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28 November 2009
Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson
I don't know where I first heard about Wilson's book -- probably via Bookforum -- but it's gotten plenty of press, including a mention by James Franco at the Oscars and an interview of Wilson by Stephen Colbert. The concept of the book is seductive: Wilson, a Canadian music critic and avowed Céline-hater, spends a year trying to figure out why she is so popular and what his hatred of her says about himself. I kept away from the book for a little while because I thought it couldn't possibly live up to its premise, and that in all likelihood it was more stunt than analysis. Nonetheless, the premise kept attracting me, because I am fascinated by the concept of taste and I, too, find Dion's music to be the sonic equivalent of a Thomas Kinkade painting.
What makes Wilson's approach so effective and insightful is that it avoids the fanboy defensiveness marring everything from internet discussions to scholarly studies such as Peter Swirski's From Lowbrow to Nobrow. Wilson isn't grinding axes or settling scores; he's more interested in exploration than proclamation, more inclined toward maps than manifestos. The result is one of the few books I know that is as likely to expand its readers' view of the world as it is to provide the choir with an appealing sermon.
16 November 2009
Writing Advice from Cormac McCarthy
WSJ: The last five years have seemed very productive for you. Have there been fallow periods in your writing?I was struck, too, by this:
CM: I don't think there's any rich period or fallow period. That's just a perception you get from what's published. Your busiest day might be watching some ants carrying bread crumbs. Someone asked Flannery O'Connor why she wrote, and she said, "Because I was good at it." And I think that's the right answer. If you're good at something it's very hard not to do it. In talking to older people who've had good lives, inevitably half of them will say, "The most significant thing in my life is that I've been extraordinarily lucky." And when you hear that you know you're hearing the truth. It doesn't diminish their talent or industry. You can have all that and fail.
CM: I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.Oh, Cormac! Aspire! I've spent up to six years on a single story! The possibilities for suicidal ideation as an obsessive short story writer are vastly greater than those of an obsessive novelist -- imagine years spent on twenty pages rather than hundreds! And then the struggle to just get, say, 5 cents a word for that story, if you can get paid at all! Cormac, baby, stop being such a wuss!
It's also clear that Mr. McCarthy has never encountered Big Fat Fantasy:
WSJ: Does this issue of length apply to books, too? Is a 1,000-page book somehow too much?The interview is long and fascinating, well worth the time to read it.
CM: For modern readers, yeah. People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore and people need to get used to that. If you think you're going to write something like "The Brothers Karamazov" or "Moby-Dick," go ahead. Nobody will read it. I don't care how good it is, or how smart the readers are. Their intentions, their brains are different.
12 November 2009
Cat and Finch
Ms. P. Martha Moog thought about reading Finch, but decided against it when she discovered that the eponymous protagonist is not, in fact, a delectable bird. She very much liked the gun on the cover, though, and so dragged the book and one of our home decorations over the couch to spend some time with them. (She fancies herself a gun moll, I'm afraid. I keep having to confiscate her collection of Derringers.)
11 November 2009
09 November 2009
"Revelations" in Sunday Salon
I'm particularly happy with this for a few reasons -- first because my friend Nita Noveno, one of the editors, asked me to contribute, and it's always nice to be asked to contribute to something, but also, and especially, because the Sunday Salon website reaches toward some of my own ideals for ways literature and the world can encounter each other. It's a site worth exploring and supporting.
Here's an excerpt from the story to entice you (or warn you away)--
Olly and I spent much of our time together, though, because Olly liked to hear the stories I told her. At first, I told her stories about the things our parents were doing out in the world -- fighting evil witches and dastardly kings, working as spies for the government, flying in warplanes and bombing remote regions of the Earth. Olly didn't seem to understand these stories, but she liked them. As she got older, though, she asked for stories about other people. I told her about Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman. She especially liked the story of how Wonder Woman discovered that Superman was insane and used her powers to tie him up and then smash his head in with a boulder. "She had to hit him again and again, didn't she?" Olly asked. "Yes," I said. "He was very strong, and she had to smash his head in over and over and over again to kill him." We laughed a lot at that, and then Olly began to sing, and soon I joined her:
She smashed his head in
over and over and over again
and over and over and over again
and over and over and over again!
What We Talk About When We Talk About What We Talk About When We Talk About
Returning now to work on the aforementioned J.M. Coetzee essay, which is once again insisting on going in unexpected directions requiring more reading. (Paul de Man's "Autobiography as De-Facement" this morning. I know you're jealous.) No more blogging till it's done. Bad me.
07 November 2009
Music and Oblivion
It's a sunny, cool Saturday morning up here in the wilds of New Hampshire, and I was filled with the desire to share some music this morning, but wasn't sure what. My recent discovery and obsession, Ted Hawkins? Couldn't choose just one song. The most amusing song I've heard this week, Marion Harris's "I'm a Jazz Vampire"? Tempting, tempting...
But then a finished copy of Alan DeNiro's novel Total Oblivion, More or Less arrived in my mailbox, sporting its fabulous cover, and Booklist gave it a starred review, and for various reasons that will become apparent the minute you read a synopsis of the book, I couldn't get a certain Andrew Bird song out of my head, and then found this lovely video someone had created for it, and my choice of music to share with you this morning was pretty much made for me. Enjoy--
06 November 2009
Jury, Meet Peers
"I just want to say," I said as the meeting closed, "that we have sat here and consistently called books by women small and books by men large, by no quantifiable metric, and we are giving awards to books I think are actually kind of amateur and sloppy compared to others, and I think it's disgusting." (I wasn't built for the board room.) "But we can't be doing it because we're sexist," an estimable colleague replied huffily. "After all, we're both men and women here."(Be sure to read the whole essay; it's a smart and sharp attack on a problem that we should be past at this point.)
But that's the problem with sexism. It doesn't happen because people -- male or female -- think women suck. It happens for the same reason a sommelier always pours a little more in a man's wine glass (check it!), or that that big, hearty man in the suit seems like he'd be a better manager. It's not that women shouldn't be up for the big awards. It's just that when it comes down to the wire, we just kinda feel like men . . . I don't know . . . deserve them.
The good people at Publisher's Weekly are probably speaking what they think is the truth when they say, about their all-male list of 10 "best" books of the year, that "We ignored gender and genre and who had the buzz." I believe them when they say, "It disturbed us when we were done that our list was all male."
But being disturbed is not enough. What they have done is shameful.
This is not just some blogger's list of favorite books of the year. This is the publishing industry's trade journal telling the world what ten books from 2009 deserve most acclaim and attention. This list will affect how books are stocked in stores and it will affect what books are bought by libraries. The fact that the list only includes male writers contributes to a problem.
The editors who created this list have chosen to perpetuate sexism. They have deliberately and knowingly made it easier for male writers to have access to sales and publicity at the expense of women writers. Their list perpetuates the idea that the best, most serious, and most consequential books are written by men, and that idea will continue to have an effect out in the world.
Our society has made plenty of great strides over the past centuries and decades in terms of reducing institutional sexism, but moments such as this highlight just how entrenched the patriarchy is. Yes, patriarchy. Male dominated, male identified, male centered. It's insidious, and it is self perpetuating.
There is no objective, essential "best". There is stuff we like and stuff we don't -- texts we have developed techniques for appreciating and texts that we do not, for myriad reasons, appreciate. There are texts about which we have built large critical apparatuses for justifying as "great". Perceptions of gender, race, sexuality, class, and other broad social categories mix with our experiences as readers, our educations, etc., to produce the judgments we make. Though we may struggle to create vivid and convincing justifications for our judgments, there are still mysteries to any evaluation that strives for nuance. But even so, we can expand our awareness, question our gut instincts, analyze our justifications, wonder why we are doing what we do and saying what we say. To assume that we can simply "not pay attention" to some of the central forces structuring our perception of reality is naive. We might be powerless to change them, but we might also be in a position to avoid perpetuating them and adding strength to them. We don't have any choice about whether the society we're born into is racist, sexist, heterosexist, whatever. But we do have some choice about how we relate to that society, how we work within it, what we pay attention to, and how we choose to make our choices.
I'm not ranting from a position of innocence -- most of the writers I most deeply value are men (many of whom are white, middle class, born within the last 150 years, and not from the U.S.). I have some hunches for why this is, hunches related to early reading experiences, prejudices about language and its relationship to reality, etc. Personal taste and judgment are too complex to explain simply or conclusively. Individual readers are strange creatures, full of prejudices and whims and blind spots and allergies. Individually, I expect there are weird particulars other than race, class, and gender that affect our taste more profoundly, more forcefully than those social categories themselves (if those social categories could ever be isolated, which I am skeptical of anyway -- any discussion of them is provisional and strategic). But when we move beyond the individual, as lists try to do, we're moving into the realm of systems and social structures -- means of distribution and consumption, gravitational forces that shape and warp how we talk about the realities we perceive, the tides we choose to sail with or against. And that talk itself then goes on to shape some more realities and turn some tides.
All of which is just me noodling around and trying to say the same basic thing: An institution with the power of Publisher's Weekly has more responsibility than an individual has, because the power that institution wields is greater than the power of most individuals (certain folks like Oprah excepted, although I can imagine people could argue that "Oprah" should be considered more of an institution than an individual).
Or, more basically, what I said above: The editors at Publisher's Weekly should be more than disturbed. They should be ashamed.
Here's a book to add to a best of the year list: A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter. I've got plenty of quibbles with the book, especially Showalter's dismissive attitude toward Gertrude Stein, but I'm also finding it (still reading; it's big) a rich source of information and delight. I've already begun seeking out writers I hadn't heard of until reading Showalter, and revisiting ones I had not paid enough attention to. Check out Katha Pollitt's review of Showalter at Slate or Rebecca Hussey's at The Quarterly Conversation or Sarah Churchwell's at The Guardian or Susan Salter Reynolds's at The L.A. Times.
Or watch Sarah Nelson, former editor-in-chief of Publisher's Weekly, interview Showalter.
I haven't read nearly as many books published this year as the editors at PW have, but I'm perfectly happy to propose A Jury of Her Peers as the best book of the year on a single criterion: It's the book we, the litterateurs and taste proclaimers, seem to need the most.
05 November 2009
Eric Schaller and the Art of Illustrating VanderMeer
And today the Illustrating VanderMeer exhibit that I helped put together at Plymouth State University got a big feature story in the Monitor, with a particular focus on New Hampshire's own Eric Schaller.
The web version has the full text, but I was blown away when I opened up the paper and saw it was almost the entire front page of the arts section:
And just a reminder that Jeff and Eric will both be in Plymouth on the evening of November 23 for a reading and discussion. Huge thanks to David Beronä and Jennifer Green at Plymouth State for their work in putting the exhibit together, and special thanks to the Public Relations department at the University as well for helping it continue to get great coverage.
And if you haven't yet bought Booklife or Finch, the only acceptable excuse around these here parts is, "I'm waiting to buy them at one of Jeff's events so he'll sign them for me and they can then become treasured family heirlooms." (Except that's not an excuse, either, because you need reading copies, copies you don't mind getting all grimy on the subway or warped from reading in the bathtub. And you need copies to give away to people, because you're going to read both books and want to share them, but you're not going to want to give away your own copies. So stock up while supplies last. Remember what happened to military-style rifles when President Obama got elected? Who were the happy people then? People who had ten WASR AK-47s that they'd only paid $350 for back when demand was low. Sure, their friends said, "Why do you need ten of those damn things?! How many can you shoot at once?!?" Well, where are those friends now? That's right, mewling and puking in the gutter. And you know what? It's going to happen soon with Jeff's books. Trust me. His books are assault weapons. High-end ones, not crappy WASR AKs. And not as heavy, regulated, or expensive. At least as much bang for the buck, I guarantee you. Easier to carry onto airplanes, too. Really, in almost every way imaginable, Jeff's books are better than assault weapons. You have no excuse not to hoard them. And now that I've given you your free advice for the evening, it's time for me to go watch Project Runway...)
02 November 2009
But I'm going to pause in the fight for a moment and break my self-promise because today I discovered Aaron Bady's astoundingly excellent blog Zunguzungu via a marvelous post Bady wrote at The Valve about Chinua Achebe and the African Writers Series (a post that previously appeared on Zunguzungu).
It's been a long time since I last encountered a blog where the excitement of discovery came from finding someone giving expression to inchoate thoughts I'd never quite found words for, but that happened again and again as I read through Bady's blog, especially the post "When Good People Write Bad Books" and this earlier Achebe post, referencing Norman Rush (whose Mating I adore, or, at least, I adored when I read it about ten years ago) to explore the idea of "great writers" and who has the authority to write about/represent particular cultures in writing -- the discussion in the comments section is as wonderful as the post. Indeed, in one of the comments, Bady sums up what I most respect in fiction far better than I ever have:
...what I find most interesting in Achebe is his attention not to questions of who is right and who is wrong (since every perspective is flawed and mediated) but his exploration of how official truths are produced, which TFA as novel becomes a vehicle for. Or, in Arrow of God, his interest in how official truths get subverted when they don't "work" the way they're supposed to. In both cases, it seems like he manages to make any conception of "representation" take on so much water, so fast, that you're left, like Foucault reading criminology texts, scratching your head and trying to figure out how people come to believe the things they do, instead of trying to figure out what the correct belief should be.It's not all about Africa and African lit -- Bady's interests are wide-ranging and eclectic -- but that's what first captured my interest and attention, so it's what I'm highlighting here. I was taken, too, with Bady's explanation of the blog's title:
In Tanzania, you learn that you're an mzungu when children shout "zunguzungu!" and follow you around, and in California you learn to forget because they aren't there to remind you. But you still are, so I've kept the name, even though I'm now writing about other things. And I won't define what it means, because you can if you want, and words aren't so easily corralled into order as it might sometimes seem, thank goodness. And anyway, it's not such a bad thing to be, really. They were delighted to see me, and I was delighted to see them, if not for the same reasons.
I learned a long time ago that I'm a white guy from the United States, long before I ever left Appalachia. But being called an Mzungu–for out of the mouths of children!–can teach you different things, if you let it. Too many people take the name Mzungu as an insult; but it isn't, not exactly. Tanzanians sometimes use it as a compliment for other Tanzanians; wewe kizungu sana! It isn't that either, not quite. Race is physicial, but "kizungu" is tabia or utamaduni, words that get mistranslated as culture or civilization, but mean something deeper about how and why people relate to other people the way that they do. Some people like to be called "Western," and some people don't; some people have that option and some people don't. But I've taken the name zunguzungu for this blog not as a claim but as a provocation, and a reminder for myself. I'm really not sure what it means, on the deepest level, and I want to remember that ignorance. It also means many different things, so I want to remember that too. But whatever "zunguzungu" is, I know that I am it; the task, then, is to make that "it" into something good.I could keep quoting all night. I won't. I have a z to keep working on before I let myself return to this here province. Meanwhile, you should be reading Aaron Bady.
(Oh, you want to know what I think of Coetzee's Summertime? Well, since I'm here already... It's magnificent and thought-provoking, of course, because I think Coetzee is just about the best living writer in the English language, at least among the living writers of English I know. It's been billed as the third in a trilogy of memoir-novels begun with Boyhood and continued with Youth, but though the "John Coetzee" of those books seems to be roughly the same creature as the "John Coetzee" of Summertime, the book itself is more of a piece with Dairy of a Bad Year [a book I think I underestimated when I first read it] and Elizabeth Costello in the ways it forces readers to become active, even self-aware participants in the meaning-making in a more insistant way than many other books -- indeed, it seems to me that Coetzee is using the fame he gained from winning a second Booker Prize and then a Nobel to question the whole idea of the writer as role model and authority -- an idea he's been questioning pretty much his entire career, but the changed and extraordinary circumstances of his life now give him some particularly powerful tools [in the form of readers' expectations and desires] to work with. I don't think it is a coincidence that Disgrace was his last novel to have a traditional narrative structure [it being the work that got him his second Booker, and the first I have with the word "bestseller" emblazoned on the cover]. I also think Summertime shows how vital the conversations and essays in Doubling the Point are to understanding a lot of what Coetzee is up to, even now, nearly twenty years after that book was put together. Confession and complicity remain powerful concerns for him. More -- hopefully, much more -- on this subject anon...)


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HIV, Intersectionality and the Generation Gap
November 18, 2013
Here at TheBody.com, we have a long-standing, awesome tradition, which is that we order lunch together as a team every Wednesday. (Don't be confused into thinking we eat together as a team; we're all cubicle-dwelling workaholics, so after some chatting and banter, we retreat to our desks to work while we eat, just like every article on living healthily while working in an office says you should never, ever do.) We're a small but tight-knit group -- we know one another's favorite TV shows and musicians, what we all did last weekend and where we're all planning to go for our Thanksgiving vacation days. So it's always surprising when one of us says something that gets nothing but blank looks in return. And when that happens, it's almost always caused by one thing: the generation gap.
It happened when our esteemed editorial director Myles made a passing reference to Murphy Brown, and when we went out for group karaoke and only half of us started headbanging during "Bohemian Rhapsody." And a week or two ago, it happened again, a contrast so sharp it could practically be on the Beloit College Mindset List. While doling out our Wednesday delivery, Myles started to hum the "My Buddy" commercial jingle. And some of us -- specifically those my age and older -- started singing along, while the young'uns of the crowd (I'm looking at you, Mathew) stared in blinking incomprehension. ("There's a girl version, too!" "What?")
I don't just bring this up because I think it's funny to make Gen Xers feel old (as someone born in '83, I sit perfectly on the fence here -- too young for Gen X, though my sister is a member; too old to be a proper millennial, and among the first kids to grow up knowing about HIV). I think it shines a light on something that we try to keep in mind here, behind the scenes at TheBody.com: Sometimes, it's easy to just assume that everyone out there knows what you know, that other people are all basically like you, and to not realize how important those differences are.
We actively try to guard against the complacency of that mindset here at TheBody.com -- we have to. HIV is an intersectional issue: It can affect anyone, but is made worse by racism, homophobia, and misogyny, not to mention poverty and our culture's completely borked responses to addiction. And none of those issues are isolated from others. That's why women may need different kinds of help coping with HIV than men, but have been too often overlooked; it's why HIV is currently a crisis among young, gay men of color. So, while we're brainstorming new articles to write, we try to keep that in mind. We have specific spaces devoted to African Americans, women, gay men and Latinos -- which hardly covers everyone. This year, we've tried to address that by shining a spotlight on other marginalized groups, but we still have conversations about it over and over again. "When was the last time we interviewed a Pacific Islander?" "Are we doing enough stories on HIV in the trans community?" And, well, there's never enough, but we try.
I have no doubt that we've failed occasionally, but I hope we've built up enough trust with those of you reading this that, if you ever feel we've settled too far into our own assumptions and overlooked something, you'll let us know. We want to make TheBody.com the best resource we can, for as many people as possible. (Even those who, whether too young or too old, don't know that My Buddy did indeed have a rather uncreatively named girl equivalent.)
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Verari, Rackable look to leasing
Cash is scarce right now in Server Land
When times get tough and companies want shiny new servers but also to conserve their cash, the talk at the bargaining table almost always turns to leasing. The big server makers, like IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Sun Microsystems, have their own financial arms that can move a server deal from the capital budget over to the operating budget thanks to a lease. And that means boutique server makers plying a niche have to do the same thing if they want to close deals.
That's why Verari Systems and Rackable Systems have ramped up their own leasing programs, which they do in conjunction with leasing companies that have expertise in finance but who nonetheless allow both companies to offer one-deal, one-stop shopping for their prospective clients.
Verari was the first of the two companies to launch a formal leasing program, which it did with a certain amount of prescience back in June. That leasing program has just been enhanced with some "green" initiatives that can sweeten a deal as Verari works with electric companies (again through a third party) to get customers rebated when they do a leasing deal to modernize their IT gear. Rackable is announcing its leasing program formally today, and is expecting it to ramp up fast as companies look to lease rather than buy gear.
Verari has two leasing partners it uses today. The first is TIP Capital of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a company that is comprised of leasing executives from some of the big names in mainframe and proprietary minicomputer leasing from days gone by at leasing companies AT&T Systems Leasing, Newcourt, and CIT Group. Verari has also tapped CSI Leasing, of St. Louis, Missouri, to do leasing deals, too. Gerald Conboy, vice president and general manager of the Verari Financial Services unit, says that TIP Capital does deals mostly in the United States but also has coverage in China, and that CSI does deals in the States but also has a presence in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Latin America.
One of the things that Conboy says differentiates the leasing it does in conjunction with TIP Capital and CSI is that Verari's leasing partners actually put some skin in the game. They actually put some equity in the deal, which lowers the leasing cost for prospective customers. "For two and three year leases, I think we have the best rates in the business because of the equity position our partners are willing to take," says Conboy.
On a three year lease, they kick in around ten per cent, and on a two year lease, they put in around 15 per cent. (The actual equity stake and the resulting lease rate depends on the equipment being financed, the credit-worthiness of the customer, and other factors, of course.) These two companies can also work with prospective clients to take out gear from other server manufacturers and resell it on the open market, further cushioning the economic blow of buying new systems.
Conboy says that its typical lease is a 36-month deal with a technology refresh at 24 months into the deal. That refresh requires a 20 per cent bump up in lease payments. Some customers want a refresh at 18 months, he says, and a lease can be structured to allow that. Presumably this costs more, but maybe not because the resale value of the replaced equipment is higher if it is younger. (It always comes down to cases and market conditions.)
The interesting, but not surprising, bit is how quickly leasing has taken off at Verari since being introduced in June. Conboy's goal was to have ten per cent of the revenue that the company generated come through deals that involved leasing rather than outright acquisition; so far for 2008, the company has hit nine per cent. So that is close. But among the deals on the table right now, Conboy says that about half have leasing. This is how quickly things can shift when the economy goes sour.
To sweeten the leasing deals that Verari is doing, the company has announced a "green" leasing program, and is working with an organization based in Marlboro, Massachusetts, called Wikibon, that does an energy survey at IT shops and certifies how much money companies can save by moving from whatever they have now to new Verari systems. This methodology, says Conboy, is one that some 20 power companies are familiar with and are willing to give rebates on based on energy savings.
Wikibon is also willing and able to work with those power companies that do not have formal data center conservation rebate programs to create one on the fly to get customers a rebate. The rebate given is generally half of the forecasted savings in power costs, and the utilities actually cut checks for this. (I know, it is hard to believe.)
Rackable, which also sells energy-efficient and dense server designs where power and cooling is a big factor in a sale, today launches its own leasing program. And it is doing so for the same reasons: customers don't want to lay out cash right now to buy servers. And, as you can understand, Rackable, as an upstart server maker, is not able to put up its own cash to do leasing deals for customers.
Rackable Equipment Leasing is being backed by Australian financing juggernaut Macquarie Group, which ahs over 13,000 employees in 25 countries and which has over $239bn (Australian) in assets under financing. IT financing is a big part of Macquarie's business, says George Skaff, vice president of marketing at Rackable.
Skaff says that Rackable has been working with Macquarie informally for about nine months now, seeing how to do deals and to test out how well it covers the globe. He does not know what kind of equity Macquarie is putting into the deals it does financing Rackable's gear, but he did say that Rackable expects leasing to ultimately be used in maybe 20 to 25 per cent of the deals the company does. Macquarie is able to take out old gear and resell it, too, which is a help, and leases can have scheduled upgrades as well. ®


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Following his Tuesday morning arrest for domestic violence, RadarOnline is reporting that Simon Barney was released on bail on Tuesday afternoon.
The 46-year-old estranged husband of Tamra Barney, star of the Real Housewives of Orange County, was arrested at 12:30 am Tuesday morning after she claimed he threw and hit her with a retractable dog leash.
"Apparently Simon went to his ex-wife's home to return the dog he was watching," Orange County Sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino tells PEOPLE. "According to the victim, he threw a retractable dog leash at her, she lifted her arm in a defensive move, and it struck her wrist."
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According to Radar, Tamra showed up to the courthouse Tuesday afternoon, alongside boyfriend Eddie Judge and Bravo cameras, to inquire about filing a restraining order against Simon.
When asked to give a comment regarding the domestic dispute, Tamra said "I can't talk about it right now, maybe later." Tamra however nodded yes when asked is she planned of filing a restraining order.
In addition to Tamra's court appearance, a "source" tells RadarOnline she plans of filing the restraining order sometime this week. Judging by the fact that Bravo cameras followed Tamra to the courthouse, it's safe to assume we will be watching this drama unfold on the 6th season of the Real Housewives of OC.


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(AP) NAIROBI, Kenya – George Clooney is trying to highlight satellite evidence from a U.S.-based anti-genocide group that 26 villages in Sudan were intentionally set on fire last month.
The American actor and activist said Thursday that destroying a village is a war crime and that the international community must counter and create consequences for such crimes.
The Satellite Sentinel Project, which Clooney helped found, said satellite imagery shows that 26 villages, food crops and grasslands were burned in a 54-square-mile (140-square-kilometer) area in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan in November.
Sudanese troops are fighting rebels who were once aligned with South Sudan. When South Sudan peacefully broke away from Sudan last year, the rebels were placed in the Sudan half of the partition.


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stickililli wrote:Awesome :-)
Thanks! I'm glad someone besides me likes it.
anemality wrote:The colors here are DELICIOUS. I would so wear this.
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Rejection count down starting...NOW!
A Total Recall shirt?
bluetuba wrote:A Total Recall shirt?
I was thinking James Bond... the man with the golden gun... but that works too/
Re: Radiance - Art Nouveau
D8 wow...
Re: That Sure is One Dandy-Lion!
oh that is so cute
Love it!!! I want to hang it on my wall!
Re: Crap Load of Squares
This is kind of cool. Love the colors.
Re: Elefantasy (Psychedelia)
Not crazy about the colors, but the design is awesome.
Re: Tribal Shark
That is a cool Tribel Shark.
Re: Hell Yeah!
Art Noveau from hell!
Hell Yeah!!! This Is Awesome!!!
Re: Blazing Sky - Trompe-l'œil
Nice job! I'm a sucker for dragons.
Especially ones that aren't soft and cuddly (like most designs here).
Yeah - rejection bait.
Eccentrica Gallumbits ref?
Re: Missing Link
I chuckled.
Wish it wasn't on white, but I'll give it a vote.
Pea smugglers!
Re: Tribal Dragon
Nice job!
Re: Nevermore Graffiti
You could probably say Art Deco with the torn poster, too.
I like how the brick work changes over your dark space.
And no cuddly birds. Especially the no cuddly birds.
Re: Death (watercolors)
Very nice - I like the use of positive and negative space. And that it's kind of like a Rorschach blot.
orabbit wrote:Thanks! I'm glad someone besides me likes it.
I think it's funny.
Re: Space Nouveau
Such my style! Love it
Re: Fox Startles Ravens - Watercolor
Awesomely moody! Love it.
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Here's a little closer detail of the dragon.
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I guess it says
"Carpe Diem" "Yolo"
but it looks like "Love" "Play" "Polo"
Yeah...Until Mr 5 commented, I didn't realise it said Carpe Diem. I got the YOLO, thing, but say Love / Play as well.
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Nice colors, love that cute-artistic style.
Re: Hatchling
That's so cool
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This design makes me feel happy. Love the combination of the colors, textures and everything else <3
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Just scanned it! I hope it prints.
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Ruh-Roh... I thought that was supposed to be conjugated "Eep, Opp, Ork, Ah-Ah?
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i love this!
Good shirt design. Very metal.
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Christmas Mail 2011: Merrymints!
This year we sent out Altoids with a little greeting inside. Or as I like to call them, merry mints! Get it?
Wishing you a curiously strong Christmas too!
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Such a cute idea!! It reminds me of something you would see as a wedding favor. Too clever :)ReplyDelete
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I LOVE this!! So clever - your card recipients must eagerly anticipate your delivery each year. :-)ReplyDelete
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You amaze me Every. Single. Year. I'm so impressed, Stefanie! I think you could make a small fortune as an event planner. Perhaps one day I can hire you to plan a party!! xoxo and merry Christmas!!ReplyDelete
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Love the photo, too. Your expressions are priceless. Bet your friends enjoyed receiving this gift.
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Ayotte pushes against Internet taxationStaff Report
January 24. 2013 8:49PM
Republican New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte is working with Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden on a resolution that puts the Senate on record opposing any federal legislation giving a state authority to impose new tax collection requirements on Internet businesses and entrepreneurs.
The new resolution, similar to one Ayotte sponsored last year, opposes any bill "that would force online retailers to collect sales taxes for other jurisdictions in which those retailers do not have a physical presence," Ayotte's office said in a statement.
"Online businesses should be a source of jobs, not a source of new tax revenue," said Ayotte, a member of the Senate Commerce Committee. "New Hampshire prides itself on having no sales tax, and our Internet retailers shouldn't be forced to become tax collectors for other states.
"We need to be vigilant to preserve our tax-free status, and I will continue to fight any federal effort that would require New Hampshire Internet businesses to collect sales taxes," Ayotte said.
According to Ayotte's office, under current U.S. Supreme Court precedent, "When a customer in Illinois (which has a sales tax), for example, buys a product from an online vendor in non-sales tax New Hampshire that has no physical presence in Illinois, Illinois cannot currently force the New Hampshire vendor to collect and remit the Illinois tax on that sale.
"However, cash-strapped states looking to plug budget holes continue to push for a new law that would force online retailers to collect sales taxes for jurisdictions nationwide," the statement said.
According to the Ayotte statement, Joe Cortese, an online coin and stamp dealer from Pittsfield, said, "If small online retailers are required to collect sales taxes for jurisdictions across the country, these businesses will shrink rather than grow. The compliance costs in terms of time and money would simply be too much to bear. The consequences would be significant not just for businesses like mine, but for the entire economy."


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The U.K. finance regulator, facing lawmaker criticism that it missed warning signs on the rigging of benchmark interest rates for years, may say there was no clear way for it to spot the manipulation.
The Financial Services Authority will issue a report today after an internal audit of the agency's contact with Barclays Plc workers and other finance industry employees to determine whether warning signs were ignored. The agency may also state it wasn't notified of any wrongdoing regarding rate setting, didn't oversee the benchmarks themselves and that lenders also missed red flags that rates were manipulated.
"There are some issues for which you just cannot have a police force big enough ever to spot all these problems," Adair Turner, chairman of the FSA, told U.K. lawmakers last week. "We could not have got at it by intensive supervision."
After Barclays was fined 290 million pounds ($437 million) by the U.S. and U.K. in June last year, it said it had alerted regulators to problems with the London interbank offered rate before the investigation. The London-based lender said it spoke to the FSA, Bank of England, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the British Bankers' Association 33 times in 2007 and 2008.
The FSA opened its investigation into rate manipulation in early 2010, a year-and-a-half after the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's probe began. Barclays, UBS AG and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc have been fined a total of more than $2.5 billion by U.S. and U.K. regulators for rate-rigging, and more than a dozen other firms are still being investigated.
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In its discussion with the FSA, Barclays "consistently" raised concerns its competitors were submitting artificially low quotes used in setting the rate, the bank told lawmakers in July. When it was fined, Barclays admitted to colluding with other banks to manipulate Libor and similar benchmarks to profit from derivatives and to make its finances appear healthier.
Turner said that, after reviewing information provided to the FSA or Bank of England by Barclays, and looking at other occasions when banks communicated about rate suspicions, no clear indication of trader manipulation was missed.
"Neither us nor the CFTC, or any other authority, had any way to spot the trader manipulation," Turner told the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards.
Last year Turner told another group of lawmakers asking about Libor that the FSA "should have spotted it earlier."
Andrew Bailey, the U.K.'s chief banking supervisor, is scheduled to testify tomorrow before the banking standards committee, which was set up last year in the wake of the Libor scandal. Bailey will lead the Prudential Regulation Authority, which oversees banking and insurance industry stability, on April 1 when the FSA is broken up.
Robert Diamond, who quit as chief executive officer of Barclays in the wake of the Libor fine, told lawmakers the bank also took too long to discover the actions of 14 traders who manipulated rates.
The British government last week formally started the search for a replacement body to oversee Libor after the British Bankers' Association, the industry group that created the benchmark in 1986, agreed to relinquish oversight.
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GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — An influential weekly newspaper whose staff rebelled to protest heavy-handed censorship by Chinese government officials published as normal Thursday after a compromise that called for relaxing some intrusive controls but left lingering ill-will among some reporters and editors.
The latest edition of the Southern Weekly bore no hints of the dispute that erupted last week over a New Year's editorial that was rewritten to praise the Communist Party, driving some staff to stop work in protest. Still fuming, some editors and reporters tried late Wednesday to insert a carefully worded commentary praising the newspaper as a tribune of reform, but were rebuffed by management, an editor said.
The editor, who asked not to be named because he had been repeatedly warned not to talk to foreign media, described the mood among editorial staff as indignant. He predicted that some would resign, either voluntarily out of anger or forced out by management.
Academics spoke of a coming reckoning by authorities to reassert control at the Southern Weekly and any other media that might take encouragement.
"Overall, the authorities do not want this situation to spread," Peng Peng, a political science researcher at the Guangdong province Social Sciences Academy, told reporters.
The weeklong fracas at the Southern Weekly evolved quickly from a row over censorship at one newspaper to a call for free speech and political reform across China, handing an unexpected test to the party leadership headed by Xi Jinping just two months after he took office.
Hopes that the dispute would strike a blow against censorship initially ran high. Internet microblogs crackled with messages of support. Liberal-minded academics wrote open letters. And hundreds of people this week gathered outside the newspaper's offices off a busy street in the southern commercial center of Guangzhou, a city long at the forefront of reforms, waving signs that called for freedom of expression.
Expectations for change began fizzling Wednesday as a compromise to end the dispute took shape. Under the deal, according to the editor and another staff member, editors and reporters would not be punished for protesting, and propaganda officials would no longer directly censor content prior to publication, though directives, self-censorship, threats of dismissal and many other longstanding measures would stay in place to ensure obedience to the party.
The outpouring had challenged one of the key levers of party rule — its right to control the media and dictate content — and officials pushed back this week to reassert authority.
In a further sign of tightening, police attempted Thursday to prevent more protests outside the compound housing the Southern Weekly and its parent company, the Nanfang Media Group. About 30 police officers guarded the area and ordered people to move on, chasing away any who wouldn't leave. At least five protesters were hauled from the scene.
Eventually, a crackdown might extend to the journalists themselves, with authorities meting out punishment once the incident blows over, said Qian Gang, director of the China Media Project at the University of Hong Kong.
However, Qian said he did not see the outcome so far as a loss for the journalists.
"For such an influential newspaper with a team of more than 100 people to express their refusal to accept government control carries great significance. Their most basic demands can be partially satisfied. Even if pre-publication censorship still exists, it has been heavily hit," Qian said.
Qian himself was purged from his post as managing editor of the Southern Weekly in 2001 after officials complained about the newspaper's aggressive reporting on sensitive topics.
The standoff at the Southern Weekly echoed through the newsroom of the Beijing News, which is co-owned by Nanfang Media and has a reputation for aggressive reporting. Editors at the newspaper all week defied an order to run a commentary that many other newspapers carried that blamed resistance to censorship on meddling foreign forces, but a propaganda official visited the newspaper late Tuesday and forced publication of the commentary.
The Southern Weekly dispute was touched off after its New Year's editorial, which called for better constitutional government, was changed to insert heavy praise for the party in a version the paper's journalists say was written by provincial propaganda chief Tuo Zhen. The revised editorial was not submitted for review by editors before publication, violating an unwritten practice in censorship and enraging the staff, which saw it as an attack.
The Southern Weekly has been a standard-bearer for hard-edged reporting and liberal commentary since the 1990s. Throughout, senior party politicians and propaganda functionaries have repeatedly attempted to rein in the newspaper, cashiering editors and reporters who breach often unstated limits.
The special commentary that reporters and editors tried late Wednesday to insert into Thursday's edition was meant to extol that legacy, said the editor. Many other editors and reporters declined comment or refused to answer phone calls and emails. Dai Zhiyong, the columnist who drafted the original New Year's editorial, also declined comment, but posted to his Twitter-like microblog account an essay he had written three years ago titled "Before becoming free, one must suffer."
Even if censorship remains largely intact, the standoff has showed the breadth of support independent-minded media like Southern Weekly have among many Chinese, who are wired to the Internet and increasingly sophisticated in their expectations of the government. Peng, the politics scholar, said the confrontation showed that the party's censorship system needs to change, though the pace may not be as quick as many in the media would like.
"To put it simply, the media cannot go beyond the existing system to pursue radical reform, but the management method also needs to change," Peng said.
Associated Press writers Gillian Wong and Charles Hutzler and researchers Zhao Liang and Flora Ji in Beijing contributed to this report.


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Two casinos? Twice as bad as oneEDITORIAL
January 30. 2014 11:43PM
So the Senate Ways and Means Committee thinks it has improved last year's defeated casino gambling bill by doubling the number of casinos it allows. On the contrary, the Senate's bill only doubles the negative impact that will be visited upon New Hampshire should casino gambling be legalized.
It is important to recognize that this bill came out of the Ways and Means Committee. That's the committee tasked with raising state revenue. Casinos, after all, are coveted by politicians because they vacuum cash from the general population and shoot it directly into state coffers. All other stated reasons are secondary. And most of them are wrong.
Take, for example, the claim that casinos will bring jobs and economic growth. Senate President Chuck Morse, R-Salem, said this week, "this bill will drive the economy." No, it won't. It will siphon money out of the economy.
John Warren Kindt, professor emeritus of business administration at the University of Illinois, presented a report to Congress in 1994, "The National Impact of Casino Gambling Proliferation." His study of the academic research led him to this conclusion: "The field research throughout the nation indicates that for every dollar the legalized gambling interests indicate is being contributed in taxes, it usually costs the taxpayers at least three dollars."
Studies show that "the legalization of gambling activities eventually causes: (1) increased taxes, (2) a loss of jobs from the overall region, (3) economic disruption of other businesses, (4) increased crime and (5) large social-welfare costs for society in general and government agencies in particular."
Casinos do not generate new money. They transfer money away from other activities, and they impose considerable social and financial burdens. Double the casinos, double the costs.


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KARACHI (Reuters) - A gunman on a motorcycle shot dead three Pakistani Sunni Muslim leaders on Thursday, police said, in the latest apparent tit-for-tat killing in the southern financial hub of Karachi.
Conflict between Sunni and Shi'ite militants has been blamed for many recent killings in Pakistan's largest city.
At least 217 people have been killed this month, police sources say, but they do not know how many qualify as "target killings", the official term for assassinations.
"Three persons riding a bike intercepted (the victims')vehicle ... and one of them shot at persons sitting inside the car through the window pane," Deputy Inspector General of Police Abdul Aleem Jaffry said of the latest killings, which were caught on CCTV and broadcast on television.
He described them as target killings.
"We have no expectations of getting justice," said Qari Mohammad Usman, the Karachi chief of Jamiat-Ulema-e-Islam, one of the largest Sunni political parties.
"This entire nation, the citizens of Karachi, the students and clerics are exhausted from carrying the bodies of our elders ... The time is near when we will give a call for everyone to come out into the streets."
Interior Minister Rehman Malik told the Senate on Monday: "I want to alert the people of Pakistan to a possible disaster in Karachi as three groups have planned large-scale militancy."
(This story corrects name to Qari Mohammad Usman from Qari Mohammad Islam in paragraph 6)(Reporting by Imtiaz Shah in Karachi, Mubasher Bukhari in Islamabad and Reuters TV; Writing by Nick Macfie; Editing by Ruth Pitchford)


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker men's basketball team will host the Mariners of Coastal Georgia in a non-conference game on Tuesday (Jan. 22) night at the Timberlake-Lawton Gymnasium. Live coverage of the game will be available at www.cokercobras.com.
The Cobras will be looking to avenge a 67-65 loss to Coastal Georgia back on Nov. 20. In that game, Julian Nelson scored 23 points with three rebounds, while Sharod Williams had 12 points and four rebounds. Nelson and Williams continue to be the driving forces for the Coker men. Nelson is averaging 18.9 points per game and Williams is averaging 8.6 points and 7.6 rebounds per game.
The Mariners enter the game with a record of 5-16 overall. In their most recent game they suffered a 71-65 loss to Emmanuel College. Reggie Burke is Coastal Georgia's leading scorer, averaging 17.3 points per game.
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The first mobile games in their time were great. Just like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong at the arcades, or Pitfall or Super Mario on the early consoles, BrickBreaker on BlackBerry, Bejeweled on Palm OS, or Tap Tap Revenge on iOS. But, like any early game, we played the first mobile games alone, or perhaps with a few friends.
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That's led to new innovations like push notifications for challenges, video and audio streaming to TV sets, and asynchronous play. And it's only just the beginning. Real Racing 3 and Ingress are only the beginning when it comes to multiplayer and MMO gaming on mobile.
How far have we come, how well does it work now, and how much farther can multiplayer scale on mobile?


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By Mark Felsenthal and Jeff Mason
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Taking to Twitter to press his case in "fiscal cliff" talks with Congress, President Barack Obama said on Monday that tax breaks benefiting middle class families such as the mortgage interest deduction could be at risk if rates for top earners do not rise.
Obama is locked in negotiations with Congress to prevent a year-end fiscal crunch. If the administration and lawmakers fail to agree, across-the-board tax hikes and spending cuts would go into effect that analysts say would tip the economy back into recession.
The president answered questions on Twitter for about an hour on Monday as part of his campaign to pressure Republicans in Congress to accept an increase in taxes for the wealthiest Americans as part of a deficit-cutting package.
One questioner, who identified herself as Emma Robertson, expressed concern that popular tax breaks for homeownership could be threatened in an eventual deal.
"As a home owner, I worry deductions for home owners are at risk. Is that the case?" she asked in a tweet.
Obama responded that such tax breaks were important for middle class families and could be at risk if taxes for the wealthiest Americans are not increased.
"Breaks for middle class impt for families & econ. if top rates don't go up, danger that middle class deductions get hit - bo," the president said via Twitter.
Obama signs his initials - BO - to tweets that he writes himself. In this tweet, "impt" stands for important and "econ" stands for economy.
Tax cuts the originated under former President George W. Bush are due to expire at the end of the year and Obama, who was re-elected to a second four-year term last month, has pledged to let the tax rates on the top two brackets rise to their previous levels.
While Republicans have agreed that more revenue can be part of any deal, they have balked at raising actual tax rates, saying they prefer to trim the federal deficit by eliminating tax deductions and loopholes in the tax code.
That distinction is central to a stalemate in the negotiations.
Asked by one questioner why he was opposed to taking away deductions from the top 2 percent of U.S. earners rather than raising their rates, Obama said such a move would not raise enough revenue unless charitable deductions were scrapped.
"Less revenue = more cuts in education," he tweeted.
He told another questioner that he was open to compromise and did not expect to get everything he had asked for in his budget proposal.
He also used his tweets to reiterate his position that taxes for middle income families should be extended.
One recent college graduate named Mandi, who used the Twitter handle "dontbeaprat" and whose picture showed a shock of purple hair, asked whether such tax cuts would help her since she did not have a full-time job.
Obama responded that tax cuts without revenue increases would result in a reduction in student loans, while work/study and college tax credits would expire.
"Bad for growth," he tweeted, then added, "like your hair!"
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Excuse me, my friend Hetty is here. How are you? Fine Good. This is my friend I was just talking about. I'd like for you all to meet my friend, Hetty. I met her at a workshop for Deaf women. The topic of the workshop was cervical cancer and Hetty presented it in ASL. As you already know, I survived cervical cancer. I had no idea what cervical cancer was when my doctor informed me that I had it. Later, I attended this workshop on cervical cancer and I was surprised at how much I learned. Fortunately, I regularly went to my doctor for annual physical check-ups, therefore, my cervical cancer was detected early. Now I'm 100% cured. Hetty will now share important information that may help to save your lives, the way mine was saved. As Deaf women, we all know it is especially difficult for Deaf and Hard of Hearing women to get the health information that we need. Today I want to share important information about cervical cancer with you. I hope this information will be helpful for you in the future.
Before I start, why don't you introduce yourselves?
I'm Diedra
My name is Chris
I'm Kirsi
My name's Merline
I'm Patty
My friend was diagnosed with cancer. I'm curious. What is cancer?
That's a good question. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have.
Let me explain what cancer is. Cancer is a disease of cells in your body that become abnormal. Your body contains trillions of cells. Cells are like building blocks for your body. For example, cells group together to make your heart, your eyes, your brain and your lungs. Normal cells within your body do not create any problems. Your body makes new cells when one cell makes identical copies of itself. Sometimes a cell makes a mistake when it copies itself and produces a damaged cell. These damaged cells can divide quickly and create a group of damaged cells called a tumor. Sometimes those damaged cells or tumors will spread throughout the body. If that spread is not controlled, it can lead to death. This occurs because the tumor interferes with normal cell functions.
Is there more than one type of tumor?
Yes. There are two different types of tumors. One is called a benign tumor. It is not cancer, nor is it dangerous, but most of the time this will need to be removed because it can interfere with your body's normal functioning. The second type, the malignant tumor, is dangerous and can spread throughout the body and grow uncontrollably. If allowed to grow, it will cause death. This second type of growth is cancer.
I am only 21 years old, so does that mean that I do not have to worry about cancer?
Good question. Hetty, would you be willing to answer that question?
Today we are discussing cancer of the cervix. Specifically metastatic cervical cancer can happen to anyone at any age. Cervical cancer is one cancer that occurs in both younger and older women. It is most common among women who have been or are sexually active. I will now give you information about how to detect cervical cancer early, how to treat it, and save women's lives. One can prevent cervical cancer by early detection and appropriate treatment. Here are the four topics that we will discuss about cervical cancer:
1) Description, 2) Risk, 3) Detection, and 4) Treatments.
Number 1:
Description of cervical cancer. The cervix is at the top of your vagina and is the bottom portion of the uterus. Your fallopian tubes and ovaries are above the uterus. The cervix has a canal that opens into the vagina. Semen flows into the uterus through the cervix. Menstrual flow exits the uterus through the cervical canal, and babies are also born through the same canal. Cervical cancer happens when a cell in the cervix becomes damaged while it is dividing. It then multiplies and can grow into a cancer tumor that is malignant.
What causes cervical cancer?
The exact cause of cervical cancer is unknown. However, a virus is believed to be responsible for most cases of cervical cancer. This virus is called the Human Papillomavirus or HPV. There are at least 80 known varieties of HPV. Only a few actually increase a woman's risk of developing cervical cancer. HPV is spread by sexual contact with an infected partner. Most people with HPV do not have any symptoms.
What happens if I am infected with HPV?
It is important to know that there are different types of HPV. Some types of HPV can cause wart-like growths in the genital area that rarely lead to cancer. Other types of HPV can infect cells of the cervix and cause them to develop cancer. Even if you become infected with the types of HPV that can cause cancer, it does not mean that you get cancer. It only increases your risk of getting cancer.
How do I know if I am at risk for cervical cancer?
Number 2:
Risk of cervical cancer. About 14,000 American women are diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer every year. This cancer grows primarily in the cervix and does spread. About 5,000 American women die from this cancer every year. Deaths from breast and lung cancer are higher in number while deaths from cervical cancer are lower. Cancers such as breast, lung, and colon cancers have a higher fatality rate. However, early detection of cervical cancer keeps the death rate low. This could be different for Deaf and Hard of Hearing women. Perhaps they don't know how to prevent it.
Cervical cancer usually occurs in women who have been or are sexually active. The risk for this disease is higher in women who have had more than two sexual partners or first had intercourse at an early age because this increases a woman's risk of getting infected with HPV. If you are African-American or Hispanic-American, or are over the age of 65, you also have a higher chance of getting this disease. Women whose mothers took a hormone called Diethylstilbestrol or DES during their pregnancies also have a greater risk of developing cervical cancer.
VII. Early Detection
Is early detection important for cervical cancer?
Number 3:
Detection of cervical cancer. Early detection of cervical cancer is very important because the treatment options are so effective. HPV, the virus responsible for most cervical cancer, can cause abnormal changes in the cells of your cervix. These abnormal cells can slowly develop into cancer. If these changes are found early, cervical cancer can usually be prevented. Now that scientists know one of the causes of cervical cancer, studies are underway to find ways of preventing these abnormal changes from progressing to cancer. If cervical cancer has already developed, early detection allows more treatment options and a higher chance of cure.
What are the symptoms of cervical cancer?
Most women with early cervical cancer do not experience any warning signs such as pain or abnormal vaginal discharges. As cervical cancer grows, a woman might have abnormal vaginal bleeding such as heavy periods, bleeding in between periods, bleeding after sexual intercourse or bleeding after menopause, or she may experience pain during intercourse. Sometimes by the time a woman notices this bleeding, the cancer has already spread to other parts of the body. This is why your health care provider's screening exams to detect cervical cancer early are so important.
Doctors perform a screening test that can find abnormal cells in the cervix before cancer develops. This test can also diagnose cervical cancer early, when it can be cured. This test is called the Papanicolaou test, also known as the Pap smear.
During the Pap smear test, you will put on a hospital gown and use a sheet to cover yourself during the exam. You will lie down on an examination table and place your feet in stirrups. The doctor will put a speculum into your vagina and look at your cervix. The doctor will then use a narrow brush and a plastic spatula to take a sample of cells from the surface of the cervix and also from inside the opening of the cervix. These cells are then put on a microscope slide. A specialist looks at these cells to see if there are any cancer cells or any abnormal cells that are in danger of becoming cancer cells. A Pap smear causes little discomfort. You should schedule to have your Pap smear when you will not be having your menstrual period.
Will screening for cervical cancer really help me?
No test is 100% perfect, but the Pap smear test is one of the more accurate tests. If done regularly as recommended by your doctor, it increases the chances of detecting abnormal cervical cells and cervical cancer. Every woman should receive a screening exam for cervical cancer. There are certain types of cervical cancer that are not related to sexual activity, so every woman is potentially at risk. If cervical cancer is found, then the patient and doctor will discuss treatment options.
If I decide to be screened for cervical cancer, when should I begin?
Would you like to answer that question?
I'd be happy to.
It is a personal decision to undergo cervical cancer screening, but it is highly recommended for all women. The American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute recommend that women begin screening for cervical cancer three years after having sexual intercourse for the first time. For example, if you begin having intercourse at the age of 15, then you should begin screening at the age of 18. Even if you are not sexually active, you should begin your annual screening by the age of 21. Cervical cancer screening involves getting a Pap smear and a pelvic exam every year.
What if my screening test suggests that there may be abnormal cells on my cervix?
It is important to know that not all abnormal cells found on a Pap smear are cancer or will become cancer. In order to find out if the abnormal cells are cancer or in danger of becoming cancer, the doctor may use a special microscope called a colposcope to look at the cervix. The doctor will examine the cervix under the microscope and possibly take a biopsy of any suspicious cells. This procedure is called a colposcopy.
The colposcopy enables the doctor to take a biopsy of the suspicious cells. He will place those cells under the colposcope for examination.
During this procedure, some people have cramping pain. Some women may also have light vaginal discharge for a couple of days following this procedure.
If the sample from my cervix shows that there are abnormal cells that are not yet cancer, but are in danger of becoming cancer, what happens next?
Number 4:
Treatments. Cervical cancer is a very curable form of cancer in most cases. The possible treatments for abnormal cervical cells that are not yet cancer are:
…LEEP, conization, cryosurgery, watchful waiting.
You and your doctor will discuss your treatment options. The type and amount of abnormal cell changes, your age, your general health, your desire to have children, and the possible side effects of the treatments will all influence the best treatment options for you.
In some cases, the doctor may suggest removing only a small portion of the cervix. This is called "loop electrosurgical excision procedure," or LEEP. This is an outpatient procedure in which the diseased tissue is removed from the cervix. This treatment is used when the abnormal changes in your cervix do not reach deep into the cervical tissue. In this procedure, the doctor will insert a speculum into your vagina in order to see the cervix. The doctor will then numb the cervix so you feel no pain. A loop-shaped wire is then used to remove the abnormal tissue from you cervix. The benefits of this procedure are that it requires only one office visit and high cure rates are seen with just one treatment. Women can still have children after undergoing a LEEP procedure. Temporary side effects are cramping and vaginal discharge.
I'd like to answer that question. Okay?
Sure, go ahead.
Conization is similar to a LEEP procedure. It is a small surgical procedure that removes an abnormal area from the cervix. Conization is done in the operating room. Anesthesia is used to put the patient to sleep so she feels no discomfort. The benefits of this treatment are that you can still have children after having this procedure. The risks are bleeding, infection and the risks of receiving anesthesia. Side effects include vomiting, cramping and vaginal discharge that last for a few days.
Since this procedure does not cure the HPV virus, abnormal cells can develop again in the future. Multiple conizations can cause the cervix to become weak. This happens because the cancer cells are removed from the mouth of the cervix. It is the mouth of the cervix that holds the baby inside the uterus. If the cervix becomes weakened, your chances for having a miscarriage increase. Therefore, this additional side effect is less problematic for women who have already had their children.
That's why early detection is so important: it gives women the option of watchful waiting.
Cryosurgery uses very cold temperatures to kill abnormal cells. This procedure is done in your doctor's office. Your doctor will insert a speculum into your vagina to look at your cervix. A probe will then be used to send a very cold gas to the surface of the cervix to freeze the abnormal cells. The benefits are that you can still have children after this procedure. This procedure is not painful but you may have temporary side effects including cramping and vaginal discharge.
Okay. It depends on your situation. You and your doctor will discuss possible treatments. In certain cases, you and your doctor might decide not to make an immediate treatment decision. The doctor will observe and monitor the abnormal changes in your cervix over months or years. This choice may be offered if the abnormal changes in your cervix have a very low likelihood of becoming cancer. The risk of watchful waiting is the possibility that the abnormal changes may become cancer, spread and become difficult to cure. The benefit of watchful waiting is that you do not have to go through the inconvenience, expense and side effects of treatment. If those abnormal cells continue to appear your doctor will recommend one of the treatments. (Pause)
Some women's bodies can effectively fight the HPV virus. Therefore, the problem can resolve itself. The patient will still need regular annual Pap Smears, however, to check for future reoccurrence of the virus or abnormal cells. If abnormal cells do appear again, the patient and her doctor will need to reconsider her options for treatment.
For cervical cancer, treatment options include surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, or a combination of these treatments. These procedures can sometimes make it impossible to have children. Women who are still hoping to have children should discuss this desire with their physician because that may influence the treatment choices.
In most cases of advanced cervical cancer, the doctor will suggest surgically removing your cervix. This procedure will remove the cancer cells from the body. However, there are short-term and long-term side effects related to this surgery. First, if the cervix is removed, you might not be able to have children. Second, there are always risks to surgery such as infection and bleeding, and risk from receiving anesthesia, the drugs that put you to sleep during surgery. Depending on the size and location of the tumor, surgery may or may not be an option. If surgery is the recommended treatment, be sure to choose a surgeon who specializes in cancer surgery of the female organs.
Radiation therapy uses very strong X-rays to kill the cancer cells. It can be used as a treatment alone or in combination with other treatments. There are two ways to deliver radiation treatment. First, X-ray beams can be aimed directly at the cervical cancer cells from an external machine.
Secondly, there is another type of radiation that is administered from a machine that is similar to an ultra sound you receive when you are pregnant. This machine has an applicator that gives off radiation and is placed directly into your vagina for several minutes, a number of hours, or even a few days. This releases constant amounts of radiation to kill the cancer cells over a specific period of time.
The radiation will still kill some healthy cells in that area of the body. This may cause skin changes such as redness or peeling, vaginal or rectal pain, vaginal narrowing, nausea, loss of appetite, tiredness, feeling the need to urinate more often, diarrhea, and/or softening of your bones. Most of these side effects last only about two weeks after you stop radiation. However, there are long-term side effects. Some women report sexual difficulties and early menopause. You should talk with your doctor if these side effects occur or if the short term side effects last longer than they should.
When cancer spreads, chemotherapy is usually recommended. Chemotherapy uses drugs in the form of pills or intravenous injections that kill any cells in your body that are dividing quickly. Cancer cells divide rapidly. However, so do some other healthy cells, like those in your mouth, your stomach, your intestines, your bones, and your hair. Therefore, the drugs can also kill healthy cells in these places. When chemotherapy kills these healthy cells, the result can be mouth sores, tiredness, weakness, hair loss, diarrhea, and an upset stomach.
I have heard friends talk about clinical trials. What are they?
Clinical trials are studies done to find new ways to diagnose and treat cancer and many other diseases. Clinical trials also search for ways to prevent cancer and reduce symptoms. You should keep an open mind about clinical trials. Ask your doctor about any clinical trials that could benefit you. The National Cancer Institute has lots of information about clinical trials. They will help you make an informed treatment decision. The best idea is to stay open to the possibility of clinical trials because they can offer new solutions for you and for other people with similar problems.
Certain clinical trials include cancer-free women as well. For example, this research might include studies about specific foods that prevent the development of abnormal cells, or prevent abnormal cells from becoming cancer cells.
Well, we hope that this video has answered some of your questions and concerns about cervical cancer. Let us summarize a few important things for you.
Women over the age of 21 and women of any age who are sexually active should talk to their doctor about having yearly Pap smear exams for cervical cancer as well as pelvic exams as part of their doctor visits.
The better you understand cervical cancer, the more power you have to make the right choices for your own body and health. You can call the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute for more information or visit their web sites.
With what you have learned today, you can make a difference for yourself and your community by being informed and by making responsible decisions about cancer screening. We enjoyed sharing this information with you and hope you will share it with many others. Together, we can improve the health of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community by making sure its members have the most accurate and current information available. Remember, this video was prepared in 2003. New information about cervical cancer is always developing. Check the following sources for the latest information.
National Cancer Institute
American Cancer Society
National Institutes of Health
Official Web Site of the University of California, San Diego.


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KylePK wrote:Peter wrote: some agreement is here that the LD is in our head so what do you mean by another dimension, keen to get thoughts on this
Planes of existense? I guess. Physical, astral, metaphysical, I don't know haha there is too much speculation to accurately describe anything related to that.
Since any reasonable opinion has to be based on evidence, we might well ask what the evidence shows. Accounts of spiritual realms are as ancient as mankind, unfortunately they don't agree about what that spiritual realm is like, leading to the obvious conclusion that astral worlds whether in OBE or NDE are creations of the subject's own mind. Whether or not there is a spirit that actually can exist separately from the body is another question. There are lots of examples of consciousness existing when the brain and brain stem are flat lined implying that a spirit might be real, e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNbdUEqDB-k Naturally the existence of a spirit does not imply that it survives ultimately or even that it has an afterlife that lasts much beyond the death of the body.
OOBEs are nothing but lucid dreams. Any sensation can be reproduced in the dream world. Most of the time, the environment one encounters upon an apparent separation from the body is one which is incongruent with reality. If the immediate environment happens to emulate your bedroom, for example, it is always localised. Further exploration will reveal inconsistencies. Even that which you think is accurate in the experience can be revealed to be inacurate upon proper inspection of the real thing and comparison in wakefulness.
Summerland is a materialistic monist and has a very dogmatic personality that always seems to reduce everything to his prejudices. You should listen to him for balance as every opinion will help one form the picture of the possible and then following the evidence will show one which possibility is most likely.


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Kingspoint!!! Don't work there!
This hagwon is located just outside Sunae Station on the Bundang Line of the Seoul subway system. It's on the fourth floor of a nearby building.
The owner and his wife (the manager) are thoroughly dishonest. They have been guilty of partial payments, late payments, and non-payments of salaries. All of the Korean and foreign teachers are fed up with those two. The couple who run the place have subject to numerous complaints; they've stiffed a number of teachers, including myself. This hagwon has an extremely high turnover of teachers and staff (North American and Korean).
They allege non-payment because of "improper teaching." However if one asks about that allegation to somebody other than the owner and his wife (the manager), everyone else will deny it. Furthermore, any other person working there would state, clearly and emphatically, that "Sam Kim," the owner, and his wife lie to everybody and steal wages from their employees.
Teachers are not given individual desks, needed textbooks, or clear instructions about many of the rules, until something is not to the owner's liking. The manager never listens to the suggestions from teachers or the clerical staff. Each class is 41 minutes long; there is only 4 minutes between classes. During that short class time, student logs (at least 6) must be filled out by the teacher. The instructor must also write up a report about each student's behavior, test score, and homework quality; homework assignments also must be checked and marked for each student. In addition to all of this, a lesson is supposed to be taught; a test given & graded, and individualized attention provided: ALL OF THIS WITHIN 41 MINUTES, PER CLASS AND FOR EVERY CLASS!
Beyond the classroom hassles, I had to remind the owner to pay me for my first month, which he did a day late. However, for the second month, he is now refusing to pay me for the allegation of driving students away from the language institute; he has furnisher no proof. After the 2-week waiting period, I plan to file a formal complaint with the Ministry of Labor. Hopefully, this action will eventually result in the payment of my September-October monthly salary. Fortunately, I only worked there part-time and am not dependent upon that employer for my visa.
In the meantime to one and all, avoid the language institute, "Kingspoint," like the plague.
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