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Customers of T-Mobile have complained that the mobile phone network bars access to gay websites.
T-Mobile, one of the UK's largest mobile phone networks, appears to block gay-related content as unsuitable for under-18s.
This includes gay websites which contain no nudity or offensive content.
The provider has a system called Content Lock, which is automatically set on phones to filter out 'offensive' material. Users must confirm they are over 18 to remove the restrictions.
PinkNews.co.uk is among the websites affected, while others include gay travel websites, bar and club listings and gay culture websites.
Bryan Manley-Green, who is with T-Mobile, told PinkNews.co.uk: "This must be in breach of the Equality Act and it must be affecting gay businesses."
Mr Manley-Green said that after a lengthy conversation with a T-Mobile customer complaints advisor and assistance from staff at a local store, he was able to access gay websites on his phone.
Several other readers contacted us about the problem, including Darcy C-Oshimida, who also could not access gay websites through her T-Mobile phone.
She said: "I think this is ridiculous and assumes that anything gay must be inappropriate for children. I believe you are losing a lot of readers this way, and important young readers at that."
T-Mobile did not return repeated calls for comment.
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Himalayan Academy, one of the teaching arms of Saiva Siddhanta Church, was founded in 1965 in San Francisco, California to handle the growing needs of Church members for regular and systematic training in Hindu metaphysics and philosophy. The basic textbook of the Academy since its founding has been The Master Course, which had its first edition in 1958, seven years before the Academy was incorporated. Saiva Siddhanta Church taught and trained its members in the early years through lectures, classes and pilgrimages centered around the San Francisco Temple. The first regular lessons given to students were for the most part handed out individually at the Temple. Gurudeva's weekly inspired talk in the Temple was transcribed by one of the Church members during the week and a number of copies made for those who wished to study more closely. The cost of preparing the lessons was well covered by the donations of the students receiving them. In time, as more and more people asked for these regular lessons on the basics of Hinduism and as Church families and members would occasionally move further away from the San Francisco area the talks began to be mailed to various people every week. This set a new pattern of correspondence lessons that grew steadily with every passing month. Finally the material presented in Gurudeva's Inspired Talks was edited into an orderly series of lessons entitled the World Fellowship of Yoga. These lessons were mailed to students all over the world even then and were the first edition of The Master Course. There have been seven revised editions of The Master Course since 1958 and an eighth edition, the San Marga Master Course, is being prepared and issued to students during 1980. The correspondence lessons program of Himalayan Academy has been known over the years as the School of Extension Studies and remains today the core of the Academy's services to Saivite souls around the globe.
In 1967 the Academy moved its offices to the Church mission in Virginia City, Nevada and for twelve years, until October of 1979, mailed from there the lessons of the Master course to hundreds of students. In October, 1979, the Academy's headquarters moved again, this time to the home offices of Saiva Siddhanta Church at Sivashram on the Hawaiian Island of Kauai. It was brought to Kauai to make the preparation and issuing of the eighth edition, the San Marga Master Course, as efficient as possible, and the plan had been to streamline the administration of the Academy at the same time as the new Master Course edition was being prepared. That goal has been fulfilled, but with a twist - Himalayan Academy has now received its permanent address and offices in the same building in which it was founded fifteen years ago. San Francisco is its new home and the property of the San Francisco Mission has been fully dedicated to the various programs and uses of the Academy. Since the late 1950's, however, the San Francisco Temple property has been added to again and again and today four large buildings adjoin the original Temple building. All four are accessed from the sidewalk but each one merges in the interior of the city block onto a beautiful garden courtyard private to these buildings only. It is a beautiful and abundant facility in the heart of the city, large enough to handle a full schedule of student activities. The lessons of the San Marga Master Course will in the future be issued from the Himalayan Academy Office in San Francisco.
April 2nd marked the Himalayan Academy's fifteenth anniversary and Gurudeva, who was in San Francisco for the occasion, was treated to a play in Tirumular Hall of the new Academy building, staged by the children of the local Church families.
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Many thanks to Joe for organizing this fundraiser. My grandmother was stricken with Alzheimer's in her later years, and it was heartbreaking. Every little bit counts towards ending this terrible disease.
I left a well-paying corporate job a little over a year ago to focus on my writing career, just like that, BAM. It was a supremely risky and out-of-character move, especially since my idea of living on the edge is wearing mismatched socks. I was fully aware that the standard (and sane) advice given to newbie writers was to keep working a full-time job until their books took off, and I was an unknown writer trying to make a living with just one novel and had no business going out on my own. But I had gotten to the point in my life where I couldn't keep working enormous amounts of overtime in a grueling start-up environment, find time for my writing, and live with a chronic illness (migraine disease) that was getting progressively worse as I got older. It was time to change my focus.
I see a lot of advice around the blogosphere about being an indie writer, and other advice about how to live with chronic illness, but I haven't seen a lot of advice on how to be chronic and creative, so I've put together some thoughts on ways to stay sane as an indie writer, optimize your time, and still hit your word count:
Nuts to That
Have the smallest nut you can possibly manage, and scale your lifestyle down if you need to. Save as much as you can, chuck the plastic, and get a pre-paid credit card. I'm a big believer in the power of living debt-free. Can't afford a nice car? Get an old, ugly one; no one will steal it, and you might meet interesting people when you need to give it a jump. Can only afford a tiny home? Congrats, now you have less to clean! I'm currently able to write full-time because my husband and I live in a shack and I've been saving my pennies for years. Debt-free can mean less stress and better heath. Debt-free can mean freedom.
Find a Community
It's tough to admit that you're living (and maybe struggling) with chronic illness. It can be depressing, embarrassing, and difficult to communicate to others*. Don't spend time with people who say they understand exactly what you're going through, like the folks who insist that half an Excedrin Migraine tablet will fix you right up, or the ones who try to sell you on trepanning. These are not your people.
Divorce rates for couples with a chronically ill partner hover around the 75% mark. "In sickness and in health," aren't just a few mumbled words during a brief ceremony, they're part of your daily life. Find the most awesome potential mate you can and then
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Make sure to make your partner a priority, and get counseling if you're
It's also important to read as much as possible about others living with mental and physical illness, like Kiana Davenport's moving account of her struggle with depression, posted here back in 2011. Find online resources for your illness (migraine.com is a great start). Join a support group IRL or online. Know that you are not alone.
Chuck the Chores
Protect your good days. If you can afford it, get a service to take care of household chores that you can't manage when you're sick and are not a fulfilling use of your time when you're well. See if you can barter if you don't have the cash. Get your groceries delivered, hire a cleaning service, offer your significant other sexual favors in exchange for yard work. Spend your good days writing.
Plunder Like a Pirate
One of the most awesome things about the indie writer community is the generosity of spirit that has motivated successful writers to share a huge amount of very helpful and specific information. But that excellent advice needs to be filtered through our own personal circumstances in order to make it useful for us. For example, there's a lot of focus in the indie community on producing a large body of work in as short a time as possible**. It's advice that makes a lot of sense, but committing to a large writing output and strict publishing schedule can be challenging if you simply don't know how many good days you're going to have this week. It's easy to get discouraged by this or push yourself into a relapse. Instead, try to turn your focus on plundering the very best advice from the experts in your creative field and then adapting it to your personal capabilities***.
Then, spend the time to build a business plan that's attainable but flexible ****. (I have a weekly, instead of a daily, word count, for example.) Learn how to make realistic goals, find out how to optimize your writing and business efforts so you can do more with less, build some buffer into your schedule, contract out publishing services that you aren't proficient in, and push yourself when you can. It might take you a little longer (our family motto is "We get there eventually"), but it can be done.
I've had an interesting year. It turns out I actually really enjoy the business part of writing, and my background is in tech, so managing my website and coding my books is a snap. I've sold over 6,500 books in 25 countries, hit the Amazon top 100 (briefly), learned a ton, and have put together an awesome publishing team. But it hasn't been easy; instead of getting better like I anticipated, my health is still a real struggle. On the bright side, the income from my debut novel is the sweetest money I've ever earned, and in a lot of ways this has been one of the best years of my life. I love my job and I still can't believe that I get to fulfill my lifelong dream to be a writer.
Have any tips on how to be creative and chronic? Drop your idea into the comments!
My latest novel, "The Migraine Mafia", is a humorous look at a nerdy thirtysomething's attempt to come to terms with a chronic illness--and a tenacious support group. It has just launched, and is on sale everywhere for .99 from now until December 16th.
Happy Holidays everyone,
* If you're having a hard time explaining your illness to your loved ones, check out the Spoon Theory.
**An interesting recent thread on Kboards.com tackled this issue: http://bit.ly/JeF3ha.
*** Joe Konrath, Kristine Rusch, David Gaughran, The Passive Guy, Kobo Writing Life's publishing series, Kindleboard's Writer's Cafe, and lots of others are all great resources.
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There is a war out there, and no Nigerian youngster may be safe from it: a secret experiment to drive the Nigerian youth into extinction. More students and young Nigerians have been killed or imperiled this year than I have ever known since I was old enough to know my government name or since I learnt to do a number 2 by myself in the toilet.
From the Mubi 40 to the Aluu 4, and running through a thread of sad instances (the Sosoliso air crash), then the incidents involving NYSC corpers in the Boko Haram North to the recent Dana Air mishaps, we have mourned enough members of Generation Y-Not (those born after the oil boom years of 1977 and beyond) to declare a genocide watch in Nigeria.
My heart is heavy, especially after the recent Mubi and Aluu deaths, and before I speak on it, I would enjoin every one of my readers to heed this: Try and preserve yourself as much as you can while we gang-plank walk this contraption that is the Nigerian experiment.
Every Musa, Mezie and Moyo with access to social media has heard and given their opinion about the sad deaths which occurred at Aluu community, where 4 UNIPORT students were tortured and murdered in cold blood by an irate mob bent on dispersing their own warped version of street justice. Per chance you have not heard because you have been residing in Bagco super-sack in a remote Zamfara outpost, or if you are hustling in the diaspora doing a menial per hour job, you may catch up by visiting Linda Ikeji's blog or any gossip/news site in blogosphere.
With all the curses, abuses, accusations that have been leveled against Loco Haram (the Aluu mob), the saddest thing in all this is that people in the mob stood by and did not intervene in any form to stop the horrible act. Members of the community stood with folded arms, or seemed to wash their hands off it like Pilate, and a MOPOL soldier even stood passively even though he was armed with a rifle. To serve, protect and collect 20 naira from bus drivers.
This gruesome act took place in a country where the average person does not mind their business. It is weird that we Nigerians do a lot of olofofo but do not know when to intervene. The same amebo neighbor that would count the number of cars you have parked in your compound, as well as memorize all the license plate numbers by heart and even know that you used Sacklus paint on the building, all from looking over his wall and listening to neighborhood gossip, even though he has never spoken a word to you, should not cower in silence and switch off all the lights in house, when Anini's disciples pay you a visit in the dead of the night. Every good neighbors owes you a 911 call (or whatever Operation Sweep's number is) to the police if you are being robbed. The grass is not always greener on the other side.
Nigerians must know when to intervene and when to be passive. I mean this is a country where if you were driving a vehicle with a flat or limp tire on a public road, passer-bys or other road users riding on okadas would not hesitate to bang on your car boot or bonnet as they overtook your car to alert you about the tire. Some would even honk their horns loudly. At this point, we are ready to drink Panadol for another person's sickness.
Nigerian is a country where a 'good Samaritan' will help a female driver change a flat tire if she is struggling with it. Or help a driver jump start a faulty car by helping to push it. But no one may assist the same female to the hospital if she had been hit by a stray bullet because robbers were operating nearby. Or if a stolen article mistakenly fell into her purse at the market, and attention was drawn to it by town-criers.
Are Nigerians now aloof and more interested in self or 'tribalistic' preservation? Could not one on-looker in Aluu speak up or tell that stick wielding moron to fall back, and leave the students be, before it was too late? So amebo people in Nigeria would rather comment or offer unsolicited advise on another person's weight, or inquire why you and your spouse have not had children 3 years after marriage (as if you the couple married to just stare at each other), or prod you about why you are still a spinster or a bachelor. But they would not intervene or call the police if they see you being lynched by an irate mob. They may however break out their mobile phones and take a picture with the grainy one mega pixel camera.
Many people have blamed the Blackberry phone (why, I would never understand) and the Brazilian/Peruvian/Mongolian/Guatemalan hair weave for the spike in materialism, narcissism and every manner of social ill in this country. I know that this joke is old, as I cracked it in my previous piece on Blackberrys (look for it on this blog if you have not read it) : The Blackberry is not to blame for Nigeria's social problems – don't shoot the, err, Blackberry messenger.
I believe the camera phone has changed Nigeria forever. Just as the "happy slapping" phenomena enveloped England some years back, the average Nigerian has become a camera phone – olofofo. Many would rather take a picture of an accident/incident victim than help. I wonder why we don't have more war correspondents or people willing to infiltrate Boko Haram with a secret camera to get us breaking insider information. There are 2 sides to the kobo. Social media has helped bring the Aluu and Mubi incidents exposure and may well bring about a reaction from our siddon-look government. However, if the camera phone kpakparazzi had tried to help the victims instead, rather than play Christiana Amanpour or Picasso, the brave four may still be with us today.
How did we get to this stage in Nigeria where people have imbibed the cold-bloodedness and unrepentant independence of Western culture but still kept the barbaric, repugnant customs of yester year? Marry the willingness of unsophisticated people to implement wicked customs, to a selfishness and unwillingness to speak up for others, and that becomes the makings of a society that is failing.
I remember when I was a child, we as a family would go to our village for Xmas, and I felt safe even as a 7 year old hanging out in the village square till late in the evening. I could go stroll into any home, from the poshest village villa to the most rudimentary mud hut, and be offered a bottle of Mirinda or Green Sandy (albeit a very hot one) and some Cabin biscuits (usually soft, but not that I cared much – biscuit was biscuit). Okin was a class above though but I digress. Nigeria, with rural life at its core was much more innocent then. Kidnappings could never occur in my village. Every adult was an uncle or aunt, and material possessions were not worshipped as they are now because the community practiced a form of socialism. If you killed a goat, I was sure of one the hind legs and maybe the intestines to make miri-oku ji or ngwo ngwo. (Refer to Igbo Language for Senior Secondary School Book One for the meanings).
There was no fear that a jealous villager would jazz me so that a ritualist could make away with my big head, or that I would be kidnapped so that the criminal could demand a prince's ransom from my old man. The only men of the night I ever saw back then were masquerades. The village was such a huge family, that I once went to an old woman's hut to greet her (you had to go and greet most elders once you arrived in the village). She was thrilled, and offered me some refreshment: meat. I knew not to accept cooked food, but I accepted so not to be rude. Besides I had seen a fresh grasscutter slowing roasting over a coal fired grill, so I fancied a bit of that, right? Wrong. The mama reached into her oha soup pot with her fingers, pulled out a wet piece of goat meat, then she sucked off all the soup with her mouth so that the pepper would not make the beef too spicy for me, then she handed it to me.
That was the ultimate gesture of love and sacrifice as many Igbo readers can attest that villagers, especially the older ones, see meat as a precious commodity. But meat featuring saliva and drool? I left her house thankful, and moments later I left the meat buried deep in the sand some meters away from the woman's sight, as there was no way I would have eaten it. But that is beside the point.
As a child, I received love from all over the planet. Back then, apart from the occasional gbomo gbomo incident/story, children and youngsters were not subjected to crime. Students and youth corpers also enjoyed a protected status as government property. It was like adults could kill themselves if they wanted to – but children were left out of the mayhem.
Then the 90s rolled in, and that innocence was taken away from Nigeria down to grass-root level. People became occupied to making a quick buck, and coming back to the village to floss. As social ills like yahoo yahoo, 419, ogwu-ego, kidnapping, one chance and armed robbery increased, the government seemed too slow and cumbersome to tackle them. The law of the jungle has now taken over since the system has now become overwhelmed.
Every ill in Nigeria is now done excessively today when compared to the past. Sometime circa 1992, a chap aged 21 was caught stealing in a shop somewhere in Aba called Eziama. A thick crowd quickly surrounded the thief, and they were welding various weapons of destruction – planks, iron rod, boiling ring, fluorescent tube, koboko etc. They started raining blows on the thief and they stripped him naked.
A man was passing by the scene on his way back from work, and waded through the crowd out of curiousity to see what the din was. He soon screamed with hysteria: A nwuona m o! (Mi o gbe o!) (I am dead o!). The thief was his nephew – his brother's son. He had to think fast.
The uncle quickly approached the leader of the mob who was wielding a huge akpu pestle, and who looked like he was about to break the thief's head with it. The following conversation ensued in perfect Abia Igbo:
Uncle: "Biko, nne gi a nwu na (Please, may it be well with your mother). What did this boy do?"
Chief lyncher: "O zuru ohi (he stole) (or he robbed) (or he converted another's possessions)"
The Uncle looked at his nephew who was now quite scarred and bloodied, and sitting in a heap on the ground. True to word, next to the thief were the items he had tried to fap. Apparently, he had broken into a video/ electronics store, and nabbed a video cassette player and 3 films – Steve Seagal's "Out for Justice", Jungle Fever and some Nollywood movie featuring Tony Umez and Sonny McDon. Luck ran out when he was trying to make away, as someone spotted him and yelled "TIF!!"
The Uncle hissed, and shouted as he gave his nephew a thunderous slap: "E wu ezigbo onye-oshi" (You are a super -duper crook).
The slap the Uncle gave the nephew made him writhe on the floor in pain as he clutched his face. It hurt worse than being smashed with a pestle. Even the crowd was stunned, and looked at the Uncle in surprise. Enyi ele ihe o wu biko?
The Uncle then turned to the Chief Lyncher and explained: "This anumanu (animal) is my younger brother's son. I will make sure his father deals with him at home. The father is a principal at a seminary school. He has learnt his lesson, so allow me take him to his father for additional VIP treatment"
The Chief Lyncher seemed satisfied, and as he looked to the mob, most of them grunted their approvals . The logic was that since someone who was a close family friend and a member of the community had vouched for the thief, and he had already been humiliated enough anyway, the rogue could be released. Bail was set there and then by the street jury and the crowd dispersed. An Uncle's slap had saved his nephew from a certain death.
In Nigeria of 2012, people are killed for committing crimes rather than being handed to security agencies. The general populace is full of mistrust for the justice system and some now opt street justice. If Nigerian justice in the judiciary is represented by a white effigy of a blind-folded lass with scales and a sword, Jungle Justice her unruly and infamous cousin would be a Kunkuru puppet figurine wielding a cutlass, a jerry can of petrol and a mosquito net looking for who to devour. Unfortunately the young and innocent do get caught in the cross-fire.
Ever since I heard about the Aluu incident, I have not been myself as it has hurt me to the bone marrow. That incident is a shame to every single Nigerian as we have failed our sons, brothers and colleagues.
To our brethren who lost their lives in Mubi. I pray God keeps you and comforts your families. And to the brave Aluu 4, who I understand had a music artist among them, rest in peace my brothers – you are now our Nigerian Marvin Gayes.
We cross driven, cornered into a life that's hellish/
Paying our dues with bloodshed, ain't nothing you all could tell us/
Fellas – mount up, it's time for battle, it is on now/
Two worlds, colliding armies, riding soldiers, gone wild/
Sometimes I think my glory days was back in my youth/
2pac featuring The Outlaws (As The World Turns Around, 1999)
Most of us only care about money making/
Selfishness got us following our wrong direction/
Wrong information always shown by the media/
Negative images is the main criteria/
Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria/
Kids want to act like what they see in the cinema/
Whatever happened to the values of humanity/
Whatever happened to the fairness in equality/
Instead of spreading love we're spreading animosity/
Lack of understanding, leading us away from unity/
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling under/
That's the reason why sometimes I'm feeling down/
There's no wonder why sometimes I'm feeling under/
Got to keep my faith alive till love is found/
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American Symphony Orchestra (consortium), $48,000
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Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, $72,000
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Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, $48,000
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Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra (consortium), $18,000
To support PHIL Kids. In partnership with Community Action of Northeast Indiana, Inc., professional musicians will present live ensemble performances in preschool classrooms, and classroom teachers will participate in workshops in which they will study and learn to implement the accompanying music curriculum.
Greater Baltimore Youth Orchestra, $24,000
To support Completing the Bridge, an after-school string instruction program for Baltimore City elementary school children. The program provides instruments, private and group lessons, and orchestral performance experiences at no cost.
Hawaii Youth Symphony, $56,000
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Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, $60,000
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Los Angeles Philharmonic (consortium), $60,000
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New York Youth Symphony, $67,000
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San Francisco Symphony (on behalf of San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra), $44,000
To support the Artist Development Program of the San Francisco Youth Symphony. Designed to complement the youth orchestra's core program of weekly rehearsals and concert performances, the program will provide students with coaching, mentorship, and specialized training in chamber music, instrument care, and auditioning techniques.
Tucson Symphony Orchestra, $17,000
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ASCAP Foundation, $36,000
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Boston University, $35,000
To support the Tanglewood Institute's Young Artists Orchestra and Young Artists Wind Ensemble programs. Students will receive extensive rigorous instrumental music training, including individual instruction, master classes, and performance opportunities.
Carnegie Hall (consortium), $45,000
To support The Academy. In partnership with the Juilliard School, 34 young professional music fellows will conduct intensive in-school residencies for 24 weeks in New York City public schools.
Johns Hopkins University (on behalf of The Peabody Institute), $48,000
To support Tuned-In, a program that provides disadvantaged teens who are exceptionally musically talented with the opportunity for advanced musical study at the Peabody Preparatory on full scholarship. Activities include lessons, in-school mentoring, field trips, and a summer study program.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, $70,000
To support the Lincoln Center Institute's Learning Communities Initiative. Music, dance, theater, and visual arts will be integrated into the curriculum of a cluster of New York City public schools.
The Perlman Music Program, $68,000
To support the Summer Music School @ PMP. The program is an intensive six-week residency which provides instruction, coaching, and mentoring opportunities to exceptionally gifted young string players.
Project STEP, $72,000
To support the String Training and Educational Program (STEP). The project will prepare gifted African American and Latino children for careers in classical music as soloists, teachers, and orchestra members.
Settlement Music School, $20,000
To support the Advanced Study Program. The tuition-free program provides high school students with pre-professional music training through individual study classes, collaborative efforts with professional musicians and composers, and performance opportunities.
Sphinx Organization (consortium), $50,000
To support the Sphinx Preparatory Music Institute. In partnership with Wayne State University, the program will provide Detroit-area youth with Saturday classes in instrumental performance, music theory, ear training, and music history.


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Cellular Therapy and Transplantation (CTT), Vol. 2, No. 8
Please cite this article as follows: Mesko B. Online medical content curation and personal time management with Web 2.0: an exciting era. Cell Ther Transplant. 2011;2:e.000093.01. doi:10.3205/ctt-2011-en-000093.01
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Online medical content curation and personal time management with Web 2.0: an exciting era
Bertalan Mesko, MD
Managing director of Webicina.com
Correspondence: Bertalan Mesko, MD; Managing director of Webicina.com, E-mail: email@example.com
The recent increase in the number of online medical resources has raised important questions about content curation on the World Wide Web and the importance of time management tools and applications used in medicine and healthcare. Content curation is crucial at a time when patients and their doctors are searching more online but the majority of health resources are considered medically unreliable. The value of crowdsourcing and time management tools that can save time and effort for professionals is demonstrated.
The number of users seeking medical websites and health information online has been growing rapidly in the last few years [1]. Over 60% of Americans alone have searched for diseases, symptoms, or treatments [2]. Alongside this, the web usage of medical professionals is also growing [3]. With new web tools and applications, it is not only communication between patients that has gone through significant changes (e.g. Patientslikeme.com), but communication between medical professionals has become faster and more efficient, too, providing different opportunities depending on the particular medical specialty [4].
Other solutions that aggregate medical content online but not social media include Faculty of 1000, a post publication peer-review platform where Faculty Members can evaluate and rank particular papers published in the biomedical field; Medpedia, the medical alternative to Wikipedia; Health on the Net Foundation, a non-profit organization, and Medworm.com, among others (Table 1).
When was it founded?
Who curates it?
What is curated?
Faculty of 1000
Faculty Members
Papers in medical journals
Health on the Net Foundation
Group of medical professionals
Medical websites and Blogs
Healthcare Bloggers Code of Ethics
Group of medical bloggers
Medical blogs
Group of medical professionals
Medical content
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Websites and journals
Group of medical professionals
Medical resources including Social media
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Online medical content curation
Before 2008, whenever I tried to find a good diabetes blog or quality cardiology resources, it took a lot of time to find them — not because I did not know how to search properly, but because it really takes time to learn how to assess the quality of medical websites. In this respect, the fields of politics and sports are totally different from medicine and healthcare. So I thought there should be a service that curates medical resources for patients and doctors — for free — and by using professionals and not algorithms or search engines. Webicina was launched in 2008 and now has over 3000 curated resources, from blogs and podcasts to wikis and mobile apps, focusing on 80 medical specialties or conditions in 17 languages; and all these numbers are constantly growing.
Efficient time management with Web 2.0
I first became active in Web 2.0/social media back in 2005 when I realized whenever I did a search for any terms, I ended up on Wikipedia, where I could edit the entries, especially the genetics-related ones. So I became a Wikipedia editor, and later in 2006, an administrator. A few months later, I came across Wordpress.com and launched my medical blog, Scienceroll.com, which received a special mention in Medgadget's Weblog Awards a few months later; giving me the idea that I should keep on blogging and take it very seriously. At the time, I was a 3rd year medical student.
What would I do if
In 2000
I need clinical answer
Try to find a colleague who knows it
Post a question on Twitter
I want to hear a patient's story about a specific condition
Try to find a patient in my town
Read blogs, watch YouTube
I want to be up-to-date
Go to the library once a week
Use RSS and follow hundreds of journals
I want to work on a manuscript with my team
We gather around the table
Use Google Docs without geographical limits
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Staying up-to-date in one of the most emerging scientific fields
Crowdsourcing is crucial today. I check the best-of-the-day feature on Friendfeed, because I have hundreds of scientific contacts there who select the most important scientific news and discussions every day. On Twitter I do the same but for medicine, and Facebook for me is more about keeping up with what is happening with my colleagues from around the world and what kind of projects they are launching. Google Reader is for news sites and blogs, and I use Webicina's PeRSSonalized Medicine to see the latest improvements in genomics.
Content curation is a key element in the future of Internet technologies from the medical perspective. As the number of online medical resources and people seeking medical information is constantly growing, there is a clear need for a free service providing selected resources both for medical professionals and patients.
AcknowledgementsThe author is the managing director of Webicina.com.
[References with links indicate that an article is available Open Access]
1. Mesko B, and Dubecz A. New possibilities provided by the internet in medicine. Orv Hetil 148. 2007:2095-2099.
2. Susannah Fox SJ. The Social Life of Health Information. Pew Internet Project. 2009.
3. Eysenbach G. Medicine 2.0: social networking, collaboration, participation, apomediation, and openness. J Med Internet Res 10. 2008:e22. doi: 10.2196/jmir.1030.
4. Chou WY, et al. Social media use in the United States: implications for health communication. J Med Internet Res 11. 2009:e48.
5. Giustini D. How Web 2.0 is changing medicine. BMJ 333. 2006:1283-1284. doi: 10.1136/bmj.39062.555405.80.
6. Heilman et al. Wikipedia: A Key Tool for Global Public Health Promotion. J Med Internet Res. 2011;13(1):e14. doi:10.2196/jmir.1589.
Recommended further reading
1. Sara Kjellberg. I am a blogging researcher: Motivations for blogging in a scholarly context. First Monday, Volume 15, Number 8, 2 August 2010.
2. Catherine Gray. If you build it, will they come? How researchers perceive and use web 2.0, 06 July 2010.
3. Bertalan Mesko. Internet in Medicine: 2000 vs 2010.
4. Richard Gordon and Bryan J. Poulin. There is but one journal: the scientific literature. Comment on: Young NS, Ioannidis JPA, Al-Ubaydli O, 2008. Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science. PLoS Med 5(10):e201. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050201.
5. Abigail De Kosnik. Teaching with Google Docs, or, How to Teach in a Digital Media Lab without Losing Students' Attention. In: Learning through Digital Media, Essays on Technology and Pedagogy (in open peer review phase).
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Deep Down Trailer: The Prologue
A short new trailer for Capcom's upcoming multiplayer role-playing game, Deep Down, has surfaced.
The trailer features a brief cinematic that's supposed to serve as a sort of prologue for the game. The action is quick, with many extreme close-ups to accentuate the frenetic feel of the game.
We see the player character facing off against a dragon without getting many results. His attacks are being rebuffed over and over until he has to take a knee for respite.
Luckily, this is a multiplayer game, so a few of his buddies come out to assist him. There's a gold-clad knight with a shield who seems to serve as the party's tank, a knight who can cast magic and takes on the role of ranged DPS (damage per second) and then our hero, who acts as a melee damage dealer.
A mysterious voice at the end of the trailer says, "You must ensure the world knows of all that befell our city." We personally can't wait to explore the calamities held within the memories of the objects in Deep Down, which, again, is supposed to take place in the future.
And speaking of the future, we'll have to wait until next year for Deep Down's release, but at least a beta is set to launch in February for the PlayStation 4.


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Education, Learning and Libraries at a Tipping Point
New OCLC report shows how consumers are resetting expectations for higher education and libraries
DUBLIN, Ohio, 25 June 2014—A new report suggests that the cumulative weight of changing consumer habits, enabling technologies like MOOCs and mobile, and the high cost of postsecondary education are resetting expectations and bringing permanent changes to education and lifelong learning.
OCLC, the computer library service and research organization, today released At a Tipping Point: Education, Learning and Libraries, the latest in a series of OCLC Membership Reports designed to explore emerging trends that impact libraries and librarianship. The report is available to download from the OCLC website.
"OCLC market research has tracked the perceptions of information consumers for more than a decade. Much has changed in the environment over that time. We have seen Google change search habits and Amazon change buying habits. We are now watching online learning services and MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) change the landscape and expectations for education and learning," said Cathy De Rosa, OCLC Vice President for the Americas and Global Vice President of Marketing, and principal contributor to OCLC Membership Reports.
At a Tipping Point looks at the views of online learners—their concerns about the cost of higher education, their experiences with online learning, and their expectations for more convenient, life-based education models in the future.
"The pressure is mounting on traditional models of learning. We see evidence in the research that we may be reaching a tipping point in how consumers think about and would like to manage their education," said Ms. De Rosa. "Students and parents are eager for more convenience and more options in how they learn—they favor convenience over structure, self-service over predefined options. Students of all ages are having success with online learning and, like most services that have moved onto the Web, consumers expect these new services to continue to improve in quality and increase in popularity."
Changes to education and online learning have implications and opportunities for libraries. "The same digital forces reshaping education will reshape library users' expectations, on our campuses and across our communities," said Ms. De Rosa.
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News from Lewis & Clark College: February 28, 2011
President Barry Glassner announced today that Lisa Meyer will become the new CAS Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid at Lewis & Clark College. Meyer, who serves as Vice President of Enrollment at Whittier College, will begin July 5. An Oregon native and Willamette graduate, Meyer has led admissions at Whittier since 2004, demonstrating great expertise in marketing and financial aid management.
"Lisa brings an abundance of experience, energy, and informed ideas as well as a strong affinity for Lewis & Clark," Glassner said. "It's hard to imagine a better conclusion to the national search for our next admissions dean—a search that attracted strong interest from talented and accomplished enrollment-management professionals throughout the country and brought four outstanding candidates to campus."
Previous to her position at Whittier, Meyer was Dean of Admissions and Associate Vice President for Institutional Image at the University of La Verne in California. She has also served as Director of Foundation and Corporate Relations and Stewardship at Scripps College; Director of College Guidance at the Webb Schools in Claremont, Calif.; Director of Admission at Pitzer College, and Assistant Director of Admission and Financial Aid at Pacific University.
In addition to her undergraduate work at Willamette, Meyer has a master's degree in English Literature from Boston College and has pursued doctoral studies at Claremont Graduate University.
From growing up in Oregon and working in the higher ed sector, Meyer said she is well-versed in Lewis & Clark's liberal arts education and sees its unique value in a world that has become so connected and challenging.
"Now, more than ever, Lewis & Clark's mission resonates with what is happening in the state, the country, and the world," Meyer said. "Whether training nimble thinkers to navigate and lead in a challenging—and fast-changing—global economy, growing an informed citizenry who is actively engage in social and political initiatives, or fostering emerging talent in the arts, sciences, and humanities, Lewis & Clark has a solid history of preparing its graduates to succeed in life, both professionally and personally.
"I look forward to representing this remarkable college to the broader community, and to working closely with students and their families as they explore the limitless possibilities inherent in a Lewis & Clark education."
Meyer's appointment concludes a search that began last fall under the direction of an eight-member search committee and with the help of Lahti Search Consultants. Interim dean Jim Sumner, who was instrumental in the search, said he was thrilled for Lewis & Clark to have attracted such a well-respected professional with such wide-ranging experience. "In addition to her strong, vital knowledge of Lewis & Clark's key admission markets, advanced technical and data skills, and record of vast productivity, Lisa has an impressive track record as a savvy marketer and as a scholar in her own right," Sumner said. "Trustees, professors, students and staff with whom she has worked are consistently appreciative of her work ethic, creativity, and collegiality."
Meyer is married to Darren Ferris, and they have a 16-year-old son, Austin. Meyer said she and her family will be making trips to Portland over the spring and look forward to taking advantage of the outdoors and local food scene.


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theashman83 wrote:2. The old system had a time period of 2 months before expiration, not 30 days - If we're really going back to the old system, with map rates and all (minus berries), then surely the same timescales should be used too.
theashman83 wrote:3. As mentioned above, the spawn rates don't seem to be back to how they used to be - They're better, yes. On the 5th gen maps, I'd say they were back to what they were before the sudden decrease in rates. But all the other maps, including elemental maps (possibly for yards too) currently rates that I'd say were halfway between the recent rates and the old rates that were proposed.
Aegaeon wrote:As for yards this is where a lot of the players are upset. To us players yards seem almost the same, some even call it worse! We've tried searching in a mixed legendary yard and the rate was around 1 Pokémon per minute (ish). This is slightly better but not even very noticeable. I notice this for non-legendary Pokémon too. The rates are the exact same as before. Takes me around 40 of them to start finding them decently then 120 to find specials on a decent basis. Which is how I found it to be before.
glucht23 wrote:to add on to this.. wasn't skymin supposed to be a holiday only obtainable pokemon? instead of making there be a new uber rare it's just common now since it stuck around it's no longer relevant. Element maps need fixed like fo real what's the point in spending credits on these things when they're worse than all the other maps. there should be a noticeable difference.
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Brazil legend Ronaldo could finally return from injury to make his Corinthians debut in a Copa do Brasil tie on Wednesday.
The 32-year-old striker has been out for more than a year but could feature from the bench against Itumbiara.
Coach 'Mano' Menezes said: "Ronaldo is ready to play 45 minutes and will be on the bench in the Itumbiara match.
"He will maybe play some minutes in the second half depending on how the match goes.
"I make my decisions according to what I think is correct. At the moment, ideally he will make his debut during the match but won't start."
Ronaldo has not played a competitive game since February 13 last year when he suffered a serious knee injury playing for AC Milan.
He was fined for breaking a curfew last week.
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Friday's unveiling of the life-sized Bob Devaney statue in the East Stadium Plaza was best summed up in a 10-word sentence. Near the end of his remarks and before he introduced Mike Devaney, Bob's son, Tom Osborne delivered this simple, but eloquent conclusion: "There's nobody that deserves a statue more than Bob Devaney."
Period, end of sentence, and no one would know that better than a modern-day Hall-Famer who never would have become a coach without the legendary leadership of his Hall-of-Fame predecessor. Osborne worked for Devaney for 30 years as an assistant coach and a head coach. "Bob was always my boss. He was a great guy to work for," Osborne said. One thing he did not say on this meaningful public occasion was something he revealed more than five years ago. "If I had not met Bob Devaney," Osborne told me at the time, "I probably would not even have considered coaching."
Devaney Personified the Value of Loyalty
"Bob Devaney built our modern-day football program," Osborne told me in that same conversation. "He personified the value of loyalty, and I will always be grateful for the confidence he showed in me. Because of his leadership and empowerment as a coach and an athletic director, I was fortunate to serve as Nebraska's head football coach for 25 years, and I valued coaching every team we put on the field."
Friday, Osborne covered some of that same ground and said there were three reasons why Devaney was an immediate success when he left Wyoming, where he still has the best winning football coaching percentage, in favor of Nebraska, where his teams won eight conference championships and two national titles in his 11 years as head coach. In his conversational style, Osborne offered up these thoughts at the statue's unveiling:
Reason 1: Devaney came to Lincoln thinking immediate turnaround. He always thought the Huskers would win and never thought otherwise. Before Devaney's arrival, Nebraska's mindset about winning was reflected in the words hope and not probable ... a continental divide in mindset.
Reason 2: Devaney championed a physical style of football that did not change and became the culture of a program that has 40 more wins than any other Division I school in the last 50 years
Reason 3: Devaney had a great sense of humor. Osborne said Devaney was always stronger and funnier after a loss than he was after a win because he could defuse things. Somehow, his razor-sharp humor was always a strategic weapon, and the harder things got, the more dynamic leader he became.
'People Person' Had Great Sense of Timing
Osborne praised Devaney's "great sense of timing" and his reputation as a "people person", a skill that helped him endure the inherent grumbling of back-to-back, non-bowl seasons with identical 6-4 records in 1967 and '68. Osborne never will forget that period when people were calling for the firing of at least some assistant coaches. "Being a 31-year-old with three kids, I was kind of interested in what was going to happen," Osborne said of that only major setback in Devaney's performance ... a dip, I might add, that was corrected when Devaney named Osborne his offensive coordinator following those two slumping seasons. Talk about irony. Decades before Devaney's arrival and the Huskers' immediante ascent to national prominence, Big Red fans would have treated back-to-back winning seasons like back-to-back Mardi Gras celebrations.
According to Osborne, Devaney's strong sense of loyalty never wavered, and he finally told his superiors that "if anyone goes, we all go." Osborne also recalled that whenever Devaney was sought as a head football coach somewhere else, he didn't pursue fame, money or power. Instead, he huddled with his staff, and they discussed the impending opportunity. "We were all in it together," Osborne said, and he's never forgotten that.
It takes more than three points to define Devaney's transformation of Nebraska football a half century ago, Osborne introduced another trademark trait that helped cast his boss's winning mindset in bronze. "Bob was never afraid of change," Osborne said. "He brought in Boyd Epley as the first strength and conditioning coach in college football. He changed the offense, and he changed the defense." With those three changes, Devaney was celebrating the first of his two consecutive national titles just two warp speed years later.
In Friday's remarks, Osborne acknowledged that Devaney could get angry, but he never allowed anger to block decency. He'd just instruct John Melton to tell a player to "take a lap" while Bob cooled himself down without incident.
Osborne Commends Eichorst's Foresight
Osborne commended Director of Athletics Shawn Eichorst for his foresight in commissioning the Devaney statue and having it installed before Nebraska played Wyoming, the only other school Devaney served as a head coach. He also thanked UNL Chancellor Harvey Perlman for his leadership in the East Stadium expansion. Osborne said he knew "there would be something" that would honor Devaney after he left the Athletic Department, but he didn't know what it would be. He just knows that nobody deserves it more than the man he loved as a boss, a coach and AD he served with distinction, and a legend who talked him out of academia in favor of a lifetime devoted to football.
"For me, college football remains a game of extraordinary complexity," Osborne told me. "It requires planning, preparation and hard work. There is no doubt the game is physical, but it also develops character, reveals human potential and triggers innovation." Devaney taught Osborne so much of that, and Tom carries Bob's legacy on like the professor he would have been if his boss had not forced him to make a decision between the two.
Devaney, a smart man, liked the way Osborne, another smart man, welded athletics and academics into a combined force. Devaney did, after all, ask Osborne to become the Athletic Department's first academic advisor, and that decision created a legacy every bit as compelling as coaching.
Two Iconic Statues Connect Greatest Fans
Bottom line, we all should be thankful that Devaney left Wyoming for Nebraska, and once he got to Lincoln, he saw great potential in a tall redhead who wanted to use his doctorate degree and teach.
We are similarly grateful that two iconic statues are now anchored outside Memorial Stadium. One is a bronzed Osborne, extending his right arm while pointing to the transcendence of Brook Berringer. The other is a bronzed Devaney in his letter jacket and cap, equipped with a whistle and a clipboard, extending his right arm as if he were waiting to shake your hand. And Friday afternoon, in a metaphorical sort of way, we all did just that.
Mike Devaney, Bob's son who lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., said his dad would have been humbled and thankful and added: "I'm sure this Irishman, with a twinkle in his eye, is looking down, proud of what he started."
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Syria could ship out its remaining chemical weapons within a month and still meet a mid-year target for their final destruction, the head of an international mission overseeing the delayed disarmament operation said on Friday.
After missing several deadlines, Syria has accelerated the pace of chemical shipments from its Mediterranean port of Latakia this month and has now removed or destroyed more than half of its declared chemical arsenal.
Syrian authorities have proposed a new target to complete the removal of the chemicals by late April, 10 weeks behind the original schedule, although Western diplomats say they are reluctant to grant Damascus more time for the work.
Sigrid Kaag, head of the joint mission of the United Nations and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, said that Syria - which is embroiled in civil war - was making progress and its revised timetable was achievable.
"We think the current plan is realistic and workable," she told Reuters in an interview in Beirut. "However we have always been very clear in stating that the month of March remains very critical in order to attain the overall timetable."
She said the June 30 target for the destruction of the chemicals at sea was also realistic, especially if the current acceleration in consignments continued. "We don't exclude a further speeding up of the current pace."
President Bashar al-Assad, battling a three-year uprising against his rule, agreed to dispose of Syria's chemical weapons after August chemical attacks in Ghouta and Mouadamiya suburbs around the Syrian capital last August.
Washington and its Western allies blamed Assad's forces for the world's worst chemical attack in a quarter-century, and nearly carried out air strikes in response. Damascus said anti-Assad rebels were responsible.
Despite the delays, Kaag said Syrian authorities had displayed constructive cooperation "from the outset until now".
One third of Syria's most dangerous chemical weapons, including its entire stock of mustard gas, has already been transported to ships off its Mediterranean port of Latakia.
Mustard gas is the most dangerous to transport because it is stored in the same form that is deployed in warfare. Components of other binary agents such as sarin are kept separately and only mixed when they are loaded into weapons, making them safer to store and move around.
But the operation remains fraught with danger.
Last month Syria said there were two attempted attacks on convoys transporting chemical weapons, and two storage sites remain inaccessible due to the civil war which has killed 140,000 people and ravaged whole districts of Syrian cities.
Kaag said she could not say whether chemical sites had come under deliberate attack or were simply caught up by chance in the conflict which has affected every part of the country.
"What we know is that there is a heightened risk of any accident or incident," she said. "I've just come out of Latakia...and an hour after we'd arrived two rockets arrived on the same road I have taken. And there were civilian casualties."
Earlier this month five rockets were fired towards Latakia, one of them crashing close to a hotel where the UN-OPCW experts were staying. Elsewhere in Syria, two chemical sites are currently inaccessible because of the fighting.
Nearly a week after a March 15 target for destruction of the 26 chemical production facilities across the country, nearly half have yet to be eliminated. Sources at the OPCW headquarters in the Netherlands said this week they included aircraft hangars and underground facilities.
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Who freed the slaves? The answer is more complex and relevant than the question's simplicity and tense might suggest, author and Yale University history professor David W. Blight said recently.
The Civil War historian was in Memphis earlier this month to speak at the National Civil Rights Museum about his 2007 book, "A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation." The book is built around manuscripts written by two former slaves - Wallace Turnage and John Washington. Blight came across the rare manuscripts four years ago through different connections.
Blight not only annotated the rare first-person accounts. He also researched and filled in some of the missing parts of their lives after their escapes from slavery.
"I think the real story here is ... emancipation does come from (President Abraham) Lincoln's leadership. It does come from presidential authority and certainly from the Army," Blight said at a book signing that followed his presentation. "But it also comes from the personal volition, courage and bravery of the slaves themselves. You have to learn how to tell both of those stories together."
Harrowing escapes
Turnage tried to escape four other times before he succeeded the fifth time. The teenager was beaten mercilessly each time he was recaptured and after the fourth beating, instead of walking back to his master's farm, he kept walking through the Confederate lines in Mobile, Ala., bleeding and in torn clothes, until he was rescued from a small row boat in Mobile Bay by the crew of a Union Navy gunboat. He was 17 and it was 1864.
"It was death to go back and it was death to stay there. And freedom was before me. It could only be death to go forward if I was caught and freedom if I escaped," Turnage wrote years later.
Washington was among slaves left behind in Fredricksburg, Va., as white citizens and Confederate forces fled the town in advance of the Union Army in 1862. He wrote of assembling about a dozen other slaves at a hotel called The Shakespeare where they all worked. He recalled seeing the gleam of Union bayonets from the roof.
In the hotel kitchen, they all drank a toast "to the Yankees" and dispersed, staying close to Union forces. Washington crossed the Rappahannock River, two blocks from the hotel, and walked into the Union Army camp. He was among the first wave of freedmen to reach and settle in Washington in late 1862.
"Historical memory is a vexing thing on subjects that are about great sacrifice, great and transformative change, great violence. How we process that story - how we process that memory - has everything to do usually with who we say we are," Blight told a museum audience of 40. "There is no more vexing part of American history for us than our memory of slavery and slavery's destruction in an all-out Civil War that killed 600,000 people, wounded 1.2 million and transformed a nation. The Civil War, in that sense ... is not over."
The two accounts each end with escape and hope. Beyond lay Reconstruction, Jim Crow, lynchings, a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, A. Philip Randolph, Emmett Till and the Montgomery bus boycott.
A time to remember
With the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation approaching in the next few years, Blight said how the country observes them is important.
The 100th anniversary of emancipation in 1963 found the country in the midst of the civil rights movement, a movement that Blight said came to represent a new emancipation. The 1963 march on Washington that featured Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech was planned to mark the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. It was a time when the Confederate battle flag was a symbol used by those who violently opposed the movement.
"We will be trying in every way possible to do it better than the country managed to do with the centennial," Blight said. "This time, I hope ... it is going to be as much about the commemoration of emancipation as it is a commemoration of the war. It'll be about blue and gray again. And it'll be about (Confederate General Robert E.) Lee and (U.S. General Ulysses S.) Grant again. ... But this time it's also going to be about the consequences and the results."
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Revelations from Yuggoth was a weird fiction fanzine edited by Shawn Ramsey, and published by Cryptic Publications.
Three issues of Revelations from Yuggoth appeared in the 1980s form Mount Olive, North Carolina, U.S.A. The first issue appeared in November 1987, the second in May 1988, and the third, and last, in 1989.
Contributions including "Devil God'" by Lee Barwood, "Headcase" by Carrie Hall, "Wilber Whately Waiting" by Robert M. Price (Cthulhu Codex, Crypt of Cthulhu), "The Cryptic Power" and "The Hungry Place" by Wilum Pugmire (Old Bones, Visions of Khroyd'hon), "In the Airlock" by Ann K. Schwader, and "The Contemplative Sphinx" by Richard L. Tierney, all of which are considered to be part of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Also included were Cliff Burns, Darwin Chrismar, Elisabeth Counselman, T. Winter Damon, Robert H. Knox, Alice L'Anson, Brian Lumley, Mark Rainey (Deathrealm), J. P. Reedman, Jessica Amanda Salmonson (Fantasy Macabre), Dave Stall, Henry J. Vester III, and Henry S. Whitehead.
E. Hoffman Price wrote a special guest editorial for issue three.
The cover for issue #1 was by Shawn Ramsey, #2 by Allen Koszowski, and #3 by Peter Smith.
Revelations from Yuggoth also included reprints of work by Robert H. Barlow (Leaves), Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, Henry Kuttner, and R.A.W. Lowndes.


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First, a Michael Pollan-inspired minimalist manifesto:
- Drink some carbs.
- Not too much.
- Some carbs are better than others.
One of the most daunting and mysterious aspects of preparing for a marathon swim is planning a nutrition strategy. And for good reason: Nutrition can make or break a marathon swim.
So, aspiring marathon swimmers often seek advice from their more experienced brethren. But how to sort through conflicting information and opinions?
- Lynne Cox munches on bagels with peanut butter
- David Barra spikes his drinks with ginger tea and agave nectar
- Erica Rose chews dried pineapple slices
- Capt. Matthew Webb favored (I mean, favoured) beef tea and brandy
- For Janet Harris, variety is the spice of life.
- Peter Attia has been pounding the table for SuperStarch.
- Penny Palfrey likes watered-down porridge, and famously once had a tub of chocolate ice cream flown in via helicopter (while playing 'Stairway to Heaven' in her head!)
The textbooks aren't much better:
- In Dover Solo, Marcia Cleveland recommends "warm, energy-providing liquids, followed possibly by some solid food, or energy gel."
- Steven Munatones' book suggests to "try everything within reason: energy drinks, bananas, sliced peaches, chocolate, and cookies." He also wisely notes that "what works for another swimmer may not necessarily work for you."
- Penny Lee Dean devotes a section to nutrition in her book, but in 2012 her recommendations are a bit dated. A lot has changed in sports nutrition since 1998.
Here's the thing: In planning your nutrition strategy, you must distinguish the art from the science - the "best practices" from the "special sauce." Think for yourself. Pay attention to best practices, but don't eat bagels and peanut butter just because Lynne Cox did.
What are the best practices? Here's a good start:
Drink some carbs. Your gut processes liquid food faster than solid food.
Not too much. The goal isn't to replace everything you burn There's a limit to how much your body can process at once. A basic hour's portion of Maxim (or equivalent) provides 58g of carbohydrates, 233 calories, and 750ml fluids (a 7.7% solution). Exceed that only with caution and care.
Some carbs are better than others. Maltodextrin is better than simple sugars* (e.g., sucrose, dextrose, and high-fructose corn syrup). Maltodextrin is the typical carbohydrate source in high-end, "designer" endurance fuels such as products by Hammer, First Endurance, and Infinit (and of course, Maxim and Carbo-Pro).
Simple sugars are the typical carbohydrate source in lower-end, mass-production sports drinks such as Gatorade, Powerade, and Vitamin Water.
Basically, if you can buy it at a gas station, don't use it on a marathon swim.
And… that's it. All the other stuff - protein, amino acids, electrolytes - you don't actually need them (and in some cases you don't want them). Under certain circumstances, they may help at the margin; but there are risks. Supplemental protein and electrolytes have probably harmed _more marathon swims than they have helped. The main thing is to consume carbohydrates - in a _form and amount your body can easily digest while swimming. Everything else is just "special sauce."
Regarding the last point: Why is maltodextrin better than simple sugars? To answer this question, I've recruited a special guest author. Stay tuned for the next post…
* Note: I am aware of Peter Attia's argument that SuperStarch is superior to maltodextrin. That may be true - but I haven't tried it. I would simply note that Dr. Attia agrees that maltodextrin is superior to simple sugars.


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Germany and France each grew by 0.2 percent in the third quarter but with the euro zone's debt-laden members suffering deeply, the currency bloc as a whole is likely to have slid into recession.
The quarterly performance of Europe's dominant economy reported on Thursday was in line with forecasts and analysts said it could not defy gravity for much longer. The French economy surprised on the upside, having been expected to post no growth at all after a revised 0.1 percent fall in the second quarter.
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"That was the last good number from Germany for the time being. The German economy will probably shrink somewhat in the fourth quarter given that orders have been falling for the last year and the business climate ... has caved in," said Joerg Kraemer, chief economist at Commerzbank.
"That is due to the uncertainty caused by the euro zone crisis. I don't expect the German economy to return to decent growth rates until the middle of next year."
Economists expect EU statistics office Eurostat to say that the bloc's output shrank 0.2 percent in the third quarter, as it did in the second quarter. Business surveys point to a deeper decline.
That would push the 9.4 trillion euro ($12 trillion) economy, which generates a fifth of global output, officially in recession. Italy and Spain have been contracting for months and Greece -- where the euro debt crisis began -- is suffering an outright depression.
The figures will be released at 5. a.m EDT.
Hopes for a recovery next year are also fading, with the European Commission saying the economy will flatline in 2013.
A rebound in the euro zone could be vital for the rest of the world as the United States faces a political battle over its finances and China struggles with the impact of the crisis on their companies' ability to grow and prosper.
Figures out earlier this week showed the Portuguese economy shrank 0.8 percent quarter-on-quarter while Greece tumbled further, casting doubt on whether Athens and its lenders can come up with a credible plan to put its finances back on track.
Spain, which has kept the euro zone on tenterhooks over a decision on whether or not to seek help from the euro zone rescue fund, is also in recession. It contracted 0.3 percent in the third quarter.
With little prospect of better times ahead, the threat of a public backlash cannot be dismissed.
Millions of workers went on strike across Europe on Wednesday to protest the government spending cuts they say are driving the region into a deeper malaise but which Germany and the Commission say are crucial to healing the wounds of a decade-long, credit-fuelled boom.
But the European Central Bank's pledge to buy euro zone government bonds in potentially unlimited amounts, should a country first seek help from the rescue fund, has diminished any threat of a euro zone calamity.
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This Xbox One/PS4/PC shooter will use Oculus Rift AND Project Morpheus
The Farm 51's upcoming shooter Get Even supports virtual reality tech as a means to accelerate immersion.
The Farm 51's upcoming shooter Get Even supports virtual reality tech as a means to accelerate immersion.
Painkiller is a simple first-person shooter at heart, but it's very well-put-together and does what it does exceedingly well.
The Farm 51's upcoming shooter Get Even supports virtual reality tech as a means to accelerate immersion.
Danny kills pain the only way he knows how: circle strafing with a stake gun. (Game suggested by viewer Geon106)
Publishers of Gothic and Spellforce saved from insolvency; subsidiary company that publishes adventure game also in the mix.
New release slate led by Guerrilla Games' third Helghan title, People Can Fly's shooter; Knights Contract, de Blob 2 also out.
Next month's cover of Game Informer IDs unnamed game from Painkiller creator People Can Fly; Cliff Bleszinski now promising two official announcements on Monday--Gears of War 3 surprise already blown.
Unreal maker scoops up majority share after collaborating with the Polish studio on PC Gears of War; two collaborating on all-new mystery game.
Gears of War developer's president discusses partnering with Electronic Arts, dissects the publisher-developer relationship, and divulges the existence of another new IP.
Guy Walks Into A Bar Productions acquires film rights to DreamCatcher's supernatural shooter series.
Austrian publisher signs exclusive distribution deal, lists 2007 releases.
Austria-based company has entered into an agreement to buy Canadian publisher of Painkiller.
Big-time PSP fighter leads small-time lineup of games this week; arcade classic Galaga marks third Xbox Live Wednesdays download.
[UPDATE] DreamCatcher is "extending the development time" of Xbox port of demonic PC game; new release date set for Q3 of this year.
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5 Things to Know Now about Hiring Temporary or Seasonal Workers
Does your business ebb and flow with the seasons? Looking to hire extra staff for the holidays or tourist season? Whatever your plans, hiring seasonal workers involves following a few rules of the road. Many of the laws and regulations that apply to full-time employees also apply to seasonal or part-time employees.
Here's what you need to know as you plan your seasonal workforce:
Labor Laws Still Apply
Laws that cover harassment, discrimination, and workplace health and safety apply to seasonal workers just as they do to any other employee. If you're not familiar with these, this Employment and Labor Law Guide for small businesses is a good reference point.
Likewise, under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), part-time and full-time employees have equal rights concerning minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping and child labor.
Hiring Independent Contractors – Laws are Different
Independent contractors are essentially self-employed individuals who often welcome seasonal or part-time positions. These individuals are usually experienced in certain fields and often work unsupervised or as part of your team.
It's important to note that independent contractors are hired by you and not employed by you. As such, you aren't required to provide benefits, withhold tax/Medicare/Social Security, or pay unemployment taxes. You also can't dictate the hours the contractor works. However, you are required to report compensation of $600 or more to the IRS (more on this here).
SBA offers some helpful tips to understanding the difference between independent contractors and employees when it comes to your legal and tax obligations.
What Benefits Are Required by Law?
If you are hiring employees – not independent contractors – regardless of whether they are seasonal or not, you still must provide certain benefits by law. These vary by state and include:
1. Unemployment Benefits – Check with your state department of labor to determine the specific laws that apply in your state. While employers generally are not exempt from unemployment benefit obligations if an employee is hired for a brief or temporary amount of time, there may be exceptions for "seasonal employers" who, because of the nature of their business, require temporary employees for periods lasting 10 weeks or less.
2. Social Security/Medicare – You must withhold part of Social Security and Medicare taxes from your employees' wages and pay a matching amount yourself. Refer to the employee's Form W-4 and the methods described in the IRS' Employer's Tax Guide and Employers Supplemental Tax Guide (PDF).
3. Workers' Compensation – Businesses with employees are required to carry Workers' Compensation Insurance coverage through a commercial carrier, on a self-insured basis, or through a state Workers' Compensation Insurance program. Your state's agency can help you find out more about requirements for employers.
Certain benefits, also called "fringe" or "soft" benefits, aren't required by law and are offered at the employer's discretion. These include paid leave, retirement plans, and medical insurance. Whether you decide to offer these or not is up to you, but it's best to be explicit in advance about what you will and won't provide during the recruitment process.
What About Taxes?
Part-time and seasonal employees are subject to the same tax withholding rules that apply to other employees. For details on your tax reporting responsibilities, refer to IRS regulations on part-time or seasonal help. Be sure to check state tax laws that pertain to these employees too.
Other Legal Considerations
Want to run a background check on potential seasonal workers? This blog offers advice on Conducting Employee Background Checks – Why Do It and What the Law Allows.
Depending on your business type, you might consider asking seasonal workers to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement or contract of employment.
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