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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
My Favorite Books of 2011
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- Alison said...
Great list of books! I 100% agree with you on several of your books…Breaking Point, Mr. Perfect, To Love a Thief, the Jennifer Ashley's loved those books too!
I read tons of good books this year! Some of my faves were…
1.Jami Alden's Beg for Mercy
2.Karen Rose's You Belong to Me, this was my first Karen Rose book and it got me hooked on her books.
3.Jill Shalvis' Animal Attraction and Simply Irresistible
4.Christy Reece's Sweet Justice and Sweet Reward
5.Fatal Consequences & Fatal Justice
6.Shiloh Walker's Fragile and Broken
7.Julie Garwood's Ransom
I think that's about 10, give or take. There are tons of books I'm looking forward to next year also…Pamela Clare's Defiant, Fatal Flaw, Monica McCarty's the Saint, Julie James About That Night, plus tons more I could list, but I'm supposed to be working :) LOL!
- December 20, 2011 at 2:19 PM
- Virginia said...
Maya's highlander sereis is awesome, my favorite was Seduction of a Highland Lass. the second book of the series. I didn't get to read the first one.
- December 22, 2011 at 7:47 PM
I like some of those books!
I read a book this year that I loved so much I have read 3 times already. Woman Vs Womaniser by a JC Johnson. A mind blowing journey of youth to adult hood. The author involuntarily forces you into his world at the same tim, forcing you to question your own. A must read for all women.
- December 23, 2011 at 12:35 PM
- Marie Force said...
Thanks for including two of mine on your list! Yay! I agree with so many of yours, too!
I LOVED the second one! Finished it at 3 am!
- December 23, 2011 at 3:04 PM
- A Tasty Reader said...
I am posting this list today on my blog too....VERY HARD TO DO...
The "Sweet" series by Christy Reece...AWESOME
Beg for Mercy by Jami Alden... Um can you say SICK!!
My One and Only and Until There Was You by Kristan Higgins....I know, I know, not enough of the BUMP BUMP...but they are amazing.
FATAL JUSTICE, CONSEQUENCE and DESTINY..of course!! Sam and Nick are my top dogs...LOVE MY FATAL!!
Maya Bank's Pregnancy and Passion Series...LOVE IT!!
Any Man of Mine by my Girl Rachel!
Some Like It Hot by Louisa Edwards
Snapped...Laura Griffin Rocks!!
Ohhh...Changing The Game by Jaci Burton...STEAMY!!
I can go on and ON AND ON...we know this..Ill stop here!!
- December 31, 2011 at 9:15 AM
- Kay said...
Anything by Marie Force, of course, but I really really loved the Fatal series and "The Fall". I think I picked "Line of Scrimmage" for my top book of 2010 or I'd have added that one too.
Pamela Clare's "Breaking Point" is an obvious choice. It is an awsome book, as is the entire I-Team series. There is so much reality in the situation of "Breaking Point". I work in Mexico. Trust me, it's real.
Emilie Richards' "Whiskey Island" and "The Parting Glass". She has a way of weaving stories between generations that is absolutely phenomenal. Made me want to learn the love stories of my grandparents and how they ended up together.
Lorelie James' "Cowboy Casanova: Rough Riders Book 12". The RR series is one of my favorites and one of the very few that I'll do an occasional re-read. (Too many books, not enough time to be re-reading.)
Lorelie's alter ego Lori Armstrong "Mercy Kill" (sequel to one of my 2010 favorites "No Mercy"). These are mystery, but have a tad of romance. She doesn't write the mystery books fast enough.
Anything by Josh Lanyon, which is GLBT if M/M doesn't bother you. Awsome stories, amazing characters with mystery, suspense, and romance. His Adrien English series is fabulous, as is the Dangerous Ground series. He also has fabulous shorts, amazing how he can pack so much into shorter works.
Jessica Scott's "Because of You". OMG! Absolutely fabulous! So real and so powerful, wounded soldiers coming to grips with their new life and limitations.
Joann Ross's "One Summer". She's another author you can't go wrong with. Everything she writes is fantastic.
E.L. James' Fifty Shades series. While it took me a bit to get into the first story "Fifty Shades of Grey", once I was in I couldn't escape it. The 2nd book "Fifty Shades Darker" was the better of the two but you have to read them in order, they're not stand-alone books. I can't wait for Jan 19th release of the 3rd book. I gotta know how this story ends.
Suzanne Brockmann's "Breaking the Rules". Love those Troubleshooters. But I think that was the last one of the series. sniff sniff.
- December 31, 2011 at 10:47 AM
Thanks for the reccomendations! Marie Force's books are my favorite; I went to Cabo over Christmas and read the Treading Water trilogy. I loved all three. Problem is, I have run out of Marie Force books. I am a nursing student who loves to read when on break; I have two more weeks of break. I also like Pamela Clare (her comtemporary works) and Lori Foster. I appreciate the recommendations and will give some of them a try...until the next Marie Force novel becomes available (Feb?). Thanks for all the great reads...beats the textbook! :)
- January 2, 2012 at 7:08 PM
- Marie Force said...
Thanks for all the great input! Debra, new McCarthy book coming Jan. 17!
- January 2, 2012 at 7:38 PM
- Linhie said...
What a coincident, I too am a nursing student! But unlike you, my restraint is pretty much nonexistent once it comes to reading or rather 'devouring' these wonderful romance novels. I still read about 3+ books a week; apparently I find reading much more appealing than sleeping! *sheepish grin* It is way past 3 a.m. here on the east coast and I literally just finished re-reading "Maid for Love" for the nth time. Just prepping for next week! *grin unashamedly*
You've spoiled me! But please, keep on spoiling… I'm one of 7 (dead middle), what can I say? I'm deprived!! After almost 23 years of deprivation, it's about time I get spoiled. *sending Marie my best puppy-face, doe-eyed look*
Without further ado, here's my "My Favorite Books Read in 2011"
(Listed in no particular order since each is uniquely charming and incomparable to the others)
EVERYTHING by Marie Force
Well, I'm late hopping onto the bandwagon *shamefaced* but I picked up my first Force, "Maid for Love", on September 15 (beginning of my first clinical rotation – which, BTW, was a hit) and have since bought and read every single available Force on Amazon. My love affair with the site has since increased thousand-folds; I'd marry Amazon if I can – or perhaps, its owner? – but only if a man like Mac and/or Nick doesn't sweep me off my feet first. *dreamy sigh* AGAIN… Marie, you spoil me and I love you IRREVOCABLY for that!
"Unveiled" by Courtney Milan
There is absolutely nothing a guy could do that make me surrender my heart more completely and gladly than if he loves his family the way Ash loves his. Milan's voice is absolutely breathtaking. Without a doubt this book is my favorite historical romance this year!
Sebastian St. Cry Mysteries Series by C.S. Harris
I read the entire series in a week… And you guessed it; I read it right in the middle of the semester. Seriously, who needs sleep?! *wink* I have since converted myself to the mystery and suspense genre.
Blood Rose Series and Runaway Brides Series by Kaki Warner
Warner, who debuted in 2010, is quickly becoming my favorite Western romance novelist. Her works are up to par with my old favorites, Lorraine Heath (well, at least her older Western romances) and Maggie Osborne (who hasn't released a new book in several years). Warner's books are a tad graphic, but the depiction is nevertheless accurate and her story simply, beautiful!
Guild Hunter Series by Nalini Singh
Singh is the Harris to my paranormal frenzied. Before 2011, I was solely a historical romance junkie (and to a lesser extent, a contemporary romance reader). Singh and Harris' works has brought me away from my comfort zone and now I am willing to read basically everything and anything.
SIDE NOTE: I've read and liked her Psy/Changeling Series, but IMO, it doesn't hold a candle to the magical world stock-FULL of yummalicious ANGELS! I mean, seriously ladies, THEY ARE ANGELS. In essence, they are every deprived girl's dream come true! *drools*
Last but not LEAST…
Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
Ok, I confuse, I have read these books more than 4 summers ago, but I have yet to go through a summer without rereading and falling a little bit more in love with the characters every summer since then. I'm a fool in love and I'm not a least bit ashamed. I'll probably (stretch that, I WILL) ask to be buried with them. *bashful grin*
I've read over a 100 novels this year and may are great, but those listed above are by far my very favorites and will most probably remain my favorites for a lifetime. And mind you, I plan to live a long long long loooooooong ROMANCE-FULL life!
*END WITH A BOW and… The ever present A CHEEKY GRIN*
After checking out your "Favorites" list in December, I've picked up Shay's work and WOW was I impressed. The entire "America's Bravest" series was phenomenal. I'll be sure to pick up several more by this author.
- January 9, 2012 at 3:51 AM
- Marie Force said...
Thanks so much for your post and for all your kind words about my books. I was cracking up at how you are reading when you are supposed to be studying. As a mom, I should chastise you, but I'd be doing the same thing! Good luck with your studies and thanks for sharing your Best of 2011 list with us!
- January 9, 2012 at 5:51 PM


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It was hard enough for the Florida Panthers to get noticed on the Miami sports scene before LeBron James made The Decision to take his talents to South Beach.
Rebuilds are nice, but Panthers want to win now
It was hard enough for the Florida Panthers to get noticed on the Miami sports scene before LeBron James made The Decision to take his talents to South Beach.
More than a decade of futility will tend to do that to a franchise. The last time these jungle cats picked up a playoff win was in 1997, and it was the only win of an opening series loss to the New York Rangers.
Ticket pricing and marketing can only do so much for a team ranked 24th in league attendance — the Panthers need to win, and win now.
Whether or not they can do it is another story. They haven't received much love from pundits, a fact not lost on head coach Peter DeBoer.
"Pride's a great motivator and when you read every major hockey publication (and) they've got you picked last or second-last, it's a great motivator," he said Thursday, noting his team is short on superstars but long on effort.
"We're a team that's built around fundamentals, some basic principles and, from a coaching perspective, sometimes that's easier with a room of workers," he continued. "There's a lot of nights — trust me — I wish we had one of those guys, you know, 1-1 games and you can't score a goal or create an offensive chance, so it's the old adage of live with them or live without them."
Workhorse goaltender Tomas Vokoun agreed.
"We didn't have a 30-goal scorer last season and we are not a team that's going to rely on one or two guys to win the games," he said. "Every night we need 95 per cent of the players playing well to win."
Of course, that makes his job all the more difficult.
"It obviously gets tough sometimes if you don't get goal support, but any team goes through that. That's just the nature of the position."
Vokoun's goaltending helped the team to a 3-4-0 record heading into last night, with two losses arguably caused by lousy officiating. The hope is fans will return if they can string a few more wins together.
"I think it would be tough to sell tickets anywhere, with a few exceptions, if you haven't been in the playoffs in nine years, especially in the U.S.," he said. "We haven't been where we wanted to be and obviously the fans, some of them are somewhat disappointed, so you can kind of understand that."
At least there's one guy who isn't clamoring for tickets to see King James, CB4 and D-Wade.
"I'm not a big basketball fan," Vokoun said with a chuckle.

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6. Gardening is More Reliable than Scavenging
Scavenging and hunting can help you build up your food supply, but neither of these options will be as consistent as gardening. Rick's group took advantage of gardening while they were at Hershel's farm and the prison, and this helped them obtain a fresh supply of food in both locations. Learning how to garden now will be extremely beneficial if a disaster ever happens, and you can also reduce your reliance on supermarkets by growing some of your own food.
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Common Names
- Bird's foot
- Greek hayseed
- bockshornsame
- Methi
- hu lu ba
For Patients & Caregivers
Fenugreek may lower blood glucose and cholesterol levels in people with diabetes.
Much research on fenugreek has been conducted in India and other countries, focusing on its potential for the treatment of diabetes. In healthy and diabetic animals and humans, fenugreek lowers cholesterol, blood triglyceride levels, and blood glucose levels. Scientists are not certain how this effect happens, but propose that the fiber in fenugreek binds to glucose and cholesterol in the digestive tract and prevents it from being absorbed by the body, or increases insulin secretion. Laboratory studies in rats show that fenugreek normalizes their blood levels of antioxidants and metabolic enzymes, but it is unclear whether this effect occurs in humans. Fenugreek has anticancer properties but human studies are needed.
Fenugreek acts as an estrogenic receptor modulator and was shown to stimulate breast cancer cells in vitro. Patients with hormonal-sensitive cancers should avoid this product.
- To treat cancer
Laboratory and animal studies show that fenugreek has anticancer properties. Human studies are needed.
- To treat diabetes
Several animal studies and a few clinical trials show that fenugreek can lower blood glucose levels when taken with meals. However, more research is needed to support its use as a replacement for diabetes medications.
- As a laxative
No clinical trials have studied this use, but fenugreek seeds do contain high levels of fiber.
- To treat disorders of the digestive tract
No scientific evidence supports this use. Fenugreek seeds contain high levels of fiber.
- To lower high cholesterol
Several animal studies and a few clinical trials support this use.
- To induce childbirth
Although laboratory studies show that fenugreek stimulates contraction of the uterus, human data are lacking.
- To fight infections
Fenugreek shows antibacterial properties in laboratory experiments, but it has not been studied in humans.
- To reduce inflammation
No scientific evidence supports this use.
- As a lactation stimulant
Although fenugreek is often used to stimulate lactation in folk medicine, there are no data to back this claim.
- For wound healing
Fenugreek shows antibacterial properties in laboratory experiments, but there is no scientific evidence supports this use.
- You are taking warfarin (fenugreek can increase the risk of bleeding).
- You are taking cyclophosphamide (fenugreek may interfere with the actions of cyclophosphamide).
- You have hormone-sensitive cancer (fenugreek acts as an estrogenic receptor modulator and was shown to increase growth of breast cancer cells in vitro).
For Healthcare Professionals
Fenugreek is derived from the dried seeds of the plant and is used in ayurvedic medicine as a demulcent, laxative, and as a lactation stimulant. It is also used as a dietary supplement to treat various conditions including diabetes, high cholesterol, wounds, inflammation, and gastrointestinal complaints. In vitro and animal studies indicate that fenugreek has hypocholesterolemic (1), hypolipidemic (2) (23), hypoglycemic (3), antimicrobial (20), hepatoprotective (5) (6) effects, and may be effective in reducing peripheral neuropathy (30).
Fenugreek also demonstrated chemopreventive properties against certain cancers (7) (8) (9) (24), and reduced the toxicity associated with buthionine sulfoximine and cyclophosphamide in mice (25). Human studies have not yet been conducted. Fenugreek acts as an estrogen receptor modulator and stimulates breast cancer cells in vitro (26). But evidence of its potential to stimulate lactation is limited.
The hypoglycemic activity of fenugreek may be associated with the galactomannan fiber and saponin components that reduce gastrointestinal glucose and cholesterol absorption, and increase bile acid excretion (14). Hypoglycemic activity is also attributed to the trigonelline, nicotinic acid, and coumarin fractions. 4-Hydroxyisoleucine, an amino acid constituent of fenugreek, potentiates insulin secretion in non-insulin-dependent diabetic (NIDD) rats when administered intraperitoneally (15). In addition to lower fasting and postprandial glucose levels, fenugreek-treated diabetic rats have higher hemoglobin, GSH, and plasma antioxidant levels and lower glycosylated hemoglobin, plasma lipids, and TBARS levels than diabetic controls (4). Dietary fenugreek also normalizes the activities of glucose and lipid-metabolizing enzymes in diabetic rats (3). Studies involving healthy mice and rats indicate that dietary fenugreek is associated with increased serum T4, liver GSH, glyoxalase I, and GST activities, and decreased T3 levels and T3/T4 ratio (17) (18) (19). Fenugreek intake in humans was associated with an increase in molar insulin binding sites of erythrocytes, which may enhance glucose utilization (16).
In MCF-7 estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer cells, fenugreek extract induced cell cycle arrest as well as apoptosis (9).
Fenugreek acts as an estrogen receptor modulator and was shown to stimulate breast cancer cells in vitro (26). Patients with hormonal-sensitive cancers should avoid this product.
- Allergic reactions including rhinorrhea, wheezing, numbness of head, facial angioedema and fainting were reported following inhalation and external application of fenugreek seed powder (31).
- Fenugreek seed extract caused developmental abnormalities in mice (27), but this has not been shown in humans.


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Is a wave of merging electric utility and telco assets imminent?
Liberalization of telco and energy sectors incentivized traditional telco and energy companies to look for new revenue sources beyond their traditional business scope. Telco companies have started to sell energy, gas and heat while energy companies often offer telco services.
Simultaneously, we experienced fast development of internet and related services. Nowadays, broadband internet connection is an essential part of infrastructure and precondition for prosperity even in developing countries. Therefore, in multiple countries governments, both legislatively and financially, support providing households with broadband internet connection. Given the support, energy and telco companies in many countries cooperate with government, municipalities and regulators on deployment of next generation telco infrastructure. All in order to secure cost efficient network construction while avoiding any competition disrupting measures.
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Bob Braun
|Bob Braun
April 20, 1929
Ludlow, Kentucky
January 15, 2001 (aged 71)
Cincinnati, Ohio
|Television and radio host
Robert E. Braun (April 20, 1929 – January 15, 2001) was a local television and radio personality in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was born in Ludlow, Kentucky.
He was best known for The Bob Braun Show, which he hosted from 1967 to 1984 on the daytime schedule five days a week. The show had the highest Arbitron and Nielsen ratings of any live entertainment/information program in the Midwest. Originating at WLWT, the 90-minute show originally was syndicated to three other cities in the Midwest.[1] Eventually, more television stations joined the line-up. Braun's show featured a live band, singers, and special guests including Bob Hope (a frequent guest), Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson, Paul Lynde, Red Skelton, Phyllis Diller, Tom Dressen, and Dick Clark. Politicians including Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, John Glenn, and Ted Kennedy were also guests.
The local Cincinnati television show titled The 50-50 Club had occupied the time slot that Braun eventually filled. The 50-50 Club hostess, Ruth Lyons, retired in 1967 due to declining health. Braun had appeared regularly on The 50-50 Club show since 1957, and frequently had been a fill-in host. On his own show, Braun heavily promoted and supported Lyons' charity, "The Ruth Lyons Christmas Fund," each Christmas season. (The charity, now known as "The Ruth Lyons Children's Fund," remains in operation to this day.) Some years after Braun took over the show, the title was changed from The 50-50 Club to The Bob Braun Show. (An ad in a 1969 issue of TV Guide identifies it as Bob Braun's 50-50 Club.) Toward the end of its run in the 1980s, it was renamed Braun and Company.
Regular cast members on The Bob Braun Show included Rob Reider, Mary Ellen Tanner, Nancy James, baritone Mark Preston (member of The Lettermen), and announcer/weatherman Bill Myers. Beginning with the telecast on the daytime schedule of Friday, June 7, 1968, an entertainment critic for a Columbus, Ohio newspaper, Ron Pataky, visited Cincinnati every Friday to discuss on Braun's television show which movies were playing in cinemas that weekend.[2] Pataky continued making his Friday appearances until 1973. The longtime director of The 50-50 Club, Bob Braun's 50-50 Club and The Bob Braun Show was Dick Murgatroyd, who years later became the county-judge executive of Kenton County, Kentucky.
The Department of Photographs and Films at the Cincinnati Museum Center has videotapes of The Bob Braun Show and Braun and Company that were preserved starting in 1982. All episodes of Braun's daytime show that were telecast prior to 1982 were lost because of wiping. Evidently, in 1969, Braun did a prime-time special on which Nick Clooney and his young son George were guests. George talked on-camera about his recent tonsillectomy, and that broadcast was preserved.
Bob Braun began his career at the age of thirteen with WSAI Radio, hosting a Saturday morning Knothole Baseball sports show.[3] He joined WCPO-TV in 1949. In 1957, after winning the $1,000 top prize on television's Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts talent show, Braun was immediately hired by WLWT and WLW-AM. After cutting a handful of unsuccessful pop vocal recordings for labels such as Fraternity and Torch, Braun signed to Decca Records and charted his only Top 40 hit, "Till Death Do Us Part," in 1962. Braun later recorded for United Artists, but most of his subsequent recording efforts were released on small independent or vanity labels.[4] In the mid-1970s he briefly hosted a local game show called On The Money. Braun was one of Cincinnati's biggest TV stars until 1984, when he moved to California for ten years to do commercials, talk shows and small movie roles. During that time, he was most often seen as the spokesperson for Craftmatic adjustable beds and announcer for controversial no-money-down real estate promoter Tony Hoffman,[5] who later produced and marketed a recorded interview with O. J. Simpson.[6] Braun also had a part in the Bruce Willis movie Die Hard 2.
In 1993, he was inducted into the Cincinnati Radio Hall of Fame. In March 1994, Braun left Hollywood and returned to WSAI Radio (by then featuring an adult standards musical format) as one of "The Sunrise Boys," working as the morning host alongside his nephew, "Bucks" Braun (himself a successful radio personality in nearby Dayton, Ohio) and newsman Don Herman. In June 1997, Mayor Roxanne Qualls and the entire City Council honored him with "Bob Braun Day in Cincinnati".
Braun retired on November 24, 1999, after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. His show business career had spanned a half century. He was replaced on WSAI by Nick Clooney.
Braun died of Parkinson's and cancer in 2001 and was buried in Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery. He was survived by his wife, Wray Jean, and three children: Rob, Doug, and Melissa. Rob now works at WKRC-TV as its primary news anchorman.
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- Die Hard 2 (1990) - Newscaster (WZDC)
- Defending Your Life (1991) - Talk Show Host
- ^ "Columbus Discovers Duo of Theatre Eds As TV Guest Fodder". Variety. New York. August 28, 1968. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
- ^ "Columbus Discovers Duo of Theatre Eds As TV Guest Fodder". Variety. New York. August 28, 1968. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
- ^ Friedman, Jim (December 5, 2007). Cincinnati Television. Arcadia Publishing. p. 12. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
- ^ "Bob Braun: a discography". MusicWeird.com. 2014-02-07. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
- ^ Eisenberg, Richard (1987-06-01). "The Mess Called Multi-Level Marketing With celebrities setting the bait, hundreds of pyramid-style sales companies are raking in millions, often taking in the gullible. - June 1, 1987". Money.cnn.com. Retrieved 2012-05-13.
- ^ "Simpson Invites Grilling -- For A Profit". The Free Library. Los Angeles Daily News. February 17, 1996. Retrieved 20 May 2015.
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Clark Technology Systems, established by Faith '78, '87G and Ron Clark in 1987, fabricates custom-designed lubrication systems for Fortune 500 companies that include industrial manufacturers, power plants, petroleum refineries, air separation plants and more.
Today, Clark Technology Systems employs 36 people, with revenues between $10 million and $12 million per year. Faith and Ron Clark decided to incorporate in 1987 as a lean manufacturing consulting business once they realized that they could run their own manufacturing company.
Clark Technology Systems focuses mostly on large projects and partnering with companies that have the capacity to build very large systems yet need support in terms of engineering expertise. In the recent article in KeystoneEdge, Faith credits her bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from Lehigh with preparing her for running a complex engineering management operation.


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Chicago Tribune
A packed 'Hamilton' matinee — all Chicago Public School students and their teachers
Backstage at 'Aladdin': 38 tons of scenery, 337 sparkling costumes come together to create magic
'Learning Curve' puts you smack in the middle of a Chicago public school day
'Curious Incident' offers rats their moment in spotlight
Former club regulars of the real Havana Madrid retrace their footsteps in a hair salon
Quiz: 'Hamilton' for musical theater geeks
"Four Women" at the Chicago Humanities Festival
What do Chicago theater actors make? A new study looks at inequality in pay, race and gender
Jeff Awards faces questions, has endured them before
End of 'Too Much Light' brings a longtime schism in the Neos out into the open
A white actor is cast in 'In the Heights,' setting off a complicated debate
Musically Human's sudden shutdown in Highland Park comes with a past
Meet Tara Aisha Willis, a well-timed new curator for the MCA Stage
Sarah Ruhl wrote 'For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday' for her mom as a hedge against getting old
Talking to Idina Menzel about her concert, her sister and, of course, 'Let It Go'
A life full of questions becomes Brian Quijada's 'Where Did We Sit on the Bus?'
Chicago drag queen gets chance at being 'RuPaul' royalty
Chance the Rapper's 'Magnificent Coloring World' happened - what was it?
'Stranger Things' pulls Ravenswood actor into its orbit
Why Brit Marling set 'The OA' in the Midwest: 'People are falling in love in Panera'
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A half dozen people were shot and wounded in overnight Chicago street violence in addition to the previously reported fatal shooting in Albany Park, police said this morning.
These were the incidents:
•An 18-year-old man was shot in the buttock as he was walking in the 2300 block of West 50th Place about 8 p.m. by someone who fired from a passing vehicle. He was in good condition at Mt. Sinai Hospital.
•A 24-year-old man was shot in his left shoulder after he was approached by two men who demanded money at gunpoint about 10 p.m. in the 800 block of West 51st Street. He was in stable condition at Provident Hospital.


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Blog Post
5G and Future Data Centers: Challenges, Potential, and Preparation
5th generation wireless networks — abbreviated as 5G — isn't a thing of the present, but more and more data centers are preparing for it to soon be a reality. Companies like Google, AT&T, and Nokia are already starting testing 5G's capacity, determining what 5G will be when it enters the global market. As 5G transforms from a concept to a reality over the next several years, data centers need to be ready. Read More


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Download the authoritative guide: Enterprise Data Storage 2018: Optimizing Your Storage Infrastructure
A True EFC Solution: The Five Factors
Consumer-grade file collaboration vendors usually start with low-cost and free solutions to build their customer base. Then they attempt to ride their business user coattails into the enterprise while simultaneously developing slightly more robust products. They are correct that the enterprise is where the real money is; they are wrong in believing that providing a cool free product for business users will result in large-scale enterprise adoption.
A ready-for-the-enterprise file collaboration product must contain five factors that define EFC: scalability, control, security, usability and compliance. Enterprise scalability is not just supporting a small remote workgroup in an enterprise; it is using the cloud to achieve high performance distributed file-sharing for thousands of users, devices, and tens of thousands of files. Control is centralized IT management using policies to efficiently manage file collaboration across the enterprise. Security is encryption, data protection and user access control. Usability is that all-important quality of simplicity for both end-users and for IT. Finally, compliance refers to monitoring, tracking and auditing file usage for compliance and governance. Let's take a more detailed look at each factor.
Factor: Scalability
A key part of scalability is the cloud, which enables large-scale distributed file-sharing without the expense and complexity of VPNs or FTP. Cloud architecture differs between EFC vendors and is a major defining difference between several of them. Note that although most of the vendors offer a public cloud option, many of them can deploy to a private cloud. This level of flexibility is important to the enterprise, where cloud might be acceptable for backup and other copied data sets but is unacceptable for active data.
Factor: Usability
It is not hard to understand the reasons for the success of consumer file-sharing products like Dropbox. Free is a big part of it, of course, but so are simplicity and usability. When IT deploys an enterprise file-sharing product for company employees, it needs to be simple to use and share even with layers of policies, admin, encryption and audits behind it. Usability also extends to user file-sharing; users need a simple and effective way to issue invitations and permissions to other users as well as being able to easily access their files on multiple devices.
Application integration is another major consideration for EFC. Users jump onto their mobile app stores at will. Replacing this ease of use with a complex login routine to approved corporate applications will quickly stymie user willingness to devote their personal device to the business cause. EFC usability drives towards easily adopted and upgradable corporate application suites including familiar interfaces to widely used applications, such as MS Outlook and Office.
Users aren't the only ones that need simplicity; managing file collaboration needs to be straightforward for IT. Administrators are motivated to close BYOD security holes, but they do not need to replace one serious management issue with an equally difficult file collaboration management interface. The more usable the management interface, the better the choice will be for IT.
Factor: Security
EFC is by definition about files and devices rather than team interaction, so it must be able to protect file versions across devices and user files. Enterprise-scale enters into this ability since hundreds of people may potentially be using the same set of unstructured files. File synchronization is the basic required feature as files are shared between user devices, and potentially between multiple users. Versioning is necessary to provide simultaneous collaboration between users.
EFC vendors offer file syncing and control across mobile devices, including a central management console for admins. This lets IT set and enforce security policies, implement user and role-based access control, and audit device and user network access. Cloud security, access, authentication and encryption are all concerns for IT departments that are looking at enterprise file collaboration on a large scale. IT needs consoles that allow them to provide effective file and access oversight and control, while users need a platform that supports a wide variety of devices.
Factor: IT Control
Centralized control is a primary distinction between consumer and EFC products. Without central controls, users will do an end-run around IT in a phenomenon called shadow IT. Some consumer products have added rudimentary management capabilities but not on the scale of features that enterprise requires. At the very least user access control should support LDAP, and many collaboration products actively use MS Active Directory (AD) for access control. IT will be able to set permission and access control on shared data. Collaboration products that share files from their original storage locations can use existing network permissions for approved users, but products that store shared files in a separate repository will need to set permission access on folders and/or individual files.
IT will need to institute backup and archive for the file locations, whether the files are stored behind the firewall or on a public cloud. The collaboration console may or may not provide data protection functionality; collaboration products from a data protection vendor will provide backup while pure play collaboration vendors generally will not. In either case the shared file storage must be subject to backup and archive as needed.
Factor: Compliance
The management console should give IT the ability to set policies around security, information management and data retention requirements. IT also needs audit trails and activity logs for governance, including versioning records if the collaboration product provides file versioning for shared editing. This is the single largest issue with consumer grade file-sharing in the enterprise: the inability to protect files from accidental sharing, planned intrusion and non-compliance. The ability to safeguard files is critical in highly regulated industries like finance, healthcare, government and others. Consumer grade file-sharing products simply do not provide acceptable security levels.
Mobile Management
File collaboration is an enterprise-wide initiative. It is related to but not synonymous with Mobile Device Management (MDM), Mobile Application Management (MAM), or Mobile File Management (MFM).
- MDM is the process of controlling the spate of mobile edge devices that are overrunning the corporation. When we talk about managing BYOD for security, this is usually what we mean. MDM features include locking, wiping and policies to manage applications and data downloaded to client devices.
- MAM enables IT to provide corporate oversight and control its own applications running on mobile devices. IT generally provides a password-protected application suite for authorized users and devices. They also retain tools such as encryption, locking and wiping, as well as policies that affect only the encapsulated applications and data.
- MFM is the domain of securing and controlling file data accessed by mobile devices. Enterprise file collaboration is not identical to mobile file access but is deeply connected to it because of mobile file sharing issues.


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Country star Blake Shelton has resolved to dial down his controversial tweets after ringing in 2013 by posting a photo of himself passed out in a chair on New Year's Eve (31Dec12).
The beer-loving singer got into a lot of trouble in 2012 for his boozy posts on Twitter.com and while there are no signs of him cutting back on his alcohol intake, he's determined not to chat about it online.
The Honey Bee singer says, "I need to work on being a less controversial tweeter."
And so far so good - four days into 2013 and his tweets have been contained to thanking fans for their support and confessing a crush on TV personality Hoda Kotb.


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SystemEvents Class
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Provides access to system event notifications. This class cannot be inherited.
Assembly: System (in System.dll)
Creates a new window timer associated with the system events window.
Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.(Inherited from Object.)
Serves as the default hash function. (Inherited from Object.)
Invokes the specified delegate using the thread that listens for system events.
Terminates the timer specified by the given id.
Returns a string that represents the current object.(Inherited from Object.)
Occurs when the user changes the display settings.
Occurs when the display settings are changing.
Occurs before the thread that listens for system events is terminated.
Occurs when the user adds fonts to or removes fonts from the system.
Obsolete. Occurs when the system is running out of available RAM.
Occurs when the user switches to an application that uses a different palette.
Occurs when the user suspends or resumes the system.
Occurs when the user is logging off or shutting down the system.
Occurs when the user is trying to log off or shut down the system.
Occurs when the currently logged-in user has changed.
Occurs when the user changes the time on the system clock.
Occurs when a windows timer interval has expired.
Occurs when a user preference has changed.
Occurs when a user preference is changing.
The SystemEvents class provides the ability to respond to specific types of system events.
When a system event is raised, any delegates attached to the event are called using the thread that monitors for system events. Therefore, you should make any calls from your event handlers thread-safe. If you need to call a system event that is not exposed as a member of this class, you can use the InvokeOnEventsThread method.
Do not perform time-consuming processing on the thread that raises a system event handler because it might prevent other applications from functioning.
Some system events might not be raised on Windows Vista. Be sure to verify that your application works as expected on Windows Vista.
This section contains two examples. The first example shows how to use system events in an ordinary application, and the second example shows how to use system events in a Windows service.
Example 1
The following code example registers interest in some system events and then waits for any of those events to occur. The output shown occurs if the user changes the display resolution.
using System; using Microsoft.Win32; public sealed class App { static void Main() { // Set the SystemEvents class to receive event notification when a user // preference changes, the palette changes, or when display settings change. SystemEvents.UserPreferenceChanging += new UserPreferenceChangingEventHandler(SystemEvents_UserPreferenceChanging); SystemEvents.PaletteChanged += new EventHandler(SystemEvents_PaletteChanged); SystemEvents.DisplaySettingsChanged += new EventHandler(SystemEvents_DisplaySettingsChanged); // For demonstration purposes, this application sits idle waiting for events. Console.WriteLine("This application is waiting for system events."); Console.WriteLine("Press <Enter> to terminate this application."); Console.ReadLine(); } // This method is called when a user preference changes. static void SystemEvents_UserPreferenceChanging(object sender, UserPreferenceChangingEventArgs e) { Console.WriteLine("The user preference is changing. Category={0}", e.Category); } // This method is called when the palette changes. static void SystemEvents_PaletteChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { Console.WriteLine("The palette changed."); } // This method is called when the display settings change. static void SystemEvents_DisplaySettingsChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { Console.WriteLine("The display settings changed."); } } // This code produces the following output. // // This app is waiting for system events. // Press <Enter> to terminate this application. // Display Settings changed. // User preference is changing. Category=General
Example 2
The following code example demonstrates a very simple Windows service that handles the TimeChanged and UserPreferenceChanged events. The example includes a service named SimpleService, a form named HiddenForm, and an installer. The form provides the message loop that is required by system events.
Services do not have message loops, unless they are allowed to interact with the desktop. If the message loop is not provided by a hidden form, as in this example, the service must be run under the local system account, and manual intervention is required to enable interaction with the desktop. That is, the administrator must manually check the Allow service to interact with desktop check box on the Log On tab of the service properties dialog box. In that case, a message loop is automatically provided. This option is available only when the service is run under the local system account. Interaction with the desktop cannot be enabled programmatically.
The service in this example starts a thread that runs an instance of HiddenForm. The events are hooked up and handled in the form. The events must be hooked up in the load event of the form, to make sure that the form is completely loaded first; otherwise the events will not be raised.
The example provides all the necessary code, including the form initialization code typically generated by Visual Studio designers. If you are developing your service in Visual Studio, you can omit the second partial class and use the Properties window to set the height and width of the hidden form to zero, the border style to FormBorderStyle.None, and the window state to FormWindowState.Minimized.
To run the example:
Compile the code from the command line. The name that you use for the source file is not important.
Install the service from the command line using the Installutil.exe (Installer Tool) utility. For example, InstallUtil example.exe if the source file name is example.cs or example.vb. You must be an administrator to install the service.
Use the Services console to start the service.
Change the system time, or change user preferences, such as mouse properties.
View the messages in the Application category of Event Viewer.
Use the Services console to stop the service.
Uninstall the service from the command line by using the /u option. For example, InstallUtil /u example.exe.
using System; using System.ServiceProcess; using System.Threading; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Diagnostics; using Microsoft.Win32; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Configuration.Install; namespace SimpleServiceCs { public class SimpleService : ServiceBase { static void Main(string[] args) { ServiceBase.Run(new SimpleService()); } protected override void OnStart(string[] args) { EventLog.WriteEntry("SimpleService", "Starting SimpleService"); new Thread(RunMessagePump).Start(); } void RunMessagePump() { EventLog.WriteEntry("SimpleService.MessagePump", "Starting SimpleService Message Pump"); Application.Run(new HiddenForm()); } protected override void OnStop() { Application.Exit(); } } public partial class HiddenForm : Form { public HiddenForm() { InitializeComponent(); } private void HiddenForm_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { SystemEvents.TimeChanged += new EventHandler(SystemEvents_TimeChanged); SystemEvents.UserPreferenceChanged += new UserPreferenceChangedEventHandler(SystemEvents_UPCChanged); } private void HiddenForm_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e) { SystemEvents.TimeChanged -= new EventHandler(SystemEvents_TimeChanged); SystemEvents.UserPreferenceChanged -= new UserPreferenceChangedEventHandler(SystemEvents_UPCChanged); } private void SystemEvents_TimeChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) { EventLog.WriteEntry("SimpleService.TimeChanged", "Time changed; it is now " + DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString()); } private void SystemEvents_UPCChanged(object sender, UserPreferenceChangedEventArgs e) { EventLog.WriteEntry("SimpleService.UserPreferenceChanged", e.Category.ToString()); } } partial class HiddenForm { private System.ComponentModel.IContainer components = null; protected override void Dispose(bool disposing) { if (disposing && (components != null)) { components.Dispose(); } base.Dispose(disposing); } private void InitializeComponent() { this.SuspendLayout(); this.AutoScaleDimensions = new System.Drawing.SizeF(6F, 13F); this.AutoScaleMode = System.Windows.Forms.AutoScaleMode.Font; this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(0, 0); this.FormBorderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.FormBorderStyle.None; this.Name = "HiddenForm"; this.Text = "HiddenForm"; this.WindowState = System.Windows.Forms.FormWindowState.Minimized; this.Load += new System.EventHandler(this.HiddenForm_Load); this.FormClosing += new System.Windows.Forms.FormClosingEventHandler(this.HiddenForm_FormClosing); this.ResumeLayout(false); } } [RunInstaller(true)] public class SimpleInstaller : Installer { private ServiceInstaller serviceInstaller; private ServiceProcessInstaller processInstaller; public SimpleInstaller() { processInstaller = new ServiceProcessInstaller(); serviceInstaller = new ServiceInstaller(); // Service will run under system account processInstaller.Account = ServiceAccount.LocalSystem; // Service will have Start Type of Manual serviceInstaller.StartType = ServiceStartMode.Automatic; serviceInstaller.ServiceName = "Simple Service"; Installers.Add(serviceInstaller); Installers.Add(processInstaller); } } }
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After all, what once sounded like any other company's publicity-motivated venture into filmmaking has now breached the gates of the Sundance Film Festival and also scored a Grammy nomination. And marketers got the equivalent of walk-ons in the five short films the program produced.
"Dealbreaker," a film under the Reel Moments banner presented by Glamour and Nokia and directed by Gwyneth Paltrow and Mary Wigmore, will be one of 73 shorts screened in Salt Lake City as part of the Sundance festival this January.
"What Are You Doing for the Rest of Your Life," a song performed by Sting for a Glamour short directed by his wife, Trudie Styler, has also been nominated for a Grammy in the category of instrumental arrangement accompanying vocalist(s).
That does not mean that art-house films are falling to corporate raiders. For one thing, Sundance has long since evolved -- or devolved depending on your view -- from an indie showcase into a high-rolling deal-making mecca. It does suggest, though, that indie movies that are both a) worth watching and b) backed by advertisers can co-exist.
Moviemaking middleman
With Reel Moments, an effort run by VP-Publisher William Wackermann, Glamour put itself in the lucrative position of middleman, recruiting advertisers to support short films based on essays submitted by its readers. Each movie is introduced with "Glamour and [advertiser] present a Moxie Pictures film."
Moxie Pictures is a bicoastal commercial and film production company.
In addition to "Dealbreaker," the Reel Moments shorts include "Good Morning Baby," presented by Bebe; "Wait," presented by Ford Motor Co.'s Mercury Milan, "Little Black Dress," presented by Elizabeth Arden; and "Gnome," presented by Glamour alone. Advertisers get a subtle dose of product placement and a closing credit as well.
DVD distribution
"Dealbreaker's" exposure will not be limited to Sundance, as it and the other four shorts will be available on Glamour's Web site, and DVDs will be distributed inside an upcoming issue.
Given the abundance of stadiums like Invesco Field at Mile High, not to mention occasional TV programs titled "Coca-Cola Presents the Young Americans" or "Pepsi Smash," it is getting easier to imagine buying tickets to see features called "Brawny Paper Towels Presents King Kong" or "Absolut Brokeback Mountain."
Whether that's good for cinema is doubtful if not clear, but it presents a new opening for marketers and their media business partners. Magazines haven't played much a role yet; small-screen projects like the annual Vibe Awards and "MTV's Miss Seventeen" are about as close as they have come.


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March 24, 2012
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Fresh off their official launch at SXSW, where they were a showcased startup at our #StartupLife Celebration and competed in the SXSW Accelerator as 1 of 48 startups, Votifi is poised to have a very busy year. Launching during a roller coaster of a campaign season that is preceding a presidential election in the fall, the mobile polling and analytics company wants to disrupt politics thru peer-to-peer political exploration and interaction.
I had a chance to talk to founder and CEO Lou Aronson about why he jumped into the chaotic mess known as U.S. politics, just how the company will change political discourse now and in the future, and a surprising way Votifi is being used.
Tech Cocktail: Why did you decide to jump into the messy world of politics and try to create a solution to the problem of connecting constituents and politicians?
Lou Aronson: After coming up with the idea back in Sept 2008, I just honestly couldn't shake the prospect of starting a mobile-focused polling company that answered the challenges of an increasingly mobile society. With a more diverse and mobile electorate we found a potential solution in the "disconnect" by using "peer to peer" issue-based connections as a tremendously powerful avenue to bring people together and enable them to form their own political connections. It is exciting to see people engage across socio-economic, gender and party lines on the issues that matter most to them. Once the people connect, the politicians will follow.
Tech Cocktail: How do you think Votifi will most disrupt political discourse in this country?
Aronson: In the short term by providing our user community with a broader voice that is supported by quantifiable data. By using news from both sides of the issue together with actual user poll responses, we provide a very accurate and "real time" picture of the sentiment of the electorate. In the long run, I humbly hope we can improve voter turnout, as the poor voter turnout figures continue to be a problem for us as a nation.
Tech Cocktail: Have you gotten traction with polling companies?
Aronson: Some. I would like to boast and say we have caught on like wildfire, but it's a process. Any time you bring a new technology to an old industry it takes time to catch on. The good news for us, though, is that polling is primarily dependent upon landline phones, and the problem of landline abandonment is not going away.
Tech Cocktail: Is Votifi being used in any ways that surprise you?
Aronson: Funny you should ask. And, yes! We have discovered that our "sentiment hub" has a unique application in the association and non-profit world. For the past 20 years or so, all of these organizations have spent tremendous resources building out massive email lists without any core understanding of the demographics, psycho graphics and issues that matter to these members. We now run a "Community Insights" product for these groups that allows us to analyze and segment their population in a way they have never been able to before. And, more good news…it's been working with tangible progress in the short term.
Tech Cocktail: What do you consider your biggest success with Votifi to be so far? What is your ultimate goal with Votifi?
Aronson: Getting "launched" at SXSW. In the startup world, it's easy to talk and very difficult to do. We, as a team, have been benefited from a tremendous group of friends and family investors, as well as co-founders, consultants, interns and collaborators – all of whom have enabled us to get up and running (which is never to be dismissed as a milestone), enable SMS polling, launch our app in the iTunes marketplace and actually use the "sentiment hub" for polling. Having a random pedicab driver at SXSW tell me she had just downloaded the app but not had a chance to enter a discussion, well, to be honest, that one of the coolest experiences of my life.
The ultimate goal? We are building the central connection point for the mobile political relationship for people to each other and politicians to their constituents. We will be the destination for civil political exploration and interaction. That is the goal – to provide the platform. What happens with that platform that depends upon how the folks from all across America elect to implement the tool.
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Update: Excerpts of this blog were highlighted in an article on Time Magazines website.
Many gay activists across the United States are cheering the election of openly gay Mayor-Elect Annise Parker and her victory over Gene Locke in the Houston mayoral runoff–and rightfully so. As a gay man myself I find her election to be a stunning example of how one's resume, experience, and positive campaign can supersede ones' sexual orientation as motivating voters to elect an openly gay candidate. This is a very exciting step toward tolerance and inclusion of gay Americans as qualified choices for elected office.
What happens in Houston can't easily translate to what happens, let's say, in Maryland. Odd statement, wouldn't you think? Openly gay elected official in Texas and not in Maryland? My point is that I don't believe that Parker's victory gives life to wider LGBT agenda initiatives. But, I do believe that her election gives momentum toward qualified, experienced and politically savvy gay candidates running for public office. If you want to really make a mark, and move elements of the LGBT agenda forward, get members of our community elected into positions of political power.
There is much discussion each election cycle of how sometimes in some areas of our communities we often lack a "bench" from which to tap qualified candidates into running for higher office. In some cases we may have a "bench" to tap into, but that "bench" is hardly–lets say, diverse? In fact, it reminds you of a really, really white only country club. It's time that as we pursue diversity on our bench that the discussion of diversity not only include the color of ones' skin or even their gender, but also their sexual orientation.The Houston election results are not the first sign that the electorate will give consideration to an openly gay candidate for higher office. Fort Worth residents elected Joel Burns to the city council in 2007 to fill the vacancy left by then candidate for the state senate, Wendy Davis. Burns went on to run for re-election this year and proceeded to be one of the few candidates not to draw an opponent. Not only was Burns widely accepted by Fort Worth voters in 2007, he was popular and successful enough to have cleared a path toward re-election. For a community such as Fort Worth, shaken this year by the Rainbow Lounge incident, Burns has been a measured, steady, and experienced leader that has worked hard to bring communities together and move Cowtown forward.
Parker's victory in Houston, much like Burns in Fort Worth, is a sign that well qualified and experienced gay candidates can indeed be the choice of the majority of the electorate to hold elected office—particularly in areas one might think a gay candidate could not get elected in like Texas. That's a positive step toward tolerance and inclusion of gay candidates in electoral politics. Having said that, what that also means is that once elected, these candidates have to work twice as hard and be twice as effective in order to prove themselves worthy of the position they hold, and to mute critics who seek any sign to weaken their stature. Parker has a number of challenges ahead of her and she has acknowledged as much. That also means her opponents will have that many more opportunities to undermine her leadership. Her task is great, but if her campaign is any indication of her leadership qualities, political savviness, and overall effectivness she should be fine.
The fact remains though that if gay activists and allies wish to move elements of the LGBT agenda forward—elements such as anti-bullying legislation, tougher Hate Crime initiatives, repealing Don't ask Don't Tell at a national level, and even perhaps partnership unions, the best thing we can do is get members of our community elected. Putting a human face to these issues brings credibility to not only gay candidates as elected officials, but also gay elected officials transforming public opinion in favor of tolerating more LGBT initiatives.


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Living Soulfully groups are an extension of the mission of Easton Mountain, a retreat center and community of men who love men in upstate NY. One of the ways this community connects off the land is through local Living Soulfully groups.This website serves as a gateway to those local chapters where people are connecting authentically.They host gatherings that include speakers, discussions, talks, dinners, book readings, performances and more to foster community and to further the mission of Easton Mountain..
See the Local Chapters section below to contact your closest group or join their mailing list.
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What is the Vision of Living Soulfully?
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Living Soulfully was originally founded in Boston by men who had been to Easton Mountain, a gay men's retreat center in upstate New York. They wanted to have experiences of authenticity, spirituality, and growth closer to home.
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Articles by Michael A. Schwartz
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Other articles by Michael A. Schwartz on PubMed
Are False Memories More Difficult to Forget Than Accurate Memories? The Effect of Retention Interval on Recall and Recognition Memory & Cognition. Oct, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 12507370 What is the effect of retention interval on accurate and false recollection in the Deese, Roediger, and McDermott (DRM) procedure? Previous research has suggested that false recall is more persistent than accurate recall but the recognition results have been inconsistent. In two parametric studies, we tested recall and recognition for the same DRM lists, over retention intervals that ranged from no delay to a 2-month delay. We found that accurate and false memory were diminished by increases in retention interval, false memory persistence was present for recall and recognition, greater persistence for false memory than for accurate memory was more readily observed for recall than recognition, and the high-threshold (Pr), signal detection (d'), and nonparametric (A') recognition measures differed in their sensitivity for detecting change. The effect of retention interval on accurate and false memory is consistent with expectations from fuzzy trace theory. In the DRM procedure, truth is not more memorable than fiction.
Rebuilding Reality: a Phenomenology of Aspects of Chronic Schizophrenia Seishin Shinkeigaku Zasshi = Psychiatria Et Neurologia Japonica. 2003 | Pubmed ID: 14577284 Schizophrenia, like other "pathological" conditions, has not been systematically included in the general study of consciousness. By focusing on aspects of chronic schizophrenia, we attempt to survey one way of remedying this omission. Some basic components of Edmund Husserl's phenomenology of human experience (intentionality, constitution, and unbuilding) are explicated in detail, and these components are then employed in an account of exemplary aspects of chronic schizophrenia. We maintain that in schizophrenic experience some very basic constituents of reality--constituents so basic we call them "ontological"--are lost so that the patient must try to explicitly re-constitute those ontological features of the world. Using Husserl's concepts such experiences are described as a weakening of "automatic mental life" so that much of the world that is normally taken-for-granted cannot continue to be so. This requires the patient to actively busy him or herself with re-laying the ontological foundations of reality.
Phase II Study of High-dose Fish Oil Capsules for Patients with Cancer-related Cachexia Cancer. Jul, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15241836 The authors undertook a multiinstitutional Phase II cooperative group study to examine the potential of oral fish oil fatty acid supplements administered at high doses to slow weight loss and to improve quality of life in patients with malignancy-related cachexia.
Diagnosis and Treatment of Medial Epicondylitis of the Elbow Clinics in Sports Medicine. Oct, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15474230 Although limited literature exists on medial epicondylitis of the elbow, this disorder is an injury affecting many athletes at every level, especially throwing athletes. Care must be taken in diagnosing medial epicondylitis to distinguish it from other possible pathologies of the medial elbow, which may exist concurrently. The large majority of patients diagnosed with medial epicondylitis will respond to a well-structured, nonsurgical program; however, patients with persistent or recurring symptoms can be treated surgically, which yields high patient satisfaction and ultimately a reliable return to preinjury levels of activity.
Richard Zaner's Phenomenology of the Clinical Encounter Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15850044 The "clinical ethics" propounded by Richard Zaner is unique. Partly because of his phenomenological orientation and partly because of his own daily practice as a clinical ethicist in a large university hospital, Zaner focuses on the particular concrete situations in which patients and their families confront illness and injury and struggle toward workable ways for dealing with them. He locates ethical reality in the "clinical encounter." This encounter encompasses not only patient and physician but also the patient's family and friends and indeed the entire "lifeworld" in which the patient is still striving to live. In order to illuminate the central moral constituents of such human predicaments, Zaner discusses the often-overlooked features of disruption and crisis, the changed self, the patient's dependence and the physician's power, the violation of personal boundaries and their necessary reconfiguring, and the art of listening.
American Society of Clinical Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline for the Use of Larynx-preservation Strategies in the Treatment of Laryngeal Cancer Journal of Clinical Oncology : Official Journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Aug, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16832122 To develop a clinical practice guideline for treatment of laryngeal cancer with the intent of preserving the larynx (either the organ itself or its function). This guideline is intended for use by oncologists in the care of patients outside of clinical trials.
Bevacizumab in Combination with Oxaliplatin, Fluorouracil, and Leucovorin (FOLFOX4) for Previously Treated Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Results from the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Study E3200 Journal of Clinical Oncology : Official Journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Apr, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17442997 Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer mortality in the United States. Antiangiogenic therapy with bevacizumab combined with chemotherapy improves survival in previously untreated metastatic colorectal cancer. This study was conducted to determine the effect of bevacizumab (at 10 mg/kg) on survival duration for oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy in patients with previously treated metastatic colorectal cancer.
Death, Organ Transplantation and Medical Practice Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine : PEHM. 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18248665 A series of papers in Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine (PEHM) have recently disputed whether non-heart beating organ donors are alive and whether non-heart beating organ donation (NHBD) contravenes the dead donor rule. Several authors who argue that NHBD involves harvesting organs from live patients appeal to "strong irreversibility" (death beyond the reach of resuscitative efforts to restore life) as a necessary criterion that patients must meet before physicians can declare them to be dead. Sam Shemie, who defends our current practice of NHBD, holds that in fact physicians consider patients to be dead or not according to physician intention to resuscitate or not. We suggest that criteria for a concept are not necessarily truth conditions for assertions involving the concept. Hence, non-heart beating donors may be declared dead without meeting the criterion of strong irreversibility even though strong irreversibility is implied by the concept of death. Our perception that a concept applies in a given case is determined not by the concept itself but by our necessary skill and judgment when using it. In the case of deciding that a patient is dead, such judgment is learned by physicians as they learn the practice of medicine and may vary according to circumstances. Current practice of NHBD can therefore be defended without abandoning death as an empirical concept, as Shemie appears to do. We conclude that the dead donor rule continues to be viable and ought to be retained so as to guarantee what the public most cares about as regards organ donation: that physicians can be trusted to make determinations of eligibility for organ donation in the interests of patients and not for other purposes such as increasing the availability of organs.
Well Plate-coupled Microfluidic Devices Designed for Facile Image-based Cell Adhesion and Transmigration Assays Journal of Biomolecular Screening. Jan, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 19965806 Microfluidic devices have become invaluable tools in recent years to model biological phenomena. Here, the authors present a well plate microfluidic (WPM) device for conducting cell biology assays under shear flow. Physiological shear flow conditions of cell-cell and cell-ligand adhesion within this device produce results with higher biological significance than conventional well plates. The WPM format also produced significant work flow advantages such as faster liquid handling compared to static well plate assays. The authors used the VLA-4-VCAM-1 cell adhesion model as the basis for a rapid, higher throughput adhesion inhibition screen of monoclonal antibodies against VLA-4. Using the WPM device, they generated IC(50) dose-response curves 96 times faster than conventional flow cells. The WPM device was also used to study transmigration of mononuclear cells through endothelial cell monolayers. Twenty-four channels of transmigration data were generated in a single experiment.
Psychosomatic Medicine and the Philosophy of Life Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine : PEHM. 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20089202 Basing ourselves on the writings of Hans Jonas, we offer to psychosomatic medicine a philosophy of life that surmounts the mind-body dualism which has plagued Western thought since the origins of modern science in seventeenth century Europe. Any present-day account of reality must draw upon everything we know about the living and the non-living. Since we are living beings ourselves, we know what it means to be alive from our own first-hand experience. Therefore, our philosophy of life, in addition to starting with what empirical science tells us about inorganic and organic reality, must also begin from our own direct experience of life in ourselves and in others; it can then show how the two meet in the living being. Since life is ultimately one reality, our theory must reintegrate psyche with soma such that no component of the whole is short-changed, neither the objective nor the subjective. In this essay, we lay out the foundational components of such a theory by clarifying the defining features of living beings as polarities. We describe three such polarities: 1) Being vs. non-being: Always threatened by non-being, the organism must constantly re-assert its being through its own activity. 2) World-relatedness vs. self-enclosure: Living beings are both enclosed with themselves, defined by the boundaries that separate them from their environment, while they are also ceaselessly reaching out to their environment and engaging in transactions with it. 3) Dependence vs. independence: Living beings are both dependent on the material components that constitute them at any given moment and independent of any particular groupings of these components over time.We then discuss important features of the polarities of life: Metabolism; organic structure; enclosure by a semi-permeable membrane; distinction between "self" and "other"; autonomy; neediness; teleology; sensitivity; values. Moral needs and values already arise at the most basic levels of life, even if only human beings can recognize such values as moral requirements and develop responses to them.
Health Care Under the ADA: a Vision or a Mirage? Disability and Health Journal. Oct, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 21122791 Problems in health care access are identified using recent studies documenting the health disparities experienced by people with disabilities. Some of these health care access barriers qualify as discrimination prohibited under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Focusing on the past decade of ADA enforcement, issues reported in the U.S. Department of Justice listing of resolved ADA complaints and settlements are compared to the profile of access problems. Key court case outcomes of the past decade also are presented. These sources indicate that the majority of resolved complaints and settlements involved failure to provide effective communication (often sign language interpretation). A smaller percentage of complaints and settlements addressed issues of refusal to provide treatment, physical access, equipment access, and provider procedures. Most of the key settlements involved hospitals and larger provider organizations, while many complaints also focused on individual physicians. Although the record indicates that the ADA can be, and has been, effectively used to increase access in many instances, other types of access problems have been lightly addressed through application of the ADA. This likely stems from enforcement choices made by the Department of Justice and the dynamics of the patient-doctor relationship. The broad challenge for the coming decade is to develop means to achieve effective communication and eliminate physical and programmatic barriers in more health care provider settings more consistently. The ADA can be a vigorous force in this effort as part of a multipronged strategy.
Using Well-plate Microfluidic Devices to Conduct Shear-based Thrombosis Assays Journal of Laboratory Automation. Apr, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21609696 Shear stress plays a critical role in regulating platelet adhesion and thrombus formation at the site of vascular injury. As such, platelets are often examined in vitro under controlled shear flow conditions for their hemostatic and thrombotic functions. Common shear-based platelet analyses include the evaluation of genetic mutants, inhibitory or experimental compounds, matrix substrates, and the effects of different physiological and pathological shear forces. There are several laboratory instruments widely used for studying shear flow, including cone and plate viscometers and parallel plate perfusion chambers. These technologies vary widely in the types of samples, substrates, blood volumes, and throughput that are involved. Here, we describe a microfluidic system for platelet analysis under shear flow. We used the devices to study thrombus formation on collagen I and von Willebrand factor. The system was also used to investigate dose response to the antiplatelet compound, Abciximab, under shear flow conditions with an emphasis on maximizing the number of data points per single patient sample. The presented method confers multiple advantages over conventional approaches. These include the ability to assess up to 24 conditions simultaneously in real time, maintain identical physical conditions across experiments, and use extremely low donor volumes.
Well Plate Microfluidic System for Investigation of Dynamic Platelet Behavior Under Variable Shear Loads Biotechnology and Bioengineering. Dec, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21702026 The study of platelet behavior in real-time under controlled shear stress offers insights into the underlying mechanisms of many vascular diseases and enables evaluation of platelet-focused therapeutics. The two most common methods used to study platelet behavior at the vessel wall under uniform shear flow are parallel plate flow chambers and cone-plate viscometers. Typically, these methods are difficult to use, lack experimental flexibility, provide low data content, are low in throughput, and require large reagent volumes. Here, we report a well plate microfluidic (WPM)-based system that offers high throughput, low reagent consumption, and high experimental flexibility in an easy to use well plate format. The system consists of well plates with an integrated array of microfluidic channels, a pneumatic interface, an automated microscope, and software. This WPM system was used to investigate dynamic platelet behavior under shear stress. Multiple channel designs are presented and tested for shear loads with whole blood to determine their applicability to study thrombus formation. Normal physiological shear (0.1-20 dyn/cm(2) ) and pathological shear (20-200 dyn/cm(2) ) devices were used to study platelet behavior in vitro under various shear, matrix coating, and monolayer conditions. The high physiological relevance, low blood consumption, and increased throughput create a valuable technique available to vascular biology researchers. The approach also has extensibility to other research areas including inflammation, cancer biology, and developmental/stem cell research.
The Six Most Essential Questions in Psychiatric Diagnosis: A Pluralogue. Part 1: Conceptual and Definitional Issues in Psychiatric Diagnosis Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine : PEHM. Jan, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22243994 ABSTRACT: In face of the multiple controversies surrounding the DSM process in general and the development of DSM-5 in particular, we have organized a discussion around what we consider six essential questions in further work on the DSM. The six questions involve: 1) the nature of a mental disorder; 2) the definition of mental disorder; 3) the issue of whether, in the current state of psychiatric science, DSM-5 should assume a cautious, conservative posture or an assertive, transformative posture; 4) the role of pragmatic considerations in the construction of DSM-5; 5) the issue of utility of the DSM - whether DSM-III and IV have been designed more for clinicians or researchers, and how this conflict should be dealt with in the new manual; and 6) the possibility and advisability, given all the problems with DSM-III and IV, of designing a different diagnostic system. Part I of this article will take up the first two questions. With the first question, invited commentators express a range of opinion regarding the nature of psychiatric disorders, loosely divided into a realist position that the diagnostic categories represent real diseases that we can accurately name and know with our perceptual abilities, a middle, nominalist position that psychiatric disorders do exist in the real world but that our diagnostic categories are constructs that may or may not accurately represent the disorders out there, and finally a purely constructivist position that the diagnostic categories are simply constructs with no evidence of psychiatric disorders in the real world. The second question again offers a range of opinion as to how we should define a mental or psychiatric disorder, including the possibility that we should not try to formulate a definition. The general introduction, as well as the introductions and conclusions for the specific questions, are written by James Phillips, and the responses to commentaries are written by Allen Frances.


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