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Hadamard TransformsSociety of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) 2011; US$ 89.00
The Hadamard matrix and Hadamard transform are fundamental problem-solving tools in a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines and technologies, such as communication systems, signal and image processing (signal representation, coding, filtering, recognition, and watermarking), digital logic (Boolean function analysis and synthesis), and fault-tolerant... more...
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Cycles in GraphsElsevier Science 1985; US$ 72.95
This volume deals with a variety of problems involving cycles in graphs and circuits in digraphs. Leading researchers in this area present here 3 survey papers and 42 papers containing new results. There is also a collection of unsolved problems. more...
Bipartite Graphs and their ApplicationsCambridge University Press 1998; US$ 58.00
This book treats the fundamental mathematical properties that hold for a family of Gaussian random variables. more...
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Presents recent developments of probabilistic assessment of systems dependability based on stochastic models, including graph theory, finite state automaton and language theory, for both dynamic and hybrid contexts. more...
A Textbook of Graph TheorySpringer New York 2012; US$ 45.64
In its second edition, expanded with new chapters on domination in graphs and on the spectral properties of graphs, this book offers a solid background in the basics of graph theory. Introduces such topics as Dirac's theorem on k-connected graphs and more. more...
DigraphsSpringer London 2008; US$ 79.61
The new edition of this first book devoted to directed graphs has been substantially revised, reorganized and updated. With a strong focus on applications, it contains many new results and more than 650 exercises, 170 figures and 150 open problems. more...
Combinatorial Matrix Theory and Generalized Inverses of MatricesSpringer India 2013; US$ 90.22
This book examines two important contemporary areas in linear algebra, namely combinatorial matrix theory and generalized inverses. It covers a wide range of topics of interest such as graph theory, linear algebra, numerical methods and statistical inference. more...
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Wholesale hand-knit sweaters, toques, & accessories from Central, South America & Asia. Since 1989. Authenticity. World ethics. Exclusive design. Traditional quality
Luxury hand-dyed yarns and fibres for knitting and spinning. Based in Vancouver, Canada, SweetGeorgia Yarns designs and distributes an exclusive collection of hand-dyed yarns of fine merino wool, silk and cashmere suitab…
Handknit womens wool sweaters, knit in Canada, by knitwear manufacturer and designer Cecile Benac
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However, ParkAveBaby recognizes that little Twaddlers in training still have accidents, so we've added a layer of burley knit terry in the wet zone to stop leg dribbles We offer these diapers in either Bamboo V…
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We carry the very popular Namaste knitting bags and needle cases, as well as DellaQ silk bags and needle cases and Pollika stick pins and buttons
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The Village Yarn Shoppe has moved and to celebrate we are having a four day Avid Knitters sale with 15 % off storewide Check out our great selection of sock yarn for take it with you summer projects
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Pros: It's small, comes with a nice little zip up case and a flat CAT5 cable. It has all the basic features.
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Fresh signs of weakness in the economy yesterday blunted the impact of the Government's legislative programme announced in the Queen's Speech, and put even greater pressure on Kenneth Clarke, the Chancellor, to use this month's budget as the launch pad for a Tory political recovery.
The first rise in unemployment for two years and sharp falls in retail sales and in the value of the pound threatened to overshadow a Queen's Speech containing contentious measures on asylum, crime, education and housing, and intended to spearhead the Conservatives' "Autumn Offensive".
Tony Blair and John Major began to draw the battle-lines for a prolonged general election campaign in pointed and bitter Commons exchanges over a 1995-96 programme containing 15 Bills for what will be the last full session of Parliament before polling day.
While the Prime Minister said that the speech was a "common sense practical programme of traditional Conservative values", Mr Blair used one of his most effective parliamentary performances as party leader to claim that the programme was not "to help the people of Britain but to play a game in the run-up to the election".
In the fiercest clashes of the day, both Mr Major and the Labour leader accused each other's parties of playing the "race card" over the forthcoming and controversial Asylum and Immigration Bill, which is designed to reduce bogus asylum applications.
Mr Blair, whom senior Tories say will suffer electoral damage if Labour opposes the measure, called for the Bill to be referred to a special standing committee that could call expert witnesses and be "a genuinely consensual exercise in getting at the truth".
Mr Major said that while he would consider the request, he was not immediately "attracted" to the idea. In a strong defence of his own record on race relations, he promised that "genuine asylum cases will always receive a ready refuge in our country" and said that "those who attack this Bill, as Mr Blair did, do our excellent race relations no service whatever".
In an unusually aggressive speech attacking advance ministerial warnings that the speech contained measures intended to "smoke out" Labour, Mr Blair successfully taunted the massed ranks of Tory backbenchers for not challenging him with parliamentary interventions. A further cloud was cast over the Government's political fightback yesterday when Sir Julian Critchley, the Tory MP for Aldershot who is retiring at the election, announced that he would not be voting Conservative for his own MP in Ludlow, the Euro-sceptic Christopher Gill. In a notably unhelpful article in the London Evening Standard, Mr Critchley warned that the Tories would probably be in opposition for at least eight years, and added that defeat could leave the party an "unattractive blend of English nationalists, radicals and populists".
Yesterday's figures have intensified the pressure on the Chancellor to come up with a credible budget that will allow him to reduce interest rates without causing a run on sterling.
Today's figures for the public borrowing requirement, which in the first six months of this financial year has been running ahead of the deficit in 1994, will provide vital clues concerning to the state of the public finances and just how much he can afford to cut taxes on 28 November.
However, the Chancellor may get a fillip from today's inflation figure for October, which is expected to show a fall from 3.9 per cent to 3.7 per cent, as the cuts in mortgage rates made by the building societies feed through and the effects of increases last year drop out.
There were scarcely any surprises in the Queen's Speech itself. But Mr Major said that the Divorce Bill, which is expected to meet stiff opposition from the Tory right, will be taken on a free vote.
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Reserve Forces Bill
Tidying up law, plus a new power of call-up for disaster relief and peace- keeping
Chemical Weapons Bill
To ratify the Convention to ban making and use of chemical weapons
Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Bill
Renewal of emergency powers, this time, more temporary than usual.
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To regulate new digital technology and allow bigger TV-newspaper companies
Channel Tunnel Rail Link Bill
Would allow private sector to build, maintain and operate high-speed railway between Folkestone and St Pancras, in London
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To allow students to obtain subsidised loans from high street banks
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Defence lawyers to disclose broad outline of their case in advance
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Lone mothers would not get priority for council housing but right to buy for some housing association tenants
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Wider powers to consider complaints about doctors and other clinical professionals
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Some disabled people would be given cash to buy their own community care
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12 Golden Rules of Conversation
Follow these timeless tips for being a good conversationalist from The Art of Conversation.
1. Avoid unnecessary details.
Don't sidetrack. For example, if the time something happened isn't important, don't waste time getting it right.
2. Don't ask another question before the first one has been answered.
If you ask how someone's children are, don't jump in with your family health before she has answered.
3. Do not interrupt another while he is speaking.
Also, try to make your story short, giving the other person a chance to speak and not interrupt.
4. Do not contradict, especially if it's not important.
You are inserting unnecessary details into the person's story. "The person who contradicts, frequently restates the matter in another way."
5. Do not do all the talking.
Ask questions to find out what you both have in common.
6. Don't always be the hero of your story, however, the story should have a hero.
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7. Choose a subject of mutual interest.
Draw the person's interests out and don't "hinge the conversation on politics when it should be on potatoes or on poetry."
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In EEOC v. The Original HoneyBaked Ham Company of Georgia Inc., 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26887 (D. Colo. Feb. 27, 2013), the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado sanctioned the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for failing to provide social media discovery and for causing unnecessary delays in the e-Discovery process.
The case involves claims filed by the EEOC against the defendant, HoneyBaked Ham, alleging a manager sexually harassed a class of women. The company sought, among other things, social media evidence and text messages to dispute the claimants' liability and damages claims. In November 2012, the court ordered all claimants to turn over to a special master social media communications and any cell phone used to send or receive text messages during the relevant time period for a forensic collection and review. The court further ordered claimants to provide access to any email account, website, or cloud-based storage location that they used to post communications or pictures.
After the EEOC changed its position about how the court's discovery order was to be implemented, and otherwise failed to follow the e-Discovery process, the company filed a motion for sanctions. On February 28, 2013, the court granted the motion and held that the EEOC's shifting behavior in implementing the court-ordered discovery process – while shy of bad faith – improperly delayed the proceedings and unfairly forced the company to spend more money in litigation. The court crafted a unique sanction against the EEOC under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure (FRCP) 16(f) to curb further misconduct.
The court's decision is the first published decision of its kind to impose sanctions for e-Discovery misconduct under FRCP 16, as opposed to the more traditional methods of awarding sanctions under FRCP 37 or the court's inherent authority to impose discovery sanctions. Significantly, a sanction under FRCP 16 does not require a finding of bad faith. Rather, a party need only engage in some kind of unreasonable or obstreperous conduct that delays the discovery process, as the court held the EEOC did in this case.
The court's decision is also a powerful reminder that, just like defendants, plaintiffs have e-Discovery obligations, thus providing employers with strong offensive discovery tools they can use in defending against both single-plaintiff and class action claims alike. Moreover, the decision underscores that in today's digital world, where individuals who are plaintiffs in litigation create and control a wealth of electronic data – personal computers, PDAs, personal email accounts, social networking sites and blogs, including professional networking sites like LinkedIn – the refrain of yesteryear that individuals do not possess any relevant electronically stored information ("ESI") in traditional "asymmetrical" employment cases rings hollow.
Factual Background
The EEOC brought this sexual harassment class action lawsuit against The Original HoneyBaked Ham Company of Georgia, Inc. in September 2011, alleging that a male store manager harassed subordinate female employees. A group of allegedly aggrieved individuals ("claimant class members") asserted that as a result of sexual harassment and retaliation inflicted by their manager they suffered severe emotional and financial damages.
During the discovery process, it became apparent that the claimant class members had used text messages, email, and social media to discuss the case and their claims and to communicate amongst themselves regarding the lawsuit. Further, several class members posted pictures and comments directly related to the allegations in the case, such as statements about how stress-free their lives were or the bar they had frequented the night before. As a result, the company served discovery requests that asked the claimant class members to identify and produce relevant data from cell phones, email addresses/accounts, Facebook pages, blog posts, and similar sources that they used during the relevant time period. The EEOC opposed production and ultimately produced very little of the information requested. Through its own investigative efforts, the company discovered highly relevant information on the claimant class members' Facebook pages and filed a motion to compel, requesting an order compelling the production of the requested ESI.
The Order on the Motion to Compel – A Virtual "Everything About Me" Folder
In November 2012, a federal magistrate judge issued an order largely granting the company's motion to compel. While acknowledging that the discovery requests could constitute a significant intrusion into claimant class members' semi-private lives, the court found that the intrusion was justifiable, citing several reasons, including the fact that the claimant class members themselves had put such matters at issue by choosing to participate in the lawsuit.
The court further instructed why broad discovery of social media ESI was appropriate, explaining that the creation of social media content is akin to a litigant affirmatively assembling:
. . . a file folder titled "Everything About Me," which [the claimant class members] have voluntarily shared with others. If there are documents in this folder that contain information that is relevant or may lead to the discovery of admissible evidence relating to [the] lawsuit, the presumption is that it should be produced. The fact that it exists in cyberspace on an electronic device is a logistical and, perhaps, financial problem, but not a circumstance that removes the information from accessibility by a party opponent in litigation.1
. . . a file folder titled "Everything About Me," which [the claimant class members] have voluntarily shared with others. If there are documents in this folder that contain information that is relevant or may lead to the discovery of admissible evidence relating to [the] lawsuit, the presumption is that it should be produced. The fact that it exists in cyberspace on an electronic device is a logistical and, perhaps, financial problem, but not a circumstance that removes the information from accessibility by a party opponent in litigation.1
Squarely addressing the privacy objection posed in opposition to production, the court rejected it and reinforced its assessment that, rather than commanding greater protection against discoverability per se, social media information may actually be more readily discoverable, instructing:
If all of this information was contained on pages filed in the "Everything About Me" folder, it would need to be produced. Should the outcome be different because it is on one's Facebook account? There is a strong argument that storing such information on Facebook and making it accessible to others presents an even stronger case for production, at least as it concerns any privacy objection. It was the claimants (or at least some of them) who, by their own volition, created relevant communications and shared them with others.2
If all of this information was contained on pages filed in the "Everything About Me" folder, it would need to be produced. Should the outcome be different because it is on one's Facebook account? There is a strong argument that storing such information on Facebook and making it accessible to others presents an even stronger case for production, at least as it concerns any privacy objection. It was the claimants (or at least some of them) who, by their own volition, created relevant communications and shared them with others.2
Accordingly, the court held there was "no question the Defendant has established that the documents it seeks contain discoverable information" and ordered the EEOC to produce the following ESI for each of the claimant class members:
To accomplish this production, the court ordered the parties to engage a forensic expert as a special master to whom the EEOC would produce the information, followed by an in camera review by the court, to ensure the production of only discoverable information.
The court further ordered the parties to collaborate to produce: (1) a questionnaire to be given to the claimant class members with the intent of identifying all such potential sources of discoverable information; and (2) instructions to be given to the special master defining the parameters of the information he would collect.
Order on Defendant's Motion for Sanctions
After the court entered its order, the EEOC generally refused to produce the court-ordered social media ESI. For example, the EEOC initially requested that the court grant it permission to use its own internal technology personnel, in place of the court-ordered special master, to save on costs. The court granted the EEOC's request, with the specific requirement that the technology personnel's process be transparent to the company. The parties then began extensive negotiations regarding both the protocol to be used for data collection and the questionnaire to be given to the claimant class members.
After a month of negotiations, including the exchange of multiple draft questionnaires and data protocols, conference calls, and court hearings, the EEOC reversed its position on various issues. Lodging privacy and privilege objections, the EEOC objected to allowing the company's attorneys to observe a test run of the EEOC's internal data processes and requested that the court return to its original order to appoint a special master. Additionally, the EEOC withdrew specific commitments that it had made regarding the language of the questionnaire, even reversing positions on language that the EEOC itself had proposed.
As a result of this conduct, the employer filed a motion for sanctions. While the court did not grant the full extent of sanctions the company requested, it found that the EEOC's reversals increased the company's legal costs and unnecessarily delayed the proceedings.
However, the court found that the EEOC's behavior did not rise to the level of "bad faith," as required for sanctions under FRCP 11 or the court's inherent authority. The court further found that the EEOC's conduct did not fit squarely into FRCP 37(d) or (f), and while it was a close question under FRCP 37(b), the court was not prepared to find that the EEOC disobeyed "the letter" of a particular order (although it noted that the EEOC had not been faithful "in spirit").
The court held that a sanction under FRCP 16(f)(1) was appropriate and necessary under the circumstances, citing a case from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. The court noted that FRCP 16 gave the court the power to impose sanctions for actions that negatively affected the court's management of its docket and caused unnecessary burdens on the opposing party, instructing:
I do not believe it is the proper application of justice to stand idly by while the Plaintiff's flip-flopping harms the Defendant in a tangible way that is violative of the spirit of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.3
I do not believe it is the proper application of justice to stand idly by while the Plaintiff's flip-flopping harms the Defendant in a tangible way that is violative of the spirit of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.3
Accordingly, the court sanctioned the EEOC under FRCP 16(f)(1) for causing an unnecessary cost burden on the company and for delaying the case, and awarded reasonable attorneys' fees and costs expended by the company in bringing the motion.
Takeaways: Continuing the Trend of Holding Plaintiffs to Their 21st Century e-Discovery Obligations
Even in single plaintiff cases, plaintiffs have baseline duties and responsibilities with respect to e-Discovery and can face serious consequences for failing to fulfill them.4
The court's order here continues this trend and further demonstrates the benefit of aggressively seeking e-Discovery of plaintiffs in 21st century litigation as long as the defendant abides by the same standards. Among other things, the court's order on the motion to compel follows the trend of other courts across the country that have held that, in addition to basic sources like home computers and personal e-mail, data from social media accounts,5 instant messages,6 and text messages generally must be produced by plaintiffs in litigation.7 The court's orders further underscore that, in response to discovery requests seeking such ESI from plaintiffs, privacy objections are not well founded.8
Finally, the court's reliance on FRCP 16 to impose e-Discovery sanctions against the EEOC highlights a different approach to obtaining sanctions against plaintiffs for e-Discovery delays and misconduct. This application of FRCP 16(f) breathes new life into the Tenth Circuit's 1984 holding in Mulvaney v. Rivair Flying Services, Inc., 744 F.2d 1438 (10th Cir. 1984), where the appellate court instructed that courts have "broad discretion" to use sanctions to ensure that lawyers and parties meet their obligations towards "the expeditious and sound management of the preparation of cases for trial."
As applied in this case, FRCP 16(f) is a powerful tool in an employer's arsenal to invoke against plaintiffs, including the EEOC, who may unnecessarily slow down, obstruct, or otherwise impede the e-Discovery process while not actually engaging in conduct that rises to the level of "bad faith" as required for sanctions under other rules. As the Tenth Circuit instructed in Mulvaney, the application of FRCP 16(f) is appropriate even if the discovery misconduct does not rise to the level of bad faith because the court was "dealing with the matter most critical to the court itself: management of its docket and avoidance of unnecessary burdens on the tax-supported courts, opposing parties or both. The primary purpose of sanctions in this context is to insure reasonable management requirements for case preparation."9
It is also important to underscore that employers should ensure their own house is in order from an e-Discovery standpoint before aggressively pressing plaintiffs about potential discovery abuses. From a strategic standpoint and to avoid these types of issues arising for both parties, employers should attempt to proactively negotiate a reasonable and efficient e-Discovery protocol – one that addresses e-Discovery issues for both parties – with opposing counsel as early in a case as possible.10 However, in cases where plaintiffs refuse to then follow the agreed-upon or court-ordered protocol, employers may have no option but to approach the court for appropriate relief.
1 EEOC v. The Original HoneyBaked Ham Co. of Ga., Inc., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 160285, at **3-4 (D. Colo. Nov. 7, 2012).
2 Id. at **5-6 (emphasis supplied).
3 Id. at **11-12.
4See generally Paul Weiner, Plaintiffs Have Their Own Duty to Preserve, Nat'l L.J., Dec. 20, 2011 (baseline e-Discovery duties and obligations apply just as forcefully to individuals that are plaintiffs in litigation – who often anticipate litigation well in advance of any defendant and there are a multitude of sources of data that modern-day plaintiffs possess and control).
5 See, e.g., McMillen v. Hummingbird Speedway, Inc., 2010 Pa. Dist. & Cnty. Dec. LEXIS 270, at *3 (Jefferson County Sept. 9, 2010) (ordering plaintiff to provide his Facebook and MySpace user names and passwords to counsel for defendants; rejecting plaintiff's argument that communications shared among one's "private" friends are somehow protected against disclosure in discovery and instructing "'no social network site privilege' has been adopted by our legislature or appellate courts").
6 See, e.g., In re: Air Crash Near Clarence Center NY, 2011 U.S. Dist. Lexis 146551 (W.D.N.Y. Dec. 20, 2011) (directing plaintiffs to produce relevant electronic communications, including social media accounts, emails, text messages, and instant messages).
7See, e.g., Smith v. Café Asia, 246 F.R.D. 19 (D.D.C. 2007) (court ordered plaintiff to preserve text messages stored on cell phone as they might bear on defendant's claim that plaintiff invited the alleged sexual harassment forming the basis for her claims).
8 See, e.g., Niloy Ray, Aaron Crews, and Paul Weiner, A Litigator's Guide to Discovery of Social Media ESI in Civil Actions, The Legal Intelligencer, Jan. 29, 2013 ("Indeed, the very idea that social media ESI is somehow 'private' in the first instance is dubious."); EEOC v. Simply Storage Management, LLC, 270 F.R.D. 430, 434 (S.D. Ind. 2010) ("A person's expectation and intent that her [social media] communications be maintained as private is not a legitimate basis for shielding those communications from discovery."); Beye v. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 100915, at **11-12, 13 (D.N.J. Dec. 14, 2007) (rejecting plaintiffs' privacy arguments and ordering minor-plaintiffs in class action case to preserve and produce "writings shared with others including entries on websites such as 'Facebook' or 'Myspace,'" because they may be relevant to the core issue of whether eating disorders are non-biologically-based mental illnesses: "While the plaintiffs suggest that allowing the Order to stand may require the plaintiffs to have to choose between pursuing this litigation or disclosing private information about their child, that decision was made when the plaintiffs decided to file an action which required them to disclose information concerning their children's eating disorders, something they have described as an extremely sensitive topic.").
9 Mulvaney, 744 F.2d at 1441.
10 See, e.g., The Sedona Conference®, The Sedona Conference Cooperation Proclamation 1 (2008) (cooperation in discovery is required by the rules of civil procedure, consistent with zealously representing a client, and in today's digital world a hallmark of effective advocacy), available at www.thesedonaconference.org. Over 225 state and federal judges across the country have publically endorsed the Sedona Conference Cooperation Proclamation.
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In my experience, at least with Macs, the HRT needs a self-powered USB hub to work reliably.
He means an external multi-connector USB expansion device. Typically, these come with 4 to 8 additional USB connection outputs. The distinguishing factor is which of these devices (there are hundreds of types) come with their own power supply for the USB.
One of the important qualities of the USB protocol is that it contains a 5V power supply in USB connections and cables. Typically, that 5V power comes from the power buss in a PC. With most desktop PC's, the power is not an issue. Even with multiple USB peripherals, there's ample current to supply whatever USB is hung off the buss. However, in some laptops and I guess an Apple MAC, the USB power from the motherboard is not sufficient. Hang a few peripherals (or just one that needs significant power) off of the buss and then there's not enough current left to properly supply the devices.
The market for USB "hubs" includes many models that come with their own USB power, typically in the form of a 5V switching wall adapter that can supply several Amps of power for the hub.
Bottom line, if the external DAC does not have sufficient current requirements, it may negate all the clean power devices in the DAC (regulators) and result in significant sound quality degradation.
If you go with the HRT and you have an iMac, then I think you can expect to also need a powered USB hub. They're cheap and easy to find.
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Skip to comments.Big Fight on the Playground (Parents Protest as Schools Take the Play Out of Recess)
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Callaghan Elementary's fourth-graders returned to school this fall to an unusual new recess activity. Worried the nine-year-olds have too much independent playground time, the Virginia school decided to have them walk the track.
"The teachers will make it fun," Principal Nancy Moga says. One possibility: Kids may plot how many miles they've logged for math class.
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Alan Greenspan Elementary School? Let's play deflation.
A game in which about 50 kids chased 1 kid with a football until he was chased down, tackled, and pummelled until he lost his grip on the ball.
The kid that managed to take it away would be given about a 2 second head start before he was given the same treatment.
The masters of the game were either fast or could take quite a beating.
Loads of exercise and also fun in the snow.
You remember.
Ahh..Acme, Washington...makers of fine anvils and the best dynomite anywhere in the world.
Apparently, they'll scare the teachers.
Now nobody rides bikes. Our local district forbids it. Kids less than a quater mile from school have to ride the bus each day. Should a nice situation present itself after school to ride your bike, you face citations and fines to your parents if not wearing enough personal protection gear. Helmets, elbow pads, and knee pads. An inspection sticker from the town indicating you bike registration has been paid, and who knows what else?
And they can't figure out why kids are lazy and fat?
LOL! In NJ, we called it Kill the Guy With The Ball.
And our playground wasnt paved, it was gravel. If you had the ball, you ran like you meant it.
They've already been raised, and the damage is already being done. It's only going to get worse from here.
The "Nerf" mentality must be stopped/resisted at all costs.
As Steve Martin used to say "LET'S GET BLAND!!"
Say, whatever happened to good ol' chicken-fights, on wet asphalt?
With nightcrawlers, to really make it interestin'...
When you're a kid, flying out of control is what you do best!
LOL...in my childhood circles...we just called it "Kill".
THAT was successfull anger management.
Exactly. Let's quit pretending that there aren't differences in all kinds of abilities.
Harvard doesn't choose C students and Ohio State doesn't draft intra-mural quarterbacks. (We could try to force them to do so, of course, in the name of 'inclusiveness.")
It's my job to teach my kid that life has its victories and its defeats, and that we need to learn how to live with both. While the school's primary job is education, it's the school's secondary job to reinforce such common sense parental guidance.....even if it means keeping their nose out of it.
Some day soon there will be a major war with a battlefield strewn with American kids all because they were fighting "Operation Mousepad" instead of "Kill the Kid With The RPG".
Which, in turn, takes the whole "thinking for yourself" and "maikng decisions for yourself" concepts out of a child's development; thus creating a lifelong childish dependence and loyalty to "the authority". The present authority is the school (not the parents)...who knows what it will be in the future. They ARE being groomed for socialism/communism. Its sick.
A good sized kid could really work up some speed in the space between the two lines. If ya kinda tilted as you hit the line, you could usually take out at least one person on the opposing team -- sometimes two or three.
I have a chipped tooth and slightly askew nose to show for it.
One can still have childhood dreams as an adult right?
Rough play and competition makes for good soldiers.
Thats exactly what these education experts fear.
Good soldiers are often violent and dont surrender well.
In the weeks leading up to the war there was a front page Wall St Journal story about how the US soldiers were holding full-on Fight Club style matches, complete with lost teeth and broken noses to keep the edge on.
Back in the 50's this guy would never have kept his lunch money. (And not many teeth either)
And acording to this report, there are NO GAMES so who's he kidding?
You would probably be suspended and sent to sensitivity training if you suggested playing Smeer the Queer today.
Secret Op's was done by the kid who took the dead squirrel to show the playground monitor staff in order to distract them so that highly effective but banned retaliations could go unnoticed.
Psy Op's was done by wedgie teams.
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Brian Young will take on Bobby Flay. We have confidence in Brian Young (pictured); that's why we named him one of our latest Boston 30 Under 30 honorees. And that's why we have a good feeling about his just-announced appearance on the Food Network's Beat Bobby Flay. Young, chef de cuisine at the Hub's Post 390, will face off in Flay's kitchen in an episode scheduled to air on Thursday, March 20 at 10 PM. Airing the week of St. Patrick's Day, the episode is titled "The Fighting Irish" and will also feature chef Steven McHugh of Cured in San Antonio, Texas.
"Burgers Gone Wild" in Somerville. It's almost Spring Break time at area schools. And apparently the burgers at Olde Magoun's Saloon are celebrating it the way coeds might: doffing their traditional toppings in favor of something more on the wild side. Last night the pub unveiled a new "Burgers Gone Wild" menu that will be available every Sunday and Wednesday throughout March, offering about ten different inventive burger variations, including an "artisanal cheeseburger soup" with diced tomato and onions; a Tunisian patty of char-grilled lamb with goat cheese, pickled red onion and harissa mint yogurt sauce; a Brasserie burger topped with foie gras, frizzled shallots and truffle mayo; and the "Sweet Swine O' Mine," that is a meaty mix of apple wood bacon, smoked pork and hamburger with fried green tomato and aged cheddar.
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Skip to comments.Bird Flu May Over-Stimulate Immune System
Posted on 11/11/2005 4:29:40 PM PST by blam
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I agree on the rapid incubation/symptom worsening. Not a lot we can do about it but hope it takes longer.
Who's "JA" ?
Judith Anne, who usually runs the influenza threads.
That link does not work. Will you try again?
You do not want to boost your immune system for the H5N1. Don't take elderberry extract for this.
I said in a later post I only want to boost it as long as I'm NOT SICK!!! :)
Thanks. I know. (No sauerkraut either)
It goes to the same web page on http://bird-flu-influenza.com/ that I linked to earlier.
Here's the discussion from Panda's Thumb where I first read that. It doesn't look like they were able to come up with a good answer to the question either.
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The problem with the figure Garrett [in this article] cites is that it kills ~55% of the cases we know about. This is a classic case of sample bias. Those who are most sick (and thus, most likely to die) are also most likely to go to a hospital or clinic to be examinedand therefore, are also the most likely to have a clinically-confirmed case of influenza due to the H5N1 strain. Hence, the mortality data we have for H5N1 only comes from this sickest segment of the populationartificially raising the mortality rate. Puzelli et al.s study, then, is timely due to the fact that it shows that sub-clinical infection with avian-type influenza viruses does occur (in almost 4% of their cohort of poultry workers).
For someone versed in influenza evolution and epidemiology, this is both disturbing and unsurprising. First, a bit of background on influenza virus. The virus has an RNA genome, which is segmented into 8 parts. These parts can re-combine and make a novel virus, containing a few segments of each of the parent viruses. In some cases, this progeny virus may be better adapted for a new host than one (or both) of the parent viruses.
An example. Say a human currently is infected with a (human) influenza virus. Lets say its one of these folks in the Italian cohort of poultry workers. Maybe hes not sick yet, so he goes into work, where hes exposed to one or more types of avian influenza virus. If he becomes co-infected, the two types of virus can mix, possibly producing a humanized avian influenza virus, which may be transmissible between humans while the parent avian virus was not. This is the stuff of pandemics, and the kind of thing that keeps influenza researchers awake at night.
No, I don't, but I'm hoping the H2H form of H5N1 turns out to have a slower onset.
Clearly, the jury is still out on elderberry. You can find some very clever minds on all sides of the issue. Here is a quote from a FluWikie thread (the whole thread is worth reading).
Dr. Joe at 03:57 -- 22 Oct
"The mode of Elderberrys action is NOT primarily due to activation of citokines, nor is that a particularly strong side effect of Elderberrys antiviral component. Elderberry contains a ribosomal inactivator which is chemically similar to that of Ricin (the deadly poison terrorists habitually try to manufacture). Ricins ribosomal inactivation affects all cells, indiscriminately, thereby killing the organism. However, elderberrys anti-ribosomal enzyme is chemically distinct, in several minor variations, such that, unlike Ricin, it has no effect on the ribosomes of normal, noninfected, eukaryotic cells (normally functioning cells that make up multi-cellular organisms like us). Instead, it only inactivates ribosomes of cells that are actively infected by influenza and other RNA-type viruses, and which are being used to manufacturer new viral RNA particules. The reason for the specificity is extremely complex and not well understood by scientists. It evolved, no doubt, as a method by which the plant self-protects itself against plant viruses, many of which, like influenza, are based upon RNA. It is interesting to note that, just as St. Johns Wort is specific to the inactivation of DNA based viruses, and has no effect on influenza, elderberry is specific to RNA based viruses, and has no effect on DNA based viruses like human papilloma virus, and/or smallpox. As to its use against the new strains of avian influenza, if you are particularly worried about the minor citokine activation side effect, you can take curcumin (turmeric extract) at the same time. Curcumin dampens down citokine production. However, if taken at the first signs of influenza, before the virus has taken full hold, it is unlikely that the citokine stimulating side effects of Elderberry will cause significant morbidity in sick patients. "
At any rate, people in their 20s or younger seem to have the most to worry about re cytokine storms.
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We'll definitely catch it this time. Thanks.
Please see Bear Wash's post 115 from FluWiki regarding findings on Elderberry.
Thanks, BW. ;-D
it's more accurate to say stopped symptoms assocciated with with cytokine storm. The influenza symptoms are resultant and present because of a different mechanism
That's not actually the case, suppressing the immune system as a defense against infection by influenza is not a good strategy. A highly specific cytokine suppressant is required as a concurrent treatment regime. it is likely that a patient with a suppressed immune system will succumb to other symptoms relevant to influenza H5N1, some of these would be fatal in certain patients
I'm not suggesting suppressing the immune system by any means.
ah OK some conflicting messages in this thread, my apologies I jumped in without reading it all
OK, so if I'm reading this right the best treatment for someone with H5N1 might be to give them AIDS?
How about vice-versa? Might H5N1 cure AIDS?
Wouldn't that be a kick in the head?
Thinking outside the box, in fact, thinking that the box is all wet, is a good thing. Often wrong, but a good thing.
You go first.
I have this attitude about "fatal illnesses" that comes partly from a Heinlein novel, I Will Fear No Evil, where an uber rich guy who wants to be allowed to die (but is kept alive against his will) comes up with an outrageous plan to fund and participate in a brain transplant experiment. He's sure that he won't survive and that will get around his problems. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending) it works out.
If I were terminal, or even just "hopelessly" crippled, I'd go out of my way looking for "kill or cure" type of treatments. Again, what would I have to lose?
True. (...and, you could become famous after death if it didn't work out.)
Thanks for the ping. I was away for a while.
Our troops were coming home from the Great War in Europe, had used aspirin successfully on the battlefield to fight fever, and aspirin was just being unleashed on the civilian population by Bayer. The primary initial defense that the body has against viruses is fever, as virus's don't function above 102 degrees. If you hold down the fever with aspirin, Tylenol or TamiFlu, then you allow the virus to build up in your body, until it risks overwhelming you with viral pneumonia. Many are lost each year to this, but the sudden onset of the use of aspirin in 1918 would have made for a dramatic onslaught of such deaths the first flu season.
This comes from Brother Jonathan, a site that has a number of "interesting" and controversial theories, at least one of which will appear to be nut case conspiratorial to almost any given reader. So believe it only if your independent judgement leads you to agree with him.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Reader Question "WHAT CAUSED THE DEADLY 1918 FLU?" My question: Before there was aspirin and cold and flu meds there was a world wide epidemic of flu that killed millions. It was during the First WW. At that point the only thing they could do was put people to bed and keep them warm. Why did so many die? --- Nancy
The source of the "1918 Flu" which is also incorrectly called the "Spanish Flu" has been a medical mystery. But the mystery is solved.
The beginning of the 1918 flu season started in November 1918. This also was the end of WWI marked by Armistice Day November 11, 1918. Thus millions of soldiers from the trenches in Europe all were sent home. What they took with them was normal flu from China which occurs each year, and they also took with them the newly marketed aspirin.
Aspirin was patented by Bayer AG after Dr. Hoffmann's synthesis of acetyl-salicylic-acid in 1899. Bayer mostly marketed its new Aspirin in Germany, but during WWI the use of Aspirin came into general use in the field medical hospitals as the only effective mild pain reliever and a treatment for coughs, colds and fever.
Thus the "deadly" 1918 Flu was caused by the new use of Aspirin to treat soldiers during the war. The result of reducing the fever from influenza is massive growth of the flu virus in the lungs and thus Atypical Pneumonia or simply Viral Pneumonia almost always resulting in death.
Since this first occurred worldwide at the end of WWI it was called the "1918 Flu." In the last several years, medical archaeologists have tried to obtain tissue samples from people who died from the 1918 Flu to find why it was so deadly.
So far the virus samples seem to be no different from other flu virus samples. They cannot explain why it was so deadly. It was not the flu virus which made it so deadly - it was the first worldwide use of the new pills called Aspirin to treat the flu which killed millions in 1918.
According to the latest CDC statistics, "Influenza and Pneumonia" are the deadliest infectious disease compared to the deaths from all causes, such as car accidents, murder, heart disease, cancer etc. Normally during the annual flu season Pneumonia Flu deaths range from about 3 percent during the summer to about 10 to 12 percent during the winter. The normal flu season runs from about November to April.
There are actually two related diseases. Influenza is a viral infection which attacks the lungs and causes fever and cough. And then there is Viral Pneumonia caused by improperly treating the influenza with aspirin, and NSAIDs. There is a separate type of Pneumonia caused by bacteria which should not be in this category. The improper treatment of influenza with Aspirin, and later NSAID synthetics and now even Anti-viral medications such as TamiFlu are the cause not the cure for Atypical Pneumonia, now improperly named SARS.
The first worldwide use of Aspirin to treat influenza was during WWI resulting in the millions of deaths from the 1918 Flu. Each year since then the number of worldwide cases of Influenza is about 10 to 100 million resulting in an average death rate of about 1 million worldwide. Most of all of those deaths could be prevented by simply not reducing the fever during the onset of influenza.
SARS could be stopped overnight, if doctors would separate flu from Atypical Pneumonia by not treating the fever with drugs.
Marshall Smith
Editor, BroJon Gazette
Ok, I have some issues with the article - first, the flu did not start when the soldiers came home at the end of the war - the flu pandemic caused the end of the war.
Here's a Bird flu article. Haven't even read it yet, looks like actual info.
My oops. It is not a new article, but a new reply. I neglected to look at the date.
I need to always look at the dates of the artcles, not just the newest reply date!
The first flu cases were recorded in March 1918. That first wave, in the spring of 1918, was less deadly. In the second wave, in September and October 1918 was more deadly. World War I ended between 29 September (Bulgaria) and November 11 (Germany) as one by one, the various Central powers signed ceasefires and armistices. The celebrations and returning troops led to a resurgence of the pandemic in the winter of 1918-19. The third and final wave came in the spring of 1919.
On the other hand, the Brother Jonathan article that I posted surely overstates the role of aspirin in all this. I just can't imagine that aspirin spread like wild fire over the world, even into nations such as India that suffered the most flu deaths, as quickly as did the flu.
On the third hand, I find it quite persuasive that taking fever reducing medicines such as aspirin could well increase the risk of death from a serious round of the flu. Fevers of 102 to 104 are a healthy response to the flu, and the body's primary defense mechanism. One should not suppress that.
Have fun.
And in any case, this in no way provides evidence for your claim that the flu ended the Great War. That war was coming to an end anyway, with the arrival of more U.S. and other Allied troops.
Whatever ... have fun.
As any high-school parent KNOWS:
1) wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water often
2) maintenance doses of Vit. C 500mg / day (precluded by any preexisting renal conditions - read SEE YOUR DOCTOR IF YOU'RE CONFUSED ABOUT THAT)
3) given #2, drink AT LEAST the MRDA water (D'uh!)
4) throw in a couple anti-oxidizers, e.g. Vit. E
5) don't hop onto the Tamiflu bandwagon until you KNOW there's a local epizootic
6) have at least 10% (with a strong vow to the conviction of inrease) of a Y2K supply vault
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Then there's that other issue about "cytokine-storm" mitigation. On the one hand if a "fever" begins, you don't want to use analgesics unless it goes above 102F in adults (children can go MUCH higher) - define "MUCH" - and also textbooks should be obtained. The latter to explain to ones children just WHY they're dying, and how come it makes no difference if they live or not.
About that cytokine storm, I've heard that those afflicted with Lupus have discerned good results:
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If you would rather focus on other things now, go right ahead and pay this topic no mind.
That realization hit one of my conceited and intellectually smug engineering acquientences when I told him what my Y2K vault consisted of.
Don't you worry though, my kindergarten report card indicates: shares well with others.
I'll farm some of 'em out and herd a few up north. /sarcasm off I don't know, as far's the washin' the hands thing: whar's the prollem? And you know what? I think it needs to be said: when you wash your hands use soap AND water, o.k? I know that a lot of you think your SO smart but it would escape you to consider having packs of those germicidal packets in your car that you would use to wash your hands the moment you came in from the grocery.
You know what else? I used to work as a lab tech in a metal phosphating company. I learned about acid and nasty bases extremely real quick, and to abstain from putting my fingers into my eyes, ears, nose, throat, face, genitalia, etc (without having washed them before hand).
I got to workin' in an office environment after that. The coffee pot. Just remember where your fingers have been (before and afterwards). One of that nastiest colds I EVER came down with was something I termed an eye cold. I was wearing contacts, and didn't pay attention to neither my surroundings, nor what the hell I was doing.
I'm not an ostrich (unlike many I know who are dismayed about the potential implications of any plausible upcoming pandemic), but I want to stress one thing: should worse come to worse, the worse you can imagine won't even do justice to what occurs.
I'm telling you one thing: these threads are great; they keep us apraised of the upcoming threat. But they actually do very little with respect to minimizing risk. That's my point. I threw some gallows humor in there, and you jump down my throat. That's fine. That don't mean I'm not watching this extremely closely (including drilling into whatever links are presented by whomever about whatever).
Never can know too much is my thinkin'. You want to counter that?
I will too. But you ARE a moron. YOU are a "moron"
anaesthetist once as I was going into surgery that I had lots of allergies and he looked at my chart and said "you probably will never have cancer". Has anyone else ever heard this?
My mother suffered terribly from asthma and hay fever and was subject to bronchitis flareups. She died of cancer but she was 78 when she died.
I believe The Lord will take us when he is ready and not a moment before.
Well, I believe that falls into the category of unfalsifiable theories. When someone dies how do you know if the Lord took them, how about suicides?
Fevers of 102 to 104 are a healthy response to the flu, and the body's primary defense mechanism. One should not suppress that.
I nearly died from Flu in 1968, my fever went to 105 and was stopped from going higher by ice water baths. My recovery began after the fever went so high. Since then I have had very few viral infections.
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105 IS too high for an adult (I was 23 at the time). As you say, the high fever is what killed the virus and allowed me to recover, but in my case it almost killed the host. Had I been alone I probably would be dead. Sometimes the fever can go high enough to kill a person, I reached the stage of having strange hallucinations and I felt as if my mind was split in two. On the one side was a crazy person and on the other side was a clearheaded person being amazed by all the hallucinations but aware that they were hallucinations. It is hard to explain if you have never experienced it.
I'd heard that about hte 1918 flu, typically killed the healty.
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