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That's what another blogger (or maybe I should say a "real" blogger since I have only been doing this for a month) Mainframe Propeller Head, labels an article in Virtualization Review called Virtual Systems of Tomorrow Could Take Cues from Today's Mainframes. I couldn't agree more.
This is especially useful for those of you considering investing in the mainframe. It makes the point that the mainframe had virtualization first and that it continues to innovate with virtualization. Kind of an obvious point if you know the mainframe well, but maybe you know about virtualization on another platform and want to get the details on mainframe virtualization and why it could become the x86 virtualization of tomorrow.
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Join me on my quest to reclaim my office and save some trees as I attempt to eliminate as much genealogy paper clutter as I can from my office.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Introduction To OneNote For Genealogists
Well, I've started using Microsoft's OneNote to organize my digital files, and I realized as I started that there a lot of videos and "How To" articles on the internet about organizing your genealogy, but most of them assume you are dealing with stacks of paper, which of course, I am trying to avoid.
So, after a little bit of use, I put together this "Introduction To OneNote For Genealogists" video. It's my first attempt at any kind of "How To" video, so I'm open to whatever criticism, good or bad, comes of it. If it's something people seem interested in, I may do some more shorter videos that identify some of the "neat" features of the program and how they can enhance your research, but this particular video is meant as an introduction and to get people thinking about how easy it can be to convert countless binders to a simple set of OneNote notebooks.
Feel free to leave a comment with what you like, didn't like, etc about the video and/or if you are interested in hearing more about OneNote.
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Fabulous video. I love OneNote and like the feature where you can link the different pages. I wasn't familiar with that and see how handy it could be.ReplyDelete
I'm looking forward to more videos. Great job and thank you!
Brian, I think you did a great job on the video, and I'm looking forward to the next one. I have never been able to see the benefit in using OneNote in my genealogy, other than pasting clips of stuff I wanted to save for later. Now, I see the real value. While I'm not sure that I will use it for my genealogy (my RootsMagic pretty much covers all that), I have already started using it for an administrative manual for our law office (which I have been avoiding because I didn't want to print out a bunch of copies that no one will ever read). It's so much easier!ReplyDelete
Thank you, thank you!
Thanks for the comments, Michelle and Jenny. I appreciate you stopping by and telling me what you think. I was struggling between the length of the video and ensuring I hit on enough minor topics that it at least piqued some interest.ReplyDelete
Great start with the video (what program did you use for that?). I love OneNote and think that Microsoft really needs to push it for things like genealogy. I have notebooks for my blog, my genealogy, travel, etc. I think it lends itself really well to research especially since you have the url right with whatever you have sent to OneNote.ReplyDelete
Do you use a genealogy database program? Something I do is put a clipping of my individual or pedigree shots in my OneNote and I also use it for ancestry.com search results.
Looking forward to more video tutorials. Thanks
OneNote was a wonderful ideas for all the years of clutter I have on genealogy. I have a question though, where/how are you documenting the source? Looking forward to your next video!ReplyDelete
@Tessa - I used CamStudio to make the video. It's free, but there's some set up that goes into making it work well enough to post videos to YouTube and the like. Worth the effort, though, if you're thinking about doing instructional videos.ReplyDelete
@Michelle - I'm finding it VERY helpful in cleaning up what a friend of mine calls her "PHD" (Pile... High & Deep) I'll try to tackle how you can document sources in an upcoming video. That's a great question.
Hi Brian,ReplyDelete
As far as the length of your video, I thought it was perfect. I learned something new but it was short enough that I actually watched it. The longer ones I find I don't always get through due to other time constraints, interruptions, etc.
Loved the video, Brian. Thanks for sharing your knowledge about OneNote this way. I've been playing around with OneNote for a litle while now. I love the concept as it relates to genealogy research. I learned some new stuff from watching your video and am looking forward to watching others as you create them.ReplyDelete
If you're saving your Notebooks straight to a flash-drive as your only copy, you're cruisin' for a bruisin'. How about saving them to your computer and then backing them up to your flash-drive as well as other places?ReplyDelete
@JL - Agreed. I don't keep the files only on a single flash drive. I actually have 2 flash drives, so periodically (usually Saturday morning) I copy from my main drive to my hard drive and then back up to my backup flash drive. Since most of my work has relatively little change most of the time, this works okay for me now. I haven't taken the plunge to saving to "the cloud" yet, but I suppose that will be coming soon.ReplyDelete
If you change your default OneNote notebooks location to somewhere on your hard-drive, every single day you can send them to both your flash-drives. I'm just saying because flash-drives are notoriously unstable and it sounds like you have a lot invested. Just the other day someone came to my site with the search query, 'how to get things off a flash drive when it goes bad'. Quick answer: there isn't any way.ReplyDelete
I keep my OneNote notebooks in My Dropbox and back them up from there to external hard-drives several times a day as well as to Carbonite.
Hey, where've ya been? I've missed the inspiration of your posts! How's your office looking these days?ReplyDelete
Not quite time to listen and play with OneNote at the moment - Sat morning job, but love PHD!ReplyDelete
I just saw your video on YouTube and was happy to see someone else likes OneNote for genealogy organization. I appreciated the instruction on creating a linked page.ReplyDelete
I started using OneNote for my genealogy research by accident. I was trying to copy and paste a webpage and found when you right click on the page you can Send to OneNote. The link is automatically added to your OneNote page. Very easy and convenient.
I am wondering how to use OneNote in unison with a software program. I was using PAF5 and have been happy with it, but Family Tree Maker and Legacy were recommended to me. Any thoughts about free/cheap software and using it with OneNote?
Hi Kate -ReplyDelete
What exactly are you trying to do with One Note to integrate with other software... or are you just looking for ideas on what kinds of things you might do?
Someone on the Association of Professional Genealogists email list recommended your video after I had asked how people were using OneNote. EXCELLENT video! I have so many idea now! I have never used OneNote though I use Word and Excel all the time. I am looking forward to looking through your blog for more great ideas :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for the comment, Michele. As you can tell, it has clearly been a while since I've posted anything on the blog. I'm working on a new OneNote video that I think may be helpful and will hopefully have posted relatively shortly.Delete
Found your video the same may Michele did. Was inspired to start using OneNote today for my research plans.Delete
Looking forward to your new video. Hope it covers how to import forms (templates) from Word and how to use them in OneNote.
Thank you for your video,it has sprung me into "organizing action"! I hope you will do other videos on your digital genealogy organizing?ReplyDelete
Just saw your video, and found it very helpful! Did you finish the new one mentioned in the comments? I would love to hear more of your tips on using it for genealogy.ReplyDelete
Hi - Just viewed your video since it was mentioned in the Oct/Nov 2013 issue of Family Tree Magazine and appreciate the simple explanations - made it easy to understand. However, do you only use One Note for your research or do you use other online programs such as Ancestry.com. I like the ease of organization that One Note offers but it seems it is just duplicating information already on my online program. Comments?ReplyDelete
Ok, that's embarassing. I guess I better get the next video done and out the door if people/organizations are going to be sending traffic that way! but to answer your question, it is a little redundant in some ways, but I don't keep everything in FTM. I try to only keep confirmed or things I'm very confident about in my actual genealogy program, whatever it is. I use OneNote for research, then when I am happy with my research results, I add the new or updated information into FTM. It's a fair question - I think it just depends on how you are already using your genealogy program (whatever it may be)ReplyDelete
Probably the most useful thing about OneNote is that when copying & pasting something from the web the original link is added at the bottom of the pasted content eg Pasted fromReplyDelete
Sorry forgot to mention, you can also add voice memos, videos, photos and other MS Office documents to your OneNote pages.ReplyDelete
What a great idea!!!! Thanks for the video. I have dabbled in using One Note in my research but it never really took. Now it's going to. Great job! You definitely have another fan!!!! I'll be sharing your blog with my blog followers.
Thanks for sharing your ideas with the world!
Thank you so much for the great tutorial. I have all my genealogy information currently attached to persons in my Ancestry.ca. That is okay but it doesn't feel very organized. This will do the trick to solve that.ReplyDelete
Hi Brian, Excellent video. I'm starting again to do my family research and as it happens I am also switching from Evernote to OneNote, so this is an awesome video.ReplyDelete
I didn't realize what OneNote can do and I know there is more to making it useful.
My maternal side has been a real pain to research but I think using your suggestions here will at least keep me more organized and maybe allow me to break through the wall I've hit.
Thank you again.
I wonder how is it possible to transfer a document that you have in OneNote (The birth certificate) to a page like Memories in FamilyTree. Please reply to : email@example.com ThanksReplyDelete


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Liz Crain, Portland food writer, blogger, and eater extraordinaire claims that "the folks that make food happen" are "my tribe." Crain reveals the tribe's secrets in her new book, Food Lovers Guide to Portland, in bookstores on July 1.
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It was on April 14, 1974. The time was noted at 9:07 p.m. on the clock in Atlanta Stadium. Radio announcer Vin Scully called it 9:10, not that it really matters. It happened more than 38 years ago, but Henry Aaron remembers it as if it were only yesterday.
It was on April 14, 1974. The time was noted at 9:07 p.m. on the clock in Atlanta Stadium. Radio announcer Vin Scully called it 9:10, not that it really matters. It happened more than 38 years ago, but Henry Aaron remembers it as if it were only yesterday.
I'm referring to Aaron's 715th career home run that broke Babe Ruth's long-standing record of 714. It was a shot heard around the baseball world, making this quiet, poker-faced native of Mobile the game's home run king.
The Braves were trailing the Dodgers 3-1 when Aaron came to bat in the bottom of the fourth with one man on. Al Downing was pitching and had walked this guy they called Hammerin' Hank in the second inning. But this time Aaron hit the ball 385 feet over the left-center field fence.
"I remember that Al Downing threw a low, inside fast ball," Aaron said the other night when the question came up. "Actually, it was supposed to be a screwball, but I had moved up on the plate just a little bit. I don't think he noticed that, or else didn't remember it.
"I never had very good luck with Al Downing, but I hit it just right in a ball park that was completely conducive to hit home runs in. As soon as I hit the ball I knew it was going out. Yes, I did. I just knew it was going to go out of the ball park."
Aaron and his wife, Billye, had been invited to speak at the 145th Founders Day Banquet at Talladega College, which was being held at Talladega SPEED Dome. Nicola Lawler, public relations director, aware that I had covered the Braves after they moved to Atlanta and had been part of the media corps during his run for the record, invited me down for the event.
Aaron's brother-in-law, Bill Lucas, had worked in the press box after an injury had ended his baseball career. Lucas also had come to Gadsden to scout a couple of the local high school baseball players. He and I had become friends.
Several years after Lucas died and the Hammer had retired from baseball, Aaron was in Gadsden to help raise money for some charity. At the luncheon he was seated at the head table when I entered and was seated near the back. Aaron spotted me, picked up his plate and walked to where I was seated.
"You are the only person in here that I know so I'm going to eat with you," he said.
That was maybe 20 years ago and I had not seen him since. As I drove down, hoping to catch him before the dinner started, I was wondering if he'd remember me. I did and he did.
After a few formalities he glanced up at me suddenly and said with a grin, "I am glad to see you again. I remember you very well."
So I asked a question I'd never asked when he was playing; "You were a small guy, what was the secret to your power?"
"I really don't know," he replied. "I always felt like, in my 23 years, the only thing I always wanted to do when I walked up to the plate was to make contact. And when I'd make good contact, I felt like I always had a chance to hit the ball out of most parks.
"I was very small, compared to some of these other guys, especially today. I probably didn't weigh 180 pounds and that was soaking wet. But I just always felt like there was no ball park made that I couldn't hit a ball out of.
"When I hit that home run (No. 715) I was glad, very glad, to get out from under all that pressure."
He wound up hitting 20 home runs in 1974 then was traded from the Braves and played two more years in Milwaukee, where he had started his baseball career. He hit 755 home runs, which was later surpassed by Barry Bonds but tainted by the steroid investigation.
However, it doesn't seem to bother Aaron.
"I hit 755 home runs and Barry hit a few more than I did. I am willing to concede the idea that he is the home run champ and I am the second best. It really doesn't make that much difference. I tell a lot of people that, no matter what happens, I'm not going to hit another home run. It's all over with."
After his playing days Aaron moved into an administrative position and is still a part of the Braves organization. He says he is no longer involved with Major League Baseball, but does try to help out by telling them things he thinks they need to hear.
He has switched from baseball to business with a primary interest in his charity programs, especially in the BayBears Charities in his hometown of Mobile, in the MLB Chasing the Dream Foundation and others. He would like to see more African-Americans playing youth baseball.
"I mean all the way down to Little League and coming on up," Aaron said. "If they would just think about all the money they could make, I think they could do better than what our kids did."


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OAKLAND — Union workers ended their strike early Tuesday evening and agreed to head back to the table with the Port of Oakland to try once again to hammer out a contract.
The two sides credited Oakland Mayor Jean Quan with helping bridge the divide that has grown since the contract covering more than 200 Service Employees International Union Local 1021 expired last year.
"Both sides need to come together so that the Port can continue being the economic engine of good jobs that we all need it to be," Quan said in a prepared statement.
The amicable resolution was a sharp contrast to the shut down at the port most of Tuesday.
Striking workers brought operations to a halt, leaving more than 100 trucks lined up at the gate to the port waiting to get in. SEIU workers also lined the walkway outside Terminal 1 at the Oakland International Airport beginning Monday night as travelers began gearing up for the busy Thanksgiving holiday rush.
The union, made up of mostly electricians, clerical workers, security and janitors, numbers just over 200.
But they got backup from members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, who load and unload cargo containers on ships and trucks at the port. The participation of ILWU workers meant cargo operations at the port were effectively shut down.
SEIU called the strike to protest unfair labor practices although they were careful not to disrupt travelers, and most products expected to go on sale on Black Friday have likely already arrived at stores and distribution centers.
The union and the port have been locked in battle for months over a new contract. The union accused the port of trying to shortchange workers on wages and benefits and holding back financial information.
Port officials said the union's claims are inaccurate regarding the port's financial situation, ignoring debts of more than a billion dollars, in order to resist employee contributions to retirement funds and a two-tier pension and health care system for new employees.
But the message from both sides was conciliatory Tuesday evening.
"The Port is committed to reaching a mutual agreeable contract, as soon as possible," acting Port Executive Director Deborah Ale Flint said.
The union set a target of 9 p.m. Tuesday to end the strike. But the decision to open up talks again allowed marine terminals in the Oakland seaport to resume operations as early as 7 p.m.
There were no details about when discussions would resume. But the Port of Oakland and SEIU were still scheduled for fact-finding hearings on Nov. 30 and Dec. 3 despite the strike.
Staff writer Harry Harris contributed to this report.


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All photographers need to learn from those who go before us how to live as decent human beings and have respect for those we photograph.
This appeared in News Photographer Magazine in June 2009
By Steve Raymer
In this age of ombudsmen, blogs, tweets on Twitter, Facebook, and professional journals like News Photographer, the split-second ethical decisions of photojournalists are often quickly dissected and soon added to the mounting case studies in journalism school ethics and values classes. And that is as it should be.
When we go live from news helicopters to show the tragic death of a suicidal man on a crowded Los Angeles freeway – an event that drew huge audiences in 1998 – or capture the terrifying images of Vietnamese children scorched by napalm, as Nick Ut of the Associated Press did with such immediacy in 1972, the reading and viewing public takes notice and holds us to account. Some photojournalists are scorned, while others, like Ut, are praised for the way he bundled nine-year-old Kim Phuc, the tragically burned pietà of the Vietnam War, into his car and took her to a nearby hospital, saving her life and forging a lifelong relationship with Phuc, now a Canadian peace activist. Media ethics textbooks are filled with images that call into question how, in the words of the National Press Photographers Association's revised Code of Ethics, we give "consideration to vulnerable subjects and compassion to victims of crime or tragedy."
And truth be told, many of us, whether we are covering a tragic drowning on a storm-swept Long Island beach or documenting the work of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in the slums of Calcutta (as I have recently) are no less anguished by our decisions, or reflexes, than the late Eddie Adams was in 1968, when he made the iconic image of a South Vietnamese general executing a suspected Vietcong guerilla fighter on the streets of Saigon. Adams refused to accept his Pulitzer Prize cash award for the image, which left him pained and conflicted until his death of Lou Gehrig's disease in 2004. What we do requires judgment and sometimes a split-second decision can make the difference between being an unsung Good Samaritan – a person, in the words of the Apostle Luke, who "gives help or sympathy to those in distress" – or a prize winner or a professional outcast. Yet ours remains a profession that asks us to render the human condition, from unpopular wars to spousal abuse, for a public that both curses us and can't get enough of what we do.
But are professional photojournalists the real problem? Or does the problem of when to shoot and what to publish or broadcast involve a lot more actors than anyone cares to admit? We have mandatory ethics classes in our colleges and universities, in-service training, and codes of ethics for every organization that does the public's business, including our own. The updated NPPA Code of Ethics, for example, is emphatic that we "intrude on private moments of grief only when the public has an overriding and justifiable need to see," or perhaps more importantly, that we photojournalists "treat all subjects with respect and dignity." We get it, at least most of the time.
For example, the public and the profession were rightly outraged when Jacque Langevin, one of three French photographers charged with manslaughter in the 1997 crash of Princess Diana of Wales asked a French radio interviewer, "Why should I be able to photograph dying Rwandans during the massacres (in a 1994 genocide) and not Lady Di?" Langevin claimed he was just doing his job making pictures of the mortally injured Diana, but most of us would probably not confuse photographing mass murder in Africa with our human obligation to aid an accident victim bleeding to death in a Paris road crash. Langevin's nominal fine of one Euro for invading Princess Diana's privacy, in the words of a French appeals court, perhaps only confirmed what many of us have long known – photographers pass their ethical problems along to their editors, publishers, and news directors.
Editors play an equally important role in identifying and explaining to the public the social good that justifies, for example, intruding on a family's – and a nation's – moment of grief when flag-draped coffins of the Iraq and Afghanistan war dead are returned to the United States. And by editors I include editors of the world's news Web sites, where increasingly most of us get our news, as well as the tech-savvy who write algorithms that compile words and images like so much sandwich meat. We must reach out to these new gatekeepers and help them understand that our collective credibility depends upon our shared commitment to human dignity. Why, for example, should the BBC News Web site, like many others, provide two pages of detailed instructions for so-called "citizen journalists" about how to shoot and transmit news pictures, but fail to give any ethical guidelines, aside from these few words of caution: "Make sure you have permission from anyone pictured before submitting the photographs"?
In fact, it is no secret that some of today's most compelling news pictures are coming not from professionals, but from the public. The London subway bombings of 2005 were perhaps the world's first gruesome event covered as much by the public shooting cell phone video as photojournalists documenting history. The world news networks patted themselves on the back for recruiting a new army of unpaid photographers who, unlike most of us, have never thought in advance about when it is the right or wrong time to make a picture. And how can we forget the iconic image of US Airways flight 1549? Newspapers from Charlotte to Los Angles pulled out all the stops last January for a picture taken on an Apple iPhone by Twitter user and tourist Janis Krums of Sarasota, FL, who captured a tail-heavy US Airways Airbus sinking in the Hudson River against the backdrop of the New Jersey shoreline bathed in warm sunlight that can only be described as National Geographic-like.
Those of us who teach ethics and values, and who have on occasion not taken a picture because more was at stake than our jobs, need to find new ways of reaching out to the places where people are getting their news – on the Internet – and involve them in our ethical discussions. Why? Because every time a picture shows up on the Internet, and later on television or in the newspaper, as in the recent case of the battered rock star Rihanna, we loose something of ourselves and what we stand for.
The Greek philosopher Aristotle, so well known to college ethics students for urging that we find a virtuous middle path amid life's extremes, wrote that the practical and virtuous acts of people, not rules, make us moral human beings. Aristotle's call for virtue and his injunction we find mentors on whom we can model our professional behavior, is as valid today as was when he wrote it in the 4th century B.C.E.
Long ago, I knew an Army combat photographer in Vietnam named Gordon Gahan, who was awarded the Bronze Star for heroism not for taking pictures – his job – but for putting down his cameras one very bloody day at Dak To in 1967 and rescuing wounded paratroops from the line of fire. Gahan went on to become a legendary National Geographic magazine staff photographer, loyal NPPA member, and one of my closest friends until he died in 1984. I have never forgotten the lesson Gahan taught all of us at Hill 875, and I tell students about it regularly. Faced with the choices of hunkering down in the jungle and saving his own life or foolishly firing his Nikons in the direction of North Vietnamese machine guns, Gahan summoned the courage to do the right thing – rescue the wounded.
We all need mentors. Gahan was mine. It is time we commit ourselves to mentoring a new and expanding group of editors, who do not always share our ringside view of history, and a whole new group of photographers – the public.


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June 5, 2013 10:00 AM
Angus Lind
These days I do a lot of things just because.
So the other day, just because I hadn't been there in some time and a new pavilion had opened, I headed to the National World War II Museum.
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Over at my VORG site, I ran down the players with the longest names in Major League history. Let's do that same exercise, but only for the Bombers. A few ground rules first. We won't include dashes, periods or hyphens in the letter count. We won't include nicknames unless the nickname was the player's entire first name (ex. Catfish Hunter would be allowable, Bullet Joe Bush would not.)
Let's start with first names. The Yanks have had five players with nine letter first names. Everyone's favorite Brains, Francisco Cervelli, is the most current entry. The Yanks employed Jonathan Albaladejo from 2007-10 (he's now pitching in Japan, and yes, we'll again be seeing him later on in this piece). Wormkiller Chien-Ming Wang was a 19-game winner in 2006 and 2007. We next come to Christian Parker, who made one poor start for the 2001 Yankees (but they gladly took Parker and others in order to make Hideki Irabu an Expo). Finally, there is Glenallen Hill, a mid-2000 acquisition who posted a .735 slugging percentage (16 homers) in 143 PAs.
Turning to last names, you might think Doug Mientkiewicz's 12 letter surname has the honors, but Dougie is beaten out by Bill Knickerbocker. Knickerbocker, a marginal middle infielder in the late 1930s, compiled quite the stolen base record in his career, netting a mere 25 steals in 71 attempts.
Finally, for total name length, Albaladejo's 18 is matched by Claudell Washington. Washington's most memorable Yankee moment might have been April 20, 1988, when he launched the franchise's 10,000th homerun, a pinch-hit job off of the Twins' Jeff Reardon.
Till next time!
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Overview of Orthotics
Orthotics are orthopedic devices that are used to alter or modify foot function and are designed to treat, adjust, and support various biomechanical foot disorders. Some orthotics are simple, commercially-made devices, such as cushioned heel cups or insoles for shoes that are sold over the counter in drug stores or other retail establishments.
The most effective orthotics, however, are custom-made devices that are crafted to meet the specific needs of a particular individual. Custom orthotics are created using an impression of the foot called a cast, which duplicates any misalignments in foot structure. Using the cast and computer technology, technicians in an orthotic laboratory design a device that balances out deformities and corrects misalignments.
The finished orthotic is placed in the patient's shoe to support the foot and eliminate abnormal foot biomechanics by keeping the foot properly aligned. Depending on the patient's needs, the orthotic may have padding to cushion the foot and make it more comfortable.
With & Without an Orthotic
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Barium enema
A barium enema is an imaging test that uses a contrast medium (barium sulphate) and x-rays to produce images of the entire large intestine (cecum, colon, rectum and anus).
Barium is a chalky, white liquid that coats the inside of the intestine and shows its outline clearly on an x-ray. Air or carbon dioxide may also be pumped into the intestine to improve the view (double-contrast barium enema). A moving image of barium as it passes through the intestine can be created with a special x-ray (fluoroscopy imaging) and a TV-like monitor.
A barium enema is also called:
- lower gastrointestinal (GI) series
- colon x-ray
- double-contrast barium enema
Why a barium enema is done
A barium enema may be done to:
- examine the lower GI tract (large intestine)
- follow up a positive fecal occult blood test (FOBT)
- find growths or polyps in the colon
- find the source of:
- unexplained bleeding
- problems with the intestine that cause malabsorption of nutrients
- lower abdominal pain
- diagnose cancer and other disorders of the lower digestive tract
How a barium enema is done
A barium enema is usually done as an outpatient procedure in the x-ray department of a hospital or clinic. The test usually takes 20–30 minutes.
- It is important for women to tell the x-ray technologist or radiologist if they are breast-feeding, pregnant or think they may be pregnant before having a barium enema and x-ray.
- Barium can interfere with other abdominal imaging tests, so these tests are usually done before barium studies.
- Preparation for a barium enema can vary, but it usually includes:
- Following a liquid diet for at least 24 hours before the test.
- Taking laxatives and possibly enemas to completely empty the intestines.
- Some departments may require people to follow a liquid diet and take laxatives for 48 hours before the barium enema.
- People with ostomies will need different preparation and testing.
- The person will be asked to remove clothing, jewellery and other objects that will be in the x-ray field and may interfere with quality of the x-ray.
During the test:
- The person lies on an x-ray table.
- Barium is given as an enema through a small plastic tube inserted through the anus into the rectum.
- A small amount of air or carbon dioxide is pumped through the enema tube into the colon to make it expand (double-contrast barium enema) and improve the view.
- X-rays are taken as the barium moves through the colon.
- The x-ray table is raised and tilted different ways to spread the barium throughout the colon.
- The person is asked to hold their anus closed during the test.
- Once the test is done and the enema tube is removed, the barium and air can be expelled.
- The person may be asked to wait until the x-rays are developed and the staff is sure that the image is clear.
- A mild laxative may be needed to get rid of the barium and prevent constipation.
- The person's stools may be white or lighter in colour for a few days following the test.
- Drinking plenty of fluids after the procedure helps to flush the barium solution from the body and helps to prevent constipation.
Potential side effects
X-rays involve low levels of ionizing radiation, which has the potential to cause cancer and other defects. The number and complexity of x-rays needed to diagnose and determine the extent of a disease can vary. Even with multiple and repeated x-rays, the total dose of radiation and the associated risk is small. X-rays are strictly monitored and controlled to make sure they use the smallest amount of radiation possible. The expected benefits of the x-rays must always outweigh any possible risk in order for the x-rays to be done.
On rare occasions, the contrast medium may cause an allergic reaction.
What the results mean
A barium enema can show:
- a blockage (obstruction) in the intestine
- a mass, such as a polyp or tumour, within the colon
- The mass may show up as an irregular outline extending from the wall of the colon.
- X-rays may not detect very small polyps or tumours.
- Biopsies cannot be taken nor polyps removed during this test.
- masses or tumours in other organs that are pressing on the colon
What happens if a change or abnormality is found
The doctor will decide whether further tests, procedures, follow-up care or additional treatment are needed.
Special considerations for children
Being prepared for a test or procedure can reduce anxiety, increase cooperation and help the child develop coping skills. Parents or caregivers can help prepare children by explaining to them what will happen, including what they will see, feel and hear during the test.
- A parent can stay with the child during the test.
- When barium enters the colon, the child may feel like they have to have a bowel movement.
- The child may also have a feeling of fullness, some cramping and general discomfort after the test.
The preparation you can provide for a barium enema depends on the age and experience of the child. See the following for more age-specific information on helping children cope with tests and treatment.
A substance used in some diagnostic procedures to help parts of the body show up better on x-rays or other imaging tests.
In most cases, contrast medium is injected into or around the structure to be examined.
Also called contrast dye or contrast agent.
A test to check for hidden blood in the stool (feces).
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Here's a first look at the new GT Coaster Challenge (now Fiorano GT Challenge) opening this year at Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi. The trains are themed after Ferrari F430 Spiders. Fittingly, the roller coaster will be a launch roller coaster. If the Roller Coaster Database listing is correct it's being built by Maurer Sohne, the same company that built Hollywood: Rip, Ride, Rockit. It will feature two racing tracks that will complete with a finish line. Here's an image sent to me directly from the park:
I'll see if I can get more details or images from the park, but so far it looks pretty cool. Fiorano GT Challenge coaster will be one of the twenty rides and attractions at Ferrari World when it opens in the second half of 2010. Among the other rides is the much anticipated F1 Coaster that aims to be the new speed champ with a blistering top speed of 150 mph! If they accomplish that RingRacer will have to settle for the "World's Second Fastest" or "Fastest in Europe" title. I'm sure that Ferrari World will be a huge draw for car enthusiasts all over the World.
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While we lament Ronny Cedeno's very existence and continual inclusion in what the Astros are calling "a lineup," let's cast our gaze northward, towards Oklahoma City and find out how George Springer is doing:
Well, let's see...(Looks at Baseball-Reference)...in 19 games for Oklahoma City, he's hitting...this can't be right (pulls up his player page on MiLB.com). Good God.
(Clears throat) Okay, in 19 games for Triple-A Oklahoma City, George Springer is hitting .403/.507/.871. With runners on base (28 ABs), he's hitting .500/.600/1.143.
Combine his tear at OKC with his performance in 73 games at Corpus, and Springer is hitting .316/.419/.633 on the year. He has 27 home runs and 28 stolen bases. His OPS by month?
April: 1.056
May: 1.011
June: .886
July: 1.475
That's pretty much all. I could go on, but I think our point is made here...
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Hey, what's George Springer up to?
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In June he said I better cut it out I'm gonna make my teammates jealous then in July just said Fuck it!
- July 20, 2013 at 6:04 PM
The only reason I don't want him in Houston now is because I think he could be a legit Rookie of the Year candidate with a full season. If we call him up now, he won't be eligable for next season.
- July 20, 2013 at 8:29 PM
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Southeastern Conference has awarded the 2016 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament to Jacksonville, Fla. and the Jacksonville Sports Council, Commissioner Mike Slive announced today.
"The Southeastern Conference and its member institutions are excited to travel to Jacksonville, a new site for our women's basketball tournament," Slive said. We look forward to showcasing our women's basketball programs in the Sunshine State for the first time. Our student-athletes, coaches and current fans will greatly enjoy their visit and the exciting games will forge new fans of SEC women's basketball in the process."
The 2016 tournament will be played in the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena which is a 15,000 seat multi-purpose arena. Built in 2003, the Arena is home to the Jacksonville Sports Hall of Fame, and has hosted events such as the 2006 and the 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, and will again be the site of the 2015 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. The Arena is also home of the AFL Jacksonville Sharks, the ABA Jacksonville Giants, and the Jacksonville University Men's and Women's Basketball teams.
"Jacksonville is honored to host the 2016 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament," said Mayor Alvin Brown. "Our city has become a premier venue and destination for major sports events. We'll be ready to show our hospitality and offer a warm Jacksonville welcome to the tournament teams and their many fans from throughout the Southeast region."
The Jacksonville Sports Council, a division of Gator Bowl Sports, worked with the Southeastern Conference to secure this event for the City of Jacksonville. "We are extremely excited to bring such a premiere sporting event like the SEC Women's Basketball Tournament to the Northeast Florida area. This is a great opportunity to showcase our area as well as to further enhance our partnership with the Southeastern Conference," said Carl Cannon, Chairman of the Jacksonville Sports Council.
In addition to hosting the 2016 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament, Jacksonville will also serve as host in November 2015 to a premiere women's basketball event involving two SEC teams. Additional information on this event will be available at a later date.
The SEC Women's Basketball Tournament was previously announced for North Little Rock in 2015 and Nashville in 2018, 2022 and 2026.
In the women's tournament's history, 14 cities have hosted; Albany, Ga. (1987-1992); Athens, Ga. (1984, 1986); Baton Rouge, La. (1981); Chattanooga, Tenn. (1993-1997, 1999-2000); Columbus, Ga. (1998); Duluth, Ga. (2007, 2010, 2013, 2014); Greenville, S.C. (2005); Jacksonville, Fla. (2016); Knoxville, Tenn. (1980, 1983); Lexington, Ky. (1982); Oxford, Miss. (1985); Memphis, Tenn. (2001); Nashville, Tenn. (2002, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2018, 2022, 2026); and North Little Rock, Ark. (2003, 2006, 2009, 2015).


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J.M. Coetzee
Viking: 266 pp., $26.50
Fortunately "The Tempest" has no sixth act. What could Shakespeare have made out of Prospero after he broke his wand and renounced his magic? Just another pensioner with nothing to do but hang around, rehash old miracles, talk about himself.
J.M. Coetzee, after a string of severe, demanding, sometimes parched, often-brilliant novels, has been turning inward. Two years ago, the journey led to "Diary of a Bad Year," whose central character, C., is barely even the writer's alter ego (strike the "alter"). Odd, and in some ways awkward, the novel is wonderfully serious fun: Coetzee alternately wrestling with and laughing at himself.
The wrestle continues with "Summertime," darker, undeniably intelligent and less fun. Coetzee has important things to say and says them -- but the magic wand is discarded.
No playful C. in this one: just John Coetzee (now we know what the J. stands for), a "great" novelist (you sense the author wryly affixing quote marks), and dead, furthermore. A would-be biographer turns up in South Africa to interview those who knew him. Solemn and pedantic, the biographer provides a target for one of (our) Coetzee's themes: the futility of connecting the artist's life to the work.
Most of "Summertime" consists of the stories told and partly withheld -- so much for interviews; there's also a hint of lying -- by several women and a man. At the start there are a few surviving notes by the young John Coetzee. They serve as scene-setters for the horrors and absurdities of apartheid times.
Five black activists are murdered by the police, themselves clumsily disguised as black. The novelist Breyten Breytenbach, living in Paris and married to an Asian woman, is allowed to return for a month to visit a sick mother. Because of the laws against racial mixing his wife is classified as a one-month white.
After this overture come the interviews. The man, a former teaching colleague, speaks briefly and unrevealingly. It is the women -- one a cousin, two briefly lovers, a fourth who both suggests and denies an obsessional entanglement -- who provide the insight. But the insight is principally into themselves as complex characters. John Coetzee is largely an absence: withdrawn, dimly seen; there, but as a silence is there.
Julia, an unhappy housewife, meets him casually. Intrigued precisely by his vagueness, his unprepossessing scruffiness, she seduces him. Describing him as sexually "autistic," she is bemused by his lack of an affirmative presence. With impatient intelligence she tries to figure him out. She reads his first book, "Dusklands" -- it is, of course, the real Coetzee's first book -- and is unimpressed. (For characters to confront an author is not new, of course. Pirandello did it, so did Unamuno. But surely Coetzee goes further by having his invention become his literary critic.)
Julia's sharp curiosity gives liveliness to the interview and makes up in part for the passiveness of her vague lover. The passiveness has several meanings. One is to signal John's rejection of the grotesque activism of South Africa's apartheid society. But as it plays out through the succeeding interviews, the effect is depressively flattening.
In the second and longest interview the flattening is unrelieved since it is partly shared by the speaker. Margot, John's cousin, has idealized him as a restless dissident in their large, privileged family. She takes a disastrous trip with him; his ramshackle truck breaks down and they are marooned overnight. Although they hug to keep warm, what she hugs is absence.
Furthermore, the breakdown stems from his refusal to have a mechanic service the truck. The Afrikaners owe their prosperity to exploiting black labor and others: John's protest goes to the extreme of refusing to hire anyone for physical work. And his "I am not really here" stance accounts for the judgment by the women he meets that he is something less than a man.
Julia and Margot show a certain indulgence; another lover, Sophie, feigns indifference (she cuts short an interview that hides more than it reveals). Whereas Adrienne, a Brazilian dance instructor, is splendidly indignant. Her life is a struggle; she is a political exile, her husband has been fatally mugged by Capetown thugs, and she fights to raise her teenaged daughter.
The daughter develops a swooning crush on John, who is her English instructor. Adrienne interrogates him with a ferocity that is the liveliest and sometimes funniest thing in the book. His posture of not quite existing infuriates her; and when, nevertheless, he shows signs of falling in love with her, the fury increases. His quietist abstraction is of no use to a woman who has to battle daily to survive. Yet she is fascinated as well.
John's persistent withdrawal -- Julia wittily calls it his "project to turn himself into a gentle man" -- stands for something besides political protest. By making him tenuous to the point of invisibility, Coetzee is denouncing any association of the artist's person with the artist's work -- as, for example, Adrienne's protest that "if you want to be a great writer . . . you have also to be a great man."
And here is Coetzee's ingenious contrivance: his female characters are more real, more palpable, than the ghost-figure who stands in for him. Ingenious, yes; except that the protagonist's refusal to protagonize falls as a dulling, tedious burden on what is more a novelized argument than a novel.
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More developments into the brutal murder of Jorge Steven López Mercado, the gay 19-year-old who was brutally murdered, decapitated and dismembered in Puerto Rico. On Thanksgiving Eve, thousands marched through the capital of San Juan to hold a candlelight vigil for the slain teen. The crowd demanded authorities investigate the case as an anti-gay hate crime—which apparently prosecutors have agreed to do under considerable pressure.
AFTER THE JUMP watch video of the demonstration.
Pedro Julio Serrano, a spokesman for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said as the marchers gathered outside the island's Department of Justice: "We're gay people, straight people, young people, old people. It is Puerto Rico that's walking tonight."
The mutilated body of the 19-year-old college student and gay youth activist was discovered Nov. 13 along a road in the mountain town of Cayey. Last weekend, there were more than a dozen vigils for Lopez across the country. The teen was laid to rest on Monday and close to 1,000 people attended the funeral. Miriam Mercado and Jorge López, the parents of Jorge Steven, attended the vigil with Jorge Steven's 9-year-old brother Jorge Gabriel. Mrs. Mercado—who has become a model of compassion after professing her love for her gay son and uploading a videotaped message thanking supporters throughout the world—tearfully addressed the crowd last night again: "'You have given us hope at our most difficult moment as a family,' she said. 9 year-old Jorge Gabriel led the crowd in chanting 'Long-live Steven.'"
Andrés Duque at Blabbbeando reports: "Political leaders were conspicuous in their absence. Two weeks after the horrible crime and the worldwide outrage it has elicited and there is still no word whatsoever from Puerto Rican Governor Luis Fortuño, a conservative darling who is being mentioned as a potential 2012 Republican U.S. presidential candidate. Amazingly, two well-known and extremely well-loved Puerto Rican showbiz darlings did make an appearance. René Pérez, lead singer for the most successful reggaeton band in the world, Calle 13, and Denise Quiñones, Miss Universe 2001, marched in last night's vigil in support of Jorge Steven's family. After the vigil, they stopped to give my friend Pedro Julio Serrano the following declarations on video."
René Pérez said, in part: "What happened was atrocious. The crime was viciously awful, and strong and unjust, and it's also unjust that it hasn't even been spoken about. Speaking of stupid things, they honor Paris Hilton in the Senate, and they cannot speak about this?" In the video translated by Duque, and also on Twitter, the top-selling reggaeton singer in the world adds this "powerful" support for equality: "I am 'Homo' because I'm 'Homo-sapiens', I am 'sexual', hence I am 'Homo-sexual' as well."
Watch Pérez and Quiñones' words of support—with a translation from Blabbeando's Andres Duque—AFTER THE JUMP.
Turning to the investigation: 26-year-old Juan Martinez Matos has been charged with first-degree murder and jailed on $4 million bond. Martinez has confessed to killing and mutilating Lopez. It appears he is laying what appears to be a "gay-panic" defense, claiming Lopez was wearing a dress and he believed the victim was a female prostitute. Martinez claims Lopez tried to stab him and he defended himself with a kitchen knife.
NGLTF's Serrano contradicts the account. Serrano tells Doug Ireland at Gay City News: "None of Jorge Steven's friends, and I've spoken to many of them, knew anything about his ever having engaged in sex work, not his family, and not the police," Serrano, who met with investigators on the case, [says]. "Nor was he known as a cross-dresser. He identified and lived as a very proud gay man, he was very genuine and authentic. He was just very fashion-oriented and what you could call a gender-bender, but not in a transgendered way."
The Puerto Rico Department of Justice has agreed to investigate the murder of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado as a hate crime. There have been at least 20 murders of gay men or transgender women since a 2002 hate crime law was passed in this U.S. territory. This will be the first time it has been applied.
WHEN YOU JUMP watch video of the demonstration shot by CNN iReporter Christopher Pagan. Also watch singer René Pérez and Miss Universe 2001 Denise Quiñones'—with a translation from Blabbeando's Andres Duque—AFTER THE JUMP.
Continue reading "WATCH: Thousands in Puerto Rico Hold Vigil for Slain Gay Teen, Calle 13's René Pérez Speaks Out" »


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In the recent high-profile busts in New York and Florida—two states known for the most significant and costly proliferation of PIP fraud in the country—investigators successfully dismantled organized rings that siphoned close to $300 million (combined) from insurers.
Thirty-six people were indicted in the New York sting, which has been called the most extensive of its kind to date, while more than a dozen suspects, including a physician, were apprehended in the Florida bust.
Intricate schemes involving bogus clinics, staged accidents and a tangled web of cohorts have been surfacing with increasing frequency, illustrating the deep-reaching tentacles of crime rings that steal from P&C insurers with ruthless efficiency. But success stories of this magnitude also show that with the careful cooperation of insurers and various local, state, and federal agencies, P&C insurers can quell current fraud while deterring future scammers.
"Insurance fraud is a continuous game of cat and mouse," explains Jim Quiggle, director of communications, the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud (CAIF). "Investigators build a mouse trap, but then swindlers build a better mouse. The industry's best defense is amassing field intelligence and analysis and then throwing that up against a ring."
P&C insurers themselves play an essential role in any investigation of a large crime ring involving PIP fraud or other crimes. Investigators can tap into the treasure trove of claims information provided by the insurers that are being bilked to identify key players, methods, and participants.
Law enforcement may then employ undercover agents to ultimately penetrate rings, as was the case with both busts. To immobilize "Operation Whiplash," for instance, suspicions about clinics' odd traffic patterns gave way to a full-blown sting operation involving undercover agents posing as willing participants to stage auto accidents and then later file claims for injury and subsequent treatment.
Predictive analytics also plays a huge role in breaking down complex patterns of suspicious behavior. Insurers can determine if the same names, social security numbers, and clinics keep cropping up. Are multiple claims originating from the same neighborhood? Does a particular clinic log a staggering number of claims compared to the norm?
A Culture of Fraud Prevention
While detection and investigation have become far more scientific, the technology and methods are only as effective as the staff utilizing them. Staff must be apprised of proper data mining techniques, and the insurer must be willing to cultivate a system-wide awareness of fraud at all levels of the company and programs for identifying and disseminating clues to the SIU.
"Going after fraud simply doesn't fall on shoulders of SIU alone," Quiggle explains. "There must be a companywide commitment and training throughout all layers of the corporation. Information that may contain clues is coming from all directions, so adjusters, underwriters, and even customer service reps must all be trained in fraud detection and uniform protocols to share that data appropriately." Mining social media for clues is now an essential investigative tool for insurers, as well. "People love to brag about their scams and don't know what they are up against—namely a sophisticated analytical force scouring the Internet for every possible clue for behavior," Quiggle says.
Quiggle relayed one example where an insurance company investigator came across a bicycle club to which a claimant belonged. The avid cyclist bragged about a recent 50-mile ride, all while claiming to have been "flat on his back" because of an injury at the office for which he was receiving workers' compensation benefits.


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Jewish World Review May 5, 2014 / 5 Iyar, 5774
History's uncertain lessons for Ukraine: As Putin threatens the largest country within Europe, looking back makes the options no easier
By David M. Shribman
JewishWorldReview.com | WASHINGTON - Most American presidents are reluctant warriors. Abraham Lincoln spoke of the onset of the Civil War in the passive voice in his Second Inaugural Address. ("And the war came.") William McKinley "went down on my knees and prayed Almighty God for light and guidance" whether to take the Philippines and "uplift and civilize and Christianize them." Woodrow Wilson waited until the escalation of German submarine warfare before committing to World War I nearly three years after the conflict commenced in Europe. And Franklin Roosevelt did not enter World War II until two years after it began - and then not until Pearl Harbor.
Even seven decades after his death, FDR remains the template against whom succeeding presidents are measured; consider how often, for example, Barack Obama's governing coalition is compared to Roosevelt's, or how often bipartisan support of Social Security is compared to one-party support of Obamacare.
And so it is not necessary to delve very deeply into the very best account of Roosevelt at war, James MacGregor Burns's important 1970 volume "Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom," to discover a classic account of a president in anguish about international conflict. The very first paragraph of Mr. Burns's preface sets it out for all time:
"The proposition of this work is that Franklin D. Roosevelt as war leader was a deeply divided man - divided between the man of principle, of ideals, of faith, crusading for a distant vision, on the one hand; and, on the other, the man of Realpolitik, of prudence, of narrow, manageable, short-run goals, intent always on protecting his power and authority in a world of shifting moods and capricious fortune."
Mr. Burns went on to explain how these divisions also burdened his advisers and the American people, alternating between the "evangelical moods of idealism, sentimentality, and utopianism of one era and older traditions of national self-regard, protectiveness, and prudence of another."
By now you surely have ascertained that this is a column about the terrible choices Mr. Obama faces as Vladimir Putin flexes his muscles and thrusts Ukraine - once known as the bread basket of Central Europe, critically defined as the largest country completely within the borders of Europe - into crisis.
And as this crisis deepens - the presence of so many Russian troops on Ukraine's borders assures that the crisis deepens - Mr. Obama faces critics on the left and right.
But mostly he faces difficult questions and uncertain historical lessons. For this crisis contains parts of the characteristics of both world wars and parts of the characteristics of the Cold War but not enough of any of them to provide sure guideposts in an era where communication is faster than it was in 1920, 1938, 1956 and 1968.
That is because the natural antecedents are more facile than effective and the lessons are difficult to discern:
• The Sudetenland. The similarities with Hitler's aggression in Czechoslovakia in 1938 are obvious: claims of repressed nationality and phony grievances in a land contiguous to the aggressor.
But for all his venality and brutality, and perhaps his greed and expansionism, if Mr. Putin harbors a genocidal impulse, it is far less apparent than that of Hitler, whose views on the elimination of Jews and others were clear to all as early as 1925, and apparent to the sharp-eyed as early as 1923.
Potential lesson: While Hitler sought Lebensraum, or "elbow room," beyond his borders, Mr. Putin seeks to assert his primacy in an area regarded for more than a century as part of his country's sphere of influence - a subtle but important difference.
• The rebellions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. There are fateful and frightening similarities between those two uprisings behind the Iron Curtain and the determination of free Ukraine to retain its independence from Russia. But the outcomes in 1956 and 1968 are sobering, even bitter. The United States talked bravely about its support for the Budapest rebels and Radio Free Europe stirred the insurgents, but ultimately the United States failed to provide military support. The situation a dozen years later in Prague was little different.
Potential lesson: Britain and France went to war with Germany in 1939 after the violation of the borders of Poland. But France shared a border with the aggressor state and Britain was within easy air-striking distance. (London is 570 miles from Berlin.)
The United States didn't intervene in Hungary and Czechoslovakia in part because of the distance and in part because of worries by Dwight Eisenhower and Lyndon Johnson, respectively, that armed assistance would be ineffectual but provocative.
In his memoir, Eisenhower said he was haunted about what he might have done had Hungary "been accessible by sea or through the territory of allies who might have agreed to react positively to any attempt to help prevent the tragic fate of the Hungarian people," adding: "Sending United States troops alone into Hungary through hostile or neutral territory would have involved us in general war."
Note: Ukraine is 5,000 miles from the United States at a time when the nation is war-weary and chary of international involvement.
• Now, a surprise entry: The Russian Civil War. Few Americans know about the U.S. involvement in this conflict, which raged in the wake of World War I, principally in Russia's east, from 1918 to 1920. But even generations later, Russians know that British, French and American forces intervened against the Bolshevik Reds and occupied Murmansk and Vladivostok.
These western nations, assisting the Whites, did not prevail and sowed generations-long resentment against the West that was papered over by the alliance between the Allies and Soviet Russia in World War II but that flares from time to time even now.
Potential lesson: Intervening in what can loosely be regarded as Russian affairs offers few rewards and many perils.
None of this analysis can be the least bit helpful or encouraging to Mr. Obama, who faces different but difficult circumstances. Nor will be Mr. Burns's views of the origin of the decades-long struggle between NATO and the Warsaw Pact: "I have concluded that the decisive turn toward the Cold War came during [World War II], at the very time when Anglo-American-Soviet relations were, on the surface, almost euphoric - indeed, partly because they did seem euphoric." On at least this we can agree: There is no euphoria here. Only bad options.
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Stacie Spring, East Valley Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.
Most mornings, Kristi Grimm and her 9-year-old son, Dillon, go running together.It's not your traditional run, since Grimm, a paraplegic from a horseback riding accident when she was 15, wheels along next to Dillon. It started as a way for Dillon, who has what his mother describes as severe ADHD, to burn some energy before starting his homeschooling lessons. As walks around the blocks turned into mile-long runs, their time started to get boring, Grimm said. "Mommy, tell me a story about a car," Dillon would say as they got started each morning. Sometimes it was a train or a horse. As they wound their way through their Gilbert neighborhood, Grimm would make up stories to occupy their time and their minds. Dillon would interject with suggestions, plot twists, questions and additions. And with his simple request, Dillon's stories have now become the inspiration for a children's book series by his parents: "Mommy, Tell Me a Story About ..." With Kristi writing in rhyme and husband Dave Grimm illustrating, the two have self-published two books this year. "Dillon's probably one of lots and lots of children who asks for these types of stories," Grimm said. What started out as simple stories, ended up lasting weeks as characters and plots became more complex. "Usually, they're about cars," Dillon said. "Then probably dogs. Our longest story was about a dog and a cat." "It was a V-8 moment," Grimm said, as she bopped her head. "I've always enjoyed writing and Dave is a great artist." Dave Grimm, who works for the City of Mesa, had always had a life-long interest in drawing. When the city put out a small coloring booklet for grade school children about recycling a few years ago, Grimm did the artwork. As a way to encourage Dave's artistry, as well as a way for the family to supplement their income, the husband-and-wife team began writing and illustrating their own children's books. Currently, the duo have self-published two books -- "Mommy, Tell Me a Story about a Car," which came out in January, and "Mommy, Tell Me a Story about a Plane," their newest book, which was published last month. They have another four books in the queue. The stories, all in rhyme, can teach kids both how to tell a story as well as learn a moral lesson, Kristi Grimm said. "I love being able to give kids the knowledge that anyone can tell a story," she said. "You take your imagination with you always. You don't need a Game Boy or an iPad to have fun." In "Mommy, Tell Me a Story about a Plane," children can learn about how to deal with aging in a way that would make sense to them, she said. Instead of explaining to kids why their grandparents can't play with them like their friends can, it teaches them that even aging has its advantages. "It's all about perspective," said Kristi Grimm, who has her masters in education. "I want to develop discussion about topics and ideas that aren't always talked about -- in ways that kids can understand. Old fairy tales were told with a purpose -- to teach them something. The lesson doesn't have to be huge, but don't waste the moment." To accompany Kristi's rhymes, Dave creates whimsical illustrations, drawing by hand using colored pencils. "Someone called them 'old school' pictures because he does them all by hand," she said. "A lot of illustrations are done on the computer now, but Dave doesn't use a computer for his drawings." Currently, Dave Grimm is just trying to catch up to his wife's creative explosion. While balancing his roles as husband, father and full-time employee, he still finds time to draw, his wife said. "Every story I wrote, I wrote in one day," she said. And she has another four books waiting for her husband to illustrate. "I just would be so focused on a story, I wouldn't want to let it go." The two decided to self-publish their work so they could work together, rather than trying to find a publisher for Kristi who might have been picked up without Dave. "My husband is my best friend," she said. "I love working with him." The Grimms hope that eventually they will be picked up by a larger publisher, a publisher that will take both of them. There are certain advantages, she said. The two know how to work together and communication is easy for a husband and wife. And Dillon? Well, the runs have helped him focus on his schoolwork in the morning. Dillon has run multiple 5K's, even winning his age division in one, and is preparing for his first 10K sometime in the next year. Kristi and Dave Grimm's books can be purchased at The Book Rack, 1752 S. Signal Butte Road, Suite #108, Mesa, or online at BarnesandNoble.com or Amazon.com. They can be purchased in either paperback or e-book format. Contact writer: (480) 898-5645 or firstname.lastname@example.com (c)2012 East Valley Tribune (Mesa, Ariz.) Visit East Valley Tribune (Mesa, Ariz.) at www.eastvalleytribune.com


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Lady Gaga's injured hip, which forced her this week to cancel the remaining 21 dates on her massive, two-year, six-continent Born This Way tour, will have a major economic impact on the concert business.
Promoters estimate the canceled dates could cost Gaga and the industry more than $35 million in lost revenue. Gaga earned $161 million in revenue last year on the tour, the fifth most successful of 2012. Among the shows canceled are major markets such as Chicago (she was scheduled to play two concerts this week at the United Center), Detroit, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Atlanta and Miami.
Tickets are being refunded at point of purchase for all the remaining shows because the singer will need several months of "strict downtime" to recover from surgery, promoter Live Nation said.
The singer took to her Twitter account and Web site to explain that she had no choice but to cancel the tour. She said Tuesday that after a concert the previous night in Montreal she "could not walk" and had been in "chronic pain" for a number of weeks.
The injury was initially diagnosed as synovitis, or severe inflammation of the joints, but doctors later discovered a labral tear in her right hip, an injury to the soft elastic tissue (or labrum) that follows the outside rim of the hip socket.
The injury can be extremely painful and is common among athletes and dancers. Recovery time usually ranges from two to six months. Sprinter Tyson Gay competed in the Summer Olympics in 2012 a year after labral surgery. Gaga's performances involve extensive dance routines, most performed in high heels, that can put severe stress on the knees and hips.
Unclear is how the surgery will affect Gaga's ongoing writing and production of a forthcoming studio album, "ARTPOP."


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Possible Duplicate:
Erasing data before selling a computer
How do I wipe my hard drive?
On my iMac that I had, it had a process where it met some government standard in terms of safety by going over the drive 7 times.
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Erasing data before selling a computer
How do I wipe my hard drive?
On my iMac that I had, it had a process where it met some government standard in terms of safety by going over the drive 7 times.
This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question.
Use DBAN.
Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.
If you want to make the drive unrecoverable, I think your best bet is to remove the platters and take a belt sander (or sand blaster) to them. By ripping off the magnetic coating, you'll insure that nothing can ever be recovered. Obviously, doing so makes the drive useless, but for maximum protection, you can't beat destroying the magnetic media.
Another approach would be to use a heat gun (or blow torch) and a putty knife to scrape the magnetic coating off. This is bad because who knows what the fumes will contain, but you won't have a load of who-knows-what dust around the workshop.
Another approach would be dropping the platters in an appropriate acid, but I'm not enough of a chemist to know which one would work best.
I don't think much of the drill method proposed by another poster - it only destroys part of the surface, making recovery of only some of the data impossible.
If your objective here is to remove any possibility of recovery EVER, then you really need to attack ALL of the magnetic media on the entire surface. Anything you can do that turns the magnetic media into particulate matter is going to be sufficient.
Of course, as far as we know, no one's ever recovered data from a drive after it's been over-written with zeros. So, it really just depends on how paranoid you are.
You can also check out File Shredder, a free Windows utility to delete files securely.
You could use a Linux Live-CD and
dd together with
/dev/null and/or
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda bs=1M
cp too, see Wiki article about dd (Unix). The effect is perfect, you don't need to do it twice.
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Oct 15 '09 at 11:41
If you want it completely non-retrievable, get a drill and bore holes in the thing. As well as leaving holes, it warps the drive platters and makes retrieval impossible.
See Sanitizing hard drives at the hardware level. The tool it links to is DOS-based and may or may not work on an Intel Mac, but you might be able to find a similar tool which is designed for Mac. If not, you can always plug the drive into a PC.
Its advantage over programs like DBAN is that it uses an ATA command built into all modern hard drives which gets the job done quicker and more securely than any software can.
After wiping the drive, recycle it if you can rather than discarding. In Australia there's Byteback for (free) recycling of computer parts.
Just perform a full format (no quick formats here!) on it. Unless you're a government official who stores nuclear launch codes, it'll be enough to stop recovery.
The way file recovery programs work is scanning the disk for data that looks like a file - it can't find it because it's place in the file table is missing. A quick format just wipes the file table, whereas a full format fills the hard drive with zeros. A "secure" format fills the hard drive with zeros. Several times. More secure? Yes. Necessary? Not for most of us.
Of course, it feels really, really good to do it, so I recommend Boot and nuke.


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Röhm GmbH Names North American CEO
November 11, 2013
Röhm GmbH, a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-quality clamping and gripping technology, recently appointed Matthew Mayer to the position of chief executive officer for its North American division, Röhm Products of America.
The Germany-based company selected Mayer for this leadership role based on his extensive experience, proven success, results-oriented approach and strategic mindset, as these qualities are key to further extending Röhm's influence throughout North America.
With more than 20 years of progressive experience in the manufacturing industry, Mayer has broad and valuable working knowledge of sales, machining, assembly and OEM operations. Prior to joining Röhm Products of America, he held high-level management positions within the industry that involved sales, production, product design and applications engineering.
"It's exciting to be leading an important division of a long-standing global company that has grown its business by taking great pride in providing manufacturers with superior clamping and gripping technology and first-class service and support," said Mayer. "I look forward to contributing to the company's ongoing success and leadership in the ever-evolving North American manufacturing landscape."
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For Spring/Summer 2012, Olivier Theyskens showcased his extraordinary talent with a collection for contemporary American sportswear brand, Theory, that catered to every possible whim. From casual weekend looks and workplace wear, to disco dresses through to floor-sweeping gowns, the young designer with a renowned couture-like sensibility took his collection to every conceivable occasion.
Theyskens' eclectic Spring collection was focused more on separates and their countless combinations, with a particular focus on unexpected proportions, than on stand-alone pieces. In one ensemble, a sassy black crochet mini-dress was paired ingeniously with a masculine olive green floor-length duster coat, other's included a cropped black leather motorbike jacket and shrunken Chanel-like tweedy cardigan paired with a knee-length dress and men's style suit pants. Loose-fit blazers were matched with structured shorts, and drop-crotch blue boyfriend jeans sat at ease with a grungy spring knit cardigan.
Much of the collection featured a purposely lived-in feel, a grungy aesthetic Theyskens put down to being a, 'kid of the nineties.' And true to that spirit, there was a lot of lazy-chic daywear throughout teamed with tomboy boots – which is sure to please the mainstream Theory consumer, but it was the fun disco numbers and breathtaking evening-wear that really stood out. Cute dresses with gently undulating bias hems in striking metallic fabrics, and out-there trousers cut seemingly from iridescent cellophane, were hard to miss – the showstoppers though, as expected, were the final looks to hit the sparse warehouse venue: intricate web-like cocktail dresses and demi-couture floor-length gowns revealing a whole lot of skin (and nipple), and black grosgrain full-skirted gown with sultry cut-out back. 'I wanted the collection to have an eclectic feel, but for all the clothing to suit the Thesyskens Theory girl,' explained the charming Belgian designer post-show. 'I also thought about creating a cool attitude with clothing that seems lived in and can be worn with high heels or boots – I also like the idea of creating something timeless that a girl can wear season after season.'