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In December of 2005, the NYU Vice President of Student Affairs and the Director of Athletics, Intramurals and Recreation met with athletic team leaders, captains and members of the NYU Student Athlete Advisory Committee to discuss what could be done to:
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Theft: Two commercial air conditioning units taken from rear of business in the 100 block of North Sixth Street, Tuesday.
Theft: Glider, umbrella, grill and chair taken from property in the 300 block of South Fourth Street, Tuesday.
Arrested: Charles Reese, no age or address available from police or county jail, possession of heroin and possession of hypodermic needle, Tuesday.
Cited: Jason Wilson, 30, 128 Homono Lane, Follansbee, red light; and Daniel Karas, no age listed, 216 McLister Ave., Mingo Junction, driving with suspended license.
Vandalism: Two vehicles parked in driveway in the 1600 block of State Street scratched, Tuesday.
Arrested: James D. Collins III, 43, Canonsburg, Pa., operating vehicle under the influence, hit-skip, backing without caution and expired license, Tuesday.
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Theft: Handgun reported missing from house in the 100 block of Reichart Avenue, Wintersville, Tuesday.
Theft: Jewelry reported taken from house in the 100 block of Raynes Road, Steubenville, during the past two months.
Theft: Xbox and TV taken from house on Island Creek Township Road 375, Toronto, Tuesday.
Arson: Burn marks found on the side of house on Knox Township Road 242, Toronto, Tuesday.
Break-in: Garage broken into in the 300 block of Blairmont Road, Adena, and chain saw, tools and welder taken, Tuesday.
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Theft: Vehicle entered and GPS unit, cell phone charger and CDs taken in the 1100 block of Commercial Avenue, July 22.
Arrested: Johntrell R. Terry, 201 Penn Ave., Mingo Junction, two counts contributing to delinquency of minors and unauthorized use of motor vehicle.
Vandalism: Vehicle windshield and hood damaged with brick in the 500 block of Western Avenue, Monday.
Vandalism: Rock thrown through window at house on Logan Avenue, Monday.
Cited: Kenneth W. Baker, 27, 349 Reserve Ave., Steubenville, speeding; Shanon L. Smith, 31, 736 township Road 391, Toronto, speeding; Trevor R. Townsley, 20, Katy, Texas, speeding; Daniel C. Bozek, 32, 633 N. Fourth St., Steubenville, expired license; Terri A. Testa, 48, Moon Township, Pa., speeding; Samantha M. Hudson, 35, 604 Wabash Drive, Follansbee, expired registration; Flora M. Shoe, 53, 314 county Road 28, Wintersville, expired registration; John R. Holmes, 58, 1119 Maryland Ave., Steubenville, expired registration; Dillon R. Jordan, 20, 146 Locust St., Wintersville, driving with suspended license; and Wilma J. Griffith, 69, 9662 county Road 53, Bergholz, speeding.
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Cited: Darrell E. Ickler, 45, Wheeling, failure to yield; and Jennifer L. Yost, 38, 371A Rabbit Hill Road, Wellsburg, expired motor vehicle inspection and no insurance.
Theft: A bicycle was taken from a porch at a home on Northview Road in Wellsburg Sunday night.
Arrested: Eric Coalhouse Turner, 2949 Elm St., Weirton, warrant alleging destruction of property, Tuesday.
Arrested: Mary M. Mastrantoni, 123 N. 24th St., Weirton, unlawful wounding, Sunday, following a domestic disturbance call.
Arrested: Kenneth C. Artman, 2612 Sunset Blvd., Steubenville, shoplifting and obstruction, Saturday following a traffic stop.
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Some Chassidic courts are not makpid (careful) to daven the morning Amidah before z'man tefilah, although this seems to be a clear halacha. Are there any opinions they are relying on? I was once told in passing that there is a shitta (in the rishonim?) that as long as you start the general tefila before the zman it's ok to start amidah after, but I never found that opinion 'inside'.
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Rabbi Yosef Avraham Heller, the Rosh Kollel of Crown Heights, Brooklyn and former member of the Beis Din there, wrote a essay explaining the Halachic justification for davening after Chatzos, published in "Kobetz Beis Chayenu" 11 Nissan 5760 pg. 28. The crunch of the explanation is as follows:
The Gemora (Brochos 26a) states that, "He may go on praying [Shachris] the whole day. But up to midday he is given the reward of saying the Tefillah in its proper time; thereafter he is given the reward of saying Tefillah, but not of saying Tefillah in its proper time." Although the mainstream view in Rishonim is that of the Rashba that after Chatzos is only considered tashlumim if he accidently missed the time, the Perisha in OC Siman 89 cites an alternative view that even after Chatzos is still considered the time of davening Shachris but only that one would not receive the reward for davening on time. Rabbi Heller continues to back up this view based on many Rishonim that maintain that the time for Shachris is the entire day. Although this Prisha argues with the Mechaber and Rama, Rabbi Heller suggest that since it concurs with the view of many Rishonim, Chassidim relied on his ruling in order to have adequate kavana in their davening.
There are also several letters of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on the topic collected in "Sharey Halacha U'Minhag" OC Chelek 1 pg. 111. The Rebbe brings the halacha (OC 98:2 and Rambam Hilchos Tefila 4:15-16) that proper kavanah during davening is integral to the davening, and without it the teffila is nullified. He asserts that therefore proper preparation for davening takes precedence over being exact in the time of davening.
However, it must be stressed that all the above is only when one is involved in davening or it's preparation from before zman tefila. There is no justification to begin davening after chatzos.
In terms of an opinion that as long as one begins before zman tefilla they may continue even after, I heard that this comes from Tosfos in Brochos 7a "Sh'ilmaley". The Gemora relates that Biliam tried to find the exact second Hashem was angry to curse the Jews, and Tosfos asks what he could have said in that short moment. In their second answer Tosfos says that as long as he would have started at a time of Divine anger the curse would work even after. Similarly, the "zman tefilla" follows when one begins even if he finishes after.


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Drivers unfamiliar with our roads in the United States got a chance to get behind the wheel Friday.
The National Corvette Museum hosted its first International Driving School.
Students from across the globe used a simulator to learn the rules of the road.
Everything from fastening a seat belt, to using turn signals and even changing lanes was new to most students.
"There are not familiar with this. You know some countries there are even places where the women don't drive. So we have women in here also. They are all having a great time on the simulators and it's in a safe environment," says National Corvette Museum Education Coordinator Kellie Steen.
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Jamie Blair had owned his own business for about seven years when he started to think it was missing a crucial piece. He was installing heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems in and around Paintsville, Ky., but heated air isn't much good if it leaks out through poorly sealed doors or underinsulated attics. That was right around the time he discovered How$martKY, a collaborative program designed to encourage better energy efficiency in Kentucky homes.
"Ten years ago, you never really thought about it," Blair explained. "You went in and put the unit in, and you didn't care how tight the house was or how well it was insulated."
The Kentucky pilot works with 17 contractors, but Kansas works with hundreds—all of them now advocates for energy efficiency.
But all that is beginning to change. In 2011, Blair and his employees joined up with How$mart for hands-on training, learning how to perform energy audits and install higher-efficiency insulation. The homes where this training took place belonged to customers of four local energy cooperatives, which had partnered with How$mart.
"Now we feel pretty comfortable that we can come in and do a full-service retrofit," Blair said.
Operated by the Eastern Kentucky-based Mountain Association for Community Economic Development (MACED), which seeks "economic alternatives" to "to make Appalachian communities better places to live," How$mart collaborates with homeowners, energy co-ops, and contractors to make local houses more energy-efficient. The houses get better insulation, HVAC, heat pumps, sealing—or all of the above—and the homeowners pay for everything on their utility bills, so there's relatively little paperwork. The program not only helps the homeowner save money on every bill, but also creates an economic ripple effect by training contractors and cutting expenses for energy companies.
The potential environmental impact is profound. The pilot program has cut energy usage by an average of 20 percent in How$mart homes. That amounts to an annual projected savings of 552,829 kWh—equivalent to 390 metric tons of climate-warming carbon dioxide. It's more energy than the entire country of Vietnam saved during Earth Hour 2010, when 20 cities and provinces turned off their lights for an hour—an impressive feat for just 108 Kentucky homes.
The program hasn't just cut carbon emissions—it's also spurred small-business growth. Since starting with How$mart, Blair has hired three new people to keep up with the extra work. His company now conducts energy audits with customers whether they're with How$mart or not. And in the next few months, he plans to expand his business to include insulation and add on another three men.
East Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC) first approached MACED with what might seem like an unlikely problem for an energy generator: Its customers were using too much power. As a result, EKPC had to purchase power from other providers, which was hurting its bottom line.
As it happened, MACED was already exploring ways of making energy efficiency more appealing to people in Appalachia. That's how How$martKY was born.
Midwest Energy saw customer satisfaction among How$mart participants soar to 97 percent.
In two years of cooperation with four energy co-ops powered by EKPC, How$martKY has created five to 10 jobs for local contracting companies and saved customers almost $61,000, according to program coordinator Bill Blair.
The process starts when a homeowner asks his or her energy co-op for an efficiency audit. How$mart or a co-op staffer conducts the audit, though local contractors like Jamie Blair join in to learn the ropes. If the homeowner qualifies for the program, the contractor sets about repairing or replacing anything that is driving up the bill—whether it's insufficient attic insulation or an oversized furnace. Finally, How$mart checks the quality of the contractor's work. The contractor is welcome to come along during these inspections, but either way, he's responsible for fixing any problems. It's a part of the education process, Bill Blair explained—a way for contractors to learn from their mistakes.
Homeowners pay for their retrofitting in installments on their monthly bill. The average monthly installment comes out to just under $40, but homeowners save about $50 a month on average. In fact, How$mart won't take on a project unless it's sure the homeowner will save money each and every month.
Blair doesn't like to call that financing a loan, perhaps because it makes it sound riskier for co-ops than it is. After all, customers pay back installments at 3 percent interest like any other loan—but unlike most loans, customers end up with more money in their pockets and fewer reasons to skip payments.
John Smith, owner of Smith Insulation Inc. in Flemingsburg, Ky., says he's had trouble convincing customers that highly efficient spray foam insulation is ultimately a worthwhile investment.
"I've always been looking for ways to help the homeowner to be able to afford spray foam insulation by looking for tax credits and rebates," Smith said, "and that's how I found MACED."
Experienced contractors like Smith appreciate How$martKY because it offers third-party validation of their work and the chance to spark word-of-mouth interest. But for those contractors seeking more extensive training, How$martKY's namesake program in Kansas offers continuing education credits and a set of standards for HVAC size. The Kentucky pilot works with 17 contractors, but Kansas works with hundreds—all of them now advocates for energy efficiency.
When Barb and Steve Ritchie signed up with How$mart to install a new furnace and insulation in their house in Ewing, Ky., the bill came to nearly $14,000.
It's a daunting number. But a Kentucky Home Performance rebate helped, and their monthly bill is lower than it was before.
The results were striking: In 2011, the Ritchies used 28,406 kWh of energy. In 2012, that number dropped to 14,651 kWh. Barb Ritchie estimates they're saving $400 a month now that they no longer have gas delivered for heating—not to mention the savings on their bill.
"I just feel like I was very blessed," she said. "This is the warmest and coolest our house has ever been."Ritchie's reaction isn't unique.
"Most of the time they're not going to say, 'I'm saving a lot of money,'" Blair explained. "They say, 'I'm actually comfortable in my house.'"
Customer satisfaction is a powerful incentive for utilities to take on programs like How$mart, Blair added. And Mike Volker, director of regulatory and energy services at Midwest Energy, Inc., in Kansas, has the numbers to prove it.
Midwest Energy took its inspiration for the original How$mart program from Pay As You Save, a plan developed by the Vermont-based Energy Efficiency Institute. After making a few tweaks, How$mart Kansas became the first utility in the world to implement the concept comprehensively, starting in 2007 with a four-county pilot.
Since then, Midwest Energy saw customer satisfaction among How$mart participants soar to 97 percent. Compare that to the 85 percent customer-satisfaction rate the company observes overall, and you can see why the program has expanded to 41 counties covering most of western Kansas.
In Kansas, the original How$mart program now saves more than 1.9 million kWh of electricity and 234,000 therms of gas per year. Over 20 years, the reduction could amount to nearly 50,000 tons of CO2. Midwest Energy has invested $5 million in How$mart, but the program has also disproved the notion that green-friendly projects must be a financial drain.
A 2009 report estimates the U.S. could cut energy consumption 23 percent by 2020 by implementing efficiency measures alone.
In fact, How$mart consistently breaks even and could do even better. Midwest Energy doesn't turn a profit on the program because its funding options are designed to be accessible to a wider demographic, including low-income households. But according to Volker, it has the potential to be just as profitable as regular utility service.
That profitability is possible in large part because efficiency measures beat out renewables for cost-efficiency hands-down. A 2009 report from consulting firm McKinsey & Company estimates the U.S. could cut energy consumption 23 percent by 2020 by implementing efficiency measures alone. Another study estimated that while wind power costs $38 per ton of CO2 saved, replacing incandescent lights with LEDs saves $159 per ton.
That means any utility, co-op or not, could find a program like How$mart beneficial, Volker said.
Similar programs have already sprung up in Georgia and South Carolina. And when MACED launched How$martKY, Volker was there to help.
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Educators across the country are finding millions of dollars in savings through cheap and simple forms of renewable energy.
"Doing energy efficiency is a lot less sexy, shall we say, compared to putting in some shiny black photovoltaics or a wind turbine," Volker says. "But very few people would disagree with me when I say the most cost-effective kilowatt hour is the one you never use."
MACED and three of its partner co-ops have applied for a tariff with the Kentucky Public Service Commission to transform How$mart from a pilot to a permanent program.
"We're hoping to add four or five new co-ops this year," Blair said. "Our goal really is to see every electric provider in the state pick it up."
For contractors like Jamie Blair and customers like Barb Ritchie, environmental benefits are just an added bonus. Better lives and livelihoods are the everyday results they see — and that might just be enough to inspire grassroots efforts that help reign in carbon emissions on a nationwide scale.
Most people believe that they'll be covered by their insurance policies or by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), if a disaster hits their region. But many victims of Hurricane Sandy have found that their insurance policies included obscure provisions that excluded coverage, and the only aid that FEMA gives to individuals is the opportunity to take on more debt.
A demonstrated solution exists to this problem, in the form of state-owned banks like the one that exists in North Dakota. As climate change makes disasters like Hurricane Sandy more common in many parts of the United States, the fight to establish state banks in new places will become ever more urgent.
The focus on lending moves money from the victims of disaster into the hands of loan servicers, who make enormous profits off these loans.
In the coastal regions of New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut that got slammed by Sandy, homeowners were already strained by underwater mortgages prior to the storm. Many properties have now depreciated to the point of having no market value at all.
They have no choice but to try to rebuild, but how can they take on more debt? FEMA's focus on lending moves money from the victims of disaster into the hands of loan servicers, who make enormous profits off these loans.
Those were the conclusions of a report by Strike Debt, an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street. The report was based on observations made at a community meeting in Midland Beach, Staten Island, on November 18, 2012, as well as on interviews with FEMA and Small Business Association (SBA) representatives, volunteer workers, local business owners, and residents throughout New York City. Among other findings of the report were that:
According to Strike Debt's report, the vast majority of FEMA's resources and efforts are spent on public assistance programs that provide infrastructure restoration. Individual victims of disaster are mostly offered personal loans to help them "get back on their feet." Although these loans might seem good on the surface, they ultimately make long-term financial burden the precondition for "recovery."
Disaster victims are now being expected to shoulder relief expenses that used to be shared publicly. It is a failing of our austerity-strapped federal disaster relief system that it offers little real help to individuals; and it is a failing of our private, for-profit insurance system that the legal duty of management is to extort as much money as possible from customers while returning as little as possible to them, in order to maximize shareholder profits.
There are three main sources of financial support being offered to Sandy victims: insurance, grants, and loans. Federal support is available only once private insurance has been exhausted.
In many cases, residents who believed they had insurance that would cover the Sandy disaster are finding out that, for a variety of reasons involving the fine print in the policies, their claims are being denied. Difficult-to-understand clauses allow insurers to deny coverage depending on such things as whether the storm was officially classified as a hurricane or a tropical storm.
Favorable interest rates are available from FEMA only if the applicant cannot get credit elsewhere.
Except for temporary living costs, FEMA program grants are accessible only after the homeowner, renter or business applies for a loan. If the applicant qualifies for a loan, he or she is not likely to be provided further FEMA aid. Disaster loans are made through FEMA on the basis of credit history, and favorable interest rates are available only if the applicant cannot get credit elsewhere. That means favorable interest rates are offered only if an applicant cannot qualify for credit through a commercial bank.
There is no FEMA money for small businesses other than SBA loans, and businesses have difficulty taking on debt when they don't know when they will be able to reopen. The SBA application is reported to be at least 30 pages long, and is often difficult to complete because flooding has destroyed much of the required paperwork.
Except for temporary living costs, FEMA grants are accessible only after the homeowner, renter or business applies for an SBA loan. If the applicant qualifies for a loan, he or she is not likely to be offered further FEMA aid. Disaster loans are made on the basis of credit history, and favorable interest rates are available only if the applicant does not have "credit available elsewhere." That means favorable interest rates are offered only if an applicant cannot qualify for credit through a commercial bank.
Compare this to the disaster relief available in North Dakota, the only state in the union to have a state-owned bank. The Bank of North Dakota (BND) has a mandate to serve the public interest, and it has no shareholders other than the state itself. This gives it wide-reaching flexibility in emergencies, allowing it to act quickly to catalyze and coordinate resources.
The BND's emergency capabilities were demonstrated in 1997, when record flooding and fires devastated Grand Forks, N.D. The town and its sister city, East Grand Forks, which is on the Minnesota side of the river, lay in ruins. Floodwaters covered virtually the entire city and took weeks to fully recede. Property losses topped $3.5 billion.
The response of the state-owned bank was immediate and comprehensive, demonstrating a financial flexibility and public generosity that no privately owned bank could match. Soon after the floodwaters swept through Grand Forks, the BND was helping families and businesses recover. Led by then-president and CEO John Hoeven—who went on to become the governor of North Dakota and a U.S. senator—the bank quickly established nearly $70 million in credit lines to the city, the state National Guard, the state Division of Emergency Management, the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, and for individuals, businesses, and farms. It also launched a Grand Forks disaster relief loan program and allocated $5 million to help other areas affected by the floods. Local financial institutions matched these funds, making a total of more than $70 million available.
Besides property damage, flooding swept away many jobs, leaving families without livelihoods. The BND coordinated with the U.S. Department of Education to ensure forbearance on student loans; worked closely with the Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Administration to gain forbearance on federally backed home loans; established a center where people could apply for federal and state housing assistance; and worked with the North Dakota Community Foundation to coordinate a disaster relief fund, for which the bank served as the deposit base. The bank also reduced interest rates on existing family farm and farm operating programs. Families used these low-interest loans to restructure debt and cover operating losses caused by wet conditions in their fields.
To help finance the disaster recovery, the BND obtained funds at reduced rates from the Federal Home Loan Bank. These savings were then passed on to flood-affected borrowers in the form of lower interest rates.
The city was quickly rebuilt and restored. As a result, Grand Forks lost only 3 percent of its population between the 1997 floods and 2000, while East Grand Forks, right across the river in Minnesota, lost 17 percent of its people.
When the biggest private banks needed an emergency bailout, trillions of dollars in nearly interest-free money came flooding their way. Why? As Sen. Dick Durbin said of Congress in 2009, "Wall Street owns the place." The private banking industry owns not only Congress but all twelve branches of the Federal Reserve. If we the people want the sort of security in emergencies that is available to Wall Street banks, we need to own some banks ourselves.
A publicly owned bank has both the tools and the mandate to bring real security to the community.
Unlike private insurers that are prone to withdraw coverage based on obscure technicalities, a publicly owned bank is not beholden to short-term shareholder profit-seeking and is free to act swiftly and generously in the public interest. And unlike federal disaster relief agencies, a public bank is not dependent on a penny-pinching Congress for funds. Like private banks, it has the ability to create money in the form of bank credit on its books, and it has access to low interest rates. A public bank can pass these low rates on to disaster victims and local governments.
A publicly owned bank has both the tools and the mandate to bring real security to the community. Twenty states have now introduced bills of various sorts to establish their own banks. For more information on the campaign in your state, see here.
Disasters, as Naomi Klein points out, are opportunities for capital to expand its grip on the necks of the people. But just as Occupy Sandy has pre-empted the official rescue agencies through community organizing, so a Public Bank of New York could pre-empt the vulture Wall Street banks and finance the rebuilding. What could be a more opportune time than now?
The following is a letter by Unity College President Stephen Mulkey. It originally appeared on the Unity College website.
We are running out of time. While our public policy makers equivocate and avoid the topic of climate change, the window of opportunity for salvaging a livable planet for our children and grandchildren is rapidly closing.
The way forward is clear, though for many confrontation-averse academics the path seems impassable. It requires action that is unnatural to the scientifically initiated: to fight to regain the territory illegitimately occupied by the climate change deniers.
Every day that we avoid taking action represents additional emissions and additional infrastructure that is dependent on our fossil fuel-based economy. In our zeal to be collegial, we engage with those who are paid by vested interests to argue that our Earth is not in crisis. When these individuals demonize public investment in alternative energy, we fail to point out how the oil industry benefited from significant taxpayer support in its infancy and continues to receive government subsidies today. We also sidestep the thorny issue of how oil and coal, in particular, fund large-scale organized opposition efforts to deny legitimate science, winning the battle for climate change public opinion with slogans, junk science, and money.
While there is much uncertainty about how climate change will play out with respect to specific regions and weather patterns, one thing is very clear: Our current emissions trajectory will carry us beyond 5oC average global warming by 2100. This will be a planet that is not consistent with our civilization and the impact will be largely irreversible for a millennium. I don't know how the stakes could get any higher.
Higher education is positioned to determine the future by training a generation of problem solvers. As educators, we have an obligation to do so. Unlike any time in the history of higher education, we must now produce leading-edge professionals who are able to integrate knowledge from multiple disciplines, and understand social, economic, and resource tradeoffs among possible solutions. Imagine being a college president and looking in the mirror twenty years from now. What would you see? Would you be looking at a professional who did his or her best to avert catastrophe? For me, the alternative is unacceptable.
Those within higher education must now do something they have largely avoided at all costs: confront the policy makers who refuse to accept scientific reality. We must be willing to lead by example. Like the colleges and universities of the 1980s that disinvested from apartheid South African interests— and successfully pressured the South African government to dismantle the apartheid system—we must be willing to exclude fossil fuels from our investment portfolios. We must divest.
The colleges and universities of this nation have billions invested in fossil fuels. Like the funding of public campaigns to deny climate change, such investments are fundamentally unethical. The Terrifying Math of the 350.org campaign is based on realistic, reviewed science. Moreover, in our country it is clear that economic pressure gets results where other means fail. If we are to honor our commitment to the future, divestment is not optional. This is especially true for Unity College, where Sustainability Science, as developed by the U.S. National Academy of Science, guides our academic mission.
I am honored and proud to be a part of the 350.org program of divestment, and I am especially proud of the Unity College Board of Trustees. Indeed, the College has been on this path for over five years. The Trustees have looked at the College's finances in the context of our ethical obligation to our students, and they have chosen to make a stand. I can think of no stronger statement about the mission of Unity College.
Climate Emergency Action Plan
We can still avoid a devastating climate crisis. But we'll need a World War II-level mobilization. And we'll need to stand up to Dirty Energy.
Our college community will lead by fearless action. We will confront policy makers who continue to deny the existence of climate change. We will encourage those who work in higher education to bravely step out from behind manicured, taxpayer funded hedges, and do what needs to be done. We will not equivocate, and we will meet those who have been misled by climate change denial in their communities.
The time is long overdue for all investors to take a hard look at the consequences of supporting an industry that persists in destructive practices. Because of its infrastructure and enormous economic clout, fossil fuel corporations could pump trillions into the development of alternative energy. Government subsidies and stockholder shares could be used constructively to move these corporations to behave responsibly.
Higher education is the crown jewel of the United States system of education, and it remains the envy of the world. Higher education has always been dedicated to the highest standards of honesty and integrity. If our nation's colleges and universities will not take a stand now, who will?
New York is nearly silent today as Hurricane Sandy approaches. Trains, buses and subways have all been closed since yesterday evening, and now several tunnels are shutting down as well. For the past few days there's been a lingering anxiety that is one part over-saturated media coverage and one part fear brought on by the relentless gloom and the palatable low-pressure system.
New Yorkers have been forced to take precautions in ways they never have before because the planet is acting in ways that it never has before. The ocean off of the Atlantic coast is five degrees Fahrenheit warmer than its average October temperature, which loads this storm with more water and draws it further north. Sea levels are rising, too, accelerating the impact of storm surges.
In short: when scientists give warnings about what climate change will mean for those of us who live on the East Coast, this is what they mean.
Right now, 375,000 New Yorkers are displaced from their homes. Some of their neighbors gathered in Times Square to connect the dots between extreme weather like this storm, and climate change. We unfurled a giant climate dot, calling for our leaders and the media to end their silence about the impacts of climate change.
Ending the silence is just the first step—but if there's one thing we learn in disasters like this, it's the incredible feats of goodwill that we can accomplish when people work together to protect our communities. By connecting the dots, we can begin to bring that same kind of energy to building the renewable energy future our planet needs to take on the accelerating crisis of climate change.
Bill McKibben: It's time for each of us to get involved in the full-on fight between misinformation and truth.
Bill McKibben imagines himself in the year 2100, looking back at a century of climate chaos and asking: What did it take to save the world?
Making nice doesn't work. It's time to try something else.
"There are moments in a nation's—and a planet's—history when it may be necessary for some to break the law in order to bear witness to an evil, bring it to wider attention, and push for its correction. We think such a time has arrived."Thanks to Bill Greider, Paul Hawken, Vandana Shiva, and Martin Sheen and others for taking a stand:
"Ahead of the UN conference in Copenhagen and with climate and energy legislation coming down the pipe, 2009 is a now-or-never moment to ensure that climate and energy decisions by our government are bold, just and far-reaching. Right now, it is up to civil society to take the lead in demonstrating in ever-more powerful ways to provide political cover for lawmakers who will face fierce pressure from business groups, like the coal lobby, to water down or vote down bold solutions."Thanks to the Rukus Society, Greenpeace, the Rainforest Action Network, and the Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) for organizing this large-scale civil disobedience. Matt Leonard of Greenpeace:
"This demonstration marks the beginning of a sustained effort to draw a line in the sand against this dirty and dangerous fuel."Thanks to the youth who are showing up at Powershift and in their own communities to press for climate action. Joshua Kahn Russell -- thank you for standing up for survival at the global climate summit in Poland in December, and for mobilizing youth for today's civil disobedience. Here's how Joshua explains what's happening:
"We will be sitting-in at the dirty coal power station that literally powers our congressional building in DC. This Power Station is just blocks from Congress and is a national symbol for the stranglehold dirty energy sources like coal have over our communities, our climate and our future. Coal is the single biggest contributor to global warming and it will be impossible to have a safe and secure future for humankind if we continue to burn it."A qualified "thank you" to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid who last week asked the Capitol architect to switch the power plant in question to natural gas -- achieving the immediate aim of the protesters without a single arrest. I'm not sure if they took that action out of concern about the climate emergency or as an attempt to pre-empt today's protests. But the protest is on, in spite of today's snow and frigid temperatures. (You can follow the action on twitter, here.) This coal plant is just one among the thousands around the world that threaten to push climate disruption beyond the point of no return (if we aren't already there). The BBC recently reported yet another survey that shows that the damage to the climate is happening more rapidly than cautious scientists had predicted. And, according to NASA's Jim Hansen -- the climate scientist the Bush administration was unable to muzzle -- this is a climate emergency:
"Coal is the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the country and that must change. The world is waiting for the Obama administration and Congress to lead the way forward on this defining issue of our time. They need to start by getting coal out of Congress."Dr. Hansen is joining the protest, which organizers hope will be the largest civil disobedience action on climate ever. Thank you, Dr. Hansen, for stepping out of the cloistered role of scientist to help the rest of us understand the urgency. We are being thrust out of business-as-usual, like it or not, by the financial melt-down coupled with increasing evidence of climate disaster. The moral leadership of those risking arrest today along with the Obama administration could could bring us closer to a turn around. Thanks to everyone who is making it so.]]>


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Is there a way to turn off the file extension rename dialog in Windows 7?
The one that says
Rename: If you change a filename extension, the file might become unstable. Are you sure you want to change it?
Is there a way to turn off the file extension rename dialog in Windows 7?
The one that says
It's possible with an AutoHotkey script:
Install AutoHotkey, save the code above in a file with the .ahk extension and launch the script. It will wait for the Rename window to appear. When it does, it automatically "clicks" on the Yes button (identified here with "Button1").
If you don't want to install AutoHotkey, here is a compiled version of the same script. Run the executable and watch it do its magic :-) .
Note it does not really answer the question, as the question still appears. But it's automated so you'll not be bothered by it anymore.
In response to a comment about the accepted answer, I also found the AHK script to be quite slow. This modification seems to make it faster:
You'll notice I'm using windows in french. For english use:
For windows in portuguese (at least the pt-BR version), use:
It is very much possible, with the right tools, patience, and nice disassembler and some luck you can disable it.
However, it is not as simple as changing a registry key.
Here is an example of someone disabling the "delay" when you try to delete a file that is in use.
I think a better solution than RtvReco is for someone to create a menu option to the context menu that says like "Rename2" and pops up a messagebox prompting for the new filename and uses Windows API to rename it.....actually as I did this idea as I typed this see this link:
Considering I made it in the course of about 30 minutes, it has no features outside of renaming and may work or may not work. Feel free to fork the code and do whatever you want to your hearts content (namely error checking...). I tried it in Windows 7 x64 and I was able to rename a file (not a folder, yet?).
You cannot disable the file extension warning message. It's design in such a way to ensure the user's safety from modifying the files accidentally.
you can't, however, all is not lost.
you can use RtvReco to automatically close the warning as soon as it appears. this nifty little tool is designed to automate many aspects of Windows, by pressing buttons in annoying dialog boxes, choosing menu items, maximising, and minimising windows for you.
... or use a decent file mananger instead of Windows Explorer (e.g. Total Commander).
both programs are shareware, try before you buy.
i am aware of this registry hack, however, it does not work for me with Windows 7
p.s.: of course there are free alternatives to Total Commander, it just so happens to be my file manager of choice.
Here is the code I used to solve the issue in AutoIT script. The only issue is that is keeps running and hogs some resources. Unless yall have a better idea to fix the script. :-)
As we have files that when downloaded automatically has the date and time added as the extension. So I have been looking for a solution and found one.
Download a program called Free Commander. They have a portable version that can be installed on a USB thumb drive if needed.
This program allows you to select multiple files as in my case, and renames the extension without asking are you sure.
Rather than download an app, why not just use the 'ren *.aa *.bb' command in cmd (command prompt)?
I really don't think this is possible without using a) command prompt (hassle unless you're used to it) 2) some kind of third party work-around, either a file manager or something that deals with the prompt so you don't have to. Personally I use PTFB (Push the Freakin' Button); pretty low on resources and very fast. Not exactly cheap, but a handy thing to have for other stuff.


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spoiler:Coruscant falls to this new race thats been introduced
spoiler: gets left behind on a planet that gets crushed by its moon, if memory serves
spoiler:He at least got a much better death than Ackbar did. I was joking before reading it that the worst possible death would be to die implicitly during the middle of the story.
spoiler: when'd Ackbar croak?
spoiler:How did he die? Old age. They had Tycho walk into a meeting in the middle of the book and tell everyone that Ackbar had died. That was it. No dignity at all.
spoiler:Yes, they beat the Vong in the end. (sort of)


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It is important that dogs are implanted with a microchip, said Kim Heise, director of the Animal Protection Center of Southeastern Massachusetts.
The chip, which is the...
It is important that dogs are implanted with a microchip, said Kim Heise, director of the Animal Protection Center of Southeastern Massachusetts.
The chip, which is the size of a grain of rice and is inserted underneath the pet's skin, is a permanent form of identification for pets, she said.
A microchip clinic for pet owners who wish to have their pets implanted with identification chip is set for April 27, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., at 1300 W. Elm Street Ext., Brockton. The cost is $25.
For more information, please call 508-586-2053.
BROCKTON – Despite numerous reported sightings, the search for the 1-1/2-year-old female, mixed- breed black dog named Jaeyon continues, roughly a month after she slipped his leash near D.W. Field Park, said owner Nancy Robinson.
The young canine, which Robinson adopted after she was rescued from an illegal dog meat trade industry in Thailand, remains missing despite frequent phone calls and tips from strangers.
Through social media sites, like Facebook, and information posted on sites such as the Granite State Dog Recovery, Robinson said people have kept track and want to help bring the pup home.
"A lot of people have approached us asking, 'Are you one the one with the black dog from Thailand? I have been following the case on Facebook,' " she said. "People are aware that we're still looking; that we've not given up."
As the spring season unfolds and temperatures begin to rise, pushing more people and their pets out of the house and around the city, the number incidents of dogs getting loose increase, said Tiana Cabana, Brockton animal control officer.
Traditionally, the search for a missing pet often consists of blanketing a neighborhood and tree trunks with fliers that feature a picture of the lost pup or cat, she said.
Going that route can usually take owners and rescuers up to a week between five to seven days to locate a lost pet, if at all, said Jeni Mather, founder of Blue Dog Shelter, in Brockton.
But with the popularity of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, on which pictures, information and updates are quickly circulated to a broad audience, the turnaround time, in most cases, have whittled down from just a matter of hours to up to three days, she said.
Because of the Internet, rescues happen much more expediently, contributing to higher turnover rates, she added.
"At the click of a button, people are helping to spread the word when there's a lost pet," Mather said. "Facebook has been extremely helpful in spreading awareness. The shares have been very useful. It's instant gratification as far as spreading awareness."
The shelter's Facebook page has about 1,800 members, who subscribed for frequent updates.
Though Cabana said that most area shelters have had an online presence through respective websites, the immediacy of social media can not be underestimated.
"With warmer weather, you have increased activity and because of that, you will have more incidents where you will have loose dogs," she said.
To capitalize on the medium, she said, the city's Animal Control Department created a Facebook page to help reunite lost pets with their owners. The page – launched late last month – aims to also provide awareness of various pet-related matters, Cabana said.
Page 2 of 2 - In addition, she added, the department uses the page to issue reminders for pet licenses. Photos of bright-eyed pups and cats are prominently shown while frequent updates on lost, rescued or reunited pets keep nearly 400 members informed.
"It seemed like every other city department seemed to be increasing their activity on social media and We thought we can be proactive about offering up information, and leading people to other platforms," she said.
"We feel like more people learn by visuals and cherry pick what applies to them."
About 3,100 people receive frequent notifications on the Facebook page for the the Animal Protection Center of Southeastern Massachusetts, said the center's director Kim Heise.
"Because of social media, people realize a lot more dogs and cats get lost than they would have originally thought," Heise said. "In the past, you wouldn't have heard because it's close to a neighborhood.
"Through Facebook, and recovery sites, news get posted so much further and wider and so many more people are aware."
"It's certainly possible that more people are outside not being as cautious, letting their dogs run around, getting their energy, because they've been cooped up all winter," she said.
"People need to remember there are leash laws and they have to keep them leashed."
Though the number of cases involving run-away canines in the city have stayed relatively the same, local practitioners say the reality of losing a pet is difficult to deal with.
Most recently, Robinson's search for Jaeyon gained extra support after news of the dog's disappearance went viral. Brockton woman frantically searched for days for her lost dog that she had adopted after the pup was rescued from an illegal dog meat trade industry in Thailand.
Jaeyon, a 1 1/2-year-old mixed breed, black dog, slipped its leash and went missing near the D.W. Field Golf Course on Oak Street last month.
"It's been great. People have been coming out in different shifts even bringing their own dogs to try and help find her," Robinson had said. "A woman from Marblehead, I don't even know, contacted me on Facebook and said she was available to help look."
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From small start, PAWS has become a force for animals
Nick Adams / For The Herald
At the PAWS Wildlife Center in December, naturalist Kevin Mack rushes to catch a juvenile bald eagle that has just landed. The bird came to PAWS after being found injured on the ground in Oak Harbor. The bird flying above Mack was found in Renton with a broken leg.
Timeline: PAWS' top accomplishments January 6, 2013
Fur & Feathers: An inside look at animal care at Lynnwood's PAWS January 4, 2013
The eagle had been cared for at the PAWS Wildlife Center since September, when it fell from a nest near Oak Harbor, damaging its upper beak and wings. When brought to the center, the bird had trouble flying.
"It took a little while but since he was a young bird just learning how to fly, he wasn't that skilled to begin with," said Mack, who works for PAWS. "But he's been in our flight pen for many weeks now and he flies beautifully. He's ready to go."
Mack and others released the eagle last month in an area near the Green River in Auburn.
The bird soared away.
It's another success story for PAWS.
Started more than 45 years ago, PAWS has grown from a small nonprofit led by a group of well-meaning women in south Snohomish County to a giant in the Northwest in caring and advocating for animals.
While its initial goal decades ago was to spay and neuter dogs and cats, PAWS' mission now includes rehabilitating sick and injured wildlife. Its Lynnwood campus is split in half between caring for adoptable pets and for wild animals.
"That's an insane amount of animals," said Jennifer Convy, the center's wildlife director.
Over the years, the organization has waded into controversy, from fighting for the removal of Ivan the gorilla from a Tacoma shopping center to taking in stray dogs from Iran.
Now, PAWS is looking to move from Lynnwood to a larger location in south Snohomish County or north King County.
Wherever it lands, the center -- unique in caring for both dogs and cats as well as wildlife -- will be needed, said Dan Paul, state director for The Humane Society.
"I don't believe there are any other shelters in the state that have both those components to them," he said. "I absolutely adore the organization. We're very lucky to have them."
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A juvenile bald eagle flies inside of the flight pen as PAWS Naturalist Kevin Mack attempts to catch the bird for release in the wild. An eagle costs the shelter around $140 dollars a week to care for.
It wasn't long after the thrift store opened that people started leaving unwanted pets behind, said Annette Laico, who since 2002 has served as PAWS executive director.
"They were acting like a de facto shelter," she said. "They realized there was a great need and went about and finally put together the bricks and mortar to create the organization that we are today."
PAWS bought a house and 7 acres at 15305 44th Ave. W. in Lynnwood where it established its first shelter in 1968. The nonprofit remains at the site. In 1970, it was the first animal shelter in the state to require that every adopted animal be spayed or neutered.
In 2011, the shelter found homes for more than 2,300 cats and dogs and performed 1,922 spay and neuter surgeries.
"It's pretty amazing when you think back to our beginning," Laico said. "It's a reminder of what a few folks who see a need in the community can create."
Since its beginning, PAWS has survived mostly from donations. The organization in 2011 raised more than $1.3 million in donations and another $1.6 million from bequests, special events, grants and trust funds. The year's total revenue of $3.6 million also included funds received from contracts with Snohomish County and nine cities in Snohomish and King counties, pet licensing and adoption fees. Snohomish County ended its contract with PAWS to take in stray animals the middle of last year.
Hundreds of volunteers logged more than 50,000 hours in 2011 and were on track in 2012 to clock just as many. Those kind of hours translate into about 23 full-time staff members the organization doesn't need to hire, Laico said.
"There's just no way we could do as much as we do without volunteers," she said.
Lynnwood resident Chuck Springer is one of 250 active volunteers who donates time weekly at the PAWS Companion Animal Shelter. He started volunteering 13 years ago taking care of the cats at the shelter.
He has also helped the nonprofit over the last dozen years by serving as a foster parent to kittens and adult cats. The nonprofit relies on its 200 active foster homes to care temporarily for cats, kittens, dogs and puppies in their homes.
"I like to think I make a difference in the cats getting a home," Springer said.
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PAWS veterinary technician Jean Leonhardt stabilizes a pigeon as Dr. Steve Johnson checks the bird's fractured radius at the shelter in Lynnwood on Friday, December 7, 2012. It costs about $30-35 a week for the shelter to care for a pigeon.
Curt Clumpner worked as a manager for the PAWS shelter at the time. When people called about wildlife, he sometimes agreed to transport the animals to wildlife clinics, which were run out of homes in Seattle.
He volunteered to found the PAWS Wildlife Center. He formed a volunteer staff and eventually began earning a salary as the center's first director.
"It's hard in the animal welfare world for people to let go of what they started," said Clumpner, who now lives in Astoria, Ore., and works for International Bird Rescue. "(PAWS has) had tremendously charismatic and dedicated people … One of the things I'm kind of proudest of in terms of PAWS is how many people they have gotten into the field that have worked there at various times."
PAWS is the only wildlife center in the state that is staffed every day of the year with a full-time in house veterinary and medical team.
"Most organizations are either an animal shelter, or they're an advocacy or educational organization, or they're a wildlife center," Laico said. "We're all three under one roof."
In 1986, PAWS began rehabilitating black bears. Since then, the organization has released more than 60 black bears into the wild. Clumpner believes the wildlife center is "one of the most reputable centers in terms of black bear rehabilitation in the world." Most bears are brought to the center by state departments of fish and wildlife officials in Washington and Oregon.
Among the many bears PAWS cared for was one that in 2008 was found in Renton. State Department of Fish and Wildlife officials were trying to capture the roughly 250-pound black bear when he fell from a tree and fractured his hip. PAWS staff joined other veterinarians at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle to perform a complicated surgery on the bear.
"It was certainly the largest bear we've had here that we were able to rehabilitate," said John Huckabee, a PAWS wildlife veterinarian. "It was a great collaboration and we were able to get the bear to the point where he was ready to be on his own again."
And more than just bears are brought to PAWS, said Patricia Thompson, a state wildlife biologist.
"PAWS admits just about every species, so if it needs to be admitted, it will be," she said. "They've always been very professional. They have good facilities, good directors. They know how to euthanize and when to euthanize; they know how to house animals and when to release them."
PAWS wildlife rehabilitator Stephanie Herman in November treated a western pond turtle with shell rot. The condition can be caused by bacteria or fungus and breaks down parts of the turtle's shell and prevents skin from growing normally.
The turtle is part of an effort by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife and other organizations to help grow the population of the endangered species, Herman explained.
"She'll never look quite normal but she'll at least be able to live her life out OK," she said. "I think she's adorable."
She and other rehabilitators are working to perfect a treatment routine with this turtle in anticipation that others with the condition may be brought in for similar care.
PAWS also works with the NOAA Fisheries Service to care for and release orphaned, sick or injured harbor seals. PAWS and Wolf Hollow on San Juan Island are the only two wildlife centers in the state that are allowed to rehabilitate the federally protected marine mammals.
PAWS has received more than 70 harbor seals including an orphaned seal pup brought in last August. The seal weighed 17 pounds, and gained 50 pounds during its stay at PAWS. The seal was released near Jetty Island in November.
"When people think of PAWS they often think of black bears, seabirds and now harbor seals," Convy said.
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Volunteer Dale Ripley and PAWS Naturalist Kevin Mack wheel the bird to the vehicle for transport to the release spot at the Green River Natural Area near Auburn. The area was selected due to the large amounts of salmon.
In 1985, PAWS started a campaign against the Omak Suicide Race, where riders race their horses down a steep hill. Horses have died from falls. This August, the race will mark its 78th year.
PAWS joined a national movement in 1987 to pressure the B&I Shopping Center in Tacoma to remove Ivan, a western lowland gorilla.
For 25 years, Ivan was alone on display at the shopping center. The owners relented, and in 1994, Ivan was moved to Zoo Atlanta, where he stayed until his death in August.
PAWS has worked in Seattle to stop the killing of Canada geese at city parks, worked at the state level to ban hunting of cougars with hounds and led efforts to protest the Ringling Bros. Circus.
That advocacy continues today. When Iran proposed to ban dogs from cities and suburbs, PAWS in September was one of the shelters that started taking in Iranian animals.
Before becoming director of the PAWS Companion Animal Shelter director in 2002, Kay Joubert lobbied on behalf of the nonprofit. She helped pass a bill to allow animal control agencies and humane societies to spay and neuter animals for low-income households. Joubert and PAWS have also promoted legislation first introduced in 2009 to help fund the cost of spay and neuter surgeries for cats, and for cats and dogs belonging to low-income families.
"That is huge because when animal welfare agencies look at where this population of unwanted pets is coming from, sadly a huge percentage are coming from low-income households," she said. "It allowed us to directly work on that cycle. We want to stop that flow of unwanted pets."
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The eagle flies freely after being released. The bird circled the release site before heading upstream on the Green River and landing on a tree to take in his new surroundings.
After 45 years, the nonprofit has outgrown the 7 acres in Lynnwood and is looking for a new site with as many as 20 acres to house its wildlife and companion animal centers.
And PAWS wants a new center to include puppy and dog training classes as well as interpretive trails, Laico said. With so many people curious about how they rehabilitate wild animals, the organization wants to include one-way mirrors, video cameras and other monitors.
"People so often especially on the wildlife side want to see the animals," she said. "So in our future facilities we will provide opportunities so they'll be able to look in on some of our work in animal care but the animals won't know."
A new home for PAWS is exciting, Mack said.
"Whether it's dogs and cats or the squirrel in the back yard, I think the vast majority of us can connect," he said. "I think people are very supportive of attempts to make a positive difference for those animals around them that they enjoy."
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KILLEEN (January 8, 2013)—Terry Grant Scott, 17, of Killeen, was arrested Tuesday on a warrant charging murder in connection with a shooting in the parking lot of a local convenience store that left a Fort Hood soldier dead and two others critically injured.
Officers arrested Scott in the area of Metropolitan and Trimmier, police said.
The victims were shot at around 5:30 p.m. last Wednesday as they sat in a maroon SUV in the parking lot of the Star Mart store at 1704 Old FM 440 Rd. in Killeen.
The gunman fled south on Old FM 440 in the Lincoln Town Car, police said.
Spc. Austin James Sampson, 25, of Bliss, N.Y., was flown to Scott & White Hospital in Temple where he died on Friday.
He joined the Army in July 2006 and deployed to Iraq from November 2007 to January 2009 and from August 2010 to August 2011.
He had been assigned to Fort Hood's Headquarters Troop, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, since February 2010.
The other two men were taken to Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center.
The two shooting survivors, Cory Lee Chovan and Mark Olvera, identified Scott from a photo lineup, according to an arrest warrant affidavit released Tuesday.
It was the second deadly shooting at a Star Mart store in Killeen in less than two months.
Imran Amir Dukka, 28, of Killeen, was shot to death during a robbery just before midnight on Nov. 7 at the Star Mart in the 3600 block of Zephyr Road in Killeen.
A second man, whose name was not released, was injured in the shooting and was taken to Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center.
He was later transferred to Scott & White Hospital in Temple in stable condition.
Dukka had just arrived to pick up the other man, who also worked at the store, when three armed men dressed in dark clothing with their faces covered ran up to his Toyota Camry, robbed the two victims and then opened fire, shooting each man several times, police said.
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Angelina Jolie On the Reaction to Her Double Mastectomy
A year later, the most beautiful girl at the U.N. talks about her controversial decision
It's that innate sense of caring, the compassion, that helped her nab the 2014 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, that drives her to launch startups like her Prevent Sexual Violence Initiative, and to serve as a special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. And, its surely played a big part in adding four kids from far-flung areas of the globe into her family.
And, in a way, that prevailing concern for people played into her decision to have a preventative double mastectomy last year.
On the eve of the release of her highly-anticipated Disney film "Maleficent," Jolie, never one to do much press, opened up to Entertainment Weekly's Anthony Breznican about that choice (she also touches on her kids, her man and, o.k. fine, the movie).
"I'm very happy I made the decision," Jolie, 38, says. "I was very fortunate to have great doctors and very, very fortunate to have a good recovery and have a project like 'Unbroken' to have something to be really focused on, to be getting healthy for, and to be able to just get right back to work."
Ten months ago, the world first learned Jolie had tested positive for the mutated BRXA1 gene. With doctors telling her she had "an 87 percent risk of developing breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer," the Oscar winner says she felt like she didn't have any choicebut to go through with the three surgeries. And, for good reason.
"My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56," Jolie wrote in an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times last May 14. "She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was."
Ever the family woman, Jolie didn't want to perpetuate the destiny of the disease and decided to be "proactive."
According to Cancer.gov, even with a total mastectomy, "not all breast tissue that may be at risk of becoming cancerous in the future can be removed," but Jolie decided to play the odds.
Most surprising, she says, was the outpouring of love and compassion from fans.
"Wherever I go, usually I run into women and we talk about health issues, women's issues, breast cancer, ovarian cancer. I've talked to men about their daughters' and wives' health. It makes me feel closer to other people who deal with the same things and have either lost their parents or are considering surgeries or wondering about their children," she says, adding, "I was very, very moved by all the support and kindness from so many people."
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5 Old Wives' Tales About Health (Confirmed by Science)
On the list of the most important jobs of a mom, keeping your kids healthy comes in second only to making sure they don't grow up into the type of person who would "accidentally" leak a sex tape. And if that means occasionally bluffing or passing along the same BS myths that were passed down by her mother before her, then by God, that's what a mom does.
But you might be surprised to find out that some of that motherly health advice that sounds suspiciously like superstitious nonsense now wasn't so made up after all.
#5. Got a Cold? Have Some Chicken Soup
It might be the oldest wives' tale in the history of old wives telling tales -- what you really need for a case of the sniffles is a nice hot bowl of chicken soup. Sure, it's not medicine, but it makes you feel better, right? So what's the deal -- is chicken made of magic, or are our mothers falling for the propaganda Big Soup pushes through its willing puppets in the media?
"Congratulations. Here's the keys to your brand new soup. Enjoy it."
But Science Says ...
You'd think the answer to this one would be simple -- it's a hot, salty comfort food that's easy to swallow with a sore throat. But apparently the healing powers of chicken soup go way beyond that.
In a study published in CHEST Journal ("Official Publication of the American College of Chest Physicians," in case you forgot to renew your subscription), researchers found that chicken soup inhibits neutrophil chemotaxis, giving it anti-inflammatory properties that could help relieve the symptoms associated with upper respiratory infections. So in addition to "improving hydration and nutritional status," chicken soup has the potential of "accelerating mucosal clearance," which is science's fancy way of saying that it helps make your sniffles better.
Especially if you add vodka.
In addition, experts have said that chicken contains the amino acid cysteine, which is released when Mom magically transmogrifies the chicken into tasty, tasty soup. This compound is awfully similar to a drug called acetylcysteine, which doctors prescribe for patients with bronchitis and respiratory infections to help them hork up all that crap in their chest. So yeah, when you look at it that way, chicken soup is actual medicine. Sort of.
"I'm sorry, but it appears he overdosed on soup."
#4. Honey Cures a Cough
Using honey to treat a child's cough sounds like a brilliant idea that came about one late night when all the drug stores were closed and one mom at the end of her tether stared groggily into the kitchen cabinet. That bear-shaped bottle of goo has the same consistency as cough syrup, and hopefully the placebo effect will be strong enough to let everyone get back to sleep, because goddammit, I have to work in the morning.
"You may think I'm old-fashioned, but here, eat this."
But Science Says ...
To see whether there's actually anything to this, researchers decided to compare the effects of honey to those of dextromethorphan on children's nighttime coughs. (Dextromethorphan is the active ingredient in pretty much all over-the-counter cold and cough medicines, and a favorite among particularly reckless recreational drug users.)
So the researchers gathered up a group of 105 sickly children ranging from 2 to 18 years old and split them into three groups: The parents of the first group would treat their children's coughs with honey, the second group would get honey-flavored dextromethorphan, and the third group would get no treatment at all, otherwise known as the "harden the hell up" method.
"You can stay in bed if you're OK with a charley horse every hour. To keep your immune system on its toes."
Not surprisingly, the real medicine scored better than nothing at all in treating coughs and sleeping difficulties. What was surprising was that the honey did even better than the drug, coming out head and shoulders above dextromethorphan at relieving cold and cough symptoms.
Researchers think that the stickiness and viscosity of honey is what helps it alleviate coughs, while the natural antioxidants can help in the healing process. Thanks, bees!
Also, ew. Seriously, just ... gross.
But as implausible as honey is as a cure, it still sounds way less stupid than ...
#3. A Spoonful of Sugar Cures the Hiccups
Hiccups are the mother of half of the world's folk remedies. History has suggested everything from holding your breath to putting a plastic bag over your head to cure hiccups (the latter presumably through death), but many of you probably best remember Mom's old placebo cure: a spoonful of sugar. It won't really do anything, but the kid will probably forget all about his hiccups once he's bouncing off the walls, right?
"Yeah, you just stay your ass outside for an hour or two."
But Science Says ...
Actually, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study by Dr. Edgar Engelman touting ordinary white granulated sugar as a cure for the hiccups way back in 1971. So there's a chance that our moms were just really well-versed in the medical literature.
"And the red square represents why you are genetically predisposed to cystic fibrosis."
What Engelman found was that a spoonful of sugar immediately cured the hiccups in 19 out of 20 patients. That may not sound like much, until you find out that some of those patients had the hiccups for more than six hours, while others had been suffering from them for weeks. Presumably Engelman's clientele consisted mainly of stereotypical cartoon drunks.
But why does it work? The most likely explanation is that the sudden influx of sweetness overstimulates the vagus nerve (the nerve that connects your brain to your abdomen), effectively distracting it from the task it was previously focusing on, which in this case is jackhammering your diaphragm. The old "scare the crap out of the kid" tactic can sometimes work on this same distraction principle, although sugar is the preferred method of moms who don't keep a ready stash of clean underwear on hand.
"Hiccup again, motherfucker! I'm daring you to hiccup one more goddamn time!"


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