text:
The global growth of futsal is showing no signs of slowing up, as a recent survey conducted by FIFA's Development Committee shows. It found that out of 209 member associations, some 150 are now playing the sport with varying levels of organisation, an 18 per cent increase on 2006, when a similar survey revealed that the sport was being played in 127 associations.
The most significant statistics were to be found in the African Football Confederation (CAF), where the number of associations where futsal is now played has jumped from 21 to 53 per cent, just behind the 57 per cent recorded in the North, Central America and Caribbean Confederation (CONCACAF) and the 64 per cent in the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC).
The fact that African countries where futsal was virtually non-existent in 2006 – Zimbabwe being one example – have taken part in the qualifiers for the FIFA Futsal World Cup Thailand 2012 is an indication of that growth. A total of 115 member associations participated in the qualification process for the upcoming final phase, 18 more than for Brazil 2008.
FIFA has played an important role in this growth, by putting together programs to help develop futsal, even in countries with a bigger football tradition. An example of this is Germany, an unquestioned football power, that just hosted a futsal coaches course.
*Starting from scratch *Some federations are also starting from scratch. An example of this development can be found in Mongolia in Asia, where the foundations for playing the sport were laid at the end of the 1990s but where a formal futsal structure was only created in 2008, with the support of FIFA.
Maya Lhamdorj, the head of the Mongolian Football Association's (FMF) Department of International Relations, told FIFA.com how it all began: "In our case, the programme became a priority because of the impact the climate has on the football season. Winter lasts for seven months here, with temperatures always below zero, and because of that football has always been a summer sport. Our goal, though, was to make it a sport that can be played all year round."
The FMF faced all sorts of problems, such as a lack of knowledge of the rules and a shortage of futsal balls and boots, though the greatest obstacle of all was the fact they had no indoor arena that conformed to international requirements or could protect players from the elements.
"Fortunately, and thanks to FIFA Goal Projects 3 and 4, we were able to open a hall at our headquarters last November. It also has a modern heating system," said Lhamdorj.
"The impact was almost instant," continued the FMF official, who sees Mongolia unsuccessful bid to qualify for Thailand 2012 as just the start of the process. "The number of players has grown enormously, even among children, and we're now planning to set up competitions at all levels. We can also get more out of seminars now, like the one we had for coaches in January, and extend them to referees. The idea is to plan for the long term."
*Competition means growth *Another interesting statistic thrown up by the survey is that out of the 150 associations where futsal is played, 116 of them have a national men's championship in place at the very least. This represents a significant step forward for some countries, which have prepared the ground for the development of the game and can now be considered emerging futsal nations.
In the opinion of the Guatemalan Football Association's futsal chief Gerardo Paiz, the creation of a professional league proved crucial in building on the legacy of hosting the FIFA Futsal World Cup in 2000. "The national league was vital because it allowed us to bring in talented new players, increasing the selection pool for the full national team and the various youth sides," he told FIFA.com.
In working towards the expansion of club competitions to a regional level, Paiz said he believed such a development would benefit Guatemala and the area as a whole. In the meantime, Los Chapines have been making progress on the international front. After failing to qualify for Chinese Taipei 2004, the Central Americans returned to the big stage at Brazil 2008. Now something of a powerhouse in the region, the Guatemalans will host the CONCACAF qualifying tournament for Thailand 2012 next month.
*Organisation and promotional activities *The survey also revealed some encouraging information on how member associations go about running the sport internally. While nearly 61 per cent of them have set up a futsal committee and/or department, around 57 per cent also engage in futsal-related educational and promotional activities. In this respect, both schools and universities have potential roles to play in supporting member associations in their efforts to promote futsal and provide a structure for its development.
"In late 2009 when NZF signalled the intent to put futsal under the governance of the national body, futsal was still very much "underground." To ensure we didn't clash, but complimented with football activity we aligned the pathways of both football and futsal. For all junior programmes delivered indoor, a futsal ball has been introduced", said Dave Payne, Futsal Development Manager
"The next step was to engage schools. We are now active in primary and secondary schools and our next goal is getting football clubs involved in our futsal leagues", he added.


text:
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: 'CARES Not Better than King County Animal Control'
[EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is a Letter to the Editor, written by a Reader. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The B-Town Blog nor its staff:]
Based on the Burien CARES Program Evaluation in the Council Work Session packet for tonight (download PDF here), CARES is not head and shoulders better than the King County Animal Control Program-see pages 25-36 of the online packet.
For the last year and a half, the Burien City Manager/Mike Martin has been standing up before the public and declaring that CARES (provider of Animal Care and Animal Control for Burien) is head and shoulders better than the King County Animal Control program. He has repeatedly made this statement at public meetings, at annexation meetings and to the media. Denise McVicker, the Deputy Director of the Humane Society for Tacoma & Pierce County, has just completed an evaluation of CARES and here are some of her findings in the completed report that I believe will be glossed over tonight at the work session of the Council.
1. The staff is inadequately trained.
2. There is no coordinated mechanism for the pick up and reporting or description of dead animals in Burien so that the citizens looking for their animals can be apprised of information.
3. Requests for services as well as what animals have been picked up or surrendered is not being logged into a database for responsible, accurate and effective service to citizens and animals. It appears the staff hasn't taken the time to learn all aspects or be trained in the data program (Pet Point) they are using. This is perhaps why CARES was missing 285 animals last year per Council member Edgar's concern.
4. Should something happen to the current animal control officer (Ray Helms), or if he is away there is no backup staff with full training to cover for him.
5. Animal enclosures, runs, floors, the animal control vehicle, litter boxes, feeding dishes and the quarantine area have not been being wiped down and rinsed correctly. These areas and items used around the animals haven't been disinfected.
6. Chemicals for cleaning have been improperly handled and mixed by the staff and volunteers which poses a danger to the humans as well as the animals.
7. Ventilation and disease control procedures for some of the areas does not seem to meet the standards of the SOC document which was published by the Association of Shelter Veterinarians and is the gold standard for shelter animal care.
8. The cat enclosures are not built of ideal, sustainable materials for long term disinfection.
9. The quarantine room is not adequate to handle multiple animals, aggressive animals. It lacks security.
10. There are no written protocols for the handling of dangerous and potentially dangerous animals.
11. CARES doesn't regularly accept stray cats and appears not to have a policy of how cats will be cared for. It was promised to Council members that cats would be taken in at CARES and it is not happening.
12. None of the dogs or cats are vaccinated upon intake. The practice of vaccinating upon intake and maintaining a clean environment are paramount for animal health and human protection.
13. There is currently no standard set for entering of animals into the data base.
14. Animals entering the shelter are not being identified with any kind of tag or collar for identification while there.
15. Currently animals that have bitten or acted aggressively to humans and domestic animals are being adopted to the public. This creates a huge liability on the placement agency and the contracting city for lawsuits.
16. An evaluation assessment program is not in place to determine how re-homing of animals should be handled.
17. Volunteers do not have adequate training and are too young for conditions at CARES.
18. Notification and recording of donations and gifts is lacking.
19. There is a need for documentation on the level of training the volunteers have received.
20. The Animal Control Officer needs to be professionally dressed.
21. Communication with citizens and donors needs to improve.
22. There appears to be no yearly performance evaluations of staff.
23. There is not a process to evaluate and improve the contact.
24. Data on the operation of the shelter is not readily available or transparent to the public.
25. The "Infection Control Policy" should be updated to comply with national shelter guidelines.
26. There are no standards set for the standards of care in the shelter in the contract between Burien and CARES.
From my own personal experience, the accounting and financial records that CARES submits to the city are confused, disorganized and difficult to follow regarding fees collected or dismissed, donations, revenues taken in and expenses and fees paid out.
Citizens were correct when they complained on this Blog and to other media sources that all was not well with CARES. The City Manager and the Council elected to ignore citizens for over one year. From this evaluation report, it appears that the contract on CARES will have to be re-negotiated and will require a commitment of considerable financial resources from Burien taxpayers to remedy many of the problems identified by this evaluation. I suspect from the contents of the Work Session packet, that Mike Martin/City Manager will try to downplay the findings of this report to protect his friend Debra George and his idea for cheap animal control. However, should the contract for CARES be re-opened, then I believe that Burien citizens should have the right to see a presentation from King County Animal Control as one of the options for animal care and control in Burien. Citizens should be allowed to compare the continuing costs of upgrading CARES to minimum standards with King County's superior services/facilities. Mike Martin has not been honest and transparent on this issue of animal care and animal control in the city. Contract your City Council members at 206-248-5508 or City Council Burien <[email protected]> to voice your concerns.
– Debi Wagner
[Have an opinion or concern you'd like to share with our 70,000+ monthly Readers? Please send us your Letter to the Editor via email. Include your full name, please remain civil and, pending our review, we'll most likely publish it.]

subset: commoncrawl


text:
MT Edits
A simple set of sensible front-end editing controls for Movable Type that enable bypassing the manager interface for many common tasks.
Current ZIP archive v1.03, released 9 December 2004 — Download Now.
- Movable Type 2.6+ (3.0 if using template samples)
- PHP (any recent version should work)
- Firefox, Safari, Opera (mainly because the buttons will look terrible in IE. Your computer will thank you for the upgrade anyway. Get Firefox)
Upload edit-buttons.png and editing-controls.css to your web server. Note the path.
Feel free to bypass the included template file, and just copy and paste the snippets from below. Note the warning about the Set Cookie routine.
Otherwise, the included Individual Entry Archive template should be considered a guide for where to place the following snippets. Unless your MT template hasn't been customized at all, it's probably a bad idea to simply replace your own template with this one.
Load "sample-template.html" into a text editor and compare to your own Individual Entry Archive, and copy and paste the code snippets (clearly marked in the template) into a corresponding spot within your own template. Make sure to update the CSS file link to the path you uploaded the files to.
No warranty expressed or implied. You're on your own. Caveat emptor. Use at your own risk. No matter what happens, it's not my fault. You've been warned. (That said, aside from ignoring the cookie warning below or hitting the new 'delete' buttons on your site by accident, chances of actual injury are low.)
License terms: this work, and this work alone is released to the Public Domain. All files within the MT Edits zip file are free to use, re-use, and abuse as you see fit. Feel free to credit the source if you so choose, but there's absolutely no obligation to do so. License terms available at Creative Commons.
Known Issues
- Currently uses the deprecated
$HTTP_COOKIE_VARS. Will change to the correct
$_COOKIEsyntax sooner or later.
- 'Rebuild' function uses GET unsafely.


text:
NEWARK, N.J. --- Lees-McRae sophomore Brady Markle smashed a game-high 13 kills and senior Matt Harpenau tallied six block assists while LMC dominated on both sides of the ball in a sweep of Rutgers-Newark, 25-19, 25-21, 25-21, Friday evening at The Golden Dome in Newark, N.J.
The Bobcats (9-4) hit over a .420 clip in two of the three sets while holding R-N to under .170 in all three. The Scarlet Raiders (4-4) led only twice, by one point each time, throughout the match while being held to a .000 percentage in the second set.
Both squads exchanged blows often in the opener while Markle (York, Pa.) recorded five of his kills to give the Bobcats a slim 15-14 lead.
Markle nailed a service ace and used shaky play by the home team to use a 5-1 run create some breathing room.
LMC would stretch the lead to six, 23-17, before Sam Sheers (Centerville, Ohio) and John Lucas (Cincinnati, Ohio) chipped in with a kill each to give the Bobcats a set advantage.
Coach Dave Schmidlin's squad was collaborated for a match-high 17 kills in the while hitting at a .424 clip.
The momentum carried into the second set while LMC and jumped to a 5-0 lead after Harpenau (Cincinnati, Ohio) and Sheers delivered a kill apiece.
R-N's Travis Mintzer tallied a service ace to cut the deficit to one, 7-6. However, LMC responded with authority by ripping off a 10-3 run, to extend the lead to eight, 17-9.
The Scarlet Raiders clawed back thanks to a 12-6 run of their own thanks to strong play from Mintzer and Colin Ferguson to make it 23-21.
Another Markle kill and an R-N attack error sealed the set for LMC.
The Bobcats continued early-set success by sprinting out to a 15-9 lead following a trio of Mark Shayka (Hamilton, Va.) kills.
Senior Kevin Morrison (Norfolk, Va.) played a key role by stuffing a kill attempt, with Harpenau, and drilling one of his three kills to give LMC a 24-21 lead. R-N sliced the deficit to two on multiple occasions prior to Morrison's strong play.
Harpenau delivered the dagger with a kill to wrap up LMC's second consecutive sweep.
The Bobcat offense hit .474 in the final set.
Markle paced both teams in kills while Harpenau and Morrison had seven apiece. Randy Ramirez (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico) dished out 34 assists while fellow Puerto Rico native Efrain Negron (Caguas) recorded 10 digs.
R-N's Mintzer registered a team-high nine kills while Kevin McCandless paved the way with 12 assists.
The Bobcats look to build on their season-high four-match win streak with a short trip to battle NJIT on Saturday at 7 p.m. in Newark, N.J.


text:
The growth of virtual and cloud-based IT infrastructures on top of our pre-existing physical data and application stacks requires management. We know this truism to be so. This management must exist not only in the sense of people, but also of course in terms of systems management software.
This layer may now increasingly be referred to as "unified IT operations" software; i.e., an entity capable of coalescing and tuning both the physical and virtual worlds.
Among the contenders in this space we find an open source offering from Zenoss with its Core 4 IT management solution. So what makes a good IT management solution? Well obviously lots of things, but "event processing" is a key attribute.
The ability to process up to 100 million events per day has been engineered into Core 4, and Zenoss says that its industry-standard AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) middleware can be used to interact with all stages of the event pipeline.
According to its makers, "Core 4 now enables developers to automatically build, test, and distribute ZenPacks based on a user's platform and version. This platform aims to empower developers and users alike by allowing for enhanced collaboration, innovation, and quality of custom ZenPacks."
NOTE: ZenPacks provide a plug-in architecture that allows community members to extend Zenoss's functionality. The authors are free to choose how they license their individual ZenPacks. ZenPacks are encapsulated in Python eggs and provide instrumentation and reports for monitored infrastructure components.
"Core 4 is a major achievement for both the community and Zenoss as it introduces significant architectural and feature enhancements that cement its position as the most powerful open source monitoring solution available today," said Floyd Strimling, technical evangelist and VP of marketing & community at Zenoss.
"With the support of our more than 100,000 community members, Zenoss Core will continue to push the technology envelope, provide extensions via our ZenPack framework, and will further drive our leadership within open source IT management."
With the release of Core 4, Zenoss extends support for DevOps by releasing enhanced APIs and a new jobs system into the open source solution. Also, Zenoss has improved the usability and performance of the web-based user interface.
Zenoss went through a very intensive bug and testing phase to provide a solid product to the community members. The team also worked with community members to discuss key updates for the product.


text:
LONDON (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L) is to create an internal "bad bank" to fence off its riskiest assets, part of a raft of measures designed to heal its relationship with the British government and speed up its eventual privatization.
Britain is keen to offload its stakes in RBS and state-backed rival Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY.L) as soon as possible, having pumped a combined 66 billion pounds ($106 billion) into the banks to keep them afloat in the 2008 financial crisis.
"I think it does make it easier to sell off the bank and get our money back," Finance Minister George Osborne told BBC radio on Friday, adding that a sell-off was unlikely to begin before the next election in 2015.
Britain began selling shares in Lloyds at a profit earlier this year, but a sale of its 81 percent stake in RBS is much further off, with taxpayers still sitting on a paper loss of nearly 14 billion pounds at current prices. Bankers and political sources have told Reuters it could take three to five years to offload the government's stake.
"The tests for these changes at RBS are whether they see the taxpayer ultimately get its money back and whether they actually boost business lending and radically transform this bank to put an end to business as usual," said Ed Balls, the opposition Labour Party's finance spokesman.
The government stopped short of ordering a formal break-up of the bank, which had been advocated by former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King, and by Nigel Lawson, a former UK finance minister and a member of the influential Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards.
They had argued that it would leave the bank better placed to lend and support the UK economy, but opponents said it would be too expensive and complicated.
The government said the restructuring, along with other measures such as the speeding up of plans to sell its U.S. retail bank, Citizens, would enable it focus on lending to British households and businesses.
RBS said it would put 38 billion pounds ($61 billion) of loans into a new 'capital resolution division' next year, which would free up 10-11 billion pounds of capital.
But critics said it was not much different to the bank's existing non-core asset run-down program, which currently houses 45 billion pounds of problem loans and was expected to still have 20 billion in 2016. About half of the assets to go into the 'bad bank' are currently held in that division.
One of RBS's biggest 10 private investors told Reuters the restructuring was a "cosmetic exercise".
"RBS already has an internal bad bank, so it's just a question of moving some assets into it, shuffling loans around the disclosures; nothing really changes," the shareholder said.
The bank aims to run down between 55 percent and 70 percent of the assets over the next two years, and hopes to remove all the assets from its balance sheet within three.
The bank said Britain's financial watchdog has made it clear in recent months it expects banks to hold more capital, making it more important to sell or run down its bad assets.
RBS and the government said the plan would draw a line under the past. The government has been accused of meddling too much in the running of the bank, and RBS's new chief executive Ross McEwan told reporters the review had "taken up far too much of management's time".
Osborne ordered a review of the bank's future in June, after months of tension between RBS and the government that culminated in the ouster of McEwan's predecessor Stephen Hester earlier that month. Hester had resisted moves to speed up the sale of Citizens and further cut RBS's investment bank.
McEwan said the restructuring would reset the bank's relationship with the Treasury, Britain's financial regulator and UK Financial Investments (UKFI), which runs the government's stake.
The faster run-down of assets will accelerate and increase losses on the loans, and the bank expects to take an extra impairment charge of between 4 billion and 4.5 billion pounds in the current quarter, it said.
Shares in RBS were down 4.5 percent at 351 pence at 1030 GMT, while European banking shares .SX7P were down about 0.4 percent.
RBS said it now planned to hold a core capital ratio of about 11 percent by the end of 2015 and 12 percent a year later, which is 3 percentage points above its current position.
It now plans a partial IPO of Citizens in 2014 and a full sale by the end of 2016.
McEwan will publish the findings of a full strategic review of the bank next February. That will consider the future of its customer-facing business, IT, and the bank's overall structure. McEwan declined to say if it would lead to job cuts.
RBS said it was co-operating with various governments and regulators investigating foreign-exchange trading activities by several banks and is reviewing communications and procedures "relating to certain currency exchange benchmark rates as well as foreign exchange trading activity".
McEwan declined to comment on a report in the Financial Times that said it had suspended two traders in its foreign exchange division. But he said the bank would "come down severely" on anyone who had broken rules.
RBS also said it made a pretax loss of 634 million pounds in the third quarter, missing analysts' forecasts for profit of 440 million pounds, but down from a loss of 1.4 billion a year earlier.
The bank set aside a further 250 million pounds for claims for the mis-selling of payment protection insurance, taking its total charge so far to 2.6 billion.
($1 = 0.6224 British pounds)
Additional reporting by Steve Slater, Sinead Cruise and Sarah Young; Editing by Carmel Crimmins and Will Waterman


text:
Acceptances, Denials, and Waitlists / Northwestern vs. UVA vs. GWU$$$« on: March 09, 2009, 02:57:37 PM »
I have been accepted to Northwestern, UVA, and GWU. This post isn't really to ask which school to go to but, more so to ask what people know about placements of graduates in the field of human rights and international politics. I was admitted to the dual-degree program at NU where I would complete a JD and an LLM in International Human Rights. So far, NU seems like the way to go, but the money at GWU (30K/year & housing for first year) is attractive even though they have arguably the worst study abroad opportunities among any top school, something that I am very interested in doing. What do any of you know about these schools and the opportunities they provide to individuals who want to work in international human rights? Would the opportunities be fewer at GWU than NU and UVA?? Or does that only apply to people wanting to do Biglaw? Thanks in advance for any insight you might have!


text:
Bowen's Disease
Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
What is Bowen's disease and how do you treat it?
Thank you.
Li Liu, MD, OncoLink editorial assistant, responds:
Dear F:
Thank you for your interest and question.
Bowen's disease is a skin cancer that is confined to the skin.
The skin has three layers. The top layer is the epidermis. The epidermis is very thin and serves to protect the deeper layers of skin and the organs. A layer called the basement membrane separates the epidermis from the deeper layers of skin. The middle layer of the skin is called the dermis, which contains nerves, blood vessels, sweat gland, and hair shafts. The last and deepest layer of the skin is called the subcutis.
Basal cell carcinoma, the most common type of skin cancer, accounts for approximately 75% of all skin cancers. Squamous cell carcinoma begins in the upper part of the epidermis and accounts for about 20% of all skin cancers. Squamous cell carcinoma in situ, also called Bowen's disease, is the earliest form of squamous cell skin cancer. In situ means that the cancer has not spread beyond the basement membrane. Bowen's disease may involve any area of the skin but tends to favor sun-exposed areas of the face, neck, arms, and legs. Bowen's disease appears as sharply defined, round to irregular reddish patches. It has been suggested that patients with Bowen's disease are more likely to develop other cancers, including basal cell carcinoma, melanoma, or cancers of the lung and gastrointestinal tract (Archives of Dermatology 1980 Apr;116(4):422-6).
Bowen's disease is usually treated by simple excision. Electrodesiccation and curettage or cryosurgery (uses liquid nitrogen to freeze and kill abnormal cells) are other options. Laser surgery or topical chemotherapy may be considered in selected situations. Photodynamic therapy has been used for larger lesions or areas that are anatomically difficult to excise (British Journal of Dermatology 1999 Oct; 141(4):633-641). oncologist.


text:
by Mark Jagord, sports information assistant
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Junior Shanteona Keys (Roswell,Ga) has been named the Georgia College Bobcat Athlete of the Week for the third time in as many weeks. Keys averaged 16.5 points, six rebounds, and one assist in a win and a loss for the Bobcats last week.
Her best outing last week came in the 72-48 win over USC Aiken Wednesday, Jan. 22. Keys scored 22 points, grabbed six boards, two steals, and added an assist. She went 10-of-20 from the floor. In the loss at Young Harris Saturday Jan. 25, Keys led the team in points and rebounds with 11 and six, respectively.
Keys re-emerged into the Peach Belt Conference's (PBC) top-10 in three categories. She is tied for eighth in points-per-game and field goals at 14.9 and 94, respectively. Her 253 points rank ninth in the PBC. She has totaled 1,122 career points and is just four shy of breaking into the top-10 Georgia College all-time points list.
The Georgia College women's basketball team next travels to Columbus State University Saturday, Feb. 1 for a 1:30 p.m. PBC tilt.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


text:
Ken Griffey, Jr. Retires After 22 Years In Baseball
Unfortunately overshadowed by Armando Gallaraga's blown perfect game was the announcement that one of the best baseball player's of the last two decades was retiring:
SEATTLE (AP) — In his prime, Ken Griffey Jr. was considered the best player in baseball, on pace to rewrite the record books.
Injuries derailed his chance to become the home run king. His spot as one of the game's all-time greats is without question.
Now relegated to part-time duty and with little pop left in that perfect swing, Griffey unexpectedly decided Wednesday night to retire after 22 mostly brilliant seasons.
The Kid that once saved baseball in the Pacific Northwest with his backward hat, giddy teenage smile and unrivaled talent, had become a shell of the player who dominated the 1990s.
A star from the time he was the overall No. 1 pick in the 1987 draft, Griffey also played with his hometown Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox. He hit .284 with 1,836 RBIs.
But his greatest seasons, by far, came in Seattle.
Griffey played in 1,685 games with the Mariners and hit .292 with 417 homers, most coming in the homer-friendly Kingdome, and 1,216 RBIs. He won the AL MVP in 1997 and practically saved a franchise that was in danger of relocating when he first came up.
Griffey returned to the Mariners in 2009 and almost single-handedly transformed what had been a fractured, bickering clubhouse with his leadership, energy and constant pranks.
Griffey signed a one-year deal last November for one more season in Seattle after he was carried off the field by his teammates after the final game of 2009. He hit .214 last season with 19 homers as a part-time DH. He was limited by a swollen left knee that required an operation in the offseason.
But the bat never came alive in 2010. Griffey was hitting only .184 with no homers and seven RBIs and recently went a week without playing. There was a report earlier this season — which Griffey denied — that he'd fallen asleep in the clubhouse during a game.
The swing that hit as many as 56 homers in a season had lost its punch and Griffey seemed to understand his time was coming to a close.
Griffey ended his career with 630 home runs, placing him 5th on the all-time list behind Willie Mays, with only Alex Rodriguez (590) within range of surpassing him anytime soon. But for his injuries, though, it's conceivable that Griffey would have ended his career challenging, if not surpassing, Barry Bonds' record of 762 home runs.
- Ken Griffey Jr. hits 600 career homerun
- Ken Griffey Jr. signs with Seattle Mariners
- Griffey Breaks Hand in Mysterious Accident
- Catcher Mike Piazza announces his retirement
- Ryan Klesko retiring from MLB after 16-year career
- MLB First Baseman Frank Thomas retires after 19 years
- Chipper Jones Closing on Dale Murphy's Atlanta HR Record
- Major League Shortstop Nomar Garciaparra retires
- Kansas City signs OF Brian Anderson
- Yanks – Angels Preview
- Eight is Enough- Edmonton beats Chicago 8-4
- Lydia Ko wins New South Wales Open
- The Comeback I- Pittsburgh Penguins beat NY Islanders 5-0
- Seattle Mariners Outfielder Greg Halman stabbed to death at age 24
- Hee Young Park wins CME Titleholders Championship
- Oklahoma State Women's Basketball Coach Kurt Budke dead at 50
- Costly mistake- Blackhawks waive Rostislav Olesz
- Manager Tony La Russa announces retirement
- Puck Drop- Florida Panthers start the 2011-12 NHL season
- 13-time PGA Tour winner Dave Hill dead at 74
Comments are Closed


text:
ContractsPage address: http://www.mnsu.edu/finadm/contracts/
Diane Huettl
Contracts Coordinator
Diane Huettl
Finance & Administration Contracts
238 Wigley Administration Center
Mankato, MN 56001
Contract Advisory - July 2018
Contract Best Practices (PDF - Slides)
Independent vs Contractor (PDF)
Procedure to Generate a Contract
For best PDF form experience - utilize Adobe Reader/Adobe Acrobat.
Safari, Chrome, FireFox web browsers open PDFs with their own PDF preview programs. These do not handle all the features that Adobe Reader/Adobe Acrobat can handle - Control click (Mac) or right click (Windows) on the PDF to save locally and than utilize Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat.
Apple's Preview PDF program will open the PDF in a web browser. Apple Preview program does not save the text like one would expect. To send a filled-in Apple Preview form to a Windows user. Select Print Menu; select PDF from the bottom left of the print dialog box drop-down menu; Save as PDF - to save the text entered. Attach PDF to your email message.
Sample Contracts
- Professional/Technical Services
- Customized Training
- Grants
- Income Contracts
- Inter-Agency Agreements
- Intra-Agency Agreements
- Joint Powers of Agreement
- Leases
- M-Contracts
- Occupancy Agreements
- Service Contracts
- All other contracts and agreements
Miscellaneous Information
- Contacts & Questions and Information
- Amendments
- Contract Renewals
- Contracts Written by Non-MSU Vendors
- Encumbering Funds
- Erasures, Cross-Outs, White-Outs
- Prepayments
- Illegal Expenditures/Obligations
(Minnesota Statute 16A.15, Subd. 3)
All contracts received from outside vendors are to be brought to the office of Finance and Administration (WA 238) for review and processing.
Find more information in the MnSCU General Contracts Information


text:
AN alcoholic burglar who targeted a Canvey home on Christmas Eve has escaped a jail term.
Danny Lane, 34, smashed a kitchen window and got into the house in Elm Road, before stealing more than £700 of consoles and games.
Police were able to track him down through blood left on shattered glass and he has been remanded in custody since his arrest on December 30.
Basildon Crown Court heard the homeowner returned to his property after festive drinks at about 1.40am on Christmas Day to discover the damage.
Some of the stolen games had been left scattered across the back garden, but were destroyed by the rain.
Through a victim impact statement, the scaffolder revealed he is now too anxious to leave his house and struggles to sleep.
Lane, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to one count of burglary, but admitted he could not remember much about the break-in as he was drunk at the time.
Richard Cliffe, mitigating, said: "He is a chronic alcoholic. He attributes his offending fully to his alcohol use. He knows he needs help and he knows the damage it has done to his relationships.
"The challenge for Mr Lane is what he will do after he is released from custody."
In August, Lane was given a conditional discharge for a year after admitting stealing a blue badge from a car, but went on to commit the Christmas Eve burglary.
Judge John Lodge sentenced him to nine months in prison, suspended for 18 months.
He must also complete a supervision order with the probation service and undergo a 12-month course of alcohol addiction treatment.
Addressing Lane, Judge Lodge said: "House burglary is a very serious offence and this is the second time you have been convicted.
"Sending you to prison would only protect members of the public for a short time and would not solve your alcohol problems.
"I take the view it's better to suspend the sentence, so you will be supervised for a longer period of time.
"Let me make it clear it is not a soft option, the soft option would be to lock you up for a few months."


text:
If you feel stiff in a suit…You've probably never had one made just for you.
Take a cue from Sean Connery (above)—or rather, his director in 1962 Bond film Dr. No, Terence Young. To convince James Bond creator Ian Fleming that Connery, a former boxer, was right for the role of a debonair member of Her Majesty's secret service, Young contacted Fleming's own Savile Row tailor (the late Anthony Sinclair, above right). The story goes that Connery wore the suits around the clock—even slept in them—until he felt utterly natural wearing them. The rest is history.
We're not going to recommend taking a nap in your notch-lapel. But we will say that investing in a Made-to-Measure Suit is the way to meld boardroom body-armor with a barely perceptible second-skin. In other words: You'll look, and feel, like a million bucks. Bonus: During store events throughout the month of March, you can score a Made-to-Measure suit for the same price as one off the rack. Yes, really.
Why go Made-to-Measure? First, the pleasure of picking every detail. Choose from dozens of fabric swatches, linings, buttons. Most of our stores offer this service from several renowned brands like Joseph Abboud, Canali, Hart Schaffner Marx, Hickey Freeman—so you'll have tons to choose from.
Secondly, and perhaps most importantly: the fit. We caught up with Brooke Foxworthy, a rep for Joseph Abboud, who noted some of the finer points Abboud can accomplish with their custom models: "You can taper the leg, lower the rise, add functional buttons on the sleeves, shirt grippers in the pants, get higher armholes, a shorter point-to-point in the shoulders." For a modest price increase, Abboud (whose factory is right here in the USA, in New Bedford, Mass.) even offers luxury fabrics from Italian mills like Loro Piana, Zegna, and Barbera.
Check our Store Locations page to find Made-to-Measure events near you, and get a great deal on a custom suit. (Who knows, you might be the next 007—or at least put the fear into saggy-suited villains around your office.)
[Sean Connery image via Men and Style. Info source: Businessweek. Individuals pictured do not endorse Nordstrom.]


text:
Committee formed to search for Simmons' replacement
The Texas State University System announced Tuesday, Sept. 11, the advisory search committee that will guide the process of selecting the next president of Lamar University. Lamar's President Simmons has announced that, after a 14-year tenure, he will officially step down Jan. 31, 2013.
Charlie Amato, chairman of the TSUS Board of Regents, has appointed regent Rossanna Salazar as chair of the committee, and regent David Montagne as vice chair. Other regents serving on the committee will be Bill Scott and Dr. Jaime Garza.
Several university faculty members will serve on the committee: S. Quoc-Nam Tran, professor of computer science and president of the Faculty Senate; Pam Saur, Regents Professor and University Professor of German; James Westgate, Piper Professor and University Professor of geology; Amy Shows, professor of family and consumer sciences; Ku-yen Li, Regents Professor and University Professor of chemical engineering; Jean Andrews, Regents Professor and University Professor of deaf education; Charles Hawkins, Regents Professor and University Professor of economics; Vernice Monroe, associate professor of social work and special assistant to the president for multicultural affairs; Henry Venta, professor and dean of the College of Business.
Also joining the committee are several individuals representing other university communities: Quentin Jiles, president of the Lamar University Student Government Association; Joe Domino, alumnus, ITC Holding Co.; Greg Thompson, former president of Lamar University Foundation, attorney and mediator; Timothy Chargois, alumnus, Lamar Alumni Advisory Board member, superintendent, Beaumont Independent School District; and Mike Aldredge, alumnus, former president of Lamar University Foundation, Mill Creek Land and Cattle Co.
Perry Moore, vice chancellor for academic affairs of The Texas State University System, will visit Lamar Sept. 18-20 to meet with constituencies including the deans, department chairs, Faculty Senate, Staff Advisory Council, student government and the Alumni Advisory Board concerning the presidential search.
Moore will also hold two open meetings to hear about the challenges and opportunities facing the university and qualities desired in the next president. The open meeting will be held in Landes Auditorium in the Galloway Building, 2-3 p.m. Sept. 19, and 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Sept. 20.


text:
Is anyone still using Steam curator? I made a page for games to play while listening to podcasts, I haven't updated it since I didn't get anyone following so I thought I'd post the link here.
Mon Jul 07, 2014 2:15 am
Dubai, UAE
SRPG, turnbased strategy, Point and Click Adventures
Fallout 4, Destiny, Binding of Isaac
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 2 guests


text:
History is depicted as a personal and political battlefield. A contemporary statement is made about the transience both of contemporary understanding of history and of our understanding of our patients' dilemmas.
Download Author: Falzeder, Ernst
1 eBook available.
View By Category
- All Books
- Anxiety Disorders
- Behavior Therapy
- Borderline Syndromes
- Brief Therapy
- Chapter eBooks
- Child Therapy
- Coming Soon
- Couple Therapy
- Crisis
- Depression
- Eating Disorders
- Family Therapy
- Group Therapy
- Mood Disorder
- New Original Works
- Object Relations
- Psychiatry
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychosomatic
- Psychotherapy
- Psychotherapy and Fiction
- Recently Added
- Schizophrenia
- Sex Therapy
- Substance Abuse
- Suicide
- Supervision
View By Author
Need to find a book by a specific author? Get the complete author list.
Click Testimonials to view all reader comments and reviews.
Recent Comments
- Gisela Pinedo on Aggression: a social learning analysis: "This book will be very useful in the process of review of academic research on the subject."
- Jorge Alberto Cruz Seda on Behavior Modification: "I have a great digital resource library thanks to you!"
- Dieu Van, Doan on Behavior Modification: "Dear Colleagues, The books in the field of psychology you send to us are the good resources that help…"
- Veronica Watson on Transference in Brief Psychotherapy: "this book has been amazing in helping with my exam prep for writing a case study and the effect of…"
- Diana on Aggression: a social learning analysis: "I am a practitioner and these books really help a lot"
- Maria T Lymberis, MD on Aggression: a social learning analysis: "As a practicing psychoanalytically trained psychiatrist I see aggression as "RAW LIFE ENERGY". I am very glad to…"


text:
Organ Donations
Read the original story. Click the "LISTEN" button at the bottom of the page to hear the story. When you are done, click the "NEXT" button.
State Senator Jackie Speier introduced a bill to create a statewide organ donation registry. Speier says family members would still have to approve of any organ donation for deceased relatives, but the registry would make the decision easier for the loved ones.
The national average for organ donations rose in the first half of last year by about four percent, but donations in California dropped by 13 percent.
Medical officials and those who coordinate donors with recipients say more public education is needed -- especially among minorities, who make up 70 percent of those on the waiting list for an organ. Organ donations among minorities are lower than the rest of the population, which officials say leads to a disproportionate number of minorities on the list of recipients.
Speier's bill would cost $500,000 to get the registry started, and $250,000 a year thereafter to operate.
(This story was provided by News10 KXTV Sacramento.)


text:
Bobby was living in the Bronx as a child when one afternoon he heard some commotion from outside. It turns out, the parks department was putting on a concert and the headline act was the Tito Puente Orchestra. As soon as Bobby saw Tito perform live right in front of his eyes, he knew that is what he wanted to do with his life!Browse More Artist Moments
In the summer of 2007, just two weeks away from enlisting in the marine corps, Joe takes an audition that changes the course of his life forever!Browse More Fan-Submitted Moments
In celebration of Vic Firth Company's 50th anniversary, we've spent an entire year celebrating Game-Changing Moments in drumming -- including yours! To everyone who shared a story with us this year, thank you! Drumming is a shared experience and we are all brothers and sisters! Your stories have inspired us to continue making the best sticks possible and to continue changing the game for drummers everywhere.
We received thousands of amazing stories this year. Although it was difficult to choose only one story, we're happy to announce that Joe Russomano is our grand prize winner in the Game-Changing Moments contest!Read Joe's Story
Take a quick tour of our Anniversary Website!OK No thanks.
The past fifty years has been quite a journey. Check out some of the game-changing moments in the history of Vic Firth company!Cool! What else?
YOUR story is a HUGE part of our history. There would be no Vic Firth without drummers like you! That's why we want to hear YOUR Game-Changing Moment!Awesome.
Check out some great stories from Vic Firth artists and fans like YOU!Next.
If you want to take the tour again, just clear your browser cookies before visiting the website.Okay, thanks.


text:
In a New York Times story about the firing of Yahoo chief operating officer Henrique de Castro, there appears the following passage:
"In the end, the whole misadventure might not matter unless [Yahoo CEO Marissa] Mayer is able to redirect the company away from its failing core business of selling display ads." (Emphasis ours.)
Really? Yahoo's "core business" is selling ads? That's like saying Target's core business is running checkout lines. One would have thought that Yahoo's core business is developing and hosting websites and services that (it is hoped) attract an ever-increasing population of devoted users and on which -- if they're successful -- ads can be sold. Placing the selling of ads at the center of the business plan, as though once you do that everything else will follow, is mistaking the scoreboard for the game.
To be fair, the definition of Yahoo's core business is the Times', not Yahoo's. But it does reflect confusion about the company's mission that plainly emanates from Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale.
What is Yahoo, exactly? It's been hard to say for years, under a succession of CEOs dating back to Tim Koogle, who left in 2001, and continuing from Terry Semel to Carol Bartz to the who-they? trio of Tim Morse, Scott Thompson and Ross Levinsohn in 2011-2012.
That dispiriting trend was supposed to end with the appointment of Mayer, but Yahoo is still an indefinable glop. Google is also a melange of sites and services, but they complement each other in ways that Yahoo doesn't match. Mayer's approach seems to be built around a succession of coups de theatre, like the hiring of Katie Couric as "global anchor" or David Pogue to run a tech gadget page that, for our money, has pretty much nothing you can't find on any other tech gadget page such as engadget or gizmodo. ("15 Wacky and Wild iPhone Cases"? Zzzzzzzz.) Oh, and the acquisition of Tumblr for $1.1 billion.
Yahoo shares have doubled since Mayer's arrival, but much of the rise appears to be based on the company's holdings in the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. The top line hasn't budged, except to drift down, and Wall Street's thrill over Mayer is starting to turn brown at the edges.
Reach me at @hiltzikm on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or by email. MORE FROM MICHAEL HILTZIK
Obamacare success stories you haven't read The toll of the anti-vaccination movement, in one scary map Net neutrality is dead. Bow to Comcast and Verizon, your overlords
Obamacare success stories you haven't read
The toll of the anti-vaccination movement, in one scary map
Net neutrality is dead. Bow to Comcast and Verizon, your overlords


text:
Introduction To Webmin
Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that supports tables and forms (and Java for the File Manager module), you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and so on.
Webmin consists of a simple web server, and a number of CGI programs which directly update system files like /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/passwd. The web server and all CGI programs are written in Perl version 5, and use no non-standard Perl modules.
Who developed Webmin?
Almost all the development of Webmin was done by Jamie Cameron, though many people have contributed patches and translations into additional languages. There are also many third-party modules that were developed by other people separately.
What licence is Webmin distributed under?
All recent versions of Webmin are under a BSD-like licence, meaning that it may be freely distributed and modified for commercial and non-commercial use.
Because Webmin supports the concept of modules (like PhotoShop plugins), anyone can develop and distribute their own Webmin modules for any purpose, and distribute them under any licence (such as GPL, commercial or shareware). More information about the Webmin API and writing your own modules is available.
Thanks To..
The following people have helped in the development of Webmin
- Martin Mewes
Translating large amounts of Webmin into German, and co-ordinating other translators.
- Jaume Badiella
Providing an extensive Catalan translation, which is more complete than any language other than English.
- Gerhard Klein (email@example.com)
Porting various Webmin modules to HPUX.
- Alicher Alikhodjaev (email@example.com)
Providing porting information for FreeBSD.
- Juergen Egeling (email@example.com)
More porting information for FreeBSD.
- Hans Waasdorp (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Providing access to a FreeBSD 3.0 system for testing.
- Thomas James Mackie III (email@example.com)
Providing access to TurboLinux and Corel Linux systems for testing.
- Kevin Lo (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Contributing a port for OpenBSD.


text:
We brought for our office & the pretty PINK match the decor prefect.It was fun & young and at the same time sturdy, easy to assemble & the vase was awesome.
—Lulu T from New York
Simply adorable, our Pretty in Pink Potted Christmas Tree is a delight to the little princess inside all of us. Sitting atop a lovely silver pot, this cute tree displays your treasured ornaments in lighthearted style. Kids and adults alike especially love its soft pink foliage and petite frame.
Our pink potted Christmas tree delightfully spruces up any homes during the holiday season. Its versatile powdery pink color also makes it an attractive piece of décor for birthdays, Valentine's Day and Easter. Add some youthful charm to all occasions with the dainty Pretty in Pink Potted Christmas Tree.
Available unlit or pre-lit with clear lights if you just can't get enough of its sweet color, the Pretty in Pink Potted Christmas Tree will definitely make a statement.
We pride ourselves in providing an exceptional, enduring product. For more warranty information, please visit our WARRANTY FAQS »
What's included in the box:
Fall in love with the vibrant beauty of pastel with our collection of light-colored trees. Embrace your feminine side with our Lively Lavender Christmas Tree, or go glamorous with our Baby Blue Christmas Tree. Youll be blushing with pride as your guests gush over your pretty pastel holiday décor.
Unless marked otherwise, all items are in stock and ready to ship. Orders received on business days by 7 am Pacific Standard Time (10 am EST) will ship the same day. We offer three domestic shipping options through Fedex to meet your needs. For more shipping information, including information about shipping to Hawaii, Alaska, and Canada, please visit our Shipping Information »
will arrive to almost all populated regions of the continental USA in four to six total days
will arrive in three total business days
will arrive in two total business days
Free ground shipping sitewide for all domestic orders in the continental US
The first time you assemble and shape your tree will require the most shaping to give the tree its full lush appearance.
To ensure an easy setup every holiday season, follow these simple steps to storing your tree safely in the off season.
Get fast answers from the Treetopia community


text:
Key Largo Casino | March 28, 2013 | 3:21 P.M.
It was actually my day off. I was on my way to get a bite to eat when I saw the smoke as I passed through the intersection of Maryland Parkway and Flamingo Road. Whatever was on fire was huge. Traffic immediately tightened up, so I stuck to the side streets as I made my way toward the smoke, zigzagging with fire engines that were also en route. As I arrived, I could see flames shooting through the roof of the abandoned Key Largo Casino, and there were loud crashes as the weakened structure began crumbling. Pieces of the burnt building floated through the air as the wind began moving the smoke across the street toward the crowds of spectators gathered to watch. I shot these images with my iPhone and was able to have them up on the Las Vegas Sun website within minutes.


text:
The last Dishonored trailer we brought you showcased the various ways you can get out of a tight situation in the game. Basically it was a highlight reel of running away. Don't get me wrong, for a trailer about running away it was really damn good, but it was a little light on the ultra-violence.
That definitely can't be said about the latest Dishonored trailer — this one's all about the murderin'. Hit the jump for the Dishonored "Creative Kills" trailer…
Looks like stacking your abilities is going to make for some truly inspired sadism. Nice to see the game isn't all about the neck stabbing.
via Gamespot


text:
April 30, 2009
LOS ANGELES -- UCLA Anderson School of Management today announced that Anne Sweeney, co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney/ABC Television Group, will address this year's MBA, Fully Employed MBA (FEMBA), and Ph.D. graduates on June 12, 2009. The ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. in Wilson Plaza on the UCLA campus.
"Anne Sweeney is a widely admired leader who has brought creative thinking and innovations to an industry that is in perpetual motion," said Judy Olian, dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management and John E. Anderson Chair in Management. "Her non-traditional career path to leadership of an entertainment and media giant, and the values that have guided her throughout her career, will inspire our graduates as they embark on their own life journeys."
Sweeney is responsible for The Walt Disney Company's entertainment and news television properties globally. She oversees the ABC Television Network, Disney Channels Worldwide, cable networks ABC Family and SOAPnet, and the Hyperion publishing imprint, as well as Disney/ABC's international TV sales and distribution businesses. She also manages the company's equity interest in Lifetime Entertainment Services and A&E Television Networks.
Prior to her current role as co-chair, Sweeney served as president of ABC Cable Networks Group and Disney Channels Worldwide from 2000-2004. During that time, the Disney Channel more than quintupled its subscriber base with its mix of original series, movies and acquired programming. Before joining The Walt Disney Company in 1996 as president of Disney Channel and executive vice president of Disney/ABC Cable Networks, she was chairman and CEO of FX Networks, Inc. Prior to that, Sweeney spent 12 years at Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite in various executive positions, most recently as senior vice president of Program Enterprises.
Over several years, Sweeney has repeatedly been named the "Most Powerful Woman in Entertainment" by The Hollywood Reporter, one of the "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" by Fortune and one of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women" by Forbes. Sweeney was inducted into the Cable Center's Hall of Fame in October 2007 and recognized by the Producers Guild of America in 2006 with the President's Citation for her efforts on behalf of diversity across the Disney/ABC Television Group.
Sweeney earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from The College of New Rochelle and an Ed. M. degree from Harvard University.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management, established in 1935, is regarded among the leading business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty members are renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,700 students enrolled in MBA, Executive MBA, Fully-Employed MBA and doctoral programs, and to more than 2,000 professional managers through executive education programs. Combining highly selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 36,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders.


text:
WASHINGTON — A bid to wrest control of sexual assault cases in the military away from commanders and replace them with career prosecutors died in the Senate on Thursday.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., failed to gain enough votes for her proposal to strip commanders of the authority to decide if sexual assault cases go to trial. She needed 60 votes to overcome a filibuster and received 55.
"I always hoped we could do the right thing here — and deliver a military justice system that is free from bias and conflict of interest — a military justice system that is worthy of the brave men and women who fight for us," Gillibrand said in a statement. "But today the Senate turned its back on a majority of its members."
Attention to sexual assault in the military spiked last year after a Pentagon report showed an estimated 26,000 cases of unwanted sexual contact among troops 2012, an increase of one-third compared with 2010. About 3,000 cases of sexual assault were reported last year, and about 300 were prosecuted.
Recent changes in federal law affecting the Pentagon have changed the way the military handles sexual assault cases. Commanders can no longer overturn jury convictions, an issue that came to the fore last year when an Air Force general threw out a rape verdict against a subordinate pilot.
Other changes include revisions to the military's pre-trial process, known as an Article 32 hearing, to protect alleged victims from prying questions, and requiring civilian review of decisions by commanders to decline to prosecute cases. Victims are also automatically assigned an independent counsel when they lodge a complaint.
Most of those changes tracked with proposals made by Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. McCaskill, like Gillibrand a member of the Armed Services Committee, agreed with military brass that decisions on prosecutions should remain with commanders.
On Thursday, McCaskill's bill to enhance those provisions won initial approval. Chief elements include grading commanders on creating a climate in which sexual assault and harassment are not tolerated, and eliminating the so-called "good soldier defense" to mitigate sentences for troops who have performed well on their jobs.
"This debate has been about one thing — getting the policy right to best protect and empower victims, and boost prosecutions of predators. I believe we're on the cusp of achieving that goal," McCaskill said in a statement.
Separately, the Army confirmed that it has suspended its top prosecutor for sexual assault cases while he is being investigated for allegedly groping another lawyer two years ago at a conference on sexual assault. Stars and Stripes first reported Thursday that Army Lt. Col. Joseph Morse had been suspended because of the allegations. George Wright, an Army spokesman, confirmed that he had been suspended while investigators looked into the charges.
Follow @tvandenbrook on Twitter.


text:
Sept. 17, 2004
Jason Sourbeer and Steve Mellor eached tallied a goal and an assist to lead Duquesne past Yale, 3-1, on the opening night of the Yale Soccer Classic. Andrew Dealy netted the lone goal for the Bulldogs.
After a scorless first half, Duquesne (3-3) exploded for three goals in the second, before Dealy got Yale (0-3) on the board in the final minutes. He took the ball in the box, made a couple moves to free himself and blasted a high shot into the right side of the net.
The game turned on Sourbeer's opening goal in the 50th minute, when he headed in a ball from Mellor. The Dukes struck again just seven minutes later, when Matt Mehler played a ball through to Scott Gibson, who sent it home for the eventual game-winner.
Yale turned up its play after the second Duquesne goal, getting the ball on its feet in and around the Duquesne box, but not getting off many shots. Mellor's goal after a long free kick from Sourbeer into the box sealed the win for the Dukes.
The Bulldogs continued to fight back after the third goal and avoided being shut out. They also controlled much of the play on the night, especially in the first half, when the shots were even at five and Yale secured one more corner.
Yale takes the field again Sunday, on Day 2 of the Classic. The Bulldogs will host Hartwick at 2:30 after Duquesne plays Brown at noon. Brown defeated Hartwick in double overtime, 2-1, in the first game of the event.
report by Casey Hart, Yale Sports Publicity


text:
Baptism: Good Reasons for Being Baptized by Edward Fudge
"If we are saved by being believers, what is the use in being baptized?"
Books: The Book That Drove Them Crazy by Andrew Ferguson [on Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind]
"The trends that followed the crisis in higher education that Bloom identified have only intensified since 1987: toward weaker academic requirements for students, greater specialization in the departments, a rigid orthodoxy in the university's politics and cultural life. The university we face today is still the one he described, only more so."
Burnout: Six Simple Ways to Avoid Burnout by David Murray
"Stress, the root cause of burnout, costs U.S. businesses $300 billion in lost productivity each year."
Child development: Insights from the Youngest Minds by Natlie Angier
"All this time I've been giving infants objects to hold, or spinning them around in a room to see how they navigate, when what they really wanted to do was engage with other people!"
Church: * The 10 Warning Signs of an Inwardly Obsessed Church by Thom Rainer; * What's a Church to Do? by Larry James
* "In my research of churches and consultation with churches, I have kept a checklist of potential signs that a church might be moving toward inward obsession. No church is perfect; indeed most churches will demonstrate one or two of these signs for a season. But the real danger takes place when a church begins to manifest three or more of these warning signs for an extended period of months and even years."
* "Maybe what we need is a movement, a movement back to our roots, back to the foundational "value propositions" of our faith, ancient, but powerful … if, the church will surrender itself to the mission Jesus pursued."
Computing: Add Dropbox, Google Drive, or SkyDrive to Windows' Send-To Menu by Rick Broida
"Sometimes it's just easier to right-click a file, then choose its destination from Windows' Send to menu. … Wouldn't it be great if you could add Dropbox, Google Drive, SugarSync, SkyDrive, or another cloud service to that menu? You can; here's how."
Environmentalism: Ask An Environmentalist … (Response) by Rachel Held Evans
"You guys asked some really tough questions of Scott Sabin for "Ask an environmentalist," but Scott rose to the occasion with some wise, winsome, and informative responses."
Football: Is it Ethical to Watch Football? by Brian LePort
"Is it ethical to watch football? For those of us who consider ourselves Christians do we have an obligation to disengage from the culture of violence promoted by college and professional football? … I find myself a bit confused by those who watch and enjoy Mixed Martial Arts. It is blood sport and savagery. I've told myself that the NFL is better. MMA aims to harm people. Boxing aims to harm people. The NFL aims to keep a ball from crossing the line, right? Well, maybe not the Saints."
Pacifism: Why I Am Not a Pacifist by Daniel Heimback
"The short answer to why I am not a Pacifist is that Jesus was not a Pacifist and what Jesus taught, and what the rest of the Bible teaches, does not align with Pacifist teaching. That for me is the bottom line."
Thinking: 24 Logical Fallacies by Eric Dye
"Learning these concepts will not only improve your critical thinking skills, but make you a better blogger, commenter and all around sharper person."


text:
Sophomore Bianca Cabral
Final Stats
BOSTON, MA-The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's volleyball team rallied to defeat host Suffolk in five games in their non-conference match at the Regan Gymnasium Tuesday evening. UMass Dartmouth prevailed, 14-25, 25-12, 24-26, 25-20, and 15-8.
For UMass Dartmouth, sophomore setter Bianca Cabral (Dartmouth, MA/Dartmouth HS) had 46 assists, senior middle blocker Cami Ascher (Natick, MA/Natick HS) led the way with 20 kills, senior outside hitter Allie Mastrocola (Swansea, MA/Case HS) had 11 kills, and sophomore outside hitter Kelly Lyons (Pocasset, MA/Bourne HS/Mass maritime) added 10. Senior libero Shannon Brodie (Chelmsford, MA/Chelmsford HS) led the defensive effort with 21 digs, senior middle blocker Kaitlin Hogan (Tewksbury, MA/Shawsheen Tech) had four blocks, and senior libero Amanda Micco (Waltham, MA/Waltham HS) had three important service aces,
"We played well, and Bianca stepped up in the setting position for us," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Steve DeRossi. "Our hitters made the adjustment, and now we're back up to .500."
The Corsairs improved to 12-12 with the victory, while the Rams fell to 9-16 with the defeat. UMass Dartmouth will return to action when they visit Wentworth Thursday evening.


text:
We all love them hotties doing some teasing, slowly stripping and running their hands all over hot, warm sexy bodies, masturbating in front of the camera and that's where we keep 'em. Post all your softcore and solo videos in this section.
Use this control to limit the display of threads to those newer than the specified time frame.
Allows you to choose the data by which the thread list will be sorted.
Order threads in...
Note: when sorting by date, 'descending order' will show the newest results first.
Forum Rules
◕ LindyList - Top Porn Sites List ◕ Zwei - Top Porn Sites ◕


text:
Soul superstar Adele earns $65,600 a day thanks to her chart success, according to newly published accounts.
The "Rolling In The Deep" hit maker, whose two albums "19″ and "21″ have topped charts around the world, has $16.4 million in the bank and $7.3 million due in royalties, reports Britain's The Sun.
Adele's company Melted Stone Ltd's accounts cover the year to April 2012 and were substantially increased on the previous year – when she had assets of just $545,600.
The publication reports that the 24-year-old's bank balance is set to be boosted further by her hit theme for James Bond movie "Skyfall," for which she bagged a Golden Globe award last month.


text:
ProbioActive Vegan Probiotic/Prebiotic by Rainbow Light
Quantity in Basket:
Code: ProbioActive
Shipping Weight: 0.00 pounds
RAINBOW LIGHT PROBIOACTIVE VEGAN PROBIOTIC/PREBIOTIC SUPPLEMENT (90 Vcaps)
This ProbioActive™ food-based formula is ideal for daily digestive support and regularity, promoting a healthy balance of gut micro flora for increased vitality and a healthy immune system.* One vegan capsule delivers Bio-Active Defense™ with 1 billion CFU probiotics that are 100% viable with a unique outer layer that protects their delivery through the intestines and into the stomach where they are broken down to support optimal digestion.
ProbioActive™ also contains prebiobitcs from inulin which promotes regularity and the growth of healthy bacteria. Soothing herbs support digestion and ease digestive discomforts such as gas, stomach aches and bloating.* The 100% natural vegan formula is sugar- and gluten-free and guaranteed to be free of artificial colors, flavors, sweeteners and preservatives. Allergen SafeGuard® guaranteed to contain no soy, yeast, milk, eggs, soy, nuts, fish and shellfish. ProbioActive™ is shelf-stable with no refrigeration required, making it a convenient addition to your daily diet.
Ingredients: Bio-Active Probiotic Organisms (1 billion), Lactobacillus sporogenes (1 billion), Growth-Promoting Prebiotic Support
(50 mg), Inulin (25 mg), Larch arabinogalactin (25 mg),
Botanical Digestive Support (70 mg),
Ginger [rhizome] Fresh Juice 10:1 Extract (10 mg),
Fennel [seed] powder (20 mg),
Turmeric 50:1 Extract (15 mg),
Peppermint [leaf] powder (15 mg).
Other Ingredients: (natural mineral or vegetable source): rice flour, magnesium stearate, silica. Capsule: modified vegetable cellulose, water.
Free of artificial colors, flavors, sweeteners, preservatives and other objectionable additives often found in vitamin products. Contains no sugar or lactose.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.
This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.


text:
Full starter kit for only $149* (+ tax & shipping)
Our New Independent Consultant Starter Kit includes everything you need to get your business up and running from bestselling Neal's Yard Remedies products to essential business tools. While the workshop experience is always the best way to generate sales and income, your customers will be able to place orders with you at either a workshop, via the catalog, or directly through your very own personalized website at any time of the day or night.
There are no monthly quotas, so you can find the ideal balance to fit your lifestyle.
Frankincense Intense™ Cream
Frankincense Toner
Frankincense Refining Cleanser
Wild Rose Beauty Balm
Wild Rose Hand Cream
Garden Mint & Bergamot Hand Wash
White Tea Facial Mask
Bee Lovely Shower Gel
Baby Bath & Shampoo
Rose & Pomegranate Foam Bath
Aromatherapy Defence Blend
Rosemary Organic Essential Oil
Eucalyptus Globulus Organic Essential Oil
Lavender Org Essential Oil
Relaxation Remedies to Roll
Create Massage Oil
Orange Flower Facial Wash (travel)
Rose Facial Wash (travel)
Calming Room Spray
Consultant Workshop Flip Book
Bee Lovely Tote Bag
Customer Order Forms (x50)
Main Catalog (x10)
Host Planners (x10)
Ten Ingredients To Avoid (x10)
Black Plastic Spatula (x25)
Kraft Bag Carrier Logo Medium US (x5)
Product sample sachets (3x20)
And something NEW - you can add Aromatherapy onto this Starter Kit for just $50 more.
Get all the contents of the starter kit plus our aromatherapy essentials for $199*
Peppermint Essential Oil
Organic Orange Essential Oil
Organic Palmarosa Essential Oil
Aromatherapy Tester Strips (pack of 100)
Organic Citronella Essential Oil
Create Massage Face & Body Lotion
Esta Aromatherapy Diffuser
* TERMS: NYR Organic reserves the right to change/withdraw this offer without notice.
Tax and shipping ($16.95 / $28.95 Alaska and Hawaii) are not included in the Kit price. Kit contents may vary from images shown.
Success Start
In your first 90 days, all new Independent Consultants have the opportunity to earn Success Start rewards based on sales and recruiting. Your sponsor will guide you to a successful launch with our 1+2+3 = Success strategy. You'll earn product credits and business supplies to build up your samples and stock your home!
Your Business Your Way
- Be part of this ground floor opportunity in the U.S. backed by more than 35 years of global success.
- Earn an income while making a difference in the health and wellbeing of people and our planet.
- Build a business that fits your schedule.
- Feel confident sharing a meaningful message and high quality products with an ethical company.
No experience necessary
You have many layers of support at Neal's Yard Remedies. Your sponsor and upline leader will provide individual training based on your needs. The home office provides weekly calls, webinars and provides a full library of recorded training modules to help you to feel confident. Our annual National Conference and Leadership Summit provide a wealth of training, inspiration and recognition as we gather to celebrate our Independent Consultants.
What do I do now?
1Want more information? Simply click on the Contact Me button and I will be in touch.
2Ready to sign up now? Just click the Register Online button and fill in your details.
3I will contact you to arrange training and ongoing support.


text:
Text Size
Share »
May is National Stroke Awareness Month
Grayson Russell P.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
By: Kelley P.
When the ER doctor told us in April of 2010 that our then two, now three ‐year‐old son had suffered several small strokes, it simply did not register. We took Grayson to the ER on a Sunday afternoon when he would not stop crying and could not stand up. Because his blood pressure readings were off the charts, they decided to do a CT scan. To everyone's surprise, the scan revealed that Grayson had recently suffered several strokes. After a lengthy hospital stay, the strokes were attributed to high blood pressure caused by renal artery stenosis. We were sent home with several prescriptions and a very happy little boy. About five months later, Grayson had another, more serious stroke. This time tests revealed evidence of Moyamoya syndrome, a rare condition causing thickening of the carotid arteries, which can (and in Grayson's case did) lead to strokes and transient ischemic attacks. While there is no cure for Moyamoya, it can be a treatable cause of stroke in children. Grayson underwent indirect bypass surgery to treat the Moyamoya at Children's Hospital in Boston in November 2010. We are lucky that Grayson had very minimal physical impact from the strokes. While we are not 100% certain of Grayson's underlying condition and do not consider ourselves out of the woods yet, the more information that is available the better. If Grayson's story can help another patient going through something similar, or shed some light on rare vascular conditions, we are happy to share it.
Display of the Faces of Stroke stories does not imply National Stroke Association's endorsement of any product, treatment, service or entity. National Stroke Association strongly recommends that people ask a healthcare professional about diagnosis and treatment questions before using any product, treatment or service. The views expressed through the stories reflect those of the authors and do not reflect the opinion of National Stroke Association.
Printer Friendly Version
1-800-STROKES1-800-787-65379707 E. Easter Lane, Suite BCentennial, CO email@example.com
© Copyright 2019
National Stroke Association, All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized Use is Prohibited.
About Us · Board · Press · Contact · Privacy Policy


text:
In this session with examples we will cover how to identify inefficiencies in parallel query execution. We will also investigate some invisible symptoms!
Keywords: MAXDOP, CXPACKET, SLEEP_TASK & SOS_SCHEDULER_YIELD.
I don't have a quad core laptop yet, so I will do the best with my dual core!
SQL Bits was started by a group of individuals that are passionate about the SQL Server product suite.
There is a breadth of knowledge in the SQL Community that will benefit everyone in the community.
We want to spread that knowledge.
We all work with the SQL community, some of us for many years. We have a range of skills and experiences from being given the MVP award by Microsoft, organising user groups and speaking at events around the world.
Copyright © 2019 SQLBits Limited. All Rights Reserved.


text:
Smoking's Impact on the Lungs
Ex-smokers are often tempted when watching others smoke. Spending time with a specific friend and watching them smoke may be a trigger, especially if it was the most time you had spent with the friend since you quit smoking. The first time you have any new experiences, even if smoking is not part of the ritual, the thought for a cigarette will seem like a natural part of the ritual.
Another factor is when watching a person smoke, the natural tendency is for the ex-smoker to start to fantasize about how good a cigarette will be at that given moment. A more productive way to handle the situation though is to really watch the person smoke one, and then wait a few minutes as they light another and then another.
Soon you will see that they are smoking in a way that you don't want to and probably in a way that they don't want to either. But they have no choice. You do. I am attaching a letter here that addresses this issue. It is a little harder to describe because it is based on a demonstration I do at live seminars.
One demonstration I do at all my live seminars is a little smoking contraption made out of a plastic Palmolive bottle with a mouth piece inserted to hold a cigarette. The simulation shows how much smoke comes in when a person inhales, and how much comes out when they exhale.
Smokers often feel they take in smoke and then blow most of it out, when in actuality, a very small percent actually comes out (about 10%). I always use cigarettes given to me by people in the audience. If I used one I had brought, people would think I was using a loaded cigarette.
Anyway, below is a letter I wrote for clinic graduates who have seen this demonstration, but the concepts apply to those who haven't also. Viewing smoking as it really looks will minimize the temptation for even a puff.
The letter is as follows ...
Whenever you watch a person smoking, think of the Palmolive bottle demonstration you saw the first day of the Stop Smoking Clinic. Visualize all of the smoke that goes into the bottle that doesn't come out.
Also, remember that the smoker is not only going to smoke that one cigarette. He will probably smoke another within a half-hour. Then another after that. In fact, he will probably smoke 20, 40, 60 or even more cigarettes by the end of the day. And tomorrow will be the same. After looking at cigarettes like this, you don't want to smoke a cigarette, do you?
I always suggest that clinic participants follow this simple visualization exercise to help them overcome the urge for a cigarette. When I suggested it to one participant who was off for three days she replied, "I see, you want me to brainwash myself so that I don't want a cigarette."
Somehow I don't consider this technique of visualizing smoking brainwashing. It is not like the ex-smoker is being asked to view smoking in an artificially horrible, nightmarish manner. To the contrary, I am only asking the ex-smoker to view cigarette smoking in its true light.
The Palmolive bottle demonstration accurately portrays the actual amount of smoke that goes in as compared to the small amount that you see the smoker blow out. Most smokers believe they exhale the majority of smoke they inhale into their lungs. But, as you saw by the demonstrations, most of the smoke remains in the lungs. When you visualize all the smoke that remains, it does not paint a pretty picture of what is happening in the smoker. Maybe not a pretty picture, but an accurate one.
When an ex-smoker watches a person smoke a cigarette, he often fantasizes about how much the smoker is enjoying it--how good it must taste and make him feel. It is true he may be enjoying that particular cigarette, but the odds are he is not.
Most smokers enjoy a very small percentage of the cigarettes they smoke. In fact, they are really unaware of most of the cigarettes they smoke. Some are smoked out of simple habit, but most are smoked in order to alleviate withdrawal symptoms experienced by all smokers whose nicotine levels have fallen below minimal requirements. The cigarette may taste horrible, but the smoker has to smoke it. And because the majority of smokers are such addicts, they must smoke many such cigarettes every single day in order to maintain a constant blood nicotine level.
Don't fantasize about cigarettes. Always keep a clear, objective perspective of what it would once again be like to be an addicted smoker. There is no doubt at all that if you relapse to smoking you will be under the control of a very powerful addiction.
You will be spending hundreds of dollars a year for thousands of cigarettes. You will smell like cigarettes and be viewed as socially unacceptable in many circles. You will be inhaling thousands of poisons with every puff. These poisons will rob you of your endurance and your health. One day they may eventually rob you of your life.
Consider all these consequences of smoking. Then, when you watch a smoker you will feel pity for them, not envy. Consider the life he or she is living compared to the simpler, happier, and healthier life you have had since you broke free from your addiction. Consider all this and you will - NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF!
A picture of the Palmolive Bottle Demonstration
This looks like it was an exhalation after about 10 previous exhalations, not that much is seen in this particular photo. I normally get a tremendous amount of smoke out of the bottle with every drag, normally we can smoke up a room with one cigarette. If you look at the mouthpiece of the bottle, it is almost solid brown with tar. It used to be clear. I have used this bottle with somewhere between 300 and 400 cigarettes. While that may sound like a lot, most people smoke more than that in any given month. Even the bottle is pretty yellow and I blow out almost all of the smoke used when it inhales. The bottle is dry allowing me to do this, your lungs are moist trapping most of the tars when inhaled. Literally over 90% of the tar that is inhaled stays in the lung, when you see a person exhale they are literally blowing out about 10% of the smoke.
You can see how the smoke had darkened the bottle after about a few hundred cigarettes. You can start to see how the smoker's lungs below became so discolored. Smokers don't just put a total of a few hundred cigarettes in their system; they literally deliver hundreds of thousands of cigarettes over their shortened lifetime. This discoloration effect is more than just aesthetically unpleasant--it is in fact deadly.
Above: Normal city dwellers lung.
Note black specks throughout indicative of carbon deposits from pollution.
Compare this to the lung below.
Smokers lung with cancer. White area on top is the cancer, this is what killed the person. The blackened area is just the deposit of tars that all smokers paint into their lungs with every puff they take.
To add a little more perspective to the demonstration, here is another way to see how much tar actually gets into the lungs from smoking. Below is the picture of a smoking machine.
This machine smokes 2,000 cigarettes a day, mimicking smokers puffing patterns to capture equivalent amounts of tar as would a smoker. In one day the machine captures the amount of smoke in the picture below.
The bottle above with the tar collected from 2,000 cigarettes. If a diluted form (diluted, not concentrated is as often done in animal experimentation to demonstrate that chemicals are carcinogens) of this tar is painted on the skin of mice, 60% of the animals developed cancer of the skin within a year.
Many chemicals currently banned for human consumption were removed from usage if they even caused 5% or less cases of cancer in similar experiments. Cigarette tars contain some of the most carcinogenic chemicals known to man. Consider this when watching people smoking and exhaling only 10% of the tars they actually take in. Not only are these chemicals being painted into the lung, but smoker are also constantly painting them up on their lips, tongue, larynx, swallowing some and thus painting it in the esophagus and throughout the digestive tract. Smokers have increased incidents of cancer in all of these exposed sites.
Now that you know what it looks like on a large scale and feels like, lets take a look at the microscopic level of things that happen in the lung from smoking.
The following series of slides illustrate microscopic changes that happen when a person smokes. The first slide is showing an illustrated blow-up of the normal lining of the bronchus.
On the top we see the cilia, labeled (H). They are attached to columnar cells, labeled (I). The cilia sweep the mucous produced in the goblet cells, labeled (J) as well as mucous coming from deeper glands within the lungs and the particulate matter trapped in the mucous. The bottom layer of cells, labeled (L) are the basal cells.
Below we start to see the changes that occur as people begin to smoke. You will see that the columnar cells are starting to be crowded out and displaced by additional layers of basal cells. Not only are fewer cilia present but the ones that are still functioning are doing so at a much lower level of efficiency. Many chemicals in tobacco smoke are toxic to cilia, first slowing them down, soon paralyzing them all together and then destroying them.
As you see with the cilia actions being diminished, mucous starts to build up in the small airways making it harder for the smoker to breathe and causing the characteristic smokers cough in order to clear out the airways.
Eventually though, the ciliated columnar cells are totally displaced. As can be seen below ominous changes have taken place. Not only is the smoker more prone to infection from the loss of the cleansing mechanism of the cilia, but these abnormal cells (O) are cancerous squamous cells. These cells will eventually break through the basement membrane wall and invade into underlying lung tissue and often spread throughout the body long before the person even knows they have the disease.
If a smoker quits before cancer actually starts, even if the cells are in a precancerous state, the process is highly reversible. Cilia regeneration starts in about 3 days once smoking stops. Even if cilia has been destroyed and not present for years, the lining tissue of the windpipe will start to repair. Even the precancerous cells will be sloughed off over time, reversing the cellular process to the point where the lining tissue goes back to normal. But if a smoker waits too long and cancer starts, it may be too late to save his or her life.
Following are actual pathological slides showing these same damaging effects.
The little pink hairlike projections on the top is the cilia and if you compare this image with the illustrations above you should be able to see the mucous secreting cells and the separation of the lining tissue from the underlying lung tissue.
Below you can see the same area of tissue from a smoker's lung who has totally destroyed the cilia in this tissue.
Again note, where there used to be two layers of well formed and organized basal cells, now numerous layers of disorganized squamous cells has replaced the normal defensive tissue. These cells are precancerous and if the continued irritation (cigarette smoke) is not ceased can go to that final stage where they become malignant and invade into the underlying lung tissue as seen below.
Then it is only a matter of time before it leaves the lung and spreads throughout the body. If the smoker quits smoking before this last cellular change occurs, before a cell turns malignant, the process seen in this last slide can be avoided. In fact much of the damage seen in the second picture here is highly reversible.
In three days cilia start to regenerate and usually within 6 months the normal cilia function is returned. Also over time, the extra layers of cells will be sloughed off and the lining tissue of the bronchus will return to normal.
Unfortunately, if a smoker waits until a malignancy has started, the outlook is grim. The overall 5 year survival rate for lung cancer is only 14%. Lung cancer, is a disease that while once uncommon, is now the leading cancer killer in both sexes.
Cancer is actually many different diseases with many different causes. If we look at cancer trends over the last century we see some amazing changes. While cancer was always around, it was different sites that were primary problems. Lung cancer, at the turn of the century was almost unheard of. If a doctor saw a case he would have easily gotten it printed up in a medical journal. Now, it is the major cause of cancer death in our society, killing more men and women than any other site. The primary difference between now and then is smoking. Before the turn of the century smoking was a limited practice. A very small percentage of people smoked and even the ones who did smoked many fewer cigarettes. Cigarettes were not even mass produced till the very end of the 1900's.
We always hear of a cancer epidemic, how more and more people die of cancer every year. Actually, if you pull the smoking related sites out of the equation, cancer deaths have been on a decline. Some sites, like stomach the incidence dropped dramatically, not fully understood as to why. Other sites, like breast, even though the morbidity rate (number of cases) didn't drop, because we now have better treatments and earlier detection, the mortality (death) rate has dropped.
But the smoking cancers; lung, mouth, lip, tongue, throat, larynx, pancreas, esophagus, pharynx, urinary bladder have all seen marked increases over the 20th century. These cancers have gone from obscurity to some of the major causes of death in our country. Actually, for the first time in a hundred years we are starting to see an early decline of morbidity and mortality because we are seeing fewer smokers now with the drop in the percentages of adult smokers.
You see a dramatic difference in men and women, especially in lung cancer rates. The reason is women started smoking much later than men, about a 30 year time delay before it became socially acceptable for women to smoke. Male smoking rate jumped dramatically between World War I and another big boost during World War II. Free distribution of cigarettes to soldiers was a big factor. Women smoking rates happened much later and the time delay is reflected in the time delay in cancer and other diseases going up too.
The above pictures were primarily about how smoking causes cancer of the lung and other sites. But the assault on the lungs from the tars in tobacco are not just limited to causing cancer. Other lung diseases are directly caused by smoking, the most well known are the chronic obstructive lung diseases.
The most well known smoking induced COPD is emphysema. This is another one of those diseases that primarily happen to smokers. Over 90% of the cases are smoking induced. There are cases in some families where there does seem to be a genetic predisposition, where non-smokers get it too. This is from a rare condition, a lack of a blood enzyme called alpha1antitrypsin. This again is rare, but if you do have family members who never smoked a day in their life get emphysema there may be a genetic tendency. But again, over 90% of emphysema cases are simply caused by smoking. Eradicate smoking and you eradicate the risk of the disease.
To get a sense of how a lung is altered by smoking to cause emphysema look at the pictures below. The first is a picture of an inflated non-smoker city dweller's lung.
As in the normal picture of a lung above, you can see carbon deposits collected throughout from pollution effects. But when contrasted with a smoker's lung with emphysema...
...there is a very dramatic visible difference. Not only is the discoloration the issue, but the lungs have literally been ripped out of shape making breathing extremely difficult and eventually impossible. To get a sense of what it feels like to breathe with emphysema take a deep breath and hold it. Without letting out any air, take another deep breath. Hold that one too. One more time, take one more breath. Okay let it all out.
That second or third breath is what it feels like to breathe when you have advanced emphysema. Emphysema is a disease where you cannot exhale air. Everyone thinks that it is a disease where you cannot inhale but in fact it is the opposite. When you smoke you destroy the lungs elasticity by destroying the tissue that pulls your lung back together after using muscles that allow us to inhale air. So when it comes time to take your next breath it is that much more difficult, for your lungs could not get back to their original shape.
Imagine going through life having to struggle to breathe like those last two breaths I had you take. Unfortunately, millions of people don't have to imagine it, they live it daily. It is a miserable way to live and a slow painful way to die.
Hopefully when you breathe normally today you are not in pain and you are not on oxygen. If you don't smoke you will continue to give yourself the ability to breathe longer and feel better. Never lose sight of this fact. To keep your ability to breathe better for the rest of your life always remember to - NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF!
Share this article
Watch Joel's lung, lung cancer and emphysema videos
How smoking causes lung cancer
What it feels like to breathe with emphysema
Why people cough more after quitting
The Palmolive bottle demonstration
"My smoking helps me to breathe better"


text:
Student Choice is committed to providing tools that help families better understand the financial aid process. As part of that commitment, we offer a quarterly webinar series, led by our College Access Counselor. These webinars are free and available to anyone who would like to attend. Our next national webinar will take place in March – see below for details.
College award letters are a crucial piece of the financial aid puzzle that can ultimately determine which school a student will choose to attend. In our next national webinar Student Choice's College Access Counselor will help families better understand award letters so they can make educated decisions about their options.
Listen to Recording
To access recordings of past webinars or to receive email alerts when new topics are announced, on topics including completing the FAFSA, student loan repayment, and preparing for college, click here.
A better deal from your local not-for-profit cooperative
More than 2,000 approved schools across the country
Answers to your most common questions
Financial resources to help you succeed in college and beyond


text:
STORRS, Conn. (AP) _ Connecticut coach Kevin Ollie has made some
changes to his coaching staff.
Ollie on Friday promoted Glen Miller from assistant to associate
head coach, and promoted Karl Hobbs from Director of Basketball
Administration to assistant coach.
George Blaney, who served as associate head coach under Jim
Calhoun, will remain on the staff as an assistant coach and former
Husky forward Kevin Freemen will take the role of director of
basketball administration. He served as Hobbs' assistant last
Ollie took over the coaching job last month when Jim Calhoun
retired. He has never held a head coaching job. But Miller (Penn,
Brown, Connecticut College), Hobbs (George Washington) and Blaney
(Stonehill, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Seton Hall) have a combined 57
years of collegiate head coaching experience.
(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)