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President Barack Obama's second inaugural address was the most liberal speech he has delivered as president — a blunt summons to wage war on poverty, defend entitlements for the middle class, end "perpetual war" overseas and move past the calibrated progressive agenda of his first term.
Gone were the pleas for bipartisanship of his first inaugural, vaporized by years of partisan battle and Obama's own sense of a new mandate — achieving bipartisan results through force, not conciliation.
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Absent, too, were calls for a "balanced approach" to the deficit, the grist of his 2012 campaign speeches, replaced by a naked appeal for the country to forcefully address economic inequality for the sake of its future strength, a theme that strongly echoed John F. Kennedy's 1961 inaugural address.
"We must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice — not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of [our] principles," Obama said, addressing, as Kennedy did, his foes both domestic and foreign.
Obama wanted Monday's speech, which was mostly finished by the weekend, to bookend with the landmark 2004 address he gave at the Democratic National Convention, his aides said.
( See also: Obama inaugural address (full text, video))
But if that speech, which established Obama as a national player, was plaintive ("People don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life."), this one was overtly confrontational.
In a challenge to the GOP, Obama mentioned the country's $16.4 trillion debt load once and then, only to announce his stalwart opposition to slashing Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
"We must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit," said Obama, who viewed Monday's address as an introductory passage to the more policy-specific State of the Union in a few weeks.
"But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future. For we remember the lessons of our past, when twilight years were spent in poverty, and parents of a child with a disability had nowhere to turn. We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky or happiness for the few. We recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us at any time may face a job loss or a sudden illness or a home swept away in a terrible storm."
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He discussed his support for gay rights in detail — which he dodged in previous speeches — but omitted his recent call for sweeping gun-control measures, leaving that, presumably, for his State of the Union address in February.
In the short term, the powerful speech — delivered with an unreserved verve not seen much since the 2008 campaign — signals a tough battle ahead on deficit reduction, budget-cutting and entitlement reform for Republicans.


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Zimmerman signs $45 mil. deal with Nats
UVA baseball's most famous alum will continue to play his home games just a couple hours north for the foreseeable future. On Monday April 20, Third baseman Ryan Zimmerman inked a five-year contract worth $45 million that will keep him with the Washington Nationals. While his team has a dismal 2-10 record to start this season, Zimmerman is a bright spot for Nats fans, batting .273 with two home runs and 10 RBI.
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Glad for Zim!! I'm sure this is more his agent's doing, the guy just wants to play baseball. He is a great player to watch, and I admire his loyalty considering his contemporaries in the MLB who sell out on a regular basis. I do hope he gives back to his old team, the UVa baseball team deserves the support! GO HOOS!


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MEMPHIS – Memphis Goodwill Industries, Inc., a non-profit agency, will pay $105,000 to settle a race discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged in its suit (No. 2:08-cv-02621-BBD-cgc, filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee) that Memphis Goodwill fired a transportation director in retaliation for reporting alleged race discrimination and because of her race, black.
In addition, the EEOC's suit alleged that the vice president of operations chastised a group of African Americans by stating, "This is not the ghetto." When the former transportation director complained to the vice president of operations, she received her first written reprimand from him within days and after receiving a second write-up less than 30 days later she was fired. After her termination, the EEOC said, a white male was hired as manager of transportation.
Under the terms of the two-year settlement agreement resolving the suit, signed by U.S. District Judge Bernice Bouie Donald, in addition to the monetary award, Memphis Goodwill agreed to provide employment discrimination training to management personnel at its Memphis facility and to report complaints of discrimination to the EEOC. The company will also purge the former employee's personnel file of negative disciplinary actions and provide her with a reference agreed to by the parties.
Faye A. Williams, EEOC regional attorney in Memphis, said, "It is a serious violation of federal law to discharge an employee based on race. Further, it is simply illegal to fire someone for reporting unlawful discrimination. Employees must be able to complain about practices which they believe violate the law without fear of retribution. We are pleased the parties were able to resolve the case prior to trial."
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WASHINGTON, April 2, 2008 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today announced the availability of risk assessments on the animal health status of Denmark and France. Both countries had an outbreak of the H5N1 subtype of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in poultry in 2006.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Have you been injured in an accident? The stress from contacting that injury lawyer could be tied to a worse recovery, a new study suggests.
People injured in an accident or at work sometimes file for monetary compensation, and according to some studies those who file tend to have worse long-term health than those who do not.
A new survey of Australian accident victims found that claims stress often comes from confusion about the process, delays and related medical assessments. Those who were most stressed by filing a claim tended to have higher levels of disability years later.
Study author David M. Studdert of Stanford University in California said past studies have compared people who filed for compensation to people who did not, but those groups might have different types of injuries to begin with.
Another aspect to consider is that people who file claims have an incentive to exaggerate their symptoms to receive more compensation for longer.
"The novelty of this study was to look within a group of claimants to test whether those who reported experiencing the most stress also had the slowest recoveries," Studdert said. "They did."
He and his colleagues polled a random selection of more than 1,000 patients hospitalized in Australia for injuries between 2004 and 2006. Six years later, 332 of the patients who had filed for workers' compensation or another accident claim told the researchers how stressful the process had been. Claims can take four to five years to conclude, Studdert noted.
A third of the claimants reported high stress from understanding the claims process and another third were stressed by delays in that process. A slightly smaller proportion said repeated medical evaluations and concern for the amount of money they would receive were sources of stress.
Negative attitudes from doctors, friends, family or colleagues, on the other hand, did not seem to be common sources of stress.
People with the most stress tended to score higher on a disability scale and have higher levels of anxiety and depression and lower quality of life, the researchers reported in JAMA Psychiatry.
"While it's intuitive that the compensation process is going to be stressful for some claimants, what is less clear is whether that stress has a substantial impact on recovery many years after the injury," Studdert said. "We were surprised by the size of the compensation effects on outcomes like level of disability and quality of life - they were fairly strong," he told Reuters Health.
When the researchers took into account that some patients seemed to be more vulnerable to stress from the start, the link between claims stress and long-term recovery was similar but not as strong.
"There is much debate at the moment about the role of 'systems,' in this case 'compensation systems' on health outcomes," said Michele Sterling, who studies injuries and rehabilitation at the University of Queensland in Herston, Australia. She was not involved with the current study.
"If it can be established which parts of the process cause stress and/or poor outcomes or recovery then the system could look at targeting these specific areas and improve them," Sterling told Reuters Health. "Some insurance regulators are already trying to do this in some areas."
This study deals with severe injuries that require hospitalization, and her own research focuses on more minor injuries, she noted, but the relationship between stress and health is likely the same, she said.
She has found that posttraumatic stress symptoms predict poor recovery, and that could be worsened by stresses in the claims system, she said.
It is still worthwhile for patients who have sustained a serious injury to file a claim, Studdert said.
"Compensation serves an important function, especially for people who must drop out of the workforce for a period of time," he said. "The financial support can be critical."
"Our study joins many others that show the rate of mental health problems among people who are injured is astonishingly high," he said, adding that medical systems are excellent at treating physical injuries but not as good at treating mental conditions.
"I think the point that needs to be made is that those managing these systems, insurers or workers' compensation boards, or no fault automobile compensation schemes, should realize that they are undermining their own mission of getting workers back on their feet if the process is unnecessarily stressful," said Katherine Lippel, who studies occupational health and safety law at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada and was not involved in the study.
The authors suggest that compensation schemes could be redesigned to get the process over with quicker and make it easier for patients to understand, which could alleviate some sources of stress.
SOURCE: bit.ly/1boZNiZ JAMA Psychiatry, online February 12, 2014.


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Martin Gudgin wrote: > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* David Hull [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] > *Sent:* 14 July 2005 16:32 > *To:* Martin Gudgin > *Cc:* Katy Warr; email@example.com > *Subject:* Re: LC 76 - What makes a msg WS-A? > > Is this really a question of how to support both WSA and old-style > HTTP requests on the same endpoint? > [MJG] I don't know, I didn't ask the original question. > Hmm ... my message was in-reply-to yours, but the question was really aimed more at Katy. Maybe we need BPEL here :-). > > I.e., if I don't see any WSA headers at all, I assume it's an > old-style request and act accordingly, but if I see anything WSA, > I follow the rules in section 3? > [MJG] I guess one could do that... > Well, one should do /something/ to ensure that old-style requests are accepted as such. > > The tricky bit is that, since MAPs like [destination] and [reply > endpoint] can default, a message with no wsa: elements on the wire > could still be assigned values for some of its MAPs, since the > /infoset/ will still have values for the corresponding elements. > [MJG] Which Infoset are you talking about? The XML Infoset has no > such values. > Sorry, I didn't get that quite right. I was going by section 3.2, particularly the descriptions of wsa:To: This OPTIONAL element (whose content is of type xs:anyURI) provides the value for the [destination] property. If this element is NOT present then the value of the [destination] property is "http://www.w3.org/@@@@/@@/addressing/anonymous". (and similarly for wsa:ReplyTo). I initially misread this as stating that the element defaulted, as opposed to the MAP. So s/since the /infoset/ will still have values for the corresponding elements/since the properties are defaulted in the absence of the corresponding elements in the infoset/. This sort of confusion could be seen as an argument against the two-layered approach (or simply as an argument that I read too quickly). In any case, you can't simply look at the abstract properties and say "some WSA properties are defined, so it's a WSA message". > > So either we have to drop down to look at the infoset level, > and in particular at the non-defaulted elements in the infoset, or > we have to find some marker that can't be defaulted away. This is > why the [action] property looks significant here. But on the > other hand, what if I include a wsa:ReplyTo element and no > action? By the "it's WSA iff [action] is present" rule, that's > not a WSA message and therefore not an error. This seems wrong. > [MJG] Why does it seem wrong? > It seems wrong not to fault for a message that contains a wsa:ReplyTo on the wire but not a wsa:Action. > > Put another way, when would one get a fault for omitting [action]? > [MJG] Whenever another wsa: header is present in a message. > In other words, the answer to your question ("Given that the wsa:Action is mandatory, isn't it the presence of that header?") is "No." This is why at the Berlin meeting we tried to make sure that all the possibilities were covered for various combinations of the MAPs. I believe we've satisfied ourselves that they are, but perhaps we need to revisit this work? > > > Martin Gudgin wrote: > >> Given that the wsa:Action is mandatory, isn't it the presence of >> that header? >> >> Gudge >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> *From:* firstname.lastname@example.com >> [mailto:email@example.com] *On Behalf Of >> *Katy Warr >> *Sent:* 14 July 2005 16:07 >> *To:* firstname.lastname@example.com >> *Subject:* LC 76 - What makes a msg WS-A? >> >> >> Please could we discuss the following in the context of LC76? >> >> When is an incoming message deemed to be a WS-Addressing >> message and therefore subject to the appropriate >> WS-Addressing validation? Is it based on the presence of >> any WS-addressing Message Addressing Property? For example, >> does a message containing a reference parameter (but no other >> WS-Addressing information) need to result in a >> MessageAddressingHeaderRequired? Or, for example, does the >> declaration of the wsa namespace rendor the message >> WS-Addressing? >> >> Thanks >> Katy >> >Received on Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:02:24 UTC
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Monthly markets review - February 2015
February 2015 was a bullish month for Global markets as investors feasted on falling oil prices, the ECB's unprecedented liquidity injection into the euro zone, and fought back having initially feared the fallout of Greece's election result.
An overview of markets in February 2015, when equities were boosted by a recovery in oil prices and receding worries over Greece.
Global equities delivered positive returns in February, helped by a rebound in oil prices, better economic data from Europe and an easing of concerns over Greece.
US equities gained although economic releases were mixed. Investors focused on stronger real wage growth figures, which added to optimism that the economic recovery can regain momentum.
Eurozone equities were boosted by improving data releases and optimism ahead of the start of the European Central Bank's (ECB) quantitative easing programme. In the UK, the FTSE 100 surpassed its previous closing peak.
Japanese stocks gained strongly though economic data was mixed with strong industrial production figures but weak consumption data.
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Emerging markets made positive returns but lagged developed markets. Russian equities were strong as oil prices recovered and a ceasefire agreement was reached in Ukraine. Turkey lagged due to concern over the independence of the central bank.


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Worldwatch Report #183: Population, Climate Change, and Women's Lives
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The growth of population is a major factor behind climate change today. Human-caused climate change is fundamentally an imbalance of scale, as people release heat-trapping gases into Earth's atmosphere faster than the oceans and living things can remove them. This imbalance stems from both the explosion of technologies made possible through the combustion of fossil fuels since the late 1700s and the more than sevenfold increase in human numbers since that time.
The size of today's population and its continued growth also put at risk the social and institutional resilience needed to adapt successfully to the impacts of climate change, ranging from sea-level rise to more extreme weather events. Slower population growth followed by a gradual decline in population size would facilitate future reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and help societies adapt to the changes in climate that are now all but inevitable, since (due to the long lag times built into the climate system) they will be the product of emissions that we failed to cut in past years and decades.
Despite its key contribution to climate change, population plays little role in current discussions on how to address this serious challenge, particularly at the governmental level. Although many policymakers would welcome slower population growth, there is a concern that policies to slow growth will violate the right of couples to determine their own family size. Moreover, population is associated with sensitive issues including sexuality, contraception, abortion, migration, and religion. As a result, the debate on climate change tends to focus on the role of human technologies and their economic foundations, rather than on critical human numbers and behaviors.
Yet population dynamics are neither predetermined nor inevitable. Slower population growth and more socially beneficial age distributions based on lower fertility are near-certain outcomes of the development of human capacities. A large share of population growth today results not from reproductive self-determination but from its opposite: unintended pregnancies. Assuring that all pregnancies are welcome would by itself significantly slow population growth. Education for women, which reduces desired family size and fertility, would slow growth further, as would efforts to ease social pressures on women to have early and frequent pregnancies. Together, these steps would result in a gradually declining world population within a few decades.
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Variable in colour, but usually brownish-grey, often with rows of darker markings down the back and sides. Males have bright yellow or orange undersides.
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The loss of our heathland and grassland habitats through human activity threatens the survival of our reptiles. The Wildlife Trusts are working closely with planners, developers and farmers to ensure these habitats are protected by fostering Living Landscape schemes: networks of habitats and wildlife corridors across town and country, which are good for both wildlife and people. You can help: look after lizards and other reptiles in your garden by leaving piles of logs for hibernating beneath. In partnership with the RHS, The Wildlife Trusts' Wild About Gardens initiative can help you plan your wildlife garden.


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Things happen pretty fast in Burgundy. One day you're flying under the radar as an unknown, the next you are in the spotlight being billed as the next big thing. The rise and rise of "CLF" as they have become known in the trade (let's face it, it's less of a mouthful) has been quite startling. Two years ago, we'd never heard of them. Apparently, there was a time when they were selling most of their wines in French supermarkets. Now they are being mentioned in the same breath as Burgundian Royalty.The domaine itself is very impressive, boasting a high proportion of grands crus. When Thomas Colladot returned to the family estate in 2010, the ascent began. Thomas had previously been learning his trade under the tutelage of Sebastien Cathiard. He has since refined his own style, still being an advocate of purity and freshness, his wines tend to be lighter and more transparent than Domaine Cathiards, and he is judicial in his use of new oak. The results are turning heads. We are delighted to offer a selection of his very successful 2015s.
A town in the Côte de Nuits producing some of Burgundy's most renowned red wines. With 400ha of vineyard area this is the largest wine-producing region in the Côte d'Or. Gevrey-Chambertin's wines are typically some of the sturdiest in the Côte de Nuits, certainly bigger and heavier than those of close neighbours Vosne-Romanée and Chambolle-Musigny. As such the best examples require a longer bottle-ageing to show at their best, however whilst the best examples rate as highly as those of Vosne-Romanée and Chambolle-Musigny, being a large commune there are all too many disappointing wines that lack the ripeness structure and power they should have. Fortunately there are a number of top class growers making Gevrey, including Armand Rousseau, Denis Mortet, Bruno Clair, Drouhin-Laroze, Trapet, Rossignol-Trapet, and Denis Bachelet.Gevrey also boasts eight grands crus, perhaps too many!, the finest of which are Chambertin and Chambertin-Clos de Bèze. Whilst it is questionable whether some of these are worthy of their Grand Cru status, Gevrey also boasts two Premiers Crus, the region's best, considered worthy of elevation to Grand Cru status. These are Les Cazetiers and Clos St-Jacques, a particularly fine bottling of the latter is produced by Domaine Armand Rousseau, who charge more for their Clos St-Jacques than for several of their other Grands Crus.
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Scranton - 1, Farmingdale State - 0
Farmingdale, N.Y. - A late goal by Scranton sophomore forward Tina Cognetti (Westfield, N.J./Wesfield) in the 77th minute of play would hold as the game-winning goal, as the Rams dropped a hard fought 1-0 loss to the Royals today in Farmingdale, N.Y.
After a scoreless first half, the Rams controlled the offensive play, recording 11 shots. But Cognetti's tally at 77:34 for Scranton would be the deciding factor. Junior midfielder Caroline Corasaniti (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) was awarded the assist on the goal, while junior goalkeeper Caitlyn Byrne (East Rutherford, N.J./IHA) made six saves for the Royals in her shutout victory.
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Here we have a cake so testosterone-charged that I bet any female within a ten foot radius will spontaneously sprout a beard and crave flannel. No tinker-toy plastic deer or tractors for Robert - hoo no; this is a guy who eats danger for breakfas... er, I mean dessert. No sissy exclamation points after his name, either: "Robert" must always be pronounced with deadly determination. In fact, after this he's going shark-fishing: alone, in a rowboat, at night, and with only his trusty blade, lure, and flashlight to aid him. So you'd best cut him an extra big slice.
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text: Understanding Sinuses What are Sinuses? Your sinuses are air-filled chambers inside your skull, behind the forehead, nasal bones, cheeks and eyes. When filled with air they vibrate, thereby aiding speech. Through small openings, four pair of sinuses connect to your nasal cavity. Mucus produced by the sinuses drains through openings into your nose and down the back of your throat. As the mucus drains, the nose is kept moist and free of dust, bacteria and other germs. With healthy sinuses, the air circulates freely through the chambers and mucus drains into the nose. Small hairs, called cilia, help move the thin, watery mucus through your sinuses. When the sinuses are free of swelling and thickened mucus and the cilia are working correctly, your sinuses drain freely, which keeps the sinuses clean. What is Sinusitis? When the natural drainage of mucus is blocked due to upper respiratory infections (such as colds), allergies or obstructions, stagnant mucus provides the perfect place for bacteria to grow and inflammation may occur. Mucus that is thick, yellow or discolored is typical with this infection. Acute sinusitis is a common problem producing facial pain and pressure. Redness of the skin over the sinus, nasal congestion, postnasal drip, fever and headache may also occur. It is likely to come on suddenly, with symptoms lasting up to four weeks. With chronic sinusitis, ongoing swelling of the sinus lining may last for several months as the result of allergies or chronic infections. How do allergies affect the sinuses? When a person sensitive to allergens or irritants breathes these substances, the body releases a chemical known as histamine, which causes the sinus and nasal linings to swell. This can clog the sinuses and prevent the cilia from clearing the mucus. Anatomical obstructions such as polyps can also cause chronic sinusitis. The swelling is likely to keep coming back. The constant irritation can permanently damage the cilia, which makes it more difficult to drain mucus from the sinuses. Symptoms include facial pain and pressure, headache and sinus pain, nasal congestion, postnasal drip, reduced smell and taste, cough and a sore throat. Typically, symptoms will persist longer than a cold, but be less severe. How do nasal obstructions affect the sinuses? A sac of swollen tissue, called a polyp, often results from an allergy or infection. The polyp may block the opening where most of your sinuses drain, called the middle meatus, and in some cases grows large enough to block your nose. Another obstruction that can block the middle meatus is a deviated septum. The nasal septum is the wall that divides the nasal cavity into equal halves. When the septum shifts (deviates) and becomes crooked, frequently as a result of injury, difficulty breathing through the nose may result. How is Acute Sinusitis diagnosed? To help your doctor diagnose acute sinusitis, a medical history is taken and a physical examination is performed. With an accurate diagnosis, your doctor can determine which treatments may be the most effective. In some cases a culture (mucus sample) is taken to check for a bacterial infection, and in others X-rays are taken to find fluid in the sinuses. How is Acute Sinusitis treated? The goal of treatment is to relieve the blockage of the sinuses and help the cilia to work again. Antihistamines and decongestants can help reduce inflammation and decrease the production of fluid. If a bacterial infection is involved, antibiotics may be prescribed. How is Chronic Sinusitis diagnosed? Chronic sinusitis is typically diagnosed based on the medical history and a complete examination. Allergy tests may be performed to identify your particular allergen sensitivities. An endoscopy or CT scan may be ordered to detect thickened mucosa, blocked sinus openings and obstructions that interfere with drainage. Nasal endoscopy is performed using an endoscope - a slim, flexible tube with a fiber optic light at the end. The nose and sinuses are first treated with an anesthetic (numbing medication) and decongestant to ease the insertion of the endoscope. When necessary, samples or biopsies are taken through the endoscope for laboratory examination. A CT scan will provide a detailed view of your nose and sinuses from different angles to find the precise location of blockages. How is Chronic Sinusitis treated? To reduce fluid secretion and swelling, medications may be prescribed. To clear old mucus, sinus irrigation in which the sinuses are flushed with water or saline may be recommended. Recurrent bacterial infections may require antibiotics. An allergy control program for long-term management may also be recommended by your doctor. For example, allergy injections may help desensitize you to various allergens. In some cases, surgery may be the best option for clearing blockages (to read about common sinus procedures click here). Whichever treatments are recommended, be sure to follow your doctor's instructions closely. What methods of self-care are recommended? Self-care may include drinking extra fluids, using a humidifier and taking over-the-counter decongestants to relieve swelling. Some people use hot or cold packs to relieve pain and discomfort. Saltwater rinses can help keep your sinuses and nose moist. Ready-made saline nasal sprays may be used, or you can make your own rinse. This is done by mixing a teaspoon of salt in eight ounces of fresh, warm water, then using a bulb syringe to gently squirt the water into your nose. You may need to rinse a few times a day. How can I prevent Sinusitis? As much as is possible, prevent the underlying problems that lead to sinusitis, such as colds and flu. Wash your hands frequently, and when you can stay away from infected people. Eat balanced meals, exercise regularly and get plenty of sleep. If you feel a cold or flu coming on, take more time to rest.Also, avoid allergens. You will need to find out what substances you are allergic to, and then take steps to minimize your exposure. For example: Wear a mask while cleaning or doing yard work Avoid the outdoors during peak pollution times such as rush hour Use an air conditioner during allergy season and clean its filter on a regular basis Keeping your sinuses moist will make the mucus thinner, allowing for better drainage and helping prevent infections. Your doctor may also suggest the following: Use a humidifier and regularly clean out any mold or mildew in its reservoir Drink several glasses of water each day Avoid excessive consumption of caffeine and alcohol Avoid smoke How do I prepare for Endoscopic or Nasal Surgery? Your doctor will provide you with specific instructions. General guidelines include: Do not take medications containing aspirin or ibuprofen for at least seven days prior to surgery. Give your doctors a list of any medications, supplements or herbal remedies you have been taking, and ask if you should stop taking them prior to surgery. Make arrangements for an adult family member to drive you home following surgery. Avoid eating or drinking anything, including water, after midnight on the night before your surgery. Don't smoke Avoid having a sunburn the day of surgery What type of Anesthesia might I be given? Your medical team will determine what is most appropriate to keep you pain-free during the procedure. If local anesthesia is used, you will be awake during surgery. Your nose and the surrounding area will be numbed. You may be given a medication that makes you drowsy. If you have local anesthesia, you may hear tapping, grinding or scraping sounds during the surgery. Using monitored anesthesia, an anesthesiologist delivers medication through an intravenous (IV) line so that you are drowsy or lightly asleep during your procedure. You may still hear some sounds, but you won't have any pain. With general anesthesia, you are given medication throughout surgery that will keep you fully asleep. General anesthesia is administered through an IV in your arm. A tube placed down your throat will help you to breathe during surgery. What are the risks associated with Sinus Surgery? Although sinus surgery has an excellent rate of success, it does carry the same risks as any other surgery. These risks include: Infection Bruising Excessive bleeding An altered send of smell or taste What is the goal of Endoscopic Surgery? There are several endoscopic procedures performed to treat sinusitis, depending on the patient's condition. For example: Straightening the septum - To repair a deviated septum, the surgeon will reshape or trim the cartilage and bone dividing the nose to create more breathing space. Removing polyps – Techniques to remove polyps vary depending on whether the polyps have grown in the nose and sinus areas, their size and number. Clearing the ethmoid sinuses – Ethmoid sinuses are comprised of numerous small air sacs that drain into the nasal cavity. Your surgeon may need to open the thin walls of bone that separate these air sacs. Opening nasal passages – A think projection of bone and tissue forming the outlet of the maxillary sinus is called the uncinate process. When this tissue is inflamed, the surgeon may remove it so that mucus can drain. What should I expect after Endoscopic Surgery? Immediately following your procedure you will be taken to a recovery room. You will probably feel groggy from the anesthesia and may have some discomfort. A dressing under your nose will absorb drainage. An absorbent bandage, or dressing, may also be packed inside your nose. Once you no longer feel groggy you will be able to return home. Except in certain rare cases, you will go home the same day as your surgery. A few days after your surgery, your doctor will want you to come to his/her office to check on your progress. Dried blood and mucus are removed to promote healing, and any nasal packing will be removed. Feeling stuffiness and having a pink or dark red drainage is normal. Expect to change your nasal dressing as need, take any prescribed medications, and drink plenty of water. Additional instructions may include: Rinse your nose and sinuses with salt water Sneeze with your mouth open Do not blow your nose Avoid heavy exercise, straining or lifting Use a humidifier to keep nasal passages moist Do not take aspirin or ibuprofen Sleep with your upper body elevated Avoid hot and spicy foods In the ensuing weeks as you are healing, some stuffiness and nasal crusting are normal. You should keep your nasal passages clean and moist to speed healing and prevent scarring. Additionally, be sure to: Take prescribed medication as directed Avoid substances causing irritation, such as dust, chalk and harsh chemicals Use saltwater rinses or a humidifier as directed by your doctor Drink lots of water Avoid exposure to allergens and people with colds Before swimming or traveling, talk to your doctor What is Turbinate Surgery? Inside your nose, on each side, are curved, bony ridges called turbinates that are lined with a thin tissue, or mucous membrane. The mucous membrane produces a sticky mucus that helps to clean the air in your nose of dust and other tiny particles. The mucous membrane and turbinates warm and moisten the air you breathe in through your nose. During turbinate surgery, a small incision is made inside the nose and bone or mucous membrane is removed from enlarged turbinates. Some of the bone and mucous membrane is left so that the turbinates can continue to function. Within a week, your doctor will probably remove any packing, splint or dressings. You should be able to breathe better than you did before your surgery. What can I do to recover from Turbinate Surgery? You will need to follow up with your doctor within a week after surgery. Follow his advice closely, and be sure to keep follow-up appointments. Here are some additional steps you can take during the first weeks after surgery: Try not to bump your nose or touch the splint or packing. If you find that a scab or crust blocks your breathing, leave it alone. Your doctor can remove it. Do not take any medication containing aspirin or ibuprofen. Try not to bend or lift. To reduce pressure inside your nose, open your mouth when you sneeze or cough . Don't let eyeglasses rest on your nose. You may need to tape them above your nose. Keep your nose out of the sun. How will I know if I should call my doctor? If you notice any of the following, call your doctor: A large amount of bright red blood A fever over 101 degrees F A change in vision or swelling around the eye Signs of infection such as yellow or green drainage A headache that won't subside, or increasing pain Drainage of large amounts of clear liquid Feeling extremely tired Stiff neck


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Fingerprint scanners: a sign of the end of growth?
Finger print scanners may have seemed high tech once upon a time, but they became commodity technology years ago. In fact, for years PC makers were adding bells and whistles, and it was around the time that they ran out of useful ideas (and added finger print scanners) that growth in the PC business seems to have come crashing to a halt.
Now the PC makers weren't doing anything wrong — it's just that the market had saturated and they ran out of useful things to offer, with finger print scanners being the last, mostly-useless gadget they could think of to throw in for minimal incremental cost. By when these things showed up, laptops were powerful, had lots of disk, CPU and RAM, had built-in gigabit Ethernet and Wifi, speakers and microphones, webcams, etc. i.e., quite nice machines, for not much money.
Apple just released new iPhones today, and one of them has a fingerprint scanner. I think that marks the end of growth in the smart phone hardware market, just as it did for PCs. Smart phones today are nice — high resolution colour screens, decently fast CPUs, lots of RAM and storage, WiFi, GSM, LTE, tethering, apps, music, video, document processing, GPS/navigation, accelerometers, light sensors, response to speech input, light sensors, front and back cameras, etc.
I don't think there's all that much left to add – just slightly better, faster and cheaper with each generation.
This is a big problem for the phone manufacturers, as their volumes will (or perhaps already have?) flat-line and their margins will compress.
The only growth left is to saturate developing country markets – China, India, etc. That won't be easy for the major players, as China at least has quite strong domestic manufacturers who play well in a market where relationships with the telcos matter a lot and where consumers are very price conscious.
So I'll stick my neck out and make some predictions:
- Apple revenues will stay flat and they will become a utility, as Microsoft, Cisco and Intel have before.
- Samsung has a bit more runway (better product mix and geographic diversity) but in a couple of years they will flat line too.
- We won't see any major innovations in smart phones for years.
- Maybe others will pick up on the finger print gimmic, and maybe not – I don't think anyone cares.
By the way, this is only peripherally an identity-related blog entry. 🙂 Finger print scanners are a biometric authentication device, so fair game. But really, it's about the rapid maturation and saturation of the smart phone market, which is interesting in its own right.
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Would a Mac be the right choice for me?
I've never been too much into laptops because I've always felt that they were inferior to desktop computers. But now that the technology is so big, laptops can be just as good and sometimes even better than a desktop computer. So now I have finally decided to get a laptop.
So here's what I'm wondering: I could buy a laptop and then load it with FreeBSD, but for the moment I'm not interested in doing that because I'm not a very experienced FreeBSD user so I know that I would have some hard time trying to configure wireless network with FreeBSD. That's why I want to go with either Windows (I know, I know, shame on me) or a mac laptop. I've never used mac before but I have heard great things about it. I would be mostly be using it for work (using Putty to login to other servers) and programming a little here an there. So I just would like to know if its really worth it for me to spend the extra money with Mac rather then buying a cheaper windows laptop?
Running Mac OS X on it should be fine, paying attention to hardware support it's possible to get a non-mac based laptop, shrink or remove windows and install a bsd or linux distro of choice.
If you get one that is well supported it's not that bad to setup (for me, I only had to buy a PCMCIA card), I'd suggest PC-BSD, DesktopBSD, Ubuntu, or PCLinuxOS if you don't want to screw with setup.
If you buy a mac and run OSX, at least it should work out of the box and provide a unix like environment underneath ;-)
I generally find tools for coding on Windows... sorely lacking compared to FreeBSD (but I have odd tastes).
For most people unless there is a preference, the choice of OSX or VISA are mostly unimportant imho as long a sthe machine meets the users needs.
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I do believe Mac OS X ships with OpenSSH, a much better alternative..
sif GTK on OS X ... only aps i have that use GTK have to run in X
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- to maintain my interest. If I had to make a laptop decision for myself right now I'd probably buy one of Dell's Ubuntu laptops and then promptly install FBSD 7.0 on it.
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Thanks for all the replies guys.
By the way, if I was to install FreeBSD on laptop, how hard is it to configure the wireless network?
Fwiw, GTK (1) has been obsoleted. http://www.gtk.org/documentation-old.html
(I wonder what the icewm maintainers will do).
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It's made for the *desktop* and the UNIX per definition is for governmental agencies.
use UNIX or die :-)
I happen to be a Unix fun and especially FreeBSD fun. But I think there should be a difference between a server OS and a desktop. Therefor I don't expect the freebsd developers to develop drivers for every single desktop crap. I'am happy if they focus on server stability and performance.
So, for my laptop it's either Linux, Mac or Windows. Linux has hundreds of distros with their own package management based on binaries. I don't like that sorry. Windows, well I don't need to use 4G of Ram and an expensive core2duo just to be able to boot. Besides Vista is crap os.
So, I choose a macbook. And I can do everything with my Mac, all my system and network administration. I even through an apache & mysql installation just to be able to do some local testing. I use macports which is very equivalent to the FreeBsd ports.
...when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
>But I think there should be a difference between a server OS and a desktop.
An operating system should deliver a proper base, especially an UNIX operating system. Doing a desktop or doing a server is the thinking of the eighties, the time of the commercial unices, the time of the dinosaurs - well rest in peace, don't come back. So an os should deliver a proper base and a community surrounding it should deliver the foundation for the server or desktop flavour.
use UNIX or die :-)
Why on earth would a server need running bluetouth service (RHEN)?
Why a server should ever be configured using DHCP (Ubuntu) ?
As far as the dinosaurs are concerned, welcome to the 21st century where the horsepower of a modern server can seriously doubt the benefit of setting up different servers when you can use an ESX for that purpose.
Unix has grown but the needs of a server - desktop environment have become very far apart. Also, consider the security issues for a kernel that have to support all the device drivers of modern desktop peripherals. Even in a modular environment.
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i am a mac user for about an year. IMHO opinion it worths
spending extra cash for it. the thing i like the most about os x is that i never turn off the system just putting it to "sleep" and it works like a charm. do that with a windows based laptop and see what happens (my boss did it and it crashed 3 times of 5).
the things i use it for are: system administration via iTerm (great terminal emulator ) and a desktop computer mostly, being the only "personal computer" i have it runs 14 to 18 hours a days and never had problems with it's stability and/or performance, although it gets warm after 4 hours or so but still stable.
i have never been much into X setup and almost always i have chose preconfigured OS's like: Ubuntu (which at some point just crashed, doesn't want to mount /proc) pc-bsd (which i use it at work on my desktop - i am very pleased with it).
mac is one of the things that "just work" from a desktop stand point.
my 2 cents
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I recently bought a MacBook Pro. To me, OS X is not different than any other Unix out there. My favorites are Debian, OS X, and FreeBSD. My desktop still runs Debian. I don't have a FreeBSD machine at the moment. Getting the MBP was one of the best decisions I ever made. It's such a great laptop, and the software makes it even better. However, I think I'm a weird Mac user as I installed all the command line programs I've used on my desktop on OS X. Most Mac users shy away from the command line. I don't.
>When was the last time you had to set up a Linux server ?
A month ago, Debian Etch. And my first UNIX was Irix in the nineties at university.
>Unix has grown but the needs of a server
UNIX has been developed in an academical environment with development purposes in mind. Later some guys decided to 'misuse' it as server, but it never lost it's workstation appeal! And what the heck is a desktop? This kindergarten flavour of Apple or maybe Fluxbox or Gnome or Windows? It's *your* desktop, your very own idea of an environment able to *serve* your purposes and the same is true for a server. So in the end an operating system has to deliver the proper base to *server* me.
>Also, consider the security issues for a kernel that have to support all the device drivers of modern desktop peripherals.
That's nonsense in opensource, because there is a developer who develops such a driver and later maintains it. So if you banish this driver, then this developer will choose a different operating system to work on. Last not least your saying is true for every device driver, if there isn't a developer who cares about it. Welcome to opensource and this is of course true for *BSD too.
And to all Macmanicas: answer me one question please - did you buy the Mac for UNIX purposes or desktop use? So don't tell me something about Jobs marketing yada-yada-yada. You bought the Mac because this kind of desktop fits your idea of it. And the 'UNIX under the surface' is something to ease your 'opensource conscience' look boy, it's a UNIX(TM) too and it's even something like a FreeBSD (in fact it's something FreeBSD, BSD4.x, NextStep(based on BSD4.x), Mach, NetBSD, GNU and some commercial glue mixed up to represent something UNIX according to the definition of the OpenGroup).
use UNIX or die :-)
Besides the technological crap you mention about Unix you seem to have an obsession with people who like Macs. Maybe you should look into that ?
...when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
'Macmanicas' rofl !
I personally would get a Mac, because if I had to choose between Microsoft and Apple out of necessity for my OS, more of the software I use is likely to compile under OSX then on Windows NT without gnashing of teeth, short of using GNU or BSD instead :-P
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Jaime Pressly's got a new line to learn -- "My Name is Mrs. Singh."
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Mahler's Symphony No. 7, with the Philharmonia and Gustavo Dudamel
The Venezuelan conductor performs at the Royal Festival Hall, London
Gustavo Dudamel leapt to fame as the prize jewel of El Sistema, conducting its flagship Simon Bolivar Youth – now Symphony – Orchestra. Colourful jackets, a party atmosphere and exuberant Latin American encores all captured the popular imagination. Now, though, he cuts a more serious figure both on paper and on the podium – while he still conducts his superb Venezuelan ensemble, he's at the helm of the LA Philharmonic, has recently recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic and has been spending a lot of time conducting Mahler - and earlier in the year released a recording of the grave Ninth. On stage, his manner is restrained and focused.
For his appearance with the Philharmonia, Dudamel turned to the Seventh Symphony, played to a packed-out Royal Festival Hall. It's an enigmatic and extreme work, large-scale enough to fill a whole concert by itself. Dudamel and the Philharmonia's reading was bold and clean, with something of the sleekness of the LA Philharmonic sound: the brass and woodwind were bright and fearless; there was a wonderful impassioned double-cello solo in the second movement; and in the fourth, the strings sounded generous, eking out all the heightened expression from their melodies. Dudamel found a military precision in the opening march, movement endings were whipcrack tight and perfectly timed, and the Rondo Finale bubbled with relaxed frenzy and a sense of increasing excitement.
But for all that it was an enjoyable performance there was a crucial element missing throughout. Mahler wrote two 'nachtmusik' movements (the second and fourth) full of nocturnal atmosphere and colour. They characterise the whole Symphony. Dudamel didn't find that darkness, the shadowy half-lights to throw into relief all that brightness. Partly that might have been due to the Festival Hall's dry acoustic. Mostly, though, it seemed a result of the interpretation.
For a performance that really gets to the heart of Mahler's all-encompassing world, Dudamel needs to embrace the dark as well as the light, the ambiguity as well as the certainty.
You can hear this concert on the BBC's iPlayer now
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