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September 9, 2008
Are You Rattled By Conflicting Advice?
By Marisa Duffy
TO SPRAY or not to spray? Last week pregnant women were lumbered with another piece of research to weigh up. This time it concerned the use of perfume and scented lotion which has been linked to male infertility in rats. It comes hot on the heels of a steady stream of conflicting dos and don'ts for expectant mums.Annette Briley, a research midwife with Tommy's, a charity that provides expectant parents with information on pregnancy, was sceptical about the dangers of perfume to unborn babies. During her 28-year experience, she says women have always wrestled with conflicting advice but that today they have even more to think about. "All the scanning and screening we have for babies - that worries women now, " she says. "In the olden days women got pregnant and if they got past 12 weeks they would just see what happened. If there was a problem with their baby they just accepted it. Nowadays we screen, offer a diagnostic test if there is an abnormality and we're asking women to make decisions the whole way through." She is also concerned by the rise of the internet, a hotbed of unreviewed information and horror stories.
Here, she deals with the issues most commonly raised by mothers- to-be.
Morning sickness: how sick is normal?
"As long as you're keeping fluids down, it's usually okay. If you're not keeping anything down, including water, then see your doctor. It is normal for morning sickness to become afternoon or evening sickness. By week 13 most women will feel better; feeling sick throughout your pregnancy is rare. Sickness can come back later in pregnancy when the baby is in the breach position so the head is near the mother's stomach and gastric emptying is affected. If the baby is very active it can also feel nauseating."
If I can't eat, my baby won't grow properly.
"Yes it will. Your baby is a complete parasite and will take everything it needs; the mother will be left short. We know that because if we look at the evidence from the Second World War from babies born in concentration camps where mothers were starved and during the Dutch famine disaster, they were small but they were properly formed; it was the mothers who were malnourished."
Bleeding always mean a miscarriage.
"Bleeding doesn't necessarily mean something bad has happened and is common in early pregnancy, particularly around the time the woman would have had a period or would have ovulated. Early bleeding can be associated with lifting heavy loads or shopping, so obviously those things are best avoided. If you are bleeding after sex, it is probably best to abstain until it settles. Post-coital bleeding is quite common during pregnancy because the cervix is very vascular (blood vessels are full) and easily grazed. It's nothing to worry about. Generally, if bleeding is painless and it's early on, it's less of a problem. If you bleed and there is pain, even if there is only a little blood, you must get help because if it's early on it could be an ectopic pregnancy."
A longed-for pregnancy is always a happy one.
"Pregnancy is quite a difficult time mentally for both partners, especially with a first baby, because it's a major change to your lifestyle. Often, people who have been trying for a while are so focused on getting pregnant that when they achieve it, it's really difficult because they haven't thought past that moment. Everyone around them assumes they will feel joy, but if you feel tired and sick and your back aches and you're peeing every two minutes, you can be really quite down. All your hormones kick in and you're much more emotional anyway. A report two years ago suggested that up to 30per cent of ante-natal women report feeling depressed."
Is it true that pregnant women should avoid pate, soft cheese and seafood?
"It's a good idea to avoid soft cheese but in terms of seafood, avoid shellfish, not white fish, which is really good for brain and eye development. Basically, it's things that aren't pasteurised. Pate has liver in it, which is obviously a problem because of the vitamin A. It's linked to birth defects, and seafood contains mercury. Mayonnaise bought in jars is fine, but home-made mayonnaise is best avoided because of the raw eggs. Otherwise, eat what you fancy as opposed to what you think you should; your body will let you know what it needs."
An odd glass of wine won't do any harm.
"Lots of women don't drink in early pregnancy at all because it makes them feel ill and it's probably their body telling them that it's not good. The problem with alcohol is that we don't know how much is too much so we err on the side of caution and say none. A lot of women, before they know they are pregnant, have been drinking and they beat themselves up for the whole of their pregnancy and it is probably fine. The bottom line is that the occasional glass of wine is probably going to do you no harm. It's the binge drinking that's the problem. Spirits are worse than wine."
I smoked / took recreational drugs before I knew I was pregnant. Have I affected my baby?
"Yes, of course it can affect your baby. But it is a 'can', not a definite yes or no. The best thing you can do is stop as soon as you realise you are pregnant. A recent paper suggested that even if you gave up smoking in the third trimester, it was better for your baby than not giving up at all. Smoking is a real addiction so if you cut down that is fantastic, although we do recommend giving up completely. Similarly, loads of women have had one binge before they realise they are pregnant. For the vast majority is it usually fine."
Tea and coffee are best avoided.
"Again, a lot of women go off tea and coffee in pregnancy and start drinking herbal teas. If you're giving up tea and coffee because of the caffeine, it's in a lot of other drinks such as Coke and in chocolate. If you're drinking 12 cups of coffee a day that's not a good thing so limit your tea and coffee."
I should be eating for two.
"No. Women who are pregnant do get the munchies; blood sugar drops much more quickly because you are using up more sugar so crave sweet things. It's therefore better to eat smaller meals more often. Keep a banana handy, not a chocolate bar. The amount of food you eat will undoubtedly change because once the nausea has passed, your appetite will increase because you're growing a baby. The secret is not to use it as an excuse to pig out. Just remember, whatever you put on, you are going to have to lose."
Exercise is best avoided.
"If you are a complete couch potato, this isn't the time to take up marathon running but if you are used to exercise, listen to your body. Your stamina changes, your posture changes but if you're used to exercise, there's no reason not to continue. If you don't normally exercise, gentle exercise will be fine. Swimming is great, as is walking. Women in pregnancy feel more tired because when sleeping, they're not totally resting, so do things in moderation. Most women find by the third trimester that they have become larger so it's much more difficult, but aqua-natal classes are good."
I kept taking the pill before I knew I was pregnant. Have I harmed my baby?
"No, certainly there have never been any reported cases. In the old days, the pill used to have massive doses of hormones. Today, they give you the minimum amount to stop you getting pregnant (or not! ) There is very little you can do about it. If you have smoked or drank or taken any pills when you are pregnant, it is worth telling your doctor and midwife as they can look out for all sorts of things at the ultrasound scan."
I can't take painkillers.
"Any medication is best avoided in pregnancy. Headaches can happen in pregnancy because of dehydration so have a pint of water first. Avoid homeopathic remedies during the first 14 weeks as we don't really know what the effects might be."
What about dyeing my hair?
"There is no evidence directly to link hair dye with birth defects but equally there is no evidence that it doesn't do any harm. So it's probably not a good idea to dye your hair yourself. Go to a salon and tell them you are pregnant. People seem to know about not taking medicine during pregnancy but then apply steroid cream, not realising that it is sucked into the skin and chemicals from the dye can seep into the scalp.
Can I take a flight?
"There is no problem with flying but you must make sure that the airline knows you are pregnant and that your insurance covers you. You are at greater risk of DVT on long-haul flights so wear flight socks, move about and carry your hand-held maternity notes, in case there is a problem."
As part of the Let's Talk Baby campaign, Tommy's midwives are visiting Asda stores to answer pregnancyrelated queries. Asda Bridge of Dee, September 13, 10.30am-2.30pm; Asda Livingston Supercentre, September 13, 10.30am2.30pm; Asda Edinburgh Supercentre, September 14, 10.30am-2.30pm; Asda Glasgow Fort, September 14, 10.30am- 2.30pm.
Originally published by Newsquest Media Group.
(c) 2008 Herald, The; Glasgow (UK). Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.


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I've just returned from my annual trip to Churchill in Manitoba, Canada, to work with Polar Bears International. This was my 10th year of doing so, and, as many of you know, I have seen dramatic changes in the environment and animals that live there in just this decade. This year has provided the shortest ice season in recorded time: the polar bears lost a full nine weeks of hunting time. The water and air temperatures for November and December continue to be above normal, delaying the formation of ice again this year. The polar bears have been hunting during low tide and have been fortunate to occasionally find harbor seals resting among the rocks. The bears must be vigilant that they return to the shore before the tide rushes in.
I watched with great awe as a young male polar bear learned the hard way that the fast-moving tide with newly formed slush ice can be a life-or-death moment. This moment lasted over two hours for him. At great distance we saw this bear struggling to swim back in to safety. The combination of current and heavy ice slush proved to be an admirable preventer. At times his head disappeared under the surface as he rested. Just as I thought the worst, his head would come up again, and he would make a supreme effort to pick his massive paw, covered in ice, out of the water and push himself forward.
Eventually, he made it to ice he could crawl across. At well over two hours of enormous effort he reached solid ice. He lay still for a few minutes and then joyously began to dry off, giving an amazingly animated show of rubbing and rolling. Off he then went to cruise the coastline, still in the hunt for food and survival. He seemed to be teaching us that this is now everyday life for our ice bears when the ice is not forming as it should. How many are not making it back to solid footing? This young male polar bear's effort to survive makes our effort to conserve seem so minimal.
The forecast for the Hudson Bay: a thin ledge of ice should be formed by mid- December.
What does December bring for our polar bears in San Diego? Unfortunately, it does not look like the pitter patter of tiny paws will be filling our ears. Although we were all so hopeful, it looks like we'll be repeating this process next year. Our girl Chinook has become very active and is spending lots of time playing in back and looking longingly over at her two buddies Kalluk and Tatqiq. We did another ultrasound exam this week and found a very healthy girl but no sign of cubs. So we are now looking to reintroduce our fabulous trio very soon. Putting such large bears together does not come without risk. The introductions and the time they spend together will be determined by their behavior. But if the interactions they have been having in the back area are any indicator, our three will be very happy to have each other to cavort with. We have some fun new balls for play, and we will continue to rotate the three in combinations throughout the day.
Of course, Kalluk and Tatqiq will have to now share their mulch piles with Chinook—please excuse the dirt-filled water! (Thanks, Water Quality Team for keeping the filtration running so well!) Keep watching Polar Cam to stay up to date on how it's going. Just think, breeding season is just around the corner. Here we go again!
JoAnne Simerson is a senior keeper at the San Diego Zoo. Read her previous post, Polar Bears: The Latest.
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Join JoAnne on the next San Diego Zoo WorldWild Tour to Churchill this fall!

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Mela Sciences Announces FDA Panel to Review MelaFind(R) PMA Application on August 26, 2010
Published: May 26, 2010
IRVINGTON, NY--(Marketwire - May 26, 2010) - MELA Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: MELA) announced today that the company's pre-market approval (PMA) application for MelaFind® will be reviewed by the General and Plastic Surgery Devices Panel appointed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on August 26, 2010.
"We are so pleased to see the MelaFind review process move forward," said Joseph V. Gulfo, MD, President & CEO. "We and our advisors look forward to the Panel meeting with great anticipation. We have had positive and constructive interactions with the agency culminating in the submission of our formal response to the FDA's questions regarding the PMA application earlier this month. We are now fully focused on preparing for the August 26th panel meeting and firmly believe that MelaFind will be found to be a valuable tool to help dermatologists detect melanoma at the earliest, most curable stage."
The company also reported the results of its internet-based US reader study performed by 155 physicians, including 110 dermatologists, on images and clinical information derived from 130 lesions (melanomas and non-melanomas) enrolled in the MelaFind pivotal trial. The average sensitivity of dermatologists was 72%. The sensitivity of MelaFind was 96.9%, which was statistically significantly superior to dermatologists at p-value of less than 0.0001. The Company plans to submit the results of the reader study to a peer review journal for publication.
The panel will review the MelaFind PMA application, which the company submitted to the agency in June 2009. It is based on the positive results of the company's landmark pivotal study, which included 1,831 pigmented skin lesions from 1,383 patients, making this the largest prospective study ever conducted in melanoma detection. Prior to the start of the study, the company and the FDA entered into a binding protocol agreement to stipulate the study design, including the sensitivity and specificity endpoints that should be used to determine the safety and effectiveness of MelaFind. The company believes that the results of the pivotal study met and exceeded the pre-defined endpoints.
As previously reported, the company received a letter from the FDA on March 19, 2010 with a series of questions regarding the MelaFind PMA application. The Company was advised that the application was not approvable at that time, and that the review process had been extended by a period of up to 180 days following the submission of the response to the FDA action letter.
A draft response was submitted to the FDA in mid-April. In addition, the Company also had an in-person meeting with the Agency to review its draft response and to clarify several questions. The final formal response to all questions provided by the FDA was submitted to the Agency on May 7, 2010.
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MELA Sciences will host a conference call today at 8:30 AM EDT. To participate in the conference call, dial 866-543-6405 and use passcode 23013585. International callers may dial 617-213-8897 using the same passcode. In addition, a live audio of the conference call will be available over the Internet. Interested parties can access the event through the investor relations section of www.melasciences.com. For a direct link, click: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=191863&p=irol-irhome.
If you are unable to participate in the live call, a replay will be available at 888-286-8010, with passcode 63228150, from 11:30 AM EDT on May 26, 2010 until June 2, 2010. International callers may access the replay by dialing 617-801-6888, using the same passcode. The webcast will also be available at www.melasciences.com for the same period.
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Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer, responsible for approximately 80% of skin cancer fatalities. The melanoma rate has continued to increase with an estimated 120,000 new cases projected in 2010. A recent National Cancer Institute report published in the July 10, 2008 online edition of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology indicates that annual incidence of melanoma among young adult Caucasian women rose 50% between 1980 and 2004. Melanoma is the most common cancer in women age 25 to 29 and the number one cancer killer of women age 30 to 35. Although no cure is currently available for advanced-stage melanoma, if caught early, melanoma is virtually 100% curable.
About MELA Sciences
MELA Sciences is a medical technology company focused on developing MelaFind®, a non-invasive and objective computer vision system intended to aid in the early detection of melanoma. MELA Sciences designed MelaFind to assist in the evaluation of pigmented skin lesions, including atypical moles, which have one or more clinical or historical characteristics of melanoma, before a final decision to biopsy has been rendered. MelaFind acquires and displays multi-spectral (from blue to near infrared) digital images of pigmented skin lesions and uses automatic image analysis and statistical pattern recognition to help identify lesions to be considered for biopsy to rule out melanoma.
The MelaFind Pre-Market Approval (PMA) application was filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in June 2009 and is currently under review at the FDA. MELA Sciences cannot predict either the timing of the FDA's decision on the PMA application or the outcome. FDA approval is required prior to marketing MelaFind in the United States.
For more information on MELA Sciences, visit www.melasciences.com.
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Last month we traveled to McConnells, South Carolina for the wedding of Brooke and Rendrick Taylor. After enjoying our engagement session with them back in January, we couldn't wait to meet up again to photograph and celebrate their wedding day. Two Clemson grads, beautiful weather, and the perfect venue … needless to say, we had a wonderful time! Brooke and Rendrick are perfect together and it was a joy being able to capture their love.
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MEXICO CITY - Club América secured its first domestic title since 2005, overcoming Cruz Azul on penalties on Sunday after the second leg of 2013 Liga MX Clausura final.
Two goals in the last four minutes gave América a 2-1 win at the Estadio Azteca that forced extra time, since the first leg had ended in a 1-0 victory for Cruz Azul. In the end, it was decided by penalties and the Eagles outlasted 'La Máquina' 4-2 in a classic Mexican duel that will live long in the memory.
The contest started in favor of the visitors when in the 13th minute América was left a man down. Jesús Antonio Molina was issued a straight red for a foul on Pablo Barrera, leaving his team with the disadvantage of ultimately having to play with ten men for 107 minutes.
In the 20th minute, Cruz Azul struck first via its extraordinary ability to counterattack. Teofilo Gutiérrez used his tremendous speed on the right side to get past defender Aquivaldo Mosquera and beat goalkeeper Moisés Muñoz to make it 1-0.
Twenty minutes later, América should have equalized through Raul Jiménez. The 22-year-old forward received a tremendous pass from Christian Benitez and was one-on-one with Cruz Azul goalkeeper Jesús Corona. But like he did so many times in the first leg last Thursday, Corona made a magnificent stop.
In the second half, América went all out, but were initially let down by its final touch. Cruz Azul nearly sealed the series in the 73rd minute, but Christian Giménez's shot hit the inside part of the post and incredibly did not go in.
The drama, though, was still to come and it appeared in the 89th minute as Mosquera headed past Corona to make it 2-1 in the aggregate.
Three minutes later, the Eagles miraculously equalized in the dying seconds from an own-goal. A header by América goalkeeper Muñoz was deflected by Cruz Azul midfielder Alejandro Castro into his own net.
The 2-2 aggregate forced extra time and with the euphoria of their great comeback giving them a huge lift, América searched for the decisive goal in the 30 additional minutes. They had two great chances, in the 100th and 104th minutes, but Corona came up with huge saves each time.
The Mexico City rivals went to penalties, where two Cruz Azul misses proved decisive, while América converted each of its attempts, including the fourth one taken by Miguel Layún that earned América the 11th league championship in its history.
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Recipe details
The moist and flavoursome wholemeal loaf freezes well.
- Low fat cooking spray
- 400g (14oz) bananas
- Finely grated zest and juice of a lime
- 200g (7oz) wholemeal self raising flour
- ½ teaspoon mixed spice
- 75g (2¾ oz) low fat spread
- 110g (4oz) light brown sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- ½ teaspoon runny honey
- You will need a 900g (2lb) loaf tin; non stick baking parchment
- Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 4/180ºC/fan oven 160ºC. Line the base of the loaf tin with the baking parchment and spray with the cooking spray.
- Mash the bananas with the lime zest and juice and set aside. Sift the flour and spice into a mixing bowl, adding any bran left in the sieve and rub in the low fat spread with your fingers until well combined. Stir in the sugar.
- Stir the banana mixture and the beaten eggs into the flour until smooth, then spoon into the prepared tin. Bake for 1 hour or until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Drizzle over the honey. Leave to cool, store in an airtight container for 3 days or slice and freeze.


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Patrick Collinson, internationally renowned historian of 16th-century England and Tudor-Stuart religion, will examine how the Protestant Reformation "invented" an England which, as a fully sovereign state and church, was no longer subject to the Roman papacy. Reformation England, which Shakespeare proudly called "this England...this happy breed, this little world, this blessed plot," understood itself as a biblical people, a chosen and exceptional nation, starkly confronting the dark power of "popery." The text of the Bible in English, the inspired translation of William Tyndale, was at the heart of this national birth.
Under the influence of the Reformation, English literature reached an exceptional height. The Elizabethan age produced great literary works which were in their essence definitions and descriptions of this newly imagined England: John Foxe's "Book of Martyrs," Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene," William Camden's "Britannia," Shakespeare's history plays, and the book which looked toward an as yet non-existent American Empire, Richard Hakluyt's "Principall Navigations of the English Nation."
Collinson is a Fellow of Trinity College and emeritus Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. He has held academic chairs at the Universities of Sydney, Australia, Kent and Sheffield. His contributions to the field have earned him honorary degrees from the Universities of York, Kent at Canterbury, Sheffield, Essex and Oxford and Trinity College, Dublin.
For his ground-breaking research Collinson has been recognized as a Commander of the British Empire, and a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has written broadly on the spread and legacy of Protestantism in 16th-century England, and is the author of eight major books.


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Shah Rukh Khan to turn distributor with 'Dilwale'?
Shah Rukh Khan's production house steps into the distribution realm with 'Dilwale'
More than a decade after its launch as a production company, Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment (RCE) has branched out into the distribution market with Rohit Shetty's Dilwale featuring the star himself opposite Kajol.
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A source says, "Red Chillies is now planning to expand its business and convert itself into one of the biggest studios in the country. Apart from co-producing Dilwale, it has also taken up the responsibility of distribution in India as well as abroad. As of now, the film has been sold to exhibitors in major trade centres like Delhi-Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Nizam, Rajasthan and Central Province at the highest rates ever. The business expected is nearly R280 crore."
Gaurav Verma, chief revenue officer, RCE, confirms the development and says, "We want to upgrade Red Chillies into a film studio. So, the basic function is not only to make a film, but also exploit the other avenues. We will be working with partners across all platforms, but it will largely be controlled by us. Our films are mostly marketed and distributed based on merit and we understand the expectation the film carries not just from us but the audience as well. And we know how to cater to that expectation."
Red Chillies' distribution will not be limited to home productions, adds Verma.
What are their plans to maximise business as Dilwale is all set to clash with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus, Bajirao Mastani this December? "We will work equally hard irrespective of which film releases with us. Our commitment level doesn't go up or down. What others are doing is their prerogative."
On being asked about the audience being divided, he said, "We will get to know whether the audience is divided on the Friday in December. It is too early to talk about it. The film is set to release 6 months later."


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How To Interest Your Wife In Baseball: 5 Easy Steps
Growing up, I always wanted to enjoy watching baseball with my wife. Somehow, I forgot to include that in my requirements prior to marriage, and wound up with a loving wife, who didn't love baseball.
For myself, I started young watching Cubs Spring Training games in Mesa with my father. She grew up with volleyball and hockey. I don't have many friends who are avid baseball fans like me. I needed a kindred spirit and who better than my wife? I was going to convert my wife into a Diamondbacks fan, but I knew the conversion was going to require subtlety. And it only took 5 steps.
1. Introducing her to the Baseball Experience
Getting my wife to agree to join me wasn't difficult. Getting her to enjoy the game was more so.
Mistake I Made: Going for the cheap bleacher seats. These were uncomfortable, and I think we ended up leaving in the fourth or fifth inning.
How I Corrected It: The next time we went, I made sure to look for tickets in the more comfortable bucket seats. Now we were staying for whole games at a time.
2. Promotions and Give-Aways
Now that I had her going to games and sitting through them all, it was time for a reward. Getting something free adds to the experience.
Mistake I Made: The first game with a give-away was opening day, and we all got stuff. The next time the give-aways were for children only and I forgot about that.
How I Corrected it: Going to a game with bobble-heads. This was a fun item that gave her something to remember about the experience.
3. Asking Questions
There's a lot to baseball, and some of it needs to be explained (balks, strategies, pinch hitting for the pitcher)
Mistake I made: Trying to explain the game completely before hand. Information overload and loss of interest.
How I Corrected it: My wife likes to observe things and try to figure them out herself. Though I wanted to explain everything, I knew that I may come off as condescending. Only when she was ready to ask a question would I explain, and leave it at that. She's now picking up on strategies and asking questions about why players/managers make certain decisions.
4. Team Shop
Not every game has a give-away, and while budgets need to be kept, buying something for her in the team shop helped her connect to the team, the game, and the entire community experience.
Mistake I Made: Buying what I thought she would like.
How I Corrected it: Allowing her to buy what she wants. Bonus: Victoria's Secret has an MLB section with t-shirts, yoga pants and more. This is a "prettier" option that allows her to have something from her favourite store while connecting with the game.
5. Televised Games
Watching baseball games on television has its pros and cons
Mistake I Made: Having her watch games before watching any at the field. Television allows for a lot of distractions with commercials, internet access, phone calls. All of it takes you out of the experience and can bring a "this game is too long/boring" complaint.
How I Corrected it: We stopped trying to watch baseball on TV until I felt I had built enough interest at the field. Now interested, she started enjoying the game on television. The benefit to the TV is the broadcasters helping explain what she sees on the field, as well as a better view of the game over all.
As the 2011 season progressed, she emerged from "passive observer" to a genuine fan. Part of this may have been due to the Diamondbacks breakout season, but she also began to enjoy the game for what it is. She loved watching Ryan Roberts, Gerardo Parra, and Justin Upton. In the 2012 season when Ryan Roberts was traded, she was angry for days. She also gets a kick out of the music each player chooses (or rolls her eyes when a country song comes on).
While other factors existed as well (she maintains that it also helped that she found many of these Dbacks players as "hot"), these five tips helped me bring a new fan to the game.
David Culver is an avid baseball fan along with his wife. He will receive a degree in English with a minor in Social Justice from ASU this May. Find his blog at dfculver.mlblogs.com and on Twitter @dfculver.


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The hip-hop pioneer discusses the current state of the rap culture and his new digital album, "The Black in Man."
Hip-hop artist Chuck D
Tavis: As a founding member of the renowned hip-hop group, Public Enemy, Chuck D has always used his musical artistry as a way to investigate what needs to change in this country.
His latest solo release, "The Black in Man," continues in that vein, calling out so many of the current crop of rap artists for selling young people a steady diet of materialism instead of promoting pride. Let's take a look at a clip from the new digital album. The song is called "Give We the Pride" and features one Mavis Staples.
Tavis: You know, most folk don't last in this game as long as you have. To what do you attribute a 30-year career [laugh]?
Chuck D: Paying attention to Miss Mavis.
Tavis: Yeah [laugh].
Chuck D: 30-year career, but she has a 50 or 60-year career and I'm enlightened and enamored with. I have an opportunity to be able to stay in currency with people like that. And that's the inspiration to keep me going on. Just look into our history. Look into our catalog of giving. And that is one of the greatest feelings in my life.
And we started that project talking about it like more than 10 years ago and we finally came together. It was a bunch of people, divided souls. These guys were producing. It just happened in a wonderful way in spirit.
Tavis: But you will admit and acknowledge, though, that hip-hop music has a way of discarding artists relatively quickly. I mean…
Chuck D: Especially in the United States. But all I do is look at that map behind you and that's one of the things that Public Enemy was able to do.
The minute we got our passports, which is a privilege and also is derogatory because it makes it alien to visit the planet earth without permission, we ventured out to the world with the word. And that was the thing that was the saving grace for Public Enemy.
Tavis: One has to be impressed when one realizes that you all have toured in 83 countries…
Chuck D: 96 countries.
Tavis: So I'm off now. I'm a little behind. 96 countries?
Chuck D: Well, it happens when you keep going on.
Tavis: I'm a little off on my count.
Chuck D: No, no. You're fine.
Tavis: But that's a lot of countries, though, Chuck.
Chuck D: It's over 200 in the world. We're halfway there. Brother Osborne Muhammad used to always make me envious when he used to tell me the amount of countries that he visited. We have these conversations in Ghana.
I said, "Brother Osborne, how many countries have you been to?" He said, "Oh, I'm at 161." And that always gave me the impetus to just like try to strive forward. Also, we're going because the music is around the world. Music is the universal language.
You know, I tell people, I said, yes, I'm determined to be Black in America. I'm Negro on my birth certificate, but in truth, I'm a human being who's an earthizen 'cause I'm citizen of the planet earth and I'm a culturist because culture brings that human race together and knocks government law to the side.
And that's been first and foremost what we been trying to push out as being, yeah, you know, we are equal too. We're equal people too. And we're fighting the music to prove that.
Tavis: I want to talk about fighting the music in a second. What's the most significant or one of the most significant takeaways from your being able to see firsthand how your music plays, is embraced, in so many countries around the globe? What's the takeaway for you from that?
Chuck D: Human beings versus maybe unfair government, unfair rule, abuse of authority which we even witness here. Abuse of authority as with the Mike Brown murder and just how a police state has taken over a sense of government of the people.
And we've seen that the words that are spoken through song sometimes can actually give a universal law to people by challenging the things that are unjust and unfair. We didn't make it up. But it's also something that we have to learn that, before us, there's a Curtis Mayfield, there's a Pete Seeger. You know, people who we've lost in human life, but their spirit still lives.
So it was something that you have to pay attention to. If you're gonna be about it, then you should learn where it comes from. And we've been fortunate and blessed to be able to take that page and be able to make it perpetuity.
Tavis: Since you went there with the murder of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, what's your sense of the relevance of the lyrical content in "Fight the Power" all these years later?
Chuck D: When power's abusing people from really being at the top of their human being, then you have to challenge that. And people tell you that talk is cheap. Words are not cheap because they motivate action or they even motivate defense. So when it came down to that, it's not just the same old story, but it's almost reverting back to the old story of plantation owners, slaves, don't go nowhere.
When you have a police force in a neighborhood that don't live there, people don't treat their children as if they would their own, and then you got this alien animosity pawns in the game type of thing festering, you know, partially it is our community that has to address our youth in telling them because of your characteristics in this country, you are an endangered species.
You are almost like part of a hunting game. So we have to supply them with the tools of self. And when we don't do that as a collective and we're individualized, we got this going from we into me.
It's an issue that really sometimes sets our youth up to just be fodder for a system where they're not suffering being killed in the streets from their own confusion, being killed by authority because of the confusion of that relationship or unrelationship or just being thrown in these cages where they almost have three million folks in jail looking to have another two million leading to a prison industrial complex that has turned into the spark for such a big business to bring the USA back on up financially.
Tavis: This will sound strange, but I want to quote Bill O'Reilly for just a second here [laugh].
Chuck D: Okay, here we go. Fellow Long Islander, right?
Tavis: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fellow Long Islander. Only because when he made this comment some days ago, it got picked up in a variety of places. I was not in L.A., but I saw this when it hit the internet. And what he basically said was in response to what you've just laid out.
What you just laid out, you would define as truth. Bill O'Reilly says it's grievance, grievance, grievance. That's all you hear. Grievance, grievance, grievance. And he's not the only one that feels that way. He's preaching to the choir in many respects.
There are a lot of folk who feel even after Mike Brown that it's always us with a grievance. How do you respond to folk who think it's just grievance, grievance, grievance every time they hear you or me show up somewhere?
Chuck D: So? So? And? He has grievance. Grievance is the best way of putting it to the fear of action when people actually really realize what it is and they get together and they start to, you know, say, all right, this is what it's gonna come down to.
So grievance is a good thing and it gives you time to take care of it. I mean, here in 2014 going into 2015, Tavis, you have been the guiding light to many people to clear a lot of misinformation.
We have very few of these sparks that are in this mass media of confusion. So if we don't pay attention to the sparks that we have to be able to energize and create our own bonfire of energies, then, yeah, I mean, people will continue to talk for us. People will continue to talk at us, down to us.
And that's why the music really kind of truncates it into a social media world. Music gives you a headline, gives you a story and able to knock that word down and also make you able to nod your head to it in agreement or even disagreement.
So the music can kind of truncate in these times, you know, a point of view to get across, but then it's gotta cut through big business which is a big problem with me today. I don't blame the rappers. I blame their corplantations that make them sign.
99% of them take up and they soak up all of radio. They soak up all of television and then, at the end of the day, people want to blame teenagers and youth or people in their 20s for being confused. The media has totally been misappropriated by people who spook by the door.
Tavis: I promise I'll give you all the time left in this conversation to blast corporate America in one second…
Chuck D: No, no, I won't. Too many things to talk about.
Tavis: I may even join you in that [laugh]. But before I jump to that, though, you said something a moment ago that I want to come back to before we move on because I agree with you.
Music is pregnant with power. It is pregnant with power to do a lot in the world. I wonder, though, if it has the power, though, to do what I think needs to be done that hasn't yet been done in our society, and that is to find a way for fellow citizens, particularly those of color, to not have their humanity contested every day.
See, this Michael Brown thing in Missouri, for me, is not so much about Black and white or even wrong and right as it is about the contestation of the dignity and the humanity of these brothers and sisters across the country.
Does music have the power to spark that conversation? And if not music, how do we get to a basic fundamental respect for the dignity and humanity of everyday people?
Chuck D: I think it's really quick. I think when it comes down to music, if it's one-sided and it's a dictation as being a reflection, usually the dictation turns into a reflection, which is unfair. And then people kind of look too much into a music or too much into a speech to actually do the real work of paying attention to people that do the real work.
You know, there's people every day that do the real work of trying to bring people up. But if they're obscured and at the same time people are just getting — we're not talking two or three years.
We're talking about there's a 15 and 16 or 20-year period of the same old thing. I mean, how long is youth, youth? They ain't youth for long. You know, if they're going into their 20s and 30s and consider themselves youth, that's an individual brainwashing thing that's taking place. It's another discussion.
But how long is youth, youth? You know, when somebody says, well, I'm 27, I'm 34 and I'm still young. Who told you that [laugh]? My question a lot of times, people are like, well, who told you that? And they usually can't find somebody that told them. Well, I'm saying. You're saying what? Who told you that you're young?
Yes, you're young in comparison to, but you're not young into your accountabilities and your responsibilities to the realities of trying to, you know, look out and step up and help out and man up or woman up. So I think that challenges these things that's coming out, you know, through these signals.
People doing real things and paying attention to people that do real things and listening and figuring out how do you actually put it into action from conference. I mean, when your show comes on, I go to the YouTube and I figure out how I'm gonna download it.
So if the business I'm in — you have a conversation with Berry Gordy. You have a conversation with Gamble and Huff. You know, I keep these things in my hip on replay to pick up and keep with me so I can go into action with the tools of learning what I dig.
Tavis: So let's get back to this corporate conversation. And my first question is whether or not this is something that happened over time and it's gotten progressively worse or whether it's always been this way where the corporations have the final say. Hadn't that always been the case?
Chuck D: It's always been the case, but we've also had defenses and we've also had community to also tell you what's the deal and what's not the deal. You know, what to like and what not to fall victim to. We don't have the safeguards up there against those situations.
You know, my simple word to actually explain what a corporation is in the millennium is a corplantation where people are slave employees and kind of like happy to be attached to one as opposed to challenging it. I'm saying even in the music — mainly in the music business.
I mean, people want to be secure. If you don't have a sense of yourself, then you want to have somebody that tells you who you are. We used to allow our community and family to tell you who you are, but this is who you is, you know? Now people figured out their worth is based on what job or what position or what finance is telling you who you are in this society.
One of my suggestions I tell people to break that symbolically, if you could, get a passport and find out, you know, imagine if 15 million Negroes across the United States get a passport, that challenges Homeland Security 'cause they'd say where these Negros gonna go [laugh]?
It's becoming more and more difficult to actually get a passport than it was in the last century. So that's something that Black folks could do in this country.
Everybody get a passport not to go to that party in Cancun or to jump off in Toronto, but to be able to say we are citizens of the world. We're earthizens. We're tied to the diaspora. And although I might not have any plans to go anywhere, I might not have no money to go somewhere, but symbolically in my head, I'm attached to this diaspora with an action that I did.
Money is no excuse 'cause we got gear and we got grims and all these things that we purchase as part of the consumption of the United States of America, not America which you gotta include Central and South which they don't. So USAers, you know, can at least make an attempt to get a passport and watch the government try to say "Who dat?" [Laugh]
Tavis: Since you raised that a couple of times, Chuck…
Chuck D: Simple thing to do, yeah.
Tavis: Simple thing. Since you raised that a couple of times, though, what to your mind would be the takeaway for fellow citizens, certainly people of color, African Americans, to get a passport and actually use it?
I mean, I think that travel is one of the great educators, but that's my own sense. So since you're pressing this issue, what do you think the takeaway would be if more of us used those passports to get outside of America and look back on it?
Chuck D: Well, number one, outside of America just means getting out there in the state of mind. People are already outside of America in many ways because of the internet. As a matter of fact, the internet just doesn't invite you to the rest of the world. It invites you into another world which is for even dangerous reasons, a word that's concocted and created within.
Without even getting into that, what we could do is have a state of mind to be able to know that there's a world out there. There's people out there. There's ways out there that we could adapt to figuring out how do we get together at least.
We're not a majority in this country, although you look at television and it'll show you like, okay, the majority of — oh, well, there's Black people in every commercial and there's Asians in almost every commercial.
Yeah, but behind the scenes, it's like, you know, predominantly still a white crew. And we say, okay, what's the ratio makeup of the United States of America? And it's been distorted for a long time.
I've said what Black folks could do to get a step up into at least closer to being equal, even if we don't want to come together, is to understand that we have an international state of mind that we know, you know, the struggles and different places and different people, and our people.
How much we might be talking Africa is like how much Africa you talking? Africa is a gigantic continent full of millions of people that's just not a footnote in your internet blogs or American news. And what do you want to take from it? And what are you gonna give back to it? That's very important.
And being I'm in the area of culture, that exchange is more often than not. And also that exchange is usually so complex that even the corplantation big business kind of keeps their foot out because they don't know how to make that work.
They never figured out how do we make, you know, 15 million Gambians figure into this rapper's album sales [laugh]. They can't figure that one out. It's organic. There's like what stacks. You couldn't really figure it out. If everybody paid a dollar, there was 100,000 people at the L.A. Coliseum and the business people was like we can't make that work, though. I mean, can we get more than a dollar [laugh]?
So Black economy, when it comes down to a lot of different things, it's like sometimes it's cool for them not to figure us out so easy before we figure ourselves out for survival.
Tavis: Before I turn to your project, this new digital project, I want to talk about "The Black in Man" which I'm fascinated by that title which we'll get to. Is there no accountability tonight that you want to apply toward the artist? 'Cause you said earlier, "I'm not mad at the artist, I'm mad at the corporation."
Chuck D: I didn't say I was mad, though. I said I don't blame the artist.
Tavis: Okay, fair enough.
Chuck D: I believe that the question is like the question I told you. How young is young? When somebody say I'm young, I didn't know, I say, Dude, you're 27 years old. You ain't four. You want somebody 16 telling me like I'm young? You ain't three.
No. They're 16, 17, 18 years old. Yeah, men and women, young men and women, you know. We teach a classroom. It helps sometimes calling a 15-year-old a young man or a young woman instead of, okay, we got these kids up in here trying to teach them.
So I challenge artists all the time by saying, okay, look. You wanna be grown in this aspect. How you not gonna be grown in that? You wanna be grown in whoop-whooping. I understand that. You wanna hoo-ride and all that, but accountability and responsibility gotta go with that too when you're grown. So make that mix.
And they don't have the managers that tell them that anymore. They don't have the record labels that tell them that anymore. They feel that, when they want to bring these people in, they don't feel like they're family and that's a problem.
You know, Berry Gordy when he had Motown felt that those artists were family even when they grew into different things. You know, I treat them like my brothers, my sister, my kids. There will be some arguments and there will be some lessons learned.
Gamble and Huff, the same thing. I just think that the separation of we into the individuality of me is the gang signals that went the other way when they should be from me to we. And that makes it — you know, if they're initially not better, it just makes it understandable of what it is and what it ain't.
So when it comes down to artists, I tell them do you really spit what you believe? Do you really spit what you believe? You're 33 years old. You know, don't be giving me the 14-year-old story, man. That's the truth that's like radiation. So I challenge artists very much with themselves, you know.
When it comes down to their owners and their corplantations and these companies, very simple and very briefly, I said, look, when you say you can't make them be more accountable or responsible, one thing you do make them do — and this goes for every single company out there — they make them sign a contract.
If they said they can't make the artist, you make them sign a contract, don't you? And indisputably, they can't say crap to that. Every single artist you see out there on the high level signs a contract. So all this you can't make them accountable and responsible to the area of which they come from, that's a bunch of crap, man.
Tavis: In the minute and half I have left, let me circle that. I could do this all night talking to you, as you know. "The Black in Man," love the title. What's behind that? Why'd you go with that?
Chuck D: Johnny Cash was The Man in Black.
Tavis: Yeah [laugh].
Chuck D: I'm the Black in Man. I can't remove this. You know what I'm saying [laugh]? You know, Johnny Cash was a truthful cat, you know. You know, a big fan of his. Just like Curtis Mayfield and James Brown and Miss Mavis Staples, Miss Yvonne Staples.
You know, the message in music is that there's fantastic music that's behind us that is our future and all we gotta do is pay attention to it.
Tavis: How would you describe the project musically? What's on the project?
Chuck D: 37 minutes of mind, nerve, rhyme and community.
You know, we kind of built it around Miss Mavis. You know, the songwriters and the producers, we made sure that Miss Mavis has the lion's share of the song. That was just a joy.
Tavis: What do you make of the fact that your career has lasted long enough that this is the way you're releasing product now as opposed to vinyl?
Chuck D: Well, Rapstation.com, we have our own radio stations, spit digitals out on aggregation system and the delivery of whatever we want to do. And we help a thousand artists at a time. You know, you got to make up your own rules. We don't ask for anything.
It's like the James Brown thing. We don't ask for anything. We'd like to be able to say that the big situations kind of ease up and level out for the independent, but that's not their thing. So we always gotta fight them. We gotta fight the power.
Tavis: Fight the power. I love it. Rapstation.com is where you can find Chuck D. The new project is called "The Black in Man." I am always, Chuck, honored to have you on this program…
Chuck D: We could talk for days.
Tavis: Anytime we talk, I'm elevated and empowered. So thank you, my friend.
Chuck D: Thank you.
Tavis: Good to have you here. That's our show for tonight. Thanks for watching and, as always, keep the faith.
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India has warned that the "destructive nexus" of drug production and terrorism in Afghanistan posed a threat to stability of South Asia and favoured regional and multilateral cooperation to fight the challenge.
It said Afghanistan, the world's largest opium producer, requires all possible assistance from the international community as the issue is inextricably linked to the security and stability of the country and of the region.
"The destructuve nexus between narcotics cultivation and terrorism confronts the international community once again... The deadly crop is available again to finance terrorism in Afghanistan, with ominous conseqeuences for the country and the whole world," Minister of State for External Affairs E Ahamed told an international conference in Moscow on Wednesday.
There will be long-term social and economic effects, if the Afghan economy is not shielded from the influence of drug money, he said participating in the conference on 'Drug Routes from Afghanistan'.
"In view of the magnitude and complexity of this problem, no country can fight it on its own. The problem has to be tackled at the supply end, as well as on the demand side. Further, drug routes traverse different countries from sources to destinations," he said.
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You need never worry about leaving the toilet seat up again.
That's the bold claim made by Londoner Norman Brooks, the 89-year-old inventor who used more than 60 years of construction industry experience to devise something that, he says, will bring relief to many.
It's the Resno Concealed Waterless Urinal, and it's ready for installation in your home.
At just $295 each, these creations, available now, connect to the plumbing and can be hidden away in any normal wall. You might say they're flush with the wall. Urinals are common enough, Brooks agrees, but this is the first time one's been made specifically for domestic use, he says, and it can be added to any room.
"Probably the most requests that we had over the years from housewives is this," Brooks explained. "Do we have a man's urinal for residential?
"Of course, the answer to that is there isn't anything. The only one available is the big commercial ones that you and I see in the men's public washrooms."
So, finding himself retired at the age of 84 and seeking a project, Brooks decided to invent a urinal that would fit the bill and be "invisible" and "neat." The result is a little door in the wall, with a trough to guide the unwanted liquid where it needs to go.
Now Brooks, who was president of the London Home Builders Association in 1957, has had the device patented, as well as certified under the plumbing codes of Canada and the U.S.
There's a serious environmental benefit, too.
He's had an expert assess how the waterless urinal could reduce water use by removing the need to flush. The claim is now that London could save more than a million gallons of water per day if half of its homes had a Resno urinal, assuming 130,000 homes, averaging 1.3 men per home and all using flush toilets.
That's according to Derek Satnik, managing director of Mindscape Innovations Group, Kitchener, who said 11,825 litres of water per family per year could be saved.
So does Brooks have a waterless urinal in his home?
He made sure of it, after moving into a seniors' home. He had a contractor fit one of his inventions without telling anyone, leading to some gentle concern – now abated – from the home's owner.
"I said, I think after 60 years in construction I know about as much about plumbing as one of your inspectors," Brooks declared.
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Modern science has always been shadowed by an underlying paradox. Its methods have no basis upon which to define consciousness itself, and yet they are dependent upon human consciousness to provide them with all of the "laws" that they work within the context of. In other words, the scientific method can only assert that various things seem to be true insofar as our own perception goes. This is why new findings are constantly replacing old "truths" in its search for objective certainty. It cannot grapple with what sensory perception actually is (outside of the physical organs that perform it), and yet it must rely upon the evidence provided by the five senses as its only verification of truth. Read More →
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By and large, humanity has forgotten the relationship between thoughts and reality. The world that we experience is the reflection of what we carry inside us. Mystics, sages and shamans throughout the ages have tried to remind us of this fact. Western culture has largely turned its back upon such notions, however. Since the Industrial Revolution, we've increasingly viewed the world as something separate from ourselves, and thus not responsive to our inner life – something to be manipulated, tamed and conquered. Within the reality painted by such beliefs, thoughts appear to have no influence; and violence seems like power.
When we're involved in a conflict, it is because something has touched upon an internal wound and/or we're trying to draw energy from those around us in some way. You could apply this to personal strife as well as to larger global conflicts. Both of these stances are fueled by one underlying assumption: That we do not create our reality for ourselves, but are rather at the mercy of an exterior world separate from us.
The acknowledgment of our personal power to create reality is the key to all forms of healing and problem solving; and the misunderstanding of it is the source of all our problems and sufferings, both individually and collectively. When a country wages war upon another for the sake of resources, it is because of an underlying conviction that abundance is not really created from within. Conflict is always fueled by our ignorance of our own divinely creative natures.
This can be an empowering truth. The next time you feel overwhelmed and insignificant in the face of wars and other predicaments on a mass scale, remind yourself that this world is the mirror of your inner condition. You can then take personal responsibility, explore that inner reality, and see where you are contributing to the light and where you are creating darkness. There is no God to thank or Devil to blame. Tracing everything in our life experience back to their sources within us empowers us to direct our lives in the most positive and expansive way. It also implies that all of our conflicts and dilemmas, collectively, can be conquered with the knowledge and application of our true creative power.
No militaries would exist anywhere in the world if we did not carry the seeds of violence within ourselves. Ages ago, the use of force to settle conflicts was inspired by deep fear within our race. Some of that fear persists today, and is projected upon foreign lands that are then proclaimed our enemies. But much of the persistence of war – of the veritable addiction to violence that afflicts so many people in this world – can be attributed to an underlying sense of powerlessness.
From the standpoint of our separation from our deeper selves, hate seems more powerful than love; and war seems more effective than compassion and understanding. If we don't understand and feel the connection between our thoughts and our outer experiences, then it seems to us that manipulating the physical environment is the only way to achieve goals and create change. In that arena, so much of the true thrust of love and consciousness becomes invisible. It seems so ineffective alongside a bomb or a machine gun. In reality, it is so much more powerful. Human consciousness created bombs and machine guns in the first place, long before human hands invented them.
Pearson DG, Ross FD, & Webster VL (2012). The importance of context: evidence that contextual representations increase intrusive memories. Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry, 43 (1), 573-80 PMID: 21867664
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Cosmism isn't necessarily tied towards logical positivism. However, quite a few authors do connect the two. There are some very serious differences between the two philosophies, however. Logical positivists are usually focused on moral relativity and a simple view of ethics.
Cosmism is somewhat silent on these issues, but one could definitely look at cosmism from an idealist point of view. Unlike logical positivism, Russian cosmism espouses a certain code of ethics. These ethics repeatedly reference the exploration of space. Since humanity has become more civil over time, a cosmist might argue that taking a leap into the stars would simply be the next logical development for mankind. Humans would be expected to become more peaceful in space.
The question of how to handle force and violence is always a complicated one. Modern societies have put a state monopoly on the use of force, but many people argue that peace-loving citizens should be able to defend themselves when the time comes. No amount of philosophical discussion can truly decide how futuristic societies will handle their criminals. Cosmism has an optimistic view on this, however. It seems to suggest that criminal behavior will be on the way out when people live in space colonies.


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The Cure: In the Kitchen
This week in the Cure we're in the kitchen, cleaning from top to bottom, and then enjoying a home cooked meal. If dinner isn't your thing, don't be afraid to go for making a great breakfast. We've rounded up some great breakfast recipes and inspiration from our sister site,the kitchn. Read it all after the cut:
This week you're cleaning every inch of that kitchen or as much as you have time for. Throw out old food, donate food you know you won't eat, re-assess whether or not you really use all those dishes, really love all those knick knacks, and really need the waffle maker out on the counter. Your job is to clean off the countertop and use your Outbox. Then you'll have the space to cook:


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MBTA says problem ramp at Braintree station will be fixed by Monday
Jessica Bartlett
For two weeks, commuters who get dropped off at the Braintree MBTA station have been greeted with construction fences and forbidding signs, warning them that the ramp to drop-off or pick-up travelers has been temporarily closed.
T officials say expect to have the problem fixed by Monday morning, but the problem has caused discontent among travelers.
Officials say the issue is with the concrete on the ramp, which has closed the Ivory Street entrance to the pick-up/drop-off area of the garage. Unless commuters use the ramp off Union Street, they are rerouted to the bus and taxi pick-up lanes, which causes complications.
"This creates a traffic backup and doesn't provide adequate temporary parking for those waiting to pick someone up," said Todd Maddock, a Duxbury resident who drops his daughter off at the garage frequently. "If you do, however, enter the garage/drop/pickup area from the elevated ramp [off Union Street], there are now fewer cars waiting in the garage so this situation is actually an improvement over what is usually a clogged mess."
Melissa Manganello, a Braintree resident, said she tries to walk to the station when she can. But on recent, colder days, she either was dropped off or took the bus.
Either method has proven hazardous with the newly installed traffic configuration, with people parked all over the exit lanes in areas that are typically for moving traffic, and confusion over where to go.
"What I've experienced Monday was when I was leaving, it was mayhem. The buses couldn't get through, there was no one directing, there weren't even any taxis – bet they couldn't even get in," Manganello said.
Manganello said the situation improved throughout the week, with MBTA officers there to direct traffic and ease congestion. Increased signs have also helped, "but it's still not the best set-up," she said.
The main problem stems with the Transit Authority's lack of ownership around the garage, Manganella said.
"I've had a couple of experiences, where the people at the T are just so rude to passengers coming in from the garage to say it's slippery, or there are no spots but the sign says it's open…and they say we have nothing to do with the garage, which is a problem, people are using the garage to access the public service," she said.
Manganella said she saw a tweet alerting her to the closure, so she wasn't too surprised to see the change.
For Maddock, the only thing not surprising is the lack of maintenance.
"Not only does this garage have inadequate parking and a poorly designed drop/pickup area, but it obviously has not been maintained by the MBTA. Makes you wonder, what they do with the money that people pay to park there?" he said.
According to MBTA Spokesperson Joe Pestaturo, the T is working on handling the maintenance issues.
"The Braintree garage is safe, and to keep it that way, a rehabilitation project is in the works. The project is currently in the design phase," Pestaturo said in an email.
Furthermore the MBTA's Engineering Maintenance Department will be making repairs to the closed pick-up/drop-off area this weekend.
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Just before Christmas, Karen asked me if I could write about our typical unschooling days. I spoke about this topic in a podcast a few months ago, so I thought I'd share some of what I said in a short series of posts.
Today, I'm starting with our morning routine. Routine? That doesn't sound very unschooly, does it?
We all get up early in the morning. If it's one of the warmer months of the year, we might go for a run together. Usually, that's the girls and me. When we get back, we shower, breakfast, do the chores, say our prayers together before getting on with the more exciting work of the day. We meet up for morning coffee. We eat meals together. We spend time together in the evening if there are no after-dinner commitments, and we all go to bed at reasonable times, so we can get up early again the next morning and do it all over again.
Now that sounds really ordinary, doesn't it? It could be anyone's life. Don't we want to be like some unschoolers and lie in bed late in the mornings? We could read books without getting out of bed just because we can. Don't we want to get up and wander around in our PJs, turn on the computer and play computer games first thing in the morning? Why do we look at the clock and decide it's lunch time? We could just grab something to eat while we're working, whenever we feel like it. If we're in the middle of doing something interesting late at night, why stop and go to bed? We could sleep in the next morning, couldn't we? There aren't any rules. We could unschool like that. That sounds much more exciting (than what we do). I also think it sounds much more typical of an unschooling life.
Sometimes I do feel like living that type of life, doing things when and where I feel like it. But I don't. I think that there are advantages to living the type of life we do. Of course, each family is very different. But for us, this type of lifestyle suits us very well. We have a rhythm to our days. Everybody's individual timetables are in tune with each other, so this means we spend a lot of time together. I think we would miss out on so much if we lived a more haphazard type of existence.
For example, if we all got up at odd times of the day, we'd miss out on running together in the cool of the morning in summer. That's a really lovely time of day. It can get very hot in summer and the days are draining. You don't feel like exercising when the sun's beating down. But first thing in the morning, on an Australian summer's day, it is beautiful. We get outside before the sun has really warmed up the day, and walk down to the bush and hear the kookaburras laughing. We might see a kangaroo if we're early enough. We've seen a few lyrebirds in the trees. They are all very special sights, and we get to see them because we're up early. Sometimes we're up so early we see the sun rising over the gum trees. And then we exercise our bodies, come home tired but feeling very satisfied. Yes, we've started the day off well. I find it's worth getting up early to experience all of this…
… Now I've told you how I feel about it, and I assume my girls feel exactly the same way because they freely choose to get up and come with me. Sometimes I say, "I can go on my own tomorrow. You sleep in. You must be tired. You were out late." (They might have gone to a choir practice or some other function.) I don't expect them to come running with me. I get up. I get myself ready. I go out to the kitchen to get my water bottle and there they'll be, lacing up their shoes… I guess it's important to them as well.We don't always run first thing in the morning before our breakfast. We find it's too cold in winter. It's also very dark. Not good running conditions. So we prefer to run in the middle of the day. That's when it's warmest…
…But we still get up early even though we don't get up to run. We get up to do our morning routine: to shower, have breakfast, do our chores, say prayers together before we get on with what we really want to do.
I said it's not easy… When I wake up in the morning, all I really want to do is get on with the things I want to do. My head's always buzzing with things that I could do doing: some blog posts I want to write, a video I want to make, something I want to do that is much more interesting than the morning routine. I don't even really want to hop into the shower. I just want to get out of bed, stay in my pyjamas and go off to the family room, start up my computer, get going with my work.
I wonder if my children feel the same way. Do they want to stay in bed and read all those books that are piled up beside their beds? And maybe if I did wander around in my pyjamas, ignoring the chores and just doing what I want to do, my children would then choose to do what they want to do as well. But they seem to follow my example. They won't let me do the chores by myself. They want to pitch in and help.We all know that our day is going to run smoother if we have done those chores first. We like living in a clean and tidy house. We like being able to find things. It's very frustrating when you can't find things because there's a mess everywhere. We like things in their place. We're not perfectionists. We have a certain level of untidiness, but that's work in progress. But basically, we do like to sweep the floors, clean the bathrooms, have the dishes washed, have some plans for what we're going to cook for dinner, have the washing on the line. And then, yes, the day is ours. The adventures can begin.
This transcription was taken from episode 41 of my unschooling podcast: Chores and Our Typical Unschooling Day
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Rodgers: We Were Worthy Winners
Brendan Rodgers said his Swansea City side were worthy winners yesterday as they beat Leicester City 2-0 at the Liberty Stadium.
Brendan Rodgers made a vital substitute at the start of the second half, replacing Stephen Dobbie with Marvin Emnes - and he took less than 5 minutes to make an impact as he gave us the lead with an impressive strike.
Rodgers said:
'We were well worthy of that win today and we now have four clean sheets in a row. We have a real desire not to concede goals and I think we've added a bit of excitement and flair at the other end of the pitch.
'Our intensity and our pressure was really good and allowed us to get the ball back quickly. I was very, very proud with the performance because Leicester are a good team with an international class manager.
'In the first half Leicester were playing deep in defence and I just sensed we needed to change things.
'Stephen Dobbie likes to get the ball into feet and get into the box, but it just wasn't happening. Once you get the sense that you need to change then I'm not worried if it is after 45, 50 or 60 minutes.
'Marvin knows the system here and he came on and was fantastic. We won the ball back really well, and Darren Pratley's pass for him was exquisite, then Marvin showed great strength and pace to finish terrifically well.'


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A Message from Cynthia Stocklaufer
Just wanted to give you a quick update. Gary had surgery on Friday. He is now home and doing well. Now we have one more family member to get home and that is Baby Max. We are praying that the courts will grant us a rehearing soon. Everyday he is not here is another day we can never get back. I'm sure he is growing and learning new things. We miss him so very much. Bobby dreams about him on a regular basis and questions me about when can he see his brother. When will the judge let his brother come home? He misses him. It is heartbreaking. I have to remind him that God gives us free will and sometimes people really mess it up. Bobby told his Daddy (Gary) that he was letting him have surgery only so the judge would let his Brother come home. But he doesn't want him to lose too much, he wants him to stay the same because he loves him. We are wearing baby blue ribbons until Baby Max comes home. We will continue on this journey knowing God will bring Max home.Cynthia Stocklaufer
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Call for responsible dog owners following attack
The Wellington Council says police are investigating whether charges should be laid against the owner of two dogs who attacked a man at the weekend.
A 74 year old man remains in hospital with injuries to his chest arms and legs, after two dogs from a neighbouring property dug under a fence and attacked him on Saturday.
The council's general manager Michael Tolhurst says the dogs, a cattle dog cross and bullmastiff cross, have been put down.
Mr Tolhurst says while the dogs are not restricted breeds, council is working with police to determine whether the owner took proper precautions to secure the animals.
"It was inadequate fencing obviously in that they got under it, but if a dog wants to get out of a normal suburban fence, they're pretty clever so they can get themselves out and about but that's certainly one of the issues that we're still having a look at," he said.
He says neither of the dogs had a record of being nuisance animals with the council.
"Generally since January 2011 we've only had nine attacks involving people in the Wellington area which is actually, which is nine too many but it's not too bad considering I guess," he said.
"I think it just reiterates the issue of people and their responsibilities in relation to their pets, that they really do have to look after them and ensure that they're adequately trained."
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Author Notes: I first had fruit salsa, served over grilled fish, at a restaurant in British Columbia, and fell in love. I don't remember where I got the idea to combine my absolute favorite fruit--nectarines--with my absolute favorite herb--mint--but I'm so, so glad I did. Serve this over grilled fish steaks for a gourmet summertime treat. —ieatthepeach
Makes about 4 cups
- 3 large firm nectarines, pitted and diced
- 1 red, orange, or yellow bell pepper, seeded and diced
- 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and minced very fine
- 1/3 large red onion, diced
- 1 tablespoon fresh mint, chopped
- Juice of 1 lime
- Salt to taste
- Combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix thoroughly. Refrigerate for at least an hour before serving, to give all the flavors time to meld.
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