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Violet Oakley Studio
The Violet Oakley Studio located on St. George's Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is noted for being the studio and living quarters of artist Violet Oakley (1874-1961), as well as fellow female artist Edith Emerson, who was also a painter and muralist. Born in New Jersey to an artistic family, Violet Oakley had early success selling illustrations to magazines, including Harper's & Colliers and the Century. Influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites (an English school of painting with broader artistic influences that included John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt and later influenced the author and craftsman William Morris), Violet took her work seriously, and believed she could express her convictions of pacifism and women's rights through her work. The Pre-Raphaelite influence is notable because the 19th century English movement was influenced by the spiritualism found in Medieval Art, which the founders of the movement felt were lost in succeeding epochs. Something of this spiritual idealism found its way into Violet Oakley's art, as she painted biblical scenes during her career. In 1905, Violet Oakley was offered a commission to paint a frieze in the Governor's reception Room in the Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg. Before this commission was completed, Violet Oakley set up her studio at Cogs (later called Cogslea, which she shared with three other female artists in the Mt. Airy neighborhood of Pennsylvania.) In 1911, Ms. Oakley was commissioned to fresco the Senate Chamber and the Supreme Court Room, also in the Capitol Building in Harrisburg. Overall, she painted 43 murals, including 14 in the Reception Room depicting William Penn's creation of the colony of Pennsylvania. Violet Oakley continued painting throughout her life, concentrating mainly on historical subjects, such as her painting of the Constitutional Convention which is in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Violet Oakley Studio was originally part of a farmstead on Creshiem Creek. The barn building itself was built around 1815. In 1905, Ms. Oakley and three other woman artists were urged by Dr. George Woodward, developer of Chestnut Hill, to come to Chestnut Hill to live and work. The barn (also with the house and the carriage house) was entirely rebuilt by the architects, Frank Miles day and Charles Z. Klauder. The studio was called "COGS" for the women, Heniretta Cozens, Violet Oakley, Elizabeth Shippen Green, and Jessie Wilcox Smith. The studio building, a stone barn, maintains its basic barn shed shape with extensions and modifications added in 1905. The building is a double gabled rectangular structure of stucco over stone with a third section having a gable roof perpendicular to the main axis. The main focus of the renovation in 1905 was an enormous studio room 50 feet by 50 feet and 24 feet high at the second story. To accomplish this needed size of the studio, the second floor of the barn was extended and carried on three massive columns. The lower story of the barn was used mainly for storage from 1905-1930. During the 1930's, Violet Oakley and Edith Emerson adapted the lower story for permanent living quarters. Two small bedrooms occupy the short sides of the lower story. A large room, a dining parlor and a kitchen make up the rest of the lower portion. The exterior of the studio was stucco over stone, which created an ivy covered building. The Violet Oakley Studio was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 13, 1977.
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TROY -- If you are upset none of the New York football teams are in Super Bowl 47, or you don't care for either of the teams, or you simply couldn't care less about football at all, then the Charles F. Lucas Confectionery & Wine Bar on Second Street has an alternative. The "Anti-Super Bowl Party" will be held at the wine bar where people can enjoy not only wine, cheese and beer but also a half-time art show. According to a press release, the party will feature metal sculptures made out of found materials and created by metal sculptor Michelle M. Vara, of the Ballard Road Art Studio Gallery in Wilton. On display will be Laissez-fair #344, aptly-nicknamed "Couch Potato," as it is a piece made out of parts from a tiny television. Co-owners Vic Christopher and his wife Heather La Vine had both worked in the sports industry -- they were with the Tri-City Valley Cats until they were fired because of their relationship -- but he said he now realizes sports aren't all that important. "I worked in professional sports for a decade. It took me that long to realize that a game has no direct impact on my life," Christopher said in the release. "Wine and Cheese get me more excited than watching some guy throw a ball around the grass." But the real purpose of the party, at least for La Vine, is to get away from the television screen and interact with human beings. It also helps the bar doesn't have a television in sight. "We spend too much time looking at a screen and not enough time looking at each other," La Vine said in the release. "At the Confectionery we encourage conversation between friends old and new." The event will run from noon till 9 p.m. on Sunday. Andrew Beam may also be reached at 270-1294.
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May primaries to test GOP
The month of May will go a long way toward answering one of the overriding questions of Election 2014: Can the Republican establishment finally tame the tea party and retake the Senate?
A month-long series of primaries, stretching across 10 states from the Deep South to the Pacific Northwest, is the first major electoral clash between the GOP's two wings since 2012. It kicks off Tuesday in North Carolina, where the party establishment has lined up behind state House Speaker Thom Tillis against a tea party-aligned foe, Greg Brannon, and another contender who has galvanized the Christian right, Mark Harris.
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Republicans in Washington have been pushed around by grass-roots activists for two straight elections. The infighting helped produce poor nominees and cost the party control of the Senate, as some tea party-backed candidates couldn't win general elections and other establishment-backed contenders floundered.
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"If you nominate the wrong candidate, as we have been prone to do sometimes, it diminishes your chances in the general election," said Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), whose announced retirement triggered a crowded May 20 primary race for his seat. (He is staying neutral in the fight.) "It makes it more of an uphill battle if you have a candidate who is not appealing across the board."
This year, the national party has shifted tactics. The GOP's Senate campaign committee has aggressively courted critics on the right while other establishment-aligned groups have sought to prop up their preferred candidates. Republican officials have trained candidates of all stripes, even putting them through "campaign schools" to gird them for the stresses of the trail. And national party officials have stood up to outside groups targeting sitting GOP senators, at times suggesting they're more interested in raising money from activists than helping the broader party's cause.
The primaries over the next several weeks will provide the first solid clues whether the approach is working or the GOP is in for more of the same.
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Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who ran the NRSC in 2010 and 2012, said the past two elections "have been a learning experience for all of us." The tea party, he said, was the "wind at our backs in 2010," helping the party pick up seven seats that year, even though it left several potential wins on the table.
"Then we got divisions within the Republican Party that produced candidates who could get nominated but who couldn't get elected in the general election," Cornyn said. "And that's obviously not the goal."
The tea party vs. establishment theme has also defined Republican races in Kentucky and Georgia — two other seats central to the fight for the Senate majority — that will be decided on May 20. GOP leaders also believe they can compete in the liberal-leaning state of Oregon if they nominate Monica Wehby, a neurosurgeon and first-time candidate with a moderate profile, that day.
The Nebraska primary on May 13 will test whether the likes of Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin can push first-time candidate Ben Sasse past former state Treasurer Shane Osborn, though the GOP establishment has largely sat out the race because the seat is virtually certain to stay in Republican hands. That same day, the party establishment is bound to get a win in West Virginia, with Rep. Shelley Moore Capito cruising to the nomination and tea party groups are largely staying out of the contested primary.
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Party leaders tried different tacks the past two elections in response to the tea party's ascendancy.
In 2010, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and GOP leaders hand-picked candidates in states such as Florida, Colorado, Delaware, Nevada and Kentucky. In each of those instances, tea party activists rose up and defeated the candidates backed by the party establishment. Florida and Kentucky, with the elections of Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, respectively, amounted to clear success stories for the party's right wing. But embarrassing losses in the three other states denied the party the Senate majority.
In 2012, the NRSC and party leaders stayed out of primaries altogether. In some cases, they got the candidates they wanted — but the hopefuls went on to lose anyway in North Dakota, Ohio and Montana. But in other cases, candidates backed by the right wing emerged from contested primaries — namely Todd Akin in Missouri and Richard Mourdock in Indiana — went on to make gaffes over abortion and rape, again costing the party a clear shot at capturing the Senate.
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The conclusion: more communication with the candidates.
So in 2014, the NRSC has tried to meet with every candidate running for an open seat or a Democratic seat, and to offer strategic advice for anyone interested and at least 17 "campaign schools" for candidates and staff seeking money from the party committee. Republican candidates flying into Washington have even been greeted by video trackers at airports dispatched by the NRSC to test how they might respond if an opponent were to send an operative bearing a camera to follow their every move.


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Book of Saints – Antony of Padua
(Saint) (June 13) (13th century) A native of Lisbon, who received the name of Ferdinand at Baptism (A.D. 1195). He joined the Order of Canons Regulars at an early age, but soon exchanged it for that of the Franciscans (A.D. 1221). He received the religious habit in the convent of Saint Antony at Coimbra and assumed the name of Antony in honour of the great Hermit Saint of Egypt. His desire for martyrdom took him to Africa, but illness and storm brought him to Italy, where under the guidance of Saint Francis, he began his wonderful career as a preacher and worker of miracles. He died at Padua, A.D. 1231, and was canonized by Pope Gregory IX in the following year. In art he is represented in various ways, but mostly bearing the Child Jesus in his arms.


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So what other media genres share cross-over with our field?
The modern art form deemed the "chick flick" shares key features with tactics used to recruit students into graduate school in chemistry. Namely: (1) hopelessly romantic view of the content; (2) focus on idolizing the celebrities of the subfield (e.g. Tom Hanks, Phil Baran); and (3) careful shielding of the subject from reality of life/lab. And of course, both chick flicks and science place an emphasis on diaries.
In a salute to both, here are some chick flicks in the context of science:*
- How to Lose a Grant in 10 Days
- Unemployed Going on 30
- The Proposal
- Never Been Published
- 27 Postdocs
- What's Reproducibility Got to Do with It
- The Devil Wears PPE
- Sixteen Columns
- My Best Friend's Defense
- What PIs Want
- Save the Last Authorship
- Bridget Jones's Lab Notebook
- When Harry Met Sally at an ACS Regional Meeting
- The Lab Notebook
- Out of Academia
- Sleepless in Grant Season
- The English Postdoc
- Gloves Actually
- How Stella Got Her Glassware Back
- 10 Things I Hate About U...niversities
- Pride & PNAS
- Crazy, Stupid, Reaction Mechanisms
- Peggy Sue Got Funded
- P.S. I Love the Combiflash
- Flashcolumn
* Note: these are in no particular order; the author claims no expertship on relative merits of chick flicks.


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Hello All,
First time poster here, so please forgive any faux pas. I am planning a rather complicated ChIP experiment where I would like to do a sequential ChIP with two different antibodies.
Here's the overall experimental objective (somewhat simplified and streamlined). I have a protein (Protein 1) that binds cellular DNA through it's C-terminal (most of the time) and through it's N-terminal (only when bound to a viral plasmid through it's C-terminal domain). I want to know what sequences it binds to with it's N-terminal domain while it is bound to the viral DNA. There is another protein (Protein 2) that binds to the viral plasmid about 1kb away from where Protein 1 binds. I want to first IP using an antibody against Protein 2 and then IP again using an antibody against Protein 1 and then sequence to see where Protein 1 binds through its N-terminus when it's C-terminus is attached to the viral plasmid. The catch, of course, is that there are a 1000bp of DNA between where Protein 1 and 2 bind on the viral plasmid.
I have outlined the steps as they are in my head below. I am wondering if this will work, or if I am missing something very obvious and it will be a fool's errand.
1. Crosslink cells
2. Sonicate to get fragments of about 3kb and IP with Antibody 1 (I use Protein G Dynabeads)
3. Elute the protein-DNA complex off of the beads
4. Sonicate to get fragments of about 200bp and IP with Antibody 2
5. Elute, reverse the crosslinks and prep for high-throughput sequencing.
Thank you in advance for any help you might be able to provide!
Sequential ChIP with a repeat of the sonication step? (View forum version)
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Depending on how you perform your first elution, you might encounter problems in the second shearing step. It might be worth performing the ChIP-ReChIP and then checking for enrichemnt of the viral sequence the protein is known to bind. Also the quality of the antibodies need to be excellent to maximize your first recovery and efficently grab everything in your second IP................I assume that the two proteins are viral? and thus made in-house?..........you might have to check whether they work in a normal ChIP first...........there are quality commercial antibodies out there for certain viruses (i.e.-herpesviruses) just in case.
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How to Use Internal Functions in R
At times, it can be very helpful to use internal functions in R. Writing your functions in such a way that they need objects in the global environment doesn't really make sense, because you use functions to avoid dependency on objects in the global environment in the first place.
In fact, the whole concept behind R strongly opposes using global variables used in different functions. As a functional programming language, one of the main ideas of R is that the outcome of a function should not be dependent on anything but the values for the arguments of that function. If you give the arguments the same values, you always get the same result.
If you come from other programming languages like Java, this characteristic may strike you as odd, but it has its merits. Sometimes you need to repeat some calculations a few times within a function, but these calculations only make sense inside that function.
Suppose you want to compare the light production of some lamps at half power and full power. The towels you put in front of the window to block the sun out aren't really up to the job, so you also measure how much light is still coming through. You want to subtract the mean of this value from the results in order to correct your measurements.
To calculate the efficiency at 50 percent power, you can use the following function:
calculate.eff <- function(x, y, control){ min.base <- function(z) z - mean(control) min.base(x) / min.base(y) }
Inside the calculate.eff() function, you see another function definition for a min.base() function. Exactly as in the case of other objects, this function is created in the local environment of calculate.eff() and destroyed again when the function is done. You won't find min.base() back in the workspace.
You can use the function as follows:
> half <- c(2.23, 3.23, 1.48) > full <- c(4.85, 4.95, 4.12) > nothing <- c(0.14, 0.18, 0.56, 0.23) > calculate.eff(half, full, nothing) [1] 0.4270093 0.6318887 0.3129473
If you look a bit more closely at the function definition of min.base(), you notice that it uses an object control but doesn't have an argument with that name. How does this work then? When you call the function, the following happens:
The function calculate.eff() creates a new local environment that contains the objects x (with the value of fifty), y (with the value of hundred), control (with the value of nothing), as well as the function min.base().
The function min.base() creates a new local environment within the one of calculate.eff() containing only one object z with the value of x.
min.base() looks for the object control in the environment of calculate.eff() and subtracts the mean of this vector from every number of z. This value is then returned.
The same thing happens again, but this time z gets the value of y.
Both results are divided by another, and the result is passed on to the global environment again.
The local environment is embedded in the environment where the function is defined, not where it's called. Suppose you use addPercent() inside calculate.eff() to format the numbers. The local environment created by addPercent() is not embedded in the one of calculate.eff() but in the global environment, where addPercent() is defined.


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Jayme Dee
Don't let the polka dots, bright red lipstick, and affinity for little puppies fool you.
Jayme Dee's music is as sassy as it is sunny. Whether it's a witty remark or an irresistible hook, the Southern California singer and songwriter has more than a few surprises up her sleeve on her debut for Universal Republic Records. You'll enjoy them though. We promise…
Music has always surrounded Jayme. Growing up in Redondo Beach, her mom worked as a professional vocal coach and violin teacher, while her father was a pastor at a local church. Not only did she have the chance to perform every Sunday in front of a crowd, she also gained classical training on piano—all by middle school mind you. Simultaneously, she fell under the spell of Frank Sinatra, Patsy Cline, Amy Winehouse, John Mayer, and Lilly Allen. However, this story really starts during her freshmen year of high school when she made a crucial discovery while rummaging around the family's garage.
"I found a guitar, and I started dabbling," she recalls. "I never looked back. That's when I started writing songs and making music. The guitar became my best friend."
With her best friend in hand and webcam turned on, she recorded acoustic covers of popular songs by Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Lady Gaga. After uploading them to YouTube, she began to amass some serious numbers. Jayme separated herself from the digital pack by posting original tracks too. To date, her channel has almost 13 million views and 100k subscribers. While she was buzzing online, she enrolled in school at USC for vocal performance.
"I decided it wasn't for me because I wanted to be immersed in the music industry and not reading books about it," she goes on. "I kept writing music though."
Within two months of leaving USC, her original track "Love Whiplash" caught the attention of Universal Republic Records. She showcased for the label and was signed shortly after in early 2011. About the song, she laughs, "I was driving to church, and I wrote the chorus. I actually recorded it with the janky voice memo recorder on my iPhone. I was pissed at a guy. I thought, 'You suck! I'm going to write a song about you.' All of my ideas come to me when I'm driving in the car. I'm going to crash one day trying to press record."
Luckily, she's recording in big studios now. Nevertheless, "Love Whiplash" is emblematic of her spunky and smart approach to pop. She's got a soulful croon that echoes over piano and acoustic guitar, echoing with energetic theatricality. However, she can also belt out vulnerable folk, as evinced by the elegantly ethereal "Rules", her contribution to the chart-dominating soundtrack, The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond.
With a national tour alongside Owl City and her debut for the label on the horizon, Jayme Dee is ready for anything. "This is me," she concludes. "My music is definitely autobiographical. I write about things a 20-year-old girl will go through. I hope it's empowering, and I hope it's upbeat. At the same time, I hope people have fun when they listen to it. Is that too corny or too much to ask?"
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The main reason that i registered in this forum is to learn and communicate with other java programmers. This days I'm working on one assigment that has as purpose to create a Binary Search Tree that read a text files(which contains a String name and a double number) and implements some methods. Unfortunately i'm not very familiar with BST so I'm facing some difficulties. At the moment i want to write a method to search the BST to find and return the largest number. At the moment i'm using this code to do that but unfortunately i receive only the first number of the list and not the actual largest. Here is my method
Can anyone help me or advice me with this method?private double FindMaxElement(TreeNode maxElement) { double max = 0; if(maxElement != null) { if(maxElement.number > max) { max = maxElement.number; FindMaxElement(maxElement.left); FindMaxElement(maxElement.right); } } return max; }


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Woman Says She Was Kicked Out of Brad Paisley Concert for Breastfeeding
A woman who attended a Brad Paisley concert in San Diego on Thursday night, after being asked to leave, is now speculating that she was ejected for breastfeeding in the pit area of the concert.
Megan Christopherson filmed her interaction with a Chula Vista police officer but the video has since been deleted. According to USA Today, the police officer asked her to leave because the child could be "crushed from a potential surge from the crowd or could be impacted from loud noise coming from speakers." Christopherson claims that, no, the ejection was because people around her were uncomfortable with her breastfeeding.
"Where you're at, your child could get crushed,'' the officer says. "We're afraid your child's eardrums are being hurt."
But Christopherson argues in the video that the baby, Gracie, who was asleep, was fine and that she had recently taken the infant to another concert at the same venue and had no problems with security. She also tells the officer that she thinks she's being ejected from the area because other security personnel had allegedly told her to stop breastfeeding because people were complaining.
Christopherson's friends have corroborated her story, claiming that police officers were photographing her breastfeeding. The Chula Vista police department, however, has maintained in a statement that "The Chula Vista Police Department's involvement in the incident was due to the welfare and safety of the infant and not due to a mother's legal right to breastfeed in public."
"It's a country concert," she told ABC 10. "I wasn't at a death metal or a rap concert. It's pretty somber at country concerts."
"I trust my motherly instinct that if my baby's ears hurt, she would cry, and then I would move out," she told NBC.
Thank god she wasn't at a death metal or a rap concert. Christopherson is now lawyering up and is expecting a formal apology from the security company.
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It's the lushest rainforest I've ever seen. If one could say Mother Nature had a life force it would be here, hidden within this vibrant foliage. For me green is the color of life and I think of the exotic creatures found here and I understand why environmentalists are vehemently protecting a forest full of wild animals and their habitats.
To imagine this brilliant life force gone would be painful. There is an ache in my heart picturing the dustlands of a destroyed forest, where nothing can regrow because of how horibly the soil has eroded, stripped of trees. Seeing this century old car buried randomly makes me curious of how the car ended up here; I imagine it's a fabulous tale. But there's no one here to tell that story, only me, and miles of greenery. Here in the womb of Mother Nature, one could disappear.
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Had to get a new system as mine started to rust. Had a aftermarket muffler on it when we bought it used. Had a nice low grunt sound to it. No name listed on it at all. Shop put on what they had ordered in, a OEM fit. The truck went very quiet... Wife wanted something more grunt to it. Put this in, and it sounds great. Very happy with it.


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Windows GDI+ is a class-based API for C/C++ programmers. It enables applications to use graphics and formatted text on both the video display and the printer. Applications based on the Microsoft Win32 API do not access graphics hardware directly. Instead, GDI+ interacts with device drivers on behalf of applications. GDI+ is also supported by Microsoft Win64.
Where applicable
GDI+ functions and classes are not supported for use within a Windows service. Attempting to use these functions and classes from a Windows service may produce unexpected problems, such as diminished service performance and run-time exceptions or errors.
When you use the GDI+ API, you must never allow your application to download arbitrary fonts from untrusted sources. The operating system requires elevated privileges to assure that all installed fonts are trusted.
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The GDI+ C++ class-based interface is designed for use by C/C++ programmers. Familiarity with the Windows graphical user interface and message-driven architecture is required.
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GDI+ can be used in all Windows-based applications. GDI+ was introduced in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. For information about which operating systems are required to use a particular class or method, see the More Information section of the documentation for the class or method. GDI+ is available as a redistributable for earlier operating systems. To download the latest redistributable, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=20993.
If you are redistributing GDI+ to a down-level platform or a platform that does not ship with that version of GDI+ natively, install Gdiplus.dll in your application directory. This puts it in your address space, but you should use the linker's
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It's worth pointing out the spring budget cuts in Ocean City likely ended up saving the town a lot more money last weekend. In a normal year, the Inlet parking lot's Winterfest displays would have been all set up last weekend just in time for the powerful storm, but the Mayor and Council axed that part of the town's annual holiday lights campaign in a cost-cutting move earlier this year. During those budget talks, and it continues to be a point often discussed, there was a concern among downtown businesses remaining open this time of year that sales would dip without the lights. That could be true to a point, and it will be interesting to see if that bears fruit over the next six weeks. Looking beyond those worries, it was reported this week the town saved itself as much as $100,000 in damaged lights displays by not decorating the Inlet this year. Surely, some of the lights would have been taken down in advance of last week's "Low-Ida", but it goes without saying there could have been a lot of destruction. The city got lucky here.
I recently spent more time than I ever would have wanted to in northeast Pennsylvania, specifically Wilkes-Barre.
While there, I had numerous casual conversations about Ocean City. Whenever I travel and am asked where I live, a compelling conversation unfolds regarding tourism. Most people at least know about our beach resort and many have been here often. One discussion with a waiter at a restaurant hit home. This is not news to tourism folks, but there is a value perception about our resort that will take a while to dispel. He said he loves Ocean City and has been visiting here for 40 years. A few years ago, he stopped coming here with his family because it costs about $2,500 for his family to stay in an oceanfront condominium for a week in the summer. He said his friends and family have begun going to points further south instead because he says it's cheaper, a point I disputed, reminding him there's value to be had in Ocean City and that looking at other units and different times of year might be wise.
With the town's advertising agency currently exploring a "brand" to coin for Ocean City, it seems to me it has to be a combination message dealing with value and family. This perception of being overpriced has to be attacked aggressively because it's serious and it's keeping people from coming here, even if it's not the reality today.
Instant messaging, email and social networking have certainly changed the way we communicate these days, and generally in a more convenient way, but occasionally they produce funny results and misunderstandings.
For example, an Ocean Pines resident who studied classical music in college and is an accomplished flautist, recently found the urge to get back into music after leaving it alone for a number of years. She made some inquiries into potential opportunities via the Internet and discovered the Salisbury Symphony was seeking a flautist. She emailed her resume and heard back from the conductor via email that her credentials looked wonderful, but there was some concern about the logistics of her getting to and from her new gig for rehearsals and performances. The Salisbury Symphony representative told the Ocean Pines resident she was more than concerned about her need to commute from Berlin to Salisbury.
The local resident assured the symphony representative the commute from Berlin to Salisbury was an easy one and that she often made the trip back and forth for shopping and appointments. More emails were exchanged and when the discussion turned to the terms of employment, the Ocean Pines resident was somewhat taken aback that the salary was in Euros. She was also surprised that the contact number did not include the Maryland 410 area code and that the numbers weren't sequenced like a typical local phone number. In the end, after several more emails were exchanged, it turns out the Salisbury Symphony seeking a flautist is in Salisbury, England, and the symphony representative was under the impression the Ocean Pines woman intended to commute from Berlin, Germany.


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Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week - No. 1
By Chad Waller, Director of Communications and Sports Information
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Hannah Helker of Oklahoma Baptist has been named the NAIA National Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week, the national office announced Wednesday. Helker, who is the first honoree of the 2012 season, was selected based on her performance from Sept. 3 - 9 and was chosen out of a pool of conference/independent runner of the week selections.
Helker, a sophomore from Edmond, Okla., dominated the competition and helped lead the Lady Bison to a season-opening victory at the NCAA Division II Central Oklahoma Land Run on Sept. 8. Her top finish at 18:06 was more than 58 seconds better than the next competitor. She beat out 66 other runners on the 5K course. The field contained athletes from NAIA and NCAA Division II schools.
Oklahoma Baptist won the event with 36 points in the seven-team field.
For complete results of the Central Oklahoma Land Run, click here.
For the complete NAIA Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week calendar, click here.
Nominees: Darcy Mascotti, Cumberlands (Ky.); Kellie Driscoll, Midway (Ky.); Sarah Williams, Peru State (Neb.); Savanna Flesch, Berea (Ky.); Valinn McReynolds, William Penn (Iowa); Brielle Lund, Tabor (Kan.); Brianna Wardyn, Doane (Neb.); Summer Cano, Southern Oregon ; Natalie McIntyre, Arizona Christian ; Bay Baker, Sterling (Kan.); Hillary Holt, College of Idaho ; Talisa Budder, Haskell (Kan.); Hana Jiraskova, Point Park (Pa.); Alina Dhaseleer, Aquinas (Mich.); Chelsee Lisk, St. Ambrose (Iowa); Chelsea Fullerton, Ottawa (Kan.); Rachel Renken, Friends (Kan.); Katrina England, Westminster (Utah); Rhianna Grossman, Carroll (Mont.); Porsha Grady, Missouri Baptist ; Ellie Staker, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Zahri Jackson, Xavier (La.); Sandy Gebhart, Viterbo (Wis.); Dana Miller, Waldorf (Iowa); Paola Gonzalez , Point (Ga.); Krista Wood, Huntington (Ind.); Kearstin McDaniel, Indiana East ; Kayla Stricker, William Carey (Miss.); Julia Montgomery, Columbia (Mo.); Stacey Baron, Davenport (Mich.); Jasmine Nielson, Grand View (Iowa); Ashley Shares, Saint Xavier (Ill.); Bianca Kubicki, Madonna (Mich.); Trisha Nelson, Bethel (Ind.); Abby Jahn, Illinois Tech ; Lauren Nygren , Webber International (Fla.); Allie Antrim, Oklahoma Wesleyan ; Lindsey McDonald, Park (Mo.); Katrina Nolan, Oklahoma City ; Rachel Gonzalez, Missouri Valley ; Kim Miller, Asbury (Ky.); Melissa Carder, South Carolina Beaufort ; Monika Kalicinska, St. Gregory's (Okla.); Brittni Kent, Science & Arts (Okla.); Gladys Miranda, Lubbock Christian (Texas).
2012 NAIA Women's Cross Country Runners of the Week
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UC Santa Barbara
2011 Summer
Brett played for the Santa Barbara Foresters as the team's starting centerfielder and leadoff hitter ... His team won the National Baseball Conference World Series in Wichita Kansas.
Community College
As a sophomore, Brett played at Saddleback College for Jack Hodges, where he played outfield for the Gauchos ... He was voted 1st Team All Conference, batting .421 with one homerun, eight triples, 47 runs, 20 RBI, and a SLG percentage of .605 ... He was a named a Scholar Baller Athlete, and also set the single season record for triples in a season with eight.
High School
Played at Rancho Alamitos High School for Greg Pines, where he played outfield and pitched for four years on varsity for the Vaqueros ... His Senior year he was voted Garden Grove League MVP, he batted .515 with four homeruns, 21 RBI, 31 runs, and a SLG percentage of .835 ... He also pitched 70 innings with 78 strikeouts and an ERA of 2.00 ... He set a school record with 50 hits and a .515 average in a season ... He also played point guard on the basketball team for the Vaqueros ... He was named the Senior Male Athlete of the Year his senior year.
Brett James Vertigan was born on August 21, 1990 in Buena Park, California to his parents Gerald and Shelly ... Majoring in sociology ... He plans on playing professional baseball, or being involved in the game in any way possible ... He roots for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Lakers, Kings , and the NFL's Eagles ... His most memorable moment was being named Garden Grove League MVP in 2008 ... His favorite movies are Ace Ventura, I am Legend, and Apocalypto ... His favorite musicians are Eminem and Atmosphere ... His hobbies are playing basketball with his friends and just hanging out with them ... His favorite athletes are Skip, Jacoby Ellsbury, and Matt Kemp ... He was also recruited by Cal State Fullerton and USC...


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Sour Cream Biscuits Recipes
Homemade Biscuits with Sour Cream, Chives and Parmesan
Sunny and I woke up very early this morning to prepare a festive brunch for the whole family. We made some fresh juices, smoothies, crêpes, hashbrowns and sour cream biscuits. Making biscuits is a little messy but so worth it. Our family is very fond of buttermilk biscuits, but sour cream biscuits are even more decadent and delicious. The sour cream imparts a tangy flavor and richness that is hard to beat. We flavored the biscuits with parmesan cheese and garlic chives from the garden.
I don't know if I've mentioned it, but my Aunt Elise is visiting us from Vietnam. She's never had biscuits before, and so she looked at the little rounds of bread with curiosity. After she took her first bite, she was absolutely hooked. Biscuits truly are universal in their appeal.
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Please Read Chapter 30 here..
Chapter 31: Almost Peaceful Endings
Nina was for the most part, contented. She happily sat beside John while his family enjoyed the dinner Nina and Rianne had cooked. They sat around John's massive rectangular table in the open concept dining room where the atmosphere was peaceful and laid back.
There was laughter and gratefulness obvious in the eyes of everyone present. Topics flowed from John's sudden return on the day of his funeral, to explaining the situation to all John's numerous friends and relatives who had been planning to attend the funeral, which had been called off.
"Oh, well. Will tell them something," Edith remarked."It's not unheard of to have someone who's missing, come home alive. I have to say, John's timing was pretty perfect." Edith and everyone laughed, imagining how certain quirky relatives would take the news.
Jasper and Jordan filled John in on what had been happening with Mergers and Robert told Jordan about his latest challenges as a professor. Robert was noticeably more animated than Nina had seen him in months.
Edith couldn't stop the tears from leaking out of her eyes."We should take a cruise vacation," she remarked. " All of us and Rianne, Nina, and that girl you're seeing Jordan. It would so much fun and be a wonderful way to celebrate John's new life. Our lives free of curses."
There was silence around the table as everyone smiled at Edith. Nina could tell no one was much into the idea but she doubted anyone had much choice.
"That sounds nice Edith," Nina said politely, "I've never been on a cruise before. We're you thinking about somewhere hot like the Caribbean?"
"Oh, that would be perfect. It's so relaxing there and Sam and Eric would have so much fun. There's so much for kids to do there." Jasper still had a fake smile on his face and when Edith looked at him for approval he nodded, but nothing else.
"I think boys, your mother has the right idea. I'll look into booking a Carribean Cruise and be in touch soon. We should do that cruise before the Christmas Season." Robert remarked, giving finality to the idea.
Nina gazed up and John feeling trapped, he patted her hand. "It will be fine," he whispered to her.
"I know," Nina said. "It's only I was hoping to go somewhere hot with you. Just the two of us."
John considered Nina's words glancing at his excited Mom before whispering back in Nina's ear: "I don't think we have much of a choice concerning the family cruise.You're in the family so you're stuck like the rest of us. But I think we can very much take our own vacation too. A tour of Italy?" John suggested, tucking a piece of white blond hair behind Nina's ear.
Nina noticed how Rianne and Jasper never met each other's eyes as they small talked beside her and encouraged John's nephews to eat their food.
John on the other hand, kept his hand on Nina's back almost the entire time they were eating, smiling at her warmly and kissing her cheek when she didn't expect it.
She glanced at Jordan. He appeared the exact opposite of John's healthy complexion. Jordan appeared wan and sickly. She noticed dark shadows underneath his eyes. Nina also realized Jordan hadn't brought his girlfriend Carissa, he had been seeing her for as long as Jasper had been seeing Rianne.
"Where's your girl Carissa?" John asked Jordan. Nina smiled minutely, her and John often thought a like.
"Oh, I broke it off about a month ago. There was too much going on at work and with you missing." Jordan's tone was curt, almost rude.
"You haven't been able to get the ring off?" Nina asked Jordan who scowled at his left hand.
"Doesn't matter what I or anyone else tries, we can't get the ring off. I had a couple of jewelers try to cut the ring but it doesn't work. I thought the ring was merely silver but I think it must have some kind of magic spell on it because it's impossible to remove."
Nina knew that night in the Sirene had been difficult for Jordan to come to terms with. She hadn't said anything to him about Talise being alive and she knew John had kept that part secret from his family.
"I wonder if Talise's soul is really underneath that emerald she placed in the ring?" John said aloud.
Jordan glared at John darkly."It's a regular emerald. Talise had no soul because mermaids don't have souls, even if she was a sea witch."
Nina tried to tread lightly. "In the original The Little Mermaid, mermaids don't have souls but supernatural beings in Adare as we have seen with Talise, are significantly different than how fairy tales portray them."
"I saw Talise take out her soul in a big shiny orb and place it on your finger in the ring. I'm absolutely sure her souls in there, Jordan. I know you don't want to believe it, but it's true." Nina said cautiously.
Jordan frowned at Nina." Whatever. It's not as if Talise's soul has a body.The Sirene swallowed her supernatural corpse, that magic I do believe in."
Nina gazed up at John who was staring at the beer he held in his hand. John's sapphire eyes met Nina's eyes.
She leaned up to whisper in John's ear: "You have to tell him today about her, the sooner the better." John nodded at Nina stroking her cheek with back of his hand. Nina caught John's hand and held it to her cheek.
When dinner was over, Edith insisted on clearing the table since Rianne and Nina had cooked. Clean-up wouldn't be difficult as most dishes could go in the dish washer or be left to soak until tomorrow when Nina and John could get to them.
Jordan was staring at Nina and she felt out of sorts because his dark gaze was angry and festering."What is it?" Nina asked him.
"What were you and John whispering about?"
"Just stuff. Love stuff," Nina lied smiling at Jordan convincingly.
"I have to see what your Mom's up to in the kitchen." She said rising from her chair at the supper table." I don't want her to spend her time here cleaning. She should be enjoying herself as should you," Nina remarked regarding Jordan pointedly.
He gave Nina a tight smile and nodded. She gazed at John encouragingly as she left him alone at the table with Jordan. John's dining room , kitchen, and livingroom were open concept, so Nina thought she might be able to hear bits of John's conversation with Jordan.
"Jordan we need to talk. There's more about Talise I haven't told you." John said soberly. Nina heard Jordan swear and John gave her a worried glance as he came into the kitchen briefly, to grab a couple of beers chilling in the freezer.
John opened up both beers and placed one in front of Jordan at the dining table. He sat in a chair next to Jordan and turned to face him. John's sapphire eyes bored into his brother's dark brown eyes and he started talking too quietly for Nina to hear. She knew John was delivering Norman's message about Talise as gently as possible.
Twenty-minutes later, Nina was having wine with Rianne and Edith leaning against the kitchen island. They were all laughing about something Rianne had said when Jordan strode angrily through the kitchen nearly knocking Rianne and Nina over.
Jordan appeared bitter. He shoved Nina out of his way trying to escape out the front door.
"Hey, watch where you're going Jordan. You almost knocked Nina over." John said sharply.
Jordan glared daggers at John and Nina.
"I mean it Jordan. Leave Nina out of this, don't even look at her that way ever again. She's my girl, show her some respect." John warned.
Jordan turned around and stared at John enraged: " You bastard. Talise was your problem and she almost killed you. You couldn't get rid of her and know she's my issue suddenly, because some guy named Norman said so? It's your fault and Nina's fault, I have to deal with Talise. I want nothing to do with Talise and with either of you. I despise that I have no choice where Talise is concerned." Jordan shouted, slamming the front door on his way out of the house.
The front door was slammed with such force, the wine glasses on the kitchen island skittered. Robert arose carefully, from the floor where he was playing with his grandsons.
"John, he doesn't mean it. He's been a hurt, angry, and bitter man since he thought Talise killed you. The thought of dealing with Talise himself, is understandably troubling for him since he believes he already stabbed her through the heart with the dagger." Robert said reasonably.
Nina peered at John. "Your Dad knows?"
"Yes," John said turning away from his Dad,"Mom and Jasper don't know though. Did you tell Rianne?"
"Yeah, I'm sorry I shouldn't have." Nina said quietly.
"I knew you would," John said with a smirk," But Rianne's not going to tell Jasper right?"
"They're not getting along right now. She doesn't tell Jasper what I tell her in privacy. Not at this point anyways." Nina whispered back to John.
She stroked his stubble with her hand running her hand through his long, slightly curling dark hair.
"You need a haircut John," Nina said smiling and raising her voice to include the rest of John's family who had gathered in the living room.
"He does, doesn't he?" Edith said and the conversation continued to flow, despite Jordan's abrupt departure. It was almost 9:30 pm when everyone else went home.
Sam and Eric were grumpy and needed to be put to bed so Jasper and Rianne left. Nina noticed standing at the front door, Rianne went home in her own car. She was going to stay in her condo tonight but pack a suitcase and stay at John and Nina's house starting the next day.
John's parents made there goodbye's as well, smiling contentedly at both John and Nina and hugging them, before driving home.
Later, Nina lay beside John in their bed. They had made love but were too tired to move after a crazy day. John promised to make it up to her the next day. Nina fell asleep for a couple of hours, but kept waking-up.
Beside her John stirred."So, what now?" John asked Nina groggily, in the dark of their bedroom. She was snuggled in close to John in bed.
"I don't know. I can't stop thinking about everything that's happened today. My mind doesn't want to shut itself off."
"Mine neither," John said his voice gravelly from sleep."I wonder if things are going to be difficult again or if we'll actually be able to have a normal life? I know what Norman said but I'm helping Jordan. I know Talise best, after all."
"Jordan's a big boy John. Maybe, you have to let him deal with it as best as he can. I'm not saying don't help, all I'm saying is let him decide. As a youngest brother, I'm sure he often felt he didn't get to make the choices he wanted."
John grunted. "I'm not likely to let him deal with Talise alone. As if she'll ever be safe to be with magic or no magic. She's a terrible person/mermaid whatever she is now."
"For cursing you and for putting us and your family through all she did, I absolutely agree. But if Norman says she'll be Jordan's girl, like I'm yours, I'm wondering if Talise has had to significantly change."
"In the end of that night, she did do the right thing. She didn't go through with her evil plan. She broke your curse and let Jordan kill her. I'm not her biggest fan but we might have to give her a chance because of Norman. If she's out their in the Sirene that is . . ." Nina whispered.
John laughed and turned over to gaze at Nina and stroke the dip of her naked waist." You always see the best in everything, in every situation. I'm so lucky to have you Nina. I'm in love with you. Let's begin our real normal life now."
Nina nodded leaning on her arm stroking John's well defined bicep and then his face. "I'm in love with you too. Let's start our new life now."
Though they were both worn out, Nina and John found hidden reserves of energy as skin slid against heated skin and lips met with passion and a hum of unending connection. Hen they were blissfully content, Nina smiled softly, tranquility overcoming every ounce of worry she felt.
Even in sleep, Nina's hand remained on John's cooling skin, touching his chest and covering his heart.
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Professor Farnsworth's son/clone Cubert and Hermes' son Dean are sent off to DOOP space cadet camp on Mars along with Leela and Fry as camp counselors, but the camp is a front for President Nixon's far more devious plan. Meanwhile, Bender takes the opportunity to reconnect with his ol' fraternity brothers at Robot House and is in for a surprise of his own.
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David has been working very hard recently on improving LHC and the nobench benchmark suite, in order to actively benchmark LHC against several other haskell compilers: GHC, JHC and UHC.
I figured I'd pop in and announce the benchmarks now that the latest HEAD version of LHC can compile many of them and we can get some meaningful numbers. You can see the results here. Note there are two columns for JHC: one using john's new garbage collector (via `-fjgc`) and one without, because naturally it tends to affect performance characteristics quite a bit. Some of the numbers are quite interesting: in particular, JHC is nearly 400x faster(!) than GHC on the atom benchmark, and UHC dominates the calendar benchmark currently (we haven't investigated why GHC isn't winning here.) There are also some interesting variations in JHC, where the garbage collector wins in some cases, loses in others, but makes the difference in some between actually running and running out of memory (as you would expect.)
Perhaps somewhat regrettably, LHC loses in every benchmark. But we're only just beginning to implement real optimizations now that things are somewhat stabilized and the interface isn't arcane - prior to this we had very few optimizations outside of dead code elimination, simplification and a bit of inlining. David's begun implementing some more exotic optimizations recently, so it'll be interesting to see the results soon.
Now we'll be able to more actively see the progress of optimizing haskell compilers. Should be fun!
Sunday, July 25, 2010
The Great Haskell Compiler shootout
Posted by Austin Seipp at 5:09 PM
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Is there some place we can grab this new and improved nobench suite from? Any improvements to benchmark suites for Haskell would be great!ReplyDelete
When I implemented SAT for GHC atom sped up by a factor of about 100ReplyDelete
because the key bottleneck is a function like this:
f x y z = e : f x y z
Once this is SATed it stops allocating O(n in length of list demanded)
to O(1). This is a rather large saving!
darcs get http://code.haskell.org/~lemmih/lhc-bench/
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The official Neon Genesis Evangelion site has uploaded pictures of the debut of Evangelion and Run'a Entertainment official racing team, "Evangelion RT-01 apr Corolla" team in the Super GT300-class grand touring championship series on Saturday.
The team's Toyota Axio race car has been given the look of the Evangelion EVA-01 unit and also the uniforms of drivers Koki Saga and Kosuke Matsuura were patterned after the plug suit of Shinji Ikari. The race queen models Noa Mizutani and Yuuna Chiba wore outfits loosely inspired by the characters Rei and Asuka.
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2010: Won both the NEC Goalie of the Year and NEC Defensive Player of the Year awards, becoming first player in seven-year history of the awards to win both...Faced the most shots (349) and made the most saves (163) of any keeper in the conference...Averaged a league-best 9.59 saves per game...Earned the shutout in three of Sacred Heart's four victories on the season, blanking Holy Cross, Siena, and Robert Morris, and making 13 tough saves in a memorable 2-1 overtime win against Davidson...Saved twenty more shots and averaged 1.18 more saves per game than her next nearest competitor, and finished second on the league with a .769 saves percentage...In goal for all 1151:06 minutes of SHU's season...Named to 2010 Gladiator by SGI/NHHCA National Academic Squad (3.30 GPA or better) for fourth straight year.
2009: Started all 19 games and played all 1351:21 in the cage for SHU...Finished second in the Northeast Conference with 177 saves...Held a .738 save percentage and 4.20 goals against average...Stopped a season-high 22 shots against Rider (10/4)...Recorded 10 or more saves in eight games.
2008: Made one start and appeared in five total games as the backup goalkeeper...Registered 17 saves for the season.
2007:: Served as back-up goaltender.
High School: Played four years of field hockey and softball at Norwalk High School...Served as captain of field hockey team senior year...Named to All-Area, All-FCIAC, and All-State teams in 2005 and 2006...Selected Connecticut Post All-Star in 2005 and 2006..2006 All-FCIAC and All-State Scholar Athlete...Served as captain of softball team senior year...Member of National Honor Society.
Personal: Kimberly Ann Stow. Born: 10/25/89. Parents: Charles and Edna. Sister: Melanie. Major: Psychology/Elementary Education. Hobbies: Scrapbooking, boating, swimming. Favorite Teams: New York Mets, New England Patriots. Favorite athlete: David Wright. Favorite Movie: It Takes Two. Favorite TV Show: Law and Order Favorite Food: Pizza with salad on top.


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ALLEN PARK — Ezekiel "Ziggy" Ansah didn't come out of nowhere, it just seems like it.
Detroit Lions coach Jim Schwartz said he first learned of Ansah the week before the Senior Bowl in January.
Ansah, a 6-foot-5 defensive end, was the Lions pick at No. 5 overall in the NFL draft on Thursday night.
A native of Ghana, Ansah has not played much football. Thirty-one games exactly. That's over the last three seasons at BYU. He has nine starts, all in 2012 when he had 4.5 sacks and 62 tackles.
Ansah, on a conference call Thursday night, said he never saw a football game until he arrived at BYU in 2008 on an academic scholarship. His sports idol was LeBron James. Ansah tried and failed to make the BYU basketball team. Friends encouraged him to try out for football. He walked on at BYU in 2010.
He said the journey from Ghana to BYU to the NFL has been "a humbling experience.''
When it comes to football, raw is a word that best describes him. That does not scare the Lions. They coached him at the Senior Bowl. Without that week of getting to know Ansah, the pick might not have been made.
"If you looked at it from a book standpoint you would have to say that (he's a project). When you watch film and put your hands on him for a week … We drafted him to be on the field, we didn't draft him as a project,'' Schwartz said. "We saw everything we needed. … He's inexperienced, but he's very instinctive, he has the skill sets we're looking for.''
Three offensive tackles — Eric Fisher (No. 1 to Chiefs), Luke Joeckel (No. 2 to Jaguars) and Lane Johnson (No. 4 to Eagles) — were gone before the Lions picked.
General manager Martin Mayhew offered no specifics on whether he tried to move up to get one of those tackles, instead saying he's always looking for opportunities. Other options at No. 5 for the Lions would have been cornerback Dee Milliner (Alabama) and offensive guards Jonathan Cooper and Chance Warmack.
Know this, the Lions do not see Ansah as a consolation prize.
"I talked to his former (BYU) coach Bronco Mendenhall today. He spoke very highly of him,'' Mayhew said. "He talked about when he came, he didn't even know how to put his equipment on and how far he's come.
"The one thing he talked about with Ziggy was how much he loves the game, how much he loves to learn about the game, how much passion he has to learn about it,'' Mayhew added. "We've got the right coaches here to teach him about it.''
With the pick, the Lions filled one of their biggest needs. Cliff Avril and Kyle Vanden Bosch, who started the last three seasons at defensive end, are both gone. Avril signed as a free agent with the Seattle Seahawks and Vanden Bosch was released.
The Lions did sign free agent defensive end Jason Jones who played for Schwartz at the Tennessee Titans. And Willie Young, a seventh-round pick in 2010, will return.
"This was a time when the grade matched up with the need and it worked out great for us,'' Mayhew said.
BYU used Ansah in a variety of roles.
"When we gave him the opportunity, the way that we play (wide nine) he had 1.5 (sacks) and another big hit and a tackle for loss in the Senior Bowl. We can't be worried about how he was used at BYU,'' Schwartz said. "… We think he's a very good fit for us. He can play right defensive end, he can play left defensive end, we can move him around a little bit, he has that kind of skill set.''
Schwartz also said, "We do think he has more upside than he's shown.''
Ansah did not make a pre-draft visit to Detroit and doesn't know much about the city.
He will make his first visit on Friday when he's introduced as the newest member of the Lions organization.
The NFL draft continues at 6:30 p.m. Friday with rounds two and three, and wraps up starting at noon Saturday with rounds four through seven. The Lions have a pick in each round with two picks in the seventh round.
(Paula Pasche covers the Lions. Follow her on Twitter @PaulaPasche. Read her Lions Lowdown blog at oplions.blogspot.com.)


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Over the years the Forest City Velodrome has produced many talented young athletes who have advanced their cycling careers internationally. Resources for these young athletes have been extremely tight in recent years, and for this reason the FCV has begun a fundraising drive for local 16 year old racer, Will Simonds.
Will needs your help.... He has been nominated for Team Ontario this summer and has earned a spot on the Canadian team for the 2012 Junior World Track Championships in New Zealand in August. To attend all of the competitions over the next 3 months, costs are estimated to be $8,500.00. As a Junior, all the projects are self-funded - there is no assistance from the CCA (unfortunately).
These are important steps in Will's ultimate dream to represent Canada at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
Ideally we would like to come up with 50% of the funds needed for Will to pursue his dreams. The FCV is planning a special night of racing (September 29th) for Businesses and Individuals who help raise funds for Will over the coming few months.
Donors will recieve FREE admission to racing at the FCV on Saturday September 29th and each donor will recieve a T-Shirt and a personalized thank you card for "Making Dreams Happen".
Please make donations payable to the Forest City Velodrome who will track donors and collect the funds on behalf of Will. Cheques can be mailed to Will Simonds, c/o FCV, 65 Karen Walk, Waterloo Ontario . N2L-5X1.
To follow Will Simonds during the 2012 race season visit his blog
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Part VIII - Know God's Word
Know God's Word
What is the Bible?
- Read 2 Timothy 3:16-17. Who inspired the Bible?
- In verse 17, what is the result of a person trained in the scriptures?
- They will be C _____________ and
E ______________ for every good work.
- They will be C _____________ and
- Read 2 Peter 2:21, how did we come to have God's Word?
Why should we read the Bible?
- According to 1 Peter 2:2-3, what causes us to grow spiritually?
- Read Psalm 19:7-11. What are some results of the Word of God in our lives?
- C ____________ the soul (v 7)
- Makes W ____________ the S ___________ (v7)
- Give J _____________ to the heart (v8)
- Gives L ____________ to the eyes (v8)
- They W ___________ God's servant (v11)
- They result in G ___________ R _____________ (v11)
- C ____________ the soul (v 7)
- According to John 8:31-32, what will happen when we
continue in His word?
- Read 2 Timothy 3:15. What do the sacred scriptures give?
- What does this wisdom do?
How does the Bible help us in our battle against sin?
- There are times when sin is deeply rooted in our hearts. According to Hebrews 4:12, what does the Word of God help us to do?
- According to Ephesians 5:26, how are we sanctified and cleansed?
- The Bible says that when we are in Christ, we are a new creation. According to Colossians 3:10, what is happening to a man who is new in Christ?
- He is being R _________________ in
- He is being R _________________ in
- In Colossians 3:10, who are we being renewed to be like?
- To the I_____________________ of Christ.
- To the I_____________________ of Christ.
- Read Psalm 119:105. How does the Word of God guide us?
How do we learn God's Word?
- Read 2 Timothy 2:15, how should our efforts be to accurately know and use the Word of God?
- What does Psalm 1:2 say a righteous man does?
- One of the great ways to know God's Word is to memorize God's word. According to Psalm 119:11, why should we memorize scripture?
Part VII - Seek God
Overcoming Sin – Part 7
The Bible frequently urges us to seek God for help with our sins.
- Read Matthew 6:33, what should every believer be seeking after?
- His K __________________.
- His R __________________.
- His K __________________.
- Who is Jesus talking about in Matthew 5:6?
- A person who H ____________ and T ___________ for righteousness.
- What does Jesus promise will happen when they hunger and seek after righteousness?
- A person who H ____________ and T ___________ for righteousness.
Why do we seek God for righteousness?
- Read Isaiah 45:24, where is the only source of righteousness and strength?
God is the only source of righteousness and He will give His righteousness to those who seek Him.
- Read Philippians 4:19, what is God able to give us?
- Read 2 Peter 1:3, what has God's divine power given us?
- All things that pertain to L _________________ and G
- All things that pertain to L _________________ and G
- Read Psalm 19:12-14. What does the author ask God to do?
- C ______________ him from secret faults.
- Keep him from P ___________________ S _________.
- That his sins would not have D _________________ over him.
- C ______________ him from secret faults.
- According to Psalm 19:12-14, what will be the result of this cleaning from God?
- Innocent of G ____________ T ___________________.
- Hosea 14:1 is a call for God's people to return to Him. What does the prophet Hosea tell the people to do?
- Pray to God and ask God to "take away all
- Pray to God and ask God to "take away all
- Read Psalm 51:10-12, what are some things that King David asked God to do to purify him?
We must seek God because He is able to purify our life.
- According to Genesis 20:6, who kept Abimelech from sinning?
- 1 John 5:16, what will God do when we ask Him to strengthen a sinning brother?
- G ____________ him L ____________.
- G ____________ him L ____________.
- What did Paul pray for the Philippians in 1:9-11?
- What did Paul pray for the Thessalonian believers in 1 Thessalonians 5:23?
Part VI - Get Rid of Pride
Overcoming Sin – Part 6
The Problem
The importance of rooting out pride from our lives cannot be overstated. Pride is one of the biggest reasons people struggle with sins in their Christian walk.
1. Read Proverbs 16:5, who does this verse say is an abomination to the Lord?
2. According to Proverbs 16:18, what experience in a person's life follows pride?
3. According to 1 John 2:16, where does pride come from?
The ResultA prideful person is anyone who is focused upon themselves.
The reason that pride is so devastating is found in James 4:6. Read James 4:6...
4. What is God's stance towards those who are proud?
5. According to James 4:6, what does God do for the humble?
6. According to Isaiah 23:9, what will God do with the prideful?
7. If we are hoping to overcome sin, but are prideful, what kind of help can we expect to receive from God?
8. According to Luke 1:51, what does God do with those who were proud in their hearts?
9. If we do not receive God's help when we are prideful, what likelihood will we be able to overcome the sin in our lives?
Therefore, when we have pride in our hearts, we no longer have the gracious strength of God working in us and suddenly our ability to overcome sin returns to simply being energy from the world, Satan, or our flesh (Eph 2:2).
How can we know if we have pride in our lives?
All people have pride in their lives. The question not "if" but "where"? By removing pride from our lives, we will enable ourselves to draw upon the Lord's strength. Read the following lists of pride and mark any areas of your life*:
1. Complaining against or passing judgment of God (Numbers 14:1-4, 9, 11)
2. Wanting God to operate the way you think He should (Romans 9:20)
3. Boasting or Arrogance (1 Samuel 2:3)
4. A lack of gratitude (2 Chronicles 32:25)
5. Anger (Proverbs 28:25; Matthew 20:1-16)
6. Drinking (or drugs) (Habakkuk 2:4-5)
7. Forsaking one's responsibilities (Habakkuk 2:5)
8. Selfish, se (2 Timothy 3:2)
9. Quick to fight or quarrel (Galatians 5:20)
10. Envy or covetousness (Galatians 5:20)
11. Seeing yourself as better than others (Luke 36-50)
12. Having an inflated view of your importance, gifts and abilities (Acts 12:21-23)
13. Being focused on the lack of your gifts and abilities (1 Corinthians 12:14-25)
14. Perfectionism (Matthew 23:24-28)
15. Talking too much (Proverbs 10:10)
16. Talking too much about yourself (Proverbs 27:2; Galatians 6:3)
17. Seeking independence or control (1 Corinthians 1:10-13; Ephesians 5:21)
18. Being consumed with what others think (Galatians 1:10)
19. Being devastated or angered by criticism (Proverbs 13:1)
20. Being unteachable (Proverbs 10:20; John 9:13-34)
21. Being sarcastic, hurtful, or degrading (Proverbs 12:18, 24)
22. A lack of service (Galatians 5:13; Ephesians 2:10)
23. A lack of compassion (Matthew 5:7, 18:23-35)
24. Being defensive or blame-shifting (Genesis 3:12-13; Proverbs 12:1)
25. A lack of admitting when you are wrong (Proverbs 10:17)
26. A lack of asking forgiveness (Matthew 5:23-24)
27. A lack of biblical prayer (Luke 18:10-14)
28. Resisting authority or being disrespectful (1 Peter 2:13-17)
29. Voicing preferences or opinions when not asked (Philippians 2:1-4)
30. Minimizing your own sin and shortcomings (Matthew 7:3-5)
31. Maximizing others' sin and shortcomings (Matthew 7:3-5; Luke 18:9-14)
32. Being impatient or irritable with others (Ephesians 4:21-32)
33. Being jealous or envious (1 Corinthians 13:4)
34. Using others (Matthew 7:12; Philippians 2:3-4)
35. Being deceitful by covering up sins, faults and mistakes (Proverbs 11:3; 28:13)
36. Using attention-getting tactics (1 Peter 3:3, 4)
37. Not having close relationships (Proverbs 18:1-2; Hebrews 10:24-25)
* Excerpted and modified from "From Pride to Humility" by Stuart Scott
How do we remove pride from our lives?
10. According to Romans 12:3, how should we view ourselves? What does that mean?
11. According to Romans 12:16, how should we view ourselves? What does that mean?
Part V - Truly Repent
Overcoming Sin – Part 5
What is repentance?
True repentance recognizes we have disobeyed and angered the Lord because of our sins. And since we love Him, we hate the sins in our own lives and stop doing those things that displease God.
1. According to Psalm 41:4, when we sin, who are we sinning against?
Repenting means seeing our sins as God sees them. Then, in our hatred of our sins, we seek to stop doing them.
2. What does the Lord tell us in Luke 13:3 is the reason why we must repent?
3. But not all "repentance" is true repentance. Read Exodus 10:16-17. Describe the reason why Pharaoh seemingly repented?
True repentance must come from God. Simply having sadness about how our behavior damages us is not true repentance.
4. In Isaiah 1:16-17, what are the two sides of true repentance?
C _______________ to do E ______________.
L _______________ to do G ______________.
How do we repent?
We don't become perfect overnight or by will-power, but we do confess and repent of the sins that God brings to our attention.
5. According to 2 Timothy 2:25, where does true repentance come from?
6. According to 2 Timothy 2:26, what happens to those who truly repent?
7. Read 2 Corinthians 7:9-11 for an example of repentance that has been given by God. In verse 11, godly sorrow responds with:
D ________________ b. C ________________ (that is, removing the sin)
c. I _________________ d. F _____________
e. V ________________ D _____________
g. Z ____________
What does repentance do?
8. What does James 4:8-10 say God will do when we repent?
9. What does Psalm 34:18 say about those with godly sorrow?
a. God is N __________ to the B ___________________.
b. God S ______________ those C ____________ in Spirit.
10. According to Titus 2:11-14 what will we be able to do when the grace of God's salvation is applied to us?
D __________ U ___________________ (v 12).
D __________ W___________ D___________ (v 12).
We will be redeemed from L __________ Deeds (v 14)
We will be P _______________ (v 14)
We will be Z __________ for G ____________ Works.
11. If our spirit and heart are revived, how will this affect our response towards sin?
12. If our hearts our heavy, if God seems distant, perhaps we need to repent of some sins and give them up.
What does repentance look like?
13. An example of confession and repentance is found in Acts 19:17-20, what did the people do when they repented?
Conclusion: Repentance is to turn from or stop our sins. As we stop our sins, our walk with Christ will deepen. As we deepen our walk with Christ, He will strengthen us to be free from more sins. As we continue to repent of sins, our walk with Christ will grow deeper and stronger.
Part IV - Confess Your Sins
Overcoming Sin – Part 4
The Problem of Sin
1. Read Isaiah 59:2, what does this say happens to our relationship with God when we sin?
The Solution to Sin
2. In 1 John 1:9, how does God forgive us our sins?
To confess a sin means to acknowledge your guilt for doing something because it was wrong and agree with God that you did do it.
3. What are the two promises in 1 John 1:9?
He will F______________ us.
He will C______________ us.
Why do we confess our sins?
Confession is more than just getting something off our chest. There is a very real reason why God has us confess our sins.
4. The answer is found in Leviticus 5:3-6. What two things must a person do to have their sins atoned for? (NOTE: "atone" means our sins are forgiven and washed away).
a. C_______________ that in which he has sinned (vs. 5).
b. Bring a G_____________ O_________________ for his sins (vs. 6). < br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
5. Leviticus 16 talks all about how the Lord atones for our sin through sacrifice. According to Leviticus 16:21, what was the priest to do when he laid hands upon the goat?
6. Having performed this ritual year after year, were they enough to stop God's anger? How does Hebrews 10:1-4 this question?
7. Read Hebrews 10:10-14, what sacrifice has been offered on our behalf?
8. According to Hebrews 10:14, what did that one sacrifice accomplish?
9. According to Hebrews 10:22, what should our response be?
D______________ N____________ with a
10. Returning to the thought we just reviewed about atonement as described in Leviticus 16:21, if Christ is our offering for sins, what is necessary to complete the atonement process?
Confession of sins must be based upon Christ's death on our behalf. We ignore the holiness of God when anyone asks God for forgiveness apart from the one sacrifice that satisfied His wrath.
Who should we confess our sins to?
11. According to 1 John 1:9, who should we confess our sins to?
12. According to James 5:16 who should we confess our sins to?
13. Read Exodus 10:16-17, from the example of Pharaoh, is all confession true repentance?
14. Read Psalm 51:2-3. How can confession remove sin from our lives?
Part III - Understand What Sin Is
Overcoming Sin – Part 3
Know What Sin Really Is
What is sin?
- According to 1 John 3:4, sin is L_________________?
When the Bible says that sin is lawless, it means that we don't obey God's law—we have rejected the law of our Creator. When we sin, we refuse to do what God wants and instead we do what we want.
- Many times, when God says "don't", what He is really saying is don't hurt yourself. How is this true with the first command God gave to Adam in Genesis 2:15-17?
- According to 1 John 5:17, Sin is U_________________.
- How does James 4:17 describe sin?
- How does Romans 14:23 describe sin?
- What does Isaiah 64:6 say about even our righteous deeds?
- What does Leviticus 5:16-19 say even about unintentional sins?
What causes us to sin?
- According to Matthew 15:18, our sins come from our
- According to James 1:14-15, sins comes from our own
a. Knowing that sin comes from evil desires, what should we do about our desires?
- According to Jeremiah 17:9, the heart is D____________.
- According to Hebrews 3:13, we can become hardened to the
D_______________ of Sin.
- Based upon Jeremiah 17:9 and Hebrews 3:13 why do we sometimes not think our sins are not that bad?
- According to 1 John 3:8, who are we letting empower us when we sin?
- Read Ephesians 2:1-3; what three forces are we joining with when we sin?
- The P_____________ of the air.
- The W ____________.
- The L_________ of our F_________ and M _________.
- The P_____________ of the air.
What are the results of sin?
- Read 1 Corinthians 8:12, who do we really hurt when we hurt another Christian?
- Read Hebrews 12:1, what does sin do to our walk with Christ?
- What does Isaiah 59:2 say about how sin affects our relationship with God?
- Read Galatians 5:19-21 and 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, what does this passage say about people who refuse to give up their sins?
- According to Romans 1:26 and 28, what does God do with people who refuse to repent and do not trust in Christ?
- According to Ezekiel 18:4, sin leads to D___________.
- Read Revelation 20:1-4, what happens to those who do not repent?
Part II - Become a Disciple of Jesus
Overcoming Sin – Part 2
Become a Disciple of Jesus
What is a disciple?
A disciple is a person who follows Jesus. That person trusts Jesus' guidance, and walks according to God's ways.
What is a disciple?
John 8:31 says that a disciple is one who B___________ in Him.
John 8:31-32 says that a disciple is one who K_____________ the truth.
John 8:31 says, we are disciples when we A______________ in His W________________.
Not all disciples of Jesus were true followers of Jesus.
In John 6:60-61, what did the disciples say about Jesus' words?
In John 6:66, what did they do?
In John 6:68-69 why did the Twelve Disciples stay with Jesus?
In our own lives, how can Peter's words help us to continue following Jesus when our faith is tested?
What does a disciple do?
1. In Matthew 9:36-38, Jesus tells the disciples to pray for more
_____________. Therefore, the disciples are _____________
for Ch rist.
2. In Matthew 28:19-20, Jesus tells the disciples to go into the world and make more disciples. What are the disciples are to do?
- B_______________ them.
- T _______________ them to observe all that Jesus
- In Matthew 28:20, what does Jesus promise to His disciples?
How does being a disciple help me overcome sin?
1. What is Jesus' promise in John 8:31-32 to his disciples?
When we become D______________ we will K___________
the T_________________ and the Truth shall set us
- In regards to overcoming sin, why is this so important
2. How does Luke 6:40 describe a fully trained disciple?
3. John 13:35 says that all people will know that we are disciples
of Jesus if we L______________ one another.
Most people I meet have been told that they just need to "REPENT!". Others have been told that they need to just accept by faith the deliverance that God has given to them. Many are waiting for God to suddenly give them superman strength to overcome their addictions. Some have tried 12 Step programs and try to use accountability to prop each other up in the face of temptation. All of them are discouraged and have given up. Within this atmosphere of hurt and defeat, we seek to minister Christ's love and transforming power to these hurting souls who are so badly needing the Lord's transforming cleansing.
There is hope in the Lord! We can have victory over sin! True, lasting change is possible and can happen to even the worst sinner! Our Bible study on defeating sin has several regular attenders. These are comprised of a kind and gentle man who did hard time in jail for murder and was such a problem to the prison system that he was flown between prisons in an airplane alone and bolted with chains to the floor. Another man is wise man of God who spent decades selling hard-drugs on the streets. Another man spent 8 or more years living in a card-board box as an alcoholic and is just beginning to walk with his Lord. More attend, but these men are a testimony to being truly set free by Jesus.
This study hasn't transformed these men (in fact we've only just begun), so they have already been transformed by God. They have already been faithful to Him and He has blessed them and changed them. They were not changed by programs, but by the abiding, transforming presence of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Most of these attendees are actually co-laborers in our effort and essentially are the live-in servants downtown for the One At A Time Baptist Church. They have already been set free by the Lord and now they are teaching others also. So we have begun this study to help them in their own lives, to broaden and deepen their ministry, and to give help, strength, understanding, and support to the others who also attend.
Overcoming addictions requires fewer steps that 12, but many, many more principles. The underlying philosophy behind this ministry is that in Christ we have available to all of us all the power and strength we need to overcome our own individual sins. But that power is not like electricity so that we would be "slain", nor it is not like a soda machine where we pump in the right prayer and out comes victory. Rather it is the ability to obey given to the faithful soul who abides in the Lord.
In many ways, overcoming sin is simply growing in Christ. Though we will never be completly free from our struggle with, spiritual maturity naturally strengthens us against sin. Thus, this study is as much on the fundamentals for Christian maturity as they are for defeating sin. Once again, they are not "steps", but they are components.
Sin comes from our flesh so the flesh needs to be reckoned with. Sin also comes from our mind, so our thinking and thoughts need to be purified. Sin comes from our desires, so our hearts and "wants" need to be purified. Sin comes from our habits, so our habits need to be reshaped. Sin comes from our idols, so our worship needs to change. Sin comes from demonic forces, so they need to be reckoned with. As these areas of our lives are brought into submission to the Lord, we will experience great victory over sin.
These are the handouts of the study we are going through. They are mostly fill-in the blank questions. The material is straight-forward enough that several people have gone through the material on their own. Most fill-ins have the first letter of the word and thus all these studies are designed to be used with the New King James Version. The study is on-going (current as of 8/5/04) and I'll add to this page as the hand-outs are completed. The rough outline is at the bottom. It is very different from the course material, but gives a guideline for the direction we are going.
Please send me an email if these handouts have been helpful to you or if you have any thoughts or advice. Thanks.
Part I - Be Born Again
This is the first chapter of the Bible Study material on overcoming sin. It is keyed to the New King James Version and does not require much if any Bible study skills.


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If Theo Epstein and his former Boston front-office gang
were brought in because they helped end a long World Series drought for a team in an old, revered ballpark in a big city with big pressures, then continue the process with the guy who did it in the dugout:
Epstein's former Boston manager Terry Francona.
Epstein made the obvious official Wednesday afternoon when the Cubs fired Mike Quade and began searching for a replacement. There's a good chance the search began even before Epstein was even officially introduced, but now it's on.
In Wednesday's release, Epstein said the Cubs "are looking for someone with whom and around whom we can build a foundation for sustained success. The next manager must have leadership and communication skills; he must place an emphasis on preparation and accountability; he must establish high standards and a winning culture; he must have integrity and an open mind; and he must have managerial or coaching experience at the major league level.''
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I don't know whether Francona resorts to cloying nicknames, but I'll risk it. Francona obviously meets all the criteria Epstein detailed.
Francona would come to the Cubs with expectations just as big as he faced in Boston, but also would come more lettered. Francona deserves some blame for the biggest September collapse in baseball history, but not as much as the Red Sox organization want you to believe. I'd love to see the Cubs in a position where the manager would lose some control of a team that won two World Series in four years.
Epstein and Francona obviously work well together. They obviously won together. Epstein knows he would be getting a manager experienced at balancing statistical analysis with the people playing the game. Epstein knows he would be getting a manager skilled at blending talented kids and accomplished veterans. Epstein knows he would be getting a manager facile with a pitching staff. Epstein knows he would be getting a manager skilled at handling big media.
Epstein has been surrounding himself with key people he can trust. He used the word "trust'' during Tuesday's press conference to introduce new general manager Jed Hoyer and scouting and player development honcho Jason McLeod. It seems natural that Epstein would trust a manager who gets what he wants to do here because they did it together before.


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Epidural anaesthesia for pain relief during childbirth and for outpatient 'awake' surgery has been found to cause a high incidence of long-term back pain.
A groundbreaking study by the UK's University of Birmingham Medical School (BMJ, 7 July, 1990) showed that nearly a fifth (18 per cent) of women with epidural anaesthesia during labour reported long-term backache - twice the number who report backache after labour. The report concluded that of every hundred women who have an epidural during labour, eight will `develop long-term backache as a direct consequence.'
The findings of the Birmingham study were backed by a more recent study (BMJ, 15 May 1993) and a study done by the National Childbirth Trust (Some Women's Experiences of Epidurals, a descriptive study, The National Childbirth Trust, 1987).
The NCT study and the published medical studies suggest that the problem is a postural one - women can remain in a potentially damaging position, often for some hours, without knowing it. Nevertheless, people given epidurals for other reasons, including pain relief, also suffer backache. In a study of 9000 patients given epidurals for surgery other than childbirth, one in 50 complained of backache afterward. Pauline was given an epidural during a ` routine bladder operation:' After a series of subsequent operations to relieve the problems caused by the first, she was left in incapacitating pain - a situation later diagnosed as LSAA.
This isn't surprising considering the postmortem findings of 10 patients who'd had postoperative epidurals (Anaesthesia, 1990; 45: 357-61). All 10 had evidence of 'non-specific epidural inflammatory reactions', and seven patients showed signs of epidural infection - a recipe for spinal trauma. No similar pathology was found in a control group which did not have epidural catheters. Other studies show that a fifth of those getting epidurals have `contamination' (Anesthesia and Analgesia, 1977; 56: 222-5).
Dr Christine MacArthur, the senior research fellow who conducted the Birmingham study, says there is virtually no investigation of the long-term problems associated with spinal anaesthesia. One study (JAMA, 161: 586-91) showed long-term back problems with spinal anaesthetic (in which the anaesthetic is injected right through the spinal membranes), but that was in 1956, and no one has really looked at it since.