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Ronald Reagan spent his formative years as a radio announcer and a film actor. Few presidents have demonstrated Reagan's gift for delivering telling phrases that stuck in the public mind and defined issues in stark, simplified terms. Here is a selection of some of those phrases —some that made Reagan famous and others that he made famous.
'One for the Gipper'
"Someday when things are tough, maybe you can ask the boys to go in there and win just one for the Gipper." —Portraying football player George Gipp in the film "Knute Rockne, All American," 1940
'Shining city on a hill'
Let us resolve tonight that young Americans will always ... find there a city of hope in a country that is free.... And let us resolve they will say of our day and our generation, we did keep the faith with our God, that we did act worthy of ourselves, that we did protect and pass on lovingly that shining city on a hill." — Election Eve speech, Nov. 3, 1980
'We have piled deficit upon deficit'
"For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals.
You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?" —Inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1981
'Tear down this wall'
"If you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here, to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." —Speech at the Berlin Wall, June 12, 1987
'Grown beyond the consent of the governed'
"We are a nation that has a government — not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed." —Inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1981
'A special interest group that has been too long neglected'
"We hear much of special interest groups. Our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected.
"It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and our factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we are sick—professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers.
"They are, in short, 'We the people,' this breed called Americans." —Inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1981
'I forgot to duck'
"Honey, I forgot to duck." — 1981, Reagan to his wife, as he recovered gunshot wounds after an assassination attempt by John Hinckley on March 30, 1981
'A time of reckoning'
"An almost unbroken 50 years of deficit spending has finally brought us to a time of reckoning. We have come to a turning point, a moment for hard decisions. I have asked the Cabinet and my staff a question, and now I put the same question to all of you: If not us, who? And if not now, when? It must be done by all of us going forward with a program aimed at reaching a balanced budget. We can then begin reducing the national debt." —Second inaugural address, Jan. 21, 1985
'Render nuclear weapons obsolete'
"For decades, we and the Soviets have lived under the threat of mutual assured destruction; if either resorted to the use of nuclear weapons, the other could retaliate and destroy the one who had started it. Is there either logic or morality in believing that if one side threatens to kill tens of millions of our people, our only recourse is to threaten killing tens of millions of theirs?
"I have approved a research program to find, if we can, a security shield that would destroy nuclear missiles before they reach their target. It wouldn't kill people, it would destroy weapons. It wouldn't militarize space, it would help demilitarize the arsenals of Earth. It would render nuclear weapons obsolete." —Second inaugural address, Jan. 21, 1985
'Whatever else history may say'
"Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears....
"May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek divine guidance and never lose your natural, God-given optimism." —Speech to Republican National Convention, Aug. 17, 1992
'Go ahead, make my day'
"I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day." —March 13, 1985, in a speech threatening to veto legislation raising taxes.
'You don't become president of the United States'
"When people tell me I became president on January 20, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don't become president of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an institution called the presidency, which belongs to our people." — Address to the Republican national convention. Aug. 15, 1988
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As the U.S. Supreme Court opens its October 2011 term, there is intense focus on several high-profile cases and questions the justices are likely to tackle later, including those involving affirmative action, health-care reform and immigration policy. However, according to Notre Dame Law School Professor Rick Garnett, the court is already set to hear, during this first week of the new term, one of the most important church-state cases in decades (Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC).
"The case involves the 'ministerial exception' to employment-discrimination laws," Garnett says. "This exception prevents courts from second-guessing employment decisions made by religious employers regarding 'ministerial' employees. Although the Supreme Court has never squarely addressed this exception, it is a crucial doctrine for protecting religious freedom and the separation of church and state."
Church-state separation is often misunderstood and misapplied, according to Garnett, who says that some see it as a rule that banishes religious expression and belief to the strictly private sector.
"In fact, church-state separation is not about confining or combatting religion," he says, "but is instead about limiting the reach of government and protecting the right of religious communities to make their own decisions about religious matters.
"A community that respects the distinction between political and religious authority, and that recognizes the limits of the state's power over religious matters, is one in which the rights of all – believers and non-believers alike – are more secure," Garnett continues. "The ministerial exception not only helps to prevent secular decision-makers from getting entangled in essential religious questions, it also protects the fundamental freedom of religious communities to educate and form their members."
According to Garnett, there is a reasonably solid consensus in the lower courts that the "ministerial exception" is an important dimension of religious freedom. However, he says, "The government appears to be staking out an extreme position, one that would dramatically reduce the freedom of religious communities."
"Although many cases will present close questions, and call for careful, nuanced consideration," Garnett observes, "at the end of the day it cannot be the role of civil government to police the decisions of religious communities about who will be their religious leaders, teachers and ministers, any more than to review disputes over the meaning of religious doctrines."
Garnett is associate dean and professor of law at Notre Dame Law School, where he teaches courses in Constitutional Law, Freedom of Speech, and Freedom of Religion. He also serves as the director of the law school's Program on Church, State & Society.
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This is still a big part of my current life. Last night, I got very sick on my stomach from the antibiotic. My mom reminded me that it's an antibiotic I got sick from back in high school. Well, now I will remember. I spent half the night with my head in a trashcan praying I wouldn't vomit. I imagined the pain I would have felt if I vomited and it went into the whole where I've got the dry socket. All I can say is "OUCH!!"
Simon took my to the oral surgeon today. They were going to give me the laughing gas, upon request. But, they changed their minds, and gave me Novocaine. Thank God. He gave it to me once in all the little areas. But, it wasn't enough, so after two more shots, 3 times more than normal, he was able to proceed and complete the packing process. The packing kept coming out and he kept packing it back in. Eventually he got it to stay. He did say there was a good chance it would come out, so to continue eating only soft foods, nothing harder than scrambled eggs. I am wanting a big pickle and a canned mountain dew so bad, guess I have to wait. On my way home from work I picked up a canned mountain dew, and I've a straw I'm getting some out of with my finger and dropping it on my tongue. Even though it's packed, it still hurts to get drink near it. Not to mention I'm sure carbonation, isn't the best for it.
The oral surgeon, told me no heavy lifting, light duty. I work with adults in wheelchairs, they are physically and mentally challenged. I work in a classroom with 2 other aids, a teacher, and a nurse. The company I work for, does not have light duty unless you get injured on the job, then they suddenly have it. So, I told the doctor that I would be able to work it out with my co-workers with no problems. Well, I was wrong. The teacher, which is our immediate supervisor, was very understanding. However the other 2 aids, which are total b****, which I don't curse, only when I am heated mad. One is great, unless the other is there too, then watch out. So, the one that is okay some times, rolls her eyes when I tell her I can't do the 2 person lift, by lifting the back part of the person, which is the heavier part. For now, until this dry socket heals, I need to be getting the lower extremities, the lighter part. Then she rolls her ugly eyes. I was so pissed. Then later, when I informed the totally 100% b****, that I can't do heavy lifting, she has the nerve to say, with an attitude I must add, "well what does having a tooth pulled have to do with lifting." Well, you freaking idiot, first of all I don't want the packing to fall out and if I strain when I lift or pull on somebody it can increase the pain and make the healing process longer and harder. Then she says, now remember the immediate supervisor was cool with the situation. After all we can all work together. But, this girl had the nerve to say that there is no light duty... What an a**!! Lifting is a minor part of the day. I don't mind lift the bottom extremities, feeding, changing diapers, working on activities, or anything else. ALL I ask is that somebody get the top extremities when lifting and somebody else care for the one larger client who requires more tugging and pulling, or at least be available. I remember the day at this job, where we all worked as a team, this was before this one girl came to the room. If a staff was ill or something, the others did a little more to help out. We worked together. And, Simon wouldn't let me stay home, he made me go into work today. Which I went in because if the packing falls out, then I will not be going back in until the packing is replaced. So, I don't know what tomorrow holds. I have 12 vacation days, but who really wants to use their vacation on a dry socket. I will endure it as much as I can. But, I am just so pissed at my co-workers. I don't wish dry socket on even my worse enemies, however right now, I am wishing it on them. Neither have had their wisdom teeth cut out, both will need to one day, probably since they are cutting them and they are cutting crooked or something. So, their day will come when they have to get them pulled. And when they do, I hope I'm still around, because I will have no sympathy for their selfish a**es. I will be laughing so hard. I am not the kind of person to wish pain and discomfort on people, but that's how upset I am. Maybe it's partially the pain meds talking, but I am very upset too. If I go into work tomorrow and they give me any problems, I will be at risk of losing my job. Simon is asleep right now, but when he wakes up I will tell him what happen. He heard what the dentist said about lifting and light duty. Not there's anything he can do about the situation. But, if he doesn't calm me down, I will go in there and tell a couple people off if they give me any problems. All in all, I really need a new job, so I can work with at least half way intelligent people. These girls have a brain the size of pea and half the time they don't even use that. But they think they are God's gift to the world. What irritates me so much, is they walk around like they have such high self esteem, but they are always asking clients if they love them, or if they missed them or whatever. Have a little self esteem. I don't understand. I mean I don't go around and ask people if they love me, or if they missed me. I don't need that love and support. Maybe it's because I'm married to a wonderful man and have a wonderful family and church that I know love me dearly. Maybe that's what I don't need to know that I'm loved at work. I mean get a freakin life. Okay, enough of my rant for the day. I need a new job, really bad. I hate working with these people.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
...Dry Socket
This is still a big part of my current life. Last night, I got very sick on my stomach from the antibiotic. My mom reminded me that it's an antibiotic I got sick from back in high school. Well, now I will remember. I spent half the night with my head in a trashcan praying I wouldn't vomit. I imagined the pain I would have felt if I vomited and it went into the whole where I've got the dry socket. All I can say is "OUCH!!"
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Dry Socket
I had a wisdom tooth removed last Thursday. It wasn't bad at all after he gave extra novacaine. And the gas was wonderful. Friday was awesome, just a little sore jaw, the same for Saturday. I was just exhausted on Sunday, but my jaw wasn't even sore. By Monday I was ready for "real" food. Then today...Ouch!! When cold air hit, my hand went for my face. Cold or hot beverages had to stay clear of the area. My tounge acted more as a wall between the two sides of my mouth. But, despite the pain, I worked a full day with just 3 tylenols. Yay, me. After work I went to the oral surgeon. One of my worse nightmares came true, dry socket. It's been one of my biggest fears, and here I am, experiencing it. He gave me antibiotic and a mouth rinse. He tried to pack it, but I pulled back too much. It hurt like, (a word I would rather not say), and I visualized what he was doing and that didn't help much. My mom stressed the importance to me about going back and letting him. So, tomorrow morning, I will call and I will go back. Only this time, it will not be the unknown for me. I will have Simon with me which will help a lot, and I will do a lot of praying before and during the process. With Simon next to me, I can endure almost anything. So, wish me luck on tomorrow when I go back. I'm a bit nervous.
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His goal is singular--to cross-train point guards to produce rebounders, cross-train centers to produce ball handlers and cross-train everyone else in between. Not knowing what life will afford these young players, Brien believes that he can best serve their needs by preparing them for endless possibilities.
Coaching Experience: This is Coach Morgan's second year with the Matrix, having coached the 2020 Black developmental team as 2nd-3rd graders in Spring 2011. Coach Morgan has an extensive history of coaching the McLean Select program. Last season was Brien's 11th year as a coach, 6th year with the McLean Select Basketball ("MSB") program and 2nd year as an MSB head coach. Brien started his coaching career as a volunteer non-parent coach, mentored by the long-time MSB coaching legend, Gerry Megas. Brien assisted Coach Gerry in taking the same group of Division 1 and Division 2 Select players from 4th grade to 8th grade and is proud to have contributed, in a very small way, to Coach Gerry's incredible record of placing well over a dozen of these players onto the McLean, Langley and Marshall High School varsity teams.
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Bear tranquilized in Lively Sun. AM
SUDBURY, Ont. – Police in this northern Ontario city saved a bear that could not get a large plastic jar off its head.
The white container had been used to store birdseed and police said the black bear likely wanted a snack when it stuck its head inside.
Police responded to a call around 5:30 a.m. Sunday of the bear walking down the street with the jar stuck on its head.
The bear could not get the jar off its head and continued to wander around, walking into a variety of objects, including a police cruiser.
The Ministry of Natural Resources was contacted and the bear was tranquilized.
The container had to be cut in order to remove it from the bear's head.
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The Accounting Historians Journal
Vol. 12, No. 1
Spring 1985
Louis Goldberg UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE (EMERITUS)
Williard E. Stone
Abstract: John C. Colt was the author of a successful bookkeeping text which had many school adoptions and at least 46 editions. During an argument with Samuel Adams, his publisher, over the cost of his 5th edition, Colt killed Adams with a hatchet. Convicted of murder and condemned to execution by hanging, Colt com-mitted suicide in prison in 1842. His text, The Science of Double Entry Book-keeping, first published in 1838, continued in print until 1856.
John Caldwell Colt was the author of a very successful book-keeping text which was published from 1837 to 1855 in at least 46 editions (so designated, although "printings" would have been more appropriate). He was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1810 and died November 8, 1842.
The Colt Family
Colt was descended from John Coult who, with his wife Mary Fitch, emigrated from Colchester, England, and landed at Boston on September 4, 1633. He settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts (then Newton) and had a son John Colt (the name alteration appeared at this point) in 1658.
Benjamin Colt, the son of John, served in the Revolutionary War and later became a farmer in Hadley, Massachusetts. He married Lucretia Ely to whom Christopher Colt was born in 1780. Christo-pher left the family farm and sought his fortune in Hartford, Con-necticut, where he married Sarah Caldwell, the daughter of Major John Caldwell, a wealthy leading citizen of Hartford.
Christopher and Sarah had six children: Margaret, 1806, Sarah Ann, 1808, John Caldwell, 1810, Christopher, Jr., 1812, Samuel, 1814


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Slit Lamp BiomicrographyIntroduction
James P. Gilman, CRADirector of Ophthalmic PhotographyJohn Moran Eye CenterSalt Lake City, Utah
Slit-lamp biomicrography encompasses a wide spectrum of challenging photographic techniques for imaging structures and diseases of the anterior segment. Most photographic slit-lamps are equipped with two lighting sources, variable flash intensity, changeable magnifications, and changeable angles of illumination. Patients present a wide variety of disease entities that have specific textures, colors, transparency, size and depth. The photographer or clinician examining the patient should employ the slit-lamp lighting technique that will best enhance the characteristics of the lesion being examined/photographed. There is no single definitive photograph that will best describe a patient's condition, therefore a photo essay or series of photographs can often relate the patient's condition more appropriately.
The clinical biomicroscope, or "Slit Lamp", is composed of a binocular viewing system that is copivotal with the illuminator to allow various angles of viewing and angles of lighting to the eye. A severe angle of illumination will enhance the surface details and texture by showing a shadowing on the distal edge of the subject. A direct coaxial angle of illumination will accurately show color size and relative position of the subject in relation to other anatomy and will "flatten" the structures that appeared more three dimensional with the texture lighting. The biomicroscope and illuminator are also parfocal or simultaneously focused at the same point in space at all angles. When the slit beam is focused sharply on the cornea, the beam will be in focus through the biomicroscope and will be isocentric or always centered in the viewing field no matter the angle of illumination or viewing.
The photographic biomicroscope differs slightly from the clinical biomicroscope by having a beam splitter transmit a percentage (50% or 30%) of light to the viewing oculars and reflect the remainder of the light to the camera. Some photo biomicroscopes have the ability to rotate the beam splitter out of the viewing path to allow 100% of the reflected light to be seen by the examiner. This procedure helps to reveal all the subtle details of the patient's eye without interruption of the light. A safety mechanism on a camera of this type, will prevent the camera shutter from opening without the beam splitter rotated in, which would produce a photograph that would be grossly underexposed. An additional feature of the photographic biomicroscope is the synchronized flash illuminator. The camera accurately records the details simultaneously viewed by the examiner/photographer. Another feature specific to the photo biomicroscope is the fill flash. This allows the photographer to fill in the shadow areas opposite the main illuminator and to provide orientation details of the eye when using a fine slit beam illumination. Without the aid of the fill illuminator the slit beam would give the illusion of floating in the middle of a dark void. This can sometimes be desirable if the photographer is interested in details within the slit beam itself to show corneal edema, particles in the stroma or outline topography with the slit.
The slit beam can take on many configurations from a full round circle to a thin beam of light. The illuminator contains controls for beam aperture size which controls the height of the beam and the beam width. The beam can also be decentered with another control to aim the projected beam off axis for creating a series of indirect lighting situation that will be discussed later.
Photographic exposure is controlled by three separate adjustments. One is the flash power setting on the camera power supply. Another exposure control is an aperture on the elbow of the camera attachment which can vary on the Zeiss Photoslitlamp from f/45 to f/14. The third exposure control is the beam width. A wide beam is effective in higlighting deep endothelial pigmentation. A narrow beam is useful and showing intrastromal defects and topographic features.
Other factors that affect the exposure of the photograph are the tissue being illuminated, the sensitivity of the film or ISO setting on the digital camera, and the magnification of the microscope. If the tissue is very opaque and highly reflective, the aperture needs to be smaller or reduce the flash power appropriately. Less light will be required to photograph this subject as opposed to a clear cornea. Blue irides will reflect more light than brown irides and therefore exposure is affected by iris color. Some slitlamps contain a rotating filter wheel. If a photoslitlamp does not have an aperture diaphragm it will have a colorless gray filter called a neutral density filter. This filter is an exposure adjustment control that lowers the amount of flash hitting the eye by one stop (0.3ND = 1 stop) Bracketing exposures above and below the manufacturer's published tables, will allow you to get properly exposed results with the narrow exposure ranges that slide film allows. ( Plus or minus ½ stop) Not all patients with corneal lesions will sit quietly through a rigorous photo session that requires multiple aperture settings for each type of illumination or magnification change. I recommend producing an exposure table based on photographing a blue and brown iris with multiple settings and various beam widths. Record the parameters for each exposure and base subsequent clinical photographs on the settings used for the well exposed slides.
Film sensitivity is carefully chosen to allow the dimmest form of indirect lighting to be properly exposed. Most photobiomicroscopy is done with a film sensitivity of ISO 200. There are situations where a faster film emulsion such as ISO 400 is required. Films with a low ISO number have lower sensitivity but can render fine details better because the emulsion contains a finer grain. (ISO stands for International Standards Organization which assigns the tested emulsions their proven sensitivity classification numbers).
Digital Single-Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras are rapidly replacing 35mm film cameras in slit lamp biomicrography. The sensitivity of the sensor can simply be adjusted on the camera, selecting an ISO. Because higher ISO settings on digital cameras create "noise" in the image which may impair its ability to render fine detail, the same settings of ISO 200 or ISO 400 should be used with digital SLR systems as well.
Microscope magnification will have an affect on the exposure of the film when taking a picture. The higher the magnification the more light needed. If a photograph is taken of the patient's eye at 6X magnification and a small lesion is photographed at 40X magnification the exposure difference will be significantly changed and the photographer will have to either open the aperture diaphragm further or increase the flash power to compensate for the illumination decrease. Some biomicroscopes will show no change in exposure vs. magnification.
Direct Illumination
Illumination forms fit into two main categories of direct and indirect lighting. If the lesion is opaque, crystalline, or opalescent, a direct form of illumination delineates the areas of interest better than an indirect form of illumination. If the lesion on the eye is transparent, refractile, and almost invisible, indirect forms of illumination are more successful at enhancing fine details contained in subtle lesions that direct lighting would overpower. First, we will explore the types of Direct Illumination.
Dual Diffuse
Dual diffuse illumination is achieved when the main light has a diffusion filter in front of the beam and the fill illuminator/flash is on, directed opposite the main light illuminator, to fill in the shadows. This photograph is taken in all cases to allow orientation of the eye being examined, and is typically taken at low magnification (1OX) and at (16X).
Fine Slit Beam
Fine slit beam illumination is created by removing the diffusing filter from the main light illuminator and reducing the beam width to a fine slit. The fill light is also employed to provide the photograph with surrounding details of the slit's position. The camera or observer oculars should be positioned at approximately 60 degrees to the fine slit beam's direction. Since microscopes will generally have a narrow depth of focus, the 60 degree angle will allow more of the beam depth or optical section to be in focus to the observer and the photograph. The fine slit illumination can show corneal thickening with corneal edema or corneal thinning due to erosion. The fine slit beam can also show topographic information in cases of iris lesions, corneal or conjunctival masses, cataracts and fluid-filled cysts.
Broad Tangential
Broad tangential Illumination is made possible by increasing the beam width and increasing the angle of incidence for the beam to spread across the cornea. This type of illumination is more effective without the fill illuminator. Broad tangential illumination helps to increase contrast and show varying degrees of texture in the ocular tissue. This lighting is especially helpful for showing slight corneal scarring, pseudoexfoliation of the lens, and small bullae in a bullous keratopathy.
Indirect Illumination
Sclerotic scatter
Sclerotic scatter is an indirect illumination that is created by decentering the slit beam and directing a broad beam to the temporal sclera. With the fill illuminator off, the bright light directed to the sclera transmits across the cornea like a fiber-optic light pipe. The photographer can see a gentle 'glow' from the distal sclera when the illumination is properly aligned. The beam will always be severely overexposed in the photograph because of the broad beam reflecting off the white sclera. The soft indirect light highlights very subtle corneal changes such as corneal scarring, vortex dystrophies, and crystalline keratopathy.
Retroillumination from the Iris
Retroillumination from the iris is created by making a moderately thin slit beam and directing the beam to the iris at a 45 degree angle and keeping the plane of focus on the cornea. The soft reflected beam from the iris will enhance transparent corneal irregularities that are too subtle to be observed with other lighting situations. Details of corneal changes are best observed in the line between light and dark coming from the unfocused iris surface.
Retroillumination from the retina
Retroillumination from the retina can be set up by decentering the broad beam and rotating in the beam aperture that most resembles the patient's dilated pupil diameter. (The patient must be dilated for this type of illumination.) The next step is to create a 'half moon' shape by rotating a half aperture position out of the beam path. The decentered 'half moon' shape is then positioned just inside the dilated pupil. The observer must then look for a bright orange reflex that appears when the light is just axial enough to reflect off the patient's retina and glows from behind the lens and cornea. The position for the light and camera should be very close to axial but the retroillumination effect does not appear in both oculars in the binocular biomicroscope. The observer should close one eye and concentrate to see the retro illumination effect in the ocular that the camera shares. The retroillumination effect can be further enhanced or brightened by orienting the patient's eye (have the patient look slightly nasal) to make the optic nerve reflect the beam. This lighting situation enhances the observation of cataracts, corneal scars, transparent cysts, and refractile bodies.
Iris Transillumination
Iris transillumination requires an undilated pupil and is created by making an axial light beam shine into the small pupil and reflect off the retina. The beam aperture should match the pupil size or be smaller than the pupil to avoid iris reflections. The beam direction is again critical to proper alignment and the observer should again use only the ocular shared by the camera to properly align the light beam. This lighting situation is used to illustrate the degree of iris thinning either due to ocular albinism or pigmentary glaucoma. The light transmitted through the iris is the dimmest of all lighting techniques outlined. The flash power must be at its maximum level, or the aperture for the camera should be at its widest opening to make the photograph. Some photographers have more sensitive film on hand just for this occasion. (Typical films for biomicrography are ISO 200 -- a more sensitive emulsion would be ISO 400.)
Patients present with corneal and anterior segment problems that contain obvious details and subtle details. In our quest for documenting the disease process with best images possible, we must employ the lighting situation and magnification that best describes the problem. An obvious lesion of opaque, or crystalline nature will best be described with the direct lighting techniques outlined. A lesion that is transparent, opalescent, or refractile in nature, will be better imaged using an indirect form of illumination so that subtle details will not be washed out in a harsh light. If a combination of lighting techniques and various magnifications are used in this pursuit, a well documented disease with potential for publication quality will be the result.
Exposure Tables
Exposure Parameters TableZeiss 40 SLP Photo Slitlamp - ISO 400
Flash Power
Dual Diffuse
Fine Slit(Full Fill)
Retroillumination(No Fill)
Exposure Parameters TableZeiss Photo Slitlamp - ISO 200
Coppinger, M., Maio, M., Miller,K.: Ophthalmic Photography. Slack Incorporated, New Jersey
Justice, J.: Ophthalmic Photography. Little Brown and Company. Boston. 1982.
Martonyi, C.,Bahn, C., Myer, R.: Clinical Slit Lamp Biomicroscopy and Photo Slit Lamp Biomicrography. Time One Ink. Michigan.1985.
Wong, D.: Textbook of Ophthalmic Photography. Inter-Optics Publications. New York. 1982.
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Ask Dr. Julianne
Aloha Dear Ones,
It's good to be with you again. I've been doing a lot of reflection this past week. There are many challenges in my life right now. I'm determined to see those challenges in the light of the evolutionary perspective I've been studying.
Sometimes challenges seem to come all at once. Our tendency is to view these challenges the ways we always have, or the ways in which we have been taught. We round up the usual stories, tell them first to ourselves, and then repeat our stories to anyone who has the patience or kindness to listen. We remember all the details of how these challenges showed up in our lives in the past, and pour over these unpleasant details, one by one.
We develop amazingly creative ways to reinforce our previous experience of the challenge at hand. Some of us, with a highly developed visual skill, even learn how to project a movie of our past traumas and dramas onto our conscious minds, and watch it play, over and over again. In our mind's eye, we watch the challenge take shape, we see our ineffective response, and we safely and surely predict the unhappy result. I say, "safely," because no matter how awful the result, there is a certain false comfort in the familiar.
If we cling to the false safety of the familiar, we are doomed to experience our current challenge as leading to the same negative result, or, to a situation even more heartbreaking. How can we break out of the familiar cycle of repeating our mistakes? How can we break free of our past conditioning?
We can start by being willing to examine our beliefs about our situation. If the choices we have been making have been consistently leading to unhappy results, then there is something wrong with the story we have been telling ourselves. We are not seeing clearly.
So, we allow ourselves to be curious about the challenge we are facing. Instead of falling back on an old story, we admit that we don't understand the truth of our situation. We cultivate an attitude of not knowing, but wanting to know. As both the integralists and the evolutionaries might say, we enter into a process of inquiry. We hold even our most cherished beliefs around the issue lightly, leaving room for new information. We open ourselves to feedback from life. We begin to make choices based on this new information, not based on our conditioned patterns.
It takes courage to be open to the truth of life. But the good news is that the evolutionary impulse, the innate creative power unfolding all of life, is very much on our side, once we start on the path of the good, the true, the beautiful, and the holy. The evolutionary impulse, which to me is the Holy Spirit, is actually calling us to that sacred path.
In being willing to see our challenges with beginner's mind, to become curious about them, to admit that we don't understand everything and to desire to learn more, we open the door to a deeper wisdom. By making different choices based on the new truth life shows us, we come into closer alignment with the holy impulse moving all life forward. From that place, all goods things are possible.
Love and blessings,
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Corsets & Clockwork Anthology has a cover!
I am super excited about it, and now I am even more super excited because . . . drum roll please . . . here's the beautiful cover for it!
Here's some more info on it courtesy of SciFiGuy.ca:
A stunning anthology of the very best of steampunk that's taking teen fiction by storm. Bestselling romance editor Trisha Telep brings an exciting new element to the fast-growing sub-genre of steampunk, which bends and blends the old and the new in increasingly popular dark urban fantasies. Young heroes and heroines battle evil, in various forms with the help of super-technological or supernatural powers, while falling in and out of love.
Contributors include:
* Ann Aguirre a bestselling author who writes urban fantasy (the Corine Solomon series from Roc), romantic science fiction (the Jax series from Ace), apocalyptic paranormal romance (as Ellen Connor, writing with Carrie Lofty, from Penguin), paranormal romantic suspense (as Ava Gray from Berkley), and post-apocalyptic dystopian young adult fiction (Razorland and Wireville coming in 2011 from Feiwel & Friends).
* Tessa Gratton, her debut novel Blood Magic arrives in 2011 from Random House Children's Books, followed by the companion Crow Magic in 2012.
* Jaclyn Dolamore is the debut author of Magic Under Glass from Bloomsbury USA.
* Lesley Livingston is the award-winning author of Wondrous Strange and Darklight, the first two books in the bestselling trilogy from HarperCollins.
* Caitlin Kittredge is the author of the Iron Codex trilogy, a Lovecraftian steampunk adventure.
* Dru Pagliassotti's first novel Clockwork Heart was one of the first in the rising new genre of steampunk romance and was named by Library Journal as one of the five steampunk novels to read in 2009.
* Dia Reeves is the debut author of the critically acclaimed YA Bleeding Violet.
* Michael Scott is the Irish-born, New York Times bestselling author of the six part epic fantasy series, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel.
* Maria V. Snyder is the New York Times bestselling author of the Study series (Poison Study, Magic Study, and Fire Study) about a young woman forced to become a poison taster.
* Tiffany Trent the author of the acclaimed YA dark fantasy series Hallowmere, which was an IndieBound Children's Pick and a New York Public Library Book of the Teen Age 2008.
* Kiersten White is the debut author of Paranormalacy, the first book in a new trilogy, which was published by HarperTeen in August of 2010.
* Adrienne Kress, is the author of Alex and the Ironic Gentleman and Timothy and the Dragon's Gate.
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Adrienne, I hope you don't mind, but I've lifted some of this to post on my blog, b/c it's the first time I've seen a good contributor's list and graphic of the cover. Thanks for posting--so excited!
- Adrienne said...
I don't mind at all! As I said in the post, I lifted all that from SciFiGuy.ca, so I can hardly be a hypocrite now can I and say no. So yeah, please . . . steal away! :)
- Suzy Turner said...
Wow... this is one stunning cover. It would certainly catch my eye in a bookshop!
The contributor's list is great too... thanks for such a good post!
- Charles said...
- Lesley Livingston said...
Hey hey!
Like Tiffany I, too, am going to yoink some of this post if you don't mind! ;-)
Can't wait to see our stories side by side, when this hits the shelves, ladies!
- Kate said...
That's a fantastic cover. I'm a huge fan of syeampunk.


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Syrian bombers pummel rebel-held areas of Aleppo
As Assad's forces inch into opposition-controlled areas, aircraft unleash a wave of airstrikes on northern city
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government aircraft unleashed a wave of airstrikes on more than a dozen rebel-held neighborhoods in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, as President Bashar Assad's forces inched into areas controlled by opposition fighters for more than a year, activists said.
Aleppo has been a key battleground in Syria's civil war since rebels swept into the city in mid-2012 and wrested most of the eastern and southern neighborhoods from the government. Assad's air force for weeks has pounded those areas with barrel bombs — crude containers packed with explosives, fuel and scraps of metal — that cause massive damage on impact.
On Sunday alone, Syrian military helicopters and warplanes targeted 15 opposition-held neighborhoods, said an activist who goes by the name of Abu al-Hassan Marea.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said the Tariq al-Bab district alone was hit at least eight times on Sunday. Marea said one of the airstrikes in the neighborhood struck a vegetable market and another landed near a mosque.
The Aleppo Media Center activist group said the strike near the Abdullah bin Masoud Mosque killed more than 10 people.
Neither the Aleppo Media Center nor the Observatory had a total death toll for the day's carnage, but Marea said that more than 50 people were killed in the airstrikes across the city, although he did not have an exact count.
An amateur video posted online shows a helicopter circling in the blue sky, and then a barrel plummeting from the aircraft until it slams into buildings on the horizon, sending a pillar of smoke and dust into the air. The video appeared genuine and corresponded to other Associated Press reporting of the events depicted.
This is not the first time that government aircraft has waged an intense aerial campaign on Aleppo. In December, military helicopters pounded rebel-held districts of Aleppo with barrel bombs for days, leveling buildings, burying people under the rubble and killing more than 500 people over a two-week stretch.
The misery in Aleppo was then compounded in early January by an outburst of rebel-on-rebel fighting, which has weakened the opposition's grip on parts of the city.
Over the past two weeks, Assad's forces have slowly chipped away at the rebels' hold on neighborhoods in southeastern Aleppo. While the advances have been small, they still mark the most significant government gains in the divided city since opposition fighters seized the areas in mid-2012.
As intense as the airstrikes have been, the rebels' position in Aleppo and across northern Syria has been undermined to a greater degree by a bloody bout of infighting that pits the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant against an array of ultraconservative brigades and more moderate factions.
The rebel infighting has killed more than 1,400 people since it began a month ago, and it shows little sign of coming to an immediate close.
On Saturday, a twin suicide bombing killed 26 people, including a senior military commander of the Tawhid Brigade, a prominent rebel group opposed to the Islamic State.
The attack, widely blamed by both pro- and anti-al-Qaeda activists on the Islamic State, targeted the base of its rivals in the Tawhid Brigade and killed senior leader Adnan Bakkour, said Observatory director Rami Abdurrahman.
The Islamic State also killed another prominent commander, Abu Hussein al-Dik of Suqour al-Sham, on Saturday near the central city of Hama, the Observatory said. Abdurrahman said al-Dik was killed in an ambush outside of Hama, where he was traveling to try to help rebels encircled by Islamic State fighters.
Both the Tawhid Brigade and Suqour al-Sham are part of the Islamic Front, a powerful alliance of seven Islamist rebel factions that united in November. The Islamic Front has emerged as a heavy weight in northern Syria, and has been a driving force in the fight against the Islamic State.
Analyst Charles Lister of the Brookings Doha Center said the Islamic State "appears to be targeting particularly strategic locales and individuals in its continuing operations against perceived enemy rebels."
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There are many stories of Molly Brown being snubbed by the Sacred 36 – a group of Denver's most elite. The group was lead by Louise Hill the self-proclaimed queen of Denver society.
Molly Brown and Louise Hill knew each other, and according to author Leigh A. Grinstead they never "hit it off". Louise Hill thought Molly brash. And although Molly was wealthy and on the social register, she was never accepted into the group.
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David brought up a good topic looking for the same ideas I'm looking for. What can you say to someone who basically says "Obedience to God *is* right and *is* what makes me moral". I know they're giving you basically nothing to go on here. Where do you start with that one?
Knowledge of God comes from the bible, right? I can't think of any other place where information of God comes from. Everything else refers to the bible, so what about the bible?
Is every single thing in the bible true? Is the Earth really the center of the Universe? If not, why was it written, and what else might not be true?
What things in the old, and especially the new testament are generally avoided by believers because they know are false? Why do they think they can pick and choose what to believe in the bible, and what not to believe?
Reasoning facts doesn't help. I think we need to debunk their only source of knowledge.
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Then they shouldn't be allowed to play with the toys we've created, like cellphones, cloth weaving machines, or use fire. Also, they don't get medicine either if they want to play that way.
They can just rub aloe juice on their tumors while chewing on abandoned carcass meat while sitting around a cold rock.
I do like what FinallyFreeFromReligion has to say about debunking the bible.
Joseph P. is correct though. A couple weeks ago I heard someone say something to the effect that he wasn't open minded about religion, and he didn't care what other people said because it keeps him sober.
There's an interesting firestorm going on between the Pharyngula site, and Ken Ham's FaceBook page today. Ken never linked to PZ's blog entry that he's blasting, and even the most mild mannered comments of question get deleted from his page. One person simply put the link up, and his comment was deleted. That, and the comments others have written that haven't been deleted as good examples of what Joseph is talking about in my opinion. Most never even saw the blog entry they're ripping apart.
"the aim is to convince the next generation of potential true believers"
I know a non-believer who joined a church so her kids can "learn to be good" [sigh]
What can you say to someone who basically says "Obedience to God *is* right and *is* what makes me moral".
There are many occasions when God orders his followers to kill people: He asked Abraham to kill Isaac (it didn't happen, but he did ask). He told Moses and the Levites to kill the people worshipping the golden calf - and they killed 3,000 in one day. He told the Israelites to kill an old man for picking up sticks on the sabbath and they went right ahead and killed the poor guy.
So ask the Christian: "If God asked you to kill someone, would you do it? Yes or No?"
If they answer "yes" it is clear that they are not moral.
If they answer "no" they are saying that they live by a moral code that is independent of God.
So they try to avoid the question with, "God would never ask me to kill anyone." But as I have just explained, God DOES ask people to kill for him.
It's amazing the number of Christians who cannot bring themselves to answer with a plain and simple "No".
It is also a little disconcerting to discover that some of them will answer, "Yes".
I like to bring it even closer to reality.
God told Andrea Yates to kill her children. Clearly, God didn't send an angel to tell her that He was just kidding, as He did with Abraham and Isaac, so He really wanted her to go through with it. Was Andrea Yates acting morally?
Some will immediately grasp the comparison, between insanity and talking to God, which I feel explains every bit of God's interaction with the prophets and the others who spoke with God. Others will try some bullshit about how of course Andrea Yates was insane, but Abraham was really speaking to God.
That's when you're allowed to laugh at them. Mockery can sometimes have an effect, and if they're that far gone, there's certainly nothing to lose by using such a harsh tactic.
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Today's guest blog post is by Sabiyha Prince (Coppin State U). Dr. Prince has volunteered to lead a program in the Anthropologists Back to School initiative. Her program will take place at The Field Museum. This new initiative seeks volunteers to lead and assist programs at various host sites throughout Chicago on Wednesday, November 20 from 9am to12pm. Share your passion of anthropology while giving back to this year's host city – Chicago. Learn more about how you can participate in Anthropologists Back to School and register today!
I am an adjunct professor at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland and a researcher and qualitative data analyst for the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum of Washington, D.C. which is currently closed due to the government shutdown. As a cultural anthropologist I have been interested in the unfolding elements of race, class, and other aspects of status and identity as these overlap to shape the conditions and experiences of African Americans in cities. This is a focus that has led me to look at socioeconomic diversity among Blacks in the U .S. and to explore the continued legacy of racial inequality in the contemporary period. Most recently my research and writing have resulted in my second book, African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, D.C. Race, Class and Social Justice in the Nation's Capital (2014).
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I am also a longtime proponent of an engaged anthropology and, as such, have worked with grassroots organizers in Washington, D.C. and anti-war, environmental justice and anti-apartheid social movements in D.C. and New Orleans, Louisiana. The Back to School program appealed to me on a number of levels although I will admit to mildly panicking after coming on board because I couldn't think of anything worthwhile to share. I have volunteered to work at The Field Museum site but when I was told Power Point presentations would not be possible I began to fear I would bore the pants off of the students in my attempt to support such an important initiative. This all changed after I read Julie Lesnik's guest blog posting and became inspired. As I began ruminating on strategies for incorporating my own research into the process my mind turned to urban change and rested on the D.C. residents without whose cooperation I would have had absolutely nothing to write about in my book. Certain the students I would come to meet in Chicago would have folks in their lives with stories in need of recording, I decided to lead mini-workshops designed to empower young people around using anthropology to explore their neighborhoods and/or surrounding areas.
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A promised "zombie invasion" this past summer came and went with more than a few hitches but without any apocalyptic catastrophe – until it came time to pay the bill. Now, those who paid money to participate in Zombie Voodoo Festival events such as the uber-hyped $10,000 Battle of the Bands contest held in Beaumont on July 7-8 are warning others that cross-country event promoters Ricky Buxton (aka Stefan duBois) and Cherilyn Ferroggiaro of Emerging Magazine took money from the Southeast Texas community and have yet to make good on paying any contest winnings.
In addition to money collected from more than a dozen Battle of the Bands contestants, the promoters also took in entry fees from Hot Zombie model hopefuls, Zombie Run fees for a race that never took place, vendor dues, and ticket sales, yet no one involved in the event has seen a penny of the money collected.
Furthermore, the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office told The Examiner that Buxton has a warrant for his arrest stemming from a bad check passed to a Beaumont businesswoman – and this is after Buxton recently spent time in an Orange County jail on a separate theft by check charge, according to Orange County Assistant District Attorney Cory Kneeland.
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Zombie Voodoo Fest 2012, promoted by Emerging Magazine figureheads Buxton and wife Ferroggiaro, was scheduled to have four tour stops – one in Southeast Texas, and others in California, Virginia and Michigan. Each event was touted and booked as a multi-day festival paying top-dollar prizes to contestants in a Zombie Run, Battle of the Bands and Hot Zombie contest. Beaumont hosted the premier event, but if the couple's first foray into the zombie fest business is any indication, participants at the remaining tour stops are in for more of a trick than a treat.
"It seemed too good to be true," P.J. Disharoon of the Beaumont-based band Angel Siren said. According to Disharoon, a $10,000 payout for a Battle of the Bands contest seemed unrealistic but with an album to make and funds not coming in for the project, the band members decided to give the contest a shot. "There were so many good bands there, I was very surprised when they said we won. Third place was about $2,500, and we would have been happy to get that."
Disharoon and his fellow band members wouldn't rejoice for long. A month after winning the top prize, the group had not seen any of the promised payout.
"We waited patiently for 30 days," Disharoon said. "(Buxton) said we had to wait 30 days for the insurance to pay out the prize money. We were skeptical, but optimistic."
Pessimism crept in after the 30th day when any payment had yet to be made on the winnings. Buxton's company, Emerging Magazine, released word the second week of August that the band will not be collecting any proceeds from the elusive insurance money and that the event promoters would be making $500 bi-weekly payments to the band until the $10,000 was paid in full from their own pocket.
The Examiner first revealed that contestant winners, along with the Crockett Street venue, had not been paid in an Aug. 9 article. Zombie Wedding bride Ashley Wells-Barlow said she, too, was defrauded by Buxton and Ferroggiaro, who had promised Barlow and her new husband a honeymoon vacation for their participation in the Zombie Voodoo event. Buxton, who has not responded to a request for an interview, did respond online in a rebuttal to the initial claims made against the couple's failed venture.
"Anyone desiring to know the actual truth may call me directly (1-888-244-4418)," he claimed. The number, used as a contact for ticket sales and the Emerging Magazine business phone, has since been shut off, although the number still appears on the magazine's webpage.
Also still appearing on the business webpage is an advertisement for future Zombie Voodoo Fest tour dates, although at least one of those events has met with an untimely end. According to the venue manger at the Bates Haunted Sawmill in Michigan, Buxton wanted to reschedule the Zombie Voodoo event for the spring of 2013.
"We were already feeling kind of iffy about it," the manager, who didn't want his name associated with Buxton's event, said. "If anybody is still buying tickets from him, they shouldn't be."
According to the Sawmill representative, several pre-paid contest participants have sought a way to get their money returned to them – to no avail.
"He won't answer calls or anything," he said. "I hope they can get their money back, but I just don't know …"
Beaumont's Battle of the Bands winner Angel Siren still hadn't received any payment by the time of this article's publication, according to Disharoon, who said the band received an online message from Buxton stating that Angel Siren is no longer considered the event's winner. Buxton's message to Disharoon states that the rightful winners Skanky Dave and the Bumpin Uglies, and Autumn Stay, who tied for first place.
Skanky Dave vocalist Kyle Davis said his group did receive word Oct. 8 stating that they were now considered the Beaumont Zombie Voodoo Festival Battle of the Bands winners with the implication that $5,000 in prize money would be forthcoming. Davis said he has doubts as to whether Buxton's promises of a payout are true, though.
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Davis said he hopes the money materializes, but he isn't holding his breath.
"There are a lot of people out there trying to take advantage of people," he said. According to Davis, Buxton had previously told Skanky Dave the group had won studio time in California – another empty promise. "No one ever got anything," Davis said in conclusion. "I don't know if we'll ever get anything, either."
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Disharoon said musicians need to be wary about prizes that "are too good to be true," but still calls what Buxton and Ferroggiaro did was inexcusable.
"We're not naïve, but it was wrong to give people false hopes," he said. Disharoon said the group now has zero hope of ever getting paid, and civil litigation "is more time and money than it's worth."
At this point, Disharoon concluded, "I'm more passionate about trying to warn other people to stay away from this scam than I am about trying to collect any money for myself.
"I think they'll do it again."
Buxton and Ferroggiaro were again scheduled to host an event in Southeast Texas, dubbed NxStacy, but it has since been canceled. According to a webpage devoted to the event, the new venue will be in Jacksonville, Fla., with invited guest Grammy-winning The Wanted expected to perform. Examiner entertainment editor Chad Cooper's connections within the industry have debunked that notion, saying the A-list group is not in the country and not touring at this time.


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