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On the side of soups, salads or your favorite Italian dishes, enjoy this easy, fluffy garlic bread with fresh parsley and Parmesan!
Blindfold me, spin me around, hell, tie my hands behind my back and I could still make this mouthwatering batch of garlic bread! I'd say I know this recipe better than any, but it's hardly a recipe. It's more like five ingredients, ten minutes, and a whole lotta delicious payoff!
When I needed to impress my first big city boyfriend, I made him chicken parmesan. After he married me, I made him this garlic bread. See what I did there? Made him wait for the REALLY good stuff. Take notes, ladies!
This is as easy as it gets for garlic bread, and I promise you'll never go back to your other recipe. Just pick up a French bread loaf from the grocery store, slice it up, make a mixture of butter, garlic powder, chopped parsley and salt, and slather each slice. Wrap it up, bake it up and eat it up! Simple as that.
It's worth noting that I don't use fresh garlic because, 1) I find that garlic powder gives off a stronger taste and aroma, and 2) it's just too damn time consuming – who has time to wait for this garlic bread to get in their mouth?
If you must, mince up a couple cloves and toss them into the butter mixture. Be all fancy like that.
Serve it with Italian dishes and soups, stews and salads, or if it's been one of those days, just serve it to yourself. Some days just demand no carb be left behind. Take a stand!
Parmesan Herb Garlic Bread
- 1/2 loaf French bread
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 cup chopped parsley
- 1/3 cup freshly grated Parmesan, divided
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Prepare a large piece of aluminum foil; set aside.
- Mix together butter, garlic powder, salt, parsley, and half the Parmesan. Make deep, even cuts into bread, about 1/2 inch apart, without cutting through bottom. Spread butter mixture inside each slice; spread remaining butter on the outside of the loaf.
- Place bread on top of aluminum foil. Top with remaining grated Parmesan. Gather up sides of aluminum foil to make a packet for the loaf, leaving a small slit at the top.
- Bake for 10-15 minutes, or until the top is crisp and inside is soft and fluffy.
- Enjoy!

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Wiretaps, former aides led to "El Chapo" capture
By Alicia A. Caldwell And Adriana Gomez Licon for The Associated Press
News Public Sector el chapo mexico wiretapsAs Mexican troops forced their way into Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's main hideout in Culiacan, the country's most powerful drug lord sneaked out of the house through an escape tunnel beneath the bathtub.
Mexican marines working with U.S. authorities chased him but lost the man known as "Shorty" in a maze of tunnels under the city, a U.S. government official and a senior law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Sunday.
It would be a short-lived escape for Guzman, who was captured early Saturday hiding out in a condominium in Mazatlan, a beach resort town on Mexico's Pacific Coast.
He had a military-style assault rifle with him but didn't fire a shot, the officials said. His beauty queen wife, Emma Coronel, was with him when the manhunt for one of the world's most wanted drug traffickers ended.
The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss specific details of how U.S. authorities tracked down Guzman.
For 13 years Guzman watched from western Mexico's rugged mountains as authorities captured or killed the leaders of every group challenging his Sinaloa cartel's spot at the top of global drug trafficking.
Unscathed and his legend growing, the stocky son of a peasant farmer grabbed a slot on the Forbes' billionaires' list and a folkloric status as the capo who grew too powerful to catch. Then, late last year, authorities started closing in on the inner circle of the world's most-wanted drug lord. Bit by bit, they got closer to the crime boss.
Then on Feb. 16, investigators from Mexico along with the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Marshals Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement caught the break they badly needed when they tracked a cellphone to one of the Culiacan stash houses Guzman used to elude capture.
The phone was connected to his communications chief, Carlos Manuel Ramirez, whose nickname is Condor. By the next day Mexican authorities arrested one of Guzman's top couriers, who promptly provided details of the stash houses Guzman and his associates had been using, the officials said.
At each house, the Mexican military found the same thing: steel reinforced doors and an escape hatch below the bathtubs. Each hatch led to a series of interconnected tunnels in the city's drainage system.
The officials said three tons of drugs, suspected to be cocaine and methamphetamine, were found at one of the stash houses.
An AP reporter who walked through one of the tunnels had to dismount into a canal and stoop to enter the drain pipe, which was filled with water and mud and smelled of sewage. About 700 metres (yards) in, a trap door was open, revealing a newly constructed tunnel. Large and lined with wood panels like a cabin, the passage had lighting and air conditioning. At the end of the tunnel was a blue ladder attached to the wall that led to one of the houses Mexican authorities say Guzman used as a hideout.
A day after troops narrowly missed Guzman in Culiacan, top aide Manuel Lopez Ozorio was arrested. The officials said he told investigators that he picked up Guzman, Ramirez and a woman from a drainage pipe and helped them flee to Mazatlan.
A wiretap being monitored by ICE agents in southern Arizona provided the final clue, helping track Guzman to the beachfront condo, the officials said.
The ICE wiretap proved the most crucial lead late last week as other wiretaps became useless as Guzman and his associates reacted to coming so close to being caught.
"It just all came together and we got the right people to flip and we were up on good wire," the government official said. "The ICE wire was the last one standing. That wire in Nogales. That got him (Guzman) inside that hotel."
Alonzo Pena, a former senior official at ICE, said wiretaps in Arizona led authorities to the Culiacan house of Guzman's ex-wife, Griselda Lopez, and to the Mazatlan hotel where Guzman was arrested.
The ICE investigation started about a year ago with a tip from the agency's Atlanta office that someone was crossing the border with about $100,000 at a time, said Pena, who was briefed on the investigation. That person led investigators to another cartel operative, believed to be an aircraft broker, and that allowed them to locate Guzman's communications equipment.
The senior law enforcement official said the Mexican marines deserve credit for taking Guzman alive and without either side firing a shot.
"We never anticipated, ever, that he would be taken alive," the official said.
It is not yet clear what will happen next to Guzman, except that he will be the focus of a lengthy and complicated legal process to decide whether Mexico or the U.S. gets to try him first.
In Mexico, he is likely to face a host of charges related to his role as head of the Sinaloa cartel, which is believed to sell cocaine, marijuana, heroin and methamphetamine in some 54 countries.
Grand juries in at least seven U.S. federal district courts, including Chicago, San Diego, New York and Texas, have already issued indictments for Guzman on a variety of charges, ranging from smuggling cocaine and heroin to participating in an ongoing criminal enterprise involving murder and racketeering.
Federal officials in Chicago were among the first to say they wanted to try Guzman. On Sunday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Tiscione in Brooklyn became the second. In an email Sunday, Tiscione said his office would also be seeking extradition but it would be up to Washington to make the final call.
A Justice Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity because it's a matter of sensitive diplomatic discussions, said decisions regarding extradition have not been made.
When Guzman was finally in handcuffs, the man who eluded Mexican authorities for more than a decade looked pudgy, bowed and middle-aged in a white button-down shirt and beltless black jeans.
Now 56, he had been on the run since escaping from prison in 2001 in a laundry truck. During those 13 years, Guzman was rumoured to live everywhere from Argentina to Mexico's "Golden Triangle," a mountainous, marijuana-growing region straddling the northern states of Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua.
Under his leadership, the Sinaloa Cartel grew deadlier and more powerful, taking over much of the lucrative trafficking routes along the U.S. border.
His undoing started late last year as authorities on both sides of the border arrested people close to Guzman and one of his two top associates, Ismael "Mayo" Zambada.
This month federal forces began sweeping through Culiacan, capital of the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa. They closed streets, raided houses, seized automatic weapons, drugs and money, and arrested a series of men that Mexican officials carefully described to reporters as top officials for Zambada.
On Feb. 13, a man known as "19," whom officials called the new chief of assassin for Zambada, was arrested with two other men on the highway to Mazatlan.
Four days later, a man described as a member of the Sinaloa cartel's upper ranks was seized along with 4,000 hollowed-out cucumbers and bananas stuffed with cocaine. In the middle of last week, a 43-year-old known by the nickname "20" and described as Zambada's chief of security, was arrested transporting more cocaine-stuffed produce.
By the middle of the week at least 10 Sinaloa henchmen had been seized.
The final strike came when marines closed the beachside road in front of the Miramar condominiums, a 10-story, pearl-colored building with white balconies overlooking the Pacific and a small pool in front. Smashing down the door of an austerely decorated fourth-floor condo, they seized Guzman a few minutes after the sun rose.
Associated Press writer Alicia A. Caldwell reported this story from Washington and Adriana Gomez Licon reported in Culiacan. AP writers Katherine Corcoran in Mexico City and Elliot Spagat in San Diego contributed to this report.
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Annoying the Auditors
Bishop Hill has turned a most unepiscopal purple at the suggestion that his decade long obsession with sporting goods amounts to an obsession, denying that hockey sticks are really his stock in trade.And so begins a classic back and forth. The best was the first, in reply to somebunny noticing that Steve McIntyre was somewhat displeased with goings on at the AGU this year Russell pointed out that
The Bish and his acolytes seem positively snitful at the notion that McIntyre's discomfiture at AGU meetings stems from the high frequency with which non-oilpatch geophysicists fall down laughing when the mining statistician's mouth moves.
something or things at the conference seemed to have irked him.
Being gainsaid at every turn by climate scientists who know what they are talking about is bound to ruin any mining statistician's day.Eli quite agrees with both parties
Now some, not Eli to be sure, might be getting their pants in a twist about the technical differences between sock puppets, social engineering, pseudonyms and hacking, but there are more interesting things buried here under a complete lack of self awareness.
Someone, let us not say whom, conducting a smash and grab action to access the intellectual output of others, we will not speculate as to motive, at least not here, wonders why he is shunned by those he threatens and their colleagues.
Make no mistake about it, Steve is right when he sensed a hardening of opinion against the Climate Audit/Watts crowd at AGU clearly based on an increasing understanding that the climate system is entering dangerous areas driven by human forcings and disgust at the tactics of those trying to stop any actions to deal with the problem.but in his usual careful parse, Steve replied
Steve: I don't understand your complaint against Climate Audit. If there's anything inaccurate in this or any other post, I ask that people inform me of the inaccuracy. In addition, I seldom comment on policy and most of my rare comments on policy seem relatively uncontroversial to me (or even provoke criticism from "skeptics"). If you can point to any statement of mine about policy that provokes the sort of "disgust" that you allege, I'd appreciate it if you would provide me a link so that I can reflect on the point. It seems to me that people who are seriously concerned about the future should be the ones who take the lead in opposing bad ethics and poor statistical and scientific practices among their fellow travellers.
Nor did I comment that I "sensed a hardening of opinion against the Climate Audit/Watts crowd at AGU". I primarily noted Gleick's surprising return to AGU. I hadn't associated AGU's welcome to Gleick as being connected to AGU attitudes to Climate Audit and sincerely hope that this is not the case.and Steve, egged on by Willis thought this indeed was a winning hand
Sorry, the idiot tracker and Eli have that coveredSomeone, let us not say whom, conducting a smash and grab action to access the intellectual output of othersYes, I'm curious about this as well. As too often, Rabett is opaque to the point of incoherency. Is Rabett concerned about people accessing pdf's of academic articles from online sources without purchasing the articles from the journals? Many authors regularly post such articles on their websites, but one can download them without having to "smash and grab". I'm puzzled. Or is Rabett concerned about authors being asked to archive data?
C'mon Steve you're an intellectual rent seeker. As the Idiot Tracker put it Steven McIntyreBut let us return to the hardening part
uses the coercive power of the state to force other people to give him, gratis, the fruits of their labor. He does not produce himself — he uses the data of others, repackaged and sensationalized, to fuel the hit count of his blog.and then, of course you wonder about the high regard you are held in by those you have cost time and effort complying for your rent demands.
Nor did I comment that I "sensed a hardening of opinion against the Climate Audit/Watts crowd at AGU".Of course, "Nor did I comment"has to be followed by (I leave it to the rest of you to gather from the tone of my entire post which moans that Michael Mann, Naomi Oreskes and Peter Gleick played major roles at the conference and idle comments in the post such as
AGU used to be about physical sciences. Its erosion of standards was well exemplified by its inclusion of Stephan Lewandowsky, a social psychologist from western Australia, as co-convenor of two sessions.and
So for anyone wanting a break from Mannian statistics, Gleickian ethics, especially as synthesized by Lewandowsky, this year's AGU conference was a bad one.Now some, not Eli to be sure, might have thunk that Steve had sensed a change in the AGU and its members attitude towards Steve and friends.
Still, Steve missed the most interesting talk about this point in one of those Lewandowsky convened symposia, Christene McEntee, the AGU CEO spoke. As CEO she speaks for the AGU
TITLE: Trusted Sources: The Role Scientific Societies Can Play in Improving Public Opinions on Climate Change (Invited)The Q&A after her talk was hard hitting, the As more than the very respectful Qs. Still, perhaps the most interesting point in that CA thread was a comment by Jim Lakely of the Heartland Institute
AUTHORS: Christine McEntee1, Ann Cairns1, Joan Buhrman1
INSTITUTIONS: 1. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States.
Public acceptance of the scientific consensus regarding climate change has eroded and misinformation designed to confuse the public is rapidly proliferating. Those issues, combined with an increase of politically motivated attacks on climate scientists and their research, have led to a place where ideology can trump scientific consensus as the foundation for developing policy solutions. The scientific community has been, thus far, unprepared to respond effectively to these developments. However, as a scientific society whose members engage in climate science research, and one whose organizational mission and vision are centered on the concepts of science for the benefit of humanity and ensuring a sustainable future, the American Geophysical Union can, and should, play an important role in reversing this trend.
To that end, in 2011, AGU convened a Leadership Summit on Climate Science Communication, in which presidents, executive directors, and senior public policy staff from 17 scientific organizations engaged with experts in the social sciences regarding effective communication of climate science and with practitioners from agriculture, energy, and the military. The discussions focused on three key issues: the environment of climate science communication; public understanding of climate change; and the perspectives of consumers of climate science–based information who work with specific audiences. Participants diagnosed previous challenges and failings, enumerated the key constituencies that need to be effectively engaged, and identified the critical role played by cultural cognition—the influence of group values, particularly around equality and authority, individualism, and community; and the perceptions of risk.
Since that meeting, AGU has consistently worked to identify and explore ways that it, and its members, and improve the effectiveness of their communication with the public about climate change. This presentation will focus on the insights AGU has gathered, as well as make the case for why this is an important role for scientific societies, such as AGU, to play.
I noticed that some previous comments ask why Heartland hasn't "pressed charges" against Peter Gleick for his crimes. On behalf of The Heartland Institute, let me explain why.
Only the government can "press charges" in the U.S., and so far it has chosen not to bring criminal charges against Gleick. Heartland retained counsel experienced in federal criminal prosecutions and who have dealt often with prosecutors in the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, in Chicago. Heartland's counsel thoroughly researched the case and met repeatedly with prosecutors, asking them to prosecute Gleick for the serious violations of federal law he committed.
Despite our efforts and despite Gleick having confessed to at least one crime, our appeal for prosecution was dismissed. We are told the government has no obligation to prosecute crimes even when the culprit confesses and the victim asks for prosecution. This is called "prosecutorial discretion." We're hoping the new US attorney in Chicago, along with prosecutors in Washington DC will take a new look at the case. We are holding off any civil suit until and in case a criminal prosecution is launched. In any event, we plan to release the presentation we compiled on Peter Gleick soon to let the general public decide if justice has been served.Sleep well


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In a stunning development, some military priests are facing arrest if they celebrate mass or practice their faith on military bases during the federal government shutdown.
"With the government shutdown, many [government service] and contract priests who minister to Catholics on military bases worldwide are not permitted to work – not even to volunteer," wrote John Schlageter, the general counsel for the Archdiocese for the Military Services USA, in an op-ed this week. "During the shutdown, it is illegal for them to minister on base and they risk being arrested if they attempt to do so."
According to its website, the Archdiocese for the Military Services "provides the Catholic Church's full range of pastoral ministries and spiritual services to those in the United States Armed Forces."


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I saw that Bill Nye The Science Guy threw out the ceremonial first pitch at Friday night's Mariners game at Safeco Field against the Angels. Bill and I worked together on the Almost Live! comedy show for a number of years and we also watched plenty of Mariner games together. In fact, I believe we had a season-ticket package for a year or two.
Bill and I were diehard fans, which in those days was pretty difficult. The M's weren't very good, and playing in the cavernous Kingdome, the atmosphere was often lacking.
Going to a Mariners' game with Bill was a unique experience. Usually about 2 p.m., Bill would look up from his desk, laugh and say, "Eddie, I just remembered, we're going to a ballgame tonight. We're going to a (mild expletive) ballgame."
As Bill took his seat, he began to unload a backpack full of gear that wouldn't have been out of place in his Science Guy labs. He had a telescoping length of PVC pipe which he attached to some PVC legs, which made a sort of tripod. To that he affixed (by rubber band) a small transistor radio so he could listen to the late, great Dave Niehaus call the game.
Bill also had a clipboard for keeping score, and his scorecard was full of esoteric notes that went way beyond "K" and "BB." If I recall properly, "FRC" (fine running catch) was one of his favorites.
Bill was a passionate fan. And by passionate, I mean he yelled loudly at players. He didn't tolerate laziness or sloppy play.
One of his regular targets was third baseman Jim Presley, whom he rode mercilessly. One year, he already heckled Presley at spring training and on Opening Day greeted him with a "Hey, Jim, guess what? I'm baaack."
One time Bill shouted: "Hey Jimmy, it's going to be low and outside. You know it, I know it, the whole place knows it."
Lest I paint an ugly picture of a children's science educator harassing professional athletes in public, I must say that these were very dark times. I don't think the Mariners had a winning season while Bill and I were hanging out together.
And Bill was – despite his celebrity status in Seattle – a fan first and foremost. I may have covered my face with a Mariners' hat while he was yelling (especially if we were sitting near the players' girlfriends and wives) but Bill didn't care. He wanted the team to win.
So cheers for Bill's first pitch. I haven't seen the video yet on YouTube, but I'm sure it was a decent throw. If it wasn't, I can only hope that somewhere Jim Presley was yelling at his computer screen.
Ed Wyatt, former cast member of KING-TV's popular "Almost Live!" (1984-99) sketch comedy series, is a sports broadcaster and writer in Melbourne, Australia. He has eaten Vegemite and remains alive to talk about it.


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Talk:Main Page
IMPORTANT: Offline discussion
There is a Google group for discussion of the site: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/wikemacs so we should probably favor posting there. PhilHudson 16:16, 26 March 2012 (EEST)
IMPORTANT: Content Quality guidelines
I think before flame wars and fights among members, we should form proper/strict guide lines for each aspect of the site. DePuy Pinnacle Lawsuit Wikipedia has very strict rules about that., even their bots can tell the content quality of a page. we can create articles in "WikEmacs" Namespace. Kindahero 23:57, 1 April 2012 (EEST)
- Wikipedia has lots of rules today, but it started with very few rules and they invented the rules as they became necessary. It's impossible to predict what problems will be encountered. I'd suggest that rules only be made when it becomes clear that one is necessary. Ciaran 15:24, 29 January 2013 (EET)
I would like to structure the Main Page in boxes like here [1] the Featured Article/Project. Any objections? And maybe User:Bozhidar should write some lines about the relation to the "old" EmacsWiki?--Kenda 19:58, 24 March 2012 (EET)
This seems like a good idea. Might help us utilize better the screen estate. As for the relation to the EmacsWiki - it is more or less non-existing. We have the permission from Alex (kensanata) to migrate any content we choose to, but they won't be supporting us in any way. Bozhidar 20:28, 26 March 2012 (EEST)
Markup Conventions
Wikipedia linking convention
Could/should we have a convention for formatting and placement of wikipedia links on pages? PhilHudson 22:37, 24 March 2012 (EET)
EmacsWiki linking convention
Similar question to Wikipedia wrt EmacsWiki PhilHudson 23:06, 24 March 2012 (EET)
Describing Modes and Packages
Naming Conventions
I'd like to suggest *not* suffixing (links to) modes with "-mode". Thus: "org" not "org-mode". For consistency I've been adding links titled "org-mode" until now, since that one was already created when I started. PhilHudson 22:09, 24 March 2012 (EET)
- Agreed, let's use the "friendly" name of a package. I'd say "Org", "Gnus", "YASnippet", etc. GregLucas
- I actually disagree. E.g. Java could be a page describing the different Java capabilities of Emacs, with links to the different JavaScript modes. This is especially true for JavaScript, where the js-mode shipped with the latest Emacs is completely different from the other widely used js2-mode by Yegge. Damd 18:20, 25 March 2012 (EEST)
- Hm, good point about disambiguation... I still like the idea of using "titles" vs "commands", though. E.g. a Java page describing the built-in support (Java Mode) and then linking to articles on related packages (JDEE, etc) and why you might consider them instead. GregLucas 19:32, 25 March 2012 (EEST)
- Not ship, but a haskell-mode definitely exists and is in use...--184.108.40.206 18:33, 11 January 2013 (EET)
Template for mode-with-github-source pages?
Can Wikimedia do page templates? I'm sure the answer is yes. PhilHudson 23:07, 24 March 2012 (EET)
- The "Editing Help" link goes to a virgin page, not the full help page.
- Add Mediawiki Cite extension to enable footnotes.
- Add Category Tree extension to explore various categories like Category:Programming languages.
Syntax highlighting
Could we install a MediaWiki plugin which lets us do proper syntax highlighting of different languages? SyntaxHighlight GeSHi looks like a good alternative. damd 20:07, 25 March 2012 (EEST)
- I've already installed it, but it doesn't seem to work properly (the fonts seem terribly small) and it doesn't support Emacs Lisp. Bozhidar 20:24, 26 March 2012 (EEST)
- Are you sure the font size is not because of your web browser settings? They look just fine when I try it. About the Elisp support, we can still use just "lisp" until someone gets around to writing a version for Elisp. damd 18:44, 31 March 2012 (EEST)
- I also found font size in the code snippets are inconveniently low. I dont have any special settings for my browser. I am on recent firefox. Kindahero 18:52, 31 March 2012 (EEST)
- We could customize the CSS for the syntax highlighting plugin, but first let's make sure it's actually something in the CSS that causes this.
This is just an ordinary PRE element.
This is a PRE element generated by the syntax highlighting plugin.
- Is the font in both examples too tiny? If so, I suggest you check your browser settings. You can configure this in the "Content" section of Firefox's settings. damd 19:13, 1 April 2012 (EEST)
- I only find the second one small not the both. I started with 'firefox -safe-mode' still the same. It seems its general problem with Geshi see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5354968/changing-the-font-size-of-code-formatted-by-syntaxhighlight-geshi-in-mediawiki Kindahero 20:25, 1 April 2012 (EEST)
fails to create thumbnails
I think some adminstative settings must be made in order to produce thumbnails of the pictures automatically. Can anyone do this .? check out Dictem to see what I am talking about. Kindahero 16:21, 31 March 2012 (EEST)
- found this link, http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings#Thumbnail_settings Kindahero 16:24, 31 March 2012 (EEST)
- another link, http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?1334-Resized-thumbnail-images-not-displaying Feel free to delete these links Kindahero 16:28, 31 March 2012 (EEST)
- I see that on [[File:Screenshot-dictem-buffer.jpg]], the main image is not displayed. The "Full resolution" link shows a valid image. By the way, this type of question might be appropriate for Google Groups:WikEmacs. Xophist 21:31, 1 April 2012 (EEST)
needed plugins
- cite.php is needed to show references using <ref> </ref> for example http://wikemacs.org/wiki/Battery#How_to_show_battery_status_only_on_laptop.3F has ref, but not working.?
- I had this problem when getting Cite_web set up on en.swpat.org. If I look into how I got it working, could it be fixed here too? Ciaran 15:31, 29 January 2013 (EET)
WikEmacs staying open? Great!
Glad to hear it's not closing. Anything we (new contributors) should know? Is anything changing? Ciaran (talk) 09:51, 20 April 2013 (EDT)
- Hello, I am the new caretaker of WikEmacs. No major changes have been made. This will continue to be a site by and for the users, so I welcome all input for suggested changes. As the site expands and users return, we will likely need to revisit the control structure and possibly modify the site rules. For now I would like to focus on growing the wiki. --Holocronweaver (talk) 15:09, 22 April 2013 (EDT)
- Take a look at this: BackwardKillLine on emacswiki. If just reading this article does not inspire you to to keep WikEmacs open, nothing will I'm afraid. --Holocronweaver 22:30, 22 February 2013 (EET)
Keeping the licence situation clear and clean
Just noting the current situation...
- emacswiki.org is published under multiple licences, including GPLv2, GFDL (no version specified), CC-sa, and their own simple permissive licence.
- The GNU Emacs manual is published under GFDLv1.3+
- Existing WikEmacs texts are under GFDLv1.3+
For emacswiki.org, we could either ask them to specify their version(s) of GFDL, or we could use their text under their simple permissive licence. If we do the latter, we could include a mention of their copyright notice either in the default copyright notice at the bottom of all WikEmacs pages, or we could create a template "This page includes text from emacswiki.org, used under this licence".
For the GNU Emacs manual, if we're going to continue using GFDLv1.3+, then we don't have to do anything. But if we want to switch to the dual-licence model used by Wikipedia (and accepted by Stallman), then whenever we copy text from the manual, we'd have to put a template on those pages to say that those pages are only available under GFDLv1.3+ (and not CC-sa).
For text by WikEmacs contributors, we could continue to license it under GFDLv1.3+, or we could say that from now on, contributions are under the Wikipedia-style dual-licence (GFDLv1.3+ and CC-sa). This wouldn't change much but it would give us more options in the future if we do encounter problems.
I'll have to think for a while before having any recommendations, and there's currently nothing messy or problematic, but just wanted to note the situation early on in case anyone wants to make suggestions. I have experience with licensing issues. Ciaran (talk) 07:02, 23 April 2013 (EDT)
- I have spent some time thinking on this, and your suggestion of asking emacswiki.org to clarify their version of GFDL appears to be simplest. That way WikEmacs could maintain its current GFDLv1.3+ license and no ugly licensing notices would be necessary when porting content from emacswiki.org, assuming thes choose GFDLv1.3+. In the event they choose a different version of GFDL, is it possible to port old versions of the license to new versions so we could use the material under GFDL1.3+? --Holocronweaver (talk) 13:30, 3 May 2013 (EDT)
- Ok, I've thought through the scenarios now. The current Wikemacs licence notice is fine: if wikemacs contains original content plus emacswiki content plus GNU manual content plus Wikipedia content, it will always be true that the recipient can distribute under GFDL v1.3 or any later version. (emacswiki doesn't textually say "v1.3+" but all their pages are also under a do what you want, just preserve our copyright notice licence, so GFDL version ambiguities can be ignored.) So nothing has to be changed in the footer.
- The two other issues are the copyright details, and the licence of original contributions.
- Copyright details. If we include material from the manual/wikipedia/emacswiki, then we have to mention this somewhere (otherwise we'd be claiming to own stuff we copied from them). At a minimum, we have to put a general statement in WikEmacs:Copyrights to say "Some pages incorporate text from XYZ, received under <copy of their licence notice>".
- Legally, that's all that's necessary. But, by lacking precision it leads to certain inconveniences. For example, if someone wants to copy an article from here that contains just original content, they should be able to include just a single line "copyright 2013 Wikemacs", but if there's no way to see that it's original content then that person will have to include all the "this may contain..." statements from WikEmacs:Copyrights. Or if there's a problem later (such as someone adding non-free content to emacswiki, and us copying it over), we're left with a mess not knowing what pages have to be checked/reverted.
- (This reminds me that the copyright situation of my own wiki is not a shining example, but that's less problematic since all material is original content.)
- So, for keeping track of copyrights, nothing is required and complexity just makes people less likely to do it, so it's just a matter of picking the low hanging fruit. I see four possibilities:
- Mention "from XYZ" in the edit summary. Drawback: if someone forgot to do this, there's no way to go back later and put it into the edit summary, and, the only way to search all edit summaries is by going to each page... tedious.
- Mention it on the page. This is what wikipedia does. Make a template so that editors can add {{copyright manual}} to the bottom of the page or in the "References" section to add one sentence "This page incorporates bla bla see WikEmacs:Copyrights".
- Same, but put it at the top of the Talk: page.
- Make a page for listing which pages contain substantial amounts of material from what sources.
- The last two look nice and clean but that's also a drawback since if reader-contributors don't see how copyright info is noted, they won't realise that they should also make a note when they add third-party content to a page. The second solution adds a bit of mess to the page, but it works well with the wiki model of learn-by-copying.
- So, for keeping track of copyrights, nothing is required and complexity just makes people less likely to do it, so it's just a matter of picking the low hanging fruit. I see four possibilities:
- If in doubt, I'd go with the second option. (Copying Wikipedia is usually a safe move.) We can always change at a later stage.
- The last thing is the licence of new contributions (i.e. what should the notice under the edit box say "all contributions to WikEmacs are considered to be released under..."). My usual reflex is to use GNU whatever, but Stallman did give Wikipedia the green light to move to a dual GFDL + CC-by-sa for original contributions. I can't remember all the problems that motivated Wikipedia to migrate, but I think there were some issues like GFDL's requirement to include a copy of the licence when distributing covered works (so when you print a 2-page article, you have to add the 10 pages of the licence). Copying Wikipedia's approach probably has some practical advantages for people re-using Wikemacs material, and it allows people to copy material from Wikemacs into Wikipedia (while still being able to copy wikemacs material into the GNU manuals etc.). So for new contributions, a plain GFDLv1.3+ is fine, but the Wikipedia model is probably better. This wouldn't change the footer - GFDL would still be our primary licence since some pages would combine original content (GFDL+CC-by-sa) with content from the GNU manual (GFDL only) and the combination could only be distributed under GFDL, not CC-by-sa.
- It would also be a good idea for the notice under the edit box to tell people "If you incorporate material from the GNU manual, please include {{copyright manual}} at the end of the page", and similar for emacswiki and Wikipedia.
Which emacswiki.org topics to work on?
So, for each of the useful pages on emacswiki.org, we should make our own pages for those topics and incorporate the knowledge that's in the emacswiki.org pages, but how do we make a list of the useful emacswiki.org pages?
Does the site have any equivalents to MediaWiki's pages:
? (But IMO we should take a decision on the licence before doing a lot of work.) Ciaran (talk) 12:27, 24 April 2013 (EDT)
- If not, I wonder if search engines could help us approximate the "value" of each page?
- Hmm. I'd take that as a no. Looks like a random selection. Any other ideas?
- Finding the pages with the most revisions shouldn't be too hard. Just involves a script downloading the history of each page and sorting by length. That might give an indication of the good pages.
- The info on alexa.com isn't too solid, but gives some hints about what people look for. Ciaran (talk) 11:19, 3 June 2013 (EDT)
- I will look into this. In the mean time, I would edit articles whenever you cannot you find the information you want on the wiki. This is how I edit wikis in general. --Holocronweaver (talk) 22:07, 26 November 2013 (EST)


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Update 8:21 ET. Two Slain Americans Identified:
Two of the security personnel who were killed Tuesday along with Ambassador Chris Stevens and Information Management Officer Sean Smith have been identified. They are Tyrone S. Woods and Glen A. Doherty, both security personnel who died helping protect their colleagues. Both men were former Navy SEALs, according to a statement from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Here's more from the statement:
"Tyrone's friends and colleagues called him 'Rone,' and they relied on his courage and skill, honed over two decades as a Navy SEAL. In uniform, he served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since 2010, he protected American diplomatic personnel in dangerous posts from Central America to the Middle East. He had the hands of a healer as well as the arm of a warrior, earning distinction as a registered nurse and certified paramedic. All our hearts go out to Tyrone's wife Dorothy and his three sons, Tyrone Jr., Hunter, and Kai, who was born just a few months ago.
"We also grieve for Glen Doherty, called Bub, and his family: his father Bernard, his mother Barbara, his brother Gregory, and his sister Kathleen. Glen was also a former Navy SEAL and an experienced paramedic. And he put his life on the line many times, protecting Americans in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other hotspots. In the end, he died the way he lived – with selfless honor and unstinting valor."
Update 2:25 ET. Four In Custody:
NPR's Dina Temple-Raston says Libyan officials have informed the U.S. that four people are in custody in connection with the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other embassy staffers on Tuesday.
But U.S. officials have yet to interview the detainees, described as "militants" or to verify their involvement in the attack. She says it is also unclear whether those arrested are Libyans or foreigners.
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Violence sparked by an anti-Islam film and video clip has spread from Libya and Egypt to Yemen today, with protesters in the capital Sanaa storming the U.S. Embassy compound.
Chanting "death to America," the Yemeni protesters broke through a security forces cordon and marched toward the embassy. The protesters reportedly got through the main gate but not into the embassy building itself.
Meanwhile, clashes continued near the U.S. embassy in Egypt, and a U.S. Marine anti-terrorist team has been dispatched to secure U.S. diplomatic facilities in Libya, where an attack earlier this week took the life of Ambassador Chris Stevens.
In Sanaa, protesters removed the embassy's sign on the outer wall and set tires ablaze, The Associated Press reports. Once inside the compound, they brought down the U.S. flag and burned it, the news agency says.
Iona Craig, a reporter from The Times of London who was outside the embassy in Yemen, told NPR that it initially appeared that security forces allowed the hundreds of protesters to break the cordon.
Once protesters got about 60 meters beyond the cordon, security forces fired warning shots with AK-47s and machine guns. "Then everybody ran in panic," she said.
Witnesses say security forces have since restored calm at the embassy. Yemeni news agencies report that U.S. embassy staff had already been evacuated by the time violence broke out.
The anti-Islam film The Innocence of Muslims, produced in the United States and seen mostly via a trailer posted on YouTube, is the proximate cause of the unrest.
On Thursday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States government had nothing to do with the "disgusting and reprehensible" film, which she called a cynical attempt to "denigrate a great religion and to provoke rage." However, Clinton emphasized that the U.S. would never stop Americans from expressing their views.
Authorities in Afghanistan have gone so far as to shutdown access to YouTube "indefinitely" to keep Afghans from seeing the film they say insults the Prophet Muhammad, according to NPR's Soraya Sarhadi Nelson in Kabul. Authorities hope blocking the website will help prevent outbreaks of the violence. But she says the Internet provider has yet to receive official notification of the request to block the website and that it is still accessible.
NPR's Leila Fadel, reporting from Cairo, says protesters there seemed to be less concerned about the film and more intent on provoking police, who were seen as a tool of oppression under the past autocratic regime of President Hosni Mubarak.
She says armored vehicles and riot police tried to disperse a crowd of a few hundred young men at the U.S. embassy compound there. Protesters were forced back into nearby Tahrir square and side streets by police using tear gas to disperse the crowd, Fadel says.
NPR's Tom Bowman reports that more than 50 U.S. Marines have arrived in Tripoli to take up security duties at the American embassy, which has been reduced to emergency staffing levels after the consulate in Benghazi was attacked by armed assailants, killing the ambassador and three other diplomatic staff.
He says diplomatic posts around the world have been asked to review security procedures.
A senior administration official says there was a recent security review for the American consulate in preparation for the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to Bowman. But the official told reporters there was no indication of a heightened threat that would call for more security personnel.
UPDATE at 12:50 ET:
Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking today in Qatar, says the FBI has opened an investigation into the deaths of the ambassador and the three other embassy personnel in Benghazi.
In Egypt, NPR's Fadel reports that the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood says "peaceful demonstration" against the film is the duty of all Egyptians - both Muslim and Christian. The party called on protesters to contain their anger.
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10 Facts About Christmas Cacti
If you're lucky, you could receive a Christmas cactus as a gift this holiday season. This common house plant blooms during the Christmas season, but its long green arms are attractive throughout the year. With cultivars in a rainbow of colors, it is a plant worthy of appreciation. These 10 facts about Christmas cacti will help you to care for your plant if you happen to receive one this holiday season.
1. It's called a "cactus", but it thrives in cooler temperatures. Christmas cacti need to be kept away from heat sources. According to the Purdue University Extension Service, a Christmas cactus will blossom longer when exposed to only cooler temperatures. For best results, keep your Christmas cactus in a cool place (away from heaters and fireplaces) where there are not frequent drafts (right next to a frequently used door would not be a good place). Big changes in temperature can cause the blooms to drop off the plant before they open. The optimal temperature for Christmas cacti is 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Christmas Cacti need light to bloom. According to Purdue University Extension Service, keeping your Christmas cactus plants in a sunny location indoors is the key to prolonged blooms. However, if you move them outside during the summer, you'll have the most success in a partially shaded location, as too much direct light can burn the leaves.
3. The Christmas cactus is native to Brazil. These epiphytes (a plant that grows on top of another plant non-parasitically) grow in the Brazilian rain forest, among tree branches, according to Clemson University Cooperative Extension. Since they are tropical plants, they thrive in humid conditions.
4. Christmas cacti need their beauty sleep. The horticulture experts at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens recommend setting your Christmas cactus in a room where you never turn the lights on at night. In order for the flower buds to set, Christmas cacti need 14 hours or more of continuous darkness per day. However, after the flower buds have set, Christmas cacti can withstand lights on at night.
5. Unlike the other Christmas favorite, Poinsettia, Christmas cactus is not toxic to dogs and cats. Poinsettia is famously poisonous to dogs and cats. However, according to the ASPCA, if Fido or Fluffy nibbles on a Christmas cactus, she should not experience irritation or vomiting like she would from the sap of the Poinsettia.
6. Christmas Cactus can live for 20 to 30 years. Can you imagine passing a living, flowering plant on to your children or grandchildren? According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, when properly cared for, Christmas cacti can live for 20 to 30 years. If you provide long nights starting around October 1st, you can force the Christmas cactus to bloom year after year. Cool night temperatures can also encourage it to bloom.
7. Overwatering will kill Christmas cacti, but they like to be misted on a daily basis. A horticulturist at the Oregon State University Extension Service recommend only adding water to the soil that a Christmas cactus is planted in when the soil is dry to the touch. Instead, gardening expert and radio host Walter Reeves, the Georgia Gardener, suggests misting the leaves of the Christmas cactus to maintain the desired level of humidity around the plant.
8. 5 diseases commonly infect Christmas cactus. Penn State University Extension experts provide a handy fact sheet that outlines the plant diseases that most often affect Christmas cacti. Their list includes: Basal stem rot, botrytis blight, impatiens necrotic spot virus, phytophthora root rot, and pythium root rot.
9. Fungus gnats, flower thrips, and root mealybugs are the pests that most often infest Christmas cacti. The University of Massachusetts-Amherst Extension Service recommends preventative measures. The biggest culprit in attracting pests to Christmas cacti seems to be overwatering. Preventative care, such as discarding infested plants, is another recommended tactic. Pesticides are available for commercial growers, although home-growers may not be able to get their hands on those pesticides.
10. By the way, that Christmas cactus you are buying is probably not actually a Christmas cactus. Surprise! According to the U-Mass Extension Service, "Holiday cactus is sometimes marketed as Christmas cactus, Thanksgiving cactus, or Zygocactus. The "true" Christmas cactus is an interspecific hybrid of Schlumbergera truncata and Schlumbergera russelliana that originated about 150 years ago in England. It is a common houseplant but is not often grown commercially. Plants have segments with rounded margins, ribbed ovaries, and purplish-brown anthers. The correct latin name for Christmas cactus is Schlumbergera x buckleyi; the "x" indicates that it is an interspecific hybrid. Most commercial cultivars of holiday cactus are actually Schlumbergera truncata, commonly known as Thanksgiving cactus or Zygocactus."
Tell us how you feel about Christmas cacti. Are they the perfect gift for the person who has everything? Do you prefer Amaryllis? Ready? Go.
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Drew Barrymore launching her own beauty brand
Drew Barrymore, an accomplished actress, producer and director, is launching her own beauty brand. Maybe, she says, it's the next chapter now that she's married art consultant Will Koppelman and they have a 4-month-old daughter, Olive.
She's not just starring in the ad campaign or splashing her name on the box. Barrymore says she is growing Flower, which will be sold exclusively at Wal-Mart stores, from the ground up. (Products are being added all month, and Flower will be fully launched by the end of January.)
"I think it could last, and my daughter could work on it someday," the 37-year-old Barrymore says. "I think I've earned the right to do it, after so many years working with Cover Girl, and I've been in a makeup chair since I was 6."
This was hardly a whim. While development and production have moved quickly, taking about 18 months to sign the deals with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and manufacturer Maesa to launch with 181 products, it's been on her mind all day, every day.
On the day of this interview, she had posted a Facebook update tallying up the hundreds of meetings, the thousands of miles flown - including to Wal-Mart headquarters in Arkansas - and what feels like millions of questions, requests and comments to the lab.
She's an eager makeup enthusiast - "I don't think much about clothes, but if you take away my concealer, I wouldn't know what to do," she says.
Barrymore spent five years as co-creative director at CoverGirl for beauty behemoth Proctor & Gamble, so she went into the new cosmetics line with big ideas but also realistic expectations, she says.
"I wanted to make a new model with Wal-Mart. I wanted a different business model, I want the money to go into the formula," she says.
For her own use, there is an unlimited supply of the very best cosmetics and skin-care products for the taking - probably for free - but she says most women don't find themselves in that enviable position. "Women shouldn't have to pay a lot to look and feel their best," she says.
Flower cosmetics, which include lip colors, eye shadows, nail polishes and mascaras, range in price from about $5 to $14.
What Barrymore doesn't like are feathering lipsticks, uneven foundations -- and anything that is too hard to find. Yes, even with her full vanity at home, she's had to run out to the local drugstore in some remote places because an airline lost her luggage or she forgot to pack something.
If she doesn't look her best, there will be a photographer around the corner to capture it, she says.
One would think that a signature girlish giggle from Barrymore, the granddaughter of screen legend John Barrymore and star of "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial," the "Charlie's Angels" movies and the HBO movie "Grey Gardens," would go a long way.
Watching her in the corporate board rooms at the Tribeca offices of Maesa, Barrymore seems in control of the conversations she's having with executives, publicists and reporters while putting everyone at ease.
She's wearing a colorful shirt and dark jeans, and her hair is wrapped in a tight bun. She pops in and out of a chair during a photo shoot to greet colleagues. Maybe she makes her handlers a tiny bit frustrated because she carefully considers the colors and products she wants to highlight as her "picks." (I Lavendare You nail polish, About Face foundation and Intense Black mascara eventually emerge as the "must-haves" of the day.)
As with everything in life, Barrymore says, finding the right partner is what makes it work. "If you're alone in your living room with goals, then you're alone in your living room with goals. All together -- here we are."
Wal-Mart was already planning to make over its beauty department, says Carmen Bauza, vice president of beauty and personal care for Wal-Mart U.S.
"We wanted something special. We were not interested in a trend, a celebrity brand that wouldn't last," she said. "We want this to be here and be here for a long time."
Bauza adds, "I know my customer finds Drew relatable."
Flower Films is the name of Barrymore's production company, and it seemed a natural for a beauty brand. It's pretty, uplifting and happy -- and it could be the most ornate rose or the simplest daisy, just like the woman wearing it.
Barrymore says she was surprised the name wasn't taken, but her father-in-law, Arie Koppelman, the former Chanel CEO, couldn't believe it. "He kept saying, 'How could it not be taken?' And it is pretty insane that there's at least not a perfume with that name!"
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The giants of the tech industry are uniting to wage a campaign for sweeping reforms to the National Security Agency.
Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, LinkedIn and AOL are setting aside their business rivalries to demand that Congress and President Obama scale back the government's voracious surveillance.
These companies had little to no qualms about teaming up with the US government back when it was all done in relative secrecy, but now that it's out in the open, they're acting like heroes. This campaign would never have been launched if Snowden hadn't blown the whistle, which means the motive behind this new campaign is money – not morality.


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For some home-based projects, such as painting a room, organizing a garage, or installing a shelf, the do-it-yourself (DIY) trend method is alive and well. But there is a point when a homeowner will call in an expert when the task becomes too complex or time-consuming to be accomplished alone.
Many realize that failure to engage someone with more experience usually results in wasted time, added expense and possible injury. The security of your corporate network is no different. The DIY approach to protecting your company's data and navigating through its many challenges can also result in wasted time, added expense and injury to the network.
For small and medium-sized businesses, the burden of installing, patching, and maintaining hardware and software-based security solutions can be both time consuming and costly. Because the complexity and frequency of attacks continue to accelerate, most companies struggle to keep up. IT staff at many SMBs believe they've got things adequately covered with security software installed on the client and at the network perimeter. Unconsciously, these IT teams are adopting a"wait and see" approach, hoping their network doesn't get breached and cause serious damage to their company's business and reputation.
In a May 2010 study, the Aberdeen Group indicated that organizations using cloud-delivered security saw a significant improvement in malware incidents, website compromises, data loss and data exposure, security related downtime, and audit deficiencies.
Moreover, as companies struggle to keep up, the threat landscape continues to evolve. Attacks are becoming much more sophisticated and targeted. A breach of your company's network security using cleverly designed emails is no longer the typical attack vector. The new frontier is through blended threats that employ social engineering techniques, zero-day attacks, and advanced persistent threats. Facebook and other social networking sites, for example, have blurred the lines between our work and personal lives. And this blurred space has a whole new threat avenue for attackers to gain access to the corporate and personal information we exchange on these sites. Keeping up with the most recent routes of attack is no small task, especially for a smaller business whose staff may be quite small.
As a result of the ever-changing threat landscape and the consistent allocation of IT and company resources on network security, the DIY approach has lost its appeal and effectiveness. Small and mid-sized companies, in particular, can't afford to be network security experts, mitigating every attack and anticipating the next big threat. They have a business to run and managing security and preventing threats is not their focus. It's a burden unjustly placed on the SMB, who often do not have the resources or inclination to manage the ongoing security challenge.
It shouldn't have to be this way. Security should work for the SMB and not the other way around. It's time for security vendors to assume a stronger, more active role in managing and maintaining the protection of their client's networks.
There is good news, however. Just as threats have evolved, so has the industry's ability to combat them through new and innovative cloud-based approaches. Cloud applications and cloud services have become so prevalent that companies, especially of small and medium size, are using them to streamline their business processes and reduce operating costs. Software as a Service (SaaS) applications provides businesses with CRM, payroll, HR, sales, accounting, and dozens of other critical solutions. SaaS applications reduce the headaches associated with purchasing, installing, and maintaining software on site. All upgrades, patches, and support are left to the cloud service provider. Businesses only pay for the services they need and use.
As small and medium-sized businesses look to simplify their security management through the elimination of hardware, reduced administration, and centralized management, the cloud is fast becoming the most viable alternative.
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Cloud-delivered services can dynamically grow or shrink based on the needs of the SMB and you only pay for what you need based on usage. Cloud-delivered security allows the SMB to focus on their business and abandon or reduce the DIY security approach.
The cloud also provides better protection for SMBs. In a May 2010 study, the Aberdeen Group indicated that organizations using cloud-delivered security saw a significant improvement in malware incidents, website compromises, data loss and data exposure, security related downtime, and audit deficiencies. The reason for these improvements is likely due to additional the cloud security layer where the vendor manages security software and definition file updates. The burden of staying on top of these activities is costly, time-consuming, and subject to operator error.
Cloud-delivered security means that an IT staff can stay ahead of emerging threats. As technology evolves so do the threats. You can be certain that whatever devices are being used by your employees, cybercriminals have their eye on how to exploit them.
The cloud eliminates the need to manage each device on your network. Consider the benefits of cloud security with your remote employees. Network traffic such as web application requests and email is instead routed through the cloud security service prior to allowing end user access. Therefore enforcing security and internet policies is a centralized and effective task via the cloud. Regardless of the devices attaching to your network (under the cloud security umbrella), they all must route their requests through the cloud security service to ensure safe access.
The cloud delivers SMBs cost savings, easier management, and better security for their network. Webroot has been helping organizations manage their complex levels of security for almost a decade and a half. As networks and the internet infrastructure have evolved, Webroot has been in lockstep providing leading-edge security solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. The layered security approach from Webroot provides SMBs critical coverage at the application, endpoint, data, and cloud layers. Webroot is accepting the mission to work for businesses of all sizes, not the other way around. To that end, the security company is leading the revolution in the cloud, providing comprehensive and affordable coverage through its cloud service.
Cloud-delivered security from Webroot ensures rapid and easy deployment, unlimited capacity, and guaranteed performance. Your IT staff can now focus on delivering applications and solutions to the user community instead of worrying about the next security breach. Sophisticated web and email security solutions from Webroot mean that your devices are protected when they route their web traffic through the cloud for fast inspection and compliance with your custom security policies.
The DIY approach to network security is being replaced by next-generation cloud protection from Webroot. The SaaS approach to web and email security means threats are blocked before they hit your network. Webroot has built the industry's first true threat protection, policy management, and compliance solution for the SMB. Through a simple setup, a business can easily route its web application and email traffic through a Webroot data center for lightning-fast analysis and protection.
The SMB can now effectively shift the security burden to the experts whose sole focus and expertise is to protect your network. It's time to let security work for you. It's time to let the professionals manage the fundamental security layers of your network and let you get back to running your business. It's time for Webroot.


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text: Elaine Causey Trauger died peacefully at home on November 12, 2012. Born on October 18, 1922, Elaine grew up on the family farm near Greensboro, NC with her loving parents, Roscoe Cheek Causey and Isabel Craven Causey, and her dear sister Belle Eloise Causey (Butler). They were surrounded by a wonderful extended Causey family, especially including her late cousin Benson, who was like a brother to her. A brilliant student, Elaine graduated from high school at age 15 and from Greensboro College at age 19. After teaching school for a year, Elaine struck out on her own and moved to New York City to obtain a Master's Degree in Foods and Nutrition at Columbia University. The excitement of the World War II years in New York culminated for Elaine when she met the Nebraska farm boy who was to become the love of her life, Don Trauger. A nine-month whirlwind romance led to their marriage in her family church, Mt. Pleasant (United) Methodist Church, on September 2, 1945. Elaine and Don's almost giddy affection and profound love for each other never waned through their 63 years of marriage. The newlyweds found their way to Oak Ridge, TN in 1946. They expected a temporary stay, but it lasted the rest of their lives. Elaine became the Chief Dietician and Manager of the Oak Ridge High School cafeteria for three years until the birth of their son, Byron, in 1949. Another son, Tom, followed in 1951. Elaine loved Oak Ridge. She threw herself into charitable and civic life, initially through First United Methodist Church where she served in many capacities, notably as the first woman chair of the Administrative Board. For 15 years in mid-life, Elaine taught the senior high Sunday School class at First Church, and one of her great joys in her later years was to learn of the successes of those students whom she called "my kids." Elaine loved the YWCA, where she served on the board and taught money management classes for many years. She also taught cooking classes for the Girl Scouts and served many other local organizations. She was one of the founders of the volunteer program at Methodist Medical Center. Elaine's most visible service to her community began in 1977, when she was elected the second woman member of the Oak Ridge City Council. Initially opposed by the Chamber of Commerce, the Labor Council, and by both the Republican and Democratic parties, Elaine won her first election overwhelmingly. By the time she retired in 1989, she had earned the respect and support of all four organizations - and of many others. She served on the Steering Committee of the National League of Cities' Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Policy Committee, was a founding member of the Women in Government organization in Tennessee, and was Vice Chair of the Tennessee Committee for the Humanities. As a member of the City Council, Elaine was blind to party labels, but was passionate in support of public education, economic development, and beautification. She was especially devoted to the Oak Ridge School System, even when that meant taking unpopular positions. Elaine loved connecting with people and was a faithful friend. She was devoted to the members of her bridge clubs, and for more than fifty years regularly met with close women friends in what they called the Sewing Club. In the early years, they actually did sew together, but the group evolved into a gathering of soul mates. Elaine and Don loved to entertain their friends, and all appreciated Elaine's culinary genius. They hosted brunches on Christmas Day for several years, invited scores of foreign visitors to home-cooked meals, and regularly entertained friends and colleagues in large parties and intimate gatherings. Elaine survived two earlier brushes with death. The first, in 1959, resulted from a renal shutdown following the death of an infant daughter. On that occasion, Elaine experienced what has since been described as a "near-death" experience, which confirmed her strong belief in the life hereafter. The second, in 1987, occurred when she was stricken with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. She used that experience later to counsel others who suffered from cancer. Elaine was preceded in death by her parents, her sister, her infant brother, two infant children, Harold Joseph Trauger and Caroline Sue Trauger, and her husband, Donald Byron Trauger. She is survived by her sons, Byron Roscoe Trauger (Aleta) in Nashville and Thomas Charles Trauger (Jana Belsky) in Washington, DC, two granddaughters, Hallie Causey Trauger and Katherine Aleta Trauger, a great-granddaughter, Riley Grace Trauger, and many beloved members of the Causey family in North Carolina and of Don's Nebraska family. A service of remembrance and celebration will be held at First United Methodist Church, Oak Ridge, on Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 1:00 p.m., with visitation to follow. The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, contributions be made to First United Methodist Church or to a charity of your choice. Online messages to the family may be left at www.martinfuneralhomeoakridge.com . Martin Oak Ridge Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.


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High blood pressure is 2 times more likely to strike a person with diabetes. Left untreated, high blood pressure can cause serious health problems. These include:
Heart disease
Kidney disease
Eye problems
A person with diabetes and high blood pressure is 4 times more likely to have heart disease. And 2 out of 3 adults with diabetes have blood pressure higher than 130/80 mm Hg (see below). Or they use prescription medicines for high blood pressure.
What is high blood pressure?
Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against your artery walls. Each time your heart beats, it pumps blood into these arteries. The highest blood pressure occurs when your heart beats and is pumping blood. High blood pressure raises the risk of heart attack and stroke. With high blood pressure, the arteries may have more resistance against blood flow. Then the heart must pump harder to circulate the blood.
Two numbers are used to measure blood pressure:
Top number (systolic pressure). This is the pressure inside the artery when the heart beats.
Bottom number (diastolic pressure). This is the pressure inside the artery when the heart rests between beats.
Both the systolic and diastolic pressures are recorded as mm Hg (millimeters of mercury).
Blood pressure is grouped as normal, elevated, or stage 1 or stage 2 high blood pressure:
Normal blood pressure. Lower than 120/lower than 80
Elevated blood pressure. 120 to 129/Less than 80
Stage 1 high blood pressure. 130 to 139/ or diastolic between 80 and 89
Stage 2 high blood pressure. 140 or higher/ or 90 or higher
Your healthcare provider will recommend a blood pressure goal for you. This will be based on your own unique circumstances.
What are the symptoms of high blood pressure?
Symptoms can be different for each person. Often people with high blood pressure don't have symptoms you can see. If your blood pressure is very high, you may have these symptoms:
Blurred vision
The symptoms of high blood pressure may look like other health conditions or problems. Always talk with your healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
Preventing high blood pressure
These tips can help prevent high blood pressure:
Have regular medical checkups that include blood pressure measurements.
Reduce your salt intake.
Eat whole-grain breads and cereals.
Try stress-relieving activities.
Exercise regularly.
Get to and stay at a healthy weight.
Don't drink too much alcohol.
Stop smoking and stay away from secondhand smoke.
Check your blood pressure at home. Write the measurements down and bring them with you to your medical visits.
Treatment for high blood pressure
Treatment will depend on your symptoms, age, and general health. It will also depend on how severe the condition is.
Treatment may include exercise, a balanced diet, and quitting smoking. Your healthcare provider may also prescribe medicines.
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Box Out: On Brittney Griner and Women Who Ball (Better Than You)
I have beef with Brittney Griner. It's not because the Baylor University women's basketball team she leads beat Notre Dame in the women's NCAA Division 1 championship a couple of weeks ago, and I like an underdog–even if it is Notre Dame. It's not because my beloved Tennessee Lady Volunteers were one of Baylor's casualties on its road to a perfect, 40-0 season. It's not because she's tall. Although I would have appreciated a few more inches, I've never wanted to be 6'8; just a 5'10 or so shooting guard with an Olajuwon-esque baseline fadeaway. I have beef with Brittney Griner because she can dunk. And I've always wanted to dunk.
More than hitting a home run, more than throwing (or catching) a perfect spiral, dunking a basketball is, to me, the ultimate sports feat. Perhaps only rivaled by soccer's beauty, the dunk is arguably the most spectacular play in all of sports. A select few–and even fewer women– have felt the satisfaction of catapulting themselves above the hardwood towards the rim, often contorting their bodies in the most artistic of ways before (powerfully) stuffing the basketball through the hoop. I'm sure the joy I felt after slamming one home on a 9-foot basket back when I was a Y-ball referee would have multiplied exponentially had the rim actually been at the regulation height. Of course, I'll never know, as my vertical has diminished in the years since I taught 6-year-olds what traveling, in the basketball sense, was. So even though her team's victory ensured that UConn did not cut down nets (and all is right with the world) I cannot help but throw Brittney Griner a side-eye as she swings from the rim. I have dunk envy.
Griner's slams are noticeably unlike the women who have dunked before her. Although Michelle Snow, Lisa Leslie, and Candace Parker have all done it, Griner dunks with such spectacular ease, that one almost minimizes the feats of her predecessors. A Youtube phenom before she became the most imposing force in women's basketball since Cheryl Miller, Griner's dominance through all of last season was awe-inspiring. Her 7'4 wingspan helps her dominate the paint; she runs the floor effortlessly. Griner is so impressively athletic we forget she's doing all of this–things most of us average-sized earthlings cannot–at a height (6'8) many associate with a laborious clumsiness.
Where I see Griner's blessings, though, others have found an opportunity to question her gender. Perhaps the only thing more jaw-dropping than Griner's game is the frequency with which Griner is called a man, told that she's not a "real woman." For some, Griner's aforementioned height, size 17 sneakers, deep voice, and athletic dominance firmly plant her outside of the box inside which we check, shudder, female.
Notre Dame coach, Muffet McGraw did not help matters when she said that Griner was like "a guy playing with women," after the championship game. Although Griner took McGraw's words as a compliment, comments like that do nothing but reiterate and further inflame the idea that Griner is too tall, too athletic, her voice too deep to be a woman. And if she is a woman, well, she must be a lesbian.
As admirable as one might find Griner's own coach's efforts to call out hecklers for the way that they disparage her star player, their actions seem to be mere surface level antics to a more deeply problematic and narrow notion of womanhood. Despite light skin and what many would regard as a rather feminine-looking face, Griner more than likely will not appear in ESPN: The Magazine's famed Body Issue, that features women with physiques considered acceptably traditional and more likely to please the male gaze. A more probable option would be Griner's opponent on championship night, Notre Dame point guard Skylar Diggins who, a foot shorter and hair straighter, turned many a head during last year's tournament. Even Lil Wayne tweeted about Diggins; another rapper wrote an ode to her. Both juniors, Diggins and Griner will likely turn pro together. And Diggins' seeming beauty will inevitably put Candace Parker's baby hair to shame. Assuming she succeeds at the pro level, Diggins is a likely candidate to become a face of the WNBA; she could get the men to watch. And although Griner's dominance in the WNBA almost seems inevitable, she may prove a much more complicated sell. She's too tall, her voice too deep. And if heterosexual men don't think they can beat you at a sport, they at least want to think they can sleep with you after the game.
The response to Griner highlights, yet again, a problem much older than Title IX. Which is to say that women (athletes), especially those who do not fall into traditional boxes of female beauty, have to contend with the way they make others, namely men, uncomfortable. My father refused to buy me black sneakers because he said they were for boys; though he signed me up and helped coach my AAU team, my stepdad required that I wear a skirt to school twice a week. As my aversion to stockings suggests, none of this was done for my comfort, but rather theirs. (And it didn't quell my gay, anyway.) Just as athletics allow men to be affectionate with each other in ways they otherwise would not, women's athletics and other, similar homosocial spaces, work differently and thus engender a pressure not to violate or offend male gazes.
At its most innocuous, this pressure results in what I call over-heteroing, wherein women who congregate in spaces where their femininity and/or sexuality may be questioned seem to overwork their appearance so that they appear to unequivocally desire the attention of men. I speculate that this is why some women play sports in makeup, or why women assistant coaches and graduate assistants occasionally look like they're about the hit up the club after the game. At its worst, though, it goes beyond heckles and courtside stilettos. And women can't just be like Brittney, brush their shoulders and wave to the haters. When such pressure is linked to power, what results are situations like what happened to Caster Semenya. And it goes beyond the unfortunate. Such acts are not simply disparaging, but go beyond the continued violation and marginalization of women to a level that endangers them.
And that's how hecklers answer their own speculation about whether or not Brittney Griner is a woman. Of course she is. Otherwise, she would not have to withstand their continued verbal assualts. Word to Mike Tyson.


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So, these specific photos out of my large inspiration folder seemed to fit together really well and shall serve as Spring and Summer inspiration for me. Hopefully things will pick up here soon and I can actually post my pictures from Tokyo as opposed to staring at them blankly and thinking about how much time it would take to move my hand to the mouse.
The mood here is kind of sandy, fraying, paper mache, squinting your eyes, cold and sunny, scratchy, nude, beige, muted aqua, white.


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We don't know too much about a Nepalese man who's in medical isolation in Texas while being treated for extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB, the most difficult-to-treat kind. Health authorities are keen to protect his privacy.
But we do know that he traveled through 13 countries — from South Asia to somewhere in the Persian Gulf to Latin America — before he entered the U.S. illegally from Mexico in late November. He traveled by plane, bus, boat, car and on foot.
And all the way he may have unwittingly put hundreds of other people at risk of getting the highly drug-resistant TB strain.
That possibility has triggered a far-reaching investigation by the U.S. and other health authorities to track down potentially exposed people around the world. "It's a huge effort that's ongoing," Dr. Martin Cetron, who heads the division of global management and quarantine at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tells Shots.
The case, first described by Betsy McKay at the The Wall Street Journal, provides a window on a problem that health officials say is sure to arise more and more often.
XDR-TB is a more dangerous part of a bigger problem with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, or MDR-TB.
"We estimate at any one time in the world there are about 630,000 cases of MDR-TB," Dr. Dennis Falzon of the World Health Organization tells Shots, referring to multi-drug-resistant TB. MDR-TB isn't vanquished by the two mainstay drugs isoniazid and rifampin and requires more complicated drug regimens.
In 2007, a young lawyer named Andrew Speaker became the best-known case of MDR-TB when he flew to Europe, potentially exposing other passengers.
XDR-TB is resistant not only to isoniazid and rifampin but also a class of drugs called fluoroquinolones and one or more potent injectable antibiotics. TB germs become drug-resistant when patients fail to complete a course of treatment. When a partly-resistant strain is treated with the wrong drugs, it can become extensively resistant.
There are about 60,000 people with XDR-TB strains like the Nepalese man who's in isolation, Falzon says.
That means there are other people with XDR-TB traveling the world at any given time. Like the Nepalese man, until he got to the U.S., Falzon says, "many of these XDR cases aren't even diagnosed."
To give some idea of the public health challenge, such cases present, Dr. Kenneth Castro of the CDC's division of TB elimination tells Shots that over 700 people were thought to be exposed to the Nepalese man while he was in the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol.
"Out of those, 60 percent or so are back in their country of citizenship which then leaves many others that are being sorted through to determine if (their exposure) was real or not," Castro says.
But at least those potential contacts were known. Falzon says it's almost impossible to trace people who may have had close contact with the man during his complicated itinerary.
"We cannot trace down a bus tour which happened within, let's say, the space of a few weeks," Falzon says. "And it's very difficult to get details. The person (in detention) doesn't speak English."
The long-haul flight he took from a country on the Persian Gulf to Brazil, which exposed fellow travelers sitting within a couple of rows of his seat, occurred months ago. "We're trying to track down the exact details of that flight and the persons who were exposed," the WHO official says.
TB is spread through droplets in the air released by coughing or sneezing. It requires close and prolonged exposure, so a shorter flight, for instance, is not thought to pose a danger.
Castro says there's no reason to think XDR-TB is more contagious than less-resistant or drug-susceptible strains. "The alarm bells have to do with the consequences of the disease," he says — that is, the two-year, toxic, costly drug regimen necessary to cure the infection.
One big advantage these days, Castro says, is a lab test that can tell within two days whether a patient's sputum contains TB bacilli with mutations that confer resistance to seven different drugs.
"This is a game-changer," Castro says. The TB organism is notoriously slow-growing, so it used to take six weeks to culture it in laboratory dishes and test its susceptibility to different drugs. "The result is that some folks died before results of drug susceptibility tests came back," he says.
The CDC has recorded 63 cases of XDR-TB from 1993 through 2011 (the most recent data available), more than half of them among foreign-born people.
When illegal immigrants with drug-resistant TB are isolated in ICE detention facilities, things get complicated. They cannot be deported until they're no longer contagious, which can require months of complex treatment. Otherwise, they'd pose a risk to fellow travelers.
But Dr. Edward Zuroweste of the nonprofit group says just because such patients are no longer contagious doesn't mean they're cured. This requires at least two more years of treatment — often back in a home country without specialists in treating drug-resistant TB or access to the proper drugs.
Zuroweste's group has a contract with ICE to make sure deportees have appropriate treatment. It checks up on them regularly to see if they're sticking with it. He says 84 percent complete treatment, and the rest either disappear or refuse further treatment.
He says the U.S. and other nations should expect to see growing numbers of these difficult cases. "There's no way to ever isolate the U.S. from an airborne disease," Zuroweste tells Shots. "The world is becoming much smaller and people travel a lot. So what we have to do is attack the disease, not the individual unfortunate enough to contract the disease."
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Rh disease
What is Rh disease?
Rh disease occurs during pregnancy when there is an incompatibility between the blood types of the mother and baby.
What causes Rh disease?
Every person has a blood type, (O, A, B, or AB) and an Rh factor, either positive or negative. The blood type and the Rh factor simply mean that a person's blood has certain specific characteristics. The blood type is found as proteins on red blood cells and in body fluids. The Rh factor is a protein that is found on the covering of the red blood cells. If the Rh factor protein is present on the cells, the person is Rh positive. If there is no Rh factor protein, the person is Rh negative.
Rh factors are genetically determined. A baby may have the blood type and Rh factor of either parent, or a combination of both parents. Rh factors follow a common pattern of genetic inheritance. The Rh positive gene is dominant (stronger) and even when paired with an Rh negative gene, the positive gene takes over. For example:
- If a person has the genes + +, the Rh factor in the blood will be positive.
- If a person has the genes + -, the Rh factor will be positive.
- If a person has the genes - -, the Rh factor will be negative.
A baby receives one gene from the father and one from the mother.
If a father's Rh factor genes are + +, and the mother's are + +, the baby will have one + from the father and one + gene from the mother. The baby will be + + Rh positive.
If a father's Rh factor genes are + +, and the mother's are - -, the baby will have one + from the father and one - gene from the mother. The baby will be + - Rh positive.
If the father's genes are + - Rh positive, and the mother's are + - Rh positive, the baby can be:
- + + Rh positive
- + - Rh positive
- - - Rh negative
- - - Rh negative
- + - Rh positive
- - - Rh negative
Problems with the Rh factor occur only when the mother's Rh factor is negative and the baby's is positive.
Why is Rh disease a concern?
When an Rh negative mother has a baby that is Rh positive, problems can develop if the baby's red blood cells cross to the Rh negative mother. This usually happens at delivery when the placenta detaches. It may also happen, however, anytime blood cells of the two circulations mix such as during a miscarriage or abortion, with a fall, or during an invasive prenatal testing procedure such as an amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling.
The mother's immune system sees the baby's Rh positive red blood cells as foreign. Just as when bacteria invade the body, the immune system responds by developing antibodies to fight and destroy these foreign cells. The mother's immune system keeps the antibodies in case the foreign cells appear again, even in a future pregnancy. The mother is now Rh sensitized.
Although it is not as common, a similar problem of incompatibility may happen between the blood types (A, B, O, AB) of the mother and baby in the following situations:
Mother's Blood Type | O | A | B |
Baby's Blood Type | A or B | B | A |
In a first pregnancy, Rh sensitization is not likely. Usually it only becomes a problem in a future pregnancy with another Rh positive baby. During that pregnancy, the mother's antibodies cross the placenta to fight the Rh positive cells in the baby's body. As the antibodies destroy the red blood cells, the baby can become anemic. The anemia can lead to other complications including jaundice and organ enlargement.
Rh disease is also called erythroblastosis fetalis during pregnancy. In the newborn, the resulting condition is called hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN).
Some of the more common complications of Rh disease for the fetus and newborn baby include the following:
- anemia (in some cases, the anemia is severe with enlargement of the liver and spleen).
- jaundice - yellowing of the skin, eyes, and mucous membranes.
- severe anemia with enlargement of the liver and spleen.
- hydrops fetalis - this occurs as the fetal organs are unable to handle the anemia. The heart begins to fail and large amounts of fluid build up in the fetal tissues and organs. A fetus with hydrops fetalis is at great risk of being stillborn.
After birth, the red blood cell destruction may continue. Problems may include the following:
- severe jaundice - The baby's liver is unable to handle the large amount of a substance called bilirubin that results from red blood cell breakdown. The baby's liver is enlarged and anemia continues.
- kernicterus - The most severe form of too much bilirubin and results from the build up of bilirubin in the brain. This can cause seizures, brain damage, deafness, and death.
What are the symptoms of Rh disease?
A mother has no physical signs of Rh disease, but her Rh positive baby can have problems if the mother has developed antibodies. The following are the most common symptoms of Rh disease in the fetus. However, each pregnancy may have different symptoms of the condition. Symptoms may include:
- With amniocentesis, the amniotic fluid may have a yellow coloring and contain bilirubin.
- Ultrasound of the fetus shows enlarged liver, spleen or heart and fluid build up in the fetus' abdomen.
The symptoms of Rh disease may resemble other conditions or medical problems. Always consult your physician for a diagnosis.
How is Rh disease diagnosed?
Early identification of the Rh negative mother is very important. Then, the risks for the baby can be determined by blood testing of both parents (Rh negative mother, Rh positive father). The disease may be diagnosed if a previous pregnancy resulted in an Rh positive baby. In addition to a complete medical history and physical examination, diagnostic procedures for Rh disease may include:
- testing the presence of Rh positive antibodies in the mother's blood.
- ultrasound - to detect organ enlargement or fluid build up in the fetus. Ultrasound is a diagnostic imaging technique which uses high-frequency sound waves and a computer to create images of blood vessels, tissues, and organs. Ultrasounds are used to view internal organs as they function, and to assess blood flow through various vessels.
- amniocentesis - to measure the amount of bilirubin in the amniotic fluid. Amniocentesis is a test performed to determine chromosomal and genetic disorders and certain birth defects. The test involves inserting a needle through the abdominal and uterine wall into the amniotic sac to retrieve a sample of amniotic fluid.
- sampling of some of the blood from the fetal umbilical cord during. pregnancy to check for antibodies, bilirubin, and anemia in the fetus.
Treatment for Rh disease:
Specific treatment for Rh disease will be determined by your physician based on:
- your pregnancy, overall health and medical history.
- extent of the disease.
- your tolerance for specific medications, procedures or therapies.
- expectations for the course of the disease.
- your opinion or preference.
Treatments for Rh disease may include:
- intrauterine blood transfusion of red blood cells into the baby's circulation - a procedure that is performed by placing a needle through the mother's uterus and into the abdominal cavity of the fetus or directly into the vein in the umbilical cord. It may be necessary to give a sedative medication to keep the baby from moving. Intrauterine transfusions may need to be repeated.
- early delivery, if the fetus develops complications (if the fetus has mature lungs, labor and delivery may be induced to prevent worsening of the disease).
Prevention of Rh disease:
Fortunately, HDN is a very preventable disease. Because of the advances in prenatal care, nearly all women with Rh negative blood are identified in early pregnancy by blood testing. If a mother is Rh negative, she will be tested for Rh antibody titers. If she has not been sensitized, she is usually given a drug called Rh immunoglobulin (RhIg), also known as RhoGAM. This is a specially-developed blood product that can prevent an Rh negative mother's antibodies from being able to react to Rh positive cells. Many women are also given RhIg around the 28th week of pregnancy. After the baby is born, a woman should receive a second dose of the drug within 72 hours.
RhIg destroys any anti-Rh antibodies that enter in the mother's circulation before her immune system becomes sensitized. This helps protect a future Rh positive baby.
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