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OAKLAND — A 48-year-old ex-convict has been charged with murder in the June 8, 2011 fatal stabbing of his then girlfriend's brother in West Oakland, police said Tuesday.
Besides one count of murder, Michael Freeman is also charged with assault with a deadly weapon in the death of Marty Harris, 59, who was found dead near Wood Street and West Grand Avenue. Freeman is also charged with two prior felony convictions: second degree robbery in 2002 and possession of a controlled substance in 1991.
Police said Freeman, of Oakland, whose street name is "Mike Mike," has denied involvement in the killing.
Police said the stabbing resulted from a dispute that Harris, also an Oakland resident, and Freeman were having over narcotics and Harris' suspicions that Freeman was mistreating his sister.
The dispute turned into a fistfight and ended with Freeman stabbing Harris, Officer Phong Tran said.
Harris' body was found about 6:30 a.m. that day. Police believe he had been dead for a few hours.
In the course of the investigation police learned of the men's relationship and what they fought over. Police also found physical evidence and witnesses that linked Freeman to the stabbing, Tran said.
Freeman was arrested Dec. 13 near his West Oakland home and charges were filed Monday.


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"This settlement will require Herbalife to fundamentally restructure its business so that participants are rewarded for what they sell, not how many people they recruit," FTC Chairwoman Ramirez said. "Herbalife is going to have to start operating legitimately, making only truthful claims about how much money its members are likely to make, and it will have to compensate consumers for the losses they have suffered as a result of what we charge are unfair and deceptive practices."
For example:
- The company will now differentiate between participants who join simply to buy products at a discount and those who join the business opportunity. "Discount buyers" will not be eligible to sell product or earn rewards.
- Multi-level compensation that business opportunity participants earn will be driven by retail sales. At least two-thirds of rewards paid by Herbalife to distributors must be based on retail sales of Herbalife products that are tracked and verified. No more than one-third of rewards can be based on other distributors' limited personal consumption.
- Companywide, in order to pay compensation to distributors at current levels, at least 80 percent of Herbalife's product sales must be comprised of sales to legitimate end-users. Otherwise, rewards to distributors must be reduced.
- Herbalife is prohibited from allowing participants to incur the expenses associated with leasing or purchasing premises for "Nutrition Clubs" or other business locations before completing their first year as a distributor and completing a business training program.

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CHICAGO - Authorities say passengers aboard a Delta Air Lines flight from Detroit were kept from disembarking in Chicago for about three hours after one person was suspected of carrying a disease.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the passenger was evaluated shortly after the plane landed Thursday afternoon at Midway International Airport. The CDC says emergency medical personnel determined the woman's rash was not related to monkeypox, which had been suspected.
In its statement, the CDC says the woman was cleared but advised to seek medical care.
The incident occurred on Delta flight 3163, which landed at about 3:45 p.m. Passengers were kept aboard the plane for about three hours before being allowed off.


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You know, I thought I'd seen the ultimate in Iron Man cosplay last year, and from a decorative standpoint, I probably have. But Anthony "Master" Le's outfits don't shoot real lasers like this thing does.
AnselmoFanZero from Laser Gadgets has built this incredible "Functional Iron Man Laser Gauntlet", which does exactly as it says. It looks like Iron Man's arm, and it shoots a real laser. Maybe not one that can blow up tanks, but it can blow up... balloons.
Functional Iron Man Laser Gauntlet (100% selfmade) [YouTube]


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You may ask, "What exactly is a constant?" An example of a constant with which you're very much familiar is pi (π), which is derived by dividing a circle's circumference by its diameter. No matter what the circumference and diameter of the respective circle, their ratio is always pi. You can use constants that apply to specific single- and 3-phase voltages to calculate current (I) and kilowatts (kW). Let's see how to do this.
Single-Phase Calculations
Basic electrical theory tells us that for a single-phase system,
kW = (V × I × PF) ÷ 1,000.
For the sake of simplicity, let's assume the power factor (PF) is unity. Therefore, the above equation becomes
kW = (V × I) ÷ 1,000.
Solving for I, the equation becomes
I = 1,000kW ÷ V (Equation 1)
Now, if we look at the "1,000 ÷ V" portion of this equation, you can see that by inserting the respective single-phase voltage for "V" and dividing it into the "1,000," you get a specific number (or constant) you can use to multiply "kW" to get the current draw of that load at the respective voltage.
For example, the constant for the 120V calculation is 8.33 (1,000 ÷ 120). Using this constant, Equation 1 becomes
I = 8.33kW.
So, if you have a 10kW load, you can calculate the current draw to be 83.3A (10 × 8.33). If you have a piece of equipment that draws 80A, then you can calculate the relative size of the required power source, which is 10kW (80 ÷ 8.33).
By using this same procedure but inserting the respective single-phase voltage, you get the following single-phase constants, as shown in Table 1.
3-Phase Calculations
For 3-phase systems, we use the following equation:
kW = (V × I × PF × 1.732) ÷ 1,000.
Again, assuming unity PF and solving this equation for "I," you get:
I = 1,000kW ÷ 1.732V.
Now, if you look at the "1,000 4 1.732V" portion of this equation, you can see that by inserting the respective 3-phase voltage for "V" and multiplying it by 1.732, you can then divide that quantity into the "1,000" to get a specific number (or constant) you can use to multiply "kW" to get the current draw of that 3-phase load at the respective 3-phase voltage. Table 2 lists each 3-phase constant for the respective 3-phase voltage obtained from the above calculation.


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Drewry: LNG trade, fleet heading into choppy waters
Heating demand in major LNG importing regions fell in February. In addition, cargo availability tightened after a few unplanned shutdowns, leading to a 4% decline in Drewry Maritime Research's LNG Freight Index.
Heating demand in major LNG importing regions fell in February. In addition, cargo availability tightened after a few unplanned shutdowns, leading to a 4% decline in Drewry Maritime Research's LNG Freight Index.
In 2011-12, LNG shipping enjoyed a "dream run," said London-based Drewry, which tracks global vessel movements and trends in many industries. This trend was due largely to increasing tonne-mile demand and an "almost stagnant fleet."
The LNG Freight Index is freight-rate assessments based on actual deals and market reports for a conventional 160,000-173,000-cu m LNG carrier less than 5 years old. Hire period for long-term freight rate assessments are for charters of at least 15 years, while short-term freight rate assessments are based on charters of 1-3 years. Base year for the index is January 2005.
Fleet affected
Freight market prospects would be even brighter if fleet supply were to remain at current levels, Drewry reported. With 81 more vessels likely to join the fleet 2013-15 and only 10 vessels considered as demolition candidates, however, the trend cannot continue.
The research unit said the global LNG fleet could grow to 430 vessels (accounting for projected demolitions) by yearend 2015, a 20% increase from current levels.
The orderbook-to-fleet ratio was 30% at the end of February, while it was slightly more than 8% at yearend 2010. The previous 26 months saw fresh orders for 89 vessels aggregating 14.5 million cu m.
The research unit said that, based on liquefaction-capacity addition plans in Australia and the US, LNG shipping could need many more vessels in the latter half of the decade than are currently on order. A few positive developments in Africa also suggest LNG production could rise sharply.
The major concern for shipowners, however, is that little liquefaction capacity will be added 2013-15 when most of the new vessels are delivered. Reports of possible restarts of Japanese nuclear plants, it said, could also return the market to a time when vessels waited months for employment or commissioning of a project for which the vessels were ordered.
Japan was the single largest factor driving the market in 2012, said Drewry, and the trend will continue in 2013, as restarting all of nuclear plants "cannot be hurried." The medium-term outlook for unchartered vessels nevertheless seems dim as about 40 million tonnes/year of additional production would be required to keep the vessels employed.
This is "not on the cards." Therefore, short-term and spot freight markets are likely to start falling soon.


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Since I already have a lesson on a daisy, I'm not going to tell you too much information on this pretty set of flowers that you will be receiving a tutorial on today. This is also going to be the last flower submission for now, until I find it in myself to draw some more which I know I will. Anyway, for my fourth upload I will be showing you guys "how to draw daisies", step by step, and as you know these flowers are also fragrant but not nearly as fragrant as lilacs or roses. Daisies are wonderful flowers to make bouquets out of, and they are also a great flower to to paint too. There is a variety of colors that the daisy comes in which is why they are such a versatile plant. You can find these flowers growing in your own back yard because they are considered to be part of the wild flower group. I had fun sketching out my interpretation of the daisy, and when you "draw daisies" you should be creative and color them in using your favorite shades. I tried sticking to the most common flower colors like orange, yellow and pink. But you might want to have a few white ones in there just to break up the boldness of the florescent shades I used here. I also only drew three, but you can draw a bundle if you like. Whatever you choose to do will be fine because you did it your own way. I will be back one more time to upload my fifth and last tutorial,, and no it's not a flower. See ya guys, and I hope you all enjoyed your drawing day.
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2014 CMS Summer Meeting
University of Manitoba, June 6 - 9, 2014
In this talk, I will focus on a major automated deduction project in loop theory which is pushing all the available software to its limits: the AIM project (AIM = Abelian Inner Mappings). The problem is to find the correct loop theoretic generalization of the following classical fact from group theory: a group is nilpotent of class at most 2 if and only if its inner automorphism group is abelian. Progress toward the main conjectures in the loop setting has been slow but substantial, and I will concentrate on recent work.
Previously, linear reduced bases and RGSBs were calculated only for a specific ordering of the generators. Within the statement of the problem under consideration, the generators of a Lie algebra are fixed, while they are ordered in an arbitrary way, and we analyze an arbitrary basis of the $n!$ bases and the RGSB determined by each of them (here $n$ is the number of generators).
An approach is proposed which combines the systems of roots,
the linear reduced bases of the Lie algebras $A_n^+$, $B_n^+$, $C_n^+$, $D_n^+$,
and their RGSBs.
I show how to find the structure (commutator table) of Lie super algebra of symmetries of sufficiently regular super differential equations without solving their supersymmetry defining system. I will use two examples to show the new method which uses existing commutative Maple commands for such non-commutative calculations.
This construction, however, does not generalize to $n$ polynomials $f_1, \ldots, f_n$ (generating a zero-dimensional of $k[x_1, \ldots, x_n]$, for an arbitrary field $k$) for $n > 2$. Another practical limitation, when targeting a computer implementation, is the fact that the coordinates of the point $p$ must be in the base field $k$. Approaches based on standard or Groebner bases suffer from the same limitation.
In this work, we adapt Fulton's Algorithm such that it can work at any point of $V(f, g)$, rational or not. In addition, and under genericity assumptions, we add an $8$-th property to the $7$ properties of Fulton, which ensures that these 8 properties uniquely and constructively define $I(p;f_1,\ldots,f_n)$ at any $p \in V(f_1, \ldots, f_n)$. The implementation of this $8$-th property has lead us to a new approach for computing tangent cones that do not involve standard or Groebner bases. In fact, all our algorithms simply rely on the theory of regular chains and are implemented in the RegularChains library in Maple.
This is a joint work with Steffen Marcus, Eric Schost and Paul Vrbik.
In this talk we discuss progress in the numerical detection of symmetry rich models which is stable to small errors in data. This builds on earlier results where we showed that the dimension of symmetry algebras of nearby symmetry rich models could be detected. Our method is to couple the geometrical technique of involutive systems with the singular value decomposition to the defining systems for such approximate symmetries. This is joint work with Tracy Huang and Ian Lisle.
This is joint work with Li Guo (Rutgers University at Newark, USA) and Ronghua Zhang (Yunnan University, Kunming, China).


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Set within 15 minutes' drive of Suvarnabhumi International Airport, Convenient Grand Hotel is an ideal choice for transit travellers. Guestrooms are spacious and well-appointed in a modern style, each fitted out with a balcony and a large, comfortable living area. The top Suite category also comes with a bar and lounging area.
For recreation, the hotel features an outdoor swimming pool with Jacuzzi, fitness centre (24 hours), and massage and spa (24 hours). A big highlight is the complimentary roundtrip airport transfers and Wi-Fi internet access. With all the conveniences and comfort of an upscale downtown hotel, Convenient Grand is poised to exceed your expectations.


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Pregnant women who smoke run into the risk of their children have reading problems later in life,
study has found.
The reserachers looked at the reading tests of 5,000 students and found that many whose mothers smoked while pregnant struggled on reading comprehension and other tests.
The findings are published in
Lead author
a Yale professor of pediatrics, and his colleagues compared performance on seven specific tasks – reading speed, single-word identification, spelling, accuracy, real and non-word reading, and reading comprehension.
They adjusted for socioeconomic status, mother-child interactions and 14 other potential factors.
They found that on average, children exposed to high levels of nicotine
in utero
scored 21 percent lower in these areas than classmates born to non-smoking mothers. The children were tested at age seven and again at age nine.
Among students who share similar backgrounds and education, a child of a smoking mother will, on average, be ranked seven places lower in a class of 31 in reading accuracy and comprehension ability.
"It's not a little difference — it's a big difference in accuracy and comprehension at a critical time when children are being assessed, and are getting a sense of what it means to be successful," Gruen said in a statement.


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Cologne-based film studio Magic Media Company has found a new buyer in the Munich-based Deutsche Unternehmensbeteiligungen AG, or DUBAG.
Specializing in the takeover and repositioning of troubled enterprises, DUBAG will continue to operate MMC as a film studio and further develop the facility for television and film production.
MMC has hosted such recent international productions as Ron Howard's "Rush," Jim Jarmusch's "Only Lovers Left Alive," Sandra Nettelbeck's "Mr. Morgan's Last Love," starring Michael Caine, and David Cronenberg's "A Dangerous Method."
MMC works closely with the Filmstiftung NRW in neighboring Dusseldorf, which reps the biggest regional subsidy org among Germany's 16 federal states and the second largest in Europe.
The studio has in recent months undergone major structural changes, beefing up its main Coloneum facility, which boasts 19 soundstages on a lot spanning 515,091 square feet, while closing a second production site in another part of Cologne.
MMC had been on the block since February. The European Commission had pushed for state-owned bank Sparkasse Koeln-Bonn, MMC's current owner, to sell the facility by the end of the year. DUBAG and Sparkasse, which inked the deal on Oct. 30, are keeping financial details of the agreement under wraps.
Established in 1991, MMC reported revenue of more than Euros 39 million ($50.6 million) last year.


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wu-tang clan
Behind The Science, Sunz Of Man
- 2006-02-07 01:22:29
© The Wu-Tang Corp.
- 2006-02-07
Checkout the interview conducted by HipHopGame to Hell Razah where he talks about the making of Sunz Of Man debut album "The Last Shall Be First".
Many thanks to HipHopGame for conducting such a good interview.
Sunz of Man - The Last Shall Be First
Breakdown done by Hell Razah
- I had done this where I named all of the songs on the album. This was going to run at the end of the album. I A&Rd this album. I wanted to do some real poetry-type shit on this. I put every song name into this. No one has ever done that before. This was supposed to be an interlude, but it came out incredible. People were like, "Damn son, how did you come up with that?" I made a banging ass poem!
- This was me and Prodigal Sunn, produced by 4th Disciple. We had done this in the wintertime. 4th came with the beat, and we heard the beat and went crazy. It had some wind blowing in it. We were thinking of wintertime and shit, and we talked about how niggas get cold-hearted and how you have to be able to hustle bundled up.
Natural High
- Wow. This is an incredible record. We had released it as a single. It was an Al Green sample that we had used that we were having problems with in the beginning of getting it cleared. It was me, Prodigal, 60-Second, Priest, and Tray Bag from Ghetto Government. Thats my brother. Supreme produced this. He also did "No Love Without Hate" for us. We wanted to keep that vibe and original Sunz of Man flavor. We had to get a band to come and play it over for us. The hook was saying, "We make that muuuusicccc that moves your body!" We wanted you to know that Sunz of Man is spiritual, lyrical, and political type of dudes, but at the same time, we can make a groove and make you move. Tray Bag came up with the hook. We laid the verses down so fast it was incredible. Next thing you know, its a single. When we had dropped it as a single, Busta came out with the same sample right after us. That was kind of strange because we knew the God. I didnt know he had the same sample, but I guess great minds think alike. Sunz of Man had a lot of those incidents happen.
Flaming Swords
- This was done by True Master and this has all four original Sunz of Man members in it. Flaming swords were protecting the Garden of Eden. Thats what we are. True Master came with the beat and you couldnt say no pretty-ass rhymes to that shit. You had to come real dungeon on that. It sounds like bodies are being dragged down to the dungeon. This was taking it back to the "Five Arch Angels" type of style. This came out incredible. This is definitely one of my favorite joints on here.
- 4th Disciple produced this. It was me, Prodigal, 60, and Masta Killa. I came up with the hook first. I was feeling like, back in 98, there were a lot of niggas popping mad shit. This was when the commercial started taking over the underground. Music is music and Hip Hop is Hip Hop. There were a lot of illusions and fake-ass shit. Everybody was so-called "popping bottles" and all of this fake shit. I had come up with the hook listening to 4ths beat. The beat changed up into two beats. We had to do this. We told 4th that beat was incredible. "This rap game aint what it seems/Artists get cream/Turnin fiends selling people a dream." I wrote the verse that night because the beat was so crazy. I was like, "I have to write this shit right now." I laid it down, boom, and the first verse is like murder.
We told Prodigal to come in when the beat changed up so it sounded like another part. Then we threw Masta Killa on it after we had the song done. We had played him the song and as soon as he heard it, he wanted to get on that. Youve never heard Masta Killa like how you heard him on "Illusions." We had brought a part of Masta Killa out that sounded real good.
Shining Star -
The story behind "Shining Star" is so deep. The original track was done by me and Priest and RZA had done this beat. We were out in Cali. We recorded 85% of this album out there. This is when Wu-Tang was out there doing "Wu-Tang Forever." We had done the original song. I ran into Wyclef at "The Jungle" shit for Muhammad Ali at Radio City. We were talking about doing a song together. I had lost contact with Lauryn Hill, but I had a talk with Wyclef about how he felt about doing a track for us. The track that he had originally gave us, we had tracked it up, but we really wanted to make history with him. We were like, "Yo, we need a beat for this "Shining Star" remake of an Earth, Wind, and Fire joint. The second version we had done sounded like some roller-skate-type shit. We needed something gritty. We didnt want to sound pop.
We recorded it with Earth, Wind, and Fire. This wasnt no Pro Tools shit. We were with them! We met their family, their kids…we had done this song and Dirty came to the studio, Rest in Peace, ODB came to the studio and when he heard this…he had been with Wyclef doing "Ghetto Superstar." When we had done "Shining Star," it was kind of weird because Pras came into our studio and asked ODB to do a verse for "Ghetto Superstar." We were bugging at the time because we didnt know they were going to call that "Ghetto Superstar." We felt that some funny stuff was happening. Were doing "Shining Star" and now youre doing "Ghetto Superstar"? It went down, we did the track with Earth, Wind, and Fire.
Wyclef was real good. I have footage coming out on a DVD showing the making of this song. Wyclef came in and got us to chop our verses down to eight bars. Wyclef thought we should break it into pieces where we all come in sporadically. This came out incredible. When we finished it, we were like, "This song right here is history" It took a lot to get this song done, and we earned Earth, Wind, and Fires respect because they had never heard anyone rap on some positive and spiritual vibes before.
Israeli News
- Tray Bag and Killah Priest came up with the hook for this. We had a studio that we had built in New York to record at. Supreme did the beat. I came up with the title for this because were about spreading the truth about the children of Israel everywhere. I came up with the title. They came up with the hook and everything. Once Priest laid his verse and opened it up, we were writing and smoking. That was a crazy session. We were in there building on scriptures and everything. Tray Bag laid his verse down, and then I came in to clean up. I cleaned it up with the last verse. Once that shit was done, we were listening to it like, "Yo son, this song is single potential." Our single was supposed to be this or "Natural High" for the single and "Natural High" had the most votes. This is my #2 favorite right here.
- We did this in California. The way this came about is ill. Prodigal came up with the hook for this. Prodigal had the hook before we even heard the beat. This was produced by RZA. RZA played some beats while we were recording the album. He came through and he had played some beats that were for the "Wu-Tang Forever" album. I was in the booth when he played the beat and Prodigal called me out of the booth. Prodigal was saying we had to do that song right now. He kicked the hook to me and I was like, "Thats an automatic banger. Lets do it." 60 and Priest were cool with it and we did it. Prodigal and 60 were going back-and-forth and we were like, "They killed it," so me and Priest did the back-and-forth. That was a Sunz of Man/Wu-Tang-type of song. We were going through a lot of tribulations trying to get this album done. Sunz of Man was getting in and out of deals, we were going through some street shit, 60 was in trouble with the authorities, so we were like, "Lets call this shit Tribulations. "
The Interview
- This is my comic side. I come from the days when we used to rip on niggas. I wanted to show people that we could laugh. We even got revolutionary jokes! This was an era in 98 when everyone was on some battle shit. I wanted to do a battle where one nigga said something about another niggas father and then they got to fighting. Some real shit happened like that, but not in that way. We were battling with some niggas and then we ended up beating them up. It wasnt because they were more lyrical than us, it was because they started talking shit. We used to whoop niggas asses! We had to stomp a nigga out in Club New York and then a riot broke out. Another time we were in the club in the bathroom and we were in Vegas, and some shit happened with 60. Niggas recognize niggas and they were on our dicks. Its some other rap niggas and theyre still out now. We were chilling with Meth and RZA, and those niggas wanted to be on our dicks. We were like, "Yo man, get the fuck out of here with that shit!" We were like, "Lets make a shit about what niggas are doing that other rappers can relate to." We also did a skit about niggas leaking out your shit before you finish. We had some comedy here, but its real shit. Comedy is real shit. You laugh at shit you think a nigga should have never said. When were smoking weed and were flashbackin, thats how we are.
The Plan
- This is the shit. It started from the original record that 4th was playing. We were feeling that, so 4th made the beat right there on the spot. 4th Disciple is one of the most incrediblest producers I have ever seen. He just wanted the room for an hour. We went to go get blunts and shit, and he had the beat done. That shit was incredible. It was supposed to be a song for 60s solo album. 60 had laid his shit down to it but then he wanted all of us to get on it. We had done it twice because the first time it was 60s solo song. That shit was hot.
60 didnt want to do it as a solo song. He wanted to make it as a Sunz of Man record. We came back and laid our verses and it turned out to be one of our singles. We recorded this in California too. The hook is talking about how you think you have the perfect plan. We wrote our verses about how people thought they had the perfect plan and the shit went bad. Thats happened to everyone. Nobody ever thought that Dame Dash and Jay-Z would break up. You think you have the perfect plan and the shit will fall apart. No one ever thought the shit would change how it did. We were talking on real life topics. Everybodys had a plan that went bad and that was the motivation for this song.
Collaboration 98
- This was done by True Master. We did this one in New York. It was me, True Master, and Prodigal in the studio. True Master was playing some beats and Meth came through the studio to check us out. We were in the studio and we were just rapping with each other, just bugging. We were telling True Master to rhyme on it. A lot of people think he just makes beats, but he can rhyme. This is one of the first songs when you can hear True Master kicking rhymes on his own beat.
Meth was in there on some "checkin us out" shit, and he heard my verse. Me and Meth have a good chemistry together. Theres a lot of shit that Ive laid for Meth and Meths laid for me. At the end of my verse, I said a rhyme where I said, "cant you see my love even though we be thugs." When Meth heard that, he was like, "Yo son, I want to make that the hook." I was like, "Bet, that sounds ill." Meth took what I said in my verse and made a hook out of it. He wrote the hook and wrote a long-ass verse. He was like, "Im going to lay this down for yall." He laid it down on the strength of the record. Then Prodigal closed it up and the rest is history. This is one of the illest records on the album.
Inmates to the Fire
- Wow. This comes from the "Five Arch Angel" days. This was done at RZAs house, where we also did "Soldiers of Darkness." We had done this around the same time they were doing Raes album. We had done another song called "As It Was Written" that didnt make the album. Those two songs were on the same reel. We couldnt find the beat because of everything RZA lost in the flood in the studio. It was through the will of God that we found it. We had to redo the vocals over and all sorts of crazy shit.
Killah Priest was on the original song. He was recording "Heavy Mental" when we were recording some of these songs, so we couldnt get a hold of him. We recorded this shit with me, Prodigal, and 60. RZA heard this and told us we had to throw it on the album. He wanted to mix it down first. When we got it back from him, it sounded completely different. This is related to "The Book of Daniel." Daniel was thrown in the lions den. We used the concept of the lions den because he was cast into the fire. If you could be in the fire, that will purify your soul because fire will cleanse you. Fire purifies gold. We laid this down and it was a wrap from there.
Not Promised Tomorrow
- We had done this in New York. 4th Disciple played the beat for me. When I heard the song, I wanted to do the hook with a female. I wanted Tequitha. She had sung "One Step" for Priest. Shes like our sister. I wanted her to sing that hook for me. She knocked it out. I laid my verses down and Prodigal had laid his shit down. 60 came and did his verse. We had to beat up the engineer that night. He wasnt listening and he was giving us attitudes. We had to kick his ass and keep him in the room. We had paid for studio time and we were going to do it right. We sat that nigga down and the song came out good so we threw it on the album.
For the Lust of Money/The Grandz
- Oh man! "For the Lust of Money" was another song that we had done with True Master. We wanted to do a song about money. This was when the "Benjamins" were going out. We were saying, "Fuck the Benjamins, were about the grandz." This is how this came about. We didnt have a money song on the album and we wanted to do one. True Master gave me a beat that was supposed to be for Method Man. Once he threw this shit on, we started writing. We knocked this out in the same day. It was me and Prodigal in the studio. 60 came from Brooklyn to meet us there and as soon as he got there, he wrote his shit, and it was a song. I still get asked about this record to this day.
Can I See You
- This is another vintage "Five Arch Angels" record from those days. RZA did this beat. It wasnt supposed to be on the album. Me and Prodigal did a song about our niggas locked up. It was a "miss yall niggas"-type record. 4th was in the studio and everyone thought he did that beat, but it was RZA actually. 4th came to the studio with Berretta 9 from Killarmy. He kicked his verse and Prodigal wanted him to get on the shit, so we threw Berretta 9 on there and did Sunz of Man/Killarmy collaboration. This song got such a response.
They said the DC sniper was listening to our records in his car. They said he was listening to "Can I See You." We got niggas like that listening to our shit. If he felt the vibe, he felt the vibe. We didnt give him the shit to go out and snipe people, but the song is crazy. Its for all our prison niggas locked up that we havent seen in a long time.
Next Up
- We wanted to do some real Hip Hop type of shit. I wanted to make a "Symphony"-type song like Marley Marl. We knocked it out, the beat was crazy. True Master banged this shit out. Me, Prodigal, and 60 laid the verse. We brought this with us to California. Meth used to always hang with us. Meth came to the studio and we were smoking and shit, he heard this, and he said, "I want to fuck with that." We had two songs with Meth on "The Last Shall Be First." This is some real Hip Hop, pass the mic-type shit.
- This was one of the last songs we did. We had the beat and we were sitting there just vibing to the beat. We didnt have a hook for. We were in a session with U-God with the beat rocking. It was True Master, U-God, and then Raekwon came through. Rae hopped on this song. Rae laid his verse to the beat first. We didnt even have a hook. He did the verse and told us to just go from there. Once Raekwon laid it, we were sitting there like, "We need a hook."
I did my verse, and then when I finished, U-God was like, "Yall niggas is intellectuals rhyming professionals." He said that on some talking shit. I was like, "Thats the hook!" U-God got into the booth and said, "Intellectual, rhyming professionals." That was the hook. 60 came and laid his verse. U-God wasnt on the album but he wanted to get on it so he wrote his verse right there in the studio. He laid his verse and that was it. We had one more song to do and we were done with the album.
Five Arch Angels
- This song was done when we were signed with Priority and we had switched labels, so we had to re-record it. Songs like "No Love Without Hate" and "Soldiers of Darkness" couldnt be on the album. I was like, "Fuck that, Im going to jack this shit and use it as the outro." Niggas got upset because they wanted to hear the whole song. I meet niggas to this day that ask me why "Five Arch Angels" wasnt on the first album. This is the birth certificate of the Sunz of Man. It was Shabaaz the Disciple, Prodigal Sunn, Hell Razah, Killah Priest, and 60-Second Assassin. This is one of the main songs that has all five of us on it. The title came from Priest, Shabaaz, and 60. We were talking about The Scriptures, flipping…when 4th Disciple played the beat, it sounded so holy. That was a holy day. It should go down as a holiday the day we recorded this for Sunz of Man.
We were building, Bibles were out, 60 was singing...60 goes into these moods where hell be singing. He went into the booth and sang over the whole track. 4th went in there to record him and he mixed it down to where 60s vocals were singing along with the beat. We were all going in right after each other. 60 did the first verse and he came in killing it. We were like, "Oh shit, its on now." You might get cut in a studio session with us because were all sharp. This became the B-Side to "Soldiers of Darkness." We let the fans know that we didnt forget them and we slapped it on as the outro.
Hell Razah:
I would say "The Last Shall Be First" is the most classic version of Sunz of Man. Its like The Bible. If you dont have this, then you dont know shit about what were talking about. All of our fans know that this is our most classical record. So much love was on this album. We had Earth, Wind, and Fire, RZA, Wyclef, Method Man, ODB, Raekwon, U-God...We were really in a zone at that time. I even feel that we gave a spark to Nas off of this. His album was "It Was Written" and we had a song called "As It Was Written." A lot of people that really know about us had to get a spark from us from this album. This album is on some real spiritual shit. Its not so righteous where youll feel that were a bunch of pussies. I would say it was "street righteousness." We had a real respect for this shit. Everybody can tell were kicking some real shit. Everybody at the time was trying to make some real dance shit. Canibus came out around this time and we battled him. We battled a lot of niggas. Sunz of Man is very well-respected. If you dont have this album, well, you probably cant even get the record now.
Were working on an album of all our classic records. Were going to put that out. Its going to have "Soldiers of Darkness," "No Love Without Hate," and a whole bunch of songs that you didnt hear. Itll have songs off of "Saviorz Day." Its going to be a limited edition. Its going to be for the fans. Were doing this shit for the people that are mad they never got all these songs on one album. Thats going to be like The Torah.
This album has a lot of shit. We affected a lot of people. Theres a lot of people rhyming like us now. Were not mad at the biting. You cant bite spirituality. We even went to Rikers Island to promote this album. We kept it gangster with this album.
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Whatever happened to 'go outside and play'?
(CNN)"Parental competition" has sent American families into a frenzy of overscheduling activities for their kids. And out of fear, we're depriving them of what childhood should be -- a time of freedom and character-building. Our neighborhoods, once the classic microcosm of a free America, have devolved into little more than supervised "dorms."
Those were the sentiments behind many passionate responses to my column, "Overscheduled kids, anxious parents," about the conundrum facing millions of parents like me: Determining how many, and which, activities in which to enroll our kids. On CNN.com, Facebook, and Twitter, readers responded in droves.
They were largely in agreement. With children penned in by too much structure, lacking the chance and encouragement to "go out and play," make up their own games and use their imaginations, we're hurting them, readers said.
"Most of this movement is fueled by parental competition," said the CNN.com comment with the most "likes," posted under the name "Coco Bear."
"An 8-year-old going to school, taking piano, swimming, quantum physics and ninja training on the weekend is, more than anything, a future psychologist's client," she wrote, adding that when the child's adult life "doesn't turn out to be as grandiose as mom and dad forced him/her to believe," it will be evident that what he or she had really needed as a child were playtime, "friendships and positive examples."
Just about everywhere I've gone since the column published, people have stopped me to say they agree with a clinical psychologist I quoted, who argued that hectic schedules are damaging American families. Many also agree with a trainer who said kids should wait until they're 11 or 12 to join league sports.
In our Facebook discussion, Gary Simmons wrote that organized sports "are good for kids, but not if that's the only time they play. Playing pickup games, with no parent around overcoaching and killing the fun, is how kids develop passion and instincts for sports. It's when they develop their game. The inner-city athlete has changed the way basketball is played today. They grew up playing on their own."
Get over the fear
Many commenters said nervous parents are keeping kids from an important childhood rite -- the chance to play outdoors without the feeling that adults have to watch over them every second to keep them safe.
"I had free reign over a two square block area," CNN commenter Lebowski 113 wrote of his childhood. "As long as I could hear my parents calling from the yard, I was good."
Now, because of threats real or imaged, "people don't let their kids wander around," he laments. "Neighborhoods are just dorms with trees."
Some commenters pushed the "free-range kids" movement.
Have we entered an era of "free-range" lifestyles for chickens but not our own kids?
Don't miss out on the conversation we're having at CNN Living. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook for the latest stories and tell us what's influencing your life.
Lenore Skenazy, who blogs at Free-Range Kids, rails against "out-of-control parents who are so overprotective that they can't let their kids, aged 8 to 6, do things like walk to school, use the microwave or even play in the front yard."
Like millions of parents, I understand both sides.
Growing up, I always knocked on the neighbors' doors or answered mine, and a group of us kids would run around, play and explore. I don't remember ever feeling afraid.
But as a parent to two little boys (the oldest is in kindergarten), I am protective and don't like to let them out of my sight.
Crime statistics don't back up a notion that kids are in tremendous danger of being kidnapped off the street. But as parents, we're more aware of the danger than previous generations were.
Play dates: Part of the problem?
While many of the comments were what I expected, I was surprised to see a bunch slamming the idea of "play dates" -- a standard part of how modern American child-rearing works.
"Even the simple act of playing has been taken away from children and put on mommy's schedule in the form of 'play dates,' " wrote Cory Dorsey.
"Something that should be spontaneous and free is now being rigidly planned. When does a kid ever get to sit in the yard with a stick anymore?"
Eve Ross' kids do.
"My husband and I have been swimming against the current for the past 13 years," says the mom of two in Raleigh, North Carolina.
"We heavily promote sitting outside under the trees and watching the leaves fall, making up games, painting and reading. I can't begin to tell you how viciously we were attacked by other parents telling us how sorry they felt for our children because they were so deprived and would be so behind the other kids as they grew up. ... Turns out just the opposite is true. Our kids are grounded, thoughtful, excellent problem-solvers, incredibly creative, extremely well read and never bored. They are calm, meditative and most importantly, happy.
In defense of staying busy
Some commenters spoke up in support of busy kids.
"If you start an activity early in life, you will be able to enter through the entry level classes along with your peers. Start at age 12, with the peer pressure of looking awkward at doing something, will most likely stop a child from pursuing the activity in front of others," argued a mother who wanted to use just her first name, Tamara.
Enrolling your kids in various activities may "sound crazy" when put into a list, but it's about providing "a taste" of "the variety of the amazing opportunities that are out there," she said.
And a commenter using the name Odra wrote, "A lot of kids will simply end up spending their entire afternoon playing video games if you don't put them in sports, etc."
It's a Catch-22.
Many parents like me, whose kids just have activities a couple of days a week, love to take our kids outside and have them knock on doors to play with friends and do whatever they come up with. But there are too few days in which they and their friends are home and free at the same time.
So scheduled activities help fill a social need.
"Without scheduling," Odra says sadly, "there would be nobody there to play with."


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Meeting Notes 2013 03 05
You should read the meeting instructions forthwith!
These are the notes from the The 256th Meeting of Noisebridge.
Note-taker: User:Malaclyps
Moderator: User:Schoen
It is the zeroth meeting of Noisebridge! We have overflowed! Noone understands how everything can be built and set up when we've never had a meeting before!
Introductions =
Seth was the secretary. He is happy Danny is a co-worker again.
Miloh is happy this is the 256th meeting.
Tom has a new job. He is terrified! He has to make everyone anonymous!
Snail is anonymous.
Danny is typing this.
Nick is trying to get his book up on createspace.
Mike is living out of the area. He is a technowanderer. He is not a stock clerk, not a quartermaster, not an ombudsman.
Cliff, 32, Madison Wisconsin. Ragamuffin.
Carlos, I wrote COBOL and Pascal for profit. In personal time, I write Perl and Go. Supervising Mischief with a TV repair.
Philipe, not from here, but happy to be here.
Mischief is trying to fix a TV.
Nthmost is digitising the hobo rune system.
Tony has no intention of attending the meeting, but now he is surrounded and it is too late to escape now.
Leif has a ballot box.
Brandon is a computer engineer.
Ron is new. Big fan of co-op businesses. Helping to set up co-ops.
Kyle is a student. Studying the space.
JC is a hacker!
Dan new here, here a lot. Contributing random analyses of Noisebridge.
Rob still new to hacking. Trying to clean up.
Monad is a tinkerer.
Ken was in London hackspace. First iOS app was completed! It's a card game! Because moving rectangles is easy (and cool!).
Short announcements and events
It is the AGM. We have celebratory chocolate, to take away of the taste of appeasing the state. California Secretary of State, this is YOUR NIGHT!
Cliff had a sad moment due to financial aid, and is stepping away for a bit.
Leif announces the Post-Waste Nexus, a new non-profit coop organization to recycle and refurbish computer equipment. We meet 6.30PM on Mondays.
On the 23rd, 2PM at Langton Labs, CryptoParty 2 is happening. Know someone who needs crypto --bring them along!
JC has been working on a hackerspace in the north bay. Found a half-acre space in San Rafael. Building out. Anybody who knows anybody in the area, get in touch.
Nick is trying to find out more about drones from the city of San Francisco.
Membership Binder
- The name of the applicant, the week of their application, and their sponsors.
Financial Report
- Funds in bank: $11846.60
- Noisetor balance: $624.10
Consensus items
Proposals from last week
(Add any items which pass or are blocked to the Consensus Items History page.)
Proposals for next week
(Add any new items for consensus to the Current Consensus Items page.)
Discussion Notes
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The current nightly composes can be found here: [http://ppc.koji.fedoraproject.org/stage/f18-latest-nightly/ppc64/ F18 latest compose]
=== Fedora 18
=== Fedora 18 Checklists ===
[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora 18 Checklist]
=== Fedora 18 Alpha Release notes ===
=== Fedora 18 Alpha Release notes ===
Revision as of 11:56, 8 November 2012
- 1 PowerPC/POWER Special Interest Group
- 1.1 Members
- 1.2 Fedora 18
- 1.3 Fedora 17
- 1.4 Fedora 16
- 1.5 Previous Fedora for Power releases
- 1.6 Fedora rebuild efforts
- 1.7 The PowerPC koji build system
- 1.8 Building packages on the PowerPC koji build system
- 1.9 PPC Shell access for debugging
- 1.10 Documentation
- 1.11 Work needed
- 1.12 ppc64p7 subarch
- 1.13 Links
PowerPC/POWER Special Interest Group
- IRC: #fedora-ppc on irc.freenode.net
- Mailing List: fedora-ppc mailing list
- Adrian Reber
- Karsten Hopp (IBM Power 730 Express Server, PowerMac G5)
- Jiri Skala
- Dan Horák (IBM IntelliStation 275)
- David Aquilina (release engineer)
- Mark Hamzy
- Brent Baude
- Gustavo Luiz Duarte
Fedora 18
Fedora 18 for Power is currently in development. The schedule is following the one for primary as closely as possible Fedora 18 schedule. As usual we have architecture specific blocker tracking bugs open for Alpha, Beta and RC:
Fedora 18 PowerPC Alpha blocker tracker
Fedora 18 PowerPC Beta blocker tracker
Fedora 18 PowerPC RC blocker tracker
The current nightly composes can be found here: F18 latest compose
Fedora 18 Beta Checklists
Fedora 18 Alpha Release notes
Fedora 18 Alpha PowerPC release notes
Fedora 18 Alpha mirrors
Fedora 18 Alpha PowerPC mirrorlist
Fedora 17
Fedora 17 for Power was announced on June 14th, 2012. Please see the release notes for additional details or download it from your closest mirror. It has been most extensively tested on IBM Power systems, but is also known to work on Apple Mac G5 systems.
Fedora 16
Fedora 16 for PPC64 was released Dec. 23th, 2011. It is available on several mirrors which are listed here.
It is known to work on the new Power7 machines and on PowerMac G5 with > 1Gb RAM. Installations on machines with less RAM might work, but that is untested yet (feedback welcome).
A fresh installation for F16 if you're currently using a pre-release is highly recommended so that you can verify that all reported and closed as fixed bugs have really been addressed in the final F16 release.
If the installation fails, here is a HOWTO for an install that requires you to have a system with an older RHEL or Fedora installation and that doesn't use the usual anaconda installer.
On the mirrors are also install media and packages for PPC (32bit) Those are completely untested and any bugreports without patches attached that fix the issue will most likely be deferred atm as we're concentrating on 64bit as that's the only hardware that the developers currently have. We have to rely on the community to provide fixes for 32bit problems.
If you want to help out with testing, please report any problems on IRC or in bugzilla (make sure to set the architecture to 'powerpc'). Feedback about installations on older hardware such as 32bit PowerMac G4 is appreciated, but as we're focusing on 64bit machines it might take some time to fix 32bit issues unless patches are attached to the bugreports.
Previous Fedora for Power releases
The last Fedora release for PPC before F16 was Fedora 12 and can be found at http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/ppc/iso/
Fedora rebuild efforts
There are currently efforts ongoing to recompile all packages and prepare a F-17 release.
This is the current status of the package rebuild:
Rebuild problems, TODO list
- Eclipse and all the packages that depend on it aren't available yet. Work is in progress to bring Eclipse on the PowerPC platform.
- yaboot is only available on 32bit PPC which means we currently need some hacks for 64bit boot images. This won't change as the PPC firmware seems to be 32bit only. In the long term yaboot is supposed to be replaced by grub2, at the moment it is still required to boot from DVD.
- The Power7 optimized glibc package (glibc.ppc64p7) is currently broken and will render the system unusable as soon as it it installed.
The PowerPC koji build system
All official Fedora PowerPC packages will be built by the koji build system at the PowerPC koji hub
All non-scratch packages that haven't been deleted by the garbage-collector are available at the package storage, scratch builds can be found for a few days at the scratch repository
Building packages on the PowerPC koji build system
Everyone with a Fedora account can do at least scratch builds of packages on the PowerPC koji build system, package maintainers who can check changes into the git repositories can build updated packages that will later on end up in the distribution.
Doing scratch builds
After running fedora-packager-setup from the fedora-packager rpm
ppc-koji build --scratch f17 yourpkg.src.rpm
These builds will be removed from koji automatically after a while.
'real' builds
'Real' builds will be pulled into the package repositories and into the install images, unless they got replaced by later versions. After running fedora-packager-setup from the fedora-packager rpm
ppc-koji build f17 "$(fedpkg giturl)"
fedpkg build --target=f17 (this works only when you have a symlink from ~/.koji/ppc-config to ~/.koji/config)
(currently broken: bugzilla 787776 )
PPC Shell access for debugging
David Woodhouse (dwmw2), Josh Boyer (jwb) or Karsten Hopp (Kick_) may provide you access to a PPC box for build debugging purposes. Just send them an e-mail with an request and a public SSH key.


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Job Seekers Making Lemonade Out of Lemons
By Debra Wheatman, Glassdoor.com
What do the FAA, Cisco, Merck & Co., HSBC and NASA have in common?
Sadly, they are all organizations that are currently experiencing the pain of mass layoffs. It might surprise you to know that even during the most vibrant years of the dot com era, large corporations frequently had layoffs due to restructurings and reorganizations. In case you're interested in getting the actual numbers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has a section of their website dedicated to tracking mass layoff statistics.
While most recent economic trends are not as encouraging as they could be, you will be pleased to know that according to a survey conducted by Harris in Q1 of 2011, three out of five workers who were laid off last year have gotten new jobs. Whether you are concerned about layoff or simply want to make a career transition, these numbers should bring renewed optimism.
The glass is more than half full. So what is it about the folks who got jobs that may have made the difference?
• 60% changed their career. If you find your current career path is limiting, re-invent yourself. Many candidates come to me in order to reposition their résumé so they can cast a wider net in the job market. By creating a résumé highlighting transferable skills, they have identified and secured new opportunities.
• One third of those surveyed relocated. If you haven't thought about moving, it may be time to consider this option. Even if you live on one side of town and have to move to the other side of town, it may be worth the sacrifice depending upon your unique situation. You will have to weigh the pros and cons of course; to the extent that you can, relocating for a better position might further expand your sphere of opportunities for future growth and development.
• While 43% of those surveyed did take a pay cut, 23% actually got a pay increase. Losing your job to a layoff doesn't necessarily mean you have to make less money, but being open to this possibility will give you more flexibility in the job market. What is it they say about one step back and two steps ahead? I have coached many people over the years that were laid off; they were happier in the long-term because it ultimately led to career advancement.
I think so much of how we approach a job search in a down economy has to do with attitude. I don't deny that it can be a challenge to remain positive. Your proactive approach, focus on improving your personal brand, and doing all you can to present yourself to employers as a highly qualified candidate, will drive your ultimate success.
If you are unhappy in your current role, at risk for layoff, or have already left your most recent position, look at your situation as a challenge rather than a problem; you can rise to the occasion and be among the job winners. While making a career transition can be stressful, it might also be an opportunity to grow.
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Nicholas Kirkwood has made his mark on the fashion world with heels that are not just statement-making but downright heart-stopping. And while we can't say this is the first time we've constructed an entire outfit around a single pair of shoes, the newest range of designs for the pre-fall collection may just be worth revamping our entire closets.
The 56 designs for the Nicholas Kirkwood collection start at chunky flatform sandals and flat booties, building to single-soled, super-spikey, lace-lined heels and climaxing with the label's famously sky-high platforms (perhaps some of the only pairs we would willingly teeter-totter in). Plus, in addition to the new styles, Kirkwood has also teamed with the London-based master of feminine florals, Erdem Moralioğlu, for an unexpected use of delicate prints on powerful, hefty heels.
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Skagit river behind autumn foliage.
Bridge with Open-wide hut (Middle section used to open wide to allow boats through-the controls were in the hut).
ditto, different angle.
I love mornings and sunrises. I wish my little point & shoot could have captured the vapors coming from the surface of the coffee in the crisp morning air.
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I went for a nice ride yesterday in an attempt to find a nice photo. It was probably in the mid 40's when I was out. I DID see one or two other riders out who were not wearing any helmet (or just a peanut shell) who had that "I'm cool!" grimace on their face... or was that "Please send for help, my face is frozen in this position!"?
Anyhow, I wasn't going to post my photo result, because it didn't come out how I wanted. I was attempting a "wide open road" shot. I took several (at different angles and not all at ground level) but none of them gave that "road goes on forever with no cars on it" look I was going for. FWIW, the road DID go on for quite a long time, with no traffic on it, through wide open farm fields. All the corn is down and the only thing growing is winter wheat... and it's not that tall, yet. Here is one of the shots I took. Rather uninspired, I think (gives me a good reason to try again next week):
OK I'll confess that this one came from the weekend before the one of this assignment, but it'll have to do:
"If you can't fix it with a hammer, it's electrical." -somebody's dad
Photo Assignment: Weekend 10/27/07 "Open Wide"
Photo Assignment: Weekend 10/19/07 "Shadow of a Doubt"
Photo Assignment: Weekend 10/13/07 "Group Dynamic."
Photo Assignment: Weekend 10/06/07 "Blue."
Photo Assignment: Weekend 9/29 "Evolution."
Photo Assignment: Weekend 9/22/07 "Balance."
Photo Assignment: Weekend 9/15/07 "Where I Want to Be."
Photo Assignment: Weekend of 9/8/07 "A long way to go".
Awesome pictures this week. They seem to get better and better. Nice job folks.
I hope Tom gets some help reviewing these photos. About 60 photos this week, and at ten minutes per photo we are talking a bunch of work.
I enjoyed some of the in depth reviews of some photos of past weeks by various reviewers.
Jim Klas
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Enjoy the travel photos at: klasjm.smugmug.com
We all could help by submitting just one photo.
Here's my submission for the week. I'll spare Tom a little work and offer my own critique. Others (including Tom) are welcome to add their remarks, too. I shot this on my way to church, literally while walking out the back door of my house. It just struck me as "wide open" because of the space between the terrestrial (my neighbor's roof) and the moon were rather symbolic and obvious—and you can't get much more open than that. I have a few different angles of this shot, but this one was the first exposure and I'll leave it at that. I wanted to do a couple things with this shot: capture something appropriate to the theme, capture something simple that required little effort and capture something common in a somewhat less common view (relative to the theme). The trick and flaw of this shot was trying to capture the color of the morning sun, which was still yellowish (on the house) while keeping the moon and sky exposed properly. It's under exposed about 1 stop. It was shot at ISO 100, 1/320 at f/4.8 with my P&S camera fully zoomed out to about an equivalent of 210 mms. I didn't use a tripod so I had to shoot at least 1/200th or above to minimize motion blur from handholding. The proper exposure would have been about 1/125th. So to make this shot technically correct, I would have needed a more open aperture, which wasn't available because f/4.8 is the max on my camera, so my best option should have been increasing the ISO to 200. And as a side note I have no excuse for the under exposure because this was shot facing northwest and the northern sky on a cloudless sunlit day has about 18% reflectance, which is about the same as a grey card—I just was in a hurry and not paying attention.
Compositionally I was just aiming for the simple geometry of the round moon and triangular roof line, while balancing (poorly) the contrasting yellowish sunlight against a clear blue sky.
That's my story…and I'm sticking to it.
And excellent photos everyone else! It was a banner week.
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Final Des Moines superintendent candidate makes pitch
Board deciding on new chief
Could the future leader of the Des Moines Public Schools be living and working nearly 4,000 miles away?
Jim Browder is the superintendent of the Anchorage, Alaska, School District, and he was in town Wednesday night to meet with the public and Des Moines school officials.
Browder was the last of three candidates to be interviewed, and tonight the school board was meeting behind closed doors, hoping to pick the next leader of Iowa's largest school district.
"I'm really excited about the opportunity," Browder said. "Everything I do is around children and working to make sure what we're doing provides them with equal access to opportunity, but more importantly, a quality experience."
Besides Browder, the other finalists are current interim Superintendent Thomas Ahart and District of Columbia Chief Academic Officer Carey Wright. District leaders said a decision might be reached Wednesday night, and a contract offer extended shortly thereafter. They said an official announcement could come Thursday or Friday.
Browder said his interest in Des Moines is twofold. First and foremost, he has a desire to increase student knowledge and academic achievement. He'd also like to be closer to his family.
"I've got a daughter that lives in Atlanta, no doing well health-wise ... and one of my grandsons," he said. "So I wanted to be a two-hour plane ride away as opposed to 15 hours, if I had to get there quickly."
In Alaska, Browder helped design an ambitious education plan, setting goals of 90 percent student proficiency in reading, writing and math, along with a 90 percent graduation rate.
"I'm going to be an advocate for their children," Browder said. "And I'm going to do my part to assure they get a quality experience, so that they're college- and career-ready when they walk out of our door. They'll be proud of the education they get, and I'll be proud to be a part of it."


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MARS HILL, N.C. – Four members of the King cycling team competed at this weekend's Mars Hill Cyclocross event, hosted by Mars Hill College. In her first collegiate race, Megan Rogers rode to victory in the women's B-class race. All four were competing in their first collegiate cyclocross races in their careers and finished strongly in their respective races.
Rogers, a freshman from Soddy Daisy, Tenn., took first place overall in the Collegiate Women's B-class cyclocross event on Saturday, Dec. 1. The difficulty of the course and its conditions forced many of her fellow competitors to drop from the race though Rogers battled through and won the event in her first outing with King. Rogers recently was cleared to compete following an injured endured during preseason training, adding quality to the win.
Julian Cabra (Medelin, Columbia) and freshman Reuben Dupre (Mobile, Ala.) both competed in the Collegiate Men's 'B' race and finished fourth and sixth, respectively. Cabra raced at the head of the field and was on pace to win his division. However, on the last lap the sophomore took a corner too hard and went down. He got back into the race and finished fourth overall despite the setback.
In Dupre's first collegiate race, he finished sixth overall. It was the first competitive cyclocross races for both riders.
Casey Stallard (Gr.) competed in the Collegiate Men's 'A' class. The Bristol, Tenn. native jumped out to a strong start but suffered a mechanical failure with the shifter of his bicycle preventing him from finishing the race. Click here for the race flyer.
King Cycling will return to action on Dec. 8-9 when they co-host the Cobra-Tornado Classic with Virginia Intermont College. The Collegiate Women A/B race will begin at 9 a.m. while the Men 'A' and 'B' races will begin at 10 a.m.
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The city of Atlanta has a reputation of promise and opportunity in the American ummah (the Islamic brotherhood and sisterhood), particularly for African American Muslims. Indeed, many leave cities such as Chicago and Philadelphia to join the Atlanta ummah, known for its African American Muslim professionals, its progressive African American mosque communities, and its Muslim private schools.
The educated class of African American Muslims in Atlanta makes it an interesting and important city to analyze in a study of ethnic relations in the American ummah. Given the popular image of a substantial number of prosperous black Atlantans, we might imagine that African American Muslims are more likely to live in Atlanta than in Chicago in the same neighborhoods or share the same professional networks with affluent South Asian Muslims. To a slight degree, they are. But African American and South Asian Muslims in Atlanta are more segregated than integrated, and much of this is attributed to the city's history of racial residential patterns. As it did decades ago, race more than class still determines where African Americans live in Atlanta.
As Atlanta's black population grew in the 1950s and 1960s, city officials became concerned about "the prospect of a Negro majority in the city."1 In response, they pushed African Americans into concentrated areas and situated roads and highways as barriers to the north neighborhoods into which whites fled. Consequently, Atlanta has since developed into a metropolis of "two separate cities": its north side, predominantly white and thriving with new businesses, and its south side, majority black and struggling for economic gains. Although income does play a role in residential patterns, it is more in terms of dividing poor and middle-class blacks than integrating blacks and whites.2
The widening gap between poor and middle-class blacks reveals the persistence of race and class inequalities in the city. In 2004, Atlanta's poverty rate was 27.8 percent, placing it among the five US cities with the highest poverty rates. Moreover, its child poverty rate was 48.1 percent, leading all other cities. The overwhelming majority of its poor residents are African American; Atlanta's black poverty rate was 35 percent in the 1990s.3 The mismatch between the alarming poverty rates and the perceptions of Atlanta as a thriving city for African Americans reflects what social scientists call the Atlanta paradox: "the poverty of its public housing versus the sprawling riches of its suburbs." Even though African Americans have made major economic advancements in the city, whites as a whole have made far more, and many African Americans have made no gains in education or employment. Black unemployment is more than three times higher than that of whites, with the removal of jobs from African American areas partly contributing to this disparity.4
Increasingly, African Americans in Atlanta live in the suburbs and, in recent years, the north suburbs. In 1980, 82 percent of Atlanta's black population lived on the city's south side or in the black south suburbs, and only 9.4 percent lived in the north suburbs. Then, in the 1990s, Atlanta's residential patterns noticeably shifted. By 1996 the percentage of African Americans living in the north suburbs of Atlanta had risen to 25.2 percent.5 In Atlanta, high-income African Americans have a greater, though still limited, access to residence in traditionally white suburbs. In 2000, Atlanta ranked first of all US metropolises in the percentage (87.2 percent) of African American households with annual incomes above $40,000 living in suburbs.6 Still, the outstanding majority of African American suburbanization in Atlanta occurs in majority-black neighborhoods.
Ethnic Spaces and Flows in the Atlanta Ummah
Atlanta's African American and South Asian Muslims tend to live and worship in separate spaces. But important features of the Atlanta ummah landscape have facilitated some encounters and interactions between the two groups: (1) the close proximity between Atlanta's major immigrant mosque and the city's foremost African American mosques and neighborhoods and (2) the growing number of suburban mosques in neighborhoods in which both African Americans and South Asians live. Mosques stand out as the most vital nodes of Muslim networks in the Atlanta ummah. Mosque communities, both urban and suburban, provide a helpful window into understanding how Atlanta Muslims negotiate ethnic spaces.
Ethnic spaces in the Atlanta ummah reflect the Atlanta paradox. A substantial number of African American Muslims, perhaps more than 50 percent, are middle income and live in suburbs throughout the city. However, the two oldest African American mosques in Atlanta, the Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam and the Community Masjid of Atlanta, are located in the south inner city, in areas known for black poverty. More recently, though, these areas have been experiencing economic growth as a result of urban renewal and gentrification.
The Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam is the city's largest congregation of African American Muslims. My childhood mosque, the Atlanta Masjid, was originally a Nation of Islam temple. In 1974, the Black Muslims bought a funeral home and transformed it into a temple and, a year later, into a WDM-affiliated [W.D. Mohammed] mosque, replacing pews with green carpet. Located southeast of downtown Atlanta, the new mosque stood half a mile from the East Lake Meadows public-housing project, a community so rampant with crime, drugs, and violence that it became known as "Little Vietnam." In the early 1990s, the Atlanta Masjid, determined to help revitalize the area through Muslim community life, purchased and renovated property on an abandoned lot across form East Lake Meadows, moving our mosque site even closer to Little Vietnam. I remember walking during my teen years through the streets of East Lake Meadows with community members, holding signs with slogans against violence and drugs. A few years after we embarked on this project, Tom Cousins, a white local real estate developer and philanthropist, led plans for major urban renewal in the area, which led to the demolition of East Lake Meadows in 1995 and the construction of quality mixed-income town homes, apartments, a YMCA, and a charter school. Urban renewal and gentrification have substantially changed the racial landscape of East Atlanta as more whites move into the area, displacing many of the original residents.
As Atlanta Masjid Muslims find themselves in the midst of a gentrified community after initiating their own efforts to transform the black inner city, so have members of the second oldest African American Atlanta mosque. The Community Masjid of Atlanta, established in 1976, sits southwest of downtown, eight miles west of the Atlanta Masjid, in an area known as the West End. As an upwardly mobile community, West End Muslims also live the paradox of economic growth alongside urban blight in Atlanta. As Nadim Ali, a committed member of the Community Masjid mosque, told me, "We live in the West End because we chose to live there. I could have easily lived somewhere in the suburbs, but it is best to go to the depressed areas to bring Islam."
The way in which a substantial number of middle-income African American Muslims remain connected to mosques in inner-city areas and to the struggles of surrounding neighborhoods reflects the Atlanta paradox of upward mobility against sustained poverty. The persistence of race and class inequalities in Atlanta is evident also in the tendency of South Asian Muslims to have higher incomes than middle-income African Americans.7 The majority of South Asians live in Atlanta's white north suburbs, where African American Muslims have begun to move only since the 1990s. The major South Asian mosque in Atlanta, Al-Farooq Masjid, is located downtown, less than nine miles from both the Atlanta Masjid and the Community Masjid. Although majority South Asian, Al-Farooq mosque officials boast that Muslims from more than fifty countries around the world worship there. The close proximity of all three communities signifies the possibility for African American and immigrant interaction against the backdrop of race and class divisions.
The first majority-immigrant mosque in Atlanta, Al-Farooq Masjid, was established in 1980 in a neighborhood called Home Park, not far from the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology, which a number of Muslim immigrants attended. Many of them lived in the city, near campus, but by the late 1980s, most of these families began moving outside the central city to Atlanta suburbs.8 At the same time, new immigrant families were moving to the Atlanta region, from places such as Chicago and New York, and also buying homes in the suburbs. To keep pace with this suburban growth, various immigrant mosques have been established in the north suburbs since the 1990s. Yet many suburban South Asian Muslims still have strong ties with Al-Farooq as "the first masjid," as one Indian woman described it, and continue to attend there on occasion, particularly for 'eid prayers and to maintain ties with family friends. For others with no mosque in their suburban neighborhood, Al-Farooq remains the closest.9
Urban Atlanta will remain a major center for suburban South Asian Muslims, owing to Al-Farooq's "New Masjid Project." Since demolishing the original Al-Farooq building in November 2003, builders have begun constructing a grand mosque to cost $5.8 million. The Al-Farooq New Masjid Project is the first Atlanta mosque built on this scale, complete with a main floor, a basement, a mezzanine, a parking deck, a musalla (prayer area), and a library. The grand-scale construction of Al-Farooq comes at the same time that the city of Atlanta has opened one of its finest developments, Atlantic Station, only blocks away from the Al-Farooq site. The finished mosque, with its prominent golden dome and minarets, will fit in perfectly with Atlanta's upscale complex of shops, offices, and townhouses, attracting some of the city's wealthiest residents. Indeed the urban renewal in all three major urban mosque locations indicates the flow of various racial, ethnic, and class groups in and around ummah spaces and represents the continued possibility for an urban ummah across ethnic lines.
Mosques as Ethnic and Gendered Spaces
I interviewed women connected with several Atlanta mosques, but I spent most of my time at the Atlanta Masjid and Masjid Rahmah, a north suburban mosque established in the 1990s.10 During the month of Ramadan, I went to one of these two mosques almost every night for iftar and night prayers. I focused on the Atlanta Masjid because it is the largest African American mosque, and Masjid Rahmah because it is representative of the suburban South Asian mosque experience.
Mosques are not only ethnic spaces, they are also gendered spaces. Men greatly outnumber women in most American mosques because, according to majority fiqh rulings, only men are obligated to attend the Friday congregational prayer (jum'ah). But the jum'ah prayer is only one index of women's mosque attendance.
Mosques also are gendered spaces in the way in which men and women are separated within them. Men and women worship in separate sections to avoid physical contact between male and female bodies, as congregational prayer requires that worshipers stand, bow, and prostrate in tight lines as if they were one unit. Arms, thighs, and feet necessarily touch, a condition of prayer expected to engender a sense of solidarity among worshippers. This symbol of unity, however, could easily cause discomfort if genders were mixed in the prayer lines, women's thighs touching those of male strangers. Many Muslim women and men offer this rationale in their defense of gender separation.
But on the question of how mosques should observe gender segregation, American Muslim perspectives vary, as do those of the mosques that they attend. In some mosques, men and women share the same prayer hall without any partition or curtain dividing them. In this case, women usually pray in a section behind the men. Most hadith reports indicate this as the gender practice that the Prophet Muhammed endorsed in his own mosque in Medina. Many mosque participants support this practice not only because of the reported sunnah but also because they view a separate women's section in the rear as the most logical gender arrangement. Instead of viewing women's position in the rear as a symbol of men's supremacy over women, as many non-Muslim visitors interpret it, many Muslim women prefer this arrangement because it prevents men from gazing at their elevated rear parts when they prostrate.
A second arrangement, however, removes this appearance of gender hierarchy. In this less common setup, men and women pray alongside each other, men on one side of a curtain or divider and women on the other side. Women occupy the front, middle and rear prayer rows on their side, as men do on theirs. Supporters of women's rights increasingly advocate these two possibilities: (1) women worshipping behind men in a shared prayer space or (2) women praying next to men in an adjacent section. A minority supports a third possibility, mixed-gender prayer lines, but none of the women I interviewed expressed a desire for this system.
Makeshift mosques like stores, office spaces, and houses converted into mosques find it especially difficult to accommodate worshipers. The smaller women's presence means that women are relegated to the smaller areas, and in makeshift mosques, this often means small corners or bedrooms. But even in the plans for newly designed mosques, built from the ground up, smaller spaces continue to be set aside for women. On the one hand, it makes sense to allocate less space to women if they are not attending the mosque. On the other, designating less space for women reinforces the expectation that they not attend, marginalizes them so that they will not attend, and perpetuates the excuse that they do not attend.
American Muslim women, however, are making it harder for mosque officials to use the "sisters do not attend" excuse. At the first jum'ah prayer of a newly built mosque in Atlanta, women overfilled their prayer space. It was one-fourth the size of the men's . Women are reclaiming their place in mosques, including times besides jum'ah.11 They attend the mosque not only for worship but also for social networks and "for pedagogy and learning." They serve as "teachers, study group leaders, fund raisers, community leaders, social activists, and active participants in mosque worship."12 By choosing to participate in public worship, women must negotiate both ethnic spaces and the gender practices that often mark mosques as immigrant or African American.
Although women do not dominate either mosque spaces or the board meetings that determine their layout, they have increasingly asserted themselves in mosques, negotiating and transforming gender arrangements and norms. In considering the ways in which Muslim women in Atlanta carry out Islamic feminist practices as they negotiate ethnic spaces, we must continue to keep open our notions of agency, since women assert themselves in the context of multiple speaking positions. As they move and act based on various experiences, desires, and intentions, American Muslim women negotiate several manifestations of gender lines that compromise their full participation in the ummah and not just the mosque partition but also gender norms related to dress, voice, marital roles and responsibilities, divorce, and women's work.
About the Author
Jamillah Karim is associate professor of religious studies at Spelman College in Atlanta. American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah (New York University Press, 2009) is her first book. This essay is abridged from chapter five "Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movements across Atlanta Mosques". Dr. Karim's current research involves second-generation African American Muslims.
- 1. In May 1966, "the Atlanta Journal noted that 'civic leaders have registered concern that the non-white population inside city limits is increasing so rapidly that Negroes may constitute a majority within perhaps six years. To civic leaders the prospect of a Negro majority in the city holds serious sociological and political implications.'" See Ronald H. Bayor, Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 87.
- 2. Larry Keating, Atlanta: Race, Class, and Urban Expansion (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001), 8.
- 3. US Census Bureau, "Places within Unites States: R1701. Percent of People below Poverty Level in the Past 12 Months (For Whom Poverty Status is Determined): 2004," http://factfinder.census.gov/ (accessed July 16, 2007); US Census Bureau, "Places within the United States: R1701. Percent of Children under 18 Years Below Poverty Level in the Past 12 Months (For Whom Poverty Status is Determined): 2004," http://factfinder.census.gov/ (accessed July 16, 2007); Mark McArdle, "Poverty, Concentrated Poverty, and Urban Areas," National Urban League Policy Institute, May 19, 2006, http://www.nul.org/publications/policyinstitute/factsheet/PovertyFactSheet.doc (accessed July 16, 2007); Patricia J. Mays, "Middle Class Blacks Head to Atlanta," Associated Press, December 7, 1998, http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/ATL.HTM (accessed July 16, 2007); David L. Sjoquist, "The Atlanta Paradox: Introduction," in The Atlanta Paradox: A Volume in the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality, ed. David L. Sjoquist (New York: Russell Sage, 2000), 2.
- 4. Sjoquist, "The Atlanta Paradox," 1; Keating, Atlanta, 40, 34.
- 5. Truman A. Hartshorn and Keith R. Ihlanfeldt, "Growth and Change in Metropolitan Atlanta," in The Atlanta Paradox: A Volume in the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality, ed. David L. Sjoquist (New York: Russell Sage, 2000), 38–39.
- 6. Marc V. Levine, "The Two Milwaukees: Separate and Unequal," Center for Economic Development, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 2003, http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CED/pdf/two_milwaukee.pdf (accessed July 18, 2007).
- 7. In his study of Asian Indian immigrants in Atlanta in the 1980s, John Fenton found that Atlanta Indians reported incomes "much higher" than the avergae ($24,993) for all Indian families in the United States in the 1980s. During a time when the median income for American families was estimated as $19,917 (US Census 1980), 52 percent of the Asian Indians in his survey "reported annual family incomes of $40,000 or more, and 32.8 percent stated their income to be $50,000 or more. Nationally, the Census indicated that only 11.3 percent of Asian Indians earn over $50,000; but in Atlanta 12.4 percent in the survey reported family incomes over $75,000." The author notes that these figures are remarkable, especially given that "almost half had been in America five years or less at the time of the Census." See John Y. Fenton, Transplanting Religious Traditions: Asian Indians in America (New York: Praeger, 1988), 31.
- 8. "Indians who have been in America for some years tend to change residences from apartments in central Atlanta to homes in suburbia. In 1988 these families typically live in very new homes in new developments outside the interstate perimeter highway." Fenton,Transplanting Religious Traditions, 32.
- 9. These two trends support the 2000 American mosque survey findings: "Approximately 40% of mosque participants travel more than 15 minutes from their home to get to the mosque." Ihsan Bagby, Paul M. Perl, and Bryan T. Froehle, The Mosque in America: A National Portrait, a Report from the Mosque Study Project (Washington DC: Council on American-Islamic Relations, 2001), 16.
- 10. Masjid Rahmah is a pseudonym.
- 11. When we account for women's mosque attendance beyond jum'ah, the percentage of women's participation is higher than the jum'ah percentage. According to the American mosque study, 13 percent ofjum'ah participants in immigrant mosques are women; however, women make up 23 percent of total participants "associated" with the mosque. In WDM mosques, women represent 24 percent of Friday worshippers but 36 percent of participants associated with the mosque. In non-WDM African American mosques, they make up 17 percent of Friday participants but 25 percent of overall mosque participants. Actual women's participation is possibly higher given that criteria for "association and how survey respondents measured it are unclear. Bagby, "A Profile of African-American Masjids," 216.
- 12. The increase in women's mosque participation is not limited to the United States: "In recent times, Muslim women in a variety of contexts and settings are engaged in redefining their roles and presence in mosque based Islam." Shampa Mazumadar and Sanjoy Mazumadar, "In Mosques and Shrines: Women's Agency in Public Sacred Space." Journal of Ritual Studies 16, no. 2 (2002), 169; also see Saba Mahmood,Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005).


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Six Ways Your Body May Clue You In to Possible Health Problems
(NEW YORK) -- From the eyes and ears to the fingertips, the human body can offer small hints that reveal a lot about a person's health, some medical experts say.
Dr. Michael Wald, a holistic doctor in Mount Kisco, N.Y. who calls himself the "Blood Detective," said that people should pay attention to features like creases in their ears and the length of their arms because they can serve as clues to medical issues such as heart disease.
1. Ear Crease
A 74-year-old man with an increased risk for heart disease said that while he'd noticed the crease in his ear, he'd paid little to no attention to it.
"That diagonal earlobe crease that goes from the very bottom of the ear up in a diagonal fashion — it really is an enfolding of tissue and that is what is being associated with heart disease," Wald said.
One study found that 71 percent of people with that crease suffered from heart disease.
2. Ear Wax
Wald said that even ear wax has been linked to heart disease.
"We're basically born genetically with one of two different types of ear wax," he said. "There is a wet, sticky type and a dry, brittle type and if you are more of a dry, brittle type, you are at more of a risk of heart disease as opposed to the wet one."
Wald said the connection has something to do with the way the body handles oil and fat.
3. Five O'Clock Shadow
Wald said that the five o'clock shadow could mean that a man "probably will have a lower risk of cardiovascular risk in the future because that five o'clock is produced by testosterone. The more testosterone you have, the less risk of heart disease."
4. Arms and Legs
Arms shorter than 60 inches could signal an increased risk of heart disease.
And long arms have been associated with a chance of reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease. Doctors say they think it's linked to the embryo's exposure to different hormones like estrogen and testosterone.
Calves less than 13 inches around could also signal heart problems.
"Sometimes small calves reflect increased risk in circulation and increased risk in cardiovascular disease," Wald said.
5. 'Nail Clubbing'
Nail clubbing occurs when the tissue at the tips of the fingers start to cover the nail. Studies have shown that 80 percent of people with clubbing fingernails have serious illness, heart disease, lung disease or cancer.
6. Green Nasal Mucus
Green nasal mucus has been associated with a higher instance of heart disease. The green mucus contains a chemical that gives it that color. The chemical can damage tissues in the sinuses, in the lungs or in the heart.
Wald said that if a person had any of these traits, they should not panic.
"If you see something that you have just read or heard, take that to your doctor, and that might lead him or her to test you a little bit differently or question you a little bit differently, and then see what is really going on," he said.
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