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Microwave radiation is the "most plausible" cause of migraines, dizziness, memory loss and other ailments that dozens of U.S. diplomats have complained of while serving in Cuba and China, a new report says.
Since 2016, the so-called Havana syndrome has afflicted more than 40 U.S. diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in the Cuban capital and at least a dozen more at the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou, China. At the request of the State Department, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine investigated and produced a 64-page report.
"The committee [of experts] felt that many of the distinctive and acute signs, symptoms, and observations reported by the Department of State employees are consistent with the effects of directed, pulsed, radiofrequency energy," the report said.
Radiofrequency energy includes radio waves and microwaves.
"What we can say is that something real and significant clinically happened to these people," Dr. David Relman, a Stanford University professor who led the study, said in an interview with NPR.
"At least some, if not many, of the signs and symptoms that were reported in these patients can be explained by this particular form of microwave radiation," he added.
The report noted that individual cases varied but that many diplomats described a common pattern:
"The sudden onset of a perceived loud sound, a sensation of intense pressure or vibration in the head, and pain in the ear or more diffusely in the head. Most individuals reported that the sound or these other sensations seemed to originate from a particular direction and were perceived only when the individual was in a specific physical location. Some also reported sudden onset of tinnitus, hearing loss, dizziness, unsteady gait, and visual disturbances."
Some of the diplomats have complained that the State Department has been slow or reluctant to provide sufficient support. A number of them have retired, saying their ailments were so debilitating they could no longer work.
The State Department said it welcomed the report but described it as part of a continuing inquiry, not the final word on the matter.
"The investigation is ongoing, and each possible cause remains speculative," the State Department said. "The report notes that the 'constellation of signs and symptoms' is consistent with the effects of pulsed radiofrequency energy. We would note that 'consistent with' is a term of art in medicine and science that allows plausibility but does not assign cause."
The National Academies' committee consisted of 19 experts in neurology, radiology, electrical engineering and other relevant fields.
Still, Relman acknowledged that the committee faced some limitations. It reviewed aggregated medical information of the diplomats who were examined at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Miami and the National Institutes of Health.
The doctors at those institutions described the diplomats' ailments as real, but they could not determine what was causing them and did not find evidence of traumatic brain injury.
The National Academies' committee did not have access to individual records, though eight diplomats shared their stories with the panel, Relman said.
The committee did not address whether the cause was intentional, who might have been responsible or what the motive might have been.
However, there has been no shortage of speculation. Perhaps the intent was to injure the diplomats. Or maybe the aim was to electronically steal secrets from their phones and computers, and the officials were just collateral damage.
China and Cuba have denied any such actions.
More than a dozen Canadian diplomats in Havana suffered symptoms similar to those of the Americans at roughly the same time.
In addition, a CIA official said he and a colleague were struck with crippling illnesses during a trip to Russia in 2017. Several other CIA officers working on Russia issues in other countries have also reported ailments. Those cases were not covered by the report.
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I had read Bob Mayer's blog, Write It Forward, for a number of years before I took one of his workshops and I have to say, if you ever have the chance to see Bob speak in person, do it! You won't be sorry.
It's one thing to read posts about the publishing industry and quite another to have an animated author recount stories of his adventures in publishing, first as an author and then as a publisher. Although I loved his lecture what I found most helpful were his answers to questions posed by my peers.
Okay, back to business! Yesterday Jen Talty, co-creator of Cool Gus Publishing and frequent contributor to Write It Forward, posted about how to promote books in iBooks, a subject I knew nothing about. Rather than me natter on about what she said, I'm just going to let her tell you.
One of the questions I'm constantly asked when I present workshops on Indie Publishing is: How do we promote in iBooks? or How do we increase sales in iBooks? Its not an easy question to answer. One of the things I'm working on today for Cool Gus Publishing is to add links in our website to where our eBooks are available on other sites. We believe this is a good service for our customers and some people just want that easy "one-click" from Amazon or prefer to buy from Barnes and Noble, supporting the bookstore.For the rest of Jen's informative article, click here: Promoting your book in iBooks
But working inside of iBooks is all together a different bird simply because its contained in iTunes.
Recently, Apple sent us a couple of PDF's about how to promote and market using some of their tools. We got this email because we use iTunesConnect to load our books directly to the iBookstore. Here are a couple of things I think are useful and are not that difficult to use.
The Book Widget. You can actually do this for other products as well.
From Apple: "With Widget Builder, you can easily add interactive widgets to your website or blog. These widgets allow users to explore books and more from the iBookstore and iTunes."
Go here to see builder.
Basically, you find the books you want, add them to your widget and then copy the code and put it where you want in your website.


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None of the three contestants even buzzed in to respond. (Incidentally, this was a question a number of GOP presidential candidates had been answering incorrectly themselves at the time.)
Shortly thereafter, I posted this in the comments section of Mondoweiss:
The Jeopardy! answer/question about Palestine is especially intriguing and satisfying considering that, over the past few seasons, Alex Trebek and company have often featured clues (sometimes even whole categories with on-site video of Alex and team at Yad Vashem, floating in the Dead Sea, the Western Wall, and Masada) devoted to Israel and its current stewardship of Biblical sites and expropriation of history...usually in the form of answers and questions that wholly ignores the Occupation and existence of both Palestine and Palestinians.It appears I was too optimistic. The College Championship (first semifinal game) episode of Jeopardy!, which aired on February 8, 2012, included a Double Jeopardy! category entitled "The 21st Century." The $1200 clue stated:
Jeopardy!'s apparent love affair with Israel seems to have begun in earnest back in 2009, after Trebek and his Clue Crew were treated to a [three]-week hasbara trip to Israel by the Israeli Ministry of Tourism. It is clear this initiative was launched to correspond with the "Brand Israel" PR campaign.
Commercial advertisements insisting "There's a little bit of Israel in all of us. Come find the Israel in you" (paid for by the Tourism Ministry, of course) are still often aired during episodes of Jeopardy!.
In late November 2009, some days after Jeopardy! featured a category entitled "A Journey Through Israel", which Alex described as "reliving history thousands of years old or just a few decades old," Carlton Cobb wrote an excellent and informative post for Fair Policy, Fair Discussion, the official blog for the Council for the National Interest Foundation. It's well worth the read.
Good to see Jeopardy! is finally moving away from heavy-handed hasbara.
"In 2005 Israel gave up control of this coastal territory"The response of "What is the Gaza Strip?" was the desired question.
But the Jeopardy! writers, widely respected as masters of fact and trivia, are wrong. Since occupying the territory in 1967, Israel has never relinquished control of Gaza. Despite the hasbara talking point that Israel "unilaterally disengaged" from Gaza in 2005, dismantling its settlements and forcibly removing its 9,000 colonists, Israel maintains its effective control over the borders, economy, and Palestinians of the territory in a way that can only be described as continued occupation and collective punishment.
As Israeli historian Avi Shlaim points out, after the 2005 withdrawal of Israeli colonists and military personnel, "Gaza was converted overnight into an open-air prison. From this point on, the Israeli air force enjoyed unrestricted freedom to drop bombs, to make sonic booms by flying low and breaking the sound barrier, and to terrorise the hapless inhabitants of this prison."
The official 2005 Israeli "Disengagement Plan" even states clearly, "The State of Israel will guard and monitor the external land perimeter of the Gaza Strip, will continue to maintain exclusive authority in Gaza air space, and will continue to exercise security activity in the sea off the coast of the Gaza Strip." It further declares, "The Gaza Strip shall be demilitarized and shall be devoid of weaponry, the presence of which does not accord with the Israeli-Palestinian agreements."
Beyond this, as the Diakonia International Humanitarian Law Programme points out, "Israel controls a buffer zone in the northern part of the Gaza Strip and does not allow Palestinian movement within 150 meters (de facto 500 meters) from the northern and eastern parts of the fence surrounding the Gaza Strip" and "retains the ability to effectively conduct land incursions, as stated in the Disengagement plan itself."
Even the CIA admits, "Israel still controls maritime, airspace, and other access to the Gaza Strip; Israel also enforces a restricted zone along the border inside Gaza."
But Israel doesn't just control the gates of the Gaza prison, it also controls the internal infrastructure, economic freedom and freedom of movement of its inhabitants. The Disengagement Plan itself states:
In general, Israel will continue, for full price, to supply electricity, water, gas and petrol to the Palestinians, in accordance with current arrangements...Just today, Alresalah reports that the vast majority of hospital patients in Gaza are at great risk due to the Israeli-imposed collective punishment of deliberate, extended electrical blackouts throughout the territory. Dr. Ashraf Al-qidra, director of Public Relations and Information Department at Gaza's Health Ministry stated, "More than 80% of patients in the Gaza Strip are threatened to terrible health status and possibility of death due to lack of electricity." He added that at least "404 of dialysis patients are at risk of death for their treatment is totally based on electricity" and that 100 children in intensive care are also at lethally threatened by the outages.
In general, the economic arrangements currently in operation between the State of Israel and the Palestinians shall remain in force. These arrangements include, inter alia:
One. The entry and exit of goods between the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, the State of Israel and abroad.
Two. The monetary regime.
Three. Tax and customs envelope arrangements.
Four. Postal and telecommunications arrangements.
Five. The entry of workers into Israel, in accordance with the existing criteria.
That fact that Israel still controls Gaza is so obvious, it is indeed curious that the fact-checkers on the Jeopardy! research team would allow this type of propaganda on its program.
Apparently, a three-week Israeli government-sponsored trip goes a long way to influence Jeopardy!'s conception of history. Unfortunately, when it comes to Palestine, it seems international law, collective punishment and simple facts are triple-stumpers for Trebek.


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This GMT dual time zone watch in covert black stainless steel finish is one of our latest watches and has a high performance quartz Ronda 515.24 movement housed in a robust 300m / 1000ft water resistant steel casing which makes the watch ideally suitable for use in water for swimming, snorkelling and water sports although as a GMT watch the bezel is designed to enable time to be calculated in two time zones so for diving applications its suitability is rather limited although from a water resistance perspective the watch would be fine.
The concept behind GMT watches is very clever not because they are in any way particularly complex but because the technology behind them is so incredibly simple. On a conventional watch the hour hand is designed to travel around the dial over a 12 hour period, all that is needed to create a GMT watch is to add a second hour hand which travels around the dial in 24 hours instead of the usual 12, then an additional 24-hour time scale is added to a bezel hence the reason some GMT watches at quick glance look similar to divers watches. Using the watch could not be easier because the 24-hour hand circles the dial once a day instead of twice with a normal hour hand, its tip indicates the corresponding hour and because it's operating on the 24 hour timescale there can be no confusion between a.m. and p.m.
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Let's talk about decanting. I think that most people who enjoy wine are familiar with the process of decanting, introducing air to a liquid by pouring it from one container into another. This serves two major purposes. First, if you've stored your wine correctly with the neck slightly below parallel to keep the cork wet so that it doesn't dry out and crack (you do that, right?), then any sediment in the wine will settle into the wider bottom of the bottle. Thanks to the large dimple in the bottom of the bottle, called the "punt," (see, you learn something every day here at GearDiary.com), most of the sediment settles in a ring along the outside edge. This facilities carefully pouring the wine into your glass, or even better, into a decanter without letting little bits of cork or tannic grape skin remnants into your fine wine.
The second main reason for decanting is to aerate the wine, since everyone know that wine opens up if you let it breathe. Especially younger vintages of highly tannic wines like Cabernet Sauvignons and Syrahs can have a tendency to be very "tight," meaning that the flavors can be a little astringent and would probably benefit from either a few more years in the bottle or at least an hour or so to open up after you pop the cork. But who's got the patience for that?
That's where decanting comes in handy. By pouring the wine through an aerating screen, or even better over something that will form a thin film of liquid for a more gentle a total exposure to oxygen, you can simulate years of aging (or hours of opening up) almost instantly. You may have seen those pour spouts that claim to aerate wine in gadget catalogs or in-flight shopping magazines. While those are helpful, there are many oenophiles who believe that basically bubbling the wine is too harsh a treatment for something that the wine maker spent years introducing elegance to.
The Travaso Gemini Wine Decanter is much more gentle on your fine grape juice. In addition to being an impressive piece for barware/sculpture, the Travaso utilizes a glass sphere to create a super-thin film of wine to expose to the air. The sphere is partially full of water, which serves two purposes. First it adds a little weight to keep the decanter stable while you pour. Secondly, and even more ingeniously, it allows you to store the sphere in your refrigerator for when you want to slightly cool your wine while you decant it.
In truth, most of us serve our white wines too cold and our red wines too warm. Unless you have a cellar system to store your collection, most of us keep our whites in the fridge and our reds at room temperature. Actually, white wines taste best at around 50°F, and most reds exhibit best between 59°-64°F. You'll notice that neither range is near refrigerator or room temperature. My easy fix is to pull white wines out of the cold a half hour before I plan to drink them, and I put my reds in the fridge a half hour before opening. But with the Gemini, you can cool that delicate Pinot Noir by a crucial few degrees and be ready to drink within minutes instead of hours; that's my kind of technology!
The final reason to decant is strictly for the sheer stagecraft of the ritual. Restaurants that use Travaso decanters as part of their wine service usually see about a 30% increase in wine sales, because neighboring tables watch the sommelier pouring for somebody else and think "I gotta get me some of THAT!"
Seriously, a proper decanting service employs some sort of external light source like a candle or a small light to show off the color and character of the wine before it hits your glass. At home or in a restaurant, using a decanter like the Travaso Gemini really does enhance the experience of drinking a fine bottle, and for what a great bottle costs nowadays, why not maximize the enjoyment?
A final benefit that this particular decanter has is the fact that it is tall enough to actually decant your wine back into the bottle if you'd like to open it up, then let it open up, then close it back up to take to a party at a friend's house. The only quibble and warning that I have about the Gemini is that since each decanter really is like a custom piece of sculpture, the capacity of the glass vessel that stores your decanted wine is not always consistent. The one that I tried didn't quite hold an entire 750ml bottle of wine, which could lead to a really big mess if you tried to pour the whole bottle in too fast and overflowed it all over your table. I could just see myself panicking and reaching for a towel while trying to stop the flow of wine. My next vision was of my clumsy butt knocking over the entire contraption and then sleeping in the doghouse for the rest of my adult life.
But if you use it correctly and carefully, the convenience of being able to grandly decant your wine and then pour it by the glass by simply raising your vessel up to the plastic collar at the bottom of the Gemini is pretty darn cool. At $199.00, it's not a cheap addition to your home bar, but think how dramatic your next wine tasting will be. If it makes ten $20 bottles of wine taste like $40 bottles after a proper decanting, the Travaso Gemini Wine Decanter can essentially pay for itself in no time. That's the kind of rationalization I can get behind. Cheers!
The Travaso Gemini and Grapevine Wine Decanters are available at the company website and at selected wine stores and restaurants.
What I Like: A gorgeous piece of sculpture for your home bar that provides a dramatic presentation of your wine service; It actually improves the taste of younger wines by allowing them to open up thanks to exposure to air.
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In 1968, 1,300 black men from the Memphis Department of Public Works went on strike after a malfunctioning truck crushed two garbage collectors to death.
The strike led to marches with demonstrators carrying signs declaring "I Am A Man." Their organizing efforts drew support from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. before his assassination.
"We were just fighting for equal payment and equal rights from the sanitation department," Elmore Nickleberry, one of the workers who went on strike and continued to work for the city decades later, told NPR last year.
On Monday night, the NAACP Image Awards honored the sanitation workers who went on strike 50 years ago with its Vanguard Award.
Derrick Johnson, the NAACP's president and CEO, says the country's oldest civil rights organization honored the workers for fighting for safer conditions and better pay.
"There would have never been a civil rights movement if individuals were not being exploited for free and cheap labor," Johnson says. "And the workers' strike demonstrates the need to continue to advocate, ensure that individuals are paid a livable wage particularly in the South."
Taylor Rogers, another worker who went on strike, remembered hearing King lend his support to the workers during a visit to Memphis in April 3, 1968. King's talk at the Mason Temple became known as the "I've been to the Mountaintop" speech.
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The next evening, King was assassinated in Memphis.
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Russian and Ukrainian troops traded blows in fierce close-quarter combat Sunday in an eastern Ukrainian city as Moscow's soldiers, supported by intense shelling, attempted to gain a strategic foothold to conquer the region. Ukraine's leader also made a rare frontline visit to Kharkiv, the country's second-largest city, to assess the strength of the national defense.
In the east, Russian forces stormed Sievierodonetsk after trying unsuccessfully to encircle the strategic city, Ukrainian officials said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the situation there as "indescribably difficult," with a relentless Russian artillery barrage destroying critical infrastructure and damaging 90% of the buildings.
"Capturing Sievierodonetsk is a principal task for the occupation force," Zelensky said, adding that the Russians don't care about casualties.
The city's mayor said the fighting had knocked out power and cellphone service and forced a humanitarian relief center to shut down because of the dangers.
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The deteriorating conditions raised fears that Sieverodonetsk could become the next Mariupol, a city on the Sea of Azov that spent nearly three months under Russian siege before the last Ukrainian fighters surrendered.
Sievierodonetsk, located 143 kilometers (89 miles) south of the Russian border, has emerged in recent days as the epicenter of Moscow's quest to capture all of Ukraine's eastern industrial Donbas region. Russia also stepped up its efforts to capture the nearby city of Lysychansk, where civilians rushed to escape persistent shelling.
The two eastern cities span the strategically important Siverskiy Donetsk River. They are the last major areas under Ukrainian control in Luhansk province, which makes up the Donbas together with the adjacent Donetsk region.
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Zelenskyy, meanwhile, visited soldiers in Kharkiv, where Ukrainian fighters pushed Russian forces back from nearby positions several weeks ago.
"I feel boundless pride in our defenders. Every day, risking their lives, they fight for Ukraine's freedom," Zelenskyy wrote on the Telegram messaging app after the visit.
Russia has kept up its bombardment of the northeastern city from afar, and explosions could be heard shortly after Zelenskyy's visit. Shelling and airstrikes have destroyed more than 2,000 apartment buildings in the city since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, according to the regional governor, Oleh Syniehubov.
In a video address later Sunday, Zelenskyy praised Kharkiv regional officials but said he had fired the regional head of the country's top security agency, the SBU, for his poor performance. In the wider Kharkiv region, Russian troops still held about one-third of the territory, Zelenskyy said.
After failing to seize Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, Russia is focused on occupying parts of Donbas not already controlled by pro-Moscow separatists.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told French TF1 television Sunday that Moscow's "unconditional priority is the liberation of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions," adding that Russia sees them as "independent states."
He also suggested other regions of Ukraine should be able to establish close ties with Russia.
In Luhansk, constant Russian shelling has created what provincial governor Serhiy Haidai called a "severe situation."
"There are fatalities and wounded people," he wrote on Telegram. On Saturday, he said, one civilian died and four were injured after a Russian shell hit a high-rise apartment building.
But some Luhansk supply and evacuation routes functioned Sunday, he said. He claimed the Russians had retreated "with losses" around a village near Sievierodonetsk but conducted airstrikes on another nearby river village.
Civilians who reached the eastern city of Pokrovsk, 130 kilometers (80 miles) south of Lysychansk, said they held out as long as they could before fleeing the Russian advance.
Yana Skakova choked back tears as she described leaving with her 18-month and 4-year-old sons while her husband stayed behind to take care of their house and animals. The family was among 18 people who lived in a basement for the past 2 1/2 months until police told them Friday it was time to evacuate.
"None of us wanted to leave our native city," she said. "But for the sake of these small children, we decided to leave."
Oksana, 74, who was too afraid to give her surname, was evacuated from Lysychansk by a team of foreign volunteers along with her 86-year-old husband.
"I'm going somewhere, not knowing where," she wept. "Now I am a beggar without happiness. Now I have to ask for charity. It would be better to kill me."
Sievierodonetsk Mayor Oleksandr Striuk said there was fighting at the city's bus station on Saturday. Residents remaining in the city, which had a prewar population of around 100,000, risked exposure to shelling just to get water from a half-dozen wells, and there was no electricity or cellphone service. Striuk estimates that 1,500 civilians in the city have died since the war began, from Russian attacks as well as from a lack of medicine or treatment.
The Institute for the Study of War, a think tank based in Washington, questioned the Kremlin's strategy of assembling a huge military effort to take Sieverodonetsk, saying it was proving costly for Russia and would bring few returns.
"When the battle of Sieverodonetsk ends, regardless of which side holds the city, the Russian offensive at the operational and strategic levels will likely have culminated, giving Ukraine the chance to restart its operational-level counteroffensives to push Russian forces back," the institute said late Saturday.
In Mariupol on Sunday, an aide to its Ukrainian mayor alleged that after Russia's forces gained complete control of the city, they piled the bodies of dead people inside a supermarket. The aide, Petro Andryushchenko, posted a photo on the Telegram messaging app of what he described as a "corpse dump" in the occupied city. It showed bodies stacked alongside closed supermarket counters.
"Here, the Russians bring the bodies of the dead, which were washed out of their graves during attempts to restore the water supply, and partially exhumed. They just dump them like garbage," he wrote.
It was not immediately possible to verify his claim.
Regions across Ukraine were pummeled overnight by renewed Russian airstrikes. On the ground in the eastern Donetsk region, fighters battled back and forth for control of villages and cities.
The Ukrainian army reported heavy fighting around Donetsk, the provincial capital, as well as Lyman to the north, a small city that serves as a key rail hub in the Donetsk region. Moscow claimed Saturday to have taken Lyman, but Ukrainian authorities said their fighters remained engaged in combat in parts of the city.
"The enemy is reinforcing its units," the Ukrainian armed forces' General Staff said. "It is trying to gain a foothold in the area."
Mazalan reported from Kyiv. Andrea Rosa in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Yuras Karmanau in Lviv, Ukraine, and AP journalists around the world contributed.
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As The Associated Press reports, the system has already been blamed for eight deaths in the West and meteorologists are warning of widespread snow, freezing temperatures and strong winds.
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"In New Mexico, authorities and residents braced for the second hit of a one-two punch that had already blanketed parts of the state with snow and freezing rain and caused a rollover accident that killed a 4-year-old girl in the eastern part of the state.
"Three other storm-related deaths were reported Saturday in a crash in the Texas Panhandle involving nearly a dozen vehicles."
Accuweather reports that the low-pressure system driving the storm will move across the South and hug the East Coast, perhaps upending some holiday travel plans.
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More immediately, Weather.com reports that the second half of the system will bring ice and snow through the Southern Plains. Weather.com adds:
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"Ice is also possible along the I-35 corridor to as far south as Austin Sunday into Sunday night. Some icing may also spread as far east as Arkansas and northern Louisiana Sunday night into early Monday.
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Slack is a relatively new collaboration tool that is designed to cut down on emails among team members and boost productivity. It provides messaging by topic or channel so that threads of communication can be streamlined and accessed easily.
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The US government continues to rain drones down on the tribal belt of Pakistan. While the Washington narrative is that these drones are precision machines that only kill terrorists, this story is not true.
The drone program is classified, and so it cannot be publicly debated. It cannot even be acknowledged by President Obama and his cabinet members. Drones are operated by civilians and sometimes by contractors. That is, we are subcontracting assassination.
Americans who were upset that the president did not seek congressional authorization for the enforcement of the no-fly zone in Libya are apparently all right with his administration bombing Pakistan without explicit authorization (the 2001 one authorizes action against perpetrators of 9/11, not their children.). The Obama administration has declared that no judges or judicial process need be involved in just blowing away people, even American citizens.
Of the some 3000 persons killed by US drones, something like 600 have been innocent noncombatant bystanders, and of these 176 were children. In some instances the US drone operators have struck at a target, then waited for rescuers to come and struck again, which would be a war crime. Obviously, children may run in panic to the side of an injured parent, so they could get hit by the indiscriminate second strike.
We don't know the exact circumstances of the children's deaths because the US government won't talk about them, indeed, denies it all.
Someone actually wrote me chiding me that the Newtown children were "not in a war zone!" Americans seem not to understand that neither is Waziristan a "war zone." No war has been declared there, no fronts exist, no calls for evacuation of civilians from their villages have been made. They're just living their lives, working farms and going to school. They are not Arabs, and most are not Taliban. True, some sketchy Egyptians or Libyans occasionally show up and rent out a spare room. So occasionally an American drone appears out of nowhere and blows them away.
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Mike La Salvia has left his dog, Leo, with Tails R Waggin Doggie Daycare in Tallmadge many times and has never had a problem. But on December 15, he says, he checked the day care's webcam and saw a day care worker kick Leo twice and drag him by the collar.
La Salvia immediately cut his vacation in Mexico short and spent 48 hours in airports trying to get back to Ohio.
"I haven't really slept since I saw the video," La Salvia said, describing his feelings after seeing it as "total pain."
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LatestI just don't get cockshots. I don't get snow penises, either. Or dickflashing, including the non-predatory kind. But are they just different points on a spectrum of men wanting to be looked at the way women always are?
I've had occasion to reconsider snow penises lately. There was this video posted to #tips, the caption for which reads, "i built a massive cock made of snow in my front garden then filmed my mums reaction to it ahahahah." (As for the choice of target — take it away, Dr. Freud.)
Snow penises are actually a time-honored tradition. I was recently reminded that in my college days, one was built in the center of campus, with "life-like veins, a urethral bulge, and a sizeable scrotum" and promptly destroyed, which was in turn lamented by unnamed penis defenders at The Economist. The (female) destroyer of the snow penis came forward and declared, "No one should have to be subjected to an erect penis without his or her express permission or consent." Even the frozen variety.But what about why it was built in the first place, one of so many snow phalli? Maybe it was a collective act of dickflashing by the anonymous builders. Maybe they just want someone to look at it. Even when it's not erect, like Kanye West's wasn't. Or when it's somewhat indecisively semi-hard, and even more pertinently, the girl you're sending it to has already told you she doesn't want to see you or it, like Brett Favre's.
Writing about the dudes at Dickflash last week (many of whom are engaging in actual sexual assault, if you take them at their words), I ambled over to the Female Flashers forum to see what was going on there. The girls walking around town with no panties were few and far between, though some did post photos. And where there were female flashers, there were dozens of guys asking not just for more photos, but whether there was some guy there, and did he happen to whip it out while he was at it? And did you like that? In other words, at a more extreme end of the dickflashing phenomenon, looking at a chick is still less titillating than thinking about a chick looking at a guy's dick.
I don't mean to blur the distinctions between consensual exhibitionism, harassment and assault, or fratboy pranks. But they all seem to be predicated on the same idea— that the penis can be a visual rather than an active or tactile object. And frankly, how many people just want to look at it? Far be it for me to judge or circumscribe sexual peccadillos, but I have yet to meet a woman, or man for that matter, titillated by the appearance of a man's genitalia rather than what it can do or how it can feel.
This is not to confirm that canard about men being visually stimulated and women just liking to be held by a warm fire — or be looked at. Plenty of women, myself included, like looking at men's bodies. Just not their cocks.
And while we're used to women's bodies being tradeable visual or commercial objects, how often does that mean just staring at disembodied vulvas, outside of Georgia O'Keeffe earth mother stuff and maybe some porn subsets? Maybe it's because women have a greater selection of commonly sexualized parts to choose from — boobs, butt — but I just don't see it as a mainstream force.
What does seem to be an increasingly mainstream force is a male desire to show their dicks, and relative social acceptability of acting on that desire. You can say that it doesn't tend to "work" if you believe that there's an end that these guys have in mind. But maybe the only end is being looked at, something that for better or worse, women already take for granted.
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Does bitter melon have medicinal properties?
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Is it true that bitter melon tea and capsules are effective in lowering blood sugar of diabetics?
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Hard News: We're in this together
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It's been a delight watching Public Address grow and mature over the years, Russell. Keep up the good work and here's to a bright future.
And Christmas is all around... [Love Actually]
Fantastic post Russel. I always enjoying reading Public Address for it's thoughtful and insightful take on the world.
Oh, thanks for the shout out Russell. Very kind words. We love your work too, so do our readers - we had an MP into the office this morning who said he was all up-to-speed on the status of the legal high law thanks to your recent piece.
p.s. I heard your very first @95bFM Hardnews on Graeme's show as an Akl uni first year in '91, and have been a #fanboy ever since.
You can dance, if you want to.
God damn you, Russell.
(And yes, I'm a 1991 bfm Hard News listener. I was sixteen!)
Thanks Russell
Hope there's only one truth and you're not going all pomo on us? -
Ross Bell, in reply to
Pomo is *so* 1991.
It's also more valuable than any amount of tub-thumping and armchair political generalising.
Big-picture, robust, historicised political criticism is easy to ridicule but it's absolutely vital for a society. It's also one of the areas in which our media fail to deliver most spectacularly.
Ahem, LOCAL boards ...
Good post BTW.
Good work Russ. I've always been in awe of your ability to write stuff that makes sense out of the noise and do it so consistently. The world is a better place for your efforts (or at least, better informed). Merry Xmas.
Tamara, in reply to
snap, me too!
And, in general, I think a good way forward for us will be through specialised subject blogs with multiple authors.
Great work Russell. It's the blog I spend most of my spare time (and not so spare time!) reading and I've really enjoyed contributing to specialist topics - love the Friday Music.
And a song for you, one you've often cited, a demo version thereof, posted by one Brian Eno
If a Lawrence Arabia version surfaces, I'd love to see it!
Russell Brown, in reply to
God damn you, Russell.
I was 100% certain that someone would post that clip in the first half-dozen replies.
Russell Brown, in reply to
Ahem, LOCAL boards …
Duh. How many times will I make that same mistake? Thanks.
Thanks Russell. Have a great summer.
Thanks for the Access opportunity, Russell and Sacha. Good to have something pan-disability as a sort of successor to the humans autism blog (which I hope is archived somewhere for some fine early disability writing from Giovanni and others now old hands). Some of my posts on Access are ideas revisited from my PhD thesis on autism - not the conventional way to publish, but suits me better and I like the way the discussions meander.
You and Public Address and its peoples make this world more interesting, intelligent and fun. What a great thing!
Many, many thanks to you for providing a platform for the Christchurch quake rants of so many of us. It has made a difference, in tangible ways. Your 1am Twitter invitation for Greg to write about watching the floodwaters rise in the muntlands in March kickstarted a chain of events.
Many requests were made for republication in major metro papers and small newsletters. Endless Christchurch people (the latest just this week) stopped Greg in the street, the park, the supermarket, saying that the piece lessened their feeling of overwhelmed isolation.
TV news and newspapers like the New Zealand Herald picked up on the problems the floodites were and are facing, meaning the national attention put pressure on the government and the city council to come up with help for the worst-affected, especially when we had three flood events in three months. Things like accommodation subsidy were gained (those flooded and unable to live in their houses were not eligible for the earthquake subsidy until mid-year and had to pay both mortgage and rent. Many were in severe financial difficulty.)
Council consultation with the community about what had happened, and possible area-wide solutions, was fast-tracked and extended to cover not only the Flockton Basin but areas like the Heathcote River catchment through Woolston, St Martins, Opawa and Beckenham where hundreds of houses were flooded or affected by sewage-infested river water.
Solutions are still some way off, but they are being worked upon – and some measures are working. Flockton has an interim pumping station. A working flood warning system is in place. Better systems all round for dealing with this huge effect of the earthquakes: the loss of height of land and uplift of riverbeds.
In practical terms, Russell, and the Public Address community's support has helped make all our lives easier. Isn't that what a true community is about?
Thank you all. Wishing you a fine and fab summer.
Merry Christmas Russell. Hopefully we'll catch up over summer, if it ever arrives. Which reminds me. Laneways - I may break my habit and attend this year for a change.
Merry Christmas Russell – hoping everyone has a great summer.
Great perspective on the rapidly evolving arena of current events.
Look forward to your contributions on local issues next year - Auckland desperately needs some more informed, balanced commentary on our issues to complement the great work of Transportblog. This is particularly relevant in 2015 with a 10 year budget (that currently repeats a lot of the mistakes we've seen since WWII) out for consultation early in the year.
Have a relaxing break! -
Sacha, in reply to
Likewise, it has been good getting our writing out there where others can add to it. I have always appreciated this community's supportive yet challenging nature. Tribute to its curator.
I believe Russell was going to migrate the Humans posts across to Access? Summer project, prehaps..
chris, in reply to
Awesome words Russell. As someone who tends to push the barrow quite a bit, e.g. I have more logins than John Key has hats – it's not that I'm attempting to pull the wool over anyone's eyes; in the interests of transparency those logins: mark taslov, NSA, "chris" and this one – It's just that I guess I tend to think of logins the same way our PM thinks of his job. And yeah, guilty of tub thumping, tendentiousness, being a bore, and worse, so I'm immeasurably grateful for your tolerance of my often injudicious longwinded posts. W.I.P. A Merry Christmas to you and to everyone here. And a goodish new year.
Hebe, in reply to
Likewise, it has been good getting our writing out there where others can add to it. I have always appreciated this community's supportive yet challenging nature. Tribute to its curator.
Thanks Sacha to you for Access, help, support, and for your patience.
JacksonP, in reply to
Looking back, my first post here was now 5 years ago, during the Carly binding referendum. Still can't work out how that didn't win WOTY in 2009. I mean, who even is Michael LHaws?
At times this community has sustained me, at others driven me to distraction, but it remains unique among online communities, IMhO, in that the engagement is 99% of the time delivered with good intent, and mutual respect. This is no mistake, and takes a lot of effort by the whole community. Nice work. Take the day off.
Ahem. Love your work Russell, and thanks for letting us share in the good times.
You can dance, if you want to.
God damn you, Russell.
This one's for you too Danielle. :-)
I'd also like to acknowledge my boss for allowing moderation and other input during the working day as required. Thank you.
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Shin Splints
Shin Splints Overview
Shin splints are a common exercise-related problem. The term "shin splints" refers to pain along the inner edge of the shinbone (tibia). Shin splints typically develop after physical activity. They are often associated with running. Any vigorous sports activity can bring on shin splints, especially if you are just starting a fitness program.Simple measures can relieve the pain of shin splints. Rest, ice, and stretching often help. Taking care not to overdo your exercise routine will help prevent shin splints from coming back.
Shin splints (medial tibial stress syndrome) is an inflammation of the muscles, tendons, and bone tissue around your tibia. Pain typically occurs along the inner border of the tibia, where muscles attach to the bone.
In general, shin splints develop when the muscle and bone tissue (periosteum) in the leg become overworked by repetitive activity.
Shin splints often occur after sudden changes in physical activity. These can be changes in frequency, such as increasing the number of days you exercise each week. Changes in duration and intensity, such as running longer distances or on hills, can also cause shin splints.
Other factors that contribute to shin splints include:
- Having flat feet or abnormally rigid arches
- Exercising with improper or worn-out footwear
Runners are at highest risk for developing shin splints. Dancers and military recruits are two other groups frequently diagnosed with the condition.
The most common symptom of shin splints is pain along the border of the tibia. Mild swelling in the area may also occur.
Shin splint pain may:
- Be sharp and razor-like or dull and throbbing
- Occur both during and after exercise
- Be aggravated by touching the sore spot
Doctor Examination
After discussing your symptoms and medical history, your doctor will examine your lower leg. An accurate diagnosis is very important. Sometimes, other problems may exist that can have an impact on healing.
Your doctor may order additional imaging tests to rule out other shin problems. Several conditions can cause shin pain, including stress fractures, tendinitis, and chronic exertional compartment syndrome.
Stress Fracture
If your shin splints are not responsive to treatment, your doctor may want to make sure you do not have a stress fracture. A stress fracture is a small crack(s) in the tibia caused by stress and overuse.
Imaging tests that create pictures of anatomy help to diagnose conditions. A bone scan and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study will often show stress fractures in the tibia.
Tendons attach muscles to bones. Tendinitis occurs when tendons become inflamed. This can be painful like shin splints, especially if there is a partial tear of the involved tendon. An MRI can help diagnose tendinitis.
Chronic Exertional Compartment Syndrome
An uncommon condition called chronic exertional compartment syndrome causes symptoms like shin splints. Compartment syndrome is a painful condition that occurs when pressure within the muscles builds to dangerous levels. In chronic exertional compartment syndrome, this is brought on by exercise. Pain usually resolves soon after the activity stops.
The tests used to diagnose this condition involve measuring the pressure within the leg compartments before and after exercise.
Nonsurgical Treatment
- Rest. Because shin splints are typically caused by overuse, standard treatment includes several weeks of rest from the activity that caused the pain. Lower impact types of aerobic activity can be substituted during your recovery, such as swimming, using a stationary bike, or an elliptical trainer.
- Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medicines. Drugs like ibuprofen, aspirin, and naproxen reduce pain and swelling.
- Ice. Use cold packs for 20 minutes at a time, several times a day. Do not apply ice directly to the skin.
- Compression. Wearing an elastic compression bandage may prevent additional swelling.
- Flexibility exercises. Stretching your lower leg muscles may make your shins feel better.
- Supportive shoes. Wearing shoes with good cushioning during daily activities will help reduce stress in your shins.
- Orthotics. People who have flat feet or recurrent problems with shin splints may benefit from orthotics. Shoe inserts can help align and stablize your foot and ankle, taking stress off of your lower leg. Orthotics can be custom-made for your foot, or purchased "off the shelf."
- Return to exercise. Shin splints usually resolve with rest and the simple treatments described above. Before returning to exercise, you should be pain-free for at least 2 weeks. Keep in mind that when you return to exercise, it must be at a lower level of intensity. You should not be exercising as often as you did before, or for the same length of time.
Be sure to warm up and stretch thoroughly before you exercise. Increase training slowly. If you start to feel the same pain, stop exercising immediately. Use a cold pack and rest for a day or two. Return to training again at a lower level of intensity. Increase training even more slowly than before.
Surgical Treatment
Very few people need surgery for shin splints. Surgery has been done in very severe cases that do not respond to nonsurgical treatment. It is not clear how effective surgery is, however.
There are things you can do to prevent shin splints.
- Wear a proper fitting athletic shoe. To get the right fit, determine the shape of your foot using the "wet test." Step out of the shower onto a surface that will show your footprint, like a brown paper bag. If you have a flat foot, you will see an impression of your whole foot on the paper. If you have a high arch, you will only see the ball and heel of your foot. When shopping, look for athletic shoes that match your particular foot pattern.
- In addition, make sure you wear shoes designed for your sport. Running long distances in court-type sneakers can contribute to shin splints.
- Slowly build your fitness level. Increase the duration, intensity, and frequency of your exercise regimen gradually.
- Cross train. Alternate jogging with lower impact sports like swimming or cycling.
- Barefoot running. In recent years, barefoot running has gained in popularity. Many people claim it has helped to resolve shin splints. Some research indicates that barefoot running spreads out impact stresses among muscles, so that no area is overloaded. However, there is no clear evidence that barefoot running reduces the risk for any injury.
Like any significant change in your fitness regimen, a barefoot running program should be started very gradually. Begin with short distances to give your muscles and your feet time to adjust. Pushing too far, too fast can put you at risk for stress injuries. In addition, barefoot runners are at increased risk for cuts and bruises on their feet. Several brands of minimalist shoes with "toes" are available and these also require a slow working in period as your body adjusts to this different activity.
If your shin splints do not improve after rest and other methods described above, be sure to see a doctor to determine whether something else is causing your leg pain.
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