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Good morning. I'm Linda Wertheimer. A British woman had a break-in in September. Thieves stole a life-size statue of E.T., the extraterrestrial from the famous film. She thought it was gone for good until last week, when a passerby saw it floating in a river and called the police. They reunited the statue with its owner. So, a little late for the holidays, a little soggy, E.T. finally did phone home. You're listening to MORNING EDITION. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The launch of Seattle's bike-share program in Spring 2014 is widely considered a given at this point. But doing so will require tweaks to Seattle's Municipal Code - tweaks that Seattle City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen attempts to address in the bike-share legislation he dropped this morning.
Obtaining the full $4 million in funding the program needs to take off, however, may prove slightly more difficult than changing the city's code. Though a new private sponsor is set to be announced late this week or early next week, according to Holly Houser, the executive director of Puget Sound Bike Share, the effort still needs "some big-money sponsors" to meet its goal.
Rasmussen's legislation, Council Bill No. 117847, which is scheduled to be heard July 23 in the transportation committee he chairs, would amend Seattle Municipal Code to allow for Bike Share vending on city streets and sidewalks. The bill would also allow for permits to be issued authorizing the use of curb space or other parking spaces for bike-share stations. Currently, Municipal Code forbids both activities - which are obviously needed to get Seattle's bike-share program off the ground. Both changes are considered minor; the legislation seems like little more than a formality.
The bigger hurdle, according to Houser, may be finding all the money needed to launch the program.
Puget Sound Bike Share is a public-private nonprofit created in 2012 that's tasked with overseeing the birthing of Seattle's bike-share program. In April 2013, the nonprofit chose Portland's Alta Bicycle Share as its operator and vendor, with the plan being to launch a bike-sharing network beginning with approximately 500 bikes and 50 stations throughout the city by early 2014. According to Houser, it'll take roughly $4 million to do so. Half of that money is scheduled to come from public grants, with the rest coming through private sponsorships.
On the public grant front, things have progressed nicely. Houser notes that Seattle has been awarded a $1 million federal grant from the Puget Sound Regional Council, and a $750,000 grant from the Washington State Department of Transportation - meaning $1.75 million is in the bank.
Houser, however, says there's still plenty of work to do when it comes to attracting corporate sponsorship to cover the other $2 million. She says a sponsor making a "fairly significant" investment will be announced later this week or early next week, but more is needed if Seattle's bike share is to be fully funded by the expected Spring 2014 launch.
"We're getting to this point now that we really need some corporate sponsors," says Houser, who says "a number of conversations" are currently in the works to this end. "We need some big-money sponsors," she says.
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"You kind of need to have a critical mass of stations and bikes" for a bike share to be effective, she says.
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The beard of the wolf. Troy Woolfolk is inspired by Lloyd Carr:
Yea, and in the year two thousand and eleven the Michigan Wolverines perceived the New Orleans Bowl and said amongst themselves "shall we not take for ourselves what Troy's punter has shown to be good?"
The mouth of the horse. Ohio State fans have suddenly found that it's not nice when your opposition says mean things about you and takes your recruits. Or they've learned to complain about the former instead of the latter no matter the facts on the ground, anyway. Kyle Kalis:
"…[Hoke] has never said anything even remotely close to (negative) about Ohio State.
"People think that he does all of this negative recruiting, but he does no such thing. Any time my dad brought up anything about Ohio State, coach would actually stop him and say 'I'm not going to say anything about that situation. It's unfortunate and I hope they can get over this hump.' "
Kalis has been manipulated. Keep that in mind. Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom!
It was tough to pass up Calvin peeing on John Hamm. Jerel Worthy is trolling us with his arm:
Or he's been trolled. Click for a bigger view of a Wolverine-type object wearing a Missouri helmet being stepped upon. QED: Jerel Worthy drives a truck with fake testicles.
I wonder how these percentages break down:
% of OSU themed tattoos that involve Michigan symbols being peed on/crushed/anally penetrated
% of MSU themed tattoos w/ same
% of ND themed tattoos w/ same
% of M themed tattoos w/ same broken out by rival.
Somebody should do a survey. I'm guessing ND is in last by a considerable margin and that 90% of all redneck-tastic Michigan tattoos focus on OSU.
Your lying eyes. I usually forward along all history-related questions to MVictors, as they are specialists. This edition of mailbag by proxy involves the colors on Michigan's uniform and is actually double-proxied since Greg pinged uniform maven Steve Sapardanis for a comprehensive answer:
Let's get this out of the way first: never, ever, ever go by the color you see of pics online, in mags/programs or even in photos – see these Harbaugh photos as reference:
These two pics are from the same game, maybe even the same play, maybe even the same photographer (probably not), but notice the difference in colors.
Everything you wanted to know about Michigan's maize and more at the link.
Understatement. Rod Beard sat down with the entire basketball coaching staff for an extensive interview. Here's John Beilein doing his best George Clooney:
Q: I know you can't talk about specific recruits — even ones who have verbally committed — but how do you feel about your recruiting efforts this summer?
Beilein: I'll just say we're getting very positive feedback.
Indeed. I'm not sure just how up to date Beard is on Michigan's recent efforts, though:
Q: Is it a philosophical choice to go after unrated recruits and help make them a better players?
Beilein: As you're building a program, there's a plan that you gradually go in that direction, but you have to get solid first. In the recruiting wars, if you go after only the top-50 guys and you aren't successful, the No. 51-150 guys are long gone when you turn back. It's better to set your sights and then build a program so you get guys who have a high ceiling and in time will develop. Tim Hardaway Jr. is a great example of a guy who barely makes the top 100 — but now, he's one of the top 10 in the country out of that class. We're never going to say that we don't want to recruit a top-50 guy. If he fits what we're looking for, we'll recruit him.
The last unrated guy to commit to Michigan was Max Bielfeldt; right now the 2012 and 2013 classes are all four-star sorts. Hit the link for Bacari Alexander praising Beilein's "ability to be human." Good job, lizard coach from the fifth dimension!
BONUS BIT: Michigan may have offered another 2012 big. Marshall Wood is unrated but is attracting high-major interest. He can get up, yo:
Certainly looks like a Beilein big what with the driving to the bucket from the perimeter. Usually Michigan won't offer-offer until you get to campus-campus, which Wood hasn't yet. Michigan probably gave him the nudge-nudge wink-wink about it and they reported it as an offer, but Mitch McGary is supposedly planning another visit to Ann Arbor on or around Labor Day.
So: Michigan is definitely trying to fill their 2012 spot.
Movement. Sense? It seems this edition of the periodic NCAA let's-fix-everything tribunals may actually create a significant change in the organization, at least as it pertains to basketball recruiting. "Consensus was reached on some aspects of a new recruiting model," those being:
- A start date for official visits beginning after the men's basketball championship in April of the junior year.
- Deregulating the type of communication between coaches and prospects (including text messaging and other forms of electronic communication).
- Allowing unlimited communication after Aug. 1 before the junior year in high school.
- Permitting evaluations at certified nonscholastic events on two weekends in April, with some restrictions.
- Permitting some contact at a prospect's educational institution in conjunction with an evaluation, with some restrictions and requirements.
Somewhere, Kelvin Sampson is weeping into a Western omelet.
Both Eamonn Brennan and The Bylaw Blog rush to heap praise on this hypothetical model where coaches and recruits can approach each other like people instead of anonymous partners in a secretive arranged marriage. Brennan:
The NCAA might not be ready to let coaches talk to recruits year-round. Nor is it ready to totally reconsider its system. But it is beginning to make some serious progress, and that progress continued with the Leadership Council Friday. Incremental though it might be, at least it's a step in the right direction, right?
John Infante:
So for the Leadership Council's top-to-bottom review of the men's basketball recruiting model to wrap up within a year is a small victory for Division I's governance structure. The results of that review are even more encouraging.
Infante also mentions a new provision for "on campus evaluations"—tryouts—as the most important change. Beneficiaries of this hypothetical new system:
The model, with the NABC's limited tryout rule, would greatly favor coaching staffs who can make good evaluations during the spring and summer before a prospect's junior year.
Sounds good if John Beilein's your coach, yes?
Meanwhile, 50 superfriends gather… The NCAA is also collecting its presidents together today and tomorrow to have one of those serious discussions that usually don't lead anywhere. Everyone Gregg Krupa tried to talk to said "NCAA? Never heard of it" except Mary Sue Coleman:
"This intertwining of intercollegiate athletics with universities in the United States is unique in the world, but we risk losing it if it is not done with transparency and integrity and if people believe it is not being done by the rules," said Coleman, who can not attend the retreat because of prior commitments. "I am very hopeful we'll stay on course with this, and the meeting in Indianapolis is an important part of that."
College football's scandal epidemic and rattling from the Big Ten and SEC about upping scholarship rewards, increasing academic standards, and maybe not booting kids to South Alabama after a season do provide a background in which Actual Reform is possible. The new, far less restrictive basketball recruiting model is an indication things might get done.
They'd be in these areas:
Establishing the success of athletes in the classroom as an expectation, rather than a goal. [Ed: A toothier APR?]
Protecting integrity by retaining amateurism, evaluating and improving the behavior of athletes and enhancing enforcement.
Strengthening the fiscal viability of sports by reducing disparities in revenues, spending and subsidies.
I'm not sure how the hell they propose to do anything about the third.
And now for no reason at all. Presenting Louisville's quarterbacks in their new uniforms:
At least Adidas didn't make us look like Taylor Twellman.
Etc.: This year's edition of "Les Miles doesn't count so good." Via Smart Football, treating your goal line package like special teams. The guy behind Mets Maize has figured out he never writes about the Mets. Up next: figuring out that white text on a dark background is so 1995. Houston Nutt's been busy with his copy of Word 97. HSR on the Stonum suspension. Pre-Snap Read previews Michigan.


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TAMPA — Two well-known foes on the question of medical marijuana will address the issue as part of a public forum Thursday night in Lakeland.
The two men are John Morgan, head of the Morgan & Morgan law firm and the top benefactor of the effort to approve medicinal use of cannabis in Florida, and Grady Judd, sheriff of Polk County and president of the Florida Sheriff's Association, which opposes the proposal.
Morgan and Judd will appear with four other panelists at 6 p.m. in the auditorium of the Harrison School for the Arts, 750 Hollingsworth Road. The discussion is sponsored by The Ledger newspaper of Lakeland.
Florida voters will face the issue at the polls Nov. 4, when they will vote on Amendment 2. It would require a 60 percent majority to be added to the state Constitution.
The amendment asks whether the Sunshine State should allow the use of marijuana by a person diagnosed with a "debilitating medical condition." It defines that as cancer, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, hepatitis C, HIV, AIDS, ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, Crohn's disease, Parkinson's disease "or other conditions for which a physician believes that the medical use of marijuana would likely outweigh the potential health risks for a patient."
Morgan, whose firm is based in Orlando, has given nearly $4 million to the campaign to legalize medical marijuana. He said his father found relief from the symptoms of cancer and emphysema in the last days of his life thanks to medical cannabis.
Judd has often repeated the sheriffs' position that the amendment would allow teenagers to obtain medical marijuana and that there would be virtually no restrictions on caregivers who would be allowed to possess marijuana.
Since California approved the use of medical marijuana in 1996, 22 states and the District of Columbia have passed similar laws through legislation or by citizen initiative. Two states, Washington and Colorado, have approved marijuana for recreational use.
Florida's Legislature passed and Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill this spring allowing a specific, non-euphoric strain of marijuana known as "Charlotte's Web" to be prescribed for certain conditions. Scott, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and legislative leaders largely oppose expanding the use of medical marijuana.
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How the Comptroller General Is Selected
The Congress established the current procedure for nominating a Comptroller General when it passed the GAO Act of 1980. Under the act, the Comptroller General is appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. When a vacancy occurs in the office of the Comptroller General, the Congress establishes a commission to recommend individuals to the President. The commission consists of the following:
The Speaker of the House of Representatives
The President Pro Tempore of the Senate
The majority and minority leaders of the House of Representatives and the Senate
The Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
The Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
The commission must recommend at least three individuals to the President, and the President may request that the commission recommend additional individuals. The President then selects an individual from those recommended to nominate as the new Comptroller General. The President's nomination must be confirmed by the Senate. Comptrollers general are appointed for one nonrenewable 15-year term.
The commission process has thus been followed three times now, leading to the President's nomination, and the Senate's confirmation, of the sixth Comptroller General, Charles A. Bowsher, in 1981; the seventh Comptroller General, David M. Walker, in 1998; and the eighth Comptroller General, Gene Dodaro, in 2010.


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Weekend Cook and Tell: Cooking For One
Welcome to our Weekend Cook and Tell where each Wednesday we turn the pages of the food sections of various national newspapers in search of inspiration for a weekend cooking project. We hope you'll cook along with us and share your experiences, recipes, and photos here.
Cooking for one possesses it's own individuality. Cook too much, and you will be the lucky recipient of the same meal for two weeks. However, it also creates freedom. Make exactly what you want, eat it when you want, and experiment without fear of ruining someone else's meal. Recently, there was even a Talk thread that covered what Serious Eaters would eat when their significant other was out of town. Which brings us back to cooking for one.
Joe Yonan, of The Washington Post, likes to think positively when it comes to cooking for yourself. He paraphrases, "cook like nobody's watching." Yonan goes on to identify the unique situation of single chefs. After a day of cooking for others, it can be a "formidable" task to find inspiration or energy to shop and cook for themselves. I think many of us can identify with finding energy at times. That being said, what are your favorite dishes to cook for one? Whether you be single or your significant other (or kiddos) are away, what's the dish that you save for yourself?
Share your favorite food-for-one recipes on Photograzing (make sure to include "Weekend Cook and Tell" in your submission title) and tell us about your recipes here! If you'd like to blog the experience, please leave a link in the comments below. You can now also pin your creation on your Pinterest board as well. Please use the hashtag, #cookandtell, and tag us, @Serious Eats in your pin's text.
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Chord charts?
They can't possibly believe they can claim copyright on a chord fingering chart can they?
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Then that runs afoul of their demands?Strum quarter note downstrokes of an A major (x02220) for 4 bars, then switch to D major (xx0232) for 4, then repeat.
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In 1997, the New Mexico BioPark Society started the River of Lights as a fundraiser for expanding exhibits and attractions. Today, this celebrated event continues to sustain those efforts. Every November and December, Burqueños flock to the Botanic Garden to see millions of glowing bulbs bring to life more than 150 sculptures. Visitors can snap photos as giant gingerbread men and walk through the belly of a massive pumpkin. Stop for a moment to rest numb toes while enjoying live entertainment, or pop a squat on the G-scale model train. Each year's show features new pieces by Albuquerque BioPark artists and craftsmen (check tinyurl.com/


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What ever happened to Claire Danes? At one moment she was the hottest upcoming actress in Hollywood, and the next, a disappearing act. Born in 1979 in New York City, Claire was encouraged to become involved in the arts at a young age, and so, at nine years old, Claire enrolled at the Lee Strasberg drama school. After only four short years, Claire was already landing roles in guest spots on hit TV series, and was even offered a role in Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List." Instead of taking the part, Claire opted for the lead in ABC's "My So-Called Life," but after one season, the series was cancelled. Before leaving the air, though, the series received four Emmy nominations and Claire picked up a Golden Globe for Best Actress.
The critical praise she received for the series also helped to make the jump to the big screen, and after making a number of supporting appearances, Claire landed the role of Juliet in Baz Luhrmann's strange imagining of the classic Shakespeare tale. Later roles in box office bombs like "The Mod Squad" and "Brokedown Palace" may have been the cause for her sudden drop off the Hollywood radar, but it's more likely that her decision to take a break was spurred by her desire to attend college. After she received her degree from Yale University, Claire returned to the big screen with roles in the independent film "Igby Goes Down," the award-winning "The Hours," and "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines." Claire will look to revisit the older days as the film industry's critical darling with a set of new films set for release this Fall.
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An online database of Claire's film and TV work.
TV Guide: Claire Danes
Claire Danes Videos, Interviews and More on TV Guide's Online Video Guide
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This fan page includes weekly updates, a listing of upcoming projects and much, much more.
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Updated news site with archives of both video and print interviews.
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Claire Danes on the Screen
Claire was thrust into the public eye with the critical success of "My So-Called Life," but after the series was unjustly cancelled, she made the jump to film. After a smaller role in the "Home For the Holidays," she starred in Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of "Romeo + Juliet," and a series of other average mid-90's films like "The Rainmaker" and "The Mod Squad." Claire disappeared from the scene for a few years before reappearing after the new millennium in arthouse flicks like "Igby Goes Down" and "The Hours."
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On her creativity:
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On who knows what:
"I'm an illegal alien and have been for many years. If you rub my skin, I go green."
On her life:
"Well, I have been married twice and I have died twice on-screen. I have lived quite a life at the tender age of 17."
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Pennsylvania P3 Transportation Board Approves PennDOT Proposal to Privatize State's 511 Traveler Information System
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania Public Private Transportation Partnership (P3) Board today approved a project soliciting private sector proposals to manage and operate PennDOT's 511 system, 511PA, as well as the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Roadway Information Program (TRIP).
In operation since 2009, 511PA provides traffic-delay warnings, weather forecasts, average traffic speeds on urban interstates and access to more than 670 traffic cameras. The 511 site also provides easy-to-use, color-coded winter road conditions for all interstates and other routes covered in the 511 reporting network. Regional Twitter alerts are also available on the 511PA website. The Pennsylvania Turnpike also deploys its own traveler information system, TRIP, which provides traffic and weather information.
"I feel strongly that having traveler information available in a variety of ways, and utilizing the latest technologies, is a crucial service travelers have come to expect and deserve," PennDOT Secretary and P3 Board Chairman Barry J. Schoch said. "With innovation in the marketplace happening at a lightning pace, a public-sector entity such as PennDOT cannot take full advantage of the latest advancements, so we will challenge the private sector to provide us with a solution that allows us to do just that."
Once proposals are received, PennDOT and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission will assign a team of employees to review proposals to determine if customer service is maintained or can be enhanced, and if the proposal offers the opportunity to offset costs through sponsorships of the program. If the proposal is determined to be sound, PennDOT will begin negotiations and execute a contract for a private entity to provide these services for a defined period of time with various performance requirements.
The P3 Board also approved soliciting proposals on: traffic-flow data; video sharing; staffing and managing a statewide traffic management center and regional traffic management center near Clearfield; enhancing and managing PennDOT's Road Weather Information Systems; administering the Outdoor Advertising program; sponsorship opportunities at Pennsylvania Welcome Centers and rest areas; sponsorship of PennDOT's Freeway Service Patrols; managing PennDOT's Sponsor-A-Highway Program; and sponsoring PennDOT's Yellow Dot Program. PennDOT will explore possible public private partnership opportunities in all of these programs but a decision on whether to enter into any contractual agreement on any or all will only be determined after a review of proposals submitted through a competitive procurement process.
Last September, Governor Tom Corbett signed into law the Public and Private Partnerships for Transportation Act, which authorized P3 projects in Pennsylvania. This law allows PennDOT and other transportation authorities and commissions to partner with private companies to participate in delivering, maintaining and financing transportation-related projects.
As part of the P3 law, the seven-member Public Private Transportation Partnership Board was appointed to examine and approve potential public private transportation projects. If the board determines a state operation would be more cost-effectively administered by a private company, the company will be authorized to submit a proposal and enter into a contract to either completely or partially take over that operation for a defined period of time.
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The Cure for Your Fugly Armpits
How advertisers create body anxieties women didn't know they had, and then sell them the solution.
Dove recently unveiled its latest campaign, and it hinges on the idea that your armpits are ugly. Dove Ultimate Go Sleeveless is supposed to give women "softer, smoother underarms in just five days"—in ads for the product, which Stephen Colbert calls a "breakthrough shame-o-vation," women cut the sleeves off their tops with joyful expressions, as if they've been liberated from a terrible scourge. If it's news to you that this part of your body is not so hot, Dove says you're in the minority, citing a survey in which 93 percent of women said they "think their underarms are unattractive." And if you doubt statistics culled from 534 women in an anonymous online poll, rest assured that Dove's best advertising efforts will be directed at making those numbers true.
Pity the poor deodorant-makers. What else are they to do? As the Wall Street Journal points out, they're in a bind—almost the entire U.S. population already uses deodorant, and consumers appear reluctant to switch to new brands. Dove's empowerment-via-shame marketing approach for Go Sleeveless has its roots in advertising techniques that gained popularity in the 1920s: a) pinpoint a problem, perhaps one consumers didn't even know they had; b) exacerbate anxiety around the problem; c) sell the cure.
The history of ads directed at women is particularly rich with such fear tactics. Thus, ad copy from the 1920s and '30s warned women of their place in the "beauty contest of life" (a corset manufacturer) and reminded them that "The Eyes of Men …The Eyes of Women/ Judge your Loveliness every day" (Camay soap). A 1953 ad for Chlorodent toothpaste stated point-blank: "There's another woman waiting for every man." Yikes!
"In advertising terms," writes historian James B. Twitchell in Twenty Ads That Shook the World, "you don't sell the product, you sell the need."
Herewith, a brief history of our ugliest body parts, as recounted by the advertising industry:
Bad Breath
The substance that became Listerine was first invented in the late 19th century for use as a surgical antiseptic. In the 1920s, looking to goose sales, Gerard Lambert, son of the company's founder, began casting about for other uses for the product. As Stephen Fox writes in The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators, Lambert consulted a chemist and discovered that the product could be used for bad breath. Ad copy adopted the term halitosis "as a sober, medical-sounding way of referring to the unmentionable," Fox writes. Using a technique Fox calls "advertising by fear," the copy for Listerine suggested that consumers could have bad breath without knowing it, since even their closest friends might not tell them.
Listerine targeted men and women, but the phrase "often a bridesmaid but never a bride" was made famous by the company's ads. In one 1925 image, a woman reads another woman's wedding announcement with a troubled expression on her face. "Her case was really a pathetic one," the copy intones, describing the woman as nowhere near marriage "as her birthdays crept gradually toward that tragic thirty mark." The culprit? Halitosis, of course.
"It's hard to assess Lambert's genius fairly," writes Twitchell in Twenty Ads. "It looks so easy, but it was a combination of staking a claim on a body part, knowing how to use constructive discontent (shame) as a selling tool, of realizing the power of research, and then of hammering it home."
Of course, it's not that people's breath didn't smell before, Twitchell points out—rather, "it was not considered socially offensive." Listerine changed that, creating both the problem and its cure.
Smelly Underarms
Odorono wasn't the first commercial deodorant in the U.S., but it played a role in the delicate art of marketing the "unmentionable." As historian Juliann Sivulka has written in a paper on deodorant advertising, this particular brand of "toilet water for perspiration" first began to take off in the 1910s. The company had some success with more traditional types of advertising—small print ads emphasizing the safety and efficacy of the product, which was then primarily marketed to women. But its sales plateaued, and when the company's ad agency conducted home surveys it discovered that many nonusers considered Odorono a product for other women, those with serious perspiration problems, not for themselves.
This is when the advertisers tried something new. Combining the promise of romance with the horror of rejection, a full-page ad in a 1919 issue of Ladies' Home Journal offered the image of a man and woman about to embrace. The copy explained that "fastidious women who want to be absolutely sure of their daintiness have found that they could not trust to their own consciousness," because "it is a physiological fact that persons troubled with perspiration odor seldom can detect it themselves."
Could the reader be absolutely sure she didn't smell, even just once in a while—maybe at precisely the wrong moment, in a moonlight garden in the arms of her lover? Or, as the ad put it, "Would you be absolutely sure of your daintiness?" With a few precise jabs at the readers' insecurities, the ad transformed Odorono "from a proprietary medicine to a beauty aid," Sivulka writes, shifting "an unmentionable topic to one of primary importance to every woman."
The Many Troubles of "Down There"
Down there is its own continent, and over the decades a myriad of marketing strategies have arisen to conquer it. The book Flowhas chronicled the challenges of selling menstruation products without offending the delicate sensibilities of the American consumers. (DoubleX ran a slide show from Flow co-author Susan Kim back in 2009. Please note that the slide show might render improperly in some browsers.) But pads and tampons are not the only corner of the feminine hygiene market that has been cloaked in euphemism. Consider douches and feminine deodorants, which offered the promise of what ads have labeled "intimate daintiness."
From the 1930s through the 1960s, according to Andrea Tone's Devices and Desires, the top feminine hygiene product in the country was Lysol. In addition to being marketed as a mouth gargle, a household cleaner, and more, the disinfectant was sold as a douche. Consumers understood that Lysol douche was to be used as a contraceptive, Tone writes, although the ads used veiled language, alluding to problems like "germs" and "odors," and suggesting that a wife's "fear of a major crisis" (code for becoming pregnant) could lead to marital discord and divorce. The ads tended to lay the happiness of the marriage—and the power to limit family size—squarely in the woman's lap. Only the "proved germicidal efficiency of Lysol" can "restore every woman's confidence in her power to please," one 1948 ad declared.
The unfortunate truth was that as a contraceptive, Lysol was ineffective, not to mention dangerous. Improperly diluted, it burned and blistered the vagina, and in some cases even caused death. Yet, Tone writes, it wasn't until the pill came along that Lysol douche was supplanted as the top choice of women looking to prevent pregnancy.
In the '60s, ads for feminine deodorant sprays and feminine wipes continued with the theme of troublesome odor, but without the double meaning. In her brilliant 1973 Esquire piece on feminine hygiene sprays, Nora Ephron traced how marketers surfed the wave of the sexual revolution to sell a product that, if anything, ran counter to the idea of liberated sexuality. Like Lysol douche, products such as FDS, Massengill Powder, and Bidette Mist at once aroused anxiety about women's vaginas and offered solutions to the problem.
Ephron quotes a 1968 ad for FDS posing the question of whether women need more than underarm deodorant. "Yes," the ad helpfully answers itself. "A woman, if she's completely honest about it, realizes her most serious problem isn't under her arms."
Well, the makers of Dove Ultimate Go Sleeveless might beg to differ.
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I'm going to have 6 months in November 17, but I was wondering if increasing my limit with Wells Fargo would get me more chances to get approved for a charge card with AMEX should I apply in November or December ?
Ok, I went and looked at your older thread. Here's what you have now:
1) Wells Fargo $300 secured card
2) Walmart $400 store card
3) Capital 1 $500 unsecured card
Amex's scoring is a black box, of course, but if you're going for a charge card I don't think you need to worry nearly as much about boosting your secured limit on the WF as you would need to if you were going for an AmEx revolver.
Case in point: my highest open limit when I got approved for the Zync was $2000, and my next highest was $500. I checked my spending ability for the Zync within the first month of having it for $4000 and it was approved. So unlike revolvers, where the lender often tries to gauge where they set your limit by the other limits you have, AmEx apparently uses other methods to determine where the hidden limit on your NPSL lies.
That being said, I might, just to be cautious, try to boost the WF card up to slightly over $1000. If you can do that right now before WF does their November report, then apply after it shows on the report, I think you'd be well enough positioned to get a green or gold card as long as utilization and scores are in line for it. You'll have 3 tradelines with 6 months of perfect history, which is the baseline of what they are looking for.
Even if you can't do that immediate CL boost, I'd probably go ahead and apply after the November report just to be sure you get in well before the end of 2012. Even if it means a lower hidden limit, the long-term value of an extra year of age on every AmEx account you will ever have has to be worth the hassle of a lower spending ceiling in the short term. AmEx will definitely revise those ceilings as your good history with them accumulates, but you can never change the date of your first AmEx card.
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I'm going to have 6 months in November 17, but I was wondering if increasing my limit
with Wells Fargo would get me more chances to get approved for a charge card with AMEX
should I apply in November or December ?
Your historical limits are pretty irrelevant for Amex charge approvals, it's more a factor of income. I wouldn't sweat this.
Honestly though, I'd take the shot twice: November, and then December if not approved; however, I'm firmly of the opinion that a '12 backdate is much better than a '13 backdate over the next 3-4 years, and as such an extra inquiry to me if needed is utterly trivial in comparison (since it's minimal damage and that's gone score-wise in a year anyway).
Good info from others posted about the date; however, with the 7-10 day possibility, earlier is better. I don't think that limits or a 7th reported month will make more than a marginal difference, so I'd simply take the shot after the sixth reported month on my tradeline.
ok i agree, but if i get denied on november 18th, i will only be able to file the next application in december 19th, that will be very close to the end of the year lol
Just as a datapoint, I went back and looked at some old emails from when I app'd to Amex in 2007. I applied Dec 18th, 2007....instantly approved. That was a Tuesday, same setup as this year actually. Mine says 2007.
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Just as a datapoint, I went back and looked at some old emails from when I app'd to Amex in 2007. I applied Dec 18th, 2007....instantly approved. That was a Tuesday, same setup as this year actually. Mine says 2007.
You piqued my curiosity, so I went and took a look at the date of the inq for my Amex. I apped on May 18, 2011 and was approved the same day. The account was backdated to May 1987.
I applied for my Amex Zync on 12/30/2011. I was able to use the card to purchase something that day, because they immediately give you your card # online after approval.
When the card came, it said "member since 2012". My online account said the same thing. I called Amex and they changed it to 2011. Now when I log on to the Amex site, it says "member since 2011".


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"I think that the Western Conference is a conference that's got size and speed—I think there's a little bit of difference in the conferences—but I think for our team we've got size, we've got speed," Noel said as training camp opened with player physicals.
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Last season, the Jets had a -16 goal differential and finished 18th in the 30-team league. All 17 teams above them with the exception of the Minnesota Wild (-5) were on the plus side or even.
The Jets are preparing to compete this season in the Western Conference in a new Central Division with the likes of Chicago, St. Louis and Minnesota, after finishing four points out of a playoff spot last season.
The Winnipeg franchise—which relocated from Atlanta in 2011—hasn't seen the post-season since 2007 even though it used to be in the Eastern Conference's Southeast Division, usually one of the NHL's weakest.
Noel said he was really pleased at the condition of his players as they reported for camp and that included defenceman Dustin Byfuglien, whose weight has always been a hot topic.
"I would look at him today, he looks very well, looks fit and I'm very happy to see where he's at, it looks like he's in a good place," said the coach.
"For Dustin, for me we just want him to be a guy who plays up to his capabilities … probably just the one thing for me is just to be more consistent in his game."
Byfuglien finished 11th in scoring among defencemen last season with 28 points in 43 games, after finishing second the year before with 53 points in 66 games.
The Jets need the big blue-liner to be on his game if they want to become a playoff team. His time on ice last season, considering he missed five games, was easily in the top 10 among league defencemen.
But Winnipeg needs others to start playing up to their potential as well.
Andrew Ladd, Bryan Little and Blake Wheeler provided a consistent top-scoring line in 2012-13. The Jets are looking for a way to get similar production out of a line featuring left-winger Evander Kane this season.
Winnipeg added veteran forwards Devon Setoguchi and Michael Frolik over the summer. They also have 2011 draft pick Mark Scheifele in camp after a strong season in the Ontario Hockey League.
Now Noel has to fit the pieces together.
"Right now it looks like we're shaping up to have four pretty solid lines with a solid set of defence," said Noel.
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As Head of Music Staff in the School of Vocal Studies and Opera at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, one of my main responsibilities is to oversee and tutor the postgraduate repetiteur students.
Many concert pianists, accompanists and piano teachers often do not know what the job of an operatic repetiteur actually entails. Even regular audience members who attend the opera might not fully appreciate what the job of a repetiteur actually involves. There is little information and practical advice available regarding the training and the skills required to work as a repetiteur, and many musicians do not fully realise that the role of a repetiteur is one of the most varied, enjoyable and gratifying areas of all musical activity.
A repetiteur is a highly skilled pianist whose main work generally takes place in a rehearsal studio of an opera house. Requiring a broad range of performance and musicianship skills, an operatic repetiteur not only needs to have a solid and confident keyboard technique (enabling them to play the most complicated operatic scores), but they also require a good working knowledge and have the confidence to coach singers in a variety of languages – English, Italian, German and French (and sometimes Russian and Czech). A repetiteur is required to offer historically correct instruction in musical style during the rehearsal or vocal coaching process, correct musical and linguistic inaccuracies and often has to assist the conductor by taking notes on their behalf during the stage and orchestra rehearsals.
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Every gardener can dance.
It's usually early in the morning when the dew is heavy. The gardener, weighed down with shovels and rakes, has his eye on the day's chores when he walks through the intricate webbing of an orb weaver.
Tools fly as he frantically sidesteps while waving his arms. He might even scream, just a little.
Late summer is prime time for some of the largest spiders in the Lowcountry to show off their web-weaving skills.
Orb-weaver spiders build well-known circular webs in the trees, on our porch and in our doorways. There are more than 3000 species of orb weavers, and I'm quite certain they all live in my backyard.
All spiders have eight legs and fangs. And all spiders, most people agree, are creepy.
Not all spiders, however, use webbing. But orb weavers build their characteristic webs daily to catch prey.
Silk is formed from liquid protein that hardens with the tensile strength of steel once excreted.
The golden silk orb weaver, also known as the banana spider, is one of the largest and most common spiders to see this time of year.
The banana spider spins threads of yellow, or golden, silk.
Some suggest the color aids the camouflaging effect in the shade that will more effectively snare prey and distracted homeowners.
The female is the large and dangerous-looking spider poised in the center. She lets the diminutive male banana spider, not even half her size, lurk nearby and feed on scraps.
Her web is an elaborate construction of circles that is repaired daily to keep the sticky threads fresh and deadly.
Another orb weaver, the black and yellow garden spider, has a web that can be differentiated from the banana spider's web by the zig-zag pattern stitched near the center.
Another common orb weaver that you may unfortunately dance through is the spiny-backed orb weaver, which is a spider that appears to have a crab shell on its back.
In the morning, you can watch banana spiders clean debris, such as leaves and petals, from the sticky trap.
Repairing the web consists of consuming the old threads before spinning new ones. Some orb weavers rebuild the entire web, daily.
And, interestingly enough, some orb weavers spin silk that contains ant repellent. The web consists of sticky and nonsticky threads that allow the spider to navigate without getting tangled.
Prey, however, rarely escape once flying into the death trap.
Many people might confess to standing in front of the web hoping for a moth to fly into it.
Once when I was watching a web with my wife, the 12-year old boy in me said, "Let's find something to throw in it."
For the record, I didn't. But that's because I couldn't find anything.
Banana spiders are sensitive to vibrations. The female positions herself in the center, pointing downward.
Airborne vibrations can signal an approaching predator. She takes a defensive posture. When prey hits the web, vibrations signal her to attack. Since her vision is poor, she utilizes vibrations in the web to locate her prey.
She will bite the prey and wrap it in silk. Once the victim is dead, she'll vomit pre-digestive juice to liquefy the body. What she can't eat, she'll throw away.
Aside from allergic reactions, her venom is non-threatening to people and pets. A bite is similar to a bee sting.
Banana spiders are nonaggressive and bites only occur if you're asking for it or dancing through their webs.
If a spider builds a web in your doorway or across the sidewalk, wrap her and the web up with a long stick and toss where her web will be more acceptable.
They are, without question, an asset to the environment.
The worst part about walking through a web is the thoughts it triggers. I'm frequently convinced the banana spider will somehow crawl into my ear if I don't hurry up and scream, er, I mean dance.
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Officer Artur Kasprzak, 28, shepherded seven relatives — including a 15-month-old boy — into the attic of their Staten Island home the night Sandy struck.
When he checked the basement of the house in South Beach to make sure he had saved everyone, Kasprzak got caught in 10 feet of fast-rushing water.
"Officers like him are the reason why this is the safest big city in the nation," Bloomberg said. "He would do anything to protect his family, and he did."
More than 75 family and friends joined 200 police officers in full dress uniform at a Mass at St. Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Church in New Brighton.
Kasprzak's coffin was draped with US and Polish flags.
He was a cop for six years and beloved by his colleagues.
"In the words of his platoon supervisor, 'If I had 200 Arties, I wouldn't have a problem in the world,' " Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said in his eulogy.
Kasprzak spent most of his career in the 1st Precinct in lower Manhattan. "As for his fellow police officers, they recall Artie's tremendous sense of humor, a smile that never left his face, and a reputation for speaking his mind," Kelly said.
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How does it taste? asks a certain curious husband, pouring creamy moo-cow Half and Half into his steaming mug of organic roasted fair trade cafe (as in caa-FAY con LAY-chay).
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So glad you found hemp milk that will work for you! I can only imagine how "grassy" it tastes ;) Enjoy!!ReplyDelete
Glad your commenters found something for you!
Throw something out in the universe and look what comes back.
Awesome. :)
Great! Hemp worked for you- That opens up new doors and gives some room to breathe, I hope. Manitoba Harvest has lots of great hemp recipes on their site if you get adventurous again soon and want to experiment. I've never had bad hemp anything- that's using the hemp protein, hemp seeds, or "milk"
The title of your post alone made me smile :)
I know in the last post, several people were commenting on taking probiotics and you mentioned the dairy was a problem for you. My gastro recommended one called VSL #3. Here is a link to there site http://www.vsl3.com/VSL3/default.asp
Here is what they say about how they make their probiotic.
Can I take VSL#3® if I have an intolerance to dairy products?
Some dairy ingredients are used in the culture medium but are removed during fermentation and concentration. There might be trace amounts at very low levels and, for this reason, VSL#3® is not defined as a dairy-free product but as a non-dairy product. Evidence suggests that probiotics may be useful in the treatment of patients with lactose maldigestion and lactase deficiency. Recent studies have demonstrated that lactose is better digested from yogurt than from milk by lactase-deficient individuals and yogurt ingestion by these patients is paralleled by reduced symptoms. Many patients confirmed that their intolerance was greatly reduced with the use of VSL#3®. If you are lactose intolerant, you may wish to start with a very low intake of VSL#3® to see how you respond before increasing the amount.
I don't know if it would help or if you could take it. But it might be worth looking into. I know it's got to be hard with such a long list of allergies. Glad your spirits seem better today!
I am curious which brand of hemp milk you are using (yes there are actually two). I trialed both Hemp Bliss and Living Harvest's Hempmilk, and found them to be really different. I preferred the organic and more natural nature of the Hemp Bliss, but it was definitely more "grassy" than the other!
On the prior post, I buy millet in the bulk food section, but I saw it on Amazon too - since you are already shopping there : )
I love hemp milk --- and am glad you found it too!
AND, I hope you recover from your broken hip and find speedy recovery in your days ahead! I'm sorry for the serious distraction. Get well soon!
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Ha ha! this made me laugh at numerous places - yes it does sound like a wonderful day> I'm curious - what has the hemp been suggested for? Is it something to do with a "quirky" stomach - because mine's a mystery i've been delving through for 25 odd years.... or just as a substitute for dairy. Would love to know its uses.
Hemp milk is a vegan alternative to dairy. It's thicker and creamier than rice milk, and has no other allergenic ingredients (such as soy or nuts, for instance). It's also high in Omega fats- which is a plus.
All in all, another choice for those of us allergic to dairy proteins (or living vegan).
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Wright & Schulte LLC, a leading nationwide law firm and Ohio personal injury law firm, has filed a transvaginal mesh lawsuit on behalf of an Ohio woman who suffered significant and permanent injuries, allegedly due to American Medical Systems, Inc.'s Elevate pelvic mesh device. The complaint, which was filed on November 5, 2012, is just one of many transvaginal mesh lawsuits, also known as a vaginal mesh lawsuit or bladder sling lawsuit, currently pending against American Medical Systems in In re: American Medical Systems, Inc., Pelvic Repair Systems Products Liability Litigation - MDL No. 2325, a consolidated litigation now underway in U.S. District Court, Southern District of West Virginia. (Case No. 2:12-cv-07400)
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In addition to the American Medical Systems litigation, additional consolidated proceedings involving other transvaginal mesh manufacturers have been established in the Southern District of West Virginia, including In re: Ethicon, Inc., Pelvic Repair System Products Liability Litigation- MDL No. 2327; In re: Boston Scientific Corp., Pelvic Repair Systems Products Liability Litigation - MDL No. 2326; and In Re Coloplast Corp. Pelvic Support Systems Products Liability Litigation. Court records indicate that the first trials in the American Medical Systems, Ethicon and Boston Scientific multidistrict litigations will begin in December 2013, with the first trial involving an American Medical Systems case. The first trial in the C.R. Bard, litigation will begin in February 2013.
In a Public Health Notification issued on July 13, 2011, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) revealed that it had received a total of 2,864 reports of complications involving transvaginal mesh products between 2008 and 2010. According to the Notification, the most frequent complications reported to the FDA for surgical mesh devices for pelvic organ proplapse repair included mesh erosion through the vagina (also called exposure, extrusion or protrusion), pain, infection, bleeding, pain during sexual intercourse (dyspareunia), organ perforation, and urinary problems. There were also reports of recurrent prolapse, neuro-muscular problems, vaginal scarring/shrinkage, and emotional problems. At the time, the FDA warned that transvaginal mesh has no clear advantage over non-mesh methods for treating pelvic organ prolapse, and may even pose additional risks.
The FDA is currently considering a recommendation made by its Obstetrics-Gynecology Devices Panel in September 2011 to reclassify transvaginal mesh used in pelvic organ proplapse repair from Class II to Class III. As part of its review, the agency has asked the manufacturers of transvaginal mesh products to conduct post-market safety studies of to address concerns involving the effectiveness and safety of these devices.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A new report advises against the swift departure of a United Nations mission in Haiti despite debate over the peacekeeping force's eight-year presence.
The International Crisis Group's study released Thursday noted that discussion about the UN peacekeepers' eventual withdrawal has intensified under President Michel Martelly. During his presidential campaign, Martelly had expressed interest in the force's early departure.
But the Group said the troops shouldn't be forced to leave too soon. It also said the mission should change its focus from peacekeeping to a more political role by reducing the number of troops and creating new priorities, including a focus on development.
"Any abrupt removal of the mission will create a security vacuum and encourage organized crime and violence," the study said. "There is no transition or exit strategy as yet."
The peacekeeping force known by its French acronym as Minustah was established in 2004 after a politically tumultuous period marked by the ouster of then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Many Aristide supporters and others have criticized the U.N. peacekeepers, calling them an occupying force and pointing to their role in several abuse scandals. But others have praised the mission for ensuring two democratic transfers of power and providing stability in the country of about 10 million people.
The report recommended that the U.N. mission apologize for its likely introduction of a cholera outbreak that surfaced several months after the devastating January 2010 earthquake, and to move quickly to stem the spread of the disease. Cholera has sickened more than half a million Haitians, killing more than 7,000, and souring relations between the mission and the Haitian people.
The nonprofit group also advised the Haitian government to put off efforts to re-establish the army until a national consensus has been obtained. As a candidate, Martelly said he hoped to revive Haiti's armed forces, but that idea has been met with opposition since he became president, with some diplomats saying that money should be invested instead in the country's understaffed national police force.
Former Haitian soldiers and their younger supporters, hopeful about the possible return of the army, seized several former military barracks and other public facilities earlier this year. Police and the U.N. closed the de facto military bases in May.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — In a long-awaited surge of hiring, companies added 243,000 jobs in January — across the economy, up and down the pay scale and far more than just about anyone expected. Unemployment fell to 8.3 percent, the lowest in three years.
The job growth was the fastest since last March and April. Before that, the last month with stronger hiring, excluding months skewed by temporary census jobs, was March 2006.
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Years ago, in a college class, I learned that socioeconomic status was commonly used as a predictor of health outcomes in most countries. I remember this well because my professor chose to exemplify global cases with extreme pictures of poverty and ghastly pathologies. What my sensationalist instructor forgot back then was to address how international migration would affect the locally observed epidemiologic correlation.
Today, with a growing population ofLatinos in America, a paradox continues to gain statistical force based on mortality data. Upon arrival, struggling low-income Latino immigrants are generally healthier than most segments of the U.S. population.
The story appears to change within years. Length of residence in the U.S., as research suggests, may be associated with health deterioration.
Even though this phenomenon hasn't been deciphered completely and the diversity of the Latino community complicates the equation, we are beginning to understand that the prevalence and manifestation of mental illness particularly differ between Latino immigrants and those born in the United States. Recent comparison studies have shown that:
- U.S.-born Latinos are at significantly higher risk than immigrant Latinos for majordepressive episodes , social phobia, posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety disordersand substance dependence and abuse.
- Compared to U.S.-born Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans, Mexican immigrants who have lived fewer than 13 years in the U.S. or Puerto Ricans who have resided in Puerto Rico, experience lower levels of depression and other mental disorders.
- The incidence of mental illness among recent immigrant Mexicans and whites in comparison to their non-immigrant counterparts demonstrates that the immigrants, independently of ethnicity, experience fewer mental health disorders.
Birthplace and cultural variance have a significant correlation with subsequent risk for many psychiatric disorders. For most Latino immigrants without a history of trauma in their homeland, foreign nativity appears to initially serve a protective role against mental illness, even with the stress and poverty often associated with immigration.
What May Account for the Latino Paradox?
As I dig for possible explanations, more questions emerge:
- The American experience is highly determined by the constraints of economic success. As an immigrant, coping with the acculturation process and being disconnected from a familiar network, keeping up with one or two jobs and maintaining meaningful relationships commonly represent a continuous challenge. Would the chronic stress of balancing all of these aspects partially explain overall health deterioration?
- Almost inevitably, as Latino immigrants assimilate and adjust to their new environment, we adopt new behaviors. Research has demonstrated that we tend to consume more high-calorie foods, alcohol and tobacco products. We live more sedentary lives. Are accumulated unhealthy choices to blame for decline in health overall?
- The strains of immigration are not restricted to the migrant parents; they permeate the lives of the entire family. Conversely, Latino-American children exhibit health behaviors typical of Americans in their socioeconomic group, which generally tend to have higher rates of smoking and drinking. Children also struggle finding an identity while battlingprejudice and discrimination, sometimes in the context of illegal immigration.
- The paradox may also have to do with institutional differences. Personally, coming from Colombia, with a different system of public health services and networks of support, I wonder about the role of culture in the spectrum of mental health diagnoses and treatments. Considering the lack of access to mental health services in the U.S. due to financial and linguistic barriers—and alternative help-seeking behaviors from extended families among Latinos—can the relative "strength" of Latino immigrants be a reflection of under–reporting and under-diagnosis, rather than truly lower prevalence?
There is Hope
As previously noted, the reasons behind the Latino health paradox may be tied to an array of different factors. And even though mortality rates support the notion of health advantages, they should not lead to hasty conclusions regarding the state and health outcomes of the subgroups that make up the Latino community.
Latinos, without a doubt, are at risk for psychiatric disorders. We cannot be ignored in mental health research and the development of treatment interventions; services need to be offered that fit our individual needs. NAMI advocates for access to services, treatment, support and research, and is fully committed to raising mental health awareness and building a community for hope for all those in need.
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America's Tomato Crush
A doctoral candidate in Penn State's Department of History, John Hoenig has focused his research on the evolution of the tomato industry, adding to our understanding of America's consumer culture.
Is there an item on the average household's dinner table so roundly scorned as the wintertime tomato? The plastic-like red globe is typically so barren of authentic taste and texture that it epitomizes the industrialization of food, says John Hoenig, a doctoral candidate in history at Penn State. Yet he points to that very same tomato as a symbol of victory—tangible evidence of Americans' success in transcending traditional patterns of seasonality in their diets.
Hoenig has made "the quest for the 12-month tomato" the focus of his research.
Farmers and consumers, rather than big business, drove that quest, he asserts. It's a notion that runs contrary to the views of most historians of food and agriculture, who use the tomato as an indicator of the cultural, political, and economic control that a relatively small number of large corporations have over the food Americans consume.
"Americans have fallen in love with the 12-month tomato because it means we have conquered nature, and that appeals to our 'can-do' spirit."—John Hoenig
Canned or fresh?
"Evidence shows that the tomato industry did not follow the same route as the meat and grain industries, where a handful of corporate giants dominated production by the late 1800s," Hoenig explains. Although some historians have cited Heinz and Campbell's as proof that big business ruled the tomato, in truth those two companies marketed primarily ready-to-serve products, such as ketchup and tomato soup, and did little with fresh and canned tomatoes.
Canned tomatoes represent the other component in the search for the 12-month tomato. The canned product was desirable as a year-round staple because it could easily be adapted to most ethnic and cultural preferences for tomatoes as part of recipes for other dishes. On a per capita basis in 1920, a typical year, Americans consumed on average 27 pounds of canned tomatoes annually, Hoenig notes.
In the form of canned or fresh tomatoes, the industry was remarkably dispersed geographically and in ownership. Canning technology was relatively simple, and entry into the field did not require a huge up-front investment. In 1925, more than 1,500 companies nationwide canned tomatoes, and many of them operated multiple plants. Canneries had to be located close to farms, since ripe tomatoes did not ship well. Early in the 20th century, large quantities of tomatoes were grown commercially from New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland to Indiana and Illinois, and also in Florida and Texas. Tomatoes for fresh consumption included those raised in greenhouses, which further extended seasonal availability and supported decentralization among growers in the northern states.
"Unlike meat and grain, we think about tomatoes. We think about the varieties we want, how we'll prepare them, who we'll serve them to, how they might complement certain ethnic dishes."—John Hoenig
"Many people think of having fresh tomatoes as a kind of post-World War II phenomenon," Hoenig says, "but fresh wintertime tomatoes were commonly available as early as the 1920s, though at prices that only fairly affluent families could afford. The Zuck Greenhouse in Erie, for instance, produced 150,000 pounds of tomatoes in 1924."
Those tomatoes may not have been especially tasty, Hoenig admits, but there was another factor in play besides the innate need to have food available year round.
Food is history
Hoenig describes himself as a cultural historian, rather than a specialist in food or agricultural history. He came to Penn State in 2007 after finishing undergraduate work at Southern Methodist University in his native Texas. He's studying with Gary Cross, Distinguished Professor of Modern History.
Hoenig says he's interested in food because "it gives me a way to delve into a variety of subjects and to look at the lives of ordinary people, not just the elites. I'm especially interested in how we as people change through the process of industrialization, and how our culture has shaped industrialization."
Around the time of World War II, the tomato industry started to catch up with meat and grain, becoming more centralized as many canneries went out of business or were bought out, and many farmers turned to other crops. Canned tomatoes from such giants as Hunts and Del Monte became staples on supermarket shelves from coast to coast. Hoenig's research is still a work in progress, as he continues to assess factors that underlay post-war centralization.
When asked what "take-away" his dissertation might have for the average consumer, Hoenig points to something called the "doctrine of natural advantage." In food production, the doctrine assumes that intense concentration of production -- in this case, of tomatoes -- is an inevitable result of the advantages of geographic location. Thus southern California has the advantages that best suit it as the nation's low-cost, year-round tomato-grower, Iowa is naturally an ideal place to grow corn for the nationwide market, Nebraska specializes in meat-packing, Idaho has the advantage for potatoes and so on.
Hoenig questions the validity of that assumption, noting that the history of tomato production suggests that concentration is not always the best course or the one that yields lowest cost. Tomato farmers and canners followed traditional methods and worked in a decentralized environment for nearly a century, and they satisfied consumers' desires. "The very fact that we have a 12-month tomato is proof of their success," he declares.
He emphasizes that he does not reject big business or corporate agriculture. Instead, the history of the tomato industry should make us think about the way our food culture has evolved and the way we want it to continue to evolve.
"We have a different culture for tomatoes than we do for, say, meat and grain, and we should recognize that," Hoenig concludes. "We think about tomatoes. We think about the varieties we want, how we'll prepare them, who we'll serve them to, how they might complement certain ethnic dishes, and so forth. The popularity of the organic and all-natural and buy local movements, and the ease of growing tomatoes in our own backyards, all mean that the tomato industry will continue to be decentralized and dispersed to a significant degree."
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Anatomy for the Artist
Course No. BMA 250 Credits: 3.0
Faculty Elizabeth Halasz
This course is required for sophomore Biomedical Art majors and is also open to elective students on a space-available basis for studio or liberal arts social/natural science credit. The course is designed to strengthen the students' understanding and use of figure anatomy within their work. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of biomedical art, the course will have two complementary components. These components reflect a multidisciplinary approach to muscular anatomy and figure drawing. Study in this area is designed to provide the student with a good grasp of muscular anatomy as it strongly relates to drawing the figure and its proportions. This course will provide the student the opportunity to interpret anatomy knowledge by working directly from the model and human cadaver from CWRU Anatomy Department. This course is designed to provide the student with a solid basic understanding of muscular anatomy as it relates to surface anatomy, proportion and movement of the human figure. The course incorporates lectures on anatomy, figure proportion and drawing techniques linked to direct and accurate observation of the figure model and cadaver model. Offered spring.
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The Relationship of Chronic Viral Hepatitis, Alcoholism, and Cirrhosis to Liver Cancer
The most common diseases associated with liver cancer are chronic viral hepatitis, alcoholism, and cirrhosis(scarring of the liver). Moreover, chronic viral hepatitis is common in alcoholism, and both viral hepatitis and alcoholism cause cirrhosis which usually precedes the development of cancer. Therefore, the contributions and interrelationships of alcohol abuse, viral hepatitis, and cirrhosis in the development of liver cancer are complex.