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Saudi academics say preacher's statements about students' drug and alcohol use are faulty
Statements by a Saudi preacher, Mohamed al-Areefi, about the consumption of alcohol and drugs by international students and his calls that they be subjected to tests at the airport upon returning home stirred much controversy, especially among academics, who rejected what they regarded as a sweeping statement with no scientific basis.
All those who level such accusations at Saudi international students are after sensational news and are not basing their hypotheses on any scientific facts, said Nasser al-Oud, professor of Social Services at Imam Mohamed bin Saud Islamic University.
"With all due respect to Areefi, there are no accurate statistics that prove what he is saying," he told Al Arabiya.
Oud added that Areefi, who posted his statements on his Facebook page and Twitter account, is a man of religion, but he cannot issue judgments on matters related to statistics and medical tests.
"He is not supposed to interfere in drug tests and propose that they be done in airports, since this is not only a medical issue, but also one related to security measures."
Saudi international students, Oud pointed out, are known for their distinction and are always awarded important scholarships and engage in a variety of academic activities.
"We will never accept the image of our international students to be tarnished on social networking websites. It is on them that we count on for achieving progress in the country."
Hamza al-Salem, professor of economics at the Prince Sultan University in Riyadh, strongly objected to performing blood tests on international students at airports, yet admitted that some students do fail in keeping up a good educational standard when they are sent to study abroad.
"I believe this is more related to the university than to the student," he told Al Arabiya.
Salem explained that some universities are very strict with their academic standards and that it becomes almost impossible for students to "fool around" when they are enrolled in them.
"That is why it is very important to send our students, especially undergraduates, to such universities to make sure they will remain committed to education."
For Salem, if the university is not among the top 30 worldwide, then there is a very big chance that the student might engage in other activities like drinking or smoking.
"Several students failed because they gave in to the many temptations they were exposed to abroad."
Areefi's statements, mainly based on the testimonies of Saudi international students, came a few months after another preacher, Hassan al-Kaaoud, said in a television interview that about 80 percent of Saudi undergraduate students in the UK drink alcohol and stop praying.
"I made sure of this myself when I visited Saudi students in the UK," he said.
(Translated from Arabic by Sonia Farid)
URL: http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/01/07/186994.html

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The Downfall of a Statesman
Six-Term Indiana Senator Loses GOP Primary
Dick Lugar spent almost his entire Senate career trying to make the world safer from the specter of nuclear war.
But as it turned out on Tuesday night, Indiana Republicans weren't motivated to vote for the longtime statesman's foreign policy bona fides, and he lost his party's nomination to state Treasurer Richard Mourdock by about 20 points.
Indeed, the two-time Foreign Relations chairman's devotion to an issue that had its peak in the '80s and '90s seemed to only fuel the narrative that he was out of touch both at home and in Washington, D.C.
"He didn't evolve," one Senate Republican aide said. "When you don't evolve in politics, you die. You have to always figure out if you're on the leading edge. This is the major leagues. You can't just fake your way through a Senate election."
Yet it may be that Lugar's ultimate downfall wasn't that he hadn't been playing the game right but that in recent years he didn't seem to be playing the game at all.
In this Congress, the 80-year-old has spoken on the Senate floor for only 31 minutes over two legislative days, according to C-SPAN. By contrast, Sen.
Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who is also facing a primary this cycle, spent 18 hours on the floor over 61 days.
In fact, Lugar hasn't clocked double-digit hours in floor speeches since the 107th Congress — a decade ago. And in Republicans' weekly caucus luncheon, he isn't often a vocal participant — although no one disputes that he has the wide respect of nearly all of his colleagues.
This wouldn't have mattered in previous cycles such as 2006, when Lugar was the only GOP Senator without a general election opponent. But the national political landscape changed, and Lugar didn't.
Twelve years ago, Lugar won re-election with the simple slogan: "The experience to do more." A mantra like that wouldn't have the same appeal to voters today, especially in a tea-party-driven GOP primary.
"It's a bit of a tragedy for him that, for all his accomplishments in foreign policy, they're not on the front burner right now." said Brad Todd, who was Lugar's media consultant in 2000. "But elections are not about what have you done for me lately, but what you are going to do for me tomorrow."
Dwindling Prestige
Just days before the Senate held a dramatic Christmas Eve vote in 2009 on President Barack Obama's signature health care bill, Lugar delivered a passionate floor speech — on preventing nuclear proliferation.
The remarks were woefully out of tune with the rest of his party. Moments after he spoke, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) launched immediately into an attack of the health care legislation.
Lugar was the only Republican Senator who did not speak on the floor against the law. Multiple Republican sources close to the health care debate complained that, at the time, Lugar gave leadership headaches with his reticence. Finally, Lugar entered a statement into the Congressional Record asking Democrats to focus on the economy instead.
Being an attack dog was never in Lugar's nature. That was evident in 1996, when the jovial, silver-haired lawmaker's presidential campaign never got off the ground. For his entire Senate career, Lugar's wheelhouse always was, and continues to be, as a statesman.
That focus translated better to voters decades ago. But the Foreign Relations Committee, where Lugar did his most significant work and cultivated his deepest relationships, isn't what it used to be.
The committee's prestige has dwindled over the past 20 years. When Lugar came to Congress, the committee regularly passed State Department and foreign aid authorization bills.
More recently, the committee has lost clout, with more and more foreign policy getting made in the Armed Services and Appropriations committees instead. It's been a slow decline due in part to party polarization on foreign policy issues as well as to a post-9/11 focus on security over diplomacy.
But at the same time that the committee's influence waned, Lugar's voice diminished in the remaining key foreign relations debates on Capitol Hill. He also largely stayed on the sidelines during debates over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His cautious approach to foreign affairs put him at odds with his GOP colleagues.
Lugar urged prudence while Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), ranking member on Armed Services, encouraged the country to intervene in Libya. Lugar voiced a similarly cautious position on U.S. intervention in Syria last year, an issue that also split Republicans.
But perhaps the greatest signal of Lugar's fading influence on foreign policy within his party came during the 2010 debate over ratifying the New START nuclear arms control treaty with Russia. Despite Lugar's decades of experience on the subject, his GOP colleagues tapped Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.) to negotiate with the White House on the accord. Lugar was the only Republican Senator to join Democrats and support its ratification from the beginning. He earned a measure of vindication when the Senate ultimately approved ratification of the treaty with the help of several Republicans. But it was clear he was no longer the leading voice for his party on the issue.
All the while, Lugar never let up his mantle as a statesman, even after it went out of political style. In the months leading up to the primary, Lugar's office continued to send out a regularly updated email scorecard with the number of deactivated nuclear warheads resulting from the 1992 Nunn-Lugar agreement.
The same scorecard hangs in Lugar's office, with Velcro strips to update the ever-increasing number of deactivated deadly weapons.
Unfortunately for Lugar, those numbers didn't move his own poll numbers when Mourdock began attacking him this year.
Campaign Plagued by Errors
Lugar is the seventh Senator in 30 years to lose a primary, according to a Washington Post tally.
There are two schools of thought on his electoral peril: He could have salvaged his career, or his re-election was impossible in this political climate.
Either way, Lugar's problems were years in the making. They started before the tea party dominated GOP primaries in 2010 and prior to Obama touting his partnership with Lugar in his 2008 presidential announcement speech.
Some Hoosier conservatives trace Lugar's biggest problem to 1977, when he sold his Indianapolis home to move to Washington, D.C., but kept the local address on his voter registration.
But Lugar's woes probably started in 2006, when he had no competition for re-election, allowing his political instincts and operation to atrophy.
Lugar was one of three Republicans in the December 2010 lame-duck session to vote to proceed on the DREAM Act, a bill he co-sponsored with Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). He dropped his support of that immigration bill this Congress, but local conservatives complain it's too little, too late.
This winter, Lugar aggressively latched on to the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a popular issue with the conservative base. It was a comfortable way by which he could attack the president and placate primary voters.
But whatever momentum Lugar's team gained from that message was thwarted by its inability to run a nimble election campaign and to anticipate his political vulnerabilities — chiefly his residency issues. He made specific strategic errors and struggled to define Mourdock, as well as his own message.
Forgotten was the tally of nuclear arms Lugar helped deactivate, or the number of presidents who made the Indiana Senator their first phone call when a diplomatic crisis emerged.
"Sen. Lugar made such a tremendous contribution to the country's foreign policy for so long a time," Todd said. "Elections are not reward systems. They're job applications."
For all of Lugar's acclaimed efforts overseas, his political future lay in Indiana. And a Senate foreign affairs legend learned the hard way that all politics was, and continues to be, local.
Emily Cadei contributed to this report.


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St. John's United Methodist Church, a centuries-old church on St. Paul Street, looked the way it does during its occasional rock concerts. Hundreds of people — some older than 40, some in their 20s — gathered there Sunday not for the music, or a prayer service, but to vent.
"Banks got bailed out," yelled Mike McGuire, one of the organizers of the meeting. "We got sold out," the crowd shouted back.
And just like that, the Occupy Wall Street movement that has brought throngs of young people to the streets of Manhattan arrived in Baltimore, the latest city — Los Angeles and Washington are among the others — to brace for occupations against corporate greed. Starting at noon Tuesday, protesters will stage a demonstration at McKeldin Square in theInner Harbor.
By Monday, more than 800 people had signed up on Facebook to attend the initial rally, with some planning on staying overnight for days.
Much as in New York, the occupiers know what they'll be rallying against, but to what end, they're still not sure. Not yet, anyway.
"Clearly, we don't have a specific set of goals," McGuire said. "The state of affairs is objectionable enough that we're leaving our houses in a serious and concerted way to express our discontent."
Occupy Wall Street was originally conceived three weeks ago as a sit-in smack in the middle of the moneyed streets of Manhattan's financial district, in full view of the dealers, traders and industry bigwigs against whom the protesters are taking aim.
The New York protesters have since moved to nearby Zuccotti Park, where participants have been dressing up in outrageous costumes, doing yoga, chanting and painting signs, looking, at times, more like young people at sleep-away camp.
"We had a drum circle that went on until 4 a.m.," said McGuire, a 38-year-old Baltimore carpenter who camped out on a cardboard box on the first Saturday of the New York protest.
Police arrested more than 700 of the New York protesters this weekend as they spilled onto the Brooklyn Bridge, blocking traffic. By Monday, most had been released.
Baltimore police were monitoring social media and news reports for updates on theInner Harbor protest, said spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. He said it wasn't clear if the protesters needed a permit. Police are only concerned that the protesters stay organized and don't disrupt traffic.
He declined to say how many officers would be deployed to the scene. "We will make sure we have resources in place so that it doesn't become a distraction."
In the weeks since Occupy Wall Street started, copycat movements have sprung up in front of City Hall in Los Angeles, in Boston's financial district and in Chicago, where they've staked out the Federal Reserve Bank.
In Baltimore, Tuesday's demonstration was set up in a matter of days and word about it traveled fast via social media. Last Thursday, discussion on a Google group that sympathized with the protests' values moved to Club Charles in Station North, said Nick Becker, a 30-year-old herbalist who was among the organizers.
"While I was there, I started the Twitter account and a Google group," he said. "Before I left, there were already 20 people following the account on Twitter." Within 24 hours, he had 100 followers.
On Sunday, more than 150 people sat at St. John's on second-hand couches and rusty folding chairs around a circle, where McGuire and three other facilitators paced. They called on people to raise their hands if they had experience with mass cooking, dealing with cops, dispensing of waste and other skills that might be useful in staging a protest. While an agenda was projected on the wall, participants were asked to snap their fingers and wave their hands to signal agreement.
The Washington Monument in Mount Vernon and the headquarters of the Baltimore Development Corporation were suggested as possibilities for staging the protest. But ultimately, the crowd settled on McKeldin Square, a concrete plaza at Pratt and Light Streets, for its visibility.
McGuire said organizers did not believe a permit was needed to gather overnight at the park. Organizers have been taken back by the speed by which the planned protest has gathered followers. By early Monday morning, about 300 people had RSVP'd the protest's event page on Facebook. By late afternoon, it had jumped to over 800, with new ones signing up by the minute.
"It was a group that assembled over the course of three days," McGuire said. "I've been in Baltimore since my birthday 38 years ago and working in social movements since 1989, and this is the first of its kind."
In Baltimore and in New York, academics are seeing small flickers of comparison between the rallies and the revolutionary demonstrations that inflamed the Middle East and North Africa earlier this year, said Jeff Larson, an assistant professor sociology at Towson University who studies social movements.
Both grew by successfully exploiting outlets like Facebook, Twitter and You Tube.
Young people — including some of his students — who've made the trip to New York, camping out and maybe even getting arrested, have returned to Baltimore, energized and spreading the gospel.
He's not surprised that it's money, or social disparity, that's behind the Occupy protests.
"These are the kinds of issues that young people have been talking about for generations and generations," Larson said. "Perhaps it should be no surprise in an economic recession, young people just entering workforce and trying to build careers are finding it's affecting them. They're concerned about their future."
It's unclear whether the Occupiers will have an effect on political discourse, though. Even as the protesters are preparing for the logistical aspects of the sit-in, they still haven't clearly spelled out what they expect will come out of their protests.
For McGuire, a veteran of several protests at World Trade Organization summits, it's more important to take advantage of a moment that has attracted a critical mass even if they don't know where it could take them.
One immediate effect of the Occupy protests, he said, has been the highly public platform it's given discontented young people to voice their views.
Erin Barry-Dutro, a 25-year-old who was at the meeting Sunday, said each protester will come Tuesday with different goals in mind.
"The end goal might be to just get out there and express their frustration that they don't have jobs or health insurance or they don't have a place to live," she said.
As hundreds have signed up for the Tuesday protest, others expressed their allegiance to the cause but begged off, citing responsibilities.
One young woman posted on the Occupy Baltimore Facebook, with a frownie face: "I have to work." Someone else had a conference call.
Another sympathizer worried that without a permit, officials would have an excuse to bust up the gathering.
An anonymous page organizer replied, "This is a public space. So, YES! We have a permit! It's called the constitution."
Barry-Dutro won't be going to the protest because she's got a full time job as a bookseller. And "I'm recovering from a cold," she said. She's signed up to help the protesters with logistics.
Organizers said it's impossible to say how many people the initial occupation will draw Tuesday or over the course of several days. Personal responsibilities may keep some people off until the weekend. They're looking at New York as a model.
"The New York people didn't show up expecting to sleep out. Nobody had a really good sense of where this was going," McGuire said. "It was pretty unplanned."
His only plan on Tuesday is to bring a sleeping bag, some cardboard, and a sheet of plastic to cover himself, just in case it rains.
St. John's United Methodist Church, a centuries-old church on St. Paul Street, looked the way it does during its occasional rock concerts. Hundreds of people — some older than 40, some in their 20s — gathered there Sunday not for the music, or a prayer service, but to vent.


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I. The Charter
Preserved in the Rare Book Collections is a very curious document — a beautiful two-hundred-and twenty year-old charter endorsed by the Russian Empress Catherine the Great that promotes Aleksandr Mukhanov, a young Russian nobleman, from regimental baggage-train driver to Lieutenant-Captain (Secund-Rotmistr) in the Horse-Mounted Guards.
Provenance of this document is unknown. On the verso there is an inscription: "При запечатанiи въ коллегiи иностранныхъ д ѣлъ но. 424" (When as applying a seal at the Office of Foreign Affairs. No.424
This unique document–likely acquired "somewhere in the 1920s" within a large and important collection of books and documents purchased for the University Library–is printed on parchment with a hand-painted border of cobalt-blue. There is a monogram of Catherine the Great at the center of the top border, surrounded by double-headed crowned birds, banners, fire arms and cold steel, armor, and bows and quivers.
In each corner there is a helmet with a plume decorated with oriental ornaments and an allegorical figure of Minerva on the left hand side and one of Mars on the right. At the bottom of the border, in a medallion, one can see a military camp and transport with two pairs of horses, surrounded by banners, cannons, cartridge pouches and drums.
The text itself starts with a six-line ornamental initial. The document carries traces of the Russian Imperial wax seal.
Literal Translation of the Charter:
By the Grace of God, We, Catherine the Second, Empress and Autocratrix of All the Russians, &c, &c, &c.
Let it be known and recognized by all that as of the first day of the month of January, in the year of Our Lord one thousand-seven hundred-and-ninetieth, We have Most Graciously bestowed and conferred upon Aleksandr Mukhanov who had served Us as regiment baggage-train driver in the Horse-Mounted regiment of Our Guards, and in acknowledgement of the zeal and diligence with which he disposed of his duty in Our service, — the rank of Lieutenant-Captain in the self-same regiment; and whereas We bestow and confer this upon him, commanding all Our men to pay the said Mukhanov the honors and respect befitting the rank of Our Lieutenant-Captain in the Guards, are accordingly trustful that in this rank, most Graciously granted him by Us, he will deport himself in a manner that behooves a loyal Officer of the Guards. In testimony thereof We have signed this with Our own Hand and commanded that it be confirmed by Our State Seal.
Given in Saint Petersburg, in the year 1790, {on the 24th Day of December}
On the lower line there is a signature, by a different hand: Lieutenant-Colonel {Saltykov} of the Guards Horse Mounted Regiment.
Almost everything in this document raises questions: Who was Mukhanov, and why was he so abruptly promoted from the lowest ranks to a position of high prestige? If the promotion was effective as of January 1st 1790, why was the order signed almost a year later, on Christmas Eve of 1790? What happened to Mukhanov later? How did the original document find its way to mid-Missouri? These are among the many baffling questions to which we may never have a definite answer, but a bit of detective work can cast some light upon the mysteries of the past.
II. Our hero – Mukhanov
Aleksandr Il'ich Mukhanov was born on January 8, 1766 into a noble family. He had six brothers and one sister. His father, Il'ia Mukhanov, was a Colonel in the Horse-Mounted Regiment, from which he retired in 1764, and he was personally known to the Empress. On the day of her ascension to the throne in a coup — July 28th 1762 — Il'ia Mukhanov was among the officers in her convoy on the way to St. Petersburg.
When the future Empress felt cold, Il'ia Mukhanov gave her his officer's overcoat. She always remembered this gesture with gratitude.
According to the memoirs of Aleksandr Mukhanov's niece, five older brothers were educated at home, and the youngest one, Michael, at the Military School. All of them served at the same Life-Guards regiment. And as a contemporary anecdote has it, some pupils of the convent school for young noble ladies thought that all Life-Guards were named Mukhanov. Honesty, piety and brotherly love for each other and to the family, according to Mukhanov's niece, were their most characteristic virtues.
Aleksandr Mukhanov joined the regiment in 1775, at the age of 9. It was customary in 18th century Russia to enlist a boy of noble birth in a regiment as a soldier, so that when he came of age he would be ready to receive his first officer's commission and to begin his real service in a regiment as an officer.
If we look at the list of his promotions, we can see that he was first promoted in 1784, when he was 18 to a cornet. He was promoted again in 1792 to a captain (rotmistr), and on November 15, 1796, only nine days after Catherine's death, he became colonel and was decorated with the Order of St. Anne.
After Catherine's son Paul ascended to the throne, Mukhanov's career took a sharp upswing. In March of 1798, two month after his first son Paul was born, Mukhanov retired from the Guards and was given a civil rank of State Councilor (slightly higher than colonel), became a Knight Commander of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and on September 5th, was appointed Vice Governor of the city of Novgorod. He was advanced to an Actual State Councilor (corresponds to a Major General) and then appointed Governor of Kazan, the capital of an important province, on April 4, 1799. After Emperor Paul's assassination in 1801, Aleksandr Mukhanov was relieved of his governorship and brought before the Senate for trial on charges of cruelties committed while governor of Kazan. He was 35 years old then.
But it was not the end of his career. On May 6, 1805, he was sent to the south of Russia to be a civil governor of Poltava, and in the following year he became a civil governor of Riazan. Later he returned to St. Petersburg, and received a rank of Stalmeister at the Imperial Court (Master of the Horse), which, according to the Russian Table of Ranks, corresponded to the rank of Lieutenant General. He spent the last years of his life in Moscow, where he died, and was buried in the cemetery of Novodevichii Convent on 22, October 1815.
III. Christmas Gift
It can only be conjectured that at the end of 1789 Mukhanov was ready for the promotion to the rank of second-lieutenant, when something happened that impeded his rising through the ranks of the regiment.
These and other considerations lead to the supposition that the whole matter of the demotion and promotion of Aleksandr Mukhanov could be to a certain extent a domestic affair for Catherine, who could be moralistic but was more-or-less good-natured.
In case of Aleksandr Mukhanov it looks as if he was punished by a firm but benevolent, almost motherly hand, and when he showed (perhaps?) genuine regret, or maybe demonstrated extraordinary courage on the battlefield, he was generously rewarded: promoted not to the next higher rank, but over two ranks, and evidently receiving the yearly salary of a Lieutenant-Captain in back pay to boot! Above all it was a nice Christmas gift.
Selected bibliography:
- Iz zapisok M.S. Mukhanovoi. Russkii Arkhiv, 1878, kn. 1
- Rodoslovnaia Mukhanovykh, Russkii Arkhiv, 1878, kn.1
- Zapiski N.A. Sablukova o vremenakh Imperatora Pavla, i konchine etogo gosudaria. 1911.


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The Future Is Now — Star Trek Phasers Are Real
You know how sometimes you're walking through Times Square, and it reminds you a little too much of 'Blade Runner,' then you get an email on your hand-sized computer/phone, and you have a massive panic attack because THE FUTURE IS NOW?!!!!! This video does not help that feeling. At all.


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CLEVELAND – Authorities have confirmed a UFO over Lake Erie.
It seems to be world centre for UFO videos, but this the image is extraordinarily clear.
UFO enthusiast Michael Lee Hill, of Eastlake, has recorded many images of something mysterious over Lake Erie, Ohio.
He has just released new footage filmed along the lakefront that he says is his best so far.
Mr Hill said: "It was probably one of the craziest nights of activity I've ever experienced."
The images show several sets of coloured lights flashing over Lake Erie, while appearing to remain still.
Mr Hill said: 'I've been filming these for a long time and it's just grown to the point where they've let me know, they know I'm sittin' there filming them.
'You know, they come in – every year they've come in closer and closer."
Several people in the area believe the lake is a hotbed for extraterrestrial activity.
Ed Husa lives in Euclid and often walks his dog in a local park.
'I go outside and I look up in the sky and I see them all the time up there.
'Every so often you see strange lights blinking on and off.'
Fox 8 News revealed similar images of lights blinking over Lake Erie last year.
That led a team from the Cleveland Ufology Project to track the lights.
The organisation was founded back in 1952. Its members consider themselves experts and decided that the images were airplanes.
Hill disagreed with their assessment last year and now he says he's even more confident the aliens are among us.
'The fact that this remains in the screen and is not moving, I believe, negates any notion that it's an aircraft,' he said.
Previously, NASA, which has a research facility in Cleveland, has not commented on the sightings over Lake Erie. Officials at Hopkins International Airport said planes from the U.S. and Canada take-off frequently over the water.


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Busted! 8 mammogram truths every woman must know
Do mammograms save lives? Of course they do. But is mammography the surefire "fix" for the breast cancer problem that many women believe it to be? Unfortunately not, says Dr. Laura Esserman, director of the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center at the University of California at San Francisco.
In fact, she says, there are quite a few "inconvenient truths" about mammography that women should be aware of. Here are six.
Note: This slideshow is not medical advice. If you have any concerns about breast cancer, talk to your doctor.
Self-Awareness Matters
No matter what mammogram schedule women follow, they should be on the lookout for any changes in their breasts that suggest trouble. Fact is, says Dr. Esserman, half of all breast cancer patients spot their own tumors by checking their breasts.
Mammography "is not a substitute for being aware of your body," says Dr. Esserman.
Mammos Can Lead to Medical Problems
When a mammogram shows something "suspicious," the woman is typically asked to follow up with additional scans and, in many cases, biopsies. Yet up to 80 percent of biopsies come back negative, meaning that there is no cancer.
Biopsies are painful, and some result in infection. And then there is the enormous stress women experience during the time they think they might have cancer.
Dr. Esserman says that any woman told she needs a breast biopsy should ask the doctor whether it might be possible to "watch and wait" the suspicious breast rather than have an immediate biopsy.
Age Makes a Difference
The breasts of younger women - those in their forties or below - tend to be dense, and mammograms aren't particularly effective at spotting cancer in dense breasts. For these women, mammography is more likely to result in being called back for a biopsy even when no cancer is present.
On the other hand, women age 75 or older tend to have slower-growing tumors, so mammography might not make much sense for them.
Women in these age groups should talk with their doctor about the value of mammography, says Dr. Esserman.
Screening Guidelines Can Be Confusing
Experts disagree about screening guidelines. The American Cancer Society says women should get regular mammograms starting at age 40. But last November, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force caused a firestorm of controversy when it revised its screening recommendations, saying that women without personal risk factors should have their first mammogram at age 50 and then every 18 to 24 months after that.
In addition, the task force said women in their forties and over age 74 should make their decision about mammography on an individual basis, after speaking with their doctor.
So what's a woman to do? Know your body, your family history of breast cancer, and your own personal risk factors, says Dr. Esserman. Then talk to your doctor.
Mammos Can Miss Aggressive Tumors
Some women seem to think that as long as they get regular mammograms, they'll be safe from breast cancer. That's not necessarily so. Some cancers grow so quickly that they develop between scheduled mammograms. These can be especially dangerous.
Increased use of mammography has resulted in more tumors being found, but many of these are slow-growing, relatively benign cancers. Says Dr. Esserman, "We are not going to screen ourselves into a cure." To do better, she says, doctors need to find smarter ways of screening and to develop more effective treatments for aggressive cancers.
Mammgrams Have to Be "Read"
The results of a mammogram don't just jump out. A mammogram has to be "read" by a skilled radiologist - ideally one who has lots of experience.
One way women can help ensure they're getting reliable mammography results is to go to a mammography center where each "reader" sees about 2,000 mammograms a year, according to Dr. Esserman. And, she says, it's best to go to a center that specializes in breast imaging rather than to a general radiology center.
Prevention Counts
For women who are at high risk for breast cancer, regular mammography may be less important than taking steps to reduce the risk. Dr. Esserman says women should know their family history of cancer and t heir personal risk factors in order to make sound decisions about the value of mammography. (Smoking, drinking, and being overweight are three things that increase a woman's risk for breast cancer.)
Should I or Shouldn't I?
With conflicting guidelines, it's not easy to know when is the right time to get a mammogram.
Dr. Esserman says it's vital that every woman knows her body, her family history of breast cancer, and her own personal risk factors.
Then talk to her doctor.


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Benjamin Moore Embarks on "Color Care Across America"
America's Top Paint Brand Teams With U.S. Conference of Mayors + Painting & Decorating Contractors of America To Provide Color Makeovers for 51 Shelters in 50 Days
MONTVALE, N.J., Sep 26, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --" The uplifting emotional impact of color is being put to the test as Benjamin Moore Paints launches "Color Care Across America," a color makeover program for shelters. The initiative launched September 21, in Laredo, TX and Trenton, NJ, and it will continue over the course of 50 days, as crews of volunteer professionals who are members of the Painting & Decorating Contractors of America (PDCA)--a team in each state plus DC--pick up their paint rollers and brushes to provide color redesigns for shelters that provide housing for those in need.
The United States Conference of Mayors (USCM), which has made reducing homelessness one of its top priorities, partnered in this ambitious campaign. "The nation's mayors are the first to understand the hardships facing families today," said Tom Cochran, CEO & executive director of the United States Conference of Mayors. "With the failure of the national economy to rebound and the dwindling resources on the ground, many people are out of work, homeless and must turn to these shelters for help. That's why we are pleased to be a part of this Benjamin Moore program. Color is powerful! If it can brighten lives and uplift the spirits of our neediest citizens. We are all for it."
The individual shelters that will undergo the color transformation were chosen through a competitive process that included a USCM review committee.
In explaining Benjamin Moore's decision to undertake Color Care, company director Carl Minchew said, "Many hard-working families are experiencing the loss of their homes, and finding that the American dream of home ownership is fading. They are among the growing ranks winding up in shelters. It's demoralizing, and in some cases, a de-humanizing condition that can break the spirit of any family. Then, of course, there are the hundreds of women and children seeking sanctuary from abusive households. The increasing demand from these growing populations is taxing and straining the organizations that offer emergency living. Obviously, there's no simple solution to this troubling occurrence, but the aim of Benjamin Moore in launching 'Color Care Across America' is to bring attention to this situation while helping to improve the living environments for those who seek this basic human need of having a roof over their heads."
According to Richard Greene, CEO of the PDCA, association members were quick to sign on for the initiative. "You'll often find PDCA members among the first to volunteer for community projects, offering their time and skills to help the less fortunate. So, we're proud to be officially onboard with this tremendous undertaking and applaud each individual painting and decorating firm that has committed to the program."
With a promise to paint the interiors of shelters that are up to 10,000 square feet in size, Benjamin Moore is providing enough paint for bedrooms plus common areas such as living rooms, dining rooms and recreation spaces, entries/foyers, hallways and stairwells. It estimates that by the completion of the final shelter in Washington, DC, this November, more than 3,000 gallons of paint will be put to use. Minchew said the painting contractors will handle minor repair on walls, ceilings and trim to properly prepare the surfaces being painted. There's a plan, as well, to leave behind a few extra gallons with brushes and rollers "in case residents, staff or volunteers feel inspired to spruce up other areas of the house that remain in need of a coating."
Helping to ensure that the color options for these community residences will add an upbeat mood while respecting local and regional tastes, Benjamin Moore turned to the editors of House Beautiful magazine. They joined with Benjamin Moore's senior interior designer, Sonu Mathew, in putting together seven suggested palettes that each shelter will be able to choose from.
"There will be no cookie-cutter looks," said Minchew, "and no standard institutional hues. This is an empowering opportunity for the shelters to select colors that are livable and likable."
The Color Care program is also underway in Canada, where a shelter in all but one of the country's 10 provinces is getting a color makeover, as well.To track the progress of this program, please visit the Color Care Across America tab on the Benjamin Moore Facebook: http://www.facebook.com"
(The color being applied to the wall in the photo above is what psychologists call Bubble Gum Pink. Research has shown that it lifts the moods of depressed people who are institutionalized.) It's true that color can make a difference!


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AUSTIN, TEXAS -- Sure, plenty of stars and superstars descended on the South by Southwest Music Conference, which concluded Sunday after five days of glad-handing, pitch-making and music scouting by thousands of attendees. There were sets by everyone from Bruce Springsteen and Jack White to Erykah Badu and 50 Cent (with a drop-in from Eminem).
But mostly this was about the 2,000 bands or artists who aren't Springsteen, the up-and-comers who might be, could be next in line to make life-changing music. Wild Belle -- Chicago brother-sister duo Elliot and Natalie Bergman -- demonstrated a mix of craft and charisma that suggested its immediate future will be filled with offers from record labels. The duo's sound, fleshed out with a full band, is a deceptively breezy brand of pop, accented by Jamaican rock-steady beats and trip-hop atmospherics. Natalie Bergman's sly, poised vocals suggest there's a lot more to these songs than first meets the ear, a hint of sophistication and nuance that puts the melodies a cut above.
Another Chicago group, Kids These Days, was all but unknown outside its hometown a year ago, but has had a swift rise in the last year and played multiple times at South by Southwest. The septet's third and final show on Saturday alone found the band in a high-energy, almost feverish mood, rolling over some of the subtle jazz inflections and textural shifts in its arrangements. But the group's genre-swinging versatility -- everything from rap and lounge to blues and soul -- and exuberance carried the day. The group received a visit from Epic Records executive L.A. Reid in Chicago a few days ago, and its Austin appearances played like auditions for many of Reid's peers.
Commerce is never very far from the music at South by Southwest, but this year the lines were particularly blurred as big corporate money brought in big-name artists. One huge outdoor stage outside the conference center sponsored by a snack-chip company was shaped like a giant vending machine. Hotel room keys advertised the new album by a U.K. rock band. Advertising by Internet and car companies turned the interior walls of revered clubs such as Antone's into big billboards.
It wasn't always so. In its inaugural year of 1987, South by Southwest hosted 200 mostly local or regional bands at 12 clubs. Still, even as the conference has grown to 2,000 bands from as far away as Spain and Taiwan vying for attention at 92 clubs over five days and nights, there were signs of intelligence and heart. Springsteen's keynote address was nothing less than inspiring, a tour of personal influences that played like a mini history of the music. There is nothing "pure" about the music he and countless others play, Springsteen asserted, nor was it meant to be. It is an ever-changing hybrid in which doo-wop, the Sex Pistols,Eric Burdon's growl and Roy Orbison's operatic longing can co-exist. He then enumerated just about every genre known to music geeks, from death metal to neo-soul, and said they are all worth hearing, so long as they are done with "power and purpose."
Springsteen's message of inclusiveness pointedly ignored the business side of the equation, but many of the daytime panels did not. One discussion centered on how critical social media had become to bands' success, even even as one panelist suggested that the most powerful social-media platform, Facebook, would be passe in a decade. Perhaps the only certainty was that technology used to connect bands to their fans will change almost as rapidly as the fortunes of many of the artists using it. As physical product has been replaced by downloading and now streaming, the revenue pie for artists continues to shrink, another panel observed, but tiny revenue streams can eventually turn into something substantial if enough users buy in.
"Consumers are telling us they want to experience music this way (via streaming)," artist manager Nick Stern said. "So it would be stupid to fight it. Otherwise we're just going to repeat the last 10 years."
Meanwhile, the music kept coming. A few highlights from South by Southwest:
Who's got the biggest buzz? Alabama Shakes were the band everyone needed to see if they hadn't already. The quintet, led by vocal powerhouse Brittany Howard, played numerous sets to nearly universal acclaim. Howard and her bandmates wed a rootsy soul-rock sound to resonant songs.
Next up in hip-hop: The Shakes' fellow Alabamans, G Side, have been around for a few years, and the co-ed collective has honed its live sound to match its excellent recordings. Gospel-fired sung vocals aren't just tacked on as hooks in the choruses, but blend with the MCs' rhymes to create a swirling collage.
Unlikely soul man: Nick Waterhouse may look like a bespectacled engineering student, but he and his band brought a raw shimmy to their soul-pop tunes. Waterhouse isn't retro in the polite, slavish manner of so many revivalists. He mines early soul and R&B for their erotic possibilities, and you can hear it in the recklessness of his guitar solos and the rasp in his vocals.
Hooks, hooks, hooks: When every vocal line, every guitar riff sounds like a little sonic forget-me-not, you've got something. Bleached, a quartet led by sisters Jessica and Jennifer Clavin, cut through the din with the kind of bouncy melodies that can turn even the darkest, dingiest club into a beach party.
They took us to church: There are no apparent religious connotations in many of the lyrics in Lumineers songs, but the Denver group turned the audience inside a 7th Street church into a congregation of believers with their folk-rock bravado. Singing without the aid of microphones, standing on the pews and in the aisles, the band staged a hootenanny sing-along. Now that's how to make a 20-minute set memorable.
Don't mess with her: Lydia Loveless led her band through a fierce set of country-punk, taking aim at ex-boyfriends, stalkers and the self-righteous with stiletto-tipped lyrics and no-nonsense vocals. She may not stand very tall, but Loveless joined a long line of self-empowered ladies with a twang in their vocals and steel in the tips of their cowgirl boots.
Dance or go home: Tanlines, a New York City duo, draped moody melodies over intersecting rhythms that brought to mind everything from a Caribbean dance party to an early disco-flavored New Order single. The band had no trouble energizing the crowd in a small club, and one could easily see this music translating on a bigger scale, in the recent tradition of LCD Soundsystem, Phoenix or Cut Copy.
Promise and potential, but not there yet: That sums up more than handful of acts at South by Southwest, bands or artists who have talent but still haven't quite worked out how to best present it. There was London's Cold Specks, which featured the bruised vocals of Al Spx. She's got star quality in her voice, but her band's chamber pop arrangements featuring cello and saxophone didn't really coalesce into anything memorable until the closing, slow-build song. THEESatisfaction, a spinoff of Seattle hip-hop group Shabazz Palaces, made music perfect for a 3 a.m. post-party chillout. Trouble was the duo was performing in a noisy club at the height of the weekend musical rush hour. Next time, Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White should ditch the instrumental backing track and bring a DJ or keyboardist, or both, to help them deliver their dreamy, neo-psychedelic songs.


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Connection between distribution of Harp seals and ice cover parameters determined using ERS-2 SAR-2 imagery. In proceedings of the ICES/NAFO Workshop on Survey Methodology for Harp Hooded Seals, Copenhagen (1997).
Harp Seals migration: Results of ERS SAR studies. Advisory Commitee on Fishery Management, Report of the Joint ICES/NAFO Working Group on HARP and Hooded Seals, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, ICES CM/ Assess:3, ICES Headquarters 28 August - 3 September 1997 (1998).
Investigation of ice and hydrological regime of the White Sea under the conditions of anomally warm 1994/1995 winter conditions. Russian Geographic Society 47-64 (1998).
Analysis of Ice Dynamics of Arctic Seas for Research of the Harp Seals Migration in the White Sea Using Satellite Data. Earth Observation and Remote Sensing 76-93 (1998).


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This is another attempt by [[User:Duncan|Duncan Lithgow]] to find a good system.
This is another attempt by [[User:Duncan|Duncan Lithgow]] to find a good system.
GRAMPS ID's use the first character to denote the type of item the ID refers to. Taking the most relevant ones
GRAMPS ID's use the first character to denote the type of item the ID refers to. Taking the most relevant ones be converted to the following tags:
'''I--''' Individual
'''P--''' Place
'''E--''' Event
'''S--''' Source
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= See also =
= See also =
Revision as of 18:32, 25 July 2008
After thinking about the limits to how we can structure our files and folder (see Portable_Filenames) the next step is developing a semantic controlled vocabulary.
Before launching too deep into this lets look at what we want to achieve.
- Understandable filenames
- Computer readable filenames
- A system simple enough to remember
To be understandable we need to be able to use full words where appropriate.
To be computer readable we need to seperate the parts in a way which a script can easily recognise and, more importantly, in a way which would never occur in real language. So it would be no good to mark a name section with the word name if we also can use the word name somewhere in the file where it is not meant to be a marker.
To be simple enough to remember the system should not be too complicated, after all GRAMPS is meant to store the real information, this is just a supplement.
What's in a name?
It would be nice if we could have files called
Marriage of Mary Angus Jones and Matthew Williams, 2nd Dec 1923 (William Angus is to Mary's right).jpg
But this meets only one of the criteria above, that of understandable filenames. How can a computer know who got married? what their surnames are? and so on. And anyway because of the limitations of Portable_Filenames we can't have file names like that. We have to drop the reliance on capitalisation, drop the spaces, drop the comma and drop the brackets. To be computer readable we need to separate the sections with a system of markers to indicate where the surname, event name etc are.
So what sections do we want to be able to identify? Here's a basic list that should be enough for most situation, remember that GRAMPS stores the more complex information, we're just trying to give a useful structure to our files.
- Surname
- Firstname
- Date
- Event type
- Place
- Source
- Note
Some more important criteria. All file names:
- Must be unique
- Must have all necessary information
- Must have no more information than necessary
So if I find a file somewhere strange in my system, or if someone I sent a file to seven years ago says "that file you sent me - that's not Jean it's her daughter" I know where my archive copy of that file will be.
GEDCOM based
This is a system contributed by Duncan Lithgow.
If we base a naming system on the 3 and 4 letter Lineage-Linked GEDCOM Tag Definition used in the GEDCOM 5.5 standard we have a good long list of tags to chose from. By limiting the GEDCOM tags list we can make the following shortlist (which does not include events):
AUTH-- Author "The name of the individual who created or compiled information." DATE-- Date EVEN-- Event "A noteworthy happening related to an individual, a group, or an organization." GIVN-- Given name "A given or earned name used for official identification of a person." NAME-- Name, use only if GIVN and SURN are not known "A word or combination of words used to help identify an individual, title, or other item. More than one NAME line should be used for people who were known by multiple names." NOTE-- Note "Additional information provided by the submitter for understanding the enclosing data." PLAC-- Place "A jurisdictional name to identify the place or location of an event." REFN-- Reference "A description or number used to identify an item for filing, storage, or other reference purposes." SOUR-- Source "The initial or original material from which information was obtained." SURN-- Surname "A family name passed on or used by members of a family." TITL-- Title "A description of a specific writing or other work, such as the title of a book when used in a source context, or a formal designation used by an individual in connection with positions of royalty or other social status, such as Grand Duke."
Each marker ends with two hyphens (--). Two because we can't rely on the marker being recognised as capitalised, so a surname like Besour-Jean could be mistaken for beSOUR-Jean and the system thinks that SOUR- marks a source section.
In order for the file name to be parsed as meaningful text I think some we also would need
_ Underscore to represent a space __ Double underscore to represent a comma followed by a space
Source events
The GEDCOM 5.5 standard defines so few events as to be useless. The GRAMPS XML schema defines no events as these can be made by the user. This all seems fair enough since events are highly culture based. The situations where I think a set of events should be defined are those which will be connected with source records. GEDCOM has a reasonable group of those but they are heavily based in western christian culture. The solution must be language and culture dependent. Here's my list:
marriage is for an actual marriage event and all the associated documentation, including possible divorce and separation documentation. birth is for the actual birth records, also christening record death is for death records census is for census records civic is for military service records, and government records of any type health is for health records
An event image file
File name:
This could be parsed (by GRAMPS?) as the description:
Event: Marriage Surname: Jones Given name: Mary-jean Surname: Williams Given name: Matthew Date: 2nd Jan, 1923 Note: William angus to the right of mary
or it could make the text:
Mary-jean Jones and Matthew Williams, marriage 2nd Jan 1923. (William angus to the right of mary)
A source image file
File name:
This could be parsed (by GRAMPS?) as the description:
Source: Census Place: Uk, england, london Date: 21st March, 1840 Surname: Jones Given name: Mary-jean
or it could make the text:
Census, Place: Uk, england, london, on 21st March 1840. This is a source connected to Mary-jean Jones
A source text
File name:
This could be read as the description:
Source: Publication Title: The Jones Family from 1735 Author: Mary Jean Jones Date: 1872
Or it could make the text:
"The Jones Family from 1735" by Mary Jean Jones, 1872
SWOT analysis
Over at Wikipedia there is a good explanation of a SWOT analysis.
|File length
|Holds a lot of information
|All the information is already in the genealogy software
|Easily recognised. Easy to search for files with a certain Tag
GRAMPS ID based
This is another attempt by Duncan Lithgow to find a good system. It is not finshed so feel free to add comments and correct any obvious mistakes.
Record types
GRAMPS ID's use the first character to denote the type of item the ID refers to. Taking the most relevant ones these can be converted to the following tags:
- I-- Individual
- P-- Place
- E-- Event
- S-- Source
Record properties
By making all properties of each record compulsory we avoid extra tags like GN for given name and so on. We can what a property is by where it is in the file name.
- family name is their surname before marriage, but including deed pool changes, MacArthur for example
- given name is their official first name
- uid is a unique identity, in this example the (original) GRAMPS ID of the media file
- source date is the date in ISO 8601 format when the information left the people or organisation responsible for it
- event date is the date in ISO 8601 format when the event occured or started. YYYY-MM-DD, ie. 2008-12-28
- event type is a noun describing the event, chosen from a list of event types
- title is the name of a document (book, letter, census) or object (gravestone, heirloom)
- source author name is the name of the person or organisation most responsible for the information. For people always use family name first followed by two underscores (__)
- note is for notes. Names should always be family name first followed by a double underscore
Naming structure
Putting it all together
- File names start with a single capital letter representing their record type.
- Record properties are separated by two dashes/ minus signs (--). Two dashes/ minus signs (--) can not be used for anything else.
- Missing information is replaced by a single underscore (_).
- Names in notes should always be family name first and separated by two underscores, ie: doe__john which can be represented as John Doe or Doe, John.
- Place names should start with the largest geographical region followed by a double underscore before the next geographical region, ie: oz__far_far_away__yellow_brick_road which can be represented as Oz, Far far away, Yellow brick road.
I--<family name>--<given name>--<note>--<uid>.ext
- Example: I--williams--mary_agnes--portrait_sketch--o3472.jpg
P--<place__sub place__sub sub place>--<note>--<uid>.ext
- Example: P--united_kingdom__england__london--williams__mary_agnes_house--o0857.jpg
E--<event ISO date>--<event type>--<1st family name>--<2nd family name>--<3rd family name>--<4th family name>--<note>--<uid>.ext
- Example: E--1923-12-02--marriage--jones--williams--_--_--william__angus_to_right_of_mary--o2846.jpg
S--<title>--<source author name>--<source ISO date>--<note>--<uid>.ext
- Example: S--census__uk__london_--_--1840-03-21_I--jones__mary_jean_at_johns_road--o0847.pdf
- Example: S--jones_family_from_1735--_--1972-_-_--connects_with_dean_family.pdf
See also
External links
- [File Naming Conventions for Digitally-stored Images]
- Metadata at Wikipedia - data about data
- Meta tags at Wikipedia
- Ontology in computer science from Wikipedia
- Library science from Wikipedia
- File naming at 43folder.com
- File Naming / Organization Methods? from What do I know?


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Fathers, stop coddling your kids
By Ruben Navarrette,
CNN Contributor
Sun June 16, 2013
(CNN) -- If I may speak for some of the dads who have spoken to me over time, this year, our kids can skip the ties, golf clubs and fishing poles. What many of us really want for Father's Day is an attitude adjustment for our kids.
There's a story that a friend shared a few months ago that really made an impression on me -- as it did a roomful of other middle-aged parents who are struggling with raising their toddlers or teenagers.
One day, my friend said, he walked into his house and casually told his teenage son that he needed some help with some minor chore outside. The son, who had been playing video games, was clearly bothered. Exasperated, he said, "Dad, whenever you ask me to do stuff like this, it's just such an inconvenience."
Showing more restraint than I would have at that moment, my friend calmly apologized to his son for disturbing him. Then he picked up the phone, and fired his landscaper. Next, my friend sat down at the computer and ordered a gift for his son: a brand new lawnmower. This summer, the teenager -- who is now responsible for doing all the yard work at the family home -- is learning the true meaning of the word, "inconvenience."
It's a great story. But what I found most interesting was the crowd's reaction. It amounted to thunderous applause. It was as if they were ready to name my friend, "Father of the Year."
There must be a whole segment of Americans who are thirsty for this message. They're worried that in trying not to be too hard on their children, they've gone too far in the other direction and turned too soft. They're concerned that they've been too lenient on their kids, too eager to cater to their whims, too quick to spoil them and too determined to convince them that they're special. This was all done with the best intentions, but it has produced some bad results.
Modern fathers face new expectations
Now, I suspect, a lot of people are experiencing a kind of parents' remorse. Many of us were raised in strict homes full of rules and expectations where mom and dad never tried to be our friends and weren't shy about yanking us back in line. And so, when we became parents, we took a different road.
We bought into the philosophy that children needed unlimited self-esteem, maximum freedom and minimal pressure to succeed in life or contribute to society. We taught our kids to think of themselves as entitled and to see themselves as the center of the universe. Now instead of parents having expectations of their children, children have expectations of how their parents are supposed to behave. We're here to serve them, to make their lives as comfortable and convenient as possible.
One father told me recently that all he wants from his kids is a little gratitude. That's it. He wants them to show even the slightest bit of appreciation for all that their parents are working hard to provide them. Things come too easy to them, he said. Whatever they want, they get. Now they've forgotten even how to say a simple, "thank you."
Another father told me that he wants his teenage kids to toughen up a bit before they leave home in a few years and enter the real world. He would like for them to understand that, if you want something, you can't just demand it. You have to work for it. You have to earn it.
As for me, I'm getting more comfortable with the idea of making demands on my children -- ages 8, 6 and 4.
This Father's Day, and for all the rest to come, here's what they can give me:
I want each of them to stop acting like an only child, and learn to share everything with their siblings, including their parents' time and attention;
I want them to get out of their heads this corrosive idea that the world revolves around them, and all that matters at any given moment of the day is what they want, need or feel; and
I want them to treat people better, starting with their family members, and then moving on to complete strangers, and not look down on anyone -- ever.
Of course, the rub is that this is what parents are for. It's our job to instill these values and teach children how to become good people. It doesn't happen organically. And it won't happen magically. It'll only happen if we set the standards and and lay down the law when they're not met.
And fathers have a special role to play in all of this. It's not easy being a good dad. In fact, it's exhausting. And it can often be frustrating.
In fact, frankly, a lot of fathers decide it is too hard. They give up, check out, hang back and essentially let their kids raise themselves. It's one of the reasons why we got into this mess.
The only way out is for fathers to get back in the game. We have to be present in our children's lives. Forget about being their friends. They have friends. They need fathers.
We have to be in our kids' faces, just like Grandpa and Dad used to be. And for the same reason -- because we care enough not to be anywhere else.Happy Father's Day.


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(IRI) Independence Residence, Inc. (the IRI facebook page is here and twitter is here too : IRI and their youtube page is here: IRI) is a non-profit agency that works to help establish connections and better relationships for people with developmental disabilities and other disabilities to be self-actualized, committed to fulfilling independence, guiding the people they serve, and creating connections to last for a lifetime. This is what IRI does because they really care and are simply the best agency in the New York City region.
I started at IRI back in 2013 as a mentor/self-advocacy liaison as I continuously work to strive to positively impact the individuals that are served by the agency. Before I started at IRI, I always knew what I wanted to do, but was afraid to go about it. IRI gave me this opportunity as a gift that has allowed me to embark on my journey toward not only self-discovery, but a journey at helping others in the disability community find themselves and their voice.
Self-Advocacy is an important factor that helps people know who they are by identifying the way any one feels comfortable, learning to speak up, knowing their civil rights, learning what taking responsibilities means in their daily lives, helping our friends speak up when they are worn out or overloaded, and incorporating every aspect of their life by giving to the world the gift of self-actualization.
My work at IRI started out in this way especially when I started working with about 6 to 7 of their self-advocacy groups late in 2013 to teach self-advocacy, self-determination, and living an independent life. I have done so much for them so far including creating presentations, creating my self-advocacy board game, using my muppet "Max" (non-binary gender, multi-sensory, Autistic, 85 years old, Max is non-binary gender in appreciation of those friends who really are non-binary gender) from December 2010 when I bought them at Columbus Circle. I continuously build connections with not only all the individuals who are my peers, but with the staff who I can say are my peers too in the broader community.
I have earned their respect. I have helped in so many ways including the way they thought about re-writing a vision, mission, and values statements for their organization. I brought them to the next level of being able to guide the individuals they serve toward the person's with disabilities self-determination.
Now I have self-direction services in which they were part of the help toward me achieving this for myself as I help their individuals. Although, my self-direction services is through Westchester Institute of Human Development, ARC of Rockland, and my 13 people and growing of my circle of support I create for myself.
What is self-determination?
Well, self-determination means something different for everyone. That's the beauty of self-determination is that it is a definition that changes for each person's own individuality. Some people need a balance of the medical model and social model while others need solely the social model of disability. Social model of disability is obviously the not so stigmatizing model. The social model is good for everyone to understand that they have a choice of whatever is good for them. This is what is called 'person centered' approach.
Social Model vs. Medical model
The medical model is not and never is 'person centered' because it states that the person is the problem and needs to be fixed or eradicated from society. It also is stigmatizing in many other ways by saying that the person is not human and a burden unless they conform or fix their ways to be like the mainstream 'status quo' of the society the individual belongs to.
Conforming can be in the way people move, make eye contact, quiet hands, or even speak with the same language as the masses do. The 'status quo' is not necessarily bad, it just means that everyone is standardizing the approach to communication, language, movement, hearing, sight, touch, and expressing oneself in the world. This is why the social model of disability is better!
Is this right or wrong? Well, it depends on what an individual wants from their life. Some people are fascinated with the status quo. But, what does the status quo even mean? What does it mean to be mainstream?
Communication is Key!
Some people or most people in society, expect immediate responses to their communication in an impromptu response through speaking through the mouth. However, any one who speaks too deviant from however the status quo mainstream people speak, is often shunned, ostracized, silenced, placed in institutions, and/or written off as not even human due to being seen as bad people by much of society. This is the reason why mainstream society and the majority individual non-disabled citizens of the world strive for perfection with their black and white thinking of what they deem the 'perfect' human being. This is not right, not fair, and does not allow diversity to thrive in the world.
Everyone is different and societies in this world need to remember diversity matters rather than pretending it does. Differences is what makes us human no matter who we are and what we do to achieve our successes in the world. If you meet one human being, you've only met one human being.
Appreciating and grateful for my connections I make and my family
IRI, CUNY SPS, JCC in Manhattan, ASAN, my connections I made from CAFETY, SANYS, the many peers I have met through the years especially since 2013, and of course my wonderful loving family have all helped and continuously help me in so many ways.
I have created an amazing network of people I can say I know and cherish every moment of my life as an amazing creative story that I make for myself. If it wasn't for these people I have in my life, I would not been given a chance to embark on my own self-determination. Not only that I am now able to build my goal of finally becoming the person I always wanted to be. Ultimately, finding my voice and self even though it's hard when being influenced by so many people I talk with in my interactions in the community. And, these people help find and give me my voice!
Detaching from other people's conclusions to finding my Authentic Self
It's difficult to detach from other people's conclusions when I have thousands of people's conclusions in my mind that confuses me. I am learning to detach each and every conclusion to formulate my own personal conclusions without forgetting any of these people either (meditation is the perfect grounding point for me). Everyone's story and conclusions is important and unique to them. Though, my voice and authentic self is what counts to what I want for myself and what is good for me, nothing more. That is my self-determination!
"Turning Dreams Into Reality"
Happy Autism Acceptance Month that begins in 24 hours as April begins. Thank you for everything from everyone who helps me especially my family! It is my life now and what I want to do finally and guess what, I have not only my family supporting me, but so many others as well.
Emotions roll over us all the time, but it's just a matter of staying a positive force in the world to become the wonderful person that we are with the spirit that lies within us…
Love is wonderful thing!
Now, listen to this song: (Almost Paradise by Mike Reno)


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This week on Mandolin Mondays we have the incredible Eva Scow with us playing a stunning solo arrangement of this jazz standard "I'll Be Seeing You" played on her Eastman MD805/V.
Eva Scow is a mandolinist from Fresno, CA, who in recent years has made waves in the jazz and swing mandolin world. She's known for her work with David Grisman, Edgar Meyer, Anthony Wilson, Mike Marshall, Mark Summer of the Turtle Island
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This week, Simon Dunson stops by Mandolin Mondays to play a slammin' version of a classic jazz standard on his cedar top Girouard mandolin (serial #4).
Although Simon is local to Chapel Hill, NC he spent two years as Interlochen Arts Academy's first mandolin major and is currently studying at NEC as their first jazz performance major on mandolin. Also, Simon keeps an active youtube channel himself--you can check out his channel
Tommy Norris, mandolinist from the Barefoot Movement brings us a tasty chord melody arrangement of this jazz standard on his beautiful Prucha F5 mandolin.
Based in Nashville, Tommy has made a successful career in the bluegrass world. Over the past seven years his band, The Barefoot Movement has been around the block a time a two, making appearances on Country Weekly Magazine, RollingStone.com, Music City Roots, and Woodsongs
Mandolin Mondays #92: Jazz mandolin virtuoso, Jason Anick joins Mandolin Mondays this week with a beautiful original composition on his incredible 5-string "jazzbo" electric mandolin from Paul Lestock.
Based in Boston, Jason Anick is taking the jazz world by storm with his progressive and tasteful violin and mandolin playing. He's one of the youngest people to ever teach at the Berklee College
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This week, the man, the myth, the legend, Don Stiernberg proffers a delightful chord melody on this old jazz standard with his incomparable 2-point Nugget mandolin.
We all know and love Don--protege of the tremendous Jethro Burns, leader of the new generation of jazz mandolinists, Chicago Cubs fan, and an all around wonderful person. The wealth and depth of his recorded jazz mandolin work is bar none. His most recent album,
The remarkable Brian Oberlin is with us this week on Mandolin Mondays to play a solo rendition of his original song "Landslide" performed on his powerful Collings MF5 mandolin.
Brian is as diverse and prolific as mandolin players come. Over his 16-year professional career, he has recorded 20 records and has published numerous accompanying mandolin instructional books. His most recent album, Troubadour, displays the
When mandolin youtube channels collide! Honored to have a Mandolin Monday video from the amazingly talented jazz musician and mando youtube personality, Aaron Weinstein! Check out Aaron's swinging chord melody version of this old jazz standard "A Beautiful Friendship" played on his trusty Red Diamond F5 mandolin.
You probably know Aaron from his many other jaw-dropping jazz mandolin videos, but you may
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The phenomenal John Reischman is with us for this week's Mandolin Mondays with a stunning chord melody arrangement of Charlie Parker's Yardbird Suite played on a gorgeous Heiden Heritage Model F5 Mandolin.
John is a mandolinist who needs little introduction. Over the years, his incredible tone, imaginative compositions, and tasteful playing across a wide variety of genres have made him a pillar of the modern mandolin idiom.
Los Angeles-based jazz mandolinist Alex Heflin joins Mandolin Mondays this week with a tasty solo arrangement of his original tune, "Benjamin."
Alex has been making waves in recent years with his own youtube channel. Every Friday he posts a creative cover featuring his adept playing on the mandolin and multiple other instruments. Alex also transcribed and published a great collection of monumental jazz mandolin solos
Time for some progressive jazz mando coming at you from Jason Bailey on a sweet Heiden F5 mandolin. Hear Jason play through a cool tune called "Unity Village" composed by jazz guitarist guru Pat Metheny.
Jason Bailey is at the forefront of the creative acoustic music scene in Birmingham, AL. He is always reimagining the role of the mandolin, drawing from such musical styles as jazz, bluegrass, Celtic, and more. You can hear Jason


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Course Title: Process reusable medical devices and equipment
Part A: Course Overview
Program: C4367 Certificate IV in Allied Health Assistance
Course Title: Process reusable medical devices and equipment
Portfolio: SEH Portfolio Office
Nominal Hours: 30Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
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Course Description
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to clean, sterilise and package reusable medical devices and equipment.
This unit applies to workers in office based health practice settings such as general practitioner (GP) surgeries, dental practices and other environments where a limited range of sterilisation equipment may be available. They follow established procedures and work under general supervision.
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
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National Competency Codes and Titles
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HLTINF002 Process reusable medical devices and equipment
1. Prepare to clean used items
2. Clean and dry used items
3. Prepare and pack items for sterilisation
4. Sterilise loads
5. Comply with quality management requirements
Learning Outcomes
Overview of Assessment
You must demonstrate Performance and Knowledge Evidence of the unit in order to be deemed competent.
Assessment methods have been designed to measure achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over a range of assessment tasks.
You may be assessed by:
• Oral or written questioning
• Oral presentations
• Assignments and projects
• Direct observation of actual work practice- Clinical Placement & Skills Checklist
• Work-based activities
• Third-party feedback from a work supervisor/employer
Primary assessment involves on-going group discussions and applied assessment in a clinical workplace or simulated environment such as Work Integrated Learning (WIL) placement activity.
Competency based training requires you to be in attendance in order for assessment to be undertaken.
You will be required to attend clinical placement as a part of the assessment and qualification requirement for this program.
Feedback will be provided throughout the semester in class and/or online discussions, through individual and group feedback on practical exercises and by individual consultation.
All Assessment tasks should be performed or submitted by their due dates.
If due to illness or other unforeseen circumstance, you are unable to attend on the due date of an assessment (e.g. test, examination, oral, etc.) OR you do attend, but your performance has been affected, you may submit an APPLICATION FOR SPECIAL CONSIDERATION within 2 working days of the due date. If Special Consideration is granted, you will be given the opportunity to complete/repeat the assessment task at a later date. For advice on this application please visit www.rmit.edu.au/students/specialconsideration or speak to your Program Coordinator.
If due to illness or other unforeseen circumstance, you are unable to submit by the due date (e.g. assignment, report, project etc.):
• you may submit an APPLICATION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME FOR SUBMISSION OF ASSESSABLE WORK for an extension of time of up to seven (7) calendar days or less. This must be lodged with the Program Coordinator 1 working day before the original due date. If granted, you will have the opportunity to submit up to 7 days later than the original due date. For advice on this application please visit www.rmit.edu.au/students/assessment/extension or speak to your Program Coordinator.
• you may submit an APPLICATION FOR SPECIAL CONSIDERATION within 2 working days of the due date. If Special Consideration is granted, you will be given the opportunity to submit the assessment task more than 7 days after the original due date. For advice on this application please visit www.rmit.edu.au/students/specialconsideration or speak to your Program Coordinator.
You are expected to prepare all assignments and other written work in a professional manner. More information on general academic study and writing skills can be found on the "Learning Lab" http://emedia.rmit.edu.au/learninglab . All work submitted for assessment must be submitted electronically unless otherwise advised.
Students must keep a copy of all submitted assessments including electronic copies.
Harvard style is used for all referencing and for bibliography.
RMIT University has a strict policy on academic integrity and plagiarism and. Please refer to the website for more information on this policy. www.rmit.edu.au/students/academic-integrity
If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or the Disability Liaison Unit if you would like to find out more.
Your rights and responsibilities as a student can be found at http://www1.rmit.edu.au/students/rights-and-responsibilities This course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies and procedures which are described and referenced at www.rmit.edu.au/students/assessment
Credit transfer and RPL
Credit transfer is available to students who have already completed the same or similar courses. Recognition of prior learning is available to students who have relevant prior skills or experience. Please refer to http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=8u7jborsx9dy


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