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Here at Highsnobiety we are of the opinion that all the Kanye-bashing is getting kinda old. We figured it's maybe time for a re-evaluation of Yeezy and his enumerable talents – from creating world tours that are truly sights to behold, to publically dissing George 'W' Bush, to doing us all a favour and restyling Kim Kardashian.
Check out our 10 Reasons Why Kanye West Is Actually Not A Total Dick here below.
1. Everyone knows Kanye fucked up when he snatched Taylor Swift's award out of her hands at the MTV Awards, grabbed the mike and announced that Beyonce should have won instead. (She should have, incidentally. That just wasn't the right move though 'Ye). After rain comes sunshine though, and as an apology Kanye recorded one of his greatest songs ever, the epic 'Runaway', with the line "Lets have a toast for the douchebags, Lets have a toast for the assholes.' It became a modern classic and Taylor forgave him.
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2. He can also be guaranteed to kick off at an awards ceremony if he doesn't win in his category. Lets face it, awards ceremonies are often dull as ditch-water, so as far as we are concerned, the drama is welcome. We call it: ENTERTAINMENT.
3. Thought only your mum typed constantly in CAPS LOCKS? Wrong. When blogging,
Kanye loves to hit up the Caps Locks (and excessive exclamation marks). BECAUSE EVERYTHING HE SAYS IS JUST THAT IMPORTANT, YO!!!!! He represents for the Mum Caps Locks massive and we think that's pretty funny.
4. Who doesn't love shit that glows in the dark? Everyone loves shit that glows in the dark. And Kanye made an entire tour that glowed in the dark called, guess what, The Glow In The Dark Tour. And that was the most critically acclaimed, ground-breaking, best shit ever.
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5. In the latest episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Kanye brings his stylist over to his girlfriend's house and she literally cleans out Kim's closet, removing all the dubious ghetto-fabulous 'Kim K' threads, leaving nothing except a few shirts and skirts. The deal being that he will replace all the old clothes with new clothes, of his choosing. Wow. Burn! Way to tell a girl her style basically sucks. After Kim had a little cry she started to take it pretty well. 'Now you're gonna be stepping into Best Dressed List territory' he says, nodding sagely. Go Kanye.
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6. The lyric 'You can be my black Kate Moss tonight' in 'Stronger' is still beyond awesome.
7. His back-up dancers love him. Did you see the amazing in-flight video they made for him on his birthday? You know those girls are getting paid on time.
8. He is not afraid to speak his mind politically. Back in 2005 during a benefit for Hurricane Katrina victims, televised by NBC, Kanye famously deviated from the script he was meant to read, and said "George Bush doesn't care about black people". His statement went viral and made headlines the world over. Bush later said the comment was one of the most disgusting moments of his presidency. We say, West called it!
9. With all his introspection, nerdiness and revealing of his sensitive side, (especially in an album such as 2008's '808s and Heartbreak'), Kanye definitely laid the groundwork for artists such as Frank Ocean and Drake to come through and not be afraid to say what they are about or what's in their hearts. And for that we are truly grateful because Hip Hop's 'big tough guy act' was getting old. Having said all that he can still makes great gangsta music from time to time, as seen with his latest release with 2 Chainz, Birthday Song, where the chorus goes 'All I want for my birthday is a big booty ho'. We're sure Kim is thrilled.
10. He really doesn't give a flying fuck what we all think about him, which is probably how he manages to continually surprise us. Like allegedly applying to study fashion at London's Central Saint Martins College. While the UK collectively guffawed and the international fashion press sniggered, Kanye just got on with it. Apparently he was rejected, but no biggie. He will no doubt turn up in Paris or New York soon enough, perhaps interning for Anna Wintour or for Karl Lagerfeld. Anything is possible, remember. And for that and all the above, we salute you Mr. West!
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Friday Flicks At The Forum
The Arts Commission will be screening "Exit Through the Gift Shop" at 7 p.m. at the Festival of Arts Forum Theatre. The film is about an eccentric French shopkeeper and amateur filmmaker who attempt to find and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film is rated R. Admission is free.
Artist Open Studios
Come visit the studios of 25 of Laguna's talented artists from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event includes free parking and trolley service from the Act V parking lot, 1900 Laguna Canyon Road.
ZeroTrash Cleanup
ZeroTrash's Community Cleanup, held on the first Saturday of every month, takes place from 10 a.m. to noon. Volunteers can meet at Hobie Surf, Thalia Surf, Laguna Beach High School, El Ranchito or United Studios of Self Defense. Supplies are provided. For more information, visit http://www.zerotrash.org.
DimeStories Open Mic
Come bring three minutes worth of your original writing to share with other writers and readers at DimeStories Open Mic Second Sundays Readings at 5 p.m. at Salt Fine Art Gallery, 1492 S. Coast Hwy., Unit 3. For more information, email email@example.com.
Talk With The Mayor
The Laguna Canyon Conservancy is hosting Mayor Jane Egly at its monthly dinner meeting at 6 p.m. at Tivoli Terrace, 650 Laguna Canyon Road. The mayor will answer questions from the audience. Tickets are $10 for members and $15 for non-members. Reservations are required; call Ed Drollinger at (949) 494-6465 by Saturday.
Tuesday Till Feb. 5
'Lonesome Traveler'
The Laguna Playhouse offers a world premiere event at the Rubicon Theatre of "Lonesome Traveler," a musical that takes the audience on a journey through American folk music. Tickets are $30 to $65. For showtimes and more information, call (949) 497-ARTS or visit http://www.lagunaplayhouse.com.
Easy Nature Hike
Discover animal and plant species on a 1.5-mile, slow and easy hike over rock and uneven terrain from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. Cost is $2; parking is $3. Sign up online at http://www.lagunacanyon.org/activities.html.
Fitness Hike
Get a start on your New Year's resolution with this strenuous, fast-paced 5.5-mile hike through Laguna Coast Wilderness Park from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Cost is $2; parking is $3 per vehicle. Sign up online at http://www.lagunacanyon.org/activities.html.
Fine Arts Exhibit
Kids from the Boys & Girls Club of Laguna Beach will show off their artwork in the club's annual juried art exhibition from 3 to 7 p.m. in the Community Room of the Main Branch, 1085 Laguna Canyon Road. A reception and Family Fun Night will be at 5:30 p.m.
Movie Night
Transition Laguna presents the film "How to Boil a Frog" at its Movie Night in Bridge Hall at Neighborhood Congregational Church, 340 St. Ann's Drive. A vegetarian potluck begins at 6 p.m. with the movie starting at 7 p.m. A $5 donation is suggested.
Jan. 13
Beekeeper Speaks at Garden Club
Lynne Gallaugher, a master gardener and professional beekeeper will talk at the Laguna Beach Garden Club meeting at 9:30 a.m. at Tankersley Hall at Laguna Presbyterian Church. She will talk about bee-friendly gardening practices. For more information, visit http://www.lagunabeachgardenclub.org.
Film Society Series
The Laguna Beach Film Society's four-month-long documentary series "The Earth's Sustainability in Film," begins at 7 p.m. at the Forum Theatre. Two films will be shown: "Garbage Warrior" and "Plastic Tide." Tickets are $15 at the door.
Jan. 14
Fujiko Signs Speaks
"The Lord's Prayer and Healing," will be presented at a free public lecture at 3 p.m. at the Christian Science church at 635 High Drive, Laguna Beach. Fujiko Signs, an authorized teacher of Christian Science, a practitioner and lecturer, will speak.
Jan. 15
Mystery Authors
Laguna Beach Books will host mystery authors Elizabeth George and T. Jefferson Parker at noon at the Aliso Creek Inn, 31106 S. Coast Hwy. Tickets are limited. The cost is $70 and includes breakfast and a choice of one of the authors' latest books. Email firstname.lastname@example.com to reserve a spot.
Jan. 18
Jazz Wednesdays
The Jazz Wednesdays Winter Series kicks off in the Laguna Room of Hotel Laguna at 6 p.m. Cost is $12 with an online and season subscription discounted for early bird buyers. Leading off is Latin Jazz Syndicate with Bijon Watson on trumpet. For more information, visit http://www.lagunabeachlive.org.
Jan. 20
Family Concert
SEEDS Art and Education Inc. hosts a family concert at 6:30 p.m. at the Anneliese School's Willowbrook Campus, 200062 Laguna Canyon Road, Laguna Beach. Dana Freeman, violinist with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, and Mike Hoffman, principal trombonist of the Pacific Symphony, will perform. Light hors d'oeuvres will be served at this free event. For more information, visit http://www.seedsed.org/events.
Jan. 21
Songwriting Duo Performs
Nashville Backstage features songwriting father-daughter duo Randy and Maia Sharp in an 8 p.m. concert at the Artists' Theatre. They have written hit country songs for artists like Reba McEntire, the Dixie Chicks, Bonnie Raitt and more. For more information, visit http://www.lagunabeachlive.org.
Keep It Wild Volunteer Day
Help the Laguna Canyon Foundation and OC Parks staff with restoration projects from 8 to 11 a.m. at the Laguna Coast Wilderness Park. Sign up online at http://www.lagunacanyon.org/activities.html.
Jan. 27
Spirit of Laguna Awards
The Chamber of Commerce is hosting its annual Spirit of Laguna Awards Dinner and installation of its 2012 board of directors from 6 to 9 p.m. at Tivoli Too!, 777 Laguna Canyon Road.

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Hey all
Seems most have moved on to Discord or social media. Do the forums still serve a useful purpose? I must confess I come here much less frequently these days...
I check in here daily as a habit! Must confess its a bit like going to a morgue for a party, enough bodies, little action.
I've wondered for a while if you'd just turn the lights off and shut the door, imo opinion a shame, but what's the point in you paying for something that's not used enough, or is it?
Hosting the site isn't an issue, but the forum software does have security issues from time to time and at some point they will stop releasing updates.
There was a vulnerability in an earlier version that lead to a number of high profile breaches (vbulletin.com, Epic Games forum).
It feels like the forums are only used for organising the party these days. Most communication either happens ingame or on voice. Keep the forums as an archive. Dont we have the old old rl forums from planetside archived somewhere aswell?
Mims - Madcon - Barkcon - Konried - Bellcross
Battletag: mims#2207
I still browse the forums, although not frequently. You don't play any games that I do these days, though I'm still hoping that'll change.
I blame Moose!
Think we lost the old forums, not sure. But would like the forums to stay, its all a matter of getting ppl to use them rather than all the other stuffs
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|Sometimes I feel that this is what programming actually is... Image from here.
However, in more recent times, my programming has had a number of additional constraints imposed. These are probably so fundamental to most normal people (by which I mean most programmers and software engineers), that me mentioning them may border on the ridiculous, but I think that they are probably not to your bog-standard academic-type, like me. It basically boils down to a simple fact: that there are other people out there, and that under certain circumstances, they might actually need to use/modify your code, or collaborate with you on this code. This process has only relatively recently begun to directly affect me and my work, since a little way into starting as part of the ALIZ-E project, but it's one that I am increasingly having to take into account, and one that I seemingly find myself a little reluctant to. Basically, I would say that the idea is that putting the effort into those aspects of software development that are not necessarily directly related to the desired functionality, but to more general infrastructure and usability from the perspective of the programmer (as well as the notional user of course), is very beneficial in the long run. Put like that, it seems sensible. But it's not particularly obvious when you're actually trying to throw together something that works in the face of a deadline. At least it didn't to me.
Anyway, this issue was raised in my mind over the past week or two for two reasons: firstly, I noticed that a project colleague has put up (or updated?) a page on his website about software quality; secondly, I just happen to be reading a book (given to me by some very dear friends) about programming (which is far more interesting than it may sound, but that is I think for another post when I've finished reading the book...).
This project colleague is Marc Schroder, and he is at DFKI in Germany, and this is the page I am referring to. The first time I met him was at the first ALIZ-E software integration meeting, at which he kept talking about good programming practice, and good practice regarding implementation structures and methods. To be perfectly honest, I viewed a lot of this as programming idealism, and distracting from the task at hand: implementing a (complex) system that would do what we wanted. Speaking to him during one of the meeting intervals, I made the point to him my opinion that a lot of academic programmers were hackers like me - good at making code that did what we wanted, but not necessarily good software engineers. I have no doubt that he'd heard and experienced this before, and indeed he was probably rather exasperated at the situation with the academic-hacker-types like me. He, on the other hand, has a good deal of experience with not just good quality programming, but also of multi-party project management, of which I had no experience. So, he knows what is involved in making some software actually work in a collaborative environment in which the participants are remotely interacting.
From the description on his software quality page page, and the various evangelist-style talks he's given us in the project on good coding practice (and I don't mean this in a negative manner - just descriptive of the style that academic-types speak to each other on subject matters that deeply interest them...), I have subsequently expanded my list of coding requirements. Or at least, I've added them to my desiderata, and am trying to actually incorporate them into the stuff I normally do. The order is roughly in importance for me at the moment, and misses things out (from Marc's list at least) probably because I don't (yet!?) understand their necessity.
- Error handling - as in properly, returning descriptions of what actually went wrong, so that you can figure it out, not just some way of not crashing the entire computer when something doesn't go to plan...
- Test-driven development - I think I understand the main principles involved, but to be honest, the practical details of how this actually should be approached are still tantalisingly out of reach... The idea of it being something like a living specification that keeps up to date with the code, is an actually useful tool in verifying updates, and replaces (to a certain extent) an external body of documentation, seems like a good idea all round.
- Refactoring - now this is something I have actually been doing for a while, though not for the efficiency aspects, but more for the matching of code operation to my internal cognitive machinations, and for some (limited) future flexibility (so I can easily change parameters and rerun for example)
I'd say that I now understand the necessity for these three things at least. And that I know that I need to apply it to my work as a fundamental feature rather than a mere after-thought. But I am also aware that this process has just begun for me, and that there is far more that I need to learn about testing regimes, interface definitions, etc, that are as yet just too unfamiliar to me. And yet there remains this vestigial resistance to such practice in favour of the hack-together-for-application methodology...


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Ever since I was told by my optician that I seem to have very sensitive, easily irritated eyes that were 'full of glitter' I have tried to take care of them. Vision is such an amazing gift, no? I think it's the last sense that I would give up.
I still spend far to long in front of the PC, I still strain my eyes when I shouldn't but I am doing better at taking care of them. I try to give them an eye wash every other day and use eye drops (hydrating ones) whenever they feel try. I don't use chunky glitter often at all, or mascara that flakes into my eyes (like fibre rich ones).
I like my natural eye colour! It's a brown but a very yellow brown:
Here are some of my favourite eye care products (some have been reviewed already on this blog!).
1. Eye washes get a lot of gunk out. Optrex is great – it really cleans out the dirt and make up.
2. As a treat, eye masks like this one from Elemis are really relaxing but I also like eye patch masks.
3. A good eye make up remover is essential – it stops you from tugging at your eyes. My favourite after all this time is still Softymo.
4. I do NOT recommend using Zi drops all the time – the tingle is cool but not good for regular use but if your eyes are crazy itchy or you need a big refresh, Rohto Zi drops are amazing.
5. Finally I really love Steam Eye Masks. Primarily they are great for headaches but also very relaxing for the eyes – even nicer than a cold cucumber!
I am lucky to have good vision – not perfect 20/20 vision mind but up until now I don't need glasses. If you do wear glasses and dislike doing so (because you find it uncomfortable or inconvenient) there's always treatments such as *to consider.
What is your vision like, and have you ever tried an eye treatment/surgery?
Do you do anything special to look after your eyes?
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Dr. Oz believes that technology and advancements in design and functionality of everyday objects will play a great part in the future of health and medicine.
"I see the car, which is right now one of the most unused spaces in our lives, becoming a mobile examination suite for you," said the heart surgeon, turned talk show host, at our IGNITION conference. "It can weigh you, it can tell how stressed you are by how you grip the steering wheel, the sweat on your fingers, heart rate variability..."
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1st woman named to Indiana Supreme Court since 1999
Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Mitch Daniels on Friday named a Tippecanoe County
judge as the first woman on the bench of the Indiana Supreme Court in 13
The appointment of Loretta Rush ends Indiana's distinction as one of only
three states with all-male high courts, and makes Rush Indiana's first
female justice since Myra Selby stepped down in 1999.
Rush is the third justice Daniels has appointed to the five-member court in
the past two years. She replaces Justice Frank Sullivan who stepped down
after 19 years.
Rush, 54, is a Republican who was born in Scranton, Pa., and moved to
Indiana in 1976. After graduating from Purdue University in 1980, she washed
dishes and did other jobs to work her way through the Indiana University
School of Law.
In November 1998, before her first term as judge for the county that
includes Lafayette, a 27-year-old former juvenile client kicked in the front
door of her home and tried to kill her husband. Rush hid their children and
tried to get help, but she and her husband both were injured and she later
had to have surgery. The attacker was convicted of attempted murder and
"I look at the children that find themselves in our court system and see the
long-standing toll that child abuse, neglect, and untreated mental health
can have on their adult lives," Rush wrote in her application for the court
Only three states — Idaho, Indiana, and Iowa — currently have no women on
their court of last resort, according to the National Center for State
"As a woman, as a lawyer, and a Hoosier I am delighted that now the highest
court in the land — Indiana — will be representative of the state of
Indiana," said Indianapolis attorney Karen Celestino-Horseman. "The three
candidates were excellent, but given that there was no woman on the court,
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This thread is inspired by this post as well as similar concerns of my own regarding the matter in question. In the last week or so, mises.org has crashed- a lot. It isn't just from my computer just being stubborn, either. Typing [mises.org] here during these recent few episodes yields the result: It's not just you! mises.org looks down from here.
Does anyone have ideas as to why this may be occurring?
If I had a cake and ate it, it can be concluded that I do not have it anymore. HHH
Like I said here, my guess is behind the scenes work.
(kudos on the downforeveryoneorjustme.com. I hadn't heard of that, but I would have figured there was something like that.)
So I was about to respond to this thread when the site shits out on me again.
Anyway, my concern about this is I don't want the forums to get lost!
It's happened to me three times since the OP in this thread- only these times it was just me. Hopefully, John James is right that it's the result of something happening behind the scenes (and that it's for good and not evil, as many in the thread to which he links in his response suggest- okay, it's probably not for evil).
And I agree- it would be a sad day if these forums were ever to get lost.
It's not like the data will be lost, but if you just mean "lost" in the sense that you possibly won't be able to access it when you want to, yeah I can understand that.
Well, I am nervous that the data will be lost, but it's probably extremely unlikely. All these errors are making me nervous about it, even if it's silly of me.
I've had the same experience recently...no idea what's causing it.


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Bulletin Issues
Current Issue
Past issues of the Bulletin are available here, or through the ASIS&T Digital Library.
Bulletin, April/May 2013
Editor's Desktop
Irene L. Travis, Editor
Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology. ASIS&T has just changed its name from American Society for Information Science and Technology to the Association for Information Science and Technology, while keeping the ASIS&T acronym. This move reinforces the Associations focus on becoming a truly international organization. The Bulletin will continue to play its part in covering international developments and publishing contributions from our worldwide ASIS&T community. For additional information, please see the Presidents Page, where ASIS&T President Andrew Dillon discusses the name change as well as the ongoing review of our online presence and our efforts to enhance the visibility and understanding of the information professions.
The international theme is also primary as Michael Buckland discusses the reputation of French information scientist Suzanne Briet (1894-1989) in the United States. Because only a small part of her work had been translated into English, she was not well known among U.S. information scientists and librarians when she visited in 1951-52, but historians of information science, particularly ASIS&T members, have worked successfully in recent years to expose many in the field to the writings and ideas of the antelope lady.
Altmetrics is the subject of this issues special section assembled by guest editor Heather Piwowar. Altmetrics are alternative measures that can supplement citation counts and journal impact factors as measures of the impact of scholarly communications. Such measures are generally derived from online activity such as mentions, downloads, tweets, blog posts, Facebook likes, bookmarking and other similar evidence of attention. Some of the altmetrics services also allow readers to follow links back to actual events to determine the context and tenor of comments or actions. Altmetrics are especially important as article-level measures for material posted to open access journals or journals in developing countries or emerging disciplines, for scholarly communication generating public discussion and for measuring the impact of alternative types of scholarly activity such as datasets, software or performances. The section covers the topic from many different perspectives, including those of repositories, open access publishers, third world scholars and leading developers of altmetric services.
In our other regular columns, guest RDAP
columnist, Kirk Borne, professor of astrophysics and computational science at George Mason University, advocates
human computation, utilizing humans in the ways they can be uniquely effective in partnership with computing machines. The focus of his attention is on the use of human computation in collaborative annotation of large datasets. Thom Haller, associate editor for information architecture, examines models for the search process in the
IA Column.
Articles in this Issue
The Power of Altmetrics on a CV
Open Access and Altmetrics: Distinct but Complementary
Ask Not What Altmetrics Can Do for You, But What Altmetrics Can Do for Developing Countries
New Opportunities for Repositories in the Age of Altmetrics
The Many Faces of Article-Level Metrics
Five Challenges in Altmetrics: A Toolmakers Perspective
Are Alternative Metrics Still Alternative?
The Reception of Suzanne Briet in the United States
Editor's Desktop
IA: Enabling Action: Digging Deeper into Strategies for Learning
RDAP Review: Collaborative Annotation for Scientific Data Discovery and Reuse


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TIGERVILLE, S.C.- The Cobra men's tennis team failed to win a single match on Monday afternoon, as Coker lost to North Greenville 9-0 in a non-conference men's tennis match. The loss drops the Cobra men to 0-2 on the year.
Juan Vallejo-Gonzalez (Quito, Ecuador) was the closest to picking up a win, losing at No. 1 singles 6-3, 7-5 and then the tandem of Gonzalez and Evan Schreiner (Seneca, S.C.) lost at No. 1 doubles 8-6.
Coker gets back to action on Friday, Feb. 19, when they host Newberry College in their first home match of the 2010 season. Start time for the match is scheduled for 2:00 p.m.


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Research on a soy-based treatment for colorectal cancer, a promising agent in ovarian cancer, and a new drug target for advanced prostate cancer was presented at the American Association for Cancer Research 2013 Annual Meeting. The meeting took place April 6-10, 2013 in Washington, DC.
The development of colorectal cancer (CRC) is largely driven by cellular signaling in the Wnt pathway, a network of proteins critical to cellular growth. Hyperactivity of the Wnt signaling pathway occurs in more than 85 percent of colon and rectal cancers. Previous research has shown that genistein, a natural supplement containing soy, modulates Wnt signaling through epigenetic mechanisms.
Led by Randall Holcombe, MD, and Sofya Pintova, MD, both from Mount Sinai, the research team treated colon cancer cell lines with genistein and found that it inhibited cell growth and blocked Wnt signaling hyperactivity. The findings are counter to some other tumor types, such as breast, for which soy, because it has estrogen-like properties, increases the risk of developing tumors. Drs. Holcombe and Pintova are launching a clinical trial later this year for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, which utilizes genistein in combination with chemotherapy based on this research.
"Genistein is a natural product with low toxicity and few side effects and our research shows that it may be beneficial in treating colorectal cancer," said Randall Holcombe, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Division if Hematology and Oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. "This is an exciting area of research and we look forward to studying the benefits of this compound as an adjunctive treatment in colorectal cancer in humans."
Platinum-based therapies are the standard of care in treating ovarian cancer, however 60 percent of patients relapse requiring additional treatment. During cancer development, certain proteins that might otherwise block tumor growth are inappropriately shuttled out of the cell's nucleus, and rendered unable to attack a tumor's mutated genome. Researchers led by John A. Martignetti, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Oncological Sciences at Mount Sinai, in collaboration with investigators at Karyopharm Therapeutics, inhibited a nuclear shuttle protein called exportin 1 (XPO1, also called CRM1) using a novel class of drugs called a selective inhibitor of nuclear export (SINE) that can be taken by mouth.
Ying Chen, PhD, a post-doctoral student in Dr. Martignetti's laboratory, injected tumor cells removed from ovarian cancer patients treated at Mount Sinai into mice, and then treated them with a SINE XPO1 inhibitor, KPT-330. All mice treated with KPT-330 had no visible evidence of tumor and survived six times longer than control mice.
Similarly, in another mouse model of chemotherapy-resistant ovarian cancer, KPT-330 significantly reduced the tumor burden and improved overall survival when compared against the current gold-standard platinum treatment. Moreover, mice treated with a combination of KPT-330 and platinum survived even longer. Human trials of KPT-330 are currently ongoing, and will include patients with ovarian cancer later this year.
In part, these experiments arose from a unique scientific resource established by Dr. Martignetti and Dr. Peter Dottino, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science. The Ovarian Cancer Translational Research Program preserves cancerous and normal tissues removed in the operating room from all consenting patients for genetic, genomic and therapeutic discoveries. Studies presented at AACR used patient-derived tumor tissues to create mouse tumor avatars to directly test KPT-330 provided by Karyopharm Therapeutics.
"This is truly a translational research initiative where our own Mount Sinai patients are simultaneously contributing to a potential next generation therapy for incurable ovarian cancer and gaining insight into personalized treatment of their own cancers," said Dr. Martignetti. "These results show that new oral XPO1 inhibitors may be quite promising in treating patients who do not respond to, or relapse after, treatment with platinum-based therapy. We look forward to evaluating oral KPT-330 in our patients."
These studies were in part funded through a gift from Sally and Michael Gordon, a gift from Varadi Ovarian Cancer Research Program at Mount Sinai, and a research grant from Karyopharm Therapeutics.
During cancer progression, cancer cells constantly interact with and modify their surrounding tumor microenvironment through regulating the expression of a group of enzyme inhibitors called tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs). Previously, William Oh, MD, Professor and Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology in the department of Medicine at Mount Sinai and his colleagues showed that elevated TIMP-1 levels in the blood predicted decreased survival in advanced prostate cancer patients. However, the regulation of TIMP-1 expression in prostate cancer was not fully understood and the source of TIMP-1 overproduction remains unknown.
In the current study led by Yixuan Gong, PhD, in Dr. Oh's lab, the researchers show for the first time that resistance to androgen therapy, the most common treatment for prostate cancer, was associated with TIMP-1 overproduction in both prostate cancer patients and in cell culture models. They found that two signaling pathways called MEK and NF-ĸB were critical for TIMP-1 production in certain prostate cells and the production could be completely blocked by drugs that inhibit the pathways.
"Disrupting TIMP-1 signaling prevented androgen resistance providing a promising drug target for this hard-to-treat tumor type," said Dr. Gong. "We look forward to further investigating drugs that block TIMP-1 in a clinical setting."
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Linda Hamilton Asks for an Invite to Marine Corps Ball [VIDEO]
In recent weeks, we've seen several US servicemembers use YouTube to invite celebrities to accompany them to the upcoming Marine Corps Ball.
First Sgt. Scott Moore asked Mila Kunis, then Cpl. Kelsey De Santis asked Kunis' 'Friends with Benefits' co-star Justin Timberlake, and finally Sgt. Ray Lewis asked everyone's favorite octogenarian, Betty White.
While Kunis and Timberlake were able to accept their invites, White, sadly, was not. But all is not lost.
In a first, we now have a celebrity, actress Linda Hamilton, doing the asking instead. The buff 'Terminator' star filmed her own video in which she acknowledges she's "no Betty White" but requests the honor of joining Lewis at the Ball in White's place.
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The Jefferson County Board of Supervisors will be meeting tomorrow to discuss the 2010 census. During their meeting, they will be talking with Kent Boyum and Nancy Watkins regarding the 2010 Census for Maharishi Vedic City. Maharishi Vedic City was incorporated as a city in 2001.
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by Shirley Tabata Ponomareff and Jeanette Senecal
In 2004, 2000 and 1996, 27.9 percent, 30.5 percent and 29.1 percent of eligible voters were not registered to vote. If these eligible voters were registered to vote, would they turn out to vote at the 80–90 percent rate at which registered voters did go to the polls in the past three presidential elections? They probably would. This means 44–49 million more people would have voted in 2004. Let's get them registered in 2008! This article contains tips for organizing League-sponsored voter registration drives.
by Michael Slater
The National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) requires states to offer voter registration opportunities at public assistance agencies. Voter registrations at such agencies numbered 2.6 million in l995–96 when the Act was first implemented; the number has dwindled to 528,000 in 2005–06. One simple reason for this drop: A majority of states are failing to comply with the law. Compliance with the NVRA could help up to 2.5 million additional low-income Americans register to vote.
by Mike Slater, Laura Kyser, and Jo-Anne Chasnow
While countless citizens nationwide are working to engage their neighbors in democracy, many states have developed laws, rules or procedures that limit access to the ballot box. In some states, the new developments are restrictions on voter registration activities, while in others, they are voter ID requirements. Many states have chosen to implement the statewide database requirement of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in ways that make it harder for eligible applicants to register. Together, these new requirements disproportionately impact those citizens who have been historically marginalized in the political process.
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Long lines and long waits were the big news for Election 2004. A number of factors are being examined as likely causes for the long lines. Whatever the causes, the long waits posed an unacceptable barrier to citizen participation. Voter mobilization and voter protection made huge contributions, and voter participation was high. Nevertheless, voters encountered serious problems with voter registration systems, provisional ballots, voting machines and inadequate polling place procedures. This story includes sidebars on the youth vote, election protection efforts, pre-election HAVA implementation survey and Election Day surveys.
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Well in advance of November 2, the League of Women Voters has launched a nationwide voter education effort, 5 Things You Need to Know on Election Day, to familiarize voters with new election procedures and empower them to take action to personally ensure their vote is counted. To this end, the League has produced a quarter million 5 Things voter cards that are being distributed across the country. This year many voters will find some things different at their polling place, and these changes will make some of them feel like first-time voters. The League's 5 Things gives long-time and first-time voters the information they need to look out for themselves and their votes on Election Day.
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Thomas McGuane, an acclaimed American novelist, wrote a superb collection of fishing essays collected into a book entitled The Longest Silence, published in 1999 and reprinted since. In the beginning essay, a line reminded me — emphatically I might add — of my home river.
McGuane quoted a man who once told him about dumb fast-water trout as opposed to smart slow-water ones, describing my home river perfectly. In short, anyone can catch salmonids in this river's rushing rapids, but it took advanced skills to fool salmonids in slower currents with a flat, picture-window meniscus, so typical on flat-surfaced glides and pools.
I grew up on this small, classic, dry-fly river with wild brown trout, hatchery brook trout and the occasional small landlocked salmon. The browns and brookies liked a long, pocket-water stretch that rushed and tumbled from a pond above to a densely wooded bottomland, where the river flattened into long, gravel-bottomed glides that smiled up evenly at the sun.
Browns and occasional brookies liked this bottomland, and to catch them in such flat pools during hatches with dead-drift bugs required perfect, drag-free floats. If a fly had a subtle drag — even a barely perceptible drag — rising browns and brookies would ignore the offering. Often, it would frighten them enough to stop sipping bugs, and they'd go hide.
In springs during my teens and early 20s, I learned the intricacies of dry-fly fishing on this home river but back then, never appreciated this water. It bothered me to grow up in Windsor instead of in a more storied spot like the Rangeley region, Ripogenus stretch of the Penobscot's West Branch or other storied Maine spots.
Years later, I would recognize that I had grown up on one of this state's most classic fly-fishing rivers with wild browns. Across the world, when people talk trout fishing in world-renown places, they mean "browns." Hell, brook trout aren't even trout — they're char.
Fortune smiled on me, when life put me near this classic river that taught me plenty. I've sold articles to most of the big national, fly-fishing magazines and have my home river to thank. It didn't hurt to be able to offer brown-trout as the quarry with a smattering of brookie anecdotes for purists.
One recent year, just below a dam on the pond above, I had a fast evening of June brook-trout fishing with small dry flies on glides below fast water boiling from the dam. The evening also offered me two 16-inch, wild landlocks that fought like demons against a 4-weight rod. Wild fish do fight harder than hatchery pets, but I wouldn't debate that claim with anyone.
The following evening, John Diffenbacher-Krall accompanied me to the same spot, and we cast dry flies and emergers — a fast time casting to hatchery brook trout. They were fun all right — but not wild or native. John grew up fishing Catskill rivers with utra-wary trout and liked my home river.
John lives in the Bangor area and called me this spring, and naturally, it took us no time to remember that special evening the last time we met. Good times while fishing stick in the mind.
That spring, Heather, my oldest daughter, fly-fished with me on the same glides just below the pond and did well, too, pleasing me big time.
I've said this here before, but in case you missed it. When I graduated from college, I missed my graduation ceremony, because of fishing on that very stretch of river. With trout dimpling the glides everywhere, it was impossible for me to leave.
When Heather graduated from college, she didn't skip that big day, but she did accompany me on that river right after her graduation, completing a family circle that felt special to me, fishing that same stretch of river after our last day as undergraduates. It showed one stage in life had passed, but it offered promises of what was to come.
My mother was less understanding about me missing the big day. Catching browns and brookies on dry flies rather than standing in line to get a diploma infuriated her. But what fly rodder would begrudge me?
That's May and June in Maine, though. Fishing hits a crescendo that continues into July and August for salmonid trollers, northern Maine brookie ponds, and rivers and large streams that have micro-hatches such as blue-winged olives and tiny light Cahills.
My home river has Tricorythodes, which in my humble opinion are uncommon in Maine — and fun to fish over.
This weekend, before the big summer holiday marks the end of fast May and June salmonid fishing for lots of Maine anglers, serious fishers turn their thoughts to black bass, striped bass, mackerel and maybe blues.
However, veteran anglers know the truth: Salmonid action can continue with micro-patterns, deep-trolling gear or trips north.
If tiny flies intimidate folks salt water and bass ponds and rivers provide sport until waters cool in September and trout and salmon fishing picks up.
That's what's so grand about Maine — something going on every month for outdoors types looking for exercise and sport.
Ken Allen, of Belgrade Lakes, a writer, editor and photographer, may be reached at [email protected]
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Carina Damm has been suspended for a drug-related allegation for the second time in her career.
Damm, the sister of UFC fighter Rodrigo Damm, was suspended for allegedly submitting a fake urine sample for her drug test related to her fight against Jessica Eye. The bout was part of the NAAFS show on June 1 in Cleveland.
Ohio Athletic Commission Executive Director Bernie Profato confirmed the news to MMAWeekly.com on Saturday. It was first reported by MMAFighting.com.
Damm was suspended for six months and fined $550, but she is still entitled to a hearing, initially set for Aug. 13, if she chooses to appeal, according to Profato.
"She was observed by another female, but it is difficult to actually physically watch the person go in the cup," Profato told MMAWeekly.com.
"The cup she handed the person – who then immediately handed it a doctor waiting outside the room – was what was tested and the lab confirmed it was not urine."
Damm tested positive for nandrolone, an anabolic steroid, following her second-round submission of Sofia Bagherdai at Fatal Femmes Fighting 4 in California in 2008. The California State Athletic Commission suspended her for one year and fined her $2,500.
Damm lost a unanimous decision to Eye at the June 1 NAAFS event, but fought again just two weeks later in Brazil, winning via first-round TKO stoppage in 49 seconds. Damm's professional record currently stands at 18-9, but she is just 1-3 in her last four bouts.
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U.S. job growth likely picked up enough in February to encourage the Federal Reserve to continue to scale back its monetary stimulus, although the gain is likely to be tepid given the unrelentingly harsh winter weather.
Employers probably added 150,000 workers to their payrolls last month, according to a Reuters poll of economists, up from the similarly weather-depressed levels of 113,000 in January and 75,000 in December.
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An unusual amount of uncertainty surrounds the forecast, however, given that winter storms pummeled densely populated areas with snow and ice during the week employers were surveyed. Estimates range from a low of 95,000 to a high of 235,000.
"We cannot remember another year when inclement weather persisted for three consecutive payroll periods," said Peter D'Antonio, an economist at Citigroup in New York.
"Although there were normal temperatures during the February survey week, the polar vortex that froze much of the East during the period between surveys probably limited hiring activity."
Unusually cold temperatures have gripped much of the country since December and been blamed for a sharp decrease in hiring.
Nonfarm payrolls averaged about 205,000 jobs per month in the first 11 months of in 2013. For December and January, that figure dropped to just 94,000.
Economists estimate the weather could depress February payrolls by between 25,000 and 50,000 jobs.
The Fed, which is dialing back the amount of money it is injecting into the economy through monthly bond purchases, has viewed the weakness as largely weather-related and temporary.
Most economists agree.
"Other economic data gives us the sense that underneath the snow and ice there is a current of economic momentum and once we get through the weather effects we will see some bounce-back," said Robert Dye, chief economist at Comerica in Dallas.
"My expectation is that we see a number above 120,000 and the Fed interprets it as sufficient to continue with reductions to its monthly bond purchases."
Data on consumer and construction spending, and new weekly filings for unemployment benefits suggest resilience in the economy. A measure of hiring by small businesses hit a six-year high in January.
In addition, factor activity shows signs of regaining some of the strength sapped by severe weather in December and January.
The Labor Department will release the monthly jobs report, which is closely watched by financial markets around the globe, on Friday at 8:30 a.m..
The unemployment rate is forecast holding steady at a five-year low of 6.6 percent in February.
There is, however, a chance of a decline as some of the more than one million long-term unemployed who lost jobless benefits stop their job hunts. This means they would no longer be considered as unemployed and in the labor market.
All the job gains in February were most likely in the private sector. Government payrolls are expected to have dropped, but not as steeply as January's 29,000 jobs decline.
Manufacturing employment is expected to rise for a seventh straight month, though the pace of hiring probably slowed from the 21,000 jobs added in January.
Construction payrolls, which surprised in January by logging their biggest one-month gain in nearly eight years, are expected to have declined last month because of bad weather.
Some economists point to the strong gains in manufacturing and construction in January as an indication that weather is not behind the cooling in hiring.
A rebound is expected in education and health services employment after two straight months of declines. This sector is normally associated with solid job gains.
Average hourly earnings probably rose 0.2 percent after rising by the same margin in January. The length of the workweek likely held steady at an average of 34.4 hours, but severe weather could have reduced hours for some workers.
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EQUIP CORN HERBICIDE — the most recent addition to the Bayer CropScience corn herbicide portfolio — received U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approval in time for use during the 2003 growing season.
Equip is a broad-spectrum herbicide that controls grasses such as foxtail, johnsongrass and shattercane. It also controls broadleaf weeds such as cocklebur, lambsquarter, morningglory, ragweed, sunflower and velvetleaf.
Greg Perrigo, Equip marketing manager, said, "Equip is a herbicide that provides the most complete weed control of any conventional, postemergence herbicide for corn, resulting in cleaner fields with less effort."
One of the active ingredients of Equip is foramsulfuron — the same active ingredient found in Option corn herbicide. But, Perrigo said, Equip also contains iodosulfuron, a new proprietary herbicide for broadleaf control that also has targeted residual for continued control of small-seeded broadleaves such as lambsquarter, pigweed and smartweed.
The preferred adjuvant system for Equip is MSO + UAN (28-32 percent) or AMS. The Equip formulation also contains a unique safener that allows tank-mixing opportunities not often found with other herbicides. For example, applicators may choose to tank-mix Equip with another herbicide for more residual grass control. The safener allows tank-mixing Equip, MSO + nitrogen and herbicides such as Marksman.
Growers and applicators should refer to the product label for a complete listing of tank-mix partners.
Perrigo said the introduction of Equip reinforces the dedication of Bayer CropScience to delivering viable, effective and economic weed control options. "We recognize that growers sometimes feel their choices are limited when it comes to making weed control decisions. But with the introduction of two new postemergence herbicides in two years, we hope growers will see that Bayer CropScience is dedicated to developing new products to meet the needs of their farming operations," he added.


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Balancing Security and Agility
Main Story: Security, Reconsidered
WESTERMAN: We hear that, and I actually believed for a long time that if we put more process, governance and standards in place, we actually would hurt the agility of the company. But more and more research that my CISR [MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research] colleagues and I have been doing shows you can actually have standards, processes and agility. You don't want to be too Draconian, but if we have a good solid foundation, a very well built architecture, and a streamlined yet tight governance process, you can actually have both security and agility. But typically, when you put a risk governance process in place, it tends to be much more difficult before it gets better. It takes a while to work out.
So realistically, expect it will slow you down until you learn to do it better.
Absolutely. And then make sure you are continually improving that process. The idea is to give people good standards to live by, good policies to follow, and then allow them to do their thing as long as they're following those standards and policies. That allows them to be agile while living within a reasonable set of rules. For example, when PFPC, a financial services transaction-processing firm based out of Delaware, first put their risk governance process in place, they identified 300 supposedly major risks. That wasn't useful at all because 300 risks are so many it's hard to keep track. It turned out they had a lot of inconsistency. Two out of seven people involved in the process had identified two-thirds of the risks. The others may have identified not enough risks. So they boiled it down to 30 risks. They started understanding, what does it mean to be a high risk, what does it mean to be something you would report to corporate as opposed to keeping it in your own area, how do we report risks in a consistent way. They got down to 18 or 19 relatively high-importance risks. Now, that's a manageable number; when the CIO goes to the enterprise risk committee meetings, he's got a small number of things he wants to talk about.
Another example of a good risk governance process is [European telecom company] TeliaSonera. They have a really nice process for doing internal security audits on new projects and existing applications. They have tried to make it very much a partnership between IT and business. They identify issues, and work out who will take care of them. Then they come back later to see whether the issues have been addressed. Because they work in partnership--IT does some parts, the business units do other parts--it's non-threatening. It's very much, let's manage the risk in this organization, as opposed to, let's find all the mistakes you've made. This partnership has made the reviews easier because people feel less threatened. The head of security said when we come back these risks have all usually been handled; we almost never have to come back and tell them twice because of the partnership model they've developed.
The last bit I've heard that's really interesting is using the internal IT auditor center at the beginning of the systems development process. In many cases internal auditors tend to function almost as an afterthought--they come in afterward to just kind of bless the system. But more and more CIOs I've been talking to say the best thing they've started to do is put their internal auditors into the initial meetings of a new application development project. The auditors help them avoid issues right up front, so when it comes time for a different auditor to sign off on the system later, the problems aren't there.
So, yes, people are learning to balance security and agility well, although we don't always hear about it. But many people are still struggling to figure out how to make business aware of security issues and talk about risk issues in a holistic way, so businesspeople can make the right investments.
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Anyone happen to know where May went? One minute, it's all finals and graduation parties; the next, it's … well, June. And the unshakeable feeling that summer is already over …
It happens every time.
At least knitting is going according to plan. This is Veera's lovely Color Affection shawl in three shades of malabrigo lace: natural, polar morn, and apple green. So far, it's fluffy soft and light as a feather … though a bit tangly, keeping all those fuzzy strands in order.
The rows have gotten long, but that's okay. It's summertime in Nashville, so there's no hurry … though I have to say, my giant Leaves of Grass is an ideal café companion: it's basically a blanket, perfect for wrapping up against overzealous air-conditioning.
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By Thomas Haller and Chick Moorman
Reading is the fundamental skill at the base of all learning. It is simply a confirmed fact that students with strong reading skills tend to do better in school than those with less developed reading skills.
Most parents want to raise a confident and competent reader. Yet, they are often unsure of what to do. In the remainder of this article we will explore some important dos and donts that will give you some guidelines as you move towards the important goal of raising a reader.
Do begin reading aloud to your children at an early age. This technique is vital to cultivating a love of reading in youngsters. Start early and continue this process into adolescence and beyond.
Do read to your children everyday. Research indicates that 40% of parents do not read regularly to their children. The bare minimum a child should be read to is 20 minutes per day, every day. READ,READ, READ! Read to your children while they are eating breakfast, while they riding in the car (if youre a passenger too), while they are waiting at the doctors office, when they are in the bath tub, and before they go to bed.
Do read the same book over and over. Children love hearing the same book read again and again. They will let you know when they have obtained everything from a story that they need and are ready to move on. The repetition helps them to fully grasp the meaning in the story and become familiar with the book, its language, and the illustrations. Eventually they will begin to draw connections to the words on the page and start to follow the print as you read.
In this repetition your children are learning about the process of writing. They begin to understand how words fit together to make sentences, how sentences turn into paragraphs, and how paragraphs become chapters. They anticipate what is going to happen next and learn the beginning, middle, and end parts of a story. The more comfortable they become with a story the more they develop a sense of independence with it and see that reading is something they can do themselves.
Dont force your child to listen to you read if she is not interested. Forcing a child to do anything builds resentment, anger and defiance. The last thing you want is for your child to resent reading and be angry about reading.
Do limit access to the electronic devices in your home. Unfortunately, electronic devices are slowly taking the place of parents spending time with their children. Its not new information that children in America now spend, on average, 6 ½ hours a day exposed to electronic media. That includes TV, computers, listening to music and playing video games.
It is time for parents to pull the plug on the electronic media and put the human touch back into the parenting equation. Pulling that plug will create time and space for your children to read.
Do get your children a library card. The more exposure children have to books the better.
Dont bribe your child into reading with rewards, contests, or stickers. Motivation to read needs to come from the inside, not from the outside. No one would ever consider offering a reward to the child who watched the most television or played a video came the longest. Children do those things naturally because they enjoy them.
The goal then is to set reading up to be enjoyable. If your child is not interested in reading, ask yourself a few questions: Why is she frustrated? Is it because the material is boring or not interesting to her? Does she not like reading because I correct her too much? Is the book not colorful or attractive enough? Would she rather be reading from a pop up book or a childrens magazine?
Your child will learn best when she is feeling support and encouragement, not when she is threatened or bribed.
Dont use flash cards to teach your child words. A word only has meaning in context. Your childs ability to identify a single word on a card does not mean that he will recognize that word and be able to read it in a sentence. The process of recognizing an isolated word is actually the opposite of learning to recognize it in context. Your child will begin to recognize an isolated word after he has seen and practiced it many, many times in a meaningful sentence. Dont force that process with flash cards.
Do label everyday items around the house with word cards. Type in big bold letters objects in your home and stick the label on the object. Label the door, television, window, microwave, clock, toaster, stairs, bookshelf, table, chair, etc. The word is now in context. You need not ever mention the label. Your child will say something to you and when he does you explain that the label is the written form of the word for that item. Your child will draw the connection later.
Do write down your childrens words and read them back to them. Write down what your child tells you about an exciting part of her day or about a picture they drew or a bug they found. Dont edit their words. Write what they say exactly as they say it. Remember the process is more important than the product. You child is learning about the process of reading and writing. It gives children a concept of how words are used and where stories come from.
Writing down your childs words also gives value to what she says. For children to see their words in print and hear their own words read aloud is empowering and it helps to give them a strong sense of what they can do with their words.
Dont encourage your child to sound out unknown words. The meaning of a word in the context in which it is being used is far more important to the reading process than the specific sounds. The English language is far too difficult to accurately understand a word by sounding it out. To insist on making sure your child has pronounced the word correctly can make reading a tiresome, boring process. Sounding out words takes the fun and joy out of reading. Your children will learn how to pronounce words as you talk to them and use a richer fuller vocabulary with them on a daily basis. This will translate to their reading with they are having fun reading.
Instead of sounding out words encourage your child to guess at what the word might be. Teach your child how to recognize clues by looking at the pictures or thinking about the rest of the sentence or paragraph. Ask leading questions like, What word might fit in that spot? or This word starts with a k, what k word could you use here?
Do allow finger pointing when your child is reading. Finger pointing is a common practice when someone is unfamiliar with what they are reading. Following along with your finger enables you to have a sense of control over the material. This is true for adults and children alike. Let your children gain confidence in their reading and if the finger pointing does not distract from the enjoyment then let it be. Your children will give up following the words with their fingers when their confidence level rises.
Do let your children see you reading. Let your children catch you reading a novel, the newspaper, and a magazine. Read some of it to them so they get an idea of what interests you. Dont expect your children to be actively involved in reading if they never have an opportunity to see you reading. When your children see you reading they see that reading is meaningful and that it has a purpose for adults. It communicates that reading is not just about a grade at school. It says that reading has purpose in your life too.
Reading is so important to your childs educational development that March has been deemed National Reading Month. During the month of March take new or improved steps to raising a confident reader. Begin by letting your children see you reading this article. Then broaden your childrens reading horizons the rest of the year by using the ideas presented here. The result will be children that love to read.
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Sunday, April 8, 2012
Easter Week Recap
Recap of this week: there were some triumphs and some weaknesses. What I am most proud of is that I stuck to my exercise plan even when I was extremely tired and didn't feel like it. I pushed through and *made* myself exercise, with the goal of making it a habit that will not be broken. I walked about 9 miles this week, biked 100 minutes, and did my physical therapy exercises on two days. I did an exhausting hour of fast-moving agility and several more hours of slower training with my pup. I was also more active in general, making sure I was moving a good part of the time. This was, by far, my most active week in a year and a half.
By yesterday my body was hurting pretty badly... mainly my feet, but also shin splints. Plantar fasciitis has returned and makes it very painful to walk. I limp a lot when I first get up. I am taking something for the pain and resting today. Honestly I am not sure I can continue with the walking if this pain doesn't let up. I might cut back to 1/2 - 1 mile a day max and increase the biking to 25 minutes/day this week. It is frustrating to have pain limit what I can do.
Another triumph this week is that I finally have weaned myself off all sweeteners in my coffee! This is a huge deal to me. Just a few weeks ago I thought I could never do it. I have always hated black coffee. But I like to sit down and have a cup in the morning. I enjoy the smell of coffee even more than the flavor. But over the last couple weeks, I slowly cut back the Splenda in my coffee and now I don't need *any*! I still use a tablespoon of half and half in my coffee, but I am also going to try and cut that back as well until I like it black. One side effect of drinking non-sweet coffee is I crave it less. I don't want 3 or 4 cups a day. I have my one cup in the morning and maybe another later in the day, and that's it. I like the fact that I am training my taste buds away from sweet drinks completely, and eventually I want to be artificial sweetener FREE.
My eating this week wasn't as good as last week. I did eat fewer grains/wheat/gluten this week but had some sugar (which is probably a contributing factor to my pain). I am not terribly pleased with my nutritional choices this past week (not enough veggies but lots of fruit, too many nuts, too many processed foods and not enough protein). I would estimate I ate 1700 calories a day on average.
I would expect to see a loss, even a small one, for the increased activity and fairly reasonable eating but the scale is up 2 pounds from last Sunday. It's one of those moments when you get on the scale and think, "I am in all this pain from pushing myself to exercise. And for what?" But I had to answer myself, "For my health." Because the exercise has to stay and be part of my life whether I am thin or fat, eating perfectly or horribly, losing or gaining. I cannot let the scale dictate whether I stay active or not; I am just staying active. So for the coming week, I will stop winging it with the eyeballing and counting calories in my head. Even though I *think* I am pretty accurate, I may not be. Plus, just the act of keeping a true tally in writing seems to curb my eating a bit.
Time for our Easter egg hunt in the yard! Bye for now!
24 comments:
- Lindsey said...
Lyn, I feel that you need to be careful about pushing your body to exercise. Yes, you do need to exercise, but if it causes pain, you might want to eliminate walking for now. I walked a bunch in bad shoes (have you checked your lately) and that is what exacerbated by plantaar fasciitis. Now, I am so careful to wear good footwear at all times, rarely go barefoot (Dansko clogs help a ton). But you should listen to what your body is telling you. Your body is telling you that it hurts to do what you are doing. Shouldn't you respect that? You might have to swim or something that doesn't use foot impact. Then introduce walking a little at a time. Five minutes even. Don't ignore your body's signals.
- April 8, 2012 at 1:16 PM
- Elaine said...
Sorry about the weight gain, Lynn, but you're in the process of searching for balance, something you can live with, and I know you'll get there.
A question about the plantar fasciitis: do you have PT / stretches that you do for it? i have had painful feet for a few years and I think it's plantar fasciitis (never bothered to get diagnosed but I have all the symptoms) and when I am really consistent about doing yoga or some plantar fasciitis exercises I found online, the pain doesn't get in my way.
- April 8, 2012 at 1:38 PM
- MargieAnne said...
Lyn you did have a good week and you are having fun with your children.
Cutting out sweetener in your coffee is Big. I drink black coffee unsweetened and milky coffee with sugar. I hope you find you like black unsweetened coffee. The smell is heavenly.
Have you considered that the pain from exercise might be causing your muscles to retain water? I think there is something about pain that makes it hard for the body to let go weight initially at least.
I do hope you see reward on th scales soon and also that the pain eases. I think you are wise to tweak your exercise plan until tour feet are happier.
Wishing you a continuing Happy Easter.
- April 8, 2012 at 1:42 PM
I feel your pain.....both in the feet and on the scale. My feet are completely flat and extremely thin (hilarious to have my feet be the only thin thing on my body!) and have hurt ever since childhood. I love to swim, and that form of exercise sure is easier on feet and legs. I don't know if you have access to a pool or even like the water but it can be a really great exercise that is easy on the joints.
The weight gain hurts almost as badly, I know. All of us have had that happen when we feel we are being healthy and careful. Unfortunately, that kind of weigh in always triggers binge eating for me, so I don't weigh more than once a month. I know there is a danger in that too, but I guess for me it is a better plan.
I'm happy that you have had a wonderful Easter and feel good emotionally! Good luck this week. I know you will be successful!!!
- April 8, 2012 at 1:45 PM
- Jane said...
Sounds like you had a great week Lyn! Congrats on no sweetener in your coffee and all the activity! I hope you have a great rest of the day with your family!
- April 8, 2012 at 2:03 PM
- Lyn said...
I am always torn between backing off/resting and pushing through. In the past I have always gone the backing off route, and I do heal up but it is so hard to get back into exercise when I always end up hurting. I will try to not push it too hard, though. I wear Crocs and they help my feet feel better.
I used to do the stretches but stopped, since I haven't had plantar fasciitis in a long time. Guess I will start those back up!
re: swimming~
I don't have access to a pool at all year-round, and only limited access in the summer months.
- April 8, 2012 at 2:52 PM
- debby said...
Hi Lynn,
I'm sure you don't need a lecture on plantar fasciitis. You have a computer and know how to google LOL. I'll just say that I had it and it is so painful I thought my heels were broken, so I sympathize. Backing off of walking is sometimes recommended. It seems there are different recommendations for different people (I was a nurse and saw a lot of women with it.) For me what worked best was remembering to keep my feet flexed when I slept (I usually kept my feet in 'ballet' position. I had read where splints at night might work "Wear night splints. Night splints gently stretch the plantar fascia ligament and Achilles tendon and keep them from getting tight during the night." So I tried to imitate that (it was when I wouldn't go to the doctor for anything.) My BF also had it and she got special inserts for her shoes and went to physical therapy and did stretching exercises. I hope you get some relief, because it is miserable.
- April 8, 2012 at 3:40 PM
From "Anonymous Fat Guy" --
(Since you have so many "Anonymous" comments here, I think I will start referring to myself as "Anonymous Fat Guy.")
Lyn, please don't be offended by anything that I say below, because I'm just thinking about how my own experiences of yo-yo dieting may be similar to yours, and I'm reflecting mostly on what I've learned about myself and my own diet efforts. What I say may not apply at all to you, but here goes:
It is physically impossible for me to burn enough calories through exercise to make up for all the calories I can eat by binges. If I'm going to lose weight, I have to limit my eating. Period.
Everybody is different. We are different in our metabolism, age, gender, activity level, food sensitivities, gut bacteria, and more. Any diet that is supposed to work for everybody is absurd on the face of it. There is no point in me blindly following any diet, if it doesn't work for me, whether it's low-carb, or low calorie, or 800 calories per day, or packaged meals. It doesn't matter if it's endorsed by my doctor, or the FDA, or Big MegaFood Corp, if it doesn't work for me, then I need to drop it.
This is a big deal, because some people put a lot of faith in food labels and their nutrition "facts." Don't do that. Lab tests on commercial foods have shown that actual calorie counts and nutrient content are often very different from the printed labels.
If I think that a 1500-calorie diet is what I need, and if I base my diet on finding foods totaling 1500 calories, I may be wrong on both scores. Maybe my sedentary body actually needs only 1000 calories, and maybe the foods I'm eating actually contain 2000 calories. That's a big difference, I need to cut back until I'm losing weight, regardless of what all the charts and printed labels say.
So, I probably need to throw away my collection of hundreds of diet books. (Don't all fat folks have enough diet books to fill a library?) And I need to give up my pre-conceived notions about "healthy" foods. If locally grown organic wheat grass from a hippie commune doesn't work for me, and if Diet Coke with aspartame does work, then I should drink the Diet Coke.
So, instead of following any rules, here is my simple three-word summary:
So, Lyn, here's my only bit of advice that is actually directed at you:
Since what you've been doing hasn't been working recently. STOP.
STOP ALL THE CALORIE COUNTING AND ATTENTION TO ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL DIETS! Find something that does work for you.
I've had to give up all my phobias about aspartame and other food additives, and I'm accepting artificial sweeteners and mysterious additives in my diet green tea, my sugar-free popsicles, even Diet Coke, as long as they work for me.
- April 8, 2012 at 3:48 PM
Lyn, you need walking shoes that have some support. I can wear Crocs around the house but if I walk a mile in them, my feet will hurt a lot the next day.
- April 8, 2012 at 4:00 PM
- Lyn said...
Anonymous Fat Guy~
you have some good points, except calorie counting worked for me for a long time. That's how I lost the first 50+ pounds. I haven't done it strictly since going off MF. I am basically trying to tweak as I go to find what does work for me, and if it's not calorie counting, I will keep tweaking. I agree one size doesn't fit all.
I don't walk in my Crocs, I wear them around the house for support. they make my feet feel SO much better, especially when I first get up in the morning and am hurting. I have athletic shoes for long walks and wear them for agility and running errands. I probably do need a new pair though, so thanks for the reminder.
- April 8, 2012 at 4:29 PM
- Steelers6 said...
Good job on backing off the sweeteners in coffee.
Happy Easter.
- April 8, 2012 at 4:58 PM
- Shelley said...
Nice work getting off the chemicals!
Glad you had a great Easter, and I sure hope your PF stops hurting soon!
- April 8, 2012 at 5:59 PM
- Lyn said...
hey, that reminds me, I had one of those splints to sleep in a couple years ago! It was big and heavy and uncomfortable but it helped. Funny they'd only give me one splint, so I had to switch feet every other night. I will see if it's still around here somewhere.
- April 8, 2012 at 6:12 PM
- timothy said...
i agree you need to check your shoes and there's a difference from working through small aches and pains and ignoring warning signs of serious injury from your body. only you can know where you're at with that just pay attention to YOU! congrats on getting off the sweetners for me it's caffein right now i'm way down and only drinking a bit each day to keep from getting that caffeine headache which is excruciating. eventually i'll wean myself, mayhaps in may on my vaca when i dont actually have to do anything.
- April 8, 2012 at 10:51 PM
- Jennifer McNeely said...
I had PF for almost a year before I tried acupuncture, was gone in 2 sessions!
- April 9, 2012 at 6:22 AM
- Jennifer McNeely said...
Also! Do you have good shoes? Support makes a huge difference, worth the effort to go to the running store and get fitted for the right shoe, even if you are walking.
- April 9, 2012 at 6:23 AM
- donner said...
Hey Lyn- eat lots of those hard boiled egg whites this week...great protein and great for your health!
- April 9, 2012 at 7:04 AM
Be patient Lyn! I have been watching my calories, basically following the South Beach diet model, and added exercise. For the first three weeks of exercise, the scale did not budge and even went up a bit - Arg! But finally, it is moving in the right direction and I finally broke under the 200 pound mark at 199! Thank the Lord!!!
You can do it - just hang in there!
- April 9, 2012 at 7:47 AM
@Anonymous Fat guy:
I think I love you. LOL. No. Seriously. :)
"The only things that matter are results." Yep. Brilliant.
--Anonymous Fat Gal
- April 9, 2012 at 8:16 AM
- Amy said...
Maybe try replace some of your cardio sessions with some weight training. Did you know it is much more effective at elevating your metabolism and keeps it elevated for much longer than cardio? And, lean muscle mass burns fat just by being on your body. Just a thought.
Sorry for your frustration, it's much harder to lose weight when your body fat % is lower, and don't forget you ARE still lower than where you started!
- April 9, 2012 at 10:24 AM
Anonymous fat guy makes a good point. Exercise alone is not great for weight loss. It is great for cardiovascular health, stress, a bajillion other things but not weight loss. And if extra weight is causing you pain, exercise will probably cause you more pain, at least at first. Whether the increase in, say, lung capacity offsets that is a call only you can make. In the long run exercise is absolutely good for your health but whether it is good in the short term, and good for you psychologically, is another story.
Also, a new exercise routine can lead to microtears in muscle which leads to water retention aka inflammation aka water weight.
I will also say that at one point, I was working out 6-7 days a week at nothing lower than moderate intensity under the guidance of a trainer, and I did not lose a single pound while eating 1600 calories a day. I lost fat, I put on muscle, I looked better and my clothes were looser within just a few weeks. But if my goal were to get pressure off my joints from extra weight then it would have been a failed experiment. As it worked out, that extra muscle has served me well, but again it's all a trade off.
- April 9, 2012 at 10:55 AM
- Christina said...
I came across one of your recipes on pintrest and started poking around your blog. Just a quick note about the plantar fascitis: have you seen a podiatrist of it? They will mostly likely recommend some custom made orthotic insoles, which can be pricey, but they do help heel pain. Or some shoes with really good arch support can do wonders. Keep up the good work! I've started doing low carb and have already seen some results after two weeks. You make me want to keep going!
- April 9, 2012 at 11:41 AM
I guess I'll be the one dissenter and say that moving to less of a shoe instead of more might help you. I had crippling knee/hip/back pain until I started working out in Vibram 5 fingers. Gone, all of it. I can actually run again.
Our feet were made to support us. If they weren't, we would have died out long ago in the evolutionary chain because feet have been around far longer than shoes. I'm not discounting your pain, and I get you have knee issues too, but tons of PTs are getting on board with barefoot training in order to build natural strength movements in one's feet/legs. I hope you find something that works for you, but keep in mind that things like "arch support" i an inherent oxymoron- an arch *is* support, that's why it's an arch :)
- April 9, 2012 at 4:17 PM
- Julia Stambor said...
You should absolutely have your feet professionally evaluated. Maybe you need orthotic insoles, maybe your running shoes have simply worn out and new shoes would be the solution, or perhaps your shoe size has changed- in which case even the best running shoes in your old size would support you in all the wrong places. As for Vibrams or such- from what I read about them they are no good for people who carry a lot of weight and might even worsen your condition. Until you know what´s up w/ your feet, sticking to workouts on your bike sounds like a good idea- that pain means there´s something wrong, after all, and you shouldn´t try to ignore it.
- April 10, 2012 at 7:18 AM


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Annual to subshrub
Leaves generally basal and cauline, alternate, generally simple; stipules 0
Inflorescence: generally raceme
Flower bisexual; sepals 4, free; petals (0)4, free, generally white or yellow, often clawed; stamens generally (2,4)6, generally 4 long, 2 short; ovary 1, superior, chambers generally 2, septum membranous, connecting 2 parietal placentas, style 1, stigma simple or 2-lobed
Fruit: generally capsule ("silique") with 2 deciduous valves, sometimes breaking transversely or indehiscent
Seeds 1many per chamber
Genera in family: 300+ genera, 3000+ species: worldwide, especially cool regions; some cultivated for food (especially Brassica, Raphanus ) and ornamental
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include Capparaceae [Rodman et al. 1993 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 80:686699; Rollins 1993 Cruciferae of Continental North America. Stanford Univ Press]
Family description, key to genera by Robert A. Price.
Roy E. Buck, Dean W. Taylor, and Arthur R. KruckebergAnnual to perennial herb, glabrous to bristly, generally ± glaucous
Leaves ± entire to pinnately compound; basal generally rosetted, generally ± petioled; cauline linear to (ob)ovate, often clasping
Inflorescence generally ± open; bracts generally 0
Flower biradial or bilateral; calyx generally ± urn-shaped, sepals erect, generally not green, bases ± pouch-like, generally keeled; petals generally exserted, blade generally narrower than claw, ± channeled, margins ± wavy, generally ± scarious; stamens generally in 3 free pairs; style 0 or short, stigma generally ± entire, blunt
Fruit long, generally strongly compressed parallel to septum
Seeds generally compressed, generally ± winged
Species in genus: ± 40 species: sw US, n Mex
Etymology: (Greek: twisted flower, from wavy-margined petals)
Reference: [Dolan & LaPré 1989 Madroño 36:3340; Kruckeberg & Morrison 1983 Madroño 30:230244]
Caulanthus sometimes including here. Calluses on leaf margins of some mimic pierid butterfly eggs, reducing larval herbivory. Variable, complex; needs study.
S. tortuosus Kellogg
MOUNTAIN JEWELFLOWERAnnual to subshrub 110 dm, simple or branched
Leaves: basal generally oblong to widely ovate, generally toothed above middle, coarse, petiole winged; cauline generally round to oblong, entire to dentate, upper often larger, generally narrower
Inflorescence: bract generally 1, ovate, entire
Flower: sepals purple, gray-green, or yellowish; petals widely linear, purple to yellow, tips reflexed; filaments exserted, free, upper pair with ± unreduced, ± fertile anthers; stigma ± sessile, lobes weak
Fruit generally reflexed, 812 cm, curved
Chromosomes: 2n=28
Ecology: Generally rocky to sandy soils, in open coniferous forest
Elevation: 2003500 m.
Bioregional distribution: Klamath Ranges, North Coast Ranges, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, n San Francisco Bay Area, Outer South Coast Ranges
Distribution outside California: sw Oregon
Variable, needs study; vars. intergrade. Plants with lanceolate leaves from KR (Burnt Ranch, Trinity Co.) undescribed.
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NEW MILFORD -- On Monday, farmer Dean Schultz finished planting corn seeds that will eventually grow and be landscaped into a haunted corn maze.
Since it opened in 2000, the Larson's Farm Market corn maze has become a local tradition.
The corn maze may also be an integral part of saving Schultz's livelihood. He is hoping he can use agritourism, or bringing visitors to the farm, to sustain the business originally started by his grandfather.
Schultz sells sweet corn to a local farmers market and is getting ready to open his own produce stand in a couple of weeks, but his main focus is expanding the agritourism part of the business.
He plans to have two mazes next year and perhaps start a garden where people can pick their own produce.
Schultz tried to start a community supported agriculture program, commonly referred to as a CSA, at the beginning of the season to bring in income. In a CSA, community members buy shares of the crops before the season starts. In return, they are given part of the yield every week during the growing season.
Initial interest was strong, Schultz said. More than 300 people inquired about joining.
"But when it came time to sign on the dotted line, we didn't get enough of a response," Schultz said. Only 40 people made a commitment, so Schultz has had to scrap the CSA idea for now.
"I don't see how anyone could survive on crop sales alone," said Stephen Paproski, who owns the 100-acre Castle Hill Farm in Newtown. "A third of our income comes from agritourism."
Agritourism has been growing for the last 10 years and has become more popular in the past five years, said Jane Eckert, the president of St. Louis-based Eckert Agrimarketing.
Agritourism can include all types of activities, from pick-your-own crops to hunting, Eckert said.
"When people step into our personal properties, they're willing to pay for the experience," Eckert said. "There is a growing category of people who have their weddings or large group picnics on farms. Farms have large spaces that can accommodate large numbers of people."
Castle Hill Farm has a maze, a hay ride, a pumpkin patch and bonfires in the fall. Paproski is a third-generation farmer, but the first who has had to turn to agritourism to survive.
Schultz is also a third-generation farmer. His grandfather owned Larson's Farm, where New Milford High School was built. Schultz now leases land because it is too expensive to buy. He used to farm the cornfields on Junction Road in Brookfield, until that property was sold to the Steiner family for development.
He is hesitant to invest too much money in his current farm, out of fear it will be sold as well.
"This is my last shot, but if this piece goes I'm done for sure," Schultz said.
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