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Forget beer pong. "Icing" is the latest game to break out of the frat house.
Icing involves creatively accosting a (typically bro-ish) buddy and handing him a bottle of Smirnoff Ice, at which point he must descend to one knee and drink the "flavored malt beverage" on the spot. The game is fun because A) icing can take place anywhere and catching your friends off guard is awesome, and B) it's super embarrassing for your friend because, dude, guys hate Smirnoff Ice.
Icing has a thriving Internet presence, fueled by Facebook, YouTube videos and the website Bros Icing Bros. The game jumped from college campuses to male-dominated offices and even celebrities. Coolio, the rapper, was recently iced while onstage (wait, does Coolio count as a bro?) and there is a website dedicated to the icing of actor Ashton Kucher.
Unfortunately, there are only two ways out of being "iced." If someone attempts to ice you and you happen to be carrying a bottle of Smirnoff Ice already, you can "ice block" and your friend has to drop to one knee and drink. Or you could flat-out refuse, which means you will be "excommunicated and shunned" and thus never allowed to participate in the game again. It is unclear how this is a bad thing.
Obviously the anytime, anyplace idea behind the game is bound to lead to at least a few unfortunate situations. According to Facebook updates featured on College Humor, at least one icing has resulted in an open container fine and a D.U.I. arrest. Rather than putting an end to the game though, the ice victim has vowed retaliation, giving new meaning to the term (wait for it) 'ice-cold revenge'.


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There are a number of things that can be done to plan for care in the future. These are known collectively as 'advance care planning'. Advance Decisions and Advance Statements enable individuals to make decisions about their views, preferences and wishes about future care before they are no longer able to and provide guidance to relatives and others supporting them.
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In a perfect world, Morgan Rielly would like to be in Toronto with the Maple Leafs in October. But it's not that simple.
The 19-year-old defenceman is in no-man's land, caught between being too good for junior and perhaps not yet ready for the NHL. He's too young to play in the AHL with the Marlies, yet Rielly is at the point where he might be bored dominating the Western Hockey League.
"It's not something where he needs to mature and he needs to learn how to be the guy because I think he already knows how to be the guy," Leafs director of player development Jim Hughes said. "Has he outgrown that role? It's possible that he has and that he needs new challenges."
How to get him new challenges is an organizational concern for the Leafs, who already have an established defensive corps led by Dion Phaneuf and a young defenceman in Jake Gardiner they need to blend in with the rest of the group. There's no sense in rushing Rielly, who could be a star but might need patience before his time comes.
"I understand that I have plenty of time to play pro hockey," said Rielly, the No. 5 pick in the 2012 draft. "If I don't play this year, that doesn't mean that I won't ever play in the NHL. That's a goal I have. But if not, I've just got to keep working hard, keep trying to get better. I'll be 20 this time next year, which is still pretty young, so I'm not too concerned about it. But that's a goal I'm pretty driven to achieve."
The Maple Leafs understand the delicate situation they're in with Rielly. Hughes said being in the pressure-packed Toronto market ups the ante on making sure they don't derail his development by either pushing him into the NHL too soon or keeping him in the WHL too long.
"We've got to do it right," Hughes said. "You can see how Nazem (Kadri), how he's turned the corner. So we need to get this right. But Morgan, he's mature, and he's sharp and he's physically strong. He's got that strong, wide base and foundation. He doesn't get knocked off the puck. So he's a little bit further ahead, and it's going to be real dicey to see how this all unfolds."
Rielly is waiting along with everyone else. He was almost a point-a-game player last season for the Moose Jaw Warriors, who finished 10th out of 12 teams in the WHL's Western Conference.
There's not much else he can achieve at the junior level, except perhaps feel better about his game as a top prospect who controls the play.
"I think I'd get a chance to be an older player on a team that's quite young. I think that's a pretty good opportunity to just be a leader," Rielly said. "I think if you're playing well every night and you're a huge part of the team, I think that can help the confidence."
Rielly got a chance to make a cameo appearance with the Marlies late last season, playing 14 regular-season and eight playoff games. He didn't play alongside Gardiner but got a chance to speak to the 23-year-old defenceman whose twisting path in Toronto could serve as a cautionary tale.
Gardiner is expected to be a Leafs fixture next season after spending most of 2012-13 with the Marlies.
"He's obviously a great player, and he has a whole lot of years of pro hockey to play still," Rielly said. "If I can play like him one day I'll be pretty happy."
Rielly would like that one day to be this fall. The Leafs could keep him around for up to nine games before returning him to his junior team without using a year of his entry-level contract, something that would give him a taste of the NHL.
It could also serve as a test of the puck-moving defenceman's readiness. Any other avenue would continue to test his patience.
"Obviously I want to play pro hockey, that's a goal, but I think you kind of have to appreciate the players that are also competing against you, that I'm only a teenager now," Rielly said. "You have to be patient with it, and that's often pretty hard. I think you've just got to be smart with it and appreciate the opportunity that I have to even have that chance. It's tough, but you have to do it, I guess."


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JERUSALEM (RNS) Israel, like the United States, is a largely secular society with deep religious roots. And Israel, like the United States, is home to vocal religious conservatives who frown on homosexuality.
But Israel, unlike the United States, has allowed gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military for 17 years. In fact, they are required to.
So, if Israel has found a way to allow gays in the military, can it provide lessons to the U.S. as it struggles with whether—and how—to dismantle Don't Ask/Don't Tell?
Perhaps. But like everything in Israel, it's a bit more complicated. And the comparison between the U.S. and Israel is inexact.
By most accounts, Israel's integration of gays in the military has succeeded, and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has reportedly begun to share its experiences with the U.S. military.
While the Obama Administration continues to wrangle in court over a federal judge's ruling that declared Don't Ask/Don't Tell unconstitutional, the Pentagon has directed military recruiters to start accepting applications from all qualified potential recruits, regardless of sexual orientation.
If the courts or Congress overturn Don't Ask/Don't Tell, the U.S. will become the 26th nation to fully integrate gay and straight members of the military, according to the Palm Center, a think tank at the University of California Santa Barbara.
Aaron Belkin, the center's director, said full integration has been successful even in countries engaged in frequent combat, citing Israel, American's closet ally in the Middle East, as an example.
"The lesson the U.S. military can learn from the Israeli military is there are no negative consequences" to inclusion, "even when the military is a battle-tested force like the IDF," Belkin said.
Drafting openly gay soldiers into the IDF and other military forces "has been highly successful and has no negative impact on morale, retention, readiness or overall combat effectiveness," according to a Palm Center report, "Gays in Foreign Militaries 2010."
Israel has reportedly offered advice to a commission on repealing Don't Ask/Don't Tell. Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia Smith declined to go into detail, but hinted that at least some talks had already occurred.
"I don't have any information on that," Smith said. "It's part of a comprehensive working group (report) that will be presented to the Secretary of Defense Dec. 1."
An IDF spokesman would only say that "the IDF routinely cooperates with the armies of other countries on a number of different levels."
Israel's transition to full integration took time and planning. As a nation with mandatory military service for both men and women, and a strong religious ethos that dictates almost every facet of everyday life, the Israeli government treaded carefully.
The IDF began placing openly gay soldiers in units as early as 1983. It took another 10 years for full acceptance, following a 1992 parliamentary law on equality. Internal monitoring of gays continued until 1998.
Only then did homosexuality in the IDF "became totally a non-issue," said Frances Raday, a professor of international law at the College of Management Academic Studies in the city of Rishon Lezion.
Even with the heavy influence Israel's ultra-conservative religious political parties wield in parliament, the country has "an extremely liberal stand on homosexuality," said Raday.
Rabbi David Rosen, the Jerusalem-based international director of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee, noted that the same ultra-Orthodox leaders who regularly decry gay pride parades never tried to stop openly gay soldiers from IDF service.
One reason, Rosen theorized, is that they did not want to open a national debate over who can serve in the IDF, because ultra-Orthodox seminary students are exempt from military service—a policy that a majority of Israelis want to cancel.
Religious Zionists—Modern Orthodox Jews who serve in the IDF—have been more preoccupied with preventing interaction between male and female soldiers than the status of gays and lesbians, Rosen said.
"This was a centrally dominant issue in the whole national discourse of religion, state, security and sexuality the early decades of statehood," Rosen said, "and even today it hasn't been totally resolved."
One outcome of the debate was the establishment of National Service, a voluntary alternative to military duty open to religious young women and some men, including Arab citizens. Before Israel changed its law, many gays and lesbians performed National Service.
Yonatan Gher, director of the Jerusalem Open House, a prominent Israeli gay rights group, said the IDF "seeks out" training from gay groups in order to better serve and integrate the soldiers.
"We speak with them regularly, especially with commanders and educators," Gher said, adding that the IDF has been "sharing its information" with the Pentagon.
Amit Lev, who disclosed his homosexuality during a stint in the IDF, believes that within the proper environment, being gay in the military "can be a non-issue."
"Unlike Israel, in the U.S. no one has to serve in the army," Lev said. "Those who volunteer, whether they're gay or straight, are already motivated and will be good soldiers."
(Whitney Jones contributed to this report from Washington.)


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08-Apr-2009 -- We paid a park ranger and a taximoto driver to take us into the park on their motorcycles. The park ranger was invited mostly for his gun in case of a lion attack, which turned out to be unnecessary as the only animal we saw the entire time was a single warthog. We did see a bunch of elephant tracks in the dried mud, though, and there were a lot of paths that had been created by them trampling everything in their way. The closest we could get to the Confluence on the road was about 8 km, so we had to ride our motorcycles into the bush, which did not please the drivers. The vegetation alternated between extremely thick forest and empty, burned out patches. I'm still somewhat amazed that we got anywhere. After about an hour we got to within 800 meters of the Confluence when the park ranger's motorcycle got a flat.
We walked the rest of the way and found the Confluence under a tree, surrounded by the remains of what the park ranger claimed to be a prehistoric village. There were thousands of shards of old clay pots half-buried everywhere. We also found an old grinding stone which he told us was what they used before people invented the yam-smashing devices they use today to make pounded yams. The odds of this are pretty unbelievable - for the entirety of the trip we saw absolutely no signs of human civilization.
We took our pictures and returned to where the other guy was with the motorcycles. The ranger claimed he knew a shortcut to a road, where we could then take the one good motorcycle back to Karimama. "It's only 3 km away!" he said. After walking for three kilometers in the unbearable heat (it was well over 100°F/38°C), I asked him to show me on the map exactly where we were going. I put the coordinates in my GPS unit and it calculated that it was 14 kilometers away - six kilometers further than the park entrance we had come in through.
Just after we decided it would be better to cut our losses and hike back to the entrance, the other motorcycle got a flat. Up to that point we had been taking turns riding slowly on it as the others walked. So not only did we no longer have that option, but it slowed us down even more as the taximoto driver wasn't exactly in great shape and he couldn't push his motorcycle nearly as fast as the rest of us could walk.
About two hours later we made it back to the entrance. Our water had run out and we were exhausted. The taximoto guy pumped up his flat tire enough for him to take me and my friend back to Karimama. We left the park ranger at the entrance and the taximoto driver promised to come back to bring him a tire (which he did).


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Monsters Inc. was released in 2001 and is the fourth most successful film from Disney/Pixar's belt. Focusing on the notion that monsters are in our closets to scare us and gain energy for their own city, Monstropolis, the original captured our hearts with characters like Boo, Sully and Mike E.
At the end of the movie, Boo must return home and Mike and Sully watch her door go through the dredded door shredder. The last scene in the movie gives us a glimmer of hope.
A hope that today was not satisfied by the latest Pixar/Disney trailer.
In the lastest installment of the Monster world, Mike and Sully are in college.
Yup. Its time for a prequel and its called Monsters University. In the trailer, we see Mike and Sully before they started as co-workers at Monsters Inc.
My question is: Why?
Why did Pixar choose this route over the popular notion of seeing Boo again? Disney has done a direct sequel before, in Peter Pan: Return to Neverland. However, as disappointing as it is not to have a follow-up to the end of Monsters, Inc., it's nice to see a return to the Monster world.
Who knows…we might see Boo again in an actual sequel. For now, this will have to satisfy.


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The brief was to create a home for an extended Johannesburg family. Situated in Houghton on a gentle slope, the site is surrounded by trees and has views from the upper levels.
The site was split into two separate sites organised around a common entrance and driveway providing access to both houses. The houses have a U-shaped configuration organised around an internal courtyard and allows access to all of the living spaces and the swimming pool. A perforated wall separates the public forecourt from the private spaces.
Internally the spaces pivot around a central volume with a ribbon like spiral stair. The living spaces, kitchen and private garden are to the north, while the games room, pool and gym are to the west. All of these spaces connect to the courtyard which in turn connects back to the main house and its living spaces.
Because of the west facing façade, a set of large shutters, which drop below the level of the first floor slab, provide shade and protection from the setting sun. Care was also taken in selecting performance-glass that would minimise the impact of direct sun. The bedrooms and study are on the upper level. The passage to the children's bedroom runs along the perforated wall that separates the building from the driveway.
ANTONI ASSOCIATES were appointed to create a contemporary interior which needed to reflect their family lifestyle. The décor and furniture selected are modern and have strong lines to complement the linear architecture. A number of bespoke furniture pieces were designed by OKHA Interiors. Neutral palettes with accent colours have been used throughout. Strong graphic rugs add drama and texture to the rooms which offset against the solid architectural surfaces. Curated art by South African artists amongst others Lyndi Sales and Philip Barlow have been placed throughout the house.


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Integration with Vente Unique is a two-way integration that offers downloading orders from the marketplace to the BaseLinker panel, as well as listing and synchronizing offers. For listing you can use your store's warehouse, BaseLinker warehouse, wholesaler or external ERP system. Orders from Vente Unique can be handled in the BaseLinker Order Manager or forwarded to the store / ERP. The number of Vente Unique connected accounts is unlimited - you can add as many accounts as you need within your business, without affecting the subscription amount.
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It may seem counterintuitive, but the recession forced companies to put the brakes on outsourcing IT and other jobs. But with growth returning, outsourcing was hot again in 2011 -- and it will be hotter this year, says Christopher Ford, a partner who runs the Morrison & Foerster law firm's Global Sourcing Group. What's more, most of the election-year rhetoric about keeping jobs in the United States is just that: rhetoric, or as Ford puts it, "a shell game."
Ford's law firm just published a report that shows changes in the outsourcing market. Although the group generally sees continued growth in the use of IT outsourcing, it's not all going overseas (that is, being offshored). In some segments, the "send it abroad to save a buck" argument no longer holds water, and that's meaning "insourcing" to providers in the U.S.
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For example, Ford says "labor arbitrage" -- the difference in wage rates between the United States and other countries -- is decreasing, particularly in the eastern region of China, where Foxconn and other giants crank out products for Apple and many other U.S. technology firms. Indeed, the Chinese themselves are well aware of that trend and are emphasizing advantages beyond cheaper labor costs. That's an important issue in the manufacture of consumer electronics products like the iPad, which have labor costs that are a relatively small part of the overall price of goods sold.
Meanwhile, lower-wage areas of the United States are starting to see companies moving in, a phenomenon Ford calls "rural-sourcing." Although many, and perhaps most, of the companies shifting to rural America are still small, large companies are also packing up and planting parts of their operations in places like North Dakota. For example, Microsoft has been in that state since 2007, and last year it opened a campus in Fargo that employs about 1,500 people. Not coincidentally, North Dakota has the lowest unemployment rate in the entire country: 3.3 percent at the end of 2011, compared to the national rate of 8.3 percent.
The key trends in outsourcing
With offices and associates on three continents -- North America, Europe, and Asia -- Morrison & Foerster is an important deal maker and adviser to companies that are outsourcing, and it has a global view that makes its report worth reading. "The U.S. outsourcing market is recovering, with the financial services segment leading the pack. For all industry sectors, however, 2011 activity was essentially at or above the five-year average, which we take as an indication of a broad-based increase in overall economic strength -- and a rising tide that is lifting all boats," the report says.
Why did outsourcing slow during the worst of the recession? Companies balked at the high upfront costs of outsourcing (you pay the outsourcer a big chunk of change to learn your processes and technology, hire people, train them, and then transfer the work), and they weren't willing to wait the years it would taken to recover that initial outlay through subsequent savings, Ford says.
The report reveals other key findings.
- China is moving beyond manufacturing: Today, the Chinese outsourcing industry is roughly a $20 billion business, and the Chinese government is intent on growing that number. The country's list of designated outsourcing "hub" cities was expanded from 10 to 21. Companies providing outsourcing services to other countries in these locations receive various tax breaks through 2013. The government is encouraging Chinese firms to proviide outsourcing services for a broad range of technologies. These include not only traditional services such as application development and maintenance but also animation and special effects for the television and videogame industries, as well as R&D services for the pharmaceutical industry.


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Tokyo opens 2020 Olympic bid campaign in London
Tokyo began its international promotion campaign for the 2020 Olympics in London on Thursday, promising to match or surpass the success of the games held there six months ago.
Getting a jump on rivals Madrid and Istanbul, Tokyo officials outlined their candidacy at a news conference three days after submitting bid documents to the International Olympic Committee in Switzerland.
Tokyo played up Japan's economic stability and safety and dismissed concerns about nuclear radiation, the territorial dispute with China and public support levels below those of Istanbul and Madrid.
With a high-profile delegation featuring Tokyo's new governor, Naoki Inose, the Japanese team sought to capitalize on the feel-good factor of the London Games.
''London 2012 was seen as a shining example of how to host, deliver and celebrate an Olympic Games,'' bid leader Tsunekazu Takeda said. ''Our aim is to raise the bar even higher.''
Tokyo, which hosted the 1964 Olympics, is bidding for a second straight time after finishing third in the IOC vote for the 2016 Games, which went to Rio de Janeiro. Madrid is bidding for a third consecutive time, while Istanbul is back after four previous attempts.
The IOC will select the host city by secret ballot in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Sept. 7.
''We have kept the best (from the 2016 bid) and improved the rest,'' said Takeda, who heads Japan's national Olympic committee and became an IOC member last year.
Taking a central role and fielding most of the questions was Inose, who was elected governor in December.
''I'm determined to host the games in the same splendid way as London,'' he said.
Tokyo, which has been installed as the favorite by British bookmakers, has been rated highly by the IOC for its technical bid but faces the emotional pull of Istanbul, seeking to take the Olympics to a new part of the world in a city that straddles Europe and Asia.
While London spent nearly $16 billion in public funds on building venues for the Olympics, Tokyo has a $4.5 billion ''reserve fund'' for infrastructure projects for the games. That compares with $19.2 billion for Istanbul and $1.9 billion for Madrid.
The governor said Japan has the world's third largest economy and Tokyo the biggest GDP of any city in the world.
One of Tokyo's weaknesses has been public support, but Inose said enthusiasm has been growing since Japan's strong showing at the London Olympics. A poll by Tokyo organizers cited in the bid book put public support in the city at 62.5 percent, much higher than the 47 percent recorded in an IOC poll last year but still far below Istanbul (93 percent) and Madrid (80 percent).
''There are similarities between the people of London and Tokyo,'' Inose said. ''I'm confident the rate of support will be very high.''
The governor also downplayed the simmering territorial dispute with China over control of islands in the East China Sea. Tensions intensified after Tokyo bought the islands from their Japanese private owners in September, prompting Chinese to hold demonstrations and boycott Japanese products.
''Territorial questions happen all the time in the whole world,'' Inose said. ''I'm sure both countries will be able to find a peaceful way to resolve it.''
Inose is taking a different line from his predecessor, Shintaro Ishihara, who was a hawk on China and stirred up the dispute with Beijing.
Inose also dismissed concerns about long-lasting effects of the earthquake and tsunami in 2011 that crippled the Fukushima nuclear plant.
''The radiation numbers in Tokyo are normal,'' he said. ''They may be high in Fukushima, but Tokyo is 220 kilometers (135 miles) away. The radiation levels in Tokyo are the same as here in London.''
Looking ahead to September, Tokyo officials said they fully expect new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to take part in the final presentation in Buenos Aires. That would be in line with the recent trend of heads of state or government attending the IOC votes.
''I will make him come,'' Inose said with a laugh.


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Bloated belly problems are more and more common among individuals of all ages.
There is a feeling of discomfort, largeness and inflation which is often mistaken for fatness. According to people's experiences, bloating feels like a huge balloon inside your stomach, followed by uneasiness and a sense of being overweight.
Although there are many theories on how get rid of a bloated belly, the cure is quite simple. Well-known nutritionist and healthy food author, Cynthia Sass introduced a tonic that is bound to cure bloated belly in no time.
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Alongside this, Cynthia Sass also encourages incorporating a weight loss program known as 'The flat belly diet'. The diet emphasizes the consumption of the Sassy water and enables losing excess fat quickly.
The liquid disallows water retention, and by solely drinking plain water, you won't get the same effects. With this drink, you will increase the intake of electrolytes, and speed up the organism.
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Is the new economy driving the Court's docket?
on Oct 15, 2012 at 1:51 pm
The decline in the Court's merits docket is of course old news to SCOTUSblog readers, from about 150 cases a year at the dawn of the Rehnquist Court to about half that in the recent years of the Roberts Court. And of course, the rapid decline in the last few years is also noteworthy — from 84 in OT2010 to 75 last year to only 48 cases granted so far for OT2012.
What might not be quite so obvious is the relative rise of intellectual property cases on the Court's docket. A recent lengthy piece in the New York Times emphasized the role that patent litigation has played in a variety of "new-economy" sectors. What we can observe from the Court's docket is that the number of intellectual property cases has been increasing in recent decades, even as the Court's docket has shrunk. To be sure, the number of cases is so small that it is difficult without looking at the numbers over a long period of time to be sure that these numbers represent real long-term trends. Still, the presence of four core IP cases among the 48 grants to date for OT2012 (Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Already LLC v. Nike, Bowman v. Monsanto Co., and Gunn v. Minton), 8% of the argument calendar, is remarkable. For comparison, I count 5% IP cases in OT2011 (4/75) and 6% in OT 2010 (5/84). To get a sense for longer trends, ten years ago the Court decided 3 IP cases out of 73 opinions (4%) and twenty years ago only 2 out of 114 (2%).
But before we jump on the "trendiness" bandwagon, there is another equally simple way to describe the trend in the Court's docket – bashing the Federal Circuit. All who read the Court's IP cases know that many of the Justices seem to have lost confidence in the Federal Circuit, at least in part because of an excessive tendency toward a broad interpretation of patent rights. This has led to an increasing willingness, reminiscent of the Court's treatment of the Ninth Circuit in past years, to review relatively minor decisions from the Federal Circuit. Because there is a big overlap in IP cases and Federal Circuit decisions, could this be the answer?
Probably not. The docket for OT2012 so far includes only 2 decisions out of 48 from the Federal Circuit (4%), which is about the same as OT2011 (3/75), but a sharp drop from OT2010 (7/82). For comparison, this has the Court reviewing essentially the same number of cases from the Federal Circuit as it has from the Sixth Circuit (13 cases since OT2010), and far less than the Ninth Circuit (56 cases since OT2010, more than a quarter of the Court's entire docket).
So where does this leave us? It appears that the decided contraction of the Court's docket well might bring with it a concerted focus on the kinds of questions that the Justices think are systemically important. And the focus on intellectual property certainly should be one of them.


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San Antonio, city, seat (1837) of Bexar county, south-central Texas, U.S. It is situated at the headwaters of the San Antonio River on the Balcones Escarpment, about 80 miles (130 km) southwest of Austin. The second most-populous city in Texas, it is the focus of a metropolitan area that includes Alamo Heights, Castle Hills, Converse, Kirby, Leon Valley, Live Oak, Schertz, Terrell Hills, Universal City, and Windcrest. Inc. 1809. Area city, 412 square miles (1,067 square km). Pop. (2010) 1,327,407; San Antonio Metro Area, 2,142,508; (2020) 1,434,625; San Antonio–New Braunfels Metro Area, 2,558,143.
Spanish explorers first visited the site, then a camp of the Payaya Indians, in 1691. San Antonio was founded May 1, 1718, when a Spanish expedition from Mexico established the Mission San Antonio de Valero. The mission, later called the Alamo (Spanish: "Cottonwood"), was one of five founded in the area and was named for St. Anthony of Padua. On May 5 a presidio (military garrison) known as San Antonio de Béxar was established nearby. The site, on the river's west bank, was a stopping place on the trail through the Texas wilderness between missions on the Rio Grande and those in East Texas.
In 1731 settlers from the Canary Islands laid out the town of San Fernando de Béxar near the presidio, where a civilian community had been planned when the presidio and mission were established. During its early years the settlement suffered from raids by Apache and Comanche tribes. The mission was secularized in 1793 and became a military post. San Fernando de Béxar functioned as provincial capital from 1773 to 1824, but in subsequent years its political authority waned. By 1837, when it became a county seat of the Republic of Texas, it had been renamed San Antonio.
At the time of Mexican independence in 1821, San Antonio was, along with Goliad and Nacogdoches, one of three established Spanish communities in Texas. In the summer of that year, Stephen Austin arrived in the city—then seat of the Spanish government in Texas—to follow through on a permit obtained by his father for the admission of 300 U.S. families into the territory. In December 1835, at the outset of the Texas Revolution, Texan forces occupied the Alamo. They remained there until March 1836, when they were massacred by Mexican troops under Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna following a 13-day siege. The presidio ceased to exist with the independence of Texas in April.
In 1836 San Antonio was still the foremost city of Texas, with some 2,500 inhabitants. It grew rapidly after independence, led by large numbers of German immigrants. During the last decades of the 19th century, San Antonio, as the starting point for the Chisholm Trail, became a major cattle centre, where herds were assembled for the overland drives to the railheads in Kansas.
The city quickly became the commercial hub of the Southwest. The arrival of the first railroad in 1877 brought migrants from the American South, and Mexican immigrants settled there after the start of the Mexican Revolution in 1910. San Antonio was a major military centre during World Wars I and II, a factor that continued to dominate its economy in subsequent decades. In 1968 a world's exposition, known as HemisFair, was held there to commemorate the city's 250th anniversary and to celebrate its cultural ties with Latin America. In 1981 Henry Cisneros was elected the city's first Hispanic mayor since the mid-19th century; Cisneros served until 1989. In 2001 Ed Garza was elected the city's second modern-era Hispanic mayor and was in office until 2005.
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San Antonio's character is a colourful blend of Mexican and Texan culture. It is 150 miles (240 km) from the Mexican border at Laredo, on one of the most-traveled routes to Mexico. Much of its population (about three-fifths) is of Hispanic (mainly Mexican) descent, and many are Spanish-speaking or bilingual. It preserves much of its historical atmosphere and embraces its cultural diversity. Remains of 18th-century Spanish structures dot the city, contrasting with modern office buildings.
Military installations largely account for San Antonio's rapid growth after 1940. Fort Sam Houston (1879), inside the city, is the headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Army and is the site of a national cemetery and the Academy of Health Sciences, the army's basic school for medical personnel. Nearby are three U.S. Air Force bases: Lackland, Randolph, and Brooks. Lackland, in the southwestern part of the city, is a training base for recruits. Randolph, in a suburban area to the northeast, is headquarters of the Air Education and Training Command. Brooks, in the southeastern part of the city, is the site of the School of Aerospace Medicine. The region's first air base, Kelly (established 1917), was closed in 2001, and its site was redeveloped for business use.
In addition to the military, major components of San Antonio's economy are education, health care and medical research, business and financial services, and—most importantly—tourism. Manufactures include aerospace equipment, textiles, semiconductors, industrial machinery, and shoes; there are also oil refineries. Agricultural production in the area includes cattle, poultry, peanuts (groundnuts), sorghum, vegetables, and greenhouse plants; the processing of and research on agricultural products is also important. A large portion of trade between Mexico and the United States passes through the San Antonio area's interstate highway system. The city also has an international airport.
San Antonio is the seat of St. Mary's University (1852), Trinity University (1869), the University of the Incarnate Word (1881), Our Lady of the Lake University (1896), St. Philip's College (1898), San Antonio College (1925), and the University of Texas at San Antonio (1969). A health science centre of the University of Texas is also there.
The River Walk, or Paseo del Rio, is San Antonio's outdoor centrepiece. Winding through the downtown area, its landscaped banks are lined with shops and restaurants. San Antonio Missions National Historical Park (established 1978) preserves the Spanish missions Nuestra Señora de la Concepción de Acuña, San José y San Miguel de Aguayo, San Juan Capistrano, and San Francisco de la Espada. The park, with a total area of about 1.3 square miles (3.3 square km), is located along the Mission Trail, which begins at the Alamo and extends 9 miles (14 km) southeastward along the San Antonio River. Casa Navarro State Historic Site preserves the home (c. 1848) of José Antonio Navarro, a Mexican statesman who supported the independence of Texas. Other historic sites include the famous Alamo (maintained as a state historic site), the reconstructed Spanish Governor's Palace (1749), and La Villita (a section of reconstructed Spanish settlement). The Alamo, the four missions in the national historic park, and the Rancho de las Cabras to the southeast in Floresville (also part of the national historic park) were collectively designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2015.
HemisFair Park, the site of the world's fair, is linked to the central city by the River Walk and is used for conventions and exhibitions; the park's Institute of Texan Cultures traces nationalities of Texas, and its Tower of the Americas, 750 feet (229 metres) tall, is a city landmark. San Fernando Cathedral (completed 1873) is the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishopric. The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum contains a notable collection of modern French paintings, and the Witte Museum houses Texas artifacts. The San Antonio Museum of Art has a collection of Latin American art, and the Museo Alameda, which is affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution, is dedicated to Latin American culture. The city also has dozens of music, dance, and theatre organizations, including a professional symphony. SeaWorld San Antonio includes amusement rides and animal shows as well as marine animal exhibits. The Alamodome (1993) is the site of conventions, concerts, and sporting events. The city's professional basketball team, the Spurs, was one of the most successful NBA franchises of the 21st century. The San Antonio Zoo, which includes an aquarium, is a popular attraction. Annual events include a rodeo (February), Fiesta San Antonio (April), and the Texas Folklife Festival (June).The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica


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Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae. Cannabis has long been used for hemp fibre, for hemp oils, for medicinal purposes, and as a recreational drug. Industrial hemp products are made from cannabis plants selected to produce an abundance of fiber.
- Marijuana will not tolerate repression. Tranquillizers and depressants relax the body and release tension, but the state of mind associated with these drugs is "unconsciousness" whereby we escape rather than resolve our dilemmas. Alcoholism is an extreme need of both the body and personality sometimes to release the nervousness that has accumulated and continues to build up to an unbearable degree. It serves the same function for the collective personality for the society as well. A culture in which alcohol and tranquillizers are the prevalent form of release prefers not to witness internal confusion and actually chooses to act without conscious participation, maintaining a semi-numb condition.
- Joan Bello, The Benefits of Marijuana: Physical, Psychological & Spiritual (2007), p. 56
- Marijuana can act as the loosening agent, so that whatever has been banned from consciousness may come cascading forth. To uncover our deceptions without our usual rationalizations can be unpleasant, an experience that has turned many psychologically fragile individuals away from marijuana despite its therapeutic catharsis.
- Joan Bello, The Benefits of Marijuana: Physical, Psychological & Spiritual (2007), p. 50
- For me, it was like this: pronounced antipathy to conversing about matters of practical life, the future, dates, politics. You are fixated on the intellectual sphere as a man possessed may be fixated on the sexual: under its spell, sucked into it.
- Walter Benjamin, "Main features of my first impression of hashish," December 18, 1927, On Hashish (2006), p. 21
- You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses.
- Walter Benjamin, "Main features of my first impression of hashish," December 18, 1927, On Hashish (2006), p. 22
- HEMP, n. A plant from whose fibrous bark is made an article of neckwear which is frequently put on after public speaking in the open air and prevents the wearer from taking cold.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
- I believe pot should be legalized (and Jack Daniels should always remain legal!)
- Brent Budowsky, In shock poll, Libertarian Johnson beats Trump among economists, The Hill (August 23, 2016)
- I had gotten caught with a shopping bag full of Marijuana, a shopping bag full of love - I was in love with the weed and I did not for one minute think that anything was wrong with getting high. I had been getting high for four or five years and was convinced, with the zeal of a crusader, that marijuana was superior to lush - yet the rulers of the land seemed all to be lushes. I could not see how they were more justified in drinking than I was in blowing the gage. I was a grasshopper, and it was natural that I felt myself to be unjustly prosecuted.
- Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice (1968), p. 22
- The Rastas, more than any other group, have elevated ganja to a central place in their religious practice and have developed a well-articulated ideology justifying its use and explaining its significance. ... Rastas regard the proscription of ganja use by Babylon's government as part of its strategy of social control.
- Ennis Barrington Edmonds, Rastafari: From Outcasts to Culture Bearers (Oxford University Press: 2002), pp. 60-61
- As a source of illumination, ganga has become an instrument in the war against Babylon and Babylonian consciousness. Its use, therefore, plays a major role in the de-alienation and decolonization of the African mind.
- Ennis Barrington Edmonds, Rastafari: From Outcasts to Culture Bearers (Oxford University Press: 2002), p. 61
- The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.
- John Ehrlichman, as Interviewed by Dan Baum, in "Legalize it All" Harper's Magazine, April 2016
- Dope gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times with no dope
- Fat Freddie and Freewheeling Franklin in Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
- Not only is pot way cooler than alcohol, it's also non-toxic. Dylan Thomas could not have smoked himself to death.
- Greta Gaines, in rhetoric for an end to Marijuana prohibition laws, in "Why Are No Women Celebrity Stoners Willing to Come Out of the Greenhouse?" (16 August 2012)
- The perception that cannabis is a safe drug is a mistaken reaction to a past history of exaggeration of its health risks.
- Wayne Denis Hall and Meredith Engel, "Marijuana can cause mental disorders, loss of intelligence: 20-year study", New York Daily News (7 October 2014)
- I've smoked marijuana, I choose not to smoke marijuana, but when I smoked it the first time, you know what I thought when I smoked it the first time? I thought, "the government lied." I just think that the government should tell the truth when it comes to these drugs. Look, marijuana is safer than alcohol, and don't trust me on this but the City of Denver, five years ago, voted on the decriminalization of marijuana on a campaign based on marijuana being safer than alcohol.
- Gary Johnson, "Statement from Interview with Stephen Colbert", Colbert Report, 10 May 2010, retrieved on 2012-02-24
- The fact that I got to be the CEO of a publicly traded company in the marijuana space, that was something that was completely unexpected. But very quickly, marijuana products medicinally compete with legal prescription drugs that statistically kill 100,000 people a year. There's not been one documented death due to marijuana. Then on the recreational side, I've always maintained that legalizing marijuana will lead to less overall substance abuse because people will find it as such a safer alternative than everything else that's out there, starting with alcohol.
- Gary Johnson, in an interview with CNBC´s John Harwood (August 22, 2016)
- I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.
- Stephen King (1981). "Interview: Stephen King". High Times..
- One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness — the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.
- Norman Mailer, Interview in Writers at Work Third Series (1967) edited by George Plimpton
- When you smoke herb, herb reveal yourself to you. All the wickedness you do, the herb reveal itself to yourself, your conscience, show up yourself clear, because herb make you meditate. Is only a natural t'ing and it grow like a tree.
- Bob Marley, as reported in Martin Booth, Cannabis: A History (2005), p. 366
- I smoke a fat pound of grass and fall on my ass faster than a fat bitch who sat down too fast!
- Marshall B. Mathers, "My Name Is" (1999), The Slim Shady LP (February 1999)
- A young boy called up and asked me if I preferred grass or astroturf … And I told him that I had never smoked astroturf. I guess that I shouldn't have said that.
- Tug McGraw, when asked if he preferred grass or artificial turf, (1974), as quoted in The Times of San Mateo, California (30 April 1974), and at The Quote Investigator
- The question arises, therefore, why cannabis is so regularly banned in countries where alcohol is permitted. [...] It may be that we can ban cannabis simply because the people who use it, or would do so, carry little weight in social matters and are relatively easy to control, whereas the alcohol user often carries plenty of weight in social matters and is difficult to control, as the U.S. prohibition era showed. It has yet to be shown, however, that the one is more socially or personally disruptive than the other.
- H.B.M Murphy, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal. "The Cannabis Habit" (1963). (As quoted in 'Bulletin on Narcotics' by UNDCP)
- There is a myth about such highs: the user has an illusion of great insight, but it does not survive scrutiny in the morning. I am convinced that this is an error, and that the devastating insights achieved when high are real insights; the main problem is putting these insights in a form acceptable to the quite different self that we are when we're down the next day. Some of the hardest work I've ever done has been to put such insights down on tape or in writing. The problem is that ten even more interesting ideas or images have to be lost in the effort of recording one. It is easy to understand why someone might think it's a waste of effort going to all that trouble to set the thought down, a kind of intrusion of the Protestant Ethic. But since I live almost all my life down I've made the effort—successfully, I think. Incidentally, I find that reasonably good insights can be remembered the next day, but only if some effort has been made to set them down another way. If I write the insight down or tell it to someone, then I can remember it with no assistance the following morning; but if I merely say to myself that I must make an effort to remember, I never do.
- Carl Sagan, Marihuana Reconsidered (1971)
- That is not a drug. It's a leaf.
- I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits - and millions of Americans agree with me.
- Hunter S. Thompson, "Lapse in Judgment"
- If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
- Kerry Wendell Thornley, in the Introduction to the 5th Edition of Principia Discordia.
- Cannabis, just like morphine, has its usage in medicine. It's unpardonable that authorities forbid sick people access to this medicament and in majesty of law permit to sell cigarettes.
- Make the most of the Indian hemp seed, and sow it everywhere!
- George Washington in a note to his gardener at Mount Vernon (1794), The Writings of George Washington, Volume 33, page 270 (Library of Congress)
- Washington also recorded his concern that the male and female plants be separated:
- May 12-13 1765: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp.
- August 7, 1765: —began to seperate [sic] the Male from the Female Hemp at Do —rather too late.
- Some assert his interest in separating the male and female plants is an indication that he may have used Indian hemp medicinally to treat his chronic tooth aches. Others note that fiber of the male and female hemp plants have different optimum harvest times.
- Some people have said that the aggressiveness that alcohol stimulates, and that is certainly the characteristic of alcohol, is consistent with Western values and Western culture, whereas, for example, the more introspective, meditative, reverie kind of state that marijuana produces, or opium produces, seems more consistent with some of the Eastern cultures than with Western cultures, and maybe some of our discomfort with those drugs has to do with that feeling that this is culturally out of sync with us.
- Andrew Weil, interviewed in Ancient Altered States
Quotes from music
- When I die bury me in smoke
- Phillip Anselmo - DOWN (first album)
- Straight people don't know, what you're about
They put you down and shut you out
you gave to me a new belief
and soon the world will love you sweet leaf
- Black Sabbath, "Sweet Leaf", Master of Reality (1971)
- I smoke a bowl when I'm stressed
And then I picture my girl undressed
- Da Molester from a 2010 freestyle
- "Cuz if at first you don't succeed, won't hurt to smoke some weed. Now them words are just a little more personal for me. Seeing as how I blew up off of puffing them trees."
- When you get a mouthful,
That's Hot Lunch
When you smoke a cashed bowl down too much
You need to refill that with buds
Fat-C, I only smoke fresh nugs.
- Fat-C, "Hot Lunch" from the album Fear and Loathing in Minnesota
- let us burn one from end to end
And pass it over to me my friend
Burn it long, we'll burn it slow
To light me up before i go
- Ben Harper, "Burn One Down" from Fight for your Mind (1995)
- Excuse me while I light my spliff (spliff)
Good God, I gotta take a lift (lift)
From reality I just can't drift (drift)
That's why I am staying with this riff (riff)
- Bob Marley, "Easy Skanking" from the album Kaya (1978)
- You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana are Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? What is the matter with them? I suppose it is because most of them are psychiatrists.
- Richard Nixon, statement (May 26, 1971) as quoted in Newsweek (May 27, 2004)
- When the stress burns my brain just like acid raindrops, Mary Jane is the only thing that makes the pain stop.
- People Under the Stairs, "Acid Raindrops"
- Let me get to the point
Let's roll another joint
Turn the radio loud
I'm too alone to be proud.
- Tom Petty, "You Don't Know How It Feels"
- Panama Red, Panama Red
He'll steal your woman, then he'll rob your head
Panama Red, Panama Red
On his white horse, Mescalito
He come breezin' through town
I'll bet your woman's up in bed with
Panama Red
- Peter Rowan, "Panama Red", as performed by Jerry Garcia and Peter Rowan in Old and in the Way in 1973 and thereafter by New Riders of the Purple Sage
- I smoke two joints in the morning
I smoke two joints at night
I smoke two joints in the afternoon
It makes me feel alright
I smoke two joints in time of peace
And two in time of war
I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints
And then I smoke two more
- Sublime, "Smoke Two Joints", 40oz. to Freedom (1992)
- You must have been high
- You must have been so high
- Weeping shades of indigo
- Liar, lawyer, mirror; for you, what's the difference?
Kangaroo be stoned; he's guilty as the government
- Tool, "The Pot," 10,000 Days (Tool album) (2006).
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Free Hospital for Women Scrapbook by Harvard University Library
This scrapbook is part of the Harvard University Library's collection on "Working Women, 1800-1930," which is itself part of the Open Collections Program. The print version is located at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. It contains information about the hospital, including articles from newspapers, magazines, and other publications; photographs of the hospital, employees, and special events; lecture announcements; letters and other forms of correspondence; ration cards; tickets; forms; certificates; posters; programs; and playbills.
Format: Articles
Subject: Organizations, Ethics, Reproduction
Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903-1967)
Gregory Goodwin Pincus, one of the original researchers responsible for the development of the first oral contraceptive pill, was born in Woodbine, New Jersey, on 19 April 1903 to Russian Jewish parents. In 1924 Pincus received his BS degree from Cornell University, and in 1927 he received his MS and PhD from Harvard University, having studied under William Ernest Castle and William John Crozier.
Format: Articles
Subject: People, Reproduction
John Charles Rock (1890-1984)
Born on 24 March 1890 in Marlborough, Massachusetts, to Ann and Frank Rock, John Charles Rock was both a devout Catholic and one of the leading investigators involved in the development of the first oral contraceptive pill. In 1925 he married Anna Thorndike, with whom he later had five children. He spent over thirty years of his career as a clinical professor of obstetrics at Harvard Medical School, and in 1964 the Center for Population Studies of the Harvard School of Public Health established the John Rock Professorship.
Format: Articles
Subject: People, Reproduction
United States v. University Hospital (1984)
The US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals' 1984 decision United States v. University Hospital, State University Hospital of New York at Stony Brook set a significant precedent for affirming parental privilege to make medical decisions for handicapped newborns, while limiting the ability of the federal government to intervene. The ruling stemmed from the 1983 case involving an infant born with severe physical and mental congenital defects; the infant was only identified as Baby Jane Doe.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal, Reproduction
An Atlas of Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum (1895), by Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson in the US published An Atlas of Fertilization and Karyokinesis of the Ovum (hereafter called An Atlas) in 1895. The book presents photographs by photographer Edward Leaming that capture stages of fertilization, the fusion of sperm and egg and early development of sea urchin (Toxopneustes variegatus) ova, or egg cell. Prior to An Atlas, no one photographed of eggcell division in clear detail. Wilson obtained high quality images of egg cells by cutting the cells into thin sections and preserving them throughout different stages of development.
Format: Articles
Subject: Publications, Reproduction
"Fetal Surgery" (1996), by Michael R. Harrison
In 1996, Michael R. Harrison published "Fetal Surgery" in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In the article, Harrison describes the importance of fetal surgery and the techniques used to correct defects in fetuses. As a fetus develops in the uterus, it can develop abnormalities that may become debilitating or fatal. Harrison discusses cases that show how physicians can use fetal surgery to repair such abnormalities, including obstructions in the heart or urinary tract, or organs or muscles whose malformations impair function.
Format: Articles
Subject: Reproduction, Publications
The Discovery of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
The term Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) was first published in 1973 in an article published in the British medical journal The Lancet. In that article, a group of pediatricians and psychiatrists at the University of Washington Medical School helped to define the morphological defects and developmental delays that can affect children born to alcoholic mothers. Those observations include pre- and post-natal growth deficiencies, minor facial abnormalities, and damage to the developing brain that can result in behavioral, learning, and cognitive abnormalities.
Format: Articles
Subject: Disorders, Reproduction
Robert Geoffrey Edwards's Study of Fertilization of Human Oocytes Matured in vitro, 1965 to 1969
Robert Geoffrey Edwards, a British developmental biologist at University of Cambridge, began exploring human in vitro fertilization (IVF) as a way to treat infertility in 1960. After successfully overcoming the problem of making mammalian oocytes mature in vitro in 1965, Edwards began to experiment with fertilizing matured eggs in vitro. Collaborating with other researchers, Edwards eventually fertilized a human egg in vitro in 1969. This was a huge step towards establishing human IVF as a viable fertility treatment.
Format: Articles
Subject: Experiments, Reproduction
"Mothers' Anxiety During Pregnancy Is Associated with Asthma in Their Children" (2009), by Hannah Cookson, Raquel Granell, Carol Joinson, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, and A. John Henderson
In 2009, A. John Henderson and colleagues published "Mothers' Anxiety During Pregnancy Is Associated with Asthma in Their Children," hereafter, "Mothers' Anxiety," in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Previous studies had shown that maternal stress during pregnancy affects children's health during childhood. The researchers explored the association of asthma in children with maternal anxiety during pregnancy. The cause of asthma is often unknown.
Format: Articles
Subject: Theories, Reproduction, Publications, Disorders
José Pedro Balmaceda (1948- )
José Pedro Balmaceda was born 22 August 1948 in Santiago, Chile. His mother Juanita owned a women's boutique in the city and his father José was a successful owner of several timber mills. He grew up with five sisters who remained in Santiago all their lives. Balmaceda attended the college preparatory school San Ignatius where he met Sergio Stone, his future partner at the Center for Reproductive Health fertility clinic in the University of California Irvine Medical Center.
Format: Articles
Subject: People, Reproduction
Charles Robert Cantor (1942- )
Charles Robert Cantor helped sequence the human genome, and he developed methods to non-invasively determine the genes in human fetuses. Cantor worked in the US during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His early research focused on oligonucleotides, small molecules of DNA or RNA. That research enabled the development of a technique that Cantor subsequently used to describe nucleotide sequences of DNA, a process called sequencing, in humans. Cantor was the principal scientist for the Human Genome Project, for which scientists sequenced the entirety of the human genome in 2003.
Format: Articles
Subject: People, Reproduction
Horatio Robinson Storer (1830–1922)
Horatio Robinson Storer was a surgeon and anti-abortion activist in the 1800s who worked in the field of women's reproductive health and led the Physicians' Crusade Against Abortion in the US. Historians credit Storer as being one of the first physicians to distinguish gynecology, the study of diseases affecting women and their reproductive health, as a separate subject from obstetrics, the study of pregnancy and childbirth.
Format: Articles
Subject: People, Reproduction, Religion
"Human Toxoplasmosis: Occurrence in Infants as an Encephalomyelitis Verification of Transmission to Animals" (1939), by Abner Wolf et al.
In a series of experiments during mid 1930s, a team of researchers in New York helped establish that bacteria of the species Toxoplasma gondii can infect humans, and in infants can cause toxoplasmosis, a disease that inflames brains, lungs, and hearts, and that can organisms that have it. The team included Abner Wolf, David Cowen, and Beryl Paige. They published the results of their experiment in Human Toxoplasmosis: Occurrence in Infants as an Encephalomyelitis Verification of Transmission to Animals.
Format: Articles
Subject: Experiments, Reproduction, Disorders
Gamete Intra-Fallopian Transfer (GIFT)
Various techniques constitute assisted reproduction, one of which is gamete intra-fallopian transfer (GIFT). The first example of GIFT involved primates during the 1970s; however, the technology was unsuccessful until 1984 when an effective GIFT method was invented by Ricardo Asch at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center and the procedure resulted in the first human pregnancy. The GIFT technique was created in hopes of generating an artificial insemination process that mimicked the physiological sequences of normal conception.
Format: Articles
Subject: Technologies, Reproduction
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound (1873-1906)
First marketed in the US 1875, Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was an herbal medicine used by women to relieve menstrual discomfort and menopausal symptoms in women. The herbal compound was invented by Lydia Estes Pinkham in 1873 in her home kitchen in Lynn, Massachusetts. Pinkham created the compound by mixing alcohol with roots and herbs. The compound was patented, packaged, and distributed by the Mrs. Lydia Pinkham Medicine Company in 1876. The Mrs.
Format: Articles
Subject: Technologies, Reproduction
Charles Benedict Davenport (1866-1944)
Charles Benedict Davenport was an early twentieth-century experimental zoologist. Davenport founded both the Station for Experimental Evolution and the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor in New York. Though he was a talented statistician and skilled scientist, Davenport's scientific achievements are eclipsed by his lasting legacy as the scientific leader of the eugenics movement in the US.
Format: Articles
Subject: People, Reproduction
Landrum Brewer Shettles (1909-2003)
Landrum Brewer Shettles is remembered as an important contributor to early in vitro fertilization research in the United States as well as a prolific author on the subject of choosing a child's sex before conception. Shettles was born in Pontotoc County, Mississippi on 21 November 1909 to Sue Mounce and Brazil Manly. Shettles trained and worked as a gynecologist at Columbia University Presbyterian Medical Center, after receiving his MD in 1943 from Johns Hopkins University.
Format: Articles
Subject: People, Reproduction
John Chassar Moir (1900–1977)
John Chassar Moir lived in Scotland during the twentieth century and helped develop techniques to improve the health of pregnant women. Moir helped to discover compounds that doctors could administer to women after childbirth to prevent life-threatening blood loss. Those compounds included the ergot alkaloid called ergometrine, also called ergonovine, and d-lysergic acid beta-propanolamide. Moir tested ergometrine in postpartum patients and documented that it helped prevent or manage postpartum hemorrhage in women.
Format: Articles
Subject: People, Reproduction, Disorders
Katharine McCormick (1876-1967)
Katharine Dexter McCormick, who contributed the majority of funding for the development of the oral contraceptive pill, was born to Josephine and Wirt Dexter on 27 August 1875 in Dexter, Michigan. After growing up in Chicago, Illinois, she attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she graduated in 1904 with a BS in biology. That same year, she married Stanley McCormick, the son of Cyrus McCormick, inventor and manufacturer of the mechanized reaper.
Format: Articles
Subject: People, Ethics, Reproduction
Jeter v. Mayo Clinic Arizona [Brief] (2005)
In Arizona, statutes that protect persons, such as the wrongful death statute, will not be interpreted by the courts to grant personhood status to frozen embryos. The legislature may grant such protection in the statute if it chooses to do so by explicitly defining the word person to include frozen embryos.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal, Reproduction
Leon Richard Kass (1939- )
A PhD and medical doctor turned ethicist, Leon Kass calls himself an unlicensed humanist. Throughout his unique career he has sought to impact others and engage important cultural issues. This he has accomplished over the course of many years by studying biochemistry, teaching humanities, writing articles and books on ethics, and serving as chair of the President's Council on Bioethics.
Format: Articles
Subject: People, Ethics, Reproduction
Treatment of Pelvic Organ Prolapse in Women
Pelvic organ prolapse is a common condition in women that causes the pelvic organs to descend, often resulting from a weakened pelvic floor. Pelvic organs supported by the pelvic floor, such as the bladder, bowel, or uterus, can descend to such a degree that they project out from a woman's body typically via the vagina. Pelvic floor stress or trauma, like vaginal childbirth, can cause pelvic organ prolapse. Women with pelvic organ prolapse also often experience other conditions, such as incontinence or the involuntary leakage of urine or fecal matter.
Format: Articles
Subject: Reproduction, Disorders, Processes
Images of Embryos in Life Magazine in the 1950s
Embryonic images displayed in Life magazine during the mid-twentieth century serve as a representation of technological advances and the growing public interest in the stages of embryological development. These black-and-white photographs portray skeletal structures and intact bodies of chicken embryos and human embryos and fetuses obtained from collections belonging to universities and medical institutions.
Format: Articles
Subject: Outreach, Publications, Reproduction
Zhang Lizhu (1921- )
Zhang Lizhu is a Chinese gynecologist and researcher. For most of her career, she worked in the Peking Medical College Third Hospital, renamed in 2000, Peking University Third Hospital. There, she led a team of researchers and physicians in the study of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo transfer (ET) technology. Zhang and her colleagues contributed to the birth of the first test-tube baby in Mainland China in 1988.
Format: Articles
Subject: People, Reproduction
"The Intergenerational Effects of Fetal Programming: Non-genomic Mechanisms for the Inheritance of Low Birth Weight and Cardiovascular Risk" (2004), by Amanda J. Drake and Brian R. Walker
In 2004, Amanda J. Drake and Brian R. Walker published "The Intergenerational Effects of Fetal Programming: Non-genomic Mechanisms for the Inheritance of Low Birth Weight and Cardiovascular Risk," hereafter, "The Intergenerational Effects," in the Journal of Endocrinology. In their article, the authors assert that cardiovascular disease may develop via fetal programming, which is when a certain event occurring during a critical point of pregnancy affects the fetus long after birth.
Format: Articles
Subject: Publications, Theories, Reproduction


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Six reasons to do something this weekend
Weekend Picks - March 7, 2013
Better Half
What: Sip and save when Discover Kakaako launches Half-y Hour. Check in at the Yelp tent to pick up a map and coupon sheet, then hit participating stores like Eden in Love, Hifi and THEFACESHOP to score a whopping 50 percent off any regular-priced item while sampling PINNACLE Vodka cocktails like Tropical Creme Soda and Baked Apple. Plus, catch a live demo and fashion show by Twisted Cuts, a liquor and beer garden hosted by REAL a gastropub, and more.
When: Saturday, 5-9 p.m.
Where: Ward Centers.
Details: Click here for a full schedule of live music and activities.
Look and Key
What: Unlock amazing deals and freebies at Kahala Mall's Unlock Your Style event. Be among the first 250 shoppers to check in at Center Court and receive a key that grants you gifts and up to 70 percent off at more than 30 stores, plus access to a VIP lounge and a live prize giveaway. Trend sessions will be conducted every 30 minutes at Center Court to highlight the latest in fashion, makeup, brows, and hair. Be there at 1 p.m. to see how HONOLULU Magazine's very own fashion editors style key pieces in different ways.
When: Saturday, 12-3 p.m.
Where: Kahala Mall.
Details: Earn four HawaiianMiles for every dollar when you spend $75 or more at any store, restaurant, or at the theater, plus enter to win a roundtrip for two to the West Coast. Details here.
Brave Heart
What: Learn how Pixar's first-ever female protagonist was created when Brenda Chapman, creator/writer/director of the Academy Award-winning animated movie Brave, presents "Story to Script/Script to Story," part of a New Arts Lecture at Kapiolani Community College.
When: Tuesday, 7-9 p.m.
Where: Kapiolani Community College, Ohia Building, Room 118 (map).
Details: Free admission, RSVP via email here.
Sky High
What: Starting today, score 10 percent off all Ava Sky as the Spring 2013 collection hits the floor. Look for one-shouldered caftans, flowing maxis and beautifully draped capes in new Interlock prints and soft tie-dyes.
When: Through Sunday.
Where: Fighting Eel Downtown, 1133 Bethel St., and Kailua, 629 Kailua Rd., Suite 130.
Details: View the lookbook here.
Downbeat Rad
What: Celebrate the grand opening of Downbeat Lounge, a 1,000-square-foot expansion adjacent to Downbeat Diner, featuring a brand-new bar and music stage. Go early for free drinks and pupu, then stay for live music by Sweet Corn and Peanut and ANIMAL MOTHER.
When: Saturday, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.
Where: Downbeat Lounge, 40 N. Hotel St.
Details: No cover, ages 21 and over welcome. Details here.
Bags of Tricks
What: Shop Roberta Oaks' newest additions, just into her shop this week. First up, a machine washable cotton beach bag done in Oaks' signature playful prints with contrasting lining, front pocket and wide shoulder strap for extra comfort. Second, pick up fun button packs featuring Oaks' logo, and Hawaii and Aloha-themed designs.
Where: Roberta Oaks, 19 N. Pauahi St., and online.
Details: Bags $42.50 each; buttons $11.95 for set of 5.


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WASHINGTON — Nearly a century ago, during World War I, the US Navy had a fleet of about 245 ships. Today it is 282.
The relatively similar size of the fleet, traditionally a topic for naval buffs and military historians, is now a flashpoint in the presidential campaign, with Republican nominee Mitt Romney trumpeting the comparison as evidence that President Obama has allowed American naval strength to dangerously erode.
"Our Navy is smaller now than at any time since 1917," the former Massachusetts governor repeated in the debate with Obama on Monday. "The Navy said they needed 313 ships to carry out their mission. We're now at under 285. We're headed down to the low 200s if we go through [planned defense cuts]. That's unacceptable to me."
The current fleet is actually slightly larger than it was during the Bush administration, when ship numbers dropped to 278 in 2007. But any comparison of fleet sizes says little about their composition, according to data provided by the Navy. For example, nearly 100 years ago the service still had more than two dozen gunboats, 18 torpedo boats, and three dozen battleships. With new ship designs and more advanced weaponry, the first two classes were quickly phased out in the 1920s; battleships disappeared in the 1950s.
A century ago, there were no aircraft carriers, each with its own small air force, or warships and nuclear-powered submarines capable of launching dozens of cruise or ballistic missiles from hundreds of miles offshore. All are key components now.
Obama ridiculed Romney for the simplistic comparison.
"We also have fewer horses and bayonets, because the nature of our military's changed," Obama said. "We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.
"And so the question," Obama added, "is not a game of 'Battleship,' where we're counting ships. It's what are our capabilities?"
A number of naval specialists agreed that the comparison Romney is making is analytically unhelpful.
"Any comparison of the Navy of 1917 to the Navy of today is nearly meaningless," said Loren Thompson of Source Associates and a consultant to defense companies. "Naval technology barely progressed beyond the Steam Age.''
But the Romney campaign insists that providing combat power on the high seas is not the Navy's sole role — nor necessarily its most common one.
For example, Dov Zakheim, a former undersecretary of defense who advises the governor, said last week that the nation's aircraft carriers also serve as a tool of diplomacy.
"The biggest supporter of aircraft carriers is not the Defense Department," Zakheim told a conference sponsored by Military Reporters and Editors. "It's the State Department. The reason is that carrier presence has an unbelievably effective deterrent effect."
He cited, for example, the decision to dispatch a pair of carriers to the Taiwan Straits in 1996 in response to Chinese threats. China backed down.
Some former naval commanders insist that both the Obama and Romney camps are right: Equally important are the number of ships and what each of them can do.
"They both matter," said retired Admiral William Fallon, who commanded an aircraft carrier group and the Second Fleet before retiring in 2007 as head of US forces in the Middle East. "You have to have numbers. We at least have to sustain the numbers we have."
According to its 30-year shipbuilding plan, released in March, the Navy is set to grow to about 300 ships by 2019 and average about 298 ships each year through 2042. That assumes the defense budget remains at its current rate of growth and the second round of cuts passed by Congress and set to go into effect next year is overturned.
An increase in Navy orders would almost certainly benefit General Dynamics' shipyard in Maine and its submarine plant in Connecticut, as well as the government-run Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. "This would be a windfall for New England," Thompson said.
By staking out his position, Romney could also garner votes in other areas of the country that depend on ship manufacturing, especially the battleground state of Virginia.
At the height of World War II the Navy had a fleet of more than 6,000 warships and submarines before significantly dropping over the decades. In 1985, at the height of the Cold War and the so-called Reagan buildup, the number of ships was 571, according to the Navy Heritage Command.
Fallon said he believes the current fleet of aircraft carriers — 11 active and one reserve, with each assigned a flotilla of other vessels — is overextended. Others agreed. Retired Admiral Robert Natter, who served as commander of the Atlantic Fleet until 2003, cited as an example the recent decision to deploy two aircraft carriers to the Indian Ocean — one to support operations in Afghanistan and another to deter Iran.
To sustain that pace — while also being able to position one or more carriers in the Pacific, the Mediterranean, or elsewhere — crews will have to be at sea for nine to 12 months at a time, compared with six months a few years ago, Natter said. But Natter, who also had commanded the Seventh Fleet in the Pacific, noted that one consideration often gets left out of the comparisons.
"The Navy of 1917 had to contend with navies of relatively the same technology," he said. "The Navy we have to today, and the technology we have today, is superior to our potential competitors."
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Washington's Blog
January 15, 2014
The big banks have laundered hundreds of billions of dollars for drug cartels.
See this, this, this, this, thisand this (indeed, drug dealers kept the banking system afloat during the depths of the 2008 financial crisis).
The HSBC employee who blew the whistle on the banks' money laundering for terrorists and drug cartels says said: "America is losing the drug war because our banks are [still] financing the cartels", and "Banks financing drug cartels … affects every single American".
And see this.)
And yet the banks refuse to provide banking services for LEGAL marijuana in states like Colorado which have blessed the sale of pot.
The Feds are a big part of the problem. After all, they support some ruthless, criminal drug cartels.
On the other hand, the sale of marijuana is still illegal under Federal law pursuant to the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq.
This is true even in California and other states which have allow medical or recreational marijuana. U.S. v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Co-op (2001) 532 U.S. 483 (medical necessity is not an exception to 21 U.S.C., §841(a)(1) governing the federal prohibition against manufacture and distribution of marijuana).
As the New York Times reported in May of 2011:
Marijuana remains illegal under federal law, but that has not stopped a fuzzy industry of marijuana farms and dispensaries from rising to serve the 15 states that allow the drug to be used for medical purposes. Under President Obama, the federal government had seemed to make a point of paying little attention – until now.
As some states seek to increase regulation but also further protect and institutionalize medical marijuana, federal prosecutors are suddenly asserting themselves, authorizing raids and sending strongly worded letters that have cast new uncertainty on an issue that has long brimmed with tension between federal and state law.
In Washington, Ms. Gregoire asked for guidance from the state's two United States attorneys, Mike Ormsby and Jenny Durkan. In a reply to the governor last month, they said the federal government would prosecute "vigorously against individuals and organizations that participate in unlawful manufacturing and distribution activity involving marijuana, even if such activities are permitted under state law."
When the Legislature was drafting the bill it passed in its most recent regular session, Mr. Ormsby said, "No one consulted with me about what I thought of what they were going to do and did I think it ran afoul of federal law."
Of the state's current medical marijuana law, he added, "We believe, of course, under federal law no part of the state law is legal."
Ms. Smith noted that the 2009 memo "says definitively that distribution continues to be a federal offense."
Indeed, the federal government appears to be escalating its crackdowns of medical marijuana dispensaries in California.
What hypocrisy …
Postscript: The big banks have also been laundering money for terrorists (the HSBC employee who blew the whistle on the banks' money laundering for terrorists and drug cartels says that the giant bank is still laundering money, saying: "The public needs to know that money is still being funneled through HSBC to directly buy guns and bullets to kill our soldiers …. Banks financing … terrorists affects every single American." He also said: "It is disgusting that our banks are STILL financing terror on 9/11 2013". And see this)
But since the American government has backed the most dangerous and violent Muslim terrorists for decades — in order to "contain" rival Muslim factions — the government is partially to blame for this banking abomination as well.
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Our Toddlers & Pre-schoolers Program, "Mainly Music"......learning our faith through music and movement.
Cathedral's Children Program designed for toddlers and pre-school aged children (with parents and carers).
Very friendly environment for growing in faith through music. New families are always welcome.
MEET: EVERY FRIDAY (excluding School holidays) TIME: 9:30-11:00am VENUE: Mary Thomas Room, Cathedral Hall (off Church Street)
Co-ordinator and Leader: Well respected and experienced music teacher, Debra McConnell
Third Sunday of the month - Kids Encountering God - Suspended at this time
10.00 am in the Cathedral
The children's Sunday program designed for St Saviour's follows the best practice of present Faith development.
Children come with their parents to Church, they stay with them until the end of the second lesson.
After the Second Lesson an introduction to the theme of the children's activity is given by a member of the staff.
The children then withdraw to the KEG room (within the Cathedral) with a teacher, hear the story of the Gospel reading, and work on an activity.
The children rejoin the rest of the congregation at "the Peace". They then come to Holy communion with their parents and receive a blessing or communion.


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