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Leiman takes top honors in Boys 9-10 group, could earn trip to New York
MIAMI -- Ten-year-old Ryan Leiman is enjoying a dream weekend in South Florida.
He played catch with Marlins catcher Rob Brantly, competed as one of 22 kids in the MLB Pitch, Hit & Run Miami Championship on Saturday morning at Marlins Park, and earned top honors in the Boys 9-10 age group.
Leiman, a catcher, summed up his experience with just one word.
Leiman is eligible to compete at the Pitch, Hit & Run National Final at Citi Field in Flushing, N.Y., prior to the All-Star Home Run Derby on July 15.
All 30 MLB ballparks host a regional championship that determines first-place boys and girls winners in four separate age groups, ranging from 7-14. If Leiman's score ranks among the top three nationally in the Boys 9-10 age group, he'll earn his first trip to New York.
The 24 national finalists will be announced on June 30 on MLB Network.
"I'm very proud," said Bryan Leiman, Ryan's father. "It's beyond words to see him to do that. I knew he could do it. It was just a matter of getting it done. He's worked hard to get here."
Marlins manager Mike Redmond appeared briefly following the competition, taking a few pictures with the participants. Brantly also took a couple of photos with the kids.
While Redmond never competed in a contest like MLB Pitch, Hit & Run when he was younger, he reflected on his first experience at a Major League ballpark.
Growing up in Washington, Redmond attended Mariners games on little league days at the Kingdome in Seattle.
"[We would] get to see the turf -- all that stuff," Redmond said. "Back in the day, to me, that was the best stadium I had ever been in in my life. That's just the way I grew up. That's all I knew."
Brantly's first time on the field at a Major League stadium did not come until his junior year of high school, when he tried out for an Angels scouting team at Angel Stadium of Anaheim.
However, the Miami catcher said he identified with the kids competing at Marlins Park on Saturday.
"I wanted to be in the big leagues when I was five," Brantly said. "Anything else was just practice for me in my head. I was like, 'I'm ready to go with the big leaguers.'"


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Today I went to the Marine Equipment Trade Show (METS) in Amsterdam to check for new suitable products for single- and short handed racing.
A couple of products are worth mentioning:
- Life rafts:
Viking have a new improved line of Rescyou liferafts. Many small improvements, the main being a new reflective yellow canopy. Inside canopy is blue (new SOLAS requirement!) to decrease seasickness and there are windows now to enjoy the scenery outside. There are also curtains. They have a matching line of semi-custom survival suits (same reflective yellow and black combi).
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- AIS B transponders
Trueheading will have a new product on the market in February 2010, the AIS CTRX CARBON PLUS. Full AIS class B transponder with built in VHF splitter (no separate VHF antenna needed!) and supplied with external 16 channel WAAS/EGNOS compatible GPS receiver. Can be put in stealth mode (receive-only) with one push of a button. Price not yet known, but will be lower than current model AIS CTRX plus trueheading antenna splitter. Also available without splitter functionality.
- Emergency navigation lights
NaviSafe from Norway have a complete line of LED emergency navigation lights with matching mounting solutions. Lights can also be used as personal safety light or torch. The also supply a personal safety torch with normal and blinking option to be worn in the seasuit and used to attract attention of rescuers. Body of the torch is glow-in-the-dark so can also be used to create a calming down atmosphere in the childrens' cabin.

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These self-made millionaires and billionaires may have some expensive hobbies now, but they weren't always traveling the streets, skies and seas in luxury.
Click ahead and see how some of today's super rich went from rags to riches—and check out the luxury toys they've bought with their hard-earned millions.
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Darrell Johnson took over as manager and the Red Sox held onto first for most of 1974. However, the team unraveled in September and Fenway Park went without post-season baseball once again.
Darrell Johnson took over as manager and the Red Sox held onto first for most of 1974. However, the team unraveled in September and Fenway Park went without post-season baseball once again.
Record: 84-78, 3rd in American League East
Manager: Darrell D. Johnson
Attendance: 1,566,411
Eddie Kasko's stint as manager ended one day before the 1973 season did. After the season Darrel Johnson was named the new Red Sox manager and in March 1974, Johnson named Carl Yastrzemski the captain of the Red Sox.
Early in the season, the team co-hosted the final Red Sox-Boston Globe Baseball Clinic at Fenway Park. Approximately 8,000 youngsters turned out for instruction on May 25 from Johnson, his coaching staff and several players.
Both Luis Tiant and Bill Lee excelled in 1974. Luis won 20 games again (22-13, 2.92) and Lee won 17 for the second consecutive season (17-15, 3.51). The only other Boston pitcher in double digits was Reggie Cleveland, who went 12-14.
The Red Sox lost a pair of position players in the first half of the season. Second baseman Doug Griffin was hit in the head by a Nolan Ryan fastball during an April 30 game at Fenway Park. Two months later, Carlton Fisk was lost for the season with a serious knee injury when a Cleveland runner slid hard at home plate.
Yastrzemski led the team in several offensive areas, including the three Triple Crown categories with a .301 average, 15 home runs and 79 RBIs. Though the Red Sox didn't have an overly-powerful lineup, they held a seven-game lead in the division as late as August 23.
However, the club began to take on water with an eight-game losing streak in late August/early September, including a disheartening Labor Day doubleheader in Baltimore in which they were swept. The Red Sox spent a full 101 days in first place, including most of the time from late May to early September, but they ultimately finished in third place, seven games behind Baltimore and five behind the Yankees.
In the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s, the Red Sox organization and the Boston Globe teamed up to hold a regular baseball clinic at Fenway Park for thousands of local youth ballplayers. The event was initially called a "Spring training camp" for Massachusetts youngsters who had the opportunity to receive instruction from some of the Red Sox biggest names. The full Boston coaching staff and several players often attended, with upwards of ten players taking part in certain years. Among those who provided lessons was Bill Monbouquette, a Medford, Massachusetts native who had previously attended the clinic as an audience member when he was pitching in high school.
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I know it's not an OS issue because I also have Ubuntu and Windows installed on this machine, and I'm having connectivity issues there too.
I want to replace it, but before I buy a new one I wanted to know if there are different models available, maybe something newer and better. Or is a new card of the model I currently have (AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x88) according to my System Profiler) my only option?
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In its place, Brown proposes a change in the notoriously complicated formula for allocating funding for school districts; in general, the new formula would be simpler and would award more money to districts with more poor students, and less to those with fewer poor students. (The blog Educated Guess has a good explanation of how the new formula would work here).
This is mostly good news for many school districts, which would have more power over how they spend money.
But there are likely to be political and policy objections to all of this. The media and teachers' unions are already focusing on the fact that this plan would eliminate the popular class-size reduction programs.
Class-size reduction was begun 15 years ago with the goal, at least in the lower grades, of limiting the number of students in each class to 20.
Brown also seeks to postpone, in the name of budget savings, a new "transitional" kindergarten to provide an additional year of kindergarten for children who are a few months too young for kindergarten.
There are policy arguments, as well as budget arguments, for both changes.
Education researchers have found that class-size reduction has little impact on student achievement. And the transitional kindergarten program is new and unproven.
For Brown and his budget, the danger is that eliminating high profile school programs may raise public doubts about whether the governor is a champion of schools.
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onchange vs. oninput for Range Sliders
A common UI pattern for a range slider is to allow the user to move the slider and display the value of it somewhere on the page, changing the displayed value as the user moves the slider.
I think the expected behaviour in such a case is that the value should display instantly, as the user is moving the slider, rather than the page waiting for the slider to finish moving before the displayed value is updated. I suppose there could be cases where you prefer a delay over instant results, but I think the expected behaviour is to display the results instantly.
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It's difficult to know what to ask a rapper. It's not unlike the difficulty (I imagine) of being a rapper. Whatever you say must be considered from at least three angles, and it's an awkward triangulation. In one corner you have your hard-core hip-hop heads; the type for whom the true Jay-Z will forever be that gifted 25-year-old with rapid-fire flow, trading verses with the visionary teenager Big L — "I'm so ahead of my time, my parents haven't met yet!" — on a "rare" (easily dug up on YouTube) seven-minute freestyle from 1995. Meanwhile, over here stands the pop-rap fan. She loves the Jiggaman with his passion for the Empire State Building and bold claims to "Run This Town." Finally, in the crowded third corner, stand the many people who feel rap is not music at all but rather a form of social problem. They have only one question to ask a rapper, and it concerns his choice of vocabulary. (Years pass. The question never changes.) How to speak to these audiences simultaneously? Anyway: I'm at a little table in a homey Italian restaurant on Mulberry Street waiting for Mr. Shawn Carter, who has perfected the art of triangulation. It's where he likes to eat his chicken parms.
He's not late. He's dressed like a kid, in cap and jeans, if he said he was 30 you wouldn't doubt him. (He's 42.) He's overwhelmingly familiar, which is of course a function of his fame — rap superstar, husband of Beyoncé, minority owner of the Nets, whose new home, the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, will open this month — but also of the fact he's been speaking into our ears for so long. No one stares. The self-proclaimed "greatest rapper alive" is treated like a piece of the furniture. Ah, but there's always one: a preppy white guy discreetly operating his iPhone's reverse-camera function. It's an old hustle; it makes Jay chuckle: "They think they're the first one who's ever come up with that concept."
He likes to order for people. Apparently I look like the fish-sandwich type. Asked if he thinks this is a good time for hip-hop, he enthuses about how inclusive hip-hop is: "It provided a gateway to conversations that normally would not be had." And now that rap's reached this unprecedented level of cultural acceptance, maybe we're finally free to celebrate the form without needing to continually defend it. Say that I'm foolish I only talk about jewels/Do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it? He's not so sure: "It's funny how you can say things like that in plain English and then people still do it." He is mildly disappointed that after publishing "Decoded," his 2010 memoir, people still ask the same old questions. The flippancy annoys him, the ease with which some still dismiss rap as "something that's just this bad language, or guys who degrade women, and they don't realize the poetry and the art." This is perhaps one downside to having the "flow of the century."
With Tupac, you can hear the effort, the artistry. And Biggie's words first had to struggle free of the sheer bulk of the man himself. When Jay raps, it pours right into your ear like water from a tap.
The fish sandwich arrives. Conversation turns to the schoolboy who was shot to death, Trayvon Martin — "It's really heartbreaking, that that still can happen in this day and age" — and, soon after, to Obama: "I've said the election of Obama has made the hustler less relevant." When he first made this point, "People took it in a way that I was almost dismissing what I am. And I was like: no, it's a good thing!" He didn't have Obama growing up, only the local hustler. "No one came to our neighborhoods, with stand-up jobs, and showed us there's a different way. Maybe had I seen different role models, maybe I'd've turned on to that." Difficult to keep these two Americas in your mind. Imagine living it — within one lifetime!
In "Decoded," Jay-Z writes that "rap is built to handle contradictions," and Hova, as he is nicknamed, is as contradictory as they come. Partly because he's a generalist. Biggie had better boasts, Tupac dropped more knowledge, Eminem is — as "Renegade" demonstrated — more formally dexterous. But Hova's the all-rounder. His albums are showrooms of hip-hop, displaying the various possibilities of the form. The persona is cool, calm, almost frustratingly self-controlled: "Yeah, 50 Cent told me that one time. He said: 'You got me looking like Barksdale' " — the hot-blooded drug kingpin from HBO's "The Wire" — "and you get to be Stringer Bell!" — Barksdale's levelheaded partner. The rapper Memphis Bleek, who has known Jay-Z since Bleek himself was 14, confirms this impression: "He had a sense of calm way before music. This was Jay's plan from day one: to take over. I guess that's why he smiles and is so calm, 'cause he did exactly what he planned in the '90s." And now, by virtue of being 42 and not dead, he can claim his own unique selling proposition: he's an artist as old as his art form. The two have grown up together.
Jay-Z, like rap itself, started out pyrotechnical. Extremely fast, stacked, dense. But time passed and his flow got slower, opened up. Why? "I didn't have enough life experience, so what I was doing was more technical. I was trying to impress technically. To do things that other people cannot do. Like, you can't do this" — insert beat-box and simultaneous freestyle here — "you just can't do that." Nope. Can't even think of a notation to demonstrate what he just did. Jay-Z in technician mode is human voice as pure syncopation. On a track like "I Can't Get With That," from 1994, the manifest content of the music is never really the words themselves; it's the rhythm they create. And if you don't care about beats, he says, "You've missed the whole point."
Plenty did, hearing only a young black man, boasting. I got watches I ain't seen in months/Apartment at the Trump I only slept in once.
But asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands. Then something changed: "As I started getting life experiences, I realized my power was in conveying emotions that people felt." He compared himself to a comedian whose jokes trigger this reaction: "Yo, that's so true." He started storytelling — people were mesmerized. "Friend or Foe" (1996), which concerns a confrontation between two hustlers, is rap in its masterful, full-blown, narrative form. Not just a monologue, but a story, complete with dialogue, scene setting, characterization. Within its comic flow and light touch — free from the relentless sincerity of Tupac — you can hear the seeds of 50, Lil Wayne, Eminem, so many others. "That was the first one where it was so obvious," Jay noted. He said the song represented an important turning point, the moment when he "realized I was doing it."
At times he restricts himself formally, like the Oulipo, that experimental French literary group of the 1960s. In the song "22 Two's," from 1996, we get 22 delicious plays on the words "too" and "two."
Ten years later, the sequel, "44 Fours," has the same conceit, stepped up a gear. "Like, you know, close the walls in a bit smaller." Can he explain why? "I think the reason I still make music is because of the challenge." He doesn't believe in relying solely on one's natural gifts. And when it comes to talent, "You just never know — there is no gauge. You don't see when it's empty."
In the years since his masterpiece "Reasonable Doubt," the rapper has often been accused of running on empty, too distant now from what once made him real. In "Decoded," he answers existentially: "How distant is the story of your own life ever going to be?" In the lyrics, practically:
Life stories told through rap/Niggas actin' like I sold you crack/Like I told you sell drugs, no, Hov' did that/So hopefully you won't have to go through that. But can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite? Out hustlin', same clothes for days/I'll never change, I'm too stuck in my ways. Can't he still rep his block? For Jay-Z, pride in the block has been essential and he recognized rap's role in taking "that embarrassment off of you. The first time people were saying: I come from here — and it's O.K." He quotes Mobb Deep: "No matter how much money I get, I'm staying in the projects!" But here, too, he sees change: "Before, if you didn't have that authenticity, your career could be over. Vanilla Ice said he got stabbed or something, they found out he was lying, he was finished." I suggested to him that many readers of this newspaper would find it bizarre that the reputation of the rapper Rick Ross was damaged when it was revealed a few years ago that he was, at one time, a prison guard. "But again," Jay says, "I think hip-hop has moved away from that place of everything has to be authentic. Kids are growing up very differently now."
Sure are. Odd Future. Waka Flocka Flame. Chief Keef. Returning to what appear to be the basic building blocks of rap: shock tactics, obscenity, perversely simplistic language. After the sophistication of Rakim, Q-Tip, Nas, Lupe Fiasco, Kanye West and Jay himself, are we back on the corner again? "Yeah, but Tupac was an angel compared to these artists!" He shakes his head, apparently amused at himself. And it's true: listening to a Tupac record these days feels like listening to a pleasant slice of Sinatra. But Jay-Z does not suffer from nostalgia. He loves Odd Future and their punk rock vibe. He sees their anger as a general "aversion to corporate America," particularly as far as it has despoiled the planet. "People have a real aversion to what people in power did to the country. So they're just lashing out, like: 'This is the son that you made. Look at your son. Look at what you've done.' "
But surely another thing they're reacting against, in the Harold Bloom "anxiety of influence" sense, is the gleaming $460 million monument of Hova himself.
Years ago, Martin Amis wrote a funny story, "Career Move," in which the screenwriters live like poets, starving in garrets, while the poets chillax poolside, fax their verses to agents in Los Angeles and earn millions off a sonnet. Last year's "Watch the Throne," a collaboration with Kanye, concerns the coming to pass of that alternative reality. Hundred stack/How you get it? Jay-Z asks Kanye on "Gotta Have It." The answer seems totally improbable, and yet it's the truth: Layin' raps on tracks! Fortunes made from rhyming verse. Which is what makes "Watch the Throne" interesting: it fully expresses black America's present contradictions. It's a celebration of black excellence/Black tie, black Maybachs/Black excellence, opulence, decadence. But it's also a bitter accounting of the losses in a long and unfinished war. Kanye raps: I feel the pain in my city wherever I go/314 soldiers died in Iraq/509 died in Chicago. Written by a couple of millionaire businessmen on the fly ("Like 'New Day,' Kanye told me that — the actual rap — last year at the Met Ball, in my ear at dinner"), it really shouldn't be as good as it is. But somehow their brotherly rivalry creates real energy despite the mammoth production. And in one vital way the process of making it was unusually intimate: "Most people nowadays — because of technology — send music back and forth." But this was just two men "sitting in a room, and really talking about this." At its most sublime — the ridiculously enjoyable "Niggas in Paris" — you feel a strong pull in both men toward sheer abandon, pure celebration. Didn't we earn this? Can't we sit back and enjoy it? It's a song that doesn't want to be responsible, or to be asked the old, painful questions. Who cares if they're keeping it real? Or even making sense? Check that beat! Then there's that word. "It's a lot of pain and a lot of hurt and a lot of things going on beyond, beneath that." He offers an analogy: "If your kid was acting up, you'd be like, 'What is wrong with you?' If they have a bellyache — 'Oh, you ate all the cotton candy.' You'd make these comparisons, you'd see a link. You'd psychoanalyze the situation."
Rappers use language as a form of asymmetrical warfare. How else to explain George W. Bush's extraordinary contention that a line spoken by a rapper — "George Bush doesn't care about black people" — was "one of the most disgusting moments in my presidency"? But there have always been these people for whom rap language is more scandalous than the urban deprivation rap describes. On "Who Gon Stop Me," Jay-Z asks that we "please pardon all the curses" because "when you're growing up worthless," well, things come out that way. Black hurt, black self-esteem. It's the contradictory pull of the "cipher," rap terminology for the circle that forms around the kind of freestyling kid Jay-Z once was. What a word! Cipher (noun): 1. A secret or disguised way of writing; a code. 2. A key to such a code. 3. A person or thing of no importance. "Watch the Throne" celebrates two men's escape from that circle of negation. It paints the world black: black bar mitzvahs, black cars, paintings of black girls in the MoMA, all black everything, as if it might be possible in a single album to peel back thousands of years of negative connotation. Black no longer the shadow or the reverse or the opposite of something but now the thing itself. But living this fantasy proves problematic: Only spot a few blacks the higher I go/What's up to Will? Shout-out to O/That ain't enough, we gon' need a million more/Kick in the door, Biggie flow/I'm all dressed up with nowhere to go. You're 1 percent of the 1 percent. So what now? Power to the people, when you see me, see you! But that just won't do. It's Jay-Z who's in Paris, after all, not the kids in the Marcy Houses, the housing project in Brooklyn where he grew up. Jay-Z knows this. He gets a little agitated when the subject of Zuccotti Park comes up: "What's the thing on the wall, what are you fighting for?" He says he told Russell Simmons, the rap mogul, the same: "I'm not going to a park and picnic, I have no idea what to do, I don't know what the fight is about. What do we want, do you know?"
Jay-Z likes clarity: "I think all those things need to really declare themselves a bit more clearly. Because when you just say that 'the 1 percent is that,' that's not true. Yeah, the 1 percent that's robbing people, and deceiving people, these fixed mortgages and all these things, and then taking their home away from them, that's criminal, that's bad. Not being an entrepreneur. This is free enterprise. This is what America is built on."
It's so weird watching rappers becoming elder statesmen. I'm out for presidents to represent me. Well, now they do — and not only on dollar bills. Heavy responsibility lands on the shoulders of these unacknowledged legislators whose poetry is only, after all, four decades young. Jay-Z's ready for it. He has his admirable Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation, putting disadvantaged kids through college. He's spoken in support of gay rights. He's curating music festivals and investing in environmental technologies. This October, his beloved Nets take up residence in their new home — the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. And he has some canny, forward-looking political instincts: "I was speaking to my friend James, who's from London, we were talking about something else, I just stopped and I was like, 'What's going to happen in London?' This was maybe a month before the riots. He was like, 'What?' I said: 'The culture of black people there, they're not participating in changing the direction of the country. What's gonna happen there?' He actually called me when it blew up, he was like, 'You know, I didn't really understand your question, or the timing of it, until now.' "
But still I think "conscious" rap fans hope for something more from him; to see, perhaps, a final severing of this link, in hip-hop, between material riches and true freedom. (Though why we should expect rappers to do this ahead of the rest of America isn't clear.) It would take real forward thinking. Of his own ambitions for the future, he says: "I don't want to do anything that isn't true." Maybe the next horizon will stretch beyond philanthropy and Maybach collections.
Meanwhile, back in the rank and file, you still hear the old cry go up: Hip-hop is dead! Which really means that our version of it (the one we knew in our youth) has passed. But nothing could be duller than a '90s hip-hop bore. Lil Wayne? Give me Ol' Dirty Bastard. Nicki Minaj? Please. Foxy Brown. Odd Future? WU TANG CLAN 4EVAH. Listening to Jay-Z — still so flexible and enthusiastic, ears wide open — you realize you're like one of these people who believes jazz died with Dizzy. The check comes. You will be unsurprised to hear the Jiggaman paid. At the last minute, I remembered to ask after his family, "Oh, my family's amazing." And the baby? "She's four months." Marcy raised me, and whether right or wrong/Streets gave me all I write in the song. But what will TriBeCa give Blue? "I actually thought about that more before she was born. Once she got here I've been in shock until maybe last week?" Her childhood won't be like his, and this fact he takes in his stride. "We would fight each other. My brother would beat me up," he says, but it was all in preparation for the outside. "I was going to have to fight, I was going to have to go through some things, and they were preparing me." He smiles: "She doesn't have to be tough. She has to love herself, she has to know who she is, she has to be respectful, and be a moral person." It's a new day.


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Hawaiʻi County police have arrested and charged a fourth suspect in connection with a robbery in a parking lot at Aliʻi Sunset Plaza in the early morning of November 26.
At 2:25 a.m. Tuesday (December 18), police arrested 22-year-old Kekoa Duguran of Kailua-Kona. At 6 p.m., Duguran was charged with first-degree robbery, first-degree assault and third-degree theft. He was held at the Kona police cellblock in lieu of $76,000 bail pending his initial court appearance scheduled for Wednesday (December 19).
A 26-year-old Kealakekua man reported that after he met a local man at a bar, the man took him to the northwest corner of the parking lot to meet with five or six males. They punched and kicked the victim and stole his backpack before fleeing on foot.
The victim was treated at Kona Community Hospital for a fractured jaw and minor cuts and scrapes.
Police continue to ask for help from anyone who witnessed the attack or saw the victim talking with a local male in the Coconut Grove area. The victim was wearing shorts and a striped tank top and was carrying a backpack.
Anyone with any information about this case is asked to call Detective Walter Ah Mow at 326-4646, extension 238.
Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous may call Crime Stoppers at 961-8300 in Hilo or 329-8181 in Kona and may be eligible for a reward of up to $1,000. Crime Stoppers is a volunteer program run by ordinary citizens who want to keep their community safe. Crime Stoppers doesn't record calls or subscribe to caller ID. All Crime Stoppers information is kept confidential.
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Anemia is a low level of healthy red blood cells (RBC). RBCs carry oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body. When red blood cells are low the body does not get enough oxygen.
Pernicious anemia is associated with problems absorbing vitamin B12. This vitamin is needed to make healthy RBCs. Over time the low vitamin B12 levels will reduce the number of new RBCs. The sooner pernicious anemia is treated, the better the outcome.
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- Inflammation of the stomach—atrophic gastritis
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- Cells that produce both intrinsic factor and hydrochloric acid in the stomach
- Removal of all or part of the stomach
- Genetic defect
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- Addison disease
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- Secondary amenorrhea
- Hypoparathyroidism
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- Vitiligo
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- Sensation of pins and needles in feet or hands
- Alternating constipation and diarrhea
- Stinging sensation on the tongue, or a smooth red tongue
- Substantial weight loss
- Inability to distinguish the colors yellow and blue
- Fatigue
- Paleness
- Loss of hunger
- Altered sense of taste
- Confusion
- Depression
- Impaired sense of balance, especially in the dark
- Ringing in the ears— tinnitus
- Cracked lips
- Fever
- Inability to sense vibrations in feet or legs
- Lightheadedness when changing to standing position
- Rapid heart rate
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done.
Blood tests are used to evaluate specific components to determine if there is a deficiency in proteins, vitamins, or building blocks.
Other tests may include:
- Bone marrow biopsy
- Gastric cell biopsy
- Shilling test (rare)—to evaluate the amount of stored vitamin B12
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The treatment consists of injections of vitamin B12 into a muscle. These injections are necessary because the intestines cannot absorb enough vitamin B12 without an adequate supply of intrinsic factor from the stomach.
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MILTON � Moose Mountains Regional Greenways (MMRG) planned several educational outreach events for the fall season.
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In one exciting incident, a small hawk harassed a pair of larger raptors circling on rising thermals (hot air currents). The most common migrants viewed were turkey vultures, soaring gracefully on their journey southward. The event attracted almost twenty participants who enjoyed the views, the brief moments of excitement, and the quiet periods scanning the horizon for the next migrants to come into view. MMRG is grateful to Jones Brook, LLP of Milton for sponsoring this workshop.
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Doctors Kristin Higgins and Taofeek Owonikoko held a live web chat on the topic of lung cancer this month. From that chat, there were several unanswered questions that we wanted to circle back with the answers for. You'll find them below in a Q&A format. If you're interested in checking out the rest of the conversation from the chat, check out the lung cancer chat transcript.
Rhonda asked: Is there any lung cancer treatment program for people without health insurance?
Dr. Owonikoko: Depending on where this person resides, the state may have a program for indigent cancer patients. Also, the American Cancer Society has some patient support programs for indigent patients to support cancer care. Here is the webpage to the support options on the ACS website.
Marjorie asked: My sister has been treated this year for non-small cell lung cancer in the RUL, that was inoperable. she underwent 6 months of radiation and chemotherapy, and has been told that she is now in remission. what are the odds that she will remain in remission for 5 years or more?
Dr. Owonikoko: This is not a medical advice; best to discuss with the treating oncologist. However, depending on the exact stage of the cancer, 20-30% of patients treated with chemoradiation will survive past 5 years.
Marjorie asked: Also, can you comment on outcomes from radiation induced pneumonitis?
Dr. Higgins: Radiation pneumonitis arises in about 20-25% of patients that are treated with radiation and chemotherapy. It typically resolves with a course of steroids but sometimes requires hospitilization for more intensive monitoring and supplemental oxygen.
Hank asked: There seems to be some controversy about the use of radiation therapy for lung cancer depending on the stege. What are the pro's and con's?
Dr. Owonikoko: There is not much controversy about the benefit of radiation for patient with locally advanced lung cancer. The discussion is more about the best way to give the radiation and how much. Radiation is generally not needed for patients with stage I lung cancer of the non small cell subtype but may be useful for symptom palliation in patients with stage IV non small lung cancer.
Dr. Higgins can provide additional insight on the radiation questions.
Dr. Higgins: A form of local therapy is needed to cure lung cancer that has not yet spread to distant sites, whether it be radiation or surgery. Surgery is the best option for early stage lung cancer. New techniques of radiation, particularly SBRT, have been used in patients with early stage lung cancer that are not medically fit for surgery. Outcomes have been very good with SBRT, however surgery and SBRT have not been directly compared and surgery remains the standard of care. There are trials underway that are directly comparing SBRT vs. surgery.
Again I want to stress that surgery remains the standard of care for early stage lung cancer, but pros to SBRT include minimal recovery time and a less invasive procedure.
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Ivo Baltic glides up the floor and slams home a missed layup, sparking an affectionate "Ivo Baltic" chant from the O Zone, Ohio's boisterous student section. Moments earlier, he had knocked down his patented jumper from the wing to ignite an 8-0 run, giving Ohio a 15-point lead over Kent State.
Unfortunately, the good feelings fade quickly as Baltic turns it over on Ohio's next possession and immediately is sent to the bench.
This sequence from the Bobcats' overtime win is one quite familiar to Ohio basketball followers. Fans, media members and coaches have been asking this question for nearly a season and a half: Why can't Ivo Baltic find consistency?
"It's real hard to figure out," said Ohio coach Jim Christian before a practice last week. "Basketball is 90 percent mental; it's a mental game. Some guys can handle the ups and downs better than others."
These words are a far cry from what one would expect to hear about a player whose career is littered with both individual and team accomplishments.
While talking with current and former coaches who worked with Baltic, phrases like "tremendous athlete," "offensively gifted," "can score from all three levels," and "difficult to guard" are common in describing the senior forward's game.
As the Bobcats have racked up wins and national recognition, the Bosnian native has struggled to find his niche on a team overflowing with talent.
To put Baltic's inconsistent production into perspective, he averaged 15.8 points and 6.7 rebounds over the final 13 games of his sophomore season, shooting 56.2 percent from the field while converting 52 of 65 at the foul line (80 percent). He scored 16 or more seven times during the stretch, reaching double digits in all but two games.
He finished the season averaging 11.4 points and 6.1 rebounds, shooting 53.5 percent from the floor, good for second in the MAC. It looked like Baltic was ready to explode and dominate the conference for years to come with his rare combination of size, athleticism, vision and quickness.
Yet Baltic's highly anticipated junior year began just as his sophomore season did—slow and inconsistent. He averaged a tick over eight points in the first nine games before finding his rhythm in blowout wins over Wright State (15 points in 19 minutes) and Northern Iowa (season-high 22 points on 10-of-14 shooting), setting off a streak in which he scored in double figures for 10 straight games, ending with a 20-point performance on "Gary Trent Day" in a thrilling comeback win over rival Miami. Baltic was playing like everyone knew he could, attacking the rim and scoring from inside and out.
However, after the Miami game, his performance sharply declined, falling into a rut that has plagued him ever since. He shockingly never scored more than 10 points for the rest of the season (18 games) even as the Bobcats made school history with a program record 29 wins and trip to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 1964.
It was midway through this rough patch that Baltic began a mystifying streak of 622 minutes, spanning 20 games (including the first 11 of this season), without attempting a free throw.
According to sports-reference.com, of the 1,245 players with at least 200 points this season, only three (all of whom are guards) have attempted less free throws than Baltic's 13.
"Sophomore year when I was in the post a lot, I was way more physical, so I would get to the line more," Baltic said. "When you spend so much more time out on the perimeter shooting jump shots, the chances of you getting fouled are slim."
Baltic's lack of free throw attempts renders him inefficient offensively because he must take a high volume of shots in order to score his points. He also doesn't shoot many threes (8-22), instead opting to take long two-pointers, many of which are just a foot inside the arc, a shot that most coaches agree is the worst in basketball.
Baltic's Player Efficiency Rating (PER), a popular advanced statistic developed by John Hollinger which attempts to quantify player performance on a per-minute basis, was a very respectable 20.1 (15 is average) during his sophomore season, good for 10th in the MAC. But his PER sunk all the way to 12.9 last season (64th in the conference) and sits at just 14.6 this season.
"When you limit yourself to being a jump shooter, then you give yourself the opportunity to have some off nights because sometimes those shots aren't going to fall," said Aaron Fuss, who was promoted to assistant coach this season after spending three years as Director of Basketball Operations for the Bobcats.
Finally, after back-to-back scoreless games against Kent State and Akron, Baltic was replaced in the starting lineup
by T.J. Hall, a move that sparked Ohio's current five-game winning streak.
"I don't really care who starts, but I think it's important to reward guys when they're playing well," said Christian of the lineup switch.
The coaches have done everything in their power to try to get Baltic to play with confidence and aggression, but it has not registered yet.
At this point, he is an unsolvable puzzle, an enigma. On the surface, his numbers aren't far off from his sophomore season. He's scoring 8.1 points per game, leads the team with 5.3 rebounds, and is second in assists. But for a guy who received ringing endorsements on his ability from former assistant coach Dustin Ford, Christian and Fuss, the numbers are hollow, a reflection of his inability to find consistency.
No one is questioning Baltic's physical talent.
"He's a matchup problem," said Ford, who coached Baltic during his first three seasons, before leaving for Illinois with former Ohio head coach John Groce. "He's capable of posting, he's capable of catching and shooting and he's capable of driving. I don't think there's anything in his offensive package that he can't do. There's no doubt he's capable of doing whatever he wants offensively, when he wants to do it."
How can a guy with so much offensive talent struggle so mightily? What's the issue? What is holding Baltic back from producing like he did at the end of his sophomore season and for stretches last year?
The soft-spoken Baltic admitted the inconsistency is mental.
"It's been a mental block for me," he said candidly. "It's something that as players develop, some go through it faster, some go through it slower. Unfortunately, I've been in a slump and I haven't been getting through it as well as I've been wanting to."
Christian believes Baltic's issues are beyond his control at this point.
"Not one coach in the country can give a player confidence. No coach in the country can take your confidence away," said Christian.
Amid the high-flying dunks and sweet-stroking jump shot, Baltic said he's played tentative at times, pressing to make plays. In the Bobcats' home game against the Golden Flashes, Baltic twice drove baseline, jumped in the air under the basket and floated passes toward the perimeter without even looking at the rim. One of the passes was easily intercepted, prompting Christian to spread his arms out wide with a confused expression on his face.
"It's not by design," said Christian of Baltic's tendency to kick the ball out on his drives.
"I was just telling Coach, I've been playing a little too fast for my liking," said Baltic. "When I'm out there, sometimes I feel like stuff is moving a little faster than it has been lately, and it's me being a little tentative. I need to start being more aggressive and start scoring more."
The coaches have made a concerted effort to stress to Baltic that even when he isn't scoring in the half-court, he can score in other ways.
"He's got to be opportunistic. That's why we need him to run the floor…that's when he gets layups and dunks," added Christian.
Arguably the biggest difference in Baltic's game as a sophomore to now is that he's played mostly on the perimeter in the half-court offense, as opposed to sitting on the block. The change is a combination of things, most notably scheme and personnel.
Although Christian did not change much when he took the reigns from Groce, he did implement a "four out, one in" system that calls for senior forward Reggie Keely to play inside with four shooters surrounding him.
"You can't have two post players right near each other," said Christian. "Reggie does a lot of that stuff for us. He's usually down there."
That has forced Baltic to float around on the perimeter, and although he has greatly improved his outside shooting and ball handling, he is clearly more comfortable on the block.
"I'd rather post," he said before pausing to add, "It is what it is."
However, even when Baltic has had the opportunity to play with his back to the basket, he hasn't impressed, looking like a shell of the player who once put up 31 against Northern Illinois. He attributed his struggles in the post to a lack of practice.
"I've gotten away from it. You can't just go out in a game and do stuff right away. You have to work on it out here (at practice). That's partially on me. That's something I have to work on."
It's astounding that a weapon Baltic used so frequently with such great success in 2010-2011 and for parts of last season has all but disappeared from his repertoire.
"At the end of last season, he kind of morphed into and was successful at making jump shots," said Fuss. "He's been a stretch the floor guy."
But no matter whether he is stretching the floor or battling inside, his coach just wants the enigmatic Baltic to make the right decisions.
"There is a time to pass, there is a time to be an aggressive scorer, to offensive rebound, to run your lane," Christian said.
Since being relegated to the bench, Baltic has finally found some consistency, scoring eight, eight, eight, six and eight points while grabbing 5.4 rebounds. And even though his role has changed and his production has dipped, Baltic remains an integral player for the Bobcats and still has the skills to take over a game.
With the 'do-or-die' games of March looming, it's often those big games that hinge on the performances of role players, which is what Baltic has become. Bobcat Nation hopes Baltic can regain his confidence and produce at a level one would expect of a player with his immense talent.
"We need him," said Christian.
Otherwise, Ohio will have a difficult time making another deep run in March.


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Countdown to caterpillars…
Today's countdown-to-frost number is four — as in four swallowtail caterpillars, seen in my garden pal's herb bed, snoozing (were they snoozing? they didn't seem to be moving or eating just then) on the bronze fennel (me without my camera, o'course). Every year that she's gardened, she says, she plants something for these caterpillars. Because she's back to gardening after a long hiatus, this is the first time I've seen them. I was hoping they were a good caterpillar, and was guessing monarch but knew the timing was probably wrong for that.
Here's a link to pictures of swallowtails and more info about them. And here's a link to the Butterfly Pavilion in Westminster.
Which leads me to this week's…. Dirt Date: The Butterfly house is opening its "Bug-a-pedia" Adventure series 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday (along with a Sidewalk Clearance Sale with up to 50 percent off!) The Bug-a-Pedia series explores insects' influence on culture, religion and art; this Saturday's theme is Egypt and the silkworm; more deets here.
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11 top theme parks opening soon
By Tamara Hinson, for CNN • Published 12th August 2013
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Wondering where to get your next adrenaline fix?
We've rounded up the most exciting theme park openings taking place within the next two years.
Aquatica, San Diego
Opening date
: June 2013
: Tassie's Twister -- a 75-foot water slide followed by a six-story funnel.
SeaWorld's Aquatica water park opened this summer.
In addition to the heart-jumping water rides, there are various animal habitats: the lazy river snakes through a flamingo enclosure and the wave pool borders a freshwater turtle habitat.
Converting this neglected corner of San Diego into a tropical paradise was no mean feat. The white sand used to create the 43,000-square-foot artificial beach was shipped in from the coast and thousands of trees and shrubs were also planted.
Springfield, Orlando
Opening date
: Summer 2013
: delicious Krusty burgers
Visitors to this Simpsons-themed amusement park, located within the Universal Studios theme park, will be able to stock up on basics at Apu Nahasapeemapetilon's Kwik-E-Mart, relax with a refreshing pint of Duff beer at Moe's Tavern and chow on a Krusty burger.
The last two activities are best avoided before a spin on Kang and Kodo's Twirl n' Hurl, which promises to take "foolish humans on an intergalactic spin designed to send them into orbit."
Wet n' Wild Sydney, Australia
Wet n' Wild Sydney, Australia.
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Opening date
: December 2013
: rainbow-hued, eight-lane, speed-racer slide
Wet n' Wild Sydney will feature one of the world's largest wave pools, the only wave machine capable of producing a 10-foot barrel wave, the world's tallest water coaster and a water slide with eight lanes.
This water park will be the largest in the world, and will join forces with Australia's Surf Life Saving New South Wales organization.
The color scheme of one of the rides is based on the colors used on the NSW surf lifesaving cap.
Marvel City Theme Park, Dubai
Opening date
: December 2013
: educational exhibitions -- ideal for anyone who's ever wondered how strong Spidey's web really is.
Calling all geeks!
The guys behind Marvel City Theme Park have made the most of the space on offer (it's an indoor theme park) by relying heavily on projections and 3D effects.
However, there will also be plenty of white-knuckle rides along with various educational exhibitions that explain the real-life scientific principles behind superhero life.
Amazone Cartoon Network theme park, Bang Saray, Thailand
Opening date
: late 2013
: vertigo-inducing speed-racing slides
Amazone will be Cartoon Network's first water park, with rides inspired by the channel's most popular characters, including Ben 10, The Powerpuff Girls, Johnny and Johnny Bravo.
Younger visitors can play on what will be the world's largest interactive play fortress, while elsewhere there'll be a lazy river, speed-racing slides and an enormous wave pool.
IMG Worlds of Adventure, Dubai
IMG Worlds of Adventure, Dubai.
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Opening date
: early 2014
: Marvel Zone, where visitors can meet their favorite fictional heroes, including Iron Man and Spider-Man
There will be roller coasters, a 12-screen cinema and four themed zones at IMG Worlds of Adventure, the world's largest indoor theme park, covering 1.5 million square feet. Developers have predicted that 20,000 people will visit every day.
Jurassic Dream, Daqing Dream City, China
Opening date
: mid-2014
: brachiosaurus-themed half-pipe ride
Jurassic Dream will become one of the world's largest indoor theme parks when it opens in 2014.
Highlights will include an enormous, walk-through attraction where visitors will be confronted by animatronic dinosaurs, a fire and water show based on Chinese mythology and dinosaur-themed thrill rides.
Dubai Adventure Studios, Dubai
Opening date
: late 2014
: high-tech rides. The team behind the park claim several will be unique, next-generation rides that won't exist anywhere else in the world.
Dubai Adventure Studios will be a movie-themed park that will also host various film premieres.
Details are hard to come by but the park, which will cost over $598 million to build, will comprise five zones and cover 8 million square feet.
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Osaka, Japan
Opening date
: late 2014
: Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey will be one of the park's scarier rides.
Japanese muggles love Harry Potter and the country is going all out to promote this new park -- earlier this year a train on Japan's JR Sakurajima line was given a Harry Potter-themed makeover.
The park will cost $482 million to build and feature replicas of Hogwarts and Hogsmeade Village.
Paramount theme park, Murcia, Spain
Opening date
: mid-2015
: Paramount Live! An all-singing, all-dancing tribute to Paramount's greatest musicals.
Murcia was chosen as the location for this theme park because of its sunny climate -- on average the area gets 300 days of sun a year.
The park, which will be divided into different zones, will contain several hotels, shopping malls, an auditorium and convention center.
Other highlights will include a 4D Mission Impossible ride and an attraction inspired by spaghetti Westerns.
Visitors will be tasked with restoring law and order to a fictional city and kicking out the bad guys.
Adventure World, Warsaw, Poland
Adventure World, Warsaw, Poland.
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Opening date
: August 2015
Castle Island, where you'll be able to ride on a wizard's broomstick, meet Merlin and fight fire-breathing dragons.
There will be five zones at Warsaw's Adventure World theme park, along with a water park (Poland's largest), several hotels, restaurants and nightclubs.
There will be a huge, bazaar-themed shopping area and a 5D (?!) cinema in the Lost Valley area.
The Old Town brings to life various creatures from Polish folklore, and the Legends area, which has a Mayan theme, is where visitors will find the white knuckle rides.
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Hahaha Seth looks evil here.
It almost looks like LiLo is a giant and is about to chomp Sofie in the background haha.
Vicious LiLo.
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Major moments in Charles Wang's attempt to build a new home for the Islanders.
April 26, 2000
Charles Wang, founder of Islandia-based software giant Computer Associates (now CA), announces a deal to buy the Islanders for $190 million with the encouragement of former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato and then-Nassau County Executive Thomas Gulotta.
October 13, 2004
Islanders owner Charles Wang unveils his Lighthouse plan to renovate the Coliseum and develop surrounding area. Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi is at right.
November 10, 2005
Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi, Charles Wang of the New York Islanders, Jeff Wilpon of the New York Mets, and Scott Rechler of Reckson Associates, speak after they gave their presentations for the redevelopment of the Nassau Coliseum site. (Nov. 10, 2005)
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Charles Wang, owner of the New York Islanders, gives his presentation for the redevelopment of the Nassau Coliseum site, one of four different proposals.
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From left: Jim Baeck, vice president and lead master plan architect, Development Design Group Inc., Matthew Frank, senior VP, development and design at Rexcorp, Scott Rechler, chief executive of Rexcorp Inc., and Charles Wang, owner of the New York Islanders and Dragons and founder of the Lighthouse Project, at the architect design meeting on the Coliseum redevelopment. (Aug. 14, 2007)
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Scott Rechler, left, CEO of RexCorp and Charles Wang, right, owner of the Islanders, at the Newsday conference room discussing a plan to build in Nassau County.
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The Lighthouse Group applies to the Town of Hempstead for the creation of a planned development district. The initial application is rejected on the grounds of missing maps, typos and other issues; application is resubmitted in February 2008.
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Hempstead Town Supervisor Kate Murray, left, shakes hands with Islanders owner Charles Wang as they meet to discuss the Lighthouse Project with Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi and Scott Reckler, right, in the County Executive Building in Mineola.
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New York Islanders owner Charles Wang, left, answers questions during a news conference on media day at Nassau Coliseum as Islanders head coach Scott Gordon listens at right.
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New York State Governor David A. Paterson voices his support for the Lighthouse Project with New York Islanders owner Charles Wang and Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi by his side at the Nassau Coliseum.
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Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi, Islanders owner Charles Wang, and RXR chief executive Scott Reckler along with other supporters for the Lighthouse Project march from a rally at the Nassau Coliseum to Hofstra University for a public hearing.
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David Braben, the founder of Frontier Developments and a long-time opponent of the pre-owned games market, has written up six potential fixes to the "problem" – while also sinking his boot into the presently in-vogue "online pass" method.
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From beginning to advanced classes, language learning and the study of literatures and cultures teaches cultural awareness, deepens the acquisition of a second language, and instills a new sense of self-discovery. I love being part of Augsburg's commitment to international education and preparing students for international learning, work, volunteer experiences and living abroad.
My main area of study is Latin America, specifically Mexico, Cuba, and Central America. I teach Spanish at all levels as well as Introduction to Cultural Studies (LCS 100)
One of my current research projects focuses on the Zapatista revolution in Chiapas, Mexico. Interdisciplinary in its scope, this project draws on human rights activism, indigenous rights, literary analysis, cultural studies and political theory in order to analyze Zapatista strategies to sustain social change. In addition to understanding the day-today workings of the Zapatista revolution, I am doing further research on Subcomandante Marcos' fictional detective Elías Contreras. Of particular interest in studying the adventures of Elías, is how Marcos uses the detective fiction genre to critique capitalism, the Mexican political system, and academics and intellectuals (including Marcos) as he searches for clues and answers to build a better Mexico 'desde abajo' (from below).
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