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WILMINGTON, Mass. — The Bruins spent a decent chunk of their ice time at Ristuccia Arena today trying to iron out their power-play struggles.
Boston's 22nd-ranked man-advantage is now two for its last 34 attempts.
The Bruins stuck with three units today again, with a couple guys doing double duty. The long-standing first unit of Zdeno Chara, Tomas Kaberle, David Krejci, Milan Lucic and Nathan Horton stayed the same. The second group featured Patrice Bergeron moved back to the point, where he played briefly Saturday night in Toronto, opposite Dennis Seidenberg, with Michael Ryder, Tyler Seguin and Brad Marchand up front.
Bergeron moved to forward on the third unit to join Rich Peverley and Mark Recchi, with Johnny Boychuk skating next to Seidenberg.
One somewhat new wrinkle on the first unit was the movement of the D, with Chara and Kaberle pinching in more along the walls. One drill actually ended with Kaberle down on the goal line for a tough-angle shot and another had him at the left dot for a shot — and both times he actually fired the puck toward the net. A less-gun-shy Kaberle would obviously be a boost to Boston's chances of scoring.


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Why tech can't break the hold on paper
BBC piece that gives a fascinating glimpse into digitizing material – the time and cost and also the benefits ...
The promise we can all go paperless has been around for years so why is it that despite email, smartphones and computers we are all still so dependent on pen and paper?
LJ Rich explores why paper has such staying power in our hi-tech age.
The above video starts with a discussion about the UK Archives and the "cost" and "process" of going paperless. There is also a related piece Is the paperless office possible? that explores this further.
And, Dick Eastman, of Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter has long been a proponent of going "paperless."
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Agriculture groups are pushing to undo provisions in a U.S. farm bill that would curb subsidies to people who don't necessarily have day-to-day involvement in farming.
Most of the focus in the monthslong negotiations has been on how much to reduce the current $83 billion yearly cost of food-stamp programs in an overall $500 billion measure for farm and nutrition programs. But intense lobbying by agricultural interests over who should qualify for safety-net payments is also complicating the task of meshing the House and Senate...


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The site of the former Golden Corral restaurant on U.S. Route 13 soon will become a Greene Turtle Sports Bar & Grille.
The sound of new construction is ringing out on U.S. Route 13 and it means a new restaurant franchise is coming to Dover.
When the work is finished, the long-closed Golden Corral restaurant will be home to the Greene Turtle Sports Bar & Grille, the fourth Delaware location for the popular franchise.
Currently, there are Greene Turtle restaurants in Newark, Lewes and Rehoboth.
This new franchise location, which they plan to open around the beginning of November, is the work of business partners Parthiban Jayaraman and Pradip Saha.
"Delaware has been our market," Jayaraman said, "and Dover is a very good market. You have the local and state government there, Dover Air Force Base, the NASCAR race crowds, the Firefly music festival and the beach-goers passing by.
"The population is growing and business is growing. You put all those things together, and it's a good, significant location."
The Greene Turtle opened the first of its 36 restaurants in 1976 in Ocean City, Md., and in addition to Maryland and Delaware, has locations in Virginia and the District of Columbia. The franchise just opened its first restaurant outside the mid-Atlantic area on Long Island.
Dover's setting, within easy commute to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., makes it an ideal site for a sports bar, Saha said.
"It attracts both families and people interested in sports," he said. "We've seen how people come and enjoy the games and enjoy the ambiance of the restaurant. The Greene Turtle is not only family-friendly, we have high-quality food and we're very accessible to the community."
As planned, sports fans won't have a bad seat anywhere in the new 7,000-square-foot restaurant. It will have 75 flat-screen televisions, including one at each booth, which will allow parents to watch sporting events on large screens while the kids can tune in to something different at their seats. The restaurant will have patio that seats approximately 60 people, as well as a private, 40-person party room.
One of the best-known features of any Greene Turtle is its Mug Club. To join, patrons buy a numbered mug, and they're served from that mug every time they come in to dine.
"Once you purchase a mug, it hangs over the bar and is available any time you visit," Jayaraman said. "Aside from having a mug to call your own, Mug Club members receive plenty of draft beer discounts and specials as well as member-only events, exclusive offers, and more."
"When you've signed up for a mug number, that's your number forever," Saha said. "You come back once a day, once a week, you get the same one every time."
The Turtle also will feature a wide variety of beers, including brews by Delaware's own Dogfish Head.
In addition to burgers, sandwiches, soups and salads, the Greene Turtle's menu includes gourmet pizzas, express lunches for people on the go, a summer lunch selection that includes a watermelon and shrimp salad, blackened ahi tuna and spicy hummus, various types of wraps, a kid's menu and specialty tacos.
Jayaraman said he favors the fish tacos, while Saha prefers the Maryland crab cakes.
As a corporation, the Greene Turtle also works to become a major contributor in each franchise city, with participating restaurants holding fundraising events where a portion of a day's receipts is donated to local charities. Since the program got under way, the company has contributed more than $750,000 to organizations in various communities.
Dover's Greene Turtle will be open from 11 a.m. to midnight seven days a week, Saha said, and will employ up to 10 full-time personnel and approximately 30 part-timers.


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This is an active trip recommended for adults and families with children 12 and older that includes a long horseback ride over challenging terrain to a remote but cozy mountain lodge without electricity or modern amenities. Travelers should be in good physical condition and have some experience outdoors. For even more outdoor adventure, consider a 3 day/2 night extension to depart from Torres del Paine via kayak, paddling past glaciers, imposing mountains and remote fjords along the Serrano River to Puerto Natales.
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By Lawrence Hurley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Setting the stage for a constitutional showdown, the Obama administration on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to rule that presidents have broad authority to make certain appointments without Senate approval.
If the nine justices agree to hear the dispute over appointments President Barack Obama made to the National Labor Relations Board last year, it will be one of the biggest issues before the court in its next term, which will begin in October and end in June 2014.
In January the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that three appointments to the panel, which normally has five members, were invalid.
The appeals court agreed with Noel Canning, the bottling company that challenged Obama's move, in finding that the president did not have the authority to make the NLRB appointments because the Senate was not technically in recess at the time.
The U.S. Constitution allows the president to make appointments when the Senate is in recess. Such appointments expire at the end of the congressional session.
Backed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Noel Canning argued that an NLRB ruling against it was invalid because of the appointments, which meant the board lacked a quorum.
Obama made his NLRB appointments on January 4, 2012, when the Senate was in session but not conducting business. The congressional session began on January 3, according to the Senate website.
In the brief filed on Thursday, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli defended the recess appointment powers of the president, disputing the court's conclusion that it can only be used in the period between formal sessions of the Senate.
Presidents from both parties have used their recess appointment authority to make appointments when the Senate is not conducting business.
If the appeals court ruling was left to stand, it would "dramatically curtail" the president's authority, Verrilli said.
In addition to limiting presidential power, the ruling meant that the NLRB did not have the required quorum to make decisions, casting doubt on all its actions and rulings since Obama made the appointments.
The ruling "threatens a significant disruption of the federal government's operations," Verrilli wrote.
The high court will decide whether to hear the case after lawyers for Noel Canning file a response, which is due within 30 days.
(Reporting by Lawrence Hurley and Amanda Becker; Editing by Howard Goller and Xavier Briand)


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NEW YORK (AP) — A wildlife official says an endangered whale has died after getting stranded on a beach in a coastal enclave of New York City.
Mendy Garron of the National Marine Fisheries Service says officials found the 60-foot finback whale dead Thursday.
The animal was first discovered Wednesday morning beached on the bay side of Breezy Point, a Queens neighborhood ravaged by Superstorm Sandy. The whale was alive but severely emaciated.
The whale later drifted away at high tide and washed ashore again Thursday morning.
Breezy Point is still recovering from the storm. It caused serious flooding and a fire that destroyed 100 homes.


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Here in the United States we take the fact that we have access to education, for granted. I did too. However, my perspective on education was redefined this year, when I, along with 26 other high school students, traveled to Nicaragua to volunteer with the school that we help sponsor there. The Terra Linda High School Nicaragua Service Club at my high school, works with the organization El Hogar de los Niños to help sponsor a school that caters to over 200 children, ages 4-17 in one of the most dangerous neighborhood in Managua.
Throughout the year, we work to fund our own trip and sponsor the school. This past April, I traveled along and witnessed the beauty of international service. Throughout the week, my peers and I prepared lessons for the students that taught them about music, art, and hygiene. It is clear that those children truly appreciated the little that we offered. Many of the children came from dysfunctional homes, with drug addicts for parents, or abusive families. But it was clear that their school, El Divino Niño provided an oasis for them. The power of education must not be underestimated, because education provides us with the tools to change our world.


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We describe what is meant by mental
disorder, offending and substance misuse and how often they are
seen together. Also we will talk about treatments and other
sources of help. We examine whether people with mental illness
are more likely to commit violent crimes.
Mental illness is sometimes called a 'mental
disorder'. This includes schizophrenia, bipolar disorder,
drug-induced psychosis, personality disorder, depression, anxiety
and post-traumatic stress disorder. These are just some examples of
mental disorders.
The branch of psychiatry dealing with the
assessment and treatment of offenders with mental health problems
is called 'forensic psychiatry'.
Studies have found that mental health problems
are much more common in prisoners than in the general population.
As much as 9 out of 10 prisoners report some kind of mental
health problem and the most commonly reported symptoms in prisoners
are sleep problems and worrying.
The types of crime committed by people with
mental illness are no different from the crimes committed by
people who do not have mental illness.
Mentally disordered offenders still go through
the criminal justice process as anyone else would. However, there
are measures in place to help people with mental illness. There are
assessments to identify people who would be best helped in
hospital. The Courts can also ask for a psychiatric report to help
them decide on the best course of action.
Sometimes offenders with a severe mental
illness are sent to hospital rather than prison to serve their
sentence. This decision depends on how severe their mental illness
is. People with less severe mental health problems can get
help in prison from mental health 'In reach' teams.
This may include medicines or psychological
treatments to reduce criminal behaviour and to help people
understand their mental illness.
The programmes currently running in prisons
Substance misuse is the taking of a drug or
alcohol in such a way that it leads to harm. Examples of harm
include: addiction, debt, physical harm, criminal actions and
relationship problems.
The drugs used may be:
If someone has a mental illness along with a
substance misuse problem, they are said to have a 'dual
Research shows that substance misuse may cause
or increase symptoms of mental illness. On the other hand, mental
illness may lead someone to abuse substances. They may want to
block out their symptoms or the side-effects of medication. They
may have difficulties in sleeping, feel lonely or simply wish to
boost their self-confidence.
People with a dual diagnosis have other
problems including being lonely, homeless, having a history of
abuse and are more likely to get into trouble with the police.
Depression, anxiety and schizophrenia are more
likely to be linked to substance misuse. The drug use can stop
people making a full recovery. It is also more likely to lead
to becoming unwell again or to have to be
re-admitted to hospital.
The UK has one of the highest levels of drug
misuse in Europe.
About a quarter of people in the UK drink more
alcohol than they should. The amounts drunk have doubled over the
last 50 years and are still rising. Physical health problems
caused by alcohol have doubled in the last 10 years. Deaths have
doubled over the last 15 years.
About 35% of people aged 16-59 have used
illegal drugs in their lifetime. Cannabis is the most commonly used
Dual Diagnosis - substance misuse problems are
common among people in mental health services. The number of people
with a mental illness and who misuse substances has increased by
62%, in particular for those suffering from schizophrenia.
People with dual diagnosis do worse than those
with mental health problems alone. They are also more likely to be
admitted to hospital, to self-harm and commit suicide.
The combination of having a mental illness,
substance misuse and not taking medication can increase the risk of
violence toward others. However this makes up only a small amount
of violent acts.
This can be split into:
Unfortunately, dual diagnosis is often seen in
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with drug problems through prison-based drug treatments and
community punishments which include drug rehabilitation
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2007. Mentally disordered offenders, mental health and crime,
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ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press
2. Advisory Council
on the Misuse of Drugs (2006) Pathways to Problems: Hazardous use
of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs by young people in the UK and
its implications.
3. NHS Information
Centre (2008) Statistics on Alcohol: England 2008, London, NHS
Information Centre.
4. Frisher, M., Crome
I., Macleod, J., Millson, D., and Croft, P. (2005) Substance abuse
and psychiatric illness: Prospective observational study using the
General Practice Research Database. Journal of Epidemiology and
Community Health, 59, pp.847–850.
5. Swanson, J.,
Borum, R., Swartz, M., and Hiday, V. (1999) Violent behaviour
preceding hospitalisation among persons with severe mental illness,
Law and Human Behaviour 23, pp.185–203.
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Ne-Yo is a wanted man. Following up his recent feature in VH1's Behind The Music series, the R&B singer-songwriter appeared in X Factor U.K. as a special guest mentor on Saturday (September 29) alongside judge and former Pussycat Dolls front woman Nicole Scherzinger.
The pair broke down the performances of several X Factor contestants. Ne-Yo (http://v103.cbslocal.com/2012/09/14/ne-yo-justin-bieber-and-big-sean-rock-americas-got-talent-finale/) wasted no time offering newcomer Jahmene Douglas some straight-to-the-heart advice after his rendition of David Guetta's "Titanium."
"Your nervous energy is going to make you or break you, don't let it break you," he said. "You're here because you're talented, believe that when you sing." Check out the clip here.
Also appearing as guest mentors on the across-the-pond X Factor (the current American version of the Simon Cowell-brainchild singing competition features Cowell, Britney Spears, Demi Lovato, and L.A. Reid) was Tinie Tempah, Cheryl Cole, and Sharon Osbourne.
Such past X Factor contestants as Leona Lewis, Susan Boyle and One Direction have gone on to have successful recording careers. Of course, Ne-Yo isn't giving up his recording career for the small screen. The Senior Vice President of A&R at Motown is gearing up for the October 13 release of his upcoming album R.E.D. —Keith Murphy, CBS Local


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And now for one of our regular, semi-obligatory Meth-related questions. I get at least a half dozen of these questions a month. And each and every one of them breaks my heart. I know nothing about the fellow writing me; I don't know where he lives or his age. I don't suppose it really matters, does it?
I need some help and I hope you can point me in the right direction. I am recently divorced and trying to move on in life but I'm depressed all the time and also using meth a lot. I have tried to have different sexual partners since my divorce and every time I'm with someone new I can get a erection when we are messing around with no problem, but soon as its time for penetration I loose my erection I feel like I'm having anxiety issues and also I'm very nervous, and I'm not impotent so can it be the meth preventing me to keep it up, or do I need medication for my anxiety? How can I overcome this problem?
I'm certain I can point you in the right direction. Thanks for asking. Allow me to speak plainly. Quit the meth! Quitting won't solve all your problems, but it is the first and most important step. And frankly, if you choose not to quit, all your other efforts to pull your life together are doomed.
Meth is not a therapy for depression, nor is it gonna help you connect with a new partner. It most assuredly will not help your erection problems; in fact, it is the cause of your erection problems. But I'll wager you know that already, huh?
You also have an underlying performance anxiety problem that needs to be addressed ASAP.
Find a competent sex therapist to help you. look to the directory of The American College of Sexology for someone near you. Or you can check out my Therapy Available page.
In the meantime, take a look at some of the stuff I've written and podcasts where I talk about meth. Use the pull-down CATEGORIES menu in the sidebar, to your right, and scroll down till you fine the SEX & SUBSTANCES category. It's under that category that you will find the subcategory Crystal Meth.
You'll also want to take a look at some of the stuff I've written and podcasts where I talk about performance anxiety. Again, use the pull-down CATEGORIES menu in the sidebar and scroll down till you fine the SEX THERAPY category. Under that category you will find the subcategory Performance Anxiety.
Here are examples of the stuff you'll find.
On meth:
Name: Joey
Age: 22
Location: Southern Calif
Love doing tina with masturbation and watching really hot porn. Think this is just social fun?
Nope, I don't Joey. Despite the prevalence of this dastardly drug, there is nothing fun about tina…crystal meth for those unfamiliar with the term "tina". If you love doing tina for whatever reason, I'd wager you're hooked on that shit.
Listen, I'm not prude when it comes to using some drugs recreationally. But I think that we'd do well to stick to those drugs that are more natural. The less processing involved (and meth is the worst in that regard) and fewer added chemicals (OMG, the crap they put in crystal) the better, in my humble opinion.
Despite the admitted high ya get, recent research shows that long-term meth use destroys nerve cells in the brain that regulate dopamine, muscle movement, memory, and decision-making. This damage can be wide-spread and permanent.
Your body reacts to crystal meth the same way it reacts to danger. Crystal floods the body with adrenaline — the same hormone that prepares us for emergencies. Adrenaline gives a super-charge of strength and endurance so the body can deal with danger and injury. But artificially triggering this response over and over again will have serious consequences.
When you use crystal, your nervous system shifts into high gear. The brain floods your body with "danger" messages. Your body responds immediately to what it thinks is a threat. It prepares to fight or to run away. Common body responses to perceived danger include:
- Pupils dilate to let in more light.
- Hair stands on end ("getting goose bumps").
- Blood vessels just under the skin constrict.
- Body temperature goes up
Regular, long-term crystal use will diminish sores of neurotransmitters. Episodes of paranoia and anxiety become more frequent and longer lasting. Blocked blood vessels within the brain can lead to increased chances of stroke.
Crystal fucks with your dopamine levels. Dopamine delivers a sense of reward and pleasure. It is also associated with body movement. Too little dopamine causes paralysis or a Parkinson's-like tremors and rigidity. Too much dopamine and a person can become paranoid, hear voices and get twisted thoughts. Sound familiar?
Crystal fucks with your serotonin levels. Serotonin is involved in regulating sleep and sensory perception. It plays a role in moods and regulating body temperature. Serotonin is involved with many emotional disorders like schizophrenia, phobias, super-aggressive states and obsessive-compulsive behavior. Too much serotonin can make it difficult (or impossible) to have an orgasm. And of course there's the dreaded "crystal dick"…the inability to get it up.
Joey, listen up! You're way too young with too much of your life ahead of you to self-inflict so much serious irreparable damage on yourself. If this weren't such a troublesome drug, there wouldn't be such a virulent anti and reformed tweeker community out there. Want to know the real truth about "tina" check in at: crystalmeth.org. You'll be glad you did.
On Performance Anxiety:
I get a dozen or so messages a month on this topic. I've written about it in numerous postings and spoken about it in several podcasts, but still the email comes.
One of the real bugaboos for anyone, regardless of gender, is living up to our own expectations of sexual performance. So many things can get in the way, literally and figuratively, of fully enjoying ourselves and/or pleasuring our partners.
The arousal stage of our sexual response cycle is particularly vulnerable to a disruption. And when there's trouble there, there's no hiding it. A limp dick or a dry pussy can put the kibosh on all festivities that we may have hoped would follow.
However, performance anxiety can strike any of us, regardless of age, and at just about any point in our sexual response cycle. This is a particularly galling when it seems to come out of the blue. And regaining our composure can be more far more difficult than we imagine.
Today we will be focusing on male performance anxiety. I'll address female performance anxiety at a later date.
Complete Article HERE!
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Police arrest 30, call them street-level heroin dealersBy MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 20. 2014 2:21PM
MANCHESTER — Police said they expect a significant but short-lived dent in the city narcotics trade after sweeps both Wednesday and Thursday netted 30 people, nearly all of them described as street-level dealers of heroin.
Police Chief David Mara announced the arrests along with representatives of federal and Hillsborough County law enforcement agencies. Two people were arrested Wednesday when police executed a search warrant at the third-floor apartment at 421 Hevey St. A follow up arrest took place Wednesday, and then at least 27 were placed into custody starting at 5 a.m. this morning.
Today's effort, Operation Clean Sweep, involved eight separate arrest teams with a list of 34 names.
During a press conference, Mara said police are invigorating an effort to target street-level dealers who are often users themselves.
"We are attacking the most visible part of the durg problem," Mara said.
Sixty grams of heroin were confiscated in Wednesday's arrests, and Mara said the effort should have a short-term effect on the availability of heroin in the city.
"But there are always other people to fill that void," Mara said.
He said the effort involved street-level dealers because drug addiction is the root of most of the thefts, robberies and burglaries in the city.


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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Hundreds of people who were forced out of a small Arizona community because of a deadly wildfire returned home Monday, finding a landscape drastically different than they remembered.
Vehicles lined up along the highway into Yarnell with the few belongings they had well before the evacuation order was lifted. Each resident had to present identification to prove residency, allowing them a couple of to sift through the ashes, survey the damage and let reality sink in before the area opens to the public Wednesday.
"I know we're going to be swamped not only with the press but onlookers," Yarnell school board member Eric Lawton said. "That's hard when you're trying to deal with stuff and get back into a groove."
Small shops that sell antiques, saddles and groceries are still intact, but the fire that broke out June 28 created a patchwork of destruction throughout homes and on the ground. More than 100 homes were destroyed, many reduced to ashes. Large, charred boulders and blackened trees dotted the town, and red fire retardant was streaked across the hills.
"It's a bittersweet day today, driving through the town and seeing it burnt, and knowing a lot of people don't have homes," Yarnell resident Tammy Consier said.
But, she said: "This is an awesome community, there's going to be beauty from the ashes."
For residents heading into Yarnell from Wickenburg, a highway sign marking 19 miles into the town is another reminder of what was lost. Nineteen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots died June 30 after winds shifted and cut off their escape route. A memorial service for them is planned Tuesday with Vice President Joe Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano scheduled to attend.
About 700 residents were evacuated from the community northwest of Phoenix after violent wind gusts pushed the lightning-caused wildfire initially thought to be manageable in size into Yarnell. Residents knew days ago whether their homes were spared, but didn't know the extent of the damage.
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D'Evelyn said residents are trying to salvage whatever they can from the ashes. Once they assessed their property, many of them headed to a recovery center that opened Monday to get help dealing with insurance companies, pick up cleaning supplies, or grab food and water. Caseworkers, nurses and mental health volunteers also were on hand.
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News broke yesterday that rap sensation Chief Keef would be spending two months in juvenile detention center for violating his probation. How will this affect his rap career? It's too early to call it donezo for Keef but legal issues have stalled some of rap's most promising stars in the past and cut short otherwise upward careers.
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Learn how to treat and prevent this lower-back and buttock pain that is common among runners and triathletes.
The Symptoms
Pain in the lower back and/or buttocks, sometimes feeling as if it's deep inside the buttock muscles. It may be too painful to sit on the affected buttock. The pain and/or tingling can radiate down the backs of the legs as well.
What's Going On In There?
The piriformis muscle runs behind the hip joint and aids in external hip rotation, or turning your leg outward. The catch here is that the piriformis crosses over the sciatic nerve. The piriformis muscle can become tight from, for example, too much sitting (a problem many working people can relate to). The muscle can also be strained by spasm or overuse. In piriformis syndrome, this tightness or spasm causes the muscle to compress and irritate the sciatic nerve. This brings on lower-back and buttock pain, sometimes severe. The diagnosis is tricky because piriformis syndrome can very easily be confused with sciatica.
The difference between these diagnoses is that traditional sciatica is generally caused by some spinal issue, like a compressed lumbar disc. Piriformis syndrome becomes the go-to diagnosis when sciatica is present with no discernible spinal cause.
Runners, cyclists and rowers are the athletes most at risk for piriformis syndrome. They engage in pure forward movement, which can weaken hip adductors and abductors, the muscles that allow us to open and close our legs. Throw in some weak glutes, and all those poorly conditioned muscles put extra strain on the piriformis. And you've got a painful problem.
Another risk for runners: Overpronating (when your foot turns inward) can cause the knee to rotate on impact. The piriformis fires to help prevent the knee from rotating too much, which can lead to overuse and tightening of the muscle.


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Irminger Sea Meteorological Buoy
In summer 2004 a long-term oceanographic mooring will be deployed in the southwest Irminger Sea to measure the formation of subpolar mode water. This is one of two sites in the north Atlantic (the other being the Labrador Sea) where intermediate mode water is believed to be formed; yet to date deep convection has not been observed at this location (only inferred). In an effort to observe convection and document that the Irminger Sea is a site of significant mode water formation, the ULTRAMOOR mooring will be deployed for 5 years (Nelson Hogg, PI). This mooring will measure temperature, salinity, and currents in the upper 2000m of the water column, transmitting its data to shore on a regular basis throughout the deployment period.
The one "hole" in this measurement program is the lack of
in-situ meteorological data to accompany the oceanographic timeseries. In fact,
since the days of the old weather stations (including Station A in the Irminger
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North Atlantic. We are attempting to make the ULTRAMOOR site the first
"modern-day ocean station" by deploying a meteorological buoy next to the
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committed $25K from my existing Irminger Sea field program for mooring materials and construction of the platform. We are requesting an additional $27,649 from OCCI to purchase the meteorological instrumentation.This will allow acquisition of wind speed, velocity, air temperature, and relative humidity to a central data logger and the transmission of the data to shore in near real-time.


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Are Science and Christian Faith Enemies?
Many atheists claim that science and faith are against each other. Christian faith cannot be scientifically proven so they are not friends. This is what Jerry A. Coyne wrote in his article for USA Today entitled "Science and Religion Aren't Friends":
The difference between science and faith, then, can be summed up simply: In religion faith is a virtue; in science it's a vice.
According to Coyne faith is a "vice" within science. This seems logical but Coyne doesn't engage the real battle. The battle is between worldviews. When it comes to doing science worldviews play a huge role. What Coyne is really saying is that science makes no room for a supernatural worldview. Science can only function within a naturalistic worldview. According to many atheists science = naturalism. But is this really the case? Alvin Plantiga doesn't believe so. The New York Times published an article featuring Plantiga and this is what he had to say:
'It seems to me that many naturalists, people who are super-atheists, try to co-opt science and say it supports naturalism,' he said. 'I think it's a complete mistake and ought to be pointed out.'
According to Plantiga equating science with naturalism is a "mistake" and I agree. As I mentioned earlier, the battle isn't between faith and science; it is between naturalism and supernaturalism and according to Plantiga, science is done better within a supernaturalistic worldview:
[Christian] Theism, with its vision of an orderly universe superintended by a God who created rational-minded creatures in his own image, 'is vastly more hospitable to science than naturalism,' with its random process of natural selection, he writes. 'Indeed, it is theism, not naturalism, that deserves to be called the scientific worldview.'
the Christian worldview says that humans are made in the image of God and everything that exists is God's creative work. This is not a hinderance to science or a "vice" like Coyne said, in fact, the Christian worldview aids in science because it can account for the presuppositions of science. One of those presuppositions is the uniformity of nature. Uniformity is accepted by scientists because science depends on the ability to repeat experiments. If uniformity wasn't accepted then scientists would have no reason to trust their experiments because each experiment would differ even if everything was done in the same way.
For further discussion comparing the Christian worldview to the naturalistic worldview in the realm of science check out Dr. James White's article "Evidence for Special Creation From Scientific Evidence".
Another item that I want to address is the history of science and the men that forged the way for modern science. Will Little posted an article entitled "Faithful Science" on the Resurgence blog and in it he lists some Christian scientists:
* Copernicus turned the world upside-down with his theory of heliocentrism. He was a devout believer who worked for the church most of his life as a canon, or member of the clergy, and physician.
* Galileo, called the "Father of Science," made extraordinary advances in multiple disciplines in addition to astronomy. He believed in the authority and inerrancy of the Bible and was famous for saying, "The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes."
* Kepler did foundational work on light and forces to better explain the motion of our heliocentric solar system. He was a devout Lutheran who was profoundly and openly motivated by his faith.
* Descartes invented the Cartesian coordinate system and is commonly called "the Father of Modern Philosophy." He was also a faithful Christian who argued passionately for the existence of God in many of his works.
* Pascal invented the mechanical calculator and made monumental advances in mathematics. He was a philosopher who later in life focused almost entirely on defending the Christian faith.
* Newton was arguably the greatest scientist to have ever lived. He ushered in a new paradigm of mechanics, invented calculus, and developed the law of universal gravitation. Though not Trinitarian in his theology, Newton was a committed theist who wrote more about faith and religion than he did about science.
Even though Coyne says faith is a "vice" within science; science and Christian faith are not at odds with one another. In reality, the battle is between the Christian (supernatural) worldview and the naturalistic worldview. Not only can Christians do science but the Christian worldview can account for the presuppositions science demands. Not only that, but history attests to a long line of scientists that were Christians. With all of that I believe the conclusion is clear…Christian faith and science are not enemies and science is not off-limits to Christians.
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BIBLE LITERALISM CALLED 'PAGAN SUPERSTITION' as Vatican astronomer denounces 6-day creationism, reports WorldNetDaily.com May 6, 2006.
Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno says believing God created the universe in six days is a form of "pagan superstition". Consolmagno described creationism as a "kind of paganism" because it is similar to the idea of "nature gods" who pagans believed to be responsible for natural events.
Consolmagno stated that the Christian God is a supernatural god. In the past, the belief in God being supernatural led the clergy to become involved in science to find natural explanations for things like thunder and lightning. Pagans often attribute thunder and lightning to vengeful gods.
"Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism -- it's turning God into a nature god," he said.
ED.COM. In Galileo's day, church authorities accepted the then authoritative pagan Ptolemaic geocentric astronomy, turned around and pronounced it Christian, then persecuted Galileo for observing it was false. The Roman Catholic church (and other churches) are obviously still doing the same thing; accepting pagan evolution, labelling it Christian and opposing those who have observed it is false! Hence the commonest question we are being asked in the current media controversy in the UK is, "But the Archbishop says..." .
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More patients come forward, accuse neurologist of sexual abuse
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —
More patients of a Louisville neurologist are coming forward after a woman claimed he sexually abused her during an examination.
Dr. Ghias Arar was indicted and arraigned Thursday.
He now faces eight sexual abuse charges, two of those are felonies.
Tara Batrice, a former patient of Arar's who claims he inappropriately touched her during an examination, shared her story with WLKY.
Four more women have since come forward with similar claims.
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Everyday sustainable business practices earn recognition for Shaw
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - March 30, 2012) - It's one hour that makes a big difference and sends an equally big message. Shaw Communications (TSX:SJR.B) (NYSE:SJR) is proud to participate in Earth Hour for the fifth year in a row, doing its part to raise awareness and reduce its environmental footprint through ongoing sustainable business practices.
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Some people believe that some microphones are better (or worse) at picking up sound as the distance increases. In general terms this is not the case for conventional live sound microphones. Remember ... microphones do not go out and search for sound, the sound comes to them. To do otherwise would require that some kind of amplification that could kick in for a distant sound and that the mic could tell the difference between distance and SPL. It is the sound itself that falls under the inverse square law. IOW it's your voice that is dropping off in feeding the mic.
The example given was pulling a mic away a foot and having it go dead. So here's how that breaks down.
Just to keep it simple we'll stay in tens. If you start singing at .1 foot away and that produces 100 dB spl (wherever you are measuring it) then moving away from your mic to 1 foot the signal would drop by 20 dB to a new spl of 80 dB. This is the normal loss due to inverse square from the source over distance. Microphones are simple but dumb devices and cannot distinguish distance from simple lower level. If this were the case then the mic would become unusable as you sang softer. They just convert, in a reasonably linear fashion (at least at these distances) the pressure on their elements to voltage. It makes no difference whether the element is dynamic or condensor.
Now if you factor in proximity effect you will see a bit of an exception to this ... but only to the frequencies below about 200 Hz. I have made the measurements at 18" compared to 1" and can tell you at that distance an SM58 will exhibit a bump of about +10 dB at aprox 120 Hz. An OM-5 will exhibit less bump ... about +7 dB at about 180 Hz. (the bump being at the closer distance of course)
So back to the claim that the Audix picks up less at distance ... Compared to an SM 58, they both pick up the same at distance for the normal voice range of 300-3kHz but the Audix picks up about 3 dB less than the 58 at 18" but only below 200 Hz.. But that is 3 dB compared to 20 dB and not very significant. Likely another dB at 1 foot instaed of 18". It's not the exact level of the bump that is important, just the delta between the two.
So what about "shotguns" picking up at great distances? They don't pick up on axis any better than anything else. What they can do is pick up less off axis spill so the intended to un-intended ratio is better, but the signal itself is no stronger. If you are trying to pick up birds on the wire across the street with a shotgun compared to a 58 you'll get the same level of birds in both mics, but you'll get less traffic noise mixed in with it with a shotgun.


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Portions of the following information are based on facts provided by the arrested individuals. Those individuals have been booked with, not convicted of, the offenses shown. All accused should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
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Thibodaux Police
Jonathan Williams, 27, 2228 Bayou Road, Thibodaux, misdemeanor resisting an officer, traffic control signals, contempt of court, misdemeanor operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
Joshua Becnel, 23, 102 Roundree Lane, Thibodaux, general speed law, minimum speeds, second offense misdemeanor DWI.
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Walter Edgardo, 27, 132 E. 95th St., Cut Off, second offense misdemeanor DWI, driver must be licensed.
Joshua Champagne, 32, 282 Champagne Lane, Raceland, three counts contempt of court, fugitive.
Derek Comeaux, 30, 2452 Pineridge St., Thibodaux, contempt of court.
Kayla Chiasson, 25, 140 Ledet Lane, Larose, theft.
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Lehna Lagwynne Montoya, 26, 1391 Palmisano Drive, Houma, failure to appear, reckless operation, insurance violation, driving under suspension hit and run, holding for other agency, aggravated battery.
Jeremy John Bueche, 35, 4019 Country Drive, Bourg, domestic abuse battery.
Daniel Javier Pena, 33, 12 Killarney Loop, Houma, domestic abuse battery (strangulation), second degree battery.
Jodeci Jamal Coleman, 20, C-126 Solar Trailer Park, Thibodaux, holding for other agency.
Christopher Joseph Clay, 30, 3599 Friendswood Drive, Houma, holding for other agency.
Tobe James Bergeron, 35, 134 Morris Porche Lane, Gray, holding for other agency.
Dennis Paul Bourgeois, 34, 117 Janabeth St., Gray, failure to register as sex offender.
Jonathon Michael Belanger, 18, 1484-A Dularge Road, Theriot, aggravated rape.
Rickie Ranell Campbell, 39, 202 Carol St., Thibodaux, holding for other agency.
Tye Juan Aubert, 27, 518 Antoine St., Houma, holding for other agency.
Tessie Marie Arceneaux, 37, 315 Commerce St., Houma, two counts holding for other agency.
Moriah Lynn Arceneaux, 20, 482 Sugarland St., Houma, holding for other agency.
Leroy Joseph Curole Jr., 41, 315 Cedar Drive, Montegut, failure to appear.
Lawrence James Leboeuf, 25, 100 Laura Lynn Drive, Houma, probation violation.
Brandon Paul Doucet, 27, 395 Monarch Drive, Houma, holding for other agency.
Ronald Lee Franklin, 25, 4 Killarney Loop, holding for other agency.
Philip Jarome Green, 22, 501 Champion St., Gray, holding for other agency.
Denise Fay Howard, 46, 1431 Snipe St., Baton Rouge, holding for other agency.
Mark Edgar Morgan Jr., 24, 535 La. 20, Schriever, three counts holding for other agency.
Renaldo Nehemial Johnson, 28, homeless, holding for other agency.
Jason Johnson, 41, 418 Ashlawn St., Houma, holding for other agency.
Mikee Joseph Sullivan, 36, 225 Evangeline Drive, Donaldsonville, holding for other agency.
Houma City Police
Amanda Marie Juan Touchet, 23, 102 Miranda Court, Houma, two counts contempt of court, resisting police by violence, two counts battery on police officer.
Michael Amacker, 49, homeless, home invasion.
Terrebonne Narcotics Task Force
Roosevelt Stewart, 66, 205 Deadwood Road, Gibson, possession with intent to distribute schedule I drug, possession with intent to distribute schedule II drug, use of firearm while in possession of a controlled dangerous substance, illegal transaction involving drug proceeds.
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Matthew Louis Vicknair, 27, 3166 La. 315, No. 1123, Houma, DWI, careless operation.
Charles Thomas Kreyenbuhl, 51, 110 Henderson St., Houma, contempt of court.
Joseph William Sanger, 27, 205-C Southland Circle, Houma, failure to comply with sentence.
Jessica Lynn Dean, 30, 151 Jerome Court, Houma, failure to comply with sentence.
Scott David Price Jr., 23, 201 Cretini Lane, Houma, failure to comply with sentence.
Jeremy Christopher Randolph, 26, 405 Pineland Drive, Houma, failure to comply with sentence.
Ronald Steven Roberts, 46, 317 Ruth St., Houma, probation revocation.
David Lynn Harris, 59, 193 Stovall St., Houma, probation revocation.
Anthony Joseph Bergeron Jr., 32, 128 City Place Drive, Lockport, expired vehicle inspection sticker, expired license plate, speeding.
Lafourche Sheriff
Jerry Holmes, 55, 3722 Hwy. 1, Raceland, two counts contempt of court.
Toby LeBlanc, 36, 2309 Parish Road, Thibodaux, contempt of court, DWI, second offense possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, operating a vehicle while under suspension for certain prior offenses, possession of alcoholic beverages in motor vehicles
Brandon Coleman, 28, 319 St. Louis St., Raceland, domestic abuse battery involving strangulation with child endangerment.
Thibodaux Police
Christian Palacios, 19, 1515 Bell St., Thibodaux, domestic abuse battery.
Dillon Webre, 25, 126 Cenac St., Houma, fugitive of Terrebonne Parish.


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Re: Making Merit - or is it craving?
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I am sure it is well meant.ground wrote:No traumata, but mere investigation.Hanzze wrote:The religion traumata will also fade away with timeground wrote: Whoever thinks to know does not know. Only freedom can tell but freedom does not come about through thinking "it is like this" or "it is like that".
Religious thought based on hope may provide comfort for the fearful. There is nothing wrong about that. So striving for merit may provide ephemeral feelings of joy and happiness thus making this short period between birth and death a bit more bearable.
Maybe am explanation of what is meant with the term "religion" is necessary: From my perspective religion is a system of thought that engenders hope for something beyond experience thus providing a support for consciousness. No mystery just psychology in the context of the psychology the Buddha taught.
Does such cause "but.." or "just..."There is no worry about other at all because there is complete reliance on other's wisdom.Hanzze wrote: and don't worry that others can be caught in it while doning Dana (in a meritious way) as that would not be possible. Just do not rest unhonestly.
I am on your side that just doing without but is much better.No need for discussing the ideas "merit" or "dana" further. Everything is fine, you just do what you feel is good for you.Hanzze wrote: Making merits (Dana) with the hope or enjoyment of good feeling is no merit making at all. But to abstain from making Dana (letting go of possession) with the fear of maybe doing it for pleasure is a good subtile excusse to abstain from it.
Letting go of intellectuall possession is Dana as well. Just give up!


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The house that W. Alva Short built when he homesteaded here in 1902 has been demolished to allow widening of U.S. Highway 550 about six miles south of Farmington Hill.
But the steel arm of the trackhoe didnt destroy the memories of son Lyle, 81, one of two surviving siblings who once numbered an even dozen.
Lyle Short and his family occupied the family home until about 2005 when he built a house farther from the highway.
We knew they were going to widen the highway, Short said. But we didnt know it was going to extend as far as it did.
The house provided several days of training pre-demoliton for Durango Fire & Rescue Authority personnel. Early plans to burn the structure were scrapped in favor of demolition.
We thank the Shorts and (the Colorado Department of Transportation) for the opportunity, DFRA training chief Mark Quick said. We almost never have the chance to practice.
Firefighters were able to drill on ventilation tactics, search and rescue, charged-hose exercises, forcible entry and rescue operations, Quick said.
An early-day barn, a scale shed where hay was weighed and poplars the family planted in 1917 also were cleared from the site to make to make way for road construction.
Short said he and all his siblings were born on the ranch, delivered by a midwife. When labor pains began, it often was cutting it too close to reach a doctor in Durango, he said.
Since I was born in the Depression there werent luxuries, Short said. We had shoes and all we needed to eat, but we wore patched clothes.
He remembers having one good pair of bib overalls to wear to school.
But as soon we got home we changed back into the patched clothes, he said.
But life was good in general he recalled.
At age 81 he stands straight and has the handshake of a blacksmith. The only concession to age is an oxygen tank from asthma he attributes to years of breathing dust from grain, haying and other sources.
Short has ranched on the property for most of his life. The other survivor is his 92-year-old brother, Merl.
Lyle Short attended Sunnyside Elementary School a couple miles up the road. He did ninth grade in the Smiley Building in Durango and the last three years at Durango High School, graduating in 1948.
Once out of school, the pace of life picked up considerably. He farmed for a few years, served on active duty with the Army from 1954-56 and landed a job with a Chicago firm that outfitted military planes with the latest equipment.
The work took him to several places in the United States and later to France and then England where he met Jill Surch. They married and returned in 1960 to Durango where Short and brother, Alva Jr., went halves to buy the family ranch from their father.
He cultivated grains and had an orchard with a dozen variety of apples. He also raised swine, cattle and sheep.
Short and his wife now live in a house they had built a little farther from Highway 550 but still on the ranch.
The outstanding feature of the new house is a 40-foot-by-20-foot mural that covers one wall of the recreation room, which includes a swimming pool.
The mural, which keeps memories alive, was done by Santa Fe muralist Steve Meyers who completed the project in a month. He projected early-day photos of the ranch on the wall and then sketched in details to be painted later.
The mural depicts ranch buildings and farm equipment, with the La Plata Mountains as a backdrop. Each of the 12 siblings, engaged in some ranch activity, is pictured.
Also in the scene is a 1917 touring car his father used.
The features of the family members arent finely delineated, but it would have taken the muralist more time, Short said.
We put a lot of work into the old homestead house, fixed it up a lot, because we planned to live our lives out there, Short said. But I guess the new highway will be good for everybody. You cant step in the way of progress.


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The worm has turned. It may be a slow crawl for some time yet, says Texas AgriLife Extension economist Charlie Hall, but the news is not all bad at the moment and recovery from recession seems to be in progress.
Hall offered an assessment of the U.S. economy and the potential for agriculture during the annual Texas Plant Protection Association conference last December in College Station. He says all segments of the U.S. and the world economies may not show signs of robust recovery yet, but some elements that are still struggling seem to be "getting less bad." Unemployment, for instance, remains at 10.2 percent to 10.8 percent and is focused primarily in the center of the country.
"Many sectors are either stabilizing or getting worse at a slower rate," Hall said. In agriculture, producers who "differentiated" themselves by producing higher quality, adding value, or finding niche markets have done better.
"Ag recovery will be slow compared to historical norms. Farmers must grow, but grow smarter. They must be prepared for new risks and new opportunities with the coming recovery."
He said the United States continues to set the standard for agriculture and U.S. farmers "must be smart in capturing new opportunities."
The news in the past few years has not been all bad for agriculture, although farmers and ranchers have shouldered their share of economic woe. Hall said five of the most profitable years on record for U.S. agriculture occurred from 2000 through 2007. A $57 billion farm income in 2009 marked a 34.5 percent decline from 2008 and was $6.5 billion off the average $63.6 billion.
"Even with that decline, we had one of the highest eight year averages ever," Hall said.
Hall said farm expenses played a key role in the income decline. "Farm expenses peaked in 2008 and declined in 2009. Fertilizer price was a big factor. We also see a 79 percent correlation with fertilizer and fuel prices."
He said fuel costs will get some relief, with a $2.63 average price for the year. "We project $2.75 for spring. And natural gas prices are at a historical low and we expect a $2.60 to $2.65 range into summer."
But energy is a "dual-edged sword," he said. "Low energy prices also affect the value of biofuels."
The value of the U.S. dollar also gives with one hand and takes away with the other. "The value of the dollar has been erratic since 1995, when it was rising. It has declined since 2000. The devalued dollar helps agriculture, making products more affordable."
The flip side means devalued dollars make the United States a risky investment worldwide. "China is not buying treasury bills and that affects our overall economy, which affects agriculture," Hall said.
He cited two major factors that affect U.S. agriculture — the gross national product of major countries and exchange rates. "Nothing affects agriculture more than the devalued dollar."
He doesn't expect the world economic slowdown to have a significant, long term impact on U.S. agriculture. He expects a slight decrease in food and fiber consumption, but nothing significant. "We will see a shift in how consumers buy food. They will eat out less and will buy more items in bulk. They also will shift to less expensive items."
Hall said farmers who have maintained good relationships with their lenders likely will have little difficulty obtaining loans. "Those without good relationships could be in trouble," he said.
The global recession has been broad based, Hall said. "A lot of countries, including key trading partners, have been hurt by the recession." Developed countries have not fared well, he said, but China and India have not been hurt as badly as some more developed trading partners.
"China is a significant importer for world agriculture. The United States remains a major player, but has declined in some commodities. We're still strong in corn and soybeans."
He said higher prices for corn and soybeans since 2004, spurred by both feedlots and biofuels, pushed prices. But expenses have increased at almost the same rate.
Hall said the recession may have been worse than usual because "we had to battle a number of difficulties at the same time. We've had 11 recessions since 1948 and they are part of the business cycle, necessary to restrain the inflation rate."
Significant problems included energy costs, losses in auto manufacturing, aging infrastructure, war, health care, education and the environment.
"The boom in the economy created a lot of instability," Hall said. "Greed overcame logic and rational behavior."
He said the belief that everyone is entitled to own a home, regardless of the ability to pay for it, created a crisis in the housing market. "We saw a lot of hubris in the financial world and in the monetary policy. We saw a failure of corporate governance and we know that households saved too little and borrowed too much. We underestimated the risks in the financial markets."
The overall economy, he said, has begun to show some signs of recovery. Inflation remains stable, interest rates are favorable, the stock market is rebounding and the housing decline seems to be bottoming out. Hall said the silver lining in the dark cloud that's covered the housing market is that now we have "unprecedented housing affordability. Home prices have a ways to go. We may not have seen the bottom, but I think the trend is turning following an increase in November."
He said the savings issue may not be as bad as some folks believe, either. "The savings rate has declined over the past 20 years, but numbers do not include homes or 401ks. We're doing better than some think and I think that will improve."
Spending, he said, might decline as folks learn lessons from the past few years, but they will not make as big a change perhaps as they should. "Spending is too engrained in American consumers. Spending may be a bit more refined, however."
Hall said economists have "attracted a lot of attention over the past 18 months. A lot of economic theory was thrown out the door and economists got a lot of blame for not recognizing the writing on the wall."
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For inquiries about MA Materials.Anthropology.Design please email Adam Drazin firstname.lastname@example.com. From 2018, applicants should apply for the MA in Material & Visual Culture, which will have a specialised stream in Design Anthropology.
About the programme
Our Core Vision: The material world is a world of social potential. Social scientists should be better equipped to engage with materials and objects through ethnographic, critical, analytical, presentational and collaborative skills. Designers, artists, engineers, architects and curators should be better equipped to work with people using similar skills.
Anthropology studies human social and cultural diversity. On the MA M.A.D., you study anthropology and material culture, with various options in archaeology and engineering. We particularly explore cultures of materials, design anthropology, and the social and cultural significance of making and crafting. It is for people who are interested in developing their people-skills, and ways of thinking about culture and society, to work alongside, and with, designers, engineers, heritage professionals, environmentalists, materials scientists, and others with a pragmatic interest in materials and design. The course is about anthropological analytical skills and ethnographic methods, with some presentational and studio group-work skills. We mainly apply these skills to exploring the cultural and social implications of materials and design. We do social science in ways which have an affinity with design and related fields.
You should consider our MA if:
- You have a cultural interest in a particular Material, in Design, or in Crafts.
- You have a Professional background which uses materials and objects (design, art, engineering, architecture).
- You are interested in learning and researching through Doing and Making using materials and objects, as well as texts.
- The questions you are asking in your work are two-fold: firstly about Communities, and secondarily about institutional Audiences and Agendas (companies, NGOs, Governments, museums).
The MA is based in the anthropology department, but has strong links in its options and programme with the Institute of Archaeology and the Institute of Making within the Engineering Department.
The M.A.D. Masters includes a core course of lectures and seminars in the field of material culture (term 1) and design anthropology (term 2). Practical sessions running in parallel explore the anthropology of materials (term 1), and design ethnography practices and products (term 2). A group-based practical project, based on micro-ethnography for a client, is presented after Easter. Students undertake three optional courses, of which at least two are drawn from an official list of options in anthropology and archaeology. A dissertation is produced through the year, and submitted at the end of the summer.
We welcome part-time students (for EU citizens) who may wish to conduct the degree over two years while also continuing some kind of design, arts, materials-based or other professional practice.
Core Courses
The core course is designed to give you a broad grounding in sociocultural approaches to materials and objects (more in the first term), and to design (more in the second).
After doing the first term of the core course, you will:
- Know a range of the kinds of questions which you can ask about material culture in general, and materials in particular.
- Be familiar with several key ways of thinking about, and the work of key theorists of, material culture, the culture of materials, and design.
- Be familiar with the contrasting ways in which different disciplines (anthropology, archaeology and materials science) approach materials and design.
- Have thought critically in broad terms about frameworks and contexts within which we commonly encounter and study materials and design.
In the second term, the core course builds an expertise in particular areas of design anthropology and the anthropology of design. We explore particular social issues which design poses, and critically consider some of the key concepts which underlie social engagements around design, such as participation, creativity, and value.
The core course runs in parallel with a series of practical sessions, which are more aimed at the development of skills and competencies, by the application of the knowledge explored in the core course. Where possible, the practical sessions address parallel issues to the core courses. While term 1 lectures are shared with other material culture Masters, the practical sessions are distinctive to the MA programme alone. They are very much about social science, ways of working on cultural and social issues.
In term one, practicals involve visits to materials libraries and resources, engagement with the Institute of Making at UCL, and visits to materials experts such as makers, craftspeople, and materials innovators. By doing this, students develop a corpus of ways to approach the subject of materials culturally, socially and experientially. These practicals are supported with presentations and discussion of ways in which one might research the cultural aspects of a particular material.
In term two, the practicals are more specific to design, and run in parallel with the lectures. We work on ways of producing ethnographic products (video, sketching, representing, and making); students then divide into groups to work with an issue or problem posed by a particular audience or client. This concerns finding and discovering ways of doing social research, and presenting it, in order to engage with designerly problems. In the past, groups of 2-5 students have worked with clients including the Bauhaus, the British Museum, IDEO, the Young Foundation, and community projects such as ReStart and the Great Recovery.
Options List
The M.A.D. Optional Courses include nine possible courses taught in the anthropology department, and eleven in the department of archaeology (many of which focus on the archaeology of a particular material). Examples include:
- Anthropology of Art and Design
- Anthropology of the Built Environment
- Resource Use and Impacts
- Archaeological Ceramics and Plaster
- Managing Museums
Because we have students from different disciplinary backgrounds, we do try to facilitate students who wish to take one option in departments such as architecture, engineering, and fine arts, if such courses are relevant.
Each student will be assigned a supervisor who has a research profile compatible with the student's interests. The supervisor will help their student construct an individual research project to be submitted as a dissertation (15,000 words long) on any approved topic. The subject of a dissertation is broad - any anthropological or archaeological topic. Most students begin with a focus on design or materials, but your research journey can lead in different directions. An M.A.D. dissertation should also conceive of what the potential audience for the research is, to indicate an awareness of what the potential engagement and wider role of the research might be.
Thesis topics range from materials, design and/or crafts, to broad cultural topics. Recent subjects which M.A.D. students have researched in their theses include:
- Ways of making and crafting using forest and industrial materials in communities on the Orinoco river in the Amazon.
- New and traditional Fishskin materials.
- The Design Network of stakeholders around London's new Double-Decker Design.
- Poker-playing and Changing Social Relations in Chinese Retirement Homes.
- The revived use of craft techniques, technologies and materials in a Scottish whiskey distillery.
- From 'made in China' to 'designed in China' in haut-couture fashion branding.
Research seminars and activities
Each year, students work with design clients on group practical projects, to explore design issues with ethnographic and anthropological methods. In past years, students have worked with IDEO London, the Bauhaus Foundation, the British Museum, the Great Recovery project, and the Young Foundation among others. At the end of the year, the products of design ethnography projects are displayed online as a part of the Material Life Studio, and are intended to form the basic for an ethnographic portfolio of anthropological work.
The practical course on the Anthropology of Materials involves visits to materials sites around London, such as materials libraries, makespaces, design consultancies, and other locations. We endeavour to facilitate connections beyond academia with design, materials and crafting communities.
In most years, students voluntarily curate and display their practical work at a conference or exhibition, according to what relevant events are happening in that year. In 2012 and 2013, students also volunteered at EPIC conferences and events (Ethnographic Praxis in Industry), and organised the social agendas for these conferences.
A range of optional postgraduate Research Groups happen through the year in the department. In the past, these have included informal groups working on properties, on museums, or on science and the cosmos.
Key Staff
The coordinator of the Materials Anthropology Design MA is Dr Adam Drazin, who teaches the core course and is the main liaison for helping students develop a package of options and supervision which suits their research and vocational concerns.
Many of the students who apply to the programme have a specific interest in mind. This is often a particular kind of material, an area of design or craft, or a particular audience for anthropological work. Staff across the anthropology department cater for different interests, and in archaeology for many projects. Among the people who take an active interest in the programme, through running relevant options or else supervising students, are:
Victor Buchli
The material culture of socialism and post-socialism; modernist architecture and Urbanism in Russia and Kazakhstan; the archaeology of the recent past; ethnography of new materials and new technologies.
Ludovic Coupaye
Anthropology of art; anthropology of techniques and technology; museum ethnography.
Adam Drazin
Anthropology of design, design anthropology, central & eastern Europe, the home, migration & home, ethnographic collections, Romania.
Susanne Küchler
The material in art and design; the nature of innovation; the cognitive work of beauty; the relation between remembering and image making; the place of material manufacture in gift exchange.
Bill Sillar
Archaeology and ethnography of the Andes; ceramics production and social roles; material culture and technology.
Bill is the prime liaison for the MA withhin the Archaeology Department.
Chris Tilley
Archaeology, material culture and social identity; museums and tourism; artefact construction, ethnicity, heritage and identity in the western Pacific; contemporary and prehistoric landscapes, topography and monuments; rock art; residential gardens and gardening.
Our Steering Group
Because it is particularly interested in collaborative and interdisciplinary work, the MA benefits from contacts with a steering group of design and materials practitioners, who may run group events or are available to advise individual students.
Glenn Adamson is Deputy Head of Research and Head of Graduate Studies at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where he leads a graduate programme in the History of Design.
Linda Barron originally graduated in fashion design from St. Martins School of Art, working with Missoni in Milan for several years, consulting in New York and Paris, before founding Barron Gould with partner, John Gould, in 1984. Barron Gould are colour, finishes and process specialists, focusing on opportunities where product, service or communication can be unlocked through innovative use of technology. Linda is a founder of the Materials and Design Exchange, part of the Materials Knowledge Transfer Network.
Dinah Eastop is a Consultant in Conservation and Heritage Studies.
Geoff Hollington is a leading product design consultant and commentator. His products have won international awards and are held in museum collections. Geoff is currently working on projects in healthcare products, advanced manufacturing, lightweighting and waste materials re-use; he also sits on a number of public sector boards and committees.
Mark Miodownik is an engineer and scientist. He received his Ph.D in turbine jet engine alloys from Oxford University in 1996. He is Head of the Institute of Making at UCL. Mark is a broadcaster and writer on science and engineering issues, and believes passionately that to engineer is human.
Kaori O'Connor is a Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, UCL, where she works on fibres, food and fashion; on culture and innovation; on age-related design and on materiality and the law. She is the leader of the Blue Project, which focuses on marine materials, scapes and resources, and marine-social interactions past, present and future, and acts as a consultant to firms that have included Dupont, Unilever and Logitech.
Margaret Pope sources materials and products for design consultants and architects. Her recent research has included sourcing materials and furniture for the award-winning Ashmolean Museum in Oxford for Rick Mather Architects. Working with Pentagram she has researched and sourced materials ranging from projects with international airlines, luxury hotels for both graphic materials and material finishes. Margaret is also a consultant to a number of universities helping to develop their material libraries and collections.
Camilla Sundwall trained as a product designer at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, graduated in 2008, and her work has a key emphasis towards materials, their specific properties and possible applications. She works as a designer and materials researcher at Chris Lefteri Design Ltd and YCN.
Sophie Thomas is the founding director of Thomas.Matthews, the UK pioneers in sustainable communication design, since 1998. She is co-founder of the social enterprise Three Trees Don't Make a Forest, set up in 2008 to educate and inspire communication designers through practical tools and advice. She sits on a number of advisory panels for sustainable design and is a trustee for the UK Design Council.
We recently compiled a list of career paths of M.A.D. students since 2011. Our graduates are now working in a range of professions. These include User Experience Design Research, in Product and Service Design, Design Policy, in Fashion Marketing, in Museums or Heritage, in Design-oriented Social Activism, undertaking PhDs, as Lecturers in design colleges, and as freelance designers or design-researchers. At least two graduates have been working in each of those areas just mentioned. Individual graduates have been working in areas such as market research, school arts teaching, and behavioural therapy. Several have gained highly competitive internships in design consultancies, and one an Artist-in-Residence award.
Skills Building
This is how we see skills-building on the M.A.D. programme:
And this is how one of our students sees it!