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Hyperparathyroidism is overactivity of the tiny glands in the neck
that are next to the thyroid gland (parathyroid glands). The parathyroid glands
release a substance called parathyroid hormone that helps control the amount of
calcium in the bloodstream.
When the parathyroid glands produce too much hormone, the amount of
calcium in the blood increases. The body removes calcium from the bones,
absorbs more calcium from the intestines, and releases less calcium into the
urine. This can result in constipation, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, and other
symptoms. It can also lead to kidney stones and weakening of the bones
Hyperparathyroidism may develop because of a tumor on the
parathyroid gland, as a side effect of treatment for other conditions (such as
Paget's disease), or for unknown reasons. Surgery may be needed to remove part
or all of the parathyroid glands.
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Finnair serves Geneva through Geneva Airport (GVA), which is conveniently located just 6.5 km northwest of the city centre. Book your flights from Geneva with Finnair and see why we have been flying customers around the world for over 90 years.
Reaching Geneva Airport is simple, with trains running regularly between Geneva Cornavin station and the airport. Local bus services also operate between various parts of Geneva and the airport, allowing you to get there no matter where you are starting from.
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Bangkok, the capital of Thailand and home to more than 7 million people, is one of the world's most popular holiday destinations. Visitors fly to Bangkok to shop, eat and drink at low prices, experience pulsating nightlife and take in the beautiful temples that can be found throughout the city. Behind the skyscrapers of the city centre, long tail boats dash along narrow canals, where luxurious teak villas and wooden shacks built on top of poles sit side by side. Getting to other destinations in Thailand or elsewhere in Asia is simple from the city's huge, modern Suvarnabhumi Airport. This is the primary airport for flights to Bangkok, Thailand. Krung Thep, meaning "City of Angels," is an alternative name for Bangkok.
Grand Palace – Bangkok's most famous landmark. The palace has been the official residence of the Kings of Siam (and later Thailand) since 1782. The king, his court and his royal government were based on the grounds of the palace until 1925.
Wat Phra Kaew – the renowned temple area next to the Grand Palace in Bangkok is one of the most spectacular sights in Bangkok and home to the mesmerising Emerald Buddha.
Wat Pho – one of the largest temples in Thailand, which houses the 15 metre-tall and 46-metre-long golden Reclining Buddha statue.
Rooftop terraces abound in Bangkok and can be a more pleasant alternative to a visit to an observation deck. Lebua Tower has a four-floor rooftop terrace – featured in many famous films - providing stunning city views. Other rooftop terraces worth a visit can be found at Sofitel So and Banyan Tree hotel.
Baiyoke Tower II – the tallest skyscraper in Thailand with an 84th-floor observation deck offering panoramic views of the city.
Khao San Road – an area famous within the backpacker community, this street offers many inexpensive accommodation options. Many budget travellers head here after stepping off cheap flights to Bangkok.
Lumphini Park is a perfect place to get plenty of fresh air, admire enormous iguana lizards and row a boat on the lake as catfish jump around you.
There are numerous family-friendly things to enjoy if you travel to Bangkok with children. Pre-book special meals for younger members of the family when flying to Bangkok with children and check out these recommendations when you land in the Thai capital:
Dreamworld – This fun amusement park has various rides for people of all ages, as well as shows, games, a boating lake, themed eateries and interesting gardens.
Safari World – Observe a wide selection of creatures from across the globe as you explore the large park. Bus tours are available if you don't have your own transport.
Asiatique The Riverfront – This large riverside evening market has a tall observation wheel, family-friendly shows and plenty of places to shop and dine.
Damnoen Saduak – this "floating market," where women dress in traditional costume and sell fruit and vegetables from their boats, is 2 hours from Bangkok.
Hua Hin – established tourist resort with beautiful beaches. 3 hours from Bangkok. Book your plane tickets to Bangkok to experience fast-paced city life and then relax at the seaside.
Koh Samet – the perfect island for a quiet getaway during your stay. 4 hours from Bangkok.
Siam Square and Central World – cool down in western-style shopping malls when the heat of Bangkok gets too heavy. Good prices and global brands are represented together with a massive selection of restaurants.
MBK Center – also known as Mahboonkrong, this shopping mall has five floors of low-cost gadgets, clothes and handicraft. Visitors should be aware that a lot of the goods sold at markets are not genuine but cheap – from contact lenses to Gucci handbags.
Chatuchak Weekend Market – a gigantic outdoor market in Bangkok open on weekends with seemingly anything and everything on offer. We also recommend Pratunam Market.
Food and drink are generally very inexpensive in Thailand, and this is especially true in regard to local Thai dishes available at small restaurants or when buying from one of the city's countless food trucks. Bangkok has more expensive alternatives, however, and prices can differ dramatically depending on what you choose. Thai food in Bangkok is influenced by both Chinese and Indian cuisine. In Bangkok people eat using either a fork and spoon or chopsticks and rice is the most important component in cooking, along with the famous nam pla fish sauce. The delicacies of the mouth-watering Thai cuisine are available both at the high-end restaurants on Sukhumvit Road and in street kitchens. These are some popular dishes to try after your flight to Bangkok:
- Tom Yum Kung – lemongrass soup with chilli peppers and prawns.
- Gaeng Keow Wan Kai – green chicken curry in coconut milk.
- Gaeng Deng – red curry dish with coconut milk and finely chopped pieces of meat.
- Tom Yum Gung – a soup with lemongrass, galangal, mushrooms and prawns.
- Tom Kha Kai – soup with coconut milk, lemongrass, galangal and chicken.
- Pad Thai – wok noodles with vegetables, a tasty fish sauce, chilli peppers and chopped cashew nuts.
- Thai iced tea – strongly-brewed black tea mixed with condensed milk and sugar.
- Wine – available but expensive.
- Beer – local and international brews.
Metropolitan Rapid Transit (MRT) – Bangkok's subway and skytrain, the Bangkok Mass Transit System (BTS) is the best way to get around but be aware that it does not go everywhere. Stations are well marked.
Taxi – using a taxi in Bangkok is relatively inexpensive and handy, also good to travel longer distances. Never agree on a price for a taxi; instead, make sure the driver uses a metre.
River boats – good value boat tours in Bangkok are available from the Saphan Taksin area and are a handy travel option when visiting Bangkok's riverside sights.
Bangkok is a bustling city all year round.
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Temperatures are still relatively high during the cool season and this is the peak travel time in Bangkok. Book well in advance to find the best Bangkok flight deals. This is often seen as the best time to visit Bangkok because of the cooler conditions.
April sees the country's largest festival: Songkran. People take to the streets to celebrate traditional Thai New Year with huge water fights. Reserve your accommodation and airline tickets to Bangkok well ahead of time if you want to experience Songkran.
Although still busy, the rainy season is the low time for tourism in Bangkok. Rains don't last all day and, while you may experience storms and heavy rain, there are often dry, sunny spells too. Pack an umbrella and non-slip footwear. This is the best time for budget travellers to explore the city, as you can usually find the cheapest flights to Bangkok and the best deals on hotels and trips during this period.
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You'll land at Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) when flying to Bangkok. Located around 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the city centre, it's easy to reach the city by road and rail after flights to BKK.
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For noon to occur the same time daily, the earth needs to do one full rotation daily.For noon to occur approximately at the same time daily, a point on Earth's axis must continually face the direction of orbital motion as opposed to always pointing in the same direction.
Earth's tilt is not what I question however. I question the axis always pointing in the same direction
The front of the axle is always facing the orbital direction of motion.
With the axle always pointing in the same direction, noon in March would be midnight in September.
jacmac wrote:1) Do you agree that the end (either end) of the axis of rotation of the earth always points to the same place in the sky, as defined by the stars. Yes or no ? I think yes.
A "point" on the axle facing the direction of circular or orbital motion.jacmac wrote:2) What is the "front" of the axle of the wheelbarrow?
A solar day is a complete rotation of an object on its axis. A sidereal day is one complete rotation of an object about the center of its orbit. If Earth was the sun, the moon would have a perpetual solar day: its not rotating on its axis. However, it would have one sidereal day.jacmac wrote:Also, check out the difference between the Solar day and the Sidereal day.
A solar day is a complete rotation of an object on its axis. A sidereal day is one complete rotation of an object about the center of its orbit.
Move the flashlight to the edge of the spinning lazy Susan and the light on the fixed ceiling moves.
Earth's rotation observed from the center: sun.jacmac wrote:A solar day is a complete rotation of the earth(on its axis) relative to the sun, high noon to high noon, for example.
Earth's rotation observed from a fixed distance: a star.jacmac wrote:A siderial day is a slightly different complete rotation of the earth(on its axis) relative to the STARS.
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/seasons/en/ The illustration in the NASA link shows America in direct sunlight (noon) in March and in Earth's shadow (midnight) 180 degrees later in September. If Earth is orbiting the sun and making one complete rotation daily, that is exactly what we should experience: a 12 hour change in time every 6 months or 180 degrees: 6 hours every 90 degrees. However, the sun is overhead at noon every day throughout the year and we don't have to change our clocks.
Dad, an observer at the center of a merry-go-round sees only one side of Junior mounted on the horse. Mom at a fixed distance away, sees all sides of Junior once per orbit. Both see Junior at the same time but from a different perspective.
jtb wrote:Help me out. We don't experience this 180 degree shift in time. The only alternative I can think of is that the sun is actually orbiting Earth.
One rotation/orbit: left side of Earth is facing the sun... for half the day, right side the other half of the day.One rotation/orbit: left side of Earth is facing the sun. 180 degrees, or 6 months later the right side is facing the sun.
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Kim Yuna resumes training, 100% recovered
[Ilgan Sports] | Kim Ji-Han | 2013.11.13
'Figure Queen' Kim Yuna has finally recovered from her injuries.
Kim will be able to resume her training in earnest for the upcoming Sochi Olympics.
Kim recovered from her metatarsal micro fracture injury of her right foot on last week.
"Kim is 99.9% recovered. The pain hasn't vanished completely because she continues to train but it is minor enough to be ignored.
I watched Kim practicing her short and free program last week and she had no problem doing both in a single training session.
She can do all her jumps and all her elements," said Na Young-Mu, Kim's physician and head of Sol hospital, giving Kim the green light.
Kim suffered from a micro-fracture in her right foot in September.
Since then she has been going through physiotherapy while training and has now fully recovered.
"Kim doesn't have any other injuries on her back or ankle.
I recommended that Kim take cautions not to sprain her ankle and to refrain from wearing high heels.
I also recommended that she be cautious during her off-ice training sessions because it is different from training on the ice," said Dr. Na.
The green light from her physician will make it possible for Kim to concentrate on preparing for the Golden Spin of Zagreb which will be held in Zagreb,
Croatia on December 5 – 9. Kim is currently training with caution in order to prevent the injury from reoccurring.
"Kim's condition is good. She has physically recovered, but she adjusts her training depending on her daily condition to be safe.
Since she has fully recovered we are increasing the intensity of training bit by bit, resuming some that she has not been able to do during her recovery,"
said a representative of All That Sports, Kim's management.
In order to familiarize herself to her new programs,
Kim continued to train during her rehabilitation but not to the extent that the training would aggravate her injury.
She especially focused on becoming familiar with her free skating program "Adios Nonino".
"I need a lot of stamina for the free skate because of the fast tempo of the music.
Even though I have familiarized myself with the program since the program was finished quite a while ago,
I presume that more time will be needed to perfect my performance," said Kim at the 'Sochi Winter Olympic Games D-100 Media Day' on October 30.
Kim is planning to hone her technical elements and choreography at the Golden Spin in preparation for the Sochi Olympic Games.
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Rome, the "Eternal City," as the saying goes, was not built in a day –and cannot be seen in a day—but often cruise passengers have only one day to enjoy it (unless they are fortunate that their voyage begins or ends in Civitavecchia, the port of Rome, and they are able arrange for an extended stay pre- or post-cruise).
For those whose itineraries feature Civitavecchia only as a port of call, all is not lost, as cruise lines generally feature optional full day guided tours to Rome (the city is 46 miles or about 45 minutes to an hour from the port depending on traffic). These excursions include a panoramic drive with a couple of stops to take in some of the major points of interest plus a few hours of free time, typically at St. Peter's Square, before returning to the pier.
In addition to the full day excursions to Rome, many lines offer transfers to a drop-off/pick-up point in the heart of the city so passengers can get a taste of the bounty of sights that the capital of Italy offers on their own with provided maps. Some passengers opt to independently take the train into Rome from the train station at Civitavecchia (Stazione di Civitavecchia) –if you do so keep an eye on train schedules and the clock as it is easy to lose track of time in Rome.
Whether on a transfer, a guided tour, or independent sightseeing, most cruise passengers enjoy their short time in Rome, content with having received an introduction to this, one of the world's foremost cities, and conscious that as locals say, "Roma, non basta una vita!" (A lifetime is not enough for Rome).
Rome's "musts" are legion and include the Pantheon, on Piazza della Rotonda, ancient Rome's best preserved building dating from AD 120 in its present form, and site of burials of kings and the painter Raphael; the Colosseum on Piazza del Colosseo (inaugurated in AD 80, where gladiators fought in front of crowds that could reach 50,000) and, at the foot of the Capitoline Hill, the Roman Forum with its fabled ruins first developed in the 7th century B.C. (Via dei Foro Imperiali connects the Colosseum with the Roman Forum) that along with the legendary Via Appia and the Catacombs introduce passengers to the ancient, imperial era of Rome (typically some of these sites are stops during many full day excursions).
Nobody leaves Rome without dedicating some time to the treasures of the Vatican and the picturesque Spanish Steps in the Piazza di Spagna (a tourist magnet and gathering place of young locals since the 18th century, with the Keats-Shelley House to the right as you face the steps) and the quaint Trastevere section of Rome, as its name implies across the Tiber River from the historic center of Rome with many bars, cafes and trattorias (small restaurants).
The centerpiece of the Vatican is St. Peter's Square, one of the world's most spectacular public spaces designed by Bernini in the 17th century, framing St. Peter's Basilica with what archaeologists believe is the tomb of the Apostle Peter –the first basilica on the site was built by early Christians in the 4th century. The present basilica is crowned by Michelangelo's monumental dome and showcases his Pieta marble sculpture of Mary holding the dead Christ after the crucifixion – only one of numerous other Renaissance and pre-Renaissance works of art including the bronze baroque "baldachin" by Bernini over the main altar and a bronze of St. Peter to the right as you face the main altar, believed to be a 13th century work by Arnolfo di Cambio.
Still other "musts" are the Vatican Museum with its extensive collection and the Sistine Chapel, the Pope's private chapel and the place where the cardinals of the Catholic Church meet to elect a new pope when the holder of the office dies. The Sistine chapel is also famous for the paintings of Michelangelo including the "Creation of Adam" on the ceiling and "The Last Judgment" behind the altar. St. Peter's Square is a frequent stop for free time on full day tours to Rome from Civitavecchia.
Other Roman highlights include monuments from more recent eras of Rome, including the Vittorio Emanuele II Monument, built to honor the first king of a unified Italy who reigned in the 19th century –a monument that looks like a giant wedding cake –and is so called by the locals. The hard-to-miss Vittorio Emanuele II Monument, located in the heart of the city, is often a drop-off/pick-up point for cruise line transfers into Rome from Civitavecchia.
Yet another Roman must-see is the Trevi Fountain, a short distance from the Via del Corso (a sign on the street points in the direction one must turn to reach the fountain). Designed by Nicola Salvi, this baroque fountain was finished in 1762 on the rear of the Palazzo dei Duchi di Poli and it is a fantasy of gods and goddesses with Neptune, the Roman god of the sea as its central figure flanked by two Tritons. Trevi Fountain, arguably the best known in Rome, was made famous by the 1954 movie, "Three Coins In The Fountain" with Clifton Webb and Dorothy McGuire, which inspired the custom by tourists of throwing a coin in the Trevi Fountain and making a wish to return to Rome. This spot where the Trevi Fountain stands, was the ending point of the Virgo aqueduct, built in 19 B.C. by Agrippa, son-in-law of Caesar Augustus, who was responsible for the construction of some 500 fountains in Rome in one year.
Other spectacular Roman fountains include those of the Piazza
Navona including Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers), commissioned by Pope Innocent X, and adorned by statues that represent four great rivers: the Nile, the Plate, the Ganges and the Danube.
Local flavors not to be missed while in Rome include pasta dishes in trattorias (perhaps in Trastevere, or anywhere in Rome) washed down with a glass of Italian wine, as well as creamy and delicious gelatos (ice creams) for a snack while you tour the piazzas or dessert after your lunch in the city.
For "been there, done that" passengers who have already visited Rome, cruise lines typically offer a variety of excursions in the area surrounding Civitavecchia, such as cooking lessons, wine tastings and tours to the necropolis of Tarquinia with its Etruscan house-like graves with impressive frescoes.
Cruise lines that sail to and from Civitavecchia, or feature it as a port of call, include Azamara, Celebrity, Costa, Crystal, Cunard, Disney, Holland America, MSC, Norwegian, Oceania, Princess, Regent Seven Seas, Seabourn and Silversea.
IF YOU GO – For additional information on Rome, visit www.italia.it.


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BOSTON - Get ready for another Big East vs. Big Ten matchup in the NCAA East regional.
So far the conferences are tied at one victory apiece.
But the ways the winners got to Saturday night's game with a berth in the Final Four at stake were very different Thursday night.
Top-seeded Syracuse edged Wisconsin 64-63 when the Badgers had the ball for the final 18 seconds but couldn't score. Then second-seeded Ohio State dominated Cincinnati 81-66 in the other semifinal as Jared Sullinger and DeShaun Thomas combined for 49 points and 19 rebounds.
It shouldn't be that easy for the Buckeyes against Syracuse's zone defense, which stymied Wisconsin inside.
'I know we're going to face a 2-3 zone. There's no hiding that,' Sullinger said. 'We're going to have to try to control the tempo and also we're going to have to score and execute our offense even though they're playing 2-3 zone. We can't just sit back and let them punch us. We've got to throw the first punches. Not literally, but ...'
Syracuse (34-2) will be facing an opponent with more offensive ability than Wisconsin, which likes to slow the ball down. That nearly worked - along with outstanding 3-point shooting - for the Badgers (26-10).
They made 14 of 27 shots from 3-point range.
'I don't think anybody's ever made 14 3s against us and we beat them,' Orange coach Jim Boeheim said. 'That's a lot of 3s to overcome.'
But Syracuse shot 55 percent from the field, well above the 38.5 percent Wisconsin gave up this season, and the Orange were 5 of 9 from 3-point range, much better than the 28.8 percent the Badgers allowed.
'Syracuse just has too many athletes that can do so many things, and it's hard to prepare for that on the defensive end. You think you're getting things done, but you're a step behind,' Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan said. 'So we did the best we could, and I thought we played great defense. Not everybody on the court agreed with that, but I thought we played unbelievable defense for the most part.'
They even had trouble controlling C.J. Fair. He scored 15 points for Syracuse after totaling just 20 in his previous six games.
'It was a nail-biter,' Fair said, 'but we made some plays down the stretch and got a couple of stops.'
Syracuse had the win when Jordan Taylor missed a 3-pointer with 3 seconds left and Josh Gasser's toss after getting the rebound was off the mark at the buzzer.
'It was on line, and I felt like I got my legs into it,' Taylor said. 'I knew it was a deep 3, but it felt good, and then to see it kind of come up short was kind of heartbreaking.'
Taylor and Jared Berggren led Wisconsin with 17 points each.
There was far less drama in the second semifinal, which Ohio State (30-7) led 37-25 at halftime.
'Our intensity level wasn't where it needs to be for us to have success.' Cincinnati coach Mick Cronin said. 'We were too conservative defensively.'
But the Bearcats (26-11) outscored their in-state rivals 27-11 in the first 8 1/2 minutes of the second half and led 52-48. Then they fell apart, committing seven turnovers the rest of the way.
The Buckeyes went on a 17-1 run to take a 65-53 lead with just under six minutes remaining and never were threatened again.
Thomas had 26 points, Sullinger 23 and Aaron Craft 11, all in the second half.
'The game plan was never to let them get some consecutive scores,' Ohio State coach Thad Matta said. 'When we did that, they had the momentum going on their side, and we weren't able to control it. It affected us a little bit offensively, as well. We had some costly turnovers there.'
Not as costly as Cincinnati's. The Bearcats began the night averaging 10.7 turnovers per game, 15th fewest in the nation, but committed 18 against Ohio State.
'We got down early, made a tremendous comeback,' Cronin said. 'At the end of the day, we didn't take care of the basketball. ... With 18 turnovers, we really just gave ourselves no chance.'
Cincinnati was led by Cashmere Wright with 18 points and Sean Kilpatrick with 15.
The Buckeyes led by five when Thomas hit back-to-back 3-pointers and Ohio State scored 10 of the last 13 points in the half to open a 37-25 lead. But Cincinnati opened the second half with a run of its own, tying it 41-all on JaQuon Parker's baby hook in the lane.
The Bearcats led 52-48 on Gates' three-point play with 11:34 left, but Ohio State responded by scoring 17 of the next 18 points to put it away.
Now the Buckeyes face a tougher Big East opponent.
'We stay right there level-headed. We believe in each other,' Syracuse guard Scoop Jardine said. 'When you've got a team like that, no matter what, we're capable of winning games no matter who we're playing against or what the circumstances are in every game.'
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California's campaign finance agency has told the Small Business Action Committee to do something called "disgorgement" – that is, pay the state the $11 million donated last fall by an Arizona non-profit organization.
"We don't have the money. It's not there. It's been spent. And we disagree with them on the issue entirely. And so at this point, no, we'll be fighting them and not paying," says SBAC spokeswoman Beth Miller.
Phillip Ung with the public interest group Common Cause says he hopes disgorgement will succeed, but "in previous cases, when people have followed all the rules and made all the notices to the donors, there was no fault to the PAC if somebody was dishonest with the PAC."
In this case, the PAC was exonerated by both the Fair Political Practices Commission and the Attorney General's office.


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By Liane Kupferberg Carter May 21, 2013 9
Seeing Clearly
April wasn't only Autism Awareness Month. It was National Stress Awareness Month too.
Last month I started having difficulty seeing. Initially I attributed it to my new eyeglasses. Everything seemed to be pixilating in the center of my left eye. It wasn't just those annoying floaters. Any text I stared at seemed to fade out, as if a shimmering dark cloud was moving across the page. It felt like holes in my vision. I had a headache that waxed and waned but never quite disappeared. I, who pride myself on my proofreading skills, was suddenly missing typos. Writing became hard. Reading was exhausting. Driving was a white knuckle experience. I stopped doing the New York Times crossword puzzle because I couldn't make out the numbers in the grid.
I Googled my symptoms. I know, I know. Bad idea. Of course I scared myself. I read about posterior vitreous detachment—strands in the vitreous gel inside the eye, common after cataract surgery, especially if you are nearsighted. Retinal detachment. Pituitary tumor. Macular holes. Ocular migraine. But with ocular migraine, I read, the symptoms resolve between headache bouts.
Mine didn't.
My ophthalmologist sent me to a retina specialist. She dilated my eyes. "I see a very small hemorrhage, but I don't think that's causing your symptoms," she said. "You can get that just by bending over. I'm going to torture you a little bit. We'll inject some contrast dye to get a look at the blood vessels behind the retina."
For a nanosecond I pictured the eye clamp scene from "A Clockwork Orange."
As soon as she left the room I whispered to my husband Marc, "The 'torture' part is just injecting the dye in my arm, right?"
"I'm sure it's the dye," he said reassuringly.
I signed consent forms, and a technician took more than a dozen temporarily blindingly bright flash photos. I returned to the doctor, my sight now a blurry pink haze. She clicked through the images on the computer screen. "That inverted smoke stack shape?" she said, pointing. "Classic presentation of central cirrus." Cirrus? Like a cloud formation? I pictured wisps of water vapor drifting over the surface of my eye.
"The good news," she said, "is that it generally resolves with time."
"So what causes it?" I asked.
"We see this most in men in their 30s and 40s, who have 'Type A' personalities."
Which I am assuredly not.
But stress?
Why yes. We're intimately acquainted.
And the last few months have been intense. My autistic son Mickey has landed in the emergency room twice: for kidney stones, and for a painful abscessed cyst requiring surgery. We're struggling to figure out what he will do once he turns 21 this year and exits the school system. (That's what they call it—exiting. Not graduating. But that is another column.) Last month was filled with psychological assessments for Mickey. Educational evaluations. Doctor appointments. EEGs. Seizure medication changes. A new consulting engagement out of state for Marc that requires him to live all week in a hotel.
I went home and looked up "central cirrus." Google corrected me: central serous. It had nothing to do with wispy or funnel shaped clouds. I squinted at the screen to read: "Central serous retinopathy: An eye disease which causes visual impairment, often temporary, usually in one eye, characterized by leakage of fluid under the retina. Stress appears to play an important role. CSR can re-occur causing progressive vision loss."
It's not just the episodes of acute stress. It's the chronic concerns that grind me down. Sometimes I feel like the Bill Murray character in the movie "Groundhog Day," locked in a time loop and endlessly repeating my days. When Bill Murray's character eventually learns the lesson he most needs to learn, the loop ends. He moves on to a next day. But does that analogy hold up? When you have a child with special needs, you've signed on for life. Do you ever truly move on?
I hope so. Because like the proverbial canary in the mineshaft, my eye is an early warning system. It's telling me I need to learn something critical: how to pace my anxiety. If I don't figure out how to modulate my reactions to the stress in my life, I'm going to be in serious—not only serous—trouble.
"I'm getting a doctor's note for a live-in masseuse," I tell Marc.
But beneath the joke is a darker truth: Stress kills you.
And special needs parents need to live forever.


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Panasonic today unveiled Toughpad 4K UT-MB5, the world's first 20 inch tablet with a 4K resolution display designed for sales, marketing and media professionals as part of a groundbreaking new Ultra-High Definition Toughpad range. A specialist performance model, ideal for 3D modelling and CAD applications, for use by technical professionals such as engineers, architects and designers will follow in the first half of 2014.
Offering a new digital viewing experience called 4K which is more than four times better than HD at 3840 x 2560 pixels, the Toughpad 4K UT-MB5 is a business rugged, portable tablet that breaks new ground in digital viewing with 4K resolution, collaborative working with touchscreen capabilites and a unique Panasonic Electronic Touch Pen* for pin-point accuracy and annotation.
Designed with photographers, marketers and sales people in mind, the Toughpad 4K UT-MB5 has a large 20 inch screen with 3840 x 2560 pixels, 15:10 aspect ratio and 230 pixels per inch making it perfect for displaying large images, A3 drawings, brochures and multimedia. The advanced display and resolution also makes zooming and resizing images instantaneous and crystal clear.
Unique Panasonic Electronic Touch Pen*
The portable tablet comes with a unique new Panasonic Electronic Touch Pen* that is super intuitive and provides paper-like feel for freehand sketching, annotation or handwriting. The pen uses infrared signals to distinctly read every single pixel on the screen and communicates it with the tablet via Bluetooth, making it stand apart from commonly found capacitive digitizers. It is so accurate because it is able to recognise every individual pixel on the tablet screen, can recognize & record the pen tilt and can interpret 2048 levels of pressure, ensuring drawing or handwriting is reflected perfectly to the smallest detail.
"There are a wide range of incredible applications for this exciting new Toughpad 4K, which harnesses the stunning visual developments of 4K resolution technology," said Jan Kaempfer, Marketing Director for Panasonic Computer Product Solutions. "Photography and design studios will be able to see details and edit their images and videos better than ever before, luxury goods marketers and sales people will be able to present their products on a large screen tablet in such amazing detail that it will make customers want to reach out, touch and buy the products. With this device seeing really is believing."
World's Lightest and thinnest
With its 15:10 aspect ratio, the Toughpad 4K UT-MB5 is the lightest and thinnest portable 20 inch screen tablet, weighing in at 2.35kg and just 12.5mm thick. Powered by an Intel® CoreTM i5 vProTM CPU, up to 8GB RAM and NVIDIA® GeForce® graphics, the UT-MB5 is able to display very high resolution videos smoothly and without buffering.
Navin Shenoy, Vice President at Intel, said "I'd like to personally extend my congratulations to Panasonic. I'm excited about the launch of world's first 20 inch tablet with 4K display, the Toughpad based on Intel Core processors. I'm pleased with the partnership that Intel and Panasonic have had for many years. Panasonic is the company that keeps innovating with new form factors and user experiences and the Toughpad is the latest proof of Panasonic's innovation excellence, of course based on the Intel technology. I wish Panasonic a very successful launch event and I'm looking forward to seeing even more in the near future. Again, congratulations from all of us here at Intel on the launch of this one of a kind Toughpad".
The Toughpad 4K UT-MB5 comes pre-installed with Windows 8.1 Pro making the device future proof, allowing enterprises to use all their existing applications and Office products and enabling IT departments to migrate with ease. Combined with accessories such as the Panasonic desktop cradle and carry solution, the device can also be used as both a desktop PC and tablet, reducing the need for designers and engineers to use multiple devices.
Goran Mataic, Channel Executive at Microsoft Corp., said "It is fitting that this remarkable Toughpad 4K tablet from Panasonic uses the new Windows 8.1 operating system to bring touch to life. This product includes a great touchscreen, configurability, security, improved user interface and multimedia capabilities that commercial customers will be delighted with."
Built for Business
The Toughpad 4K UT-MB5 also offers all the necessary interfaces to make it a practical device in the business environment, including USB 3.0, SD card slot, headphone jack and optional smart card reader. The cradle also offers Ethernet and HDMI connectivity.
With a 1280 x 720 pixel built-in front camera, combined with the 20 inch screen, video conferencing becomes a simple and enjoyable experience. With 256 GB SSD and SD card slot, the device has plenty of space to store applications and data.
And to ensure you can stay connected when on the move, the device offers Bluetooth and WLAN connectivity.
Reflecting Panasonic's rugged mobile computing leadership status in Europe, the Toughpad 4K UT-MB5 is Business Rugged meaning it can withstand drops of up to 76cm (bottom side, while operating)** and temperatures from +5 to +35C**.
Performance for CAD to come
A Toughpad 4K Performance model, available in the first half of 2014, has been designed for CAD design and 3D simulation, will be equipped with a more powerful Intel® CoreTM CPU and NVIDIA® graphics. This new Performance model, which can replace the traditional CAD workstation, has received positive first impressions from CAD and 3D design software specialists Dassault Systemes.
"We are very excited about this new Panasonic tablet. It combines remarkable resolution, computing power and portability to provide support for our 3DEXPERIENCE Platform," said Laurent Cherprenet, Solution Experience Senior Director, High-Tech, Dassault Systemes "We are looking forward to the delightful customer experiences that our respective customers will be able to create".
The Toughpad 4K UT-MB5 Standard model will be available from November 2013 and will retail from GBP 3335 + vat. The availability and pricing of Toughpad 4K Performance model will be announced at later date.
The Toughpad 4K UT-MB5 Standard model will be on display at the Panasonic 4K stand (Hall 5.2/101) at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin from September 6th-11th 2013.
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PSCEU is the European branch of Panasonic Systems Communications Company, the global B2B division of Panasonic. PSCEU's goal is to improve the working lives of business professionals and help their organizations efficiency and performance. We help organizations capture, compute and communicate all sorts of information: image, voice, and textual data. Products include PBX telephone switches, document printers, professional cameras, projectors, large visual displays and rugged mobile PCs. With around 500 staff, engineering design expertise, global project management capability and a large European partner network, PSCEU offers unrivalled capability in its markets.
The new PSCEU is made up of four business divisions:
- Communication Solutions including professional scanners, multifunctional printers, telephony systems and HD video conferencing systems.
- Visual System Solutions including projectors, interactive whiteboards, presentation aids and displays. Panasonic
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- Professional Camera Solutions including professional audio visual, security and industrial medical vision (IMV) technology. Panasonic is one of the top two professional camera vendors in Europe.
- Computer Product Solutions including the Toughbook range of rugged notebooks, Toughpad business tablets and electronic point of sales (EPOS) systems. Panasonic Toughbook had 63.3% unit share of the European rugged and durable notebook market and a 29.2 unit share of the rugged business tablet market in 2012 (VDC, March 2013).
Panasonic Corporation is a worldwide leader in the development and engineering of electronic technologies and solutions for customers in residential, non-residential, mobility and personal applications. Since its founding in 1918, the company has expanded globally and now operates over 500 consolidated companies worldwide, recording consolidated net sales of 7.30 trillion yen (68 billion euros) for the year ended March 31, 2013. Committed to pursuing new value through innovation across divisional lines, the company strives to create a better life and a better world for its customers. For more information about Panasonic, please visit the company's website at www.toughbook.eu
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
12 Hours of Pain & Purpose Mountain Bike Challenge
Number 120 wins the "Find a Place Fit to Laugh For Looking Good After Riding 10 hours" award. It's a team event, but that's still a lot of riding. I rode this fast, level part of the course on my steel single speed with the 700x30 slightly knobby tires, and started to think that the suspended mountain bikes were overkill. Then I noticed on the map that they jump over to Papago Park after this part, where I'm sure the suspension was useful, and the knobs needed on the extra-muddy trails.
Anyway, this is Onespeedgo, not exactly a competitive sports-oriented cycling site, more of a "what I saw and thought about it while riding blog," so here's a video of the river. The downstream side of this is usually dry except for a small pool and tiny outflow stream. I saw the river running a lot wilder than this the day the new bridge washed away in January of 1993, but this still is a lot of water to be running here.
Then as I turned toward home, I passed the SRP port hole of genetic diversity, which to my mind is the outlet of the Crosscut canal. This normally placid water feature was overflowing with gurgly brown water and spewing dead fish across the grass as the water ran down and mingled with the Salt River. I don't actually know what the source of the water is, but it looks like it could be from the Crosscut, and by the fish on the grass, it looks like they are not filtering out the biologics from all the different upstream rivers, at least not after the rains, with the high water levels. But I wasn't actually looking for fish or quagga muscle veligers, I was scanning for bits of foam from my fantasy break-up of Flowing Overlapping Gesture. Saw none though.
On this ride, I also improved the fantasy commute route both in time and smoothness by staying on the path through the park as apparently intended. Paul Davies, email me if you have any need of an IT-savvy apprentice to serve in a think-tank like capacity; I think the commute on a Sinner Mango is viable now. Get up. Go ride.
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Don't mean to get off topic, but what are you using to rip your vinyl?ReplyDelete
I recently got a Sony LX300USB turntable because of price, features, and to justify the LPs I've been hanging onto. So far been using Audacity for the ripping, although the turntable comes with software that looks like it would work, too.ReplyDelete
Are we over the drought yet? How much water do we need for it to be officially over? Not complaining. Water is life.ReplyDelete
Officially still in a D2 Severe Drought condition, according to the Drought Monitor: http://drought.unl.edu/DM/DM_west.htmReplyDelete
But I would check that site on Thursday to see if that changed. Resevoir-wise the Salt System is looking pretty good, but the Verde has been low for years. Maybe it will perk up a bit, but it would take some sustained wet years to really bring it back: http://www.srpwater.com/dwr/report.asp?dt=1/22/2010
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We've all heard the phrase that we want our fitness facilities to be "the third place" in people's lives — right behind home and work. Unfortunately, only a few fitness facilities can actually claim to be that third place for their members. I've written in the past, however, about one club company that I think really is the third place for many of its members. And when I was in Boston last month for Club Industry East, I actually visited two of its clubs.
Healthworks Fitness Centers, Boston, first came to my attention in 2003 when I wrote a story about clubs bringing fitness to the inner city. The club company had set up a nonprofit foundation that built a facility for women located at the St. Mary's Women and Infants Center in Dorchester, MA. St. Mary's is a home for pregnant teens and homeless women. The company has since opened a second nonprofit facility in Dorchester in partnership with Codman Square Health Center.
However, these two nonprofit facilities, which are partly supported through dues from members at the company's five upscale and for-profit women-only facilities, aren't the reason I would call Healthworks the third place for many of its members.
Instead, Healthworks' for-profit clubs have become such a hit with its members because management, led by owner Mark Harrington, seems to listen to the members and respond with programming and services that make members stick around. In fact, one reviewer on the company's Web site summed it up by saying, "It's kind of like a full-service women's club more than just a gym. A lot of the young women seem to hang out here for several hours a day."
The clubs offer an upscale but comfortable atmosphere. The amenities include spa services, food services, discounted rates and special offers from partner businesses throughout the city, corporate memberships, computers for members to use, an updated blog about healthy living/eating, contests (including $500 in club cash to the member who is the one millionth check-in for the year), parties, pre- and post-natal classes, and member clubs, such as a book club and a running club.
Also, in response to members' demands that they offer recycling for water bottles (and in an effort to reduce paper costs), the company went green. (For details about other green club companies, read this issue's cover story.) Healthworks now recycles bottles, cans and papers, turns off equipment at night and uses green cleaning products. They also changed light bulbs to more energy-efficient models, installed sensor lights in the studios, installed low-flow shower heads and replaced cut flowers with potted plants. They now do much of their marketing by e-mail and put class schedules online instead of on sheets of paper at the front desk.
This club company does much to meet its members' needs. And part of that is listening to and responding to requests and trends. Because Healthworks members know they have a say in their third place, they seem to feel empowered to ask for more, do more and be there more.
So, although the desire to be a person's third place may not seem obtainable, examples of this happening are sprinkled throughout the industry. In this day and age, any extra resources you have to expend to make your club the third place is worth the effort.


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Dan Bull, Dave Brown, Mr Weebl, Brian May & Brian Blessed
Published on May 21, 2013
To find out more and get involved in the campaign visit http://www.teambadger.org - sign the petition too.
Words: Dan Bull (http://youtube.com/douglby)
Music: Dave Brown (http://youtube.com/wwwboyinabandcom)
Source material: Jonti Picking and Brian May (http://youtube.com/mrweebl
This song is a remix of Weebl & May's "Save the Badger Badger Badger" - see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EllYgc...
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New Alabama Governor: "Anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I'm telling you, you're not my brother and you're not my sister"
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Governor Martinez gave her State of the State address yesterday.
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The revised and updated edition, The Crash of 2008 and What It Means, contains four new chapters, in which he looks at the depth and breadth of the credit crash and proposes an updated set of policies to confront the global financial crisis.
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- Michael
- 28-04-09
I would have preferred a print version as Soros seems to use complex words and phrases when simpler ones would do just fine - and I have been in the investment business for 30 years.
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- Bobby Jones
- 28-07-11
Pure Gold
Explains the essence of what caused the global financial crisis and its likely consequences. I'm not sure when this was released, however, had you read this book and listened to commentary by Warren Buffett in say June 2008 you would have fearlessly ventured into the stock market while others were fleeing and might have made a lot of money. Highly technical and containing some philosophical and scientific view points on markets it it is a primer on the financial crisis and is a must read. Again it is not simply written and in some parts assumes a basic knowledge of finance, for example, in one chapter Soros says "CDS's are a convenient way to short bonds" or "going short stocks carries limited upside but unlimited risk on the downside".
That this book has prescribed a new paradigm for financial markets, I am not sure - there are more stringent lending standards for sure and more austerity practiced by all participants however to say that these will prove to be longlasting is a bet I would not want to take.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
- Roy
- 12-04-09
A Different Take on the Crash
I came to this book with a preconcieved notion about who George Soros is and what he is trying to say. I listened to the book for the discipline and to learn something new. This is a well written and wonderfully read book for those who like Soros and for those who distrust him as well. I am glad that I read him for myself and no longer need to rely on the rants of others to inform me concerning his views.
I particularly found his thoughts concerning reflexivity compelling. These sections are worth the price of the book. Any listeners new to the concept will want to back up their MP3 players and listen to those brief definitions and descriptions more than once. However, the entire book is written in such a way that the noneconomist and the non-financial-wiz can easily follow his arguments.
I can't buy into Soros' arguments entirely, but he has won me over as a thinker and writer. One word of warning about this book, economic conditions are changing quickly and the book will be outdated soon.
15 of 19 people found this review helpful
- Mike
- 03-11-12
Understanding the man behind the political money
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
A good read to help understand actions of the Obama administration. He also givesvery direct, and accurate, critique of Bush policies. His disdain for Bush helps explain the money he has spent, through his endowments, to effect the political process. If not clear earlier, he makes his overall goal quite clear near the end of the bood wishing for "a new world order" and that "all will produce to the extent of their ability and receive to the extent of their need". He makes it clear the purpose of his political spending is a socialist one world government.
From the investment side, I have never read a book by a successful trader that I didn't like because theyalways offer some pearls on trading philosopy. This book is no different. He does a good job of defending his reflexivity theory. If you find this idea interesting, I suggest reading "Human Action" by Mises. He does a much better job of explaining this relationship. Soros' explantion of the crash is good, his plans for the future are less well thought out. Mises again deals with the pitfalls of Soros' ideas for different interventions.
Overall, a worthwhile read. It becomes clear that Soros' talent was understanding the world's central banks monitary policy and the implications. He made his forturnes by always being a step ahead of them. That makes him brilliant in central bank monitary policy and investing, his understanding of overall economics is less gifted and mostly dictated by Keynes.
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- Michael
- 07-07-09
Talk about credentials
If there ever were an economic or financial "philosopher" with credentials then George Soros is it. At first I didn't realize that who the author was and then it dawned on me that this was the old guy that Bill O'Reilly claims bought Obama's election and has nefarious plans concerning America since he is foriegn born. At any rate it doesn't matter I was a fish on the hook listening to this audiobook. Even the first part where he explains his falacy and bubble theories and other stuff I was fascinated. I listened two or three times to the first two hours just to digest all of the ideas brought forth. I thought Mr. Soros hypotheses were great, and it opened my mind to some new ideologies like cognitive science and how human interaction should be factored into economic models, and evolutionary economics. Look Mr. Soros is reasonable with his assessments and they are all well founded. Also he is right about how market fundamentalism has dunked our country and the world's head down the toilet bowl and given it a swirly. I would reccomend this audiobook to anyone. Bill O'Reilly is wrong about this guy.
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- Tinh
- 29-06-09
don't expect layman language
technical, not for a high school skill level of reading. I feel that the book is good, but I thought it was layman language based on the book's tittle.
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- Donald
- 11-06-11
Trading in the largest economy
George Soros has written numerous books and regularly makes the news. Put his name in a search engine to get the latest. His experience includes running a hedge fund. He also has donated heavily to the Democratic Party. This book assumes that you are somewhat familiar with financial markets and economics. This book argues against economics being described in physical terms. If you have never heard economics described in physical terms then listen to the last chapter of the Panic of 1907. Unfortunately, both this book and the Panic of 1907 have a narrow view of economics. Listen to "The Making of Modern Economics" to get a much broader view. Also, unfortunately, there is a disconnect between a college education in economics and the financial markets. The book "How I become a QUANT", describes how some economist needed their "on the job" training.
As for trading, a news article on 2/19/10 quoted the author as saying not to buy gold. On 2/19/10, the ticker symbol GLD closed at $109.47. A later article on 5/17/11 says that the author sold $ 800 million in gold in Q1. GLD closed at $144.74 on 5/17/11. Obviously, one sign of being a good trader is the ability to change your mind. A trader of a large position cannot behave the same as a trader of a small position. They have different trading needs. The book Reminiscences of a Stock Operator does a good job describing this difference.
The paper book Anatomy of a Bear does a better job of describing political history associated with bear markets. When FDR took office in March, 1933, most of the price damage to the DJIA had already been done. But the politicians didn't sit on their hands. There were nine new bills targeting finance in the years 1933 to 1935. Taxes climbed from 0.7% of GNP to 4.7% of GNP in 1932 to 5.5% in 1934. Corporation taxes reached 95% in 1943. Highest rate of income tax reaches 90% on incomes of $1 million or more.
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- cristina
- 26-07-18
really interesting and nicely voiced. First time I've used audible and definitely I'll use it again
- Roland
- 23-09-17
Perfect match of Narrator to thought provoking content.
Grover Gardner understands what he is reading. He isn't merely going through the lines he gets the message.
His timing is perfect. It's very digestible.
It had to be performed well because it is loaded with concepts unfamiliar with most readers. Unfamiliar messages are way harder to communicate... an author needs a great narrator.
Soros found such a person in Grover.


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Dr. Bradford Bopp of Midwest Fertility Specialists in the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel said he is not surprised several Indianapolis suburbs have high numbers of twins.
Carmel High School has 17 sets of twins, while the Guinness World Record of 16 sets of twins in one high school is currently held by West Des Moines, Iowa; Park Ridge, Ill., near Chicago; and Westport, Conn., The Indianapolis Star reported.
He said the concentration of twins being born in tony suburban communities was much higher than those born in rural areas: for example, in 2010, the birth rate for mothers ages 35-39 was 55 per 1,000 births in Hamilton County; 48 per 1,000 in Boone County, but the smaller and more rural Morgan County, had a twin birth rate of 18.8 per 1,000 births, while the state of Indiana had a statewide average of 35 per 1,000, The Star reported.
Bopp said the suburban twin trend was a combination of women delaying child birth until their mid-to-late 30s and couples having the money to pay for infertility treatments costing $15,000 per treatment. Older mothers tend to have more twins, Bopp said.


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Reading 3: "Every Cherokee man, woman or child must be in motion..."
For two years after the Treaty of New Echota, John Ross and the Cherokees continued to seek concessions from the federal government, which remained disorganized in its plans for removal. Only the eager settlers with their eyes on the Cherokee lands moved with determination. At the end of December 1837, the government warned Cherokee that the clause in the Treaty of New Echota requiring that they should "remove to their new homes within two years from the ratification of the treaty" would be enforced.¹ In May, President Van Buren sent Gen. Winfield Scott to get the job done. On May 10, 1838, General Scott issued the following proclamation:
Cherokees! The President of the United States has sent me, with a powerful army, to cause you, in obedience to the Treaty of 1835, to join that part of your people who are already established in prosperity, on the other side of the Mississippi. . . . The full moon of May is already on the wane, and before another shall have passed away, every Cherokee man, woman and child . . . must be in motion to join their brethren in the far West.²
Federal troops and state militias began to move the Cherokees into stockades. In spite of warnings to troops to treat them kindly, the roundup proved harrowing. A missionary described what he found at one of the collection camps in June:
The Cherokees are nearly all prisoners. They have been dragged from their houses, and encamped at the forts and military posts, all over the nation. In Georgia, especially, multitudes were allowed no time to take any thing with them except the clothes they had on. Well-furnished houses were left prey to plunderers, who, like hungry wolves, follow in the trail of the captors. These wretches rifle the houses and strip the helpless, unoffending owners of all they have on earth.³
Three groups left in the summer, traveling from present-day Chattanooga by rail, boat, and wagon, primarily on the water route, but as many as 15,000 people still awaited removal. Sanitation was deplorable. Food, medicine, clothing, even coffins for the dead, were in short supply. Water was scarce and often contaminated. Diseases raged through the camps. Many died.
Those travelling over land were prevented from leaving in August due to a summer drought. The first detachments set forth only to find no water in the springs and they returned back to their camps. The remaining Cherokees asked to postpone removal until the fall. The delay was granted, provided they remain in the camps until travel resumed. The Army also granted John Ross's request that the Cherokees manage their own removal. The government provided wagons, horses, and oxen; Ross made arrangements for food and other necessities. In October and November, 12 detachments of 1,000 men, women, children, including more than 100 slaves, set off on an 800 mile-journey overland to the west. Five thousand horses, and 654 wagons, each drawn by 6 horses or mules, went along. Each group was led by a respected Cherokee leader and accompanied by a doctor, and sometimes a missionary. Those riding in the wagons were usually only the sick, the aged, children, and nursing mothers with infants.
The northern route, chosen because of dependable ferries over the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and a well-travelled road between the two rivers, turned out to be the more difficult. Heavy autumn rains and hundreds of wagons on the muddy route made roads nearly impassable; little grazing and game could be found to supplement meager rations. Two-thirds of the Cherokees were trapped between the ice-bound Ohio and Mississippi rivers during January. A traveler from Maine happened upon one of the caravans in Kentucky:
We found the road literally filled with the procession for about three miles in length. The sick and feeble were carried in waggons . . . a great many ride horseback and multitudes go on foot—even aged females, apparently nearly ready to drop into the grave, were traveling with heavy burdens attached to the back—on the sometimes frozen ground, and sometimes muddy streets, with no covering for the feet except what nature had given them.4
A Cherokee survivor later recalled:
Long time we travel on way to new land. People feel bad when they leave Old Nation. Women cry and made sad wails. Children cry and many men cry, and all look sad like when friends die, but they say nothing and just put heads down and keep on go towards West. Many days pass and people die very much.5In 1972, Robert K. Thomas, a professor of anthropology from the University of Chicago and an elder in the Cherokee tribe, told the following story to a few friends:
Let me tell you this. My grandmother was a little girl in Georgia when the soldiers came to her house to take her family away. . . . The soldiers were pushing her family away from their land as fast as they could. She ran back into the house before a soldier could catch her and grabbed her [pet] goose and hid it in her apron. Her parents knew she had the goose and let her keep it. When she had bread, she would dip a little in water and slip it to the goose in her apron. Well, they walked a long time, you know. A long time. Some of my relatives didn't make it. It was a bad winter and it got really cold in Illinois. But my grandmother kept her goose alive. One day they walked down a deep icy gulch and my grandmother could see down below her a long white road. No one wanted to go over the road, but the soldiers made them go, so they headed across. When my grandmother and her parents were in the middle of the road, a great black snake started hissing down the river, roaring toward the Cherokees. The road rose up in front of her in a thunder and came down again, and when it came down all of the people in front of her were gone, including her parents. My grandmother said she didn't remember getting to camp that night, but she was with her aunt and uncle. Out on the white road she had been so terrified, she squeezed her goose hard and suffocated it in her apron, but her aunt and uncle let her keep it until she fell asleep. During the night they took it out of her apron.6
On March 24, 1839, the last detachments arrived in the west. Some of them had left their homeland on September 20, 1838. No one knows exactly how many died during the journey. Missionary doctor Elizur Butler, who accompanied one of the detachments, estimated that nearly one fifth of the Cherokee population died. The trip was especially hard on infants, children, and the elderly. An unknown number of slaves also died on the Trail of Tears. The U.S. government never paid the $5 million promised to the Cherokees in the Treaty of New Echota.
Questions for Reading 3
1. What is the tone of General Scott's message to the Cherokees? Would you have tried to resist the removals after hearing Scott's message?
2. What happened to the Cherokee between May and October of 1838? What was life like for the Cherokee during that period?
3. With little time to plan and prepare, 17,000 Cherokee with their possessions, horses, and wagons moved from their homelands to Oklahoma. This type of mass migration was unprecented in the early 19th century. What sort of arrangements would be needed to prepare for and carry out such a mass movement of people? If you were given a short amount of time to leave your home and move to an unknown place, how would you feel? What would you take with you?
4. What do you think would have been the worst part of the entire removal process?
5. Do you think Robert Thomas's story about his grandmother is based on a real event? What do the students think the white road represented? In oral traditions, the speaker often "telescopes" historical time, collapsing one or more generations. Do you think the woman in Thomas's account was really his grandmother? Is that important? Do you think the story was intended as factual history? If not, what was it intended to record?
Reading No. 3 was compiled from Benjamin Levy, "Rattlesnake Springs" (Bradley County, Tennessee) National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1973; the brochure for the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail (Department of the Interior, National Park Service, n.d.; and John Ehle, Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation, (New York: Doubleday, 1988).
¹ Journal of Cherokee Studies 3.3 (1978), 134-5; cited in Ehle, Trail of Tears, 319.


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The Semiconductor Industry Association has crunched the latest chip sales numbers, and the results paint a picture of an industry in transition. On the one hand, February's semiconductor sales totals were down 6.5 percent from the previous month, with most of the downturn due to regular seasonal factors. Other factors were lower average selling prices and a drop in shipments of microprocessors and DSPs.
But even though February sales were down compared to January, they were still up 4.2 percent versus February of last year. In fact, this 4.2 percent increase is where the most interesting part of the semiconductor sales story lies. A closer look at the SIA data shows that year-to-year semi sales in the Americas were down 8.6 percent, while sales in the Asia-Pacific region were up 10.1 percent (for an average increase of 4.2 percent). Yet again, we see Asia consuming a larger relative share of the global semiconductor pie, which is precisely why Intel is so keen on building a real fab presence in China.
In addition to the SIA's semiconductor sales numbers, Gartner has released a fresh round of rankings for 2006. First up is Gartner's semiconductor manufacturing equipment vendor rankings—this is basically a list of companies supply the equipment that enables semiconductor makers like Intel to design, test, and manufacture chips. I won't bore you with the details of the list, since most readers won't have heard of most of the companies on it, but it's worth noting that overall sales of chipmaking equipment were up 22.6 percent in 2006. This bump in chipmaking equipment means more fab capacity for 2007 and 2008, and more capacity should in turn mean more sales if demand holds up. Some of this increase in chipmaking equipment sales was driven by memory makers, who expect the market's appetite for solid state storage to continue to grow.
The other big Gartner list that came out today was the 2006 rankings for semiconductor sales. As always, Intel topped the list of semiconductor makers, with a market share of 11.6 percent. Memory firms made up much of the rest of the Top 10, with processor makers AMD and Freescale fill the bottom two slots at 2.8 and 2.3 percent market share, respectively.
The biggest story in these sales ranking numbers for 2006 was the rise of AMD. AMD post 86.1 percent revenue growth versus 2005, an increase that vaulted the company into the Top 10. The Gartner numbers agree closely with the iSuppli numbers that we reported earlier, numbers that also had Intel's revenues down 11 percent in 2006 (Gartner shows a 12 percent decline). Intel is on track to turn things around in 2007, so the big question for AMD is how much of their 2006 momentum they can sustain. This is why the company absolutely has to deliver the goods with Barcelona.


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'Survivor' Contestant Caleb Bankston Dead at 26by Maggie Malach | PopCrush
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Caleb Bankston, a contestant on 'Survivor: Blood vs. Water,' passed away at age 26 following a train accident, PEOPLE reports.
According to TMZ, Caleb was a locomotive engineer/conductor for Alabama Warrior Railway in Birmingham and was killed when a train derailed on Tuesday (June 24.)
Caleb and his fiance, Colton Cumbie, participated in 2013's 'Survivor: Blood vs. Water.' Caleb finished the game in ninth place.
PEOPLE reached out to contestants who competed on the reality show.
"Caleb was an amazing man and friend," Aras Baskauskas tells the publication. "One of the sweetest and most sincere humans I've ever come across. I am gutted by his loss. My thoughts and prayers are with his family."
Fellow 'Survivor' alum Sabrina Thompson knew Cumbie from 'Survivor: One World.'
"While playing 'Survivor' with Colton, he would talk about his boyfriend, Caleb, around the clock 24/7," Sabrina tells PEOPLE. "Within seconds of meeting Caleb at the finale and 'Survivor' events, it's no wonder why he raved about him. You were instantly drawn to his big smile, warm spirit and Southern charm. May God rest his soul … gone too soon."


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Apple Looks To Bounce Off One-Year Low
Chris Dieterich reports on key stocks, including Apple and Google, that traders will be watching on Tuesday. Photo: Getty Images.
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Managing Partner, Shaker LaunchHouse
Northeast Ohio should embrace young entrepreneurs, according to Todd Goldstein.
Exhibit A in that argument could be Mr. Goldstein himself.
He and business partner Dar Caldwell are the founders of Shaker LaunchHouse, a business incubator in Shaker Heights where dozens of startup companies work in close proximity.
Though LaunchHouse accepts entrepreneurs of all ages, many on its roster are young, which is OK by Mr. Goldstein. He and Mr. Caldwell long have said they want LaunchHouse to attract young, bright minds who otherwise might leave Northeast Ohio.
"Young people are what's going to make this region successful," he said.
Mr. Goldstein, 29, has spent much of his young life preparing to work in the world of startups. He grew up in the family that founded a Cleveland restaurant called The Theatrical, in addition to other companies. He remembers his grandfather trying to teach him about the stock market when he was 13, helping spark his interest in the business world.
After graduating from Brush High School in Lyndhurst in 2000, Mr. Goldstein dove straight into business courses at Johnson & Wales University, where in three years he earned a bachelor's in financial management.
In subsequent years he worked as operations manager for a call center company and as a business analyst for Franklin & Seidelmann Subspecialty Radiology in Beachwood, which had just raised its first round of venture capital. All the while, Mr. Goldstein was buying and fixing up rental properties.
"From that experience (at Franklin & Seidelmann) and the real estate company, I learned what it took to grow a business," said Mr. Goldstein, who later served as CEO of a local tech-nology startup called Zolio.
It was when Franklin & Seidelmann needed some landscaping done that Mr. Goldstein met Dar Caldwell, who at the time was a partner at a local landscaping architecture firm. When Mr. Goldstein hired the company to help him spruce up one of his properties, they realized they shared a passion for entrepreneurship.
Mr. Caldwell said he knew he found a business partner when he realized that Mr. Goldstein was willing to give his all to start LaunchHouse.
"He definitely loves taking on big challenges," Mr. Caldwell said.