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November 18, 2012
Paul E. Sax, M.D., is director of the HIV Program and Division of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
The FDA has approved an 800-mg tablet of darunavir for treatment naive patients. This single tablet will obviously replace the two darunavir 400-mg tablets in first-line therapy. (Yes, my math is that good.) Darunavir will still require 100-mg ritonavir boosting plus two NRTIs to make a complete regimen.
Once upon a time I might have thought this was no big deal, but patients love taking fewer pills, even if it's only reduced by one.
More importantly, it brings the darunavir-based regimen pill burden into parity with boosted atazanavir, with both now at three -- PI (one), ritonavir (two), and TDF/FTC or ABC/3TC (three). What was once a win for atazanavir -- fewer pills -- is now a wash.
(I should mention here parenthetically that some day this could all be one pill made up of darunavir, cobicistat, FTC, and the recently named "TAF" -- a.k.a., tenofovir alafenamide, GS-7340.)
So let's assume you're starting with a boosted-PI based regimen; which of these two "preferred" PIs should you choose, atazanavir or darunavir? Pending the results of ACTG A5257 -- which is a fully-powered three-way comparison of atazanavir vs. darunavir vs. raltegravir -- we have to make some inferences from existing data:
Note I didn't include the "sequencing" argument -- you know, that darunavir is our most important PI in patients with extensive PI resistance, so we should save it for that setting, using atazanavir as the initial PI. First, very few patients get high-level PI resistance cases these days, and second, all the prior sequencing arguments (e.g., nelfinavir before lopinavir, d4T before AZT, nevirapine before efavirenz) have been more about marketing than science. And some were just wrong.
Cost is another factor I didn't include, since the prices of these drugs are pretty close, vary by payor, and also differ based on region. Given how similar they are clinically, it seems to me that if one were significantly cheaper that would make a big difference.
In sum, as you can see from my list above, I have atazanavir vs. darunavir as a draw.
What do you think?
Paul Sax is Clinical Director of Infectious Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital. His blog HIV and ID Observations is part of Journal Watch, where he is Editor-in-Chief of Journal Watch AIDS Clinical Care.
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LG G Pad 8.3, White Nexus 7 And Sony Z Ultra Google Play Editions Announced
The Sony Z Ultra Google Play edition has been released on the latest Android version (4.4; KitKat) and it's available now through the Google Play store in the United States.
The device is based on the original Xperia Z Ultra. It comes with a 2.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core processor, 6.4" Full HD TRILUMINOS display at 344 pixels per inch, LTE, NFC - all contained in a dust-resistant and waterproo (IP55 & IP58) 6.5mm body, weighing 212 grams.
Along with brand new Android features, Sony Z Ultra Google Play edition also comes with some of Sony tech – BRAVIA smarts; TRILUMINOS display for mobile and X-Reality for mobile picture engine, and the Exmor RS for mobile image sensor.
The Z Ultra sells for $649, and comes unlocked and contract free.
The LG G Pad 8.3 from LG Electronics it the first device to be designated a Google Play Edition tablet. Google's first Android Open Source Project (AOSP) tablet will feature the latest Android operating system, Android 4.4, KitKat. The LG G Pad 8.3 Google Play Edition reference device will be available for purchase starting today in the United States on Google Play.
The device features a 8.3-incch 1920 x 1200 WUXGA Full HD IPS display with a pixel density of 273 pixels per inch. With the KitKat's Full-screen Immersive mode, the system UI such as the status bar and navigation bar can be hidded, provided a great experience for rich visual content such as photos, videos, maps, books and games.
The LG G Pad 8.3 is powered by a 1.7GHz Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 CPU paired with 2GB of RAM. It has 16GB of internal storage, expandable up to an additional 64GB with a microSD card. It also has a 4,600mAh Lithium polymer battery inside, as well as a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera.
It will be available in glossy Indigo Black for USD 349.99.
Key Specifications:
- Processor: 1.7GHz Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 Processor
- Operating System: Android 4.4, KitKat
- Display: 8.3-inch Full HD IPS WUXGA (1920 x 1200 pixels / 273 ppi)
- Memory: 16GB eMMC
- Camera: Rear 5.0MP / Front 1.3MP
- Battery: 4,600mAh
- Connectivity: Wi-Fi
- Size: 216.8 x 126.5 x 8.3mm
- Weight: 338g
- Colors: Indigo Black
Also available today is the white Nexus 7. The device is coming with a 32GB configuration with Wi-Fi connectivity asnd shares the same specifications as the black models, including a 7.02-inch, 1920 x 1200 display with a pixel density of 323. It has a 1.2-megapixel front-facing camera and a 5-megapixel rear-facing camera. Inside, it has a 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, 3,950 mAh battery with Qi wireless charging, and 2GB of Ram.
The white Nexus 7 sells for $269.

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Is 'Graph Search' Facebook's Money-Maker?
Does Facebook plus Google equal Graph Search? Is Facebook finally going to make money in a way that pleases investors? Rolfe Winkler joins Markets Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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Today is a big day for me. I stood, quite unashamed, in W.H Smiths browsing through a magazine. I was surprised to be allowed to stand there for so long, right under the watchful eyes of the cashier, but with the Christmas rush upon her and an elderly lady trying to use a voucher in the wrong shop she may have had enough to do. In any event I eventually went up and paid for the magazine I been thumbing through so eagerly. The December issue of Family Tree.
Now this post is by way of a 'thank you' to you as a reader really. When I first published the post 'An Unsound Mind – bringing a family history into the open' about the generations in my family experiencing mental health issues, I was concerned about the response I would get. I wanted to raise the subject of mental ill-health, and having studied my family history for some time I knew I had to make a connection between the two. There is still such a stigma attached to mental health issues, and the only way to deal with the discrimination that attaches to the subject is to keep raising it and make sure people understand that it is something that one in four of us in the UK will experience in our lifetimes.
However, I needn't have worried. I had so many great comments from so many lovely people who had gone through similar experiences with depression and anxiety and such support, especially from Linda Jones who publicised it on her mental health blog carnival, that I felt confident enough to pitch the story to a family history magazine. They really liked the idea and were also intrigued at how many of my readers identified with the connections I had made through studying family history. So I was commissioned to develop the blog post into an article (called 'A Shadowy Past') for the wonderful Family Tree magazine. This isn't the first time I have had an article published and I hope it won't be the last but I doubt I will ever write one that is so intensely personal and which means so much.
I am going to find out a lot more about the Hardiman side of my family; they are an intriguing lot (as the earlier post suggests) and at this point I must blow the twitter trumpet, if there is such a thing. In just the past few weeks I have met some wonderful people from tweeting on that branch of the phenomenon that is social networking and have learned so much, especially from genealogists Luke Mouland at Kith and Kin Research, Rosemary Morgan at London Roots Research and Mike Kostiuk at Family Tree Folk . All of them really understand the importance not only of family history, but of social history too and how learning about our past can help us make sense of our feelings in the present. If you want to give someone a Christmas present with a difference then have a look at what they offer by way of a personal version of 'Who do you think you are?'!
So it would be great if you could have another, or a first, read of 'An Unsound Mind' and look at the comments to see just how important it is to understand how mental ill health affects people. The charity Mind has some great resources on all aspects of mental health and I would also heartily recommend a copy of this month's Family Tree as there are some fascinating articles in it; from finding neighbours, to Victorian prisons and finding clues in Scottish names. There is also a great one called 'A Shadowy Past' by one Suzie Grogan. Who does she think she is?…….


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2010-09-22 / People/Social
Kathleen Del Priore 30-year Massapequa Post Employee
Longtime Massapequa Post Newspaper employee and former Massapequan Kathleen Del Priore died Aug. 24, 2010 after a long term illness. She was 89. "My mother was a person who touched many people's lives," said her daughter, Donna Coyle of Massapequa. "She was a devoted, loyal and caring mother, grandmother and friend."
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6:30 am
WordWorld "Castles in the Sea/Get Your Coat" Castles in the Sea: While playing in the sand on the beach, Duck and Shark discover the perfect home for Shark: a sand castle! But why, oh why, does it disappear every night while Shark is sleeping? When the WordFriends try to hunt down the castle thief, they learn about tides and waves.from a singing Crab. Get Your Coat: Duck thinks Frog doesn't want to play in the rain because Duck accidentally broke Frog's boat. D
7:00 am
Sesame Street "The Best House of the Year" Elmo is outside roller skating when he and Leela hear construction noises. They investigate and come across the Three Little Pigs building a brick house to enter the "Best House of the Year" contest. It is a contest to find the strongest, prettiest, bestest house. D
8:00 am
Curious George "All-New Hundley/Signs Up" George uses his camera and sharp investigative skills to find out why Hundley is acting so strange.G
8:30 am
Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! "Trees Company/Now You See Me" Trees Company - Sally and Nick are playing up in their treehouse when Nick's mom calls them for lunch. Nick wonders what it would be like to stay up in that tree all the time! The Cat in the Hat knows! Or at least he has friends that do. In Jimmer Jammer Jungle the kids learn how different animals spend their entire lives in trees. D
9:00 am
Super Why! "George and the Dragon" FE FI FO FUM! The Giant has stepped on Pig's toy, and he's scared to ask for it back! The super readers venture into a classic tale to meet intrepid Knight George, who is about to face his own fears and battle a dragon to rescue a princess! But it turns out that George isn't quite so brave, and needs a little help.from an unexpected source! Educational Objectives: To learn to appreciate where you're from. Kids will experiment with the alphabet, celebrate spelling and use the power to read to change the story. D
9:30 am
Dinosaur Train "Stargazing on the Night Train/Get Into Nature!" The Pteranodon family rides a special 'Night Train" to another part of the Cretaceous Time Period, where they meet a Troodontid "cousin" of the Conductor's, Sidney Sinovenator, who knows more about the stars than anyone. Sidney takes the family up to his favorite stargazing spot, "Starry Hill," and teaches the kids why the stars seem to move across the night sky. When the kids build their own version of a nest on the beach, below their actual family nest up on the cliff, they get the idea to turn their beach nest into a clubhouse. D
10:00 am
The Electric Company "Wordball Games" Right before the yearly Wordball Games, the neighborhood Olympics, Hector sprains his ankle. With Hector unable to compete, The Electric Company does not have enough players to participate against the four Pranksters! But when Manny also gets hurt, the numbers are even once again. Now the question is, can Marcus handle Hector's event the Word Obstacle course?. D
10:30 am
Wild Kratts "Tazzy Chris" When Martin and Chris assist the Tasmanian Wildlife Service in tagging endangered Tasmanian Devils, they discover that Zach Varmitech has been kidnapping them to create a ferocious new Zachbot. Science Concepts: A healthy ecosystem has both predators and scavengers. Scavengers are animals that eat mostly other dead animals. D
11:00 am
WordWorld "Castles in the Sea/Get Your Coat" Castles in the Sea: While playing in the sand on the beach, Duck and Shark discover the perfect home for Shark: a sand castle! But why, oh why, does it disappear every night while Shark is sleeping? When the WordFriends try to hunt down the castle thief, they learn about tides and waves.from a singing Crab. Get Your Coat: Duck thinks Frog doesn't want to play in the rain because Duck accidentally broke Frog's boat. D
11:30 am
WordGirl "Father's Day Dance-A-Thon/Big Is Botsford's Boss" PLAIN OLD MISCHIEF MAKERS - When best friends Big Left Hand Guy and InvisiBill risk losing their super villain status, they decide to pull off their biggest heist to date. Can WordGirl stop this determined duo who always manage to escape her at the last minute? Vocabulary Words: Diminish, Declare. HOUSE ARREST - While Chuck's jail cell is being painted, he's put under house arrest at the Botsford's. D
12:00 pm
Outdoor Idaho "Eating Local" Most of our food travels about 1,500 miles before it ever reaches our kitchen tables. But there are a growing number of food producers and consumers who prefer to eat locally grown food; they say it's healthier and tastier. Today, more than 50 farmers markets operate throughout the state, allowing farmers and consumers to meet and learn from each other. It's a trend that harkens back to a simpler time, when communities supported local farmers and people knew where their food came from. Outdoor Idaho explores the growing fascination with eating local.G
12:30 pm
Pati's Mexican Table "Middle Eastern Influences" Immigrants from Lebanon, Syria and Israel have left a tasty influence on Mexican cuisine over the years. Pati will look at how and why they came to such a far-flung - but fascinating - country and what kind of legacy they've contributed. Recipes will include: Chicken with Tamarind, Apricots and Chipotle Sauce; White Rice with Fideos; Orange and Almond Flan; Cafe de Olla. D
1:00 pm
Katie Brown Workshop "Store-Bought Surprise" Katie puts a new twist on classic store-bought ingredients for surprisingly simple recipes and projects. In the Kitchen: Ham and Cheese Pockets, BBQ 'Fried' Cornflake Chicken and Butter Cream Pound Cake. Projects: Fresh flowers accessorize a standard lampshade and dress-up store bought votives. D
1:30 pm
Paint This With Jerry Yarnell "Winter's Surprise, Part 3" As Jerry promised in the first episode, the winter surprise for this painting is revealed. Moving forward, Jerry demonstrates how to be loose and free with brush strokes, yet create an accurate painting. Through the final highlights you will learn how it creates shape through those highlights and value changes. D
2:00 pm
Essential Pepin "Economical Offal" Pork Liver Pate; Roast Sausage With Potatoes; Braised Sweetbreads In Mirepoix; Braised Tongue With Lentils. D
2:30 pm
On Story "Elements of Great Horror" Professional horror writers explore how great drama lies at the core of the most frightening films, and discuss the style and techniques used to invoke fear, suspense and thrills that linger long after the credits roll. Followed by Lynne Vincent McCarthy's STRANGEFACE, a haunting and suspenseful short film about a peculiar and defiant young girl who unexpectedly finds companionship. In this episode: Mick Garris, Steve Niles, Erich Hoeber, Eric Heisserer. D
3:00 pm
Dialogue "Richard Russo" The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist talks with host Marcia Franklin.G
3:30 pm
MotorWeek "Mini Paceman" Road Test: 2013 MINI Paceman. Road Test: 2013 SRT Viper. Goss' Garage: Radiators. D
4:00 pm
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Great Italian Pasta Sauces" Test cook Julia Collin Davison shows host Christopher Kimball how to make perfect Pasta all'Amatriciana. Then, equipment expert Adam Ried reveals his top pick for box graters in the Equipment Corner, and tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Chris to a tasting of canned whole tomatoes. And finally, test cook Bryan Roof uncovers the secrets to making the best Quick Mushroom Ragu with lots of mushroom flavor. D
4:30 pm
Crafting at the Spotted Canary "Things That Bling" We're adding sparkle to our day with headbands, necklaces, earrings, and bracelets. Learn the techniques behind these sparkly creations. Sparkle expert Dale Nicholson appears with Joy to demonstrate basic jewelry making techniques. D
5:00 pm
Globe Trekker "Bangladesh" Holly begins her trip in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh and the seventh largest city in the world. She then travels to Sunderban National Park for an encounter with Bengal tigers and a trek deep into the forest to find honey. Along the way, Holly visits a "floating" school, charms snakes, harvests tea in the hills of Sylhet, visits the ship-breaking yards in Chittagong and relaxes in the seaside resort of Cox's Bazaar near the Myanmar border. D
6:00 pm
The Artist Toolbox "Massimo & Lella Vignelli" "Design must be intellectually elegant," poses Massimo Vignelli. "What is intellectually elegant? Well, it's the opposite of vulgar." As the man behind such simple and beautiful design from the Helvetica font to the New York Subway map, the design world is indebted to this pragmatic yet lyrical designer. D
6:30 pm
Sun Studio Sessions "The Black Lillies" The Black Lillies are rising Americana stars who describe their music as indie roots rock via Appalachia. In this episode, the band performs several tracks including selections from their latest release "100 Miles from Wreckage.". D
7:00 pm
Austin City Limits "Spoon" An Austin institution, Spoon tunes up for indie rock to highlight its latest album Transference.G
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Great Performances at the Met "Aida" Aida, an Ethiopian princess, is captured and brought into slavery in Egypt. A military commander, Radames, struggles to choose between his love for her and his loyalty to the Pharaoh. To complicate the story further, Radames is loved by the Pharaoh's daughter Amneris, although he does not return her feelings. D
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Austin City Limits "Spoon" An Austin institution, Spoon tunes up for indie rock to highlight its latest album Transference.G


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EllenBeth Wachs, the Florida atheist who has been harassed and arrested by a religious zealot in the Polk County Sherriff's Dept recently shared something with me.
It involves B-list Hollywood actor Daniel Travanti of Hill Street Blues 'fame'. He played Captain Frank Furillo, if you were trying to remember this 'Where are they now' thespian.
Apparently he sent a rambling hate letter to my friend EllenBeth, and invoked the 'No atheists in foxholes' canard. But he doesn't seem to pull it off, or write coherently.
His little rant might as well have looked like this:
That is an actual picture of him. Anyway, brace yourself for some bat feces.
After God was kind enough to provide the role of Captain Frank Furillo, on the acclaimed television drama, "Hill Street Blues", I learned that it is best not to screw around with Him (or Her – I do not presume to know). Hell, I don't even think Steven Bochco was a jew, so what are the chances? You might want to mull that over next time you begrudge a church getting a ratty old basketball hoop.
Also, it is not healthy to carry around the unresolved anger and rage that you harbor against your parents for giving you a "given name" that is actually two separate names stuck together. Perhaps they were drunk when the birth certificate was processed, or they simply thought it was funny – in the humorous way, not in the context of being odd, or weird – which it most definitely is. Certainly we can agree that life is not fair, except in the case that you are, in fact, jewish, and to tell you the truth, I had my doubts about Bochco; and now that I think about it, "Wachs" doesn't exactly sound Irish.
Remember, there are no atheists in foxholes, as I famously said to my good friend George Patton, as we rolled through the town of Foy in France.Regards
Did God bless him with that 2005 lawyer advertisement for asbestos / mesothelioma?
Some of EllenBeth's friends pointed out that George Patton died in 1946, and Daniel "I've got DT's" Travanti was born in 1940.
There are many ways to respond to the 'No Atheists in foxholes' BS. Pick your poison, and commence with the troll feeding emails! Let me know if you get back anything especially crazy.


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Aston Villa striker Gabriel Agbonlahor has said that age cannot be an excuse for the team's poor performances this season.
Villa find themselves in a relegation dogfight and currently sit in the drop zone after Tuesday nights 2-1 home defeat to Newcastle, and with a daunting trip to Everton this weekend, things don't look like getting any easier for Paul Lambert's side.
And Agbonlahor has been honest in his assessment after Villa's latest defeat, admitting that more misery will come if they continue to start matches slowly.
"We have to address it," he told reporters. "I think we need to come out flying in the first-half and then try to keep it going in the second-half.
"You saw with the fans at the end of the game that they were pleased with the second-half performance but we've got to start putting two halves together and that will get us what we need."
Agbonlahor has told his side he wants to see more fighting spirit from them after taking a just two points from their last seven games.
"The experience is there in the side," he insisted. "They are not 18, 19-year-old kids they are all over 20 so it's hard to use that as an excuse. I don't know what it is.
"Whatever it is we have to try to keep fighting and pick up the results. Everyone knows. No-one wants to get relegated and we are all fighting for each other. They know what is needed."
Agbonlahor will have been boosted by the deadline day arrival of Yacouba Sylla, with the 22-year-old midfielder having joined from Clermont Foot for £2m.
Everyone at Villa Park will be hoping that Sylla, Lambert's first and possibly last January addition, can help transform the club's fortunes on the pitch as they continue their fight against relegation.
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Death Notices 1-04-11: Doris Downey, Agnes K. Ringle
Doris Downey
Dec. 27, 2010
WESTPORT, Mass. — Doris Downey, 87, of Westport, Mass., formerly of Plymouth, died Dec. 27, 2010 at Westport Nursing Home.
She is survived by daughters, Peggy (James) Metz of Plymouth, and Linda (Dennis) Alitz of Massachusetts.
Visitation will take place from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 6 and one hour prior to services Friday at Johnson-Danielson Funeral Home, 1100 N. Michigan St., Plymouth.
Funeral services will take place at 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 7 at the funeral home.
Burial will follow at Woodlawn Cemetery, Walkerton.
Agnes K. Ringle
Dec. 29, 2010
ROCHESTER — Agnes K. Ringle, 98, of Rochester, died at 9:05 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2010 at Chase Center, Logansport.
No services are planned.


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EmergingMedia needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 346 designs submitted by 97 freelance designers.
Emerging Media Solutions
Emerging Media Solutions is a new media consultancy specialising in online marketing and integration, digital strategy, broadcast consultancy, mobile marketing, research and website development.
Small to Medium Business.
The name of our company is Emerging Media Solutions and we need an identity.
Think contemporary, modern, sharp and classy... something that stands out, and doesnt look old and traditional.
Perhaps the E could be part of an image.. it doesnt just have to be text (but can be if it looks good!!)
Our positioning statement is "it's all possible."
The positioning statement can be incorporated into the logo, but doesnt have to be. We are keen to see different versions.
A logo for multi-purpose use, and can be used not just on websites and invoices, but on stunning powerpoint presentations and proposals.
The logo needs to convey thinking... brainpower... strategy, and good ideas... and the concept of new media itself stands out...
See the attached file, of something we found on this site... it was initially combinations of blue and black... but the black and pink/red also looks as good.
We need versions with a White Background
Versions with a Transparent Background
Versions with Inverted Colors
Final design to be supplied as Vector and PNG format, but PNG is preferred in the mean time.
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You no doubt recall the legal trouble facing Jim Leyritz, the former Yankee who is free on bail pending his DUI manslaughter trial. Leyritz is accused of being involved in an accident while driving drunk, in which a young mother was killed. Well, last week Leyritz asked a judge to remove a Breathalyzer device from his car because it was "bothersome." Leyritz has to keep the device in his car as a condition of his release. But this is a hardship, according to his lawyers. From the New York Post:
"He cannot leave the car with a valet, because it cannot be started by the valet," his lawyers said in a statement. And he "can't eat things like chicken Marsala," said his ex-wife, Karri, because certain foods cause false positives.
No valet parking at fine Italian restaurants? Damn it ... do the courts not have one ounce of human decency? Leyritz: Toss Breathalyzer [New York Post]


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A look at some of the greatest PS Vita games ever made. All games are ranked according to gameplay, graphics, and replay value.
Of all time? It hasn't really been out long enough for a list "of all time" I don't believe, lol.
Isn't it a little soon to do this, I mean the Vita still has a good 6 years (possibly more) to expand it's library. Doing a top ten list of "current" best Vita games is okay, but doing one about the best Vita games of "All Time" when it hasn't even been out for a year seems a little premature.
my top list would be:
1. Little Big Planet
2. ModNation Racers Road Trip
3. Uncharted Golden Abyss
4. Ragnarok Odyssey
5. Sound Shapes
6. Wipeout 2048
7. Resistance Burning Skies
Rayman Origins, number one? Ok :I
Personally, I'd give that spot to Gravity Rush :D


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No Shame: NYC Crackhead Trying To Sell Crack On The Subway & Gets Confronted! "Dont Feel Me. I Dont Play That Gay Sh*t"
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Labor induction may not raise cesarean risk for all
While doctors and health officials battle rising cesarean section rates, a fresh look at past research suggests that induction of labor may not be contributing to the problem.
It has been thought that inducing labor in a woman whose pregnancy has lasted too long, but whose water hasn't broken, could result in the need for a C-section.
But in a review of 37 studies on labor induction, researchers found that it actually decreased the risk of having a C-section.
"It's quite remarkable that the studies do show a slight reduction of C-sections," said Dr. Stephen Wood, the report's lead author from the University of Calgary in Canada.
Previous studies have linked inducing labor with an increased risk of women having C-sections, which led to the belief that reducing inductions would also reduce the number of cesarean procedures.
That research, however, is mostly based on studies that didn't account for other complications that might increase the women's risk for C-sections.
Currently, about 32 percent of U.S. births are by C-section, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The procedure increases the chance of bowel or bladder injuries for women and puts babies at risk of breathing problems.
For the new study, Wood and his colleagues reviewed clinical trials that randomly assigned women who were 37 to 42 weeks pregnant to either wait for natural labor to happen or for labor to be induced.
Most of the trials dealt with women who had no problems other than a prolonged labor, but 10 trials did look at women who were having twins or had other health problems, such as diabetes and high blood pressure.
The researchers had data on about 6,250 women who were randomized to have labor induced and about 5,920 women who were put in a wait-and-see group.
Overall, about 17 percent of the women who had labor induced ended up having a C-section, compared to about 20 percent of women in the wait-and-see group.
The results suggest that reducing inductions won't do much to reduce the number of cesarean procedures, according to Soo Downe, a professor at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK.
"It's really premature to try and reach a conclusion about what might make a difference for it," said Downe, who published an editorial accompanying the new study in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology.
Wood also warned that the results of the analysis do not mean that all women whose pregnancy lasts too long should be induced, because better studies are needed.
For example, the trials included in the analysis may have excluded the riskiest patients, which could skew the results.
But, he added, there is a message for women.
"I think that they should perhaps worry less about whether or not they're going to have a C-section just because they're going to be induced," Wood said.
Downe added that induction and C-section rates are often regional and women should check their doctor's and hospital's rates to get a better projection of whether they'll be induced or have a C-section.
"That's what's going to tell you about what's going to happen to them," she said.


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The regular use of smokeless tobacco (ST) represents a serious public health problem. Most tobacco treatment programs do not offer specific ST interventions and ST users have little or no access to tobacco treatment programs. Therefore, a need exists to develop cost effective ST interventions that can be disseminated broadly. Our earlier research demonstrated that behavioral self-help interventions using mailed materials plus telephone support produced long-term ST cessation. While most nicotine replacement interventions have been surprisingly ineffective with ST users, the nicotine lozenge has shown promising results. We recently demonstrated that using nicotine lozenges increased all tobacco and ST tobacco abstinence rates at follow-up and a pilot study demonstrated the feasibility of an ST intervention consisting of nicotine lozenges delivered in the context of an assisted self-help intervention. The next step in this line of research is to test the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a minimal contact intervention combining nicotine lozenge and assisted self-help that could be disseminated broadly. Objectives: We propose a three-arm RCT that rigorously tests the effectiveness of three ST cessation programs: (a) a condition that combines the use of nicotine Lozenges and Assisted Self-Help phone counseling (LASH) (b) a condition that receives only the Assisted Self-Help (ASH: including phone support), and (c) a minimal contact condition that receives Lozenges and Self-Help materials (LSH). Methods: A multifaceted, data-driven marketing and promotion plan will be used to recruit 1011 ST users. Prospective participants will call a toll-free recruitment line for preliminary screening. Individuals who complete a mailed enrollment packet (informed consent and baseline assessment) will be randomized to one of the three conditions and receive a combination of lozenges via the mail, three telephone support calls from a counselor and self-help materials. The primary outcome measure will be self-reported prolonged abstinence from all tobacco use at 3- and 6-month follow-up. We will biochemically verify abstinence at the 6 month assessment. Measures: Tobacco abstinence outcomes will be evaluated at 3 months and 6 months post-enrollment via mailed surveys and phone calls to non-responders. Secondary analyses will examine baseline participant characteristics, program utilization, and moderators and mediators of tobacco abstinence. An exploratory test of liver enzyme activity on the metabolism of nicotine will be tested as a potential moderator for the efficacy of the nicotine lozenge. We will also assess the incremental cost-per-quit of adding nicotine lozenges to an assisted self-help intervention (or of adding an assisted self-help intervention to a lozenge intervention). Benefits: This project will be the first RCT for ST cessation that tests the incremental effectiveness of using nicotine lozenges along with a behavioral intervention featuring phone counseling and also whether the behavioral intervention adds value to the lozenges.
There is a need for a smokeless tobacco cessation program that is cost effective and has the potential to reach this group of underserved tobacco users. Using a three-arm design, we propose to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of combining a validated behavioral intervention with a promising Nicotine Replacement Therapy-the Lozenge-compared to either intervention alone.
|Ebbert, Jon O; Severson, Herbert H; Danaher, Brian G et al. (2016) Nicotine Metabolite Ratio Is Associated With Lozenge Use But Not Quitting in Smokeless Tobacco Users. Nicotine Tob Res 18:366-70
|Severson, Herbert H; Danaher, Brian G; Ebbert, Jon O et al. (2015) Randomized trial of nicotine lozenges and phone counseling for smokeless tobacco cessation. Nicotine Tob Res 17:309-15


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Welcome to my blog and the place where I will post my photos and musings from my life as an ultrarunner. My nickname "Shining" was given to me by a group of very special students after I finished my first 100-miler, the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100. They were the inspiration that enabled me to finish this awesome race, and I try to live each day with a "shining" attitude!
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Mountain Masochist 50--a run for Mike
with Mike at mile 75, MMT100, 2005
** Please see the comments section for an update on this post**
Saturday will be my fourth Mountain Masochist 50 Mile Trail Race (MMTR), and without a doubt, it will be the most emotional. I am dedicating my race to my good friend and fellow Wahoo, Mike Broderick, who is fighting stage 4 lung cancer. Mike is a fellow VHTRC member and a popular marathon coach with the Montgomery County Experienced Marathon Training Program. Hundreds of his friends have contributed over $34,000 in Mikes' name to Team LeBrecque, a New York Marathon team raising funds and awareness for lung cancer.
The fact that Mike is so critically ill at all is unfathomable to me. Just four months ago, he finished Western States 100 in 26:53 in very hot conditions, looking and feeling great. Three months later, he was diagnosed with cancer. I am still in shock. I walk around all day going about my work, my training, and spending time with my family, but there is a cloud over my head that I can't shake. This is a guy who swears by a healthy lifestyle, helps others train for marathons and reach their goals so selflessly, and now he is fighting for his life. It just sucks.
Mike was the reason I finished my first 100, the Massanutten Mountain Trails 100 (MMT) in 2005. He was my coach, helped crew, and he paced me for the last 30 miles. As I wrote in my last post, he witnessed the great Sleepy/Sophie meltdown and got me running (er, death marching) to the finish line. I will never forget his patience, good humor, and "can do" attitude.
The Meltdown, Mile 85
Mike and I met while on a training run on the Wild Oak Trail. He was training for Wasatch, and I was a newbie in the VHTRC. By the end of the 26 mile loop, we had discovered we were fellow University of Virginia alums and lovers of great acoustic music. (Mike is a Dead Head, and I am not, but we still like a lot of the same music, and he will always let me know when he and his wife Jill are coming to Charlottesville for a Hurricane Party with members of Johnny Sportcoat). He offered to help me prepare and pace me for MMT not too long after, and that was that. As it so often happens in ultrarunning, it took one long run and we were friends for life.
I wish Mike could be out there with me on those MMTR trails on Saturday. He has finished this race at least three times, and he hates The Loop as much as I do. When I am out there swearing at the rocks--and at this awful thing called cancer-- I will swear a little louder and harder for Mike. And I will say a prayer, too.
Team Wahoo (Jeff Wilbur, me, Quatro Hubbard, Laura DeWald and Mike at Bull Run Run 50, 2005)
11 comments:
- Stephanie Wilson said...
Nice post Sophie. Thanks so much for sharing. I didn't now Mike like so many of you, but I'm thinking of him anyway. One of my high school classmates just passed from cancer the other week. So much to ponder. I love your line about one long run and friends for life. That's a great line.
- November 4, 2010 at 10:23 PM
- Rick Gray said...
There is nothing about cancer that is any good. It just plain sucks, but this awful disease can be beat. With friends like you Mike will have the strength to keep striving forward. He knows that he is always in your thoughts and prayers. I am sure his desire is for you to run your very best tomorrow and that is what you will do. You have trained and are ready to tackle the loop with Mike in your thoughts. As you cross the finish line, I am sure you will be thinking of Mike and praying for his healing.
- November 5, 2010 at 6:42 AM
- jenn said...
Good Luck this weekend, Soph!! can't wait to see you at MMTR! I really appreciate your post and you sharing. hugs to you... life really has a way of placing things in perspective of what matters most. I agree with Steph. it's amazing the strong bonds and friendships that are formed through running.
I think running MMTR for mike is AWESOME!!! load up some grateful dead on your ipod ( just not " going down the road feeling bad" :oP ) or some of the music you both love and seriously fight like hell in the loop FOR HIM, girlie!! i'll be there cheering you on!
take care and see you this evening!
- November 5, 2010 at 8:18 AM
- Johann said...
That is so sad. Have a great run for Mike. I will think of you and him while running this weekend. My brother in law died of cancer in 2009 so I will swear with you.
- November 5, 2010 at 8:55 AM
- Alan said...
That cloud hangs over all of us I think. No answers to be found. Thanks for sharing.
Godspeed tomorrow.
- November 5, 2010 at 8:59 AM
- And Miles 2 Go said...
Good thoughts, Soph. Wishing for Mike to be back out there with us some day soon.
- November 5, 2010 at 9:20 AM
- Sophie Speidel said...
Thanks for all your comments, dear friends.
I received this email this morning from Sue Broderick, Nov 5, 2010:
"Dear friends of Mike,
We would like to thank you all for the support and caring that you have
shown Mike over the past few weeks. Every phone call, email and visit meantso much to him. It is with a heavy heart that we are letting you all know Mike did pass away peacefully at 2:15 am November 5th with Jill
and I by his side.
We are all so fortunate to have been a part of Mike's life. We hope you all
will find comfort in knowing that each one of you meant so much to him."
Mike will be in my thoughts every step of the way tomorrow. Thanks for all your support and love. Can't wait to give you all big hugs when we meet again.
- November 5, 2010 at 9:56 AM
- Rooster said...
Have a great run Sophie. So hard to understand such a horrible desease as cancer. Thinking of you and I too love the line, one long run and friends for life.
- November 5, 2010 at 12:31 PM
- c said...
I was sorry to hear about the passing away at the pre-race briefing. I saw you a couple of times while running the MMTR. I didn't know Mike but I am sure he would have appreciated your dedication at the race and great performance.
- November 7, 2010 at 5:24 PM
- Sophie Speidel said...
Thank you, C. I crewed Mike at Masochist in 2004, so it was very cathartic for me to re-visit all the places where I helped him. Climbing up Buck Mountain to the Rocky music was very emotional. Hope you had a great day out there---it was beautiful!
- November 7, 2010 at 9:04 PM
- ultrarunnergirl said...
Thank you for sharing your good memories. It's comforting and I think it helps us to heal from the loss we are all feeling.
- November 9, 2010 at 2:22 PM


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Onti Lazar
Born: January 20, 1920
Sighet, Romania
Onti, the youngest of five sons, was born to religious Jewish parents in northern Transylvania, a region of Romania that had belonged to Hungary until 1918. Onti's family usually called him Usher, which was the diminutive of his Yiddish name, Anschel. As a little boy, he liked collecting figurines. Though Onti grew up in a Hungarian-speaking home, he attended Romanian public schools.
1933-39: At age 13 I quit school to help make ends meet. I wanted to become a watchmaker, but I settled on working as a glazier and picture framer. Making a living was my greatest challenge. Romanian rule caused us no problems even though my father had once fought against Romania in the Hungarian army. We had a scare in 1937 when there was a one-day pogrom against Jews, but things quickly returned to normal.
1940-44: In 1940 our province was returned to Hungarian rule. Hungary soon became an ally of Germany. The Hungarians revoked my father's army pension and his license to sell tobacco. I was drafted into the army's labor service. In 1941 I was sent to the USSR: In the summer we repaired roads and in the winter we shoveled snow. Most of our men were killed serving as human minesweepers. During our retreat some sick men in nearby units were burned alive in the barn where they were resting; those fleeing were shot while escaping.
Onti survived subsequent deportations to the Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps. Liberated in April 1945, he immigrated to the United States in 1950.


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CFB: Company sells BCS title game grass from Rose Bowl
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PASADENA, Calif. Getting a piece of college football history will cost some green: $99 for a square of Rose Bowl grass.
A New Jersey marketing company has bought about 10,000 square feet of turf from the Rose Bowl, where Alabama beat Texas on Thursday to win the BCS title.
Stadium Associates plans to freeze-dry the grass and sell 3-inch-by-3-inch squares in plastic cases.
Available will be bits of the end zones, the midfield logo and sections where important plays took place.
An executive for the sod company that removed the turf says the offer probably will appeal mostly to Crimson Tide fans. Jim DeLea of DeLea Sod Farms says Texas fans might not want to remember their 37-21 defeat.


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Fan Plea: Please Go See Martin Scorsese's 'Hugo' in 3D This Weekend
Seeing the trailers for Martin Scorsese's Hugo used to give me conflicting emotions. Part of me knew I should get excited because of Scorsese alone, but the actual trailers and TV spots themselves all looked like a strange, unappealing hybrid of The Polar Express and Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium-- it was all shaping up to be the kind of movie that I knew I would be hesitant buying a ticket to no matter how good the reviews were.
Now that I've seen the movie, I see the trailers entirely differently. Instead of TV spots that make me want to change the channel, I am hit with the sad realization that the trailers in no way capture the wonderment that I experienced earlier this week seeing it on the big screen. Yes, I realize that the standard line these days used by every new 3D movie is, "Oh, our 3D isn't like those other 3D movies-- ours is for depth and nuance," but until Hugo, I thought that was just a bogus selling point, but I've now finally seen a 3D movie that blew me away because of the 3D. I loved it so much that it's gotten to the point where I feel compelled to tell everyone I know that this is a movie that needs to be seen as it was meant to be seen: On the big screen and in 3D.
Yes, the rest of the movie is fantastic and as funny as it is magical. Yes, the story, which I won't spoil here, and the performances (particularly Asa Butterfield) will be as heartwarming in two dimensions as they are in three, but the whole point of Hugo is that Scorsese wants to remind audiences of a time when going to the cinema offered you an unrivaled viewing experience. The entire film is a loving and beautifully crafted tip of Scorsese's masterfully tailored hat to the history of cinema, of special effects, of movie magic and his cinematic forefathers who dared dream with their eyes open. And you'll still understand that message if you hold out and wait to catch this in 2D in your living room, but you will sadly not be "getting" it, not really. Two dimensions is just not experiencing the entirety of the magic act that Scorsese and his team of cinematic wizards put on for you.
And please believe me when I sincerely say that seeing this in 2D at home will be your loss. I understand if you're burnt out on 3D, if you think it's a trendy gimmick. I've been right there with you. But there are artists who use it as a tool to advance their craft and not just squeeze out a few more bucks at the box office, and Martin Scorsese is indeed one of those artists.
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A Melbourne man allegedly murdered his partner after they'd been in court about a family violence order, a court has heard.
Craig McDermott, 38, is charged with murdering his de facto wife of 18 years, Fiona Joy Warzywoda, in a Sunshine shopping strip on Wednesday.
McDermott, of Sunshine North, briefly appeared in Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Thursday afternoon.
Ms Warzywoda was in Sunshine Magistrates Court on Wednesday morning over a family violence order in place against McDermott.
The mother of four left her solicitor's office just three minutes before she was killed, police said on Wednesday.
She was stabbed multiple times in front of lunchtime shoppers in Sunshine's busy Hampshire Road shopping district.
Passers-by performed CPR but could not save the 33-year-old Melton West woman.
McDermott handed himself in to police on Thursday morning.
Prosecutor Tim Bourbon said police would speak to a number of eyewitnesses and examine a significant amount of CCTV footage.
"The incident occurred in a public place," he told the Melbourne Magistrates Court.
"The CCTV footage covers the lead-up to the incident."
The footage may also include Ms Warzywoda's death, he said.
Magistrate Peter Reardon agreed to allow the media to publish the fact that there was a family violence order, saying it was in the public interest to highlight cases of domestic violence.
"The victim, or the affected family member, had attended Sunshine Magistrates Court," he said.
"Subsequently she was murdered.
"In light of recent events ... in these circumstances it is in the public interest and just."
McDermott appeared in the dock with his left hand heavily bandaged.
He was remanded in custody for a committal mention on August 7.


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It's time for good news. Political leaders' failure to make the sacrifices necessary for a new global vision transcending the ancestral egotism of nations. The Irish Church's continued self-erosion and its betrayal of the grace of kenosis. An unrepentant greed from those who make money out of nothing at the expense of those who have been fooled into trading in their citizenship for consumerism.
The uncomfortable question of why years of prayer and devotion can reinforce rather than dissolve an innate narcissism.
It is easy to justify pessimism. The Bible is full of it. And it can almost be a relief from the facile optimism peddled by those looking just for another term of office. When the scriptures step into the abyss of darkness and failure, however, they tip into the light. There we find grace in a totally new way that makes hope unavoidable and unpredictably revives and evolves our knowledge of the mystery of God that dissolves every previous idea of God we had clung to.
In Clockwise John Cleese plays a militaristic headmaster whose life, in less than a day, unravels with the fatalism of Greek tragedy and the humour of Monty Python. In one scene he despairs and joins a monastery of caricatured misfits, refugees from the real world. He relaxes in a bath, relieved by the absence of hope, till he hears the sound of a car outside and realises he has another chance. 'It is not the despair that hurts', he complains, 'it's the hope.'
When the media plays with the fire of pessimism it merely flirts with it. We are not given the opportunity to be serious. When the news gets too bad the newsmakers begin to entertain us. Distracted from the truth that lies in the dark corners we turn to feel-good stories and stories of philandering golfers and other peoples' marital woes. Thank God for the weeklies, for the Tablet even, who retain our trust in ways that the instant newsmongers and the Big Events can no longer do.
The failure of Copenhagen followed soon after another global event with a less specific agenda that received much less attention, the Parliament for World Religions. Held in a huge conference centre in Melbourne representatives from 230 religions – who would have thought they were so many? – came together at great expense and, yes, with carbon footprints the size of a yeti – mostly to talk. It was a visual feast too – costumes and rituals on display – and made one love the human race more because it seemed to be God's playground and box of colouring pencils. Egotism was tucked under the robes as usual and demands for global action were hurrahed. The Iranians were caught photographing the Bahai, but otherwise it was all good-natured. The networking and idea-spinning, especially among the young participants, promise benefits. It was difficult to evaluate but overall it seemed that religion, despite the people promoting it, was a good thing, a sign of radical human innocence, even a well of hope in a world run dry.
But after the last day I was pleased to step into a taxi to the friendly Catholic Cathedral presbytery that was so graciously accommodating me. I asked the young Indian cabdriver to take me there. He looked evasive. He had no idea what or where the cathedral was. I had forgotten the street name but tried other landmarks which also drew a blank. After a few phone calls and precise directions we set off but my universal good will had haemorrhaged. I tried hard not to vent my irritation but felt it must be obvious. He was looking at me in the mirror and seeing my monastic habit he said 'I'm sorry to trouble you sir but are you a kind of priest?' The question hit me hard, as a rebuke, because of my uncharitable mood, but it was not intended.
He was Hindu, deeply religious but now unable to practice because the temple was far away and he had to work all hours. He wanted to know about confession in the Catholic Church and was amazed at the idea. 'People can really just go in and talk to a priest about anything?' When we reached the cathedral we stayed talking in the carpark. He told me how worried he was about his mental state and inability to concentrate and his loss of a spiritual life. No, he had never meditated, he said, and he seemed grateful when I explained how he could worship interiorly in the temple of his heart. I gave him the Indian prayer beads someone had given me at the Parliament.
I stepped out, humbled by the epiphany, hope restored, grateful to have felt the gentle breeze of God passing through the realms of the local. The global is sometimes just too big.
Laurence Freeman OSB
Laurence Freeman is a Benedictine monk of the Congregation of Monte Oliveto and also Director of The World Community for Christian Meditation (www.wccm.org)


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The East Coast may be in the middle of the floodpocalypse, but the South is still suffering through some of the worst drought conditions on record.
Even when there's no shortage, saving water is just good policy. As a child, I used to watch my dad shave. Rather than running the water over his razor to rinse it, he would fill the sink with water and swish the razor through at top speed. He said that serving in the Navy taught him how precious water is.
"Why don'tcha save some for the fish," he'd mutter, if I was letting the tap run too long.
We could all stand to preserve a few drops this summer. Here are some tips for saving water at home. Some are strange, some are easy, and some will save you buckets of cash on your water bill, for reals.
- When you have to hand-wash dishes, don't leave the tap on. Fill the sink and scrub, and only run the water to rinse.
- Don't run your washing machine or dishwasher till they are full, full, full.
- Rinse veggies and fruit in a tub of water -- then use that tub to water your plants.
- If you need to relax and space out, save it for a tub soak – and set a timer for your showers. Even the newest, most efficient showerheads use about 2.5 gallons per minute, and older (pre-1992) models can use more than 5 gallons per minute!
- In fact, just go and upgrade your shower head to a high-efficiency model.
- Same with the toilet: Pre-1994 models can use up to 8 gallons per flush, and new ones use less than 2. And you might qualify for a rebate.
- Test your water meter: Turn off all the water in the house and take a look at the meter. The dials should be still; if not, you may have a water-wasting leak. Check your water bill, too, to make sure there's not a big leap in usage.
- Leave your grass a little higher. Taller grass = more shaded roots = moister soil = more efficient watering.
- Collect rainwater (remember rain barrels?) and cover the container. Use it later, for your plants.
- Turn off the water while brushing your teeth. (I know, no-brainer, right? Just imagine my dad walking by and muttering.)
- Insulate hot water pipes so you don't have to run the water to get it hot.
- Don't throw dropped ice cubes down the drain. Drop them into a house plant instead.
- Switch from grass to shrubs in places that are hard to water.
- If you have a sprinkler system, have a "water auditor" look it over to make sure you're not over-watering.
- It's gross, but we do it because Gov. Jerry Brown of California told us to: "If it's yellow, let it mellow. When it's brown, then flush it down."
How do you save water?
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A winner was selected from 95 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
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She was born Sept. 21, 1952 in Columbus, Ohio. After receiving her degree in nursing, Jeannie spent her life taking care of children.
A memorial service was held on Saturday Nov. 10 at the Spanish Valley Mortuary in Moab.
Jeannie was a loving mother and devoted wife. She is survived by her best friend and husband of 36 years, Lee Wilson; her four children, Beth, Doug, Tameira and Brandy; and five grandchildren.
Jeannie was a constant source of inspiration and strength for her entire family and touched the lives of everyone she met.
Condolences may be sent to the family at www.SpanishValleyMortuary.com.


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As much as I hate to say it, I'm a bit of a softy. I still tear up over �The Waltons� or �Bonanza� reruns. And it's really tough to watch another group of seniors head off for great adventures in life.
As much as I hate to say it, I'm a bit of a softy. I still tear up over �The Waltons� or �Bonanza� reruns.
And it's really tough to watch another group of seniors head off for great adventures in life.
Last Tuesday night was one of those emotional nights as I watched Crestview High School�s baseball team walk off the diamond for the last time in 2013 after losing to Mosley in the Class 6A region semifinals.
For some strange reason, I didn't want to leave the field. Maybe not as much as the players or their parents, but I really didn't want the moment to end.
The Class of 2013 was in kindergarten when I started at the Northwest Florida Daily News on Dec. 28, 2000. Class members were in the seventh grade when I came to the News Bulletin in the spring of 2008.
It�s humbling and frightening to think that in some small way I've had a part in the way these young men and women see sports and perhaps even a bit of themselves.
Yes, I have enjoyed watching the teams, but more than that, I've enjoyed watching the athletes as teammates.
I'll long remember watching Baker School�s volleyball team win most of its 10 straight district championships and Crestview�s baseball team taking two district titles in three years.
However, I'll remember these special young people long after everyone forgets the records.
I've typed the names of countless athletes � including Baker's Haley Wagner, Katie Wickery and Garrett Sanders, Crestview's Micah Reed, Roman Donofro, Tate Sweatt and Kerrie York and Laurel Hill's Tommy Calloway, Garrett Alford, Haley Meeks and Nichole Bailey � more than any other sports writer in Okaloosa County.
Each time I've written these names, and the names of every other young man or woman I've covered, it has been a labor of love.
As parents, grandparents and others have tried to slow each moment for the Class of 2013, most class members have been anxious to move ahead and take their places on college campuses, in the military or the workforce.
Those of us who have been around the block a time or two � or three � can tell this class how quickly the years will pass and to hold tightly to each dwindling day.
But they won't believe how quickly time passes any more than we believed it when our parents and grandparents told us the same thing so many years ago.
Before they know it, these young people will be watching their kids or nieces and nephews preparing to graduate. When that time comes, they will try to warn the Class of 2038 or 2043 how quickly the years pass and to treasure each moment.
I have treasured these moments covering the Class of 2013, but then again, I'm just a big old softy.
Randy Dickson is the Crestview News Bulletin�s sports editor. Email him at email@example.com, tweet him @BigRandle, or call 682-6524.


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In a recent simultaneously entertaining and eccentric essay in the London Review of Books, Colm Tóibín wrote about the strange and strained relationship between Flann O'Brien and James Joyce. The younger author, whose debut novel, At Swim-Two-Birds, has always been compared to the work of the great man of Irish letters, seemed torturously to distance himself from Joyce even as their literary projects were so clearly entwined. Tóibín characterises the pair as the Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker of Irish modernism: sharing the same tradition, and even the same concerns, but one in the service of a new, uniting dawn and the other simply striving for freedom.
At Swim-Two-Birds can be read as an assault on Joyce's ambitions, an attempt by a talented young writer to destroy Joyce's synthesising process, to dismantle the great controlling ambition and mapped-out plenitude of Ulysses. The aim of Joyce's book was not to destroy the novel but to re-create it and make it larger, more inclusive, more faithful to life and life's complexities. The aim of At Swim-Two-Birds was to lose control, to take the pieces and refuse to reconcile them, to insist that it was too late for such trickery. O'Brien refused to believe that the writer re-creates the world, but instead he set out to show that the world re-creates the writer, and that both the writer and the world are, or might be, a set of illusions, highly implausible, not even worth mistrusting, and that all we have fully to mistrust are pages and the words on them.
This is in microcosm the journey of the novel from modern to postmodern, of course – from DH Lawrence to Julian Barnes. For writers with literary ambition, the novel has become less a form than a playground. For some time, a novelist aiming to be taken seriously has needed to allow for a healthy dose of the metafictional in their work: the legacy of Joyce et al has been to endorse the approach of writers such as O'Brien. Modernism simply opened the gates for more of the fragmentation so vividly, and terrifyingly, conjured in The Waste Land.
Curiously, however, a significant strand of North American letters has taken a different turn. That faithfulness to life for which Joyce strived has been re-embraced by writers of this stripe, but the means of achieving it remains a matter of debate. For instance, the literary magazine n+1, whilst being broadly complimentary about critical theory and those writers, such as Don DeLillo, who write realism in an attenuated manner informed by postmodernism, has also been eager to move on to the next place: "Theory is dead," its editors wrote in 2005, "and long live theory. The designated mourners have tenure, anyway, so they'll be around a bit. As for the rest of us, an opening has emerged, in the novel and in intellect. What to do with it?" The much-awaited debut novel from Chad Harbach, one of that organ's founding editors, appears to offer a surprisingly conservative answer.
The story of a college baseball team, The Art of Fielding fuses those two great American staples, the campus and the sports novel, and does so in a plot-focused, character-driven fashion. Harbach cycles through the points of view of four protagonists, describing the soapy adventures of Henry Skrimshander, the young shortstop ace who is about to break the baseball record for matches without an error; Mike Schwartz, the charismatic team captain who lacks any transcendent talent of his own; Guert Affenlight, the President of the Midwest liberal arts college in which the action is set; and his wayward daughter, Pella, who is rather predictably fought over by the other three. The story proceeds in much the intelligently life-affirming way you might expect, albeit with a quite masterly control of suspense and tension: The Art of Fielding wants desperately to be read, and it knows how to gets its way.
This isn't really new – as far back as the late 1980s, Tom Wolfe was exhorting a return to relevance and realism in his essay 'Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast', advocating something called 'the new social novel'. Likewise, David Foster Wallace was sceptical of postmodernism, seeing it as a literary outgrowth of that bastardising villain, television. Most recently, for all the playfulness of Jennifer Egan's A Visit From The Goon Squad, that book, too, reads in large part like Harbach's: the only difference is that when, in The Art of Fielding, iPads and cell phones make an appearance, they jar the reader rather than jolt the plot; Westish College does not feel like the sort of place which has access to the 21st century. In a recent piece at the New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum argued that most television has still to deal with Facebook; on the evidence of Harbach, the same is true of most novels.
What is different about the recent flush of realism, of which The Art of Fielding is only the most recent and prominent example, is the bullishness of it all. Though he tries to hide theme as best he can, Harbach's is an argument for the modest novel, the unpretentious novelist. "Everyone's problems were silly in the long run," Pella reflects at one point, "silly when compared with global warming, despeciation, some birdborne or waterborne disease that was lying in wait to flatten us all, silly when compared to the brute fact of death, but Henry's problem was just plain silly." [pg. 248] Furthermore, her father realises: "In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forebearance, infinite patience." [pg. 432]
Every one of Harbach's characters has a youthful success they now cannot escape: Affenlight wrote an era-defining book, Schwartz has lifted Westish to unparalleled heights of sporting success, but can't get into legal school. So, too, the novel: how to return, cutting through the accumulated academic thicket of the last 70-odd years of baroque accretion, to the accessible brilliance of the form's 19th century forefathers, such as Westish's own ersatz mascot, Herman Melville? Harbach makes a good fist of it, despite the suggestion in his phrase "hackneyed concepts" that such an achievement would be redundant. Partly he does so by refuting the fiction that people act as they do in novels, animated by theory and abstraction: "Humans are ridiculous creatures," thinks Pella during a shift at her job in the college's kitchens, "or maybe it's just me: a purportedly intelligent person, purportedly aware of the ways in which women and wage labourers have been oppressed for millennia – and I get choked up because somebody tells me I'm good at washing dishes." [pg. 264] Likewise, Pella lectures Mike on his strained relationship with his protege, Henry:
"What you two need is couples counselin. Classic codependency. The neuroses and secret wishes of one partner manifesting themselves in the symptoms of the oth – "
"Oh, shut up." [pg. 241]
It's impossible not to compare all this to The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides's recent novel, which resolutely refuted the wheeling invention of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Middlesex in favour of the story of three college kids (two guys and, er, the girl they fight over), and their books. Eugenides cheats a little – he sets his story in the 1980s, when the email and SMS that don't quite fit in Harbach's world weren't around to contend with – but it sets out similarly to craft a new cultural space beyond the postmodern. Early on, Eugenides's own heroine is in a student cafe looking at posters for gigs and art projects: "all the clamorous Xeroxes whose subtext conveyed the message that the wholesome, patriotic values of her parents' generation were now on the ash heap of history, replaced by a nihilistic, post-punk sensibility that Madeleine herself didn't understand but was perfectly happy to scandalize her parents by pretending that she did." [pg. 8] Madeleine even goes so far during her college years as to attend a seminar on critical theory taught by a character Eugenides decides not to understand but mercilessly lampoon: "Semiotics was the form Zipperstein's midlife crisis had taken. Becoming a semiotician allowed Zipperstein to wear a leather jacket, to fly off to Douglas Sirk retrospectives in Vancouver, and to get all the sexy waifs in his classes." [pg. 48]
The Marriage Plot asks itself, therefore, a similar question to the one with which The Art of Fielding concerns itself: in Eugenides's particular case, he wonders how a form so reliant on sexual relations and marriage can refigure itself for the 21st century. Perhaps not coincidentally, it features a character modeled, consciously or otherwise, on Foster Wallace himself, and if its focus on the marriage plot is rather narrower than Harbach's far broader conception of the novel (which he also simultaneously treats far more gently and supplely), the presence of the fiercely logical Leonard Bankhead, all headbands and manic depression, and his mystic rival, Mitchell Gramaticus, allows Eugenides to expand his enquiry beyond literature and into religion and philosophy: "Everyone he knew was convinced that religion was a sham and God a fiction," muses Grammaticus. "But his friends' replacements for religion didn't look too impressive." [pg. 96]
The absence of an alternative doesn't make what you've got any better, though. Where can all this New Sincerity ultimately take us? Madeleine finds herself counselled that the secret of marriage is forebearance: "You have to forget about it," her mother advises on the subject of the marital infraction. "Forget about it and go on." [pg. 368] Leonard's approach is to behave like a diploid yeast cell in an insufficiently nutritious environment: become a haploid again, "because, in a crisis, it's easier to survive as a single cell." [pg. 382] No balance is achieved. Eugenides – unlike Harbach, who strains towards the happy, resolved ending denied the novel by postmodernism – is, then, happier leaving questions asked rather than answered, but I've grown to distrust novels of this sort – posing a problem is, after all, too easy. Likewise, The Marriage Plot tries to introduce homosexuality to complicate the novel, both particularly and generally speaking, but it does so rather furtively and without much direction; the love Affenlight develops for a man – the first such experience he has had – is, on the other hand, a key plot point in The Art of Fielding, and feels (those dread words, alas) organic and authentic.
Indeed, those adjectives describe Harbach's novel better than most. If this makes it sound like a fine old wooden chair, that would be to underestimate its cleverness. In a field recently joined by English novelists – John Lanchester's recently published Capital, or Amanda Craig's Hearts and Minds, are both being spoken of as neo-Dickensian masterpieces – The Art of Fielding reads like the most nimble of literary artifacts, an absorbing, addictive read which is also a considered thesis. There's something that troubles me about its success, though. At one point in The Marriage Plot, Madeleine meets an old friend at a party. "I can't believe you're married," she exclaims. "That's so retrograde!" [pg. 377] It's hard not to wonder in this way whether looping backwards towards Jane Austen really is the only way to move the conversation forward from Joyce and O'Connor's bantering brogues, particularly when the women get less good parts than they did in 1815. Harbach may need to throw a curveball next time, if he is to retain his streak.


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Johannesburg: South Africa`s presidency says Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid icon and former president, has been released from the hospital.
The 94-year-old had been in the hospital since December 8. He was diagnosed with a lung infection and also had a procedure to remove gallstones.
In recent days, officials have said Mandela is improving, but doctors have taken extraordinary care with his health because of his age.
Presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj says Mandela will receive more medical care at his Johannesburg home until he fully recovers.
Maharaj requested that the public respect Mandela`s privacy at this time.


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One woman worked on the atomic bomb; another danced for the troops in shows with such stars as Jimmy Durante and Lucille Ball.
A veteran school administrator confesses to shoplifting a toy soldier as a little girl to join a neighborhood gang. Remembering her first Passover, a poet describes peering into tanks at the fishmonger and asking, "Which one is the gefilte fish?"
Such are the stories you will read from the residents of NewBridge on the Charles in Dedham in the memoir collection "Thoughts Along the Way."
"This is a place where there are incredible people who have led incredible lives," said Lorraine Greenfield, who edited the book and wrote several of the memoirs (she still feels guilty about that toy soldier).
More than 40 residents of the independent-living units at NewBridge contributed their stories. Their recollections reflect the incredibly varied paths they took to this bucolic community just inside Route 128 in Dedham. Owned by Hebrew Senior Life, NewBridge also includes assisted-living, rehabilitation, and nursing home facilities.
Greenfield began work on the book two years ago at the suggestion of a friend who had done a similar project with seniors. For more than six months, she met weekly with residents at the NewBridge library and in their homes. She said about half the stories were already in the works or had been published in the community's quarterly journal, The Bridge. In other cases, people would come in with general ideas, which she'd help focus. Greenfield drove one woman to Cambridge to meet with an old friend to help prod her memory.
At times, Greenfield was like a prospector as she dislodged long-forgotten nuggets. "I think it's such a catharsis to have people relive these memories and write them down and know that they're going to be there for their grandchildren," she said. "These were memories that were tucked away and had never been put on paper."
Some contributors were old hands at memoirs, like Edward Goldstein, who has been writing stories since enrolling in a Brookline memoir workshop in the '90s. Goldstein prepared the book for publication and wrote two of its most powerful stories, one about his family home being ransacked during Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) 75 years ago in Nazi Germany and the other about witnessing Third Reich ringleaders on trial at Nuremberg while he was serving as a lieutenant in the US military. "[H]ere is Hermann Goering, once fat and swaggering, now looking haggard and shabby," Goldstein wrote.
Julian J. Bussgang, who had fled Poland just weeks after the Nazi invasion, wrote of the five-day uphill battle to take the German stronghold at Monte Cassino. "[W]e reached a point where we could only crawl, because anybody standing up would be immediately shot," wrote Bussgang, who was serving in the reconstituted Polish army.
An ocean away, Bussgang's future wife, Fay, grew up in a small town in Ohio, where her Polish-born father ran a clothing store and endeared himself to the community with his generosity and gregariousness. "There were stories about people coming into the store shivering from the cold, and my father would take warm long underwear off the shelf and give it to them," she wrote in one of her contributions to the collection.
Dotty Tobin Sacks, blessed with Ava Gardner-like looks (Frank Sinatra once asked for a date, she says), performed in a USO show sponsored by her employer, the Boston Consolidated Gas Co. "We danced on the decks of destroyers, battleships, cruisers, aircraft carriers."
One show did not go on — that scheduled for an audience of German POWs. "We said no way," Sacks said in an interview. "Why should we entertain them? Our guys are probably sitting in prison camp in Germany."
She didn't know it at the time, but one of "our guys" was her future husband. A bombardier, he was the only member of his crew to survive a crash in Yugoslavia. He spent more than a year in a German POW camp, where he and the handful of other Jews were twice taken out for mock executions — their captors' idea of a joke.
For the atomic bomb story, Greenfield worked with a transcript from an oral history interview conducted by the Natick library with Shirley S. Woods. She extracted the answers to produce a narrative, working with Woods to establish the chronology. Employed along with her husband at the top-secret Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, Woods didn't know the ultimate goal of her research. "Think of it, Shirley, someday, we will drop a bomb and blow up a whole city," Woods recalled a colleague telling her. "And I, shocked, said, 'We will?'"
Greenfield works full-time as an assistant professor at Lesley University, where she is director of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics division. She taught seventh-grade English in Milton for 21 years and later served as a middle school administrator in Framingham and Danvers, and then as assistant superintendent in Marshfield.
But her stories in the memoir book are about her childhood, not her career. In one of them, she recounts how during World War II she, her mother, and grandmother would knit sweaters for her uncles, one a fighter pilot serving in North Africa and the other a sailor in the Pacific.
"Those evenings together, knitting and tearing out mistakes, bonded me to those women forever," she wrote.
NewBridge hosted a party in December to mark the debut of the book. The celebration was subdued. Earlier that day, one of the contributors, Nathan Goldhaber, had died. An accountant, Goldhaber, 92, found his voice as a writer after moving to NewBridge. By turns whimsical and poignant, his stories record his childhood on the Lower East Side of New York, sharing a tenement apartment with his mother, two brothers, two boarders, and his grandparents.
In "My Zaida's Hat," 14-year-old Goldhaber sees his grandfather's black hat fly off as the two shovel snow off the roof. After retrieving the hat, he finds Zaida lying on the roof, dead.
"I had never seen him without a hat and the first thing I did was put his hat back on his head," the grandson wrote. "I never saw his hat among the clothes he left behind; I assume it was on his head when he was buried."
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