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All the world events, fulfilled prophecies, world events and signs in the skies have proven the fact that we have reached the end of days.
You have no time left and you really DON'T WANT TO BE WRONG ABOUT THIS ONE DECISION IN YOUR LIFE !! God is REAL, Heaven (new Jerusalem) is REAL and Hell is REAL TOO! You are a spiritual being having an earthly experience. Those who can WAKE UP will be saved (RAPTURE) before the disasters. But others that will wake up and TURN TO HIM in repentance during Tribulation WILL BE SAVED TOO, but at their own life's cost. If you have decided to TRUST on technology and "modern world" or men you are going to have a rude awakening to the REAL reality.
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It started in my elementary school, even before I fell in love with reading. A room full of books – many of which had pictures! At first, it was just the picture books that drew me in but once I started reading, I just couldn't stop. When I learned that there was an even bigger library than the one in my school, I was elated. I checked out as many books as I was allowed and churned through sometimes one or two books a day, and even more in the summer.
So around the time the time the writing bug bit me, I decided that a real writer should probably work in a library, surrounded by books. At the age of fourteen, I started showing up at the Enumclaw Public Library, filling out applications regularly even though the librarian told me (in a very friendly but quiet voice) that I had to be sixteen to work for the library. Still, I was back every so often to try again. For two years.
Persistence paid off and when I turned sixteen, I started working as a library page, shelving returned books and doing whatever odd jobs needed doing. It was Heaven. No fines for late books and at the front of the line for anything new and exciting to come in. And pick of the litter when it came to books being disposed of. I still have some ancient volumes of Shakespeare in my personal library from that time.
Yes, I've always loved libraries.
Which is why, on the first page of the first chapter of my first novel, I blew one up.
And somehow, despite this, the American Library Association put that first novel, Lamentation, on the RUSA Reading List for Best Fantasy.
When I conceived the notion of the Great Androfrancine Library, it was initially just the background for a short story. It wasn't until I started stitching together the two stories that became the beginning and middle of Lamentation that I saw clearly the re-building of the library – or the notion of a hidden replica of the library. I was drawing a bit from the murky soup of history – the destruction of the Library of Alexandria in Egypt, which is not quite as easy to pin down as legends would have us believe. That library appears to have gone through a series of events that eventually led, over time, to its loss. In reality, no one seems certain exactly what happened and when though speculation points widely to various events between approximately 50 BCE and 650 AD.
KEN SCHOLES is the author of the acclaimed series The Psalms of Isaak, which comprises Lamentation, Canticle, Antiphon, and now Requiem. He lives near Portland, Oregon, with his wife, Jen West Scholes, and their three-year-old twin daughters. Visit him on the web at www.kenscholes.com.
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by David Crane
defrev at gmail.com
Most professional and civilian gun people carry a tactical folder, these days. And, being gun guys ourselves, we here at DefenseReview like to carry a good tactical folder as a backup to our primary weapon, which is usually a Glock 19 (G19) or some other high-capacity tactical pistol. The tactical folding knife has become one of the most popular tactical tools for defensive backup use, and it can also pull double-double duty and be used for a multitude of utilitarian tasks, like opening boxes and letters, cutting open packaging, cutting strings, prying stuff open (not necessarily recommended), etc. A tactical pocket folder is just a really useful thing thing to have on you, in general, and it might just save you in a pinch, if you can't carry your pistol, or your pistol goes down in a fight.
For the last several months, one of the knives we've been carrying around here at Defense Review is the…
Zero Tolerance Knives a.k.a. ZT Knives ZT301 Ranger Green Assisted Folder frame-lock tactical folder. A joint development between Kai USA Ltd., Ken Onion Knives, and Strider Knives, the ZT301/302-series tactical folder is the is one of the best hard-use / heavy-duty tactical folding knives we've ever seen, handled, carried and used. The knife just exudes quality of manufacture and materials, and feels "hard use".
But the fast-action assisted-opening mechanism is really what turned me on about the knife, and why I wanted to review it. I just thought it was really cool. And, let's face it, it's perhaps the knife's most unique aspect, and thate which sets this knife (ZT301) apart from the pack and sells it. I remember that my dad saw a prototype of the ZT301/302 before I did at SHOT Show 2006, and really went nuts over it. He just really thought it was a great idea, and, frankly, so do I.
Being a hard-use knife, the ZT301 is significantly heavier (8.6 oz.) and bulkier than my Blade-Tech / Tim Wegner Professional Hunter Extreme a.k.a. Pro Hunter Extreme tactical folder, so it's not quite as easy to carry. However, it's still carryable. You just have to get used to the extra thickness and weight. And, once you deploy the knife, its excellent tactical design and ergonomics become immediately apparent. Basically the knife has Strider written all over it, from it's look, to its feel, to the blade's tiger stripe.
The ZT301 is very well designed, and the ergonomics are fantastic for my hands. The knife is extremely comfortable and feels totally natural in both standard and reverse grip holds. In fact, the reverse grip is where you realize how great the grip (G10 scales) is. I'd venture to say that the ZT301's grip is about as well-designed as I've ever seen on a tactical folder, and the texturing on the G-10 scales is just right for me–non-slip, yet comfortable to hold. The top of the frame near the blade and the rear of the frame both feature
Then there's the blade, itself. You can see both Ken Onion and Strider Knives in it. It has that Strider-influenced deep belly and serious hard-use look to it. The ZT301's 4.25-inch blade is made from S30V steel, has a Tungsten DLC coating (with tiger stripes), and is SHARP. Real sharp. Now, I usually like combo serrations on a tactical/utility folder, but on this knife, I'm o.k. without them. I think if I have to cut through a seat belt or something, the ZT301 will get the job done fairly efficiently, anyway, especially with its recurve blade profile, which should help the edge to dig into whatever material you're cutting and dragging the blade across.
So far, DefenseReview has only used the ZT301 as a concealed carry / urban utility blade (opening packages, boxes, etc.), so we haven't really tested the knife for the hard-use tasks for which it was obviously designed and developed. We're gun guys, after all, not backwoodsmen. However, we have no doubt it can handle significantly rougher use than that to which we've subjected it. This knife is serious business.
Anyway, now that that's out of the way, on a recent trip to Washington state and Idaho to see my friend and business partner, I also had a chance to handle and examine the ZT Knives ZT400ST Black Tanto Serrated Assisted Folder. The ZT400ST is a bit lighter (5.3 oz) and thinner than the ZT301, and thus closer to my Blade-Tech/Wegner Pro Hunter Extreme. My business partner really likes the ZT400ST, and now, after having handled it, so do I. It's a great knife, and at $150.00 USD suggested retail, it's approx. half the price of the ZT301, which has a suggested retail price of $295.00 USD. The ZT400ST's black blade is 3 5/8 inches long, and utilizes S30V steel and a Tungsten DLC coating, just like the ZT301. It also utilizes combo serrations on the rear of the blade, which Defense Review really appreciates.
DefenseReview didn't really get to spend a lot of time with the ZT400ST, but we really liked it, and were impressed with its quality.
Frankly, if you're looking for a well-made, serious-use production clipit (pocket clip) tactical folder, you simply can't go wrong with either the ZT301/302 or ZT400/400ST-series Zero Tolerance knives. Let's put it this way, you could do a lot worse, and probably not any better. And, that's pretty good.
Company Contact Info:
Zero Tolerance Knives (ZT Knives) / Sonoma Cutlery
730 Coddingtown Mall
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
(707) 542-6433
(800) 542-8854
KAI USA Ltd.
18600 SW Teton Avenue
Tualatin, Oregon 97062
Phone: (503) 682-1966
Fax: (503) 682-7168
Strider Knives
120 N. Pacific St. Unit L-7
San Marcos, CA 92069
760-471-8275 Office
503-218-7069 Fax
Ken Onion Knives
[email protected]
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Suppose you want to run a graphical configuration tool that requires root privileges. However, your X session is running under your usual account. It may seem strange at first, but the X server will not allow the tool to access your display. How is this possible when root can normally do anything? And how do you work around this problem?
Let's generalise to the situation where you want to an X appliation
under a user-id
clientuser, but the X session was started
serveruser. If you have read the section on cookies,
it is clear why
clientuser cannot access your display:
~clientuser/.Xauthority does not contain the right magic
cookie for accessing the display. The right cookie is found in
Of course, anything that works for remote X also works for X from
a different user-id as well (particularly
slogin localhost -l
clientuser). It's just that the client host and the server host happen
to be the same. However, when both hosts are the same, there are some
shortcuts for transferring the magic cookie.
We'll assume that you use
su to switch user-ids. Basically, what
you have to do is write a script that will call
su, but wraps the
command that
su executes with some code that does the necessary
things for remote X. These necessary things are setting the
variable and transferring the magic cookie.
DISPLAY is relatively easy; it just means defining
DISPLAY="$DISPLAY" before running the su command argument. So you
could just do:
su - clientuser -c "env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY clientprogram &"
This doesn't work yet, because we still have to transfer the cookie.
We can retrieve the cookie using
xauth list "$DISPLAY". This command
happens to list the cookie in a format that's suitable for feeding back
to the
xauth add command; just what we need!
We shall want to pass the cookie through a pipe. Unfortunately, it
isn't easy to pass something through a pipe to the
su command,
su wants to read the password from its standard input.
Fortunately again, in a shell script we can joggle some file descriptors
around, and get it done.
So we write a script around this, parameterizing by
clientprogram. Let's improve the script a little while we're
at it, making it less readable but more robust. It looks like this:
if [ $# -lt 2 ]
then echo "usage: `basename $0` clientuser command" >&2
exit 2
# FD 4 becomes stdin too
exec 4>&0
xauth list "$DISPLAY" | sed -e 's/^/add /' | {
# FD 3 becomes xauth output
# FD 0 becomes stdin again
# FD 4 is closed
exec 3>&0 0>&4 4>&-
exec su - "$CLIENTUSER" -c \
"xauth -q <&3
exec env DISPLAY='$DISPLAY' "'"$SHELL"'" -c '$*' 3>&-"
I think this is portable and works well enough in most circumstances.
The only shortcoming I can think of right now is that, due to using
'$*', single quotes in
command will mess up quoting in the
su command argument (
'$*'). If there's anything else seriously
wrong with it, please drop me an email.
Call the script
/usr/local/bin/xsu, and you can do:
xsu clientuser 'command &'
Can't be much easier, unless you get rid of the password. Yes, there
are ways for that too (
sudo), but this is not the place for that.
The tiny
xsu script just mentioned has served as the basis for a
more extended script called
sux which apparently has found its way
as a package into the
Obviously, anything that works for non-root client users is going to
work for root as well. However, with root you can make it even easier,
because root can read anyone's
~/.Xauthority file. There's no
need to transfer the cookie. All you have to do is set
DISPLAY, and
XAUTHORITY to
~serveruser/.Xauthority. So you can do:
su - -c "exec env DISPLAY='$DISPLAY' \
XAUTHORITY='${XAUTHORITY-$HOME/.Xauthority}' \
Putting it into a script would give something like:
if [ $# -lt 1 ]
then echo "usage: `basename $0` command" >&2
exit 2
su - -c "exec env DISPLAY='$DISPLAY' \
XAUTHORITY='${XAUTHORITY-$HOME/.Xauthority}' \
"'"$SHELL"'" -c '$*'"
Call the script
/usr/local/bin/xroot, and you can do:
xroot 'control-panel &'
Although, if you've set up
xsu already, there's no real reason to
do this.


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Oh, it's been what, a few days since we lobbed a piece of pointless editorial fluffery at you simply to put an image of a hot girl on the site? We don't want to break our track record so we'll give you this little piece about how nobodies rise from the muck of MySpace to celebrity status. Yes, MySpace member Tila (Nguyen) Tequila, who says she has the world's most popular MySpace page has graduated to the April cover of StuffMySpace Makes magazine. This at the same time Ad Age's Simon Dumenco says obsession with celebrity is dying and Gawker has asked readers to stop sending in C and D list celebs for its Gawker Stalker feature. As long as your hot and you have a camera on you, you are a celebrity.


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Eating a healthy diet and exercising during pregnancy isn't just good for the developing baby.
A new analysis of 36 studies including a total of more than 12,500 women suggests these behaviours can also lower a mom-to-be's chances of having a Cesarean-section delivery or developing diabetes while pregnant.
Overall, healthy habits reduced the risk of needing a C-section by about 10 percent, said study author Shakila Thangaratinam. She's a professor of maternal and perinatal health at the Queen Mary University of London.
A healthy lifestyle also reduced a woman's risk of developing diabetes during pregnancy — known as gestational diabetes — by 24 percent, the findings showed.
Not surprisingly, healthy habits also trimmed the possibility of excess weight gain during pregnancy.
"Based on all the evidence to date, what we found was a healthy diet and moderate physical activity in pregnancy does reduce the risk of increased [excessive] weight gain, and this benefit is actually accessible to every pregnant woman, regardless of [pre-pregnancy] body weight," Thangaratinam said.
However, it's difficult to define exactly what a healthy diet should be or what moderate exercise would be best during pregnancy, she noted, since each study looked at diet and exercise a bit differently.
In general, the diets encouraged eating more fibre, more fish and olive oil, and no sugary drinks. The studies looked at pregnant women who did stationary bicycling, swimming, dancing and toning exercises, she added.
Thangaratinam recommends 150 minutes of moderate activity a week, with aerobic exercise and two muscle-strengthening sessions.
A healthy diet and regular exercise weren't linked to outcomes such as stillbirth or having an underweight or overweight baby, or whether an infant needed to be in the neonatal intensive care unit, the research team found.
That should be reassuring, Thangaratinam said, because many women are fearful of exercising during pregnancy, thinking it will harm the baby.
The findings are valuable, said Margie Davenport, an assistant professor of physical education and recreation at the University of Alberta in Canada, who has done research in this area. More than half of women gain above or below the weight gain recommendations, she said, and that increases the risk of C-sections, gestational diabetes and other problems.
The study reinforces both the safety and benefits of having a healthy, active lifestyle during pregnancy, Davenport said.
"Currently, only 15 percent of women are active during pregnancy due, at least in part, to a fear that continuing to exercise may be harmful," Davenport explained.
While the study results provide reassurance about the safety of exercise, "all women should speak with their health care professional prior to beginning or continuing to exercise during pregnancy," she said.
One expert noted a limitation of the study.
Eighty percent of the women included in the analysis were white and more than half were of a higher social class, said Marlene Goldman, professor emerita of obstetrics and gynaecology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in Hanover, N.H.
"Studies like this really don't confirm anything," Goldman said. "I would say it suggests a pretty small effect."
But she added that the findings do offer some reassurance that a healthy diet and exercise may actually confer some benefits, at least in the women studied.
In an accompanying journal editorial, Marian Knight, a University of Oxford professor of maternal and child health, and a colleague noted that maternal obesity and excessive weight gain during pregnancy are linked to complications for both mother and baby. The remaining challenge, the editorial writers said, is to research what kind of physical activity is best during pregnancy.
The study was published online July 19 in the BMJ.
SOURCES: Shakila Thangaratinam, Ph.D., professor, maternal and perinatal health, Queen Mary University of London; Margie Davenport, Ph.D., assistant professor, physical education and recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; Marlene Goldman, professor emerita, obstetrics and gynecology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, N.H.; July 13, 2017, BMJ


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Maybe could be useful for somebody, especially if you are learning how to use this "Great software".
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Hint: you can zoom in when you open picture on PC/Notebooks/Android devices, then again clicks on picture.
It opens for you picture inside web page and now you can zoom in/out by your prefered size for better reading.
Go back from view mode through Backspace key, or back arrow upper left side of your web browser beside web url adresses.
1.) Click on picture
2.) Click again on the same picture which appears on your screen
3.) After second click it oppens you picture in web browser only (without java scripts which reduce size of picture)
4.) Click again on picture IN Firefox only one time needed, but IE needs clicks TWO times because only second one zoomed in on 100% size of file (small magnify glass appears).
5.) hope now you can see it at 1:1 and can read it without problems.


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Currently we have eight members in our immediate family (my husband, myself, and our six children.) Housework has always been my Achilles heel, and over the past few years I have diligently searched for new methods that might help me better serve my family. I believe that I have finally developed a laundry system that works for us, with not much effort on anyone's part! I would love to share this with you today.
Laundry must be done every day for this method to work efficiently.
First of all, the children's laundry hampers stay in our laundry room. Throughout the day, they collect their dirty clothing and towels and bring them directly to the laundry room. For a time I kept hampers in their individual rooms, but it was very easy to wait several days before bringing them downstairs to the laundry room and then we would have a major back up! No dirty clothing is allowed on floors.
As soon as I wake up I bring the master bedroom laundry hamper into the laundry room and begin a load of clothing from all of the laundry hampers combined. My husband, myself, and our two youngest children all share the master bedroom laundry hamper. Most days I only need to wash one load of clothing. We only wash clothing that is dirty, and sometimes my children (or girls I should say) can get by wearing something twice prior to washing it.
During the morning hours I move the clothing from the washer to the dryer. If I need to start another load, I do so at this time.
During the afternoon hours I dump the dry clothes into a clothes basket. I quickly fold any towels. I then separate my four oldest children's clothing out, and throw them into a separate clothes basket unfolded and place the kids towels on top. Alternating days between my two oldest daughters, I ask one of them to take the basket upstairs. They then put their towels away, and fold/hang up the remaining clothing. This consists of one outfit for each child since we wash every day, and it takes 5 minutes tops.
I then take the remaining clothing/towels basket into our master bedroom and put everything away into our master closet. My two youngest children currently share the closet with my husband and I. I use two additional laundry hampers in the closet to hold undershirts and the like. This takes me 10 minutes tops.
If we washed more than one load, I then repeat the above steps.
This does not include ironing. If I get the clothes out while still warm ironing usually isn't necessary. There has been many a time while I have scrambled the night before my husband's job or church ironing items that I have neglected. (I'm still a work in progress.) If there is a stain, or mishap (like baby poo) I try to immediately rinse and soak the item with Oxyclean spray. This usually works!
Again, this works well and requires very little effort if done daily. I do miss some days unfortunately. I usually even wash on Sunday. Through my years of being a wife and mother I've come to the conclusion that caring for my family is a ministry. Ministers do not take time off on Sunday. When I begin to look at laundry as a terrible chore, I always remind myself that I am so blessed to be a mother, and if laundry comes along with the territory, I will gladly take it!
Do you have any laundry tips that you would like to share?


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In The Face Of Hatred, Americans Can Speak Up Or They Can Look Away
There is a strip mall across the street from Auschwitz.
From the commandant's house at Plaszow it's a short walk to McDonald's.
Belzec is in a residential neighborhood.
I didn't expect that.
In 2005, when I joined an interfaith pilgrimage to these camps where the Holocaust happened, it kept surprising me to find them located, not in deep woods hidden from prying eyes, but smack in the middle of urban areas.
I assumed all this development was new, that it had grown up in the decades since the war. But our guide told me these were always residential and commercial districts. Joe Engel, a Holocaust survivor in our group, said the same thing in a different way:
"People say they didn't know. All the camps were so close to the city. How could they not know? You could smell the ashes, the flesh."
The closeness of death factories to places where people lived, worshiped, and shopped was chilling. It suggested that evil didn't mind witnesses.
Saturday night, nearly eight decades after the death factories were closed, someone — more likely a gang of someones — toppled about 100 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia. The same thing happened last week in St. Louis. And there have been dozens of false bomb threats at Jewish community centers in over two dozen states, including Florida.
When the people of Poland were forced by their occupiers to stand witness to acts of mass atrocity, each had to decide how to respond. Some acquiesced willingly. Some looked the other way. And at risk of property and life, some fought back. They hid Jews from death and smuggled them to freedom.
What Linda Sarsour and Tarek El-Messidi did last week was not nearly so dramatic or risky, but it was certainly in the same spirit of outreach to the vulnerable Other. The two activists started a campaign on LaunchGood.com, a crowdfunding website for Muslims, asking their brothers and sisters in Islam to help raise $20,000 to repair the cemetery in St. Louis.
They reached that goal in three hours. As of Tuesday afternoon, their total stood north of $140,000. Sarsour and El-Messidi say the surplus from repairing the St. Louis cemetery will go toward the one in Philadelphia — and to a fund to repair any future acts of desecration.
Why would they do this?
On their LaunchGood page, they tell a story of the Prophet Muhammad once standing to pay his respects as a Jewish funeral procession passed by. When questioned about it, they say the Prophet responded: "Is it not a human soul?"
And what greater way to honor that common soul than for members of one group of the despised to reach out to another? At a time when we confront so much of what is wrong with America, it is heartening to be reminded of what is right. Necessary, too.
The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that since the election of Donald Trump, there has been a spike in right-wing extremism. African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Muslims, gays, transgender men and women, all of the most vulnerable and marginalized, find themselves under renewed attack: harassment, vandalism, and even murder.
Again, no one is equating any of that with the Holocaust. That's not the point.
Rather, the point is the willingness to see what's going on around you, what's being done and to whom. In the digital age, you don't need to live across from a death camp for that. Sarsour and El-Messidi remind us that we, like the Poles once did, bear witness to a campaign of hatred. And like them, we must decide:
What kind of witnesses shall we be?
IMAGE: Rabbi Hershey Novack walks through Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City, Missouri where almost 200 gravestones were vandalized. Robert Cohen / St. Louis Post-Dispatch


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|On the Skyline Trail, near mile 24 of the Woodside Ramble 50K. Photo by Sam Hsu.
"Beat is training to walk a thousand miles to Nome in February," I replied.
"Right. But what are you training for?"
"Well, I'm training to survive Beat's Iditarod training."
It's true. You have to be pretty fit just to stay warm and alive while exerting yourself all day in subzero temperatures. I was reminded of this last year during our New Year's trip to Shell Lake, when the simple act of walking 25 to 35 miles a day in temperatures down to 30 below left me feeling absolutely shattered at the end of every day. That kind cold-forged exhaustion makes any 50K I've run feel like an easy stroll in comparison. I keep reminding myself that Beat has to do just that and more every day for a thousand miles. I can't comprehend it, honestly, because the big picture isn't imaginable. I only know that it's possible when dissected into achievable goals, one mile at a time. I learned this back in 2008 when I (and thinking back to my endurance and experience level then, rather inexplicably) took a bicycle 350 miles to McGrath. But here, five years later, I still feel deeply intimidated at the prospect of going for long walks or rides in extreme cold. And this is exactly what we plan to do over the holidays in Fairbanks, Alaska, where we'll spend a week-plus testing Beat's Iditarod gear, hiking, and camping. Brrr. I need to make sure my inner furnace is well-powered.
Woodside Ramble 50K in Huddart Park. As I mentioned last week, Beat and I really enjoy these organized trail runs. It's true we could go out and run thirty miles on our own, but the race structure always prompts me to push myself more than I would otherwise, whether I'm having a good day or a bad one. Plus, you can't beat the catering (Christmas Oreos and Clif Shot Bloks were my choice for this run) and the frequent friendly faces are also part of the fun (In this race, the volunteers dressed up like elves and hung Christmas lights around the aid station canopies.) We were able to meet up with our friend Steve before the race. Steve is also training for the Iditarod Trail Invitational, the 350-mile version. It was 37 degrees in town just before the start. Beat is making this face because it's "cold." (And note that most of the California runners in the background are still wearing shorts.)
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GPS data and heart rate graph here.
But for now, faster is not the goal. Survival is. I'm feeling pretty good about our trip to Fairbanks next week, where it is currently 80 degrees colder than our fun run in 40-degree rain.
In other news, I did not get into Hardrock during Sunday's lottery (no surprises there.) I wrote a column for Half Past Done a few days ago about the indignities of race lotteries. Truthfully I'd rather stay away from them, but so many intriguing events have lotteries in place (no surprises there.) Unless one more lottery somehow goes my way, 2013 might just be a summer of self-supported adventures. Yay!


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While Minnesota has had relatively few wildfires this summer, a predicted dry spell for the next week or so could change that quickly.
The fire danger is rated high across the central part of Minnesota from Pine County in the east to the North Dakota border, and from Marshall County to Lac qui Parle County in western Minnesota. DNR forestry areas with the highest fire potential are Bemidji, Park Rapids, Backus, Little Falls, Sandstone, and lands north of Cambridge and south of Cloquet.


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Local health officials said they expect more people will seek help earlier for mental health and substance abuse problems, and that they would be able to treat more people facing such issues, now that insurance companies are required to cover visits to therapy and drug rehab the same way they cover visits to the doctor or the physical therapist.
On Nov. 8, the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act was finalized. The law prohibits companies that provide group health plans from providing unequal coverage for mental health and substance abuse treatment compared to what they would normally provide for the treatment of physical illnesses, such as heart disease, a broken bone or cancer.
"We're excited about that," said Michael Fitzgerald, director of behavioral health for El Camino Hospital, "It means that there truly is parity."
Previously, Fitzgerald explained, many people would get either insufficient treatment or no treatment at all for their addictions and mental afflictions -- either because their insurance would not provide enough coverage, or because their insurance didn't provide coverage at all.
Now, with the parity act finalized and Obamacare requiring that all insurance plans cover mental health and addiction services, Fitzgerald said he anticipates the hospital's behavioral health services division will be able to help more people suffering from conditions such as alcoholism and schizophrenia.
Fitzgerald said the law will require insurance companies to discontinue "unfair" practices -- such as charging higher co-pays for mental health services as opposed to physical health services, or discontinuing coverage of a rehab after 10 days, even though the standard length of an effective rehab program is eight weeks.
Insurance companies also often required doctors to check in with a doctor employed by the health care provider on a regular basis in order to explain why a patient admitted to the hospital for an overdose or a psychotic episode needed to remain in the hospital, Fitzgerald said. Sometimes the insurer would require the doctor to check in after the very first day. Some interpreted this practice as a deliberate ploy to force doctors to discharge patients quickly and thus reduce the amount insurers would end up paying to a given hospital.
At the Mountain View branch of CHAC -- the Community Health Awareness Council -- executive director Monique Kane said she was happy to hear about the finalization of the new law.
"Sounds good!" Kane said.
While CHAC aims to make sure everyone who comes through its doors receives treatment -- operating on a sliding scale payment system -- Kane said she believes that, with more people on insurance plans that cover mental health and substance abuse with fair reimbursement rates, her organization will be able to help even more struggling patients.
Fitzgerald said he believes the new law will have another, more general positive effect.
"The big message is the stigma," he said, referring to the fear or shame some people feel that prevents them from seeking help for these conditions.
Having a mental health condition should be viewed the same way as having a heart condition. It's something that can be treated, Fitzgerald said.
"What this legislation says is that it's like any other condition. It's treatable, the treatment really works, and we need to take it out of the shadows."


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Americans have little native skepticism. Our collective naivete takes many forms. One kind is a certain receptivity to foreign ideas, especially when they're presented as pleasure, or play.
In America, we have baseball (invented here in the late 19th Century), American football (a superior hybrid form of European football, adapted and refined in the 19th & 20th Centuries), basketball (invented in the late 19th Century in America), and ice hockey (refined and adapted in North America from earlier versions played on ground surface in Europe). These sports are known as the "big four" in common parlance, and command the lion's share of fan support and interest in America and Canada.


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Janet Freeman was the salt of the earth, the New York salt, from way, way deep in the mine.
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We are saddened to tell you of the death of Janet Freeman, on April 29. Janet was a long time member of Coda, a passionate, tireless and effective community activist, especially on housing issues, and an unforgettable friend. Many of us probably think of her as a truly pure and uncorruptible Lower East Sider. A Memorial Service, arranged by Janet's sister Pixie, and her close friend Enid, will be held on Sunday, May 22, at the Chinatown Head Start School (which Janet was closely involved with), 180 Mott Street, at 2:00. All of you are invited.


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Herbie Hancock Institute Awards and Honors
The Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz promotes jazz education in a number of realms. Berklee students and alumni have made their mark here, winning its prestigious competition and studying in its college-level performance institute.
Note: The institute was renamed after Herbie Hancock in 2019. It was previously known as the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.
Herbie Hancock International Jazz Competition
The world's most prestigious jazz competition gives top competitors both scholarships and renown. Berklee winners to date:
- 2018: Tom Oren (piano)
- 2013: Melissa Aldana (saxophone)
- 2005: Lage Lund (guitar)
- 2002: Seamus Blake (saxophone)
- 1997: Darren Barrett (trumpet)
- 1993: Jacky Terrasson (piano)
Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance
In this prestigious program, a very few of the world's most gifted young musicians study for free with major jazz musicians and educators. Jazz legends Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter serve as distinguished professors at the expanded Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance at the University of California, Los Angeles Herb Alpert School of Music.
Berklee grads have amazing prominence in this program. To date, nearly half the participants have come from Berklee.
Eleventh Class (2016–2018)
- Anthony Fung '15, drums
- Simon Moullier '16, vibraphone
Tenth Class (2014–2016)
- Daniel Rotem '13, saxophone
- Ido Meshulam '13, trombone
Ninth Class (2012–2014)
- Jonathan Pinson '11, drums
Eighth Class (2009–2011)
- Billy Buss '09, trumpet
- Nick Falk '06, drums
- Victor Gould '09, piano
- Hogyu Hwang '07, bass
- Godwin Louis '08, alto and soprano saxophone
Seventh Class (2007–2009)
- Gordon Au, trumpet
- Vadim Neselovskyi, piano
Sixth Class (2005–2007)
- Romain Collin, piano
- Walter Smith III, tenor saxophone
Fifth Class (2003–2005)
- James Alsanders, drums
- Gilad Ronen, saxophone
Fourth Class (2001–2003)
- Massimo Biolcati, bass
- Yoon-Seoun Cho, piano
- Lionel Loueke, guitar
- Ferenc Nemeth, drums
- Dayna Stevens, saxophone
- Nick Vagenas, trombone
Third Class (1999–2001)
- Jason Goldman, alto saxophone
- Billy Mohler, bass
Second Class (1997–1999)
- Eli Degibri, alto saxophone
- Sebastiaan DeKrom, drums
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First Class (1995–1997)
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Friday, September 24, 2010
My two new favorite words
Tonight, I'm here at the Type A Mom Conference doing the anti-social media thing. There's a talent show happening downstairs but I'm holed up in my room with a burger and sweet potato fries, I have a mask on my face, and in an hour I'm planning to get a good night's sleep for the first time in I dunno. I may have just officially confirmed that I am getting old and boring.
I called home before as I was walking around Asheville's downtown, a really cool area. Sabrina's first words were, "MOMMY! I stayed up really late last night and watched TV!" She seemed quite proud of herself. Then I asked the babysitter (Dave gave himself the night off) to put Max on the phone. Max was babbling on and on, but I couldn't make out any words. Suddenly the babysitter said, "Tell Mommy you're getting dressed."
And Max said, clear as anything, "Getting dressed."
I stopped in the middle of the sidewalk. I have never heard Max say anything so intelligibly, other than the word "No."
"MAX!!!" I shrieked into the phone. "You said those words SO clearly! I am so proud of you!"
Something really big is going on with Max's speech. I mean, B-I-G.
It's just a little over a year after the stem cell infusion. And I'm beginning to wonder if maybe, just maybe, it did something.
At the BlogHer conference, I was speaking with a mom who was complaining about how much her kid talks. "If Max could talk like that, I'd never get tired of listening to him," I said. She responded, "Oh, come on, you would!" And I said, very firmly, a little edge in my voice, "No, I wouldn't."
I am awestruck by every single word that comes out of Max's mouth. And grateful in a way I've never been grateful for anything in my life.
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38 comments:
I can feel your joy through the computer screen. So happy for you & Max.ReplyDelete
Ellen!! This post brought tears to my eyes and a HUGE smile to my face!! I am so happy for Max, and for you! :)ReplyDelete
Way to go Max!! That's awesome news Ellen!! YAY :)ReplyDelete
That is wonderful. Really wonderful!ReplyDelete
That's great news!ReplyDelete
Ellen, I am literally sitting here with tears in my eyes. I am sooooo happy for you and Max! It brings me back to when I first heard my daughter make a noise---with a trachoestomy it took a whole year before I really heard a sound from her---and how thrilled I was. Now you KNOW Max has the ability to speak clearly. He WILL. Yahoooo!!!ReplyDelete
- Jennifer L.September 25, 2010 at 12:05 AM
That's WONDERFUL! Way to go Max!!ReplyDelete
I know I'm one of your annoying pals who keeps bringing up the stem cell treatment and relating everything Max does to it, but I can't help but think it's doing something. You know, when Max said "no" so precisely in the car video you put up recently, I got a sense that his enunciation was not just improving but going to a new place. He may be "on the verge" of chewing your ear off and wouldn't that be great!ReplyDelete
Didn't the doc say it would be six months to a year before you started to see anything? Maybe if you're shy for a theme we could revisit that whole stem cell topic...I just love it, I think stem cells hold so much promise for so many folks, I am still pissed that we wasted eight years of No Federal Research due to a moron in the White House, but I won't get all political on ya. I'm just glad that Max is showing such strong improvement!
One day in July after a rather mean surery on his body my child woke up and started talking. Ty is 5. Nothing till then. I would be infuriated hearing I wish my kid shut up, when I wanted to scream let my kid never shut up!ReplyDelete
And I can honestly say , he talks VERY well now and I do not get tired of it .I encourage him to talk alllllll the tim.
GOOOooOOOOOOOOOOO max
that's so truly really awesome!ReplyDelete
Isn't it funny how they do things when you're not around? my little guy walked his first steps without me there, he did his arts and crafts projects on the first day of school when I've been trying at home FOREver, all these great things when I'm not around.. figures.
go MAX!!
can't wait until my little guy starts talking. I'm with you, I'll never get sick of hearing him talk.
I'm delighted for you. We are having a speech explosion here but I haven't had to wait so long, and I am so very relieved. I'm sure Max will talk your happy ear off one day.ReplyDelete
Aww! That's so awesome!!!ReplyDelete
Noah's just now (at age 3) starting to talk, and some things more clearly than others. He gets so frustrated when I don't understand him - like when he really wants a cookie, not his car keys - but I know that it will all come neatly into place when He is good and ready to start talking.
Thank you for this bit of hope, and I completely agree with everyone: I don't want to EVER stop hearing my baby talk to me!
THAT is very, very cool.ReplyDelete
I posted a video on my blog about teaching kids about Jesus. It shows Mikey joining in saying "this" and "yes". I think i could watch it forever and listen to him forever. There is something so breathtaking about his speech because its been such a wait and he works so hard for it.ReplyDelete
Max is just fabulous! He is full of the greatest energy. Im so grateful that you share your lovely family with us.
*choked up* Beautiful words, indeed!ReplyDelete
LOVE IT!!! I'm shocked you didn't say anything this morning :-)ReplyDelete
Way to go Max!ReplyDelete
Wooooohoooo!!! Way to go Max!!! Wonderful, wonderful news!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2010 at 9:23 AM
YYYAAAAAAYYYY Max!! Wow that is super! Sooo very happy for you and your family.ReplyDelete
Very glad you got a huge pick me upper...and thank you for spreading the joy...a big pick me upper for us - bringing us all some hope.
We're riding a hope wave as our little one is almost 2 and just rolled from him back to his belly. We're going to try to keep riding this wave - and hope you stay on yours too!
Yaaay Max!!!
:) Rose
I have a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes after reading your story, Ellen. I am so excited for you and Max. What an awesome kiddo.ReplyDelete
AWESOME!!! I'm with you (with the edge in my voice)...no, I would never get tired of it. I hope both of our kids are soon chatting our ears off, asking us billions of unanswerable questions and telling us their every thought. But you know, I'd also settle for just a few words, at this point. Still waiting over here for a decent no, but still hopeful!ReplyDelete
Congratulations!!! So exciting!! Just sorry, you weren't there.ReplyDelete
My son had his stem cell infusion about 2 years ago..I have ALWAYS said that it helped his speech. Even his therapists at the time believed his speech improved!
Your wonderful Max! What a delight for you.ReplyDelete
Believe your friend, however. I recall reading that we spend the first few years teaching them to walk and talk--and the rest of their lives telling them to sit down and be quiet! An exaggeration, of course! But a smile for the day. I thank God every day for MY Max (grandson) who was born 8-9 weeks premature and despite predictions is now in regular school and doing great. He did spend ages 3 and 4 in a "Special" school that helped him get a super beginning.
Please keep sharing the joys....
I am so excited you guys are so excited. One of the main reasons I started this blog was to inspire moms with younger kids—and Max definitely makes that possible. So, Mary, Rose, and everyone else, sharing the joys here is meaningful to me on so many levels. And Debbie, have faith: Addison is so young. And, yeah, I hope both our kids are talking their asses off someday. They can get on the phone or on Skype and talk all about us! Eeek!ReplyDelete
You know, Michele, I wasn't sorry I wasn't there; I don't care how or when Max talks to me, as long as he's doing it. Of course, I hope, I hope to hear more when I'm back. I'm greedy that way: I want more, more, more, more, more.
I am so thrilled for you (and Max)! This is just awesome news...and I have goosebumps just thinking of him saying that to you over the phone and how you must have felt.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2010 at 10:07 AM
Tears of happiness. What wonderful news. I can't just imagine you stopping on thebsidewalk, awestruck. Awesome.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2010 at 10:10 AM
OMG, Ellen, that's so awesome! Go, Max! xoReplyDelete
Hurray, yippee, wowza! Doing cartwheels, happy dance, grinning ear-to-ear! So happy for you and Max! Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
We just had a breakthrough this morning too - maybe something in the air?
Wishing you lots more words!
It never fails to amaze me how some parents can their kids for granted. Way to go Max; keep talking.!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 25, 2010 at 7:49 PM
Maybe listen to the phone conversation again with 'new ears'?ReplyDelete
Love it, love it, love it!!!ReplyDelete
Also, glad you're letting yourself sleep for once!
Ellen Cj is 6 1/2 years old and is just starting to say some words perfectly too! He says Hello every morning now when he wakes up! He is also saying Ry his brothers nick name. I wrote a post about it.ReplyDelete
Way to go Max! How happy are we!
That is SO cool! Way to go Max! And can I say how jealous I am about the sleep you are getting?ReplyDelete
This is so exciting, and I am so happy for you guys! Max is wonderful.ReplyDelete
- erinzruddySeptember 27, 2010 at 11:45 AM
Just got the chills. So cool!!! And your night at the hotel sounds AMAZING. I'm jealous.ReplyDelete
I am so excited for you and Max! What an amazing accomplishment!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 21, 2013 at 1:23 PM
My little sister has a number of issues. She recently went on mesication for ADHD and now shs talks so much that she barely eats anything. It is truly an issue.ReplyDelete


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Board virtually any rush-hour train these days, and you'll get the idea. Many commuters are standing. Bike spaces are full. Passengers crouch in the baggage and wheelchair spaces, hang out in the vestibule, crowd the aisles. Caltrain's riders are grumbling?and so should everyone else. Believe me, we are all in this together.
Which is a tough sell in this hyper-individualistic era. But, yes, Caltrain's difficulties affect everyone in the region. When the commuter line reaches capacity, its overflow?flows right back onto the roads. The same traffic-clogged roads everyone complains about. If you are a commuter, or simply a local resident, there is no ignoring Caltrain.
Yet many on the Peninsula do. Thousands never board the trains at all. The problem with this appears on voting day. The interdependence of rails and roads isn't always apparent. Nor is it clear that a vote for Caltrain is a vote for quality-of-life.
Not that voters get to have their say on the commuter line very often. Caltrain still has no clear source of funding. While its physical structure keeps advancing, its governmental structure hasn't changed in decades. So ridership booms, funding sags, and every few years Caltrain runs into a very predictable crisis.
Is this any way to run a railroad? I am not sure what a better way is ? only that Caltrain's 60,000 regular commuters hold much of the answer. They know the line, understand its worth and are best equipped to inform the public.
The public needs informing. With Caltrain, a little knowledge is particularly dangerous. Friends who take weekend trains to baseball games, for example, don't know that rush-hour expresses run twice as fast. Few grasp what electrifying the line ? in about five years ? will mean in terms of service. The high-tech signal and control system under construction will allow trains to run faster than today's 79 mph limit. They will run farther too, another mile and a half to the new Transbay Center in the Financial District.
Until the 1990s, Caltrain was the only suburban rail line operating west of Chicago. Most of us don't have much frame of reference for commuter trains. All the more important to stay informed ? and keep dreaming of a better transit future.


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CWC Patna Recruitment Application Online form 2018
CWC Patna Recruitment Application Online form 2018
CWC Patna Recruitment Application Online form 2018 is out through an official notification on the official website late in the month of January for 22 vacant Skilled Work Assistant posts. Central Water Commission, Patna notified a great career opportunity for all the aspirants looking to join CWC. All the candidates applying for Skilled work assistant must check eligibility criteria before filling the application form. Once you are eligible, you can apply from the direct link provided down the post.
Below are the Vacancy details, Important Dates, Eligibility criteria, selection process and a direct link to the application form;
Vacancy Details:
CWC Patna announced a total vacancy of 22 Skilled Work Assistant posts.
|Skilled Work Assistant
|22 posts
Category wise Vacancy details:
|Post Name
|Skilled Work Assistant (SWA)
Important Dates to remember:
An official advertisement was published as the notification for CWC Patna recruitment on 23rd January 2018. The online application process started on 25th January January 2018 and the same can be done on or before 28th February 2018.
|Important Dates
|Date of Advertisement
|23rd January-2018
|Starting Date of Application
|25th January-2018
|Last Date of Application
|28th February-2018
Eligibility Criteria:
Educational Qualification:
- An applicant must possess a Matriculation/10th certificate from any any recognized board.
- Candidates also needs to have ITI qualification from any recognisd board or university to be eligible for the CWC recruitment as per the official notification.
Age Limit:
- The minimum age to apply can be 18 years whereas, The maximum age can not be more than 30 years.
- SC/ ST /OBC/PWD/ PH candidates are eligible for Age relaxation as per the Government norms.
Application Fee:
- There is no application Fee for the application of Skilled Work Assistant, CWC Patna 2018.
How to apply for CWC Patna Recruitment Online 2018?
- Log on to official site.
- Now go to Water charged recruitment system.
- Press on the required notification and read it carefully.
- Fill the required details in the form.
- Upload all the necessary documents.
- Click on the submit button and take printout.
- Along with hard copy of form and other certificate, send to below given address.
Ector, Monitoring Directorate Central Water Commission, 23, Church Road No.1, New Patliputra Colony, Patna-800013.
Necessary Documents to be enclosed:
- Age Proof
- Certificate of educational qualification i.e. Matriculation or equivalent including Marks obtained,
- Photograph
- Certificate about age relaxation (if claimed) and
- Certificate for SC/ST/OBC/PwD
Selection Process:
- The selection process will be based on the matriculation marks and a physical fitness test.
- Final merit list will be prepared on the basis of candidate's performance in physical fitness test
|Physical Test
|Carrying Weight
|1km In 5 min
|Carrying 15kg weight for 500 m in 10min
|1km In 7 min
|Carrying 15kg weight for 500 m in 12min
- The Basic Pay for Skilled work Assistant will be Rs. 5200 – 20,200/-
- Grade pay for Skilled work Assistant will be Rs. 1900/-
All the best!


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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected nearly every aspect of education, and it is expected that English Learners (ELs) will suffer disproportionate impacts. In this webcast, panelists discuss how weaknesses in existing EL teacher education and professional development policies have played into schools' uneven response to the pandemic. They also offer lessons for future reform.
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The number of government requests worldwide seeking Twitter users' data, or the removal of content, increased during the first half of 2014.
There were 2,058 total requests to Twitter for user account information, typically connected to criminal investigations, during the first six months of 2014, a 46 percent increase from the second half of 2013, according to the company's biannual transparency report, released Thursday.
The majority of the account information requests—1,257—came from the U.S. government.
There were 432 requests to remove content, up 14 percent, which are generally made due to content that's illegal or defamatory in different countries.
Google helped to popularize the transparency report by first revealing in 2010 the number of government data requests it had received. Since then companies such as Facebook, Microsoft and Verizon have released similar reports.
Google, by way of comparison, received more than 27,000 user data requests during the second half of 2013; Microsoft received around 35,000 during the same period.
The ongoing rise in Twitter user-data requests may be due to its international expansion, "but also appears to follow the industry trend," the company said.
The company identified Turkey as one of several countries that saw a small but significant spike in the volume of data requests. Turkey's government restricted its citizens' access to Twitter earlier this year over anti-government speech carried out through the service.
Twitter aims to notify affected users of requests for account information unless the company is prohibited from doing so. The company may not comply with a data request if it fails to identify an actual account or is too broad, the company said.
Still, Twitter produced some information for just slightly more than half of its total data requests, according to the report.
Twitter did not say how many data requests it received related to national security matters. Laws have traditionally restricted companies from breaking out the numbers of national security and U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court requests they receive.
Some progress was made in this area earlier this year, when the Obama administration reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice and technology companies to let them disclose those requests, but in ranges of 1,000.
Twitter says that's not good enough. The company has met with officials from the DOJ and the FBI in an effort to provide clearer numbers, but so far those talks have not been fruitful. Twitter sent a draft of a midyear transparency report to the DOJ in April, providing information about national security requests, but has not received a response yet, the company.
"We are weighing our legal options to provide more transparency to our users," Twitter said.


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We caught wind of a report on Wednesday evening that the Chiefs had waived tight end Brad Cottam.
After a little research, we found out that the Chiefs had waived/injured him meaning he would hit the waiver wire and, if he went unclaimed, would return to the Chiefs.
And that's exactly what happened as the Chiefs announced Cottam has been placed on reserve/PUP.
He'll be out for at least the first six weeks of the regular season but I wouldn't look for him to play in 2010.
The key to doing this particular transaction is that Cottam won't count against the roster (active/PUP does) so the Chiefs can sign someone to take his place (which they already did with tight end Leroy Banks).
Cottam suffered a neck injury in week 14 last year which caused him to end the season on injured reserve. Since IR doesn't carry over from year to year, and the Chiefs wanted to retain his rights, they had to designate him as waived/injured so he could go through the waiver process and return to the team.
The Chiefs now retain Cottam's rights.


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Before we can understand the how to stretch the hamstrings, we need to understand how they work.
Common hamstring talk:
The hamstrings are three muscles. The semimembranosus, semitendinosus, and biceps femoris, which has a long and short head. The semis are inside (medial), the biceps outside (lateral). They all start at the top of the hip behind your ass (ischial tuberosity), and connect below the knee.
Because they cross two joints, the hip and the knee, they have two actions, one at the hip; one at the knee.
They pull the hip back, hip extension:
And pull the knee back, knee flexion:
Uncommon hamstring talk:
Because the hamstrings start at the pelvis, then can exert a force there as well. The hamstrings can pull the pelvis down, posteriorly tilting it and concurrently flexing the lower back:
Never mentioned hamstring talk:
As said, the hamstrings connect below the knee, at the tibia and fibula. Not said, the hamstrings connect on the sides of these bones.
Semimembranosus connecting inside (medial) to the tibia:
Semitendinosus connecting inside (medial) to the tibia:
Biceps femoris, long and short head, connecting to the outside (lateral side) of the fibula:
Because of these attachments the hamstrings can exert a rotational force at the knee. The medial hamstrings, semimembranosus and semitendinosus, can rotate the bottom portion of the leg inward; the lateral hamstring, biceps femoris, can rotate the bottom portion of the leg outward.
Finally, the hamstrings form a connection with the gastrocnemius, the calf, which forms a connection down to the foot. Courtesy of the Anatomy Trains philosophy:
Main takeaways
From top to bottom: The hamstrings are involved in
- Lumbar flexion
- Posteriorly tilting the pelvis
- Extending the hip
- Flexing the knee
- Rotating the tibia
- And are related to ankle plantarflexion
Reversing these actions, we can potentially increase the effectiveness of stretching our hamstrings when we:
- Extend the lower back
- Anteriorly tilt the pelvis
- Flex the hip
- Extend the knee
- Rotate the tibia in either direction
- Dorsiflex the foot
Let's start stretching those bastards.
But are they even tight?
Assessing the hamstrings posture
The most common assessment out there people seem concerned with is an anterior pelvic tilt.
Because the hips are rotated anteriorly and the hamstrings pull the pelvis posteriorly, it's common to assume the hamstrings are "weak / lengthened" in an anterior pelvic tilt. As we've gone over though, the hamstrings play a role in what happens at the hips and the knees. If we only look at the hips we're missing half the picture.
A person who appears to have some anterior pelvic tilt:
May also appear have some knee flexion going on:
The hamstrings may appear lengthened at the hip attachment, but they are, if anything, shortened at the knee connection. Think of a rubber band, if you pull the rubber band out from one end but bring it in from the other, what happens to it? Nothing. It doesn't get stretched.
Because muscles aren't exactly like rubber bands, from the above photos we could deduce: The hamstrings are perhaps underactive in hip extension but overactive in knee flexion. Helping to understand why, "Strengthen the hamstrings" isn't a solution for an anterior pelvic tilt. Or, contrary to the internet world, why "Just deadlift" does not solve everything. This is the type of person who should probably stop deadlifting for a while. (It promotes lumbar extension / anterior pelvic tilting and knee flexion.)
We need to look at the knees in a posteriorly tilted hip as well. Even though the hamstrings are tightened at the hip attachment, they may be lengthened at the knee attachment. The knees may be in hyperextension:
So again, our rubber band is being pulled from one direction but getting slacked from the other.
What the hell is going on here?
It's all relative
When faced with these types of situations we're forced to asked things such as the following:
- Is the amount of anterior pelvic tilt greater than the amount of knee flexion?
For instance (numbers are for example purposes), if the pelvis rotates anteriorly 5 inches (lengthening the hamstrings 5 inches), but, the knees flex 8 inches (tightening the hamstrings 8 inches), then overall, the hamstrings have been tightened 3 inches (8 – 5 = 3).
- Is the amount of posterior pelvic tilt greater than the amount of knee extension?
For instance, if there's a posterior pelvic tilt of 5 inches, then the hamstrings are tightened 5 inches. If there's a simultaneous 2 inches of knee extension, lengthening the hamstrings 2 inches, then the hamstrings have been (overall) tightened 3 inches (5 – 2 = 3).
Another example. Apparent anterior pelvic tilt with significant hip extension going on:
Even though the presence of an anterior pelvic tilt causes one to assume the hips are automatically in flexion, you can see quite a bit of hip extension going on:
And what extends the hips? The hamstrings. If the hip are in extension the hamstrings may actually be shortened, even with an anterior pelvic tilt going on. An APT is not a clear indication the hips are flexed.
Rotation at the knee
Remember, the hamstrings don't just work in a forward and back motion. They play a role in twisting too.
This is much simpler. Look at the front of the knee and foot. Do they face the same direction? Or different directions?
Right knee (left in picture) almost straight; left clearly turned in:
You can also assess this by looking at the back of the knee. Do both hamstrings (medial and lateral) appear the same? Or is one more prominent than the other?
Often the knee will point inward and the foot outward. Meaning the femur is rotated inward and the lower leg outward.
Some people out there, whom I really respect, seem to believe this is indicative the medial hamstrings are overactive. I'm not so sure. Because the medial hamstrings connect below the knee, I'm not convinced they can exert a medial rotation above the knee at the femur. I think the adductor magnus may have a more important role as it connects to the lower femur.
As well as indicative the lateral hamstrings (biceps femoris) are working overtime, as the rotate they bottom leg outward.
At the end of the day though, this doesn't really change our approach to loosening the hamstrings.
For now, understand:
- The hips only tell part of what the hamstrings are doing.
- The hamstrings play a role in rotation at the knee.
- Assessing the hamstrings in movement is crucial. Posture only tells us so much.
After all that, rather than trying to eye ball various alignments and rack your brain with anatomy,
Just make the person move
Before I go over how I like to assess hamstring length, let's go over issues with other methods.
Toe touching
The most obvious issue with toe touching is it promotes lumbar flexion.
If the lower back rounds there's a very good chance -even if the knees are kept straight- the hamstrings are being lengthened from one end but tightened from another. Meaning we're not really assessing their length.
During a toe touch a certain amount of lumbar flexion is expected, and what we're really concerned with is the amount of lumbar flexion relative to hip flexion, but I find this is too hard to eye ball and just not necessary to deal with. And flexing people's backs is rarely advised.
Moving on.
Active straight leg raise
I'm by no means an expert on the Functional Movement Screen. Forgive me if I misrepresent things.
The active straight leg raise in the functional movement screen (FMS) seems to be a popular method of assessing hamstring length. I've heard some repeatedly state it's actually not a hamstring length test. Rather, it's an assessment for the pattern of a straight leg raise test. However, in Gray Cook's (inventor of the FMS) Movement book he states the test is "much more than a hamstring length test." Leading me to conclude it's, amongst other things, a hamstring length test. Plus, everyone seems to use it for hamstring length.
Here's why I'm not big on this assessment.
1) You need to be cognizant of the hip capsule
A common movement issue at the hip is lack of posterior glide of the femoral head. Because of this the femur tends to glide too far forward (anteriorly). This will often happen during hip flexion, especially maximal hip flexion. What does the active straight leg raise attempt to do? Significantly flex the hip.
What may appear as limited hamstring flexibility may actually be the femoral head gliding forward into the pelvis. The bones may clunk together -why people with hip pain often feel pinching and catching- preventing further hip flexion.
By providing some posterior glide for the person you may suddenly find they have a greater amount of hip flexion and hamstring flexibility than originally thought.
2) The pelvis isn't starting from a true neutral and can move quite a bit
When a person is completely supine (on their back) the lumbar is flat, which means -compared to a normal amount of lordosis- it is flexed, meaning the pelvis is posteriorly tilted, which shortens the hamstrings from the hip attachment.
When you then attempt to fully flex the hip and extend the knee, even if the person gets to 90 degrees, the hamstrings aren't completely on stretch. Granted, if the person can't straighten their leg with the lower back flexed they aren't going to be able to do it with the lower back extended. (So I'm likely being a bit too picky here.)
Going right with this, you need to make sure the person doesn't allow any greater amount of posterior tilting as the leg raises.
Often turn into this,
I'm not sure if this is something the assessment is designed to look at. It very well could be. But from how I've seen people use this assessment, it seems ignored.
A better way
We can take principles from the active straight leg test and then make it better. We keep the person supine, but instead of actively raising the leg, we passively pull the knee in.
This helps generate posterior glide on the femoral head, giving us a greater chance of not irritating the hip in any way. From there, we can then actively straighten the leg.
I don't focus much on the bottom leg. The only point is I don't keep the bottom leg completely straight, like in the active straight leg raise. Doing so encourages the knee and hip to fully extend / hyperextend. Neither of which are desirable. In the ASLR test this is part of the assessment i.e. the extension ability of the bottom leg. For this post, we're concerned with hamstring length; not hip extension length.
I'll comment on supporting the lower back in a minute.
What we're looking for
During this movement we're looking for compensations indicative of stiff hamstrings.
1) The knee
The most obvious compensation is the person can't generate full knee extension.
2) The hips lift off the ground / the lower back rounds
The back should stay flat:
Not lift:
Make sure to look at both legs even though only one is moving. The hamstrings can rotate the pelvis; one side may stay flat but the other lifts.
3) The person generates knee extension from hip extension
Said another way, the person's knee travels to the ground. Rather than stay straight:
The knee extension is accompanied by hip extension.
This is what I was talking about earlier: Hip extension and knee extension tend to go hand in hand. You can see how the hamstrings may play a role in knee extension.
4) Rotation at the knee
We want to look out for the knee turning inward.
Because the adductor magnus is also on stretch during this movement, I believe this is a sign the adductor magnus is trying to fight the stretch. (Lateral rotation of the femur would put it fully on stretch; it doesn't like that.) Others seem to think this is the medial hamstring. Regardless, we don't want the compensation.
If all the above is satisfactory, we can take things further getting an ever better idea what's going on / improve the stretch.
1) Pull the toe to the stomach.
Remember that connection to the calf muscle? By dorsiflexing the ankle we can generate a greater stretch and get a better idea of the stiffness in the entire posterior leg.
2) Provide some lumbar support
By putting an arch in the lower back, which is normal and healthy,
We anteriorly tilt the hips a bit, further putting the hamstrings on stretch.
Make sure the support is under the lower back; not the hips. The hips should be touching the ground.
This is a great idea for someone with an often posteriorly tilted pelvis. We help get some of that lordosis back, while more effectively stretching the hamstrings. In someone with an anterior pelvic tilt, but hyperextended knees and hips, we could leave the pelvis alone. That way we flatten the lower back a bit (reversing the APT), but get some work into full hip flexion (reversing the hyperextension). Our assessment has turned into a nice corrective exercise.
Which is the point. The best assessments are also corrective exercises.
Let's bring it all together in a video:
Issues with other methods
The above certainly isn't the only way to loosen the hamstrings. But, hopefully you can see how much there is to consider when stretching them, and I think the above method helps make matters easier. Let's go over how other methods often miss the above factors.
Toe touching
I covered this earlier. It's common to substitute hip flexion with lumbar flexion, lessening the effectiveness.
Frankenstein walking
Substituting lumbar flexion for hip flexion happens in this exercise too:
It's very hard to keep the knee straight and get any dorsiflexion.
Because of the speed of the movement it's very hard to 1) Detect these flaws and 2) Correct them.
Walking RDL
This seems to be coached rather well regarding eliminating lumbar flexion.
However, too much knee bend is common.
To those saying you can coach a straight knee: It's not a great idea to load a locked knee. And if our goal is 90 degrees of hip flexion with full knee extension, that's what you'd be suggesting. You're also assuming the person is coordinated enough to not allow that knee to go into hyperextension.
Although, I will say the first picture is pretty damn good.
Next, while the lower back may not be flexing as much, it's often rotating.
It's common for one leg to have stiffer hamstrings than the other, causing an asymmetrical pull on the lower back, causing a lower back prone to rotating. You can coach people to prevent this, but it's hard. Especially if the person is stiff (the people most likely to be attempting these things). It's very hard to know if you're rotating without another pair of eyes (trainer / coach) as well. You could try a mirror, but looking off to the side during this is likely to cause balance issues.
With this exercise you're also saying working on lumbar extension is ok for everyone with stiff hamstrings. Go back to the pelvic alignment section if needed, but I've gone over extensively how lumbar extension is not always desirable when loosening the hamstrings. Especially loaded lumbar extension. (Gravity is resistance.) Not to mention excessive lumbar extension is the most common cause of lower back pain. And this is one aspect of the exercise you can't eliminate. You're going to extend the spine, and you're going to load it through extension, AND challenge the person's balance.
The irony of this exercise is the people who can do it properly probably don't need to do it for the purpose of improving their hamstring flexibility. Maintaining? Alright, maybe. I suppose my overarching point with this exercise is if you have stiff hamstrings you probably can't do this exercise well enough. You have to improve your hamstring stiffness through other means first.
Downward dog / Yoga push-up
I actually like this exercise and use it quite a bit. However, I often advocate doing it with the assistance of a mirror. Because the motion is slow, and the feedback of the mirror (or someone watching), it can be done well. For some though, they're simply too stiff and it doesn't work. Similar to the RDL notes above.
You can see someone rotating here:
Here's me talking to someone as they go through this. You can see the same issues we've been talking about with the lower back, knees and feet.
Foam rolling
Same shit, different day.
Along with a bunch of other issues beyond the scope of this post.
If this was helpful, consider buying me a few beers-
Or maybe you'd like an extra pair of eyes to help catch something like above.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Dozens of Harvard University students are being investigated for cheating after school officials discovered they may have shared answers or plagiarized on a final exam.
Harvard College's disciplinary board is investigating nearly half of the 279 students who enrolled in Government 1310: "Introduction to Congress" last spring for allegedly plagiarizing answers or inappropriately collaborating on the class' final take-home exam, according to The Harvard Crimson.
"These allegations, if proven, represent totally unacceptable behavior that betrays the trust upon which intellectual inquiry at Harvard depends," President Drew Faust said.
Each student whose work is in question has been called to appear before a subcommittee of the Harvard College Administrative Board, which reviews issues of academic integrity, said Jay M. Harris, dean of undergraduate Education. He emphasized that none of the allegations has been proven and said there's no evidence of widespread cheating at Harvard.
"The facts that are before us are that we have a problem in this one course," Harris said. "I hope that doesn't sound overly naive, I don't want to be naive, but this is what we have. The rest would be speculation.
"Looking at the students we have and the work that they do, I would be loathe to say this is something that represents Harvard students generally."
The spring course included undergraduates at all class levels, Harris said. A teaching assistant noticed some possible problems on the tests, including evidence that students collaborated on answers or used the same long, identical strings of words. The exam had clear instructions that no collaboration was allowed, Harris said.
The assistant notified the professor, who referred the case in May to the administrative board. After interviewing some students, the board found what Harris characterized as "cause for concern."
Depending on the offense, the punishments range from an admonition, a sort of warning for a first offense, to being forced to withdraw from Harvard for a year. It wasn't immediately clear what sanctions any student who has graduated may face.
There's no timeline for when the investigation will be finished, Harris said.
"We believe in due process for students and fairness," he said. "Everyone wants it done yesterday, but we have to be patient. It's going to take as long as it takes."
A Harvard spokesman said he knows of no incidents in recent memory of possible cheating at the university on this scale.
In response to the allegations, a Harvard committee on academic integrity led by Harris will present recommendations on how to enforce faculty-wide expectations of academic honesty.
In an email Thursday, Michael D. Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, urged faculty members to clarify policies on student collaboration and work to "foster a culture of honesty and integrity."
The school plans to initiate broad conversations on campus about academic honesty, including why it's vital to intellectual inquiry. It is also considering instituting an honor code. Such codes at other schools, for instance, set standards for honesty and require students to sign completed work, attesting that they followed those standards.
"We really think we need to work harder," Harris said. "We do think it's an opportunity to really put out before the community how much we value integrity."