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CHINNOR'S director of rugby Matt Williams has heralded the arrival of former London Welsh No 8 Alfie To'oala as a player/coach.
Samoan international back rower, To'oala, 34, who is 6ft and 18 stone 8lbs, played for Welsh in the Premiership, before spending last season at Championship side Rotherham Titans.
Williams described the former Bristol, Leeds and Plymouth Albion forward, who was also part of Samoa's 2007 World Cup squad, as one of the most dynamic and destructive No 8s in the modern game.
To'oala, who will work with Chinnor's forwards, has played over 250 matches at the top end of the English game, with 100 of those in the Premiership.
"I have been looking to make a marquee signing for the forward pack to rival the capture of Junior Fatialofa since the moment we beat Exmouth in April," said Williams.
" I have been busy trying to persuade Alf for weeks and finally I got my man.
"To bring a personality to Chinnor of the level of Alf is a fantastic boost to the whole squad who will benefit from his tremendous experience.
"He is the sprinkle of magic in my coaching jigsaw and he will assist me in the running of the pack.
"Alf is not just a class rugby player, he is also a top bloke off the paddock."
To'oala added: "I could have carried on playing at the top of the game and what we achieved at Rotherham last season was great, but the time feels right for me to progress my coaching.
"And the idea of linking up with Fats (Junior Fatialofa) and Matt (Williams) was appealing.
"I also played with the big man Tino Paoletti (former Italian international prop and new Chinnor signing) at Plymouth.
"I look forward to helping Chinnor find success and happiness both on and off the field."
Williams also confirmed first-team prop Joe Winpenny and full back Matt Mountford will also help coach Chinnor 2nd.
HENLEY Hawks have appointed Pete Davies as their new head coach.
Davies steps up from his role with the backs, while ex-head coach Nigel Dudding becomes director of rugby.
Dudding replaces Mike Poulson, who has resigned due to work commitments, while Luke Allen has been appointed forwards coach after retiring from playing due to injury.
Danny Batty will work as part-time defensive coach, Will Downing heads up strength and conditioning and lock Dave Clements is the new captain.
HOME team Young Guns won Witney's inaugural sevens tournament, sponsored by Celestra and held in conjunction with London Welsh.
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[Here's another one that I wrote up for our local paper. Hat tip to Laura for bringing the idea to my attention, and I'll let you all know how the official swap goes sometime next week, hopefully with some delicious recipes!]
For several years now, I've been in the habit of planning a small party in late January or early February.
Nothing like the big gatherings that happen over the holidays; just something little to look forward to and help pass the time during this cold, dark part of the year.
Like everyone else, I also love making up a warm pot of soup for dinner in the winter. But while it's delicious the first night, and sometimes even a second, my pots of soup often last longer than I want to eat them.
In the late 1990s, Seattle resident Knox Gardner solved this problem when he started National Soup Swap Day.
Faced with the gloomy part of the year and more soup than he could stand to eat as leftovers, Gardner decided to invite his friends over for a party to swap some of their leftover soup for his.
After spending several years working out a system — and moving across the country to a new group of friends in the meantime — National Soup Swap Day was born.
Now in its seventh year, National Soup Swap Day is officially celebrated on the third Saturday in January — this year it's Jan. 26.
The concept is simple: Invite over a group of your friends, and ask everyone to bring six 1-quart containers of soup. When you're making your invites, tell everyone to freeze the soup ahead of time so it's easier to manage in the car.
Contrary to popular myth, you can freeze soup in glass jars. Just be sure to leave an extra large amount of head space to avoid causing the jar to break.
You'll also want to consider any dietary restrictions that may be necessary, depending on your group of friends. Remember that you can always instruct people to add meat or rice or pasta to the soup when they reheat it.
Lastly, while it's not essential, it's nice to have copies of the recipe attached to the soup.
When everyone has arrived with soup in hand, it's time for "the telling of the soup" — that is, each person gets up and says something about their soup. Is it an old family recipe? Is it best eaten with a specific kind of crackers? Can you make up a joke or limerick about it? Have some fun with this part.
Once the soups have been properly introduced, it's time for the swapping to begin. Each person draws a number to determine who picks first. Then everyone grabs a quart in turn until all the soup is gone.
It's really easy, but here are a few tips from Gardner in case you run into hiccups.
• Schedule your swap enough ahead of time for everyone to make soup. Gardner suggests giving people at least two full weekends.
• If someone's recipe doesn't quite make as much soup as needed, they can still swap, but to make it fair, each person gets to take home only as much soup as they brought.
• Consider giving door prizes — wooden spoons seem appropriate — for certain categories, e.g. the best telling of the soup, the first soup to get picked.
• Make the soup the center of the party. Put it in a place where it can be admired and talked about by all.
• Last, with all those good soup vibes in the air, consider asking your guests to pick up a few extra cans of soup, which can be collected at the party and donated to a local food pantry.
For more tips, check out Gardner's website. Happy National Soup Swapping Day!
[Edited to add: The recipes! The soups pictured above are Creamy Tomato and Creamy Roasted Onion--two of my favorites!]


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PLAINVIEW – Kappa Delta Pi education honor society welcomed 10 new members to its Omega Upsilon chapter at Wayland Baptist University recently with an initiation ceremony.
Led by chapter president Resa Uptergrove and other group officers, the ceremony featured pledges by each initiate and an address on the importance of education by Melissa Shaver, a Wayland alumna who is a field service agent for the Region 16 Education Service Center in Amarillo. Shaver earned her bachelor's degree in education from Wayland in 1991 and her Master of Education degree in 2000, also from WBU.
New members include Deborah Alcozer of Plainview, Noelia Balderas of Lockney, Rebecca Carlson of Sublette, Kan., Rose Chavez of Plainview, Vanessa Garcia of Plainview, Sandra Hancock of Plainview, Sarah Kron of Lockhart, Christy Morgan of Muleshoe, Lauren Shipman of Magnolia, and Sarah Turner of Hobbs, N.M.
Dr. Patricia Herman, professor of education, is chapter counselor. Other officers include Katie Moore, vice president; Brittany Douglas, treasurer; Brandie Shaffner, secretary; Sarah Quisenberry, historian; and Crystal Holloway, chaplain.
Kappa Delta Pi is an international organization which focuses on leadership training for future educators and provides teaching and classroom resources for members through their teaching careers. They also provide opportunities for scholarships or classroom grants for special projects.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Green Bay Packers' perfect season came to a crashing halt on Sunday against the beleaguered Kansas City Chiefs, who rallied behind interim coach Romeo Crennel and new quarterback Kyle Orton to a shocking 19-14 victory.
Orton finished 23 of 31 for 299 yards in his first start for the Chiefs (6-8), who fired coach Todd Haley last Monday with the team having lost five of its last six games. The loss also ended the Packers' 19-game winning streak.
But behind an inspired performance by the defense, four field goals by Ryan Succop and Jackie Battle's short touchdown run with 4:53 left in the game, Kansas City managed to hand the Packers (13-1) their first loss since Dec. 19, 2010, at New England – exactly one day shy of a full year.
Aaron Rodgers was just 17 of 35 for 235 yards and a touchdown, and he also scampered eight yards for another touchdown with 2:12 left in the game. But the Packers were unable to recover the onside kick and then pick up a couple of first downs to secure the victory.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Dan Orlovsky threw one touchdown pass and the key block on an 80-yard TD run, leading the Colts to their first win of the season.
Indianapolis (1-13) avoided becoming the second team in NFL history to go 0-16. The loss dealt a serious blow to the Titans' playoff hopes. Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck was picked off twice and Chris Johnson rushed for only 55 yards for Tennessee (7-7).
Orlovsky gave Indy a 10-6 lead with an 18-yard TD pass to Reggie Wayne in the third quarter, and Jacob Lacey made it 17-6 with a 32-yard interception return for a TD.
Jake Locker got the Titans within 20-13 with a 7-yard TD pass to Nate Washington with 3:43 to go. But on the next play from scrimmage, with Donald Brown reversing field, Orlovsky threw a block that helped Brown get to the corner and sprint 80 yards to seal the win.
DENVER (AP) – Tom Brady and the Patriots shut down Tim Tebow and clinched a playoff berth with their sixth straight victory.
The Patriots (11-3) won another AFC East title by bouncing back from an early 17-6 deficit and an awful first quarter in which they were outgained on the ground 167 yards to 4.
This time, there was no last-minute magic from Tebow, Denver's enigmatic quarterback who had guided the Broncos (8-6) to four straight fourth-quarter comebacks and six straight wins.
Instead of another slow start followed by a fantastic finish, the Broncos started out fast and then fizzled. They scored on their first three possessions and then were done in by a trio of second-quarter turnovers.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – LeSean McCoy ran for three touchdowns to set two team records and keep Philadelphia alive in the NFC East race.
The Eagles (6-8) have won two straight for the second time this season and somehow still have a chance to repeat as division champions despite underachieving most of the year. But they have to catch Dallas (8-6) and the New York Giants (7-7).
The loss snapped New York's three-game winning streak, dropping the Jets (8-6) into a tie with Cincinnati for the final wild-card spot in the AFC.
Michael Vick threw for 274 yards and a touchdown, and also ran for a score.
McCoy had 102 yards rushing and surpassed Hall of Famer Steve Van Buren with his 19th touchdown of the season and 16th rushing TD.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – Matthew Stafford threw a 6-yard TD pass to Calvin Johnson with 39 seconds remaining to cap a 98-yard scoring drive as Detroit rallied from 13 points down late in the fourth quarter.
The win wasn't sealed until Ndamukong Suh blocked Sebastian Janikowski's 65-yard field goal attempt on the final play. Suh threw his helmet in celebration after providing a perfect exclamation in his return from a two-game suspension.
The Raiders (7-7) appeared in control of the game when Aaron Curry returned a fumble 6 yards for a touchdown to make it 27-14 with 7:47 remaining.
But Stafford led two late scoring drives to win it and give the Lions (9-5) a two-game lead in the NFL wild-card race.
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) – Patrick Peterson returned a punt 32 yards and John Skelton threw 32 yards to Larry Fitzgerald to set up a 22-yard field goal by Jay Feely.
It was the Cardinals' third overtime win in seven games.
Arizona (7-7), winner of six of its last seven, trailed 17-7 entering the fourth quarter.
Both teams were without their starting quarterbacks because of concussions. Skelton, in relief of Kevin Kolb, completed 28 of 36 for 313 yards with a touchdown and interception.
Seneca Wallace, starting for Colt McCoy, was 18 of 31 for 226 yards, including a 76-yard TD play to Greg Little. The Browns are 4-10.
CHICAGO (AP) – Red Bryant returned an interception 20 yards for the go-ahead TD in the third quarter and Seattle kept its faint playoff hopes alive.
Chicago quarterback Caleb Hanie was hit hard on the play by K.J. Wright and threw the ball right into Bryant's arms as Seattle (7-7) scored two TDs in a 50-second span early in the third quarter. Brandon Browner returned another interception 42 yards for a TD in the final quarter as the Seahawks outscored Chicago 31-0 in the second half.
Marshawn Lynch added two touchdown runs for Seattle.
Chicago (7-7) lost its fourth straight and played most of the game without wide receiver Johnny Knox, who was carted off the field after injuring his back while scrambling for a fumble early in the game.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Drew Brees threw for 412 yards and five touchdowns to New Orleans to its sixth win in a row.
Brees completed 32 of 40 passes to help the Saints (11-3) overcome a slow and sloppy start and stay two games ahead of Atlanta in the NFC South. Brees is 304 yards from breaking Dan Marino's single-season record for yards passing with two games to play.
Brees threw two touchdown passes to Lance Moore and one each to Darren Sproles, Jimmy Graham and John Gilmore.
The maligned Saints pass defense held the Vikings to 94 yards passing. Adrian Peterson rushed for 60 yards in his return from a three-game absence for the Vikings (2-12).
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) – Rex Grossman threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to Santana Moss and Washington hurt New York's playoff hopes.
Grossman threw a 20-yard scoring pass to Santana Moss, Darrel Young scored on a 6-yard run after one of three interceptions by the Redskins (5-9) and Graham Gano kicked three field goals. It was Washington's second win in its last 10 games.
The loss knocked the Giants (7-7) out of first place in the NFC East. Dallas (8-6) now leads the division by a game with two to go, including one with Giants on the final weekend. If New York beats the Jets and the Cowboys in its final two games it will win the division.
SAN DIEGO (AP) – Philip Rivers threw for one score and reached the 4,000-yard mark for the fourth straight season, Ryan Mathews ran for two scores and hit 1,000 yards rushing, and San Diego kept its slim postseason hopes alive with a victory against playoff-bound Baltimore.
The Chargers (7-7) neutralized Baltimore's normally ferocious defense, which got Ray Lewis back after a four-game injury absence, and scored on six of their first seven possessions. San Diego is tied with Oakland, a game behind Denver with two to play. San Diego has won three straight after a six-game losing streak.
The Ravens (10-4) had their four-game winning streak snapped, but clinched a playoff berth earlier in the day thanks to losses by the New York Jets, Oakland and Tennessee.
HOUSTON (AP) – Cam Newton threw two touchdown passes, DeAngelo Williams ran for a score and Carolina ended Houston's seven-game winning streak.
Newton completed 13 of 23 passes for 149 yards, outplaying opposing rookie quarterback T.J. Yates. The Panthers (5-9) built a 21-0 halftime lead, then ended Houston's second-half rally when linebacker James Anderson intercepted Yates in the end zone midway through the fourth quarter.
The Texans (10-4) are playing for home-field advantage in the playoffs after clinching the AFC South last weekend.
But their top-ranked defense looked vulnerable without coordinator Wade Phillips, who's on medical leave after undergoing kidney and gall bladder surgery this week. Linebackers coach Reggie Herring made the defensive calls.
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) – Reggie Bush ran for a career-best 203 yards and touchdown to lead Miami to a 30-23 win over the Buffalo Bills in interim Dolphins coach Todd Bowles first game.
Bush sealed the win with a 76-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter. Matt Moore threw two touchdowns passes, and Vontae Davis had two of Miami's three interceptions.
Bowles replaced the fired Tony Sparano last Monday. Miami (5-9) has won five of seven.
The Bills (5-9) have lost seven straight and could finishing last in the AFC East for the fourth straight year. Ryan Fitzpatrick finished 31 of 47 for 316 yards and a TD.
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Rookie A.J. Green had six catches and topped 1,000 yards for the season, and Cincinnati kept pace in the AFC playoff race.
Brandon Tate's 56-yard punt return set up Bernard Scott's go-ahead touchdown run late in the third quarter and Cedric Benson added a short scoring run in the fourth for the Bengals (8-6), who won for the second time in six games.
Green caught a 55-yarder to set up a field goal for the game's first score. He has 1,006 yards receiving, leaving him 3 shy of Cris Collinsworth's franchise rookie record in 1981.
Kellen Clemens was 25 for 36 for 229 and a late touchdown pass to Danario Alexander for the Rams (2-12), who have lost five in a row.
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Does President Obama's 2nd Inauguration Have Anything To Do With Spanish?
(PRWEB) January 20, 2013
Some believe that part of President Obama's win came after wooing the Spanish vote. Back in 2008, President Obama began to reach out to Hispanics as he said, campaigning to English speakers, "You need to make sure your child can speak Spanish," and that, "we should have every child speaking more than one language."
Next, in 2012, President Obama not only outspent Mitt Romney reaching out to Hispanic voters, he had more widely accepted policies on immigration. He also took the time to practice Spanish, and with a surprisingly good Spanish accent, campaigned directly to Hispanics.
It comes as no surprise that President Obama did so well among Hispanic voters and won a second term.
"We're honored to have a President who puts such an emphasis on language learning and strives to bridge communication gaps among the citizens of our country and our world," remarked Dave Clark, CEO of LearnALanguage.com.
In honor of President Obama's 2nd inauguration and his commitment to learning languages, LearnALanguage.com is releasing completely free language courses online the day after the U.S. Presidential Inauguration on Monday, January 21st.
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Woman on the elevator at work this morning goes, "I was up late with those stupid Yankees."
"So was I. They're killin' me."
"I can't wait for tonight."
"You're a glutton for punishment, too, huh?"
"Of course." She smiled.
"Yeah, me too."
Then I smiled.
"Winged Victory of Samothrace," photo by Cate Copenhaver via Arpeggia.


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Around this time last year I was riffing on the commercial success of the King of Pop's funeral but this year I was lucky enough to find myself in Prospect Park attending Michael Jackson's 52nd Birthday party. Brooklyn loves Michael Jackson.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Brooklyn Loves Michael Jackson
Around this time last year I was riffing on the commercial success of the King of Pop's funeral but this year I was lucky enough to find myself in Prospect Park attending Michael Jackson's 52nd Birthday party. Brooklyn loves Michael Jackson.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Cabin Fever
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
The Black Knights
Number 1 team in the league
Who's your Daddy?
Sunday, May 2, 2010
NYC Responds to Arizona
From the May 1 Coalition official website:
On Saturday May 1, 2010, a diverse coalition of immigrant rights advocates, community and union leaders, artists and youth-based community organizations will gather in Union Square at midday for a rally, march and Hip Hop concert in support of immigrant and worker rights. In light of legislation passed in Arizona last week, the Union Square event will emphasize condemning this racially charged legislation that will terrorize not only immigrants but all communities of color.
The Union Square rally will also make it clear that the Schumer Plan on immigration is no better as it does not grant immediate legalization, continues to militarize the border and will ominously mean biometric identification for all people in this country. The Schumer plan also means the further criminalization of the undocumented and will serve to drive workers further underground.
Friday, April 30, 2010
I often sit wondering, wrought with pensiveness and just short of teeth-chattering anxiety, where we as a nation are heading. I think to myself how will this nation be able to pull itself up from the depths of mediocrity where we currently find ourselves. How can we turn this all around? Too often I think we're too far gone. A farewell to what's already lost.
We are at a point of such deep rooted cynicism that no system seems to work. Customer service is in the garbage. There's no surprise when our leaders prove to be corrupt. Instead, we expect them to be. This one is spending money on strip clubs, the other one votes all anti-gay while being gay himself. Sports figures, our once past-time heroes, are growing to ungodly unnatural proportions, shooting themselves up while finding ways to bend the rules. One sport star apologizes to the whole nation for cheating on his wife while we all know it's an attempt to regain his sponsors. Why do I need his apology? Text-speak is our distracting new literature. Whole generations of kids shortening "ur" for your or is it you're? Does it matter? "Your!" goes beyond my 140 word tweet capacity! Obesity rates are nearly double what they were 30 years ago and the intersection of ignorance and arrogance is our absolved route toward education. I find it astonishing that in 2010 there's actually a call to reform Texas public school books to be more pro-Christan, pro-conservative in a nation founded on the separation of Church and State.
We are at a point where "singers" are auto-tuned into talent. Where they are unable to sell their image without some font-based-emoticon symbol spelling out their name. We celebrate the sing along to lyrics about cell phone reception in clubs, brushing our teeth with a bottle of Jack and a once church-going diva somehow paralleling female empowerment to lyrics like, "this is a stick up, stick up, I need them bags and that money." Oh, come on KnuckleCrack, it's just a song. Lighten up!"
I try to, but when I hear the lyrics to Ke$ha's latest ubiquitous song:
Got my drunk text on
I'll regret it in the mo'
But tonight
I don't give a
I don't give a
I don't give a
Obama, the man who was to turn it all around, was trampled upon before he was even out of the gate. "How's that hopey, changey stuff you were promised" the average speaking, conservatively fashionable woman at the podium asks her audience. She's knows she can incite a howling applause from her followers cut from the same cloth. I never once thought that Obama would enter office and that change would immediately preside over this nation. Instead, I believed he was speaking to us individually, saying that we can be the change we want to see. We can be the progress we want to achieve. That his only power was instilling in us that we, the individual, are capable of turning this world around. That it is up to us and only us to better our communities, fight for the environment, take responsibility for our children. But that would require work on our part and those too lazy and dumb to do it themselves, to even understand his very eloquently spoken words, neither supported him in the first place (he's from Kenya! He's not even American! He's not fit for the job! He's the Antichrist! He's a socialist! He's a communist!) or turned their backs on him within his first week. Not that they have any answers themselves - they're just happy to point a finger and blame.
In the eight years that our former President destroyed our nation never once did he receive the amount of public disrespect our current president puts up with. Yes, we thought Bush was an idiot, we knew very well he couldn't string a sentence together and he lied our way into a never-ending war but during this time never did any congressman stand up and scream "you lie!" Understandably people are upset about Obama's route to change our current situation. I understand people being weary of Government expansion, a change in health care, but I won't budge in my belief that a lot of the anger fueling the current anti-president movement, this amount of disrespect, lies in the fact that the old power-controlling white suits lost to a black man, a female house speaker and a newly appointed Latina to the Supreme Court. Argue me all you want that this isn't the case, I'll clench my teeth and sigh the more you deny it. Call me an elitist but I'd still prefer risky changes over a woman who speaks to the nation in "don't ya knows" and "drill baby drills." I prefer smart over average. Distinguished over dumb.
Right now a few Arizona politicians are calling for illegals to be rounded up and sent back home. "Oh Knucklecrack, it's not like that," a few disagreeing friends will plead upon me, "it's only people suspected of being illegal that need to worry." "Fine," I respond, "but when the systematic profiling begins, when the police are given too much power, when the beatings and rapes occur and when US Citizens of Mexican origin don't feel safe without carrying papers on them, don't say I didn't warn you." There is no easy answer to this problem but I can assure you catching immigrants like grasshoppers as one politician suggests, isn't the way to go about things. After all, Hitler compared the Jews to being sub-human too.
So where in all of this are we going? How can we repair ourselves? What is it going to take for all of this to turn around? As a nation we are splitting by the second, dividing further and further into some unknown course. I don't think any of us know where we're going and the idea of hoping for the best seems less and less useful.
Happy Friday.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
At the Corner of My Mind
Recently a friend asked me where I see myself in ten years and I couldn't conceive even the slightest semblance of an answer. Then he asked what it is I want out of life and I couldn't answer that either. He suggested I begin a ritual of sitting quietly, searching the depths of my brain and asking myself what are the things I truly want in life. He believes that knowing oneself completely is the crucial key to the success of happiness, for once you know who you are and accept that, all else falls gently into place. He said memories are good to focus on and that knowing one's first memory is a good start in the process of self discovery.
I've found that to recount one's earliest memories is a difficult task, if not impossible. I rove my brain hoping for a first word, my mother's embrace but I only trundle up images in clip: The Green-knit blanket, the kitchen wallpaper, the feel of the linoleum floor. Everything else, whole important events and the pure, simple moments are scattered about like toys on the suburban front lawn of time.
The moment I may very well have been snapped into life was when I was three years old and wandered away in Disney World.
I was obsessed with the elevators. Well, obsessed with anything, really, as fidgety was my nature but on this trip with my family, the elevators dazzled me. We had been there for a few days and I in my black and red Michael Jackson sweat-pant suit was being led by my father's hand through the Grand Floridian hotel to the indoor arcade. My sisters are on the other side of him. I'm too small to play any of the games. I can't reach the joy sticks and without success my father tries to hold me up for the length of a quarter's game. There are not many people in the arcade and it's during the day. My Father and sisters are playing an arcade game. I am close by, a few feet away at most. I'm bored and I begin to fidget. I begin looking for a quarter on the ground, beneath the arcade games. I flop to the floor and look into the small space between the floor and arcade game. There are some popcorn bits and dust but no quarter. I turn my head around and see through the archway arcade entrance the elevators moving up and down. Up and down. Mom's upstairs. She's taking a nap. I'm going to go to Mommy. I glance up at my family. I see them there. Rachel, smiling, her pointy nose, so tiny at the time laughing and quickly hitting the buttons. Mer, my big sister, next to me, her hair pulled into a pony-tail, taller than Rachel and also hitting buttons. My Father watching with a smile. I am right behind him. Just right there and I walk away. My Father feels no departure, no slight gust of wind, no sneaker shuffled on the carpet. By the time he checks back, I am already gone.
Apparently there were lost child alerts. Security began screening the exits and somehow two hours had passed. None of this I remember. What I do remember is riding up the escalator. A pretty woman with gold bracelets asking, "where's your mother?" To which I reply, "She's upstairs." She takes me by the hand and leads me to a jewelery store which I think she works at. She puts me up on the counter and I sit there, looking around, kicking my feet. My mother comes running in, hand over mouth and hugging me. She thanks the woman at the store. She leads me to my Father, his eyes red and bleary, he takes me from my mother's hands and shakes me hard. So hard. Then hugs me. I can't tell if he's angry or happy it seems a frightening blend of both. "Don't you ever do this again! DON'T. YOU. EVER. DO. THIS. AGAIN!" He shakes me so hard I bite my tongue. I feel the pain. I remember the pain. The jerk of my neck. It is that pain. That one single flash of heat upon which all my memories are brought back. That is when my eyes first opened. When life as I know it, truly began.
Monday, April 26, 2010
The Vengeful Closet
Sunday, April 18, 2010
The Butch Factor
Friday, April 16, 2010
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
It Wouldn't Have Mattered
I could tell you it was the White Party or The Winter Party or some weirdo after party where you dance in the middle of a zoo, but it wouldn't matter. I could also tell you that this was the party where the lights went out, or where the DJ collapsed on her turntables, or where Teddy and Eddy broke up, or where somebody took a dump on the dance floor, or where that guy I've seen a few times out died of a GHB overdose. I could tell you all that, but it wouldn't matter.
What matters is that it was Carmine and me, old pals, arms slung around the others shoulder, stumbling through loose-fit sneakers through the rocky terrain of empty water bottles and plastic cups. Danced-dazed-drug walking shirtless human apes, trudging for an exit. And we were with them.
It was balmy outside. Our bodies sticky with the crowd, the heat and sweat. The lights glowed, thumping lightly. We stood there rolling on our heels for awhile coming to our senses. Buoys in the middle of the sidewalk.
I lit a cigarette. "Where to now?"
"Let's go back to my room. We'll shower, sit down for awhile and head to the after party."
"Aye, Aye Captain."
The walk was pleasant and goofy. I kept grabbing Carmine from the back and squeezing his ribs, tickling him. Making him run away from me and then whining that he was too far away. Pals. Real true pals. It's the only word that comes to mind. That push-push, "I've known you forever/we've been through this thing together" familiarity and old-root strength. We've been there, with each other, the whole time.
At a stoplight I went to poke his ribs another time. He had a delayed response. He wasn't paying attention. He was somewhere else. He pushed away my arm and began walking closer to the wall. Our energy dropped.
"Hey," He said, "I have to tell you something."
I knew the tone. I stopped short, clenching my teeth.
Carmine and I go way back. Back to the gay.com days. Back to AOL Chatrooms. Back to the days when he would meet me after class and we'd take our fake ID's to the straightest Frat bar and pretend to be straight guys just "getting to know one another." It was good that we became friends and never had sex. There was never any interest on either of our parts. Instead we were allies. Comrades in a new terrain. The years of 19 and 20 were adventuresome. Flooded with memories of our delightfully shared secret amongst the keggers and house parties, of renting cars and driving to Phoenix on the dusky desert roads just to go to Pulse for the night. Man, how our hearts would pump. Together we were unstoppable. We we're going to figure this whole thing out.
I came out a little before him. And I was much more loud about it too. He was the jock. Played sports. Had a scholarship. Showed me how to work out. He was the reserved one. But what he enjoyed about my willingness to have fun, to be carefree I took from him his patient resolve, his even-keeled temperament. He challenged my urgent need to come out. He wasn't concerned about the fight or the cause or the plight. To him it didn't exist. It's not that he lacked compassion or was sheltered it's just that Carmine really is that guy who could live in the suburbs: "Give me a house, a dog a boyfriend and a 9 to 5 job and we'll call it a day." To which I'd respond with something like: "The Suburbs?! They'll lynch you!" He would shake his head, roll his eyes and continue sliding his tray down the line at the Student Union Panda Express.
He graduated earlier than I did. I had an additional semester learning how to put the useless "Fine" in Fine Arts. He held back, soaking up the desert sky. Going to the gym. Happy in his out-of-college entry level IT job making a buck and reclining before the sunset in his $400 a month Spanish style one bedroom house. I told him about my internship in Los Angeles. He wished me well. He told me he'd come visit and that I'd better too and with that we stepped out into the world alone, the first chapter of adulthood, waiting to be engulfed.
The years carried us. I bounced from LA to NY. Climbing up the ladder. Getting involved. Stirring passions and he doing the same in his own way. Finding a house, securing a job, jumping from one long term relationship to the next. Always these guys, his stability, contrasting my jump-about Rubik's cube restlessness. He was where he wanted to be, in the openness, and me in the thick of it, Tetris-like buildings falling all around me, encasing me.
The Cell phone crackled:
"So what are you working on now, big shot?"
"Big Shot? Please, I'm moving to Brooklyn."
"Still more money than I have."
"Yeah well, you've always looked better than I have."
"Fuck you."
"So are we going to this party or not?"
"Yeah, let's do it."
"Ok so I'll book the plane tickets and...we'll rage."
"I hate when you say that."
"....Is the latest coming? I promise not to say it around your beau. I want to meet him."
"Nahhh. He can't get away. It's cool. We're good."
"Cool. How you guys doing?"
"We're good, you know, I really like him. It's just that he's so young and, you know, with everything going on.... I just want to be there for him. It's really tough. But I really like him."
"I hear you, man. You just take your time, communicate. That's all I got."
"Ok speak to you later."
What I heard Carmine saying, although it wasn't actually said, is that Carmine's 22 year old boyfriend tested positive after a few months of them being together. Their lust for one another flowed in the turbulent waves that are the dramatics of the situation, the being there for one another, the passion, the taking of each other's hands through the complexity of this new found situation. The younger man coming to terms with his status the older man confronting it.
Through these waves they churned. Like magnets flipping sides. They were attracted and repelled by one another depending on the week. They loved, they split. They loved again. They saw one another. They loved again. They split. They opened things up. They split. They shared the latest information and medical research to one another. They visited the doctor together. Carmine remained negative, the younger man continued armoring himself.
A year and some months later we find ourselves back on that very same street. We're waiting for the light to change and I'm still clenching my teeth, bracing for an impact.
"Well, I am.......Positive."
I exhaled. I breathed in again. Turning toward him. Staring into his eyes. "Ok." I said in the calm way the voice allows for only the real life moments like these.
"And I don't need the lecture from you, okay?"
"I wasn't going to give it to you," I spit back.
The traffic light clicked. The blinking white man appeared in the black box across the street. Carmine started to cross, his back to me. I threw my arms around him, tight as a harness. I held him back, cupping my fists over the center of his chest and held him. Our bodies warm against one another. I kissed the back of his neck with one long meaningful kiss. A kiss which would translate how much I would be there for him, how much I loved him and how much everything was going to be ok. He took it in, allowing himself to be vulnerable. To let it all go and we stood like that until the blinking man had a chance to appear once more.
We released, dabbing tears from the corner of our eyes. Smiling at one another and sucking the loose snot back into our noses. Back to being pals again he pushed my shoulder. I pushed him right back.
"Alright asshole," he said, "Let's get going."
Nothing more needed to be said.
I received the call on a violet-laced Sunday night. The sun was fading fast. You could see your breath in the air and the bare twigs huddled together like fingers trying to stay warm. Autumn was almost finished, only giving an encore at this point.
The phone bleeped with Carmine's name as I took off my coat and ran upstairs away from the television my roommate had on. I tucked myself into my room. Not turning on any lights. I shared his call in the darkness.
"Hey dude."
"Hey," He said flatly.
"What's up?"
"I just don't understand it man. I don't know what he wants. He doesn't even know. One minute He wants to be together. Then on his own. The he wants a threeway. I just don't know. And on top of it I feel like a girl who just got pregnant and dumped."
"He's 23 years old! Do you remember us when we were 23 we had no idea what we wanted. Fuck, I still don't!"
"I just wish none of this gay ever happened to us. I just wish he could be an ordinary guy without all this gay bullshit to deal with. I don't want to keep going out, the drinking, the meeting people, I don't want any of it anymore! I want what I always wanted. Just a regular guy, with no issues and no hangups who just happens to be gay. I mean is that so hard? He wants to get all caught up in the scene and I don't want any part of it anymore. Positive or not, I don't want spend my time trolling around bars, trying to find a boyfriend who when the tough gets going all the sudden wants an open relationship. I just want," he yelled and then slowed his pace, "A regular fucking guy." "I don't want to do this anymore, man."
The room grew darker. The temperature dropping.
"I know, man. I know what you're saying. I see it too. I feel it too. We all do. We're all out there searching for something. It'll be fine. It'll be ok. Maybe you two just really need your own space. Break away from one another awhile. Take time to find yourself again. Weigh your own priorities. " I kept going, not waiting for pause. I didn't want him to interject. What he was saying was all too much, too real, too true. There was nothing more I could say. I finished another few sentence and when I stopped it seemed as though the phone went dead.
It had. I looked at the brightly lit LCD screen, the only light in the room. The screen bleeped, "call failed -- call failed -- call failed." I waited for him to call back and when he didn't I didn't attempt to call him either. There was nothing more to be said and anyway, it wouldn't have mattered.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Nothing really prepares you for seeing your 96 year old grandmother. My mother and I got off the elevator on the third floor of the retirement center. As soon as the automatic doors crack open and the fluorescent lights reflect off the linoleum floor the stench of old punches you in the face. The smell is sour, sticky and humid, nearly dead.
We walked past a reception area where the elderly, unmoving, almost drooling slumped over bean bags of people stared into space or seemed lost in a perpetual daze. Hanging above them was a sign that read "non-ambulatory."
My mother, having done this every other day since we moved my grandmother up from Florida last summer, was used to it. I, who had only visited my grandmother a few times, had to mentally deflect the surging thoughts of life and the inevitable approaching mortality. "Non-ambulatory" throbbed across my brow. My mother, sensing the onslaught of emotions from her sensitive son, grabbed my arm the only way a mother knows how. Delicate, soft, encouraging and lead me into a big open room with a dot-matrix printed sign above the door. "Rec Room."
The elderly all sat in circle. The wheels of their wheelchairs touching one another. Some rolled back and forth wanting a better angle around the perimeter of the circle. An overweight Hispanic woman with too much make-up and a heavy accent were encouraging the elderly to throw weighted balls on to a target on the floor. It was a game, like darts, where the elderly limp-lobed their balls on to the target gaining a score or hoping for a bulls eye. There my grandmother sat, her back to my mother and I.
"Excuse me," my mother said politely squeezing herself through the wheel chairs trying to get to my grandmother. She placed a hand on the back of my grandmother's shoulder and my grandmother turned to greet the hand with a delayed response. She placed a hand on my mother's, thankful she was there to relieve her of this game she hadn't been paying attention to anyway. My mother backed her wheelchair out of the circle in a k-turn and reminded her I was there to visit. When my grandmother's eyes met mine she smiled, dentures oddly placed, as a child would to a shiny object. She had grown older since the last time I had seen her just three months ago. A little thinner, her hair more disheveled.
"Well hello dahhhh-ling," she said as she had done so throughout my childhood. I bent down smiling to kiss her cheek and as my face met hers my heart cracked sending a surge of emotions to my eyes. My trembling lower lip the only protection against producing real tears. I cleared my thoughts while my mother and I walked her to a nearby table. We pushed her in and I sat very close.
"How are you, Gram" I asked. "Stuck in this place," she said dryly but jovial. My mother rolled her eyes. I pulled myself even closer to her because, for the last 10 years, I always went on the assumption that this might be the last time I would see her. My grandmother, too, for the last 10 years has been telling my family that she's ready to die. Her birthday is next week, March 21st so I wished her a happy 96.
"I never thought I'd live this long," she said aloud to myself and my mother but more so as a reminder to herself. Her brain is completely functional but her body is struggling to keep up. Fearing this might actually be one of the last times I see her I dug in with questions.
Born in 1914 in the Lower East Side of New York City my grandmother, Sarah Papish, was the daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants. Growing up in a tenement on Delancey St. my grandmother was the third of four children. Two boys and two girls. Sarah at the age of 5, like many children her age, was given the responsibility of taking care of her younger sister, a job which she loved having. She went to school but states she mostly hung around and socialized within the Jewish community of the Lower East Side. "We were insular in those days. If you spoke Yiddish, you spent time with those who spoke Yiddish. We went to school together. We went to temple together."
"And how did you have fun," I asked wanting to hear something I haven't heard before hoping I'd peel back an unseen layer, a secret tidbit from within my ancestry. But it's always the same answer, "We didn't have fun like you have fun these days. We were poor. We worked. In those days girls didn't socialize with boys!"
"Yeah but Gram....Did you drink, smoke?"
"Who do you think I am?!"
My mother chuckles.
"Ok fine. Then, tell me about Grandpa." Grandpa Manny, Emanuel Lesser, the man from whom my name derives, died in the summer of 1980. One year before I was born. I never met the man and it stands as one of my mother's greatest sorrows that he was never an influence in my life.
"He was a great guy...a great, great guy," my grandmother remembers through a giant smile. Again my heart slingshots emotions to my eyes. I hold the forming tears back. It's funny how my grandmother has trouble remembering the name of her roommate in the retirement center but the memories of 70 years back are as clear and present as ever. "Oh! He was so handsome," she says reaching across the table and grabbing my mother's forearm. "You have his eyebrows and nose," my mother says to me.
"I met him at a party," my grandmother continues, "he was quite the man at the time because he had his own car. My friend Meryl introduced us and that night he offered to drive me home. He was living in New Jersey, taking care of his father and I was still in the Lower East Side taking care of my mother. I was old for a single girl. I was 30 and unmarried! He was 33 and single! I accepted the ride which was a little...daring. Women.... didn't accept rides from strange men in those days. But I took the ride and pretty soon we were dating. Before too long he was shipped out to the army but refused to marry me because he didn't want to leave me a widow with a kid, which was happening to couples all around us. Our relationship really began when we started writing letters back and forth to one another. He was overseas in god-knows-where and I was in New York taking care of my mother, but every day I would write. When he came back, we were in love. We got married." She quickly offered and aside, "He loved to dance. He loved to tell jokes. He was a great guy," she added once more.
"Maybe that's where you get it from, Eric," my mother suggested to me, knowing I love to tell jokes and love to dance. "Maybe," I responded knowing I'll never know the answer to that question.
Being around my grandmother and in the center of all this old made me think about life. How we go from infancy to adulthood to only return back to infancy. Again and again this cycle replayed itself in my head. Slumped over, old, achy with everything we did, and everyone we know, dead.
My grandmother's entire family is dead. At 96 she is the only one left alive. Her children now bear the responsibility of carrying the memories of her life. It seems impossible, unimaginable that I'll be there too one day. A place in life where all your artifacts, friends and family are gone. Memories become the only thing that validate your existence. My grandmother was incredibly well liked during her life, she knew so many people, but at her funeral there will only be a handful. My grandfather died nearly 30 years ago. More years than I'm alive now. This person, this love of hers, has been gone for nearly a lifetime.
This immediately made me think of my own life. What I have, don't have, what I've done, what I haven't. My heart suddenly grasped at the desire for a boyfriend, a husband. My confident independence no longer seemed like an asset. I craved somebody. Somebody to share this existence with, someone whose existence will be shared by mine. It's what we do now that matters because in the end we're all liable to be sitting in wheel chairs, throwing weighted balls at a target on the floor, just as a means to pass the time until our heart stops beating and our eyes no longer open. I thought about the stories I haven't written. The video projects I've left incomplete. The loves I've had and had not. I thought about the stresses in our lives, the achievements and for a moment it all seemed worthless and pathetic.
It's not like we have any other option. We must live. We must complete this cycle. Having a boyfriend or a husband isn't the benchmark of our lives, it is neither a success nor failure whether we fulfill that societal norm or not. The same goes for completing that project or getting to that level of success but to try is to live, and to play the game is to experience and when all is said and done and the decades of my life flash by like chapters in a book, I'll know what is written on those pages and those pages will be what I know of life.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Queer Rising Shuts It Down
I feel the passion build within the continuous screaming.
Go get 'em
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Perry vs. Schwarzenegger
Thursday, December 31, 2009
It's been ten years. Ten years and I feel like I've lived three life times by now. Ten years of life, adventure, experience, regrets, mistakes, men, sex, parties, dates, relationships, single life, bars, states, countries, cities, money, no money, gym, lift, fat, skinny, healthy, sick, angry, happy. So much can happen in ten years. Had you grabbed me by my hemp necklace then and told me all I'd experience by now, I'd have laughed in your face (and then probably offered you a brownie.)
I'll be 38 on December 31st 2019 and I have no ability to predict what will happen between now and then. I'll be a man. A full grown man. The point of no return so far from visibility. A distant memory of the days that were. A buoy in a fog so excruciatingly dense. The thought alone makes me eager and terrified. Life just keeps pushing forward. There's no stopping it - you just have to go along for the ride.
In ten years I went from young to younger to man. The full scale of my blind evolution so blatantly clear now in hindsight. My heart splits at the vision. I grasp at the ghosts of that child but as much as I may try, I will never hold that boy again. He's gone, now molded into what you have before you. Oh young man, from where have you come and where will you go? Forward, the only direction, the past, stones on which we walk.
Life is so fragile. So wretchedly fragile and in 100 years we'll all be dust. Is it not this fact alone that is this planet's greatest invitation for us to live our lives? To be the man we want to become? To live as freely or as wildly or as sane as we'd like? This Earth will keep turning, and turning, and turning, with or without us. We are a speck in a broad stroke of history. A tiny, worthless crumb on the table of time and when the time comes, and it will indeed come, we will be bones in the ground or ashes to the sky and yet this Earth will still turn and turn and turn. So live as you live and accept this next decade with an open chest. Allow light to beam through you offering whatever it may be. Be open, for anything else would be a simple, silly waste of time. These years are blurred at best. A flimsy, horse-haired bow of an arch between then and now, and now and then. The future so weighed down by tangibility yet light and translucent like the very air we breathe. We know it exists but we just can't see it!
So strong this younger self I shed, each passing day, each step erasing the previous. Five steps now, ten and I'm ancient.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – For the second year in a row senior Katie Kauffman (Olney, Md.) represented MIT on the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Women's Lacrosse All-Conference Team as she was voted to the second team. Her selection marked the 18th consecutive season the Engineers received an all-conference nod.
From the midfield, Kauffman paced the Cardinal and Gray in goals (46), assists (12), and points (58). She set the Institute record for draw controls in a season with 48 and was third on the team in groundballs (23) and caused turnovers (eight). In the MIT recordbook, Kauffman is tied for second in career draw controls (115), ranks third in goals (135), and fourth in assists (38) and points (173). Within the NEWMAC, she finished in the top 10 for goals, assists, points, and draw controls.


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This is an excerpt from Pilates Illustrated by Portia Page.
Pilates is a method of exercise that connects the mind and the body as one and allows the body to move in a more efficient way. This form of exercise uses your body to its greatest advantage, utilizing your own strength, flexibility, and coordination, and requires that you pay attention to your body throughout each movement. To help achieve this powerful mind–body connection, the following six principles should be kept in mind.
The importance of breathing and the fact that we do it without thinking is summed up in this quote from Joseph Pilates: "Breathing is the first act of life, and the last." Even so, simply knowing that you are breathing is not enough. Breathing correctly and fully will make all the difference in your Pilates practice. Pilates exercises require you to breathe fully and deeply, using every inhale to take in lots of fresh air and every exhale to get rid of stale air. This process oxygenates the blood and gets the circulation going. Breathing fully and deeply can energize your every move. Breath is the very foundation of Pilates movement, and the exercises in this book are outlined with specific breathing instructions that coordinate with specific movements. The breath will be used to initiate and support movements as well as facilitate and energize the movements.
The breathing technique to use is called lateral breathing. Lateral breathing means breathing deeply and fully into the sides and back, or the lower lobes of the lungs. With this type of breath, you can keep the abdominal muscles contracted, providing support for the lower spine and back. To make this process smoother, inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth, as if you were blowing out a candle. As you inhale through the nose, imagine your rib cage expanding out to the sides like an umbrella opening or an accordion playing. As you exhale through the mouth, imagine the rib cage drawing inward like a corset being tightened, bringing the rib cage toward the hip bones.
Proper lateral breathing is critical for achieving the correct alignment and focus in your Pilates practice. You might want to practice this type of breathing every day in front of a mirror so you can note the rib cage moving outward on the inhale and inward on the exhale, thereby making the actual exercises easier to follow and execute.
What is the pelvic floor and why do you need to know how to engage it? Pilates instructors are often asked this question as this is a common mystery to most beginners. The pelvic floor is the support structure for the bladder, rectum, uterus in women, and prostate in men. The pelvic floor is the bottom layer of the deepest core musculature and the lower support of the abdominal cavity. It helps you breath and provides support for the spine.
Contraction of the deep pelvic floor muscles will help you engage the transversus abdominis, the natural girdle that lies roughly between the belly button and the pubic bone and wraps around the waist. The transversus abdominis is an important stabilizer for the lower back and the spine. Contracting the pelvic floor not only provides support it also aids in Pilates practice and improves posture in general.
Think of the pelvic floor as a hammock made of muscle that lies between the sit bones and the pubic bone and between the thighs. To engage this group of muscles, inhale and then as you exhale try to lift and tighten the pelvic floor. It should feel as if you are trying to stop the flow of urine or as if it were an elevator floor moving up. Try to not use any other muscles, such as the buttocks or abdominals, in this process. The movement will be small and mostly internal, unseen by others. Engaging the pelvic floor is something you can practice anytime during the day. As you practice, it should start to feel easy and automatic as you breathe.
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Smallpox Alert in Jails and Prisons
- Overview
- Transmission of Vaccinia Virus
- Preventing Contact Transmission
- Administrative Leave for Vaccinated Health Care Workers
- Adverse Events of Vaccination
- Making the Diagnosis
- Prophylaxis for Those at High Risk
- Reporting Adverse Events
- Timing of Tuberculosis Screening and Smallpox Vaccination
- Smallpox Resources
- Footnotes
While our nation's jails and prisons might appear to be a safe place to be to avoid the potential health risks associated with smallpox, this may not be the case. Many correctional employees serve as reservists in the military, while others are being trained to diagnose or treat individuals who are suspected of having smallpox. Both groups are among those who may be vaccinated against smallpox, which should be of concern to those providing health care to immunocompromised inmates. Transmission of the virus used for smallpox vaccination is a well-recognized phenomenon that can lead to devastating consequences in those with underlying medical disorders. This article is intended to provide a brief summary of what those responsible for correctional health care need to know about smallpox vaccination. Information that follows is based on recently published Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines.1-3
Smallpox vaccine is made from live vaccinia virus and does not contain variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox. Because vaccinia viral replication and shedding occurs at the vaccination site, unintended transmission can occur from as early as two days after vaccination until the scab separates from the skin two to three weeks later.
Replication of vaccinia virus can be enhanced among immunosuppressed patients. Except in the setting of an outbreak, smallpox vaccination is contraindicated for individuals with atopic dermatitis (eczema) or other skin conditions that disrupt the epidermis; women who are pregnant or who may become pregnant in the 28 days after vaccination; and those immunosuppressed due to HIV infection, autoimmune conditions, malignancy, radiation treatment, medications, or other immunodeficiencies.
Persons with HIV infection might have an increased risk for severe adverse reactions resulting from exposure to live-virus vaccines. Because the HIV epidemic began after routine smallpox vaccination ended in the 1970s, data are limited regarding the risks from vaccination among HIV-infected persons.
On March 25, 2003, the CDC reported that among 25,645 civilians who have been vaccinated, there have been three cases of myocardial infarction, one of which resulted in death; two cases of angina, and two cases of myopericarditis. Based upon this information, the CDC added the recommendation that persons with known cardiac disease such as cardiomyopathy, previous heart attack, angina, or other evidence of coronary artery disease be temporarily deferred from smallpox vaccination.
Transmission of Vaccinia Virus
Vaccinia can be transmitted to others from an unhealed vaccination site. Although nosocomial transmission of vaccinia from either patients or health care workers to patients has been described, transmission usually requires close interaction as would occur in a household or dormitory setting.
Cases arising from transmission through contact with a recently vaccinated person have resulted in either eczema vaccinatum (EV) or inadvertent inoculation (when vaccinia virus is transferred from a vaccination site to a second location on the body or to a close contact), occurring 5-19 days after exposure to the source case. The incidence of contact vaccinia in the 1960s was 2-6/100,000 first-time vaccinations. Since there are many more people living today with severe immunocompromising conditions, this may underestimate the current risk.
Preventing Contact Transmission
The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) believes that optimal infection-control practices and appropriate site care should prevent transmission of vaccinia virus. Those providing direct patient care or who are in contact with inmates should keep their vaccination site covered with gauze dressing to absorb exudates; this dressing should be covered with a semipermeable membrane to minimize the risk of transmission. The dressing should also be covered by a layer of clothing until the scab separates, which may take 14-21 days. Dressings used to cover the site should be changed frequently to prevent maceration and accumulation of exudates.
Since transmission occurs through contact with the vaccination site, the most critical measure in preventing contact transmission is consistent hand hygiene with antimicrobial soap and water or an approved alcohol-based hand-rub (one that contains >60% alcohol) after any contact with the vaccination site or contact with materials that have come into contact with the site.
The CDC recommends that hospitals provide a program in which designated staff (available 24 hours a day) assess the dressings of all vaccinated health care workers daily before shifts begin, determine if dressings need changing, and change the dressing as needed. In correctional settings, designated personnel may be responsible for assessing vaccination sites of correctional officers. These designated staff should assess the vaccination site for local reactions and for vaccine take, reinforce education regarding the need for meticulous hand hygiene, and record and report serious adverse events after vaccination. When feasible, staff responsible for dressing changes for teams should be vaccinated, but having non-vaccinated staff change dressings is acceptable. All persons handling bandages should observe contact precautions.
Administrative Leave for Vaccinated Health Care Workers
The ACIP recommends that administrative leave is not routinely required for newly vaccinated health care personnel unless they are physically unable to work because of systemic signs and symptoms of illness; have extensive skin lesions that cannot be covered adequately; or are unable to adhere to the recommended infection-control precautions. However, the CDC expects that as many as 30% of the nation's hospitals may opt out of the voluntary immunization program because of concerns about health risks to those being vaccinated and the potential transfer of vaccinia to vulnerable populations. Each correctional system should take these issues into account when making a decision concerning administrative leave or reassignment.
Adverse Events of Vaccination
Adverse reactions are usually self-limited and include fever, headache, fatigue, myalgia, chills, local skin reactions, nonspecific rashes, erythema multiforme, lymphadenopathy, and pain at the vaccination site. Adverse reactions that might require further evaluation or treatment include inadvertent inoculation, generalized vaccinia (GV), eczema vaccinatum (EV), progressive vaccinia (PV), postvaccinial central nervous system disease, and fetal vaccinia.
Persons with PV, EV, and severe GV or inadvertent inoculation might benefit from therapy with vaccinia immune globulin (VIG) or cidofovir, available from the CDC under Investigational New Drug protocols.
Inadvertent inoculation is usually self-limited and no additional care is needed. However, inoculations of the eye and eyelid require evaluation by an ophthalmologist and might require therapy with topical antiviral or antibacterial medications, VIG, or topical steroids.
GV is characterized by a disseminated maculopapular or vesicular rash, frequently on an erythematous base, which usually occurs six to nine days after first-time vaccination. This condition is usually self-limited and benign, although treatment with VIG might be required when the patient is systemically ill or found to have an underlying immunocompromising condition.
EV occurs among persons with a history of atopic dermatitis (eczema), and is a localized or generalized papular, vesicular, or pustular rash, which can occur anywhere on the body, with a predilection for areas of previous atopic dermatitis lesions. Patients with EV are often systemically ill and usually require VIG.
PV is a rare, severe, and often fatal complication among persons with immunodeficiencies, characterized by painless progressive necrosis at the vaccination site with or without metastases to distant sites (e.g., skin, bones, and other viscera). This disease carries a high mortality rate, and management of PV should include aggressive therapy with VIG, intensive monitoring, and tertiary-level supportive care.
Central nervous system disease, which includes postvaccinial encephalopathy (PVE) and postvaccinial encephalomyelitis (or encephalitis) (PVEM), can occur after smallpox vaccination. PVE is most common among infants aged <12 months. Although no specific therapy exists for PVE or PVEM, supportive care, anticonvulsants, and intensive care might be required.
Fetal vaccinia, resulting from vaccinial transmission from mother to fetus, is a rare, but serious, complication of smallpox vaccination during pregnancy or shortly before conception. It is manifested by skin lesions and organ involvement, and often results in fetal or neonatal death. It is recommended that pregnancy be avoided until 28 days after vaccination. Pregnant individuals who are considering vaccination (and pregnant spouses of vaccinated personnel) should be made aware of this risk.
Making the Diagnosis
Conditions easily confused with vaccinia infection (i.e., varicella, herpes zoster, herpes simplex, and enteroviruses), should be considered first, in particular for someone who has not been vaccinated or had contact with an individual who was vaccinated.
Serologic testing for vaccinia is uninformative because it cannot be used to distinguish vaccinia immunity from vaccinia infection unless baseline antibody titers are available.
Diagnostic tests for vaccinia are available only for research purposes, but are undergoing multicenter validation studies that might enable FDA to approve the test reagents for diagnostic use.
Prophylaxis for Those at High Risk
Prophylactic treatment with VIG is not recommended for persons or close contacts with contraindications to smallpox vaccination who are inadvertently inoculated or exposed.
Reporting Adverse Events
Suspected cases of these illnesses or other severe adverse events after smallpox vaccination should be reported immediately to state health departments and to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. Reports can be made online at https://secure.vaers.org/VaersDataEntryintro.htm. To request clinical consultation and IND therapies for vaccinia-related adverse reactions for civilians, contact your state health department or the CDC's Clinician Information Line (877-554-4625). Those with suspected adverse events should be removed from work until evaluated and cleared to return.
Timing of Tuberculosis Screening and Smallpox Vaccination
Suppression of tuberculin skin test (TST) reactivity has been demonstrated after administration of smallpox vaccine. Health care workers scheduled to receive an annual TST should not receive the skin test for one month after smallpox vaccination to prevent possible false-negative reactions.
Smallpox ResourcesSmallpox vaccination overview for clinicians:
Clinical evaluation tools:
Clinical specimen collection guidance:
CDC Clinician Information Line:
Center for the Study of Bioterrorism:
Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies:
Joe Bick, M.D. is Director of HIV Treatment Services at California Medical Facility, Vacaville, California Department of Corrections.
* Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.
CDC. Vaccinia (Smallpox) Vaccine: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), 2001. MMWR 2001 Jun 22; 50(No. RR-10):1-25.
Recommendations for Using Smallpox Vaccine in a Pre-Event Vaccination Program. Supplemental Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). MMWR 2003 Feb 26; 52(Dispatch):1-16.
CDC. Smallpox Vaccination and Adverse Reactions: Guidance for Clinicians. MMWR 2003 Feb 21; 52(No.RR-4):1-28.
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The Peaceful Housewife yet? I met Jenny around March of this year, I think it was during Code Name: Mama's March of Kindness meme. Jenny was blogging about the same things that I was interested in, mainly: greening your home and parenting peacefully. She opened her online store, The Peaceful Housewife, soon after we "met" and I was excited to do a review and gift certificate giveaway with her to spread the word. Her items are wonderful - tons of homemade cleaning products, created with safe and natural ingredients.
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Recently, Jenny published an eBook containing all of her recipes along with cleaning tips. She's included basic laundry detergent and dish soap recipes. Then she added some that I didn't think you could make at home: dishwasher detergent, brass cleaner, and even one for those oh-so-convenient disinfecting wipes! Her tips include how to get stubborn stains from clothes and how to replace chemical-laden carpet shampoo with a non-toxic version.
The book is very easy to read, all of the steps are laid out perfectly. I'd even give it to my husband to make some of these recipes and expect the results to come out perfectly (that's saying a LOT!) I am so thankful to Jenny for sending me this book and I know that, when I shop next, I'll be picking up lots of vinegar, baking soda, and some great-smelling essential oils!
You can buy the book for a mere $3 by heading to her online store. You will also find a ton of great cleaning products for amazingly low prices. For instance, this month's "Scent of the Month" is Apple Jack and Peel and if you'd like to try it, you can buy a 20-load bag of laundry detergent for only $2! I have a bottle of Linen and Room Spray in Lavender Vanilla (there are 12 scents to choose from) that I love. The stuff lasts forever (both the bottle, itself, and the scent) and it only cost me $3.50. Oh, and she even creates a wonderful furniture polish that I feel good about letting Little Guy use for just $5. You just cannot find items like this online or elsewhere for these prices. And, if you choose to buy the eBook, you'd really be saving money by making all of these (and more) yourself!
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Welcome to Art Saves Lives, a place which allows you to get loans using things you find in your drawing rooms. From very simple paintings to the very precious antiquities, we allow you to get loans on just about anything.
Our motto? To serve you the best deals and value loyalty above everything else. We intend on creating relationships with our clients and thus, offer unmatchable service from the moment you ponder about getting a loan to the moment you have repaid it.
What exactly are we offering?
You must have come across different types of loans that allow you to keep different assets of yours as security. Usually these loans are limited to a particular type of asset. Take for example JustLogbookLoan.uk, which is a logbook loan site dedicated to getting you loans against your cars. Similarly, there is Ask Finance, which offers you homeowner's loans, which as the name suggests are loans taken against houses.
At Art Saves Lives, we offer something different. Here, we allow you get access to a wide range of loans against artwork. From the very precious artifacts, to creative paintings, there is a wide range of artwork that we accept. So, if you have a beautiful painting handing on your wall, it is time it becomes your path to a loan.
How does it all work?
If you have gathered enough information about the loan and are positive about moving ahead with it, all you have to do is let us know. You may apply online or just simply give us a call.
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Unlike many other loans, the loans you get at Art Saves Lives are extremely flexible. What we mean to say is that on one hand, there are loans that are small enough to pay for your utilities, while on the other hand, there are also those who can allow you to buy a new luxury car. So what really is the secret behind this variation, right?
The fact that your loan is given against the asset you choose to pledge as collateral means that you can expect a wide range of variation in the amount of loan you get. Based on the market value of the asset you decide to get the loan against, we choose how much money to offer you. Thus, if your asset is highly precious, you are likely to enjoy a much larger loan than otherwise.
Just like Prestige Pawnbrokers, we have experts who specialize in valuation of different assets and thus, you should not worry about getting an accurate estimate of your asset's market value.
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You might be convinced as to which loan you really want but if you are still undecided as to where to get it from, we make our case here. Leading by our motto of serving you best, we put our aims before profitability. These aims involve getting you the very best of loans, at the most affordable rates, while being of assistance throughout the loan period. What this means is that with Art Saves Lives, you are not just getting a loan, but an entire package. A package that includes a team that actually cares for your well-being and will not just vanish after you have gotten the loan but stay by your side until you have repaid your loan and beyond. We have stood by our customers for years and have established long-term relationships, which were based on unification of mutual interests. Therefore, if you need a loan that is without any hidden costs or terms, and a lender who is on YOUR side, there is no place else you'd rather be.


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Yes, it's really over.
Less than a year after the Jets renewed their vows with quarterback Mark Sanchez via a contract extension that bound the player and team together for at least two seasons, the Jets will try to foist the balance of said contract extension onto a new team after only one.
Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News reports that the Jets will try to trade Sanchez in the offseason.
A trade makes the most sense. Apart from the face-saving value of getting something in return for the fifth overall pick in the 2009 draft, trading Sanchez would reduce both the cap charge and the cash expenditure. As it stands, Sanchez is due to earn a base salary of $8.25 million in 2013, along with a workout bonus of $500,000. Since the base salary is fully guaranteed, the Jets will owe Sanchez the full $8.25 million even if he's cut, with no offset even if he signs elsewhere.
The goal will be to try to persuade a new team to shoulder a portion of the financial burden. Mehta believes the limit for a trade partner will be in the range of $3 million.
Under our analysis of the potential cap hits from keeping, cutting, or trading Sanchez, trading him before June 1 to a team that would pay him $3 million in 2013 would still result in a cap charge of more than $14 million, which is more than the cap hit that would come from cutting Sanchez.
It's also more than 10 percent of the total 2013 cap for a guy who wouldn't even be on the team.
Trading Sanchez raises another issue beyond the 2013 season. With a contract that pays Sanchez $11.5 million in compensation come 2014, $14 million in 2015, and $11.25 million in 2016, his next team likely wouldn't keep him for a second season, barring a significant restructuring.


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Britney Spears' fiance Jason Trawick is officially the singer's newest conservator -- the judge in her conservatorship case just signed off on giving him legal power to govern Britney's affairs.
TMZ broke the story ... Britney's dad and conservator Jamie Spears filed the petition earlier this month, asking the court to add Jason as a co-conservator. We're told Britney also wanted Jason on board as co-conservator.
After the hearing, we overhead the lawyers say Jamie is "thrilled."
The move makes total sense ... considering the two are set to be married.
As co-conservator, Jason is now empowered to help decide how Britney will earn and spend her money -- including the $15 million deal she's about to sign with "X Factor."