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High Anxiety: AIDS Anxiety in the Worried-Wells and Worried-Sicks, Part Two
By Bob Frascino, M.D.
September 23, 2010
Read Part One of this blog entry, posted on Sept. 3, 2010.
Panic Attack: AIDS Anxiety in HIVers -- "The Worried-Sicks"
Recently I received the following post from "Apollo." It graphically demonstrates an AIDS-related panic attack as well as the anxiety that can be brought on by an HIV/AIDS diagnosis and disclosure worries.
HELP ... I don't know what's happening to me
Whether genetically, biologically or environmentally predisposed to anxiety, individuals facing physical challenges, such as chronic illness like HIV/AIDS or cancer, experience excessive worry and fear at a higher rate than the general population. The challenges associated with a virus that wants nothing more than to plant you six feet under, that has an unpredictable clinical course, and that is incurable can overwhelm even the most stable emotional constitution.
Studies have found that up to 70% of the virally enhanced community report persistent anxiety symptoms and that 40% meet the criteria for an anxiety disorder. When one considers the tsunami of thoughts, feelings and decisions a newly diagnosed HIVer faces, it is easy to see why anxiety is so prevalent.
Even those who have been HIV positive for a considerable period of time still need to cope with feeling discouraged by poor laboratory results; deciding to begin or change a drug regimen; worries about disease progression and drug resistance; changes in body shape, appearance and libido; fear of infecting others -- some worry even their touch has become toxic; fears surrounding stigmatization and discrimination; health insurance; career plans; job security; finding a Mr. or Ms. Right; fearing that "happily every after" is no longer even an option. The list goes on and on.
"Apollo" experienced a classic panic attack. Medically speaking here's what happened to him. His anxiety about being discovered activated his body's sympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system controls the "fight or flight" response I mentioned in Part One of this blog entry.
Anxiety is deactivated by the parasympathetic nervous system. It, by contrast, is responsible for the "rest, relax and digest" response. These are reciprocal systems that respond chemically to outside influences. The autonomic nervous system (comprised of both the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems) stimulates behavioral reactions via the neurochemicals these systems produce. It is a finely balanced feedback loop.
This feedback loop explains the mechanism by which normal fear can escalate into a full-blown panic attack. Once activated, the anxiety response (sympathetic system) can become self-reinforcing as more and more neurochemicals are produced by the anxious person's nervous system. Once the danger has passed, the nervous system should trigger the parasympathetic system to send out chemicals to, in essence, neutralize the anxiety hormones to reset the whole system. However, in the case of panic attacks the system gets stuck. The parasympathetic system never kicks in and the body continues to experience the fight or flight effects of continued sympathetic activity, leading eventually to extreme panic.
Coping With and Conquering Anxiety
Both medical and non-medical interventions are widely used to treat anxiety disorders. Psychotropic medications, psychotherapy/counseling, changing behaviors to reduce stress, developing new coping strategies and a variety of other non-traditional modalities, such as yoga, are often used to manage anxiety. The most effective treatment is an individualized regimen.
Psychotherapists use a variety of techniques to help anxious folks confront and conquer (or at least better cope with) the psychological and emotional underpinnings of their anxiety. Cognitive behavioral therapy is the most commonly employed psychotherapeutic intervention. Psychotropic medications, including antidepressants and anxiolytic agents, can often be used on a temporary basis to help someone through a crisis and provide time to identify and correct distorted perspectives and learn healthier responses to life's stressful situations.
Fear of becoming HIV infected or anxieties about health seen in those already infected are completely normal. However, debilitating anxiety disorders are not. AIDS phobia in the worried-wells can ruin health, happiness, career, relationships and life.
HIVers, due to the emotional and physical stress of coping with and managing their chronic illness, are highly susceptible to anxiety disorders. Anxiety has been linked to poor adherence to HIV medications, which can lead to disease progression, which, in turn, can produce additional anxiety.
Anxiety disorders remain underdiagnosed and undertreated in both the worried-well and worried-sick communities. When recognized and addressed, anxiety in most folks can be managed with a combination of focused relaxation, physical exertion and psychotherapy with or without psychotropic medications.
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Making Meaning in Literature: A Workshop for Teachers, Grades 6-8
Individual Workshop Descriptions
1. Introducing our Literary Community
2. Encouraging Discussion
3. Going Further in Discussion
4. Diversity in Texts
5. Student Diversity
6. Literature, Art, and Other
7. Assessment
8. Planning and Professional Development
9. Starting in September...
Individual Workshop Descriptions
Workshop 1. Introducing
our Literary Community
In this workshop, you will meet the eight teachers who will
guide your experience, and take a look at their communities,
schools, and students. In conversation, the teachers share
the principles that guide their work with literature and students.
Their thoughts are woven into a framework offered by Dr. Judith
Langer, who talks about the ways effective readers interact
with text and the ways teachers can support these learners.
Workshop 2. Encouraging
Introduced by Dr. Langer, this workshop concentrates on discussion
and its importance in helping engaged readers go further in
the text. The featured teachers converse about ways to encourage
whole class and small group discussion, the importance of
asking the right question to provoke thoughtful discussion,
and ways of making the discussion inclusive, folding in both
talkative and reticent students. Their discussion is punctuated
by visits to a variety of classrooms where discussion flourishes.
Some of the texts that are featured in these discussions
include Langston Hughes' short story "Passing,"
The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 by Christopher
Paul Curtis, Fig Pudding by Robert Fletcher, To
Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Letters From a Slave
Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs by Mary E. Lyons, Holes
by Louis Sachar, the nonfiction text To Be A Slave
by Julius Lester, and the picture book The Lady With a
Ship on Her Head by Deborah Nourse Lattimore.
Workshop 3. Going Further
in Discussion
Since discussion is so central to the growth and development
of a literary community, the third workshop in this series
also concentrates on this activity. Here the teachers talk
about ways to recognize good discussion, adding personal anecdotes
about ways in which they participate in or step out at various
points in the discussion to help students go further in their
understandings of the text. The group also looks at different
stimuli they use to provoke and maintain good discussions
in their classrooms. These principles are illustrated by classroom
footage showing rich and involved student discussion, and
expanded by commentary from Dr. Langer.
Classroom discussion focuses on several novels, including
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer, The Watsons Go
to Birmingham1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis, Tears
of a Tiger by Sharon M. Draper, Among the Hidden
by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Necessary Roughness by
Marie G. Lee, The Giver by Lois Lowry, and Dangerous
Skies by Suzanne Fisher Staples. Short stories are also
featured, including "Passing" by Langston Hughes
and "Guests in the Promised Land" by Kristin Hunter.
Workshop 4. Diversity in
In this workshop, Dr. Langer and the participating teachers
talk about the importance of choosing rich texts for their
students as a group or as individuals, enumerating various
criteria they have developed for this initial classroom decision.
Supported by commentary from Dr. Langer, the group looks at
the part student interests play in selecting the right text,
building thematic study units using a variety of texts, and
helping students select texts that meet their needs or help
them go further in their experiences with literature.
The group examines a number of texts for consideration, and
classroom visits show activities related to many of them.
These texts include contemporary novels such as Year of
the Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi, The Watsons
Go to Birmingham1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis,
Tears of a Tiger by Sharon M. Draper, The Skin I'm
In by Sharon Flake, Fig Pudding by Robert Fletcher,
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George, Gaucho
by Gloria Gonzalez, Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson
Haddix, Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse, The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton, Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly
Willis Holt, the Redwall Series by Brian Jacques, Heaven
by Angela Johnson, The Giver by Lois Lowry, Slam
by Walter D. Myers, Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter
D. Myers, Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick, the
Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling, Crash by Jerry
Spinelli, and Dangerous Skies by Suzanne Fisher Staples.
Classic novels the group talks about include To Kill a
Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck,
and Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth by William
Short stories that get the group's attention include The
Day it Snowed Tortillas: Tales from Spanish New Mexico
by Joe Hayes, "Guests in the Promised Land" by Kristin
Hunter, and Couple of Kooks and Other Stories by Cynthia
Poems by Langston Hughes and Gary Soto are also considered.
Workshop 5. Student Diversity
The varied viewpoints necessary for valuable class discussions
are celebrated in this workshop. The group talks about the
diverse ways in which their students are unique and how their
interactions with literature are shaped in part by their life
experiences, distinctive thoughts, and previous reading experiences.
They examine the value of using the lens of multiple perspectives
to examine a work of literature, and offer suggestions of
ways to encourage each student to contribute to the ongoing
classroom conversation. Dr. Langer validates their comments,
offering her thoughts on involving students' diverse voices
in a way that honors all of their contributions.
Some of the texts that the group talks about include House
on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Why Are All the
Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly
Tatum, Taking Sides by Gary Soto, Freak the Mighty
by Rodman Philbrick, Holes by Louis Sachar, and The
Day it Snowed Tortillas: Tales from Spanish New Mexico
by Joe Hayes.
Workshop 6. Literature,
Art, and Other Disciplines
In this workshop session, the featured teachers explore various
ways in which students can use the fine arts to express their
impressions of a text, and why this kind of activity should
be encouraged to make sure that every voice in the classroom
can be heard. The group also looks at ways to expand meaning
by interweaving literature with other disciplines, including
social studies.
Dr. Langer offers her thoughts on this integration, explaining
how learners grow cognitively and expand their impressions
of the text by using other means of looking that the fine
arts and other disciplines offer.
Several classroom projects demonstrate how learners expand
their growing interactions with texts as they work in the
fine arts. Their projects are centered on texts such as Freak
the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick, The Giver by Lois
Lowry, Smoky Night by Eve Bunting, Thunder Cave
by Roland Smith, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, Among
the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Lyddie
by Katherine Paterson, and The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963
by Christopher Paul Curtis.
Workshop 7. Assessment
In a classroom where students are actively engaged in literature,
there is a need to find authentic assessment vehicles that
measure their progress as readers and thinkers. In this workshop,
the featured teachers identify useful criteria-including portfolios
and literature logs-that they have used in both formal and
informal assessments that measure this process. The group
stresses the importance of ongoing assessment, and the worth
of looking at several measures to construct a holistic picture
of a student's progress. Dr. Langer augments their comments
by stressing the importance of measuring how students are
thinking and how they are growing as effective readers. The
group also talks about integrating their evaluation strategies
in the milieu of traditional and high-stakes assessments,
while maintaining an emphasis on the individual growth of
the readers in their classrooms. Dr. Langer explains that
encouraging readers to become more actively engaged in the
text also gives them firm grounding as thinkers and achievers
on tests such as these.
Classroom visits that enhance this workshop specify these
principles, featuring teacher-student conferences, student
projects, and peer assessment.
Workshop 8. Planning and Professional
In order to grow in their careers, teachers need a great
deal of sustenance. In this workshop, the participating teachers
talk about the ways in which they fulfill this need as they
develop individually and as members of a professional community.
The group invites us into their classrooms to look at the
way they have grown professionally, stimulated by their peers,
their membership in professional organizations, and their
willingness to seek out new thinking on literature and teaching
literature. Dr. Langer also describes the personal and professional
benefits of an active professional life.
Cameras follow the featured teachers to professional development
meetings where they interact with their peers, noted educators,
and authors as they find many ways to grow as professionals.
Workshop 9. Starting in
The concluding workshop in this series takes a close look
at the first steps teachers take in getting ready to help
their students become successful and engaged readers. With
classroom visits during the first few days of classes as their
backdrop, the teachers in this session talk about everything-from
classroom arrangement to long-term goals-that enters their
minds as they start another year and plan for success. Dr.
Langer underscores their remarks with advice for teachers
who want to recreate the kinds of classrooms they have seen
featured in this series.
During this workshop, featured teachers invite the audience
into their classrooms as they begin to set the tone for the
year through an assortment of activities focused on literature.
Some of the texts they turn to in these first days include
Holes by Louis Sachar, Gaucho by Gloria Gonzalez,
Little Things are Big by Jesus Colon, and Smoky
Night by Eve Bunting.
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We may disagree about how many shooters took part in the killing of John F. Kennedy, but there's no shortage of people willing to reframe the incident for a music video. The latest is Lana Del Rey, the silken, depressive singer whose new National Anthem video shows her posing both as Marilyn Monroe, in her "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" moment, and as Jackie Kennedy, lurking in the Rose Garden and riding in the fateful motorcade with a black president (rapper A$AP Rocky). It closes with her crawling over the trunk of the limo, looking more like Priscilla Presley than Jackie, with a gold suit in place of Jackie's pink Chanel. ()
The visual essence of the Kennedy assassination is itself a video: Abraham Zapruder's famous 27-second home movie, which now seems like a YouTube video avant la lettre, and a founding artifact of citizen journalism. That clip concentrates the themes of glamour, power and violent death that have come to epitomize the Kennedys, and that run overtly through popular music .
To graft JFK's death onto a three-minute music video for MTV is a risky proposition, and there's no doubt those who try are gaming for shock value. Maybe that's why they tend to zero in on Jackie's balked passage over the trunk. It's the pietà moment of the spectacle in Dealey Plaza, and may also symbolize our relationship with that footage and that event. We try to get away from it, and we can't – hence the clammy fascination of videos like Del Rey's, and of a few that preceded it. They are:
Window Seat, Erykah Badu (2010)
Badu steps from a vintage white Lincoln, walks around Dealey Plaza stripping off clothing , and collapses naked at the sound of a gunshot, a few feet from where Kennedy was struck. Blue blood appears, spelling out "groupthink." Badu said later that, far from sensationalizing her hometown's worst moment, "Window Seat is about liberating yourself from layers and layers of skin or demons that are a hindrance to your growth or freedom or evolution." Many in Dallas weren't convinced.
Coma White, Marilyn Manson (1999)
Lord knows why Manson yoked his song about a druggy doomed woman to a video that resets the assassination in a lugubrious night-world, with Manson as JFK and Rose McGowan as Jackie, making her trip across the trunk in a pink suit. Manson also climbs on a cross to, he said later, present "a metaphor for America's obsession and worship of violence." The video was shot just before the Columbine High School killings, so he may have had a point, though he was personally vilified when the Columbine shooters turned out to be fans of his music.
Ministry's motorcade includes a bearded Al Jourgensen as Jackie, but the band's real interest is in all the potential attackers. Not just Oswald, represented with his rifle at the window, but also a guy with a nail-gun, a charging man in a clown mask and a granny who wields a cane like an automatic weapon. Even Monroe's banana looks suspect. Do the hyper-aggressive lyrics, stuttery guitars and sarcastic visuals identify with the shooters, or caricature the violent culture they represent? MTV wasn't sure, and kept this thing off the air.
The Motorcade Sped On, Steinski (1983)
Not a video, but a prescient and biting audio collage made up of clips from the news coverage of the Kennedy shooting, and the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald two days later. Steinski edited the voices of Walter Cronkite and various reporters to make their vivid dispatches sound like spoken dance lyrics. These flow together with gunshots, sirens and clips from Kennedy's oratory, over a minimal drum beat. It's still a toe-tapper, and still shocking.


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Sun archives: Gino Marchetti
Sun coverage of former Baltimore Colts player Gino Marchetti.
Pictures: Gino Marchetti
See pictures of former Baltimore Colts defensive end Gino Marchetti.
'We're the champs'
Those words were a pain reliever for injured defensive end
Game over, but no time to quit
Former Colts working hard long after their playing days
Old Colts delight in Ravens' NFL title
Marchetti: '58 champs better; others disagree
Glories of football past
Memories: As the Ravens prepare for the Giants, old-time fans recall fabled Colts of yore -- Unitas and Berry, Marchetti and Moore -- and `The Greatest Game Ever Played.'
Streak for the ages
Unitas: Forty years ago, one of sports' most amazing, but little-known, streaks ended when the Colts quarterback failed to throw for a touchdown
`Alien' thoughts never entered Marchetti's mind
It was something he rarely talked about, and friends felt reluctant to introduce the subject in conversation. Now, more than a half-century later, Gino Marchetti, not offended or in any way irate, describes how it was when the government made his mother move outside the town of Antioch, Calif.,...
Colts-Giants II: Greatest letdown
In 1959, the Colts and Giants met at Memorial Stadium for the NFL championship, a year after the `Greatest Game Ever Played.' The rematch couldn't meet the great expectations.
Turning 40, game still has great hold
Colts: The 1958 NFL championship has worked overtime for its place in the hearts of players and fans alike
Colts earned special place in city's heart
Passion persisted until the end, 35 years of emotional ties to a team and its memories that elevated the Baltimore Colts to a position of being a civic heirloom. It may never happen again because the business of football has changed -- unions, agents, multimillion-dollar contracts for players,...


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DailyDirt: Animals Are Getting Smarter...
from the urls-we-dig-up deptThe more we study animals, the more we find out about their impressive cognitive abilities. And as we learn more about how other animal brains work, we might learn more about how our own minds think. Or perhaps someone will just figure out how to train parrots to pass CAPTCHA tests. In any case, here are a few interesting examples of animal intelligence.
- Chimps are the only other species, besides humans, that regularly throws things. It's presumably a pre-cursor to speech and communication. Chimps in captivity even throw things without any training, as the researchers say, "I've never in my life seen a chimp be given a banana for throwing shit at someone." [url]
- Until someone actually invents a dog collar that can translate dog barks into English, we'll have to study dog behavior and guess at how dogs think. Animal behaviorist John Bradshaw discusses his behavior guidebook for dogs and tips for training dogs. [url]
- Researchers have observed ravens in the wild using pointing gestures. "It's over there!" quoth the Raven. [url]
- To discover more interesting articles on the mind, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]
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Hodgson: Rio still has England future
Roy Hodgson has made it clear Rio Ferdinand still has an England future despite the Manchester United defender pulling out of the World Cup qualifiers with San Marino and Montenegro.
Ferdinand travelled to London on Sunday night to explain personally to Hodgson why it was impossible for him to accept a return to the Three Lions fold at this time. As Sir Alex Ferguson explained on Friday, there were huge concerns at Old Trafford over the disruption to a long-standing schedule United's medical staff have put in place for Ferdinand.
Hodgson said: "I'm disappointed Rio will not be available, but due to the detailed pre-planned training and medical programme he must follow it's not possible. I must place on record how I was impressed with his commitment to playing for England and I look forward to hopefully selecting him for squads in the future."
Ferdinand said he was "gutted" at having to withdraw, but insisted it was the "right decision".
Whilst friendlies against the Republic of Ireland on May 29 and Brazil in Rio de Janeiro on June 2 do not look like the obvious games in which Ferdinand should extend his 81-cap career, the fact he can do so in a less pressurised environment, and after the domestic season has finished, make it more likely.
That would ease Ferdinand back into the fray in time for the crucial World Cup qualifiers in the autumn that will determine whether England make it to Brazil or not.
In addition, Ferdinand's contract situation will also have been resolved as the prospect of ignoring United's medical strategy, and then getting injured on international duty, could have wrecked any hope he had of remaining at Old Trafford.
Ferdinand will now watch on TV, hoping he too will make it to Brazil 2014.
"I'm gutted I had to pull out of England squad," Ferdinand wrote on Twitter. "But it was the right decision for my intricate pre-planned programme.
"It was important for me to be able to speak with Roy face to face and explain the situation. One thing I made clear was that my passion and commitment to represent my country is as strong as ever."


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Anna Sui released its latest collection for Spring on the 10th January. Some of the more interesting items is the limited edition glitter gloss, which comes in blue, yellow and red, and five glitter eye sticks:
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Being a girl who loves gold, I indulged in the yellow gloss and eye stick (both called 800):
The lid of the case:
The stick itself:
You can't beat Anna Sui for beautiful packaging:
I adore the lipgloss. It is super shimmer, and the yellow colour is like a warm gold which brightens dull lip colours and is sheer once applied. The glittery effect is fantastic too (the blue seemed quite interesting but I recently bought a Lunasol blue gloss in Sapphire)…
The Glitter Eye Sticks, are soft and easy to apply. I haven't tested it so much,but it didn't leave a sticky, horrid texture on the eye and didn't pull the skin too much. I went for the 800 Gold, as it is probably the most neutral colour and can be put on a lot of eyeshadows for that glittery sheen.
If you get the chance, try this range out! It's beautiful!


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Although pendants are most often found in dining rooms, the versatile ceiling fixtures can really be used in almost any space. Pendant lighting comes in a variety of sizes and styles, making it versatile enough to use in your bedroom, living room, entryway, or office. Whether you're into rustic, vintage-inspired pieces or a more streamlined aesthetic, we've rounded up a variety of pendants for you to shop, offering our two cents on where and how to best use each piece. Industrial, gilded, colorful — we found one to suit every room and style.


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Perhaps you have received, or know someone who has received, this dreaded "unnatural links" message from Google:
There has been a lot of speculation about the messages. Are they part of a Google plan to get publishers to reveal bad links that Google isn't able to detect on its own? Hard to say.
At the recent Brighton SEO conference, on Friday the 13th of all days, Google UK's Pierre Far indicated that the messages were manually generated.
Given the report that more than 1 million websites received this message, that is pretty frightening stuff. One million manually applied messages? Chances are that this results from algorithms flagging potential suspects and then some human examination prior for validation purposes to sending the messages.
How many of your link building tactics will withstand human examination? Will a human be fooled by a spam post like this one?
Even though this particular post is better than the average machine-generated content, it doesn't pass human review. Sadly, you can easily find these types of posts by poking around with random garbage search queries.
Worse still, there is growing evidence that these messages are leading to penalties.
To be fair, others think that no such penalties have occurred. This SEOmoz article suggests that the entire focus was on sites that were participating in link networks such as BuildMyRank. However, some of my company's clients have been served with "unnatural links" messages when their sites weren't participating in link networks, so I don't think that was the sole trigger.
Unnatural Links: Round 1?
Let's step back at look at this a bit more broadly. Consider that Google implemented some simple algorithm that flagged a bunch of sites for human examination. Maybe that algorithm was as simple as a list of sites that received links from BuildMyRank. This resulted in a large number of websites being tagged for having unnatural links. Let's accept the argument for the moment that it was due to participation in link based blog networks, or even just BuildMyRank.
Google can write other algorithms. How easy would it be to write the code for one of these scenarios:
- Large percentage of blog/forum links.
- Links from obvious junk content posts like the one that I showed above – this one might be a bit tricky in terms of semantic analysis, but they could still try something here.
- Links from posts that exceed a threshold for spelling or grammar errors
- Large percentage of footer links.
- Large percentage of right rail links.
- Unnatural anchor text distribution.
- Unnatural anchor text in a class of links (e.g., all the links you get from blogs are anchor text rich, or the right rail links are, or the footer links are …).
We can generalize the operation of this process to the following:
Bear in mind, like Panda, this is an offline process, not something that is part of the normal Google indexing algorithm, so it can be as complex as they like in how it processes content and data. Also, these algorithms would be used to trigger a manual verification stage, so the worry about false positives is greatly lessened by that.
I haven't seen a single instance of a false positive reported with the unnatural links campaign so far. Not one.
In addition, the incremental coding task is not a challenging one. The hard part was to commit the resources to manually review the programming output on a large scale, and it appears that Google has done that.
Learning From Panda
Recall what happened with Panda. The initial algorithm came out on February 23/24 2011. Since then we have seen a stream of additional releases for Panda. These releases kept on refining the algorithm, with new winners and losers with each update. Panda broke new ground when it introduced the concept of an offline processor adding an additional ranking component.
The unnatural links messages takes this concept one giant step further. It is an offline processor that triggers a manual review for a specific type of problem. If this concept works in a manner that is acceptably scalable for Google, there are many millions of publishers out there that need to get to work on cleaning up their link profiles.
That is the real story here.
Google Has a New Tool in Their Toolbox
You don't have to like it, or dislike it, but you should know that it is there. And it shouldn't matter whether Google will punish you for the unnatural links, or simply disable them.
If you spend lots of time and money on a link building tactic that ultimately adds no value, regardless of whether you get penalized or the entire output of your campaign is disabled, won't matter much. It will still feel just like a penalty.
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World-renowned evangelist Billy Graham celebrated his 94th birthday with his family on Wednesday and is preparing for what God has in store for him during his 95th year.Posted on November 7, 2012
While the national, state, and local elections next week will have repercussions for years to come, in the immediate future another key subject for many broadcasters will be under the congressional microscope: performance royalties. House Judiciary Committee...Posted on November 2, 2012
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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the Bay State's highest court, has agreed to hear a challenge to the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public school classrooms. At issue is whether or not the phrase...Posted on November 2, 2012
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Millions of people in New York City and other hard-hit areas are expected to spend days or weeks recovering from the storm. Prayers, meanwhile, are going out to all those affected as are relief efforts.Posted on October 31, 2012
This month, Bott Radio Network will be officially marking 50 years of getting God's Word to God's people.Posted on October 31, 2012
WFRN in Elkhart, IN, has received six nominations for the Indiana Broadcasters Association Spectrum Awards.Posted on October 31, 2012
To date, more than 1,900 families across the nation have initiated the process of adoption from foster care as a result of the collaborative efforts of Wait No More, an initiative of Focus on the Family.Posted on October 31, 2012
Available now online and in stores is Brink of Chaos, the third installment of The End series by authors Tim LaHaye (Left Behind) and Craig Parshall (Chambers of Justice).Posted on October 31, 2012
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AAllen, Dr. B.B. , Freeport CA to Dr. Chas. Carothers of Missouri 1869
Andrews Christopher, Letters from Minnesota and Dakota 1856
Letter of February 1969 from William Xavier Andrews in Vietnam about the Tet Offensive Saturday night February 22, 1969
Atkins1863 Civil War Letter from George B. Atkins to his father from Camp Douglas, Illinois [ CIVIL WAR]
BBush, Alvah Letter to Alvah Bush, Albany New York, from her sister, M. M. Bush, Cooperstown, New York 1843
Baldwin, Simeon Letter to unidentified person from Simeon Baldwin, New Haven, [Connecticut], January 4, 1808
Bradford, Mary & Sarah Jane Letter to Mrs. Mary Bradford and sister Sarah Jane, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, from Louisa, York Pennsylvania, 1839
Cornalie Jane Kendrick Burt to her sister, Fannie Clara Kendrick Egger 1901
William "Edd" Edward Egger, to his father, James Holland Egger Jr. 1921
Julia Belle Kendrick Boyd to her brother and sister 1898
Letter from Elizabeth Baggott, Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, to Mrs. Eliza Thornton, Alamucha P. O., Lauderdale County, Mississippi, March 14, 1847
Baker, Neil. Sgt. in 50th N.C. Infantry. Letter to Sarah Jane, 1863 [ CIVIL WAR]
Baker, Bernice. Postcard sent 1910 New York
Bass Andrew Jackson Bass to his wife Ellender Davis from Camp Lee, VA 1862 [ CIVIL WAR]
Bauer, Moll. Letter from Napoleon (Michigan?) to sister 1864
Bergsland. Postcard to Mrs. Carl (Minnie) Bergsland, Adams, N. Dakota from Alma, 1909
Bidwell, Lucius E. 14th CT Inf to his mother 7 Feb 1864 [ CIVIL WAR]
Boyd Letter from Belle Boyd to her family 16 February 1898 Baxter Alabama
Boyd, Effie Collection Letters to Almira Peoples McKean fro Effie Peoples Boyd, Grove City, Ohio 1900s
Brooks, William, Co E, 161st NYVI. Collection of 9 Civil War letters 1863, 1864 [ CIVIL WAR]
Brown, Collection of letters from the brothers Alvin and George Brown, Ohio Infantry [ CIVIL WAR]
Brown, William Brown letter from Chatanooga Tennessee [ CIVIL WAR]
Brown,L. D. of Berwyn Illinois to the St Marys Journal newspaper about the capsize of the Eastland steamboat in Chicago IL 26 July 1915
Bugg 1847 letter to Allen C. Tucker from B. N. Bugg & wife Annis Tucker Bugg, Arkansas
CCarter, James in Pembroke Maine to his sister Annie (Mrs. Grenville Redding) September 13, 1864 [ CIVIL WAR]
Case, Lester in Tennessee to his sister Sarah (Mrs. Charles Davis) of OH May 16 1863 [ CIVIL WAR]
Chaffins Nathaniel Chaffins, Minnesota to John B. Smith, West Virginia 1873
Churchill, Caroline Letters from California 1870s
Clarke Letter to R. H. Beattie, care of Dr. F. S. Beattie, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from James Clarke, Havana, Cuba, September 29, 1835
Colby Letter to E. S. Colby, M. D., Cincinnati, Ohio, from Maria, Claremont, New Hampshire, December 26, 1837
Letter to Samuel Cox, Jr., Theological Seminary, Chelsea Square, New York, from his mother, A. M. Cox, April 12, 1847; postmarked Philadelphia [?], Pennsylvania, April 12
Croft, Lt. Col. Edward Croft Collection (11 letters), 14th South Carolina aka Mcgowan's Brigade [ CIVIL WAR]
Curwin, Joseph 126th PA Inf in VA to sister Mary 10 Nov. 1862 [ CIVIL WAR]
Little, Laura & Curtis, Lucinda Letter to Mrs. Laura J. Little, Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, from Lucinda Curtis, Westmoreland
Cook, Mary Letter to Miss Mary C. Cook, Great Falls, New Hampshire, from Fanny, Concord, New Hampshire, 1847
DDavis Letter from Michael Davis St. Louis Missouri to Michael & Mary-Ann Davis, County Carlow, Ireland. 1882
Dexter, Newton & Dexter, Mary Mr. S. Newton Dexter, Whitesborough, New York, from Miss Mary Dexter, Providence, Rhode Island,1823
Letter to Mr. Jas. B. E. Daugherty, No. 140/2 High St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from his brother, M. Jos. Daugherty, Lancaster, Ohio, October 24, 1842
John DeCamp of Ohio to his brother William De Camp of New Jersey 1825
John DeCamp of Ohio to his brother William De Camp of New Jersey 1826
John DeCamp of Ohio to his brother William De Camp of New Jersey 1827
John DeCamp of Ohio to his brother William De Camp of New Jersey 1828
S. Ross to E. DeCamp 1832
John DeCamp of Ohio to his brother William De Camp of New Jersey 1829
John DeCamp to William DeCamp of New Jersey 1837
Davis, Stanley Lt. Civil War Co. D. MI, from Camp Decatur, Alabama 1864 [ CIVIL WAR]
Dennis, Judson WW1 Collection of letters to his brother and mother in Tennessee and IL, 1917-1919
Dickson Hugh. Betty Johnson of London to Hugh Walter Dickson in Rosemont Kansas 1917
Douglas, B. P. in Corydon Indiana 27 Sept. 1855
Downes, Collection of letters from John Downes of Ireland, Co. I, 35th Iowa to John Walton [ CIVIL WAR]
EJames Holland Egger, Jr. to Fannie Clara Kendrick 1867
S. J. Stanely, Lawsonville Texas to J. H. Egger, Scotland Arkansas 1896
Belle Kendrick Boyd to Fannie Clara Kendrick Egger 1897
Belle to J. H. Egger, Scotland Arkansas 1892
Egger Letter to Fannie Egger from Sally Mohave 20 July 1899
Lizzie Burt to J. H. Egger Scotland Arkansas 1901
Egger-Kendrick-Burt Letter from Cornalie Jane Kendrick Burt, Sumner, Mississippi March 28, 1901
Egger Letter from A. B. Couch June 22, 1903 to James Holland Egger, Edge, Arkansas
George Egger to Ed Egger Scotland Arkansas 1918
Letter from William "Edd" Edward Egger, Camp Pike Arkansas 1918
Ed Egger to J. H. Egger Scotland Arkansas 1919
Egger Letter from C. E. Reed to James Holland Egger, Arkansas 1929
Letter from J. M. Earle, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to his wife Sarah H. (Hussey) Earle, Care of J. M. Earle, Worcester, Massachusetts, May 28, 1846
Early, John D. Baltimore, Maryland to "Major" Isaac Sandford, P. Master, Flora, Edgar County, Illinois, 1841
John Early Andrews Collection WW 1 Letters Edward James Early of Wisconsin. Added May 2008
Early February 14, 1918 letter from James William Early of Green Bay, Wisconsin to his brother, Captain Edward James Early in World War I
Early Helen C. (Ella) Early to her brother Edward James Early & sister Margaret Mary C. Early, Missouri 1918
Early World War I letters to Edward Early from Jessica Agnes O'Keefe Early
Eberlein Collection - Civil War letters from the Eberlein brothers George and Ferdinand to parents 1863 [ CIVIL WAR]
Letter to D. S. Edwards, M. D., Surgeon U. S. S. North Carolina, New York, from his brother, H. Edwards, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 20, 1845
FFairchild, Lucius Letters from California during the Gold Rush
Figures, Henry S. 48th AL to his father 9 May1861 [ CIVIL WAR]
Foster, L. & P. Springfield, Hamilton, Ohio, to "Mr Isaac Sandford, Near Terra Hoot," (Terre Haute, Indiana) July 21, 1821
Letter to Mrs. Amey French, care of Calvin French, Esq., Proctorsville, Vermont, from Amey, Providence, Rhode Island, February 11, 1848
GGiesy Letter to Mr. Samuel Giesy, Marshall College, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, from his mother, Mary M. Giesy, Lancaster, Ohio, December 28, 1843
Letter to Mrs. B. C. Attwood, Bangor, Maine, from her brother, Benjamin Gilbert, Boston, Massachusetts, July 7, 1842
Graham, William to Winnie Blount, North Carolina 1863 [ CIVIL WAR]
Gray Cpt. A.D. Gray, 16th RWV to Col. Benjamin Allen 16th Reg WI, from Mississippi 1862 [ CIVIL WAR]
HHoskins, Franklin & Gleason, William Letter to Mr. Franklin Hoskins, Sheffield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, from Wm. Gleason, Jr., Moresville, New York 1840
Letter to Arthur G. Hatch Esq., American Exchange, Paris, France, from Perce Moore, Low & Sanford, Attorneys and Counsellors, New York, July 14, 1884
Hobecken. Postcard to Mrs. Ben (Ella) Hobecken in Williamsville NY from her niece Myra in Portland, Chautaqua Co. NY 1918.
Family Tree Letter from Dr. Gerald Norton Hoeffel to Mrs. Hall 1953
Letter from Mary Hogg, New York, to Miss Euphemia Taylor, Norwalk, Connecticut, February 7, 1844
Hoskins, Helen Letter to Mrs. S. C. Hoskins, Sheffield, Massachusetts, from her daughter Helen, Hampton, Virginia 1849
IIreland, Mrs. George of Texas to editor of newspaper in St Marys Ontario - contains genealogical information
JJohnson, Lt. Joseph Johson, 58th Pennsylvania Inf.re death of Col. John Richter Jones of North Carolian, 1863 [ CIVIL WAR]
KKing, Samuel & Wilkins, M. L. Letter to Mr. Samuel V. King, China Grove, Georgetown, South Carolina, from M. L. Wilkins, Springfield, 1842
Keller Collection of letters written by Sgt John W. Keller of Kentucky during the Mexican USA War to his family in Pennsylvania
Kent Elenora Kent (Mrs. Peter Van Angelen) Memoirs 1894 mentions Hart family of VA & LaTourette Family of Staten Island NY
John King, Ledyard, Cayuga County, New York, to Thomas B. Gould, Newport, Rhode Island, February 5, 1855
Koch, William Koch Co. F 107th Ohio to his father [ CIVIL WAR]
LLadd, Charlotte Letter to Miss Charlotte H. Ladd, Boston Massachusetts, from her mother, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1830
Lawson, T.B. AL to Rufus Spalding in Mass. 19 Jan. 1839
Lee Letter to Miss Sarah Lee, Salisbury, Connecticut, from her brother, Jonathan Lee, Hartford, Connecticut 1811
Letter to Miss Louise Lovejoy, Care of C. D. Ferries, Esq., Buffalo, New York, from Gustaf, New York, January 20, 1849
MMcCord, Alice in Goshen [Indiana?] to her cousin Charles, 14 Sept. 1860
McCoy, Robert. Letter to his brother, Joseph in Jackson Co. Va (WV) on March 20, 1831.
McCoy, John & Jefferson, Thomas Letter from John McCoy, Captain of the Augusta Co. Militia during the Revolutionary War from Staunton, Augusta Co. Virginia to Thomas Jefferson, 1781
McFadden, H.C. Grovers Mills to his uncle R. S. McKendless 1855
Mahanay, H.N. 5 Letters written in 1898 by Henry Newton Mahanay born 2 Feb 1872 in Bourbon, MO
Markle Richard, Co. B. 40th Reg. Ill Int. Statement from his Civil War Pension File [ CIVIL WAR]
Mason, John H., 52 NC Inf. to brother from camp in VA 1862 [ CIVIL WAR]
Masters & Taylor Letter to Mrs. Henry W. (Martha) Taylor, Care of C. C. Trowbridge, Detroit, Michigan, from her father, M. O. Masters, Montgomery, Alabama, December 20 and 24, 1840
Maxwell Collection, James Maxwell. 127th IL, letters to his family 1863 - 1873 [ CIVIL WAR]
Miller, Johnson, Crpl 40th Reg. Iowa - collection of letters 1863 [ CIVIL WAR]
Miller Letter to Mrs. E.E. Garber, Aspin, Pitkin Co., Colorado from Eliza Harman Winder Miller of Eldon, Iowa shortly before her death in 1889
Moore, C.M. from NY to cousin Cynthia 1869
Moore Collection. Letters from Philip Boardman in Bolton Eng. to Alice Marsh Moore & James Moore in Michigan, from William Marsh to sister Alice Moore 1826-1837
Morse, Erwin to his sister while serving in the Navy during the Spanish-American War, 1898
Mullet, Collection of Civil War Letters from Myron Mullet, Company F, 26th Iowa Infantry, to his wife [ CIVIL WAR]
NNorthrup, John & Anna & Wells, Lydia Letter to Mr. John H. and Anna Northrop, Hebron, Washington County, New York, from Lydia Wells, Lisbon 1829
OOverman, Oscar, 103rd IL Inf. From Steamer Rocket to Emma Wadsworth 1863 [ CIVIL WAR]
PParker, Nahum in Washington to his wife Polly in NH. 1809
Letter to Sarah Parr in Higginsport Ohio from her niece in Bradford Kentucky
Parsons, Col. John E. from Toledo, Ohio to B. Perry, Esq. September 13, 1880
Letter from Mary P. Parsons, Goshen, Massachusetts, to her cousin Miss Julia A. Joy, Care of C. C. Grugan, No. 140 Chesnut Str., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1843
Pearson Letter to Mrs. Elizabeth Faries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from Eunice B. Pearson, West Chester, Pennsylvania, February 3, 1839
Pease Collection. Letters from Corp. George Pease 75th NY Reg. 1862, 1863 [ CIVIL WAR]
Peckham, George Franklin Collection C Co. Wisconsin Civil War Memoirs 1906, 1910
Peer, Levi Letter from Halton Co. Ont. to his mother Elizabeth (Marical) Peer in Hamilton Co. IL 5 Aug. 1839
Perry Francis M. Perry Collection of Civil War letters to his parents in Michigan. 1863-1865 [ CIVIL WAR]
Pinkerton Letter to Mr. Alex. R. Pinkerton, McConnelsville, Morgan County, Ohio, from his son, D. C. Pinkerton, Zanesville, Ohio, August 20, 1834
RRasch Postcard 1917 New York to Margaret Rasch in Buffalo NY
Reid Collection of Letters from Belfast Ireland to USA (NY?) 1860s
Rice, Allen & Edith. Postcard July 1917 to Mrs. George Weust, West Valley, NY
SS.S., Alice, Iowa to her grandparents 1890
Sandford, Belinda. to Sarah Sandford from her mother, written on January 21, 1856.
John Early Andrews Collection Letters from Dr. Robert N. Slack to his brother 1845-1852 plus Obituary
Slack, Collection of letters from the Robert N. Slack from Kentucky, Texas & California to his siblings 1845-1852
Sparrow, Thomas Snow, Ships' Capt. writes to sister "Sall" from San Francisco, California 1853
Letter from Henry T. Spencer, Albany, New York, to Mr. George S. Riley, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, April 6, 1849
Steele, James. Washington City, D. C., to George E. Levings, Esq., Cashier, Edgar Co. Bank, Paris, Illinois, April 10, 1861.
Stone, Arthur, Mass. Inf. Co 34 Collection of letters to his mother 1862 & 1863 [ CIVIL WAR]
Swisshelm, Jane Letters of an Abolitionist in Minnesota 1858-1865
Nelson Franklin Smith, LaFayette, Tippecanoe, Indiana to Lucius d Smith, New London, Oneida Co, New York 1843
Cousin Rebecca to to Lucius D. Smith, New London, Oneida co, New York 1825
Sharpless, Jacob & Blakey Letter to Jacob Sharpless, care of Dr. Parrish, Philadelphia Pennsylvania from Blakey Sharpless, Weston
TTatchin, John S. Tatchin of Michigan to his mother regarding the California Gold Rush
Letter to Mrs. Henry W. Martha Taylor, Care of C. C. Trowbridge, Esqr., Detroit, Michigan, from her father, M. O. Masters, Montgomery, Alabama, December 20 and 24, 1840
Letter to Mrs. Julia E. Terry, Care of Ward Woodbridge, Esq., Hartford, Connecticut, from her husband, Charles A. Terry, Cleveland, Ohio, August 17, 1842
Letter of February 1969 from William Xavier Andrews in Vietnam about the Tet Offensive Saturday night February 22, 1969
Thackeray, Charlotte (Mrs. Musgrove) New York to brother Peter in Ontario Canada, 1907
Letter to Mr. A. J. [L. J.?] Millard, Port Clinton, Ottawa County, Ohio, from W. A. Thomson, Concord, Pennsylvania October 19, 1845
1847 Family Tree Letter to Allen C. Tucker in Marshall Co. Tennessee from B. N. Bugg, his brother-in-law, and wife Annis Tucker Bugg in Johnson City, Arkansas
Twist, George from Santa Clara California during the Gold Rush to brother R. P. Twist in Yellow Sping, Ohio, 1859
UUnsigned letter From Ora at Easter. Surames mentioned are Killion, King, Easterley, Williamson
VVan Arsdale Letter to Dr. H. Van Arsdale, Atlantic Hotel, New York, from W. H. Harrison, New Orleans, Louisiana 1845
Van Fastious/Eastious, Bertha from daughter Bertha, New York City 1927
WWhite Collection of letters from Luella White in Perth Amboy N.J. to Edith Williams, Upper Black Eddy, Bucks Co, PA
Whitman Letter to Mrs. Charlotte H. Perley, Care of Major T. Perley, Naples, Cumberland County, Maine, from Charles Whitman, Washington City, D. C., March 10, 1840
Williams J.D. Sept 27th, 1864 Petersburg VA To Molsey M. Williams [ CIVIL WAR]
Wuest, Ella. Postcard 1918 to Mrs. George Weust, West Valley, NY
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Phytoplankton - the foundation of the oceanic food chain.
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-- Stats on I'll Have Another per JBISFlanders wrote:Yes his oldest foals are 3yos. According to Equinline he has 142 foals of racing age, 130 starters, 57 winners, no stakes winners.BaroqueAgain1 wrote:Has I'll Have Another had any runners yet?
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Spring has arrived and it was my turn again to host the play group for some of the 3 year olds in the neighborhood. What better theme than butterflies? We started off with the butterfly craft first- which everyone really could have done for the entire two hours. They loved it that much.
I know this is a pretty common craft, but it's always new to someone. I gave each child one coffee filter to begin and let them color them with regular markers or my favorite bingo dot markers. I placed a paper towel beneath each child's workspace since it was going to get a little wet and messy. Then I let them spray a little water onto their artwork and watch the magic happen. It was fun for them to see the colors blend together, but even more fun to be spraying that water.
This is how a few of them looked after letting the colors bleed and blend together. I let them dry for about 20 minutes.
While the kids were having a snack, I was able to assemble the butterflies. I pinched the coffee filter right down the center and clamped it inside of a clothes pin. Then I took half a strand of a pipe cleaner and attached some antennas onto the head.
In the end we had quite a few since most of the kids wanted to make several. I just love the tie-dye effect.
We did a couple other activities as well between the art drying and free play. I attempted to read a story or two to the group. I have mentioned before what a calm group of kids this is, but...well let's just say we all have our days. Sometimes it seems that less structure is better. You definitely have to be flexible with such a young group. We were able to make it through Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert, which tells about the life cycle of a butterfly in a fun and interactive way. Then the kids were off and running again.
Eventually the kids were interested in playing this butterfly matching game. Each child was able to have a few turns taking half a butterfly out of a bowl and matching it to the other side I had attached to the wall. It was a nice calm moment, then they went back to their play.


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It may not have been a joyous occasion, but the 2010 Beltwide Cotton Conference could go down as the year the industry finally began feeling better about its future.
After several years in which the National Cotton Council's premier research and education meeting seemed more like a wake than a revival, participants appeared ready to shake off the blues.
Even those who came to New Orleans feeling a little down said they went away more optimistic than in previous years when losses in acreage and export market share were weighing on producers.
"Before I got here, I would have said our acreage would be the same or even down," said Grady Coburn, a consultant from Cheneyville, La., two days into the meeting. "But I'm beginning to feel that we could be up this year."
Coburn's optimism was echoed by the Extension cotton specialists who attended a breakfast meeting held by Dow AgroSciences. The specialists, who represent most of the cotton-growing states, said their farmers could plant 15 percent to 20 percent more cotton in 2010.
According to Gary Adams, the National Cotton Council's vice president for economic and policy analysis, improvements in the general economy, exchange rates and cotton fundamentals have helped drive cotton futures prices 20 cents to 25 cents per pound higher since the beginning of harvest.
Global mill use, which has been in the doldrums because of the recession, could rise 3.4 million bales, helping reduce carryover stocks. If the world sees an expected decline of 9 million bales, that would be the largest since 2000.
Everything isn't roses for cotton. "Consumer confidence is not very high, and unemployment is continuing to run at high levels," Adams said. "This could put a lid on consumer spending to some degree, which could temper the growth in front of us."
Part of the reason for the improved outlook may have been the tone of the Beltwide presentations themselves. Growers heard reports about promising new varieties and about insect management and weed control strategies that could help lower input costs that have had a stranglehold on them for several years.
One crop consultant, writing in his weekly newsletter, lauded the Cotton Council staff for "orchestrating a great conference in New Orleans." (The same consultant had said a few years back that many growers had stopped attending Beltwide because of a lack of meaningful information.)
Producers also feel they can't let cotton sink any lower. Participants in The Cotton Foundation's High Cotton Awards breakfast were moved by the impassioned plea of Delta states winner Jimmy Hargett, who grew his 48th crop in 2009, to "do what we need to do to keep this cotton industry alive."
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The town of Atherton has asked the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office to investigate "the allegation of falsifying a police report" detailing the 2008 arrest of Atherton resident Jon Buckheit. The falsification charge was brought to light by a police officer during a court case earlier this year in which Mr. Buckheit won a declaration of factual innocence in the case.
Mr. Buckheit and several other residents have been demanding an investigation of the matter.
Atherton officials first mentioned the investigation April 14 on the town's blog in a two-sentence statement that didn't mention who would be conducting the investigation; nor did it mention that the matter pertained to the Buckheit case.
Later that day, Assistant City Manager Eileen Wilkerson said in a prepared statement, "The town is following its current process and due to the potential perception of conflict of interest the allegation of falsifying a police report has been referred to the San Mateo County District Attorney."
Stephen Wagstaffe, chief deputy district attorney, said last week that his office had received the request to investigate around the end of March.
When he learned that the town has asked the district attorney to investigate the falsification charge, Mr. Buckheit said the request is "totally inappropriate." Because his lawsuit names the county, "and that includes the D.A.," how can that office "pass judgment on the wrongfulness of what was done to me?" he asked. "The D.A. has a vested interest in not exposing the wrongdoing."
Mr. Buckheit also said that Mr. Wagstaffe was involved in his conflict with the town in another significant way that makes his office unsuitable to investigate the town's conduct surrounding the arrest and its aftermath. After his arrest, Mr. Buckheit had to fight the town to obtain a copy of the police report about the incident -- a fight that cost the town $8,000 to cover Mr. Buckheit's attorney's fees after he successfully sued for the report.
Mr. Buckheit said Mr. Wagstaffe "was complicit" in withholding the report, adding that when his attorney called Mr. Wagstaffe to obtain the report, "Wagstaffe said he wouldn't agree to release it."
But Mr. Wagstaffe said that Mr. Buckheit's "facts are just wrong." By the time the attorney called, "we had already reviewed it and returned it to the town," he said.
"That's how we do it: If the department decides not to investigate, we don't keep the documents," he added. "When (the attorney) called me for it, I didn't have the document to give to him."
Regarding Mr. Buckheit's claim that because his lawsuit names the county, the district attorney shouldn't be involved in the investigation, Mr. Wagstaffe said, "If we had a legal conflict, we would withdraw." Opinions issued by the state attorney general support the involvement of the district attorney under the circumstances, he said.
Mr. Buckheit also took issue with the town's characterization of the issue as an "allegation." "It's very important to (understand that) the police report being altered is not an allegation -- it is the sworn testimony of an Atherton police officer," he said.
The police report and court records have been sealed by the court, but Mr. Buckheit, who may release information if he chooses, provided The Almanac with pages from the court transcript that describe some of the court testimony of an Atherton police officer, whom Mr. Buckheit identifies as Tony Dennis. Asked by Mr. Buckheit's attorney whether he believed "that someone changed your report or added this into the report," the officer responded, "That appears to be what happened, that appears to be what have (sic) happened, yes, because I do not remember putting that in there, nor was that my intention."
Mr. Buckheit was arrested during a domestic violence incident at his home. He said that although he was the victim, and had the injuries to prove it, the police arrested him instead of the woman who he said assaulted him.
The district attorney did not file charges, but the town refused to turn over the police report to Mr. Buckheit for months. He finally obtained it last June, along with his attorney's fees.
Mr. Buckheit filed a lawsuit in federal court last October over the arrest and its aftermath. In it, he names the town of Atherton, San Mateo County, and three police officers.


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3 Hats - Pineapple Doily Crochet Giveaway - October 20-31 2008 - Closed
Saturday 01-NOV-08: Congratulations to Vidya V.
Sunday 26-OCT-08: Thank you everyone for all the great comments. I appreciate all of them.
I have decided to give away some of the hats and projects that I have made. This giveaway will consist of 3 crochet hats and a lace pineapple-popcorn doily. The hats will fit a 22-24" head. The doily is 16" across made with size 20 crochet cotton. The flowers can be removed from the hats, if you are not fond of the flowers. You could recycle the flowers to a granny square of another project. Just a thought.
The rules are as follows:
- Post 1 comment on this blog. It does not have to be crochet related. If you want to tell about a vacation you took over the summer, what you will be doing for the holidays, a new baby in the family, an achievement, graduation; the comment is up to you. If you have a more creative way to choose a winner for possible future giveaways, that will be great. A sentence or two will be fine.
- Have a blogger account so I have a way to contact you should you be the winner.
- You can also enter by sending an e-mail to me at email@example.com, Subject: Crochet Contest Hats & Doily
- This is open to everyone around the world
- From the comments posted, I will do an old fashioned drawing out of the a hat on November 1, 2008 and posting the winner here on my blog.


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Sister Act 3: Lauren, Kristen Dempsey combine for 35 in win
The 2012 high school basketball season could not have gotten off to a much better start for the Harmony Grove Lady Cardinals. Sitting at 3-1 heading into the Thanksgiving break, the Lady Cardinals have put together stellar shooting nights while play excellent defense on the other end.
Senior guard Lauren Dempsey has been a huge spark in the starting role for the team, averaging 15 points per game including a 19 and 21point showing so far this young season.
After getting past Bismarck and Cutter Morning Star last week, after falling to Poyen in the season opener, the Lady Cardinals dominated the shooting game once again Monday, beating Ouachita 52-34 for their third straight win.
"I am pretty happy about where we are at," Head Coach John White said. "There are always things you can work on and we are going to try and address those and it makes it easier to do that after a win."
White added that his team is doing a good job of sharing the basketball and playing defense thus far this season.
"We are playing a little better basketball than we have seen," White said.
Harmony Grove started the game off with an early lead, thanks to a bucket from senior forward Lexa Carpenter to put the team up 2-0 in the first. After a missed 3-pointer and a turnover by Ouachita, sophomore guard Kristen Dempsey hit the game's first 3-pointer to put the Lady Cardinals up 5-0 early. But the run was short-lived as the Lady Warriors got into the game with a 3-ball of their own, cutting the early deficit to 5-3.
Then the beatdown began. Led by three straight successful 3-pointers from Lauren Dempsey, with one assisted from Kristen Dempsey, the Lady Cardinals found themselves with a big 17-3 lead still in the first quarter. Harmony Grove started the game by making its first five 3-pointers in the win. With a 17-6 lead after one, the Lady Cardinals continued to put up big numbers in the second quarter, jumping out to a 30-18 halftime lead. Lauren Dempsey added nine more points to her already impressive game resume in the second quarter on three more 3-pointers.
After scoring a lot in the first half, the scoring was less lively for both teams in the second with the Lady Cardinals outscoring Ouachita 22-16 in the half. The Lady Warriors cut Harmony Grove's lead down to 12 in the third quarter but could not stop the hot shooting from the Dempsey sisters or from senior guard Laura Britt as the Lady Cardinals rolled to another big win, this one a 52-34 final.
Lauren Dempsey led all scorers with a career high 21 points on seven made 3-pointers. Kristen Dempsey followed with 14 while three others added five each.
"When you come out and you are making shots, you can build a lead like we did," White said. "We are moving the ball and getting it to the open shooters and when you make those shots and put points on the board it makes a big difference."
After starting the game off making nearly 83 percent from the field, the Lady Cardinals finished the night making 19 of 57 from the floor including 9 of 23 from beyond the arc. Harmony Grove outrebounded the Lady Warriors 34 to 25 in the win. Both teams committed 14 turnovers in the contest which is down significantly for the Lady Cardinals.
While White's team is off to a hot start, he feels that there are still key things to work on once the team gets back from the holiday break.
"We have got to be more consistent," White said. "We still make some immature basketball plays. We have got to grow and learn from experience."
The Lady Cardinals will take the floor again on Nov. 27 when they tip off against Bauxite in the opening round of the Harmony Grove Invitational Tournament. The Lady Miners won the tournament last year. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m.
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Is it Christmas? It seems the RightScale elves have been busy. Luckily for you, many of our elves have Ph.D.s or master's degrees in computer science - or just many years behind a Unix prompt. Lucky for us, they don't look like elves. Let's see what's under the tree...
New Database Managers
Our Database Manager for MySQL is one of our most popular ServerTemplates, serving as the rock-solid foundation of many of our customer's deployments. With this release, we've expanded our MySQL 5.1 manager to support CentOS as well as Ubuntu.
We're also happy to bring this same foundation to our Microsoft Windows customers, with our new Database Manager for MS SQL Server. This new ServerTemplate automates the provisioning and operation of SQL Server, and includes scheduled backups, assisted restoration, and database monitoring. The template supports both SQL Server 2005 on Windows 2003 and SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008.
Windows ServerTemplates on Rackspace
We have been working closely with Rackspace to expand our support to include ServerTemplates. We're making Windows ServerTemplates available first. Our Base ServerTemplate for Windows includes RightImages for both AWS and Rackspace and can be launched on either cloud. This is a public beta, and we are very interested in your feedback - please let your account representative know if you plan to experiment with Windows on Rackspace.
Base and LAMP ServerTemplates for CloudStack
New CentOS 5.4 RightImages have been released for CloudStack private cloud customers. We have also released a LAMP All-In-One ServerTemplate based on these images. The LAMP template uploads a backup of the database to either AWS S3 or Rackspace CloudFiles. Enterprise customers can contact their account representative for access to these images.
RightImages and ServerTemplates for EC2 AP-Tokyo
Following our Dashboard support for the new region, we have released a full set of RightImages (Ubuntu and CentOS) and ServerTemplates (Database Manager for MySQL, HAProxy Load Balancer, App Servers for PHP/Rails/Tomcat, and more) for EC2 AP-Tokyo.
New Free All-In-One Developer ServerTemplates
Developer templates are designed for you to quickly plug in your code and database and get up and running on the cloud with a single all-in-one server.
- LAMP All-In-One with MySQL 5.0 or 5.1
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- Rails All-In-One with Nginx and Passenger
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Our First Compatibility Release
Our first Compatibility Release is now generally available (GA). What is a compatibility release? Let's break it down to two words: compatible and release. We test and release all of our most popular ServerTemplates and RightImages at the same time with the same software repository date. This helps ensure that RightScripts developed for one template and operating system should be compatible with other templates and operating systems that are also part of the release.
Why did we do this? We found that customers mixed and matched pieces from our ServerTemplates to create their own. Great! But without guaranteeing the same software repository or operating system version, their mileage varied. Now customers and partners can develop within a compatibility release, and take full advantage of all of the pre-built configurations we offer. You can see all of the ServerTemplates in the 11H1 Compatibility Release in the Library. (Hint to publishers: If you build a template within the Compatibility Release, be sure to add the "11H1 Compatible" category.)
New Base ServerTemplates
It's actually easy for you to get most of the benefits of the compatibility release without even thinking about it. The trick is to start with one of our Base ServerTemplates for any custom ServerTemplate development. You'll automatically get monitoring, the latest production RightImages, and the ability to pull compatible scripts from any related Compatibility Release templates.
And finally, while it was hard to wrap...
RightScale Experience and Expertise in the Cloud
About a month ago, a few of our customers started reporting sudden crashes of Ubuntu servers. RightScale worked closely with Canonical to identify the obscure kernel bug and brainstorm potential solutions. We then ran heavy tests on the Ubuntu 10.04 release with a variety of other kernels. Heavy testing in RightScale equates to multiple automated runs of hundreds of servers performing a variety of different workloads (database, load balancer, application server, etc.). We finally found a kernel that worked, and it is included with the latest Ubuntu RightImages. With our current scale, we have the visibility and partnerships to identify and solve major cloud issues. We're happy to package this expertise up for all of our customers as we continue to invest in the future of cloud computing.
Enjoy the new toys!
For a complete description of what was released, visit the Current Release Notes for ServerTemplates and MultiCloud Images.