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DDAVP Ampul
GENERIC NAME(S): Desmopressin
OTHER NAME(S): DDAVP Solution
Desmopressin is used to control the amount of urine your kidneys make. Normally, the amount of urine you make is controlled by a certain substance in the body called vasopressin. In people who have "water diabetes" (diabetes insipidus) or certain kinds of head injury or brain surgery, the body does not make enough vasopressin. Desmopressin is a man-made form of vasopressin and is used to replace a low level of vasopressin. This medication helps to control increased thirst and too much urination due to these conditions, and helps prevent dehydration.
Desmopressin is also used to control bleeding caused by surgery or injuries in people with certain bleeding problems (hemophilia A, type 1 von Willebrand's disease). It works by helping the body with normal blood clotting.
How to use DDAVP Ampul
This medication is given by injection into a vein or under the skin by a health care professional.
When this medication is used to control increased thirst and too much urination, it is usually given twice a day or as directed by your doctor. If you are using this medication at home, learn all preparation and usage instructions from your health care professional. Use this medication regularly to get the most benefit from it. To help you remember, use it at the same times each day. If you have any questions about using this medication properly, consult your doctor or pharmacist.
Before using, check this product visually for particles or discoloration. If either is present, do not use the liquid.
Learn how to store and discard needles and medical supplies safely. Consult your pharmacist for more details.
Limit drinking of water and other fluids while using this medication, especially in children and older adults. Consult your doctor for details. If you find that you are drinking more fluids than directed, tell your doctor right away. Your treatment will need to be adjusted. (See also Side Effects section.)
Dosage is based on your medical condition and response to treatment. Do not use more desmopressin or use it more often than prescribed.
Tell your doctor if your condition does not improve or if this medication stops working well.
Side Effects
Headache, nausea, upset stomach, flushing of the face, or redness/pain/swelling at the injection site may occur. If any of these effects persist or worsen, tell your doctor or pharmacist promptly.
Infrequently, desmopressin may affect your blood pressure. It may cause an increase or decrease in your blood pressure. A temporary drop in your blood pressure may result in dizziness and a fast heartbeat. Ask your doctor for more details, especially if you have heart problems or high or low blood pressure. Tell your doctor promptly if changes in your blood pressure occur or if any of these symptoms occur.
Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medication because he or she has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects.
Desmopressin can rarely cause a low level of sodium in the blood, which can be serious and possibly life-threatening. Drinking too much water or other fluids increases the risk of having a low level of sodium in the blood. Therefore, follow your doctor's directions for limiting fluids. Seek immediate medical attention if you have any of these unlikely but serious symptoms of a low level of sodium in the blood: loss of appetite, severe nausea, vomiting, severe headache, muscle weakness/spasms/cramps, sudden weight gain, unusual tiredness, unusual severe drowsiness, mental/mood changes (such as confusion, hallucinations, irritability), loss of consciousness, seizures, slow/shallow breathing.
Seek immediate medical attention if any of these rare but serious side effects occur: chest pain, weakness on one side of the body, slurred speech, sudden vision changes.
A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is rare. However, seek immediate medical attention if you notice any symptoms of a serious allergic reaction, including: rash, itching/swelling (especially of the face/tongue/throat), severe dizziness, trouble breathing.
This is not a complete list of possible side effects. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.
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Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or at www.fda.gov/medwatch.
In Canada - Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to Health Canada at 1-866-234-2345.
Before using desmopressin, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to it; or if you have any other allergies. This product may contain inactive ingredients, which can cause allergic reactions or other problems. Talk to your pharmacist for more details.
This medication should not be used if you have certain medical conditions. Before using this medicine, consult your doctor or pharmacist if you have: kidney disease, a low level of sodium in the blood (current or past hyponatremia).
Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of: high or low blood pressure, heart disease (such as blocked blood vessels in the heart), conditions that may increase your risk of fluid/mineral imbalance (such as cystic fibrosis, heart failure), the urge to drink too much water without being thirsty, history of blood clots.
If you have lost too much body water (become dehydrated), your doctor will correct that condition first before starting treatment with desmopressin.
This drug may make you dizzy. Do not drive, use machinery, or do any activity that requires alertness until you are sure you can perform such activities safely. Limit alcoholic beverages. Alcohol can also interfere with how well desmopressin works.
Tell the doctor right away if you develop any illness that can cause water/mineral imbalance (including fever, diarrhea, vomiting, infections such as the flu) or if you experience conditions that require drinking more fluids (for example, exposure to very hot weather, strenuous exercise, persistent sweating). The doctor may need to stop or adjust desmopressin treatment, especially in children and older adults.
Children may be more sensitive to the side effects of this drug, especially water/mineral imbalance and a low level of sodium in the blood.
Kidney function declines as you grow older. This medication is removed by the kidneys. Therefore, older adults may be at greater risk for water/mineral imbalance and a low level of sodium in the blood while using this drug.
During pregnancy, this medication should be used only when clearly needed. Discuss the risks and benefits with your doctor.
This medication passes into breast milk. Consult your doctor before breast-feeding.
Drug interactions may change how your medications work or increase your risk for serious side effects. This document does not contain all possible drug interactions. Keep a list of all the products you use (including prescription/nonprescription drugs and herbal products) and share it with your doctor and pharmacist. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicines without your doctor's approval.
Other medications besides desmopressin may also affect the balance of water and sodium in your body. Therefore, tell your doctor or pharmacist about all the products you take, including: nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs such as ibuprofen, naproxen), psychiatric medicines (such as chlorpromazine), SSRI antidepressants (such as sertraline), tolvaptan, tricyclic antidepressants (such as amitriptyline), "water pills" (diuretics such as furosemide).
If someone has overdosed and has serious symptoms such as passing out or trouble breathing, call 911. Otherwise, call a poison control center right away. US residents can call their local poison control center at 1-800-222-1222. Canada residents can call a provincial poison control center. Symptoms of overdose may include: confusion, drowsiness, persistent/severe headache, sudden weight gain.
Do not share this medication with others.
Laboratory and/or medical tests (such as urine tests, blood tests, blood pressure, pulse) may be performed periodically to monitor your progress or check for side effects. Consult your doctor for more details.
Missed Dose
If you miss a dose, use it as soon as you remember. If it is near the time of the next dose, skip the missed dose and resume your usual dosing schedule. Do not double the dose to catch up.
Store this medication in the refrigerator between 36-46 degrees F (2-8 degrees C). Do not freeze. Keep all medicines away from children and pets.
Do not flush medications down the toilet or pour them into a drain unless instructed to do so. Properly discard this product when it is expired or no longer needed. Consult your pharmacist or local waste disposal company for more details about how to safely discard your product.Information last revised December 2016. Copyright(c) 2016 First Databank, Inc.
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This cake is absolutely dreamy.
I've been craving pumpkin dessert---anything.
2 cups flour
3 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup applesauce
2 cups pumpkin, canned
4 eggs
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
1 cup chopped pecans, optional
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour bundt pan.
Sift together dry ingredients in mixing bowl. Set aside.
Cream sugar, oil, applesauce and pumpkin until smooth. Gradually add eggs one by one. Add vanilla. Slowly add dry ingredients, just until blended. Stir in pecans.
Bake 50-60 minutes, or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Let cool on wire rack for 15 minutes, invert cake and cool completely.
Frost with cream cheese frosting. Garnish with additional pecans, if desired
Cream Cheese Frosting
8 ounce cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup butter, softened
1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
1 pound bag powdered sugar
Cream butter and cream cheese until smooth. Stir in vanilla. Gradually add powdered sugar and whip until smooth and creamy.
Recipe Source: adapted from All Recipes Pumpkin Cake III

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2008 ASLO Summer Meeting
Interactions on the Edge · 8-13 June 2008
St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador · Canada
Sponsored by the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and co-sponsored by Society of Canadian Limnologists/ Société canadienne de limnologie, and the North American Benthological Society.
Supported by Hydro-Quebec, the City of St. John's, and Newfoundland & Labrador Hydro.
Key Dates
Complete Schedule
May 2008
Early Registration Ends
8 May 2008
8-13 June 2008
St. Johns is a family friendly city. If you are planning to bring your children and would like information on options for daycare services during the meeting please contact conference co-chair Robin Anderson at firstname.lastname@example.com
Abstract Book Available
The meeting abstract book will be available on-line only, and is available by direct download (2008 ASM Abstract Book, PDF, 2.9m), or in the files section.
Meeting Program Available
A pre-release version of the printed meeting program, with complete schedule information, is available by direct download: 2008 ASM Meeting Program (PDF, 1.74m
Schedule at-a-glance Posted
The at-a-glance schedules for each day of the meeting are now available in the files section or by direct download: 2008 ASM Schedule at-a-glance (PDF, 542k)
Complete session schedules will be up by Monday, 12 May 2008.
Meeting News
04/02/08 - The 2008 ASLO Summer Meeting welcomes a new meeting supporter: Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro.
03/11/08 - Abstract submittal closes.
08/26/07 - Special session submission deadline extended to 15 October 2007. Due to the close proximately of deadlines for the Ocean Sciences Meeting abstracts and special sessions for the Summer Meeting, the deadline has been extended to 10/15/07.
To submit your session, visit http://www.aslo.org/forms/stjohns2008.html
Discover St. Johns!
Come discover one of the oldest cities in North America! - cradled in a harbor carved from granite, surrounded by hills running down to the ocean, quaint side streets of a thousand colors, friendly faces waiting to greet you and where old and new, city and nature, live as neighbors. ASLO is proud to visit this historic city for the 2008 Summer Meeting. This meeting is designed to be both environmentally and family friendly! It is also very suitable for European attendees-just five hours flight from London.
The theme of the meeting reflects the history, geographical location and geomorphology of our host town. This meeting is about interactions; between scientists of course, and also between disciplines and approaches, between ecosystems and environments - freshwater and marine. Standing at the easternmost edge of North America, oceans lakes and rivers define the landscape and shape the people and their interactions with the world. Water and fish brought the first Newfoundlanders here and still define their identity. Our visit to St. John's will be a great opportunity to explore linkages between limnology, oceanography and fisheries. We will also highlight cold-water ecosystems. What better place than Newfoundland at the time of year when icebergs dot the coast? Finally, we cannot come to Newfoundland without thinking about our past and revisiting our roots. Ancestors and history are alive in the collective memory here, and we will take time to reflect on the progress and directions of our discipline in the 25 years since ASLO last met in St. John's. Plenary lectures will be held Monday through Friday. Poster and oral sessions will be held throughout the meeting.
As for the edge(s), you'll see when you get here. (For a sneak preview, look at the web cam mounted at the Ocean Sciences Centre of Memorial University, just outside St. John's at http://www.osc.mun.ca/seals/oldbaycam.html.)
Let's take risks, let's explore interactions, let's go to the edge of our science, and let's make this a great meeting!
2008 ASLO Summer Meeting Co-Chairs,
M. Robin Anderson and Hélène Cyr
For More Information
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June 9, 2011 is International Archives Day!
Today we reach out to our community to remind them of the
importance of archival collections, and to encourage them to learn
through the study of the primary sources we preserve. We are
celebrating this year with the debut of our blog, which will
feature articles about the more interesting items in our
Plenty of people ask: "What sorts of things are in the
Archives, anyway? And what does an archivist do?" We do many
things here in the museum's archives, but here is a recent
Part of an archivist's job is doing what we call holdings
maintenance, which consists of checking in on objects periodically
to be sure they are still in good shape. For instance, right now we
are preparing our collections for our upcoming move to the Rocky Mountain
Science Collections Center, which requires that we put objects
in containers suitable for long-term storage.
In March 2011, the Archives team partnered with our colleagues
in the Conservation department to preserve some
of our textile artifacts. One of the items was a pair of mukluks worn by museum taxidermist Jack Putnam
during his 1965 field expeditions to Alaska. Before this treatment,
these objects had been sitting unsupported on a shelf, loosely
wrapped in a plastic bag. Now they have been stuffed with cotton
(which will keep the material from creasing) and were moved to
sturdy archival boxes that will provide protection without giving
off any gasses that might damage the fabric.
Why do we care about an old pair of shoes? These artifacts help
tell the story of what goes on behind the scenes of the museum. The
dioramas are fascinating, but so are the stories about how the
specimens were collected, the personalities of those doing the
work, and the process of how the dioramas were designed and built.
Objects like these are a physical link to the museum's past, and -
if properly cared for - will continue to educate scholars for many
years to come.
Read more about the Conservation
Department's preservation work here.


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= Unconference Whiteboard =
this space is in intended to serve as a space to flush out ideas for group discussions. people should feel free to add comments and questions to any section.
=== CouchDB on mobile ===
What phones/devices are/can be targeted?
Alternate implementations or ports of the current Apache (erlang) CouchDB?
=== HTML5 CouchDB ===
IndexedDatabase and IDBCouch.
=== CouchDB and the web security model ===
What do we need to do to allow CouchApps to play in the web sandbox. Eg if I'm running a banking CouchApp and a chat CouchApp, and the chat CouchApp has a bug that allows the person you are chatting with to inject HTML/JS into your browser, how do we keep that from being a vector for attack on your banking data?
=== Ideas and priorities for CouchDB 2.0 ===
Now that we're releasing 1.0, it's time to think about what the next 5 years of CouchDB development will bring. Alternate indexers? Binary attachment storage options? Refactoring to use web-machine? Of course, real decisions will be made on the dev@ list, but there's nothing like a campfire and some beers to get the ideas flowing.
* Replaceable storage (e.g., use ets for transient database documents)
* Realtime interactions with live db or filtered replica
* Filtered replication to diskless copy (data discovery via filtering)
* Browsing JSON document structure to discern data patterns (auto-documentation)
* Statistics of db contents (interactive mapreduce)
* Sandbox of real document subset
* iterative code development
* testing
* error reproduction
* A model of error handling with the goal of conveying information to the user
* Command-line JSON-aware tools tuned to Couch interfaces
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Once you add some location information to your documents, you can ask your GeoCouch to give you a list of documents that are located in an area. Let's talk about how to integrate geo data into your applications, and why bringing CouchDB to the GIS world is important.
=== All about BigCouch ===
[[http://github.com/cloudant/bigcouch|BigCouch]] is a highly-available clustering and sharding system for CouchDB built by the folks at Cloudant. We'll talk about the design choices behind the project, demo a local Big``Couch cluster, and chat about where the project is headed.
=== How to contribute to CouchDB ===
Want to help with CouchDB, but need some hints on getting started? We'll give a tour of the codebase and show you how to find and fix bugs in the Erlang implementation. Also you can do a lot to help CouchDB, just by writing JavaScript, so we'll show you that too. Hopefully this will demystify the codebase, and you can start hacking on CouchDB.


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Renaissance G2/M3 ***** 1977
It runs up the middle of the North-West face, breaking through the red overhangs in the center. The initial 150m takes the the ramp to the left of that used by North by North-West, under the conspicuous triangular roof (but using the right-hand edge of the ramp). The broad pillar ahead is climbed up its left-hand side (jamming cracks), and crossed to the right on top. Thereafter, the excellent middle section of the wall is climbed in a line trending slightly to the right, through the only roof in this part. (North by North-West is crossed to the right of the A1 traverse, pitch 11. This leads straight up to the huge red overhangs, which are negotiated via the break seen from the valley, running diagonally through from right to left. Grey rock is reached, which leads with difficulty on to a steep wall to the left of the rock fall scar.
Start under the enormous triangular roof, behind a tree where the Recess route goes up leftwards. Climb and scramble 15m diagonally to the right to ledges on the right-hand ramp.
1) 35m F1: Climb the right-hand side of the ramp to a tree
2) 40m F2: Above the tree, swing to the right (F3) onto a nose, then continue up the right-hand side of the ramp
3) 40m F3: Climb up to a recess tot he right of of a small blocky roof, then layback strenuously through the gap. Continue up the ramp
4) 30m F2: Continue up clean rock to a big ledge Traverse 15m right to the left-hand side of a broad pillar
5) 35m G2: Climb the jamming cracks strenuously to the top of the pillar From the right-hand side of the pillar, climb to a ledge (E3), then traverse 15m to the right to a stance below a jagged jamming crack. The route now heads for the crack system leading slightly to the right towards the triangular roof (the only roof on this part of the wall).
6) 40m G2 with one aid move: Ignore the jagged crack , and starting with one nut for aid, climb the vertical wall on the left. Move to the right on flakes after 4m, then climb up a good thin crack for 10m (peg runner left in), until a thin traverse to the right leads to a break up on good holds trending diagonally to the right. Stance 10m up the break.
7) 30m F3: Continue up the break, which turns into a semi-chimney, and belay on the ledge to the right (left is the A1 traverse of N by N-W)
8) 35m G1 and M2): Take off up blocky rock rock from the right-hand side of the ledge, then climb the crack leading to the right-hand side of the red roof (bong left in place). Aid through the flared crack in the block in the roof (3 nuts), up to a rail under the final roof, where a hanging stance can be made on the right to avoid rope drag
9)15m F3: Climb the small ledge on the right and up on tiny holds to a roof. Move left (tricky) and climb a crack to a ledge. Belay on the right
10) 35m F3: Traverse to the right, past a block, the ascend the wall round the corner on square holds, with occasional runners, ending in a difficult mantleshelf move onto a ledge.
11) 35m F3: Above is a large coffin-overhang below all the other overhangs. Climb straight up to the left-hand edge of the overhang, up the crack leading past on the left, until a step to the right leads onto the top of the overhang. Climb up to a rail under smaller roofs, then traverse to the left for 10m (delicate) to a stance amongst blocks
12) 40m G1: Traverse 15m to the left along rails, until flakes lead to a recess and up to a roof (good runner). Hand traverse to the left to a narrow ledge below a grey face. Directly below, through the red overhangs is the Bong pitch of N by N-W
13) 30m G2 and M3: Climb the compact grey face from the left-hand edge of the grey face, with occasional good runners (three nuts for aid). Stance slightly to the right of the previous stance
14) 15m F3: Follow a handrail round a corner to the right to a hidden crack leading to a roof. Traverse to the right along another rail to the skyline Move 20m to the right to a steep grey face to the left of the old rockfall scar.
15) 40m F2: Climb diagonally to the right to reach rails leading back to the left across the grey face, then climb steep blocky rock to a chimney.
16) 20m E: Climb the chimney and traverse to the left under a roof to a ledge.
The final ledge is one rope length higher. Two finishes are possible.
17a)45m F3: Traverse 15m to the left to a stance and the corner of the wall. Round the corner, pass a huge flake, the continue diagonally to the left, climbing steeply to a traverse across an exposed grey face. Make difficult moves off a rounded ledge and up diagonally to the left on steep rock to the final ledge (reached directly below an enormous rectangular roof on the right-hand side of the tower above.
Traverse to the right for two rope lengths into the grassy bay above the North-West face. 17b)45m F1: traverse to the right under the roof on pitch 16 and ascend a pleasant grey face to the walk off ledge. Finish to the right in the grassy bay.
"The climb should only be attempted by a leader capable of mastering the most difficult of present day (1977) G routes." "It is advisable for any party attempting this route to be familiar with the technique of prussiking."
D Cheesmond and A Dick, 12 November 1977 MCSA Journal 1977 p69-71


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The New York Jets didn't paint a masterpiece Sunday. They'll have to settle for a win.
The Jets set a franchise record with 20 penalties, but still managed to get by the Buffalo Bills in a 27-20 win at MetLife Stadium.
Geno Smith became the first Jets rookie to throw for 300 yards and two touchdowns in a single game. His biggest throw came in the fourth quarter, a 69-yard touchdown pass to Santonio Holmes that ultimately decided the game.
The score came at a juncture in which the Jets appeared to be in total free-fall mode after coughing up a 20-6 lead. Jets cornerback Kyle Wilson was the face of the meltdown, committing three penalties on the Bills' game-tying scoring drive in the fourth quarter. The Jets' 20 penalties covered 168 yards.Smith remains very much a work in progress, throwing two more ugly interceptions. But he also made the type of impact plays that should keep him in the starting lineup for the balance of the season. The time is now for Rex Ryan to commit.
Here's what else we learned:
1. Santonio Holmes might be back. The receiver looked like his old self in his most productive game since undergoing a pair of surgeries to repair a Lisfranc fracture in his foot. His game-winning touchdown summoned memories of his first season with the Jets.
2. EJ Manuel crashed back to Earth after last week's heroics in Orchard Park. Manuel missed too many throws and took eight sacks. The Jets never let Manuel get comfortable, and his production reflected that.
3. Bilal Powell has been a nice surprise for the Jets. He set a career high with 149 rushing yards. Chris Ivory was sidelined by another hamstring injury, but it doesn't matter. Powell is The Man in New York's backfield.
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5. The Bills have their fingers crossed on C.J. Spiller. The running back was forced to exit with a knee injury. He was last seen limping to the locker room with a big wrap around his knee. A lost afternoon for the Bills.The "Around The League Podcast" is now available on iTunes! Click here to listen and subscribe.


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Better Representing Muslims: A Few Ideas
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This is kinda key to the entire argument here. This "basic metaculture" is impossible to define in any meaningful way. "The Middle East" is a region that means nothing in regards to making generalisations about the people that live in it. The fact that you believe otherwise is why the implementation of some of Rath's suggestions is so important.
For example, those links you posted? Two out of the four of them are from Al-Aqsa TV, from the same program no less. Produced by, you know, the state-television studio of Palestine, run by Hamas. A third is a news report about the exact same part of the world. Putting aside the ridiculousness of taking what is essentially war-time propaganda more intrinsic to the Israel-Palestine situation than anything and declaring it evidence of a widespread trend in Muslim society, you're taking very nearly all your evidence from one source, and one area. It's... kind of mind-boggling, honestly. The article talks about a problem in Western media of using Muslim as some kind of blanket term that infers an automatic predisposition towards certain stances, and your response is to say it's wrong by pointing to a single example of one small part of Muslim culture that acts in a certain way. Not to mention that coupled with the phrase:
It seems like you're actually unaware of this fact. To be clear, the videos you posted are mostly from one network, even one program. They do not infer a widespread hatred of the West, hatred of women, or hatred of non-Muslims within the Middle East. They show a hatred of Israel and its western supporters within the comparatively tiny geographical area of Palestine, presumably because... oh, I dunno, the whole history of the Palestinians vs Israel. But that is only a very small part of the Muslim world, which is the entire point of the article and this topic.
Honestly, the rest of your post doesn't have much to do with the topic at hand. You're citing a lot of events and locations and using it to make... some kind of point, I suppose, but it doesn't really seem linked to topic at hand. No offence intended, but your posts in this topic haven't actually done a very good job of tying your evidence to your argument against Rath's points (or even making it clear what your opposition to Rath's article actually is). Some of your arguments outright support Rath's idea that we need to foster more understanding of the variances of Muslim culture and the Muslim world. You mention the utter failure of propping up the Taliban as an example, but if anything that just proves that you really need to pay attention to the cultural and social tensions whenever you invade anywhere. The Muslim world has problems. No one has ever disagreed with you on this point. It's just that a lot of these "universal" problems are nowhere near universal, a lot of these universal attitudes are not universal, and the whole culture of the region is so much more complex and fractured than the media gives credence to.
On an unrelated note, could you link me some information on Iraq hiding troops in Iran during Operation Desert Storm? I've never made a study of the Gulf War (my study of the history of the region is much more focused on Lebanon/Israel/Palestine, and even more focused on the 50s-80s), and I've never heard of this happening. Sounds absolutely fascinating, and a brief google search turned up nothing.
This is probably the best approach that I've seen when it comes to dealing with any characters of a demographic that is subject to stereotype (whether Russians, Muslims, women, atheists, republicans, scientists or whatever)
Short version: The problem of stereotyping comes when we have a single character (or a single kind of character, like a character replicated many times, as is common in video games) that represents the only example of a given demographic. It becomes natural for the audience to jump to conclusions that any trait unique to that character is related to their other unique traits.
Ergo, if you only have fanatical terrorists representing Islam in your story, that will be how the audience will regard Muslims in your world. If you have a variety (even a mere handful) of Muslims each with different interests, motives, goals, attitudes and so on, this will demonstrate that Islam does not directly correlate with the traits that vary amongst them. (Though it will also reinforce those traits that are consistent amongst your Muslim characters, so you have to be careful.)
Similarly, when you have one woman in your ensemble, then all her unique traits will be associated with her sex. Having multiple women in your story allows the audience to see which of those traits are not necessarily related to their gender.
You know there are a diffence between being from the Middleeast/being a "middle eastern" and being a muslim right? There are muslims here in Scandinavia where I live and not all of them are from the middleeast. One is a nationality/ethnicity and the other a religion. Nationality/ethnicity is not a choice (although nationality is later in life) but religion is a choice. Not the same thing. Just because I was born in Europe, am white it does not mean that I am a christian. What I am however is a caucasian and an european.
I read the article and the comments that followed and I can now honestly say that I know why nothing gets done in politics.
Wonder what kind of image people would get from USA if they only listened to Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh?
Reading through these comments it's astounding the level of misguided hypocrisy.
First off my main problem with the article. Think about it just how many times in these games are these charters stated as Muslim, explicitly? Very rarely,the writer is placing a stereotype upon these characters himself by assuming all people of middle eastern and north African descent are Muslim, which as he rightly points out (but does not seem to have the self awareness to take in the information he is offering) not all are.
Another point, when the hell did criticizing Islam become a racial thing? A lot of the radicals that are being dealt with are western converts. I'm not sure if this is a divide between the US and Europe, but in the EU I think we have probably had a lot more exposure to Islam, if you live in a UK city for example, there will be at least a small Islamic community. People do make offhand comments, everyone does, not saying it's right. But I don't think the overriding prejudice here is by any means a racial thing.
The concern and the prejudice I would say is centered out of a fear and concern out of the ability Islam currently seems to have to be manipulated and convert Muslim and Non-Muslim alike, from good upbringings, into full on radicals bent on harming people. The vast Majority of UK terror attacks have been committed by our own citizens in recent years, the worst in recent memory the 7/7 bombings in London was carried out by homegrown terrorists. Is it not almost logical for people to fear something (even if it has been manipulated) that turned people we consider our own to attack and kill their fellow Britons?
In the article the Skyrim reference in my opinion is just pathetic, I never once viewed the Redgaurd in a negative light, my main thought on them was how epicaly cool every encounter I had with them was.
The fact is we have been and still are at War with radical Islamic Cells over the middle eastern and northern Africa regions, our media will reflect this, these people will not be shown in a good light, nobody want to sympathize with an enemy and to humanize them while we still have our own coming back in body bags, that's life. If you can't understand that you have probably lived a very sheltered life and have an over idealized view of the world. When you know it's your neighbors coming back to their family's without their legs who believed they were going to these countries to help the good people there build a better life separate from these radical monsters who would make their fellow Muslims suffer just as much as they would us if they had the power you can probably better understand.
The one comment I will make that could be a good shift is showing a better representation of the Muslims standing side by side with us to fight these oppressive and radical powers, the interpreters, guides, native armed forces and of course the Muslim men and women in our armed forces. I thought the film green zone did a good job of this, showing an native interpreter risking his life and that of his family essentially to try and help his country.
You just affirmed Godwin's law, therefore you lose sir.
And to all those saying "You can't judge Islam by the Qu'ran/hadith" You're basically saying you can't judge a religion by its fundamental ideological basis and are therefore a moron.
You have kind of invalidated your whole point by using a topic you obviously only have popular culture references for, nobody is going to take you serious on as complex a topic as the 2000 year history of Christianity, it's development and interpretation by 100's of different sects. You have also made the mistake I see the vast majority of people making by taking the bible literally, I've made this point before, the bible is not written as a strait text, it is riddled with metaphors and symbolic stories, not all of it is meant to be taken literally, most forward thinking modern biblical scholars do not literally believe the story of Noah's ark, how thick do you think these people are? I don't think I have ever met a priest in fact that takes the stories like that literally. Any way back to the point it's a common misconception that Athens created the just kind of government we have today, they allowed people to vote, that's it. Also you had to be a Man, a Citizen and a Landowner.
- They also kept slaves (Who were beaten for crimes that would be a fine for a free man)
They made a step forward in terms of the justice system but it was till far from fair by today's standards because of many of the laws they were enforcing.
When you produce some of the great classical heroes and Scholars people like to forget the legal pedophilia and slavery!
Don't bother saying anything to therumancer, he's a renowned....I don't quite know what the word is, but he REALLY irks everyone on the board and seems to think that massed walls of bizarre text a good argument make.
My take on this whole thing is quite different compared to most people I know, mainly due to an ex-islamic uncle who was kicked out of Syria when there was all that stuff a while back.
You cannot comprehend a entire smorgasbord of civilisations until you've actually had proper contact with all of them (something I haven't, but I'm planning to) and judging by the amount of silliness going on, I'm assuming most of of western civilisation has had little to none actual experience or even a conversation. It may shock some, but one cannot group an entire mass of cultures under 'designated evil villain' and expect that it's fine to make frankly daft statements about them without having ever met a member of that culture.
The only bit I'm critical about in the article is that Dorne is pretty much spain, with the Moors (the salty dornishmen) and the Spanish(the stony dornishmen) and according to most, it's the place where the least shit has hit the fan.
You make some nice points, none of which I particularly want to contest, but let me just add something:
"the English, Scots, Irish, Americans, and Canadians", as well as South Africans, Australians, New Zealanders and a number of others I've surely forgotten to mention are lumped together solely because they speak English.
The term most commonly used is "Anglo-Saxon", which always got up my nose because the Anglo-Saxons have been buried for centuries, but I digress. We're lumped together like that all the time, and the worst thing is that the longer I spend overseas, the more I start using that term myself.
I'm not justifying lumping all Muslims, Arabs and Middle Eastern people together, I'm just saying that the idea is not so alien since it goes both ways.
Exactly, fanatics. But there are always fanatics in every belief system, even non-religious ones, and the concept that religions that have existed longer than others are more "mellowed" is just flat out wrong. The existence groups like the Hindu nationalist RSS or the various sectarian paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, or even lone nutters Anders Behring Breivik prove that.
Again, such bigotry and closed mindedness is not exclusive to Muslims. How many working-class Brits do you think talk about the "Pakis" taking their jobs, or how many southern Americans complain about the godless queers amongst their friends. The reason people keep those prejudices to themselves is because they want to fit in with a society that's long since deemed those views unacceptable. And fitting in is the last thing I'd expect a people who plot the destruction of said society to do.
By it's nominal basis. Not necessarily the same thing.
Eh, no reason we can't have Islamic space marines getting eaten by bugs, as opposed to western space marines getting eaten by bugs.
Please note that there is a reason why there are two listed covenants contained within the Bible. The first one was a covenant between the Jewish God and one nation. The second was a covenant between the Christian God and the entire world. Christians do not (or should not) adhere to the stipulations and laws of the first covenant because it is not their covenant. The book of Hebrews (New Covenant book) speaks of this, saying that in creating a new covenant, the old one is made obsolete and is ready to disappear.
So to point to a book that includes both listed covenants and claiming that old tenents are part of the new would be along of the lines as claiming that Christians still sacrifice spotless lambs every year in the temple. I'd say that Christianity is one of the very few religions that espouse being stoic while amongst those who would threaten the adherrent even to the point of death. Judaism, however, is a very violent religion, every bit as much as Islam. But it doesn't have a mandate to expand outside of Israel to give Judaism to the World like Islam does.
Regardless, even a peaceful religion can be used in the name of hate and oppression. Spain taught us that more than any other nation. If you look at cultures instead of the faith you'll often find beliefs that are even more harsh than the harshest tenents of the faith. Sunnis even killing Shi`ites and vice versa.
Wow, really? You complain about generalisations, then in the very next word make a far bigger generalisation than anything you actually complain about in the whole article. That's a pretty impressive way to undermine any point you may have been trying to make.
A) The mention of similarities to Nazism in an argument does not instantly invalidate someone's point, especially when the majority expressing the opposing view openly admire Adolf Hitler, and
PS: Your habit of making a flimsy argument, then acting like you've won something is among the most irritating things I've seen on the internet so far, so congratulations on that.
It's tragic that an extremist minority can so sully an entire faith of ~1 billion followers. The vast majority are reasonable people but the militant and terrorist few don't do them any favours and they do themselves even less favours by not ostracising and criticising them.
Well this isn't surprising. Terrorists are really really evil and are the perfect content to fill the idea bucket for the gaming industry. If you mean the gaming industry has done a poor job picturing Musilms, surely you must recognize that Muslim extremists and terrorists does a piss poor job at picturing Islam.
Perhaps the wrong focus for a industry who's only motive is to make money.
They don't necessarily make up a minority. I don't recall seeing official polls being done anywhere to determine actual beliefs. Extremist? Yes, certainly, but not necessarily some trivial number.
I'd say that the faith doesn't call for the slaughtering of innocents but it does call for militant expansion of the borders of the faith (literal conquering of land), outright abuse and subjugation of women, direct discrimination against all non-Muslims (usually in the form of a taxes on trade that is not imposed on Muslims, not outright murder like some believe), and even direct suppression of free speech in many forms such as art (that nose missing from the Sphynx was done by an angry Muslim who saw people giving offerings to it, not the myth that it was Napoleon. Look it up. This is also why they're regularly destroying age-old statues all over the world where they're able to). Add that to the fact that a 40-year old man marrying a 6-7 year old girl and consummating when she's 9 is viewed as a holy action and you've got nearly every demographic having something to fear.
Sooo... I don't think they're entirely unworthy of a sullied names. And by Sully, i'm of course talking about the male love interest in Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman...
I think people see the more extreme examples that evoke extreme hatred from people and then try to counteract that by speaking up for the religion as a whole in ways that may be just as off as the original prejudice. It's good to fight prejudice and to teach that there are very peaceful Muslims out there. But you really shouldn't ignore the downsides of Islam towards non-adherrents and even members of its own culture (women). Culturally there are a lot of very militant groups who even murder each other for not being a Sunni or a Shi`ite. Teach against prejudice but don't lie about a group just to try to make people like them.
When you're able to produce an actual army, you aren't an extreme minority. It's nice and hopeful to think of them as a miniscule number of people but you've got to understand that a lot of Islamic cultures truly hate other groups. Even to the point of breaking their own religious tenents of not harming others if they're not at war with you. That declaration of Jihad against the US, that was religious sanctioning of war on us. Declaring us as a combatant and not an innocent.
Yup, make that the three of us. This site isn't really a great place to discuss religion, nor politics while we're at it.
I personally find it hilarious that Rath states that people lump Middle Easterners together, but not English speakers, and then immediately starts using terms like 'the West' and 'Westerners'. Because clearly all 'the West' has the exact same culture and perception of Muslims (because there's TOTALLY no such thing as 'Westerners' who are Muslims). Does Rath consider Omid to be Western or Oriental (Edward Said's use of the term, not the more popular form)? If the answer is the latter then he's just reinforcing his own neocolonial bias as well.
There is certainly some negativity regarding the issue that obstructs any legitimate pursuit of knowledge. But understand that it cuts both ways. The side that will not hear anything good about the topic as well as the side that will not hear anything bad. Both obstruct the path to truth. Real conversations are available to be had, you just have to discern which posters are putting forth a legitimate statement and which ones just want to hate/love on a topic that may deserve neither.
Make that four, whenever it comes to Religion and Politics, the level of smugness, arrogance and at times, ignorance from some of the commenters is really off putting, so much for open mindedness I guess.
Ok but first the USA should stop invading other countries and interfering in their internal affairs which makes the situation there much worse.
I wasn't planning on commenting on this thread and from the looks of some of the comments here, I'd make better progress debating with a brick wall instead of wasting my time making an argument in favour of the article which would get ignored, but I'll only make a comment to you since your comment really rubbed me the wrong way, generalising much?
Hmm, it occurs to me that there may be semantics here. I'm not talking about just the few that would attack innocent civilians as extreme. I'm talking about the nations that actively oppress/discriminate against individuals by gender or faith. The belief systems that lay the groundwork for all this tragedy. As I said, I do not believe that attacks on civilians is condoned by the Qur`an. The verses I've generally come across in my studies condemn that and so do the major hadiths I've studied. The exception would be regarding civilians who break Sharia law specifically (such as destroying a Qur`an or making an offensive image of the Prophet) but they don't see those as innocent civilians. But the comment was on terrorists AND militants. Those two terms are not the same group. If they were meant to be, then terrorist should have sufficed.
Regarding the video, the question on whether or not the attack of 9/11 was justified is startling. Holy crap. Only 55% said it was unjustified? A direct attack on civilians is considered to have some justification by around half the respondants of this study? Whoa... I... I thought it'd be better than that... The study focuses on how only 7% said it was completely warranted but it ignores the rest of the gray responses that said it did have merit AND the study had an 8% no response category... Remember, this is the area that I said is not condoned by the Qur`an. Killing non-combatants is literally a no-no and so that kind of response is... scary. I suppose with our siding with Israel and our refusal to pursue individuals who offend Islam we may be considered combatants but that still wouldn't warrant attacking civilians.
The study also did some weird things. They asked questions that didn't really relate to what they were talking about. For example, the question about whether or not women should have any job they're qualified for doesn't address the idea that women are legally disqualified for jobs like driving in some of these places. I mean, 82% of Saudi Arabian women can say all they want how they should be able to work in jobs they're qualified for but when the governmnet forbids their ability to drive under the guise of religion then they are severely limited.
They also brought up democracy which is a historically ignorant thing for people to say Islam is against. But their question about freedom of speech omitted a topic. They asked if people should be able to say whatever they want about social/political/economic issues. They forgot religion in that question. Let me make this clear. Islam doesn't forbid nations from having various social/political/economic policies. It's the religious issues that are set in stone. Again, Islam was generally kind to non-combatants when they invaded Spain. They were there from 711 to 1492 and allowed Christians and Jews who weren't combatants to thrive. They don't hate others just because they're not Muslim. They hate others who offend their religion and the US has done a lot along those lines. Islam is set up to be a hornet's nest. If you leave it alone it won't bother you. But if you strike it, it will f you up. In issues of war, or battle, that's a just way to go about things. But when you're imposing your religious tenents by convicting people as criminals when they offend your faith then that's not just.
But historically, Islam has been relatively peaceful towards foreignors who aren't at war with them. That trade route was as successful as it was because Islam has specific tenents regarding trading with non-Muslims.
The complaints I have with Islam are as follows:
1. Legal discrimination against women including scriptures encouraging husbands to beat their wives after two warnings, forced marriage, female circumcision, forced clothing, limited positions in government/workforce/home.
I consider these elements and beliefs to be extreme (in relation to Western thinking). Would you disagree that a practice forbidding women from being able to drive cars is extreme? Would you disagree that taxing some people more based on their faith would be extreme? At the very least, oppressive and discriminatory would be the word. I fear the idea of being under Sharia law. It is exactly that.
Sorry if you thought I meant that people who would attack innocents are the norm. That wasn't the case. But what I would call extremists are numerous enough to rally armies to force Sharia law in areas and to go around bashing thousands of years of human history.
Ugh. This was one of the first things I saw when I started reading this.
I'm a Muslim, from Boston, living here, working here... and this is just... Tasteless.
OT: I think the original article is pretty on point. We're not senseless killing machines. There are 1 billion plus Muslims in the world, if we were all like that how long do you think something like this would last?
There are many different types of Islam and many different types of Muslims, same as any other demographic quality that you can attribute to anyone. A lot of religious doctrines have violent text, we can drudge up the same text in the Torah or the Bible. In fact, next time an abortion clinic gets bombed by a Christian fundamentalist, maybe it's time to thrown down unqualified condemnation of those people too.
Additionally (EDIT): I'm calling BS on not ostracizing or rejecting the extremists. The Boston bombers were ostracized and rejected from their local mosque for their extremist views, and I personally distance myself from anyone with that mindset (as I do for anyone with a fundamentalist Christian mindset) as well.
This. The other 2 related religions had their troubles back in the middle ages, but they've grown up for the most part. The muslim religion is the one that's still stuck in the middle ages and doesn't show any signs of growing up- especially with everyone trying to empathize and be tolerant. Example- is it more dangerous for you to be in a predominantly christian country with a t-shirt that says "Jesus is fake" or a predominantly muslim country with a t-shirt that says "Allah is fake" (or, y'know, even shows an artist's depiction of a historical figure)? Hell, even in the same region, is it more dangerous for you to walk around Israel saying "Abraham was a terrible father " or Egypt with a "Mohammad the Molester" hat? Exactly. Real tolerance is being able to understand that other people's opinions in and of themselves DON'T MATTER. Stick 'n stones and whatnot. There's currently one very large group of people in the world who are a real danger who don't understand that.
I think what people expect in this regard (and I'll note that I myself don't necessarily agree with it) is for Muslims to be more 'pro-active' in rooting out zealotry and extremism (as you have noted, many of these same people don't expect the same of Christians and say, the Westboro Baptist Church, but I digress). They basically want to see both religious leaders and average Muslims rejecting Islamic principals that seem in conflict with Western values (namely things like the role of women in society, the depiction of Muhammad controversy, etc.) and actively trying to compel the religion as a whole towards a more secular state. Basically, a lot of them want a Muslim version of the Reformation.
My brief theory (using general terms, not saying this applies to everyone obviously): I think the reason why Islam scares so many people in the West is because of how rooted in politics and institutions it is. This flies in the face of the past several hundred years of history in the West, where the elimination of religious political control (the Pope's influence over Europe in the Dark and Middle Ages, for example) has been largely seen as positive and progressive. With Islam's current politicized nature in the Middle East it's easy for people to see it as a direct challenge or antithesis to secularism.
That Aya is taken out of context,this was in a very specific part of history and doesn't appply nowadays let me tell you how it goes:
After the Musllims gone into El-Madina, they made truce with the "idolaters" who are the people of Kuraich here and not all of them around the world, the truce implied that they will live together in peace and no one will atack no one during ten years (kee in mind that the Muslinms were already more powerful then Kuraich and could have killed them).
Read the Coran and try to learn Arabic because there is some people that try to translate it badly just to make the Coran look bad, any more questions? if so MP me I don't to flood this comment section anymore
The number of completely ignorant jerks here is undeniable proof that we need to stop treating Muslims like complete crap in our media. Too many people have been hopelessly brainwashed. This is just sad.
My bible says A LOT of funky stuff, including "suffer not a witch to live." Reading the whole thing front to back, it would be easy to get the idea that Christians want everybody dead. But we don't. The ones who do are extremists using biblical verses out of context to support their hatred. Do you see our media covering this? This large number of Christians using really dark verses in the bible to justify murder? No, you don't. Did my household get any coverage when a Christian came to steal my baby because my husband is a druid? No. That was totally fine. So was the brick through my window. All fine.
But heaven forbid a SINGLE Muslim ever do anything wrong. They have far less extremists than we do, and yet they've been blown up into this incredibly gross stereotype. I've met plenty of Muslims, and let me tell you, they are good people. Honest, well-meaning folk with killer fashion sense. They deserve to be the protagonists of video games.
I personally want to play a game in which you are the member of an insurgency in the middle east trying to rid your land of the terrible Americans who have no business being there. It would be way more accurate than any of these games casting Muslims as the ultimate evil.
Okay, I find it odd that this particular conversation has within it the following pattern:
Now, I am in no way saying anything along the lines of "ehrmehrgehrd, Christians are teh porsecutd" or anything like that. I sit on a throne of comfortable WASP privilege, and understand that complaints against a group to which I happen to belong have been a long time coming.
I am, however, saying that the argument, as it is stated above, is an irrational one. The fact of the matter is that you can take any belief system and find people within it who are decent human beings, as well as colossal dickbags who will use the slightest pretense in order to exercise their dumb angry wills.
Such pretense may take the form of quoting a particular written work, conventional wisdom, or the back of cereal boxes, but the fact of the matter is that, for such people, religion acts as more of a justification rather than a motivation. I would say that the motivation is sheer dickbag-ness, and the religion is more of an excuse to indulge in aforementioned dickbaggery.
Christ, the console wars are a freaking monument to this phenomenon.
I think I understand that in regards to Europe. But the U.S. can't decide whether or not we are a Christian nation, I don't know if it holds up. I think the stereotyped "other," now that Russians, Nazis, Japanese, Native Americans, etc. are no fun, is what is working against us here. Edward Said's "Orientalism" has a pretty good summation of this.
Infamous, I think is the word you're talking about. Don't worry, I've both read topics involving him before, and even replied to one or two of his posts in the past (I think). I'm aware of what is involved, but regardless of my personal views it's almost invariably interesting and thought provoking. I just wish he could stay on topic more.
I am genuinely interested in this whole Iraq hiding troops in Iran during Desert Storm deal though. Would love to read more about it and the politics around it.
You're looking at this as if Muslims are going to have a universal religious justification for how they feel about 9/11. They're not, and this is part of Rath's article's point. There is a lot of bad feeling towards the United States in the Middle East, but very little of this is anything to do with religion directly. It's almost invariably down to political or cultural roots. The US's involvement in the Middle East has not been terribly positive for most people there, and you are much better off looking into the history of that involvement to find out why there's so much ill-feeling rather than trying to figure out how they justify it on a religious basis. A lot of Christian Americans thought killing Osama Bin Laden was a great thing, despite the fact that it hardly fulfills the principle of turning the other cheek. You'll note that only a small minority thought the attack was fully justified. Honestly, I can see, really very easily, how I myself would fall into that grey between fully justified and unjustified. It was a horrific act... the US, the UK, and so many other countries in the "civilised" West have undertaken horrific acts that similarly targeted civilians, but on a scale made so much larger thanks to their access to bigger and better weapons. Violence is never the correct action, but I can see how that act could be seen as an act of retaliation from one side, rather than an unprovoked act of terror as the US sees it.
Isn't that the way that question is normally phrased? "Should people be allowed to have any job they are qualified for?" I mean, you wouldn't want to make the interviewee to think you're asking them if people should be allowed to a job regardless of their qualifications. I very much doubt there was an intention to appeal to Saudi Arabian men with that question.
I refer you to Rath's very first point, "Stop lumping them all together". There is a huge spread of diversity within the Islamic faith, within the Middle East, within areas where those two overlap and where only one of them applies. The legal discrimination against women, particularly the legal beating, female circumcision, and limited positions, are hardly implemented universally. Iran has laws that require women to have a male guardian give them permission to work, but even they have several female members of parliament. I'm absolutely sure you do have problems with those aspects of Islam. I have issues with them. Everyone should have issues with them. But bringing it up is basically going off topic. No one is saying Islam has no issues. There are issues within Muslim communities across the world. The problem in this article is the portrayal of Muslims in the medium of video games. It's ok if you portray some parts of Islam as being distasteful, so long as you can also show that those distasteful parts are nowhere near the only reality.
Gah, it's far too late at night/early in the morning for me to be constructing a coherent argument. I'll sleep on it.
I love you so much, just for that comment, and you've said everything I wanted to say better.
Who admires Hitler? No-one I know who holds that Islam is fundamentally (in its pre-enlightenment form) incompatible with Western Secularism admires Hitler. At least not his espoused views on Ethnic cleansing or German/Aryan superiority.
Who's discriminating against Muslims? I'm talking about Islam and was making an irritated observation about the common and ultimately stupid argument that you "can't judge Islam by what it says in its holy book". There is a difference between an ideology and those who follow it. I know plenty of decent people who identify as Muslims, but they don't actually follow most of what the religion actually teaches, they follow what liberal apologists claim it teaches, which is fine, hence the (admittedly not explicitly stated) distinction between Islam and Muslims.
Please give examples of this "habitual" behaviour you have observed in me in your long years on the forum.
Damn straight on Edward Said.
In regards to America as a Christian nation you do have a point, but I think it also comes down to the belief that many people would reject an overarching fundamentalist state in America. If the government were to, say, attempt to install creationism into the public school system there'd be massive resistance and public outcry. This isn't to say that within Muslim countries extremist religious attitudes within politics aren't resisted, but it ties into Said's 'other' concept. The Orient is the 'other': mysterious and strange, and our perceptions of them are largely based on media produced by people with clear agendas. From the information given many people see the Islamic world as untrustworthy (and the opposite is true as well).
Ultimately I'd argue that if the entire Middle East had a system similar to Turkey (not that I'm saying it's a perfect solution or even a good one) there'd be a lot less Islamophobia.
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Sindhi Kadhi (Vegetable in Gram Flour Gravy)
Sindhi Kadhi is very delicious and nutritious. This tangy Kadhi is made with roasted besan, (gram flour) and mix of vegetables. Traditionally it is served with rice and also can be served as a soup.Add to favorites
Black Eyed Beans (Lobia)
Black Eyed Bean is also known as lobia or chawalie. This is a basic recipe, easy and nutritious recipe to make, very delicious and protein rich.Add to favorites
Sambar (Spicy Lentil Soup)
Sambar is a spicy lentil soup with variety of vegetables. Sambar accompanies many South Indian meals, like dosa, idli, rice. One can say South Indian meal is not complete without Sambar.Add to favorites
Mixed Dal (Mixed Lentils)
This is a delicious and nutritional dish that accompanies many different meals. Mixing different lentils gives a more interesting flavor. Dal is a staple dish in most Indian meals. For most Indian vegetarians, dal is a frequent source of protein in their diet.Add to favorites
Kala Chana (Black Chana)
Kala Chana is very high in protein and provides a nutritional meal. It has a low glycemic index and is a good protein option for people with Diabetes. Kala Chana is a variation of the commonly found chickpea but it is dark brown in color and smaller in size. It is also known as Bengal gram.Add to favorites
Moong Dal Soup
This is a healthy, vegan soup that is very high in protein. It is made with split Moong dal and flavored with "Hari Cilantro Chutney". Moong Dal Soup is very flavorful yet simple and easy to make.Add to favorites
Gatte Ke Kadhi
This is a popular cuisine from the state of Rajasthan in India. Steamed gram-flour dumplings, cooked in spicy gravy. This mouth-watering dish will complement any meal.Add to favorites
Laucki Chana Dal (Bottle Gourd, Ghiya, Doodhi)
Laucki chana dal is a healthy main dish and has both vegetable and lentil making a wholesome meal.Add to favorites
Lentil Vegetable Soup
Lentil soup is healthy and very satisfying dish. Its a great soup for lunch served with bread.Add to favorites


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There's more good news on the OpenChange front. Julien has been working together with Wolfgang and Ludovic from Inverse to leverage the server-side support in OpenChange to provide native Exchange server support in SOGo.
A couple of days ago we announced that there now is an initial version that allows the use of Outlook against a SOGo server through OpenChange.
There is a screencast up on youtube (there is also a .mov version of the screencast).
As far as I know, this is the first time it's possible to actually use Outlook clients with a non-Microsoft Exchange-compatible server, without the need for plugins on the Outlook side. And it's all Free Software. Of course, this is just a preview, and not something we'd recommend everybody to run in production just yet. But it's exciting to finally see this come together.
We already have OpenChange packages in Debian and Ubuntu but I hope I can help get SOGo packaged for both distributions as well.Go Top


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As was the style in those days, the man left the sweat and blood of giving birth to his wife in the doctor's care and sat in the waiting room reading "Life on the Mississippi." At the point in Mark Twain's story when old Darnell was filled with bullets during the feud with the Watsons, the doctor entered the waiting room and announced, "You've got another boy." The reader made a note of the occasion in the margin of the book. Decades later, John Darnton, the boy born that day and the man who wrote this memoir, discovered the book and note.
The discovery of the note about his own birth in the handwriting of his father was a mythical event for the author because he never knew his father. Byron Darnton was killed before John was a year old.
This decade, so far, has been terrible for the literary genre of the memoir. Too many memoirists relating insignificant stories while being overly confessional in an effort to compensate for the inadequate narrative. Or the stories, perhaps significant, are not well written because the author is not a writer or a storyteller, merely a memoirist.
"Almost a Family" suffers from neither of these pitfalls. It is a meaningful story of loss, search, and discovery, brilliantly told by an insightful, honest writer.
The primary figure of the narrative is the father, the character who leaves the stage first. As is often the case, the absent person is the one most present. "Not having a father present didn't mean not having a father," Mr. Darnton writes. "There wasn't just an absence in my life. There was the 'presence' of an absence, and that presence, along with snippets of information . . . filled my imagination."
Byron, known as Barney, a war correspondent for The New York Times, inhabits every page of the book, whether he is on or off stage in the narrative. Omnipresent, however, is not the same as being known or understood. Barney hovers just outside the range of the reader's understanding. This makes us all the more in sync with the author as he travels and researches to find and know the father he never met. We come to our own understanding at the instant the writer-son himself lays bare the myths about his father.
After Byron was killed by shrapnel in a tragic case of friendly fire, John's mother, nicknamed Tootie, was left alone with two small boys. As the only parent, she had terrible burdens to bear: provide a living, rear and educate two boys, and, above all, maintain the myths of the family. For a while, it seemed she was up to the task. Then, through the author's young eyes, his reluctant observations gradually break through his boyish wishful thinking. We discover that Tootie was more unknowable, more mysterious, and more absent than was the dead father.
For this reader, the accounts of the author's childhood and youth are the least engaging parts of the narrative, the only time the story slows down. Yet there are important and redeeming moments. There's the cavalier dismissal in the young boy's mind when he breaks valuable vases with a carelessly thrown ball in the home of a stranger who is caring for him and his brother because their mother has left a failed business and moved to another city. She has left her sons behind ostensibly to finish the school year. When the broken vases are discovered, the resulting shame in the boy stands in for his feelings about his broken family. Shame over shattered ceramics is easier to bear than the shame of his mother and the fractured lives of her children.
"Almost a Family"
John Darnton
Knopf, $27.95
As a teenager with little or no parental supervision, he began a series of adventures. He hitchhiked back and forth from coast to coast. The recounted perils of risk taking, leaving his private school dorm after hours, stealing cars, hopping freights, and vomiting on a borrowed tuxedo might seem gratuitous if it were not for moments of reflection.
"Somewhere along the line, I had evolved the philosophical notion that experience was all. The importance of adventures was in the living of them. Added up, they would build character and endow understanding. Each bizarre encounter, each brush with danger, each passage through yet another crazy set of circumstances was another tale to tell, a notch in my belt. In lost moments, waiting by a deserted roadside, with my gut rumbling from hunger, I'd remember all the rides I'd had up to that point, as if they made a significant pattern. I'd reconfigure my life on the road, summarizing it like the biographical bullets I used to read on the back cover of paperbacks."
The story speeds ahead when Mr. Darnton, after years in other newspaper assignments, steps into his father's shoes and becomes a war correspondent for The Times and heads off to Africa to cover war and intrigue. The danger of hopping a speeding freight train in his youth was the baby step toward knowing his adventurous father. Although he claims he was careful and avoided putting himself into dangerous situations in Africa (then Poland during the revolution), we smell the danger of what he's doing as if the pages of the book have been infused by it. We are happy when he and his family make it back to the United States, and he is able to reflect and write this book.
In addition to the careful journalistic research in this memoir, the key to its success is the author's ability to observe himself as he negotiates the treacherous waters of memory, even when he traveled to the rain forest of New Guinea where his father died. There he met an old native man who was present at his father's death. After lengthy negotiations were completed through translators about what contributions would be made to the village, "I felt a tug on my shirt and turned. It was Alexander, the old man who had witnessed the bombing. He gestured for me to follow and we walked down the beach until he stopped. He pointed to a spot in the sand. We did not have a translator — and besides, there was nothing to say — so we just looked in silence for a long while at the place where my father's body had lain."
This was not the end, just the beginning of the end, of the author's search for truth in the myths about his absent, but very present, father.
John Darnton is a former summer resident of Bridgehampton.
Gary Reiswig is the author of "The Thousand Mile Stare: One Family's Journey Through the Struggle and Science of Alzheimer's" and "Water Boy," a novel. He lives in Springs.


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Getting Stitched! Ward Shows HOW TO Sew Hair
Ward Stegerhoek (best known as Ward) is one of the top editorial stylists working today. His kit is chock full of interesting items, but most intriquing is his "stitch kit". At a photo session for MODERN's August issue, Ward (a co-founder of Living Proof) offered his HOW TO create a fresh look with needle and thread and also gave a "tour' of his kit.


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AMES, Iowa (AP) Iowa State never wanted to reach the point where it had to beat West Virginia on the day after Thanksgiving to become bowl eligible.
The Cyclones took care of that by winning their sixth game last weekend.
But it's not as if the Mountaineers are nearly as scary as they looked to be in early October, either.
West Virginia (5-5, 2-5 in the Big 12) has fallen from the top 10 to the Big 12 basement in five long weeks. Now it's the Mountaineers who need to beat Iowa State (6-5, 3-5) just to reach a bowl game - not the other way around.
``You get to a level where a bowl game is much more than a reward - we are not at that stage right now. We are at the stage where we are playing for the betterment of the program,'' West Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen said. ``If we win a couple of games and get to a good bowl game, we get to practice for another month. That will help us out for the program.''
The Cyclones have themselves yet another quarterback controversy. But coach Paul Rhoads might have an uprising in the stands at Jack Trice Stadium if he doesn't start redshirt freshman Sam Richardson.
Richardson became the third Iowa State quarterback responsible for a victory last week when he came off the bench to lead Iowa State to a 51-23 win at Kansas.
Richardson looked so good in his debut that he spurred hope that the Cyclones have found their quarterback of the future. He completed 23 of 27 passes for 250 yards and four touchdowns after relieving senior Steele Jantz.
Rhoads wouldn't commit to starting Richardson against the Mountaineers, but he did say the freshman had the edge over Jantz after his dazzling performance in Lawrence.
``You have to always be ready for an opportunity, and when it comes you have to seize it,'' Richardson said. ``Still working practice with the same mentality that I'll have an opportunity to be out on the field.''
West Virginia's main problem isn't hard to spot. The Mountaineers' defense has yet to prove it can stop anyone in the Big 12.
West Virginia was ranked fifth in the nation and quarterback Geon Smith was the presumptive Heisman Trophy favorite when Texas Tech dropped 49 points on the Mountaineers on Oct. 13.
Sadly for West Virginia, it wasn't a fluke.
After giving up 63 and 48 points in wins over Baylor and Texas, the Mountaineers have allowed 49, 55, 39, 55 and 50 in consecutive defeats.
Last week, West Virginia suffered a gut-wrenching 50-49 loss to Oklahoma when Landry Jones threw his sixth TD pass of the evening with 24 seconds left.
Nationally, only Colorado has given up more than the 42.3 points West Virginia has allowed per game - and the Buffs are 1-10.
``We are strong willed around here. We have the right leadership in place, and we have the right amount of effort. We all want to win very badly. Guys are not going to hang their heads,'' Smith said. ``We understand that we are in a rough stretch, but we know the only way to pull out of it is to win games.''
Though Iowa State and West Virginia have never met, Rhoads is a familiar name in Morgantown.
Rhoads was the defensive coordinator for rival Pittsburgh in 2007 when the Panthers shut down star quarterback Pat Smith and stunned West Virginia 13-9, denying the Mountaineers a spot in the national title game.
But Rhoads said this week that he knows his offense - no matter if it's led by Richardson or Jantz - must put up points to keep up with a West Virginia team that is as prolific now as it was in October.
``They're not any less dangerous. What happened to them was the Big 12. This is a great, great football league and they're a very good football team,'' Rhoads said. ``They are a very dangerous football team.''
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Carol Ann Baurle, 45, wife, mother and grandmother
Carol Ann Baurle, 45, of Louisville, passed away Tuesday, July 3, 2012.
She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and homemaker.
Carol is preceded in death by her parents, Allen and Ursel Smith; and a sister, Teresa Smith.
She is survived by her loving husband of 21 years, Dennis Baurle; daughter, Sherry Smith; and sons, Dennis Jr. and Cody Baurle; granddaughter, Makayla Smith; and a sister, Debra Smith.
A Celebration of Life Service was conducted noon, Saturday, July 7, 2012 in the Chapel of Arch L. Heady at Resthaven, 4400 Bardstown Rd. Interment followed at Resthaven Memorial Park. Visitation was Thursday, July 6, 2012 from 2-8 p.m.
Megan Marie Bigg, 27, member of Long Run Baptist Church
Megan Marie Bigg, 27, of Louisville, passed away on Wednesday, July 4, 2012, with family by her side after a long illness, starting with losing her kidneys at the age of 12.
She was born October 18, 1984 in Louisville and was a member of Long Run Baptist Church.
She is preceded in death by her grandparents, Benjamin and Ramona Edelson.
Megan is survived by her parents, Ernest J. Reed and Monica Sue (Edelson) Reed; two brothers, Rick Vogt and Chris Bigg; and many aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.
A funeral service to celebrate Megan's life was held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 7, 2012 at Pearson-Ratterman Funeral Home, 12900 Shelbyville Road with burial following in Cave Hill Cemetery. Visitation was from 8-10 a.m. at the funeral home.
Memorial gifts in the form of contributions may be made to The National Kidney Foundation.
Mary Margaret Walter Cambron, 100, Mother and Friend
Mary Margaret Walter Cambron, 100, died Thursday, July 5, 2012.
She was the widow of George Walter Cambron Sr.
Survivors include: nine children, George W. Cambron Jr. (Geri), Fred Cambron (Jo), Conrad Cambron, Paul Cambron (Jackie), Pat Cambron (Cindy), Carol Shultz (Steve), Rose Mary Conrad (Jerry), Irene "Renie†Coffman (Jack) and Christine Cahill (Pat).; twenty grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; sister, Elizabeth "Babe†Munchhof; and brother, Anthony "Tony†J. Walter.
A reception of friends and family was held from 2-8 p.m. Friday and after 10 a.m. Saturday at Kraft Funeral Service, 708 E. Spring Street, New Albany, IN. Her funeral liturgy was 1 p.m. Saturday, July 7, 2012 at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church Starlight, Ind. with burial in the Church Cemetery.
Memorial contributions to: Multiple Sclerosis Society or Hosparus of Southern Indiana.
Online condolences may be made at www.kraftfuneralservice.net.
Frederick W. "Fred†Heil Jr., 69, President of Pinehurst Properties
Frederick W. "Fred†Heil Jr., 69, went to be with his Heavenly Father on Friday, June 29, 2012.
Born in Sunbury, PA on September 28, 1942, he grew up in Pompton Plains, NJ. He graduated from Rutgers University with a BA in economics. He was a member of Alpha Chi Rho fraternity and Air Force ROTC. He was honored to participate in experimental testing exercises that were subsequently used to test the Mercury Seven astronauts. After graduation in 1964, Fred entered the U.S. Air Force and proudly served his country for four years at Little Rock Air Force Base. He married Dona Westray in 1967, and they made their home in Louisville for the past 44 years. He was a loving husband, a supportive father to his two children, and an adoring grandfather.
Fred served as a vice president of First National Bank from 1968 to 1972, at which time he co-founded architectural wood manufacturer SR Wood, Inc. with his father-in-law and brother-in-law. Years later, the trio founded vinyl manufacturer Industrial Enterprises which Fred managed until its sale in 1995. Fred most recently served as president of Pinehurst Properties, building and leasing industrial space for manufacturing, distribution, and warehousing.
A former member of Springdale Presbyterian Church, Fred served as an elder for many years and chaired two capital fund drives. He loved the sport of baseball and coached his children's teams at Lyndon Recreation for 13 seasons. He spent many hours cheering on his grandchildren at their games and loved attending their school events. He was an avid UK fan and travelled to New Orleans to root for the Wildcats at the 2012 Final Four. He loved to spend time in Florida with his family and friends and served multiple terms on the board of Playa Encantada Condominiums in Holmes Beach.
Fred was a giver to his family, friends, co-workers, and community; he gave love, time, encouragement, and support. As a testament to his faith in the Lord, he believed in helping people and his life made a big difference to many. He was also very patriotic and proud to be an American.
Fred was preceded in death by his parents, Frederick and Althea Heil; Dona's parents, Charles and Foreman Westray; and his brother-in-law, Tom Westray.
Survivors include his wife, Dona Westray Heil; his son, Brian Frederick Heil; his daughter, Lisa Heil Bache (Daniel), and his four Bache grandchildren, Julia Elisabeth, Catherine Elise, Laura Westray, and William Franklin. He is also survived by two sisters, Joan Kjellman (Allan) and Barbara Heil; and a sister-in-law, Chris Westray. Surviving nieces include, Cheryl Smith (Al), Susan DiCicco (Joe), Stacy Lowe (Dan), Audrey Westray, Cara Kjellman, Krista Schmidt (Brian), and Heather Heil.
The funeral service was held at 10 a.m. Friday, July 6, 2012 at Highland Baptist Church, 1101 Cherokee Road.
Memorial gifts may be made in Fred's memory to the March of Dimes or the Crusade for Children
Charlene (Schiess) Holtgrave, 73, real estate salesperson
Charlene (Schiess) Holtgrave, 73, of Louisville, passed away Tuesday, July 3, 2012 at her home.
Born in Louisville, she was a graduate of Presentation Academy, worked 25 years in real estate sales and was a member of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church.
She was preceded in death by a brother, Thomas Schiess.
She is survived by her husband of 52 years, James Holtgrave; her children, Jim Holtgrave (Kathy), Greg Holtgrave (Kristin) and their children, Lauren, Meagan, Caroline, Maxwell, Jacob and Isabella, Bob Holtgrave (Katey) and their sons, David and Mark, Mary Lou Whitfield (Glenn), and their daughters, Casey, Maddie, Allison, and Tess, and Ann Logsdon (Doug) and their children, Ben, Matthew, Brett and Brooke; daughter-in-law, Lisa Blaser; brother, Kenneth Schiess; and sister, Kathleen Jones.
Her funeral Mass was celebrated at 10 a.m. July 6, 2012 at her church, 1960 Bardstown Rd. with burial following in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation was from 2-8 p.m. on Thursday at Highlands Funeral Home, 3331 Taylorsville Rd.
Expressions of sympathy may be made to St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School or Hosparus of Louisville.
The family wishes to thank Dr. Carmouche and Hosparus for their loving care.
Albert Charles "A.C.†"Cootie†Leonhardt, 83, U.S. Army veteran
Albert Charles "A.C.†"Cootie†Leonhardt, 83, returned to his Heavenly Father on July 1, 2012 after an extended hospitalization.
Born in Louisville, he was a U.S. Army veteran, a retired restaurateur, and real estate agent. A.C. was a member of the Belmont Athletic Club, American Turners, 11th Frame Club at Thelmal Lanes, active in Alumni Association at Male High School & the University of Louisville, and was a member of the Sarafun Club at St. Raphael. A.C. lead an active life filled with bowling, softball, basketball and baseball. In recent years, he enjoyed the companionship of many old friends from high school, college, and the neighborhood. A.C. enjoyed attending his children's and grandchildren's many athletic, dance, theatrical, equestrian and social activities. He was always their No. 1 fan and supporter.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert and Lillian Leonhardt; and beloved wife, Cleo Leonhardt.
A.C. is survived by his sons, Greg Leonhardt (Patty) and Rusty Leonhardt (Jill); daughter, Mary Kay Niemann (Rob); brother, Larry Leonhardt (Jan); sister, Bobbye Jean McCarthy (Bill); brother-in-law, Gabe Crawford (Mary); sister-in-law, Geneva Richardson; 11 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and many loving nieces, nephews and cousins.
His funeral service was 2 p.m. on Friday, July 6, 2012 at Highlands Funeral Home, 3331 Taylorsville Road, with burial following in Calvary Cemetery. Visitation was from 2-8 p.m. on Thursday and from noon until 2 p.m. on Friday.
The family would like to extend a special thanks to Suburban Hospital 4th floor & ICU staffs, and Hillcreek Orthopedic Rehab Staff.
In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy may be made to the American Heart Association or American Diabetes Association.
Shirley Y. Johnson Palmer, retired teacher
Shirley Y. Johnson Palmer, of Louisville, died Tuesday July 3, 2012 at Parkway Medical and Rehabilitation Center.
She was a native of Ecorse, MI, a retired teacher for the Jefferson County Public School System and a Baptist by faith.
She is survived by two sons, Jon C. and Phillip C. Palmer; a stepdaughter, Thelma McDavid; a stepson Jeffery A. Palmer; two brothers, Willie (Theresa) and Kenneth (Delia) Johnson; 16 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Her funeral service was held noon Saturday at W. P. Porter Mortuary 2611 Virginia Ave. Visitation was after 11 a.m. Saturday.
Expressions of sympathy should take form of donations to Susan G. Coleman Society.
Condolences can be given at wpportermortuary.com.
Stannye Blakely Musson, 91, owner of Shamrock House and Stannye's
Stannye Blakely Musson, 91, of Louisville, passed away on Monday, July 2, 2012 at her home.
She was a graduate of the Louisville Collegiate School and Bennett College in Millbrook, New York.
She was the former owner and proprietor of Shamrock House, an Irish import retail shop which was located in Bakery Square in Butchertown, and Stannye's, a women's retail dress shop. She was the past president of the Kentucky Humane Society; and past president and a founding member of the Locust Grove Irish Wolfhound Association. In her early life, she served with the Volunteer Nursing organization during and after World War II and operated and taught her own preschool at the Church of Advent.
She raised, bred and showed both Irish Wolfhounds and Cairn Terriers. Her show dogs won numerous best in shows, group placements and the best of breed at the 1967 IWCA Specialty Show. She was an avid reader and had a love for horse racing and genealogy. She was a member of the River Valley Club, the Louisville Country Club and the Pendennis Club. She was also a member of the Irish Wolfhound Club of America, the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America and the Filson Historical Society.
She was preceded in death by her husband, The Reverend H. Sheppard Musson; her parents, General Charles S. Blakely and Mary Lee Hickman Blakely; and her sister, Mary Lee Blakely Cooper.
She is survived by her four children, Stannye Musson Meads (Roger) of Hortonville, WI; Trudie D. Musson of Washington, D.C,; Charles S. Musson (Susan) of Harrods Creek, KY and Mary Lee Musson Nickel (Robert) of Rockville, MD; her four grandchildren, Dr. R. Sheppard Nickel of Atlanta, GA; Blakely C. Nickel of Rockville, MD; Eleanor Blakely Musson Jennings (Jeff) of Arlington, VA and Carrie McAleenan Musson of Louisville; and her sister, Rose R. Blakely of Washington, D.C.
Her funeral was 11 a.m. Friday, July 6, 2012 at the Church of the Advent, 901 Baxter Ave. with burial at Cave Hill Cemetery. Visitation was 5-7:30 p.m. Thursday at Pearson's, 149 Breckenridge Lane.
Memorial gifts may be made to the Kentucky Humane Society or the Home of the Innocents.
Dr. Walter Lee Cawood, President of the Kentucky Medical Association
Dr. Walter Lee Cawood passed away on June 27, 2012 in Winston-Salem, NC.
He was born September 30, 1921 in Harlan County, KY to Veda Ledford Cawood and James Stephen Cawood. Dr. Cawood attended the University of Kentucky and received his medical degree from the University of Louisville in 1946. He completed his radiology residency at Johns Hopkins University. During World War II, Dr. Cawood served in the Army Medical Corps in Pasadena, CA and aboard a medical hospital ship in the South Pacific. In 1958 he moved to Ashland, KY, where he remained for the rest of his career.
Dr. Cawood was dedicated to improving health care for the people of Kentucky. He worked tirelessly on the state Certificate of Need and Licensure Board, served as president of the Kentucky chapter of the American College of Radiology, and president of the medical staffs of Kings Daughters Medical Center and Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital in Ashland. Dr. Cawood served as chairman of the board of the Kentucky Medical Association and was elected president in 1969. His professional career will be remembered for his guidance to the many students of the Kings Daughters Medical Center Radiologic Technology School as well as his compassion and generosity to patients who could not afford medical care.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 55 years, Virginia Shannon Cawood.
He is survived by his children, Constance Cawood Berginski (Jim), of Charlotte, Donald Shannon Cawood, of Gastonia and Drusilla Cawood Simpson (Rick), of Winston-Salem; and his grandchildren, Lindsey Shannon Berginski, Richard Cawood Simpson and Walter Gladstone Simpson.
A funeral service was held 11 a.m. Friday July 6, 2012 at Calvary Episcopal Church in Ashland. Burial took place on Saturday at the family cemetery in Cawood, Ky.
The family would like to thank the physicians of the Wake Forest Sticht Center on Aging, Bruce Jenkins, Joe Eskridge, Joyce Myers, and the rest of the Arbor Acres staff for their loving care. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Wake Forest Sticht Center House Call Program (c/o Office of Development, WFUBMC, Medical Center Blvd 27199) or the Cawood Ledford Boys & Girls Club (1 Positive Place, Harlan, Ky. 40831).