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The White Sox finalized their deal with top draft pick Keenyn Walker on Tuesday, signing him to a $795,000 bonus. The 47th overall selection, Walker had Tweeted (via @Keenyn_Walker) six days earlier that he had agreed to terms. His bonus exceeds MLB's $739,800 recommendation for his draft slot. …
Bats: Switch
Throws: Right
Height: 6'03″
Weight: 193
Born: 1990-08-12
Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT
Class: J2 (2nd year in Junior College)
Walker will report to Great Falls. He'll be in in the lineup Saturday.
Scouting reports (videos after the scouting reports):
Walker was drafted in the 16th round out of high school in Utah in 2009 and last year at Central Arizona, in the 38th round. Scouts have always been intrigued by the 6-foot-3 switch-hitter with standout tools and impressive athleticism. The raw tools don't always translate on the baseball field, however, and he didn't even start regularly last year. This year is a different story. Walker has performed well with wood and he should get more than the $250,000 he reportedly turned down out of high school. Walker has more power from the right side, but his lefthanded swing is more pure. He's mostly a gap hitter with above-average speed, so he profiles as a good defensive center fielder. He has the speed to hit at the top of the order, but needs to cut down on his strikeouts. If he doesn't sign, Walker will head to Utah.
1-47) White Sox: Keenyn Walker, OF, Central Arizona JC: Blazing speed and greatly improved hitting skills, along with a solid glove, push him to the top of the White Sox draft list.
Keenyn Walker, OF, Central Arizona Junior College: The blazing fast, 80-speed Walker showed greatly improved hitting skills this spring, and in some draft classes would be rated a first-rounder. The deep nature of this class, plus the fact that junior college players get less attention than high school or four-year college players, pushes Walker back to second or third round slots for most. However, someone in love with his athleticism could easily choose him in the supplemental.
Keenyn Walker, OF, Central Arizona CC: Bats Both, 6-3, 185. Drafted by the Cubs in the 16th round in 2009 but didn't sign. Toolsy, athletic, very fast, some power potential, has strikeout issues and is still rather raw, but toolsy enough to go on first day. Committed to Utah if he doesn't sign. Hitting .421/.513/.622 with 28 walks, 35 strikeouts in 164 at-bats, 49 steals in 52 attempts.
Good athletic body, Plus run, nice arm, tools are there, looked good at PG National, good at AC, bat needs to come on
and the June 2008 scouting report:
Keenyn Walker is a 2009 OF/P with a 6'1", 185 lb. frame from Salt Lake City, UT who attends Judge Memorial. Keenyn is a lean well put together very athletic player with fluid actions in the outfield. His throws carry well in the outfield with arm strenth. He is a switch hitter at the plate with a line drive swing plane. He showed a bit better from the left side and has good extension in his swing. He stays inside the baseball and uses all fields. He projects very large with added strength and is a very good, 6.53 sixty. Walker is extremely athletic and he could skyrocket up the charts by next year.
January 2008 and July 2007 reports at the link
With their first pick of the night, the White Sox take Keenyn Walker, an outfielder from Central Arizona JC. He is a 65 runner that can stay in center field and profiles as a leadoff hiter.
"Keenyn is a kid that we've scouted extensively," White Sox director of amateur scouting Doug Laumann said. "He plays in a competitive junior college program in Arizona. He's been very successful. He is a high ceiling athlete. Unlike some high ceiling athletes, this kid really has a feel for playing the game."
Laumann projected Walker to be two and a half years away from making it to the major leagues if he progresses at an ideal pace. He compared the 6-foot-3, 190-pound Walker to Devon White and Carlos Beltran.
msambor (chicago): thoughts on keenyn walker?
Kevin Goldstein II: I like him! Risky pick, but I like going with upside when you don't have a first rounder. He definitely could flame out early, but it's worth the risk.
Walker has decent patience at the plate as he led his team in walks this year with 36 (16.8 BB% (BB/AB)), which, combined with his speed, gives him potential as a top of the order hitter, but in order to reach that potential he will need to watch the strikeouts, which have been a problem for him. Walker struck out 45 times this year (21% K% (SO/AB)), which again led his team.
MLB.com's 2011 scouting video:
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http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=15479701 (0:33)
Youtube's 2010 scouting video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_u8en2vlXw (1:03)
MLB.com's 2009 scouting video:
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http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=4625607 (0:34)
Here are his Junior College Stats:
2011 Stats:
Keenyn Walker #10
Class: Sophomore
GP AB H 2B 3B Runs RBI BA HR 69 238 98 14 10 84 59 .412 6
Walks (BB) Hit By Pitches Sac Flys OBP 41 9 3 .509
Put Outs Assists Errors Fielding Percentage 124 5 0 .000
Keenyn Walker #5
Class: Freshman
GP AB H 2B 3B Runs RBI BA HR 58 97 29 1 3 42 16 .299 2
Walks (BB) Hit By Pitches Sac Flys OBP 18 7 2 .435
Put Outs Assists Errors Fielding Percentage 59 3 7 .899


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By Crawford Hart.
This is a topic that often falls outside of the concerns of professional photographers; rather than capturing reality and presenting an honest depiction of what one finds there, this endeavor is concerned with... well, lying. At its simplest, it's an effort to help the subject look their best; at its most extreme, we are creating fantasy pure and simple, with results that are never found in the real world. Ever. No one looks like this, not even Tyra Banks. (She comes pretty close, though).
Perfectly smooth skin is a tricky retouching challenge. It's a series of complex gradients moving not only from lights to darks and from one hue to another but in multiple directions as well. It doesn't take much for the eye to fasten on imperfections and the effort to remove them often creates more problems. Until Photoshop 7, the tool of choice for skin work was the cloning tool (No purer manifestation of evil has ever been found.) It was, and remains, woefully inadequate to the task. The combined challenge of maintaining the smoothness of the gradients without losing believable skin texture made many retouchers reconsider their applications to McDonalds. With PS7 the Healing Brush made it's appearance and music and light once more filled the land of retouching.
There are three ways to approach skin retouching. The most common is to think like a plastic surgeon: you graft skin from a healthy area onto the problem spots and hope you can minimize the scars. But imperfections can also take the form of unwanted variations in dark and light areas. Rather than replacing an unwanted area, we dodge or burn the areas, lightening or darkening just enough to bring them into balance. Sometimes the problem is one of mismatched color, and we must find a way to exploit color correction techniques.
These three approaches constitute 90% of the time you will spend on a serious retouching job. None of them requires arcane techniques; they do require finesse, and, most of all, patience. There is no quick fix for skin, not if the desire is to make it look both flawless and real and to hide your own tracks. None of the whiz-bang effects that LAB produces will be found here. Most of the job entails endless repetition of the same simple moves, with results so slight you'll often wonder if you're accomplishing anything. Until you turn your retouching layer on and off. You get your whiz-bang effect at the end of the job when you compare before and after version.
One technique that has been around forever, and which lives to this day, is to create some form of smoothing layer on top of the offending skin and try to blend it into the original without making it look fake. Whether one paints tones in with an air brush, or tries some blurring moves, this approach is roundly scorned by most magazine editors and, when done too obviously, will not only get the job bounced, it will earn those responsible a place on the "Do Not Use" list. Still, the reason it remains a current technique is that, done right, it works. It is to be hoped that we will do it right.
In this section I will address the three approaches to skin work already mentioned. In Part 2, I will deconstruct a couple of jobs, discuss contrast moves, smoothing, sharpening, how to make skin glow, and other fantasies.
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Adobe has described the Healing Brush as "The Cloning Tool on steroids." Somewhat true. While you can often treat it like a cloning tool, one that doesn't require precision and offers superior results, it comes with its own set of quirks, and capabilities that go beyond cloning. For any skin work, it will be one of your primary tools.
First, let's note the most peculiar quirk of the Healing brush. In theory, it retains the color and lightness of the target area, while replicating the relationship between lights and darks from the sampled area, translating the sampled texture into the target range of value and tone. It also performs a kind of magical blending between target and sample, and at the edge of the strokes, without muting detail. While this blending pretty much eliminates the "clone worms" so prevalent with the cloning tool, it can be both blessing and bane.
In these images, we see what can go wrong with the healing brush.
The pattern of fine hairs needs to be smoothed out. It would seem to be a perfect job for the healing brush, given it's blending capabilities. (A) We sample from a nearby region with texture but no hair (B). But the result (C) demonstrates the blending capability of the healing brush, precisely where we don't want it. Part of the problem is that we've made our target area too close to a much darker region, but the main problem is the brush size. The ability to suck in surrounding pixels is a direct function of the size of the brush.
Note the similar target area in (D), but with a significantly smaller brush. The result this time (E) is much more in keeping with expectations.
Rule 1: always keep the size of your brush in proportion to the artifacts that are being dealt with. Even if the overall area that you cover with a single move is much larger, the tendency to pull in unwanted pixels will be determined by the brush size. (On the other hand, if there is a sharp transition that you want to smooth out, replicating the "mistake" of image (A) can become a valued procedure. A few passes on either side of the transition line, pulling the regions into each other, can make for smooth transitions.)
Rule 2: Don't use the healing brush to make drastic shifts in color or value (i.e. removing a dark shadow, or a necklace.) It will make a soupy mess of the job. Prep the area first by using the Dodge/burn techniques or the color moves discussed next, to bring the target into rough balance with the surrounding area. You could even use the clone tool.
Here's an unsightly wrinkle that we're simply going to take out (A). Keep in mind, the healing brush is quite forgiving. You don't need to worry about lining up your sample with your target, you don't need to be particularly precise. (B) shows a typical stroke that I might make, and the result (C). And after four or five similar strokes we arrive at (D).
The question could be raised, "Why use the healing brush for a shadow like this? Why not a dodge/burn layer?" As I will demonstrate, I make extensive use of dodge/burn layers to lighten and darken selective areas. However, unlike the healing brush, dodging and burning requires infinite patience and subtlety. And precision. Large imperfections like this wrinkle are among the first things that I'll attack, and I do it with the healing brush because it's fast. I can be sloppy. I basically scribble over the target area; maybe I'll draw circles, maybe half-moons. It doesn't matter. The healing brush responds to all of it and after a relatively short time, the gross imperfections suddenly become much less noticeable. And much more conducive to the refined shifts that dodging and burning provide.
My initial moves always are with the healing brush. I try to attack everything I see. By definition, if I notice it, it shouldn't be there. So it's only natural that I would deal with deep wrinkles around the eyes and in the face at this point. The healing brush makes quick work of them
Here's a fairly normal pair of eyes (A); however if they were meant for a cover of, say, Elle, the instruction would be "Knock back the wrinkles some." Which means keep it real. Don't do an eye-lift that stretches the skin tight and glossy.
Now, retouching just part of the way is kind of a pain; the usual approach is to set your cloning or healing tool at a low opacity and clone some clean skin over the wrinkle. This is never particularly satisfying; there's almost always a softness and loss of detail surrounding the actual wrinkle.
What is easy, using the healing brush, is to hit the offending wrinkles head on and obliterate them altogether (B). Then cut out the originals from the layer beneath, and put them on top (C). Now you just need to set the opacity to determine how much you will knock them back. This is how they look at 40% (D). There is still some discoloration and unevenness, but it was already there. We'll deal with that in later fine tuning steps. But for deep face, neck and eye wrinkles, this will allow you to keep believability, while repairing the damage.
One last thing to keep in mind, both with the Healing Brush, and with the two techniques that follow: Start close up, at 100%. Then move back out to 50%. Avoid odd scaling values. 66.7% and 33% aren't horrible, but 71.83% would be a disaster. At 100%, there is a one-to-one ratio between screen pixels and image pixels. 50% and 25% yields results that compress the pixel information evenly, much the same as happens when you print at actual size. Odd scalings create interference artifacts from uneven interpolation of image pixels to screen pixels. At even scalings, you will see artifacts that weren't apparent at 100%, and you can trust that they are actually there. So you will want to make several passes, zooming out each time and dealing with the new problems that show up.
You won't get it perfect with the healing brush, but as you can see here, sudden transitions with their obvious edges are easy to remove. And now the imperfections that remain can be dealt with much more effectively by the next technique.
The healing brush's value is the ease with which lots of gross imperfections can be brought under control without a loss of skin texture. But if you want to take that next step to flawless skin, you will need to dodge and burnagain, and again and again.
With the healing brush i will try to cover as many bases as possible before moving on. Dodging and burning is never finished. Sometimes the problems that it has to address don't become obvious until other steps have been completed. A typical work flow might look something this:
Healing Brush
Contrast move
Color move
Healing Brush
Add glow
Have lunch
You get the idea.
A quick search of any number of Photoshop forums will turn up a variety of approaches to this task. I'll be honest, I haven't tried most of them; I found the version I like and it's never let me down. If you wish to embellish or modify this technique, by all means, do so.
None, by the way, involve actually using the Dodge/Burn tools on the image pixels themselves. Don't even think about that. They all involve placing dark and light tones in a layer or layers above the image with the intention of countering unwanted variations in the lights and darks. Usually, this layer will be in Hard Light, Overlay or Soft Light mode. All three modes interact with the underlying pixels to create lighten or darken effects.
In all three modes, 50% gray has no effect at all. Hard Light and Overlay will screen tones lighter than 50% against the underlying pixels, and multiply tones that are darker. With Overlay, the effect diminishes as the underlying pixels approach white and black, concentrating the effect in the quarter tones and three-quarter tones. A layer filled with white in Overlay Mode will bleach out most of the image, but the shadow detail will be retained. Hard Light mode affects the highlight and shadow detail as well and as a result, produces a much stronger effect. To be honest, I'm not sure what Soft Light does. It's similar to Overlay in that highlights and shadows are retained, but the effect is, well, softer. The best way to see the difference is to place a layer above any image you choose, fill it alternately with white and black in each of the three modes.
Painting light or dark colors in a layer in any of these modes will result in lightening or darkening of the image. There are endless variations: filling a layer with 50% gray and using the Dodge and Burn tools on that neutral color; creating a multiply layer and a screen layer and alternating the use of each one, depending on whether you wish to dodge or burn. I like simplicity and a minimum of steps (very important with a procedure that you will repeat endlessly) so I create a transparent layer in Hard Light mode. There's no need to fill it with 50% gray; it has no effect other than to make it easy to see your stroke if you isolate the layer.
Whatever mode you use, the key is a small brush, low opacity and a pressure sensitive tablet. I set my brush to 5% opacity and my tablet pen opacity mode to pressure, and I vary the size in direct porportion to the artifacts I am modfying. It's better to build up many small strokes over an area than to try to cover everything with one or two large strokes.
The colors I choose to paint with depend on the image. Often, white and black work just fine, as the only thing we are trying to do here is alter the lightness value of discreet parts of the image. However, sometimes you will run into saturation and hue problems using this approach: merely lightening a dark area or darkening a light area can yield values equal to the surrounding pixels, but with colors that desaturated to blend. It's often a good idea to sample from the lightest highlight (that hasn't gone to white) and darkest shadow (that hasn't gone totally to black.) Setting one color to foreground and one the background, it's a simple click of the "X" key to change them around. That's the beauty of this approach: one tool (the brush) one layer, one key stroke to switch from dodging to burning and back again.
Here is where accuracy is required. The imperfections that you are targeting are small to begin with, and as you progress, they become ever more subtle. If you're not accurate, you'll simply create new artifacts, rather than eliminate those that are already there. It's hard to demonstrate dodging and burning in separate images, since each move is so slight. So here's a before and after shot, with the dodge/burn layer. I set the strokes against 50% gray so they can be seen. In practice, I usually don't bother. Filling with gray is just one more unnecessary step that I don't want to take the time to do. Don't try to count the strokes; it's too depressing. An advantage of switching dark and light colors on the same layer is that you can almost run on automatic pilot; the process of adding strokes becomes a kind of zenlike activity where you don't really notice time passing. It's a small price to pay for beauty.
Note the unfortunate skin blotches on this otherwise cute little baby.
This image comes from a thread where a genuine whiz-bang LAB technique was discussed, and which is certainly relevant to any discussion of skin imperfections, particularly color problems.
That thread is here.
I highly suggest acquiring facility working in LAB, in general. As this thread shows, some valuable tools are available that you won't find in other spaces. However, this is about retouching and there's no point rehashing LAB discussions that have been dealt with in far greater depth elsewhere.
I took a more conventional approach, using selective colors and a variety of other tricks, eventually bringing me to this unsatisfactory point.
The red areas are too extensive to yield to the healing brush, and dodging won't really solve the problem. The color problem will still be there even if we get the values in sync.
Whenever I have a problem like this one, I like to treat it like a simple color correction issue. I have one area that I don't like, and another area that I'd like to match. It's a perfect problem for a set of curves to solve; the only problem is creating a decent mask through which to engineer the shift. My solution is to work backwards.
First, I set a color sampler in the middle of the triangular patch of skin just to the left of the nose, as the tone I wanted to match. Then I set a second sampler somewhere in the middle of the red blob just to the left of the first area. The red sampler read R:209, G:135, B:108. The clear sampler read R:229, G:182, B:156.
Next, set a curve adjustment layer and fill the layer mask with black. Make sure that the gradient at the bottom of the window has black on the left. now set a midpoint in each of the channels, plugging in the values as they appear in the info palette. In the red curve, with the midpoint selected, you would enter 209 for Input, 229 for Output. In the green curve use 135 for input, 182 for output, and in the blue curve use 108 for input, 156 for output.
The next step is identical in mechanics to using a dodge/burn layer. Small brush, low opacity, painting incremental strokes of white into the mask, letting the curve begin to work on the red skin. Here is the mask that evolved, and the result it produced. You can see from the brush strokes that I used a wide variety of sizes and opacity settings (the result of keeping my pen in pressure sensitive mode).
The beauty of using a curve like this is that, rather than painting in a single color in color mode, you are applying a full color range. Even though I only entered values from a single sample in each region, the curves distribute the shift over the entire spectrum. Not only do all the regions lighten and shift color, but by painting more white into darker or redder regions those tones can easily be brought into balance with the surrounding pixels.
Acne and freckles respond quite well to this approach. It's also good for gross color shifts, such as lightening shadows. It avoids the saturation problems of dodging away at the shadow and finding out that it's basically a neutral color.
When to use which technique? Seldom does a job allow you to separate out each step. There is a lot of overlap, areas where you could dodge a shadow or just as easily hit it with the healing brush. Then there are times when you're not sure if anything would be effective.
Image (A) shows a really harsh shadow. It needs to be softened, lightened, smoothed and the purple cast needs to be pulled more towards brown. This is a job that will take everything we can throw at it, including the kitchen sink. (Note: the clearly defined area also makes this a perfect candidate for the LAB modification mentioned in the previous section).
I first sampled a shadow that was a more pleasing color and used that as my match values for a curve modification. The mask that I painted is at (B) and the result at (C).
This is an improvement, certainly more compatible with the healing brush, which is what I hit it with next (D). I wasn't trying to wrap things up with this step, so I didn't worry much about being sloppy. I mostly wanted to smooth out the fine hairs, and blend the patch more with the adjacent skin.
Now it's time to dodge and burn. I sampled a highlight and shadow from the rest of the face. (E) shows the hard light layer with my dodge/burn strokes and (F) the result. Still irregular, but the overall tones are much more balanced than in (D). And the areas are small enough that a final hit with the healing brush gets us to (G), and the beginnings of a real patch of skin.
This example isn't perfect, and I'm not sure I'd have done everything this way in a full retouch of the face. But it shows that none of these techniques are isolated. And they're all focused on the same result: removing any anomaly that stands out from otherwise smooth, flawless skin. All the while retaining the illusion that this really is normal skin; skin with texture and pores and maybe even a stray line or two. It's just real skin that's infinitely more beautiful than yours.
In Part 2, we'll see these techniques in the context of an actual job, taking this lady from here . . .
to here.
And with this image, we will confront head-on an issue raised in a dGrin thread: "How far should we go?" In this case, the answer is "At least back to 1986", because we'll peel about twenty years away from his face.
Discuss these techniques on Dgrin in this thread.

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Therapeutic cloning gets a boost with new research findings
A paper by San Antonio and Honolulu researchers offers the first direct demonstration that cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer does not lead to an increase in the frequency of point mutations.
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The paper offers the first direct demonstration that cloning does not lead to an increase in the frequency of point mutations.
John McCarrey, professor of cellular and molecular biology at UTSA and the study's principal investigator, suggests a "bottleneck effect" is partially responsible for the observations his team recorded. "To create a cloned fetus by somatic cell nuclear transfer, only one adult somatic cell -- one donor cell -- is needed," he explains. "Because a random cell population exhibits a low mutation rate overall and only one cell from that population is used for cloning, the likelihood is remote that the cell chosen to be cloned will transfer a genetic mutation to its cloned offspring. Therefore, the bottleneck effect limits the transfer of mutations from donor cells to cloned offspring."
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This chapter describes how to define routing rules for multiple part (multipart) messages for an Oracle Mediator service component, including defining filters, transformations, and validations.
This chapter includes the following sections:
Section 21.1, "Introduction to Mediator Multipart Message Support"
For more information on routing rules, see Chapter 20, "Creating Oracle Mediator Routing Rules."
Mediator includes support for importing multipart WSDL files in the Mediator Editor and for working with multipart source and target messages, which include multipart filter expression building, multipart schema validation, and transformations between multipart source and target messages for requests, replies, faults, and callbacks.
The Mediator Editor with a multipart source looks similar to Figure 21-1.
Figure 21-1 Mediator Editor for a Multipart Source
This section describes how to work with different types of multipart messages.
If you specify a filter expression for a multipart message, then the Expression Builder displays all message parts under the in variable, as shown in Figure 21-2:
Figure 21-2 Expression Builder for a Multipart Request Source
If you add a validation for a multiple part message, then the Add Validation dialog displays a list of parts from which you can choose one part, as shown in Figure 21-3. You specify a Schematron file for each request message part. Oracle Mediator then processes the Schematron files for the parts.
Figure 21-3 Add Validation Dialog for a Multipart Request Source
If you create a new mapper file for a multipart message, then the generated mapper file shows multiple source parts in the XSLT Mapper, as shown in Figure 21-4:
Figure 21-4 XSLT Mapper for a Multipart Request Source
If you assign values using a source expression and invoke the Expression Builder from the Assign Value dialog, the Expression Builder displays all message parts under the in variable, as shown in Figure 21-2. This is the same as specifying filter expressions.
The method to create transformations and assign values to multipart reply, fault, and callback source messages is the same as working with request source messages.
You cannot specify filter expressions or add validations for reply, fault, and callback messages.
If a routing target (that is, a request, reply, fault, or callback) has a multipart message, then the transformation is handled in a slightly different way. This is because the XSLT Mapper does not support multipart targets. In such a case, the Mediator creates and coordinates a separate mapper file for each target part, as shown in Figure 21-5:
Figure 21-5 Request Transformation Map for a Multipart Routing Target


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It seems Kristin Cavallari has good reason for joining the cast The Hills. 90,000 ones to be exact as a new report reveals she earns a whooping $90,000 per episode!
Kristin's $90,000 per episode is however $10,000 less than what her co-stars Audrina Patridge, 24, and Lauren "Lo" Bosworth, 22, earn, as each rakes in $100,000.
As for the rest of the cast, Heidi Montag, 23, nets $100,000 an episode, while her douchebag husband, Spencer Pratt, 26, gets $65,000 an episode. They are both however able to make up to $30,000 for personal appearances. The article also states Heidi earned $375,000 for her recent Playboy September cover shoot, despite the fact that she didn't take it all off.
Lauren Conrad, who is no longer on the show reportedly earned a whopping $125,000 per episode during her heyday. Her deal stipulated that no other star's salary could match hers. Brody Jenner earns the least at $45,000 a show.
The same report states the stars of Bravo's Real Housewives series receive a reported $30,000 a show, though some other reports claim it's $100,000 per season. The new season of the Hills premiers Tuesday, September 29th.


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There's no way to sugar-coat it. The results of the election were very bad for those of us who are committed to pro-life, marriage and religious liberty:
There were, on the other hand, some signs of encouragement:
But on the whole, it was a bad evening for the causes that we hold most dear.
Many people are reacting to this event with dismay and discouragement. Blame is being freely thrown around, and people are even talking about giving up and abandoning the "social issues" in the public square.
At times like these, I'm reminded of Gen. Ulysses Grant, after the Battle of Spotsylvania in May 1864. He had recently taken over command of the Union armies, and they had just endured two grueling, bloody battles in northern Virginia. The battles did not produce the decisive victory that Grant was hoping for, and there was sure to be political pressure on him as a result. Union casualties were high, and everyone expected him to retreat and regroup.
Instead, Grant gave the order to advance, and penned his famous line, "I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer".
The battle of the Culture of Life against the Culture of Death is a long, twilight struggle that will go on for our entire lives. It is fundamentally a spiritual battle (see Eph 6:12). It is a contest for the hearts and souls of individuals, and thus our culture, and our laws. It is not decided by one election, or one defeat, or even one victory. There is no room for defeatism or despair. We need to fight with confidence in the Holy Spirit, and determination to carry on, no matter what.
Will you join me in taking General Grant's advice? Because I certainly propose to continue the fight.


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All About Baby
Your unborn baby's lungs continue to mature. As her lungs become more developed, the chances of her surviving if born prematurely increase. Her skin, which has been wrinkled, now becomes smooth as fat cells fill out her body.
Baby knows your voice. Singing to her, talking to her, and telling her all about the world she'll be joining soon is a great way for you and your partner to bond with Baby—and each other!
Your baby's fingernails have grown and she may even need a manicure after she's born.
Your unborn baby weighs around 3 pounds, 8 ounces and stretches to around 16 inches (crown to heel).
All About You
During pregnancy week 31, things are beginning to get tight in there, and heartburn and indigestion are common. Eat small meals more often and drink lots of water. You may have developed the pregnant "waddle" — that happens because pregnancy softens the ligaments in your pelvis, allowing your hips to spread to make room for the baby. Don't worry, you won't walk like a duck forever!
This is a good week to nail down the details of Baby's birth — if you're going to a hospital, you may be able to pre-register soon. It's no fun to stand at a counter filling out form after form while you're in labor. Do it in advance and slide right in, in style! Read our article on Choosing a Hospital.
As your baby's weight increases (she weighs over 3 pounds this week!) the strain on your body will be noticeable. Your lower back and hips ache, especially at the end of the day. A growing baby also means less room for your internal organs. You'll be taking more breaths to fill your scrunched lungs. With your shrinking tummy, meals will need to be smaller and more frequent. On a happy note, a bigger baby means you'll feel more wiggles. At times you'll be able to distinguish arms, legs, and head movements. When your baby shifts positions you may experience numbness in your legs or a sudden urge to use the bathroom.
Labor Pains: Choices in Pain Medications
Dealing with pain during childbirth used to be an all or nothing proposition — either you were knocked out completely or you felt every contraction. These days, pain medications essentially boil down to two options: analgesics, which affect the entire body; and localized anesthetics, which work on targeted parts of the body. The kind of pain medication you receive depends on a variety of factors, such as what's used at your hospital and your stage of labor. The more you know about what's available, the more likely you'll be able to receive the kind of pain medication you want during labor.
Analgesics (narcotics): Analgesics are systemic medications, meaning they act on the entire body. The medication courses through your blood stream—and your unborn baby's. Commonly used analgesics such as Demerol and Stadol won't block out all the sensations of pain but will help you feel it less intensely. Analgesics have potential side effects: they can make you drowsy, dizzy, nauseous, and light-heated. These drugs lower the heart rate for some women, putting the baby's heart rate at risk also—but a lowered heart rate happens infrequently and is treatable.
Keep in mind the drowsy effect of an analgesic can remain in your system — and your baby's — for a few days.
Anesthetics: Anesthesia encompasses a wide range of medications, injected into certain parts of the body to provide targeted pain relief. While there are several types of anesthetics, the most popular by far is an epidural. With an epidural, the anesthesiologist numbs a select area of the spine and then inserts a needle containing a small tube (catheter). Through this tube, you'll receive pain medications that should completely drown out any pain sensations. The catheter stays in place until after your baby's birth. Unlike narcotics, which enter the body through the blood stream to dull pain, but not eliminate it, epidurals block out pain messages between your body and your brain. Although the epidural can take several minutes to take effect, you should have no sensation of pain once the medication kicks in.
There are different types of epidurals. An increasingly popular option is a combined spinal-epidural (CSE). With a CSE, the anesthesiologist follows the same procedure as with a standard epidural, but also injects pain medication directly into the spine through the epidural catheter for immediate relief.
This is only a brief overview of pain medication choices. You should discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of these pain medications with your doctor. You need to discuss your preferences before delivery day, not when you're already in labor.
Got questions about Week 31? Other ladies have asked…
Q: Are hemorrhoids during pregnancy normal?
Hemorrhoids are dilated veins at the opening of the rectum, similar to the varicose veins that can develop in the legs, but in a more unfortunate location. Anything that increases pressure in that area can predispose to hemorrhoids. Sitting all day, constipation, straining with defecation, and being pregnant are all culprits. Read more about hemorrhoids during pregnancy.
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Hollywood names make sophisticated and glamorous picks. Start with classic actors and actresses you adore — Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, Ava Gardner, Kate Hepburn, or Greta Garbo. Read more about baby names.
Your Partner
Your Role in the Birthing Process (and Beyond!)
You may be feeling like your wife is running the show when it comes to your baby-to-be, and you're but a supporting cast member. But remember, she is your partner and that's your baby on the way!
Do not be afraid to share your feelings and concerns about the impending birth and what you'd like life with Baby to be like. Make sure your partner, family, and doctors know you want to be included and an integral part of the labor and delivery process.
You may find yourself acting as your partner's advocate, and you'll need to lay the groundwork for your involvement as early as possible.
This is also a good time to talk to your boss about taking time off after the birth of your baby. Being home during those first days, while you and your partner begin to get to know your little baby, is essential for your evolution into fatherhood as well as for your partner. There is no way to know whether a woman will struggle with postpartum depression or if she will need to recover from a Cesarean; your presence, support, and love can mean a great deal in aiding your partner's recovery from either of these issues.
Don't feel guilty if work doesn't permit you to take much time off. Whether it is a week or several days, time with your family will help you begin to bond. Plus, you'll get a jump on developing new fatherhood skills, such as changing your newborn's diapers, holding him, putting him to bed, and feeding and burping him. The sooner you get comfortable with these new activities, the sooner they'll feel natural to you.


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Recently I've noticed that a lot of people around me, friends, family work colleagues, etc. are breeding at an alarming rate. I attribute this to the general decline in quality TV programming and the decision-impairing properties of hard liquor.
Add to that potent mix the proliferation of lewd sexual material in the mainstream media and the decline in morality suffered as a result of that, and conditions for breeding baby humans start to look very favourable indeed.
And so I decided to write a step-by-step guide on raising, feeding and caring for baby humans. In this way I hope to help people who are either currently raising baby humans, or still growing them inside their wombs, waiting for the miracle that occurs as the foetus descends into the pelvic cavity and its head and shoulders pass through the bony ring of the pelvis, much like a bowling ball through a balloon knot.
Step one: Environment
The first thing you're going to want to secure before you bring your baby human home is a suitable environment.
As a rule of thumb, a 48 to 53cm baby human should be kept in a 55 gallon tank. This will allow the baby human enough room to run around and exercise and yet not have to run too far to catch its dinner.
As the baby human grows, so should its enclosure. I would recommend no smaller than a 70 gallon tank once the baby human has grown to 70-80cms and a 180 gallon tank once it has grown to 100-150cms.
Most baby human shops should stock a varied selection of bedding for your baby human, but I would strongly recommend taking my advice when it comes to the following items:
- Baby human bark / bedding: This is definitely not a good idea. Crickets and other smaller insects that are high in nutrition for your baby human can hide under the bark, resulting in your baby human not getting its full meal. Another major reason is that the baby human could ingest a piece of the bark, which could result in uncomfortable stool.
- Sandpit sand: I have found this to be both an affordable and practical form of bedding for baby humans. Simply 'scoop' the baby human's fecal matter off the sand and replace as necessary.
- Newspaper / Paper: This is a great idea if you are concerned about ease of cleaning and cost. It's not the 'prettiest' set up for your baby human's enclosure, but it works well.
- Straw: Another great material to line your baby human's tank with. The straw retains heat well and can easily be arranged into a comfortable 'nest' for your baby human.
Step two: Diet
Feeding your baby human will require you to handle all manner of food stuffs including raw vegetation, insects, and small mice.
Baby humans are omnivores, meaning they will eat veggies and small animals. Insects, however, should definitely be a daily staple of your baby human's diet should you want it to grow up strong and healthy, with a robust exoskeleton.
I would highly recommend feeding your baby human a combination of the following:
- Bugs: The size of the insects you feed your baby human is extremely important. All food that is offered should be smaller in width than your baby human's beak. Larger food items could get easily lodged in the baby human's digestive tract, causing uncomfortable stool.
- Veggies: There is a huge selection of 'leafy' greens which are high in calcium to feed your baby human, such as kale, argula, collard & mustard greens, parsley, dandelion greens and flowers. If you take your baby human outside or allow it to run around the house (though I wouldn't recommend it) do be sure to check that no leafy vegetation in or around the house is poisonous. Baby humans have a voracious appetite and will eat anything mildly enticing, this also applies to any drapery you might own, wooden furniture or shoes.
- Live baby mice: Live baby mice are an excellent source of protein for growing baby humans, but please note the mice must be fed live. Dead baby mice will not move around enough to attract the baby human's attention as its eyes are only capable of detecting movement and they only see in the colours purple, green, red and black.
- Water: Baby humans should be sprayed twice daily on their heads, which stimulates the natural way they would drink water in the wild, namely by lapping up the drops of dew they would find on plants in the morning.
Step 3: Alarming behaviour to watch for
First time human baby owners often overlook subtle behavioural disorders that occur due to their ignorance on the subject.
When raising a baby human, be sure to be vigilant of the following behavioural disorders:
- 'Hood' display: When determining hierarchy in the home, the baby human will often 'blow out' its hood by extending a bone-like structure covering the surrounding flap of skin. This can also be used as a defensive gesture when the baby human is startled. Calm the baby human down with a few small mice and a selection of 'gutloaded' crickets. Be sure that the crickets are not fed poisonous greens though, as this may result in uncomfortable stool
- Head Bobbing: This is a dominance display. The baby human seems to be saying, 'You wanna piece of me? Eh? Puto?' Do not be alarmed by this behaviour, but do arm yourself with a sharp stick just in case.
- Arm Waving: This is a submissive gesture in recognition to the dominant male, which should always be the father until the baby human has reached full maturity and shed its carapace for the last time.
By following these three simple steps you should experience many years of enjoyment with your baby human after which time it is highly advised to rerelease them into the wild where they can follow successful careers as lawyers, accountants, life insurance salesmen or PR consultants.


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The men who pedal the streets at daybreak with Francisco are invisible in so many ways. Some are here without permission and must hide from the official world. They are not noticed by the cars and buses that roar past, sometimes to tragic effect. They're not even seen by those of us who claim to love cycling. We'll pick out a sleek Italian racing bike from across an intersection, but a dozen day laborers on Huffys dissolve into the streets.Read the full article here.
You and I have seen the bikes everywhere--cheap, department-store rigs chained to fences and signposts outside car washes, lumberyards, budget chain restaurants. But we've never seen the riders, not really.
"There are more of them than us," says Aaron Salinger, a public school teacher and bicycle-only commuter who also volunteers as a mechanic for local riders in his Los Angeles neighborhood. The "us" Salinger is talking about is recreational riders, dedicated fitness cyclists, people who commute on two wheels by choice--the readers of this magazine.
Neighborhood after neighborhood revealed surprise after surprise. The Invisible Riders, for instance, log far more hours than most "serious" cyclists. They do so on equipment most of us wouldn't touch and under the most adverse conditions: at the height of rush hour on the busiest thoroughfares. Workers without documentation have no vacation or sick days, so they keep a grueling schedule. One rider told me that last winter, when Los Angeles received a record rainfall, he didn't have a single day off.
Riders like me want to believe we're doing our part for the environment. We want to believe that having the best equipment is an expression of commitment. But I don't know a single rider who commutes more than the people I met for this story, who do it purely out of necessity, and who do so on bikes that, while fashioned to look like high-end mountain bikes, are stripped of so many essential engineering details that we'd consider them unreliable, unsafe and certainly unenjoyable.
Most of the riders I met viewed their commute as a battle, but exhibited none of the smug, anti-automotive posturing many committed middle-class bike commuters wear as a badge of honor. Guillermo Diaz, who works at a restaurant near MacArthur Park, was standing near the entrance of a shopping center, waiting for a friend. He lives in a house with seven others, all of whom ride bikes, all on the sidewalk. I thought of cycling advocates who engage in pitched ideological battles over whether it's safer to mix bikes and traffic or to separate them. There's no doubt that a rider with the skills and equipment needed to navigate alongside cars is probably best balanced between efficiency and safety, but I couldn't argue with Diaz that getting off the sidewalk is simply "too dangerous." What would it take for Diaz to use the streets? He answered instantly, without a hint of irony: "Owning a car."
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Pac-12 Morning Five: 11.15.11 EditionPosted by AMurawa on November 15th, 2011
- On the heels of UCLA's frustrating opening night loss to Loyola Marymount, there was a report out of Los Angeles Monday afternoon that head coach Ben Howland would have a meeting with junior forward Reeves Nelson to discuss Nelson's recent behavior and his future with the team. Late Monday night, UCLA issued a statement announcing that Nelson would be suspended indefinitely after he skipped Monday's practice, with the length of the suspension to be determined pending a face-to-face meeting between the two at a later date. Nelson, who has never been one to hide his feelings on the court, was visibly upset during the game on Friday night, failing to participate in a couple of timeout huddles and making several erratic plays, including a couple of wild three-point attempts as the game dissolved in the second half. While there have been rumors that Nelson is considering leaving the program, nothing has been substantiated to this point.
- While the Bruins will get back to business on the court tonight without Nelson against Middle Tennessee State, UCLA fans are in full panic mode. When the results of LMU's second game against the Bruins' next opponent, MTSU, came through with the Lions on the losing end of a 58-51 score replete with LMU getting dominated inside by the Blue Raider front court, UCLA fans rightly wondered why the Bruins weren't able to get that kind of production out of their highly regarded front line. With all the turmoil around the program in the first few days of the new season, it will be interesting to see whether the team responds with passion or lets the poor start compound on itself. Who would have thought just a few days ago that an early-season UCLA/Middle Tennessee State contest would be a game to keep an eye on?
- Early in the first half of last night's USC/Nebraska tussle, injured Trojan point guard Jio Fontan was interviewed by Fox Sports sideline reporter Amy Bender. During the interview, Fontan, who tore his ACL during USC's trip to Brazil in August and had surgery on his knee on September 12, indicated that he hadn't given up on foregoing a medical redshirt this year and returning to the team at some point. Nevermind the fact that such talk seems insane, we wish Fontan the best in his rehabilitation. As for the game, the Trojans dropped a nailbiter to the Cornhuskers for the third straight season, this time in double overtime. Sophomore sensation Dewayne Dedmon missed a wide-open free-throw line jumper at the end of regulation, then after sophomore point Maurice Jones made an improbable double-clutch push shot with 6.5 seconds in the first overtime, freshman guard Alexis Moore was called for a foul on the ensuing possession and Nebraska's Tony McCray sent the game to a second overtime where NU sealed the deal. Jones again led the Trojans with 18 points, but had to take 22 shots to do so. In two games this year, Jones has made just eight of his 35 field goal attempts.
- Utah recorded a victory in its first game as a Pac-12 member on Monday night. Sure, it was a three-point victory over NAIA school San Diego Christian, but given how little success the Utes are expected to have this season, we might as well give them a little love while possible. Senior point guard Josh "Jiggy" Watkins led all scorers with 23 points, just one shy of his career high, while freshman guard Kareem Storey added ten points (all on free throws). The other five Utah newcomers combined to score 12 points in 87 minutes, a problem considering that two of the four Utes that got any amount of playing time last season – specifically senior center David Foster and junior guard Chris Hines – are sidelined with injuries.
- Washington State was the final Pac-12 team to start its season, kicking off the ESPN Tip-Off Marathon against Gonzaga late last night. Despite allowing Zag freshman Kevin Pangos to knock down nine three-pointers on the way to building a 21-point lead, the Cougars fought back, cutting the GU lead to as low as four at one point before losing steam. WSU played without senior guard Abe Lodwick, who is fighting through a sprained foot, but had five players score in double figures, including freshman guard DaVonte Lacy who poured in 11 points in just 14 minutes of play.


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What do your lists look like?
started to read the "Flash: The Fastest Man Alive" relaunch, but I dropped it after 2 issues of "Bart-Flash". He was tolerable as Kid Flash, but I miss Wally (why'd they ditch him anyway? )
I heard that the Sinestro Corps special released last week was pretty amazing (I thought of you Jeff), and it sounds like Green Lantern stuff might be getting pretty interesting.
I quit collecting in '91 when the art just went in a different direction and I quickly lost interest.
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Every waking hour, consumers are bombarded with deals. Online and on TV, in magazines and on the sides of buses, ads show us objects we can't possibly live without.
Except that we usually can. How do you suppose people managed before greeting card companies made birthday cards "from the cat" or "from me and the dog"? Before applesauce came in tubes? Before we started thinking our blankets needed sleeves?
This list of 16 things you don't need is by no means exhaustive, but it's a start.
Disposable income = disposable items
1. Bottled water. "It's more expensive than gasoline . . . $6.40 per gallon for a liquid I can get for free at home," writes Karla Bowsher at Money Talks News. If you live where the water tastes weird (howdy, Phoenix!), get yourself a filter.
2. Paper plates. For a picnic in the park, maybe. But why not get a set of unbreakable dishes for picnics, barbecues and visits from the grandbabies? That's certainly greener and ultimately cheaper if you shop thrift stores and yard sales.
3. Paper napkins. Notice a pattern here? Reusable beats disposable any time. I got six cloth napkins for a quarter at a rummage sale; check post-holiday clearance sales, too. Or buy a fabric remnant and sew your own.
4. Paper cups in the bathroom. If you're that concerned about germs, carry the cup to the kitchen each morning and toss it in the dishwasher. Note: Some people "cup" their palms and bring water to their mouths. Just sayin'.
5. Disposable hand towels. I couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw these advertised. Neither could Mrs. Money of the Ultimate Money Blog: "The last thing we need is another disposable product, especially one that is pretty much useless and replaces something that has worked well for so many years." What she said.
Use and toss
6. Disposable flossers. Bathrooms sure are full of, um, waste. Rolls of floss go on sale all the time.
7. Name-brand OTC meds. Compare ingredient labels for any over-the-counter medications you need; when in doubt, talk to the pharmacist. Tip: Know what things cost since name-brand pills might be cheaper with a sale plus coupon and/or rebate.
8. Sandwich bags. No need to buy and toss, buy and toss. Put your PBJs in a reusable container.
9. Lunch bags. They're still for sale, but I don't know why. Get yourself a reusable lunchbox or lunch bag. (I found mine in the free box at a yard sale.)
10. Ringtones. Your phone came with a ringer installed. Use it.
11. Diaper Genie. A mechanized trashcan just for nappies? Throw them in the household garbage just as people did back in the dark ages.
Dogs don't celebrate Halloween
12. DVDs. Be honest: How many of your DVDs have been watched more than once? Now: Add up what you've spent on them. When your headache goes away, remember you can probably get DVDs free from the public library.
13. Books. Libraries have books, too. Unless you plan to read a title numerous times (see "DVDs," above) why are you dropping $30 per hardback? Those best-sellers show up pretty quickly in used-book shops, yard sales and thrift stores.
14. Magazine subscriptions. Are you reading the ones you have? Then why keep subscribing? Your favorites may be available for free at the library. (What swell places libraries are.)
15. Pet costumes. Do I really have to explain?
16. Snuggies. First, put your bathrobe on backward. Next, congratulate yourself on all the money you just saved.
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text: BUSINESS Lady Gaga and Katy Perry Singles Could 'Roar' Toward Digital Chart History 8/12/2013 by Gary Trust & Keith Caulfield FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Courtesy of the Artists Katy Perry, Lady Gaga Lady Gaga's "Applause" and Katy Perry's "Roar" should each make big starts on the Billboard Digital Songs chart next week -- perhaps marking the first week with two 400,000+ download debuts. This week could be a historic one for digital song sales. New singles from both Lady Gaga and Katy Perry are heading for big debuts on Billboard's Digital Songs chart next week -- and both should rack up major sales. Perry's new single "Roar" hit digital retail at 12 AM today (Aug. 12), while Lady Gaga's "Applause" is scheduled to make a retail bow on Tuesday (13). The latter's arrival is six days before its original release date (Aug. 19). While it's a bit early in the week to exactly forecast just how big either will be, industry sources are suggesting each should sell well over 400,000 downloads by the end of the tracking week on Sunday, Aug. 18. A start of over 500,000 for each wouldn't be out of the question either. The final sales tally for both will be released on the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 21. If both tunes sell over 400,000, it would be the first time two songs have debuted in the same week with more than 400,000. Further, it would mark the first non-holiday week in over a year where two songs sold over 400,000. It last happened on the May 5, 2012-dated Digital Songs chart, when Maroon 5's "Payphone" debuted at No. 1 (493,000), pushing Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" down one slot to No. 2 (463,000). Perry's "Roar" has a slight head start in the sales race, as her song had a 24-hour jump on "Applause." So, the former will get a full seven days worth of sales in its first week, versus "Applause's" six days. Both songs preview new studio albums for each superstar. Perry's "Roar" leads her "Prism" set, due out Oct. 22. "Applause" is the first single from Gaga's "ArtPop," which arrives on Nov. 11. Gaga's last studio album, 2011's "Born This Way," was led by its title track, which debuted with 448,000 downloads after only three days on sale, according to Nielsen SoundScan. (It hit retail on an off-cycle Friday, instead of the usual Tuesday.) In its second chart week (and first full sales week), it moved 509,000 downloads. Perry's last new album, 2010's "Teenage Dream," was ushered in by "California Gurls." It bowed at No. 1 on the Digital Songs chart with 294,000. Perry has sold more than 400,000 in two previous weeks: when "Firework" shifted 509,000 over the busy post-Christmas week of 2010, and when "Part of Me" debuted in 2012 (411,000). 'ROAR'-ING TOWARD HOT 100 'APPLAUSE'? How are the songs' Billboard Hot 100 fortunes shaping up? As previously reported, "Roar" is likely headed for a debut in the bottom half of the Hot 100 on the chart to be released on Billboard.com this week, highlights of which will post on Wednesday (14). The start will stem only from its airplay through Tuesday (13); its expected lofty sales (and streaming) figure will not factor into its chart rank until the chart released the following week, when a hefty sales sum could translate to a vault into the top five. "Applause," meanwhile, is likely not to reach this week's Hot 100, unless its airplay today and tomorrow is enough to spur a debut in the chart's lower rungs. Like "Roar," its sales and first full week of airplay and streaming will make it a force on next week's Hot 100, with gigantic sales also potentially leading to a top five entrance. Thus, as Perry and Gaga battle in the iTunes Store this week, we'll know who ranks higher on next week's Hot 100 after each song has had a full week of music buyers, streams and radio programmers weighing in. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME


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Study: Specific PTSD symptoms related to anger and aggressiveness among Iraq/Afghanistan veterans
Focusing on certain PTSD symptoms may be key to treating anger among Iraq/Afghanistan veterans, according to a study led by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Veterans Affairs researchers.
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010
CHAPEL HILL – Focusing on certain posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms may be key to treating anger among Iraq/Afghanistan Veterans, according to a study by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Veterans Affairs researchers.
"Most returning veterans don't have PTSD or difficulty with anger or aggressiveness, but for the small subset who do, this study helps to identify related risk factors," said Eric Elbogen, PhD, lead author of the study, an assistant professor of psychiatry in the UNC School of Medicine and a staff psychologist at the VA Medical Center in Durham, N.C.
"The data showed that PTSD symptoms such as flashbacks or avoiding reminders of a trauma were not consistently connected to aggressiveness," said Elbogen. "Instead, we found that post-deployment anger and hostility were associated with PTSD hyperarousal symptoms: sleep problems, being 'on guard,' jumpiness, irritability, and difficulty concentrating."
From interviews with 676 veterans, Elbogen and VA colleagues identified features associated with anger and hostility, which result in increased risk of post-deployment adjustment problems as veterans transition to civilian life.
Veterans who said they had difficulty controlling violent behavior were more likely to report witnessing pre-military family violence, firing a weapon during deployment, being deployed more than 1 year, and experiencing current hyperarousal symptoms. There was an association with a history of traumatic brain injury, but it was not as robust as the relationship to hyperarousal symptoms. "Our data suggest the effects of traumatic brain injury on anger and hostility are not straightforward," Elbogen said.
Veterans with aggressive urges were more likely than others to report hyperarousal symptoms, childhood abuse, a family history of mental illness, and reexperiencing a traumatic event. Difficulty managing anger was associated with being married, having a parent with a criminal history, and avoiding reminders of the trauma, as well as hyperarousal symptoms.
"As we learn more about risk factors and how to manage them, we'll be helping not only the veterans but their families and society at large. Veterans with these adjustment problems should seek help through the VA so we can best serve those who have served our country" Elbogen said.
The study will appear on June 15 at AJP in Advance, the online advance edition of The American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP), the official journal of the American Psychiatric Association.
Funding for this study was provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the National Institute of Mental Health.


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Cybele wrote: I think I read somewhere that Polidori was related in some way to the Rosettis."
Saturn wrote:Just received Richard Holmes' latest, Falling Upwards, so shall be becoming fully absorbed in that for a few weeks.
Sid13 wrote:Cybele, I know what you mean by an excess of minutia in the Roe biography, although it did not annoy me so much as his strained attempts to make his minutia relevant. For example, he declares (without any evidence to back up his claim) that Keats derived the images of the titans in Hyperion from two statues at the gates of Bedlam, and that the Temple of Saturn in The Fall of Hyperion has a dome because Keats had seen the domed roof of a bookstore called the Temple of the Muses. It seems to me that Roe was trying too hard to be original, to say something about Keats that hadn't been said before.
(To be fair to Roe, however, I was prejudiced against him in advance. I'd seen the reviews of the book and the controversy over Roe trying to reinvent Keats as a drug addict, so I read his book deliberately looking for reasons to dislike it.)
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Today this Jester was overjoyed, tearfully so, at the Mass of Canonization for Saint John Paul II & Saint John XXIII. The Mass just completed was beautiful ! Bless His Holiness, Pope Francis and all others whose preparation and works made today such a moving mass. I felt like I was a part of History.
Two Popes canonized on the same day! Also we had a Pope (Francis) and a Pope Emeritus (Benedikt) in presence at the ceremony. Divine Mercy. A moving and special day indeed.
Today is Part Three – This is where Stanczyk wanted to write about Karol Józef Wojtyła's genealogical lineage. Blessed be those whose long lineage gave us this magnificent man.
Pope John XXIII was special to my wife and her father. SO may both Saints John Paul II & John XXIII bless my wife & our children.
Related Post on St John Paul II in this blog …
30 Apr 2011 – Santo Subito (Part 1)
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Even we diehard Chevy fans can't ignore the brute strength of the Ford 9-inch rear axle assembly. As a staple in the off-road and drag racing community, this beefy design is a solution to spindly stock rearend breakage, and its removable center section makes trying out different gear ratios super-easy. Although purists may cringe at the thought, hardcore Chevy drag racers have accepted this design and, these days, most fast Chevys have this part under their car without apologies.
When it comes to high-performance rearends, Moser Engineering is among the top manufacturers in the industry, and we recently perused their user-friendly website and were impressed how they setup a multiple choice format that made ordering a rearend a breeze. Whether you're looking for a fabricated housing to handle brutal horsepower or something more of a stock replacement, Moser has what you're looking for. And, for those that are impatient enough to order car parts in the middle of the night, Moser's site caters to the internet savvy that would rather select exactly what they want and know that their order is in process, regardless of the time of day. Want a narrowed 12-bolt for your second-gen Camaro? Or how about something weird like an 8 3/4 Mopar housing for your leaf sprung Chevy, Moser can do that too, they are that capable. You just need to know some things like: desired gear ratio, differential type, bearing end style, overall length, axle spline count and spring perch/suspension type.
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There are two basic complete rearends you can order from Moser; the built-to-order line, which you can custom tailor your ideal rearend, and the MusclePak line of rearends, which are ready-to-go, brake-to-brake. Both options can be shipped to your door within two business days after you complete the online order. The hasty shipping is cool; it definitely beats digging a housing out of the junkyard then having it rebuilt and welded up.
For our Chevy II project, the Hardtop Hellion, we opted for Moser Engineering's built-to-order, bolt-in 9-inch housing, which they offer sized and ready-to-go for these little cars. We weren't even going to begin to try building the 8.2 10-bolt rear that came in our well-worn 1963 Nova, nor were we going to pull a greasy rear from the junkyard; Moser makes the decision easy. With a few clicks we had a new heavy-duty 9-inch on the way. Features include an American-made housing with OEM located mounting provisions, seamless steel tubing (3-inch O.D., ¼-inch wall), we upgraded to custom alloy 35-spline axles, bearings, 1/2-inch x 3-inch screw in wheel studs, seals, heavy-duty retainer plates, new housing ends (we ordered ours with large Ford-style ends), t-bolt kit, aluminum pinion support, nodular iron case, and a 1310 Series pinion yoke. For gears, we went with 3.75s, but there's long list of ratios available. We may be testing various sized tires and possibly and overdrive gear on this car, so being able to swap gears easily is a nice feature. And, instead of a typical posi unit, we upgraded to the WaveTrac differential (see sidebar on page three).
Wavetrac Differential Specs:
With the rearend out of the car, we cleaned the underside of the Nova, and to bolt up our Moser 9-inch, we used Competition Engineering's Slide-a-Link traction bars (PN2099) and Adjustable Drag Shocks (PN2720). The Slide-a-Links are an easily installed traction device for leaf spring cars that can drastically improve your car's traction by changing the instant center so that your car transfers weight more effectively.
We have to point out the great job Ben Hermance did to capture what this project will look like. In the following month we plan on showcasing the next step in our Chevy II build, where we lose the greasy stock steering components for a much nicer column, wheel, and linkage.


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Knitting one is not as difficult as it might look. With the right yarn and this pattern, these socks are very easy to knit. I've spent the time finding that these colorways work together, developing an easy and attractive way of carrying the unused yarn, and adapting a boomerang heel to incorporate the stripes. In fact, this may be the only pattern which includes instructions for a boomerang heel with yarn overs.
The instructions are for knitting from the cuff of the sock down to the toe. However, the boomerang heel is a short-row heel design which will allow a knitter who is familiar with toe-up construction to knit these socks from the toe up to the cuff. Those interested in toe-up socks should look at my Daylong sock pattern. It includes a toe-up version that uses the same boomerang heel as the Burning Stripes pattern.
I hope this pattern will make knitting these socks fun and easy and encourage knitters to try a boomerang heel. The pattern offers 3 sizes and suggestions on improving fit. Detailed heel instructions, including a section on knitting a boomerang heel, are included in the pattern. Due to these improvements, the price is now $5.99.
I'm so excited!
Here's the link to the Ravelry pattern page: Burning Stripes socks on Ravelry)
I am in the process of revising all my patterns and would love to receive any information that might improve them. Please Contact me with any questions, problems, or comments.
Thank you for all the support and patronage through these years. (revised 7/16/13)


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I can remember the Boba Fett in particular being quite impressive to us, and its funny now looking at that figure compared to the VOTC version. It doesn't seem like figures can get a whole heck of a lot better than they are now, but I'm sure that we thought the same thing back then. There are always improvements in paint and all that, so you never know.
I know, I know i went over the top with the whole playsets statements.
The 2-1B model in ESB is, to me, a different model altogether: Different color, Different height, Different chest. Different arm. Different figure.
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