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It's hard for me to imagine that fifteen years have already passed since the New York skyline was streaming with smoke and two gleaming symbols of American might were torn asunder. In many ways, the destruction the world witnessed on September 11, 2001 spelled the end of humanity's innocence. Millions of people all around the world watched in abject horror as shattered glass, building debris, and the bodies of living human beings rained down on the panic-choked streets of Manhattan.
Although I was thousands of miles away at the time, I'll never forget how it felt that day. Unable to tear my eyes away from the television as the tragic scenes from New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. played out on the screen, I felt intense and unrelenting waves of disbelief, anger, and grief. On that one fateful day, nearly 3,000 innocent men, women, and children lost their lives because of the hate, intolerance, and arrogance of a very few. What struck me as being especially bitter, however, was the death of over 400 of our finest first responders, our fire fighters and police officers. It was they who made the greatest sacrifice—for they were ones who rushed into the fray for the sole purpose of saving the lives of others.
In my community, the fire department honors the loss of these responders every September 11th by placing a small flag with a biographical profile for each on the firehouse lawn. Impressed by the display on our way by last night, my son and I stopped for a few moments to pay our respects. As I made my way slowly through the hundreds of flags, I thought about these fine men and women, their surviving colleagues, friends, and families. I could scarcely imagine the horrors they experienced that day and my heart was filled to overflowing with compassion for all of them.
When I awakened to a perfect, brilliantly blue sky this morning and thought about how I felt, the word "cathartic" immediately came to mind. It's not a word I usually use and, to be quite honest, I had to look it up to be sure what it meant. The dictionary generally defines "cathartic" as a purging or releasing of emotional tensions. The Greek root meaning for this word is something on the order of "cleansing". I'm not exactly sure why, but I felt the word was perfect for the way I felt. For some reason, I felt a strange and profound sense of peace over the events that occurred fifteen years ago today.
As I sometimes do on this day, I sat down to watch the movie, "World Trade Center", starring Nicholas Cage and Michael Peña. It's the true story of New York Port Authority Police Sergeant John McLoughlan and Officer Will Jimeno, both of whom became trapped in the rubble of the World Trade Center when the Twin Towers fell. Both survived and were rescued, rather miraculously it seems, by two former U.S. Marines who were unofficial volunteers at the site. As I watched the movie again, this time I was able to see it through a slightly different viewpoint than I ever have before. Today, I saw it through the eyes of one who has been spiritually healed.
I suddenly realized that, for me, the cause of this tragedy didn't matter nearly so much as the fact that millions of people from across the globe came together as one family—all of them filled with Love and Compassion for so many others who were suffering.
At the end of the movie, Sergeant McLoughlan (played by Nicholas Cage) narrates over scenes of a reunion party that was held two years after his rescue. As he and Officer Jimeno are welcomed by their guests and loved ones at the reunion, Sergeant McLoughlan says, "Nine-eleven showed us what human beings are capable of. The evil? Yeah, sure. But it also brought out the goodness we forgot could exist. People taking care of each other; for no other reason than it was the right thing to do. It's important for us to talk about that good. To remember. 'Cause I saw a lot of good that day."
To this day, I'm humbled and amazed at the resilience and strength of the human spirit. I'm held in utter awe by the selfless courage and compassion of those who risked and lost everything for the sake of people they didn't even know. That is the face and future of humanity. That is the hope for a new world—and it's one where such cruelty and such heroism need never be repeated. As compassionate human beings, we can rise above the differences that separate us.
We are one people, one spirit, one family. And it's long past time we started acting that way.
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Knorr-Bremse's offer for Haldex: Supplement to the offer document made public
This announcement is not an offer, whether directly or indirectly, in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand or South Africa or in any other jurisdictions where such offer pursuant to legislation and regulations in such relevant jurisdictions would be prohibited by applicable law. Shareholders not resident in Sweden who wish to accept the Offer (as defined below) must make inquiries concerning applicable legislation and possible tax consequences. Shareholders should refer to the offer restrictions included in the section titled "Important notice" at the end of this announcement and in the tender offer document which was published on 26 September 2016. Shareholders in the United States should also refer to the section titled "Special notice to shareholders in the United States" at the end of this announcement.
On 5 September 2016, Knorr-Bremse AG ("Knorr-Bremse") announced a public offer to the shareholders of Haldex AB (publ) ("Haldex") to tender all shares in Haldex to Knorr-Bremse (the "Offer"). The offer document regarding the Offer was made public on 26 September 2016.
On account of the press release from Knorr-Bremse on 30 June 2017 and the press release from Haldex on 29 June 2017, Knorr-Bremse has prepared a supplement to the offer document which includes the above-mentioned documents. The supplement has been approved and registered by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority. The supplement has been made public today and is, together with the offer document and the acceptance form, available on Knorr-Bremse's website www.knorr-bremseandhaldex.com and on SEB's website for prospectuses www.sebgroup.com/prospectuses.
The supplement should be read in conjunction with the offer document dated 26 September 2016. In accordance with the Takeover Rules issued by Nasdaq Stockholm, shareholders who have accepted the Offer have the right to withdraw from the acceptance within five working days of the announcement of the supplement, i.e. up to and including 14 July 2017. In all other respects, the right to withdraw from the acceptance applies pursuant to the offer document.
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This announcement is not being, and must not be, sent to shareholders with registered addresses in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand or South Africa. Banks, brokers, dealers and other nominees holding shares for persons in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand or South Africa must not forward this announcement or any other document received in connection with the Offer to such persons.
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Konami has a huge history with the TMNT license, and the company has produced games on the NES, arcade, and Super NES for several years. The arcade games are what players seem to recognize as the cream of the Konami turtle crop, but instead of taking that game design and building it up on the GBA, the team instead created a brand new engine and game design that doesn't have nearly the depth that's expected nowadays. This isn't to say that I think that the Game Boy Advance version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a bad game, but I do have to say that it was a little disappointing to see the direction that the GBA team has taken with the portable rendition.
The arcade games featured an engine that allowed players to move in all directions to beat up the near endless supply of turtle enemies. On the GBA, players are forced into a side-scroller that keeps the player on the same plane, regardless if it looks like the character sprite can move into the background. He can't. Which means that players simply move left to right, beating up on enemies on either side of them.
Granted, the game was extremely early, only having two levels and several bugs that prevented players from advancing deep into the areas. And the artwork was definitely well done, though it wasn't as visually impressive as the toon-shaded console games that paled the GBA game as it sat next to them in the Konami booth.
Hopefully the handheld team can give a little more gameplay variety to the turtles on the GBA before the game ships this fall.


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June 27, 2012
Yael Chanoff and Natalie Oenstein / The San Francisco Bay Guardian
The FBI's modern snoop program is racist, xenophobic, misdirected, dangerous -- and really, really stupid. It promotes stereotypes, teaches racial profiling, and haunts the Internet looking for people using such "jihadist" terms as "brother," "sister," "prayer," and "occupation of Muslim lands."
SAN FRANCISCO (June 27, 2012) -- So, you're a law enforcement officer in training for participation on a local Joint Terrorism Task Force. Or a student at the United States Military Academy at West Point, involved in the counterterrorism training program developed in partnership with the FBI. Or you're an FBI agent training up to deal with terrorist threats.
Get ready for FBI training in dealing with Arab and Muslim populations.
Take note that "Western cultural values" include "rational, straight line thinking" and a tendency to "identify problems and solve them through logical decision-making process" — while "Arab cultural values" are "emotional based" and "facts are colored by emotion and subjectivity."
Be advised that Arabs have "no concept of privacy" and "no concept of 'constructive criticism'" and that in Arab culture it is "acceptable to interrupt conversations to convey information or make requests."
"Westerners think, act, then feel," an FBI powerpoint briefing notes, while "Arabs feel, act, then think."
Those are some of the most dramatic examples of racial profiling and outright racist stereotyping revealed in thousands of pages of documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Bay Guardian, the ACLU of Northern California and the Asian Law Caucus.
The documents show a pattern of cultural insensitivity, sometimes bordering on the ridiculous, not only tolerated by promoted as official instructions by the FBI. The records also show a broad pattern of surveillance of people who have engaged in no criminal activity and aren't even suspected of crimes, but have been targeted because of their race or religion.
Pieces of this story have come out over the past year as the ACLU has charged the FBI with racial profiling and Attorney General Eric Holder has insisted it's not happening. And some of the documents — which are not always properly dated — may be a few years old.
But none of it is ancient history: All of the material has been used by the FBI in the past few years, under the Obama administration.
This is the first complete report with the full details on a pattern of behavior that is, at the very least, disturbing — and in some parts, reminiscent of the notorious (and widely discredited) COINTELPRO program that sought to undermine and disrupt political groups in the 1960s.
The information suggests that the federal government is using methods that are not only imprecise and xenophobic but utterly ineffective in protecting the American public.
"This is the worst way to pursue security," Hatem Bazian, professor of Near East Studies at UC Berkeley, told us.
Dozens of documents attempt to describe "Arabs and Muslims" but other groups aren't left out of the sweeping stereotyping and blatant racism and xenophobia that the FBI has used in its training guides. One training presentation is titled "The Chinese." The materials give such tips as "informality is perceived as disrespectful." The presentation warns "expect your gift (money) to be refused" but advises to give "a simple gift with significant meaning- tangerines or oranges (with stems/leaves.)" But "never give a clock as a gift! (death!)"
And if those in the training on "The Chinese" find themselves in "interactions with the opposite sex," then "touching, too many compliments, may imply a romantic liaison is desired — be careful!"
The vast majority of the "cultural awareness" training materials imply that the authors believe that the law enforcement personnel receiving the training will never be female or interact with female members of the groups they describe. Some warn repeatedly to never ask Arabs how "females in their family" are doing in polite conversation.
A presentation on "Arab and Muslim culture" compares the western thought process with that of all Arabs. According to the FBI, westerners are "rational" thinkers; Arabs, on the other hand, are "emotion based." A slideshow on cross-cultural interrogation techniques says, "It is characteristic of the Arabic mind to be swayed more by words than ideas and more by ideas than facts."
Bazian said the FBI's generalizations about the Arab intellect are "ideological constructs reflective of the orientalist discourse."
"Many of these individuals have not done any primary sociological, psychological, or historical work in the Arab/Muslim world," said Bazian, who works on UC Berkeley's Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project. "What they basically do is take a text from a particular historical period and pick these points and put it as reflective of contemporary Muslim society. Most of these statements have no basis in any critical analysis. They're not rooted in any type of research."
Included in the FBI's recommended reading list for counterterrorism agents-in-training is the "Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam," in which "Islam expert Robert Spencer reveals Islam's ongoing, unshakeable quest for global conquest and why the West today faces the same threat as the Crusaders did."
It's not exactly an academically sound piece of work, Bazian told us. Spencer and his cohorts are "political hacks," the professor said. "They come from neo-con backgrounds. Even saying 'extreme right wing' is giving them credit; they're way down below the cliff. They create this contrast between western society and the rest of the world based on a nostalgic idea of western society."
Arab culture is often the target these days, but the rhetoric recalls that used during the Chinese Exclusionary Act era, and toward Latinos in the United States today, Bazian said.
"They pick on the weakest, most vulnerable people in western society at a particular time and lay blame on them," he said.
The FBI's xenophobic approach to interrogation training—which involves warning new agents that "If an Arab is scared, he will often lie to try to avoid trouble"—is not even productive, Bazian said.
"If you go to people with professional training in interrogation and investigation, they'll say none of this gives them access to security. If anything, it creates a greater global misunderstanding."
And the creation of misunderstanding doesn't stop there. The FBI is also involved in an intelligence-gathering method known as racial mapping. Racial mapping involves local FBI offices tracking groups in their "domains" based on race and ethnicity.
In blog post, the ACLU writes, "Empirical data show that terrorists and criminals do not fit neat racial, ethnic, nation-origin or religious stereotypes, and using such flawed profiles is a recipe for failure." In the Counterterrorism Textbook read by all trainees the FBI seems to agree, warning multiple times that there is no such thing as a typical terrorist and that making assumptions based on stereotypes is dangerous and unproductive.
Yet the FBI files we've acquired reveal that the bureau consistently does just that. Though the Department of Justice prohibited race from being "used to any degree" in law enforcement investigations in 2003, a convenient and potentially unconstitutional exception allows racial profiling in national security matters.
When the FBI created its Domestic Investigation and Operations Guide in 2008, it used that loophole to permit the mapping of racial and ethnic demographic information and to keep tabs on "behavioral characteristics reasonably associated with a particular criminal or terrorist element of an ethnic community," the ACLU reported.
Communities in San Francisco have been the victims of this prejudicial loophole more than once. In 2009, the ACLU reported that the FBI justified mapping and investigating the Chinese American population in the city because "within this community there has been organized crime for generations." Likewise, the bureau collected demographic data on the Russian population because of the "Russian criminal enterprises" known to exist in San Francisco.
The loophole, however, may not even apply to these investigations in the first place.
According to Michael German, a 16-year veteran of the FBI and senior analyst with the ACLU, these investigations don't fit the national security description. "In intelligence notes on Chinese and Russian organized crime, those are not national security issues," German told us. "Those are all clearly criminal investigations."
German has brought attention to another troubling use of racial mapping — documents revealing that the FBI's Atlanta bureau tracks Georgia's African American population.
The stated reason is a threat of black separatist groups; the documents name the New Black Panther Party and the Black Hebrew Israelites as the black separatist groups that pose a threat.
German wrote about this problematic practice in a May 29 article on the website Firedoglake.
"The problem with these documents," German told us, "is that it's not black separatists or alleged black separatists who are being tracked — it's the entire black community in Georgia."
"Those individuals and those communities are being targeted only for their race," German said. "Were it not for their race they wouldn't be part of that assessment. There is no reason to do that, accept to treat that community differently than the way it treats other communities. It's problematic from a constitutional standpoint."
The New Black Panther Party was founded in Dallas and has mostly East Coast chapters. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate United States hate groups, "The group portrays itself as a militant, modern-day expression of the black power movement (it frequently engages in armed protests of alleged police brutality and the like), but principals of the original Black Panther Party of the 1960s and 1970s— a militant, but non-racist, left-wing organization — have rejected the new Panthers as a 'black racist hate group' and contested their hijacking of the Panther name and symbol." The Black Hebrew Israelites is another fringe group, an apocalyptic group whose ideology holds that black Americans are God's chosen people.
Both groups have written and spoken record of racist and violent rhetoric, but record of violent or criminal acts are hard to find.
"I'd say they're a fairly small part of the radical right, and generally quite small. As far as we know, there is virtually no connection between these groups and criminal activity," Mark Potok, a senior fellow with the SPLC, told the Guardian.
According to Potok, the center's list of hate groups in operation in 2011 includes four organizations classified as black separatist, which, between them, have 140 chapters. Those chapters are counted as 140 of the list's 1,018 groups.
"Most of the rest of the list are white supremacist groups," Potok notes. "There are some exceptions — anti-gay groups and anti-Muslim groups." After a quick count, Potok found 688 groups to be "straight-up white supremacist."
The majority of these hate groups may be white supremacist — but the FBI is not involved in tracking white populations.
Last October, the FBI's press office responded to the ACLU's concerns with racial mapping. "These efforts are intended to address specific threats, not particular communities," the agency's statement reads.
"These domain management efforts seek to use existing, available government data to locate and better understand the communities that are potential victims of the threats. There must be an understanding of the communities we protect in order to focus our limited human and financial resources in the areas where those resources are most needed."
With that defense, resources continue to pour into racial mapping efforts.
Black separatist organizations are not the only groups to be targeted for political beliefs. Groups such as "anarchist extremists" and "animal rights/environmental extremists" are also, according to the FBI, groups to watch out for.
A training presentation for the Bay Area's Joint Terrorism Task Force includes a list of those groups: "animal rights/eco terrorism, anarchists, white separatists, black separatists, militia/sovereign citizens, and 'lone offender'."
How do you spot a potential "animal rights extremist"? According to the documents, "ideology and concepts" found among this group includes a "complete vegan lifestyle," and activities include the promotion of "anti-capitalist literature." In other words, your roommate is probably a terrorist.
Racial mapping is not the only FBI practice that targets people just for being members of groups "associated with crimes." The FBI routinely gathers information on Muslims through deceptive "community outreach" programs.
Memoranda we've obtained reveal that FBI agents, operating under the guise of community outreach, attended various events hosted by local Muslim organizations in order to gather intelligence between 2007 and 2009.
When agents attended Ramadan Iftar dinners in San Francisco, they wrote down participants' contact information and documented their conversations and opinions. At an alleged outreach event at CSU Chico, they recorded a conversation with a student about the Saudi Student Association's activities and even took the student's picture. That information was sent to the FBI in Washington, DC, the ACLU reported.
Writing down information on individuals' First Amendment activities—in this case without any evidence that they were notified or asked—violates the federal Privacy Act, the ACLU says. Using access to community events to gather personal information undermines the FBI's stated effort to form relationships with Muslim leaders and community members.
And covert surveillance can also have an immediate and hazardous impact on the unwitting subjects.
"It's becoming more of a public discourse that these FBI background checks are affecting immigration status, the ability to send money back home, and generally creating an environment of fear," said Miriam Zouvounis, membership coordinator with San Francisco's Arab Resource and Organizing Center.
The organization has helped clients who have been detained for months because their names were mistakenly placed on a no-fly list, and others whose immigration processes have taken up to ten years because they were erroneously perceived as threatening, Zouvounis said.
"The process of information collecting on covert and overt levels is accelerating, and definitely a present reality in San Francisco. People don't want to be civically engaged if that material's being used against them," she said.
"Extremism online is the most serious international terrorist threat in the world." Or so says FBI training materials in a presentation entitled "Extremism online," meant for those training to be online covert employees. The documents teach OCEs to scan through comment threads and enter chat rooms, searching for people whose speech may be "operational."
This surveillance has led to investigations.
Some of the documents are individual files and summaries of individual files, and many note that the person (often someone who was convicted, so the name isn't redacted in the documents) was "detected via the Internet." Some examples: "Mohamad Osman Mohamud, detected via the Internet, discussing Jihad plans" and "Hosam Smadi, detected via the Internet: online chats." Both men were 19 when they were convicted of crimes.
These men — and the many more who have not been accused of any criminal activity but are likely under surveillance or investigation by OCEs — could have been "detected via the Internet" in a variety of ways, according to German.
"It could be that the chats were open source, or that an informant was in the chat room, or a person participating simply turned them over to the FBI, none of which would require any legal process," German explained.
"It could also be monitored under FISA [ the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] or traditional criminal wiretaps, which would require court warrants (secret ones under FISA). Finally, the stored chat logs retained on third party servers could have been obtained with Patriot Act Section 215 orders, or what's called a "D" order under the Stored Communications Act (if held for over 180 days)," German detailed in an email.
So what kind of speech are OCEs looking out for to peg potential terrorist threats? The Extremism Online presentation has a list of "major themes and language used in online extremist writings," which includes Islam-related terms such as "Caliphate, Al-Ansar, Al-Rafidah, Mushrik, and Munafiq" as well as the Arabic words "Akhi, Uhkti, Ameen, Du'aa, Shari'ah, and Iman" (brother, sister, amen, prayer, Islamic law, and faith.) Other words the agents are told to look out for: "crusaders, hypocrites, dogs and pigs," and any discussion of "occupation of Muslim lands."
The FBI can really get into your business if agents confiscate your possessions. Personal computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices, according to the documents, are routinely checked out at Regional Computer Forensics Labs.
The nearest one to San Francisco is in Menlo Park, where employees brag of having investigated thousands of pieces of data.
Law enforcement routinely confiscates property after arrests, and if local cops are involved with the FBI through the Joint Terrorism Task Forces or other partnerships, they may very well send the belongings of those arrested to be checked out at a local RCFL. But there are other ways the FBI can obtain your electronics.
"Certainly the FBI has the authority to obtain computers and other devices with search warrants, either traditional search warrants where the individual is given notice or expedited warrants where the person isn't aware," German told the Guardian, noting that the second type of warrant is the preferred method, for obvious reasons, when the Feds plan to search a confiscated computer.
"The FBI also works with immigrations and customs enforcement, so laptops and other devices seized at the border the FBI can gain access to. There are myriad ways they can get them."
A 2009 FBI memorandum on investigating suspected terrorists reveals that the Bureau encourages its agents to implement a "disruption strategy" that German wrote is "eerily reminiscent" of the COINTELPRO tactics used to stop political organizers in the1960s. "If the risk to public safety is too great, or if all significant intelligence has been collected, and/or the threat is otherwise resolved, investigators may, with substantive desk coordination and concurrence, implement a disruption strategy," one memo reads. Investigators can conduct interviews, make arrests, or use any number of other undefined "tools" to "effectively disrupt subject's [sic] activities." Such disruption strategies have been used in the past to investigate and shut down First Amendment-protected activity, German said. The reintroduction of such tactics could open the door for a major breach of the subjects' constitutional rights.
"After September 11th, 2001, the FBI realigned its mission and purpose to reflect the global and domestic threats that face the US," begins an orientation packet for members of Joint Terrorism Task Forces. "FBI director Robert M. Meuller III defined the following as the top ten priorities (in order of importance) that confront the Bureau today," Number one on the list: Protect the United States from terrorist attack.
Indeed, after 9/11, the FBI prioritized terrorism investigations, a shift from the previous focus on criminal investigations. Classified as national security threats, these investigations are not subject to the same type of privacy and anti-racial discrimination protections that other criminal investigations might be.
Terrorist threats, apparently, are to be found in mosques, in online conversations that involve criticism of US foreign policy, in entire populations of African Americans or Chinese Americans in given areas. In recent years, simply speaking Arabic online or being black makes a person a suspect and potential target of surveillance.
Look out America, especially members of that celebrated "melting pot." The feds are watching.
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On open letter to John Krasinski, star of The Office
Dear John,
As I watched the Jim & Pam wedding for the third time this week, I thought: Dude, you set the bar pretty high.  You may need my help. Following up the most ADORABLE tv wedding in history* with a real-life engagement to Emily Blunt?  There is potential for underwhelming results.  You don't want your fictional wedding to out shine your real-life wedding. Emily Blunt doesn't want that.  Your legion of female fans don't want that either. We all wish to live vicariously through Pam Emily.
In the spirit of helpfulness I've compiled a list of tips men can use to look better in photos.¬† I'll be honest, this list is mostly an excuse to post a photo of my friend in a fake mustache…but hey, whatever the preface, no matter how weak…it's my blog!
P.S. My friend Susan's FaceBook status reads: Men, just give up. Unless you are Jim Halpert, I don't want you.
1.) Groom
Not just your role in the wedding, but a verb….an instruction.¬† Men, in college, when you lived in your hoodie and gym shorts, you might have made your girl swoon.¬† Now, you're going to have to put a little more effort forth. She's looking at $4000 dresses to wear for one day…yeah, she's gonna expect you to shave.
Teeth: Nothing emphasizes less-than-white teeth like a white wedding dress.  Buy yourself some Sensodyne toothpaste.  Use it for two weeks prior to the commencement of a teeth whitening treatment. Teeth whiteners leads to a temporary sensitivity, so the Sensodyne is a proactive measure.  Also, there are a lot products on the market.  Just make sure you start the treatments early enough to reach efficacy.
Hair: Schedule your haircut a week before the wedding.  Give your hair cut time to settle in.
Shaving: When I introduced my husband to Kiehl's shaving cream, he balked at the $18 price tag.  Then 6 months later, when he finally ran out, he agreed that it's the world's best shaving cream.  Also, get yourself one of those ridiculous razers with like 12 redundant blades, or whatever you men use.
Fragrance: Even though photography still lacks scratch-n-sniff technology, a problem not to be remedied until Apple recruits Willa Wonka to head R&D,  you should wear cologne. If you don't have a signature scent, consider getting one. Sephora offers a $75 sampler gift certificate.  You get to try 7 different fragrances and after you've picked a favorite, redeem the gift certificate for a full-size bottle.
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Instantly more debonair.  Just look at these before and afters:
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Scotland's Year of Homecoming is now at an end.
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A passionate, inspiring, forward-thinking pioneer of his generation, Robert Burns is regarded as the national poet of Scotland.
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She has had hundreds of comments on this delicious and super easy homemade bread. This no-knead crusty bread recipe was first posted several years ago in an article in the NY Times by Jim Lahey of the Sullivan Street Bakery. I have some of my own suggestions that has resulted in consistently great loaves of this bread. I'll share those later on in another blog post. First, I'm posting two videos that are showing how the dough looks after it has been mixed up in a large bowl, covered, and sitting on the counter for 16-18 hours of slow rising. At this point, my enameled cast iron pots with the lids on them (6 quart size, purchased at Kohl's and one purchased at Macy's) are heating at 450 F in the oven for 35 minutes. (DO NOT OIL the pot!). Meanwhile right after I turn on the oven the next step is I'm turning out the dough onto generously sprinkled corn meal counter. I have used flour spread out on the counter too, but prefer the corn meal. The dough 'rests' while the pots are getting super HOT in that high heat oven. OK here are two videos showing these two steps. These two loaves are Cinnamon Raisin. when I mixed up the 3 cups unbleached flour, 1/2 tsp SAF INSTANT bread yeast, 1 tsp salt, and the BEFORE adding the 1-1/2 cups of water, I do my additions. In this case I added to the flour mixture, 1 Tablespoon cinnamon, and a great big handful of raisins. I like to use the wonderful cinnamon's bought from Penzeys Spice www.Penzeys.com . I shop Penzeys on Chagrin Blvd, east Cleveland, just off of I-277 in the Trader Joes plaza. In these loaves shown here I used the Vietamese Cinnamon. Great flavor. So is their China Cinnamon. One of the biggest things for consistently good loaves of this bread, ALWAYS use very fresh (unbleached!) flour and yeast. Skip the run of the mill ones like Gold Metal. Use a high gluten flour, especially King Arthur's Bread Flour. Can find it at most supermarkets. I use that, or my other very favorite is the "Hi-gluten Flour" bought in bulk at the Ashery, the Amish country store, not too far from me. Unbleached, or bread flour has a higher protein content. And the yeast: only the freshest. I have found the SAF Instant yeast at a Mennonite run bulk food store/bakery in Canal Fulton, and at the Ashery. I have also used yeast from a jar that is labeled good for use with bread machines. This is an instant yeast too. Hey, all you friends of mine reading this, if you need some of this SAF Instant yeast, just holler. It comes in such a big amount, that I would be happy to give you some, because then it would get used up faster, and I will always be buying it very fresh. I take a small amount out of the opened package, put it into a glass jar, and use that for my loaves, and the rest I put into another glass jar and put that into the freezer. There will be 2 videos posted here.
VIDEO I: Risen dough is going to 'rest' while the cast iron pot is heating in a 450 F oven. Here's how.
Video II Here's how the dough is placed into the HOT! HOT! pot for baking. Bake at 450F for 30 minutes with lid. Remove lid bake another 15 minutes. DO NOT OIL the pot.


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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is the most common human form of a group of rare, fatal brain disorders known as prion diseases.
About Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease progresses rapidly
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease causes a type of dementia that gets worse unusually fast. More common causes of dementia, such as Alzheimer's, dementia with Lewy bodies and frontotemporal dementia, typically progress more slowly.
Prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, occur when prion protein, which is found throughout the body but whose normal function isn't yet known, begins folding into an abnormal three-dimensional shape. This shape change gradually triggers prion protein in the brain to fold into the same abnormal shape.
Through a process scientists don't yet understand, misfolded prion protein destroys brain cells. Resulting damage leads to rapid decline in thinking and reasoning as well as involuntary muscle movements, confusion, difficulty walking and mood changes. Sign up for our enews to receive updates about Alzheimer's and dementia care and research.
CJD is rare, occurring in about one in 1 million people annually worldwide.
Experts generally recognize the following main types of CJD:
Sporadic CJD develops spontaneously for no known reason. It accounts for 85 percent of cases. On average, sporadic CJD first appears between ages 60 and 65.
Familial CJD is caused by certain changes in the chromosome 20 gene coding the biological blueprint for prion protein. People who develop familial CJD do so because they inherited the genetic changes from a parent. Familial CJD accounts for about 10 to 15 percent of cases. It develops, on average, at a younger age than sporadic CJD, with some genetic types appearing as early as ages 20 to 40.
Acquired CJD results from exposure to an external source of abnormal prion protein. These sources estimated to account for about 1 percent of CJD cases. The two most common outside sources are:
Medical procedures involving instruments used in neurosurgery, growth hormone from human sources or certain transplanted human tissues. The risk of CJD from medical procedures has been greatly reduced by improved sterilization techniques, new single-use instruments and synthetic sources of growth hormone.
Meat or other products from cattle infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow disease"), recognized in the mid-1990s as the cause of variant CJD (vCJD). Scientists traced this new type of CJD to consumption of beef from cattle whose feed included processed brain tissue from other animals.
Chronic wasting disease
This prion disease is similar to mad cow disease that's been found in wild deer, elk and moose. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), there's no evidence to date that the disease has been transmitted to humans.
Learn more from the CDC.
Symptomsback to top
Specific Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease symptoms experienced by an individual and the order in which they appear can differ significantly. Some common symptoms include:
This slide shows sponge-like lesions in the brain tissue of a CJD patient. (Image courtesy Ermias Belay)
- Depression
- Agitation, apathy and mood swings
- Rapidly worsening confusion, disorientation, and problems with memory, thinking, planning and judgment
- Difficulty walking
- Muscle stiffness, twitches and involuntary jerky movements
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An EEG measures the brain's electrical activity
Rapid symptom progression is one of the most important clues that a person may have Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
There is no single test — or any combination of tests — that can conclusively diagnose sporadic CJD in a living person, but the following tests may help determine whether an individual has CJD:
- Electroencephalogram (EEG) measures the brain's patterns of electrical activity similar to the way an electrocardiogram (ECG) measures the heart's electrical activity.
- Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can detect certain brain changes consistent with CJD.
- Lumbar puncture (spinal tap) tests spinal fluid for the presence of certain proteins.
Causes and risksback to top
Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease has no known cause. Most scientists believe the disease begins when prion protein somewhere in the brain spontaneously misfolds, triggering a "domino effect" that misfolds prion protein throughout the brain. Genetic variation in the prion protein gene may affect risk of this spontaneous misfolding.
Mutations in the prion protein gene also may play a yet-to-be-determined role in making people susceptible to acquired CJD from external sources. Scientists don't yet know the why acquired CJD seems to be transmitted through such a limited number of external sources. Researchers have found no evidence that the abnormal protein is commonly transmitted through sexual activity or blood transfusions.
Familial CJD is caused by variations in the prion protein gene that increases the risk of an individual developing CJD. Researchers have identified more than 50 prion protein mutations in those with inherited CJD. Genetic testing can determine whether family members at risk have inherited a CJD-causing mutation. Experts strongly recommend professional genetic counseling both before and after genetic testing for hereditary CJD.
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There is no treatment that can slow or stop the underlying brain cell destruction caused by Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other prion diseases. Various drugs have been tested but have not shown any benefit. Clinical studies of potential CJD treatments are complicated by the rarity of the disease and its rapid progression.
Current therapies focus on treating symptoms and on supporting individuals and families coping with CJD. Doctors may prescribe painkillers such as opiates to treat pain if it occurs. Muscle stiffness and twitching may be treated with muscle-relaxing medications or antiseizure drugs. In the later stages of the disease, individuals with CJD become completely dependent on others for their daily needs and comfort.
CJD progresses rapidly. Those affected lose their ability to move or speak and require full-time care to meet their daily needs. An estimated 90 percent of those diagnosed with sporadic CJD die within one year. Those affected by familial CJD tend to develop the disorder at an earlier age and survive somewhat longer than those with the sporadic form, as do those diagnosed with vCJD. Scientists have not yet learned the reason for these differences in survival.
Help is available
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Foundation is a nonprofit organization that offers support, information and guidance to those dealing with CJD. Call the Foundation at 800.659.1991.
The Alzheimer's Association can help you learn more about Alzheimer's and other dementias, and help you find local support services. Call our 24/7 Helpline at 800.272.3900.
Social Security Administration (SSA) has a "compassionate allowance" program in which workers diagnosed with CJD can qualify for Social Security disability benefits. Call the SSA at 800.772.1213.
Medline Plus: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a consumer health information service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health (NIH). This gateway page links to resources from NIH agencies, major medical centers and other sources.


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Lexington Elementary School joined students and teachers across the state in celebrating Texas Public Schools Week this week with a variety of activities. As part of this celebration, parents and community members were invited to attend our Book Fair and Family Reading Night this past Monday, and to join our students for lunch on Wednesday.
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On a warm May evening before the end of school, a small group of parents gathered at the high school in this Chicago suburb to hear guest speaker Elizabeth Houghton talk about drug and alcohol abuse among teen-agers. The statistics were alarming:
* One out of every 10 teen-agers is an alcoholic; it can take an adolescent only six to 18 months to become one.
* Seventy percent of teen-agers regularly use alcohol or drugs by the time they're high school seniors. Ninety-three percent have experimented with one or both by that time.
* Teen-age life expectancy has decreased 15 percent since 1960 because of alcohol-related traffic accidents.
* The average beginning age for drug abuse is 11.6 years old.
Despite this litany of problems, the central message Mrs. Houghton left with parents that night was a hopeful one: You aren't alone, you shouldn't be embarrassed if your child has a problem, and there is something you can do to combat the peer pressure that so often leads to drinking and drugs.
The answer, Mrs. Houghton feels, is parent peer groups.
She is the parent peer group coordinator for the Deerfield (Ill.) Citizens for Drug Awareness.
''A parent peer group is a group of parents whose kids are friends or classmates,'' she says. ''The parents may or may not know one another; chances are they don't. The goal of the parent peer group, ultimately, is to effectively parent their kids through adolescence so that they can grow up to be mature, responsible adults.''
The groups' more immediate aims are:
1. To educate themselves about the prevalence of drugs and alcohol. Parents are either very naive in this area or afraid to know the facts, Mrs. Houghton believes, fearing they may have to confront the issue in their own families.
2. To communicate. According to Mrs. Houghton, this takes the form of ''If you see my child doing something he shouldn't do, call me, and I in return will take that risk to call you, and we together will work on not being defensive about that.'' Some people might view this as a spy-ring approach, but Mrs. Houghton sees it as a kind of ''neighborhood,'' a re-adopting of closer neighborhood ties through which parents look out for one another's children, but also tell on one another's children if they do something wrong.
3. To set guidelines or rules. No drug or alcohol use; definite and enforced curfews; chaperoning at parties; and verification with an adult of their children's plans.
Mrs. Houghton is adamant on the subject of setting limits for children. Parents have lost social control of their children over the last 10 to 15 years, she contends. They buy keggers (large kegs of beer) for their children's parties and are intimidated if their stand is in the minority, because they want to be popular with their children.
Mrs. Houghton's interest in peer parenting dates back to the mid-1970s, when she discovered that her eighth-grade daughter and her friends had been using drugs for a year. She tried to get all the parents together to confront the issue but was unsuccessful. The attitude of the time, Mrs. Houghton recalls, was that nobody should be his neighbor's keeper. Her daughter's battle with drugs lasted 41/2 years.
The peer parenting concept began with a book called ''Parents, Peers and Pot, '' by Marsha Manatt. Ms. Manatt is affiliated with an Atlanta organization called the Parent Resource Institute on Drug Education (PRIDE). When someone from PRIDE came to Deerfield to talk about parent networking, Mrs. Houghton volunteered to organize the community's effort.
In the past 21/2 years, she has helped 40 to 50 parent peer groups in Illinois get under way. She conducts regular training sessions for interested parents, who then go back to their own towns to become parent leaders of their own groups.
Leaders are asked to follow a specific plan: First, they sit down with their child and draw up a list of 15 friends. The parents of those friends are contacted and asked to come to a get-acquainted meeting. At that session, a film on drug abuse is shown and the idea of peer parenting is presented. If the parents agree to form a group, they have a second meeting to draw up their guidelines. At this point, Mrs. Houghton says, many parents get scared and set up too many rules, so there's a third meeting so they can revise or rewrite them. At a fourth meeting, the students are invited so parents can explain what they're doing and why.
An important ingredient in all this is the example parents set at home, Mrs. Houghton believes. She says many parents today smoke marijuana even though it's against the law.
''There's no such thing as responsible adult use of any illicit drug, period. To do that is to condone an illegality.''
For the parents in one group, peer parenting has meant many things: a feeling of support, the security of knowing they all stand together, and a greater sense of control.
One mother says her biggest concern is that the parents give their children a lot of positive reinforcement and do not come across as a vigilante committee. Another mother doesn't feel the group has fulfilled its potential yet and would like to see it tackle other issues affecting teen-agers, such as suicide and the stress of homework loads.
Parent peer groups with fifth- and sixth-graders often work on parenting skills and helping their children establish a sense of self-worth. Everyone seems to agree that the earlier a parent peer group forms in a child's school years, the better. Parents at the high school meeting with Mrs. Houghton related stories of unchaperoned parties and drunken incidents and admitted the difficulty of imposing a strict set of rules on teens who have had a taste of ''freedom.''
Mrs. Houghton is planning an experiment in the Deerfield schools next year that she hopes will make the rules of peer parenting more universal and easier for high-schoolers to live with. She will set up informal parent peer groups by grades and ask all parents of students in a class to sign a list of principles covering curfews, chaperoning, and the use of drugs and alcohol.
That's not to suggest that parent peer groups organized by social circles have failed. More than 165 families in Deerfield belong to parent peer groups, and according to Elizabeth Houghton, it has made a big difference in the community.
''There was a big event at the high school earlier this year,'' Mrs. Houghton recalled, ''after which there was going to be a party (at one of the kids' houses). The parent peer groups were doing their job. They picked up the phone and called the mother; she was delighted they'd called. But when they asked, 'Are you going to serve something to drink?' and she said, 'Yes, we thought we'd get a keg of beer,' they said, 'We're not going to let our kids come.' It began to make a difference with this mother.... About five phone calls hit that family. There was no booze at that party. ... The kids came to the party and had a wonderful time.''


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Jenny J.J.I. | That Lives in Carolinas | 03/12/2008
(3 out of 5 stars)
"As a revenge film, this is more realistic than others of it's like and it also seems more of a thinking persons revenge film. This film not only moved me in a way, but will stay with me probably for some time. I like this film but I didn't love it the way I wanted to. "Descent" isn't for the weak minded and again this film is not for the religious right and the NC-17 rating is appropriate for just two scenes. This film was good to a certain extent and the main reason it truly held me was how it played with my psych. I have always felt that a person who rapes women deserves to be punished exactly the way they have destroyed their victim(s), but this film made me hesitate a bit but didn't change my mine at all.
We see Maya (Rosario Dawson) as a bright college student, who is shy about love, but seeking a connection to another human being. At a party she meets Jared (Chad Faust), a greasy jock who is relentless with his come-ons. Falling under his charms, she takes a chance on him, leading to a romantic evening that culminates with her rape. Destroyed, Maya withdraws from her world, spending time in a complete drug-fueled fog. Only when the opportunity for revenge presents itself a year later does she begin to show signs of renewed life.
I give it 3 stars because you can see it's low budget roots but it's more arty direction does much to cover that up. I like Dawson in most of her roles and on this film it wasn't any different. In this film you really feel her damage but at the same time I feel bad for her. She throws herself into this role with wild, wanton abandon and is at times totally remarkable. While I admire the courage filming this must have taken on her part I still can't help but wish such an effort was given towards a worthier effort. The men are the standouts however, and Chad Faust is a very brave actor indeed. It's very sad to watch this character's downfall after she is raped but it is equally sad to see all characters dismantled piece by piece at the core. Lugacy's direction is well done but I may have cut a bit of club scenes as some seemed overly long without adding much more insight.
I appreciate the end in that it makes you complete but also leaves you thinking as it does seem that maybe the revenge has also left the character a little empty as if she's somehow disembodied from it. I do think that was the right way to go but the only thing I wouldn't do is cry. The entire movie in fact does not seem to pass any judgment on it's characters, leaving all the judging to the viewer as long as you can handle the subject matter. There is no female nudity and no consensual sex; there is just rape and its psychological impact. In the end this movie leaves you awash in a residue of sadness, mildly recommended.
Brillant Evocative Film. HORRIBLE!!! Dvd Transfer.
Chris P. Decostanza | 02/12/2008
(1 out of 5 stars)
"i am in agreement with what has been said of the film by the reviews already
on this page. my comment therefore is about the dvd itself. a most dis-
appointing transfer. especially in the final scene when Mia gets her revenge
on Jarrod. when i saw the film in theaters everything was crisp clear and
sharp but on the dvd leads Rosario Dawson, Chad Faust and Marcus Patrick
look like orange people from Mars. not only that but the rest of the screen
is so dark you can hardly differentiate anything as you could cleary do so in theaters. again one of the most disappointing dvd transfers ever."
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Jason | Backwater, Alabama | 05/05/2008
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Mya (Rosario Dawson) is a somewhat reclusive college student who doesn't really have interaction with many men. She's so reserved that her parents have begun to worry about her. At one early point in the movie it appears that Mya may even have some thoughts of exploring homosexuality.
I can't go further without mentioning the fact that Rosario Dawson is compelling in her performance, morphing from innocent to wrecked, and eventually to psycho-sexual yet confused strength.
Anyway, Jared is a goofy looking, cookie eating, frat-boy with stalker tendencies. He has an atrociously borderline mullet, the skull structure reminiscent of a sketch after an alien abduction, the most horribly pretentious pickup lines in history, advances more awkward than a WNBA player walking in high-heels, and an agenda so obvious that it can be from Jupiter.
It's only a matter of time before Jared's polished routine manages to convince a naïve Mya into the frat's basement. How she didn't perceive his creepiness, which jumped off the screen the minute his opening credits rolled, is beyond me. However, he was somehow seductive enough to get her to engage in some kissing. When Mya wanted it to end, Jared didn't, and he raped her. Many may feel the scene is somewhat weak, or not brutal enough for a rape scene, but it's quite possible for someone to simply go catatonic during a traumatic experience, and there is a point at which even the strongest mind gives up fighting.
Afterwards Mya is psychologically destroyed, going throughout her graduation and daily life like Jodie Foster from Nell. At night, however, she's the polar opposite, and looking for satisfaction, understanding, and healing through alcohol, drugs, and promiscuity. In this lifestyle, she begins to take pleasure dominating others - mentally, physically, and sexually.
It is only when she has gained full control of her emotions that she can trule overcome her anguish, gain her inner strength, and find the resolution for which she's been searching. The final chilling sequence is jaw-dropping, and I didn't know whether to cheer or gasp. It's truly risque, and challenges the viewer to decide whether the old "eye for an eye" adage has any merit."
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HKNYC Man | New York, NY United States | 02/05/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Ever since this picture opened The Tribeca Film Festival this past year, the underground buzz on it has been crazy, so I just had to see it for myself. I can only imagine the looks on people's faces in the audience when the final scene arrived and we see just how clever Rosario's character scores revenge on her rapist with the help of her sexy beast friend played by the very perfect Marcus Patrick! I loved it! OMG! Very gutsy and original picture. Only an indie studio would have the nerve to release it. Gotta love the indies! Great stuff."


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