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In all my years of teaching when we come to the story Moving Day, by Robert Kalan from Houghton Mifflin Reading Theme 5: Home Sweet Home, my students are so enamored with the shells in the story that we have to stop just to talk about and explore shells. (I was always afraid my principal would walk in and see us "playing", and then I would have some explaining to do- oops) I thought I would take advantage of the CCRA.SL1: to prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaboration with diverse partners, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. Instead of looking at this as a "wasted day" I used this lesson to help my students learn to talk and listen in a partially unsupervised small group situation by helping them create rules for the group.
Common Core Connection:
Today instead of letting my students 'play' with a collection of shells, I helped facilitate their learning and understanding of SL.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and large groups. To do this I helped my students establish some 'rules' for listening and speaking in a group.
My students also explored CCRA.R.1: read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
Lesson Overview:
In this pre-lesson I introduced the fact that many types of animals live in shells. My students then had the opportunity to develop speaking and listening 'rules' before they explored and categorize shells.
To begin this first lesson I asked my students what they knew about shells. I got the answers I expected, they live in the ocean and they are pretty. I was also not surprised by my students reactions when I asked them what type of animals live in shells. Nearly all of them thought the shells were all there were and a few knew clams lived in them- but not 100% sure what a clam was. One child knew pearls came from shells. After hearing all their replies and comments about shells, I told my students that this week we were going to read about a hermit crab, but first we were going to explore different types of sea shells by exploring their shape and texture to categorize them into groups.
I then showed my students the front cover of What Lives in a Shell, and instructed them to look at the pictures and listen to what lives in shells. After reading I again asked my students what types of animals live in shells? This time they were able to tell me that snails, turtles, crabs, and clams live in shells. I brought their attention back to seashells by congratulating them on their good listening skills and that I had a few pictures of seashells I wanted to show them.
At this point I had my students move from their rug seating area to their desks where I showed my students a short Shells Power Point of sea animals that live in shells. Part of the CCRA range and content for student speaking and listening is to give students ample opportunities to take part in discussions through group and partner sharing. To promote this range, as I showed the power point, I gave my students time to partner share about the type of animal that lived in the shell. Reminding them of the 'rules' for partner sharing, which in my class include:
To check their participation, after each slide I used the magic cup (Demonstration: Magic Cup) to call on one or two students to share with the class what he/she and his/her partner told each other about the animal on the slide. And I know, bad teacher, I did point out that a mollusk is related to a snail- instead of letting my students figure it out on their own.
To further peak their interest (and for more fun than not) after showing the power point, I showed my students a few my favorites from my personal collection of shells, Sharing Shells. As I passed the shells out for my students to see, I encouraged them to notice the shape, texture, weight, and even smell them. Once finished sharing my shells, I explained next they would be doing two things. First they would partner read a story about shells, they would have the opportunity to explore and categorize some shells with their leveled reading groups.
To begin this activity I had my students' pair up with a student from a different leveled reading group as they. I did this so that the reading pairs would be mixed levels, with one student from a higher group, who could help the other student if needed. I worked with my most beginning reading group. Once paired up I gave each student pair a copy of Seashells by the Seashore, and explained they were to take turns reading the story. I further explained when they were finished reading they would be able to explore my collection of shells.
Once finished reading, I wanted my students to have the opportunity to work within a small group to categorize the shells and place them in groups based on their agreed upon criteria.
I instructed them that each reading group would have the opportunity to further explore the shells and divide them into groups by color, shape, size, or any way they could put them in groups, I did encourage my students to use the descriptive words from the book as part of their criteria. However, first they had to had some agreed upon speaking and listening rules. To help them get started on some rules I reminded them of our 'rules' for who shares first during partner sharing, pointing out that these rules work for partner sharing where there are only two people, but who should share first in a larger group, I wondered. The class decided on the 'tallest' person in the group. I wrote this first rule on the Promethean board. After my students came up with a list of rules we decided on 5 to keep for our collaborative activity, Our Rules for Small Group Sharing.
At that point I divided my class up by their differentiated leveled reading groups and set them in different work areas where I had already set out my collection of class shells. Before they got started I had the first person to share in each group stand up, I reminded my students I want them to sort the shells, however, they had to follow the rules they just came up with. As my groups got started I went from group to group to make sure they were working and not playing with the shells, and that they were taking turns, talking, listening, and sorting their shells.
After each group finished forming their shell categories I called the class back to the rug. We then formed a line and walked around the room looking at each collection of shells. To further help my students practice SL.1, SL.1a and b, while we gathered around each shell grouping, the students who created them explained how and why they put the shells in each pile. The reading students featured on the accompanying video clip Yellow Group Explaining their Categories are in the Yellow reading group, my third to highest group. The rest of the class was also given the opportunity to ask questions about each set of shells.
When my students finished looking at and listening to how the other reading groups sorted their shells, we went into our differentiated level reading rotation block, where each reading group rotates through a reading work area every 15 to 20 minutes. One of these areas is journal writing where my students write in their journals about the lesson they just completed. I check their journals for completeness and neatness when they rotate to my reading group area. Today my students wrote about why it is important to have rules for speaking and listening.
The prompt I put on the board: It is important to have rules for speaking __________________.
To earn a sticker my students had to tell me one rule they created for speaking and listening in a small group.


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About Leake County Revelers
The Leake County Revelers was one of the most popular old-time string bands in Mississippi in the late '20s. The group was also among one of the earliest groups to make records in that state, hitting the jackpot with one of the first sides cut, the lovely "Wednesday Night Waltz." Like much of the blues and early country talent from Mississippi, the group was scouted out for recording by H.C. Speir, a man who is considered the Sam Phillips of Mississippi music in the '20s and '30s. Spier was involved quite early in the game of "talent broker," the job which would later become known in the record industry as artist and repertory development, or A&R man for short. He arranged a series of sessions for the Leake County Revelers that were released on Okeh and Columbia, and the string band's reputation spread quickly. They became known for tunes played in relaxed, slow tempos, which was exactly the opposite of all other string bands which highlighted rapid-fire breakdown numbers. The Leake County Revelers recorded some 44 different sides between 1927 and 1930. Besides the initial success, these recordings have also enjoyed several new additional lifetimes through reissue ventures on labels such as Document and County. Not only has the group's entire output been made available via several volumes on these labels, various tracks by the group have emerged on a smorgasbord of compilation sets, including anthologies focusing on yodelling, early American string bands, and early country music. The group was quite famous for its original waltzes and complex vocal harmony arrangements, again in direct contrast to what has seemed like a distinct lack of vocalizing by other Mississippi string bands. In this case, the difference may have had more to do with the commercial desires of the record labels than the repertoires of the groups, since instrumental repertoire was always one of the selling points of most string bands, especially the shenanigans of hellbent-for-leather fiddlers. The blend of Jim Wolverton's five-string banjo and R.C. Moseley small banjo-mandolin is one of the most recognizable aspects of the group's sound, highlighted on tracks such as the ragtime instrumental "Dry Town Blues." The group humorously reveals their love of slow tempos by titling a piece of stately, almost Baroque parlor music "Mississippi Breakdown," even though the piece is as far from a breakdown as Seattle is from Mississippi. The previously mentioned "Wednesday Night Waltz" was the band's biggest hit, as well as one of the first two records issued by the group, first pressed in 1927. The song has been covered by many other artists, particularly fiddlers, and has become a dance warhorse, sometimes appearing under the title of "Kitty Waltz." It was performed frequently by Curly Fox on the radio in the '30s and '40s, and was later recorded by Leroy Canaday. In the '30s, politician Huey Long hired the Leake County Revelers to play for his campaign, using the down-home music to reinforce his image as a grassroots populist. In the '90s, the group was nominated for the Mississippi Hall of Fame and has inspired such modern-day string band revival groups as the Old Hat String Band and the Hinds County Revelers. ~ Eugene Chadbourne

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WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama acknowledged Sunday that he was probably too flip when he said it was "above my pay grade" to answer a question about when is a baby entitled to human rights.
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House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
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Obama gave his answer last month at a nationally televised religious forum sponsored by minister Rick Warren at his megachurch in Orange County, Calif.
Asked on Sunday whether the "above my pay grade" answer was too flip, Obama said: "Probably. ...What I intended to say is that, as a Christian, I have a lot of humility about understanding when does the soul enter into ... It's a pretty tough question.
"And so, all I meant to communicate was that I don't presume to be able to answer these kinds of theological questions," he said in an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
In a separate interview, the answer to a similar question came easier for Obama's running mate, Sen. Joe Biden.
Video: Obama's worldview A Roman Catholic, Biden said he accepts his church's teachings that life begins at conception, but that the issue is personal for him. He said it wouldn't be right to impose his views on others who are just as religious as he is.
"I'm prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception. But that is my judgment," Biden said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "For me to impose that judgment on everyone else who is equally and maybe even more devout than I am seems to me is inappropriate in a pluralistic society."
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Hit me up with some cool channels to watch, like MTV n' sh*t!!!!
Ok - hit me with some cool apps....what's the "can't afford not to have" ones?
Just got cable B*tches!!!!
Hit me up with some cool channels to watch, like MTV n' sh*t!!!!
Both of these work for both ipad and iphone
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Must have app is Flipboard. Period
Atomic Web. It's a browser that's way better than the stock Safari.
The tech guys at the office install RDP, remote desktop and we log into our office.
invaluable when needed.
Any porn apps?
get one of these, cheap apps, but it takes a while to get them on your home page
NHL GameCenter is good if you like hockey.
The Weather Channel app is good.
HBO Go if you have HBO at home, you can watch it on your iPad.
FlightAware is pretty cool - track flights all over the country.
Here's an app for you, its called the "kill a couple of Japanese Iemployees". All you do is pre-order anything not out yet by iwhatever and wait for their supervisers to press for completion and ding ding ding. You've killed another.


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Planck launch campaign update
Preparations for Planck's launch continue at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. During the past two weeks tests to verify the functionality of the spacecraft have begun, and the external solar array has been integrated with the spacecraft.
Verifying Planck's stability
To verify the mechanical stability of the spacecraft, engineers carried out measurements to ensure that the service module is aligned with the payload module. They also measured the alignment of the spacecraft thrusters which are attached to the service module. The thrusters will be used for trajectory corrections and for re-orientation manoeuvres.
Talking to ground control
On 24 February, the spacecraft was switched on for the first time since its arrival in Kourou, initiating the main series of functional tests. Functional tests of the scientific instruments and the 'listen-in' test were completed: the listen-in test verified that the simulated link between the spacecraft and the mission control system at Planck's Mission Operations Centre at ESA's Space Operations Centre in Germany worked normally.
The next functional tests will verify several spacecraft systems including: the power system, the thermal control system, the attitude control and measurement system, the command and data management and tracking and telemetry.
Integrating Planck's solar array
Planck's solar array comprises a circular inner part and a ring-shaped outer part that is composed of four equal sections. The outer part was integrated with the spacecraft on 27 February. The inner part had been installed at the end of last year while the spacecraft was at Centre Spatial Liège, Belgium.
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Carl is a frequent contributor, here, and he and I have commented on each others works. He likes to paint with a pallet knife and I started becoming interested in the technique.
I've been wanting to try my hand at it for some time. I watched some tutorials on you tube and said, "Okay, it's time to try this."
Here's my first attempt. It's a terrific way to paint and I will be pursuing this further. I really enjoyed it. It works perfectly with my style. I like the way the colors stay truer, because you aren't constantly trying to clean your brush. I never seem to clean them well enough and often get muddy colors.
Also, it's just perfect for working out side. No water or solvents to take with you. I use the colors right out of the tube and then a quick wipe with a rag and you are ready with the next hue. Wonderful. And you can work very quickly because you aren't constantly cleaning off you brushes. This is only two and a half hours worth of work. Might have gone faster with a better knife. I used a cheap plastic pallet knife that came with some brushes that I bought.
Anyway, keep in mind that this was just an experiment and not meant to be a polished piece of art. I recommend, to every painter, that you need to try this if you haven't as yet.
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Ali - Wiggle wiggle lyrics
Wiggle wiggle by Ali
[Chorus: Nelly]
Oh, baby girl like to shake a lot, wiggle wiggle
do your thug thizzle we'll make it
Oh, baby girl like to shake a lot, wiggle wiggle
do your thug thizzle we'll make it
Oh, baby girl like to shake a lot, wiggle wiggle
do your thug thizzle we'll make it
Oh, baby girl like to shake a lot, wiggle wiggle
do your thug thizzle we'll make it
[Verse 1: Kyjuan]
I really hate to see her leave but I love to see her walk off
Imagine what her *oooo* looks like with her clothes off
I'm rolling with the top off, see tops come off
When the streetlights go off I heard shots go off
I'm a humble show-off I'll be beating when I roll off
Pumping Jill Scott number seven in front of the seven-eleven
Grab some magnum protection gonna be some sexin'
Wrap some hemp and L's its gonna be a session
She stressing the fact that we gotta stay at the best western
I ain't cheap and that's on everything
Put her pants to her knees don't take off everything
I pay for her chains staying near her cain's
Sipping on her cane I'm forgetting everything
My name Kyjuan, yeah Kyjuan left none
Boy she wouldn't have been with me if you wouldn't have left her
I left her sexed her stressed her and left her
[Verse 2: Murphy Lee]
My sex steno cus I'm taxing it I smack it a little
Stir it up like mother f**kin coffee then back to the middle
Lift over some pounds some way my hitters nod away
You damn near caught a Charlie-horse to make your dick stay in the hole
Oh we f**kin now pumping like all my pow
Ass up face down I'm going to town
Round and round here I go pumping for nothing
Cus she wiggle and wiggle and wiggle just know when I'm coming
I'm like *Ohhhh* I can't take it no more
Move it one more time and watch my knees buckle
She tip drip type quit to get her dirty, hype, and aroused
Always see her nipples through her blouse *Owwww*
Watch it wiggle just like the Harlem dance
Look at all that ass in those *itty-bitty* pants
Damn, hey Ms. Parker I make that ass come on down like Bob Barker
[Verse 3: Nelly]
Baby girl shake it like a paraplegic please believe it (Wooo)
Knees bent, and back arched just how I need it
Call her "Billie Jean," I like the "Thriller" before I "Beat It"
Conceded when she shake it but I like it like that
Throw it at me even harder just to see me react
See if it's wack, in fact see what Nelly about
I thought that ass was a fluke until I went to her house
You see mama got ass too, her sister Keesha and Sue
Her cousins, aunts and nieces start walking in by two
Like who's trying to keep they composure now
I'm feeling it can't nobody hold me down
Nobody told me how crazy groupies and coochies can get
In the back side under the stage trying to hit
And I'm like "Baby girl I ain't that kind of guy"
Let me at least let me go get a condom I ain't trying to die
I might be high but I'm not that damn high!
[Verse 4: Ali]
Oh lord my dick hard call the nurse (why?)
It's getting worse fat asses I gotta flirt
It was me Mo and Murph, Kyjuan was with his earth
Playing pussy it hurt, smoking, passing the smirks
Popping bottle after bottle I'm like "Here we go again"
Posting it up in the club thinking "Is he got a win"
My chrome shoes went from Barry to Larry Hughes
Emmitt's 22's now its Jordan's I cruise
But anyway Fo Sho I'm from the show me let me show you
To drunk and out of town trying to kiss you like I know you
In the middle of the dance floor caught the man's attention
Wiggle Wiggle do your thug's hydraulic suspension
Did I mention long Ohhh, "What the f**k is going on?"
Your body banging ma' I got to take you home
Cool lets break, to the house on the lake
Man this is great I'm dealing with high stakes
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The 100 Essential Directors Part 4: Samuel Fuller - John Huston
On our fourth day, this journey through the 100 Essential Film Directors continues to twist and turn in unexpected ways. From bold, opinionated Hollywood voices to those who essentially created the language of cinema, today will shed light on kings of genre like Samuel Fuller, through lions like the legendary John Huston.
On our fourth day, this journey through who we believe to be the 100 Essential Film Directors continues to twist and turn in unexpected ways. From bold, opinionated Hollywood voices to those who essentially created the language of cinema, today will shed light on kings of genre like Samuel Fuller, through lions like the legendary John Huston.
(1912 - 1977)
Three Key Films: The Steel Helmet (1951), Pickup on South Street (1953), The Big Red One (1980)
Underrated: Park Row (1952). Frank Capra called It's a Wonderful Life his best film for decades before anyone would listen. Sam Fuller felt the same way about his newspaper epic Park Row, which has finally become available on DVD this year. Inspired by his years working in the cutthroat New York newspaper business -- a copyboy at 12, crime reporter at 17 -- Fuller's fondness for the industry is apparent. The plot and themes are basically the same as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). Loveable underdogs take on corrupt institution, only here it's a startup newspaper taking on a corrupt institution personified in Charity Hackett (Mary Welch), a classic Fuller brunette and coldhearted, greedy publisher whom the loveable underdog is more than happy to sleep with. Long-admired for his explosive camera movement, Park Row features one of Fuller's most exciting fight scenes and plenty of sardonic wit, with just the right amount of heart planted firmly on its sleeve.
Unforgettable: From The Steel Helmet. The titles scroll, the camera resting on the dome of a helmet, smooth except for a single bullet hole piercing the right side. A grave, familiar image of wartime sacrifice. Only this isn't WWII. This is Korea. And as the titles fade, the seemingly abandoned helmet suddenly rises to reveal the squinting, shifty eyes of an American soldier, hiding from the enemy. Stephen Frears would open The Queen (2006) similarly, humanizing our iconography by bringing what seemed to be a royal portrait to life.
The Big Red One (1980)
The Legend: Martin Scorsese said, "If you don't like the films of Sam Fuller, then you just don't like cinema." Samuel Fuller was told to cast John Wayne in the role of platoon leader in his epic and autobiographical war film, The Big Red One, he said he'd rather not make the movie at all. One need watch only a couple of Fuller's pictures to understand why his response is no surprise. Though his scope was broad -- he made war films, melodramas, westerns, crime noir, and odd things in between -- Fuller's trademark punchy dialog, exuberant violence and inventive camera work unifies the disparate settings and characters. Whether we're shaking down a Japanese pachinko parlor in House of Bamboo (1955), or confined within a submarine in Hell and High Water (1954), the integrity of his vision is clear. We're clearly operating in the same mental space. No, what is surprising about the story of making The Big Red One is that anyone would ask him to cast John Wayne to begin with. Trying to imagine The Duke in any of Fuller's war films is like picturing Darth Vader in 2001. That's not a knock on Wayne (or Vader), but they're fictional characters, operating on the level of myth. Somehow, the surrealistic world of Sam Fuller manages to feel emphatically real.
His films didn't always feel real though. Critics at the time complained that his tawdry subjects stretched credulity and disliked his left-of-center aesthetics. Similarly, viewers accustomed to a different kind of war film found many aspects of Fuller's breakthrough The Steel Helmet quite unreal. An integrated platoon? An American shooting a POW? An intelligent commie? Many were outraged. They said the film was funded by Reds, and accused the real-life war hero of being anti-American. (Fuller's WWII platoon landed in Africa, Sicily, and Normandy, earning him Bronze and Silver Stars.) Unfortunately, this sort of controversy plagued Fuller's career. Several decades later, his film White Dog would be shelved by Paramount, who feared a threatened boycott by the NAACP. Never mind that the film was actually a sobering contemplation on the roots and results of racism, made by a director whose progressive record on race was abundantly evident in both his themes and his integrationist casting choices. Paramount would not release it. Angry, Fuller moved to France and did not make another American film.
Despite these battles, Fuller was not a provocateur. Instead he strove to capture a sense of reality that only he could see and, in doing so, redefined our expectations of cinema. What once seemed pulpy (The Crimson Kimono 1959), surreal (The Naked Kiss 1964), and outrageous (Shock Corridor 1963), now seems simply ahead of its time. As a result, his greatest legacy might be his influence. The French New Wavers, Spielberg, Jarmusch, Tarantino (and on and on) have acknowledged Sam Fuller's direct impact on their work. In fact, you can hardly imagine their films without him. His idiosyncratic vision normalized what we value in cinema today. Joshua Ewing Weber


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Perhaps the single album that best sums up Bobby Hutcherson's early musical personality, Components is appropriately split into two very distinct halves.
The first features four Hutcherson originals in a melodic but still advanced hard bop style, while the latter half has four free-leaning avant-garde pieces by drummer Joe Chambers. Hutcherson allots himself more solo space than on Dialogue, but that's no knock on the excellent supporting cast, which includes Herbie Hancock on piano, James Spaulding on alto sax and flute, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, and Ron Carter on bass. It's just more Hutcherson's date, and he helps unite the disparate halves with a cool-toned control that's apparent regardless of whether the material is way outside or more conventionally swinging.
In the latter case, Hutcherson's originals are fairly diverse, encompassing rhythmically complex hard bop (the title track), pensive balladry ("Tranquillity," which features a lovely solo by Hancock), down-and-dirty swing ("West 22nd Street Theme"), and the gaily innocent "Little B's Poem," which went on to become one of Hutcherson's signature tunes and contains some lyrical flute work from Spaulding.
The Chambers pieces tend to be deliberate explorations that emphasize texture and group interaction in the manner of Dialogue, except that there's even more freedom in terms of both structure and tonal center. (The exception is the brief but beautiful closing number, "Pastoral," an accurate title if ever there was one.) Components illustrated that Hutcherson was not only the most adventurous vibes player on the scene, but that he was also capable of playing more straightforward music with intelligence and feeling.
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About 116 cheerleaders from 4 years old to 17 years old will be performing . Noble High School Varsity Cheerleaders just recently took 3rd place at Regionals and will be moving on to States in Bangor on Feb. 9.
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Cynics, be gone: Raise a cheer for UVA teams' backbone
What should we do when life turns a bit sour, when day-to-day troubles turn us into shrews and curmudgeons? Sooner or later, it happens to all of us. Perhaps it's time to take a break from our troubles (football recruiting) and focus on something good, if only to stave off shrewishness for another week.
On April 28, there were 44 young men on the UVA lacrosse team. On April 29, there were 43, none of whom had been on the team in 2006 when Virginia won its fourth NCAA Championship. None were in Charlottesville when that perfect 2006 season became the best in NCAA history (okay, freshman Owen Van Arsdale was in Charlottesville, but he was a student at St. Anne's-Belfield).
But you can bet every one of the 44 boys on the April 28 roster signed with Virginia looking to repeat that 2006 season. Unfortunately, it was not to be. That's not the good news, of course.
The good news is that Virginia showed the lacrosse world they can get along just fine without the Bratton twins, thank you very much. Just three days after the twins' teammates voted to dismiss Shamel Bratton and indefinitely suspend his twin brother, Rhamel, from the team, UVA pummelled # 13 Penn, 11-2.
But the team's victory on the field paled in comparison to their victory off it. Virginia lacrosse has taken it on the chin this past year, and easily could have collapsed under the pressure. It's impossible to imagine the heartache and trauma both the men's and women's teams have suffered after last year's death of women's player Yeardley Love at the hands of men's player George Huguely. That any player had the heart to pick up a stick again speaks to the lacrosse staff's compassion and support.
And with the intensely competitive postseason just around the corner, that the men's team ousted Shamel Bratton, a highly touted and highly recruited two-time All American midfielder, for thrice violating rules the team itself implemented speaks to what kind of team the players want going forward. It's not enough to win; they have to be good.
And as if it isn't sweet enough that UVA's lacrosse team has gone the extra mile to put integrity first, the school's baseball team has given fans something else to smile about, and it's not the team's number-one ranking (though that helps). As the team prepares to face off against Miami beginning May 13, the players are neck-deep in exams.
Many college athletes, especially those heading toward a national championship appearance, get special treatment when it comes to academics: tests rescheduled, due dates overlooked, and absences excused. Granted, those perks are mostly extended to football and basketball players, but at many top-level Division 1 schools, the baseball teams get a pass as well.
Not so at UVA. Exams are exams, no matter what, and that's just fine with star catcher John Hicks. When questioned about the break, he responded, "We've got to take care of stuff in the classroom before we can worry about being on the field."
Virginia baseball players entered exams with the best record in the nation (43-5, also the best record of any Virginia baseball team in history), so it's an unexpected sentiment. But it's balm for the soul.
"We've got to take care of stuff in the classroom before we can worry about being on the field." Only a real cynic could harden his heart against that. To all those fans frothing at the mouth about exam break, please take your shrewishness elsewhere, if only for another week.
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Louisville's Kevin Ware leaves vs. Duke with broken right leg
INDIANAPOLIS - A gruesome injury that left Louisville guard Kevin Ware with a broken leg plunged Lucas Oil Stadium into horrified silence, with coach Rick Pitino wiping away tears and shocked teammates openly weeping during Sunday's Midwest Regional final.
Ware's right leg bent in such an awkward and frightening angle that CBS stopped showing replays shortly after the fall in the NCAA tournament matchup against Duke.
"The bone's 6 inches out of his leg and all he's yelling is, 'Win the game, win the game,'" Pitino said. "I've not seen that in my life. ... Pretty special young man."
Viewers who watched the injury on TV reacted on social networks and (hash)KevinWare shot to one of the top worldwide trending topics on Twitter. Video of the injury was posted on YouTube -- CBS initially replayed it twice before changing course.
With 6:33 left in the first half, Ware tried to contest a 3-pointer by Tyler Thornton. Ware's leg buckled when he landed, bending almost at a right angle.
School officials said Ware was taken to Methodist Hospital with a broken lower right leg. Louisville spokesman Kenny Klein said hospital officials told the school that Ware was "resting comfortably" and that the pain was "under control."
Klein said a team of doctors was being assembled.
One of Ware's teammates and closest friends, Chane Behanan, spoke with Ware at halftime.
"He said 'Don't worry about me, I'm good, I'll have my surgery tonight,'" Behanan said. "Go win it for me."
Pitino said Ware's leg broke in two spots.
"Basically, the bone popped out of the skin," he said. "It'll take a year to come back."
Pitino said it was the same injury former Louisville running back Michael Bush had in football. Bush, now with the Chicago Bears, has recovered to have a productive NFL career.
Ware was taken off the court on a stretcher.
The injury happened right in front of Pitino and the Louisville bench, and several Cardinals were overcome with emotion.
Louisville forward Wayne Blackshear fell to the floor, crying, and Behanan looked as if he was going to be sick on the court, kneeling on his hands and feet. Peyton Siva sat a few feet away, a hand covering his mouth.
Luke Hancock patted Ware's chest as doctors worked on the sophomore and Russ Smith -- who is from New York City like Ware -- walked away, pulling his jersey over his eyes.
Someone finally pulled Behanan to his feet, but he doubled over and needed a few seconds to gather himself. As Ware was being loaded onto the stretcher, the Cardinals gathered at midcourt until Pitino called them over, saying that Ware wanted to talk to them before he left.
In the immediate aftermath, those who saw the game on television took to social media to express their concern. Former Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann, who famously sustained a broken leg on "Monday Night Football" in a game against the New York Giants, tweeted that, "Watching Duke/ Louisville my heart goes out to Kevin Ware."
Dr. Reed Estes, assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and team physician for the UAB football team, said Ware's injury "looks like a pretty bad break to both his tibia and fibula," the two long bones in the lower leg.
Basketball players are prone to stress fractures in the tibia, the larger of these two bones, and that can weaken them, he said.
"If these are not detected they can result in a full fracture, particularly if the landing mechanics are just right" after a jump, Estes said. Surgery to stabilize the bones is usually successful, and Ware should be fine to play next season, he said.
Louisville, the top overall seed in the tourney, went more than 3 minutes without scoring after the injury but regained its composure to take a 35-32 halftime lead and went on to an 85-63 victory.
"We won this for him," Pitino said. "We were all choked up with emotion for him. We'll get him back to normal. We've got great doctors, great trainers. We talked about it every timeout, 'Get Kevin home.'"
Ware, a 6-foot-2 sophomore from the Bronx, was instrumental in Louisville's victory over Oregon in the regional semifinals. He scored 11 points on 5-for-7 shooting in 25 minutes off the bench.
Behanan switched into Ware's No. 5 jersey near the end of the game.
Afterward, he kept on it and the Cardinal players led the heavily partisan Louisville crowd in chants of "Kev-in, Kev-in." Behanan then took the jersey off and continually held it up next to and underneath the Midwest Region championship trophy.
"Kevin's like a brother to me," Behanan said. "We're always together."


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John Milton (1608-1674) ranks among the greatest poets of the English language. He is best known for the epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), but he also wrote prose works on history, religion, and contemporary politics. Although his academic talents marked him for a career in the Anglican church, Milton turned away from the Church of England at an early age and was a consistent supporter of the Puritan cause. He spent most of his life in academia or as a civil servant working for the Puritan Commonwealth.
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Farofa - Brazilian Crunchy Topping or Stuffing
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Don't be fooled by the "dirty sand" look of this typical Brazilian side dish! Farofa is a delicious, crunchy side dish (or stuffing) that is eaten at a daily basis all over Brazil. Given the fact that Brazil is a HUGE country with a large variety of dishes from region to region, achieving that level of popularity is pretty impressive… It certainly does NOT taste like dirty sand. Farofa is crunchy and full of intense flavors that enhance the texture and add an interesting taste to the main course. It is almost like a crunchy hot sauce, but without the heat. It is extremely simple to make, but exotic at the same time. I hope you are curious enough to try.
Makes 2 cups
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 medium onion, finely diced
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 ½ cup yuca flour (manioc flour)
- ¼ teaspoon dried coriander
- ½ teaspoon smoked paprika
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- ½ cup scallions, finely chopped
In a medium skillet over medium-high heat melt butter and olive oil until foamy. Add onions and cook, stirring often, until translucent, 3 minutes. Add garlic and cook until fragrant, 40 seconds. Add yucca flour, dried coriander, and smoked paprika. Cook, stirring often, until golden brown, 7 to 9 minutes. Remove from heat. Season with salt and pepper. Fold in scallions and serve.
Cook's Notes:
Farofa is a very traditional side dish in Brazil and it has many different variations depending on the region. It is used to sprinkle the top of almost any savory dish, like meats (especially over churrasco), rice, beans, fish stews and sausage. It's also used as a stuffing for poultry on Christmas supper. This recipe is a very basic version, but depending on the region, many other ingredients may be added; like bacon, collard greens, eggs, bananas and raisins. The variations that have fruit are commonly served with pork and veal; recipes with herbs and eggs are popular with red meats. The more ingredients added the chunkier it becomes, which can resemble a lot a traditional American stuffing. Many times, Americans that visit Brazil describe farofa as the "crunchy stuffing-like side dish that Brazilians eat with anything".
Yuca flour (also known as manioc or cassava flour) can be found at International grocery stores, South American and African markets. Whole Foods has recently started carrying it too.
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There are some places in the world that you may not immediately think of visiting. Among all the favourite churches, museums and galleries lurk some more disturbing locations with morbid histories, places that represent the darker side of humanity. They may not be top of your itineraries, but they're equally - if not more - thought-provoking, and are well worth a detour. Here, with some from the pages of Make The Most Of Your Time On Earth, we present some key places to remember the past.
Auschwitz, Poland
One thing that will stick in your mind is the hair. Mousy, dark clumps of it and even a child's pigtail still wound like a piece of rope, all piled together like the relics from an ancient crypt. But there are no bones here. The hair in this room was deliberately, carefully, shaved from the heads of men, women and children, ready for transportation to factories where it would be turned into haircloth and socks. This is Auschwitz, the most notorious complex of extermination camps operated by the Nazis.
No one knows how many people died here: estimates range from 1.1 million to 1.6 million, mostly Jews. They starved to death, died of dysentery, were shot or beaten. And then from 1941, the Final Solution, death by cyanide gas ("Zyklon-B"): twenty thousand people could be gassed and cremated each day. Auschwitz is a terrible place, full of terrible, haunting memories. But everyone should go – so that no one will forget.
Auschwitz is named after the Polish town of Oświęcim, around 50km west of Kraków. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum & Memorial is free; see en.auschwitz.org.
Brest fortress, Belarus
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For the Belarusians, World War II was a catastrophe. In all, during the brutal three-year Nazi occupation of the then Soviet republic, almost a quarter of the population died – a tragedy that has left a profound imprint on succeeding generations. Nowhere does the nation's sense of grief retain a greater rawness than at the colossal war memorial, constructed with typical Soviet bombast, at Brest Fortress, close to the Polish border.
It's a sombre half-hour trudge along a broad, empty boulevard out to the fortress complex on the edge of town, the eye drawn towards the monumental concrete slab carved with a giant Communist star that serves as the entrance. As you pass through, radio broadcasts, Soviet songs and the deafening thunder of artillery ring through the tunnel. Once inside, remains of the original fortress – much if it shelled to oblivion – are sparse. Instead it's a massive icon of Socialist Realist art that dominates the tableau: carved into another gigantic concrete block is the head of a huge, grim-faced soldier, jutting muscular jaw set in defiance. It's a staggeringly powerful piece of work, lent added poignancy by the eternal flame that burns beneath, and the neat tiers of memorials that lead up to it, many garlanded in beautiful wreaths.
Brest is 4hr by train from either Minsk or Warsaw (change in Terespol from the latter); the fortress is open daily 8am–midnight (free).
Cape Coast Castle, Ghana
In 1471, Portuguese merchant seamen arrived on the palm-lined shore of the Gold Coast and bought a fort at Elmina. Over the next four hundred years they were followed by British, Dutch, Swedes, Danes and adventurers from the Baltic. Gold was their first desire, but the slave trade soon became the dominant activity, and more than three dozen forts were established here, largely to run the exchange of human cargo for cloth, liquor and guns. Today, thirty forts still stand, several in dramatic locations and offering atmospheric tours and accommodation.
One of the biggest is the seventeenth-century Cape Coast Castle, which dominates the lively town of the same name. Just walking through its claustrophobic dungeons, where slaves were held before being shipped across the Atlantic, moves some visitors to tears – the scale of the cruelties that took place here is near-incomprehensible
Bus services (around 4hr) run along the main coastal highway from Accra.
The Kigali genocide museum, Rwanda
In 1994, while the world looked the other way, around one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered by Hutu extremists. The attempted genocide left a scar on the Rwandan nation which will be felt for generations, but the immediate wounds of that terrible three-month period have healed faster than most outsiders could have imagined. While leading genocidaires have faced UN trials, those who murdered their own neighbours under orders have undergone a process of reconciliation with survivors in local gacaca courts. The country itself has been transformed by its pragmatic government and is rapidly modernizing.
Tourism is an important part of development and it engages remarkably with recent events in Rwanda's genocide museum, the Kigali Memorial Centre, where you're likely to spend at least two very worthwhile but emotionally draining hours. On this hillside site, north of the city centre, eleven huge crypts have been constructed, the resting place for nearly a quarter of a million of the country's victims. The semi-subterranean exhibition itself implicitly lays the blame for what happened on decades of colonial oppression, divide-and-rule policies, under-development and ultimately deliberate planning, while placing the slaughter in the context of humanity's history of genocide. The memorial to the children who died is unbearably moving, focusing not on the huge numbers, but on fourteen individual lives, on little things like their favourite meals, and on how they were killed.
The Kigali Memorial Centre is open daily 10am–6pm (donations accepted) and is a partner of the UK-based Aegis Trust (aegistrust.org), which works to prevent crimes against humanity.
The Camp of Special Significance, Russia
St Petersburg's White Nights festival is an established tourist draw, but more adventurous travellers can head north towards the Arctic Circle and the remote Solovetsky Archipelago in the Karelia region. Situated on the White Sea, in the uppermost part of the world's biggest country, these islands seem close to the tipping-point of the world.
From the Middle Ages till the Bolsheviks seized power, monks sought out this place for solitary contemplation; when communism fell, they returned, and today the exquisite monastery on the main island, pure white with silver onion domes, is again a site of active worship. But there were darker times in the interim. The Soviet authorities saw the potential of the islands' remote location, and in 1923 created a Camp of Special Significance, where political opponents could be subjected to the near-constant winter darkness, isolation and bitter cold. Solovetsky became, as the great dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn put it, "the mother of the gulag".
Today, the camp is remembered in a museum inside the Kremlin on the main island. On top of Sekirnaya Gora ("Hatchet Mountain") you can also see the Church of the Ascension, which was used for solitary confinement – an incongruously picturesque spot a pleasant 12km walk from the monastery. But perhaps most striking is the prison dating from the late 1930s, today abandoned and neglected, where visitors can wander at will. The two-tone walls, door numbers and scrawled graffiti heave history out of the untouchable past and into vivid Technicolor.
Take the overnight train from St Petersburg to Kem, then the boat to the main island, Solovki (2hr 30min). Regional information is at www.pomorland.info.
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Cambodia
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Everyone over 30 in Cambodia has lived through the genocidal Khmer Rouge era. The woman who runs your guesthouse in downtown Phnom Penh; the moto driver who tried to rip you off on the ride down from the Thai border; your Angkor temples tour guide; the waiter at the seaside café in Sihanoukville. At the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum you'll learn something of what that means.
A former school on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Tuol Sleng, code-named S-21, was used by the Khmer Rouge to interrogate perceived enemies of their demented Marxist-Leninist regime. During the Khmer Rouge rule, from 1975 to 1979, some fourteen thousand Cambodians were tortured and killed here, often for the crime of being educated: for being a teacher, a monk, or a member of the elite; for wearing glasses; for being a discredited cadre.
The interior of the prison has in part been left almost as it was found. Tiled floors, classrooms crudely partitioned into tiny cells, shackles, iron bedsteads and meshed balconies. Elsewhere, graphic paintings by another survivor, Vann Nath, depict the torture methods used to extract confessions; some of these confessions are also reproduced here. Once they'd been coerced into admitting guilt, prisoners were taken to the Choeung Ek Killing Fields and murdered. Choeung Ek, 12km southwest, is now the site of another memorial. Both provide graphic evidence of these recent horrors.
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (daily 7.30–11.30am & 2–5pm) is off Street 13 on the southern fringes of Phnom Penh.
Dachau, Germany
This former camp for political prisoners of WWII once served as the model for all concentration camps of the war, and later became a "school of violence" for the SS men who commanded it. Until the 1960s it was used as a refugee camp for Germans coming from Czechoslovakia, and now it contains a memorial, established in 1965 by the surviving prisoners. There are exhibitions where you can pay respects to and remember the important prisoners in the camp, a visitor's centre, and a display takes visitors through the path of new arrivals to Dachau all those years ago.
The Dachau camp is open daily (9am-5pm) and is located a 30 minute drive from Munich.
Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague, Czech Republic
There is always something eerie about walking through a cemetery, even if you don't believe in ghosts. In the colourful Jewish Quarter of Prague, this centuries-old cemetery is perhaps the most crowded in the world. The number of people buried here has not been determined but the grounds contain some 12,000 tombstones and it is assumed there are several "burial layers" placed on top of one another.
The cemetery (Mondays & Wednesdays 11am-3pm, and Fridays from 9am-1pm) is located on Fibichova Street in the Old Jewish Quarter.
Cu Chi Tunnels, Vietnam
These underground tunnels are steeped in incredible but sinister history, as Viet Cong guerrilla fighters used them as supply routes, living quarters and hospitals during the American-Vietnam war. Although the tunnels have been widened and made taller for Western tourists to explore, you can still feel the claustrophobic and cramped conditions that so many Vietnamese lived in. The whole site is a stark reminder of the bloody battles that took place between the Americans and Viet Cong and there are interested exhibitions throughout.
The tunnels are open daily from 9am-5pm and good tours run from most travel agents in Ho Chi Minh (Siagon) City.
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
This ghost town in central France is a permanent museum and memorial to the families that were killed during a 1944 German massacre. The village was left bare after 642 of its inhabitants were killed, and today the houses lay in ruins and cars decompose in their parking spaces as visitors are allowed to wander through the empty streets and remember the victims' plight.
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So you just came up with a great online video idea for your business or organization, but you have no idea how to turn that idea to reality. Listed below are three documents that can help you plan your video masterpiece.
The Script
Co-workers can't read your mind, so put your idea on paper and refine it. The script itself can be a simple document with a two-column table. The left column contains any audio narration, spoken dialogue or sound effects, and the right column describes any action or visual cues that occur in sync with the audio.
Bonus tip 1: You're not writing a novel, so use short action descriptions.
The Breakdown
Unless your video is about one person sitting all alone in a single, empty room, the next document you should create is a script breakdown. The breakdown lists all the on-camera talent, locations, props, camera equipment, and additional help you will need during the shoot. Include the scene or scenes for which each item will be used. For larger businesses, a breakdown will also help your supervisor and accounting department better understand where your company's money is going when you ask for it.
Bonus tip 2: Here's where you should be very detailed – include links to the items you wish to purchase and the contact information for anyone helping you.
The Schedule
Now that you have the script and breakdown, create a shooting schedule. The most ideal schedule (and most efficient use of resources) is one where all shooting can occur within a single block of time, one scene right after another. Start by determining which dates/times your on-camera talent and locations are both available. Once those are scheduled, you can then organize the other resources needed.
Bonus tip 3: If you are shooting outside, keep a close eye on the weather prior to the shoot and include a rain date if possible.
Once you make each of these documents, share them with everyone who is involved with your project. By communicating your vision and needs with others prior to the shoot, you can more easily resolve any production concerns that arise.
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Canucks' Daniel Sedin prepared to take responsibility
Vancouver Canucks centre Jordan Schroeder (45) and Daniel Sedin (22) celebrate a Yannick Weber (6) goal against the Colorado Avalanche in the first period of an NHL game on Thursday, March 27, 2014, in Denver.
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DENVER – Before he says anything about next season, Daniel Sedin wants you to know he's not giving up on this season.
Yes, statistically, it was a winter wasteland for the Vancouver Canucks and their wondertwins, Daniel and Henrik. The scoring famines the Sedins endured are incomprehensible, beyond what anyone thought possible for the Canucks who have been among the best and most prolific offensive players in the National Hockey League for nearly a decade – top-10 scorers since the 2004 lockout.
As Henrik said recently, the brothers figured under new coach John Tortorella's system, their offensive production might slip six or seven points this season. Not 30. And never with Daniel, the NHL scoring champion only three years ago, going 23 games without a goal and waiting until March 26 to score his first in 2014. Never with Henrik, the 2010 points champion and Hart Trophy winner, going 12 games without a point during the Canucks' worst stretch of the season.
Even Henrik's ironman streaks are diminished, a rib injury in January ending one at 679 games and a knee injury last Sunday capping another at just 13 games. Pathetic.
But Daniel scored in Wednesday's 5-2 win against the Minnesota Wild, then collected the 800th point of his career with a first-period assist in Thursday's 3-2 overtime loss against the Colorado Avalanche. Henrik hopes to play again this season and the Canucks, which fell off a cliff on Dec. 30 and went 5-16-4 the next 10 weeks, still cling stubbornly to the playoff race, five points out with seven games to go.
So, Daniel is conceding nothing except this: the Sedins haven't been good enough, they make no excuses, and will be much better next season. And the three seasons after that.
The possibility that age – they turned 33 last September – might have suddenly ambushed them with its blunt weapon and the Sedins will never be the same? That hasn't even penetrated Daniel's consciousness.
Not until we asked, anyway.
"I think it's understandable," Daniel said when the theory was put to him. "Where we are, in our market, it's understandable some people would think that. I never get upset anymore with what people say. For us, we're going to take full responsibility for what happened with our season and do everything we can to get back and be better.
"I think that's a strength of ours – to not blame anyone or anything, but just understand what happened and why and then come back and be better. We're going to come back and be really good players for a lot of years; that's the way I look at it."
Based on what we've seen since 2004 from these ginger-haired boys from Ornskoldsvik, there isn't much reason to doubt Daniel. Naturally, though, many people will.
Admiration for the Sedins in Vancouver has always been grudging. They'd have probably quit the NHL and gone home to Sweden early in their career were it not for the encouragement of former teammates like Markus Naslund and Trevor Linden, who saw the Sedins' potential greatness before the rest of us.
And even when they eventually soared as players, winning those consecutive scoring titles and helping the Canucks win more games than any team over a five-year period, their shrillest critics – the progressive-thinkers who demean them as "sisters" – merely went mute. But now, in the Sedins' first poor season since before the two lockouts, the first when both have had significant injuries, the old criticisms are dusted off and thrown back at them as side dishes to the new one that they are suddenly too old and have "lost it."
In fact, it's the Canuck team that has lost it this season, plummeting to 27th in offence. For three months, you were lucky to find anyone scoring. Chris Higgins now and then. Ryan Kesler in spurts.
But the Sedins are paid to run the power play and score and lead the attack, and at this they have failed. For once.
Uncomfortably, their lousy seasons – actually poor half-seasons because when 2014 began both were near enough to point-a-game players that no one was worried – are coming after the Sedins signed twin four-year, $28-million-US contract extensions on Nov. 1.
"We've never looked at contracts as adding pressure," Daniel said before facing the Colorado Avalanche. "Last time when we signed, everyone thought we made too much money then, too. We 'weren't first-line players' – stuff like that. It didn't bother us then and it's not going to bother us now.
"We're going to do everything we can to make the playoffs. Hopefully, we still make the playoffs and we'll see what happens. It's been a tough 2014. But if you want to come up with excuses and say you had injuries – whatever – you're not going to come back and have a good year. All you can do is blame yourself and look for stuff that makes you better and work even harder.
"I really believe we're going to come back and have a great year – a great four years. There's no question in my mind about that. We're going to work even harder to come back as better players and better people."
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laid eyes on the patient. I was very satisfied to make the clinical
diagnosis in advance and be proven correct by the work-up.
The Chief Complaint was "shortness of breath;" the patient complained of trouble breathing when he laid down, and some extremity swelling, so I kind of assumed that he had CHF. He was about 60, and had no significant medical history, and the vitals looked fine. The only odd thing I noticed was that he complained that his face was swelling, too.
The interview wasn't much more revealing than that. He had a dry cough and diminished exercise tolerance, but not a lot of other symptoms. No fevers or chest pain. He was losing weight, which I thought was odd in a potential CHFer. They usually gain weight as they retain fluid. He was a long-term smoker. Also, he added, there was a sense of fullness in his neck that he thought was really uncomfortable, and that's what made it hard to breathe when supine, because he felt like he was choking.
The exam was noteworthy for facial swelling and edema, with a distinct dusky flushing in the skin color. The neck was diffusely swollen, but I could not make out any lymph nodes or cords or other masses. The neck veins were very prominent (which is defined as "the ER doctor noticed them"). Strikingly, there were varicose veins in the shoulders, chest, and upper extremities, all of which were distended, and indeed, the upper extremities were swollen and shared the same dusky color as the face. The skin below the chest was normal in color, and there was no swelling or abnormality in the lower extremities.
I'll skip the x-ray and go straight to the CT (click images to embiggen):
What we have here are images of the chest with IV contrast. The contrast shows up as bright white, mostly inside blood vessels. The contrast was injected through an IV in the right arm. There is a mass adjacent to the right hilum, probably an invasive bronchogenic carcinoma. This mass is compressing the superior vena cava (SVC), which returns blood from the head and arms to the heart. It's the main vein in the chest, thin-walled and usually a couple centimeters in diameter. The SVC is almost completely effaced in the top picture, and reduced to a millimeter in size in the middle one.
The obstruction of the vena cava causes increased venous pressure in the arms, head and neck, which is responsible for the dusky color and swelling. The fullness in the neck is probably from massive distention of the jugular vessels. The increased venous pressure causes blood to find alternate pathways back to the heart, in this case through venous collaterals, mostly subcutaneous. You can see them in the right armpit (on the left of the picture) and under the skin in the front of the chest, all bright white.
This is called SVC Syndrome, and given the early detection of lung cancers these days is pretty uncommon (also, syphilitic aortic aneurysms and tuberculosis are less common than in the past). This patient had all the classic symptoms and clinical findings. The tumor has to get pretty big to compress the vena cava. This patient did note that his cough had been going on quite a while, but his policy of "seeing the doctor every 10 years, whether I need it or not" turned out to not be the best one. His 60+ pack-year history of smoking didn't help, either. This is a pretty terrible diagnosis for the patient. It's too early to say, but this looks like a non-survivable lesion.
My six-year old asked me the other day: if smoking is bad for you, why do they let you do it? We had a little conversation about freedoms which was quite frankly over his head. Little kids are too used to being told what to do to understand the concept and value of liberty. He came away firmly convinced that it should be a rule that you're not allowed to smoke. After I had a very difficult "you have cancer" conversation with this gentleman, his wife and three daughters, it was hard not to agree with my six-year old.
This is also one of the weird contradictions of being an ER doc. I was, I admit, pretty juiced about this case. It was rare and I was very satisfied about making the diagnosis. But it was also awful for the patient. I remember something one of my teachers taught me in residency: "Never forget that your best day is by necessity someone else's worst day."


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The cover of the book titled: Occupation Shmuccupation (Baloney)
Israeli settlers have released a new educational booklet for settler children in the West Bank, which explains that, "there's no such thing as Palestine."
Titled "Kibbush Kishkush" (Occupation Baloney), the 22 page booklet reasserts popular Israeli-settler propaganda, using cartoons and folksy explanations to promote messages including: "there is no such thing as the State of Palestine," "vandalizing Palestinian property is a criminal offense –but sometimes Arabs do it to other Arabs," and "there is no solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
The pamphlet addresses these themes through the assistance of a young cartoon boy who is exploring the world of Israeli settlements and the Israel-Palestine conflict through naïve eyes while asking seemingly innocent question.
In one scene, the unwitting boy learns that 'price tag' attacks, where extremist settlers vandalize Palestinian property, are not a daily occurrence, despite what left wing outlets purport.
The New York Times and +972 both acknowledged the absurdity of such an assertion, which coincides with the recent deaths of a Palestinian toddler and his parents after their Duma home was set on fire by settler extremists in July.
Last week the Yesha council, an umbrella organisation for settlers in the West Bank, announced it will print 10,000 copies to be distributed amongst community centers, universities and professionals working with teenagers. Schools, kindergartens and youth groups may also receive the booklets.
The cartoon has drawn criticism from various organisations, who regard it as an indoctrinating instrument for warped settler ideology.
On its facebook page, Israeli advocacy group Peace Now commented on the booklet, saying the Yesha Council had proved that its greatest expertise lay in "concealing from the Israeli public the reality that millions of Palestinians live around the settlements, lacking in rights and under Israeli control."
But the Yesha council's latest contribution is only a drop in the ocean amongst amongst the wave of anti-Palestinian propaganda consistently being perpetuated in Israel through educational literature, according to analysts of Israeli educational materials, says Israeli professor Nurit Paaeled-Elhanan.
"[The booklet] expresses the current opinion and it's not something new for the readers. Maybe it's more bold, more blunt, more blatant. But it's just the general experience, what most people know," Paeled-Elhanan, author of "Palestine in Israeli School Books," told the Palestine Monitor.
"In order to be authorized by the military, [educational textbooks] have to have some kind of ideological common ground. So what they may do on top of that is different, but basically they have the same ideology and convictions based on the need for a Jewish majority and our right to the land."
But according to Peled-Elhanan, her criticism of the dogma disseminated through Israeli children's textbooks is unique in Israel.
"Other researchers say there are flaws and things that should be mended and 'the other' should be presented more favorably. But they don't challenge the basic ideological common ground," she said.
"They don't say it's racist, they don't say its colonial, and I do."
Nonetheless, Yesha Council spokesman Yigal Dakmoni fears left wing sentiment in Israel poses a pertinent threat that could undermine the settler version of history and events.
"Our generation won't achieve calm with the Palestinians, so it's important to us that the younger generation knows the right facts and doesn't rely on stigmas left-wing organizations are trying to disseminate," he is quoted by Ynet as having said.
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With Steven Spielberg, never the most controversial or daring filmmaker in a room, as the jury president, many expected the Cannes prizes to go to Hollywood-friendly films, but Spielberg surprised many when his jury picked the French film Blue is the Warmest Colour, adapted from a French graphic novel about a girl falling in love with an older woman, for the Palme d'Or. The film is noted for remarkable performances from Lea Seydoux and newcomer Adele Exarchopoulos, whom many have tipped as a breakout on the order of Audrey Tatou and Berenice Bejo.
Speaking of Bejo, she won Best Actress, for Asghar Farhadi's The Past, which is sure to be a major contender come award season, in the Foreign Language category if nothing else, though Bejo will likely be a top contender for Best Actress, too. Bruce Dern pulled off an upset, beating Michael Douglas for Best Actor, for Alexander Payne's Nebraska, yet another film that divided critics.
But those divisions are useful if you're looking to handicap early Oscar odds. So let's take a look at the emerging award season landscape because holy sh*t, you thought last year was competitive? This year is shaping up to be BANANAS. (Although we're already one film down as Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive follow up, Only God Forgives, actively turned off critics. And if Drive, which was superb, was too violent for the Academy, then Forgives definitely is.)
Blue is the Warmest Colour – The Palme d'Or is no mean prize, but Blue is too controversial for the more mainstream Academy. It stands its best chance as a Foreign Language entry, though Seydoux and especially Exarchopoulos, like Audrey Tatou, Marion Cotillard and Berenice Bejo before her, ought to figure in the actresses' categories.
Inside Llewyn Davis – It won the Grand Prix, which is the runner up prize, and had critics heaping praise on the Coen Brothers and Oscar Isaac. The last time the Coens made a music-centric film they scored big with O Brother Where Art Thou?, and Davis also features a soundtrack produced by T Bone Burnett. This could be not only a major award player but a box office hit, too. Best Oscar odds are everything, because it's the Coens and it's a period piece, so the technical categories will be relevant, too.
The Immigrant – Though it was touted as Gray's most accessible movie, it ended up dividing critics into "strongly admire" and "actively loathe" camps, as all his films do, but backed by Harvey Weinstein, you know it will figure into the conversation. Joaquin Phoenix won't be much help—he hates campaigning too much and too openly—but Jeremy Renner ought to generate some buzz in the supporting category. He was largely overlooked at Cannes, but the Academy loves him and he's mega connected, and his performance as a lovelorn magician is outside his wheelhouse of soldiers and crazy people. Still, he'll be competing against himself with David O. Russell's American Hustle, so Marion Cotillard, as the only thing critics agreed on about this movie was that her performance is stellar, remains the best bet.
Behind the Candelabra – It's shamefully not eligible for the Oscars, but it ought to clean up at the Emmys and more particularly, the Golden Globes. I imagine there are some studio development execs gnashing their teeth over passing on Candelabra, given how it wowed critics at Cannes. And Steven Soderbergh is clearly not retiring, he's just finding more fertile ground in TV, having taken on a mini-series as his next project.
Nebraska – It has to be part of the conversation just because it's Alexander Payne, but a lot of reviews noted Nebraska is oddly disconnected and "cold", so it's not Payne at the top of his game. Its best odds lay with Dern and Bob Nelson's screenplay.
Only Lovers Left Alive – Jim Jarmusch's vampire film surprised many by being accessible and enjoyable, two adjectives not often associated with his films. It'll be interesting to see if the Academy rewards Jarmusch for making a movie people will actually like, or if he's punished for making a movie people will actually like. It got picked up by Sony Pictures Classics, which means it won't get much of a boost as they spend about $10 annually on campaigning, but Jarmusch is a filmmaker who is always part of the conversation, for his writing at the very least.
All this and we haven't even gotten to sure-fire award bait like The Monuments Men, Grace of Monaco, Gravity, Captain Phillips, August: Osage County, The Counselor, Mandela, The Wolf of Wall Street, Twelve Years a Slave, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Saving Mr. Banks…
It's going to be a LONG award season.
Attached -- the amazing Tilda Swinton in gold with Tom Hiddleston and Bejo with her Best Actress award.


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Amal Clooney's Met Gala red carpet gown—er, pants and skirt combo—made a statement on the first Monday in May, but it was her second dress that really had us talking. Amal Clooney, who was one of the co-hosts of the event, did a quick change inside the Met, transforming her into a walking, talking piece of art. Makes sense for a gala held in a museum, no?
While her first gown was captured by hundreds of awaiting photographers, her second dress was so discreet, you might have even missed her outfit change. Clooney wowed in a deep red mosaic Tom Ford gown covered in thousands of tiny tiles that hugged her every curve. She paired it with a rich satin clutch, pumps, and matching lip, committing fully to the monochromatic styling.
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Publisher Jiyu Kokuminsha (via Pink Tentacle) revealed its annual list of the sixty most important Japanese words or phrases of 2010 that sum up the year's trends and events.
From this list, the top ten will be selected and made public early next month. Here is a sampling:
リア充 (ria-juu)
This means "reality-filled" and is Japanese internet slang that refers to people who have rewarding lives offline, such as going to parties or having non-internet relationships, and not simply in the virtual space.
Following in the wake of the Korean television "boom" a few years back, Korean pop music tore up the charts in 2010. Groups like Girls' Generation recorded Japanese versions of their hits, and members of Japanese group Morning Musume got in hot water over some insensitive photos.
ネトゲ廃人 (netoge haijin)
Japanese for "online game invalid". The term went mainstream in 2009 but the press continued to mine the topic throughout 2010 with reports like this and this. One book even explored how online gaming destroyed housewives!
Formed in 2005, the 48 (give or take) member strong idol group hit it big in 2010. AKB48 members sang the new Dragon Ball theme, popped up in Xenoblade CG ads as well as in game mags and are getting their own PSP game, complete with kissing scenes (above). Two idols from AKB48 spin-off group SKE48 are currently appearing in the Japanese Kinect commercials.
Apple's tablet device is a hit in Japan.
もってる (motteru)
Here, "I've got it." After scoring the winning goal against Cameroon during the World Cup, Japan team member Keisuke Honda expressed soccer prowess by saying, "I've got it". While Japan has never won the World Cup, soccer games like Pro Evolution Soccer are as popular as Madden Football is in the U.S.
As Pink Tentacle points out, the early hype for 3D televisions did not translate in to big sales.
白戸次郎もよろしく (Shirato Jiro mo yoroshiku)
Mobile phone carrier SoftBank rolled "Support Jiro Shirato" ads during this past summer's political elections in Japan. Shirato Jiro is the company's white dog mascot.
はやぶさ (Hayabusa)
Not to be confused with Ninja Gaiden's Ryu Hayabusa, this Hayabusa refers to an unmanned Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency spacecraft that returned to Earth this year after a 7-year sample collecting mission from the Itokawa asteroid.
ガラパゴス (Garapagosu)
"Galapagos" is used to describe Japan's isolation, especially in regards to its mobile phones. "Gara-kei" (ガラケー) is short for "Garapagosu keitai" or "Galapagos mobile phone". One Japanese company is embracing the term with its upcoming phone.
Check out the link below for the full list.
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Tim scuba diving for space
ESA astronaut Timothy Peake's crewmates on this year's Neemo underwater training can rest assured: Tim is training as a rescue diver at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne.
This summer, Tim will spend almost two weeks in an underwater base off the coast of Florida for mission Neemo. An underwater base is one of the best ways to recreate the isolation and weightlessness of living and working in space – on Earth.
All ESA astronauts are trained as Advanced Open Water scuba divers and certified to the standards of the Professional Association of Diving Instructors, better known as PADI.
ESA's astronaut training centre in Cologne, Germany decided to train astronauts that have not yet been assigned a mission to the level of PADI Rescue Diver, which will expand their diving expertise.
"The better diver you are, the better you will be at spacewalks," explains Hervé Stevenin, head of the Astronaut Training Unit preparing ESA astronauts for spacewalks.
"Scuba diving is as close as it gets to experiencing weightlessness on Earth for long periods of time.
"This Rescue Diver Course builds confidence, as it makes divers consider the safety of others, preventing problems and managing emergencies."
Last week, Tim started rescue diving training tailored to an astronaut's needs. A normal course takes around three days to complete, but Tim has a two-week intensive schedule.
After a full day of preparations, he entered the Neutral Buoyancy Facility for hands-on training in the European Astronaut Centre. In this 10m-deep water tank, Tim practised all rescue diver techniques with eight PADI-certified trainers.
Tim must prove his skills in mock rescue situations. His trainers act out emergency situations that could occur in real life. Tim is unaware of what awaits him – then he has to react accordingly and rescue the situation.
Tim is enthusiastic about the training: "This is by far the best diving training that I have experienced. The practical rescue exercises have really given me that extra confidence to know how to act in an emergency situation and to become familiar with diving equipment.
"I am very grateful to the training team who have made the exercise scenarios very realistic but also great fun too!"
To qualify as a PADI Rescue Diver, a final exam is held in open water. Tim will undergo this exam with colleague ESA astronaut trainees Thomas Pesquet and Andreas Morgensen in a lake near Cologne in August.
Splashdown for the Neemo mission is on 11 June. Follow Tim's mission on the astronaut blog and Twitter through the links to the right of this page.