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Evolution isn't so much a tree as water running down a hillside: It takes the easiest path available, no matter how filthy the terrain. In celebration of Mother Nature's laziness, we've categorized some of the nastiest habits that, differing cultures aside, no species should ever respect. We should note that we didn't include insects on this list, because cockroaches and waterbugs would have stolen the top slots, and we hate bugs.
Despite an appearance and name like the marauders from Mad Max, bone-crushing hyenas are much more similar to the shifty guy in prison with one drifty eye, who can't win a fight and instead slashes your Achilles tendon. They have a reputation as grave robbers, which is the lowest-bitch occupation you can have without sexually assaulting someone. And do they, like other animals, urinate to mark their territory? Why, no, that would be pointless when nature has favored the hyena with engorged anal glands that secrete a rank, creamy substance for them to rub on everything, wouldn't it?
All of the above is just to illustrate that the hyena is a less than charming animal. With that in mind. it should come as no surprise that hyenas mate in a manner similar to the worst Vegas bachelor parties. When a hyena bro gets in the mood and has too much to drink, he finds a female and flashes his erection at her. She, in return, shames him with a much larger engorged clitoris, because, y'know, vaginal penetration would be too normal. Or at least it would, if the female hyena's labia hadn't grown together and even been padded with fat that resembles testes (for most of history, hyenas were thought to be hermaphroditic or bisexual). When they've confirmed that they're probably different genders, their anal cream is ripe, and neither one has bitten each other's genitals off this time (oh yes, it happens), it's time to mate!
Unless he can't, because of course he has to fishtail his approach vector from behind her and then get inside her pseudo-penis. But if he does, the lucky lady gets to push a two-pound cub through her inch-wide clitorenis a few months later. And if it doesn't kill her, she gets to raise a squealing kid with fresh anal glands. Still, it could be worse - at least they're not giraffes. Those Dionysian bastards drink the female's urine as foreplay.
Nature has no shortage of defensive tactics, but for every special forces critter like the poisonous, camouflaged, ink-screening, prehensile octopus, there's a street-fighter just waiting to show that he's too crazy to die.
Enter the horned lizard. When threatened, he neither fights nor flees: He stays still, which is just stupid. It never works, so his next trick is to puff up to look big and scary. That, of course, just makes him look like a bigger portion, so it's come down to hell-tactics: He winks at his attacker. No, not in a calm, confident manner, but rather, to expel a jet of blood in the offending party's face.
We only know two things about eyes: Your girlfriend has pretty ones, and they are not supposed to bleed. Such a sight is going to stop anyone in their tracks. But again, horned lizard does not just bleedify his own peepers, he squirts a five-foot stream with laser-pointer precision. And this is no small amount of blood, friends. It's a hoser. The entire reason the bigger animal is in his personal space is to get a taste of his blood, but horned lizard pulls this nasty move taught to him by demons, and even the dumbest critter understands that it's dealing with some ghastly monstrosity. Oh, and the blood tastes foul to mammalian predators, possibly because it's cursed by Beelzebub. Birds aren't affected by the flavor, probably because they get a taste for it when they're serving time as witches' familiars.
The horned lizard's nasty, but it has a solid logical premise in its creepy PsyOps blood campaign. See if you can deduce the evolutionary chain that led the hairy frog to this Saw IV tactic.
Hairy frog is the polite term for Trichobatarachtus robustus, otherwise known as "horror frog." This beast is Wolverine, with the goofy hair to match. Seriously - go ahead and threaten the horror frog. We'll wait. Assuming you can still hear the words of man after encountering fetal Cthulu here, we will now explain what you just witnessed. The claws on its hands are actually its own bones, which it breaks and pops through its own skin to slash attackers.
Oh yeah, and those hairs? Of course they're skin and arteries, so it can breath through its goddamn flesh-haircut. No, no, we understand – come back to read the rest when you've finished vomiting everything you ever ate out of your nose and ears.
We've all heard the phrase "Happy as a pig in shit," but we've just as often heard that pigs are fastidious animals, other than the occasional cooling mud bath. Well, it turns out that's not how pigs get their filth in. They're coprophagous, meaning they eat poop, including their own. Turns out there's good grazing in feces that aren't digested into oblivion, and what with so little plant life on earth, who wouldn't take the easy path to nutrition by eating your food twice? Apparently that's easier than just evolving a more efficient stomach. In any case, you'll often find a pig happily munching horse chips, and not so happily making out with his girlfriend later.
Life is different at the bottom of the sea - we get that. We shouldn't judge another culture just because it's so bass-ackwards it rejects daylight. What we can judge the anglerfish for, though, is its lousy cannibalistic mating rituals, in which a wimpy little male spots a zaftig lovely lady seven times his size with a face like a shaved pitbull, and the needle-mouth of a classic Cretaceous beauty. So affected by his ardor is this filthy demon, that he tunnels into her body with the lovingest of teeth. This is necessary, because he was born without a digestive system (and by "born" we mean "presumably stitched together in some horrific Austrian laboratory").
Food's hard to come by down there, so even though she hangs out where there's no light to see how ugly she is, the lady humpback hedged her bet by birthing males who can't enjoy a good meal unless a lady serves it to him (just like Italians).
Okay, so now he's a parasite while she does all the work, but what if she shakes him off? In our dad's case, it's enough to tell mom she's nothing without him, and no one else will ever love her, but you can't lever that kind of verbal abuse underwater, so he just releases hell's own enzyme that melts her flesh and his into one. As his organs fuse into useless stubs of monster-flesh in what was once her proud (but ugly) virgin body, he has become a ghastly, wriggling turkey baster in waiting for the one useful moment of his life when she requires the release of his ugly seed.
Really, male anglerfish are the funkiest kind of slackers. All they do is eat pizza and sit on the couch until the one time in life they're asked to courier one lady's gene packet to another. These guys probably smell like patchouli.
You think the humpback anglerfish is some ancient plug-and-play DNA business, and then you see the hagfish, a wriggling, slimy creature that goes out of its way to look like a penis and is so primitive, scientists aren't even sure it qualifies as a fish. It goes back 550 million years to the Lower Cambrian period, a time when the only qualifications to be alive were a tolerance for methane and being too scary for even Manga to fantasize about. For pete's sake, they're named hagfish, how much warning do you need?
They're widely considered the "most disgusting" of all sea creatures. You know who said that? Scientists. The people who coo delighted sighs of discovery when they poke things that make most of us recoil. They studied this beast, and their official assessment is, "It's a monster".
Okay, so what exactly did Earth concoct before she really developed as an artist? Oh, everything you'd expect: orgies, hermaphroditic genitals, and as much asymmetry as you can cram onto something that's basically a half-blind tentacle. They're scavengers, so they eat rotting corpses, but that's not weird enough for them. They prefer to dive into the carrion and eat their way out, just in case it would help them terrify innocent passers-by.
Their big thing is exuding copious amounts of slime – like, so much, you wonder where they're keeping it. Again: they're penises. And just like your ugly monstrosity (hey, we get a lot of humor out of body shame), you don't want to mix its emission with water unless you want fibrous crap stuck to you. Basically, if you're a fish, and you eat one of these guys, it floods your gills with expanding foam. But then, if you're dumb enough to eat one, you deserve expulsion from the gene pool.
We're not kidding -- water plus hagfish gets you a solid five gallons of fear-slime--so much that even the hagfish can't deal with it. Does it stink? Of course it does! Only like the worst rotting fish you've ever encountered, putrefying for the last 550,000 millennia. And no, it doesn't ever go away. One way or another, the hagfish is going to make sure you don't reproduce. It's like a big, pink Instant Darwin button. All hail the hagfish, king of dirty bastards!


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3-2 after the Loney home run.
Can we petition MLB to just let Ethier and Loney alternate batting the rest of the game?
This idiot keeps saying "with the catcher running" like Russell is ****ing Bengie Molina.
And now they lead off the inning with a home run. **** this ****.
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Lake Ronkonkoma (WALK) - Arson detectives have now gotten involved in the investigation of a pre-dawn fire this week.
Investigators now say that the blaze that destroyed an abandoned adult home on Portion Road in Lake Ronkonkoma ws set deliberately. The flames were reportedly first spotted by a police officer who was driving by at around 3 AM Wednesday.
According to Stringer News Service, which posted a YouTube video of the building being consumed by flames, the volunteer firefighters at the scene were hampered at first by concrete barriers blocking the building's driveway. The barriers had apparently been erected to keep out trespassers, but wound up blocking fire trucks. One fire truck was used to pull the barrier out of the way so that other engines could get close to the building to battle the flames.
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What comes after Funny Fridays? Why, Serious Saturdays, of course!
Actually, you can blame the weather for today's rather dry post. The snow came back (again) to Edmonton, so I stayed in and caught up on emails while singing "Springtime in Alberta" along with Ian Tyson.
Which eventually led me to CKC's 2011 annual reports from committees and councils …. It's a 55-page document that you probably don't want to read unless you're obsessive like me. For the rest of you saner folks, I've pulled out stats from the reports on CKC's conformation and performance events so you don't have to wade through it to find them. (You're welcome!)
As we all know, conformation is king. But did you realize by how much? There are more than 11.6 times as many conformation entries as obedience entries.
Here's what CKC entry numbers looked like for 2011, "as of the end of October 2011", i.e. when committee reports were submitted. Continue reading


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"If I had to conduct an experiment that would give an insight into neorealism, I'd build a time machine and travel to Italy, circa 1952. I'd ask Vittorio De Sica to make a film using Hollywood actors like Montgomery Clift and Jennifer Jones. I'd then team De Sica up with a Hollywood producer, the kind that liked to impose his will and sensibility onto a film—someone like David O Selznick. In bringing these two worlds of cinema together, I'd hope for a clash of sensibilities so great that it would result in two cuts of the same film, one by De Sica and the other by Selznick. I would run these two films side by side and examine each cut, and in the difference I would find something to say about the essence of neorealism."Sight & Sound magazine's excellent video essay 'What is neorealism?' compares Terminal Station to Indiscretion of an American Wife.
The Vampires, a secret federation of thieves and killers, rule the Paris underworld through intimidation, murder, and a certain diabolic je ne sais quoi. After the headless body of the police inspector in charge of the Vampire investigation turns up in a swamp, dauntless reporter Philipe Guérande steps up his efforts to bring the gang to justice. But is he equal to the schemes of the protean Grand Vampire and his lieutenant, the cat burglar, assassin, and sometime torch singer called Irma Vep? And can anyone hope to prevail against the rogue criminal Moréno and the unearthly power of his gaze?Les Vampires (1915-1916), Louis Feuillade's six and a half hour film serial, still communicates the nerve, pace, and delirium that inspired Lang, Hitchcock, Assayas and Maddin. Here are all ten episodes of this "supreme delight of cinema." Three more of Feuillade's best serials wait below the cut. [more inside]


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Thune was born in South Dakota in 1961. He graduated from Biola College in 1983 and got an MBA from The University of South Dakota the following year. Thune held a number of positions in the public office in South Dakota until his successful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996. Thune was re-elected twice before an unsuccessful South Dakota Senator bid in 2002. Thune tried again and won a surprising Senate race in 2004 and was re-elected in 2010, where he currently holds office.
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UPDATE: Medical examiners have confirmed that the dead body found inside a burned California cabin is indeed, EX-LAPD Officer, Christopher Dorner.
CNN News reports, "The identification of the rogue former police officer, blamed in four killings was made through dental records."
Police surrounded Dorner at a cabin in Big Bear Lake, California on Tuesday.
He was wanted for the murder of three people, including a police officer.
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SPOKANE -- Spokane Chief forward Tyler Johnson has received a one game suspension from the WHL after being issued a major penalty for kneeing and a game misconduct in Tuesday night's game versus the Tri-City Americans.
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Johnson received the penalty 18:31 into the first period. Spokane won the game 5-4 in overtime and the series, 4-2. The 20-year-old has five goals and nine points in nine playoff games after scoring 115 points in the regular season.


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2. Assist others anonymously and do not brag about it.
3. Do not push another down to pull yourself up.
4. Have the sensitivity and awareness to assist another without being asked.
5. After assisting a person, thank them for allowing you the privilege of helping them - thereby experiencing good feelings for yourself.
6. If a person injures you, forgive them. Once you forgive, never raise the issue again.
7. Do not make an agreement you cannot keep. If you must break the agreement, get the person's permission first.
8. If you injure another, apologize and never injure the person again.
9. Before judging another, judge yourself. Our viewpoint or opinion of another is a reflection of our self.
10. Be considerate, sincere and humble. Harmonize with nature.
11. Respect and give thanks to the gifts of Ha (breath of life), persons, places, things, events, choices, and experiences.
12. Know the difference between concepts and reality. The concept of an experience is not the experience. Language is a limited concept which cannot accurately describe the experience. Be discreet in speaking. Words are like feathers spread in the Pali (high) wind - they cannot be recovered.
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Out & Equal Appeals to Employees to Connect with Transgender Colleagues
Twitter Handle: @OutandEqual | Hashtags: #LGBTworkers, #transgender
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November 19, 2013, San Francisco, CA—In commemoration of Transgender Remembrance Day this Wednesday November 20th, Out & Equal asks all lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and ally employees to attend a memorial service. Doing so will help raise public awareness of hate crimes against transgender people while demonstrating support for the transgender community.
"As a community, we have a duty and a responsibility to speak out against violence. On this somber Day of Transgender Remembrance, Out & Equal honors the lives of our transgender brothers and sisters who were victims of hate crimes," said Selisse Berry, Founder and CEO, Out & Equal Workplace Advocates.
"Transgender people always have in the back of our minds the awareness of our vulnerability to anti-trans violence. The national Transgender Day of Remembrance focuses that awareness and allows us to share our desire to make a difference," said Dr. Jamison Green, author, policy consultant, transgender rights leader, and member of the Out & Equal Transgender Advisory Committee.
"We encourage you to reach out to your transgender colleagues, friends, and family members on this very powerful, yet very solemn day," said Lori Fox, president of Lori Fox Business and Diversity Consulting, and member of the Out & Equal Board of Directors.
Transgender Remembrance Day is an opportunity to visibly support the transgender community, which includes people who identify as transgender, transsexual and otherwise gender non-conforming. Some members of the very diverse transgender community are facing real challenges for safety, job equity, and basic acceptance. According to A Broken Bargain for Transgender Workers - a report authored by a consortium of organizations including Out & Equal - transgender people face unemployment at twice the rate of the population as a whole.
"Employment rights and equal opportunities in the workplace help to ensure that transgender people are valued and accepted. This can help end the violence," said Dr. Green.
"Out & Equal will continue supporting the transgender community, working year-round with our Transgender Advisory Committee and LGBTCareerLink to reduce the current 14% unemployment rate faced by the transgender community," continued Berry. A special day of transgender specific programming was a central component of the 15th annual Out & Equal Workplace Summit, held last month in Minneapolis at which author and activist Janet Mock gave a rousing keynote ending in a spontaneous standing ovation from the audience of over 2,000.
"I urge allies to join the transgender community at a memorial service. Not only is it a significant show of support - it is also a meaningful experience that will not leave you unaffected," said James Scott P. Pignatella, Senior Systems Engineer at Raytheon and member of the Out & Equal Transgender Advisory Committee.
Memorial services can be located by visiting http://www.transgenderdor.org/memorializing-2013. Read the personal stories of transgender executives and workplace leaders – including Lori Fox and Jamison Green - along with 36 other leaders of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and ally community in Out & Equal at Work: From Closet to Corner Office.


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Does Christmas really matter to the economy?
Retailers love to howl about the economic impact of the holiday season. Much of it is hype. But not all.
Christmas shopping season starts on "Black Friday" in the United States, the day after Thanksgiving. But here in Canada, things don't get serious until after the first snow falls. As a result, the white stuff that was dumped all over central Canada this month is great news for retailers, who generate a significant portion of their profits during holiday season.
So it should come as no surprise that newspapers, websites and broadcast media have been filled with stories and advertisements hyping the Christmas season. It's a circuitous relationship; the more holiday shopping stories the media produce, the more it reminds retailer clients to boost advertising budgets.
But the media aren't alone. Many people use the holiday season as an excuse to spend money on things. These range from taking a Christmas vacation to holding parties and buying friends and family a "little special something." With all of this spending, if you believe the hype, the holiday season must be great for the economy. Or is it?
Stimulates economic activity?
Arguments that the holiday season is good for the economy are pretty convincing. After all, the money that Canadian consumers spend on gifts helps stimulate job creation in businesses that make, market and deliver the products to stores. According to the Retail Council of Canada, or RCC, as much as 10 per cent of jobs in many communities are tied to the retail industry alone.
However, the benefits of Christmas spending go far beyond the direct jobs that are created. That's because those manufacturing workers, truck drivers and store clerks will spend much of the money they earn. This, in turn, will recycle that cash back into the economy. Furthermore, the taxes that workers and businesses pay help fund government jobs and services. This means that much of those funds will also recycle back into the system.
Arguments against
That said, there are those who argue that much of that Christmas spending is vastly inefficient. For example, last year Joel Waldfogel, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, released his book "Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays." In it, Waldfogel argues that much of the Christmas-gift spending is utterly worthless. For example, a $50 sweater is worth $50 to the consumer who buys it for himself. But if he gives that sweater to someone else, that person may not like the colour, fabric or size, and it will thus be worth much less to him.
Furthermore, whatever positive economic benefit that the holiday season once generated 30 or 40 years ago, when Canada had a strong manufacturing sector, has been vastly reduced if not wiped out since then. That's because almost all of those television sets, laptops, iPods and clothing that Christmas shoppers will be splurging on this year will have been made overseas, and that in turn is where a good chunk of the profits will end up.
According to polling organization Gallup, the current weak economy will likely also lessen the "holiday effect." U.S. consumers who were polled said they would spend an average of US$715 this Christmas season, down from US$907 in 2007. In Canada, where times are tougher too, the forecasted spending numbers have also likely shrunk.
Christmas vacations, which represent another big chunk of holiday-season spending, are also not as good for the economy as one may think. That's because many of the holiday trips Canadians will take will be to the southern U.S., Mexico and the Caribbean -- all overseas markets -- and any spending there will go into those respective economies.
As if that weren't enough, according to the RCC, Christmas shopping is only good for the Canadian economy if Canadians do their shopping here -- not in the U.S. That's where more Canadians have been heading in recent years, lured by savings stemming from the cheaper U.S. dollar. "Canadian retailers are at the heart of your community," argues the council. "Fewer sales (here in Canada) mean fewer hours of work available for your neighbours, including young people looking for the experience that provides them with invaluable career skills."
If it gets you to like snow ...
That said, the facts are far from clear. Many economists would say the Christmas season encourages people to buy items they ordinarily would not, so shopping is actually a good thing during tough economic times. In this way, some people at least have jobs. If nothing else, holiday-season statistics form a great indicator for overall economic demand.
The bottom line, however, is that whatever its economic effect -- in a northern country like Canada, where the cold weather keeps us inside for a good part of the year --anything that makes people cheering for snow probably isn't such a bad thing.
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text: content May 9, 2000 National Academy of Sciences References 61. Schweiz Med Wochenschr 1994 Aug 9;124(31-32):1373-80[Scurvy--a mistakenly forgotten disease].[Article in German]Hurlimann R, Salomon FDepartement fur Innere Medizin, Universitatsspital Zurich. Four cases of scurvy diagnosed within a period of two years are reported. Theycomprised 2 male patients with heavy nicotine and alcohol abuse, a 35-year-oldwoman with malnutrition due to food supplements phobia, and a 69-year-old womanwith malnutrition due to dementia and social isolation. All four patients wereadynamic and anemic. Three patients showed typical dermatologic signs withhemorrhagic hyperceratosis, suffusions or cork-screw hair. Two patientscomplained of parodontol disorders. Other symptoms were gastrointestinalbleeding, sicca syndrome, retinal bleeding, subdural hematoma, edema andarthralgia. Associated disorders were folic acid and vitamin B12 depletion intwo cases, and nephropathy and pneumonia with pneumothorax in one case each. Inall cases the serum asorbic acid concentration was below the scorbutic level of11 mumol/l. Historical data, pathogenesis, incidence, clinical presentation,diagnosis and therapy of scurvy are discussed. We conclude that scurvy can beobserved even in a developed country such as Switzerland at the end of the 20thcentury. The real incidence may be underestimated because symptoms are not wellknown and disappear rapidly after admission because of sufficient vitamin Ccontent in normal diet. Patients at risk are socially isolated alcoholics, oldpeople, psychiatric patients and diet enthusiasts. Usually scurvy occurs inconjunction with other deficiencies. Smoking and acute illness enhance ascorbicacid depletion. With a knowledge of the symptomatology of scurvy, it is easy todiagnose and treatment is simple and effective. 62. J Am Acad Dermatol 1994 May;30(5 Pt 2):881-3Scurvy.Ghorbani AJ, Eichler CAlbany Medical College, New York. Scurvy is caused by a deficiency of ascorbic acid. We describe a 31-year-oldHispanic man who had perifollicular hemorrhages, follicular hyperkeratosis,corkscrew hairs, and gingival hemorrhage after consuming a peculiar andrestricted diet for 1 year. A diagnosis of scurvy was made and the patient'sdisease resolved after treatment with vitamin C. 63. Free Radic Biol Med 2000 Feb 1;28(3):428-36Vitamin C prevents the acute atherogenic effects of passive smoking.Valkonen MM, Kuusi TDepartment of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. During passive smoking the body is attacked by an excess of free radicalsinducing oxidative stress. In nonsmoking subjects even a short period of passivesmoking breaks down serum antioxidant defense (TRAP) and accelerates lipidperoxidation leading to accumulation of their low-density lipoprotein (LDL)cholesterol in cultured human macrophages. We now studied whether these acuteproatherogenic effects of secondhand smoke could be prevented by an effectivefree radical scavenger, vitamin C. Blood samples were collected from nonsmokingsubjects (n = 10) as they were consecutively exposed to normal air or cigarettesmoke during four separate days. During the last 2 d, a single dose of vitamin C(3 g) was given, which doubled its plasma concentration. Vitamin C did notinfluence the plasma antioxidant defense or the resistance of LDL to oxidationin normal air, but prevented the smoke-induced decrease in plasma TRAP (p<.001), the decrease in the resistance of LDL to oxidation (p <.05), and theaccelerated formation of serum thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS)(p <.05) otherwise observed 1.5 h after the beginning of passive smoking.Vitamin C protected nonsmoking subjects against the harmful effects of freeradicals during exposure to secondhand smoke. 64. Clin Sci (Colch) 1997 Apr;92(4):361-5Combination oral antioxidant supplementation reduces blood pressure.Galley HF, Thornton J, Howdle PD, Walker BE, Webster NRClinical Oxidant Research Group, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK. 1. Hypertension affects 30% of adults and low intakes of antioxidants have beenassociated with increased risk of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Toinvestigate the effect of short-term high-dose antioxidant supplementation onblood pressure in hypertensive and normotensive outpatients, we undertook arandomized, double-blind, crossover design placebo-controlled study. 2. Fortysubjects were recruited from medical outpatient clinics, of whom 38 completedthe study. Twenty-one were attending for treatment of hypertension and 17 werenormotensive, attending for minor gastrointestinal complaints. Subjects wererandomly assigned to receive either 8 weeks placebo followed by 2 weeks washoutthen 8 weeks antioxidants or vice versa. The combination of antioxidantsconsisted of 200 mg of zinc sulphate, 500 mg of ascorbic acid, 600 mg ofalpha-tocopherol (sodium succinate salt) and 30 mg of beta-carotene daily. 3.Systolic blood pressure fell at the end of the antioxidant phase compared withthe placebo phase both in subjects receiving anti-hypertensive therapy (P <0.01) and those who were normotensive (P = 0.067). Circulating levels ofbeta-carotene and alpha-tocopherol increased in all subjects duringsupplementation (P < 0.01) and urine nitrite increased in hypertensive patients(P < 0.05). 4. Short-term oral high-dose combination antioxidant therapy reducesblood pressure, possibly via increased availability of nitric oxide. This studymay have implications for the innovative use of antioxidants as an adjunct toanti-hypertensive therapy. 65. Circulation 1999 Jun 29;99(25):3234-40Long-term ascorbic acid administration reverses endothelial vasomotordysfunction in patients with coronary artery disease.Gokce N, Keaney JF Jr, Frei B, Holbrook M, Olesiak M, Zachariah BJ, LeeuwenburghC, Heinecke JW, Vita JA Evans Memorial Department of Medicine, Cardiology Section, and WhitakerCardiovascular Institute, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA. BACKGROUND: Loss of endothelium-derived nitric oxide (EDNO) contributes to the clinical expression of coronary artery disease (CAD). Increased oxidative stress has been linked to impaired endothelial vasomotor function in atherosclerosis, and recent studies demonstrated that short-term ascorbic acid treatment improves endothelial function. METHODS AND RESULTS: In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, we examined the effects of single-dose (2 g PO) and long-term (500 mg/d) ascorbic acid treatment on EDNO-dependent flow-mediated dilation of the brachial artery in patients with angiographically established CAD. Flow-mediated dilation was examined by high-resolution vascular ultrasound at baseline, 2 hours after the single dose, and 30 days after long-term treatment in 46 patients with CAD. Flow-mediated dilation improved from 6.6+/-3.5% to 10.1+/-5.2% after single-dose treatment, and the effect was sustained after long-term treatment (9. 0+/-3.7%), whereas flow-mediated dilation was 8.6+/-4.7% at baseline and remained unchanged after single-dose (7.8+/-4.4%) and long-term (7.9+/-4.5%) treatment with placebo (P=0.005 by repeated-measures ANOVA). Plasma ascorbic acid concentrations increased from 41.4+/-12. 9 to 115.9+/-34.2 micromol/L after single-dose treatment and to 95. 0+/-36.1 micromol/L after long-term treatment (P<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: In patients with CAD, long-term ascorbic acid treatment has a sustained beneficial effect on EDNO action. Because endothelial dysfunction may contribute to the pathogenesis of cardiovascular events, this study indicates that ascorbic acid treatment may benefit patients with CAD. 66.Circulation 1999 Mar 9;99(9):1156-60Demonstration of rapid onset vascular endothelial dysfunction afterhyperhomocysteinemia: an effect reversible with vitamin c therapy.Chambers JC, McGregor A, Jean-Marie J, Obeid OA, Kooner JS National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Medicine,Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK. BACKGROUND: Hyperhomocysteinemia is a major and independent risk factor forvascular disease. The mechanisms by which homocysteine promotes atherosclerosis are not well understood. We hypothesized that elevated homocysteine concentrations are associated with rapid onset endothelial dysfunction, which is mediated through oxidant stress mechanisms and can be inhibited by the antioxidant vitamin c. Methods and RESULTS: We studied 17 healthy volunteers (10 male and 7 female) aged 33 (range 21 to 59) years. Brachial artery diameter responses to hyperemic flow (endothelium dependent), and glyceryltrinitrate (GTN, endothelium independent) were measured with high resolution ultrasound at 0 hours (fasting), 2 hours, and 4 hours after (1) oral methionine (L-methionine 100 mg/kg), (2) oral methionine preceded by vitamin c (1g/day, for 1 week), and (3) placebo, on separate days and in random order. Plasma homocysteine increased (0 hours, 12.8+/-1.4; 2 hours, 25.4+/-2.5; and 4 hours, 31. 2+/-3.1 micromol/l, P<0.001), and flow-mediated dilatation fell (0 hours, 4.3+/-0.7; 2 hours, 1.1+/-0.9; and 4 hours, -0.7+/-0.8%) after oral L-methionine. There was an inverse linear relationship between homocysteine concentration and flow-mediated dilatation (P<0. 001). Pretreatment with vitamin c did not affect the rise in homocysteine concentrations after methionine (0 hours, 13.6+/-1.6; 2 hours, 28.3+/-2.9; and 4 hours, 33.8+/-3.7 micromol/l, P=0.27), but did ameliorate the reduction in flow-mediated dilatation (0 hours, 4. 0+/-1.0; 2 hours, 3.5+/-1.2 and 4 hours, 2.8+/-0.7%, P=0.02). GTN-induced endothelium independent brachial artery dilatation was not affected after methionine or methionine preceded by vitamin c. CONCLUSIONS: We conclude that an elevation in homocysteine concentration is associated with an acute impairment of vascular endothelial function that can be prevented by pretreatment with vitamin c in healthy subjects. Our results support the hypothesis that the adverse effects of homocysteine on vascular endothelial cells are mediated through oxidative stress mechanisms. 67.J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 1999 Nov;34(5):690-3Oral vitamin C reduces arterial stiffness and platelet aggregation in humans. Wilkinson IB, Megson IL, MacCallum H, Sogo N, Cockcroft JR, Webb DJClinical Pharmacology Unit & Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Scotland. Atherosclerosis is associated with stiffening of conduit arteries and increased platelet activation, partly as a result of reduced bioavailability of nitric oxide (NO), a mediator that normally has a variety of protective effects on blood vessels and platelets. Increased levels of oxygen free radicals are a feature of atherosclerosis that contributes to reduced NO bioavailability and might lead to increased arterial stiffness and platelet activation. Vitamin C is a dietary antioxidant that inactivates oxygen free radicals. This placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomized study was designed to establish whether acute oral administration of vitamin C (2 g), would reduce arterial stiffness and in vitro platelet aggregation in healthy male volunteers. Plasma vitamin C concentrations increased from 42+/-8 to 104+/-8 microM at 6 h after oral administration, and were associated with a significant reduction in augmentation index, a measure of arterial stiffness (by 9.6+/-3.0%; p = 0.016), and ADP-induced platelet aggregation (by 35+/-13%; p = 0.046). There was no change in these parameters after placebo. Vitamin C, therefore, appears to have beneficial effects, even in healthy subjects. The mechanism responsible is likely to involve protection of NO from inactivation by oxygen free radicals, but this requires confirmation. If similar effects are observed in patients with atherosclerosis or risk factors, vitamin C supplementation might prove an effective therapy in cardiovascular disease.68. Eur Heart J 1999 Nov;20(22):1676-80Vitamin C improves endothelial function of epicardial coronary arteries in patients with hypercholesterolaemia or essential hypertension--assessed by cold pressor testing.Jeserich M, Schindler T, Olschewski M, Unmussig M, Just H, Solzbach UMedizinische Klinik III, Universitat Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. AIMS: There is evidence that formation of free radicals increases in patients with hypertension or hypercholesterolaemia, which may contribute to endothelial dysfunction of epicardial coronary arteries due to inactivation of the vasodilator NO. The present study was designed to test whether the abnormal constriction of epicardial coronary arteries due to sympathetic stimulation by the cold pressor test in patients with essential hypertension or hypercholesterolaemia could be reversed by administration of the antioxidant vitamin C. METHODS and RESULTS: In 28 patients without relevant coronary artery stenosis the cold pressor test was performed before and after a 3 g infusion of vitamin C. In five normal controls the cold pressor test led to a similar increase in luminal area before and after vitamin C (3.7+/-1.3% and 1.9+/-0.8%, ns vs before vitamin C). In nine hypercholesterolaemic patients the cold pressor test led to a -14.1+/-2.8% reduction in cross-sectional area before vitamin C. This constriction was significantly improved after vitamin C to -7.6%+/-2.0, P=0.027 vs before vitamin C. In nine hypertensive patients, the cold pressor test led to a -17.1+/-3.2% decrease in cross-sectional area before vitamin C, which was improved to -7.1+/-3.1 after vitamin C, P=0.004 vs before vitamin C. This increase in luminal area was significant in each group in comparison with normal controls (each P<0.05). Administration of saline (placebo group, five patients) had no significant effect on cold pressor test-induced constriction (-6.9+/-3.9% before and -6. 8+/-3.7% after saline). CONCLUSION: The antioxidant vitamin C reverses cold pressor test-induced vasoconstriction of epicardial coronary arteries in patients with hypertension or hypercholesterolaemia. Our data suggest that enhanced oxidative stress contributes to impaired endothelial function in this patient population. 69. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 1999 Dec;222(3):196-204On the role of vitamin C and other antioxidants in atherogenesis and vascular dysfunction.Frei BLinus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-6512, USA. firstname.lastname@example.com Oxidative stress has been implicated as an important etiologic factor in atherosclerosis and vascular dysfunction. Antioxidants may inhibit atherogenesis and improve vascular function by two different mechanisms. First, lipid-soluble antioxidants present in low-density lipoprotein (LDL), including alpha-tocopherol, and water-soluble antioxidants present in the extracellular fluid of the arterial wall, including ascorbic acid (vitamin C), inhibit LDL oxidation through an LDL-specific antioxidant action. Second, antioxidants present in the cells of the vascular wall decrease cellular production and release of reactive oxygen species (ROS), inhibit endothelial activation (i.e., expression of adhesion molecules and monocyte chemoattractants), and improve the biologic activity of endothelium-derived nitric oxide (EDNO) through a cell- or tissue-specific antioxidant action. alpha-Tocopherol and a number of thiol antioxidants have been shown to decrease adhesion molecule expression and monocyte-endothelial interactions. Vitamin C has been demonstrated to potentiate EDNO activity and normalize vascular function in patients with coronary artery disease and associated risk factors, including hypercholesterolemia, hyperhomocysteinemia, hypertension, diabetes, and smoking. 70. Atherosclerosis 1996 Jan 26;119(2):139-50Effect of ascorbate supplementation on low density lipoprotein oxidation in smokers.Fuller CJ, Grundy SM, Norkus EP, Jialal IDepartment of Clinical Nutrition, University of Texas-Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA. The oxidative modification of low density lipoprotein (LDL) may play a role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Furthermore, evidence of oxidized LDL (ox-LDL) has been found in vivo. Supplementation of some animal models with antioxidants has been shown to retard the formation of aortic atherosclerosis. Ascorbate (vitamin c) is a highly potent aqueous-phase antioxidant in plasma, which has been shown in vitro to retard LDL oxidation. Cigarette smokers have reduced concentrations of ascorbate in their plasma, and their LDL may be more prone to xidation. Hence, the objective of the present study was to examine the effect of ascorbate depletion and supplementation on the propensity of LDL to oxidize in smokers in a 6-week study. Nineteen healthy smokers followed a low ascorbate diet (< or = 30 mg/day) for 2 weeks, then were randomly assigned to receive placebo or 1000 mg ascorbate per day for 4 weeks. Blood was taken at 0 and 4 weeks of supplementation for study of LDL oxidative susceptibility. LDL was oxidized with 5 mumol/l copper. The ascorbate-supplemented group had significant increases in plasma ascorbate. The placebo group showed no change in the time course of LDL oxidation between 0 and 4 weeks. However, the ascorbate-supplemented group has a significant reduction in LDL oxidative susceptibility as measured by thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances (TBARS) and the formation of conjugated dienes. The ascorbate-supplemented group demonstrated significantly increased lag phase and decreased oxidation rate at 4 weeks compared to 0 weeks. No changes were found in the placebo group. The ascorbate-supplemented group showed no biochemical signs consistent with increased body iron stores. Supplementation of otherwise healthy smokers for 4 weeks with 1000 mg ascorbate per day resulted in increased plasma ascorbate and reduced LDL oxidative susceptibility.


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Lt. Governor Becky Skillman and Mayor Greg Ballard joined executives from Kronos Incorporated today to announce that the company will open a new office in Indianapolis, creating up to 250 new jobs by 2015.
Headquartered in Chelmsford, Mass., Kronos is the global leader in workforce management solutions that enable organizations to control labor costs, minimize compliance risk, and improve workforce productivity. The company plans to invest more than $5.1 million in its new technology center at PNC Tower in downtown Indianapolis. The Indianapolis technology center, which will open its doors in January, will be focused on providing customer implementation services and will complement other Kronos technology centers in Chelmsford, Mass.; Montreal, Canada; and Noida, India.
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I am very happy to say, that we've completed all of our exterior goals, starting with a new roof, replacing the terrible old house numbers, and repainting the facade and the lattice. It's been a big job, and I'm so glad it's complete. It's almost like driving up to a different house.
Even though we had some flowers and decor out there before, I really love my fall arrangements this year against the fresh and clean backdrop of the completed porch.
Some of these things seem so small, but anyone who owns a home knows how hard it is to complete some of these (seemingly) simple things. I think next on my list will be to plant some bulbs in my bare flower beds to bloom next spring. Maybe tulips?
Have a wonderful Monday out there guys!
p.s. As we speak, I am flying over the Pacific for a business trip to China. Don't worry, though! I have done a TON of work this past weekend to prepare 4 tutorials, a trio of recipes, and some more updates around the homestead so that it won't even be like I'm gone! Continue to stop by each day for a little dose of House of Earnest – I've got a lot of fall awesomeness up my sleeve for you! Follow on twitter and instagram if you want to see snippets from my trip!


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Hi! Do you have any tips on drawing body figures? Especially the length of the legs? And do you have tips on drawing hands? Thanks!
Only way to learn figures is to look at them and draw them. I've taken figure drawing and anatomy for artist classes in addition to drawing a lot. Take them if you can! And I fuck up legs more than anything because I don't draw them enough. Easy springboard though is searching for Andrew Loomis books.
Same with hands, though there are some fairly easy to describe formulas for hands so I drew up a couple rq
First of all, for probably 90% of the hand poses you're gonna draw, think fingers like the petals on a pinwheel. They all curve the same degree, in relation to the previous.


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I love my kids with all of my heart, they complete me, they're my heart beating outside of my body, and life before them doesn't compare. Of course.
Having said that ... they suck. Maybe not as much as other kids, but they can. Well, at least 20 things about them do.
1. I can't remember the last adult movie I saw in a theater, but I've seen Frozen three times. (Okay, I loved it, but still.)
2. They have zero appreciation for an immaculately organized playroom. In fact, it seems, that's when it's the most fun to trash it.
3. They act like having to bathe is the end of the freaking world.
4. They insist on reading the same books over and over again, and it's never a classic, like Where the Sidewalk Ends or Where the Wild Things Are or something. It's Captain Underpants. Always Captain Underpants.
5. They only want a drink once I've gotten one for myself and left the kitchen.
6. They conveniently can't reach the hooks to properly hang their coats up on.
7. Have you seen my stretch marks? No. Because my stomach will never again see the light of day.
8. They reintroduced me to Chuck E. Cheese's.
9. They won't hug me in public, but like me to stay in their rooms until they are sleeping.
10. They outgrow shoes at record speed, but seem to fit into the crappy t-shirts I hate FOREVER.
11. They hide the remote controls so that only they can change the channel in the playroom, not their siblings. But then they forget where they hid them, so we share one remote for three TVs all over the house.
12. They always get sick at the most inopportune times.
13. They cover every surface in the house with a mystery sticky film. Including my computer that they aren't even allowed to use.
14. They don't appreciate being told "I told you so" even though I did. Like a hundred times.
15. They'll eagerly eat what I've prepared for myself for dinner, but once I make it for them, it's inedible.
16. There seems to be a direct correlation between how long dinner has taken to prepare and how much they will enjoy it. Kraft mac and cheese or pizza? Happy children. Slow cooked beef, sauteed veggies, rice, etc.? Tears.
17. They have zero respect for my personal space. Like, ever.
18. They constantly beg for sleepovers, but then are nightmares after.
19. Somehow, the dessert in their school lunches always manages to get eaten, but the apple comes back whole and the carrot bag remains unopened.
20. I somehow find the above things endearing rather than annoying.
Is it just my kids?
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Funny list! I experience almost all of this all the time. NO respect for my privacy - I try to sneak into the bathroom for 30 seconds and all of them come rushing in to stare and make comments. It's like an Olympic sport with them. And the crappy T shirts. I made one of my kids where a nice sweater to school one day and said her teacher was probably going to faint because she wore something new.
Also, I solved the coat hook problem! I bought Wonder Hangers and they can flip down so that the hook can hang down low and the children can reach the hanger and hang up their own coats. Thank you As Seen on TV! No more coats on the bottom of the closet with wet slushy boots sitting on top of them.
CrazyAZ, this is my current battle. I am in the hell of a toddler and two teenagers. For the record, my two and a half year old is better at cleaning up after himself than either teenager.
Someone just shoot me please and put me out of my misery.


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Promoting the status of women and girls is not just a moral imperative but a strategic one; it is, in essence, a strategy for a smarter foreign policy. Strengthening the prevention of and response to gender-based violence is of vital importance, because no country can achieve peace and prosperity if half of its population is deprived of reaching its full potential. As Secretary Clinton has so often said, women are drivers of economic… more »


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Albany - It is time to start our yearly preview of high school football teams and we begin with the Westover Patriots.
Who after going two decades without a trip to the postseason are shooting for a third straight trips to the playoffs under head coach Jeff Caldwell.
When Jeff Caldwell took over the Westover High program three years ago, the Patriots were hoping to make the playoffs. Now, it is expected.
Jeff Caldwell said "Now then I am hoping they feel it is an expectation. Anything short of not getting into the playoffs would be disappointing year. Anything short of not maybe knocking it up a notch from last year would be disappointing."
And the Patriots playoff chances look pretty good with three starting offensive linemen returning and running back Tony Reid who is wanting to leader on the field and off.
Tony Reid said "Senior leadership is working hard in practice everyday and showing the younger group that you are willing to any and everything you can for the team and for them."
Another offensive weapon will be quarterback Jermale Benton who should be better in his second season on under center.
Jeff Caldwell said "Right now as compared to this year last time when everything was just a blur to him we think, again, we think he'll pick it up from where he left off last year."
The Patriots should be solid along the defensive front but there are holes to fill at linebacker and in the secondary where Tony Reid and Jermale Benton have to pull double duty.
Coach Caldwell says if the pieces to the puzzle fit then it should be another banner year for the Patriots.
Westover opens the season August 20th against Albany High.
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If your New Year's resolution is to watch less TV, you can pretty much consider it broken already. The networks are pulling out all the stops to lure you to the couch over the holiday weekend, lining up enough tantalizing marathons and specials to keep you glued to the tube until 2013, never mind 2012! What's what, and when is it? Scroll down through our round-up -- TVLine has you covered for everything except that pesky Jan. 1 hangover.
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When Roger Fisher, negotiation guru and former director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, was once asked in an interview if he could really negotiate with a terrorist, he said, "I'd much rather listen to them than fight. A lot of times, they've got legitimate grievances packaged as extreme political positions."
Near the end of 2012, the government made an important move towards negotiations with the Maoists, promising to put in place Crisis Management Groups (CMG), which are essentially teams to negotiate hostage situations in Left Wing Extremist (LWE) States. Clearly, the two high profile Maoist kidnaps of last year — Collector Alex Paul Menon at Chhattisgarh and the Italian tourists at Orissa — created much national distress. But as we embark on combating a new year of conflict, let us reflect for a bit.
Capturing hostages is believed to be the only way for Maoists to get the government to lend them their ears. So by agreeing to talk only when kidnapped, are we not asking to be held at gun point?
Getting the parties to the table is not the main problem, however. Recall the Committee for Concerned Citizens (CCC) — a group of former bureaucrats, journalists, intellectuals and fellow citizens who convened the 1994 Andhra peace talks. The CCC had earned enormous legitimacy as a result of the records of the victims of violence they built over the course of five years and their careful taking-to-task of both sides in an impartial manner. Where they failed, however, was in designing a realistic agenda and an effective process for parties that lacked the willingness and capacity to implement their promises.
So how can the CMG be made to develop that capacity? First, the panel must be prepared for the two sets of issues that the Naxalites are known to raise. The first set of demands is limited in scope, relatively tangible, and easier to evaluate — for instance, the release of imprisoned Maoists or the return of tribal land being occupied by non-tribals. Such demands present tangible and immediate choices to the government for which it can balance costs and benefits.
However, the second set of demands involves the underlying needs and perceived injustices that drive their movement. These are filled with historical baggage, larger in impact and potential cost and thus harder to weigh against the value of a particular life. To work through these requires formidable skill — which the CMGs can develop in Naxalite and government negotiators.
Such skills should be taught based on principled negotiation techniques, which start with a fundamental premise: never negotiate the demands, start with the needs and wants underlying them. This analysis is done through a carefully constructed process of sharing information and active listening that doesn't come naturally to conflicting parties.
As the underlying needs are revealed, the parties learn to find creative solutions through an evaluated give-and-take based on needs, not demands. Furthermore, as the parties get close to an agreement, the process needs to anticipate potential challenges to its implementation in order to avoid the failed promises of the past.
Being trained in communication and relationship-building techniques is essential for creating the necessary psychological safety at the table for frank and path-breaking discussions, especially given the harsh rhetoric in public spheres.
Physical safety is the second factor. Naxalites have never been allowed to negotiate directly because of this dilemma. How to negotiate with a banned party without lifting the ban? Naxalite negotiator and trade union leader Dandapani Mohanty suggests that imprisoned Maoists be brought in under police custody to negotiate on behalf of the party rather than roping in members of civil society who are removed from the realities of the parties' interests.
Finally, the hostage negotiators can work with their counterparts to develop a set of procedures for how they define an agenda, carry out negotiations, and ensure that agreements are implemented. The government negotiators can be continuously training their counterparts through the examples that they set and building faith on both sides.
The Home Ministry recently declared that the year 2012 had seen the lowest number of incidents of violence involving Maoists under UPA rule, with the "lowest" amounting to 1,365 recorded incidents. The government has repeatedly refused to talk to the Maoists "until the violence stops". And now that violence is at bay it is propagated as a counter-insurgency success that overrides any need for talks! If talks have to happen, it is not possible with the well-meaning but fragmented mediation efforts of B.D. Sharma, Swami Agnivesh or Professor Haragopal. The year 2013 calls for another CCC, this time with nationwide ambit, to demand talks that deal with more than just the release of hostages.
"Do you know that all [episodes of capturing] hostages are unplanned? The Italian tourists and the Collector just happened to be there when the Maoists were looking for a hostage to communicate their demands to the government," smiles Mohanty. The setting up of CMGs is a big step forward. The question is whether they will pave the way, creating platforms to address the root causes of the movement or only produce themselves at gunpoint.
(Prof. Boyd Fuller teaches Negotiation at The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Shriya Mohan is an independent journalist.)


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In the Press: ARHI on Elle Online
Aloha Rag's Honolulu Boutique (ARHI) was featured in the post 50's States of Shopping on Elle online! We are happy to see ARHI was picked as one of the best shopping boutiques in Hawaii. The Honolulu store feature will be up on the blog soon, so please wait for a deep insider's view of the store... Meanwhile, don't forget to take a peek at the New York boutique feature that just ran!


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Did Radar Online Break Child Labor Laws?
State labor officials say the celebrity website Radar Online broke some labor laws when filming Octomom Nadya Suleman and her children, officials told the Los Angeles Times.
The website has been cited for:
• failure to obtain an entertainment permit
• failure to have an entertainment permit on file
• failure to have a studio teacher on site
• allowing the babies to be available for filming beyond the hours allowed.
The four citations involve six violations and carry a $3,000 fine, said Dean Fryer, spokesman for the California Labor Commission. Officials say the investigation was ongoing.
Here is a statement from Radar's website:
"RadarOnline.com has not seen any paperwork from the department of labor and therefore cannot comment on specifics. However, like any other newsgathering organization, RadarOnline.com is not required to obtain permits nor is it restricted to certain hours in its newsgathering operations."
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Dr. Cranquis answered a question today about medical anonymity in the digital world and I think it is worth revisiting. With information so easily accessible nowadays, it would be foolish to take the situation lightly. There is constantly a risk I run of stepping on somebody's toes and sullying whatever credentials I have. These are marks against me that might carry on throughout my studies and beyond.
In the digital age, doctors like Dr. Cranquis and other medical students I know who have taken to the internet are very much so breaking new ground into uncharted territory. Though Dr. Parkinson says in his recent TEDx talk that no negative consequences have come to bear on anyone, I am not going to take risks that might put me out in the open.
When I started this blog in late July of 2010, I came into it not realizing how sensitive and how difficult it might be to blog about medicine. There are many areas that simply are too sensitive to discuss in any detail. This sensitivity, compounded by the fact that my name, face, and area of study are readily identifiable in the public domain, means anything I write could risk breaching patient confidentiality and be a personal liability. Every day, I tread carefully.
Every time I write, I must always ask myself: how much detail is too much? what can I write about without putting myself, the patients I see, and the medical profession at risk? Sometimes, it is easy to de-identify patients or change the details of the story to preserve the essence of the event; other times, it is not so easy, and that has meant I have avoided writing about many amazing moments in my journey. I am sure many more will follow in the long road ahead. That is the price I pay for not being anonymous.
There was once a social contract between the public and doctors that we would govern ourselves, safeguard our own profession, and the patients that fall under our care; it exists to this day. Online, the onus is on ourselves to protect that principle.
Where do you think your learning scenarios come from? They all had some sort of real-life basis. Do you think the patients had consented to have their information made public in such a way? Everyone tells someone about what they have seen. God knows what you students have been telling your friends about med school!


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Richmond, VA (SportsNetwork.com) - Cedrick Lindsay scored 19 points and nabbed seven rebounds as the Richmond Spiders beat the Old Dominion Monarchs, 67-58, in non-conference action at the Robins Center.
Alonzo Nelson-Ododa recorded his first career double-double for Richmond (9-4), scoring 13 points and pulling down 10 rebounds. Junior Kendall Anthony added 17 points for the home team.
Aaron Bacote scored a game-high 20 points for the Monarchs (5-8), shooting 11-of-12 from the free-throw line. Denzell Taylor scored 14 points and grabbed 11 rebounds.
Richmond trailed at halftime, 25-24, but used a 9-0 run early in the second half to grab the lead from Old Dominion. Anthony scored 10 of his 17 points in the first half on 4-of-12 shooting.
Lindsay scored all of his 19 points in the second half, and had three steals in the contest. In all, the Spiders forced 17 Monarchs turnovers which included eight team steals.
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An ancient pyramid was found by archaeologists in Edfu, in the southern part of Egypt. On Feb. 3, FOX News reported that the 4,600 year-old pyramid predates the Pyramid of Giza. The pyramid is only about 16 feet tall today but it is believed that it was once about 43 feet tall. It is said to be one of the seven "provincial" pyramids built by pharaoh Huni or pharaoh Snefru.
"The purpose of these seven pyramids is a mystery. They may have been used as symbolic monuments dedicated to the royal cult that affirmed the power of the king in the southern provinces," reports FOX News.
The ancient pyramid found is similar to other pyramids in the way that it was constructed. Although these ancient structures were built thousands of years ago, many of them look the same inside and all have similar chambers. Researching the "provincial" pyramids made the identification of the new pyramid somewhat easy. Even still, there is a lot to be uncovered there...
"The team also found hieroglyphic graffiti incised on the outer faces of the pyramid. The inscriptions are located beside the remains of babies and children who were buried at the foot of the pyramid. The researchers think the inscriptions and burials date to long after the pyramid was built and that the structure was not originally intended as a burial place," reports FOX News.
The ancient pyramid found was not the first of its kind -- archaeologists find pieces of ancient pyramids and ruins frequently.
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