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PART I:G.I. Joe Special Missions: DRC
Chapter 1: Assignment
"I need your help," the man on the vidphone screen said again.
Clayton Abernathy, otherwise known as General Hawk to his subordinates, gritted his teeth, silently counted to ten and back, then repeated his question. "And I ask you, again, what right do you think you have to call me and request my team's help with your petty problems?"
"Look, Clayton, I know we aren't the best of friends—"
"That's a friggin' understatement. Give the man a beer, he sure knows how to read minds," Hawk said sarcastically.
"—I know we aren't the best of friends, but your team is the best there is at what they do, and right now I need the best." Major Clancy forced the words out in a rush, as if desperate to get them out before he either lost his nerve or General Hawk cut him off.
Hawk took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down, now slightly intrigued. In the years since he and Clancy had attended Academy together, he'd learned that the man hated asking for help. The fact that he had now meant something likely was going on that he wasn't able to handle, either in personal capacity or in 'official' military capacity. "So what is it that you need my guys to do?" he raised a hand. "I'm not agreeing to this, not yet. I want to know exactly what this is that I'm getting my team into."
Clancy sighed. "It's an escort job."
Hawk rolled his eyes and reached for the off button. "Your people can handle that—"
"Wait, it's not like that! Have you heard of the DRC, the Democratic Republic of Congo?"
Hawk stopped. Thought. "Speak fast. I'm a very busy man and my time is short."
"The International Criminal Court, the ICC, based in The Hague, Netherlands, has this major case coming up against a high-ranking lieutenant in the Army of the DRC. The Office of the Prosecutor's trying to build an airtight case against this lieutenant, and in order to do so they've got this victims advocate to go out to one of the far-flung villages in North Kivu, a province in the eastern part of the DRC, and speak to some of that lieutenant's victims. She set out for the village about two months ago with a full military escort and they were ambushed just outside of Shungo, halfway to the village. She reached safety but a lot of the team didn't. I had her flown back to Goma by bush pilot but she still needs to go out there and talk to those victims—and there's a doctor there, a Dr. Kristophe Lavigne, works with the charity organization MSF, Medecins Sans Frontieres or Doctors Without Borders in English, who had to leave the area when two of his teammates were wounded out there late last year. Dr. Lavigne wants to travel with the prosecutor and your team out to that area to tend to some of the villagers—there were some villagers who had wounds requiring long term care, and he's anxious to see how they're faring after his abrupt departure last winter. I just need a team of your people to go out there with the prosecutor and the doctor, ensure their safety while they are out there in North Kivu, and then get them to the UN peacekeeping base in Kirumba."
Hawk thought. He'd heard some of what was going on in the DRC—who hadn't?—but hadn't paid it too much attention. "It sounds pretty straightforward. So how come your soldiers couldn't handle the job?" he asked.
Clancy blew out a breath. "Because in addition to the Lord's Resistance Army led by that maniac Joseph Kony, the DRC's army aren't playing the 'good guys' either; their leader, Kibibi Mutwara, was arrested a few months back for human rights violations. Supposedly Mutwara's forces are there to help keep the peace but all they're really doing is abusing their power and the terrorizing the locals. That ambush—we're still not sure if our escorts got caught in between the DRC army and one of the rogue militia factions as innocent bystanders, or if they were a target—our intel sources didn't have info on that. But the UN wants the doctor to go back out, and the ICC needs whatever testimony this prosecutor can dig up to convict their guy, and both the doctor and the lawyer are willing to go back out there, so I thought I'd call you and see if your team would be willing to provide a small—and I'll stress small—escort."
Hawk smiled grimly. "So what you're telling me is that your intel was faulty and your people weren't capable of handling the assignment. That's not a worry; my people don't work under any such handicaps." Clancy opened his mouth to say something, but Hawk held up a hand. "No. Here's what I'm going to do. You send me what information you have. I'll look over it when I get it, then show my troops. I'm going to let them make a decision. The Congo isn't a joke, I've heard of the unrest over there, but at the same time there's no official US presence in there, so my people will be working with no support. I'm going to let them decide whether they want to do this, and I'm taking volunteers only. I'll have your answer for you in a few days. Now, send over whatever intel you do have." And without further word, he snapped off the videophone, turned on his own computer and started doing his own research into the country and the specific area of North Kivu that was the focal point of the trouble.
The intelligence he'd asked Clancy for arrived the next morning , and he spent the morning
looking through it. The intel had been faulty; what he'd been able to research on his own was far more complete than the packet Clancy had sent over. Which made Hawk shake his head; a good leader never trusted the intel, not completely; one had to plan for contingencies, and where possible corroborate with other sources. No wonder Clancy's team had been caught flat-footed.
But his team would go in with eyes open, with as much information as he could give them, and they would be expecting trouble. And they'd be volunteers; he'd wait until everyone had the same info and then take volunteers; out of the volunteers he'd decide who would go. He already had a pretty good idea who would want to; there were a couple of jungle specialists here at HQ at the moment who hadn't been out for a while and would be itching for an opportunity…he ran down a roster of everyone who was currently here at HQ, then made sufficient copies of all available information for everyone. The considerable amount of paper surprised him; the contents of the folder disgusted him. The photos and reports from various international human rights organizers made him angry, and he knew it showed on his face as he strode toward the briefing room. He'd made an announcement last night at evening roll call letting everyone know there'd be a mission briefing at fifteen hundred today.
By the time he got to the briefing room most of the Joes who were already currently at Headquarters were waiting for him already. There was some whispering between them, but that ended as soon as he took his place behind the podium. Warrant Officer Dashiell Faireborn, codenamed Flint, took the huge pile of neatly-stapled handouts Hawk handed to him and wordlessly took the top one off the pile, then handed the stack to Staff Sergeant Alison Hart-Burnett, codenamed Lady Jaye, next to him. She also took one and handed the rest to Master Sergeant Shana O'Hara, aka Scarlett, sitting next to her, then flipped hers open and started scanning the pages.
Hawk waited until all the assembled Joes had a packet before he cleared his throat for attention. They sat up straight in their chairs, looking alert; some, like Lady Jaye, were already angry. She read fast and she'd skimmed the packet—she could hardly have missed the photo on the bottom of page ten.
"I got a call from General Clancy," Hawk started without further preamble. Around the room he saw several rolled eyes and heard not-quite-muffled groans; they all knew Clancy, knew what a pain in the ass the guy was. The last mission he'd asked General Hawk for help on had been a relatively boring jaunt to New Zealand, made memorable only by the inadequate handling of flight arrangements and loss of baggage. Not that Scarlett and Snake Eyes had seen any problems with lost luggage on a tropical island, and they'd certainly not had a problem with the delay in flight arrangements that 'stranded' them on said island for an extra week…he suppressed a smile and turned his attention back to the business at hand. "Clancy has a little job he requested our help with. It's in the DRC, which, as we all know, is a hotbed of unrest at the moment. The job itself is simple; escort a doctor working with MSF and a lawyer with the ICC out to a village in the DRC jungle, ensure their safety while they do their work, then escort them out again."
"A babysitting job," Wayne Sneedon, aka Beach Head, commented. Corporal Courtney Krieger, codenamed Cover Girl, sitting next to him, punched him none-too-gently on the arm. He shot her an injured look; she responded with a poisonously sweet smile before she turned her attention back to Hawk, who'd decided to ignore the little exchange.
"A babysitting job made more complicated by the hostiles in the area. I'll recap a little about the DRC for those who might not know what's going on, then I'll brief you on the possible hostiles in the area in which this mission needs to be carried out." He turned and switched on the projector, which he'd hooked to his laptop while the packets had been passed around.
"This," he said, switching on a laser pointer and indicating the large colored map on the white screen, "Is the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the DRC. Back in the 80's, it was known as Zaire. It's the third largest country in Africa, and the twelfth largest in the world. There's nearly 71 million people in the country. The capital is Kinshasa, here on the western border of the country, and despite the fact that its people are among the poorest in the world, there are vast deposits of minerals and raw manufacturing materials.
"The Second Congo War, also referred to as the African World War, broke out in the early 90's and devastated the country, resulting in the death of about five million people. The then-president Mobutu Sese Seko finally fled Zaire in 1997, and the new ruler, Laurent Kabila, renamed the country the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, in order to become the president, he invited fighters from the neighboring countries of Rwanda and Uganda to help him get there, and they didn't take it too well when he thanked them for their services and told them to go home."
Someone snickered. Beach Head, it sounded like.
Hawk ignored that too. "To say that they didn't take it kindly is an understatement. They wanted to control the country with him as the figurehead. When their attempts didn't work, they assassinated him in 2001, and he was succeeded by his son Joseph Kabila. The younger Kabila brokered a peace talk that ended the war and apparently withdrew the foreign troops."
"By 'apparently', I take it they didn't leave. Or didn't leave quietly." Lady Jaye commented, following along with his presentation via the packet in her hand. It contained the same information Hawk was giving them now, just in greater detail.
"No, they didn't leave. At least, not all of them. Most of them withdrew, but the eastern region of the DRC, in particular two provinces named North Kivu and South Kivu, border Uganda and Rwanda and are therefore prey to foreign militia and rebel forces left over from the Second Congo War. When democratic elections were held in the DRC in 2006 Joseph Kabila won over challenger Jean Pierre Bemba, 45% to 20%. Bemba chose to dispute the results. Sixteen people died in the ensuing riots in Kinshasa from August 20-22 that year. The UN finally took control and ended the dispute, then oversaw another election, in which Kabila won 70% of the vote. That still didn't end it for the majority of Congolese; those contested provinces of North and South Kivu are still plagued by multiple military factions." He clicked on to another image, this one two thumbnail photos of two African men.
"Faction one. The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda. FDLR, as they're known. Led by a renegade General named Laurent Nkumba and militia 'president' Gaston Iyamuremye," click to another slide, "with two other men named Felicien Nsanzubukire, his arms procurer," click, "and Leodomir Mugaragu as his militia planner. The last three have had sanctions placed on them by the UN for crimes against humanity, genocide in their attempt to exterminate some of the native Congolese tribes, and mass rape, pillage, torture, and killings, and it's expected Nkumba himself will receive sanctions before much longer."
"Some President." That was First Sergeant Conrad Hauser, aka Duke, sitting next to Scarlett.
Hawk nodded and went on. "Faction two. The Patriotic Forces for the Liberation of Congo, the FPLC. Despite their initial assertion that they stand for the people of the DRC and they want nothing but what is good for their country, they too have been accused of the same things the FDLR are accused of. There is an international warrant for the arrest of their 'deputy chief' Bosco Ntaganda with the ICC, he's been indicted of war crimes and is currently a fugitive."
"What's the world coming to when you can't even trust the people who are supposed to be protecting you?" Scarlett wrinkled her nose.
"Oh, it gets worse. Faction three, the Army of the Democratic Republic of Congo, headed by Lieutenant Colonel Innocent Zimurinda." Hawk nodded grimly at the widened eyes throughout the room. "Yes. The army under the control of the man who was elected president is going around murdering and raping men, women and children, burning villages and houses with people still inside them. The photo at the bottom of page ten is a graphic illustration of what their own army is doing to the people." All around the room, people who hadn't yet seen that picture gasped and made expressions of disgust and dismay and anger; the photo was of an ethnic house that had been burned, and the center of the photograph was a charred mattress with what was still quite clearly three small children twisted grotesquely on it. Cover Girl placed a hand over her mouth and nose, as if she could smell the stench of burned flesh. "Zimurinda has been sanctioned by the UN for war crimes and crimes against humanity—the same things the other people whose names and photos I have shown you have been sanctioned for. However, the president of DRC has taken no steps to stop the man; Zimurinda continues to head up military operations from a camp somewhere in North Kivu." He clicked to the next slide.
"Faction four. The Lord's Resistance Army, the LRA, led by a man named Joseph Kony. He is a religious fanatic who believes that God's telling him to build a pure Africa based strictly on the Ten Commandments and he's raising an army to enforce those beliefs. His modus operandi, however, is children. He has an army of brainwashed child soldiers, kidnapped from villages, forced to watch as Kony executes their parents and burns their homes. Then they are marched into the jungle, only to come out as child soldiers, in the case of the boys, or as child sex slaves, for the girls. There are rumors of Kony taking child wives as young as nine or ten, and medical professionals tell horror stories of seeing starved preteen girls giving birth to babies the mothers say are Kony's." Open disgust and growing anger.
"Faction five. The FLNK, or Front for the Liberation of North Kivu. Led by a guy named Maj Kasereka. He says he's protecting the DRC from Laurent Nkumba and the FDLR, but refuses to disarm. Fortunately, there are no reports of this faction terrorizing the country side and murdering the citizens, but they do have guns and armament in a region that has entirely too much of it already."
"Ánd we're supposed to escort a doctor and a lawyer through this? Are they crazy?" Corporal Daniel LeClaire, aka Recondo, spoke up from where he'd been sitting toward the back of the room.
Hawk clicked to another picture, a tall smiling African man with glasses. "One of the civilians we are being asked to escort is Kristophe Lavigne, a doctor volunteering with the organization Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF, otherwise known here as Doctors Without Borders. He is a French national volunteering with the organization. He was part of a medical team operating in north Kivu when several MSF workers were ambushed in their vehicles and shot. The MSF suspended activities in the region, and Mr. Lavigne had to be dragged out kicking and screaming; he was working in one of the remote villages, called Nzoka, in North Kivu and there were several patients gravely wounded who needed long-term care. According to Clancy he's demanding that he be allowed to return to the village. That's part of the reason why we were called."
"So who's the lawyer?" someone in the back of the room asked.
Hawk clicked over to the last picture, a blond woman with a confident smile. "This is Alexandra Cabot. She's a former Sex Crimes prosecutor with the Manhattan District Attorney's office, on sabbatical so she can pursue volunteer work with the ICC. She hasn't risen to the level of deputy prosecutor—yet—but right now she's handling witness and victim testimony and playing victim's advocate with an impressive amount of success."
"Why would a classy femme like that want to come grubbing in the dirt with us?" Marine Gunnery Sergeant Ettienne LaFitte, aka Gung Ho, drawled. The big Cajun was staring at Alexandra's photo like he was looking at a goddess. Hawk suppressed a smile.
"Okay, here's the deal," Hawk said, switching off the projector. "I'm not going to order anyone to do this. I want to take volunteers only, because this isn't going to be a cakewalk. This could potentially be very dangerous. Our orders are for a small—and Clancy stressed the 'small'—so we're looking at five soldiers, tops. The two working languages are English and French, so I want personnel who have at least a rudimentary knowledge of both, and any experience with African dialects will also be helpful. The US has no official military presence here in the DRC, so if something goes wrong we can't get you out in a hurry. The tensions in the region are also potentially explosive. There is a UN peacekeeping base in Kirumba, North Kivu, but that's about a hundred thirty miles from the village the lawyer and the doctor want to get to, and that's 130 miles of extraordinarily hard terrain; it can take a wheeled vehicle as much as five hours just to get ten miles. The DRC only has about 300 miles of paved road in the entire country, and the roads double as runways for the local bush pilots, which are literally the only way into and out of some of these villages. I'm told a local pilot would have more experience with local weather, takeoff and landing requirements, as well as which areas are to be avoided, so we'll have a local pilot take you guys in and bring you guys out. So only volunteers, only as much armament as you can carry, and this will be a quick, surgical, precise operation. A week at most and you'll be back here."
"I'll go." Lady Jaye was the first to raise her hand. Of course. She was their expert at covert ops. Hawk had known she'd want to go, and yet he didn't know how to tell her that it might not be a good idea. He'd been wrestling with that all night.
"I'm in." Flint. Naturally. Where Lady Jaye went, there went Flint also. Hawk had long ago gotten over being upset about fraternization between officers and subordinates. Technically, Flint ranked Lady Jaye, but Hawk rarely stood on rank here at HQ. Everyone, from him, a five-star general, to Cover Girl, a corporal, had something valuable to add to the team or they wouldn't be here. And this group of people he'd surrounded himself with were The Elite of the US Armed Forces, and they wouldn't be The Elite if they allowed personal feelings to interfere with their jobs. They were all consummate professionals, and the pairing of Flint and Lady Jaye had proved to be a distinct advantage many times on different missions.
Gung Ho grinned. "I'm in. Want to meet her." He gestured to the white screen, which moments ago had displayed the photograph of Alexandra Cabot. It was plain to anyone who knew him that the Cajun was intrigued by the pretty blonde lawyer.
"I'm in." At the back of the room, Big Brawler stood. Hawk was again surprised at the Joe's ability to disappear into the background. "If you're going into jungle, you need me."
"Me too." Recondo, which didn't surprise Hawk at all; Recondo was their expert at jungle missions. It was a toss-up, between him and Big Brawler; they were both evenly matched and constantly seeking to outdo each other; but they were both good team players, and the rivalry could stop at a moment's notice for the greater good.
At the moment, that wasn't what was worrying Hawk. It was Lady Jaye.
"Let me consider this," he nodded to the guys, but let his gaze linger on Lady Jaye. She'd served under him long enough that she understood the unspoken request for a quiet meeting, and nodded ever so slightly. "A team of five should be good enough to guard two civilians from a band of militia, and I'll need to make travel arrangements." He realized what he'd just said, and sighed; mentally, he'd already included Lady Jaye in this team. But for his peace of mind, he still had to at least try and talk her out of it.
He unhooked his laptop from the projector and started to gather up the papers, but Lady Jaye was there, collecting the papers for him. "Your hands are full. I'll get this, you get that," she said, her lips twitching a little at the sight of the laptop dwarfed in Hawk's calloused, weapon-hardened hands.


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Then last weekend, the flu swept through the house. I was at home sick Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Sunday was the worst - the "everything must go" day. After I lay for two days like a limp noodle on my couch. I did get lots of sleep and caught up on blog reading and YouTube watching, so there was a bonus to it.
I'm back to normal again and am excited to get back to routine. This month I started doing drop in hours at a local metaphysical shop Radiance Gifts
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Prenatal Massage Benefits & Contraindications
What is massage in your life? Is it a regular necessity or a luxury to be had as something special? Whichever your answer to this question is, consider having massage during pregnancy, it is highly beneficial.
Is Pregnancy Massage something special or is it an ordinary massage?
Actually, it can be different – the main thing is there should be any kind of manual massage applied during pregnancy (prenatal) or after delivery (postnatal). A prenatal massage shouldn't last over an hour. Generally, it requires a special sort of table, one suitable for a woman with a big belly. The woman must be comfortably ensconced on one side – it is especially important during the last three months of pregnancy. To provide a better body position practitioners use tubular bolsters for propping.
What makes Prenatal Massage so beneficial?
Unfortunately, pregnancy massage has attracted only a handful of studies, it is still waiting for extensive research. Supposedly, it is a very beneficial procedure, more beneficial than we know. So far only a University of Miami School of Medicine study reveals that this therapy may produce positive
- influence – namely:
- induce better sleep;
- alleviate pains in the back and legs;
- diminish anxiety;
- lower stress hormone norepinephrine.
There was also a study of the effects of massage in depressed women, and it states that there are more good effects:
- the mood gets better;
- beneficial hormones serotonin and dopamine are generated more actively;
- stress hormone cortisol level falls.
Many other benefits, yet undiscovered, can be expected from Prenatal Massage as well. It is supposed to mitigate painful sensations, strengthen the immune system thereby diminishing the possibility of virus infections.
Are there any precautions to be taken?
Prenatal Massage, just like other pregnancy therapies, requires a consultation with the prenatal care provider. There are many issues to consider, so choose a reliable professional and inform them of your health conditions so they can choose the type of massage accordingly.
How is it better to position myself for massage?
Mostly pro masseurs believe that a pregnant woman should be lying on her side. This position requires some additional arrangements. There are tables with holes for the uterus, yet they do not guarantee that there won't be unwelcome pressure on the abdomen. If the hole is too big, the abdomen may dangle, and the uterine ligaments may stretch, which is to be avoided. So, before you sign in for the massage, you are advised to discuss the question of the massage position well in advance.
Not just any masseur, right?
Right. You should make sure that your therapist is certified for prenatal care. Common national massage standards that many professionals adhere to are not enough. Your masseur should be well up in specific pregnancy massage knowledge and skills. They must know which positions are safe and which are not, and why; how to avoid putting strain on the uterine ligaments; keep an eye on varicose veins and know the symptoms of possible blood clots. All these are vital for your healthy pregnancy.
Besides, a would-be mother should know when they can have massage only at the say-so of the health care provider. The conditions that indicate a bad necessity of a consultation are as follows:
- there is a pregnancy risk;
- you have had a bleeding recently;
- you have preeclampsia;
- you have PIH, pregnancy induced hypertension;
- you have had pre-term contractions and/or pre-term labor;
- you have delivered recently;
- you suffer from bad headaches;
- you have high blood pressure.


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Many years ago John Macduff and his young bride left Scotland on a sailing vessel for America, there to seek their fortune. After tarrying a few weeks in New York they went on West, where they were successful in accumulating a good competence. By and by the wife's health began to fail. The anxious husband said that he feared she was homesick.
"John," she replied, "I am wearying for my ain countrie; will you not take me to the sea, that I may see the ships sailing to the homeland once more?"
Her husband's heart was moved with compassion. In a few weeks he sold their Western home and took his wife East to a pleasant little cottage by the sea, whose further shore broke on the rocks that line the coast of Scotland. She would often sit and gaze wistfully at the ships sailing from the bay, one after another disappearing below the horizon on their way to her ain countrie. Although she uttered no complaint, it was evident that she was slowly pining away. John was afraid that she would die in a foreign land; and as an effort to save her he sold his New England home, and took her back across the ocean. She was speedily recovered by the keen mountain air, the sight of purple heather, nodding bluebells, and hedgerows white with fragrant hawthorn blossoms in bonnie Scotland, her own dear native land. To her it was home. And there is no sweeter word in any language than home!
At an early age [Mary Demarest] lost her mother and was left in charge of a Scottish nurse, from whom she learned something of the Scottish dialect. And her grandfather, a native of Scotland, had often sung little Mary to sleep with Scottish lullabies…At the age of 23, Mary Lee wrote this immortal poem, after hearing the story of John Macduff and his wife, and published it first in "The New York Observer."
I am far frae my hame, an' I'm weary aftenwhiles,
For the langed for hame bringin', an' my Father's welcome smiles;
An' I'll ne'er be fu' content, until mine een do see
The gowden gates o' Heav'n an' my ain countrie.
The earth is fleck'd wi' flowers, mony tinted, fresh an' gay
The birdies warble blithely, for my Faither made them sae:
But these sights an' these soun's will as naething be to me,
When I hear the angels singin' in my ain countrie.
I've His gude word o' promise that some gladsome day, the King
To His ain royal palace his banished hame will bring;
Wi'een an' wi' hert rinnin' owre, we shall see
The King in His beauty, in oor ain countrie.
Sae little noo I ken, o' yon blessèd, bonnie place
I only ken it's Hame, whaur we shall see His face,
It wad surely be eneuch for ever mair to be
In the glory o' His presence, in oor ain countrie.
He is faithfu' that hath promised, an He'll surely come again,
He'll keep His tryst wi' me, at what oor I dinnna ken;
But He bids me still to wait, an' ready aye to be,
To gang at ony moment to my ain countrie.


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A key assumption behind the Global Burden of Disease project is that it is possible to come up with a "Disability Weight" for each health state. Â Diseases conditions that are considered worse than other carry higher disability weights than others. Â A very important issue in the development of such weights is the question of who should define these conditions? Â Should those who have the conditions be the best judge or are they biased? Â Should healthy people who have never experienced these conditions be the judge? Â Should doctors decide? Â Should policy makers? Â Should health economists (gasp!!)?
In the past, the GBD has relied upon "expert opinion" to make such decisions. Â Well, it seems for the next update of the GBD, which is currently underway, you can also be an expert. Â I came across a link to the following survey earlier today that allows you to have some input in these weights.
That's Karen Grepin discussing an attempt to aggregate beliefs over disease burdens to better define the weights given to different ailments. This is a very similar exercise to preference aggregation, where we attempt to construct a unified set of beliefs that will govern public policy. The result is something approaching a social welfare function, which allows us to make statements like "Society strictly prefers A to B." One way of doing this is to get a sample of individuals to compare different states and to try and tease out an overall ordinal ranking of these states. Using Grepin's example, each person has to make a pairwise comparison:
The first person has swelling and tenderness in the testicles and pain during urination.
The second person has lost part of both legs, leaving pain, tingling, and frequent sores in the stumps. The person has great difficulty moving around and has episodes of depression, anxiety and flashbacks to the injury.
By asking enough people to compare different states with different combinations of symptoms, we can tease out their overall ranking of those symptoms – how this is done can sometimes be contentious and quite technical. That ranking then represents the best approximation of everyone's relative rankings of disease burden.


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The crowd stands hushed, solemnly at attention, as Robert Brinkerhoff's voice pierces the anticipation in the room and drifts upwards to fill the space between the rafters.
It's the last night of Kiev's August residency at the Bootleg Theater in L.A., and it's packed. The instrumentals amp up, each beat of the drum striking directly to the heart. A projection of moving colors begins to play along the back of the stage, a reminder of how much the Kiev guys revel in the visual ecstasy that accompanies the sound they produce. Soon, that sound takes on an epic quality, growing all-encompassing and culminating in a saxophone solo, that's received bar by bar with cheers from the ground.
Next, a twangy flavor of jazz bursts forth. The effect is cerebral, an abstraction of sound that re-forms to create something stamped with their unique genius.
Kiev, known for their experimentalism, gained recognition through their 2 EP's, Ain't No Scary Folks In On Around Here and Be Gone Dull Cage and Others, which they released in the last three years. Most recently, they have been holed up in their warehouse in Orange for the better part of a year working on their first full-length album.
As they launch into "Crooked Strings," the colorful projection behind the stage turns psychoactive, and as it grooves to the music one begins to feel why the layered effect of their performance was once described as "a rock and roll orgasm." Among the crowd, the swaying and head nodding begin. It's a pattern the guys have noticed consistently from their onstage vantage point: the audience stands quiet, simply entranced for the first half of the show. Then, around that halfway point, a few of its members finally start swaying (perhaps unconsciously?) and the rest follow suit until the crowd becomes a mass swaying, nodding, bopping in unison.
Now, they bring out the new stuff. It includes Falling Bough, which premiered on KROQ's Locals Only in late July. The song begins measured, with a bass-heavy rhythm that at moments echoes Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side, only to elude expectation and carry on a path that only it knows until it gives itself over to a fully psychedelic resonance, as does everyone in the room.
Having emerged here these four August Mondays at the Bootleg for their return to the world following a year-long hiatus from performance, it appears as though Kiev have seen their own shadow and will again retreat from the stage until the release of the album in October. It will be six long weeks to come until the arrival of fall's musical equinox.
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Grosse Ile: A Spiritual Journey
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On a hot and muggy August morning, nine Floridians flew ITom Miami to Quebec to join in the commemorative activities on the 150th anniversary of Black '47 and the Summer of Sorrows. Action Grosse lIe and the AOH under the co-chairmanship of Jim Gallagher had organized this weekend to mark when the St. Lawrence River was clogged with 441 coffin ships and their destitute ballast of famine Irish. Grosse lIe, the quarantine island in the St. Lawrence with few medical staff and little accommodations, was inundated by the mass of humanity that lay at anchor.
Michael Quigley of Action Grosse lIe had been a speaker at our Florida famine forum in 1995 and related to us, for the first time, the horror of that summer which left me with a profound desire to walk on this hallowed island - the most sacred site of mass famine graves outside of Ireland, as President Mary Robinson described it in her speech on Grosse lIe in 1995. Quebec is a beautiful walled city built by the French and English at the point of the St. Lawrence with parks, side-walk cafes, out-door markets, and European ambiance.
Saturday morning loomed gray and wet as we boarded one of the two ferries down by the waternont. As we disembarked ITom the ferry we remarked how similar the coastline was to the rugged Kerry or Connemaracoast - it must have given hope' to our famine Irish as they waited in their typhus-ridden coffin ship. A few years previous, we had journeyed to Monserrat in the Caribbean on a similar research mission, and that island, on approach, was similar to the coastline of Kerry - a postscript to a nightmare.
An ecumenical service for Repose of the Souls was concelebrated by Msgr. Andre Gaumond, Catholic Archbishop and Rev. Bruce Stavert, Episcopalian Bishop of Queb~c. We were then given a guided tour of the main sites: The Fever Hospital (Lazaretto) the last remaining building ITom 1847 and one of the scores of hospital sheds prefabricated in Quebec and hastily erected in 1847, and the Irish Monument - a 46 ft. high granite Celtic Cross erected by the AOH in 1909.
Doctor Marianne O'Gallagher author of Grosse lIe:Gateway to Canada and granddaughter of Jeremiah Gallagher, designer of the Celtic Cross, was the speaker and told the poignant story of the orphans who roamed the island after their parents had died. Volunteer clergy returned to the parishes along the St. Lawrence River seeking parents, and generous French Canadians adopted the orphans and allowed them to retain their Irish names.
We visited the Doctor's Monument site erected by Dr. George Douglas to pay tribute to the doctors who sacrificed their lives at Grosse Ile.
Famine Diary By Marie Tierney Smith
I wish to thank both Emerald societies, law enforcement and cultural, for inviting me to speak on the effects of the Great "faux" Irish Famine (1845-50) at their monthly meeting. I use the word "faux" to illustrate that there was no shortage of food in Ireland during the five year period of emigration and starvation; bumper crops were exported on a daily basis, and Britain's response to the starving Irish, trying to get food at the ports, was to send mere troops in to protect the shipments.
In 1995 at the opening of the five-year commemoration of the Great Irish Hunger, and heeding a call to action by then Irish President, Mary Robinson, we set a course to educate our local community by offering talks and exhibits at our local libraries in Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach, arranging famine forums with guest speakers and researchers. For the first time, in one hundred and fifty years, light was shed on the conspiracy of silence surrounding the genocide of the Irish people, and blame was laid at the doorstep of the British Establishment in power at that time, which with callous indifference almost brought the Irish nation to extinction. In 1997 British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, gave his (this) apology.
At present in America, close to 44 million claim Irish ancestry; 70 million worldwide. To understand the circumstances surrounding this mass exodus of our ancestors from Ireland, we must look back in history. Many of our ancestors, because of the shame surrounding the exodus – seeing their communities, family and friends die of "pure hunger", and believing the propaganda at the time, that they, as victims, were the cause of their own "killing fields", closed the door on the memory. It was necessary in order to survive in their new country, to assimilate and forget. We, as Irish Americans, carrying the DNA of our famine people, bone of their bones, must, as a memorial to their life and sacrifice, remember and educate future generations.
As we close our five-year commemoration of the Great Irish Hunger, we invite all Irish Americans in our community to attend a day of famine commemoration and celebration on Saturday, September 30, 2000, in Boca Raton. A famine mass will be officiated by Bishop Anthony O'Connell. Prior to the mass a forum will be held, and after the mass a Famine Wake Concert featuring Mick Moloney & Friends will be held, more details next issue… We invite all Emeralds to participate.
Recently our Commissioner of Education, Tom Gallagher, committed to purchase 32 copies of the famine & video to be taught in the social studies program in the State of Florida. It is our hope that the proceeds of this September 30 event will start-up a yearly scholarship award when a Florida high school student after submitting his/her paper on the Irish famine, or related history event, will be selected to study for a time in Ireland. The scholarship will be offered to all high school students in the State of Florida, which should augment the famine curriculum package that has been distributed to the social studies supervisors within the State.
Commencing with your next issue, I will write extensively on the Irish famine under the above heading, giving the causes and consequences, and first hand accounts from the various villages during that period. Go raibh maith agat arise (thanks, again). email@example.com.
Famine Diary, Part 2
Now let us examine why, at the time of the famine in 1845, the ownership of the land of Ireland, by the Irish, stood at 5%, and while millions of rural Irish, living in the southwest and northwest of the island, were subsisting only on the lowly lumper potato. Most revisionist historians and the media commence the story of the Great Irish Hunger with the coming of the potato blight. Charles Trevelyan, the Dracula of the famine period, blamed the deaths on the laziness of the Irish character, John Mitchell on the British, and the victims on themselves.
When Ireland was conquered in 1169 by the Normans under Henry II, two distinct personalities, the direct opposite of each other went down the path of confrontation. The Celts on the island of Ireland had evolved as a creative, spiritual, and intellectual people. After their defeat and dispersal by the Romans in Europe they had settled in Ireland in isolation, to bring to fruition, during the First Golden Age, all of their ancient learning and laws. During the great monastic period, Ireland was known as the Island of Saints & Scholars – a beacon of light in a sea of darkness following the fall of the Roman Empire. The Romans had conquered England inn 55 BC and with their arrival brought with them Germanic soldiers Anglos and Saxons. When the Roman armies withdrew to Europe their Germanic armies remained behind, and as Britain collapsed into tribal warfare, after the Roman departure, Norse kings, in order to secure their territories, brought over from Europe, Germanic mercenaries. All of this is the basis of the word defining British roots – Anglo-Saxons.


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"Split" Wins Box Office
There's no split decision here: Split won the weekend box office. Get the details, and check out the full Top 10 below!
Split is the latest thriller from M. Night Shyamalan, who wrote both the script and directed the project. The film stars James McAvoy as a man with dissociative identity disorder, giving him multiple personalities. Gossip Cop won't give away any of the twists, but suffice it to say, the movie is this weekend's big draw.
Split easily took the number one spot with $40.2 million. The weekend's other big opening was Vin Diesel's xXx: The Return Xander Cage. It secured a distant second place with only $20 million. Hidden Figures, fresh off its meaningful box office victories, slipped down to third with $16.3 million. The animated family flick Sing landed in fourth with $9 million. And the musical La La Land had a fifth-place finish with a total of $8.4 million in ticket sales.
Rounding out the Top 10 were Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in the number six spot with $7.04 million, followed closely by seventh place finisher Monster Trucks with $7 million. Patriots Day nabbed eighth with $6 million, while The Founder secured ninth with $3.8 million. Just making it into the last slot was Sleepless. The movie earned $3.7 million.


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Now unfortunately I am not a mechanic or technician on an oil rig nor do I have a good ear for the mumblins of the Texan drawl. So I had no idea what was going on for the first half of the film but everyone looked serious and the music suggested something very tense was happening so I stuck with it. When the well broke that is when the shit really hit the fan and I realised the relevence of…
Utter bollocks...... hold on, utter bollocks, UB, U=21, B=2, 21+2=23... wierd!
You know what sod it. I had already posted this as a four star review. I retract it. I think this deserves the five stars. Groundhog Day meets Aliens! what's not to love. Fun, action sci-fi films are far and few between these days. I thoroughly enjoyed it and would have happily watched it again immediately.... That's five stars it my book.


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I met this guy, spoke to him for a few months and then we finally managed to organize a date. So went out for a drink, ended up being the last ones in the pub..he kissed me goodnight, all good. Then we had another date the week after, drinks again which were fun and we were all over each other. So arranged another date last week, had dinner then chatted about exes and were honest about what had gone wrong. Had a few sexual innuendo jokes. We kissed goodbye and he said he wanted to take me to this bar the following week. So all was going well. The night after the date he gets drunk on a night out and texts me a few illegible texts. I reply to a few and then leave it. The next day I texted hi how was he etc and got nothing in reply. So I waited two days then texted him again on a night out joking that I may end up following suit and texting him drunk. Nothing. Now been 4 days and heard not a thing. What on earth is going on? He usually texts back ages later or the day after I send a text but he's never left it this long...
Why have I not heard from him in a few days?
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This is going to be really hard to hear but he hasn't replied because he doesn't want to...
he hasn't lost his phone or your number...you have had enough dates for him to find a way to contact you if that had actually happened.
he's not just "embarassed" because of the drunk texting ...unless he is utterly socially inept and deeply shy which your description of him doesn't seem to indicate.
he also hasn't been abducted by aliens or grounded by his mother...or whatever other story you are currently telling yourself to hide from the unpalatable truth...
...he's just choosing not to call.
Without knowing him and you and the personal situations of you both it's impossible to tell why he has decided not to contact you. It's a cruel thing to do ( and a lot of men and women do it when they don't wnat to have that really difficult " I don't wnat to see you any more "conversation) and in my opinion rather cowardly.
I know its tempting to try and get a response ( any response) but don't text or call anymore.
He knows where to find you if he wnats to...try and chalk it up to experience and just be thankful that you didn't end up in a relationship with such a weak guy :(
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SOCHAUX midfielder Camel Meriem has snubbed a move to Lyon to sign for Championnat rivals Bordeaux.
The former French Under-21 international had looked like moving to Lyon, but Bordeaux have beaten them to the punch by signing the 22-year-old.
"He has signed a four-and-a-half year contract," Sochaux's sports director Bernard Genghini told AFP.
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Credit card bills are one of the most shocking things in this world. Before you know it, you're already in big debt.
Credit cards made shopping so easy because you don't have to bring a lot of cash with you to buy some expensive goods. Also, credit cards made online shopping more convenient for both the buyer and the seller. Just swipe it and "chaching!" you're already paid.
But did you know that putting your credit card near your computers will affect your bill? This is not because of the radiations between the computer and the magnetic film of the credit card. This is because when your credit card is near your computer, you may tend to buy and buy and buy things in the internet. It is so easy to spend when you cannot see how much you spend.
Online Banking
It is better to put it in a place away from the computer so that when you are about to buy something, it will take you time to go and get the card – this will make you think twice if you really need to buy that item (laziness can sometimes be useful in saving). This technique is not effective for those who memorized all of their cards' data.
The internet actually let you have a window shopping without leaving the comfort of your own home (and save a bit of gas) – and it's a good thing. But shopping online may not be healthy for your personal finance. There are sites when you have to meet the seller to talk about the item, have negotiations with the price then have a deal – this more suggestible. Or you may have cash-on deliveries. Always pay in cash if possible.
Your Wallet
This is the worst place to put your credit card on. Putting your credit cards on your wallet has the highest risk of spending more than your allocated budget for shopping. If you always had your credit card in your wallet, don't be surprised when you see your bill. Spending without releasing any cash out of your wallet will make you feel like you spend less – it blinds you.
Somebody Else's Wallet
This may be a better place to put your card but, why would you put your credit card on somebody else's wallet? (Just kidding, I'm referring to a partner, a wife or best friend of yours). If you are with a partner or you know someone that is trustworthy and much better in saving than you, better to give them your credit card when you are in a mall. This is not for them to use it, but for you to control your use of it. Just be sure of the person. He/she should be wiser than you are and not the one who will push you to buy more.
If you are Shopping Alone
You may leave the credit card on the car and bring some cash instead. Don't leave it at home for you may have emergency need of it. Bring it with you but not so near to you.


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UN official Richard Falk links Boston bombings to US policy on Israel
A United Nations official who has been the subject of repeated complaints provoked fresh outrage this week over comments viewed as linking the Boston bombings with US policy on Israel.
Richard Falk, the UN's special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, who is Jewish, made his remarks in a blog on the "marathon murders".
He wrote that "the American global domination project" was "bound to generate all kinds of resistance in the post-colonial world. In some respects the United States has been fortunate not to experience worse blowbacks, and these may yet happen, especially if there is no disposition to rethink US relations to others in the world, starting with the Middle East."
He also claimed that "as long as Tel Aviv has the compliant ear of the American political establishment, those who wish for peace and justice in the world should not rest easy".
The United States ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, said she was outraged by his "highly offensive" comments. "Someone who spews such vitriol has no place at the UN," she added. "Past time for him to go."
David Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee, said that "his malicious propaganda regarding the US and Israel has no place in any international body that takes itself and its mission seriously." The World Jewish Congress and United Nations Watch also called for his dismissal.
Abe Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said that it was "outrageous that the UN human rights council continues to support such a wildly conspiratorial and highly biased extremist as a reliable 'expert'.
But Mr Falk, in response to a question from the JC, denied making any link between the Boston attack and Israel. "My reflections were only a commentary on focusing all attention on the wrongdoing of the perpetrators, and avoiding self-scrutiny as to why the United States, more than elsewhere, was the target of such extremist behaviour," he explained.
At the end of last year Mr Falk was condemned by UK Prime Minister David Cameron for publishing on his blog an Arab cartoon showing a dog with a kipah urinating on a figure of justice.
Meanwhile, one of the suspected Boston bombers, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed by police, had sought a copy of the antisemitic book Protocols of the Elders of Zion, according to the Forward newspaper.
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College Memes Madness: 'Internet Picture Craze' a Sudden Mega-Hit on Many Campuses
College and University Meme Pages: A Starter Guide
Campus-specific memes are suddenly invading the Facebook streams of students at schools nationwide. Building on its general popularity in recent years as a quick-hit form of entertainment and commentary, the Internet meme has gone explosively viral among the student set since the start of the month.
The origins of students' "new online obsession" are still unclear. But a rash of recent campus newspaper stories confirm that undergraduates' online scrolling is currently awash in "meme madness." As Penn State's online student outlet Onward State asked in a post a few days ago, "Have a complaint? A grievance about your university life? A sentiment that you know all of your fellow students will share? Don't call your friends and talk about it. Make a meme for it."
In that spirit, students are racing to create meme-focused F'book pages for their schools before they are claimed by someone else. From what I have stumbled across so far, the pages are NOT affiliated with student media of any sort. They are creations of individual students or small groups of friends looking to share a laugh or get their peers' attention.
The result: a flash-bang surge in 'likes' and user-submitted entries that are either launching the meme into the college media mainstream or casting it off a "wonderful concept that will probably be bastardized into the ground in a few weeks."
In a story late last week in The Daily Free Press at Boston University, a BU sophomore who created a university memes Facebook page summed up the phenomenon. In his words, "Overnight, it just went into a snowball effect and became the success it is now. I haven't had time to get actual work done amidst all this fun." He said this less than 72 hours after creating the page. BU Memes currently sports close to 6,400 likes.
Meanwhile, the 'likes' on meme pages laser-focused on Penn State, University of Wisconsin Madison, and Rutgers hover around 10,000 each. While the popularity of these pages and others like them skyrocket, the carping is in hot pursuit.
As a student commenter asked, "My Facebook is totally cluttered with people making lame memes for their schools. I just saw two of the same meme back to back, but different schools." There are separate complaints that clueless students are misusing the memes as they were intended by their original creators, to the point of mockery.
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Discussion in 'Tennessee Titans and NFL Talk' started by Bulluck, Apr 15, 2012.
It's ok.. I understand. Heck I'd give myself an "it sucks" if I could for that.
Nope. Just felt like throwing those out there last night... Only two posts.
Yea, some poster said we "always" struggle with those teams in the playoffs.
It's funny how NFL Network rates us the 6th easiest schedule lmao.
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Well atleat I get to see them once week 10 .
Well yea, I mean when you start 5-0 people will tend to think your schedule is easy.
Hopefully your being sarcastic but if not that would be nice.
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We were so proud of Team Callie this morning at the North Carolina Marathon.
We'll post more details about the team and the total amount of money it raised for SMA research soon.
Here's a collection of photos from the event.
Any team members who have more photos can e-mail them to firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll add them to this gallery.
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You know I am on a quest to simplify diabetes data management for our family. What does this mean? I want to be able to plug our glucose meter and insulin pump directly into my Mac and download data. As I've said before: I'm a Mac, Diabetes is a PC.
So this may not be a complete solution, but it's a step in the right direction: WaveSense is coming out with a Direct Connect Cable which will allow you to plug your Jazz meter into your iPhone, download data, and even e-mail it to your care team. (Though our endo's office only allows faxes.)
I have never used the Jazz meter. I downloaded the Wavesense iPhone app to take a look, but haven't used it because it would be another step to enter in numbers by hand. But I am very curious to get my hands on a Jazz meter and Direct Connect Cable when it's released and give it a try.
Go to the WaveSense site for more information. You can also sign up for an e-mail alert when the release the cable.


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Hello everyone! It's been awhile. I took 2015 off from updating my blog and am back now. How have you all been? I have much to update you on and let's pick things up where we left off.
In March 2015, I was invited to attend World Mastercard Fashion Week (aka Toronto Fashion Week) to view looks from Fall / Winter 2015. Since I started a personal tradition of illustrating my favourite looks, here are my three faves chosen from the sea of talented Canadian designers:
Look 1: Hayley Elsaesser (photo by Style Empire)
What's not to love about this bright and colourful look? She did a great job capturing pop art-esque prints and a burst of bubbly energy embodied in ready to wear. Detail below:
Look 2: Mackage (photo by It's All Style to Me)
I've been a long time fan of Montreal-based Mackage and am a proud owner of their Dale coat in black. They bring an edgy look to outerwear and this coat with fur sleeves is next-level luxurious. Talk about a statement jacket! Detail below:
Look 3: Mikhael Kale (photo by The Globe and Mail)
This lovely pink dress with textured embellishments and circular cut-outs really caught my eye. It's sure to be a head turner at any event! Detail below:


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Does treatment with Lyrica lower FIQ scores?
Science: Yes, in three trials of pregabalin (Lyrica,) 8% more of those using Lyrica for three months obtained at least a 14% reduction in FIQ vs. those using placebo.
Conclusion: You have an 8% better chance of seeing meaningful improvement after three months of using Lyrica vs. using nothing. Lyrica use results in a modest but statistically significant reduction in FIQ.
Determining the minimum significant change in the FIQ score.
The data from three clinical trials of pregabalin (Lyrica) in the treatment of fibromyalgia were analyzed. These trials involved over 2,200 patients.
Because these trials assessed each patient using multiple tests, analysis of the data allowed for the comparison of FIQ score changes with other changes in other measures, especially the patient global impression of change.
The patient global impression of change (PGIC) is a commonly used instrument in fibromyalgia, in part because there are few objective measures of fibromyalgia severity. Patients are asked to rate their improvement on a seven point scale: 1 = very much improved; 2 = much improved; 3 = minimally improved; 4 = no change; 5 = minimally worse; 6 = much worse; 7 = very much worse.
By evaluating the change in FIQ in relation to the change in PGIC, it was determined that a 14% change in FIQ was equivalent to a single 'step' category change in the PGIC.
Did the FIQ improve as a result of treatment with pregabalin?
The FIQ scores improved slightly on pregabalin. Some of these changes were statistically significant. Others were not.
After 13 weeks of treatment with pregabalin, 46% of those in the placebo group had at least a 14% decrease in their FIQ. In comparison, among those taking pregabalin (at various dosages) the number who had at least 1 14% decrease in FIQ ranged from 48% to 54%.
So it seems that by using pregabalin (the 450 mg./day dose) for 13 weeks you increase your chance for a 14% decrease in FIQ by about 8%.
The 8% increase in response on pregabalin was determined to be statistically significant.
April 2009
Minimal clinically important difference in the fibromyalgia impact questionnaire.
Summary of the Abstract
The Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ) is a measure of fibromyalgia severity.
In order to makes the IQ more useful, we wanted to determine the minimum change in FIQ score that represented a significant change for the patient. We also wanted to determine severity categories based on FIQ scores.
To do this, we investigated the results of over 2,200 patients. Over 90% of these patients were female, average age was 49, average duration of fibromyalgia was 9.7 years, average number of tender points was just over 17, and the average FIQ before the start of treatment was 62.
We determined the minimum significant change to be a change in FIQ score of 14%.
In the severity analysis we determined that an FIQ score of from 0 to 38 represented mild fibromyalgia; that from 39 to 58 represented moderate fibromyalgia and that a score of 59 or more represented severe fibromyalgia.


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Which one of the following actions would make the maxima in the interference pattern from a grating move closer together? A.Increasing the distance to the screen. B.Increasing the number of lines per length. C.Decreasing the number of lines per length. D.Decreasing the ...
Q1.With the aid of a diagram discuss the marketing systems Q2.Discuss the problems that occur when universities and industry form joint ventures for research purposes.How have these problems been solved?
D) 7500(1.06094) t
under what conditions could the decomposition of Ag2O(s) into Ag(s) and O2(g) proceed spontaneously at 298 K? 2Ag2O(s)---->4Ag(s)+O2(g) dG=22.42 Kj answer= 0.000118 atm.
dG for the formation of Hi(g) from its gaseous elements is -20.2 kj/mol at 500k. when the partial pressure of HI is 10 atm, and I2 0.001 atm, what must the partial pressure of hydrogen be at this temperature to reduce the magnitude of dG for the reaction to 0. H2(g)+I2(g)----&...
college chemistry
at its melting point, O c, the enthalpy of fusion of water is 1.435 kcal/mol. what is the molar entropy change for the melting ice at 0C? answer: 5.26 cal/mol-k
college chemistry
college chemistry
for the reaction at 298 K 2A+b ---->C enthalpy=100 K/cal entropy= 0.050 kcal/k assuming enthalpy and entropy to be constant over the temperature range, at what temperature will the reaction become spontaneous? answer: T>2000K
college chemistry
im confused i found those as the standard enthalpies and entropies for pcl3? i cant get answer
college chemistry
is it 306.4/33.2?
college chemistry
what is dHvap?
college chemistry
estimate the normal boiling point of Pcl3 answer: 333 K how do you get it?
Check my work & answer please. I need to make sure I am able to do this type of problem correctly. A typical car engine produces 44,000 kJ of heat in an hour. The cooling system has a capacity of 8.40 L and is filled with a 50:50 mixture of anti-freeze (specific heat capacity ...
4. A typical car engine produces 44,000 kJ of heat in an hour. The cooling system has a capacity of 8.40 L and is filled with a 50:50 mixture of anti-freeze (specific heat capacity of 8.37 J/g-oC, density of 1.038 g/mL). In maintaining a constant engine temperature, the ...
A 1100- kg car collides with a 1400- kg car that was initially at rest at the origin of an x-y coordinate system. After the collision, the lighter car moves at 20.0 km/h in a direction of 25 o with respect to the positive x axis. The heavier car moves at 23 km/h at -50 o with ...
cASEY SIGHTS THE TOP OF AN 84 FOOT TALL LIGHTHOUSE AT AN ANGLE OF ELEVATION OF 58 DEGREE. IF CASEY IS 6 FEET TALL, HOW FAR IS HE STANDING FROM THE BASE OF THE LIGHTHOUSE. I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT IS ANGLE OF ELEVATION CAN YOU SHOW ME AN EXAMPLE PLEASE THANK YOU.
Earth Science
You doing this? pkwy.k12.mo.us/homepage/skang/file/Astronomy%20Review.pdf From here the answer would be C - Full moon.
Volume of cube = 1ml How many ml in 1.5L?
Compare today's temperature of the universe to the temperature of the universe right after the big bang. That will give you your answer.
The average temperature of the universe today is approximately 2.73 kelvins (−270.42 °C; −454.76 °F), based on measurements of cosmic microwave background radiation. What was it like back then?
I'm sorry but please reread the article. We even quoted the answers for you but you don't want to put any effort into reading them and trying to figure out what the quotes are saying. You want the answer to be handed you.
Thank you Ms. Sue
2 - 3 paragraphs down it says... "For the first 380,000 years or so, the universe was essentially too hot for light to shine, according to France's National Center of Space Research " Miss that too?
You obvously didn't read it. The very first sentence in that post the Ms. Sue posted is "The universe was born with the Big Bang as an unimaginably hot, dense point." ... how did you miss that??
As Ms. Sue mentioned you posting under many names today. Instead of asking questions, why not try to help others or even at least do some work on your questions instead of guessing. I don't mean to be rude here.
Wrong. Its B The office building is designed with n floors and each floor is 3.9m right so you have right now: 3.9n On top of entire office building is a antenna which is 15.85m tall so its 3.9n + 15.85 = h
Yes, your answer is A as mentioned by Steve
Thank you so much!
Suppose that y=f(x) = sqrt(2x), x>=0 Find a c > 0 such that the tangent line to the curve y = f(x) at x = c has the same slope as the tangent line to the curve y = f^1(x) at x = c. You get: c = 1/8 c = 1/2 c = (1/8)^(1/3) c = (1/3)^(2/3) c = (1/2)^(1/3)
coin = 1/2 Cube has number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 so 2, 4, 6 are even numbers which is 1/2 of the cube So 1/2*1/2 = 1/4
Calc AB
Thank you. I was taking the inverse of (x+3)^3 + 2 and then I got stuck after that.
Calc AB
Let f(x) = (x+3)^3 + 2. The graph of the inverse function y = f^1(x) has a vertical tangent at: (Hint: Think about the symmetry of the 2 graphs.) (66, 1) (2, 3) (10, 1) (3, 2) (1, 10)
Got this one. Its 1/24 correct?
Suppose f(x) = 4x^5-(1/x^4) Find the slope of the tangent line to the graph of y = f^1(x) at (3, 1). You get: 1/24 1/16 00062 1620 972
Calc AB
Are you possibly Steve Hawkins? Your getting this one after another.
Calc AB
Suppose that f(x) is an invertible function (that is, has an inverse function), and that the slope of the tangent line to the curve y = f(x) at the point (2, 4) is 0.2. Then: (Points : 1) A) The slope of the tangent line to the curve y = f 1(x) at the point...
It was B
derivative: sin(pi*cosx) = -pi sin(x) cos(pi cos(x))
Inverse of sin(pi*cosx) = cos^(-1)((sin^(-1)(x))/pi) Derivative of cos^(-1)((sin^(-1)(x))/pi) is -1/(sqrt(1-x^2) sqrt(pi^2-sin^(-1)(x)^2))
Suppose f(x) = sin(pi*cosx) On any interval where the inverse function y = f 1(x) exists, the derivative of f 1(x) with respect to x is: a)-1/(cos(pi*cosx)), where x and y are related by the equation (satisfy the equation) x=sin(pi*cosy) b)-1/(pi*sinx*(cos(pi*cosx...
Calc AB
c)(1/2)x^(-1/2) is the correct answer
Calc AB
Wait f^-1(x) is 2sqrt(x) so then the derivative of that is 1/sqrt(x)
Calc AB
That would be 1/(dy/dx) of x^2-4x+4 which would be 1/2x-4 correct?
Calc AB
Suppose that y = f(x) = x^2-4x+4 Then on any interval where the inverse function y = f^1(x) exists, the derivative of y = f^1(x) with respect to x is: a) 1/(2x-4) b) 1/(2y-4), where x and y satisfy the equation y=x^2-4x+4 c)(1/2)x^(-1/2) d)(1/2)x^(1/2) e) Both 1/(...
Calculus AB
Yep I was correct
Calculus AB
well lets see. Since f^-1(x) = 9-x^2 then the derivative of 9-x^2 is -2x correct?
Calculus AB
For the function f(x) = sqrt(9-x), which is equal to d/dx(f-1( -1 is the inverse)(x)) a) -2x b) sqrt(x) + 9 c) x^2 + 9 d) 2x e) 9-x^2
Answer is 1/(2y-4) where x and y are related by the equation (satisfy the equation) x=y^2-4y+5 x>= 1
inverse of x^2 - 4x +5 is 2±sqrt(x-1) and the derivative of that is (2x-4) but I don't know how to get the x>= 1 or x>= 2
For the function f(x) = x^2 - 4x +5, x>= 2, which is equal to d/dx (f-1 this is the inverse)(x)) ? 1/(2y-4) where x and y are related by the equation (satisfy the equation) x=y^2-4y+5 x>= 1 2y-4 where x and y are related by the equation y= = x^2 - 4x +5, x>= 2 1/2x-4 ...
Calc AB
I believe that it is Either I or III
Calc AB
Remember that f(x) must be one-to-one (only one y-value for each x-value) over the domain where f 1(x)is defined as a function. So, in some cases you must restrict the domain of f(x) so that it's one-to-one. There might be more than one section of domain that's ...
Figured it out. 33/2
Find the area of the region bounded by the curves y2 = x, y 4 = x, y = 2, and y = 1. So far I have found that the area of the trapezoid which is 13.5. But for the other two areas I cannot find them. They could be: 27/2 22/3 33/2 34/3 14 I believe that it is 14 as ...
A rock is thrown directly upward from the edge of the roof of a building that is 35.3 meters tall. The rock misses the building on its way down, and is observed to strike the ground 4.00 seconds after being thrown. Neglect any effects of air resistance. With what speed was the...
Measuring the speed of light through gelatin using a laser
Use the formula d = 1.22ãx to estimate how many miles a 5-foot-tall person can see standing on the deck of a ship that is 50 feet above the ocean.
A gardener pushes a mower at a distance of 900 m while mowing the yard. The handle of the mower makes an angle of 40.0 with the ground. The gardener exerts a force of 35.0 n along the handle of the mower. How much work does the gardener do in mowing the lawn?
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is a starch a complex carboydrate
is a complex sugar an example of a starch? is a simple sugar an example of glucose?
are starches and glucose all types of carbohydrates?
Find the coordinates of the point at 180 degrees on a circle of radius 3.4 centered at the origin. Round your answers to three decimal places, if required. ( , 0 ) I got 0 as the y coordinate. Please help me solve for x
A craft store bought paint for a wholesale price of 100 the store charges a 65% markup what is the craft stores price for the paint.
From a box containing 5 blue marbles,10 red marbles,and 8 yellow marbles,Lisa removed 3 marble,one of which was blue.f she removes one more marble at random,what is the probability that it will be blur? a. 1/4 b. 5/21 c. 1/5 d. 2/7 e. 1/6 please answer and explain
95. Suppose that 387 people will travel on a space shuttle with room for 420 people.Each compartment seats 14 people before the next compartment opens.How many people will ride in the last compartment that opened?
99. From a box containing 5 black marbles,8 pink marbles, 6 white marbles, and 5 yellow marbles, Kim removed 4 marbles,one of which was black.If she removes one more marble at random,what is the probability that it will be black? a. 1/6 b. 4/21 c. 1/5 d. 5/21 e. 1/4 please ...
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when you contribute to a research conversation, which of the following skills is not strictly?
identify the slope and y-intercept of y - 16 = -4x . so is the slope is -4 and y-intercept is 16 correct ?
Two small charges with a mass of 1.0 g each are connected by 2.0-cm-long insulating rod of negligible mass. Each ball has the same magnitude of charge of 10 nC, but with opposite sign. The rod is held in a 1.0 × 104 N/C uniform electric field at the angle of 30°, ...
I - Interest P - Principal r - Rate t - time (in years) a ) I = Prt = $16,000 * 0.09 * 5 = $7,200. She will pay $7,2000 in five years b) Assuming the lender agrees to a 3 year time, when a five year was originally scheduled. Some lenders would not agree to this because they ...
When reading some schematics of a rectangular garden you see the binomial x +8 feet represents the length and the binomial x - 1 represents the width. Write an expression that represents the total area of the garden in the form x2 (squared) + bx + c by using the distributive ...
Linda did 24 problems out of 25 correctly.In the next test she did twice as many examples correctly but received a mark only half as good.How many problems were there in the second test?
Age Group (Per cent) 46 and over (25) 40-45 (34.5) 35-39 (25.62) 30-34 (12.9) Under 30 (1.9)
Distribution of Employees in National Insurance Company by age groups:(for questions 76-78) Age Group Per cent 46 and over 25 40-45 34.5 35-39 25.62 30-34 12.9 Under 30 1.9 76. Thirty thousand employees of this company are 46 years or over.How many thousand(to the nearest 0.1 ...
An airplane travels on a bearing of 245 degrees at an airspeed of 200 kilometers per hour while a wind is blowing 50 kilometers per hour from 140 degrees. Find the ground speed of the airplane and the direction of its track, or course, over the ground.
A point,X ,is 25 feet from the center of a circle.If the diameter of the circle is 14 feet,what is the length (in feet)of a tangent from point X to the circle? a. square root 29 b. 18 c. 15 square root 2 d. 24 e. square root 673 please answer and explain
Advertisers contract with Internet service providers and search engines to place ads on websites. They pay a fee based on the number of potential customers who click on their ad. Unfortunately, click fraudthe practice of someone clicking on an ad solely for the purpose ...
Two boat landings are 8.0 km apart on the same bank of a stream that flows at 2.8 km/h. A motorboat makes the round trip between the two landings in 50 minutes. What is the speed of the boat relative to the water?
What is the value of 4^5 + 4^5 + 4^5 + 4^5 + 4^5 + 4^5 + 4^5 + 4^5 + 4^5 + 4^5 + 4^5 + 4^5 ? a. 12 x 2^5 b. 24^5 c. 3 x 2^5 d. 4^60 e. 3 x 4^6 please answer and explain
If the number of square inches in the area of a circle is equal to the number of inches in its circumference,the diameter of the circle is a. 4 inches b. 2 inches c. 1 inches d. pi inches e. 2 pi inches please answer and explain
I have 10 question like this, anybody can show me this one how to do it. Simplify the following and give answers in scientific notation: 0.00320 x 450,000 / 90,000
Write the set of integers that satisfy the sentence: I had 10 question for this,anybody can show this one how to do it. 4 > n > 0
In a certain boy's camp, 30% of the boys are from New York State and 20% of these are from New York City.What percent of the boys in the camp are from New York City? a. 60% b. 50% c. 33% d. 10% e. 6% please answer and explain
If the number of square inches in the area of a circle is equal to the number of inches in its circumference,the diameter of the circle is a. 4 inches b. 2 inches c. 1 inches d. pi inches e. 2 pi inches please answer and explain
If the circumference of a circle is the same as the perimeter of the square with a side as 4 pi in, what is the area of the circle in square inches?
I'm just helping my younger brother.
so, (2600-440)/4.5=480 answer c, thank you
If x = 1/x^2, then 2 + 3 = a. 13/36 b. 1/5 c. 5/6 d. 1/8 e. 5/13 please answer and show work
I don't understand what is the question mean
The approximate distance,S, in feet that an object falls in t seconds when dropped from a height can be found by using the formula S = 16t^2.In 8 seconds, the object will fall a. 256 feet b. 1,024 feet c. 1,084 feet d. 2,048 feet e. 15,384 feet please answer and explain
If the thickness of the probe in the direction of B is 1.97 mm, calculate the charge-carrier density (each of charge e).
is it answer c. 30 + 7c?
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Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Review
By Nehemiah Roome
So here we are, my very first video game review. Are you ready?
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…What?! You want more? Fine! Starting over.
Hearthstone is a whimsical, light hearted, and polished Card Collecting Game (CCG) that won me over in about the same time it took me to write my above game review. Its lore and characters come from Warcraft, a game I haven't played. While I don't know any specifics of the source material, it wasn't a barrier to enjoying the game and its exaggerated characters. It feels like a light hearted spin on The Lord of the Rings in a Pixar-made world. The feel of the game is important – there is no story or cut scenes aside from the opening one, so all the detail around the board game ends up making a lasting impression. In this case, a good one.
The game starts out simple enough in the tutorial. They give you a hero, the Mage, to start out. You play 5 or 6 quick games that teach you the basics of the game. You are trying to play minions and attack your opponent and his minions with the goal of reducing your opposing hero's life total to zero from a starting 30. While it's an easy to play and learn game, it is more complicated than something like Uno or even Skip-bo. However, they manage to ease the player into it without much trouble.
Speaking of heroes, this is a fun aspect of the game play. As you play you will earn new cards and heroes to use for a deck that you can customize and tweak. The heroes all have special abilities that often play well into their deck synergy. One lets you draw extra cards, but at the cost of life, while another can heal himself or his minions. The cards themselves are cast using mana crystals that you unlock at the start of each turn. You gain one each turn and it is a permanent increase to your mana pool. So a card that cost 3 normally couldn't be cast until your third turn. It's very easy to understand once you play a few games.
After you get the hang of playing the game itself, you then have the fun and challenging task of building a deck yourself using the cards you have unlocked. Each deck needs to have exactly 30 cards with no more then two of a kind in it. It won't take long to learn some general rule of thumb lessons such as keeping a good "mana curve". The mana curve is the basic idea of balancing the mana cost of all the cards in your deck so you aren't clogged at specific mana cost. For instance, if you only put cards in your deck that cost 6 mana, you wouldn't be able to play your first card until your 6th turn by which you are probably already dead to your opponent's cheaper minions who have free run of the board.
After you have built a deck and are starting to beat the computer on a regular basis, I would suggest testing your skill vs a human opponent online. I played several matches and it never felt unbalanced. They do a good job of pairing you with someone of similar skill and deck strength. As you play, win or lose, you will unlock gold that can be used to buy more packs of cards. It costs 100 gold for a pack of 5 cards. You can also pay real life money for a couple packs for $2.99. While it would speed up your increasing deck quality, it would just match you with stronger opponents to balance it. I would recommend just playing the game gaining gold from matches played, and daily quests they offer to increase you digital gold bank account.
The one complaint I have is that as of right now you can't play vs a friend of your choice. Even if it would be unbalance in some cases, it would be fun to be able to take your favorite deck and challenge a personal friend to a duel to the death. Even if it didn't give gold, playing for pride would be enough. Even when you play normal games vs random people it would be something to look forward to when creating and testing a deck. Who knows, they might be able to add that in later.
The game is currently in open beta and is free. Right now it's on PC and Mac, but has plans to come to iOS and Android. The neat thing is, they have announced that all your progression will carry over to new platforms when they are released.
All in all, Hearthstone is a well made polished game that I could recommend to anyone. It has just the right amount of skill, luck, fun, and charm that it could appeal to anyone who gives it a shot. Games do not last long so it's a great bite sized game that can be fun in short bursts or long vegetable sessions (don't judge me!). It isn't a perfect game, but with room to grown with more card expansions, updates, and player feed back this could be a game that's only gets stronger and crisper as time goes on. Check it out.
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Have you seen the baby book template available for download in this week's My Digital Studio new release? It is so cute! You can open this template, drop in your pictures, and have a great gift or keepsake ready for printing in no time!
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A few great shrine sale finds and a good friend's decorating plans got me to thinking about blue and white porcelain again last night – as if that is an uncommon thing for me to think about…
I had long been saving photos of groupings of porcelain on brackets or corbels, a classic way to present a collection en masse. For example, this 1959 photo of Jayne Wrightsman's Palm Beach library designed by Maison Jansen, with a grouping of what looks to be Meissen figurines.
Figurines not withstanding, Asian porcelain, whether Chinese or other, blue and white or polychrome, tends to be the most commonly presented in this fashion. Aerin Lauder inherited this collection as well as the house from her grandmother Estée…
…and it still looks fresh today in that East Hampton home.
Carolyne Roehm went completely blue and white in her bedroom, even painting the brackets to fit in with the decor. Can't imagine doing this in Japan, as the earthquakes would be sure to give you an unpleasant surprise one night.
Thomas Burak went with an all out chinoiserie theme in this Bridgehampton bedroom, pagoda bed, and all.
And another view.
Designer Mary Watkins Wood simplifies the look with a white background, white linens and white brackets, using mainly Chinese ginger jars. I think Japanese jubako (stacked lunch boxes) would give a similar effect. Gotta love that fantastic Portuguese bed!
Did Dallas store owner Betty Gertz have this niche custom designer for this amazing grouping of Chinese vases or was it already there? The vases themselves are Ming dynasty antiques, part of the Hatcher trove. Now how's that for provenance?
I had never seen this show house hallway by Mary McDonald before – thanks to Jennifer at The Peak of Chic for the photos.
I love the blue and white against the grey.
Not limiting the post to blue & white, here Robert Goodwin uses a collection of Blanc de Chine figurines in a similar fashion. The fabulous wall color is Benjamin Moore's Iron Mountain.
Miles Redd turns up the modernity a notch in this celadon dining room with a grouping of simple celadon vases on plainer matched brackets.
Here Oscar de la Renta does the same with coral in his Punta Cana home.
And perhaps the most tongue in cheek is this simple bathroom with the grandest of porcelain displays.
My question for you readers, is whether you like this look? Do you find it traditional? Elegant? Fussy? Do you like the brackets to all be the same? Or a variety? Painted like the wall color, contrasting or gilded? I am thinking on it too, considering it for an upcoming project…
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Image credits: 1. via The Peak of Chic, , 2-3. Elle Decor, 4. Veranda via Chinoiserie Chic, 5. via The Enchanted Home, 6. House & Garden via Chinoiserie Chic, 7, 11-12. House Beautiful, 8. scanned by me from magazine tear sheets, but credit unknown, 9-10. via The Peak of Chic, 13. via Habitually Chic, 14. Martha Stewart Living via The Enchanted Home.