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Are you suffering with back pain? If you are, you are among the majority. That's right, around 80% of the population deals with back pain at some point in their life. If you fall into this category, you know the annoyance that is caused by frequent back pain. As you know, back pain can interfere with every facet of life. It can make bending over difficult and cause you to become irritable, making it hard for you to participate as you once did in social activities. In essence, it takes away the life you once had and leaves you with one void of the joy you once experienced. The solution to this problem is to understand what causes back pain in the first place. Do you know the culprit could be your thighs and/or hips?
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The Apache HTTP Server is designed to be a powerful and flexible web server that can work on a very wide variety of platforms in a range of different environments. Different platforms and different environments often require different features, or may have different ways of implementing the same feature most efficiently. Apache has always accommodated a wide variety of environments through its modular design. This design allows the webmaster to choose which features will be included in the server by selecting which modules to load either at compile-time or at run-time.
Apache 2.0 extends this modular design to the most basic functions of a web server. The server ships with a selection of Multi-Processing Modules (MPMs) which are responsible for binding to network ports on the machine, accepting requests, and dispatching children to handle the requests.
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What Happens When You Don't Wear Sunglasses?
Sunglasses aren't just a fashion statement. Wearing sunglasses on a regular basis is a simple way to protect your vision and avoid common eye diseases and conditions.
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Too much sun is just as bad for your eyes as it is for your skin. When you spend time in the sun without adequate protection, you may be more likely to develop a variety of eye issues, ranging from corneal "sunburns" to cataracts. Eye conditions associated with sun exposure include:
- Photokeratitis: Photokeratitis occurs when your corneas are exposed to intense sunlight. The condition is particularly common if you spend the day on the beach or on the ski slopes, as both snow and sand intensify the effects of the sun. This sunburn-like condition can cause redness, blurred vision, tearing and sensitivity to light. You might also feel as if there's something stuck in your eyes. Photokeratitis generally only lasts about one or two days but can be very painful.
- Pterygium: Pterygium, also known as "surfer's eye", can happen to anyone who spends long hours in the sun without wearing appropriate eye protection. The condition causes fleshy, raised bumps to appear on the whites of the eyes. If the condition isn't treated promptly, the growth can cover the cornea, affecting vision, or may even cause astigmatism. Mild cases are treated with medicated drops, while more serious growths may require surgery.
- Macular Degeneration: Sun exposure may be a factor in the development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The condition causes a blind spot in the center of your vision and is a leading cause of vision loss in people 50 and older, according to the National Eye Institute. Although there is currently no effective treatment for AMD, low vision aides can help you make the most of your usable vision.
- Cataracts: The sun also plays a role in the formation of a cataract, or cloudy lens. The lens of your eye focuses light rays on your retina and is necessary for clear vision. When it clouds, you may experience blurry or faded vision, halos around lights, double vision, light sensitivity and difficulty driving at night. Cataracts are removed during outpatient surgery when they begin to affect the quality of your life.
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Whether you're concerned about an eye condition, need prescription sunglasses or are due for an exam, we're committed to helping you maintain your vision. Contact us to schedule your next appointment.
National Eye Institute: Keep Your Eyes Healthy: Wear Sunglasses
American Optometric Association: Overlooking the Importance of UV Protection: Only 40 Percent of Americans Wear Sunglasses to Safeguard Vision, 5/20/13
American Academy of Ophthalmology: How to choose the Best Sunglasses, 5/1/15
Skin Cancer Foundation: How Sunlight Damages the Eyes, 12/7/12
National Eye Institute: Facts About Age-Related Macular Degeneration, 9/15
The Vision Council: For Millions of Americans, Missing Sunglasses Mean Harmful Exposure to UV, 5/15/12


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This is the time of year when one man's work is widely — if indirectly — celebrated. His name used to be hugely famous, but nowadays, it draws blank stares, even from people who know that work. We're speaking about E.T.A. Hoffmann, original author of The Nutcracker.
You may have seen Hoffman's name recently in Matthew Guerrieri's new book The First Four Notes: Beethoven's Fifth and the Human Imagination. Guerrieri says that one of the most influential reviews of that work was written in 1810 by E.T.A. Hoffmann, not long after the symphony was first performed. "It was really both the first extended review of the Fifth Symphony that we have," he tells NPR's Robert Siegel, "and it was also really this one particular review that is the bridge between Beethoven as a composer of the classical era and Beethoven as this sort of almost musical mascot of the German Romantic movement, which really became one of the most long-lasting and persistent images of Beethoven that we have."
But here's a crucial detail about Hoffmann's review — when he wrote it, he hadn't actually heard the Fifth Symphony. He had only read the score. "It's a feat of imagination in a lot of ways, but it would have been standard for the time," Guerrieri says. "But it also explains why it's a review much more about the nuts and bolts of the piece of music than how it actually would be experienced in a concert hall, and I think it's one of the reasons that he's able to, in the review, talk about the experience of it in a language and in a manner that's far more heightened than we would ever really experience."
Before he delved into the musical play-by-play of his review, Hoffmann wrote that music "reveals an unknown kingdom to mankind: a world that has nothing in common with the outward, material world that surrounds it, and in which we leave behind all predetermined conceptual feelings in order to give ourselves up to the inexpressible."
"To our ears, that sounds very esoteric and very high-flown," Guerrieri says, "but what the Romantics were really trying to do — and Hoffmann was very much a member in good standing of the German Romantic movement — they were, they had this problem of trying to put into language how we experience beauty."
Hoffmann was actually named Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, but he changed the Wilhelm to Amadeus out of admiration for Mozart. And he didn't just write about music, he also composed it. He drew, he painted and — again, here's the connection to this time of year — Hoffmann wrote stories, spooky tales that trespassed the border between fantasy and reality. They were such famous stories that other composers readthem and set them to to music throughout the 19th century — for example, Jacques Offenbach's opera, The Tales of Hoffmann.
One of the episodes in The Tales of Hoffmann is based on a story called "The Sandman," in which evil inventors create a robotic girl. It was also — loosely — the basis for Leo Delibes' comic ballet Coppelia, about the misadventures of a young man who falls in love with a life-size dancing doll.
Inanimate things come to life in many of Hoffmann's stories. He was a champion of the imagination run wild. Retired University of Minnesota German professor Jack Zipes says Hoffmann was rebelling against the dominant movement of the time, the Enlightenment, and its emphasis on rational philosophy. "He believed strongly, as most of the German Romantics at that time, that the imagination was being attacked by the rise of rationalism ... throughout Europe," Zipes tells Siegel. "The only way that an artist could survive would be to totally become dedicated to another way of looking at the world, and to reclaiming nature, reclaiming innocence, reclaiming an authentic way of living."
One of Hoffmann's stories was adapted by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It was the tale of a little girl, Marie, and her Christmas toys. Hoffmann's title for it was "Nutcracker and Mouse King."
In this original version, a Marie worries about a beautiful nutcracker that's been broken. At night, she goes to check up on it. To her surprise, it has come alive, and a story-within-the-story begins: armies of mice and toy soldiers battle in what is either the child's delirious nightmare, or perhaps another reality into which she wanders.
Alexandre Dumas altered that original version, making it lighter and less scary. And in 1892 a team of Russians turned Dumas' version into a ballet. The Nutcracker did not enjoy great success at first, but the music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky eventually did. And staging it has become a Christmas season ritual, sugar plums and all.
But something happened to Hoffmann's story in this progression from dark to light: Marie became Klara. Her flights of imagination became sweeter and more tame. And her real life family — called Silberhaus (which is German for "Silver House") in the ballet — became sweeter, too.
"What is interesting are the names, sometimes, that Hoffmann uses sometimes in 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,'" says German professor Jack Zipes. "The family in his story, in contrast to the ballet, is called Stahlbaum, which means 'steel tree.'" Marie, Hoffmann's protagonist, "is imprisoned within the regulations of the family, the family follows rituals in a prescribed way, and she feels somewhat constrained by this."
Then, Marie's strange and provocative godfather, Drosselmeier, appears.
"It's very difficult to translate the word 'Drosselmeier,' but it's somebody who stirs things up," Zipes says. "And Drosselmeier certainly shakes things up. He brings these amazing toys that he's made, and ignites the imagination of the young people in the celebration of Christmas."
In the 1980s, the Pacific Northwest Ballet wanted to return to Hoffmann's original version. They turned to an illustrator and writer who was famous for his own dark voyages with childhood demons: Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are. "So when I did read it, I became very interested, because it was a very bizarre story. Is a very bizarre story, and that of course would appeal to me," Sendak told NPR in 1984. "It meant something. It had bite and muscle, the way the Grimm fairy tales do. So I thought, if we could put up on the stage in Seattle, anything approximating Hoffmann without diluting or bashing Tchaikovsky, then perhaps we would have something that was interesting." And Sendak's version of The Nutcracker — with his sets and libretto — is the only version that Jack Zipes says captures Hoffmann's original spirit.
Now, stories evolve from one author and one medium, to adapters and new media. But Zipes says that what has been lost from most productions of The Nutcracker is Hoffmann's very attitude about imagination, reality and childhood. "There is a great deal of damage done to Hoffmann's story, because at the end of his story, Marie moves off into another world, or it seems that she's going off into another world, a world of her own choosing," he says, "whereas in the ballet, it's a harmless diversion that is full of sort of dancing and merriment, but there's nothing profound in the ending of the ballet as it exists. And it's also true of Dumas' story — ends in a very fluffy, saccharine way."
Hoffmann, Zipes adds, wanted to make sure his readers knew that Marie was aware of the contrast between her life with the rule-bound Stahlbaums, and the dream world of The Nutcracker, "a world of imagination, a world of her choice, where she can also make decisions that are more in accord with her own imagination."
This essence is in almost all of Hoffmann's fairy tales, and essentially it's that we have to keep in touch with the child within us.
You might, perhaps, draw a comparison between Marie and Dorothy, who's whisked off to magical adventures in Oz — Dorothy's adventures are a dream, and her ultimate lesson is that "there's no place like home." But for Marie, there's nothing like getting away from home, nothing like breaking loose from her dreary family life.
"The MGM movie of The Wizard of Oz also ruined L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz," Zipes laughs, "because he went on to write 13 more stories, and Dorothy eventually leaves Kansas forever and lives in Oz." Nevertheless, he adds, Maurice Sendak talked about Tchaikovsky's music retaining some of the wilder spirit of the original story, "and it's that which he tried to change in his version. He saw in the music itself something that excited him, something that really touched upon the essence of the Hoffmann story, and it's this essence is in almost all of Hoffmann's fairy tales, and essentially it's that we have to keep in touch with the child within us."
By the way, E.T.A. Hoffmann, who challenged his readers to liberate their inner child from the routines of lives led in deference to the reational real world, was no Bohemian in his own life. He was trained as a lawyer and worked as a judge. His art couldn't pay the bills.
Hoffmann was a towering figure for decades after his death in 1822, but Zipes says that fame had faded by the end of the 19th century. "Even today, most American intellectuals, American professors of literature, have not read Hoffmann, and it's a shame, because they're very relevant to our own society today, where the imagination, in my opinion, is being deteriorated throughout our country."
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Talking with Dr. Ted Schettler is probably unlike any conversation you have had with your physician. Raise the topic of breast cancer or diabetes or dementia, and Schettler starts talking about income disparities, industrial farming, and campaign finance reform
New findings explain how politics, economics, and ecology can help or hurt our bodies.
by Claudia Rowe | August, 2012
Talking with Dr. Ted Schettler is probably unlike any conversation you have had with your physician. Raise the topic of breast cancer or diabetes or dementia, and Schettler starts talking about income disparities, industrial farming, and campaign finance reform.
The Harvard-educated physician, frustrated by the limitations of science in combating disease, believes that finding answers to the most persistent medical challenges of our time—conditions that now threaten to overwhelm our health care system—depends on understanding the human body as a system nested within a series of other, larger systems: one's family and community, environment, culture, and socioeconomic class, all of which affect each other.
It is a complex, even daunting view—where does one begin when trying to solve problems this way?
Schettler is an exceedingly logical thinker, and his vision for a more evolved kind of health care came from the down-to-earth experience of helping to clean clam flats along the St. George River in Maine during the 1980s. "I was living and practicing on the coast there, and working with a local organization to clean up the river because we had these rich clam flats that had been closed for years because of periodic spikes of E. coli. If anyone ate the clams they would get very sick."
Meanwhile, paper mills were dumping dioxins into other rivers nearby, and Schettler learned that fish from those rivers sometimes had even higher chemical levels than fish caught in urban harbors. But factory bosses claimed that regulating waste from the pulp mills would cost community jobs, which prompted dozens of young factory workers to protest. Schettler, despite being steeped in traditional medicine, was unable to ignore these interrelationships: a degraded natural environment, a precarious local economy, and perennially sick people. "These things—the effect of the environment on peoples' health—were never discussed at the medical conferences," he said. "So it caused in me a major re-examination."
Schettler went back to school, earned a master's degree in public health, and began applying a scientist's rigor to his wide-ranging pool of interests. Since then, he has researched connections between poverty, iron deficiency, and lead poisoning; insecticide use, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's disease; income disparities and asthma.
He calls this new approach to medicine "the ecological paradigm of health."
"It sounds like tree-huggers or something," Schettler said in an interview. "But I mean 'ecological' in the sense that there are these multiple systems, one within the other—a family within a community, within a society, within a culture—and that's the way ecologists tend to talk about ecosystems. It's accepting up front that humans do not stand apart from the environment. We're a major species, along with the mosquitoes and fish and trees and bacteria. And there are all of these wonderful interrelationships."
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Currently getting over a case of Lyme disease, Schettler notes that the condition wasn't even on the radar three decades ago. Likewise, West Nile Virus. And dengue fever, first identified in the late 18th century, has soared since the 1960s, now infecting up to 100 million people worldwide each year.
"Can there be any doubt that human health is enormously dependent on ecological systems that we are having a major influence on?" Schettler says. "It's all one world. Our tendency to describe the natural world as something without humans is part of the problem."
Such a holistic approach to human health is often received as heresy within traditional medicine, but Schettler is hardly a Don Quixote tilting at windmills. He has testified before the U.S. Senate about links between Parkinson's and pesticide use. He has been interviewed on public radio and co-authored two oft-quoted books, Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment and In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development. Both explore Schettler's belief about the environmental underpinnings of a host of disorders, from learning disabilities to cancer. And both lay out the limitations of Western medicine in coming up with clear causes and effective treatment.
Breast cancer is a prime example. Dissatisfied with research into the origins of the disease, Schettler began to wonder whether chemicals found in cancerous breast tissue actually encouraged tumor growth. He found that a girl's exposure to DDT before the age of 14 corresponded to a greatly increased risk for breast cancer later in life. "If we're looking only at adults, we're missing this important window of susceptibility," Schettler says. "But in medicine we weren't going there. We were responding only to the illness. I was interested in its origins."
Food is another favorite "wedge issue," a way of examining diseases like diabetes in relation to agricultural policies. Schettler, noting America's current epidemic of childhood obesity and diabetes, began examining not only blood sugar levels in children but also the neighborhoods in which they lived. He found that many did not have a single market selling fruits and vegetables.
That led his musings a step further, to inquiry into the agricultural policies guiding food into stores. Which flowed naturally into an examination of conditions for agricultural workers who, it turned out, had high rates of cancer.
In Schettler's analysis, each of these factors—the mass production of processed food, the lack of easily accessible fruits and vegetables, the health condition of farm workers—is fused with the others: "It's fine to give people dietary advice, and advise them to exercise—in this country we have a long history of telling people how to change their own lives," he says. "But it's not just a matter of an individual making a poor choice. It's what our system has provided to them, so it needs to be changed at the systems level. Diabetes and obesity are big-ticket items with huge implications for the federal budget."
Thinking that way, it's no stretch for the physician to segue into a discussion of federal farm subsidies for chemically produced foods. Or, on a more personal level, to question colleagues in health care about their failure to advocate for changes to the food served in schools.
Schettler's approach touches everyone: He asks school districts that cut physical education programs as soon as budgets get tight, "What's the message we're giving to kids? This is really troubling. We're facing an obesity and diabetes epidemic that's going to overwhelm our health care system. And if there's one thing that we should be doing it's stressing the importance of diet and exercise for young people."
You might think that a physician like Schettler—unafraid of skewering sacred cows wherever he finds them—would be a lightning rod for criticism. And indeed, the American Council on Science and Health issued a sharp rebuke in 1999 after Schettler attacked a report issued by the organization (and co-authored by former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop) for its stand on phthalates: "The American Council on Science and Health is disappointed, but not surprised, by activists' continued attempts to discredit a panel of well-respected, nationally and internationally recognized scientific and medical professionals," the statement said. "Once again, there has been an attempt to shift attention from sound science to misrepresentations and half-truths."
Other than this, there is virtually no public criticism of Schettler's work. And even that fracas left him singularly unperturbed.
"Some of these chemical groups might label me an 'enviro' but that's about it," he said. "Still, this is an area of great debate—whether our job is merely to identify and treat disease or whether it is also to be advocates in public policy."
Clearly, Schettler has made his decision. "You really do get into down-and-dirty politics here. That's where this all plays out."
Inequality Makes Us Sick
Wherever Schettler turns his focus, drilling down to the root causes of illness inevitably means confronting social problems, foremost among them economic inequality.
Take lead poisoning: Poor diet leaves children from lower-income families more likely to suffer iron deficiencies. And an iron-deficient diet allows more lead to be absorbed in the intestinal tract, transporting more of the damaging metal to the brain and leading to increased neurological impairment among kids whose families are least able to counter those effects.
"If you just address the lead itself, without looking at diet and social circumstances, you don't get very far," Schettler says. "So yes, it's important to make sure that kids aren't being exposed to excessive amounts of lead and neurotoxins, and we need to keep doing that work. But we also need to be looking at housing, income disparities, the food system, energy production—things that are likely to have a bigger impact on a larger set of conditions and diseases."
In short, poverty leads to increased exposure, which is exacerbated by heightened vulnerability (in this case, the iron-deficient diet) and an impaired ability to respond—"a toxic triad," Schettler calls it.
The link between socioeconomic status and poor health is widely acknowledged. But perhaps less obvious is the finding that income disparities within a community also appear to have a deleterious effect, making one family susceptible to illnesses that another living in the same area—but at a higher income level—might escape.
As proof, Schettler cites research on asthma that found poorer kids—even when symptom-free—had higher levels of inflammatory markers in their blood than youths from wealthier families in the same neighborhood. Meaning that it took fewer irritants to push the poorer children over the threshold into a full-blown attack. Once sick, they were also less resilient—that is, less able to quickly recuperate—than wealthier children, either because they lacked treatment at home or were unable to get to a doctor.
"Higher income is protective—even in the same community," Schettler says. "That's why it's so concerning to see this income gap in America now. We know it's setting the stage for adverse health outcomes for people. Is that class warfare? Well, yes. When economic inequality gets this wide it has an adverse effect on people's health. That's what the literature tells us. We shouldn't shy from saying it."
Show Me the Progress
After spending 30 years as an emergency medicine physician, Schettler now serves as science director for two organizations, the Science and Environmental Health Network and the Collaborative on Health and the Environment. The latter is a partnership of some 4,000 health practitioners and scientists committed to promoting discussion of the connections between the environment and learning disorders, birth defects, infertility, childhood leukemia, endometriosis, and various cancers.
Admittedly, it's a pretty bleak vision, this tangled web of social, medical, and political problems. And looking at it, you might expect Schettler to be wracked with hopelessness. Yet he is not.
"I actually think it's a very important time in the world now," he says. "There's something here for everyone to do."
He points to examples of significant change already underway within the health care industry itself, where the incineration of hospital waste has long been a leading source of dioxin emission. Hospital food, too—traditionally a fatty rotation of grilled cheese, burgers, French fries, and milkshakes—has been little more than "a joke," Schettler says.
But since its founding in 1996, the international collective Health Care Without Harm has steadily been chipping away at these problems, and has now seen the closure of thousands of medical waste incinerators. It has initiated a Green Building program geared toward creating energy-efficient medical centers; and it has begun to change the way hospitals, with their enormous purchasing power, buy food to promote more locally grown and sustainable agriculture practices.
"The medical industry itself has been a great place to look at cleaning up," says Schettler, who advises Health Care Without Harm. "Particularly as health care is almost 20 percent of the GDP."
Even as a high school student in 1950s Ohio, the seemingly mild young man showed a talent for leadership. ("Ted's ability to organize his pals has made him a leader in the senior class," notes his yearbook. "His sincere, fun-loving personality will draw friends to him.") These days, Schettler puts those skills to work before crowds of students, researchers, and policy makers. Yet nearly every conversation circles back to same question: How is anyone to make a difference when confronted with Schettler's vision?
"I encourage people to recognize that they're working in common cause with others," he says. "Many people are carrying a common message, just coming at it from different angles."
By way of example, he cites Detroit, long a metaphor for urban blight, ingrained misery and societal failure. Though there is not a single major-chain supermarket within the city limits, Schettler focuses instead on a crop of urban gardens now dotting the broken blacktop. "People are starting to grow their own food, healthy food!" he exclaims. "There are wonderful things going on."
Claudia Rowe wrote this article for It's Your Body, the Fall 2012 issue of YES! Magazine. Claudia has been an award-winning social issues journalist for more than 20 years. Her work has appeared in Mother Jones, The New York Times, The Seattle Times, and The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Source: http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/its-your-body/why-your-health-is-bigger-than-your-body
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Update at 5:35 pm ET. Brennan on drones:
As senators questioned John Brennan, the nominee to head the CIA, one of the recurring themes was the broader impact of the lethal drone strikes.
Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine, asked whether the Obama administration was killing terrorists who might otherwise be captured and interrogated.
Brennan insisted that it was always preferable to capture and question terrorists to gather intelligence, and he said lethal strikes were taken as a last resort.
"These actions are actually only taken to save lives and prevent attacks," he said.
Brennan was also asked if the drone attacks in places like Yemen and Pakistan were creating a backlash against the U.S. Civilians in those and other countries have been extremely critical.
However, he argued that al-Qaida was effectively holding many communities "hostage," and that residents welcomed U.S. actions to remove the "al-Qaida cancer."
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the CIA and other intelligence agencies have heavily focused on terrorism threats, and the CIA has increasingly been involved in paramilitary actions.
Brennan, who served 25 years in the CIA, characterized this as an aberration from the agency's traditional emphasis on collecting and analyzing data. He said it would be important to assess whether too many CIA resources were being devoted to terrorism threats and not enough to larger strategic questions.
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The Obama administration has made its drone program the signature feature of its counterterrorism efforts. But it's not a subject it likes to talk about.
However, the controversial drone program and one of its chief architects came under the spotlight Thursday as John Brennan went before the Senate Intelligence Committee for his confirmation hearing as director of the CIA.
During the Bush administration, fewer than 50 drone strikes were carried out. There have been more than 360 under Obama, according to the website The Long War Journal.
Brennan, who has been President Obama's adviser on counterterrorism, is expected to win Senate approval. But his role in the lethal drone program has drawn public criticism. As Brennan was reading his opening statement, he was interrupted repeatedly by protesters who shouted their opposition to U.S. drone strikes.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who chairs the committee, blamed the group Code Pink for the protests and ordered the hearing room cleared for several minutes.
When questioning began, Brennan was asked about the "enhanced interrogation techniques," including waterboarding, that took place after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
"I was aware of the program ... but I had no oversight of it," said Brennan, who was at the CIA at the time. "I professed my personal objections to it, but I did not try to stop because it was something being done in a different part of the agency."
We will update with additional testimony.
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Iowa's Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that the state's health department must include the names of both same-sex spouses as parents on a child's birth certificate.
The ruling stems from a challenge brought by Heather and Melissa Gartner of Des Moines, following the Iowa Department of Public Health's refusal in 2009 to list Heather as a parent on their daughter's birth certificate.
The couple was married that same year, after Iowa legalized same-sex marriage.
Justice David Wiggins, who authored the opinion of the court, said the state had an interest in "the accuracy of birth certificates, the efficiency and effectiveness of government administration, and the determination of paternity."
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Monday, April 13, 2009
Easter Update
Monday, April 13, 2009
And how I suggested they get some plastic bunny picks to "Easter" it up?
Well, apparently they got the message:
Yep, that's the same bakery, and the same volcano design - but now there's no question that it's an Easter volcano covered with Eastery curly shoelaces and Easterish forest foliage. Excellent work, guys! I'm just glad I could help.
Thanks to Camilla C. for the update!
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- Mommy Boots (formerly KarmaPearl) said...
That first cake looks like the Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors.
FEEEEED ME SEYMOUR. - April 13, 2009 at 4:55 PM
- Unknown said...
omg that is sooo funny! its wrong on so many levels, but sooo funny!
- April 13, 2009 at 5:00 PM
- Half Assed Kitchen said...
I especially like the jungle it's growing in.
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com) - April 13, 2009 at 5:02 PM
- Doublebanker said...
Looks like they got it figured out!
- April 13, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Word Verification: gagnesse
Well now I don't need to comment, the word verification summed up exactly what I was going to say. - April 13, 2009 at 5:22 PM
I'm starting to think that some bakeries are making things like this just to get on here. They are obviously paying attention!
- April 13, 2009 at 5:30 PM
Are you sure they didn't just turn it around? It looks like the same cake, but maybe the first pic was of the back!
- April 13, 2009 at 5:48 PM
- Wendy said...
You mean someone bought the first one?
- April 13, 2009 at 6:08 PM
My wv is on the wrong post: mosesin
Mosesin the other post was pretty funny,
The cakein this one added an Easter bunny.
(BTW, how did they match the colors of the bunny and frosting so well--like camoflage there.) - April 13, 2009 at 6:16 PM
The animal head perched on this cake looks kinda like a cat at first sight, not any kind of rabbit.
-Deb - April 13, 2009 at 6:21 PM
- Kateri said...
Um, are you sure that is a bunny? It looks more like a kitty to me.
- April 13, 2009 at 6:24 PM
- sendingtheclowns said...
No, it's not the same cake; this new & improved *cough* model is not served up on a bed of biley vomitus, as is the first one.
This one is soooo much more festered--I mean, festive!
Look, they even slapped some lettuce leaves on the sides for the bunny (whose head looks more cat- or foxlike than bunnyish) to snack on while it waits for an innocent stomach to turn. - April 13, 2009 at 6:26 PM
- A Paperback Writer said...
I agree with karmapearl: the only thing I could think of when I looked at the pod and tentacles in the top pic was "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space."
Are you SURE it's an Easter cake and not a "Little Shop Of Horrors" cake? It would make more sense if it were labeled Audrey II - April 13, 2009 at 6:48 PM
How did they take the ruffly green icing 'ribbons' off to replace them with orange and yellow?
- April 13, 2009 at 7:01 PM
- Benjamin said...
It looks like the bunny is violating that egg! FIRE! FIRE!
-Benjamin - April 13, 2009 at 7:14 PM
@ anonymous
That's not the same cake, the streamer shoelace-things on the first cake are green, and they are yellow and orange on the second cake.
Yeah, I notice stuff like that...
wv: angsh--what I feel when I look at these cakes. - April 13, 2009 at 7:30 PM
- Peter L. said...
When I first saw this post I was thinking it looked like an egg from Jurassic Park, and now it just confirms it. The dreaded (and often cute) Wabbitsaurus emerges from the egg, ready to wreak havoc.
Peter L. - April 13, 2009 at 7:35 PM
- Suzanne Dargie said...
I think little children would cry if they were served that first one at Easter!
- April 13, 2009 at 7:46 PM
- Dani said...
Cake Wrecks saving the worls one ugly cake at a time.
- April 13, 2009 at 7:59 PM
- peewee said...
is that an easter...fox?
- April 13, 2009 at 8:13 PM
- Lindsay B. said...
Did anyone see "Prehistoria?" This looks suspiciously like a dinosaur egg. Let the mischief begin.
- April 13, 2009 at 8:18 PM
I'm pretty sure that the plastic plant is Virginia Creeper..... a ground cover that can sometimes block out the sunlight and kill other plants. Why they would have this type of plastic foliage in stock at a bakery is anyone's guess.
- April 13, 2009 at 8:31 PM
- Gregg Kern said...
I swear, that first cake looks like it could split open at any moment and send a facehugger leaping at me.
- April 13, 2009 at 8:59 PM
- Viewtiful_Justin said...
Holy heck! that's the funniest thing EVER!
- April 13, 2009 at 9:41 PM
- Diane - DB Impressions said...
Seriously...lettuce and cake? ICK!
- April 13, 2009 at 9:54 PM
To me it looks like the eggs from the first Alien movie...
- April 14, 2009 at 7:23 AM
I seriously don't see any improvement from the first to second cake. They are still both BUTT UGLY!! They could slap on a multitude of Easter do-dads and it won't change the ugly. Well, except maybe elevating it to ugly AND tacky...
I don't think I could actually stomach injesting any of this farce of a cake, but by the time you removed all the inedible crap I wouldn't be hungry anymore anyway! - April 14, 2009 at 8:30 AM
This comment might fit the previous post with this cake better, but it occurs to me that this might have been a half-baked (ha ha) attempt at portraying a crown of thorns?
- April 14, 2009 at 9:00 AM
- Melanie said...
WOW!! That's just bad! At least you know bakeries read your blog! Though the fact that they don't understand sarcasm is funny!
- April 14, 2009 at 9:02 AM
JEN-with great power comes great responsibility.
Use it wisely. Sure, you can influence bakeries. Can you do anything about the economy? - April 14, 2009 at 9:11 AM
The first cake reminded me of the canned hams. The hams are that triangular shape, meaning not pointy. Then I thought of the ham with icing. YUCKY!!!
- April 14, 2009 at 4:33 PM
While they may not be the same cake, the first one does have the bunny on it...if you look in the picture on the right side is the reflection in the display case and there is a bunny there on the back side of the cake....:)
Melissa D. sC - April 16, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Someone call Ellen Ripley before the first one hatches. Oh well, better a facehugger popping out than a Barbie.
- April 17, 2009 at 3:31 AM
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Three days before Cboe Global Markets Inc., one of the world's biggest regulated exchanges, debuts futures on the cryptocurrency, it had one of its wildest sessions ever. On Coinbase Inc.'s GDAX exchange, prices zoomed up to almost $20,000 from $16,000 in only about 90 minutes — then crashed back down. The largest digital currency is still up more than 16-fold this year.
Coinbase, one of the largest U.S. online exchanges used by investors, temporarily crashed and continued to suffer from service delays. Trezor, a wallet service, tweeted that it's having "minor issues" with its servers, while Bitfinex, the largest bitcoin exchange in the world, said on Twitter that it has been under a denial of service attack for several days and that it recently got worse.
The entrance of Cboe and CME is a watershed for bitcoin because many professional investors have been unwilling to do business on the unregulated platforms where bitcoin currently trades. Cboe and CME are regulated, potentially assuaging those concerns.
Some big traders had just warned about the impending introduction. On Wednesday, the Futures Industry Association — a group of major banks, brokers, and traders — said the contracts were rushed without enough consideration of the risks.
The group outlined their concerns in an open letter, questioning whether the exchanges would be able to adequately police market manipulation for bitcoin futures. FIA added that the exchanges didn't get enough industry feedback on margin levels, trading limits, stress tests, and clearing for the products before bringing them to market.
Cboe worked with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to design and improve its contracts and "committed to continuing to work closely with the CFTC to monitor trading and foster the growth of a transparent, liquid and fair bitcoin futures market," according to a statement from the company.
Other trading experts have sounded alarmed bells on the possibility of manipulation. The thinking goes that because cryptocurrency markets aren't policed by a central regulator, cheaters could fly under the radar if they try to move the price of bitcoin on exchanges with scant volume.
Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
The CFTC "has strong anti-manipulation rules for futures, but those won't necessarily protect investors if the bitcoin cash markets are manipulated," said Ty Gellasch, executive director of the Healthy Markets Association, an investor advocacy group.
Cloe's contracts will be based on the price of bitcoin on the Gemini Exchange. CME is using four exchanges, including the Coinbase GDAX market where prices proved so volatile Thursday.
Both Cboe and CME have curbs in place to calm price swings. Cboe halts trading for two minutes if prices rise or fall 10 percent.
The futures appear to be getting a high-profile endorsement. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. plans to clear bitcoin futures contracts for certain clients when the derivatives go live in coming days, according to a person with knowledge of the firm's plans.
Goldman Sachs, one of the largest firms helping clients buy and sell futures contracts, will act in an agency capacity and won't serve as a market-maker or build inventory in the derivatives, said the person, who asked not to be identified talking about the plans. The decision to clear client trades will be made on a case-by-case basis, the person said.
"Given that this is a new product, as expected we are evaluating the specifications and risk attributes for the bitcoin futures contracts as part of our standard due diligence process," Tiffany Galvin, a spokeswoman for the bank, said in an emailed statement.
At Coinbase on Thursday, bitcoin was almost $3,000 pricier than the levels seen on other markets, a record high, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.


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The Honourable Andrew Scheer, Leader of Canada's Conservatives and the Official Opposition, issued this statement ahead the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Leaders Meeting today in London, United Kingdom:
Since 1949, Canada has been a committed member of NATO. We have stood shoulder to shoulder with our allies in Europe and the United States to oppose tyranny and protect democracy around the world. Unfortunately, Justin Trudeau's diplomatic failures and poor judgement in the last four years have diminished Canada's role in the world.
Now, more than ever, NATO is an essential alliance as Vladimir Putin is showing no signs of ending his illegal occupation of Crimea and of stolen territory in Eastern Ukraine. Russia also represents a clear and present threat to Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic. With the rapidly changing threats facing the world, Justin Trudeau cannot afford to abandon Canada's duty to stand with our allies.
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Birdsville to Broome via Mt Isa Top Springs Wave Hill Halls Creek tour 6 days
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Birdsville to Broome via Mt Isa Top Springs Wave Hill Halls Creek tour 5 days
This tour has been developed to link with Tanami Track tour from Broome then the Simpson Desert then return to Broome - see larger map
After arrival in Birdsville (via the Simpson Desert)....
Day 1 – Optional morning Lake Eyre, Goyder Lagoon & Simpson Desert flights (book early). Enjoy the iconic outback town of Birdsville, once a custom post for cattle heading south to Adelaide markets, now centre of an organic beef export industry, full of fascinating outback experiences. Have a cuppa at the Hard Road Café, check out the airport adjacent to the pub, and the historic sights of the town including the marked tree at Camp LXXVI of the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860. View the now historic thermal power station running on hot water from the Great Artesian Basin, or take a joy flight over the Simpson and Goyder Lagoon area. 7 Day tour ends here with flights (own cost) from Birdsville to Brisbane or elsewhere. After lunch we depart and travel due north through Channel Country and the Diamantina Shire HQ at Bedourie, crossing several creeks and water holes often hosting wetland birds including Brolgas. Arrive Boulia for overnight at Australia Hotel or Boulia Desert Sands Motel. BLD
Day 3 - Travel the vast Barkly tablelands via Coomaweal and Barkley Homestead in the heart of cattle country to Three Ways for overnight BLD
Day 4 - Today we are back on the dirt as we head for top Kimberley & NT grazing country via Top Springs where we overnight. BLD
Day 5 - Travel to Wave Hill where on the 23rd of August 1966, Vincent Lingiari led 200 courageous Wave Hill workers and their families, to walk off the Station and begin their strike. The group formed a new settlement at nearby Wattie Creek (Daguragu). Initially, the pastoralists believed the workers would return with improved wages and conditions. Eventually, the pastoralist Vestey surrendered as Gough Whitlam handed the land back to the people - A landmark in recent Australian history. We meet some of the locals and connect with the story of this momentous event. Onwards through cattle country and the old Halls Creek mountains of gold, by a beautiful waterhole to Halls Creek for overnight. BLD
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LOS ANGELES, Jan 7, 2010— Inspired by the classic Universal film that launched a legacy of horror, The Wolfman brings the myth of a cursed man back to its iconic origins.
Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro stars as Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father (Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins), Talbot sets out to find his brother…and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself.
Lawrence Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget.
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Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III) directs The Wolfman, and six-time Oscar®-winning special effects artist Rick Baker brings his design and makeup talents to transform Del Toro into the fearsome title character.
In theaters Feb 12, 2010
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, Art Malik


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