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Serotonin and Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors (SNRIs) for Fibromyalgia
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How It Works
SNRIs work to increase the activity of brain chemicals called serotonin and norepinephrine. Doctors do not know exactly how this improves fibromyalgia symptoms.
Why It Is Used
Doctors may prescribe serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) when mood problems are a major symptom of fibromyalgia. SNRIs are also used for people without fibromyalgia who have depression.
How Well It Works
Some people with fibromyalgia who take SNRIs notice an improvement in a number of symptoms, including depression, pain, and fatigue. But it's hard to tell if SNRIs will work for you and how much they will help. A review of studies showed a small improvement in pain. But the same review showed no improvement in sleep problems for people taking the medicine.1
Side Effects
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
- Usually the benefits of the medicine are more important than any minor side effects.
- Side effects may go away after you take the medicine for a while.
- If side effects still bother you and you wonder if you should keep taking the medicine, call your doctor. He or she may be able to lower your dose or change your medicine. Do not suddenly quit taking your medicine unless your doctor tells you to.
Call911or other emergency services right away if you have:
- Trouble breathing.
- Swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Call your doctor right away if you have:
- Hives.
- Thoughts of suicide.
- Agitation and restlessness.
- Dark urine or light-colored stool.
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Yellow eyes and skin (jaundice).
- Upper right abdominal pain .
Call your doctor right away if you have:
Common side effects of these medicines include:
- Constipation.
- Cough.
- Decrease in sexual desire or ability.
- Dizziness.
- Dry mouth.
- Increased sweating.
- Headache.
- Nausea and loss of appetite.
- Sleep problems.
- Weight loss.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued:
- An advisory on antidepressant medicines and the risk of suicide. Talk to your doctor about these possible side effects and the warning signs of suicide.
- A warning about taking triptans, used for headaches, with SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) or SNRIs (selective serotonin/norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors). Taking these medicines together can cause a very rare but serious condition called serotonin syndrome.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
What To Think About
Never suddenly stop taking SNRIs. The use of any antidepressant should be tapered off slowly and only under the supervision of a doctor. Abruptly stopping antidepressant medicines can cause negative side effects or a relapse of your condition.
SNRIs are started at low doses, and the dose is increased gradually to reduce the severity of side effects. You may need regular blood tests to check the amount of the medicine in your blood. Too much of this type of medicine in the bloodstream can be dangerous.
Treatment with antidepressants does not always relieve symptoms caused by fibromyalgia. Even when the treatment does work, some people may find the side effects of these medicines unacceptable.
Using an antidepressant medicine to treat fibromyalgia does not mean that the condition is "all in your head."
Be sure to tell your doctor about all the medicines you are currently taking. Duloxetine and milnacipran can interact poorly with monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors (taken for depression and other mental health conditions). Examples of MAO inhibitors include phenelzine, selegiline, and tranylcypromine.
Duloxetine can affect blood sugar levels in people with diabetes. If you notice that the results of your blood sugar tests are different than you expect, or if you have any questions, talk to your doctor.
Venlafaxine makes bleeding more likely in the upper gastrointestinal tract (stomach and esophagus). Taking venlafaxine with NSAIDs (such as Aleve or Advil) makes bleeding even more likely. Taking medicines that control acid in the stomach may help.2
Taking medicine
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Advice for women
If you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant, do not use any medicines unless your doctor tells you to. Some medicines can harm your baby. This includes prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, herbs, and supplements. And make sure that all your doctors know that you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
Häuser W, et al. (2013). Serotonin and noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) for fibromyalgia syndrome. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (1).
Abajo FJ, Garcia-Rodriguez LA (2008). Risk of upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding associated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and venlafaxine therapy. Archives of General Psychiatry, 65(7): 795-803.
ByHealthwise Staff
Primary Medical ReviewerAnne C. Poinier, MD - Internal Medicine
Specialist Medical ReviewerKarin M. Lindholm, DO - Neurology
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STEUBENVILLE -The Jefferson County commissioners Thursday agreed to put the ball back in the hands of a local landfill to see what can be done to improve odor complaints before the county approves a bond restructuring agreement for the company.
Liberty Waste Transportation, currently known as ELS Transportation, borrowed $19 million to construct the Apex Landfill and purchase sealed waste containers to transport garbage from the East Coast. The bond was issued through the Columbiana County Port Authority in 1994. ELS Transportation wants to restructure the bond for economic benefits, said Tracy Drake, director of the Columbiana County Port Authority.
Jefferson County commissioners have to approve the bond restructuring because most of the landfill is located in the county.
County Commissioner Tom Gentile said residents in the area of the landfill have been complaining for years about odors coming from the facility, especially when the sealed railroad cars are opened and the garbage is removed. He said the Jefferson County health department has received as many as 160 complaints in a month about odors. Gentile said he wasn't prepared to assist the owners of the landfill.
Columbus attorney Steve Grasbaugh, representing ELS Transportation, said landfills are always an issue with the public.
County Commissioner David Maple said the bond restructuring will create a cash-flow benefit for the company and he wants a commitment that some of the economic benefits for the landfill's owners will be spent on eliminating the odor complaints. He questioned the overall economic impact and whether it would jeopardize jobs at the landfill.
"We want to see some economic commitment applied directly to solve the problems with Jefferson County residents. We have been promised repeatedly (the odor complaint would be addressed) but they haven't been honored," Gentile said.
County Commissioner Thomas Graham said the issue would be tabled until the landfill's owners come back with a plan to address the odor problems.
Grasbaugh said the company has spent 10 months and about $100,000 trying to get the bond restructured. He said if Jefferson County denies the bond change, the company will spend more time and money in getting it completed.
In other matters, commissioners approved a $10,177 change order for work on the apron paving project outside two new hangars at the county airport.
Mike Menzel, Jefferson County Regional Airport Authority president, told the commissioners the engineer for the project, Richland Engineering, made a error in the depth of a water line installed and need for a second catch basin for storm-water runoff.
The Federal Aviation Administration will pay 90 percent of the cost, with the local share being $1,017.
Commissioners questioned if Richland is responsible for the cost because of the error.
Richland Engineering has been doing work at the airport for decades.
Gentile asked the commissioners put together a committee to select an engineer for work on the upcoming runway extension project.
Commissioners also:
Endorsed the 1-mill levy for the Jefferson County Joint Vocational School on the Nov. 6 ballot. The additional levy will generate money for current expenses, purchasing equipment for buildings and improving buildings for 10 years.
Agreed to hire Cleveland attorney Kimberly Riley to represent Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge Joseph Bruzzese Jr. and county Clerk of Courts John Corrigan in a mandamus action filed in the Ohio Supreme Court by Anthony Sylvester, doing business as AAA Sly Bail Bonds of Canton. Bruzzese issued an order forbidding Sylvester from writing bonds for criminal defendants in Jefferson County. Sylvester wants his company to be allowed to post bonds in Jefferson County courts.
Riley will be paid up to $15,000.

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The New York University Schack Institute of Real Estate of the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS) will begin offering a 128-credit B.S. in Real Estate during the Fall 2013 semester that will be geared toward attracting traditional-age college students to this dynamic profession.
The comprehensive curriculum will be comprised of a unique blend of NYU liberal arts programming that will be complemented by in-depth immersion in a broad array of professionally focused courses. The degree will prepare students to manage industry change within new and evolving conceptualizations of the urban landscape. Under the guidance of a distinguished faculty of prominent professionals who are deeply engaged in the real estate industry, students will acquire the most advanced knowledge of real estate finance, law, market analysis, and leasing. In addition, they will study key aspects of the real estate development process, as well as risk and portfolio management. They also will examine how sustainability is transforming the real estate industry.
"We are pleased to be able to offer a degree of this professional caliber on the undergraduate level. Real Estate affords a wealth of different career paths for those who are just starting out in the industry. An undergraduate degree in real estate provides competitive advantage in a marketplace that is ripe with opportunity," said Rosemary Scanlon, divisional dean of the NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate.
Students who complete the B.S. in Real Estate also have the option to continue on to earn one of three master's degrees offered by the Schack Institute. These include the M.S. in Real Estate, the M.S. in Real Estate Development, and the M.S. in Construction Management.
Students enrolled in the program will earn about half of their credits by completing the core curriculum and liberal arts required courses and electives through NYU's central Washington Square campus. This sequence of study is designed to sharpen reading comprehension and writing skills, to develop creative and critical thinking capacities, and to enhance social and cultural understanding.
They also will be required to complete a rigorous plan of study that encompasses professionally oriented courses which explore the business of real estate, thereby acquiring essential industry knowledge and leadership skills and gaining hands-on experience through internships and industry events in New York City and around the globe.
Admission for the B.S. in Real Estate is administered through the NYU Office of Undergraduate Admissions. For additional information about the B.S. in Real Estate program, please visit scps.nyu.edu/schack/bsre. To apply, please visit nyu.edu/admissions or call 212-998-4500.
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Martin Clayton, 87, died Monday, November 26, 2012, at Minneola Long Term Care Unit. He was born April 6, 1925 at Gatewood, Missouri to parents John Arthur and Myrtle Cleo (Brown) Clayton.
He was a longtime Mullinville resident. Martin was a Farmer and had worked at the Mullinville Equity Exchange for many years. He was a veteran of WWII serving in the US Navy. He was a member of Mullinville United Methodist Church. He had served as Fire Chief of the Mullinville City and Kiowa County Fire Depts. He had also served on the Hillcrest Cemetery and the Equity Exchange Boards.
On July 23, 1947 he married Betty Hensley at Mullinville.
Survivors are his wife, Betty; son, Ron Clayton and wife Susan; daughter, Marla Zimmerman and husband Brad all of Mullinville; 3 brothers: John, Jr. of Poplar Bluff, MO., David of Doniphan, MO., and Joe of Sterling, KS; 5 grandchildren: Lance Zimmerman of Omaha, Nebraska, Loren Zimmerman of Greensburg, Lynette Zimmerman and Jonathan Clayton of Philadelphia, PA., and Jessica Clayton of Austin, TX.; and 6 great grandchildren.
There will be a Private Family Graveside Thursday at Hillcrest Cemetery, Mullinville, KS. with Mark Fillmore officiating. The family will greet friends from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Mullinville United Methodist Church. Memorials are suggested to Hospice of the Prairie or to the Kiowa County Veterans Memorial c/o Minnis Mortuary, PO Box 516, Bucklin KS 67834.
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Makita at World of Concrete 2012: Hands-on and interactive. Makita plans new demos focusing on new concrete solutions at World of Concrete 2013.
Makita's growing line-up of dust extraction solutions includes attachments for rotary hammers above.
Makita will offer a range of demonstrations, including an opportunity to run the new 18V X2 LXT® Lithium-Ion 1" Rotary Hammer (HRH01ZVX2), whhich is powered by two 18V batteries.
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Makita to feature hands-on demonstrations of new Xtract Vac™, new 18V X2, and more
La Mirada, CA -- World of Concrete, the industry's premier showcase for concrete solutions, makes its annual stop in Las Vegas on February 5-8. Makita will be there, returning to the outdoor Silver Lot exhibit area with a dynamic, hands-on booth experience.
Drill, Hammer, Surface, DemolishMakita is exhibiting in the outdoor Silver Lot area with their latest concrete solutions and several tons of 4,000 PSI concrete for attendees to drill, hammer, surface, and demolish during the three-and-a-half day event.
"Concrete contractors require hard-hitting rotary hammers and demolition hammers with plenty of power to get the job done, but they also demand less weight and less vibration in a more compact size," said Adam Livingston, Product Manager, Commerical Products, Makita USA. "World of Concrete is an opportunity for us to let contractors run our expanding line-up of concrete solutions -- including hammers -- and let them feel the difference for themselves."
"We have a full line-up of new concrete solutions for contractors, including our 18V X2 LXT® Rotary Hammer, which is powered by two 18V batteries so you get 36V power and run-time without leaving the 18V platform," said Wayne Hart, Communications Manager, Makita USA. "We have new dust extraction solutions, demonstrations of our rotary and demolition hammers equipped with Anti-Vibration Technology, solutions for formwork, and more. We'll also have tool giveaways, and even a couple surprises. Once again, the Makita booth is loaded with an interactive, hands-on experience."
World's First 4-Stroke Power Cutter
Contractors at the World of Concrete will be the first to see the new EK7651H, the World's First 4-Stroke Power Cutter.
"Engine siezure due to improper fuel/oil mixing is one of the most common failures of 2-stroke commercial Power Cutters," said Adam Livingston, Product Manager, Commercial Products. Once again, Makita has delivered the solution with the development of the World's First 4-Stroke Power Cutter. This new 4-Stroke Power Cutter runs quieter, idles smoother and is more fuel efficient. It also has several innovative features including automatic decompression, which reduces pull-starting force by 40% and an integrated wheel kit that retracts when not in use. This latest innovation from Makita goes beyond exceptional tool performance, as users will now need only one gas can for all their power equipment."
New Xtract Vac™ Jobsite Vacuum
Makita is featuring several demonstrations of its expanding line of dust extraction solutions, including the new Xtract Vac™ Jobsite Vacuum.
"Dust management is on the mind of the pro contractor, and there is a growing demand for solutions to reduce the amount of concrete dust on jobsites," said Livingston. "The new Xtract Vac™ is at the center of our growing dust collection system, and with the extensive range of features it is the top performer in the jobsite vacuum category. We'll have plenty of demonstrations of this best-in-class jobsite vacuum at World of Concrete."
Register for World of ConcreteYou can find Makita at World of Concrete in the outdoor exhibit area at booth #O30145 in the Silver Lot at the Las Vegas Convention Center. To register, go to worldofconcrete.com In the meantime, the video below captures some of the action at the Makita booth during World of Concrete 2012:
Makita at World of Concrete 2012: Hands-on and interactive. Makita plans new demos focusing on new concrete solutions at World of Concrete 2013.
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Woodcock found in damp, open areas
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The name doesn't quite fit these two because of their use of upland habitats. The killdeer, a kind of plover, and the American woodcock, unique in a number of ways, are early spring arrivals.
They're showing up throughout Connecticut right now, the killdeer noisy and conspicuous in a variety of open habitats, and the woodcock revealing itself only to those who know how to find it.
Killdeer are drawn to open pastures, turf fields and other places with little or no ground cover. They're easy to see and draw attention to themselves with their ringing kill-dee, kill-dee calls.
Woodcocks can be noisy too, but in a more subtle way. They remain hidden in thick cover by day, bearing the strange modifier crepuscular to indicate they are most active at dawn and dusk.
To detect their presence, one needs to visit open areas, preferably damp ones near scrubby cover that can hide the birds by day. The visits are most productive as the sun rises and sets, although these chunky birds with long, earth-probing bills can be active any time during the night.
As darkness falls, you might catch a glimpse of a male doing its "sky dance" for the benefit of females sitting on the ground, but most often you'll hear only the nasal peent calls or the mechanical twittering sounds generated by air passing over feathers during the aerial display.
You might find both of these spring arrivals in the same spots, but they'll be most active in different ways and at different times of day.
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The windows backup utility comes with an option to backup the system-state. What is this for? Has it a real utility? Can I recover that windows on another machine?
The system state contains a number of items:
Some of these items are only included if the specified service is installed (AD, IIS, Certificates). (Details are online. TechNet: Server 2003/2003R2. MSDN: Server 2003/2003R2.TechNet forums: Server 2008. MSDN: Server 2008 and upwards)
If you need to restore a server, you will need this state to recover the registry, or your AD Domain, or IIS sites.
You can restore system state to the same server, or another server with identical hardware. Microsoft does not support restoring system state to different hardware (see this article), however it is possible in some occasions, and with some parts of the system state, for example the IIS metabase. In that guess its really a case of try it an see, but its not a recommended solution..
The System State Backup should be part of your Windows Server backup plan and preparation for a disaster recovery.
The System State contains the operating configuration files. Before you install a driver, patch or program on your server, consider, what will be your fall back position if the operating system crashes. You should create a System State backup which you could use to rollback in case of a problem.
The System State contains boot files (Boot.ini, NDTLDR, NTDetect.com), the Windows Registry including COM settings, the SYSVOL (Group Policies and Logon Scripts), the Active Directory and NTDS.DIT on Domain Controllers and, if the service is installed, the Certificate Store. If your server runs IIS, the IIS Metadirectory will be includedand Cluster Service information if the server is part of a cluster.
You don't have to know which of these components to choose. The Backup/Restore application will do this automatically when you start a System State backup. Likewise you cannot choose which components to restore: all System State data will be restored, because of possible dependencies among the components. It is possible to restore the System State to an alternative location. Not all data is restored when you restore to an alternative location. Only the components System boot files, registry files, SYSVOL directory files and Cluster database information files will be restored.
Note: When you backup System State, you can either include or exclude system-protected boot files. System-protected boot files are not used for installations from restored backup media. When the backup file that you create is to be used for additional domain controller installations, you can uncheck the advanced option to back up system-protected files. Clearing this option decreases the size of the
Regardless of what Microsoft says - it's possible to restore the system to basically ANY compatible hardware. Here how this works: (Windows 2000 & 2003 validated):
It works for AD DCs as well.
Windows in-built backup utility is basically useful. For regular office backup, I do the following
And I thought the way you referred, recovering systme windows on another machine, is universal restore. It seems that windows in-built backup does not support universal restore. Two ways you can restore system to another machine
System statebackup data contains active directory database, registry, system files, boot files, sysvolv directory and Com + Registartion database. We can easily restore it in directory services restore mode.


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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas schools would continue to get reprieve from the state rating system under a proposal moving through the Legislature.
The state Senate voted 30-1 on Monday to advance a bill to extend a suspension of the system. The bill must still clear the House.
The Texas Education Agency rates schools and districts based on standardized test scores and graduation rates.
Last year, the agency assigned no new ratings due to problems with the implementation of a new testing system.
The bill would extend that suspension through this academic year for schools that score poorly on the new tests. It allows ratings to go up but not down.
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Columbia, Mo. - Dr. Wendy Libby, president of Stephens College, will address Columbia College graduates at the winter commencement ceremony at noon on Saturday, Dec. 15, in Southwell Gymnasium on the Columbia College campus. "Dr. Libby was invited to be our commencement speaker to showcase the cooperative relationship between our institutions. She is a dynamic and engaging speaker with important things to say," said Dr. Gerald Brouder, president of Columbia College.
Graduates representing the Day, Evening, Online and Nationwide campuses will participate in the ceremony. Nearly half of the 344 participating graduates represent the Nationwide Campuses, including graduates from eight Missouri campuses: Kansas City, Jefferson City, Christian County, Moberly, Fort Leonard Wood, St. Louis, Lake Ozark and Rolla. Other campuses represented at the ceremony will include Los Alamitos, Calif.; Aurora, Colo.; Orlando, Fla.; Fort Stewart, Ga.; Lake County, Ill.; Crystal Lake, Ill.; and Ft. Worth, Texas. Degrees will be conferred upon nearly 800 Columbia College students from all campuses.
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GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- Advocacy groups can weigh in as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seeks public comment before creating a new plan for managing a river basin shared by Alabama, Florida and Georgia.
A new plan for managing the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin has been delayed by years of legal fighting. A decision by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has allowed the process to go forward.
The public can comment through Dec. 12 on elements of the plan.
The executive director of Atlanta-based Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Sally Bethea, told The Times of Gainesville that her group will ask that water conservation and efficiency become a priority.
Joanna Cloud of the Lake Lanier Association said her organization will ask that Atlanta get credit for existing conservation efforts.


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I have a 10speed MTB and replace the chain using a powerlink. Now the bottom pulley wheel makes like a jumping kind of movement. It is not smooth. Also when in my small ring in front I get chain suck. It sucks!! I never get chain suck :(
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The jumping is either chain friction (ie the links are not moving smoothly against each other) or links catching on teeth.
Fagan.co.za has a useful article on chain suck.
To summarise his points, the most common causes of chain suck are:
Because the chain loads up unevenly on teeth on the bottom of the chain ring you get high friction, and the chain won't disengage properly from the teeth.
First up - clean your chain and lubricate it properly.
If the problem continues, the simplest fix is to replace the chain ring, but you could also get your teeth reprofiled to reduce the friction.
I'd also check for stiff links in the chain. Details of how to repair these can be found here
The other answers are most likely the correct solution (stiff link I'm guessing based on chain suck).
But just in case you are using the term Powerlink in a generic way...
If you're getting chain suck on the front sprocket after replacing the chain then almost certainly the front sprocket is "hooked". Small amounts of hook just cause the jockey to jump, but larger amounts cause suck.
A rear sprocket can be cured of chain suck by replacing the chain, but the opposite is true for the front sprocket, since it's being "peeled" by the weak tension of the derailer.


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Brady throws for 4 TDs; Pats top Steelers
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady looked into the end zone and found his favorite receiver. Rob Gronkowski caught the ball then slammed it to the ground. The familiar spike was back after the star tight end's first touchdown of an injury-delayed season.


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The Attitude Is Everything Workbook: Strategies and Tools for Developing Personal and Professional Success (Paperback)
In this companion to Attitude Is Everything, mega successful motivational speaker Keith Harrell gives you practicall, step by step guidance on putting a good attitude to work in order to get ahead in life.
Keith Harrell has taken his place among the motivational greats of the world. Regularly inspiring Fortune 500 companies with a 100 percent satisfaction rate, his message is simple yet powerful: attitude, whether positive or negative, has the power to impact on an organization's or individual's success.
Based on his successful Attitude Is Everything, this workbook is the essential ?w to?uide to transforming Harrell's strategies into success. In a series of clear step by step exercises and instructions, Harrell teaches readers techniques for maintaining a powerful positive attitude in order to get ahead in life.
About the Author
Keith Harrell, known as America's Attitude Coach, is the author of several books including the bestselling Attitude Is Everything. Keith is known across corporate America for his energetic, innovative presentations on how to be a leader in your workplace. Formerly a top training instructor at IBM, Keith is now an in-demand speaker whose clients include McDonalds, Microsoft, and American Express. He lives in Lakeland Ranch, Florida.


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Census Search Secrets
If family historians had ruled the world, I'm sure things would be quite different. Vital records would have been recorded since the beginning of time-in triplicate. Courthouses would have been built fireproof, bug- and rodent-proof, and on high ground. There would have been no records lost to wars. (Who has time to start a war when you're hot on the trail of your third-great-grandfather?)
In the case of censuses, census enumerators would have had to pass rigorous exams, be multi-lingual, and have perfect penmanship. Alas, this was not the case. Enumerators were often political appointees who just happened to have the right connections, and anyone who has worked with census records can attest that nice handwriting was definitely not a requirement!
Despite inaccuracies, unreadable handwriting, faulty copies, and numerous other obstacles, family historians still turn to these records frequently because of the wonderful things we find in them. Here are some tips to help you find those seemingly un-findable families.
- Search the census you're missing directly. While the global search forms on the homepage and search tab on Ancestry.com are great for searching all of the collections and quickly capturing the closest matches, if you're missing an ancestor in a particular census, your best approach is to search it directly. Plus, individual census search forms may include fields tailored to the content in that enumeration. For example, since the 1900 census asked married couples how many years they had been married (and that field was indexed by Ancestry.com), you can include that detail. If you don't know the exact year, you can estimate it and add a date range of plus or minus one, two, five or ten years. Scroll down on this page to access individual census collections. Or customize your homepage so that the Record Collections widget is always on your home page and census records are always at your fingertips.
- Search without a last name. Too often we continue to search for variations of the last name, but overlook the possibility that the details we have beyond the surname may be enough to narrow the search to a manageable number of matches. If you're really having trouble, stick to given names, including the given names of other family members who would have been enumerated with your ancestor, locations, birth dates, etc.
- Searching phonetically can be useful. Some of our ancestors simply weren't concerned about how their name was spelled. I've seen one of my ancestor's name spelled Dwyer, Ware, Wire, Toire, Wyre, and Weir.
- Use wildcards to pick up name variants. An asterisk (*) matches zero or more characters and a question mark matches one character. Last year wildcard functionality was improved so that now the first letter can now be a wildcard. The only restrictions are that a) either the first or last character must be a non-wildcard character and b) names must contain at least three non-wildcard characters. I find this really helpful when I'm searching for my Huggins ancestors-a family who had a rather casual attitude when it came to the vowels in their name. H?gg?ns will pick up the variations of Huggins, Higgins, Higgans, and Huggans that I often see.
- Try searching for other family members who might be living in the same household (for example, the individual's parents or siblings). Their name may be clearer than that of your direct ancestor. Relatives with more unusual given names can be particularly helpful.
- Locate a neighbor (preferably a home owner who is more likely to be living in the same place) in a previous census and search for them in the subsequent census. See if your ancestor is still nearby. Where available, try to locate a state census since they were typically taken between federal censuses and may shorten the time span between.
- If you can't find the individual you are looking for, do not give up. Narrow your search using city directories, and then browse through the census for that area. (Tip: Use a directory for the year after the census year. They were often created beginning in May of the previous year, which would have been right around census time. You'll often find this type of information in the introduction to the city directory.)
Juliana Smith has been editing newsletters at Ancestry.com for more than thirteen years.
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El33t's Question of the Day: Which punishingly difficult games do you enjoy?Written by: / / 9 Comments
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When it comes to games that are able to strike the very, very fine balance between 'enjoyable' and 'punishingly, masochistically difficult,' two recent game series come to mind: Trials and the Dark/Demon's Souls games.
There's a certain level of sadistic satisfaction that many players are able to extract from these and other games like them when completing what at first seems like an impossible challenge after dozens and even hundreds of tries.
Which other games have you played in your gaming career that are able to match up to the difficulty and enjoyment balance of the Souls and Trials series? Will you be playing Dark Souls II and Trials Fusion?
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WJU Claims Fifth Straight Title
CHARLESTON – The top-seeded and No.19 nationally-ranked Wheeling Jesuit Cardinals registered a 3-0 victory against No. 2 Seton Hill on Saturday to capture their fifth straight West Virginia Conference volleyball championship.
Set scores were 25-15, 25-13 and 25-18.\
For the victors, Allissa Ware posted a match-high 13 kills against no errors for a .448 attack percentage. Jenna Pew added 11 kills while hitting .471. Abby Wietrzykowski chipped in seven kills while Rachel Caja and Corrin Early each accounted for five. Madison Strall dished out 24 assists and Pew had 18. Strall recorded a team-high 11 digs. Early, Makenzie Ripley and Ware all had seven digs. Caja totaled a team-best four blocks while Ware added three.
The Griffins were led by Corrine Gahagen's six kills while Abigail Malsch added five. Christina Donahoe, Shelby Kyllo and Chelsey Regovich all added three. Kelsey Profio distributed a team-high 12 assists. Malsch amassed a match-best 13 digs while rookie Lauren Teed accounted for seven. At the net, Gahagen had a spectacular afternoon, assisting on six blocks. Larissa Santangelo and Profio were each in on two blocks.
WJU got things going in fine style, reeling off eight of the first nine points of the match. During the run, Early had a couple of kills while Pew and Ashley Remlinger each had a block. The Cardinals pushed the margin to 10 when Ware served up an ace, making it 18-8. Seton Hill pulled within nine on a kill by Malsch. However, the squad could get no closer as Ware and Caja finished the set with kills.
In the second frame, the teams battled back-and-forth through the first few points as the score was tied at two. Pew and Early had kills while Profio registered one for the Griffins and Donahoe and Gahagen teamed up for a block. Remlinger's kill made it 3-2 in favor of the Cardinals. The point jump started an 8-2 run by the top seed. Ware accounted for three kills during the spurt.
The Griffins battled back, pulling within three at 10-7 when Gahagen and Regovich soared for a block. Wietrzykowski's kill on the very next point gave WJU a four-point edge and it would be the smallest for the team the rest of the set. WJU stretched the lead to 24-9 while Ware had four kills in a five-point span. SHU posted four straight points, staying in the set, but Remlinger's kill off the Strall pass ended the set.
In the third game, the squads battled to a 4-4 draw through the early going. Each team had some miscues, but when Caja and Ware combined for a block to make it 6-5 the Cardinals never looked back. The point started a 5-1 run. Three of the five points came via mistakes by the Griffins. SHU pulled within three at 13-10.
After a time-out by the Cardinals, the squads traded points for the next eight. With WJU up 21-14 on a kill by Strall, the Cardinals committed four consecutive errors, making it 21-18. A miscue by SHU gave the serve back to the Cardinals at 22-18. Wietrzykowski had a kill while Strall powered home one of her jump serves for an ace. Pew found Caja for the match-clinching kill.
WLU Women's Tennis Team Cracks National Rankings
SKILLMAN, N.Y. – The West Liberty University women's tennis team earned its share of the regional and national spotlight when the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) released its NCAA Division II rankings for the fall semester.
Coach Heather Gallagher's Hilltoppers netters slotted in at No. 4 in the Atlantic Region rankings and also popped up at No. 42 in the ITA's national Top 50.
In addition, two West Liberty standouts were listed among the top singles and doubles performers in the region.
Three-time first-team All-West Virginia Conference pick Raissa Wischi and reigning West Virginia Conference Player of the Year Lauren Howard were rated as the No. 3 doubles tandem in the Atlantic Region.
Wischi was ranked No. 9 among Atlantic Region singles players with Howard rated at No. 12.
WJU's Jones Excels
JOPLIN, Mo. – Wheeling Jesuit senior Stewart Jones crossed the finish line at 30:19 to earn 35th overall at the 2012 NCAA Division II Cross Country National Championship hosted by Missouri Southern State University. Jones' time stands as the fastest 10k time in WJU history. The native of Weirton, W.Va. was also rewarded with All-American status. The Top 40 student-athletes of 245 participants received All-American honors which equates to 3.5 percent of all NCAA Division II cross country athletes.


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Now on our homepage: Joseph Bottum on the case for same-sex marriage
Just posted to the homepage, Joseph Bottum's essay "The Things We Share: A Catholic's Case for Same-Sex Marriage."
Bottum, former chief editor of First Things, writes: "We are now at the point where, I believe, American Catholics should accept state recognition of same-sex marriage simply because they are Americans." He goes on:
For that matter, plenty of practical concerns suggest that the bishops should cease to fight the passage of such laws. Campaigns against same-sex marriage are hurting the church, offering the opportunity to make Catholicism a byword for repression in a generation that, even among young Catholics, just doesn't think that same-sex activity is worth fighting about. There's a reasonable case to be made that the struggle against abortion is slowly winning, but the fight against public acceptance of same-sex behavior has been utterly lost.
I find these practical considerations compelling, just as I think most ordinary Catholics do.
Read the whole essay here. And after that, see Mark Oppenheimer's latest Beliefs column in the New York Times. An excerpt:
In the past couple of years, conservative opposition to same-sex marriage has clearly started to erode. Prominent Republicans like Senators Rob Portman and Lisa Murkowski and former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell have come out in support of gay marriage. Even David Blankenhorn, the expert witness in the Proposition 8 trial in California and a Democrat, announced that he had changed his mind.
They are, for the most part, moderate conservatives using secular, democratic arguments. None come from the Christian right. Among religious conservatives, opposition to same-sex marriage has remained essentially unquestioned.
Which is why "The Things We Share: A Catholic's Case for Same-Sex Marriage," an essay by Joseph Bottum, published Friday on the Web site of Commonweal magazine, is something new in this debate.
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Again I say, live & let love (same sex or not)! Jimmy Roland says it all in his wedding song for Gay marriage 'Partners For Life' (see: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3497134 )
Wow - Bottum at his meanderingest. I'l try to encapsulate in one or two sentences what I suppose he's saying here: the church needs to pick its fights, and this fight may not be worth it, because it doesn't seem possible to engage in it without being tarred as homophobic. There are much bigger and more serious fish to fry.
Link to article in First Things (with comments) on Bottom's Commonweal post
The Oppenheimer article says that Bottum now supports same-sex marriage, but I don't think that's what Bottum is saying. He is saying that given our circumstances in the U. S. he now supports the *legalization* o same-sex marriage because opposition to it is counter-productive.
But I must say he does sound sympathetic to the plight of gays. Hmm.
If I were in need of being persuaded of the merits of gay marriage the sullen and dehumanized tone of the First Things combox would do the trick. Not a single mention of love or human flourishing in their dyspeptic grumblings. They are offended, indeed shocked, that anyone would dare "cave" and let down the side. To be sure, acceptance of gay marriage, while deeply true to Catholic values and Gospel values, does reveal that the Church has erred terribly for millennia, depriving millions of happiness and dignity; but we can live with that, we already have in regard to our terribly crimes against the Jews.
Reading this long and rambling essay reminded me of one of the many reasons I don't read First Things
The essay is indeed long and meandering as others have said. Nor is "the case" being made or the "argument" set forth particularly clear, except for the conclusion reached. There are oblique references to "metaphysics" and "disenchantment" that seem to be hints in the direction of a perhaps interesting piece.
As for the "First Things" blog discussion, it actually is quite lively -- both pro and con -- not least for the contributions of Jim P. and Joseph O'L who seem to bi-locate.
Normally when a talented writer puts out such a cluttered piece it's an indication that there is some personal crisis afoot. It's at a time like that that an editor can truly live up to his Catholic calling: Do the writer a solid and practice some fraternal correction. That's good for the publication and, more importantly, the lost sheep.
Mark: I think in Bottum's case, it's more of a matter of "I once was lost but now I'm find. I was blind but now I see."
The blogosphere response to this essay was such that the enterprising individual could have made a small fortune gathering up all the pearls that the pearl-clutchers sent flying.
Also, a few people may have broken their necks slipping on said pearls in their rush to make "bottum/bottom" jokes.
I look forward to some pearl-fishing today -- the Catholic RIght in extreme disarray is a spectacle not to be missed by schadenfreudists.
Schadenfreude is mother's milk to me, but this situation just doesn't provide for it; it's just a big bummer.
Sounds like that line from the old Judy Collins song: "All the birds are leaving ..."
Perhaps the implications of the impending evolutionary crash are beginning to take effect on our traditional conservative ideologue brethern?
Whatever it takes!
This piece has generated fewer than 15 comments here on the website of the publication that published it, but 100+ on the First Things website. I suspect that, even though Commonweal published it, it was written "for" the First Things crowd.
Bottum isn't always easy to follow. He has a sort of circumlinear style that makes it easy for a reader (me, anyway) to lose the thread of his argument. I did better the second time through. But I do think a number of the First Things commenters misread him. And honestly, I'm not sure that the headline of the piece itself, "A Catholic's Case for Same Sex Marriage" is an accurate summary of what he is saying. It strikes me as more a case to stop opposing same sex marriage so vehemently.
Robert Royal writes a response in The Catholic Thing to Bottum's essay. Headline: "The Preemptive Surrender of Jody Bottum". Royal is readable.
Jim Pauweis,
I share your puzzlement that such a major undertaking on Commonweal's part should receive such scant attention here. There are aspects of the piece that continue to intrigue me: the distinction made betwen "thin" and "thick" natural law approaches, for example.
Thanks for the link to Robert Royal's piece. I agree with Royal that Bottum's appeal to "re-enchantment" seems rather vacuous.
Jim and Fr Imbelli, did you see the more than fifty comments that follow Bottum's article on Commonweal? No need to comment here if one can comment there.
Claire - thanks, somehow I had missed them. I see that even Ben Affleck has thrown in his two cents. There are some pearls in there, but they're kind of widely scattered :-)
I second Jim P.'s "thanks;' i too was not aware of the other thread. I must say most of those who have posted there are new to me. Though I did notice Father O'Leary writing from "lovely Salzburg" – It must be intermission during Die Meistersinger ( say I, enviously!).
I found reading Bottum's piece extremely tedious. I came away thinking -- alright, at least he is trying to budge the stubborn heirarchy to give up its battle on this issue. It would be progress if the bishops moved away from its public fight on the issue of marriage equality.
But it also made me think about how we very much need a more thoughtful and more open theological engagement within our Church about what the reality of same-sex love does mean for our Church now and could mean for our Church going forward. In my humble opinion, the Church is missing the wonderful "re-enchantment with the world" the gay civil rights movement is affording us. It is increasingly the experience of everyday Catholics, that committed, same-sex love can and does lead to happiness and human flourishing, i.e., grace. The heirarchy of the Church some day will repent of its homophobia and embrace openly the goodness and grace that abounds in committed same-sex relationships. In the meantime, lots of us in the pews are already there experiencially and in our theology.
I am very grateful for Deacon Pauwels link to Royal's piece. Indeed very readable, but very frightening. It is always astounding to me to read how frightened the "chicken littles" of the Church really are. Royal is over the top afraid for the future of the Church in the US. He actually seems to think that things will get so bad with these unappeased gay activists that Catholic bishops in the US will be marytred in less than 2 generations for not cow-towing to the "secular" agenda! See this quote (which from what I've read starts off with a mangling of what Cardinal George really said):
The Cardinal (George of Chicago) is famous for saying that he expects to die in his bed, his successor will die in prison, and his successor will die a martyr. The Cardinal is 76, but he's in pretty good health, and with the highest respect, may be entirely too optimistic.
I'd have a little more respect for the "chicken littles" if I saw them once and awhile getting a little hysterical about the truly ungodly, sinful stuff going on in this country, like permanent warmaking and the destruction of our social safety net for the poor.
A recent Quinnipiac report says that about 54% of American Catholics now support same sex marriage, and, IIRC, only somewhat over 30% of American Catholics generally support the positions of the Vatican on the hot button issues. If these figures are anywhere near correct, it seems that a very big chunk of conservative Catholics have switched to the liberal camp on the SSM isue.
Given that many of the conservative troops are apparently defecting, is it any wonder that the conservative generals are upset at the defection of one of the generals, at least about this one matter?
Sensus fidelis anyone? I do believe there is such a thing.
Jack Marth is right about human flourishing, and also about the dismal tedium of Bottum's piece. If Catholics are going to respond to gay realities by making them drab and boring, let them rather keep their mouths closed.
Fr Imbelli -- I heard Rattle conducting Schoenberg, Berg and Le sacre du printemps last night and today its the Meistersinger -- all delightful.
The piece was ponderous, but to be honest I would expect nothing less from someone who was describing as much how he got to where he was going as much as explaining his reasoning and conclusions. I am pretty sure that, whatever the questions are, I would disagree with Bottums 9 out of 10 times, but on one thing he is surely correct -- if you can't have honest internal disagreements about even (especially!) important topics then you might as well call it a day because your reason for being has ceased to exist as a human institution, even one that embodies the divine. You can't always and everywhere expect to limit the discussion only to those questions you have think you already have an answer for.
And I still can't get over the fact that the institutional church has chosen this one -- same sex marriage -- to define itself without seeming to acknowledge or be bothered by the fact that marriage among younger people is vanishing unless they fall into very specific, usually privileged, demographic categories. I went to the funeral of one of my aunts last year and realized with something of a shock that not one of her 10 or 12 grandchildren who are old enough are married -- the range in age is something like 18 to 45 (big family with both early and late marriage among the kids). Not one, not even among those who already have children. And the pattern is repeated elsewhere in my extended, "used to be" Catholic family. It just seems so strange to fight with all your might the one tiny group that pines for marriage while much of the rest of your flock is increasingly tuning out from whatever message it is that you think you are delivering on traditional marriage and family.
Barbara - I agree with you entirely on the relative magnitudes of the pastoral issues. Of course, the church authorities can "do" something about gay marriage if it wishes (i.e. lobby to oppose it). What to "do" about the vaster marriage crisis is a much harder problem.
It appearts to me that Mr. Bottum is in a state of religious shock, hence the rambling. One of the pillars of his faith has cracked, and he finds himself all at sea with a rudder that isn't so reliable as he had thought it was. He is honest enough to admit it, and some of his conservative friends are turning on him. (See the really nasty comments about him by some of his former "friends".) I'm sorry for the poor guy. He and all the others like him are in my prayers. (There must be many more conservatives like him -- too many conservative Catholics now support SSM for there not to be.)
No, I'm not being a self-satisfied liberal. I'm just noting that now some of the conservatives are going through what some of us liberals went through years, even generations ago, i.e., seeing that the official Church is not the thoroughly "definitive" source of knowledge it claims to be.
Now Bottum more or less says that he regrets nobody understood what his rambling and meandering meant. For the life of me I can't figure out how such a poorly written piece made it by the Commonweal editors. What is going on?
Thanks to Anthony Ruff for the link to Jody's partial "Retractatio." Here's a part I found of particular interest (in light of my remark @ 2:57 p.m. above):
" The second thing I kind of regret is the way I phrased the discussion of natural law. I was using a short-hand for a thesis about enchantment that I've been developing, but, you know, the accursed essay was already 9,000 words long…I was trying to say in a way that [natural law]'s simply not persuasive without a level of enchantment, seeing things in the world as "natural." What I think I ended up saying, if you read it kind of flat, without—as some of our friends have done—without a charity of interpretation, what I seem to be saying is, natural law is false without an enchanted sense of the world. And so I understand why it got misread there and I regret that."
I also wonder with Anthony Ruff "how such a poorly written piece made it by the Commonweal editors. What is going on?"
Perhaps "Breaking Bad" proved just too distracting. In any case, it would be interesting to be privy to the backstory.
I can assure you that Breaking Bad is infinitely more compelling than the ceaseless barking, hand-wringing, and hyperventilating that convulses the Catholic blogosphere when ever anything about the gays pops up.
Actually, Jody Bottum says a couple of things in that paragraph, which was delivered during a radio interview. First he says that he can see how a less-than-charitable hermeneutic might lead someone to misread his intent. Then he says he regrets that he was misread.
Obviously the most charitable interpretation of the backstory of Bottum's piece is that we ran it because we were too busy binging on Breaking Bad. But, hey, at least it wasn't The Simpsons, amiright?
I went to the funeral of one of my aunts last year and realized with something of a shock that not one of her 10 or 12 grandchildren who are old enough are married -- the range in age is something like 18 to 45 (big family with both early and late marriage among the kids). Not one, not even among those who already have children.
As long ago as 1999, the USCCB issued a very thorough paper on cohabiting couples. It starts with:
"Today almost half the couples who come for marriage preparation in the Catholic Church are in a cohabiting relationship."
it's most cheerful bit is:
"Since cohabitation is not in itself a canonical impediment to marriage, the couple may not be refused marriage solely on the basis of cohabitation. Marriage preparation may continue even if the couple refuses to separate. Pastoral ministers can be assured that to assist couples in regularizing their situation is not to approve of cohabitation."
John, What makes you think these people are cohabiting in lieu of marriage? The snippets you excerpted seem to be worried that the couple is fornicating (i.e., suggesting that they separate while in the marriage preparation process). What if that couple already has children? What if the biological parents are not cohabiting and not even contemplating marriage?
So long as they aren't currently in a situation in which they are visibly outside of church norms everything must be okay? That's the kind of illogical reasoning that you end up with when you see everything through the lens of whether or not they are having sex outside of marriage. There is a BIG divide between those who have extramarital sex but have set themselves on a path of wanting family life to be contained within marriage, and having extramarital sex and assuming that your family life is likely going to happen regardless of marriage, that is, where family is assumed but marriage is just optional. When you have reached a situation where 50% women under the age of 30 giving birth are unmarried, with huge percentages in all racial groups, even for bishops, it ought to be clear that the fight over SSM is just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
As for whether the Bottums piece was well-written -- you know, apparently there is a contingent of people who will look for any excuse not to debate substance on this issue.
Did Mr. Bottum write the sub-head for his article or was that supplied by the editors?
As it stands, the sub-head says "A Catholic's Case for Same-Sex Marriage"
As I read his article, it seems to me that it would have been more accurate to say:
A Catholic's Case for Not Opposing the Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage.
I take Mr. Bottum's argument as being that it's possible to make a prudential decision not to oppose legalization of same-sex marriage without changing the Church's teachings on sex outside of sacramental marriage. This is essentially what we have already done by not fighting for the restoration of laws that that used to support the Church's teachings against contraception, divorce, adultery, fornication, consensual sodomy, etc
Both Thomas and Augustine recognized that human law had a different purpose than Divine law and wasn't intended to forbid everything contrary to Divine law:
The natural law is a participation in us of the eternal law: while human law falls short of the eternal law. Now Augustine says (De Lib. Arb. i, 5): "The law which is framed for the government of states, allows and leaves unpunished many things that are punished by Divine providence. Nor, if this law does not attempt to do everything, is this a reason why it should be blamed for what it does." Wherefore, too, human law does not prohibit everything that is forbidden by the natural law....
Again it must be observed that the end of human law is different from the end of Divine law. For the end of human law is the temporal tranquillity of the state, which end law effects by directing external actions, as regards those evils which might disturb the peaceful condition of the state. On the other hand, the end of the Divine law is to bring man to that end which is everlasting happiness;
Mr. Bottum is getting beaten up by people who ignore that distinction and insist that if he is willing to consider giving up the battle against legalizing same-sex marriage, he must want to change or or do away with the Church's moral teachings related to sexual activity between same-sex persons.
I thank Mr. Bottum for pointing out the difference and the fact that there is a prudential decision that the bishops and he rest of us need to make as more states move to legalize same-sex marriage.
Natural law reasoning explains the huge disconnect between a rationalized normative value and pastoral care. I thought your article is a good start at reconciliation. I think what is most important is that we begin to share experiences with one another ... have that crossing-of-the-bridge experience ... and stop dehumanizing people with intellectual and ideological debates that will surely result in stalemate and acrimony and division. ~ Stephen DeVol, CITVN Executive Producer


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And in some other programming language maybe?i was wondering if i can create an app in some other program not quickly and post in in the ubuntu store?
You can choose whatever you want. Quickly is just a set of templates and commands that start standalone programs.
I do all my programming with Gedit, Glade and the GNOME Terminal. But you could replace Gedit with any other texteditor or even a bit more of a IDE, like Geany or Eclipse (among many others). Maybe even Anjuta is an option, it has embedded Glade.
It all depends on with what tools you feel comfortable, not someone else. That's why you should test and try different setups to see what fits your needs, not what someone else tells you is the "best" solution.


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Hot Shooting Leads No. 17 Washburn Ichabods Past Northwest Missouri 80-67
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Reporter: WU, posted by Kinch O'Kelley
Washburn Sweeps Northwest Missouri
TOPEKA, Kan. -- The No. 17-ranked Washburn Ichabods shot a smoking 63 percent in the second half en route to a 57 percent performance for the game as Washburn topped Northwest Missouri 80-67 on Schendel Court at Lee Arena on Saturday night. Washburn will take on Missouri Western on the road on Wednesday in St. Joseph, Mo., and then take on Northwest for the second time in a week next Saturday in Maryville.
With the Ichabods (15-4, 8-4 MIAA) up one at 21-20 with 4:45 to play in the half, a Martin Mitchell 3-pointer started a 13-4 run to end the period sending the Ichabods to the locker room with a 34-22 lead over Northwest (15-7, 8-5 MIAA).
To start the second half, the Ichabods came out on a 13-2 run over the first 4:21 of play to open up a 47-24 lead for their biggest lead of the night at 23.
Washburn kept the Bearcats at arms-length until the Bearcats finished the game on a 9-0 run over the final 53 seconds to pull within 13 at the buzzer.
Mitchell led the Ichabods with 20 points on 8 of 11 shooting overall going 4 of 6 from 3-point range adding four rebounds and four assists.
Will McNeill had 16 points to go with four rebounds, three assists and two steals becoming the sixth Ichabod to score at least 1,000 points while dishing out 200 career assists. Christian Ulsaker and 11 points hitting all seven free throw attempts and Kyle Wiggins finished with 10 points.
Kyler Erickson had 17 points off the bench to lead the Bearcats. Grant Cozad had 13 off the bench and DeAngelo Hailey had 12.
Washburn finished at 57 percent from the field while limiting the Bearcats to 21 of 59 shooting for the game. The Bearcats did have a 34 to 28 advantage on the glass converting 19 offensive rebounds to 25 second chance points. The Northwest bench also outscored the Ichabod bench 48-21.
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Brama Wyżynna (Upland Gate) is 750 metres from the apartment. Złota Brama (Golden Gate) is 650 metres away. Fontanna Neptuna (Neptune Fountain) is 300 metres from the apartment. St Mary's Church is a 5-minute walk away. Gdańsk Główny central train station is 15 minutes away on foot.
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I am trying to prove that a mapping has a unique fixed-point by showing that its Jacobian is a P-matrix. In this particular case the Jacobian can be decomposed as the sum of two matrices and I would like to show the following result:
Let $M \in \mathbb R^{n \times n}$ be a M-matrix and $S \in \mathbb R^{n \times n}$ be a S-matrix (positive definite matrix) with non-negative entries. Is it the case that $M + S$ is a P-matrix?
The result holds trivially for $n=1,2$, but I was wondering if it holds for arbitrary $n$. I generated millions of random matrices with $n \le 10$ and the result seems to be true. I would truly appreciate any comments, references or help!
Some definitions
A matrix $M \in \mathbb R^{n \times n}$ is a M-matrix if (i) all off-diagonal entries are less than or equal to zero, and (ii) all principal minors of $M$ are positive. A matrix $P \in \mathbb R^{n \times n}$ is a P-matrix if all principal minors of $P$ are positive. Horn Johnson's Topics in Matrix Analysis (1991, pp. 112-125) discusses various equivalent definitions for these matrices.
Interestingly, all M-matrices are P-matrices and all S-matrices are P-matrices, but P-matrices are not close under addition. For example, $A = \begin{bmatrix} \frac 1 2 & -1 \\ 0 & \frac 1 2 \end{bmatrix}$ and $B = \begin{bmatrix} \frac 1 2 & 0 \\ -1 & \frac 1 2 \end{bmatrix}$ are both P-matrices but the sum $A+B$ is not. This example is taken from Parthasarathy's On Global Univalence Theorems (1983, p. 15).
Some Background
In many equilibrium models one proves the uniqueness of an equilibrium by showing that an equation $F(x) = 0$ has at most one solution. In many cases the Jacobian of $F$ can be decomposed as the sum of a positive diagonal matrix and M- or P-matrix, which is again a P-matrix. Then one invokes the univalence result of Gale and Nikaido's The Jacobian matrix and global univalence of mappings (1965) to show that the mapping admits at most one solution. The previous result would allow one to prove uniqueness in more general mappings and may be of interest to the community.


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I would like to capitalize names properly, which in this case means:
- The first letter is capitalized.
- The first letter after a space is capitalized ('Van Helsing', not 'Van helsing')
- The first letter after a dash is capitalized ('Johnson-Smith', not 'Johnson-smith')
- No other letters are capitalized.
The first and last requirements are easily handled:
CONCAT(LEFT(name, 1), LOWER(RIGHT(name, LENGTH(name) - 1)))
The others are harder. I've written a 54-times-nested REPLACE statement (not by hand of course, I used Excel)
REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(...,' b',' B'),'-b','-B'),' a',' A'),'-a','-A')
but I feel like there must be a more elegant and maintainable solution. Any ideas?
If there's a built-in function that is similar but not identical to my requirements that would probably be fine.
Edit: This script will only run on names that have lost their capitalization already, so there's no danger in mis-handling obscure names. Handling apostrophes like spaces and dashes would be nice, though. A glance through the current data shows that many (~30%) of the names have at least one of [-' ].


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5 Ridiculous Sports You Won't Believe Were Olympic Events
In the Olympics as we know them today, new events have to go through a long process of careful consideration before inclusion in the esteemed games. Baseball and softball have recently been cut, for example, while rugby and golf have made inexplicable comebacks. We can't just have any random spastic game of Calvinball gaining entry into the pinnacle of human athleticism, right? Right!
They have to be very special random spastic games of Calvinball. Like one of these actual former Olympic events:
#5. Swimming Obstacle Race
With the games still in the early years of their revival, the Summer Olympics were going through a bit of a trial and error period. In 1900, Paris had the honor of being the host site. Unfortunately, the Olympics weren't nearly as big of a draw back then, and since they were being held in conjunction with the world's fair, they ended up taking a backseat to the bigger spectacle. As a result, several new "events" snuck past the velvet rope at the Olympic Club and made fools of themselves on the international dance floor. The swimming obstacle race was one such embarrassment: It was just like a normal swimming race, save for three strange obstacles placed haphazardly around the course.
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The most dangerous obstacle: an aquatic Minotaur.
First, participants had to climb up a pole and slide back down before getting into the water. Then they swam out to a barrage of boats, which they had to climb up on, and then run across to get back into the water. This was followed by more swimming, and then yet another group of boats, which they swam beneath to reach the finish line. This was presumably after they spun around a bat 10 times and passed the orange back and forth without using their hands, of course.
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Their hands were busy grab-assing.
But there's another twist: There were no swimming pools in turn of the century France big enough to play a good game of Miscellaneous Water Bullshit, so they had to hold the event in the Seine River, which, at the time, was the outlet to the Paris sewer system overflow. Because of this "oversight," many of the competitors also had to struggle against the current of the river, a dangerous and exhausting process for any swimmer, even when it's not mostly comprised of Frenchman poo.
"I had trois fiber shakes this morning!"
On the day of the race, only 12 people even bothered to show up. The winner was an Australian named Frederick Lane, a swimmer who'd also taken first in a much more dignified event: The 200 meter freestyle. Perhaps most interesting is that the time difference between him winning by purely swimming and winning by switching back and forth between swimming and something bored children would make up when the playground flooded was only 13 seconds.
It should also be noted that 1900 was not only the first time the swimming obstacle course appeared in the Olympics, but the last.
#4. Plunge for Distance Diving
In 1904, St. Louis was the host of the third Olympic Games, and also decided to hold them alongside their own World's Fair. back then, the Olympics were apparently like the 4-H competition being held in that smelly tent just behind all of the really fun stuff. So sadly, just as in Paris, the Olympic Games remained an afterthought. They were so poorly run, in fact, that they were nearly never held again, and with events like the "plunge for distance diving," it's not hard to see why.
Above: Slightly less thrilling than a bowel movement.
Remember those trips to the community pool as a child? Remember when you and your friends found an open spot and, having only seconds to make up something fun to do, invariably panicked and just decided to run and jump at the pool as hard as you could? Well, back in 1904, you'd find a medal waiting for you when you resurfaced. The plunge for distance dive had two simple rules. 1) Jump off a platform and 2) go into the water as far as you can go without moving your arms or legs.
So ... the long jump, but with the possibility of drowning.
Making this the first Olympic sport that literally any suicidal person could win.
Participant's leaps were measured after either 60 seconds had passed, or once their bodies had broken the surface. What stunning athletic drama that must have been: A guy in a comically striped old timey swimsuit runs awkwardly toward the water (because there is no graceful way to run near a pool without cracking your skull open), he jumps as far out as he can, you wait in respectful silence for a minute, clap and then go home to invent television so you don't have to put up with this crap anymore.
"You know what would spice this up? A world war. Let's do that."
#3. Pelota
Another event from the 1900 Olympics, pelota was a game played by two people with a bat on each side of a wall, throwing a ball back and forth until one competitor finally missed it. It's basically a competitive game of catch. In addition to being generally tedious to play unless you're a five-year-old or so high that you're functioning on the level of a five-year-old, the game was also extremely region-specific: Pelota was a traditional Basque game, meaning it was rarely seen outside of Spain and France. In 1900, only two teams (for a total of four people) showed up to the games. The countries? Spain and France of course. A single game was played. Then, having no other competitors, everybody just kind of shrugged and walked away. The score? No one knows: No officials bothered to show up. Although the few fans who did attend said Spain won, so everybody just rolled with that.
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"Do any of us really 'win' here?"
After the embarrassing medal ceremony where Spain got the Gold for beating France, and France got the silver for ... attendance, we guess? Pelota was cut out of the Olympics to make room for sports that technically existed.
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I'm a non-mathematically inclined amateur whom is presently interested in Hamiltonian paths / Traveling Salesman problems.
I would like to request that someone be kind enough to tell me whether my understanding of the following sentence found in this research paper (http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~itai/publications/Algorithms/Hamilton-paths.pdf) is correct:
"In contrast, the Hamilton path (and circuit) problem for general grid graphs is shown to be NP-complete"
My understanding:
- A grid graph is this type of graph: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/images/eps-gif/GridGraph_701.gif
- NP-complete means if anyone can solve it, then a non general grid graph can be converted int o a general grid graph and be solved using the same algorithm.
- Traveling Salesman Problem is a Hamiltonian path (circuit)
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- What does the 'general' in 'general grid graph' mean?


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When people like something more than something else, it's common for me to hear them say they like it better than something else. Is this proper English? I've always thought the word more fits better, but I'm not sure whether or not use of the word better is wrong.
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I think that there is a very obvious answer to this question. The opposite of "better" is "worse." The opposite of "more" is "less." So, which of these sentences sounds correct:
The answer is clearly "I like dogs less than cats." The sentence "I like dogs worse than cats" would be flagged by any native speaker as being incorrect. No one would ever say that. The answer, in my honest opinion, lies in semantics, not grammar.
Think about it deeply; it simply doesn't make sense to say that you like something better. The word "better" tells you something about the worth of something. Whereas the word "Less" tells you something about a quantity (less butter) or about the perceived strength of something (less light). To increase or decrease the force of your 'liking," only two appropriate words are available to you: you like something more, or less. You can't like something better or worse, because these are words that comment on the value of liking, not its intensity.
To say "I like cats better than I like dogs" means, semantically, that your liking for dogs is somehow better than your liking for cats. And it's obvious that that is not what most people intend to say when they use "better" in this context.
What they mean is that their liking for dogs is GREATER than their liking for cats, not that their liking for dogs is in some odd way BETTER than their liking of cats. Dogs may be better than cats, but our liking of dogs can't be better than our liking of cats.
Of course someone might think that it is better to like dogs than it is to like cats. But there are no "better" ways of liking something.
More is, to me, the better of the two. Perhaps you could avoid all ambiguity and instead of:
you can try:
You can use either, both are short versions of comparisons. I like cats better than dogs, but dogs more than pigs.
There may be a US/UK distinction.
...sounds like to an Americanism to my British ears. I'd be more likely to say:
However, I'd agree that both are acceptable.
Historically, like well and like better were the norm. (You'll find it in Shakespeare.) British English has dropped this usage, and opted for the more consistent like more, but still retains like well in expressions like well-liked or best loved.
American English has retained like well.
Both are correct, it is just a question of colloquialism.
Both "more" and "better" can function as either adjective or adverb. The question is which function is being filled in the case of "I like it _." Once we know what part of speech we are using, we can choose the appropriate word to fit our meaning.
If I throw something farther or faster than you, we can say "I throw better than you."
If I throw an object to a greater degree, amount, or constancy than I do the other object, we can say "I throw one object more than I do the other."
So, having said that, in case of:
"I like this sweater more" makes sense; "I like this sweater better" does not. However, this is a question of colloquialism.
So think about it like this:
What is being compared here? How well we like, or what is liked to a greater degree? If the comparison involves how well (as in how adeptly or correctly or skillfully) we like something, then we are comparing our liking that thing vs. somebody else's liking for it, or perhaps to how well (adeptly, correctly, skillfully) we like another item.
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WEIRTON - St. Joseph The Worker Church in Weirton was the setting for the July 23, 2011, wedding that united Brittney Lee Henthorn and Stephen Wakefield Yoklic.
Escorted to the altar and given in marriage by her parents, Chris and June Henthorn, the bride chose a satin and organza A-line gown with side-draped bodice and beaded pink metallic embroidery with a chapel train. She carried a cascading bouquet of ivory roses, pink roses, stephanotis, purple statice, and iridescent crystals.
The groom is the son of Philip and DiAndra Yoklic of Weirton.
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Mandy White served as her sister's matron of honor, and Ashley Cross as the maid of honor. Lindsay Lemasters, cousin of the bride, and Ashley Winters and Jerica Brown were bridesmaids.
Chris Lamp was best man. Ushers were Jeffrey Yoklic, brother of the groom, and Chris Hatala, Kris Krupp and Brandon Shughart.
Julianna and Catherine Glodowski of Weirton were flower girls.
J.C. White of Wellsburg, nephew of the bride, was ring bearer.
After a reception at the Knights of Columbus, the newlyweds honeymooned in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
The bride is a graduate of Brooke High School and West Virginia Northern Community College with an associate's degree in respiratory therapy.
The groom is a graduate of Brooke High School and PTI with an associate's degree in electronics.
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Edwin E. "Edd" McCartney, Jr., 71 of Loup City died Tuesday, June 10, 2014, at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 14, 2014 at the United Methodist Church in Loup City with Reverend Scott Taylor officiating.
Burial will be held at the Evergreen Cemetery in Loup City. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, June 13, at the church.
Memorials are suggested to the St. Jude Children's Hospital, Sherman County Foundation or donor's choice.
Higgins Funeral Home in Loup City is in charge of arrangements. You can sign Edd's guest book at higginsfuneralhomelc.com.
Edwin E. "Edd" McCartney, Jr. was born February 28, 1943, in Lincoln to Edwin E., Sr. and Mary (Starforth) McCartney. He grew up in rural Unadilla and graduated from Nebraska City High School. He then graduated from Peru State College and received his Master's Degree from Purdue University.
On June 23, 1963 he married Fern Willms at the First Christian Church in Nebraska City. They lived in Auburn, Oshkosh, Trenton and Loup City.
He was a high school teacher and he taught music, math and computers throughout his teaching career. He was the former Mayor of Loup City and, up until his death, worked at Kings Hardware Store in Loup City. He enjoyed woodworking, his cars and traveling. He was a member of the First Christian Church in Grand Island.
He is survived by his son, Mitchell McCartney and wife Jean of Omaha; daughter Nicole and husband, Christopher Salisbury of Holdrege; sister, Jean Stodola of Plattsmouth; four grandchildren, Brian and fiancé, Brandy; Emily, Ryan and Madelyn. He was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Fern and one nephew and one niece.
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Rescue workers from Saluda Fire Department, Polk County Rescue Squad and Henderson County Rescue Squad, Polk County EMS and Mill Spring Fire Department rescue a driver who crashed his car over an embankment and hit a tree inches above the Green River off of Green River Cove Road Monday.
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