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Troubleshooting & help
Download & install
How do I download and install Photoshop Elements?
If you don't have your original media, you can download Photoshop Elements. You need your serial number, Adobe ID, and password to complete the installation. If you have your original discs, see Install Photoshop Elements from a DVD.
Why won't Photoshop Elements install?
Can I download a trial copy of Photoshop Elements?
Yes! You can download a trial version of Photoshop Elements. You need to sign in with an Adobe ID and password to download a trial. For detailed instructions, see Download and install non-Creative Cloud trial apps.
How do I retrieve my Adobe ID or password?
Can I install Photoshop Elements on another computer?
You can install Photoshop Elements on up to two computers. If you want to install it on a third computer, you first need to sign out of Photoshop Elements on one of the previous computers. Choose Help > Sign Out. For more information, see Activate and deactivate Adobe products.
Account management
How can I change my password?
Sign in to your Adobe accounts page with your current Adobe ID and password. From there, click the Security & Privacy tab, and then click Change under Password. For more information on changing your password and other account information, see Manage your Adobe ID account.
My trial expires soon. How do I convert it?
How do I print a receipt or invoice?
Sign in to your Adobe accounts page with your current Adobe ID and password. Click the Plans & Products tab, and then click View your orders under Order History. Click the order, and then click the printer icon. For more information, see Adobe Store | Online order and payment FAQ.
How do I return or exchange an Adobe order?
Fixing photos
How do I resize a photo?
Follow this video to learn how to resize and crop your photos. For additional options, see Cropping.
How do I fix red or glowing eyes after using a flash?
You can quickly correct red or glowing eyes using the Red Eye Removal tool. Learn how in the tutorial, Remove red eye and "pet-eye." For additional tips on retouching photos, see Retouch and correct photos.
How do I sharpen an image?
For a quick fix, choose Enhance > Auto Sharpen. If you want to touch up only a specific area in your photo, use the Sharpen tool. For more details, see Sharpen photos.
How do I rotate my photo?
You can rotate the entire photo or a selection within a photo. In the Edit workspace, select what you want to rotate, then choose Image > Rotate. For details and additional rotation options, see Transforming.
How do I fix the colors in my photo?
Try using the Auto Smart Tone feature. For photos that appear tinted or off color (usually from using a flash), try the Remove Color Cast command.
Enhancing photos
How can I fix a group shot so that everyone looks good?
If you've taken multiple shots of a group, use the Photomerge Group Shot option to pick and choose the right shot of each person. For instructions, see Guided mode - Photomerge edits.
How do I add text to a photo?
Use the Text tool to add text to your photos. You can add horizontal or vertical text, or type the text along a shape or path. Use preset shapes, like a heart or circle, follow the shape of an object, or create a custom path for the text. For step-by-step instructions, see Add text.
Can I place my photo in a frame?
Yes! Quick mode includes a Frames panel with several predesigned frames. Learn how to adjust the size and placement of the photo in the tutorial, Apply effects, textures, and frames. You can also create your own frame using the Guided mode Frame Creator.
Can I make my photo look like a painting or sketch?
Yes! In Expert Mode, choose Filter > Filter gallery to see a sampling. The Filter menu includes additional artistic, brush stroke, and sketch filters. Play with the settings on the right for just the right look. For an overview of what's possible, watch Have more fun with filters. For step-by-step instructions and tips, see Filters.
Can I make a greeting card or calendar in Photoshop Elements?
Yes! The Create menu lets you choose from various projects and templates. For instructions, see Create a greeting card and Create photo calendars.
Common issues
Why don't my prints match what I see on the screen?
To get the best print results, you sometimes need to change the color management settings. Color management reconciles the differences between your devices and media, such as your monitor, printer, printer ink, and paper type. For more information, see Color management settings for the best print output.
How do I print a photo without a border?
Not all printers support borderless printing. To see if you can switch to printing without borders, follow the steps in the Print FAQ.
What kind of files can I import?
Photoshop Elements lets you import many types of files. See Supported file formats for a complete list.
What's the best way to move my photos to my new computer?
Moving a catalog to another computer is a two-step process. First, back up the catalog on one computer and then restore it to another. The Organizer in Photoshop Elements has Backup and Restore features that let you easily complete this process. For more information, see Move Elements Organizer catalog.
So many new terms! Where can I find definitions?
Find explanations of basic terms and tasks in the Photoshop Elements Visual Dictionary. Learn about photo-editing terms, such as anti-aliasing, compression, exposure, raster, saturation, opacity, layers, and sampling.
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Adult Education for African Victims Of Trafficking In Spain
Antonio Alfaro Fernández
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Please check back later for the full article.
Victims of trafficking, once they are released from their captors, need psychological and educational intervention to achieve their recovery and integration. For this, it is important to design and develop educational programs that foster language learning, professional training, and good habits of nutrition and higiene, and that provide alternatives for leisure and free time.
These education programs, designed for adults, should be initiated in the shelter houses where the victims are released. They are developed by multidisciplinary teams formed by professionals in education, psychology, nursing, and social work. The final objective is to provide competences to the people included in the program so that they can leave the shelters and be able to live autonomously and independently in the host society.
Arts Education Research
Benjamin Jörissen, Leopold Klepacki, and Ernst Wagner
Research in arts education is characterized by a tension between presupposed theoretical concepts about "arts" and "education," on the one hand, and the global field of untheorized arts education practices, on the other hand. This complexity is greatly magnified by the various historical and cultural understandings that characterize both the institutionalization of the arts as well as arts education itself. The fact that research traditions are themselves closely connected to a particular field of arts education adds an additional dimension to this complex question: according to our meta-studies relating to arts education-research, it is particularly evident that (1) Western and Eurocentric biases are quite dominant in this research field and that (2) well-established (Western, highbrow) art genres are dominating the research landscape, tying specific research styles, research interests, and objectives toghether.
To avoid normative and potentially hegemonial biases resulting from this situation, we analyze various arts education research approaches according to their the ontological, epistemological, and methodological anchorings. Based upon this, we develop a general meta-model of arts education research, combining a typology of perspectives defining arts education research and a set of dispositive dichotomies constitutive for this field.
Asian Americans and Education
Benjamin Chang
The communities that constitute the racialized category of Asian Americans consist of approximately 20 million people in the United States, or about 5% of the total population. About 20% or 4 million are of primary or secondary school age, and over 1.1 million are in higher education. Both in popular and academic discourse, "Asian American" generally refers to people who have ethnic backgrounds in South Asia (e.g., Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), Southeast Asia (e.g., Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam), and East Asia (e.g., China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan). As "Asian American" is an umbrella term used to categorize a very diverse, heterogeneous, and transnational set of populations, Asian Americans as a group present various challenges to education and research in and about the United States. These challenges can concern paradigms of achievement, citizenship, family involvement, access (e.g., higher education, bilingual education), language and culture, race and ethnicity, and school community.
In order to address these paradigmatic challenges, a great deal of scholarship has called for a disaggregation of the data on populations that fall under the pan-ethnic "Asian America" umbrella term, to gain a more nuanced and dynamic understanding of the many diverse populations and their historical, cultural, economic, and political experiences. To further address the problematic framing of Asian Americans in education and related fields, scholars have applied critical lenses to key tensions within conceptualization, policy, curriculum, and pedagogy. More recently, the notions of intersectionality and transnationalism have been generative in the study of Asian Americans, within not only educational research but also Asian American studies, which generally falls under the field of ethnic studies in the U.S. context, but has also been categorized under American studies, cultural studies, or Asian studies. While characterizations of Asian Americans as "the Model Minority" or "the Oppressed Minority" persist, the relevance of such static binaries has increasingly been challenged as the Asian American populations and migrations continue to diversify and increase.
Susanne Gannon
Autoethnography is an increasingly popular form of postpositivist narrative inquiry that has recently begun to appear in educational contexts. The multiple lineages of autoethnography include the insider accounts of early anthropologists, literary approaches to life history and autobiography, responses to the ontological/epistemological challenges of postmodern philosophies, feminist and postcolonial insistence on including narratives of the marginalized, performance and communication scholarship, and the interest in personal stories of contemporary therapeutic and trauma cultures. Approaches vary widely from fragmented, experimental, performative, and multimodal texts through to realist tales. Advocates claim that autoethnography enables us to live more reflective, more meaningful, and more just lives.
Chinese Education in Malaysia
Ming Chee Ang
Despite the fact that Mandarin is not accorded official language status in Malaysia, and that ethnic Chinese communities accounted for less than 30% of the country's overall population, Malaysia is the only country outside China and Taiwan with a comprehensive and complete Chinese education system. It is also the only country in Southeast Asia that has perpetuated the Chinese education system established during the colonial era.
The prolonged endurance of the Chinese education system in Malaysia is the result of many factors: heavy brokerage and lobbying efforts by ethnic Chinese political leaders; incorporation of vernacular schools into the Malay-dominated national education system in the backdrop of the Malayan nation formation stage; social mobilization of the Chinese education movement in Malaysia; and the increasing significance of Mandarin proficiency in the world.
In particular, the assimilation policies for nation building by the Malay-dominated regime have threatened the cultural distinctiveness of the Chinese-speaking communities. Resistance from the Chinese speaking minorities is manifested through their support of the Chinese schools. Moreover, the elimination of English schools during the 1970s has unintentionally favored the Chinese primary schools. Despite their standing at that time as the "second-best" option after the English school, Chinese schools that offered the benefit of trilingual education, stricter discipline, and more competitive academic performance enjoyed an accelerated boost in student enrollments. More importantly, many parents who do not speak Chinese began to appreciate the quality of Chinese schools, and the enrollment of non-ethnic Chinese students has continued to rise ever since.
Above all, China's rapid economic ascendancy and growing political influence since the 1990s has enhanced the importance of Mandarin as a global language. This has added value to the importance of Chinese schools as language and cultural learning institutions for Malaysian. Such opportunity has enabled the Chinese school model to become one of the most successful and inclusive educational institutions for multicultural Malaysians.
Critical Race Theory
Paula Groves Price
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Please check back later for the full article.
Race has historically been, and continues to be, a significant issue in all aspects of American society. In the field of education, racial inequality is prominent in the areas of access, opportunity, and outcomes. Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a framework that offers researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers a race-conscious approach to understanding educational inequality and structural racism to find solutions that lead to greater justice. Placing race at the center of analysis, Critical Race Theory scholars interrogate policies and practices that are taken for granted to uncover the overt and covert ways that racist ideologies, structures, and institutions create and maintain racial inequality.
In the field of education, CRT is a helpful tool for analyzing policy issues such as school funding, segregation, language policies, discipline policies, and testing and accountability policies. It is also helpful for critically examining the larger issues of epistemology and knowledge production, which are reflected in curriculum and pedagogy. As education is one of the major institutions of knowledge production and dissemination, CRT scholars often push the field to critically examine the master or dominant narratives reproduced in schools and the counter-narratives that are silenced. CRT is a theoretical framework that provides education researchers, policy makers, and practitioners with critical lenses to deconstruct oppressive policies and practices and to construct more emancipatory systems for racial equity and justice.
Critical Whiteness Studies
Barbara Applebaum
In 1903, standing at the dawn of the 20th century, W. E. B. Du Bois wrote that the color line is the defining characteristic of American society. Well into the 21st century, Du Bois's prescience sadly still rings true. Even when a society is built on a commitment to equality, and even with the election of its first black president, the United States has been unsuccessful in bringing about an end to the rampant and violent effects of racism, as numerous acts of racial violence in the media have shown. For generations, scholars of color, among them Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Franz Fanon, have maintained that whiteness lies at the center of the problem of racism. It is only relatively recently that the critical study of whiteness has become an academic field, committed to disrupting racism by problematizing whiteness as a corrective to the traditional exclusive focus on the racialized "other."
Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS) is a growing field of scholarship whose aim is to reveal the invisible structures that produce and reproduce white supremacy and privilege. CWS presumes a certain conception of racism that is connected to white supremacy. In advancing the importance of vigilance among white people, CWS examines the meaning of white privilege and white privilege pedagogy, as well as how white privilege is connected to complicity in racism. Unless white people learn to acknowledge, rather than deny, how whites are complicit in racism, and until white people develop an awareness that critically questions the frames of truth and conceptions of the "good" through which they understand their social world, Du Bois's insight will continue to ring true.
Developing Inclusive Schools in South Africa
Petra Engelbrecht
In South Africa, new legislation and policies on inclusive education in the post-apartheid era since 1994 have placed a strong emphasis on equity, equality, and human rights, as defined in the South African Constitution. As a result, a White Paper on building an inclusive education and training system was published in 2001. It acknowledges the failure of the education system to respond to the barriers to learning and development experienced by a substantial number of learners, including diverse learning needs caused by, for example, language, socioeconomic, or gender issues as well as disabilities. This policy document describes inclusive education as being based on the ideals of equity and equality and as a result recognizing and respecting learner and learning diversity within mainstream schools. As stated in the policy, in practice this means identifying and removing barriers in the education system to ensure that the full range of diverse learning needs are met in mainstream classrooms as well as providing support to learners and teachers in addressing barriers to learning and development.
Research studies on the implementation of inclusive education in South Africa, however, are finding that despite the development of a wide range of implementation guidelines since 2007, complex interrelated issues continue to complicate the development of successful inclusive schools. These issues include a continued divergence of views of inclusive education with a continuing strong belief in special education and separate educational settings by most teachers, therefore leading to a resultant lack of clarity regarding the implementation of inclusive education at the level of local practice in schools and classrooms. These differences in the understanding of inclusive education and its enactment in diverse school contexts also bring the question of power and agency into South African debates about inclusive education: who should decide which version of inclusive education should be the goal of the development of inclusive education in a specific school district or a specific school. Furthermore, contextual issues including the lack of financial and human resources, for example effectively trained teachers, effectively functioning district educational support teams for schools in specific school districts, lack of textbooks, and overcrowded classrooms, play a dominant role in the development of effective inclusive schools.
Discourses of Adolescence and Gender in the United States
Pamela J. Bettis and Nicole Ferry
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and author of the international bestseller, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (2013), argues that women need to engage more actively in the workplace and take the professional and emotional risks required in leadership. In many ways, Sandberg's own story is the fulfillment of the promise of the "Alpha Girl," Harvard psychologist Dan Kindlon's name for the new face of girlhood. Kindlon maintains that contemporary young Western women have initiated a new era of female empowerment, with girls interested mainly in future careers and not romantic relationships. Meanwhile, the U.S. public discourse pertaining to boys frames them as troubled and in need of more attention. The popular press notes that girls outperform boys in school; that boys are more likely to repeat a grade; more likely to be diagnosed with a learning disability; and more likely to be expelled, suspended, and disciplined in school. Furthermore, adolescents who do not adhere to gender normativity or who identify as transgender are continually neglected in mainstream considerations of youth, school policies, curriculum, and educational spaces. Over the course of recent decades, U.S. discourses of adolescence and gender, including those found in popular and academic discussions, have shifted. As girls become the new models of success, as boys are deemed worthy of extra attention, and as gender-transgressive students remain absent from the discussions altogether, it is imperative that educators keep abreast of these changing discourses that shape the way we talk about and understand youth.
Dynamics in Education Politics and the Finnish PISA Miracle
Hannu Simola, Jaakko Kauko, Janne Varjo, Mira Kalalahti, and Fritjof Sahlström
The international debate on Finnish educational "success" had made relevant a cultural and historical analysis of Finnish education, with a focus on the effects of the ongoing preoccupation with the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results on basic education. Such international comparisons demand a strong theoretical approach, in part because the contrastive analysis of empirical "facts" and "realities" requires that they be situated in relation to their local and, in this case, national systems and contexts. It may be assumed that the quantitative indicators agreed on in intergovernmental negotiations between senior bureaucrats do indeed provide valid comparisons of education systems, as is the conventional wisdom in the field of economics. Nevertheless, these remain value-loaded collections of indicators of development that offer at best parallel lines of comparative analysis. The Finnish case argues for strong theory-based conceptualizations as the basis for, first, complex comparison and, second, shared models of policy action and intervention.
The comparative education field faces four interlinked challenges. First, there is a lack of theory building and development in the field, where politically and ideologically motivated investigative large-scale assessment practices are defining the state of the art. Second, the focus of the studies tends to be on empirically measurable end products instead of documented processes, which makes it possible to generate competitive rankings but reveals little about specific and shared developmental processes in educational systems. Third, although complexity and contingency are widely accepted in the social world on the general level, they appear to seldom reach empirical studies; the vast majority of standard approaches still advocate simple explanatory models. Finally, and paradoxically enough, there is a form of intellectual nationalism that inhibits the conceptualization and understanding of the relationship between, for example, transnational processes and nation-states. In this regard, comparative education needs a strong and ambitious theory-based framework with the potential to incorporate sociohistorical complexity, cultural relationality, and sociological contingency. Without a strong theory-driven approach, it is hard to go beyond merely listing the similarities and differences that facilitate the rankings but blur the processes.
At the research unit for Sociology and Politics in Education (KUPOLI) at the University of Helsinki, a new conceptualization was formulated in early 2010s and an ambitious research plan, Comparative Analytics of Dynamics in Education Politics (CADEP), was launched. The thesis was that to progress beyond the state of the art and arrive at a comparative understanding of educational systems, it would be necessary to focus on dynamics, with a view to grasping the fluid and mobile nature of the subject. This heuristic starting point echoed relativistic dynamics in physics, characterized as a combination of relativistic and quantum theories to describe the relationships between the principal elements of a relativistic system and the forces acting on it. It is curious that, though on the conceptual level the dynamics of a system are constantly referred to as being among its key attributes, there has been little progress on the analytical level in the social sciences since the seminal work of Pitirim Sorokin in the 1950s. The CADEP develops conceptually the theoretical understanding of dynamics to resubmit a specific social field of education to scrutiny by analyzing the relations between the main actors and institutions and essential discursive formations and practices. It is assumed that given its connection with relations and movement, the concept of dynamics will not reduce a mobile and fluid subject of study to a stagnant and inanimate object. There are four constitutive dynamics that make the Finnish educational success story understandable. Success and failure in basic education seem to be relative, and to reflect intertwined dynamics in policymaking, governance, families' educational strategies, and classroom cultures. The emphasis of the understanding is on the contingent, relational, and complex character of political history.
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Global League
The impact of Rugby League on world consciousness has gravitated rapidly from the occasional splash headlines of a decade ago, such as those that fingered John Hopoate and sniffed out dual international Wendell Sailor. Today, the saturation news coverage and constant critique underpinning the phenomena that's global rugby league, permeates every home worldwide.
The catalyst for the proliferation of the Greatest Game of All has been a series of coincidental events. It began in the home entertainment centre of the mandarin speaking, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd


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A Frenchman deemed too fat too fly has finally secured a plane ticket back to Europe after an alternate plan to return by ship fell through, his father said.
Kevin Chenais — who has a hormone imbalance and came to the United States for treatment — is due to take an evening Virgin flight from New York to London with his parents, Rene Chenais told AFP.
However Rene Chenais said he was not sure how the family would proceed after they arrived in London.
It's the latest development in a saga that began last month when British Airways determined the 22-year-old, who weighs 230 kilograms (500 pounds), was too heavy to have on board.
The family subsequently spent a week in a Chicago airport hotel trying to resolve the matter and, running out of money, decided their only option was to take a train to New York and cross the Atlantic on the Queen Mary cruise ship.
But the Queen Mary "also didn't want to board Kevin, citing health security reasons," the elder Chenais said in a telephone interview on the way to the airport from a Brooklyn hotel.
British Airways told AFP that its customer service team "worked diligently to find a solution."
However, according to a spokeswoman, it was "not possible to safely accommodate the customer on any of our aircraft."
Chenais — who requires round-the-clock oxygen and medical attention — came to the United States from France in May 2012 for treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
His health problems, which have prevented him from living a normal life, began when he was just six months old, according to the father.
Despite all the "setbacks," Chenais said his son — who had looked forward to taking the Queen Mary — was "a little sad" to be leaving the United States.
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[The speaker first explains that one of the reasons the San people beat the drum called the !gõïn!gõïn is so that the bees may flourish and produce a lot of honey.]
And the people take honey to the women at home. For, the women are dying of hunger, at home. Therefore, the men take honey to the women at home; that the women may go to eat, for they feel that the women have been hungry at home; while they wish that the women may make a drum for them, so that they may dance when the women are satisfied with food. For they do not frolic when they are hungry.
And they dance, when the women have made the drum for them. Therefore, the women make a drum for them; they dance. The men are those who dance, while the women sit down, because they clap their hands for the men when the men are those who dance; while one woman is the one who beats the drum; while many women are those who clap their hands for the men; because they feel that many men are dancing.
Then, the sun rises, while they are dancing there, while they feel that they are satisfied with food.


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While speaking to members of the public and reporters at the Anglesey Show yesterday, His Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge mentioned his intentions to make an official visit to Australia in 2014 with his wife The Duchess of Cambridge and their new son Prince George.
When asked a question by Max and Maxine Davies from Victor Harbor near Adelaide the Prince said:
We are all very hopeful of coming to Australia next year
Prince William himself has just finished his last tour with the RAF and is now planning on moving into a Kensington Palace apartment with The Duchess of Cambridge and their newborn son Prince George. The couple was living in Anglesey since 2010 and up until just before their child was born.
Prince William himself has made a number of visits to Australia but The Duchess of Cambridge has not made a visit in any official capacity. If the tour was to go ahead it would mirror the 1983 tour that Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales made with a baby Prince William in their arms. The tour was a six week long one which went throughout both Australia and New Zealand leading commentators to speculate that the young family could also visit the smaller nation of New Zealand while down under.
Since the comments were made by His Royal Highness a number of national (Australian) and international media organisations have reported the story giving hope to royal watchers in both Australia and New Zealand that a glimpse of Their Royal Highnesses could be coming up sooner than initially thought.
Of course these plans have yet to be officially confirmed and/or released by palace officials so there are no solid details to report. Such details will be posted if and when released by official sources.


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A leg up on summer?
No question some unusually warm weather has made for some interesting scenes including this one captured while waiting for the light to change at Hoxsie Four Corners. We're all getting a kick out of it, as long as the other shoe doesn't drop and we get a blizzard.
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Arnold "Arnie" Blumhagen, 86, of Decatur, passed away on September 22, 2012 at Riverside Senior Living.
Arnold "Arnie" Blumhagen, 86, of Decatur, passed away on September 22, 2012 at Riverside Senior Living.
Funeral services were Monday, September 24, 2012 at 1 p.m. at Peck Funeral Home Chapel with Peck Funeral Home directing.
Burial was in Burningtree Memorial Gardens. Visitation was Monday, September 24, 2012 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the funeral home.
He was born January 20, 1926, in Wenatchee, Washington to Albert E.
Blumhagen and Mary Blumhagen. Arnie worked for many years in the aluminum industry, both in the United States and abroad and also worked several years as an independent trucker.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
He was preceded in death by his parents: his sister: Ruth Rush,and his brothers: Rex, Dale, and Earl Blumhagen and a step-son: Vic Lyle.
Survivors include his wife of 35 Years, Bettye Blumhagen, Decatur, AL; one son: Terry Lyle, Vinemont, AL; two daughters, Greta Fawcett (Doug), Ruther Glen, VA, and Katrina Bell (Dennis), Marietta, OH; grandchildren: Mandy, Jason, Chris, Cassi, and Loren and two great grandchildren.


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Circumcision is a surgical operation that removes some skin or tissue from the genitals of a boy or girl. All forms of female circumcision are illegal in Australia. This article refers only to the circumcision of boys.
At birth, most boys have a sleeve of skin covering the end of the penis. This protective sleeve is called the foreskin. During a circumcision, this sleeve of skin is cut away, exposing the glans (head) of the penis.
Circumcision is sometimes done a few days after birth under local anaesthetic or with no anaesthetic. Alternatively, it can be done at several months of age in hospital with a local or general anaesthetic, or even later on in life.
If a boy is uncircumcised
At birth, the foreskin is joined to the underlying glans of the penis, so the foreskin can't be pulled back. During childhood, the foreskin continues to cover and protect the sensitive glans. At some time during childhood for most boys, the foreskin separates from the glans and can be pulled back to expose the glans.
Once your son can easily pull back his foreskin, he can wash underneath it while in the bath or shower. Generally, the foreskin is designed to look after itself. You and your son don't need to do anything special to care for an uncircumcised penis.
If a boy is circumcisedAfter the circumcision scar has healed, the glans will be permanently exposed. The appearance of the penis will depend on how much skin has been removed and where the cuts into the foreskin have been made.
You and your son don't need to do anything special to care for an circumcised penis.
Reasons for leaving your boy uncircumcised
Many parents and doctors are against circumcision because the foreskin is a natural part of a boy's body. It's rich in nerve endings, and has a big role in sexual sensation, play and functioning as boys grow older.
Things can go wrong with circumcisions, even when an experienced doctor does the operation.
Short-term problems are mainly minor, such as bleeding after the operation. In very rare cases, problems can lead to damage to the urethra, gangrene and loss of the penis, or sometimes death. Long-term problems can include restricted urine outflow (meatal stenosis) and concerns about the appearance of the penis, particularly if too much or too little skin has been removed, or if it's uneven.
Many people believe that infant circumcision is unacceptable because the benefits don't outweigh the possible harms. Also, a baby boy can't consent to it. Circumcision in adolescence or early adulthood allows the boy to make his own decisions about it.
Some people believe that it doesn't make sense for our society to make all forms of female circumcision illegal (no matter how minor) but still allow male circumcision. They say that parents shouldn't be allowed to authorise routine circumcision.
Reasons for having your boy circumcisedBeing circumcised reduces the risk that a baby boy will get a urinary tract infection. It also completely prevents the problem of having a foreskin that is inflamed or too tight – about 4% of older boys have this. Circumcision isn't known to have any other benefits for boys before puberty.
Because circumcision removes most of the foreskin, it helps to protect men against HIV (AIDS) and possibly some other sexually transmitted diseases. Circumcision also offers some protection against the uncommon condition of cancer of the penis, which mainly occurs in older men who have tight foreskins that can't be pulled back.
Some people see these benefits as good reasons to circumcise all boys.
Paediatric medical experts at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) regularly review all the available evidence. They have developed a circumcision policy for parents.
Internationally, most major paediatric colleges don't recommend circumcision.
Whatever you decide about circumcision, your boy is likely to have a normal childhood and adult life, without significant concerns about his penis.
If you accept the advice of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, or you're not sure what to do, you can leave your boy with his foreskin. If he disagrees with your choice later, he can make the decision for himself as a teenager or adult.
If you look at the evidence yourself and you disagree with how the Royal Australasian College of Physicians policy balances risks and benefits, you should feel comfortable proceeding with circumcision.
Some parents might also choose to have it done for strong cultural reasons – for example, their Jewish or Islamic customs.
If you decide to have your son circumcised, take some steps to make sure the operation is done safely.
Ensure that whoever is circumcising your son is experienced. Ask how many procedures the doctor has done and how many complications have occurred. All doctors are required to give you balanced information and to respect your decision.
Try also to ensure that your son receives enough pain relief during and after the procedure. Check that you have good access to the doctor for follow-up after the surgery. Also ask about any costs to you.
Some Australian states won't allow routine circumcisions to be done in public hospitals.
Around the world, most Muslim and Jewish parents circumcise their boys for cultural reasons.
Among other families around the world, about 85% of boys aren't circumcised. The only major western countries where circumcision is very common are the US and Canada. Circumcision is uncommon in the UK, most of Europe and Asia, South America and Central America.
The history of circumcision in Australia is unique. From 1920-1950, circumcision was actively promoted. The vast majority of boys born in Australia around 1950 were circumcised. Since then, there has been a big move away from circumcision.
Now most Australian boys are not circumcised.
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Darby, R. (2005). A surgical temptation: The demonization of the foreskin and the rise of circumcision in Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Forbes, D. (2015). Circumcision and the best interests of the child. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 51, 263–265. doi: 10.1111/jpc.12853.
Øster, J. (1968). Further fate of the foreskin: Incidence of preputial adhesions, phimosis, and smegma among Danish schoolboys. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 43, 200-220.
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UNAIDS (2010). Neonatal and child male circumcision: A global review. Geneva: Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
Wang, M.L., Macklin, E.A., Tracy, E., Nadel, H., & Catlin, E.A. (2010). Updated parental viewpoints on male neonatal circumcision in the United States. Clinical Pediatrics, 49, 130-136.
Weiss, H.A., Larke, N., Halperin, D., & Schenker, I. (2010). Complications of circumcision in male neonates, infants and children: A systematic review. BMC Urology, 10, 2.
WHO, HIV/AIDS JUNPo. (2007). Male circumcision: Global trends and determinants of prevalence, safety and acceptability. Geneva: World Health Organization and Joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS.


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Ok, this is not directly related to computers but I was wondering if someone had any experience in wiring telephone boxes in houses.
I am renting a house right now and am trying to get DSL into the house. However, even though the phone company says the line is good to my house, (and everything is turned on on their end) I have no dial tone. My DSL appointment is tommorrow and I need dialtone to at least one phone jack in the house for the guy to set it up.
Attached is a picture of the phone lines coming into the house. Everything looks good to me. (I have marked the incoming lines)
Anyway, I am at the point that I am thinking I may have to bribe the SBC guy.
Edit: SBC cannot get anyone out before the DSL installation to check the lines.


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Palin University
Sarah Palin's new best-seller reveals that she's still stuck on 2008.
We can't say we weren't warned. When HarperCollins announced the publication of Sarah Palin's America by Heart, six long months ago, there were signs that it might not be interesting. The book would contain "selections from classic and contemporary readings that have moved her" and "portraits of some of the extraordinary men and women she admires." If you translated this from press release-ese, it sounded like a clip job.
A clip job wouldn't have amused readers who paid $5 or $6 more for this book than they paid for the deeply discounted Going Rogue. The smart thing to do with a Palin book, if you're a reviewer or a reporter, is to skim it. Look for names that will make good headlines. Look for attack lines and anecdotes. If Barack Obama's name appears in the text, you have a story: Sarah Palin Slams President Over [Insert Subject Here].
But I read America by Heart the same way I read Sarah Palin's first No. 1 New York Times best-seller: I bought it, then tore through it. Palin's memoir, aided substantially by the ghostly talents of Lynn Vincent, was addictively readable. Tabloid-y, possibly true details on the buffoons who staffed Palin's gubernatorial office and 2008 campaign staffs were meshed with anecdotes loaned from Jack London about life on the Last Frontier. I think Joe Biden's memoir is underrated, but there's no image in Promises To Keep that sticks like Palin's memory of her husband pulling off his mask, and with it some of the flesh on his face, after finishing an Iron Dog snowmobile * race.
Keep your expectations for the new book low, and they will be met. The Palin of Going Rogue was a mystery, emerging from a quasi-hiatus in which she communicated online and in infrequent Fox News interviews to tell her life story. The Palin of America by Heart is the Palin who appears on Fox News from her home studio overlooking Lake Lucille, who gives lengthy speeches about freedom at Tea Party rallies, whose tweets get more attention than entire books by Mitt Romney.
What do we learn that we didn't know before? We have a longer version of her reading list. The chapters of America by Heart consist of thoughts from Palin, excerpts from articles or speeches she likes, more thoughts from Palin, and occasionally some reminders of how she really hasn't gotten over the 2008 campaign.
"Remember the 2001 interview about the Constitution by then-Illinois state senator Barack Obama that surfaced during the 2008 campaign?" She then rehashes an idea she's repeated on her Tea Party tour. When Obama argued that "the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties," she says, he was accidentally describing why he wasn't fit to govern. "The epitome of progressive thinking," writes Palin, "was Barack Obama's promise just before the 2008 election, that 'we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.' " Palin's "rogue" moments that the media dismissed as weird, out-of-context attacks on Obama in 2008 are now part of the Tea Party's catechism. She even makes multiple references to "clinging," in case anyone forgot that Obama once belittled guns and religion.
Nothing that's happened since the campaign seems to have inspired her as much. A strange literary tic of America by Heart recurs whenever Palin starts to describe her life since leaving the governorship of Alaska. She sets a scene, describes how she got there, and then—moves on. Her run-ins with real Americans are less opportunities to tell readers what those Americans think than occasions to tell us how deeply she understands them.
"We've visited Walter Reed Hospital to meet mighty warriors," writes Palin, "and I've twice visited Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, where wounded troops from Iraq and Afghanistan receive treatment."
The reader knows what's coming next. Palin, the world's most famous holder of a degree in journalism, will introduce those warriors. She pivots immediately. "Just before my visit," she writes, "my brother sent me a description of the American military man that I think is spot-on—with the exception that it doesn't include American military women." There follow 19 paragraphs reprinting the entire letter, versions of which can be found in any number of places online. The mighty warriors retreat into the scenery, but Palin really, really appreciated them.
And the whole book is like this. Palin is not living a celebrity's life, you silly liberals—she is living the life of the mind. She is reading books by conservatives on topics that interested her and giving HarperCollins the chance to reprint chunks of them. "Reading about the faith roots of America in Matthew Spalding's book We Still Hold These Truths," she writes, "I learned that, from the very beginning, our Founders expressed a profound belief in religious tolerance." Later, she cites Newt Gingrich's book Rediscovering God in America. She cites not just Milton Friedman, but libertarian godfather Leonard Read. If it starts to read like one of William Bennett's primers, she's got that covered, because she cites his The American Patriot's Almanac and writes that Bennett is "a pretty great patriot himself."
This is Palin's game: She wants the lamestream media to make fun of her clip file. She remembers that during a family trip, "all we had for entertainment was each other and a pile of Reader's Digests," a sparkly wink at Ronald Reagan and the way the press derided his intelligence over his love for that magazine.
But did Reagan ever seem to be trying too hard? More relevant to her political hopes, does Barack Obama? Palin's publishing strategy mirrors Obama's, after all. He followed a memoir with a travelogue-cum-policy book; she's doing the same thing. The woman who rocked the Xcel Center, deriding Obama by saying "the American presidency is not a journey of personal discovery," is well into her second year of a journey—and journal—of personal discovery, free of responsibility, with lots of time to collect insights that other people can use.
By the end of the book, those insights work the way a John Cage composition works: You have to hear what isn't there. The few passages in which Palin expresses sympathy with Obama concern big problems that cannot be disposed of by quoting Whittaker Chambers. In discussing the BP spill—one of the few actual news events of the past year mentioned here—Palin homes in on the press conference in which Obama said his daughter had asked him, "Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?"*
"Who among us hasn't had the experience of a simple question from an innocent child bringing our ego crashing back to earth?" writes Palin. "Of course Malia's daddy hadn't 'plugged the hole'—because doing so was beyond his capability, even as the most powerful man in the world."
At the time the spill was occurring—Obama's press conference was in May—Palin didn't say much more than this. In a famously awkward interview with Bill O'Reilly, she responded to a specific question about what the country needed to do by saying "we need to make sure that all technology is being thrown at this problem." Pressed by O'Reilly, she complained: "We haven't had the assurance by the president that that has been his top priority. Instead, what his top priority is, Bill, is cap and tax."
Basically, she had nothing. She knew what she didn't like about Obama, she knew what other people didn't like, and she knew her principles, but the details of what government should do—well, that was tricky. Next question? Reading this book, which has a first run of 1 million copies, it's clear that since the wonderful experience of becoming a celebrity and the traumatic experience of losing to Obama/Biden, she hasn't had much to say. She will have plenty of time to say it.
Corrections, Nov. 24, 2010: The original version of this article referred to Todd Palin's participation in the Iditarod sled dog race. He was a champion snowmobile racer. The error was introduced in editing. (Return to the corrected sentence.) The article also described Malia Obama as President Obama's youngest daughter. Malia is older than Sasha. (Return to the corrected sentence.)


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I have an idea.
In mixed martial arts matches, there should be tag teams. There would be the two main fighters, but they each would have a team member. The team members would have to stay at the edge of the ring (or cage) and could not do anything until the two main fighters go to the ground for say 20 seconds. Then the team members can run in and kick and punch the opposing fighter until the fighters get back to their feet. The team members could not hit each other, only the opposing fighter.
In other words, the fighters could not stay on the ground very long before they would get jumped. If a fighter's hands were tied up choking his opponent, that would be too bad. The opponent's team member could run in and kick him in the head!
Doesn't this sound a little bit like the street?
I am only joking about MMA tag teams and mean no disrespect to MMA people. I always say that early Karate (Tote, Tudi, or "China Hand") was a mixed martial art, incorporating striking, grappling, and everything in between (plus weapons). And I know that many MMA experts warn people about groundwork on the street because of the risk of another person jumping in to help his friend.
But wouldn't it be at least a little interesting to have such MMA tag teams? It would certainly make the fighters get quicker choke-outs or submissions.
Charles C. Goodin
MMA Tag Teams
I have an idea.
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April 21, 2008: Audacity is mentoring five Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2008 students
Audacity has been approved to mentor five students for Google Summer of Code 2008! GSoC offers student developers $4,500 stipends to write code for various open source projects.
Congratulations to the five approved students and thanks to all who applied for their interest in Audacity!


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Register Now for Wonderful Door Prizes
The fourth annual Oklahoma Wildlife Expo is slated for Sept. 26-28, but those planning to attend can pre-register now for the event at wildlifedepartment.com and secure their chance at one of several great prizes.
"Tens of thousands of people show up to the Expo each year, but those who take a few extra minutes to pre-register may be real glad they did," said Rhonda Hurst, Expo coordinator for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. "We're giving away a lifetime combination hunting and fishing license and a John Deere Gator from P&K Equipment. These are valuable prizes, but you can't win them unless you log on to wildlifedepartment.com and pre-register."
Expo visitors can also see what the Outdoor Marketplace has to offer. The huge shopping area gives the Expo's outdoor-minded guests a place to shop for the latest in outdoor products and services that cater to their lifestyles, while providing vendors a place to showcase their goods to the people that will want to buy them.
According to Blake Shelton, country music star and special guest at the Expo last year, there is no excuse not to check out the Expo.
"If you and your family don't come out to the Expo, you're going to really miss out on a fun time," Shelton said. "The Expo is the perfect family event its fun, its free and I'll guarantee your kids will be tired at the end of the day."
This year, Oklahoma native country music singer Devin Derrick will be sharing his passion for the outdoors and singing on Saturday and Sunday at the Expo. Ada musician Clancy Davis also will perform on Sunday.
The Wildlife Department works with a range of organizations, individuals and outdoor-related companies to host the Expo — an event intended to promote and develop appreciation for Oklahoma's wildlife and natural resources.
Written by Michael Bergin. Michael is an information specialist for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
Chickasaw National Recreation Area
Plants, Water and Wildlife
When you think of Sulphur, Oklahoma, visions of bubbling springs and beautiful rock outcroppings probably come to mind. With a rich history, this area of the state abounds with plants, water and wildlife.
Chickasaw NRA's long history started when it was established in 1902. After being sold to the U.S. government by the Chickasaw Nation, it became a Civilian Conservation Corps project in the 1930's. Chickasaw NRA was merged with the Arbuckle NRA in the 1970's to form the current area.
The park has a wide range of animals including bison, red bat, southern flying squirrel, and badger. Numerous species of reptiles are present including cottonmouths, timber rattlesnakes, both common and alligator snapping turtles and copperheads. The bird species include a wintering population of bald eagles and well over 160 other species due to the diverse habitat.
Arbuckle Lake contains several species of fish including crappie, white bass, and largemouth bass. The streams throughout the area contain several native species including orangethroat darter, spotted bass, and channel catfish.
There are also many hunting opportunities available. From deer to dove and cottontails to coyotes, many game species can be found in abundant numbers.
Written by Brett Cooper. Brett is a graduate student studying zoology at Oklahoma State University.
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When they hear the term "wildlife management" many people might think about thousands of acres of rolling plains or densely-forested areas of the Ouachita Mountains. The fact is that there are many things you can do right in your own backyard to enhance wildlife habitat. The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation has a book that covers everything you need to make your outdoor space more enjoyable and more suitable for wildlife. This book is called Landscaping for Wildlife.
There are many advantages associated with improving the area around your home. Landscaping for Wildlife focuses on the four fundamental items that make up wildlife habitat: food, water, cover and space. The step by step process spells out exactly how to go about attracting more wildlife. Along with how to create a wildscape plan of action, the book also has detailed instructions and diagrams on creating an assortment of pleasing landscape features. Everything from how to attract specific backyard animals to patio ponds to nest boxes is covered in detail. You can purchase Landscaping for Wildlife by visiting the Outdoor Store.
Written by David Rempe. David is an information and education technician for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
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SETTING: A restaurant. You could also put on this play in your kitchen or dining room.
(All characters sing their lines in dramatic fashion. At the start, the Customer is sitting at a table, looking at a bowl of soup. The Waiter enters.)
Customer:Excuse me.
Waiter:Mademoiselle, what is the problem?
Customer:I can't eat this soup!
Waiter:Ah, yes I will send for the head chef.
Customer:But I...
Waiter:Hey, mac, come 'ere on de double.
(The Chef enters.)
Chef:(Chef speaks in fake French accent.)
Yes, mademoiselle?
Waiter:This woman claims she cannot eat our soupe du jour.
Chef:Oh, my. I will call for the manager. Miss Smith, could you step over here for a minute?
(Manager enters.)
Manager:Is there anything I can do to help?
Chef:This woman says that she cannot eat her soup.
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Customer:But all I want is. . .
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Customer:I DON'T HAVE A SPOON!!!!!!!!!
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Video played a strong role in finding the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, but it was mostly old-style detecting that appeared to do the trick as the FBI and police pored through hours of clips collected on bystanders' phones, then put it out for crowd-sourcing help.
Chances are good that the next time an attacker targets a major American city, institutional surveillance will play a more sophisticated role, perhaps in stopping an attack and certainly in sorting out what happened in the event of another. Some of that work, in fact, is already underway.


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Mr. Steven Snediker
Associate Professor of Visual Arts, Cinema
M.F.A., National University
B.S., John Brown University
Steve Snediker has always loved motion pictures.
From his early forays into 8mm neighborhood movies and numerous social commentary film projects for school, to his work in HiDef directing corporate and commercial videos for companies like Saatchi & Saatchi X, Procter & Gamble, and Wal-Mart, Steve Snediker has developed a reputation as a visual storyteller. He fields many of the skills required to be a one-man movie studio, yet Steve has also discovered the greater power of collaboration and building teams.
Steve has a BS in Communications (Broadcast) from John Brown University and an MFA in Digital Cinema from National University. Besides his award-winning narrative film "Carlisle's Secret", Steve has recently completed a documentary entitled "Amazin'Grace: Standing Room Only" and an experimental film entitled "LEVI: A Day – A Lifetime."
Steve is married with three grown children and makes his home in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. He works as Assistant Professor of Visual Arts - Cinema at John Brown University and continues to be a contributor to regional independent film.


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Eyes on the skies
Local weather watchers help keep community safe
Ross Ostergard and Chris Hodges got into storm watching for two entirely different reasons.
Ostergard, a weather spotter for the National Weather Service (NWS) for five years, wanted to give back to the community when family friends were kind to him after a traffic accident several years ago."I got to know a lot of folks and felt like I owed them," Ostergard said. "and I wanted to protect this town from danger."
Hodges, who works at I-80 Pit Stop, said he grew tired of sitting at home while storms hammered the city and weather warnings were sometimes issued late.
The city sits at the western edge of Dawson County which is covered by NWS officials in Hastings. North Platte, which is in Lincoln County and much closer to Gothenburg, is where another NWS office is located.
"That's the reason we've stepped up for Gothenburg," Hodges said.
So when Ostergard's weather-watching partner quit, Hodges said he agreed to help his friend and will finish his second year as a NWS weather watcher this fall.
As storm spotters, the two attend a two-hour program presented by the NWS each spring.
Once severe weather season arrives, they drive to specific locations south, north and west of Gothenburg to watch the clouds when NWS officials expect large hail or damaging winds in excess of 60 mph.
"Anytime there's a watch or warning, we try to go out," Hodges said, noting that they separate when watching southern and northern skies but pair up when severe weather is predicted in the west. "Two sets of eyes are always better than one."
The duo has learned to watch for certain circulation patterns in the clouds and the appearance of shelf or wall clouds. Generally speaking, they said the shelf cloud could appear on the front edge of a storm while wall clouds are usually located at the rear of severe weather.
So far this year, Ostergard said weather patterns have been strange.
"Storms have come out of nowhere. Because of heat and humidity, they build big cloud banks," he explained. "Often you don't know what you're going to get until you get a warning."
For Hodges, it's beautiful to watch thunderheads bloom on the horizon.
"And once you've seen what we've seen by storm spotting, it doesn't look the same anymore," he explained. "Once you start inspecting the clouds and what they're going to produce, it becomes a challenge."
Ostergard describes what they do as a rush and a thrill because it can be dangerous.
Hodges said watching for storms can be hazardous if you don't respect Mother Nature.
"You have to know when to go and when to stay," he said. "You have to know how to track storms safely because it can go from one extreme to another—sunny one minute and a storm barreling down the next."
Ostergard remembers well when he another spotter watched a tornado "sit down and spread out" north of Farnam in April of 2007. Recorded as having up to 207 mph winds, it whirled through farmsteads south, west and north of Gothenburg.
"It was pitch black but we saw it during a lightning flash and we tore through the canyons for home about 80 mph," he said. "The weather service says to not even try and track tornadoes in the dark because you don't know where they are."
Hodges recalls a storm in early July last year when he was watching ominous clouds south of Banner Road.
"I saw a huge shelf cloud coming from the west and there was no wind at all," he said. "After it passed, it rocked my entire vehicle back and forth and I thought 'Whoa dude.' "
As the days grow shorter and the evenings cooler, the chance of severe weather normally declines.
Not this year, Ostergard said, noting that NWS predicts secondary fronts throughout September that could cause severe storms.
Occasionally storms build in Nebraska during late fall.
In fact, Hodges remembers watching evil-looking thunderheads build to the northeast on Halloween night in 2000 which later produced a devastating tornado in Oconto.
Once severe weather season ends, however, he said he enjoys down time until storm-spotting class in the spring when the "weather gets going."
"Then we're ready for the chase again."
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Is it a big no no to play LPs on a traditional Soundsystem?
Some of my LPs sound better than my 45s. E.g. Soul Jazz Records compilations (100% Dynamite etc) are much better sound quality than a lot of the affordable 45s of those tunes.
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Le Karl & Kate: The Hunger Twins
Kate Bosworth's eye makeup was exquisite. And her dress too. My favourite shoes of the night and the complete opposite of what Emmy Rossum tries to recycle over and over and over again. Which is why Emmy is not worthy of Karl's company.
Kate was wearing Chanel. She walked with Karl Lagerfeld. She earned it with Karl Lagerfeld… because as you can see, Kate isn't eating again. They have this in common, you see. If you're not anorexic, you're not Karl material.
Also there but not pictured – her boyfriend James Rousseau. As soon as he realised he wasn't wanted by the photographers, he left her to do her thing and waited for her at the top of the stairs. It was a common spot for the men behind the women. Including, if you can believe it, none other than Hayden Christensen. More on that later.
Back to Kate Bosworth – she really is beautiful. Really beautiful. But painful to look at. And her and Karl Lagerfeld together … well it's excruciating. Because the truth is, I watched Le Karl walking up those steps. If you know the Met, you know it's a grand entrance. And Karl… he wasn't nimble in the least. Sure he managed on his own but it hurt him. If not for his fierce pride, he probably would have needed a hand. And those heels he wears don't help either.
Karl is old now. Karl is almost 75. He's a senior citizen who starves. It's a stylish combination… I guess… but not a very smart one.
PS. Vintage Karl? When asked what superhero he most looked up to, his response was: MYSELF.
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Monitoring the Gulf Stream Flow and Dynamics Northwest of Bermuda
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Much of the growing observing system for the North Atlantic Ocean circulation is directed at bulk measures of its state, for example the integral heat content (Argo floats and XBTs), the strength of the deep western boundary current and the variations of the water masses carried by it (the moored array that has been built up around the station W mooring), and the strength of the Gulf Stream System (the Stream plus the adjacent recirculation cells, as indexed by pair of time series hydrographic stations W and S bracketing the system). In the western mid-latitude North Atlantic, the strength of the Gulf Stream is greatly amplified by the action of mesoscale variability driving strong compact recirculation cells north and south of the Stream. This proposal is to make measurements that reveal the changes of strength and structure of a cross section of the Gulf Stream, isolating that component of the Gulf Stream System, and simultaneously the low-frequency modulation of eddy variability that is held responsible for setting the degree of intensification of the Gulf Stream. The latter represents a first step towards moving beyond "just" bulk measures of state to measures of the internal dynamics that force that state. Over the past 30 years an image of the geography of mesoscale (nominal monthly) variability has been built up from moored current measurements. These showed, for example, the strong concentration of eddy kinetic energy at the Stream axis, and defined its degree of decay with depth and with distance from the axis, and validated the theoretical concepts tying the degree of Gulf Stream intensification to the strength of the eddy driving of circulation. Such distributions (flow strengths and pathways and eddy variability) have been treated as steady state fields, constructed by combining into maps the results of measurements made at different times and sites over several decades. Theory and model results indicate that mesoscale eddy variability should exhibit interannual - decadal variability, a variability that results in the modulation of the strength of the Gulf Stream and its recirculations. Such intrinsic variability must be measured and understood in order to understand the relation of Gulf Stream System variability to the strength of the Meridional Overturning Circulation. I propose here to begin a monitoring measurement of the distribution of eddy kinetic energy (and other important statistics) at the axis of the Stream between stations W and S near sites where limited duration mooring; provide historical data on the Gulf Stream flow and eddy variability (1983 and 1988-90). A single mooring will be placed at the Stream axis instrumented at multiple levels between the upper thermocline and the sea floor, measuring both the vertical and horizontal structure of the Stream - the latter through the Stream's meandering to and fro across the mooring. Looking backward in time: Has the depth and cross-Stream structure (currents and eddy statistics) changed since those earlier measurements? Looking forward in time: Are the changes in bulk strength of the Gulf Stream System and the deep western boundary current to its north, that will be measured, respectively, by the stations W and S pair and the station W array, mirrored in the changes of strength and structure of the Gulf Stream itself, including both the strength and structure of flow of the Stream and the structure and strength of the eddy forcing within and near the Stream. Are they consistent with the evolving understanding of the internal dynamics of circulation intensification in the western subtropics?


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Bowie Community Theater earns three Washington area awards
Is it worth your while to invest $20 plus a couple of hours of your time in community theater?
That evaluation is made each year by Washington Area Theatre Community Honors. Three dozen local companies make up WATCH, which reaches beyond the District into suburban and rural Maryland and Virginia. Last year, WATCH members evaluated 127 plays to recognize excellence in 38 categories. In each category, typically five nominees were chosen.
Bowie Community Theater earned nine of those nominations — their most ever — and Colonial Players three.
And the winner is … Bowie Community Theater, rewarded with three awards for two plays.
That means, says company president John Nunemaker, "that the hard work and dedication of these individuals has paid off in recognition for the talent that they are."
Sandra Cox True won Outstanding Lead Actress for her portrayal of Grace in Grace and Glorie, produced in October.
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Sandra Cox True, left, was named Outstanding Lead Actress for her role as dying Grace in Grace and Glorie.
Sordid Lives, produced in January, earned two awards: Bernadette Arvidson for Outstanding Featured Actress, her Juanita, and Scott Beadle for Outstanding Makeup Design for his character Earl 'Brother Boy' Ingram. Beadle was also nominated for outstanding actor for Brother Boy.
"My character is an institutionalized Tammy Wynette-obsessed transvestite," says Beadle, of Odenton, who by day is director of training for Crofton's DavCo Restaurant Inc., which owns and operates all local Wendy's.
By day and night, Beadle has put his undergraduate degree in theater to good use. "Any time you're up in front of a group of people, it requires a lot of the same skills," he says.
Stage makeup is not a course he uses so often. His impersonation of Brother Boy began with a rubber skullcap and continued to a blonde wig.
"I also taped my eyebrows up for an arched look, shadowed my cheeks, and wore false eyelashes," Beadle says. His biggest challenge, however, was "getting used to doing things with long red fingernails." He attached his extended nails for every production.
His award, he says, is "quite an honor, because WATCH judges looked at makeup in every one of 127 shows.
"We all volunteer our time and do it because we love it. To get an award voted on by your peers is validation that you did well in something you love doing."
Awards and nominations for the 2011 season set a high mark for Bowie Community Theatre's 2012 season, which opens Friday, March 16, with the play Art. Yasmina Reza's 1994 drama uses a white-on-white abstract painting to evoke and analyze tension in a friendship.
"The characters represent your own friends, so you project right into it," Nunemaker says.
"Now it's a matter of working harder and going for more," he adds. We're a very small company and we hope this recognition will bring in more volunteers who love theater."
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Long out of print, John Faulkner's novel about cotton farming in the Mississippi Delta, Dollar Cotton, has been re-issued in paperback by Hill Street Press.
Although not nearly so renowned as the works of his Nobel Prize-winning brother, William, John Faulkner's novels, Men Working and Dollar Cotton, were acclaimed for their portrayals of the hardscrabble existence of many rural southerners during the Great Depression.
John Faulkner grew up in Oxford, Miss., with his brothers William, Murry, and Dean. He was a civil engineer, a self-taught painter, and an aviator, in addition to being a widely-published author. In addition to his novels, he was the author of a book about his acclaimed brother, My Brother Bill; another book about the Faulkners, Chooky; and Cabin Road.
Dollar Cotton is the story of Otis Town, a colorful character only a Faulkner could invent. A poor Tennessee farmer who leaves his home for the Mississippi Delta, where fertile land is cheap and hopes are plenty, he tears a cotton plantation out of the land and builds an empire, only to see it all wither away when the price of cotton plummets.
Refusing to accept his condition, he travels to New York to confront the president of the Stock Exchange, and tragedy ensues.
Described as "a classic tale about hard work and dreams, about the triumph and failure of man, and endurance on the land," the reissuance of John Faulkner's Dollar Cotton will offer a new generation of readers a look at this particular slice of southern life.
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While "bad" LDL cholesterol is infamous for its link to heart disease, some lesser known measures of blood fat may be more important in stroke risk, a new study suggests.
The specific culprits include blood fats called triglycerides, as well as the size and number of certain cholesterol "particles" in the blood. Researchers say they may be better predictors of stroke risk than the traditional LDL number.
The study, reported in the journal Stroke, focused on 774 middle-aged and older U.S. women who suffered a stroke over about eight years. Each was compared with another stroke-free woman the same age and race.
Overall, the one-quarter of women with the highest triglycerides at the outset were 56 percent more likely to suffer a stroke than the one-quarter with the lowest triglycerides.
That doesn't prove that the triglycerides are to blame. But the link held even when the researchers accounted for other stroke risk factors, like high blood pressure and diabetes.
And high triglycerides are already considered a risk factor for stroke, by groups like the American Heart Association (AHA).
"Studies such as ours really underscore the importance of triglycerides," said lead researcher Dr. Jeffrey S. Berger, of New York University Medical Center.
According to the AHA, triglyceride levels of 150 to 199 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) are "borderline high," while levels of 200 and up are considered "high."
But while triglycerides were linked to strokes in this study, low-density lipoprotein -- that is, "bad" LDL cholesterol -- was not. Instead, more-specific measures of blood fats were.
That included so-called intermediate-density lipoprotein, or IDL. The one-quarter of women with the most IDL particles in their blood had a 46 percent higher stroke risk than the quarter of women with the lowest IDL numbers.
There was a similar effect when it came to the size of particles known as very low-density lipoprotein, or VLDL: Women with the largest VLDL particles had a higher stroke risk.
The study could only look at relative risks. So for any one woman with a lot of VLDL particles, for instance, it's not clear how much of a stroke risk she would face.
"From this type of study, it's not possible to understand the absolute risk," Berger told Reuters Health.
But, he said, the findings do add to research from recent years suggesting that non-traditional measures of blood fat can be important.
Traditional numbers like total cholesterol and LDL, Berger said, "may really not be enough" -- at least when it comes to the risk of ischemic stroke. (Ischemic strokes, which are caused by a clot that blocks blood flow to the brain, are the most common type of strokes.)
The new study was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. One of the researchers is an employee of LipoScience, a company marketing a test that measures the number of cholesterol-carrying particles in the blood.
Berger said the findings don't mean everyone needs to know their VLDLs and IDLs.
But some doctors, he noted, are already testing non-traditional markers -- those other than LDL, "good" HDL cholesterol and triglycerides. That's particularly true of preventive cardiologists, who see patients at higher-than-normal risk of heart attack and stroke.
According to Berger, non-traditional markers may be helpful for so-called "intermediate-risk" patients.
Those are people who are at higher-than-average risk of heart attack and stroke -- because of factors like age and high blood pressure, for instance -- but not considered "high-risk." Someone with diabetes or a history of heart disease would automatically be considered high-risk.
Additional blood-fat measures might help weed out the intermediate-risk people who would benefit the most from therapies like a daily aspirin or cholesterol-lowering statins, according to Berger.
But so far, the tests haven't been shown to help save lives or stave off strokes. The government-backed U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening women for blood fat problems if they are at increased risk of heart disease.
Berger said that when doctors order extra tests, it costs more money -- another reason not to do them in everyone.
Experts say excessive medical testing may cost the U.S. up to $250 billion a year and is harming patients who end up getting invasive tests unnecessarily. The American College of Physicians, a leading medical group, is currently rolling out guidelines to curb the overuse.
Like the better known forms of cholesterol, VLDL and IDL can be changed through diet and exercise. And triglycerides, Berger said, are "very responsive" to lifestyle changes.
Cutting down on calories, starches, alcohol and saturated and trans fats often lowers triglyceride levels. Substituting "bad" fats with "good" ones -- from olive oil and fish, for example -- also helps, as does regular exercise.


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