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My story in the print edition of today's Denver Post has all the facts and figures surrounding the third Be Beautiful Be Yourself Jet Set Fashion Show: The amount of money raised ($1.45 million gross), how many people were there (1,200) and the celebrities in attendance (Quincy Jones, Jamie Foxx, Jeff Probst, Stepfanie Kramer, Timothy Shriver, Chauncey Billups, Ed McCaffrey, Billy Van Heusen, David Duval, Eric Hutchinson).
I was able to squeeze a lot of information into a limited amount of space, but not everything would fit. Thank goodness for blogs, because there's plenty of room on the Internet. So, with no further ado, here are some fun things that otherwise would have wound up on the cutting room floor:
Quincy Jones is a music business legend, an award-winning (27 Grammys) composer, producer and arranger who has worked with everyone from Lesley Gore to Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson, whose Jones-produced album, "Thriller," sold 110 million copies. Jones was the force behind the legendary group recording of "We Are the World," and was the first African American to be made music director for the Academy Awards.
The man also knows his shoes.
When Kalleen Malone (her husband Bob's Steele Street Bank and Trust shared a $50,000 sponsorship with Land Title Guarantee Co.) stood next to him for a red carpet photo op, Jones took a minute to admire the rhinestone-studded Dolce & Gabbana high-heeled sandals she was wearing.
"He said he really liked them," Kalleen marveled. "I'm totally flabbergasted … I mean, how many men would notice the shoes?" Read more…

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As Congress debates future funding levels for Title VII of the Public Health Service Act, AAFP member John Franko, M.D., arrived on Capitol Hill to defend the program against possible cuts, explaining its importance in sustaining and strengthening the nation's primary care workforce during a March 23 Capitol Hill briefing.
AAFP member John Franko, M.D., stresses the importance of Title VII funding in building the nation's primary care workforce during a March 23 Capitol Hill briefing.
"There is a consistent body of evidence out there that says not only does Title VII improve and increase the primary care workforce, (the program) puts that primary care workforce into play in medically underserved areas," said Franko, who is professor and chair of the department of family medicine in the Quillen College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, during a briefing sponsored by the Health Professions and Nursing Education Coalition.
The House recently passed a spending bill that would result in deep cuts in Title VII programs, which added urgency to Franko's call for increased Title VII funding.
Franko pointed out that the number of medical students choosing a career in primary care started to decline as funding for Title VII dropped during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Section 747 of Title VII is the only federal program that provides funds specifically to academic departments and programs to increase the number of primary care health professionals.
"I am not suggesting a cause-and-effect relationship," said Franko, who appeared as part of a two-member panel along with Juliann Sebastian, Ph.D., R.N., professor and dean of the University of Missouri College of Nursing. "But it is certainly curious that as Title VII funding has significantly declined in adjusted 1984 dollars, the number of U.S. medical students choosing primary care is also declining."
Franko cited research that found exposing medical students to primary care fields increases the likelihood that they will pursue careers in primary care, and that Title VII funds were vital to providing services for underserved and vulnerable populations.
Title VII funding has had specific effects at East Tennessee State University, Franko said. He noted that the university has been a consistent recipient of Title VII funds since establishing family medicine and primary care residency programs in 1978. Title VII funds have allowed the university to establish medical school and residency curriculum programs, as well as administration and faculty development programs, according to Franko.
He also discussed the effects of Title VII programs on students' choice of medical specialty and residents' career choices at East Tennessee State. "(The programs) impact how our residents choose their jobs when they finish their residency. We have been rated No. 7 by the AAFP in terms of the percentage of students who choose family medicine for a career."
In fact, Franko noted, university research that found 83 percent of residents who graduated from East Tennessee State's family medicine residency program between 1978 and 2002 located in medically underserved areas or health professional shortage areas.
The university also has used Title VII funding to help establish health fairs for indigent populations in northwestern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. The health fairs allow medical students, under the supervision of faculty and staff, to provide health screenings to patients who often do not receive regular health care.
"We have documented over 27,000 patient visits in 11 years," said Franko. "That is 27,000 encounters for patients who would not otherwise have preventive services."
If the United States wants to improve health care quality and reduce costs, it needs to shift the nation's physician pipeline toward family medicine and primary care, said Franko. But he also emphasized the importance of having the right balance of physicians and other health care workers.
"Having that right balance can actually decrease our costs significantly in improving the quality we provide to our patients and (can) help address many of the issues that we are trying to deal with relating to our health care system," he said.
Consequently, Franko also called for increases in Title VIII funding, which supports nursing programs. "Some physicians and, potentially, some nurses may be fainting right now that a physician is recommending (increased funding for) a nursing program," he quipped.
"But we are discovering more and more that health care is a team sport, and unless all of the team members are well trained and all of the team members have the right motivation -- the motivation to take care of folks who needed to be taken care of -- our patients are going to be at a disadvantage."
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I am interested in attending Concord for several reasons to include time and money. My ultimate goal is to teach college courses and I see that Concord has an EJD as well. Are either the JD or EJD acceptable? Concord is DETC and since it's part of Kaplan, I understand it is regionally accredited as well from what I understand. Most schools require a regionally accreditied terminal degree such as a Phd or Doctorate. Any information is appreciated.
hi ,i have seen many posts from people like you down grading any one trying to get ahead through on line education .Have you ever tried it and what schools did you graduate? RON A. BBA-MBA
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I answered in http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/showthr...559#post818559Originally Posted by Newsjunkie
Hi Dr. Wise,
I am very pleased to be able to seek information from this channel at this helpless moment. My 29-year-old sister got a car accident while travelling Scotland on March 24th. She was severe injured and was just out of ICU few days ago. Doctor says that she gets spinal cord fracture in C4-C5 and broken spinal cord from C6-C7. She has undergone several operations for internal bleeding, broken leg, chest ribs and neck since then. And she will has another one for her front neck so as to allow herself to sit up as soon as possible. However, doctor here says given today's medical resouces / technologies now, my sister will not be able to walk again. My parents, sisters and my sister's friends who have flown to Scotland from Hong Kong after the accident, were shattered apart after hearing the bad news.
Dr. Wise, could you please advise how we can do next? Is my sister really hopeless even in the future according to what doctor said? We understand that my sister can't leave Scotland until she has no problem breathing her own. And our plan is seeking doctors in China and Hong Kong, actually wherever are possible for treatment. Is there any doctor who has started stem cell transplant in Asia?
Thanks for your taking time for us.
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Hi everyone! It's been a long time since I've been on this board...over 2 years as a matter of fact. I was browsing on the web tonight and came across this site. It was like going back in time for me, beyond two years ago to a time where I was so uncertain about my future as a quad (or tetra for you 'pc' folks!).
I decided to check it out again and read this post of the man who was told by his doctors that this was it, no more recovery, yadda, yadda, blah, blah, etc., etc., etc...
I had initially found Dr. Wise on the web so many years ago, when my fear of what the future held was nearly overwhelming...like so many of us, I was a very physically fit woman, strong and independent. 11+ years ago, I suffered a sci that changed my world, and as a c6-7, I became completely dependent on others for my most basic needs. What a trip that was, and I suffered from humiliation, rage, extreme vulnerability, depression at times, but it was all overshadowed by FEAR! My family shielded me from the worst news, and I later learned that the barriers posed could have been so great that the nursing home option HAD been tossed out there for consideration. My family became my shield, as I said, protecting my vulnerable mental state, which allowed me time to absorb all the stuff swirling around me, the doctor's diagnosis, and more importantly, the prognosis! I heard the same crap (pardon the slang but that's what it was!), and was even told that I better start dealing with reality and understand that I was never going to move from the neck down; that this was it...once I stopped crying, I got ticked and then became determined to not allow those words to define me or my abilities.
So my long-winded reply to your post is to please tell your brother in law:
Do not allow others to tell you what you will become, what you will achieve...be your own advocate, your own champion! I'm not saying that you will succeed in your journey to a recovery or that you will or will not walk again. I am simply stating that if you want to try, try!
Newly injured folks are bombarded with all kinds of medical info, and learn that there is this whole community that makes you feel like a visitor to a strange land...it will take time to get a handle on this, but you will. You will become acutely tuned in to you, and after awhile, talking about you will bore you! Yet, you must become knowledgeable, you must tap into the hope that you can regain function and just simply try. It will take time and is trial and error. It's hard, no doubt, but so worth it! Acceptance of the status quo in sci's leaves one stagnant, and that is a terrible fate. I'd rather go out swinging, you know?
Dr. Wise, about 9 years ago, I had emailed you about recovering function and using exercise/repetitive motion. Your reply gave me the green light that I had been searching for and I found it very motivational. To paraphrase, you told me that the two year window of recovery was not definite, that all sci's were unique and that exercising and using repetitive motion had been successful in returning function in lab studies using rats. You did not dampen my hope like all the other professionals, and I am grateful to you for that.
While I may not be walking (yet!), I have made so many gains physically and mentally that the w/c is no longer an albatross...I don't seek out sci websites exclusively or anything like that. I work and live like everyone else, and every once in awhile, I come back and visit, occasionally throwing my two cents in.
To all newly acquired sci's, hang in there and just keep moving forward. Your mind will catch up with your new reality and you will be ok if you fortify it with positive, healthy thoughts.
One last thing...if you do not agree with a professional, a doctor, a therapist, an orthotic (sp?) dude, and even your w/c and seating person, speak up! I learned the hard way to say NO, and it cost me two surgeries and lots of bedrest about 6 years ago. I wish someone had told me it was ok to question/disagree with them if I felt they were wrong...they were as it turned out.
Hello everyone!!!,I'm new around here as my close friend has been recently shot in the neck by accident w/a 40 caliber,his c4 and c5 have compression fractures and he has been paralyized below the shoulders since the accident about 5 1/2 weeks ago.he's in a nursing facility and is not getting the proper SCI rehab IMO,basically NONE!!!!,What can I do ??????he has parents and they seem overwlemed and don't know what to do(they're the ones who chose to put him where he is now)I gave them a bunch of info from the reeves foundation and there not being very proactive IMO,anyone have any suggestions where to start he has no insurance~thanks abunch~Paul
Paul, you should probably continue to post on your previous thread as it will get more attention.
Praise to you for being there to help us sitting in the dark and hoping, praying for some light. My 24 y/o nephew very recently suffered a C2 complete injury and is now vent dependent and my sister (his mom) and her husband and family are more than overwhelmed. They are so on their own and I am TRYING to help, but don't know how? He was discharged from ICU in Ventura (very caring wonderful staff in there) to a supposedly great rehab center near LA. But that center is filled with attitudes of gloom for him and insist that my sis and b-i-law take him home in their car!!!! She took all their classes, which they claim she passed and should be ready to care for him at home. This is an absolute impossibility with no way to get him there, no bed, no VENT, no wheelchair, no doctor, no home health aides, etc. She has had to stop working to be down there round the clock and wants to care for him; they're just nowhere near ready or able. The accident happened two months ago. Does anyone have any advice for how long it takes for someone to be able to come home? And how to set that all up? The current hospital provides NO discharge plan, no assitance in finding a medical team or home equipment or anything. Thankfully he has been equipped (by the kindness of a stranger) with a computer and a puffer-mouse and is already online! But this current hospital is supposed to be a rehab center yet they refuse to give him any kind of physical therapy because he is a 'C2 complete'. Does anyone have any advice? I'll be heading home soon (Seattle) but I can continue trying to find help long distance, or else connect her to this site. And actually, my nephew can join here if this would be a good place for him to communicate. thanks again for all everyone does here and I look forward to hearing from some of you soon.
My prayers are with you all.
- Mary
What is this "great" rehab center?? Does not sound very great to me. Doesn't sound like Rancho Los Amigos, which would be my first choice in So. Cal. Craig in Denver or Santa Clara Valley in San Jose would have been better. Is he uninsured??
The average rehab hospitalization for someone with a cervical injury, even ventilator dependent, is 6-8 weeks now days.
Dear SCI Nurse,
Do you have any information about Brown Sequard Syndrome?? Prognosis? Forums? Success rates ??


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'Choke' is now on DVD and you can order it from Amazon today!
Here's a listing of the features that are included with the DVD:
- My Name is Victor and I'm a Sex Addict
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- Audio commentary with Writer/Director/Actor Clark Gregg and Actor Sam Rockwell
- 5 deleted scenes with optional audio commentary with Clark Gregg and Sam Rockwell
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The idea of novels based on videogames seems like a great idea on paper: take the pulse-pounding action of an interactive firefight and turn it into homework. Because when Mrs. Vanbiesbrouck demands a book report, who wants to read something not related to Halo? Not me, I'll tell you that much. If a book doesn't have the Master Chief, I won't read it. And if I absolutely have to read it, I'll write him in. And if I don't have a marker, I'll imagine him. That's why books are great: They take us to a world of imagination where Tom Sawyer gets a laser cannon to the face.
Trying to make me paint a fence white? I'm the Master Chief, son!
At their best, videogame novels are light fluff that allow gamers to take their favorite characters to the bathroom. While no one's giving a Pulitzer to "Warcraft: Lord of the Clans" (suck it, Christie Golden!), there's nothing that wrong with wanting to know more about your favorite game world. Even I've occasionally wondered if Diablo would continue to be evil (spoiler alert: he totally will!).
At their worst, videogame novels read like a twelve-year-old transcribed a FAQ while slipping in his own fan-fiction. Needing more setup than "You're a spy and Fox Hound is bad," bad videogame novels tend to slow down the action while sucking out the connection players feel for their avatars. Once gameplay is removed, videogames that once seemed like great science-fiction stories, spy thrillers, or fantasy adventures turn out to be hollow husks of archetypes and cliches.
Terribly written, terribly paced, and terribly adapted -- here are the top 10 terrible videogame novelizations.
10. "Planescape: Torment" by Ray and Valerie Vallese
Full disclosure: Planescape: Torment is my favorite videogame of all time.
In my opinion, its story -- a nameless man suffering for actions he committed in previous lifetimes -- is the epitome of what can be done with interactive storytelling. By remaining nameless and without memory, the scarred lead character is an empty vessel that the player can fill with any idea, thought, or action. While The Nameless One was once a scoundrel, a thief, a wizard, and a general, in this current life, he is the player.
Thus, after a five-alarm nerdgasm for the game, I rushed out and bought the novelization. I was young then. I didn't know developers just merchandized properties for money. 9/11 hadn't happened yet and I thought true love was real.
The novel sucked.
While it's not nearly as bad as the rest of the books on this list, it turned an interesting premise into no premise at all: They name The Nameless One. In what amounts to picking the "I stay home and do homework" option in a choose your own adventure novel, writers Ray and Valerie Vallese thought the best option for a mysterious protagonist would be to give him a set identity that no one could relate to.
Fans hated this novelization so much they actually did their own adaptation .
It also sucks.
9. "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" by Dean Wesley Smith, Alan Reinert, Jeff Vintar, and Hironobu Sakaguomi
If you ever doubt your future as a writer, always remember when there was a crappy novel based on a crappy movie based on the crappiest parts of a videogame series.
Maybe you can someday be Dean Wesley Smith, Alan Reinert, or Jeff Vintar. But you'll never be Hironobu Sakaguomi. You're not that lucky.
8. "The Myst Reader" by David Wingrove, Robyn Miller, and Rand Miller
Remember that moment when you first saw Myst? The beautiful rendered landscapes that looked unlike anything ever seen in a videogame before? The soft, atmospheric sounds? The detailed rooms just begging for exploration?
Remember seeing them and thinking, "This would be so much better as a book?"
The Myst novels are essentially long-winded descriptions of postcards. Since the core of the game is exploration of a beautiful landscape, writer David Wingrove and game creators / co-writers Robyn Miller and Rand Miller justify their novel by painstakingly (and painfully) describing everything.
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Atrus reached out and picked up the brass cooking pot he had been examining earlier, pleased by its symmetry, by the way the double pans -- top and bottom linked by four strong brass spindles -- like all the cooking implements in Age Five, were designed to cope with water which, when heated, rose into the air.Here's how you can write the sentence in a novel where fans don't expect everything to be a Hyperlink slideshow: "Atrus picked up the pot. He liked it."
7. "King's Quest: See No Weevil" by Kenyon Morr
"King's Quest: See No Weevil" makes this list for two reasons.
First, "See No Weevil?" Really? What, did you think of the title first? How about "King's Quest: An Unbearable Problem With Bears?" Or "King's Quest: Foxy Valanice is Turned into a Fox, Get It?"
Second, this is the penultimate title in the entire King's Quest franchise, the last being King's Quest: Mask of Eternity. This book murdered the series and Mask Of Eternity pooped in its skull. What was once a bright spot in the computer gaming world turned into a generic fantasy setting filled with annoying princesses and generic heroes. Or, as it's better known, Everquest.
As for the story, Rosella, the Jar Jar Binks of the King's Quest universe, is forced to watch over Daventry when Graham and Valanice leave town. Hilarity ensues because Rosella is a teenaged girl and, well, you know teenaged girls!
Let me repeat that: The last novel in the King's Quest series is literally about the most beloved characters leaving the most hated character alone to do whatever she wants. It's sort of like how my favorite episodes of "Star Trek" were the ones where Wesley Crusher went sweater shopping.
6. "Hellgate: London: Exodus" by Mel Odom
I feel sort of bad for the novels based on Hellgate: London. You can see how a post-apocalyptic fantasy action-RPG from some of the guys who'd made Diablo would seem like a sure thing. Too bad the game was all but broken, the gameplay generic, and the fan support nonexistent.
Like the game itself, the book is bristling with excitement wrapped in unoriginal ideas. Even Mel Odom's writing betrays a sort of misplaced confidence in the game world:
That one had looked like a snail, but it had been three feet tall and equipped with a tongue capable of striking over a distance of ten feet. The tongue-strike carried lethal toxins. The Cabalists still didn't know the proper name, but they were calling them Death Darts at the present.


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Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha, 31, helped rescue the injured and retrieve the dead during an ambush by hundreds of fighters in Afghanistan. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
An Army sergeant who ignored his battle wounds to take out the enemy, rescue the injured and retrieve the dead during an ambush by 300 fighters in Afghanistan will receive the Medal of Honor, the White House announced Friday.
Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha, 31, who has since left the military, will be only the fourth living service member awarded the nation's top honor for courage in Iraq or Afghanistan.
His citation says he is being recognized for "acts of gallantry and intrepity" when fighters attacked Combat Outpost Keating from all sides with rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns, mortars and rifles on Oct. 3, 2009, igniting a daylong battle.
Romesha, a father of three, rousted reinforcements and then engaged in battle with the help of an assistant gunner. After taking out one machine-gun team, he set his sights on a second and suffered shrapnel wounds when a grenade hit a generator he was using for cover.
"Undeterred by his injuries, Staff Sergeant Romesha continued to fight and upon the arrival of another soldier to aid him and the assistant gunner, he again rushed through the exposed avenue to assemble additional soldiers," the citation says.
"With complete disregard for his own safety, (he) continually exposed himself to heavy enemy fire as he moved confidently about the battlefield engaging and destroying multiple enemy targets."
At the same time, Romesha was orchestrating a plan to secure key points of the battlefield — and directing air support to knock out a band of 30 heavily armed fighters who were attacking "with even greater ferocity."
He and his team also provided cover so that three wounded soldiers could get to an aid station, then "pushed forward 100 meters under withering fire, to recover the bodies of their fallen comrades."
Eight soldiers were killed in the battle, chronicled in the book "The Outpost," by journalist Jake Tapper, who described Romesha as "an intense guy, short and wiry," the son of a Mormon church leader who had attended seminary before joining the military.
Romesha, according to the book, never lost his cool — playing "peekaboo" with a sniper so he could get a bead on him, smiling as bullets ricocheted around him.
'He's always been a good kid'
Romesha's father, Gary, said his son called him with news of the medal on Friday.
"I thought it was great. But I'm more thankful he is able to receive it on his own and it's not given to us after he is dead," he said.
The father of five, a Vietnam veteran, said all three of his sons went into the military.
"I tried to talk to my children. I told them, just don't go into the infantry, do something where you get skilled. But they didn't listen to me. They all went into the infantry," he said in a phone interview from his home in small-town northern California.
He said he wasn't surprised to hear about his son's battlefield heroics.
"He's always been a good kid," he said. "But I think any of my children would have done the same thing."
Romesha enlisted in the Army in 1999 and completed two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. He was a section leader with B Troop, 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division when the outpost came under fire.
Though the U.S. soldiers were greatly outnumbered, they stopped the Taliban from overrunning the outpost after Afghan troops and guards reportedly fled.
President Obama, who announced the award during a press conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, will present Romesha with the Medal of Honor at the White House on Feb. 11.
NBC News' Courtney Kube contributed to this report.
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BEIJING, March 4 (Reuters) - China is likely to dismantle its sprawling, scandal-plagued Railways Ministry into operations and commercial arms that will be supervised by different agencies, two sources said, part of an overhaul of the bureaucracy as new leaders take charge in Beijing.
The restructuring is aimed at ending long-standing inefficiencies and addressing the ministry's reputation for insularity and corruption, they said.
"The Railways Ministry will be demoted (in status)," said one of the sources.
The changes are set to be approved at the annual full session of the National People's Congress, or parliament, which begins on Tuesday. A cabinet reshuffle is expected as Xi Jinping takes over formally as president and Li Keqiang as premier.
"Part of the Ministry of Railways will be merged with a super-Ministry of Transport," said a second source who has leadership ties, requesting anonymity to avoid repercussions for speaking to foreign reporters. The source was referring to the operations of the railways.
A state-owned enterprise will absorb the ministry's commercial arm, which has responsibility for passenger ticketing and freight operations, the sources added.
The Railways Ministry has faced numerous problems over the past few years, including heavy debts from funding new high-speed lines, waste and fraud. The government has pledged to open the rail industry to private investment on an unprecedented scale.
Railways Minister Sheng Guangzu told the state news agency Xinhua on Monday he was not sure if he would be the last to lead the ministry, but said he supported its restructuring.
Shares in Chinese rail firms listed in Hong Kong fell on Monday, in what analysts said was investors reducing risk exposure in the face of the long-anticipated reforms.
China Railway Group fell 4 percent in Hong Kong and China Railway Construction closed down 2.3 percent, underperforming a 2.1 percent drop in the China Enterprises Index of the top Chinese listings in Hong Kong.
"Our deep hope is that the (railway) reforms become the clarion call for a new round of trade reform and a trigger for the huge potential of reforming the monopoly state sector, to create the maximum benefit for China's future development," wrote Hu Shuli, editor in chief of Caixin, a respected financial weekly.
The 21st Century Business Herald newspaper reported the ministry will likely be split. A "Railways Bureau" would oversee operations and personnel, while the lucrative freight business and passenger transport would be incorporated into state-owned enterprises overseen by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, or SASAC.
Previous reform plans had involved hiving the ministry off into a number of competing entities. For the moment, the ministry's 18 bureaus will remain a part of the operating arm, it said.
Railways Minister Liu Zhijun was sacked in February 2012 and expelled from the ruling Communist Party last May for taking bribes and using his position to help the chairman of an investment company get "enormous illegal profits".
Liu successfully resisted a merger with the Ministry of Transport five years ago, but the Ministry of Railways was dealt big blows by his sacking and by a 2011 crash on its flagship high-speed service in which 40 people died.
Separately, the South China Morning Post reported that China would set up a new watchdog similar to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, streamlining a complex regulatory system that has seen a series of scandals over food contamination and fake medicines.
Last-minute wrangling could keep pharmaceuticals out of the watchdog's purview, after an unsuccessful first attempt several years ago, the Hong Kong-based newspaper said.
China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) was founded in 2003 as a ministerial-level agency directly under the State Council but was downgraded and affiliated the Ministry of Health in 2008 after a number of corruption scandals involving the sale of drug approvals.
The SFDA is currently responsible for policies and programmes on the administration of drugs, health food, medical devices and cosmetics, while the Health Ministry mainly handles food safety and other agencies look after packaging and animal health.
The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) also has responsibility for inspecting product quality in China and for imports or exports.
Zheng Xiaoyu, former head of the SFDA, was executed in July 2007 for taking bribes and dereliction of duty after a series of drug safety scandals on his watch. (Additional reporting by Clement Tan in Hong Kong and Mark Bendeich in Sydney; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan and Kevin Liffey)


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Family Tree Magazine's Top 40 Genealogy Blogs
As I prepared to head out for my afternoon round of picking up the munchkins, I decided to jump on Facebook with the few minutes I had. I saw that a dear friend, Jenn from Climbing My Family Tree, had posted on my wall and told me the incredibly unbelievable news...that the both of us had made it onto the Family Tree Magazine's Top 40 Genealogy Blogs of 2011 under the "New Blogs" category! Needless to say not only was I extremely delighted, but I was quite stunned! I certainly didn't expect the honor with so many exceptional blogs out there.
Thank you to everyone that has been so encouraging as I begin my blogging and accreditation journeys! The latter is certainly a longer journey! A special thank you to Family Tree Magazine and the four members of the panel, Lisa Louise Cooke (Genealogy Gems and Family Tree Magazine Podcasts), Thomas MacEntee (Geneabloggers), Pat Richley-Erickson (DearMYRTLE), and Randy Seaver (Genea-Musings, The Geneaholic). You all contribute so much to the genealogy community and I admire each and every one of you!
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
What Is the Future of Scholarly Books in the Digital Age?
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Prof. Parrillo, Like your last post, this one is a superb discussion of your topic. From a librarian's standpoint, I think you do justice to the present state of affairs, the convergence of scholarly publishing and the provision of access to scholarly information (this latter being a strong component of the library's responsibilities). My comments here are gentle tweaks of your account. First, academic (and virtually all other) libraries have long sought to provide more than mere provision of access to information. Libraries first want to help scholars to identify relevant materials and then to facilitate access to those materials. The classic example: the researcher who, while pulling an identified volume from a physical shelf, browses the surrounding shelves "serendipitously" finding other relevant materials. The library's contribution here is often taken for granted. You acknowledge this in your paragraph about library purchases, but I would go further: libraries evaluate these resources, determine which ones to acquire, and struggle to promote the new acquisitions to researchers who typically expect Google search results to identify relevant texts and then facilitate seamless access to the work. I don't believe the Project MUSE Book Collection is crawled by Google or other web search tools. Consequently, the researcher needs to know about the collection, its coverage, and how it operates as an interface. Generally, libraries address these needs by promoting the tool, but also by including its contents in the library catalog, which, alas, is a misunderstood and neglected finding tool.
Second, the disaggregation of book contents and the shifting of the burden of description of the content (i.e., the generation of descriptive metadata) from publishers and librarians to the author is indeed salutary, but not without drawbacks. Unlike LC Subject Headings (for better or worse) keyword descriptors are typically not controlled. One scholar's "film" is another's "cinema." Again, the library catalog has been performing a similar function for some time. For example, libraries have included tables of contents in many catalog records. Inasmuch as chapter titles operate as descriptive keywords, a researcher running keyword searches in a library catalog can identify books with relevant chapters. For example, a keyword search in Yale's MORRIS catalog for "naval warfare" includes your recent book among the results: http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b1283487~S1. I would wager that the extractive style of reading among scholars was pervasive well before the advent of web access to full texts.
Finally, when you discuss these tools' interfaces in terms of industry standards you appear to be referring to the establishment of a core collection, something like a canon of online resources. Libraries do pursue collection development with such standards in mind. But I believe standardization needs to occur elsewhere, namely, at the interface itself. Each of the products you mention presents the researcher with a different interface and differing approaches to searching, as well as distinct corpora of texts. Consequently, even if a scholar is aware of all of the tools her institution has acquired, she needs to learn how to use each of them individually and perhaps even to run iterative searches across all of them. The promise of entire libraries and publishers' catalogs being hosted on the web would be well served with the development of a standard user interface deployed by all of the competing online resources, free and commercial. Google's emergence as a web search tool prompted efforts toward a de facto standardization aimed at simplicity. Recognizing the popularity of Google's bare search field, commercial providers tried to simplify their own interfaces. But we have learned that Google can be a blunt tool when it comes to scholarly research precisely because it doesn't intuitively permit refinement of searches.
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More on extractive reading, from today's New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/02/technology/e-books-hold-tight-to-features-of-their-print-predecessors.html?hpw&rref=technology&_r=0
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Play at plate overturned on collision rule
Originally called out, Arenado scores after Ruiz blocked home plate
DENVER -- The Rockies were first on the scoreboard in Saturday night's game vs. the Phillies, thanks to a crew chief review on a close play at the plate.
In the bottom of the third, Nolan Arenado led off the inning and extended his hitting streak to match a career-high 10 games with a single to center.
The next batter, DJ LeMahieu, singled to left and Arenado came around from first attempting to score on the play. Left fielder Domonic Brown fired to second baseman Chase Utley who made a pinpoint throw to catcher Carlos Ruiz for a bang-bang play as Arenado slid and hooked his left leg in between Ruiz's legs as the catcher turned to make the tag.
Home plate umpire Tim Welke called Arenado out, and Arendao immediately popped up to protest. Replays available in the stadium were not conclusive on the close play, with differing angles suggesting different outcomes.
"I thought my foot got through his legs, so that's why I thought I was safe," Arenado said. "I wasn't thinking about how he was blocking the plate, I just thought I got through. I apologized because I almost went after him. I kind of bumped into him on accident. I was apologizing as I was yelling at him. He was really cool about it."
Rockies manager Walt Weiss came out of the dugout to give Welke his perspective. Thinking it was a case of the plate being inappropriately blocked under the terms of the new collision rule, 7.13, Weiss didn't need to challenge the play, but knew he could instead ask for a crew chief review.
"It looked like from the dugout that the plate might have been blocked," Weiss said. "It's a tough rule. It's a tricky rule. Maybe it's open to interpretation a little bit. But that's how I saw it and that's what I said to Tim Welke. I thought the pathway of the runner was blocked."
The umpires left the field, and the call was reversed. Arenado was ruled safe, giving the Rockies a 1-0 lead in the third.
"The umpire said I was out on the tag, but I was safe on the blocking the plate," Arenado said. "He made the right call."
Based on the new collision rule, Ruiz was ruled to have blocked the plate prior to receiving the ball. The play marks the first time the collision rule has been used in a Rockies game, but it was the second time in five days the Phillies have lost out on the call.
Earlier in the week, John Mayberry Jr. was called out at the plate in a similar play against the Marlins, and when Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg asked for a review, the play stood, costing the Phillies a run. Against the Rockies, the play was reversed, and the Phillies yielded a run to Colorado.
"[Welke] came over and explained the play, and I said, 'Wait a minute, we've had two plays go against us," Sandberg said. "We have to get some consistency with the calls at home plate. There are two against us, two different interpretations of the same exact play in a five-day period. Both against us.'"
Joe Torre, Major League Baseball's Vice President of Baseball Operations, called the Phillies after the Marlins incident and acknowledged the call should have been overturned.
The run gave the Rockies momentum, and they never relinquished it, building a 3-0 lead before letting an unearned run across in the eighth inning.
"It makes a huge difference," Arenado said of the run scored as a result of the review. "That would be an out most of the time. I thought it was right away. It's amazing how that one rule changes the game.
"Fortunately enough, it benefitted us. I guess when you're on the other side of it, it probably rubs you the wrong way a little bit, like it probably rubbed them. It's a crazy rule. It almost doesn't seem like it makes sense. But at the same time, it's part of the game now."


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by Edward L. Kaplan, M.D.
Department of Pediatrics
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, MN
Acute rheumatic fever is a disease that affects the body's connective tissue and central nervous system. It results from a throat or tonsil infection that is caused by group A beta hemolytic streptococci, commonly referred to as "strep throat." Rheumatic fever is a side effect of the strep infection, not part of the infection itself. Rheumatic fever affects the heart; the joints; the skin, i.e., an unusual rash called erythema marginatum, and subcutaneous nodules, which are small, pea-sized nodules under the skin; or the central nervous system, i.e., Sydenham's chorea, commonly known as St. Vitus dance.
Rheumatic fever is the result of a streptococcal sore throat; therefore, it is important to prevent and/or treat this infection. Usually, antibiotic treatment prevents rheumatic fever. Although the exact way in which rheumatic fever develops is not understood, it is believed that the patient who develops rheumatic fever (about 3% of patients with untreated strep throat) have an abnormal immune response to some part of the group A streptococcus. Most likely, this is because some parts of the bacteria are almost identical to certain parts of the human heart and other human tissues. This is thought to result in the body essentially reacting against itself (called "auto-immunity" or "antigenic mimicry").
Group A streptococcal upper respiratory tract infections are very common among children. Most patients who develop rheumatic fever are in the age range between 5 and 15 years. It is rare for very young children (less than three or four years of age), as well as adults, to develop rheumatic fever, even if they have a strep infection. However, young adults are susceptible. While there is a genetic predisposition (i.e., it "runs in families") to developing rheumatic fever, reasons for this are not completely understood.
The symptoms of a strep infection include a sudden onset of a very sore throat with a high fever. Nausea and abdominal pain may occur in children. However, many patients who develop strep throat do not develop these classic symptoms. An abnormal immune response by the body, following a period of approximately 10 days to 2 weeks after the strep infection, is believed to cause the clinical signs of rheumatic fever.
The signs and symptoms of rheumatic fever depend on which body systems are affected. In approximately half of the patients with rheumatic fever, the heart is involved. Patients may develop the symptoms of heart failure, such as shortness of breath. Leaking ("incompetence") of one of the heart valves results in a heart murmur, which can be heard by a physician.
The arthritis of rheumatic fever is not chronic arthritis. It usually occurs in 60% to 70% of patients. It usually affects large joints, such as elbows, wrists, shoulders, ankles, and knees. It rarely affects the fingers, the spine, or the hips. It is called a "migratory arthritis" because in the untreated patient, it will affect one joint one day and move on to another joint a day or so later. It is important that the migratory nature of the arthritis be documented before making this diagnosis.
Sydenham's chorea, or St. Vitus dance, is much less common than arthritis or rheumatic heart disease, occurring in only 10% to 15% of patients. Patients may develop clumsiness. Emotional changes often may occur. Typically, findings in children are first noted either at the dinner table, where they find it difficult to use utensils and frequently spill milk, or by a schoolteacher, who notices emotional changes and a deterioration in handwriting and other fine motor skills.
The rash of rheumatic fever, called erythema marginatum, is uncommon, and it is seen in only about 5% to 8% of patients. The rash occurs mainly on the trunk; is circumscribed, i.e., confined to a limited space; is not painful; and does not itch.
The subcutaneous nodules of rheumatic fever also are very rare, except in those individuals who have severe heart valve involvement. These are small, pea-sized nodules, which are often on the back of the hand over the knuckles and on the outside of the elbow joint.
Physicians diagnose rheumatic fever based on a clinical examination, since there is not a single laboratory test that can diagnose it. Clinical criteria, called the Jones Criteria, take into account the most common findings of patients with rheumatic fever. Thus, physicians may use the Jones Criteria to diagnose rheumatic fever. However, the Jones Criteria can be difficult to apply; many diseases may appear to fulfill the Jones Criteria, but are not rheumatic fever. There are five major criteria (carditis, arthritis, chorea, erythema marginatum, and subcutaneous nodules). Less specific findings, called minor criteria, include fever, aching (not arthritis) of the joints, and several very non-specific laboratory tests. The presence of two major criteria or one major and two minor criteria, plus a recent strep infection, should lead to a possible diagnosis of rheumatic fever.
Initially, the treatment of rheumatic fever focuses on the therapy of the group A streptococcal infection, which still may be present at the time that rheumatic fever develops, and, then, it focuses on the clinical symptoms of the disease. Treatment of the sore throat in patients with rheumatic fever is very important. Most often, penicillin (or sometimes another antibiotic) is used to treat the sore throat. Penicillin may be given either orally or by injection.
The treatment of the heart disease depends on its severity. Often, either corticosteroids or aspirin are used. If a patient shows signs of a failing heart ("congestive heart failure"), drugs that strengthen the contraction of the heart, and drugs that help to eliminate excess fluids from the body (diuretics), may be used. While steroids may help the acute phase of the heart disease, if there is heart failure, they do not prevent the development of heart valve disease.
The arthritis of rheumatic fever, while very painful, can be controlled with aspirin ("salicylates"). In fact, once aspirin is started in patients with rheumatic fever, it is common for the arthritis to completely subside in 12 to 24 hours. It is thought that if the arthritis does not disappear quickly after beginning treatment with aspirin, the diagnosis of rheumatic fever should be questioned. Steroids are almost never used to treat the arthritis of rheumatic fever. In the acute phase, the pain of the arthritis can be controlled by any number of pain medications available to a physician.
The treatment of Sydenham's chorea is more difficult. Specific medications are available that help to reduce the uncontrollable neurological movements of this disease. However, the signs and symptoms of Sydenham's chorea may persist as long as several months, even when appropriate medications are used.
Treatment is not needed for either the rash or the small, painless subcutaneous nodules.
The main complication of rheumatic fever is rheumatic valvular heart disease. Approximately 50% (but in some instances, more) of patients will develop scarring of the heart valves. Usually, it is the mitral valve (between the left atrium and the left ventricle), but, sometimes, it involves the aortic valve (the valve that directs blood to the body). Rarely, the valves on the right side of the heart (those to the lungs) are affected. When the heart valves become so damaged and cause heart failure, surgery is needed. Often, an artificial heart valve is required. The arthritis associated with rheumatic fever disappears, and it is not a chronic complication. Sydenham's chorea may recur in patients who have rheumatic fever, but it usually is not a continuing problem. The other symptoms do not cause long-term complications.
There are two types of prevention for rheumatic fever: primary prevention and secondary prevention.
Primary prevention means the appropriate diagnosis and treatment of strep throat, thereby preventing an initial attack of rheumatic fever. Usually, this treatment is with penicillin or similar antibiotics (e.g., amoxicillin). Other drugs, such as erythromycin or some of the cephalosporins, can be used effectively. Erythromycin is used mainly for those individuals who are allergic to penicillin. Penicillin may be given either orally for 10 days or by injection. Although shorter courses (less than 10 days) of antibiotics are thought to be equally effective, most professional organizations recommend the full 10 days of oral antibiotic therapy.
Secondary prevention means the prevention of a second or third attack of rheumatic fever in an individual who has already had the disease. In contrast to primary prevention, which is given only at the time of a strep infection, secondary prevention is continuous. The duration of secondary prevention depends on numerous factors; however, it is usually for at least five years and, frequently, for longer periods of time. Secondary prevention requires careful consideration by a physician. These patients may be given either oral penicillin on a daily basis or injections of a long-acting form of penicillin, called benzathine penicillin G, on a monthly basis. Studies have shown that the injection, while painful in some cases, is more effective in preventing patients from recurrent rheumatic fever. Oral sulfa drugs also may be used for secondary prevention, but not primary prevention, of rheumatic fever.
Research in rheumatic fever, which still is a major cause of heart disease in many parts of the world, focuses on two objectives. The first objective is to more completely understand how the strep infection starts the reaction that results in rheumatic fever. The mechanisms that cause rheumatic fever remain poorly understood. Since control of any disease process is most effective when the cause of the disease is known, this research is important. Whether rheumatic fever is affected by a particular kind of streptococcus that causes the throat infection or whether there are genetic predispositions to developing rheumatic fever remains to be fully understood.
Another current and important area of research is the use of a vaccine to prevent strep infections. Public health programs that use vaccines (e.g., measles) successfully are very cost effective. Unfortunately, the preparation of a vaccine against group A streptococci is more difficult because some parts of streptococcus are similar to some parts of human tissue, and because there are many different types of group A streptococci. A cost-effective vaccine against many types of streptococci would have important public health implications. Studies to develop test vaccines are in progress.
Research is important to better understand how a strep infection is spread, why this infection most often affects children, and how to best diagnose and treat the infection in a cost-effective manner.
About the Author
Dr. Kaplan has been interested for many years in streptococcal infections and their reguelae. He is a renowned authority on Acute Rheumatic Fever and the associated complications.
Copyright 2012 Edward L. Kaplan, M.D., All Rights Reserved
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J.J. Abrams: 'Too early' for Star Wars 7
- Bang Showbiz
- 22 February 2013
J.J. Abrams has revealed it's 'too early' to start talking about 'Star Wars 7' as he's still working on his current project 'Star Trek Into Darkness'
J.J. Abrams hasn't thought about 'Star Wars 7' yet.
The director - who was confirmed to helm the highly anticipated sci-fi blockbuster last month - won't begin working on the film until his current project, fellow space saga 'Star Trek Into Darkness', is in cinemas in May.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, he explained: "It's too early to even talk about it. We're very excited. The thing we're working on is finishing the 'Star Trek Into Darkness' movie which comes out in May.
"It's a little bit like being in the middle of lunch and trying to think about what's for dinner."
Although Disney - which bought the rights to the lucrative franchise from original director George Lucas last year - announced a 2015 release for the seventh 'Star Wars' film, J.J. revealed he hasn't committed to a release date.
He said: "We're in the middle of 'Star Trek' so to think about 'Star Wars' and the release date, all of that's far less of a concern than making a movie that's worth your time."
The filmmaker added that it was "incredibly surreal" to be asked to direct 'Star Wars', but insists it will not affect his work on the 'Star Trek' franchise - which he successfully rebooted in 2009.
He said: "They're very distinct and separate entities."


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It's almost criminal to buy your first lipstick from Bésame and not choose one of their stunning hot reds, but I was in a sensible mood for once.
Here is my first every Bésame lipstick in Debutante Pink (which on the swatch looked like the most natural pink….
Let's get the size thing out of the way – these lipsticks are Retro and Vintage = Teeny. It makes my already large hands look (as my 8 year old cousin would say) humunguser. Women must have been smaller back then all over, because check out the size of this lippie:
Gah! Well size isn't everything, and I personally can't finish – have NEVER – finished a lipstick anyway, plus I love mini things. The price is £11 – £12 (depending where you buy it) so no, its not a bargain.
Check out my swatch after the jump!
Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Have I ever told you that I hate frosty lipstick? I have yet to find an example of when it looks good on someone….
So here is Debutante Pink. I have to remind myself that this brand makes retro colours, hence this pink errs on the side of hideousity – its just not right. Its not a true pink, its not a blue pink, its one a hot pink. Its a wrong pink.
Hugh Hefner's 18 year old girlfriend would wear this.
A woman who has a spiral perm and wears lycra and lace at the same time would wear this.
Zsa Zsa Gabor would wear this, probably at her own funeral.
It reminds me of the first ever lipstick I owned, a Collection 2000 frosted pink that came with Shout Magazine. It gives me chills even now. Collection 2000.
So let's ignore the shade for a moment. (I am exaggerating, its not THAT hideous, its just not quite what I wanted). The texture is lovely and using the tiny lipstick is fine although it looks awfully fragile in the tube – a bit scared it will snap off.
No allergic reactions like I had with the lip gloss. Swatch on lips:
Yah, yah I know it looks ok but its just wrong, trust me here.
Nevertheless I still thing the range is beautiful, so I have ordered 3 more lipsticks (yeah, thats what I do when I don't like the first 2 products I ordered from a company, d'oh!) but in the original cream formulas (not frost) to try.
Have you tried this brand? Want to defend Debutante Pink? let me know in the comments!


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Young people are more likely to consider buying a life insurance policy through their bank than older generations, a study released Monday by LIMRA found.
"We also know these consumers are more likely to need life insurance than older generations," Patrick Leary, assistant vice president of LIMRA distribution research, noted in a statement. "In addition, many of these younger consumers have no existing relationship with a life insurance agent or financial advisor so buying life insurance from their bank is not just another convenience—it provides an opportunity to get the financial protection these consumers really need."
Advisors shouldn't focus directly on life insurance when talking with young investors, Leary told AdvisorOne on Monday. Instead, they should approach the subject in terms of broader protection needs. "They may shut down if advisors start talking about specific product solutions," Leary said.
It may also be helpful to talk about insurance in terms of debt cancellation, Leary added. Young investors often have accumulated high levels of debt through college costs or by purchasing their first house.
More than half of all respondents are aware they can purchase life insurance through their bank, but just 44% would consider doing so.
Although less than half of consumers appear willing to purchase insurance through a bank, Leary suggested the reason was the "historical perception of what banks do." Consumers see banks as a way to save money and accumulate wealth, not as a source of products. Another reason, though, is simply that life insurance isn't top-of-mind.
There is a distribution challenge as well, though, as advisors who work in banks aren't necessarily receptive to including those types of products, Leary added.
The majority of consumers who go through their bank for insurance are looking for simple products, the report found.
Leary added that consumers who are likely to go through their bank for products tend to be more conservative than those who work with a financial advisor.
"You can't take what your customers know for granted," Leary said. "Advisors should frame [life insurance] as part of a larger accumulation and protection strategy."


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Falling Down Lyrics
Your wold is falling down again. All you want is found in silence. Safe and sound we tame our violence. All you need is peace and quiet, that moment of relief that leaves you dyin. Its all a vapor, and when you savor every tradgey. The pain is nothing but an answer. Can you see it in a memory? Almost everything can be perfect.


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FC St Pauli won away at their not-so-friendly city rivals Hamburg on Wednesday night, but that doesn't tell half the story writes Teddy Barrett...
The Hamburg Derby was supposed to take place on the 6th February. As a St Pauli fan, I was looking forward to it, not least, because we were in good form and HSV weren't . As it was, such is the necessity in these modern arenas, the grass needed to be replaced mid-season, and HSV chose to do this 3 or 4 days before the match, having not checked the weather reports. Three days of torrential rain followed, the grass didn't grow properly and suddenly the city of Hamburg was faced with the embarrassing situation of having no derby on a weekend which proved to be hosting many derbies across Germany. Grass related jokes amongst St Pauli forumites and the twitterati reigned. In amongst this, the rivalry between the two Hamburg clubs seems to have intensified. Whilst perhaps not so politically fuelled as in previous generations, HSV's current malaise on the pitch, combined with St Pauli's relative success, has created a bitterness and outbreaks of violence that I had never witnessed when I used to live in the city. A very small minority of HSV fans' reaction to the derby cancellation was to attack the St Pauli fan pub "The Jolly Roger".
Eventually the match was however rescheduled. Time enough to sort the television schedules, but not enough for many of my friends to arrange time off work to make a Wednesday night game. I, however, was one of the lucky ones and before long was sat on the train, with a copy of German football magazine "11Freunde" for company. HSV are on the front cover of this months issue as part of the main article - 50 most stupid ideas in football. I assume that the article was referring to the pink shirts they once wore, rather than the club in general, but I took it as a good omen.
A text message arrived from a friend telling me to meet her down by the riverside, as we would then travel in a group to the ground. I assumed she meant a few of our mates, but as I waited on the bridge leading over to the river Elbe, gradually the place filled up. It was rather like that scene with the black crows accumulating on the climbing frame in the Hitchcock film "The Birds", as more and more St Pauli fans dressed in black gathered. By the time my friends arrived, the police had found out about the gathering, had parked up and were shuffling about nearby, perhaps slightly taken aback by this spontaneous event. Suddenly the group was on the move, climbing the steps down into the underground station. "Haende hoch das ist ein Ueberfall, heute kommen wir von ueberall, und wir sind daaaa! Ultra' Antifaaaa!"/"Hands up this is robbery, today we're arriving from everywhere, and we are here! Antifascist ultras!" echoed around the station. The sheer mass of people granted enough anonymity for the place to end up covered in supporters' stickers. A well organised departure, meant despite the crowding and narrow platform, everyone made the train to Othmarschen, another station closer to the edge of town where HSV play. We then piled onto buses and were shipped to the ground. Despite the relatively plentiful buses laid on by the local transport company, there is a lot of queuing in order to get to the Imtech Arena, and even after that you then have to queue to get in. The security checks, plus 3 separate ticket checks, mean getting onto the terrace, is a slow process.
Having survived the checks, our group of friends regrouped and we headed into the lower block together. Katie Perry - Firework was playing at the time, which I happen to like (I know, I know. A guilty pleasure), so I took that as a good omen too. The HSV fans had hung a banner up on their terrace. "Rebellious skull and crossbones - sold out! Self-managed home terrace - sold out! Trendy legend- sold out! The person who has nothing left, must dance on the pole". Its a reference to recent concerns at St Pauli around too much commercialism, and that one VIP lounge at the Millerntor ground featured a pole dancer, all of which has faced huge opposition from St Pauli fans as part of the Jolly Rouge/Sozial Romantiker campaign. The banner was a bit of light, harmless joshing , the HSV fan's anti-commerce critique albeit somewhat lessened by the array of adverts and inflatable lemonade promotions on the pitch in front of it. The St Pauli response came from the upper tier. A banner mocking HSV's claims of tradition. It said something like "a concrete bowl on the edge of town. Protect tradition - AOL Arena forever", a reference to the fact that HSV's ground has gone through a series of corporate name changes and so tradition really only equates to the sponsor from 10 years ago.
Shortly before kick -off, various in-stadium speakers and celebrities had their go at whipping up some sort of atmosphere, but what prompted the noise in the end was the appearance of the players. In the HSV end, an admittedly very well accomplished choreo took place. A large flag over the upper tier, two large lines of text over the lip of the tier and then some sort of colour mosaic on the lower tier. I couldn't read it though, as by this time our narrow away block had turned into a sea of brown and white flags, framing a large St Pauli badge hanging off the lip of the upper section.
The match started and from where we were standing, the atmosphere was not quite as loud as Id hoped. The sound escaped due to the high roof. When the HSV end got going, we could hear them. The easier songs from our end also reached somewhat higher volumes, but it was quite hard work. In the first half HSV were by far the stronger team. We barely ventured out of our own half, and when we did it only provoked brutal challenges from the likes of Jarolim. Meanwhile I was worried about Pliquett being in goal for us. He's an actual St Pauli fan, so is instantly likeable and its fair to say he was highly motivated in this match, having been attacked by a group of HSV fans on the way back from a match last year. Nevertheless Kessler, who normally plays in goal for us, has been supreme this season and I would've liked to have seen him between the sticks marshalling the defence. I shouldn't have worried. Pliquett played an excellent first half (and by all accounts a great second half too). Coming under constant pressure from crosses, he saved St Pauli quite a few times. Ruud VanNistelrooy meanwhile was doing that old trick he used to do at Manchester United, of standing offside, only to leap back onside at the last second. It prompted the chant of "Oi, Oi, Oi! Scheiss VanNistelrooy" on numerous occasions from our end. I couldn't sing that. He was my hero for many a year.
Part way through the first half, and flares were let off in the lower section where I was standing. Smoke bombs went off in the upper section. Still under pressure on the pitch and the atmosphere generally struggling in all four corners of the ground, it seemed the wrong time for deployment even for a fan of pyrotechnics like myself. Someone later pointed out, it coincided with the time 19:10hours. 1910 was the year St Pauli formed. Five minutes or so later, we saw the police in full riot gear enter the upper tier. They began to fight with the fans. Pushes, shoves, truncheons wielded. A number of flag poles were jabbed back in their direction from the St Pauli fans who had considerably less padded clothing. We joined arms in our section and began springing up and down and singing. The jumping always gets the atmosphere going, but probably in this case was also somewhat to do with the rumour that the police were trying to get into our section too. Linked arms would of course slow them up. And come they did. 20-30 riot police stormed into the lower section of the away end. This wasn't a good idea. After the attack by some HSV fans on the St Pauli pub mentioned earlier in this article, the police turned up and arrested a women seemingly in the wrong place, at the wrong time. During the arrest, they broke both of her arms. Even the club, St Pauli, were moved to issue a press statement decrying it officially. The police were never popular with St Pauli fans, but that occurrence hasn't helped. Back in the block, they pushed and shoved to begin with, one of them with a joycam on a stick filming for evidence. They were trying to get to the section where the flares were let off. There simply wasn't enough space though, and it started to get tight. A cry of "hey" went up, which whether at a football match or demonstration usually means someone is taking a beating or is being rather roughly arrested. The police were pushing further now but also using their battons and reinforced arm padding to jab and swipe at people. I began to get crushed. 20-30 extras in a fenced in terrace, plus panic, is a recipe for disaster. I couldn't see that well, as people were pushing their arms up to make more space. It gradually became more comfortable as more space appeared, but I could then see people climbing up the fence at the front to get out of the way of something. There was blood on many of their faces. It later became clear, that the police had also used some sort of pepper spray to get people out of the way. Water was then passed by fellow fans, through the fence and down the terrace to the bottom for those either crushed, beaten or peppersprayed. Meanwhile a football match had been going on. The first half had finished, and Id seen little of the closing stages. The singer on the fence, called to the lower block "its up to you", he said, "but after what has happened, we (and here I would assume he meant a number of members of the influential group Ultra' Sankt Pauli) would suggest that we shouldn't be watching the football under these conditions and would suggest leaving the ground in protest". The ultras collected all of the flags together. Another call came "do we want to stay or go out?". There was a significant showing of hands and nods in the lower section. Despite the difficult circumstances, a semi-democratic process had been carried out. 50-60 fans left the most important match of the season, with over 40 minutes remaining. Not an easy decision, which only shows the strength of feeling on the matter. Disgusted by what I had just witnessed, not to mention mildly concerned about further crushing as the police remained where they were, I was one of those who left. We left the ground, shaking our heads in disbelief. A long line of riot police, followed us out too to monitor us. Still seething with anger, I went up to them and, on reflection, somewhat comically (as I probably resembled a white boot wearing striker finger wagging an incorrect offside decision) I shook my head, and wagged my finger as they trooped past me. I no longer cared if I was arrested. "You could've killed someone!" I cried. They continued to file past and I was not arrested. I rejoined the group of ultras, normal fans, old and young, men and women who had decided to boycott the rest of the game.
Part way through the second half, Asamoah put St Pauli a goal up. We didn't know who had scored, but we knew which team had put the ball in the net from the roar of the crowd inside. There then followed the bizarre scene of 60 fans jumping around and hugging each other outside the ground. The rest of the match was tense. No one wanted to go back in, but we were relying on the rest of the crowd to indicate what was going on, through their oohs and ahhs. Outside in the woods, we could see masses of blue flashing lights and three water cannons, as preparations began for the exit at fulltime. St Pauli hung on and then there was a huge roar. St Pauli had won it!
After a great deal of celebrating we were reunited with the rest of the away crowd and headed for the buses back into town. Despite it being a relatively new ground, transport links aren't the Imtech Arena's strong point and we queued for a good while before we made it on to a bus. After heading to the Jolly Roger, where two further water cannons were parked up in the street outside, the out of towners in our group decided it was time to head home. My friends fears of retribution from HSV fans, were ignored by me. I lived here without much trouble I thought to myself, it'll be fine. We jumped in the car and I was busy staring at twitter, reading the reaction to the match and the small matter of my own English team, somehow beating Chasetown 4-2 with only ten men. I looked up as we came to a crossroads, only to see a group of 15-20 hooligans, some in balaclavas, some with baseball bats and sticks coming down the middle of the road. They were heading seemingly for the Jolly Roger, but we were in the way! Ok my friends were right, lets get out of here! We headed rapidly down what may have been the wrong way on a narrow one way street. I by now was tweeting and texting anyone I could think of who was still in the Jolly Roger to warn them. Give me a nice, low key match anyday!
This was the first win against HSV since 1977. A historic moment. Travelling home, we savoured it. One of our group had stayed inside the ground and could even describe the goal to us! However, what happened in the away block for me left a slightly bitter taste. In order to remain as neutral as possible, it must of course be accepted that the use of the flares is currently illegal, and that some sort of a reaction from the police should therefore be expected. Whilst it is true that there is a contradiction in the appreciation in the media of "vibrant", "colourful" flare filled grounds in foreign countries, and their own criticism of the same behaviour in German grounds, that doesn't negate the issue that uncontrolled use of pyrotechnics can be dangerous. That said, the flares deployed at the derby were perhaps down to around 20 fans. To that sum you could then add fans who may accept or tolerate the usage of flares, but whether you agree with their view or not, it does not make those sympathisers guilty of any crime. In this light, the violent storming of the lower away block by the police to apprehend this minority, complete with liberal use of pepperspray, was incredibly unfair on those fans who just happened to wish to stand in that section but had done absolutely nothing wrong. That it created so many, fortunately only minor, injuries, as well as crushing and that this at least on early evidence, has not been reported by the media, only increases the risk of such a wreckless tactic gaining acceptance and being carried out again. The next time the dimensions of the terrace may not be so favourable, and someone could be seriously injured or worse. Then it wont matter who the "Nummer eins" in Hamburg is, because by then it will be too late.


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Fulton Rock Garden Antique Barn Fest Celebrates More Than Fall
FULTON - Family-owned and operated Rock Garden Antique Barn kicked off its first fall fest Saturday in honor of Kenneth Means and to raise money for a family whose daughter has Cystic Fibrosis.
Rock Garden Antique Barn opened in July by David Means, Loretta Huber and Debbie Davis. "Grandpa" Kenneth Means recently passed away, and the family thought the festival was a great way to celebrate his life and his infamous recipe, as well as supporting Cystic Fibrosis.
"'We decided to host it for 'Lizzy's Lifesavers' for Cystic Fibrosis and in honor of Grandpa cooking the apple butter,'" Huber said. "We just welcome everybody on this beautiful day."
The Mean's store featured two stories of antiques, a hayride, merry-go-round, and a station for making apple butter.
An area was also set up for the Metz family, whose daughter Lizzy was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis in November. She is almost one year old.
Lizzy's mother said she is very grateful for the Means' family supporting her family's cause.
"We've made it a family mission to raise as much awareness as possible to help find a cure for this devastating disease, and the Means' family has opened their arms to us," Megan Metz said.
Lizzy has been hospitalized three times since her diagnosis, spending 20 days in the hospital this year. Metz said this is not stopping their fight.
"Right now we are thriving and doing very, very well," Metz said.
The Means said this is just the barn's first event. They already plan to host a "Christmas in the Barn" event.


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Changes are afoot in Congress well ahead of the midterm elections in November.
Before the Senate recessed until Feb. 24, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., was named the next chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, replacing Max Baucus, the former Democratic senator from Montana who was recently chosen by President Barack Obama to be the U.S. ambassador to China.
Wyden will take the reins at Senate Finance during a year in which progress on tax reform is supposed to move ahead. Before leaving his post, Baucus released in late 2013 a series of discussion drafts on reforming the nation's tax code.
Kyle Pomerleau, economist for the Tax Foundation in Washington, says the release of Baucus' proposals last fall "provided a marker" on where the House and the Senate stand on tax reform.
Indeed, Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., said at a January event that the budget and tax debate "will only be intensified as we move forward toward the midterm elections." Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, agreed, stating at the event that, "As we move forward, we will have to have tax reform and move every rock for revenue."
Retirement planning groups, of course, will be working to ensure Wyden preserves the tax incentives for retirement savings plans.
Another important congressional appointment for advisors to watch will be who replaces Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., who just left his post as chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment to chair the Senate Indian Affairs Committee.
Tester was a vocal supporter of putting brokers under a fiduciary mandate. He told former SEC Chairwoman Elisse Walter during a Senate Banking Committee hearing last year that the SEC's fiduciary rule should be a "priority because it is a benefit to investors" and that she should "push it."
Neil Simon, vice president of government relations for the Investment Adviser Association, says he'd like to see Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., take Tester's spot, but Warner took Sen. Maria Cantwell's, D-Wash., spot on the Senate Finance Committee on Friday. Cantwell will succeed Mary Landrieu, D-La., as chair of the Small Business Committee. The next likely candidate to take Tester's position, Simon said, is Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.
On the House side, political strategist Greg Valliere said in a recent February commentary that the retirement of 20-term Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., is "another sign that Democrats have virtually no chance of capturing the House this fall." Another long-time "liberal lion" from California, Rep. George Miller, announced his retirement in early February. Miller was a senior democrat on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Yet another retiring congressman from California is Rep. Gary Miller, R-Calif., vice chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, who announced Wednesday that he would not seek another term. Indeed Valliere notes that while "much can change between now and November — the economy could re-accelerate by spring, boosting Obama's dismal poll numbers—it's virtually certain that Republicans will retain control of the House (perhaps even adding a few seats) and now are within striking distance of taking the Senate."
He predicts that while Republicans should gain at least four or five Senate seats, "suddenly the magic number of six looks attainable."
Of the Republican seats up for re-election, "only Georgia could fall — and that assumes Michelle Nunn (D) gets to run against a hard-right radical." Otherwise, he continues, "here's the new development: we all knew that there were seven shaky Democratic seats in states that Mitt Romney won — but now Democrats are looking vulnerable in additional states like New Hampshire and Colorado, which didn't seem in play a few months ago."
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