:
A person experiencing psychological distress as a direct result of diabetes lifestyle
(for example diagnosis; development of diabetes-related complications; transitions impacting on diabetes and
identity e.g. pregnancy, adolescence).
A person or services experiencing substantial difficulties managing/living with diabetes - often broader life experience and psychosocial factors are a major influence here. Examples might include recurrent hyper/hypoglycaemia requiring medical attention; eating, weight and self-image issues; people who over or under use services.
People with longer term needs - e.g. rehabilitation or support issues for people living with multiple diabetes-related complications, or health problems; people with mental health needs.
To refer in the South
The patient's GP will need to refer the patient to the Diabetes Centre at the
Luton and Dunstable (L&D) Hospital. They will then be assessed by one of the Diabetes Specialist Consultants. If felt appropriate the patent will then be
referred for an assessment by the Clinical Psychologist at which stage a course of treatment will be decided upon and an intervention undertaken
if it is felt this will be beneficial.
To refer in the North
For patients that are attending the Diabetes Centre at Bedford Hospital, clinicians at the diabetes centre will liaise with the psychologist providing input to the diabetes centre. The psychologist will offer an assessment and this will guide further treatment and or referral to services best suitable to manage psychological aspects of care.
For those not attending the Diabetes Centre and presenting at GP surgeries, please see the referral criteria below for the following services that may be of help to those suffering from a psychological distress or a mental health disorder:
For referral guidance into appropriate services see - External Links & Resources
Free self-management courses providing tools and techniques to help Diabetics take control of their health and manage their condition better on a daily basis.
The DAWN (Diabetes Attitudes Wishes and Needs) programme is a global Novo Nordisk initiative in collaboration with the International Diabetes Federation and an international expert advisory board. Its aim is to improve the health and quality of life of people with diabetes by facilitating concrete initiatives and best practice sharing worldwide to overcome the psychosocial barriers to effective self-management.
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Published 10:58 pm, Sunday, June 8, 2014
Crane wins St. Jude despite last-round 73
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Ben Crane won the St. Jude Classic by a stroke Sunday for his first PGA Tour title since 2011 despite closing with a 3-over 73.
Crane went wire to wire for his fifth career victory. He two-putted for bogey on the final hole to win.
Crane had a 270 total, with Troy Merritt (71) at 271. Phil Mickelson (72), winless in his past 20 matches, tied for 11th.
More golf: Inbee Park won the Manulife Financial Classic in Waterloo, Ontario for her first LPGA Tour title in more than 11 months, matching the course record with a 10-under 61 for a three-stroke victory over Cristie Kerr Park ended a 20-match winless streak, A week after losing the top spot in the world ranking to Stacy Lewis, Park finished at 23-under 261 at Grey Silo for her 10th LPGA Tour title and first since the U.S. Women's Open. ... Mikael Lundberg beat Bernd Wiesberger with a long putt on the first playoff hole to win the Lyoness Open in Atzenbrugg, Austria for his first European Tour title in six years and third overall. ... Emma Talley wrapped up the United States' Curtis Cup victory Sunday, beating Britain and Ireland's Bronte Law 4 and 3 in the opening singles match at St. Louis Country Club. The United States won 13-7 to improve to 28-7-3 in the biennial competition, rebounding from a 101/2-91/2 loss in 2012 at Nairn in Scotland — the Americans' only loss since 1996. ... Jeff Sluman and Fred Funk teamed to win the Champions Tour's Legends of Golf in Ridgedale, Mo,, and Jim Colbert and Jim Thorpe topped the Legends Division for players 65 and older.
Auto racing: Daniel Ricciardo won the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal, breaking the Mercedes stranglehold on the Formula One circuit. The Red Bull driver earned his first Formula One victory and the first win this year for any driver other than Mercedes' Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton Ricciardo passed Rosberg, the points leader and pole-sitter, with two laps to go. Hamilton was knocked out in the 48th lap with a brake problem.
Cycling: British rider Chris Froome geared up for the Tour de France by winning the first stage of the Criterium du Dauphine. He completed the 10.4-kilometer time trial around Lyon in 13 minutes, 13 seconds.
High school rowing: Manmeet Gujral and Jeffrey Endler of Shaker won the gold medal in the men's varsity lightweight double race at the first National Schools' Regatta held Sunday on Fish Creek in Saratoga Springs. Gujral, a senior, and Endler, a sophomore, helped Shaker hold off Saratoga's A boat by .86 seconds over the 1,500-meter course. Worcester Tech was third, .88 behind. Gujral is headed to Dartmouth College this fall, where he plans to row. The Shaker boys rowed together as a double for the first time only one month ago at the New York State Scholastic Championships on Fish Creek, when they won silver to Saratoga's gold.
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Two down; ten to go. The second of my Twelve Parties for 2012 took place Sunday night. It was, as I explained in the previous post, an Oscar party: a small group of girlfriends, fancy hors d"oeuvres, yummy cocktails and a parade of stars in gorgeous gowns on TV. In short, it was perfect. There are some shows that are simply better to watch as a group activity. Twitter and Facebook are all very well, but there is nothing like watching the big game or an awards show with a crowd. I haven"t had so much fun watching the Oscars in years — and it is not like it was such a great Oscars. Between my friends" insightful, and often hilarious, fashion commentary, the lively game of Oscars Bingo that I downloaded from the Internet, and those cocktails, I was giggling for four hours straight. It reminded me of college when my whole dorm used to gather around the TV in the basement to watch cheesy shows like "Melrose Place" and laugh our heads off. Adult life doesn"t often allow for such moments. So I was glad to recapture some of that fun.
The menu was, as I mentioned, made up primarily of a gorgeous tray of hors d"oeuvres from the Chicago caterer Blue Plate. The tray, which served ten people, was available as an amazing deal on Gilt City Chicago for only $95. The hors d"oeuvres were so elegant and tasted even better than they looked. Everyone gobbled up the ahi tuna with grilled pineapple, the beef carpaccio, and the smoked salmon. The other Blue Plate hors d"oeuvres included goat-cheese filled cherry tomatoes, spicy pecan sandwiches — so creative — and fingerling potatoes with creme fraiche, which was the only hors d"oeuvres that needed to be heated up. Lastly, Blue Plate made an enormous savory sun-dried tomato cheesecake to eat with assorted breads and crackers. It was stunning to look at and everyone loved it. It was so huge that half of it was left over and my family is still snacking on it.
The Blue Plate spread was an incredible value at $95. And it saved me hours of work. I just called Blue Plate to place my order using my Gilt City voucher and I picked up the hors d"oeuvres right from the Blue Plate offices on Sunday morning. The Gilt City deal was plainly intended to be for folks having Oscar parties, and in fact, many Gilt City offerings are seasonal and tied into what is going on in the city during a given week. So, if you are planning a holiday dinner or other seasonal event, it definitely behooves you to check out what deals are on Gilt City that week. I"m so glad that I caught this deal for my party!
I added a few savory items to the table – I do have my reputation as a cook to uphold! I made pesto deviled eggs (yum!) and my interpretation of pigs in a blanket, which with chicken apple sausage and honey mustard wrapped in puff pastry. (That one I seriously made at the last minute when I panicked about not having enough food, which of course I did.) My friend Rowena brought crudites and a lovely dip because I thought we needed something fresh and crisp. For the cocktails, I offered a choice between a Mango Crush, which was inspired by the Hawaiian locale of Best Picture Nominee "The Descendants," and an orange-flavored Champagne Cocktail. Both were very popular with the ladies. Making a signature cocktail for a party is not very much work and it makes everyone feel festive. I picked that up from Ina Garten, who often pairs cocktails with her menus on "Barefoot Contessa."
For dessert, I made bite-sizes brownies and grilled pineapple skewers. Also, just for fun, I filled popcorn containers with favorite movie candies like Whoppers, Milk Duds and Twizzlers and spread those around. And we had to have popcorn too! I made it special with melted butter and truffle salt. But as you can see, everything was bite-sized finger food, which made it easy to mingle, eat, watch the show and keep track of our Oscar Bingo cards.
I am not usually one to get elaborate with decorations, but I did want to create a fun atmosphere. I found inexpensive move-themed decorations at a party store and used those to decorate the hors d"oeuvres table. Many of those decorations are reusable, so I am keeping them for next year"s Oscar party. (Yes, I now want to make this an annual thing. That"s how fun it was.) I also tried to tie some of the hors d"oeuvres into the Best Picture nominees. So, for example, I called my Pigs in a Blanket "Moneyball Park Franks," and my cream cheese brownies were dubbed "Black and White Brownies" in honor of "The Artist." I even made little signs with all the names for the table. It was a small thing, but it made my friends smile.
In all, it was such a fun party to put together and not a lot of work. I shopped for the decorations and the ingredients the week before. I made the brownies a few days before. But everything else I did the day of the party and I still had plenty of time to clean up the house and help Zuzu with her piano before my guests arrived — mostly because Blue Plate did the bulk of the cooking. I would also like to thank to my husband — unlike Hilary Swank when she won Best Actress, I can"t forget to thank my husband — who took the kids out to dinner and then put them to bed while my friends and I enjoyed the party. My friends were very impressed.
Can"t wait for next year! Meanwhile, it"s already time to gear up for the March party, which will be an elegant dinner party for 8 sponsored by Artizone Chicago.


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With Arne Svenson's new series, Neighbors, he has turned outward from his usual studio based practice to study the daily activities of his downtown Manhattan neighbors as seen through his windows into theirs. Svenson has always combined a highly developed aesthetic sense viewed from the perspective of social anthropology in his eclectic projects with subjects ranging from prisoners to sock monkeys. His projects are almost always instigated by an external or random experience which brings new objects or equipment into his life- in this case he inherited a bird watching telephoto lens from a friend.
"The grid structure of the windows frame the quotidian activities of the neighbors, forming images which are puzzling, endearing, theatrical and often seem to mimic art history, from Delacroix to Vermeer. The Neighbors is social documentation in a very rarified environment. The large color prints have been cropped to various orientations and sizes to condense and focus the action.


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Bergen Museum to Host Exhibit Celebrating Women's History Month and New Jersey Women Artists March 6th through April 28 (no year listed)
Bergen Museum to Host Exhibit Celebrating Women's History Month and New Jersey Women Artists
March 6th through April 28
The Bergen Museum Of Art & Science will exhibit selected works of women artists in recognition of Women's History Month. The exhibit will be available to the public from March 6 through April 28. An Opening Reception for this exhibit will be held on March 6 from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM in the Main Gallery. A special music program featuring Ridgewood artist and pianist Edna Dagan is planned during the reception. Suggested donation for reception is $10 which may be applied to a Membership fee.
Winner of dozens of competitions and scholarships, Dagan has performed widely in Israel and the United States, in concert as well as broadcast. Dagan began her career as a pianist at the age of two. She received a master's degree as a soloist from the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. She then received a scholarship to study with Madame Kaboush at Julliard. Her interest in artistic expression spills over into different mediums including painting, drawing and sculpting. She frequently integrates her music and art.
Natalia Kolodzei the Bergen Museum's curator said this about the exhibit "the Bergen Museum is pleased to host an exhibit of works by women artists that live in New Jersey. This exhibit is part of our commitment to provide opportunities for local and regional artists to have their creative talents and skills be seen and recognized." Kolodzei continued "the Bergen Museum will continue to create opportunities for artists throughout New Jersey to exhibit their works. For example, the Museum will host the 3rd Annual "Bergen Music & Art Festival" © later this year and will seek artists from all areas of New Jersey to show and sell their original art and to perform."
Peter Knipe, President of the Bergen Museum, said "the Bergen Museum is happy to produce and host an exhibit of the works of such talented women artists. Before the exhibit has even opened we are receiving calls from schools, Girl Scout troops and women's organizations asking to arrange group visits to this exhibition." Knipe went on to say "We are committed to creating and maintaining a "World Class" venue for the fine arts, performing arts and science education right here in New Jersey. We are creating a venue with exhibits and programs that residents from all of New Jersey and yes even New York City come to."


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Recently I have been gathering an editorial board for a new online journal. My intention was for the journal to be international in scope, but the majority of the early board members happened to be from the United States, which is no surprise, given its preponderance of researchers. It wasn't too long before the board started to become more international in its representation and I began to feel more confident that the journal would be able to reflect other regions and their particular voices. Many journal editors recruit internationally, correctly assuming diversity to be important. But then I began to wonder what particular voice could I offer if some editorial manager sought to recruit me? How much does my "region" actually inform my research, my identity?
I was born, raised and educated in England, but never really felt English. Part of this was a political response: Being brought up in a militantly left-wing and anti-monarchist household, and also being one of "Thatcher's children" instilled in me a certain disdain for all things British. But aside from this it never really occurred to me to include "national identity" as a variable of my "personal identity." After university, like many lucky 20somethings, I spent a year or so backpacking, missing nothing of England and feeling increasingly "international." After a couple more years in England I married someone from New Zealand, where I am engaged in Ph.D. research.
So, to the hypothetical recruiting editorial manager looking for a representative voice from the Pacific, will you find one in me? Probably not. Despite having spent several years in New Zealand I have no special feel for the place: there is nothing in my research about masculinity and spirituality that is explicitly informed by my residence in New Zealand. But nor could I be a representative voice for England, which arguably shaped me, having not been there for some time and being remarkably disengaged from English current affairs. My voice is representative of no particular place, yet perhaps also of multiple places: almost stateless, I am something of a gypsy.
Let me take you down a rather romantic path, for I am indeed a gypsy boy: My maternal grandmother was the last of a bona fide line of gypsies. She spent her girlhood in a caravan, the ornately decorated kind you imagine when picturing gypsies. She felt the stigma society placed on gypsies and opted to leave the road for the stability of a life in a brick house. In my boyhood (as is still the case) that stigma was very much alive and I have vivid memories of the hostility gypsies would receive when they would occasionally inhabit a local patch of rough land, or even the school playing field during the summer holidays. I never found out about my gypsy lineage until my late teens: My mother opted to keep it from me, to save me the abuse of being taunted at school, of being labeled a thieving gyppo or pikey. So perhaps I have some genetic memory of being stateless, of defining identity by action rather than place, or at least of the instability and fluidity of place.
Some attention, although not enough, has been given to notions of identity among migrants, refugees and other people who, because of economics, war or some other trauma are no longer resident in their homeland. These peoples' statelessness, understandably, is a wound to be healed, a wrong to be righted. But my statelessness is not located at the oppressed end of a power dynamic: I am not disadvantaged by my geographical movement, nor troubled by an identity that some might consider to be in limbo. Yet my identity is a shifting category, which keeps me on the margin: I don't really fit in giving a paper at a local conference focusing on Pacifica, yet in an overseas context I appear "from" the Pacific region.
There is one place where I feel I do belong, like I have a "right" to pass the comment, "look, I've been here a long time and think it's fair to say...." That place is the Internet. Around 95 percent of my research is done online; I've only met 2 of the 40 people involved in the journal I'm organizing. I know the Internet, enough to pass inconspicuously as a local -- the online equivalent of using a regional colloquialism or drinking the right kind of beer from the right kind of glass. Rather than a communication device, I consider the Internet a place, one in which you can be "local" in Jamaica, Finland or the Philippines.
But so what? What does this actually mean? The answer is twofold. First, we need to start thinking more of the Internet as a place rather than a tool. It is a diverse place of many languages and cultures, but a place nonetheless. In our approach to scholarship we should consider the Internet a region like South-East Asia or Latin America and expect to hear some voices articulating positions that are comparably unique. These voices are unique not simply by using email and browsing, but because the Internet is their primary place of work, and their research is informed by its topography, politics, limitations, and potential.
Secondly, somewhat paradoxically, in the physical world we should resist putting too much emphasis on location as a primary defining category. I'm not for a moment suggesting different locations and particular voices are unimportant or are in some way to be transcended: Difference is, after all, identity. Rather, to give some pause for thought about what and where people are actually representative of. If we assume too much about the particularity and voice of any given place, especially if that place is outside North America or Europe, there is a danger of limiting that voice to a position that is similar to not hearing it at all. So I ask that next time you scan the editorial board of a journal, you resist the temptation to conclude too much from the members' locations, and to see if you can identify anyone indigenous to the Internet.
Joseph Gelfer is a Ph.D. student at Victoria University of Wellington and managing editor of the Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality. [1]


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Hindutva to be Shiv Sena's plank
July 11, 2004 00:38 IST
Sounding the bugle for the coming assembly elections in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena on Saturday asserted that 'aggressive Hindutva' would be its plank.
The Sena has always adopted a strong stance over Hindutva and it would continue to do so in the future as well, senior Sena leader and former Lok Sabha speaker Manohar Joshi told reporters at the end of the opening day of the two-day conclave of Sena office-bearers being held in Aurangabad.
Earlier in the day, in view of the dissent shown by some Sena office-bearers over appointments in the organisation, the party's executive president Uddhav Thackeray warned that any sort of rebellion over distribution of assembly tickets would not be tolerated.
Addressing the concluding session of the opening day, Uddhav announced an inquiry into the 'role' of legislators and office-bearers during the recent Lok Sabha polls in the context of the party's reversal in some seats.
Exhorting partymen to adopt an aggressive stance for the assembly polls, slated for September-October, Uddhav asked them to highlight the 'failure of the Democratic Front government on all the fronts'.
The Sena would oppose the United Progressive Alliance government's plans of reservation in jobs for the minority community.He criticised Congress, Nationalist Congress Party and Samajwadi Party leaders for extending support to the Mumbra-based girl, Ishrat Jahan Shaikh, who was killed in Ahmedabad along with three suspected members of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba.
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Written by: Emma Anius
Obesity is on the rise it has more than doubled since 1980. In 2008 1.5 billion people in the world were said to be overweight. St. Lucia is unfortunately no different; a study undergone in 2010 discovered that the average adult in Saint Lucia is overweight.
Obesity or being overweight is the 5th leading cause of global deaths; 2.8 million adults die each year as a result. It has been linked to being a leading factor to many other diseases such as high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases, gout, type 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis and certain types of cancer.
Obesity has become such a global problem due to the accessibility of the wrong types of foods, irregular meals and a result of too little physical activity.
It occurs when your body consumes more calories than it burns, women account for 25% of the adult female population that are overweight, which is almost twice as much as males.
With the new development of the tennis court in Castries, the Vigie playing field and the Vigie Sports Complex where basketball, netball, football and volley ball are there for people to join in on, not to mention the beach where you can go for a swim there is no excuse for obesity in St. Lucia.
A lot of people say they haven't got enough time to start exercising or prepare healthy meals instead of getting fast food. Even if you go slowly, a loss of 10 to 20 pounds can bring significant health improvements, such as lowering one's blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
It's not just the adults being affected by this epidemic; the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized that nearly 43 million children under the age of five were overweight in 2010. Studies indicate children who suffer from obesity are more likely to carry that onto adulthood.
The Caribbean Food & Nutrition Institute (CFNI) recognized that children account for 15 percent of the obesity in the Caribbean and in St Lucia obesity among preschoolers has tripled in the last 30 years!
It is important for steps to be made to instill a more active life style, maintaining a healthy weight helps you lower your risk for developing issues that could negatively effect your health, helps you feel good about yourself, and gives you more energy to enjoy life.
To determine whether you are classified as overweight or not you need to find out your Body Mass Index (BMI) this is calculated by your height divided by your weight multiplied by your weight (height/ weight x weight).
If your BMI is 25 or above you are classified as overweight. Being physically active and eating fewer calories will help you lose weight and keep the weight off over time.
Looking after your body is the key to healthy living.
If you have any concerns and want to check your weight then please contact your doctor.
If you have no time to exercise or don't know where to begin:
Squat jumps x 10. Side shuffle x 10. Side lunge x 10. Tricep extension x 10. Burpes x 10?
Squat jumps x 15. Side shuffle x 15. Side lunge x 15. Tricep extension x 15. burpes x 15
• For help with the exercises go to www.facebook.com/cyanfitness and view the photos
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Good news, Avengers fans! The film has a plot. Bad news, Avengers fans. The plot may involve Demi Lovato.
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I haven't been this excited about a cameo since I found out will.i.am was appearing in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. And I won't be this excited again until I find out that will.i.am has been ripped apart by pitbulls. (Cinema Blend)


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There are a few ways you can naturally tell the health of your stool. Stool health can be determined by color, odor, and amount. The closer attention you pay to your stools, the better able you may be to determine if there is a problem or issue with your body.
The color of your stool is generally related directly to what you eat. Bile is a yellow-green liquid that is excreted by your liver. Bile digests fats in your stool. Usually bile travels in the gastrointestinal track and works with enzymes changing their color from green to brown. Any varying shade of brown is considered normal and means the bile is doing its job.
A red, maroon, or black stool can be serious. It can be an indication there is blood in the stool. You should make an appointment with your doctor if you have a red or black stool. A light grey stool is another stool color for which to take special care. Sometimes a light grey stool can be an indication of an ulcer or liver cancer.
Another determinant for good stool health is odor and consistency. When your body eliminates waste, it has usually been sitting in your colon for approximately three days. If the bile enzymes are doing their job you can expect the stool be odoriferous in an unpleasant way. Some people eliminate stool every day, or even 2-3 times a day, while others may only go once or twice a week. The important thing is that odor and amount are only a problem if it is something different than your usual bowel movements.
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Robert S. Fay
April 24, 1922 - August 27, 2013
Robert Sedgwick Fay 91, died on August 27, 2013 at the Holyoke Soldiers Home in Holyoke MA. Born in Palmer on April 24, 1922, he was the son of the late Robert S., Sr. and Constance (Moulton) Fay. He was the sixth generation of his family to live in Monson and the ninth generation of his direct line to live in Massachusetts. Educated in Monson schools, he was a graduate of Monson Academy and was awarded a scholarship to Worcester Polytechnic Institute for an invention. An Army veteran of the Second World War, he served in the Pacific, including with the occupation forces in Japan. An engineer, he was employed for many years by the former C.F. Church Company and retired as Vice President of Sales at the former Springfield Moulders. He was a lifelong member of the First Church of Monson where he served in many capacities including Church Moderator, Deacon and Trustee. Active in local affairs he served for many years on the Town Finance Committee and the Board of the Monson Home for Aged People, was a founding member of the Monson Historical Society and was on the Monson Historical Commission. He was honored as Rotary's Citizen of the Year in 2003 for his many years of volunteer service to the town In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by his stepmother, Elizabeth (Wight) Fay, and his first wife of almost fifty years, Grace (Mizen) Fay. He is survived by his wife Patricia (Maderien) Fay. He also leaves his two daughters, Candace Erickson and her spouse Richard of Wilbraham, MA and Elizabeth Fay and her spouse Louise Gauthier of Assonet, MA, numerous nieces and a nephew. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, September 14, 2013 at 1:00 PM at the First Church of Monson 5 High St., Monson, MA. Everyone is welcome to attend. Those wishing to honor Bob's memory may make a donation to the First Church of Monson, 5 High St., Monson, MA 01057.
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With my commitment to healthy living, holidays are always a challenge. I feel like Halloween marks the beginning of 4 months of massive sugar addiction, with Easter as a grand finale. Valentine's day is fast approaching and I'm being proactive about minimizing added sugar. Here's a list of No Candy Valentine's Day Ideas I love! Getting ready for Easter? Check out my tips for a No Candy Easter, too!
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The Heart "Egg in a Hole" by the Today Show's food staff – Use whole-grain bread, add an extra side of scrambled eggs (For protein) and I'm sold. So cute!
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Heart Shaped Carrots in Chicken Noodle Soup, from Sophistimom. I've also seen similar things with potatoes cut into heart shapes and roasted. Eat your heart out!
Lovely Fruit Salad
I heart this watermelon heart salad from "A Designer Life" blog by Jessica Lea Dunn. This is a great substitute for sugary desserts! Maybe you could even take turns feeding each other these juicy hearts.
Bananas For You!
I love this simple and easy Banana message from The House of Hendrix… this is something that I KNOW I can get done, no matter how crazy Valentine's day gets!
Paper Hearts
There are lots of No-Candy Valentine's day cards & gifts for kids to make. This "I Mustache You a Question" Valentines & Fake Mustaches, from Etsy – you can see more on my No-Candy Holiday Pinboard, including the snake Valentines my son and I made!
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I love this post from the House of Hendrix, where she details her plan for a "love attack" on her family with 50 creative, inexpensive and fun ideas!


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I learned a lot from the presentation by The Reverend Dr. Gary Dorrien that I attended last month, The Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, Professor of Religion at Columbia University, and former associate pastor at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Albany, delivered the 2008 Lamar Lecture on "The Spirit of Progressive Christianity: History, Theology, and Politics."
His final exhortation was that people who were NOT the victims of certain types of cultural stereotypes have a particular need to speak out against them, not just those who are actually victimized by them. In other words, men should speak out against sexism, white people against racism towards black and Hispanic people, people and straight people against homophobia.
This inherently makes a lot of sense. But it's tricky. Does that mean that we should challenge a sexist remark in the locker room, a racist remark at the dinner table, or a homophobic remark in the office? Well, yeah.
Here's where I get to agree with Sarah Palin. It is difficult to make the case when you're the one being oppressed without being what the Alaska governor called "whiny". I'm not saying that people experiencing discrimination ARE whiny, or that they shouldn't be making their own cases about discrimination. I AM suggesting that the majority culture often seems hellbent on marginalizing these complaints, picking out those silly examples to disprove the existence of the larger problem. I'm thinking of black hole is racist nonsense, for example.
There have been legitimate concerns that I've noticed that people who were not directly affected responded to recently. Newsweek and Rep. Barney Frank pointing out that blame for the housing attacks had a racial component. Or Keith Olbermann on California's Proposition 8, a sentiment that I share. There may be a good example of men taking on sexism, but the recent examples aren't immediately coming to mind.
We have to speak up on issues that DON'T affect us directly. It may be the best way to continue to break down the barriers that separate us.


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Last Friday, the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage across America. This historic decision was a momentous step forward in advancing equality for the LGBT community, but the fight for equality is far from over. What's next?
The first battleground is to achieve recognition on a national level that the right to work free from discrimination is a fundamental civil right. According to a report published last month by the Movement Advancement Project, 61 percent of the LGBT population live in states with medium or low legal protections, or that have hostile laws that restrict their rights. This includes insufficient to non-existent protections in the employment area, as the report specified that 52 percent of the LGBT population live in states that do not prevent employers from firing them based on their sexual orientation. Imagine: an employee exercises her Constitutional right to marry on a Saturday, and then on Monday gets fired for doing so. Or for placing a wedding picture on her desk, talking about her spouse, or expressing her sexual identity in any way. Outrageously, this could be the reality for the majority of LGBT employees in this country.
Employment discrimination against LGBT workers is undeniably still a prevalent problem. A 2013 survey from the Pew Research Center found that 21 percent of people surveyed said they had been treated unfairly by an employer based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. The percentages were markedly higher for transgender employees and LGBT people of color. A 2013 report authored by various organizations found that nearly 50 percent of black LGBT employees reported experiencing discrimination at work due to their sexual orientation. Between 75 and 82 percent of Asian and Pacific Islander LGBT employees reported workplace discrimination as well. Such discrimination can include the failure to hire or promote LGBT workers, workplace harassment, unequal wages, and the lack of on-the-job support – the same kinds of employment rights that other minority groups have been advocating for in the workplace for decades.
Despite these realities, according to data from the Human Rights Campaign, only 19 states currently have laws that prohibit workplace discrimination based on both sexual orientation and gender identity. Another three states prohibit workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation, but not gender identity. Ten states have employment protections based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity only for public employees, which does nothing for private sector workers. And in 18 states, LGBT employees still have no employment protections at all. That lack of protection is just another form of denying equality for employees.
The situation is even bleaker at the federal level, although progress is being made. Yet there is still no federal statute that protects employees based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The proposed Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) that would prohibit such discrimination has been introduced in Congress each year since 1994, but has never mustered enough Republican support to make it to the President's desk. Last year, House Speaker John Boehner openly expressed his disapproval of ENDA, telling the LGBT Equality Caucus that there was "no way" the legislation would pass that year. Boehner stated that the bill was "unnecessary" because "people are already protected in the workplace." Boehner's statement and others like it demonstrate just how out of touch key members of Congress are with the kind of discrimination LGBT workers face.
Gainful employment instills a sense of purpose and dignity, and increases meaningful contributions to our communities. Our anti-discrimination laws are in place to correct the traditional exclusion of marginalized groups – such as women, older workers, and racial minorities – and to ensure equal employment opportunities. It is time to fully add LGBT employees to that list. Whether single or married, they should not be penalized in their careers or livelihood for exercising their right to work.
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As Justice Kennedy wrote in the Obergefell decision, in seeking the right to marriage, same-sex individuals asked "for equal dignity in the eyes of the law." We should continue to recognize this dignity by continuing to address the gap in legal employment protections for the LGBT community.
About Lisa Mak
Lisa Mak is an associate attorney in the Consumer & Employee Rights Group at Minami Tamaki LLP in San Francisco. She is passionate about representing employees and consumers on an individual and class basis to protect their rights. Her practice includes cases involving employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, labor violations, and severance negotiations. Ms. Mak is the Co-Chair of the CELA Diversity Committee, Co-Chair of the Asian American Bar Association's Community Services Committee, and an active volunteer at the Asian Law Caucus Workers' Rights Clinic. Ms. Mak is a graduate of UC Hastings School of Law and UC San Diego. She is fluent in Cantonese and conversant in French.


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It's scary how quickly fanatical views can take hold worldwide
On Ash Wednesday a Protestant friend of mine called and asked me would I go with him that evening to a Solemn Eucharist - Ash Wednesday service in St Bartholomew's on Dublin's Clyde Road.
I was delighted to go. It was my first time at a service in that church and it was my first time to receive ashes from an Anglican priest. Indeed, it was my first time ever to be in an Anglican church on Ash Wednesday. It was a prayerful occasion, solemnly celebrated with fine music. A priest from Jerusalem gave the sermon, which was most appropriate for the day that was in it.
After the service, which lasted over an hour, my friend and I were talking about differences between the Protestant and Catholic religions. I pointed out that so many of the prayers were familiar to me. The same prayers we say in Catholic churches. It set me thinking about differences and divisions between peoples and how it always seems to happen that somehow or other fanaticism rears its ugly head, no matter how noble the cause.
About a year ago I bought myself an internet radio. A fantastic buy. It means you can listen to any station anywhere in the world. After Christmas I accidentally tuned in to 'Patriot Radio' in the US.
It has left me utterly dumbstruck. It is non-stop, wall-to-wall right wing propaganda. Every few minutes it finds an opportunity to say the nastiest things possible about Barack Obama's new health care plan. It calls US Secretary of State, John Kerry, 'Potato Face'. I have never in my life heard such nasty radio. And it's relentless. I have surprised myself how I keep tuning in. It's so wild there is an entertainment value to it. From all the evidence to hand I would consider this hate radio.
But that sort of fanaticism exists right across all walks of society; politics, the churches, nation states. And what is really worrying about it is that it always seems to have the ability of gaining momentum, gaining traction, to use modern jargon. It's so easy for that fanatical genie to be released from the bottle and then there is no stopping.
Just look at history. Millions are maimed and killed. For what? The lead picture on the front page of a national newspaper last week showed pro-Russian protesters in a show of defiance during a takeover of the regional parliament building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. They all looked vicious and wild. They really looked scary. Then on page two of the same paper there is a picture of Ukrainians rallying in the eastern city of Kharkiv to protest against Russia's incursion into Crimea. This time most of the people in the picture are women. They look so peaceful, almost as if they are praying.
How true, the first casualty in war is the truth. Of course there are rough and vicious people who feel more Russian than Ukrainian but there are also gentle and kind people who feel they have more in common with Russia than Ukraine.
Whatever about the rights and wrongs of what is going in Crimea, those two photographs have to be a great example of crass western propaganda. And what is most annoying about all forms of fanaticism is that it is always the poor and uneducated who are manipulated and fooled to suit the plans and conniving of the great and powerful.
On the way home from St Bartholomew's I was thinking that not so long ago people were led to believe that it was 'sinful' to visit a Protestant church. There might be a lot wrong with 'wishy-washy liberalism' but please, give it to me any day before any and all forms of fanaticism, which seems to be in the ascendancy right now.
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The excellent CBC Radio show, blog, and podcast known as Spark has just posted host Nora Young's long interview with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, author of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age. Mayer-Schönberger believes cheap digital storage has encouraged us, often unwittingly, to store more information than is good for us. In the interview, he offers two examples:
- Some people with photographic memory have trouble making decisions, because memories of bad outcomes from previous decisions paralyze them.
- A Canadian psychotherapist, Andrew Feldmar, was permanently barred from entering the United States because a US border guard, using Google, discovered a 10-year-old article he had written describing his LSD use 30 years earlier.
Mayer-Schönberger follows a hoary tradition of moral panic that seems to greet every new communications technology. Carolyn Marvyn has documented the dire forecasts of moral depravity that followed the invention of the telephone. Prophesies of moral decay are often embraced by traditional media that feel (and probably are) threatened by the new technology, so I guess you could say that in interviewing Mayer-Schönberger, Spark is, at least in this perhaps uncharacteristic instance, fitting into this tradition as well.
Mayer-Schönberger is guilty of category error. He conflates memory with storage. Substitute the word "library" for "Internet," and by his logic, we would soon start burning books. People with photographic memories may indeed have a problem with indecision, but that is a problem of human psychology, not library or Internet storage.
Dr. Feldmar's story is a terrible one, but the problem lies in witless application of over-broad US immigration rules, not Google. It makes no more sense to condemn Google for this episode than it would to condemn the telephone or the newspaper, had they served as conduits for the guard's information.
I think the idea of automatically deleting information (including photographs, articles, emails, etc.) because thier reappearance someday might harm us in ways we cannot foresee is chilling.
Spark will air an abbreviated version of Young's interview with Mayer-Schönberger Sunday at 1.


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"West Texas Intermediate crude, the benchmark for the U.S., traded below $100 per barrel today for the first time since April, reflecting a slow but steady decline in recent weeks," said Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy. "Over the same period, we've seen wholesale crude prices across the country slip dramatically. West Coast wholesale prices have fallen by more than 35 cents per gallon since the beginning of the month, and across the rest of the country wholesale prices have fallen by 15 to 20 cents per gallon."
West coast customers are expected to see a 15 to 25 cent drop.


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Fiji Time: 3:20 PM on Sunday 18 February
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Ana Madigibuli
Sunday, August 17, 2014
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Students of the Immaculate Conception Kindergarten travelled all the way from Solevu in Bua to the Capital City to experience the hype and excitement of the Hibiscus Festival for the very first time. Picture: JOVESA NAISUA
FOR the first time, youngsters from the Immaculate Conception Kindergarten from Solevu, Bua were part of the Vodafone Hibiscus Festival in Suva yesterday.
The different amusement games, live music, different types of food and watching the contestants up-close were some of the things the children will remember for the rest of their lives.
Accompanied by their parents the students were happy to participate in the march that marked the official opening of the festival. Teacher Litia Korosavu said the students did not expect to be part of the festival event because they were on their school tour of Viti Levu.
"We were grateful to have been given the opportunity to be part of the march and to be here at the Hibiscus Festival," Ms Korosavu said.
"The students and a few parents have always heard about the festival but haven't really experienced it."
Parent Akeneta Tide said it was the first time for her to visit the Capital City and to be part of the Hibiscus Festival.
"I am really happy to be here and I am sure being part of the event has broadened the children's perspective on what is happening around them," Ms Tide said.
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Top 10 T stops for missed love connections
Josh Reynolds for The Boston Globe
- Pictures The MBTA Red Line turns 100 years old
- Submit What's your craziest Red Line story? | Quiz Which MBTA line marches your personality?
- Long-awaited Green Line extension project | MBTA renovations between Harvard & Alewife
- Controversy over MBTA fare hikes, cutbacks | Meet the new MBTA superheroes
Most (and least) romantic lines
1. Red Line | Mentions in MC:109; TRIST Score: 6.10
1. Red Line | Mentions in MC:109; TRIST Score: 6.10
2. Orange Line | Mentions in MC: 50; TRIST Score 3.75
3. Green Line | Mentions in MC: 77; TRIST Score: 3.24
4. Blue Line | Mentions in MC: 6 TRIST Score: 0.90
With a TRIST score registering just above 0, the broken-hearted seem, appropriately enough, to go Blue. Systemwide, though, whether its a flirty conversation, sensual eye contact ,or a magical strike of lightning, missed connections make looking for love and taking the T in Beantown a fun-filled ride.


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SHS FOOTBALL - The Sheridan Bronc coaches and players hit Homer Scott stadium Monday morning to open a three week camp before the regular season opener August 28th.tonight and tomorrow the Bronc coaches and team leaders will have a camp in the Big horns they'll come off the mountain Sunday for the annual Bronc player / parent meeting which will be held in the Sheridan high school auditorium at 4 o
BRONC FOOTBALL - The high school fall sports season officially gets under way Sunday with the Sheridan Bronc football team annual player / parent meeting. The meeting will be held Sunday at 4 o'clock in the SHS auditorium. Broncs' head coach Don Julian says all players and parents need to be at this meeting.
SHERIDAN REC DISTRICT - The Sheridan Rec District is getting ready to change seasons with the little guy football sign-ups this week and the end of the adult summer softball league next week.
JUNIOR GOLF - The Sheridan county junior golf program finished up their season yesterday at the Powder Horn here are the girls results yesterday in the 9-11 year old group Kayla Allen won her third tournament in a row with Peyton Bomar 2nd and Jamy Shassetz 3rd in the 12-13 year old group Emily Speigelberg was 1st with Sarah Rawlings 2nd and in the 14 and older group the winners was Aspen Rawling
BOYS Ages 15 and Up (9 holes)
1. Brandon Metzger (36)
2.Taylor Reed (37, won chip-off for 2nd)
3.Chris Cremer (37)
4.Taylor Spiegelberg (38)
5.Tie: Michael Korp & Devin Rougeau (41)
6.Tie: Austin Abernatha, Braydon Drell & Josh Loseke (43)
7.Cole Smith (44)
8.Tie: Levi Shryak & Andrew Giorgis (47)
9.Jonah Lehmann (51)
10.Trey Porter (60)
11.Greg Popke (61)
AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL - The State American Legion baseball has a new champion with a familiar name as Post 6 from Cheyenne won it's eighth title in the last nine years Saturday night in Rock Springs.
CINCINNATI (AP) - Dexter Fowler two-out RBI triple in the 11th inning helped Colorado beat the Cincinnati Reds 6-4 and complete a three-game sweep.
Garrett Atkins added a pinch-hit infield single to help Colorado earn its first win in five extra-inning games this season, all on the road.
AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL - The 2009 State American Legion Baseball Tournament enters it's final day in Rock Springs, and is down to the final three teams. Post #6 from Cheyenne is well on their way to winning their 8th title in the last 9 years. Post #6 waits for an opponent tonight in the championship game as Gillette and Powell dual for the right to face the Eagles.


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Players Patter
The February 2018 edition of Players Patter, the HSV Players newsletter, is now available for viewing..
Care and Concern
If you know of a member who is having health or family problems, please contact the "Care and Concern" Chairman listed on the "Contact Us" tab below.
The HSV Players is a non-profit organization (501-C3- all donations are tax deductible) that for over 38 years and over 135 productions has entertained the Village audiences with professional quality theatre.
As members of AACT (The American Association of Community Theatres) and ARCTA (Arkansas Community Theatre Association), the organization is dedicated to live theatre at an affordable price. Presently, with a membership of over 200, we're always looking for new talent and welcome anyone to attend our meetings and become a Player. Meetings are held the first Tuesday of every month at 6 pm in the Ouachita Building, rooms A & B at the Ponce de Leon Center, 1101 DeSoto Blvd. There are no residency requirements and membership dues are only based on the following schedule:
- Adults - $15.00
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A downloadable Membership Application is available for your convenience.
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Prometheus Books
Jessica Litman
American ideas of freedom are bound up with a vision of information policy that counts information as social wealth owned by all. We believe we are entitled to say what we think, to think what we want, and to learn whatever we're willing to explore. Part of the information ethos in the United States is that facts and ideas cannot be owned, suppressed, censored or regulated; they are meant to be found, studied, passed along and freely traded in the "marketplace of ideas."
In fact, information is regulated in this country as in others. We have an enormously complex collection of information law prescribing terms and conditions for a variety of different providers of information. Broadcasters are the most obvious example of regulated speakers, but we also have rules about what schools may teach and where protesters may demonstrate. The rules about how and when citizens can get information from the government are complex and arcane. Despite the web of regulation that surrounds some regions of free speech law, however, the underlying concept holds true more often than not. In the United States, at least for the most part, we may say what we think, think what we want, and learn whatever we are willing to explore.
There are other corollaries, and we've gotten accustomed to them. We've been able to do our reading, viewing and exploring privately and anonymously, and have come to view the ability to do so as a natural right. A world in which each word we read or image we view is monitored and recorded seems like the stuff of science fiction: unimaginable and, in any event, impossible in America.
The Internet has been hailed as the most revolutionary social development since the printing press. In many ways its astonishing growth has outstripped any historical analogy we can unearth. What has fueled much of that growth has been the explosion of new possibilities for connections--among people, among different formerly discrete packages of information, among ideas. It isn't that anyone would prefer to use a unix box (or even a Windows tcp/ip client) to find out what one can more easily read in the paper. Rather, one can interact with other people, and with the information one seeks, and do so directly at previously unthinkable speeds. Digital media and network connections, it is said, are the most democratic of media, promoting free expression and access to information wherever a computer can be hooked up to a telephone line.
In this celebration of new possibilities, we tend to emphasize the many things that become feasible when people have ready access to information sources and to other people not practicably available before. The scope and the speed of interconnected digital networks make conversations easy that before were unimaginable. The almost utopian vision of a wired future seems to assume that the legal infrastructure of our information policy will continue to encourage us to speak, think and learn as we will.
But the technological marvel that makes this interconnection possible has other potential as well. Digital technology makes it possible to monitor, record and restrict what people look at, listen to, read and hear.
Why, in the United States, would one want to do such a thing? To get paid. If someone, let's call him Fred, keeps track of what we see and hear, that enables Fred to ensure that we pay for our sights and sounds. Once information is valuable, an overwhelming temptation arises to appropriate that value, to turn it in to cash. If the means of transforming information into a marketable and marketed commodity require a little invasion of privacy, a smidgen of information rationing, or a dollop of surveillance, well, that's the price of progress.
Perhaps it is; further, perhaps it's a price that many citizens would be more than willing to pay in order to preserve the current world dominance of American information and entertainment industries. Citizens are not, however, being asked, and their elected representatives turn out to be in no position to evaluate that bargain on their behalf. Meanwhile, the people who argue that the nation's prosperity requires a legal regime that enables information to be tightly controlled seem likely to prevail.
One of the most important devices being used to effect this transformation, ironically enough, is copyright law. No wonder so few people are paying attention. Copyright law has a well earned reputation as a discipline both marginal and arcane. Copyright law questions can make delightful cocktail party small talk, but copyright law answers tend to make eyes glaze over everywhere. Still, to the extent that the public considers copyright law at all, it appears to think that the law is designed to benefit authors for creating new works and thus to promote the progress of knowledge and art.
And, that's certainly the theory. The premise is that we want authors to have enough control over their works to enable them to extract some of the commercial value of those works -- that's what lets them make a living creating works of authorship. At the same time, the purpose of the system is to benefit the public at large, and that works best when the rest of the value of the work can be enjoyed by the public at large. United States copyright law has until now divided up the value that inheres in works of authorship to permit authors (and their employers and publishers) to control and therefore profit from some uses of their works, while forbidding them from controlling others. Authors are given enough control to enable them to exploit their creations, while not so much that consumers and later authors are unable to benefit from the protected works. To take a simple example, copyright owners are entitled to prohibit others from making copies of their works, but copyright law gives them no rights to control whether or when people read them or use them.
Why the lines have been drawn where they are is a matter of some controversy. Some people insist that copyright owners are entitled to just enough control to provide an economic incentive for their creation, since the broad purpose of copyright is to promote knowledge by encouraging authors to create and disseminate their works. Other argue that the only uses of a work that are properly excluded from the copyright owner's control are the ones that have no significant economic value.
Now that technology permits the dissemination of information on a pay-per-view basis, that policy argument has taken on immense practical significance. If the reason that authors' and their publishers' control over uses of their works has been narrowly confined is to enable consumers and future authors to make the broadest possible use of protected creations that is consistent with the copyright system's encouragement of authorship, then the fact that technology enables them to exercise more complete control is no reason to modify the copyright law to facilitate it. If, in contrast, the goal of copyright law is to place all feasible control over works of authorship firmly in the hands of copyright owners, new digital technology offers us the opportunity for the first time to come very close to perfecting the system. The controversy over which view of the law is more nearly true is no longer academic. Over the past ten years, many have come around to the view that, in a networked digital world, limitations on copyright owners' control of their works are no longer desirable. Congress has added more than 100 pages to the copyright statute, almost all of them billed as loophole-closers. We've also seen the emergence of new way of thinking about copyright: Copyright is now seen as a tool for copyright owners to use to extract all the potential commercial value from works of authorship, even if that means that uses that have long been deemed legal are now brought within the copyright owner's control.
In 1998, copyright owners persuaded Congress to enhance their rights with a sheaf of new legal and technological controls. Armed with those copyright improvements, copyright lawyers began a concerted campaign to remodel cyberspace into a digital multiplex and shopping mall for copyright-protected material. The outcome of that effort is still uncertain. If current trends continue unabated, however, we are likely to experience a violent collision between our expectations of freedom of expression and the enhanced copyright law. I wish I could be confident that copyright law would be the loser in such a fight.
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