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Decades ago, as a callow youth of maybe 23, I was made a "leader trainer" in Scouts and was therefore entitled to wear an extra pip on the lanyard around my neck.
So there I was in a big hall, dimpled hat with hard brim on the side table and spindly legs in high socks emerging downwards from baggy shorts, lecturing to adults, some decades older than me and the only way I got away with it to an extent was that I wasn't rehashing POR, the Scout manual but acknowledging that they were my superiors in life experience but here were a few other ideas they might like to consider.
Reasonable people, even of my age, would acknowledge that we are always learning, it never stops and a child can teach us things we'd forgotten or weren't aware of specifically. A child can reteach us perspective.
There was one woman on that course I've just come out of this week and one girl – what she was there for I'm not sure.
The woman had an interesting perspective and we got on well. Thank the Lord above, she was bereft of feminism, a proper woman worthy of the name – hell, I even gave her some of my Munchies and she gave me some of her filling-removing toffees. We didn't quite get to I'll show you mine if you … but the kindergarten motif was still there in force and that passed the time.
That was in stark contrast to the lecturer, a callow youth of maybe 23, from Warrington and my attitude was that he might have some interesting aspects to impart – the attitude started out positive, though most of the others at the table were not so charitable. I even made a comment at one point that "this is fun" and the others looked at me, puzzled, except for the woman, of course, who was grinning and that's why she became my friend.
One outspoken guy also became my friend later because he clearly had the same attitude I had and that will unfold. In fact, it might be said we colluded, so where does that leave people who say conspiracy is bunkum? Over on another table in the corner were two young men, children of the narrative and they were having trouble with the coffee all over the table and floor – they kept that up over the course of the course. I asked one of them at one point how he was enjoying the course and he shot back: "It's not my fault" – the spilt coffee presumably.
The two most interesting characters were the girl and the lecturer and I'll return to the latter later. The girl was just out of school and she reinforced the 80s art idea of Devo, the band:
The name "Devo" comes "from their concept of 'de-evolution' – the idea that instead of continuing to evolve, mankind has actually begun to regress, as evidenced by the dysfunction and herd mentality of American society." This idea was developed as a joke by Kent State University art students Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis as early as the late 1960s. Casale and Lewis created a number of satirical art pieces in a devolution vein.
They met Mark Mothersbaugh around 1970, who introduced them to the pamphlet "Jocko Homo Heavenbound",[5] which includes an illustration of a winged devil labeled "D-EVOLUTION" and would later inspire the song "Jocko Homo". However, the "joke" became serious, following the Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970, which Casale witnessed.[editorializing] This event would be cited multiple times as the impetus for forming the band Devo.
That idea that we're de-evolving has now become a reality and was alive and well in that girl. She was pretty, she was empty of any knowledge relating to the real world but knew all the dross which was, in a sad way, relevant to her world. Her one and only concern was that she was 4'8″ and no one took her seriously. The reason she was virtually ignored was that she added nothing, understood nothing, smiled sweetly and sat with her feet up on the chair, looking down at her pink smartphone and inventing ways to amuse herself, which had many of the men intrigued, until one chimed in with: "He who has never watched porn cast the first stone."
Someone else made a smutty remark and I leapt to the defence of the ladies: "Let's face it, guys, this course would be unbearable without these two here, we're all as ugly as sin," most conceded that, the lady was intrigued and the girl did things with herself while the lads in the corner mopped up yet another spilt coffee.
All the things this site and others have said about the emptying of our children of anything worthwhile and the substitution of dross was on show for all to see in this lass and many of those adults were quietly shocked. They had children of their own in varying states of ignorance and lack of life experience but this girl took the prize. She was sweet enough by her lights and smiled sweetly but her lights were not, shall we say, on.
Returning to the lecturer, it was apparent early that he was a nice enough chap but was slavishly following the narrative. His materials let's not get into at this point, as my role has been supervising teacher of student teachers in the past and things like lecture notes and preparation were my lot to comment on until not so long ago. I kept shtum about these things and just occasionally put in some info where he either had gone astray or didn't know.
What also became apparent was that he was nervous and yet, at the same time, so convinced he was the expert, as the lecturer. And not only that, he had the absolute certainty of youth, as Mark Twain might have observed, which admitted of no other lessons learned on the ocean of life, things which came out in force when he was not there and those at the table opened up about their lives and past – and there were some mightily experienced people there who'd been in many fields and were consequently more than interesting as people.
The boy returned and all went back to the narrative. What became apparent also was that he was a slave to the narrative, as 50 something percent of Americans showed they were on Tuesday. And as we went from Pack 1 to Pack 2 and things began to repeat themselves and those things were absolute garbage, assuming a lie or series of lies in the PC mold, some people stopped him and drew attention to the fact that he was spouting cr*p, though not in those words.
No, no, he assured us – he was simply presenting the same things in different ways, so that if it hadn't got through in one way, it might in another – good teaching technique in his book.
NLP in mine. This was Common Purpose stuff – false assumption of agreement on faux premises and a cynical knowledge that he, being the lecturer and we, the receivers of wisdom, actually labelled "students", were in our respective roles and all was well with the world.
And the terror for him was that ideas other than what were in those lecture notes might arise and had to be suppressed instantly. The notion that those people at the table each had rich lives did not enter the narrative, did not enter his consciousness – he knew, we didn't – after all, he had the esoteric materials, the knowledge handed down to him from above. The vast age discrepancy did not phase him, the possibility that we might have accumulated some life experience – no, no, the narrative!
The narrative! It is all, it is all we ever need to sustain us.
As for myself, I wasn't annoyed with him – he was a product of his era and lack of education – he told us all about his earring he had to take out for these lectures, which he called tutorials and many other vital snippets from his vast life experience in Warrington and … er … Stockport. I asked about what he thought of nosebones and tattoos but he chose not to pursue that one.
Look, it wasn't his fault, he was OK. I liked him and shook his hand at the end of the excruciating so-called "course", an utter waste of valuable days in all of our lives.
I even told him I was so amazed by his lectures – tutorial please – that I was going to follow him to all of his
lect tutorials over the north-west, even as far as Preston and he was pleased I'd accepted the narrative so completely.
That is until he reads the last page of the last pack, in answer to "What have you learned?" an open invitation to cut loose if ever there was one.
I'd written at the top of the page: "Do you want the truth or the narrative? Are you genuinely interested in how things are in this country?" Then I gave the truth which had been spoken at the table out of earshot of him, not mentioning them of course and virtually giving him a primer in what is written at OoL and NO, let alone a dozen other blogs.
It was done in the nicest possible way, I assure you and he got his brownie points where I wrote down what a fine lecturer he'd been. After all, I'd got him into trouble when he'd said he always had to make the coffee and when I went downstairs, asked the girls why the boys had to make the coffee for them and they were indignant that he'd said that and I said he hadn't and I was sure they all took turns making the coffee and I'd like milk and two please in mine and they said make your own and I asked if they'd like some coffee and how did they like it and they said: "You're learning."
I saw, during that course, sporadic resistance from the table [interesting concept] when some piece of guff was so divorced from reality that some guy had expostulated about what BS it was and the potential rebellion was brought to heel again by well-tried NL techniques the Common Purpose "training" had primed him for.
And the cynical bstds are essentially correct – people, if not sheeple, are only self-interested and consequently they know only what relates to them and thus can be cajoled and manipulated on other matters. To a lesser extent that's so for those who read with an open mind – even they – we – get hoodwinked at times. What I do know is that the pr***s who had prepared this whole structure of lecture materials needed to be taken out and shot. I'd dearly like to meet some of these face to face and observe the brainwashing at first hand.
With that sort of pigswill propaganda forced, by increments, into people's brains all over the UK and America, let alone the colonies, no wonder situations like Obama's re-election occur. It's frightening how far the narrative is so deeply entrenched in people – half the people, the people with little life experience, the people who've lived all their lives as Eleanor Rigbys.
As for us, we are the hate-filled intractables, the "phobics" to be identified – and you probably are well aware of the multiple form filling and really intrusive detail they wanted – and taken out of calculations. Recovery in the economy? Social recovery? Not from where anyone at that table was sitting, except perhaps for our coffee mopping up lads over in the corner, chewing on their fingers and grinning – for them, life was richly rewarding, except for the coffee. I should have introduced the girl to them.
In fact, the effect it had on everyone there was to reinforce resistance to the whole narrative and people who had not been radicalized before now were, in the face of this dross. Because humans do have this cunning ability to reason when the narrative slips up. To a great extent it relies on bastardized buzzwords and concepts, redefinitions and the like but when its dross is too widely removed from people's experience, doubt seeps in and that's the beginning of the end.
In America, it's clearly still going strong, the narrative. Are we not men? We are de-vo.
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Well, I write this as I await my results from my latest biopsy. In no particular order and between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. today, I had an ultrasound, a digital mammogram and additional pictures on my digital mammogram. I had a stainless steel marker inserted in my breast near the original cancer site. I had another digital mammogram. I had an IV, an injection of dye and as a bonus, I had a repeat MRI (I also had one last Wednesday). Then, just to wrap up the day with a bow, I had a core biopsy.
Believe it or not, I chose all these things (to the extent we really have choice). As the radiologist said to me, "Do you want me to go in the same hole I used earlier in the day or a new one?" Your call I replied. He smiled and told me he wanted me to feel like I had a choice. He said they could drag out the procedures over the next couple days if I wanted. I don't know if you are like me or not, but I would rather barge through all at once - why waste time, why drive back and forth and ruin two or three days instead of just one? I have a friend who calls it "the Suzette efficiency model." Forget all of the trauma I subjected my body through - let's just get it over with!
So for the umpteenth time in my life I am awaiting biopsy results. (I hope my mother doesn't read this as I didn't even tell her)! And as usual, I am hoping that cancer didn't pick me again to be his dancing partner.
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.

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Liberty's Meghan Babcock, Emilie Kaufman, Kendall Hough and Jess Reinhardt will compete in the 200 medley relay at the NCAA Championships. Kaufman and Reinhardt are both entered in individual events.
NCAA Championships Central Page Psych Sheet The Liberty swimming & diving team will send four student-athletes to compete in the 2014 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, held Thursday through Saturday at Minnesota Aquatic Center in Minneapolis, Minn. Senior Emilie Kaufman (100 and 200 breaststroke) and sophomore Jess Reinhardt (50 free, 100 and 200 fly) will both compete in individual events. Kendall Hough and Meghan Babcock will join them in the 200 medley relay.
How to Follow the Lady Flames Live results and live video streaming will be available throughout the championships. The finals sessions on Friday and Saturday nights will appear live on ESPN3.
What's at Stake Each day of the national meet begins at 11 a.m. (EDT), with preliminary heats. Finals sessions will begin at 7 p.m. (EDT) each evening. The NCAA Championships will feature a three-day meet format. The top 16 times from each event in morning prelims qualify for evening finals, with the top eight swimming in the A Final. Those who complete races in the A Final earn All-America first team status, while B finalists are named honorable mention All-Americans.
Scoring Individual events will be scored as follows: 20-17-16-15-14-13-12-11-9-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 Relay events will be scored as follows: 40-34-32-30-28-26-24-22-18-14-12-10-8-6-4-2
How They Got Here Liberty's 200 medley relay earned an NCAA A cut, swimming 1:37.80 at the CCSA Championships. The Lady Flames become the first CCSA team to send a relay to the NCAA Championships. The quartet of Hough, Kaufman, Reinhardt and Babcock has posted the 23rd-fastest 200 medley relay time in the nation to date. Reinhardt will make her second career appearance at the NCAA Championships, after competing in the 100 fly at last year's national meet. She earned an invitation in the 100 and 200 fly, and will also be eligible to swim the 50 free with a B cut swim of 22.76. Reinhardt's CCSA-record 100 fly time of 52.14 has her ranked 17th in the field. She swam a conference-record 1:56.79 to win the CCSA 200 fly title, a time that is seeded 39th. Kaufman swam a conference, meet and program-record 1:00.01 in the 100 breaststroke to win the CCSA championship. Her 1:00.01 clocking is rated 21st overall among those invited to the national meet. She will also swim the 200 breaststroke (2:12.49), after setting CCSA records in the events at the conference meet. This will be Kaufman's first trip to the national meet. Kaufman also qualified for the 200 individual medley, with a conference-record 2:00.29, but will not swim the 200 IM at nationals, in order to focus on her 100 and 200 breaststroke. This marks the third straight year that the Lady Flames will be represented at the NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championships. In 2012, Brye Ravettine competed in the 50 free, 100 free and 100 back at the NCAA national meet, becoming Liberty's first swimming All-American by placing 13th in the 50 free.
Thursday, March 20 On Thursday, Reinhardt will compete in prelims of the 50 free. Her entry time of 22.76 ranks 58th among those entered on the psych sheet. Georgia's Olivia Smoglia holds the top seed time, 21.54, followed by Ivy Martin of Wisconsin (21.58) and Georgia's Madeline Locus (21.67). Defending champion Margo Geer of Arizona is seeded seventh, at 21.78. If the heats go according to the psych sheet, it would take 22.15 to earn an evening swim, while 21.84 would make the A final.
Friday, March 21 Friday is Liberty's busiest day at the meet, beginning with the 200 medley relay trials at 11 a.m. The Lady Flames' relay of Hough, Kaufman, Reinhardt and Babcock (1:37.80) is rated 23rd out of 31 invited teams on the psych sheet. Georgia has posted the fastest time in the nation this season, at 1:35.52, while Stanford has gone 1:35.74. Tennessee, last year's victor in this event, is seeded third at 1:35.81. Texas A&M holds the eighth seed, in 1:36.40, while 16th-seeded Missouri is at 1:37.42. Reinhardt gets Liberty's day-two individual events under way, swimming in the 100 fly prelims. She is seeded 17th with her conference-record time of 52.14, which is just .03 seconds behind 16th-seeded Rebecca Weiland of Minnesota. Ellese Zalewski of Florida, last year's runner-up, is tied with Missouri's Danielle Barbiea for the first seed, as both have swum 51.13 this season. Third seed, Felicia Lee of Stanford, swam 51.26 earlier this year. A total of 13 entrants have broken 52 seconds in 2013-14. Going by the psych sheet, 51.73 is in eighth position, while 16th is 52.11. Kaufman enters Friday's 100 breaststroke heats with the 21st-fastest time in the nation, 1:00.01. Two-time defending NCAA 100 breaststroke champion and American record holder Breeja Larson of Texas A&M is the heavy favorite, as she is the only swimmer to break 58 this season, at 57.28. Molly Hannis of Tennessee (58.22) and Emily McClellan of Milwaukee (58.44) are seeded second and third after placing ninth and 10th, respectively, last year. If the trials go according to the psych sheet, it will take 59.17 to qualify for the A Final, and 59.56 to make the B Final.
Saturday, March 22 On Saturday, Kaufman will contest the 200 breaststroke, as her time of 2:12.49 is listed 47th on the pre-meet entry list. Notre Dame's Emma Reaney and Texas A&M's Breeja Larson will battle it out, as they are the only two to break 2:06 this season. Reaney is the American record holder, at 2:04.34, breaking Larson's existing record this year. Larson has clocked a 2:04.92 this season, after finishing third at nationals last season. Georgia's Melanie Margalis is seeded third, in 2:06.23. The eighth seed, Ashley McGregor of Texas A&M, sits at 2:07.38, while 2:09.07 is the 16th-fastest entry time. Reinhardt swims in the 200 butterfly prelims on Saturday morning. Her CCSA-record 1:56.79 was the 39th and final invited time in the event. Seven out of the top eight from last year's 200 fly A Final return, led by defending champion, Cammile Adams of Texas A&M. Adams, at 1:52.19, is the only swimmer to go under 1:53 this season. Stanford's Madeline DiRado (1:53.60) and Hali Flickinger of Georgia (1:53.62) are seeded second and third, respectively. Christina Bechtel of Kentucky holds the eighth seed, at 1:54.21, while 1:55.51 is the 16th best time in the field.
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Monday saw the regional launch of Sophie Duffy's novel The Generation Game at The Torbay Bookshop in Paignton.
As reported earlier - see Sophie Duffy wins Luke Bitmead Bursary - the novel was published by independent publisher Legend Press as the 2011 winner of the Luke Bitmead Bursary. There was a good turnout of fellow Exeter Writers members, and 65 copies were sold.
See the Legend Press site ('The Generation Game' by Sophie Duffy) - and Sophie's own site (A Tale of Two Book Launches) for more details and photos of the event.


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Articles like this are written. I like Lori's stuff generally and it's not that this is an irrelevant article (just ask the Cleveland Browns). But equipment cleaning? Really? I'm usually all for taking a different angle on things or writing about unique or obscure topics, but this seems to me to be more of a total boredom article brought to life by the simple question: what can I possibly write about next?. Been there Lori, been there.
You know we're hurting for Packer news when…
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Campbell Says:
July 19, 2010 at 7:29 pm |
How sexist that the only female Packer insider/sports reporter is given this story.
I guess the Old Boy's Club denizens (Hunt, McGinn etal) were otherwise occupied.
Ps..given the Rodgers hysteria..I'm calculating he'll break all of Favre's records by Thanksgiving..2012.
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July 20, 2010 at 3:04 pm |
From Pro Football Talk today:
Aaron Rodgers says he's "superultracompetitive"
Posted by Mike Florio on July 19, 2010 7:00 PM ET
Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has landed in the eyes of many league observers as one of the best quarterbacks in the game. And that's where he wants to be.
He'd be even higher if he would get rid of the ball a little more quickly.
"The last thing I want people to think is that I don't take football seriously," Rodgers told Tim Keown of ESPN The Magazine in a feature that landed Rodgers on the cover of the latest issue of the publication. "I'm superultracompetitive. But at the same time, my life is not on the line. My playing reputation is on the line, but nothing tangible. When I tell people I'm not nervous before games, does that mean I don't take it seriously? No, it means I'm not nervous because I'm confident, and I prepared my butt off all week."
Rodgers also took a slap at some of the guys picked higher in the draft than the former Cal quarterback, who plummeted out of the top 20 picks in round one five years ago, at a time when it appeared that the team for which he rooted growing up, the 49ers, possibly would make him the No. 1 overall pick.
"I see so many silver-spoon guys, and I don't think the mental toughness is always there," Rodgers said. "I've dealt with adversity. I've dealt with disappointment. I've dealt with not being picked and not being one of the guys. When I see adversity now, I look forward to it. When I see opportunity, I make the most of it."
Though that last part sounds vaguely like the first draft of the lyrics to a Steve Winwood song, it's a good approach. And it has served Rodgers well.
It'll serve him even better if he can get rid of the ball faster in 2010.


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The wild effects of hunger
I am one of those that has a frequently growling tummy and it is just best for all those involved (with me) that the beast within me (my appetite) is tamed, frequently. I don't feel naughty with these balls of apricot, nuts and Kellogg's special K. They are bursting with spice, coconut and pistachio…keep them in the fridge and they will last a few days.
Ingredients to make approximately 18 snack balls
400g of dried apricots
50g Kellogg's Special K, ground to a coarse powder
45g unsweetened desiccated coconut
45g coarsely ground pistachio
1 tbsp. chia seeds
3 tbsp. coconut milk powder
½ tsp. ground cardamom
A pinch of saffron powder
1 tbsp. cacao nibs
- Blitz the apricots and coconut milk powder to a puree
- Combine the desiccated coconut, pistachio, Kellogg's special K, cardamom, saffron powder, cacao nibs and chia seeds in a separate bowl and ensure they are evenly tossed
- Now bring together, gradually some of the nut and spice mix with the apricots and form them into a dough
- Shape and make 18 evenly sized balls and then you can either chill them I the fridge or consume immediately


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Animated guy: Local wins collegiate Emmy-like award
A publicist warns us that "Emmy" is not the correct term for the award that Charlottesvillian Ross Bollinger won April 12 in Hollywood. But the more blandly named 31st College Television Awards hosted by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation is still a pretty big deal. And besides, its website is at emmysfoundation.org.
Bollinger, 22, won first place and $2,000 for his animated film, Hook, Line and Stinker. Now ready to graduate from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, Bollinger attended Monticello High and the Renaissance School, and played ukelele in the band, Body for Karate, before heading north.
"I made an animation about Stonewall Jackson getting shot," recalls Bollinger about a fifth grade project. Once he discovered the animation potential on his computer, "it started a fire," he says. "I made all my babysitters help make clay figures."
His early oeuvre is united by a common premise: "Monsters destroying stuff," describes Bollinger. He sees the maturity in his award-winning cartoon. "Funny stuff happens to a guy fishing," he says.
"A number of College Television Award winners go on to have successful careers in the industry and have even become primetime Emmy award winners," says Television Academy Foundation executive director Terri Clark in a release. "This accomplishment is only the beginning for many of this year's talented student producers."
At the moment, Bollinger doesn't have plans to head to Hollywood. He says he can support himself with freelance graphic work. "I'm not too worried," says the soon-to-be graduate.
"I'm really glad [my parents] embraced my desire for a career in the arts," says Bollinger. And he acknowledges his good fortune in one other way. "It's lucky I didn't get into modern dance in the fifth grade," quips Bollinger.


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Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : Advances in Autism Research : From Learning Mechanisms to Novel Interventions (Novembre 2018)
Le numéro de novembre 2018 du Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research est consacré à l'autisme :
Advances in Autism Research : From Learning Mechanisms to Novel Interventions
1. Wetherby AM, Woods J, Guthrie W, Delehanty A, Brown JA, Morgan L, Holland RD, Schatschneider C, Lord C. Changing Developmental Trajectories of Toddlers With Autism Spectrum Disorder : Strategies for Bridging Research to Community Practice. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR. 2018 ; 61(11) : 2615-28.
Purpose : The need for community-viable, evidence-based intervention strategies for toddlers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a national priority. The purpose of this research forum article is to identify gaps in intervention research and needs in community practice for toddlers with ASD, incorporate published findings from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the Early Social Interaction (ESI) model (Wetherby et al., 2014) to illustrate community-based intervention, report new findings on child active engagement from the ESI RCT, and offer solutions to bridge the research-to-community practice gap. Method : Research findings were reviewed to identify gaps in the evidence base for toddlers with ASD. Published and new findings from the multisite ESI RCT compared the effects of two different ESI conditions for 82 toddlers with ASD to teach parents how to support active engagement in natural environments. Results : The RCT of the ESI model was the only parent-implemented intervention that reported differential treatment effects on standardized measures of child outcomes, including social communication, developmental level, and adaptive behavior. A new measure of active engagement in the natural environment was found to be sensitive to change in 3 months for young toddlers with ASD and to predict outcomes on the standardized measures of child outcomes. Strategies for utilizing the Autism Navigator collection of web-based courses and tools using extensive video footage for families and professional development are offered for scaling up in community settings to change developmental trajectories of toddlers with ASD. Conclusions : Current health care and education systems are challenged to provide intervention of adequate intensity for toddlers with ASD. The use of innovative technology can increase acceleration of access to evidence-based early intervention for toddlers with ASD that addresses health disparities, enables immediate response as soon as ASD is suspected, and rapidly bridges the research-to-practice gap.
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2. Kasari C, Sturm A, Shih W. SMARTer Approach to Personalizing Intervention for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR. 2018 ; 61(11) : 2629-40.
Purpose : This review article introduces research methods for personalization of intervention. Our goals are to review evidence-based practices for improving social communication impairment in children with autism spectrum disorder generally and then how these practices can be systematized in ways that personalize intervention, especially for children who respond slowly to an initial evidence-based practice. Method : The narrative reflects on the current status of modular and targeted interventions on social communication outcomes in the field of autism research. Questions are introduced regarding personalization of interventions that can be addressed through research methods. These research methods include adaptive treatment designs and the Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial. Examples of empirical studies using research designs are presented to answer questions of personalization. Conclusion : Bridging the gap between research studies and clinical practice can be advanced by research that attempts to answer questions pertinent to the broad heterogeneity in children with autism spectrum disorder, their response to interventions, and the fact that a single intervention is not effective for all children. Presentation Video : https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.7298021.
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3. Ellis Weismer S, Kaushanskaya M, Larson C, Mathee J, Bolt D. Executive Function Skills in School-Age Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder : Association With Language Abilities. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR. 2018 ; 61(11) : 2641-58.
Purpose : This article reviews research on executive function (EF) skills in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the relation between EF and language abilities. The current study assessed EF using nonverbal tasks of inhibition, shifting, and updating of working memory (WM) in school-age children with ASD. It also evaluated the association between children's receptive and expressive language abilities and EF performance. Method : In this study, we sought to address variables that have contributed to inconsistencies in this area of research-including task issues, group comparisons, and participant heterogeneity. EF abilities in children with ASD (n = 48) were compared to typically developing controls (n = 71) matched on age, as well as when statistically controlling for group differences in nonverbal cognition, socioeconomic status, and social communication abilities. Six nonverbal EF tasks were administered-2 each to evaluate inhibition, shifting, and WM. Language abilities were assessed via a standardized language measure. Language-EF associations were examined for the ASD group as a whole and subdivided by language status. Results : Children with ASD exhibited significant deficits in all components of EF compared to age-mates and showed particular difficulty with shifting after accounting for group differences in nonverbal cognition. Controlling for social communication-a core deficit in ASD-eliminated group differences in EF performance. A modest association was observed between language (especially comprehension) and EF skills, with some evidence of different patterns between children on the autism spectrum with and without language impairment. Conclusions : There is a need for future research to examine the direction of influence between EF and language. It would be beneficial for EF interventions with children with ASD to consider language outcomes and, conversely, to examine whether specific language training facilitates aspects of executive control in children on the autism spectrum. Presentation Video : https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.7298144.
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4. Arunachalam S, Luyster RJ. Lexical Development in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) : How ASD May Affect Intake From the Input. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR. 2018 ; 61(11) : 2659-72.
Purpose : Most children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have below-age lexical knowledge and lexical representation. Our goal is to examine ways in which difficulties with social communication and language processing that are often associated with ASD may constrain these children's abilities to learn new words and to explore whether minimizing the social communication and processing demands of the learning situation can lead to successful learning. Method : In this narrative review of recent work on lexical development in ASD, we describe key findings on children's acquisition of nouns, pronouns, and verbs and outline our research program currently in progress aimed at further elucidating these issues. Conclusion : Our review of studies that examine lexical development in children with ASD suggests that innovative intervention approaches that take into account both the social communication and processing demands of the learning situation may be particularly beneficial. Presentation Video : https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.7324013.
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5. Iverson JM. Early Motor and Communicative Development in Infants With an Older Sibling With Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR. 2018 ; 61(11) : 2673-84.
Purpose : A recent approach to identifying early markers of risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has been to study infants who have an older sibling with ASD. These infants are at heightened risk (HR) for ASD and for other developmental difficulties, and even those who do not receive an eventual ASD diagnosis manifest a high degree of variability in trajectories of development. The primary goal of this review is to summarize findings from research on early motor and communicative development in these HR infants. Method : This review focuses on 2 lines of inquiry. The first assesses whether delays and atypicalities in early motor abilities and in the development of early communication provide an index of eventual ASD diagnosis. The second asks whether such delays also influence infants' interactions with objects and people in ways that exert far-reaching, cascading effects on development. Results : HR infants who do and who do not receive a diagnosis of ASD vary widely in motor and communicative development. In addition, variation in infant motor and communicative development appears to have cascading effects on development, both on the emergence of behavior in other domains and on the broader learning environment. Conclusions : Advances in communicative and language development are supported by advances in motor skill. When these advances are slowed and/or when new skills are not consolidated and remain challenging for the infant, the enhanced potential for exploration afforded by new abilities and the concomitant increase in opportunities for learning are reduced. Improving our understanding of communicative delays of the sort observed in ASD and developing effective intervention methods requires going beyond the individual to consider the constant, complex interplay between developing communicators and their environments. Presentation Video : https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.7299308.
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6. Abdelaziz A, Kover ST, Wagner M, Naigles LR. The Shape Bias in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder : Potential Sources of Individual Differences. Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR. 2018 ; 61(11) : 2685-702.
Purpose : Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate many mechanisms of lexical acquisition that support language in typical development ; however, 1 notable exception is the shape bias. The bases of these children's difficulties with the shape bias are not well understood, and the current study explored potential sources of individual differences from the perspectives of both attentional and conceptual accounts of the shape bias. Method : Shape bias performance from the dataset of Potrzeba, Fein, and Naigles (2015) was analyzed, including 33 children with typical development (M = 20 months ; SD = 1.6), 15 children with ASD with high verbal abilities (M = 33 months ; SD = 4.6), and 14 children with ASD with low verbal abilities (M = 33 months ; SD = 6.6). Lexical predictors (shape-side noun percentage from the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory ; Fenson et al., 2007) and social-pragmatic predictors (joint attention duration during play sessions) were considered as predictors of subsequent shape bias performance. Results : For children in the low verbal ASD group, initiation of joint attention (positively) and passive attention (negatively) predicted subsequent shape bias performance, controlling for initial language and developmental level. Proportion of child's known nouns with shape-defined properties correlated negatively with shape bias performance in the high verbal ASD group but did not reach significance in regression models. Conclusions : These findings suggest that no single account sufficiently explains the observed individual differences in shape bias performance in children with ASD. Nonetheless, these findings break new ground in highlighting the role of social communicative interactions as integral to understanding specific language outcomes (i.e., the shape bias) in children with ASD, especially those with low verbal abilities, and point to new hypotheses concerning the linguistic content of these interactions. Presentation Video : https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.7299581.


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Now that it's officially July, The Dark Knight Rises will be here before you know it! In the meantime, you can check out these new Movie Masters figures. Batman (Christian Bale), Catwoman (Anne Hathaway), Bane (Tom Hardy) and Alfred Pennyworth (Michael Caine) were previously released and a fifth figure features Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Gotham City Police Officer, John Blake. A sixth figure has been teased and we've got reports on who it will be, but we'll save that spoilery info for after the jump. There are also some new vehicles in toy form, including a Hoverjet and a Jetcruiser. Whether these will show up in The Dark Knight Rises film or just the toybox remains to be seen.
Also starring Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman and Marion Cotillard, Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises opens in IMAX on July 20th. Hit the jump to check out the toy images.
You can feel free to view the toys at will without any spoilers. We'll keep that info until the end. Images via Idle Hands.
This is your last chance to turn back for fear of spoilers as to a mystery character that should appear in The Dark Knight Rises. Now, as for that sixth figure to be released in the collection, Idle Hands confirms that it will be a reprisal of Liam Neeson's role in Batman Begins, the one and only Ra's Al Ghul. This comes as good news for toy collectors and confirms earlier speculation that the head of the League of Shadows would manage a return in the conclusion. Idle Hands is careful not to give 100% confirmation status to the toys since some of the images are the wrong pictures for the Movie Masters series, but it's a good bet that we'll see professional badass Liam Neeson in The Dark Knight Rises this summer. Be sure to keep up on all of our continuing The Dark Knight Rises coverage here.


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New Lincoln math pages suggest more education
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Two notebook pages recently authenticated as belonging to Abraham Lincoln suggest the 16th president may have spent more time in school than usually thought.
And the Illinois State University math professors behind the discovery say the work shows Lincoln was no slouch, either.
Math Professors Nerida Ellerton and Ken Clements said Friday at the university in Normal that they'd recently confirmed that the two pages were part of a previously known math notebook from Lincoln's childhood. It was found in the archives of Houghton Library at Harvard University, where it remains.
The book, known as a cyphering book in Lincoln's day, is a sort of math workbook in which Lincoln wrote math problems and their answers.
It's the oldest known Lincoln manuscript.
Based on the difficulty of the problems involved and dates on some of the pages — 1824 and, on the recently authenticated pages, 1826, when Lincoln was 17 — Lincoln likely worked in the book intermittently over several calendar years while his family lived in Indiana, the married professors said. They think he could have started as early as the age of 10 and believe his work happened while he was in school.
"Most people say he went to school for anything between three months and nine months" over the course of his life, Clements said. "We think he went to school (up to) two years."
And very little of the work is wrong, he added.
"He made very few errors, and he always knew what he was trying to do," Clements added. "We've studied thousands of these cyphering books. You don't always get the feeling that 'this guy knew what he was doing.'"
The professors' find suggests Lincoln may have gone to school over as many as three to five winters, according to historian Daniel Stowell, director of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln project at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield. The library owns one previously identified page of the book.
"They are arguing with some merit that a cyphering book would have been created in a school setting," Stowell said. "It does at least open the possibility that he may have had more formal schooling than originally thought. Not a whole lot more, but still more."
The pages — attached as a single leaf — include word problems that are the equivalent of roughly eighth-grade modern work, Clements said.
"If 100 dollars in one year gain 31/2 dollars interest, what sum will gain $38.50 cents in one year and a quarter?" one reads.
Any student doing such work in the 1820s would have been more advanced than most on the frontier in Indiana, Clements said.
"If you got to that stage, you'd sort of done well," he said.


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GREENWICH, CT (News 12 Connecticut/CNN) - The ex-boyfriend of a 24-year-old woman, who was found bound and stuffed into a red suitcase, has been charged with kidnapping resulting in death in the case.
Valerie Reyes, 24, had been missing for a week from her home in New Rochelle, NY, before her body was found Feb. 5 in a heavily wooded area along the side of a Greenwich, CT, road.
Police arrested Reyes' ex-boyfriend, 24-year-old Javier Da Silva, Monday. Da Silva, whom prosecutors say is not a U.S. citizen, allegedly admitted to "playing a role in her death."
According to the arrest warrant, Da Silva claims Reyes fell and hit her head after they had sex in her apartment. Prosecutors say the suspect admitted to then putting packing tape in the victim's mouth, placing her in a suitcase and dumping the body in Greenwich.
Reyes' mother, Norma Sanchez, says her daughter feared for her life before she disappeared.
"I'm in pain. I hurt like I've never hurt before. It just eats me inside. Val did not deserve this at all," Sanchez said.
Police say Reyes' debit card was used the day after she died, believed to be around Jan. 28. It was this that led them to investigate Da Silva.
"Several crime scenes have been examined, hours of surveillance video have been reviewed and numerous interviews conducted," said Capt. Robert Berry with the Greenwich Police Department. "But I want to emphasize the investigation continues. The investigation has not finished yet; there's a lot of loose ends that need to be tied up."
Da Silva is being held without bail on a charge of kidnapping resulting in death. He will be prosecuted by federal authorities because the alleged crime crossed state lines.
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4 pieces of 1x6x8' of pine wood (cut down to 7', courtesy of Lowe's handymen)
1 piece of 1x6x8' cut down to 20" pieces
palm sander with 140grit sandpaper {if you already haven't, invest in one of these!}
wood stain {I used Miniwax special walnut)
random distressing tools (see picture below)
The measurements:
I first started by measuring how high I wanted my headboard to go on the wall and then divided by 5.75" (the true measurement of a x6" piece of wood) letting me know how many boards high I'd need for the headboard (7). Instead of making the headboard a solid make up of 7 boards high, I knew an upside down U shape would be just as efficient, cut down on costs, and especially, cut down on headache trying to cut around a phone jack and outlet. Instead I just made the top 4 boards the full 7' in length, and then the remaining 3 boards on each side I cheated and used cut pieces of the wood.
This picture is a clear layout of what the headboard looks like, with the bed pulled away...
Ideally I would have liked the last piece to be lined up and be 20" with the other, but that would have meant buying another board to get the full 20" for both sides. Instead, I just used one of the 12" pieces left over from cutting it from 8' to 7'.
I just want to add this imagery for your entertainment: Envision me trying to gather four 7' pine boards together while attempting to control my ball of energy 2 year old that is REFUSING to hold my hand or stay near me and make it through the store, checkout and to my car. Apparently, all the Lowe's sales people preferred to watch me struggle, blow steam from my ears, and scream at a screaming kid while pushing over sized wood through the store, rather than help me. Ahhhh, being a mother.
The Steps:
First, I sanded down the edges of all the boards using my palm sander.
Then, laying each board where I want them to be once installed, I began the fun part... distressing.
Here's what I used to start "aging" the wood:
A file, hammer, bag of nails, screwdriver
Pretty much, you can't go wrong during this step. Literally just start banging, jabbing, filing, nailing away. You can't over do it either, just think of real distressed wood, does it hold back? No!
Here are some before and after shots of what I did, and how it looks after being stained:
{Hint: After you sand and distress use a tack cloth or any other rag and wipe down your boards, make sure they are clean right before you stain!}
Now at this point, take a quick break and peek in on your kid,
you may be as lucky as I am and see this:
Next, I brought the boards inside and found where studs were located on each side towards the ends of the boards. I could have used anchors and screwed directly into any spot on the wall, but I really didn't mind the screws showing and directly into studs just made it so, so much easier.
I started at the bottom with the 12" piece. Stacked the two 20" pieces on top with small gaps in between each piece. I did both sides so my first 7' piece would be able to rest on the lower piece while I screwed each side in, again leaving a small gap in between each piece.
Overall, a very easy project to do (completed in one afternoon) and I am IN LOVE with the results!
Let me know if you build your own headboard! Would love to hear about it...
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LAGOS, Luis; URIARTE, Iker y YANY, Gabriel. Assessment of the reproductive potential of the mussel (Mytilus chilensis) from two natural populations subjected to different conditioning temperatures. Lat. Am. J. Aquat. Res. [online]. 2012, vol.40, n.2, pp.389-397. ISSN 0718-560X.
The reproductive cycles of Mytilus chilensis vary latitudinally. This species has reduced genetic and morphological differentiation due to its high potential for dispersal. Broodstocks from Yaldad Bay (Chiloé) and Zenteno Bay (Punta Arenas) were conditioned at 9 ± 0.5°C and 15 ± 0.5°C, and were fed a diet (1:1) of Isochrysis galbana and Chaetoceros neogracile. We expected to determine whether conditioning at different temperatures produces changes in the reproductive potential of the populations. Gonadal development was lowest in the broodstocks conditioned at 9°C, and highest in those conditioned at 15°C, from Chiloé. Fertility was greater in broodstocks from Yaldad than in those from Zenteno. Oocyte diameter was greater in broodstocks from Zenteno, and both populations showed larger diameters at 9°C. Neither the percentage of fertilized eggs nor the percentage of larvae hatching differed significantly between populations at either conditioning temperature. Therefore, it was not possible to establish differences in the reproductive potential of the populations under the conditions studied herein.
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The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) has presented its Team Academic Award for the 2008-2009 season to the Hope Flying Dutch.
The award, which was initiated in the 1992-93 academic year, honors collegiate and high school volleyball teams that displayed excellence in the classroom during the school year by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team grade-point average on a 4.0 scale.
With a cumulative 3.429 cumulative GPA, the Flying Dutch are among 77 NCAA Division III teams being honored.
Coach by Becky Schmidt, the MIAA champion Flying Dutch were also presented the Team GPA Award by the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA).


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...where we have been producing fresh, tasty, nutritious food for you, daily, on our own premises in the heart of Drogheda, since 2007.
...where we use as much Irish, local, free range, Farm gate value, Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance & Organic produce as we can find for our customers, and always traceable ingredients.
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Emani Minerals: 100% vegan makeup
There are a lot of makeup companies that have a few select vegan or cruelty-free items but how nice would it be to take out the guess work and label reading process when finding vegan cosmetics? Well, Emani Minerals is a completely vegan, gluten-free, paraben-free, cruelty-free makeup line and they use 100% recycled paper goods for their packaging (25% post & 75% pre-consumer) that are 100% biodegradable. Now that's what I call green makeup! My favs…
Foundation Primer & Hydrating Serum ($28): Not only is this primer vegan, but it fills in all the lil' wrinkles and lines in your face making it perfectly smooth and even for foundation application. This primer is so velvety and smooth. I can't stop touching my face when I apply this serum. It's like a magic potion for smooth skin. It also happens to be incredibly moisturizing and contains organic extracts (chamomile, mallow, cornflower, mint, peppermint, witch hazel aloe, calendula and ginkgo biloba) which help nourish your skin. Seriously, if you want to look years younger, you need to be rocking some foundation primer. I highly recommend incorpoating this into your beauty regimen.
Pressed Mineral Foundation ($30): After prepping your skin with Emani Hydrating Serum & Primer, you are all set to go for foundation. I've been using pressed mineral foundation for years. I'm addicted to this stuff. Your coverage can be light to heavy depending on how many layers you apply. This talc-free, pressed mineral foundation is infused with organic rosemary and grape seed extract, which helps to balance your skin's moisture and gives you even coverage. Plus, this compact is totaly portable, so you can plop it in your purse for touch ups.
Ingredients: Mica, Titanium Dioxide, Silica, Cyclomethicone, Dimethicone, Rosemary Extract, Grapefruit Seed Extract, Iron Oxide
Vegan Foundation Brush ($24): Emani makeup brushes are soooooo incredibly soft! The foundation brush is ideal for applying loose powder foundation, pressed foundation or translucent powder. This brush is 100% vegan and free of dyes. There really is no need to be using makeup brushes made out of squirrels booty fur (or whichever animal they steal fur from). Plus, these synthetic brushes last longer and don't harbor bacteria like conventional makeup brushes do.
Crushed Mineral Eye Dust ($10): First off, I'd like to say how crazy I am about that bright shade of blue (Dare Devil) featured in the photo. It's mesmerizingly beautiful. All of these eyeshadows are made with 100% pure mineral pigments and are free of talc and other fillers. Emani Mineral Color Dust goes on sheer but for an intense finish, you can wet your brush and then apply. There are lots of shades to choose from. They have earthy tones, pastels, bold, fun colors – they have it all! Some of these shades work perfectly for your lips. Get crazy and try a bunch of differnt stuff. Be your own makeup artist. For longer lasting eyeshadow, feel free to prep your lids with eye cream then layer foundation on top to create a smooth base. Then apply your rockstar makeup and go out and paint the town red (or Dare Devil blue)!
Ingredients: Mica, Iron Oxide, Titanium Dioxide
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This is the worst makeup I have ever used or ever seen being used. My friend had a wedding where we were to all get our makeup done (at a pretty penny, but it was worth it we thought since it'd be professional). It showed every crevis and crease and the colors were horribly matched to our skin tones. We looked washed out completely. It wore off quickly and I ended up having to fix everyones makeup by reapplying a combination of Mary Kay and Mac Cosmetics. Never again and I would not recommend even in an emergency.
I have a big issue with 'Emani Minerals' right now. I attended the London Beauty Show in Kensington Olympia today, and bought a Mineral Foundation from the Emani stand/counter for £13.30. I was so excited about using the product as I heard such good things about it. I was astonished and shocked when I opened it a couple of hours later. I removed the seal. I squeezed the tube and nothing came out except air!
The tube states 15mls but even after squeezing the tube from top to bottom,I only managed to get a pea sized amount of product out. Basically, I paid £13 for a air! The tube is opaque black and nearly 10cm in length so you get the impression that there is a fair bit of product in there, or at least the amount stated on the package, but on the contrary in my case.
I contacted Emani Minerals HQ in the US, as I couldn't find any Emani Minerals shops in London. Instead of them offering me an exchange or refund, I was told how to use foundation wih a brush to minimise wastage! i found this incredibly patronising as i was not asking for make up aplication tips; I was asking for an exchange or refund as you would with such a product.
Clearly there has been some sort of manufacturing fault with this tube and maybe even more, and yet I have paid the price! I am so dissapointed with Emani, and refuse to buy any more products as I am too afraid of being conned again. Emani Mineral Foundation might be a good product, but I will never know as I don't even have enough product to apply all over my face even once, even though i bought a brand new 15ml tube today! Emani has no customer service or integrity for their customers.
My advice to anyone purchasing Emani products – open the sseal before in front of the sales assistants and make sure you get what you pay for!
I checked this out, however I noticed Emani contains titanium dioxide with is not a healthy chemical to use.
I'm going to check this line out. I've been feeling kind of guilty about buying the vegan items from nonvegan companies when I could be trying out an all vegan cosmetics line, but I didn't know of one- so now I do! Thanks!


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We're big fans of two-wheeled locomotion, even if no one on the team actually rides a motorbike. We ride them in our dreams, and being the realists that we are, we think of practical stuff as well. Like, if we wanted to bring our laptop with us on a long bike ride, where would we put it? Not in an over-the-shoulder satchel, that's for sure. Maybe more in something like the Ogio No Drag Mach 1 Backpack. It's got a streamlined exterior hard shell that's both waterproof and, well, streamlined to reduce drag and buffeting at high speeds. There's enough space inside for a 15 inch laptop and many accessories. There's even an interior organizer panel to prevent objects rubbing up against each other, which could happen when you're barrelling down the road at… the speed limit.
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The most stunning aspect of the report, which was completed by former Sen. George Mitchell, is the great detail with which he goes into Clemens' past, based on eyewitness testimony by the pitcher's longtime trainer, Brian McNamee. Considering how quickly public opinion turned against slugger Mark McGwire, Clemens' Hall of Fame status could be in question.
Clemens, a seven-time Cy Young Award winner, vehemently denied the allegations in Mitchell's report through his attorney, Rusty Hardin.
"The use of steroids in sports is a serious problem, it is wrong and it should be stopped," Hardin said in a statement. "However, I am extremely upset that Roger's name was in this report based on the allegations of a troubled and unreliable witness who only came up with names after being threatened with possible prison time."
Pettitte declined to comment, but his agent, Randy Hendricks, issued a statement.
"I advised Andy that as an active player, he should refrain from commenting until we have had an opportunity to speak with his union and other advisers," Hendricks said. "At the appropriate time, he will have something to say."
Seventeen past and present Yankees are on the list. Former Yankees Kevin Brown, Mike Stanton, Rondell White, Glenallen Hill, Chuck Knoblauch and David Justice are among those implicated in the report.
The main sources for Mitchell's information are former New York Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski and McNamee, the former Yankees strength coach and longtime trainer of Clemens and Pettitte who was threatened by the government with litigation for his role if he did not cooperate with Mitchell.
After Mitchell detailed each player's steroid use, he stated how he tried to contact them so they could explain, defend or deny the charges, but no active player except the Yankees' Jason Giambi spoke with Mitchell. At his news conference yesterday, Mitchell said, "The players were largely uncooperative, for reasons that were largely understandable."
McNamee told Mitchell that Clemens took performance-enhancing drugs during the 1998


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Recently, due to bad sleeping habits and being under immense stress, I have been experiencing serious acne on my face. Fortunately for me, there are no mega events to attend for this period; outbreak started a few days after the Nelly Furtado showcase. But at the same, I feel very sad every time I look in the mirror.
Horrible, horrible, angry, red pimples EVERYWHERE!!! Right cheek, left cheek, chinny-chin-chin, jawline, and even the forehead which rarely has any pimples. And the skin on the jawline is so dry and flaky! Dry?! What?? I've never had dry skin in my life before!
It's timely that I recently came across an image showing vaguely how having acne on different parts of your face actually shows the condition of your internal organs. And I decided to do more research on it and put together this post for long-time sufferers of acne and as a reminder for myself to take better care of my health.
Before we start, have you ever wondered why you always get pimples in the same spot? Ever wondered why acne appears only on certain parts of your face?
If you've:
- battled with acne all your life,
- tried products from high-end to drugstore,
- been recommended products by friends who have flawless skin anyway,
- been conned by one too many scheming promoters who give you hope that their products will work miracles on your skin only to be disappointed time and again,
it's probably time to analyze the underlying problems.
Many people believe that acne is product related. Why then is acne not equally dispersed all over the face?
More often than not, it's not that the products you've bought don't give you the perfect vision you have painted in your head of having skin like the poster girl. Poster girls have been airbrushed to perfection and even those in videos can be easily altered.
I recently had an interesting conversation with a friend who works in the movie editing industry and he told me how they trick audience into thinking everything is impeccable. You know those shampoo advertisements? Those with hair that glow and shine and twinkle in the light in slow motion? FAKE. ALL FAKE. Hahaha, but that's another topic altogether and today we want to focus on why we keep having pimples despite all the expensive shizz we put on our face.
According to PubMed,
Acne is a skin condition that causes pimples or "zits." This includes whiteheads, blackheads, and red, inflammed patches of skin (such as cysts).
Let us now analyze the causes of pimples on the different parts of your face and what your pimples are trying to tell you about your body.
Chinese physicians believe that our skin reflects the health of our internal organs. So by isolating areas in which acne happens, we can better understand our body.
Look at the areas highlighted in red (not the red dots all over the face!).
Disclaimer: Just like in my post on Eye Makeup for 14 Different Types of Asian Eyes, I could not find the real source of these images. You know, Chinese websites don't give two hoots about crediting sources so these images can be found on many, many sites. Information was all over the place, so I placed the corresponding causes and solutions together with the visual representation.
Acne position #1: Hairline
Fa(3) ji(4) dou(4) translates to 'pimples on the hairline', or scalp acne, or scalp folliculitis.
Usually caused by improper and incomplete removal of makeup, infrequent hair and scalp cleanliness or use of hair-care products that block pores.
What to do:
- Wash your face and hairline twice a day. Keeping your skin clean with soap and water can minimize oil production from your pores.
- Make sure you remove all traces of makeup before you sleep. I recommend Biore Eye Makeup Remover
- Exfoliate once a week
- Shampoo your hair every day. If this dries out your hair too much, you can use a conditioner to add moisture. You can also use a medicated shampoo containing salicylic acid. Shampoo with salicylic acid is typically used to treat dandruff; however, salicylic acid is a topical acne medication that slows dead skin cells from shedding and clogging pores.
Acne position #2: Between brows
Causes: Pimples between the brows indicate an overloaded liver. People with pimples between the brows experience chest tightness, heart irregularity. May also be caused by bangs/hair fringe, as filth and bacteria accumulation from dirty hair stains the skin.
(I have bangs but I rarely have any pimples on the forehead or between the brows, except for now 🙁 )
What to do:
- Avoid strenuous exercises
- Get more sleep
- Avoid alcohol
- Avoid smoking
- Avoid foods that cause your skin to flare
GOODBYE WASABI PEAS! (but they're so yummy, you know~~~~ BOOOOO……!)
Acne position #3: Near eyes/nose
Causes: Pimples near the eyes and nose indicate poor liver function. You are probably very tired, sleep very little, and are under constant stress. Your diet lacks essential nutrients.
What to do:
- Eat fruits and vegetables with high content of vitamin C (kiwi, sweet pepper, oranges) will help in providing you with a good mood.
- Try to avoid eating late at night; especially right before bedtime as your body will not break down the food as effectively, leading to a toxin build up.
- Love your liver by maintaining a healthy and active lifestyle, eating leafy greens, avoiding drugs, alcohol and smoking, and reducing your fat intake. (Do these not only for the pimples! It's for your overall health!)
Lately I've been doing all of the above – keeping late nights, eating late at night, having little sleep, sleeping badly, under stress. Must love my liver more!
*grabs some grapes from the fridge
Acne position #4: Tip of the nose
Causes: Weak digestive system
What to do: What goes on, on your nose, is linked to your heart.
- Eat less cold food. Cold foods causes gastic acid secretion.
- Eat less pungent foods (spices, garlic, etc).
- Eat less meat.
- Massage the area around your nose.
- Make sure you are getting enough Vitamin B
Acne position #5: Nose Wings
Causes: Sudden appearance of big, swollen pimples here may be associated with changes in reproduction system or the ovaries. Pimples on nose also indicate the problems of the cardiovascular system. The heart may lack vitamin B and protein. You have a very passive way of life, are constantly worried, and move very little. Your skin suffers from lack of nutrients and poor blood circulation.
What to do:
- Eat less pungent foods (spices, garlic, etc)
- Eat less meat
- Eat warm temperature foods (not too cold or hot)
- Get more fresh air
- Exercise everyday (like going for a walk)
- Massage the area around your nose
- Make sure you are getting enough Vitamin B
- Add more green vegetables and fruits, fish, various cereals to your diet. Do morning exercises or work out at least one hour a day.
Acne postion #6: Jawline
Causes: Poor lymphatic drainage. When your lymphatic system's drainage becomes blocked, you cannot eliminate toxic material. Can also indicate hormonal imbalance in the sexual life. You might be nervous, sleep very little, drink much coffee or alcohol. Sometimes it might be a signal of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), so be sure to consult a doctor.
What to do:
- Reduce the habit of eating before bed
- Eat more fresh fruit and vegetables
- Get more rest
- Get your hormones checked
- Get 20 minutes of exercise each day
- Sleep early and wake up early
- Massage your body for relaxation
- Practice proper hygiene
Acne position #7: Lip area
Causes: Pimple on lip or shoulders means problems with digestive system. Have you noticed indigestion, intestinal colic or constipation? You are very sensitive and vulnerable, too worried about everyone and everything.
Include more food containing fiber in your diet. Have a cup of green tea after each meal.
- Eat more fiber
- Include more fresh fruits and vegetables in your diet
- Eat less spicy and fried foods
- Massage abdominal area in a clockwise motion
- Change your toothpaste
Acne position #8: Forehead
Causes: Outbreaks on your forehead can be caused by a toxin build up, usually related to poor digestion and lack of water. Pimples on forehead or above the eyebrow mean that your intestines are struggling to cope with their responsibilities. Your diet is most likely dominated by fats, soft drinks, red meat. Your body struggles to get rid of the extra toxins.
Pimples on the forehead is also affected by an overactive mind. (Bingo!)
What to do:
- Drinking water helps to flush out the toxins in your body, so boost your water intake and have a look at the foods you are eating.
- Minimize intake of fizzy drinks and high caffeinated drinks. Also look at switching to herbal teas, especially green tea!
- Consume less chocolate, cakes, lemonade and Coke, drink more mineral water without gas. Eat food that helps eliminate toxins from the body: boiled cabbage, and baked apples.
- Go to bed early (10pm) and wake up early (6am). Even if you can't fall asleep. it's good to relax so your liver can rest and be ready for work the next day (Pffft!! Tell me, in this internet age, who sleeps at 10pm?? I'm writing this sentence at 01:46, yo!)
- 20-30 minutes of light exercise every day, especially outdoors
- Practice relaxation techniques to worry less
- Better hygiene (washing hair, hats)
Acne position #9, 10: Left cheek, Right cheek
Upper Cheek
Your upper cheek is linked to your lungs. Outbreaks here can be caused directly by smoking and passive smoking. The air you are breathing will show in this area of your face, so you are more likely to break out in this area if you are living in a highly polluted area.
If you sleep on the side of your face, or use your mobile phone on this side, the germs and dirt can be transferred and will clog your pores, causing breakouts.
Pimples on chest, as well as on the back and cheeks indicate the lungs' overload. According to the Eastern medicine, the lungs accumulate unbalanced, heavy and viscous energy that does not find a way out.
Lower Cheek
Breakouts on your lower cheek can be an indication of poor dental hygiene. If you have any infections in your mouth, especially involving your gums, this will show on the outside too.
What to do:
- Hygiene:
- Change your pillowcase at least once a week, and wipe down your phone with an antibacterial wipe every few days.
- Always keep on top of your dental health, brushing, mouthwash and flossing twice a day and regular check ups at the dentist at least twice a year! Don't just wait until you have a dental problem to make an appointment.
- Food:
- Foods great for healthier lungs include, kale, sprouts and pumpkin.
- Include fresh vegetables, oatmeal and brown rice in your diet.
- Eat more cooling foods such as gourds, winter melons, and green beans
- Don't overeat
- Avoid fast food and junk food
- Avoid mango, taro root, wine, and seafood or other foods you may be sensitive to
- Eat less sugar
- Lifestyle:
- Try to spend more time on fresh air every day.
- Try to keep a positive mood
- Don't let your body overheat
- Try to decompress and relax
- The liver is the strongest from 1-3 AM. This is when you should be sleeping
- The lung is strongest at 7-9 AM. This is the best time for aerobic exercise
- The liver is weakest at 1-5 PM, so schedule difficult work for the morning
- If you have to work in the afternoon, rest your eyes for 5 minutes every hour
Acne position #11: Chin
Causes: Your chin is linked to your small intestine, so a poor diet or food allergies could cause you to break out in this area.
Many women break out in this area around that time of the month. This area is related to your hormones, so any sudden changes or a hormonal imbalance, can cause breakouts here. These tend to appear a few days before you are due to start a period, and clear up once your period is over.
Pimples on the chin indicate hormonal imbalance in the sexual life. You might be nervous, sleep very little, drink much coffee or alcohol. Sometimes it might be a signal of PCOS, so be sure to consult a doctor.
- Have enough sleep
- Don't pick at the pimples
- Reduce the habit of eating before bed
- Eat more fresh fruit and vegetables
- Get more rest
- Get your hormones checked
- Get 20 minutes of exercise each day
- Sleep early and wake up early
- Massage your body for relaxation
- Practice proper hygiene
Keep a Food Diary
Look at your diet. Are there any specific food groups, such as dairy, that when you eat, you suffer an uncomfortable digestion or breakout in this area? It could be worth keeping a food diary to see if you can pinpoint which foods trigger the symptoms and outbreaks, for example, you could have a form of lactose intolerance, affecting your digestion.
Do you eat many oily foods too? The oils from these foods can make quite a mess on your face when eating, so make sure you clean around your mouth properly after eating to stop any build up on the surface.
For me, it's definitely wasabi peas and too much sweet snacks. And I am beginning to suspect my body is suddenly reacting negatively to milk. Really! The past few days I drank a lot of milk and it's at this time that my skin condition deteriorated.
It's really good for the health to avoid sugary, spicy and oily food, but for goodness sake, I'm living in Singapore!!! Food paradise!!! How can I say no to chilli crab, egg yolk crab, lala, zut zut, laksa, sambal stingray, char kway teow, fried hokkien mee, nasi lemak, rojak…
Just too hard… TOO HARD.
Acne and Me
Update: The Best Tricks That Worked For My Acne
I've never had clear skin. Ever since I hit puberty, that is. Never had a day when the skin looked flawless. I always thought 'pimples' meant those red ones, so my acne positions are 6, 9, 10, 11. But now that I know acne includes everything from blackheads to cycts, it seems I've got 1-11 covered. @#&^%)&*!!!
Skin discoloration from recovering pimples are not as bad as those that are fresh, red, and show a bump. You can hide skin discoloration with makeup correctors, but bumps are just impossible to conceal.
- Exercise. I dance at least once or twice per week. But maybe still not enough?
- I sleep enough hours, just irregularly. Sometimes I sleep in the day, sometimes (rarely) I sleep at night. So the body's confused.
- Eating too much sweet stuff
- Eating too much spicy food
- Eating too late at night
- Eating too many wasabi peas 🙁
- Not eating enough fruit and vegetables
- Sleep late, wake up very late
- Dairy products?
Oh and I also have PCOS, confirmed by at least three gynecologists. Having acne comes with it. Part of the package.
What I will do:
- Eat more fruit and vegetables
- Eat less sweet stuff
- No more wasabi peas
- Don't eat too late at night
Okie, I'll start from these. I can't promise to eat less spicy food and I know keeping a normal sleep routine is quite impossible, for now at least. I've also been seeing a TCM physician and been prescribed concoctions. Need to arrange for my next appointment!
Do you suffer from acne? For how long already? Any tips to share on combating acne?


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Sleeping at Last and Paper Route will perform through the Hope College Concert Series on Saturday, Sept. 1, at 8 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
Tickets are $10 for the general public and free with a Hope College ID, and are available at the ticket office in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse.
Sleeping at Last is an alternative rock trio based in Wheaton, Ill. The group's albums include "Ghost" (2003) and "Keep No Score" (2006). ChristianMusicToday.com ranked "Ghosts" fourth on its listing of the 12 Best Christian Albums of 2003; a track from "Keep No Score," titled "Quicksand," was featured on the season three premiere of ABC's "Grey's Anatomy."
Nashville, Tenn.-based "Paper Route" released its self-titled debut EP in 2006. The band was formed by former members of For All of the Drifters, and cites influences ranging from Bjork, to the pre-1976 Elton John, Tears for Fears, Emmylou Harris and Rufus Wainwright.
The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and will also be open on Saturday, Sept. 1, during the same hours, and can be called at (616) 395-7890.
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Pazz wrote:About items; A flashlight gives you +2 on perception.
That presents some logical issues. Specifically, it makes no sense that a flashlight would do anything for you in broad daylight. But I get where you're coming at, you want to make the world more organic, so let me straighten that out for you within that framing.
Keep in mind, we're just talking here, there's no plans right now to implement a system, but purely for the sake of argument we could, say, reduce the player's perception by one during night or in dark areas (Such as the sewers, or perhaps some buildings, since electricity isn't in abundance), and then resolve it if the player is carrying a flashlight or if they have an infection (Such as feline) that allows for better vision in the dark.
Wahn wrote:Not sure if the game mechanics will support a "have this in the inventory and your perception goes up" item.
There's nothing particularly difficult about it from a coding angle. This does create a new logical issue, however. Specifically, wouldn't the flashlight immediately die? Contrivances regarding flashlights and poor battery life are nothing new in gaming, but the timescale is such that you're burning through entire nights in but a few turns. I imagine it wouldn't last very long.


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Tourists taking in the view of the city from atop New York's Empire State Building were shocked when a man fell from the observation deck, then landed a floor below.
Nathaniel Fimone fell from the observation deck of the Manhattan skyscraper just before midnight Wednesday. He fell from the 86th floor and landed on a catwalk just below it, between the 86th and 85th floors.
According to eyewitnesses who spoke with the New York Daily News, Fimone, once he was on the catwalk, swung his legs into the air as if he meant to drop again.
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Pope: Epiphany Manifests Universality of Jesus Christ
The visit of the Magi, the Holy Father said, shows that Jesus Christ is 'the light of the world that guides the path of all peoples.'
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI said on Sunday that the Magi's visit to the Christ Child commemorated at the feast of the Epiphany shows that Jesus Christ is "the light of the world that guides the path of all peoples."
"The faith of Mary becomes the first fruits and the model of the faith of the Church, the people of the New Covenant," the Pope told the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square Jan. 6. "But this people, from the beginning, is universal; and we see this today in the figure of the Magi, who come to Bethlehem following the light of a star and the indications of the sacred Scriptures."
He said that Christmas shows the faith of the Virgin Mary, of St. Joseph and of the shepherds, while Epiphany shows "the faith of the Magi," who came from the East to adore the King of the Jews.
Pope Benedict explained that the Virgin Mary represents the "branch" of Israel and the remnant "foretold by the prophets, from which the Messiah will spring forth."
In contrast, the Magi represent the people, "the civilizations, the cultures, the religions" that are "on the path to God in search of his reign of peace, of justice, of truth and of liberty."
Mary embodies the "nucleus of Israel," the people who "know and have faith in that God that was revealed to the patriarchs." Her faith is like that of Abraham because it is "the new beginning of the same promise" that is fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
The Pope added: "The light of Christ is so clear and strong that it makes the language of the cosmos and of the Scriptures intelligible, so that all those who, like the Magi, are open to the truth can recognize it and join in contemplating the Savior of the world."
In English, he greeted pilgrims, including the boys of the Palestrina Choir of St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral in Dublin. They had sung at the Sunday Mass of the Epiphany at St. Peter's Basilica.
Pope Benedict celebrated that Mass, during which he ordained four priests as bishops: Angelo Vincenzo Zani, who is named secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education; Fortunatus Nwachukwu, who is named the apostolic nuncio to Nicaragua; Georg Ganswein, the nominated prefect of the papal household; and Nicholas Henry Marie Denis Thevenin, the nominated apostolic nuncio to Guatemala.
The Pope asked the faithful to pray for the new bishops and their respective ministries: "May the new bishops be faithful successors of the apostles, always bearing witness to Christ, who today reveals the face of God to the nations. May the Lord bless all of you and grant you his peace!"


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Sportscaster Bryant Gumbel is being treated for lung cancer, he revealed Tuesday.
The former "Today" show anchor disclosed the news on "Live! With Regis & Kelly" Tuesday morning, saying he had surgery last month to remove a malignant tumor from his chest.
Gumbel, 61, was subbing for Regis Philbin when co-host Kelly Ripa asked him to dance. He begged off with the dramatic excuse, saying part of his lung was removed last month, and he will be seeing his surgeon next week.
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Y SIN EMBARGO magazine #27, in-significant (new!, free, independent)
Not even things but the discourse on things.
Not even interaction with the object but just with the discourse on the object.
Absence of significance in an Empire of signifiers.
Rhetorical update: Surfer discourse not defending any stance, just suspecting.
Bottomless surfer, dissections by a forensic surgeon of the senses.
Sublimation of languages?
Apocalyptic deconstruction?
Waste management at the end of the game?
What do we speak about when we speak? What do we refer to?
Do you know what I'm talking about?
The medium turned into massage.
When the message from the medium is just the massage of discourse.
Massive addiction to the daily soma of a "renewed" discourse, a distracting one, without consequences or content, paradigmatic on mass-media and social networks.
Words and things.
What names and is named, cultural conventions, significance-signifier-jingle-label.
Channel as the bearer of uncontrollable noise.
At a higher level every day (as this formula is understood in programming) and further from objects and phenomena?
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