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Everything reminded him of her. He knew he had to get over this and home was not the place to do it. So, he ran away and it seems like a stranger and her family will be the ones who can heal him. JacobOC ECLIPSE SPOILERS Book One of the Imprints of Life series. FINAL CHAPTER HAS BEEN POSTED! AU
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I don't know how long I ran after I got permission to leave.
"Come back soon," was all Sam had said.
We didn't age, so did time matter? I didn't know. All I knew was that I couldn't be in the Olympic Peninsula or even Washington now that I knew it was official. I wanted to collapse and...give in, but I was done being pathetic, I was done being the Jacob Black that I knew; that she knew. I would change and come back, maybe. She would be gone, of course, and her family would be ignorant of what she was doing with the Cullens, but I didn't want to care. I wouldn't!
Like I said, I don't know how long I ran or how far. I think I might have crossed the Canadian line and back into the States more then once. Finally, from lack of sleep or grief, I didn't know, I collapsed in some woods and fell asleep.
Jacob wished he had been smart enough to take his jeans when he left. He would give anything to feel the cool forest floor on his skin. Besides, the burs were tangling in his fur and making him itch. Twitching a little, Jacob adjusted his position, laying his snout on his paws. His eyes closed and he sighed. He didn't like being a wolf twenty four seven, especially when he felt Sam touch in to check. It annoyed him that Sam didn't trust him to take care of himself.
That's not fair! the more tolerant, human, side of him protested. That was true; of course, Sam was just worried about him. The connection was weak, anyway, probably because he was half way across the country. Massachusetts, he remembered a sign saying.
Jacob couldn't continue to lie there. The inactivity was giving his mind to much to do. He hated thinking. Every time he stopped focusing on running or what he would do in a future, thoughts of her would creep into his mind. He wondered if she was transformed, he wondered if even now she was in pain. He didn't know the exact date, but it was August already. She would be married some time soon.
A whimper of pain forced its way out of his throat and he curled into an even tighter ball. I wonder if this was what she felt? he wondered as his eyes took in the calm forest around him.
Somewhere up in a tree he heard squirrels chattering and birds singing. They were calm sound, nature sounds. Sounds that he grew up with. They were familiar and comforting, causing him to feel weary. He always felt weary when he thought of Bella, so he closed his eyes and listened.
He opened his eyes in annoyance when another bur bit into his flesh. What was the point of having such thick fur when nuisances like a plant could still get to you? Growling he began to pick at it with his teeth, succeeding only to bite into his own skin. It healed almost right away and he was back to picking. In and out his white teeth combed, pulling out tufts of russet fur. Finally, he succeeded in picking it out, grumbling about his lack of clothing.
Who will see you? he argued with himself. He would hear a human before they would see him and Jacob could hide or transform again.
I'm not completely loosing my humanity!
That won. Somehow, running around the woods naked felt like he would be crossing the line between being a human and being an animal. It wasn't a line he was willing to cross completely. Not yet. He'd deal with the uncomfortable thorns and the itchy moister that seeped its way into his fur. Or he could steal clothing.
Jacob's ears lay back on his head and he hackles rose at the thought. Stealing was not something he could do. It went against all his teaching. Billy would be disappointed. Of course there was a chance Billy went against all those teachings, but he doubted it. Not his father. That was getting off the subject now. His problem was clothing and not just about the brambles and uncomfortable forest. He couldn't live as a wolf forever. He was, after all, human. He needed a job and a place to stay. Perhaps one of the many farms would give him one. He could pass for twenty five if he had too.
Clothes first, he reminded himself. He was swiftly losing his argument about how stealing was wrong and against every moral religion out there. Sighing, he got to his feet and padded over to the small stream he had decided to camp by. Looking down he saw his reflection. His once proud head was bowed in defeat, it seemed, and he looked skinnier. His fur was thin and worn away in patches where he had scratched. His eyes, normally bright with interest and power, were dull. He didn't look good. Like a mongrel dog, really. He needed a good meal, human companionship and a chance to make a new life. For now.
Clothes, he murmured in defeat.
Deftly he turned away from the stream and headed to a farm he knew had gigantic field hands working. Some of their clothes would do. The woods flew by in a blur and he was at the farm long before sun down. He settled down to wait.
Resting his head in his paws he waited in the shadow of the trees, watching the workers with wary eyes. Four men where at the edge of the land, mending a fence. They were talking and laughing at something one of them had said.
"I tell you," said a blonde man. "It was gigantic. As big as a bear."
His friend, a black haired burly man, snorted. "They don't get that big."
"This one did. He was brown and looked like he would eat me."
"Wolves don't get that big, Jack," the black haired guy said again.
"Of course you don't believe me," Jack muttered, going back to work.
"'S not that. I believe you saw a giant wolf. I just want to know how many bottles you were carrying to throw at it."
"I wasn't drunk, Phil!"
"Sure. Sure."
So, Jack had seen him. He would have to be more careful. Wait, he remembered. Jacob had stalked him just for fun, the man was drunk after all. The look at Jack's face had been very funny. Jacob's tongue lolled out in a grin as he watched the men continue there work.
"So," piped up a red head, "did the wolf talk to you?"
Phil and the rest of the men laughed, causing Jack to shoot them a glare.
"Of course not, Pat," Jack protested. "He didn't look good. Kind of heartbroken I think."
"Awwww," chorused Phil. "Did the doggy woose his wittle girlfwend?"
"Ah," Jack waved his hand in a violent dismissal and ignored the other men's questions and taunts.
If Jacob hadn't been enjoying his first dose of human interaction then he might have been hurt by Phil's last comment. It was true. What got him most was what Jack said. Did he really look heartbroken? Like she did when he left her. That wasn't possible. Besides, Jack saw him in wolf form. How does one know if a wolf is heartbroken or not?
Soon, Jacob heard the sound of a horn and the men looked up, relieved.
"Quiten' time," Phil said with a cheerful grin. "I'm starved!"
Pat and Jack agreed and Phil slung his arm over the fourth man's shoulder.
"You were quiet today, Al. Jen giving you trouble again..." there voices faded out as they left Jacob's range of hearing. He still had some waiting to do. He had decided to take some clothes from Phil. The man was the biggest and Jacob didn't like the 'doggy loosing his girlfriend,' crack. The 'doggy' part bugged him.
The sun went down completely and Jacob waited until there was no activity on the farm before slinking forward. He slipped through the fence, destroying a good portion of the men's work in the process.
The yard was dark and the only sign of light was a dim yellow in one of the upstairs windows of the house. Jacob didn't care about the house, he target was in the bunkhouse. Sniffing around he found quite a few scents. The one that stood out was the simple, sweet, smell of warm sugar. He found it pleasant and female, but he had a mission and it wouldn't be dissuaded by thoughts of the opposite sex. He picked up Phil's scent and followed it around the back and down a small path.
The bunkhouse wasn't very large, but it was neat and well maintained. Jacob snuck up to the door and paused, sniffing. They were in there and Phil's things were towards the right wall. All he could hear was snoring.
Carefully he padded up the stairs and pushed the door open with his snout. Someone had conveniently left it open. Once in the room he headed to the dresser where Phil's smell was the strongest. It wasn't until he was in front of it, that he transformed.
He really hoped none of those men woke up and saw him in all his glory. Not that he was ashamed or anything. He just didn't want to get caught...or make the poor men jealous. Jacob smirked at that thought as he quietly opened the first drawer. Inside were t-shirts and wife beaters. He grabbed two of each, pulling a set on before heading to another drawer. Pants came next and he repeated the process. Shoes were out, as Phil only had one pair which he needed for work and Jacob wasn't cruel. Who knew who the man was supporting.
Jacob bundled up the remaining clothes and looked around for anything else he might need. A comb and razor found their way into the pocket of his jeans and an extra blanket joined the bundle.
Sneaking past the house in human form was a lot harder then in wolf. The dog seemed to have heard or smelt him and was barking. He picked up his pace once he was passed the house and was through the fence and into the woods in less then five minutes.
After shaving using his night vision and the stream (thank goodness he healed so fast) Jacob settled down and rolled up in his blanket. He slept heavily through the night, not once waking up.
The next morning his eyes opened groggily as he was met by the bright morning sun. Sitting up, Jacob ran his hands through his tangled hair.
"Did you honestly think you could get away with it?" a curious voice asked.
Jacob was on his feet and facing the owner of the voice in less then a second.
A man was sitting on a rock, facing Jacob with a shotgun on his knee. He was around Billy's age, strong and lean, with graying brown hair and kind blue eyes. His posture wasn't threatening, but Jacob figured he could get that gun to bear rather quickly if he needed too. Why else would he follow a stranger twice his height and size.
"Well?" he asked cocking an eyebrow. If he was surprised how fast Jacob moved he didn't show it.
Jacob eyed his warily. "Excuse me?" he asked lowly.
"I didn't see your coming, boy, but I saw your going."
Jacob drew his body to his full height and crossed his arms over his chest. He knew that he looked frightening, he had practiced in the mirror after all, and the man looked slightly ill at ease. "So you decided to follow me."
The man smirked a little, fear seemingly gone, and rose from the rock, the top of his head just reaching Jacob's nose. "I was curious as to why a young man would break in and steal only clothes. There were many things in the house a thief could want."
"I didn't need them," Jacob broke in.
"But you needed clothing?"
"My others were ruined." It's true.
"I see."
The man paused and looked thoughtful. "I'm Benjamin Dawson," he said finally. "But everyone calls me Ben."
"Jacob Black." He mentally winced and kicked himself. Not your real name!
"Nice to meet you." He paused again. "So...you're what? Twenty three, twenty four?"
"Seventeen." Another mental kick.
"I see. School out for the summer?"
"You'll be going back soon, I presume. To wherever you're from."
Jacob didn't answer.
"Trouble at home?"
"How is that a strangers business?" Jacob asked tightly.
"It is if that stranger is planning on giving you a job, which includes housing and meals."
"A job?"
"Yeah. Al's getting married today and I'm going to loose him. I need a strong, reliable young man to do his share of the work."
The young man starred at him suspiciously. Jacob was a stranger to this...Ben and he was hiring him to work around his farm. To work around his family. Jacob would never do that, after all there were so many terrible people in this world. It was dangerous what this man was doing. Jacob knew he would be honorable, but this man didn't.
"Why?" he finally asked.
"You look like you could use some help," Ben said simply.
Jacob was silent as he reflected on the face he had seen in the stream last night. He had looked gaunt and dirty, with nothing of the life that had been there before. He needed to get his mind off of it. Off of her. What better way then with a job. "Alright, Mr. Dawson. I accept."
"Ben," he said with a grin. "And I'm glad. Let's go back to the house, breakfast will be ready and I had Emily make triple then she usually does."
Jacob paused. "Your wife's name is Emily?"
"Yes. Oh and we'll see if we can get you a jacket. You must be freezing at night living out here. I'm surprised one blanket was enough."
Jacob nodded absently, his mind back in La Push where another Emily cooked breakfast and called him her son.
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Big view of life, Chinese philosophy, crudivorism, diet, dietetics, grain, Japanese macrobiotics, macrobiotism, organic, phytoestrogens, pulses, vegan, vegetarian, whole foods, yang, yin, Zen macrobiotics.
The earliest recorded usage of the term "macrobiotics" is found in the writings of Hippocrates. Translated literally,
is the Greek word for "great" and
is the word for "life." The term "macrobiotics" refers to a philosophy of working with the natural order of life. Philosophers and physicians from many parts of the world have used this term to signify living in harmony with nature and eating a simple, balanced diet to live to an active old age.
The modern practice of macrobiotics was started in the 1920s by a Japanese educator named George Ohsawa, said to have cured himself of a serious illness by changing to a simple diet of brown rice, miso soup, and sea vegetables.
Macrobiotics is a predominantly vegetarian, whole-foods diet that emphasizes whole grains (especially brown rice), vegetables, fruits, legumes, and seaweeds. Some proponents eat white meat or fish once or twice a week, while others eat no animal products whatsoever - an approach referred to as "vegan." Macrobiotic diets may be individualized based on factors such as climate, season, age, gender, activity, and health needs.
Studies have shown increased risk for various nutrient deficiencies. However, proponents argue that with judicious menu planning, most vegetarian diets can supply excellent nutrition. The most common supplementation is with dairy products.
The macrobiotic diet is low in saturated fat and high in phytoestrogens, which may help balance a woman's hormones during menopause, reduce symptoms of premenstrual syndrome, and prevent breast cancer and endometriosis.
Both plant-only and plant-based eating patterns have health benefits, most notably in reducing the risk of chronic, degenerative diseases.
Macrobiotics is one of the most popular lifestyle approaches to cancer. However, the evidence as to whether or not a macrobiotic diet can help in cancer is mixed and inconclusive. Overall, there has been little evidence on the effectiveness of a macrobiotic diet aside from case reports.
At the heart of macrobiotics are the concepts of
, which were identified in Taoist Chinese philosophy as two principles that complement each other as life unfolds.
Yin represents expansion, coolness, and passiveness while yang represents contraction, heat, and aggressiveness. In the macrobiotic view, the forces of yin and yang must be kept in balance to achieve good health.
Foods are classified into yin and yang categories according to their various properties and their effects on the body.
The tastes of foods (sour, bitter, sweet, pungent, salty) determine how they will interact with each other.
The food groups that have the least pronounced yin and yang qualities, grains and vegetables, are emphasized in macrobiotics. Eating these foods is thought to make it easier to achieve a more balanced condition within the natural order of life. Foods considered extremely yin or extremely yang are avoided. Food combining is planned to achieve a balance of tastes.
Western science has identified the high phytoestrogen content of a macrobiotic diet as a feature that may theoretically aid in reducing cancer risks.
A macrobiotic diet appears to promote hormonal conditions that are unfavorable to the development of breast cancer. This may help explain why women in cultures that favor a vegetarian diet are at a lower risk of breast cancer. However, research in this area is ambiguous, and there is insufficient data from clinical studies to support concrete recommendations.
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These uses have been tested in humans or animals. Safety and effectiveness have not always been proven. Some of these conditions are potentially serious, and should be evaluated by a qualified healthcare provider.
There is evidence from one study suggesting that a macrobiotic diet might contribute to an improved ratio of HDL ("good" cholesterol) to LDL ("bad" cholesterol). However, more research is needed to explore whether such effects are reliable and meaningful.
The evidence is mixed as to whether or not a macrobiotic diet helps, hinders, or has no effect on cognitive functioning in children.
There is evidence that a macrobiotic diet may lead to reduced body size and obesity and increased leanness in preschool children compared to children on a normal diet. Studies are needed to determine whether or not these changes contribute to good health in children.
A macrobiotic diet has been advocated to preserve intestinal health. However, it apparently does not reduce the incidence of drug-resistant bacteria in the intestinal flora, nor infections caused by resistant strains in the gastrointestinal tract, compared to a diet with animal products.
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: Fair scientific evidence for this use (it may not work)
: Strong scientific evidence against this use (it likley does not work)
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The below uses are based on tradition, scientific theories, or limited research. They often have not been thoroughly tested in humans, and safety and effectiveness have not always been proven. Some of these conditions are potentially serious, and should be evaluated by a qualified healthcare provider. There may be other proposed uses that are not listed below.
Antifungal, antiviral, arterial hypertension, bursitis, cancer, colon cancer, coronaropathies, diabetes, diverticulitis (of the colon), endometriosis, gallstones, heart disease, hormonal balance (women), kidney stones, menopausal symptoms, metabolic diseases, premenstrual syndrome, tendonitis.
Many complementary techniques are practiced by healthcare professionals with formal training, in accordance with the standards of national organizations. However, this is not universally the case, and adverse effects are possible. Due to limited research, in some cases only limited safety information is available.
Numerous studies indicate that a macrobiotic diet can lead to deficiencies of many nutrients. Reasons for these deficiencies include their unavailability in the food being consumed, their destruction during preparation of the food, their degradation over time from when the food is harvested to when it is consumed, or their delivery of the nutrient in a form the person cannot digest or absorb.
Children and pregnant/lactating women are at particular risk for deficiencies related to a macrobiotic diet.
Specific deficiencies, which have been reported, include calcium, cobalamin (vitamin B-12), dietary fat, iron, magnesium, protein intake, riboflavin (vitamin B-2), vitamin B-12, vitamin D, and zinc.
Related health problems due to nutrient deficiency that have been observed include anemia, growth retardation or stagnation in infants and children, low birth weight, low energy, lower bone mass, rickets, and scurvy.
Some cancer patients using this approach may experience problems due to weight loss and difficulties in implementing the diet. More studies are needed to evaluate whether a macrobiotic diet is beneficial in cancer.
This information is based on a systematic review of scientific literature edited and peer-reviewed by contributors to the Natural Standard Research Collaboration (
Adlercreutz H, Hockerstedt K, Bannwart C, et al. Effect of dietary components, including lignans and phytoestrogens, on enterohepatic circulation and liver metabolism of estrogens and on sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG). J Steroid Biochem 1987;27(4-6):1135-1144.
Brown PT, Bergan JG. The dietary status of "new" vegetarians. J Am Diet Assoc 1975;67(5):455-459.
Carter JP, Saxe GP, Newbold V, et al. Hypothesis: dietary management may improve survival from nutritionally linked cancers based on analysis of representative cases. J Am Coll Nutr 1993;12(3):209-226.
Dagnelie PC, Van Staveren WA. Macrobiotic nutrition and child health: results of a population-based, mixed-longitudinal cohort study in The Netherlands. Am J Clin Nutr 1994;59(5 Suppl):1187S-1196S.
Downer SM, Cody MM, McCluskey P, et al. Pursuit and practice of complementary therapies by cancer patients receiving conventional treatment. BMJ 1994;309(6947):86-89.
Dwyer JT, Andrew EM, Valadian I, et al. Size, obesity, and leanness in vegetarian preschool children. J Am Diet Assoc 1980;77(4):434-439.
Dwyer J. Convergence of plant-rich and plant-only diets. Am J Clin Nutr 1999;70(3 Suppl):620S-622S.
Elder HA, Roy I, Lehman S, et al. Human studies to measure the effect of antibiotic residues. Vet Hum Toxicol 1993;35 Suppl 1:31-36.
Knuiman JT, West CE. The concentration of cholesterol in serum and in various serum lipoproteins in macrobiotic, vegetarian and non-vegetarian men and boys. Atherosclerosis 1982;43(1):71-82.
Krey SH. Alternate dietary lifestyles. Prim Care 1982;9(3):595-603.
Kushi LH, Cunningham JE, Hebert JR, et al. The macrobiotic diet in cancer. J Nutr 2001;131(11 Suppl):3056S-3064S.
Louwman MW, Van Dusseldorp M, van de Vijver FJ, et al. Signs of impaired cognitive function in adolescents with marginal cobalamin status. Am J Clin Nutr 2000;72(3):762-769.
Miller DR, Specker BL, Ho ML, et al. Vitamin B-12 status in a macrobiotic community. Am J Clin Nutr 1991;53(2):524-529.
Parsons TJ, Van Dusseldorp M, van d, V, et al. Reduced bone mass in Dutch adolescents fed a macrobiotic diet in early life. J Bone Miner Res 1997;12(9):1486-1494.
Sanders TA. Vegetarian diets and children. Pediatr Clin North Am 1995;42(4):955-965.
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Death toll drops in drug war
By Deanna Pan and Pat Holmes
The Columbus Dispatch
(April 1, 2012) — After a decade of shattered lives and early graves, Ohioans finally might be seeing a glimmer of hope in the battle against prescription-drug overdoses.
Drug-induced deaths inched downward last year for the first time in 10 years. Four fewer people fatally overdosed in 2011 than in 2010.
Between 2010 and 2012, Ohio's average per-capita dose of prescription opiates decreased by 0.8 percent, according to the Ohio State Board of Pharmacy. While the statewide decline is small, more than half of Ohio's counties saw a reduction including virtually all of southern Ohio, considered the heart of the problem.
In Scioto County, the number of pills prescribed dropped by more than 15 percent. The two counties just up the Ohio River, Lawrence and Gallia, also recorded double-digit decreases, while Pike and Jackson counties to the north showed just under a 10 percent decline.
The Scioto County total translates into 1.5 million fewer pills prescribed last year than in 2010. And, more important, the persistent correlation between the number of pills handed out and the number of drug-related deaths held true: 17 fewer people lost their lives in Scioto County.
Credit for the possible turnaround is multifaceted: a concentrated effort to close "pill mills" that dispensed prescriptions or drugs in large quantities, a new state law cracking down on pain clinics, an active public-private education campaign and doctors' newfound awareness about the dangers of overprescribing addictive painkillers.
But no one is holding a victory celebration just yet in this drug epidemic.
"It's its own animal," said Lisa Roberts, a public-health nurse at the Portsmouth Health Department in Scioto County. "It's entrenched in rural communities to the point … that some people call the police and tell them they've been shortchanged on pill deals."
More alarming: Those who can't get prescription drugs because of the state's new crackdown are turning to lethal alternatives such as heroin.
What the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services calls heroin hot spots are cropping up not only in larger cities such as Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton, Akron and Cincinnati, but also in more rural areas, such as Highland County in southwestern Ohio and Fairfield County just southeast of Columbus.
The death toll from accidental drug overdoses in Ohio had risen steadily since 1999, reaching a record high in 2010 of more than 1,500 deaths, according to the latest data from the state Department of Health.
Of those 1,500 deaths, 45 percent involved prescription opiates, such as Oxycontin, Vicodin and methadone, a synthetic drug commonly used to help heroin addicts through withdrawal.
One difficult aspect of the pill battle is that no single factor created the drug problem plaguing Ohio, which means that a solution must be multipronged, too. Authorities cite four factors, some of which can't be controlled:
- Ohio is a geographic crossroads of highways and interstates that serve as major trafficking routes. A new emphasis on detection by the State Highway Patrol led to a 13 percent increase in drug seizures last year, compared with the previous three-year average. A total of 51,723 prescription pills were seized, an increase of more than 10,000 from 2010.
- "Florida is beginning to work with us, as well as other states, to share information," said Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine. "We've made this a priority to go after this prescription-drug problem."
- Persistent unemployment and high poverty rates, especially in Ohio's rural areas, lead to drug trafficking and abuse.
"If they're poor and they don't really go to school anymore and they don't have jobs, they hang out on the streets," said Dr. Robert Masone, president and executive director of the Ohio Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. "And the people that have these pills, they sell these pills and they can get high. That's what they do almost every day."
Gov. John Kasich says that's one reason he is emphasizing jobs: "What we find is, when people don't have work, when they become hopeless, they turn to things they otherwise wouldn't turn to."
Though the drug scourge has been around since the late 1990s, the first legislation to combat prescription-drug abuse didn't come until 2011.
"The technical issue was, what (pill-mill physicians) were doing was actually legal," said state Sen. Dave Burke, R-Marysville, a pharmacist who sponsored last year's pill-mill bill. "How do you stop that?"
The wheels began turning with a task force set up under Gov. Ted Strickland, Burke said.
"The drug task force doesn't get the credit it deserves … only it didn't solve the problem of the pain clinic," he said. "If (the authors of the pill-mill bill) are the lead singers, Strickland's drug task force was the band."
- Treating pain with opiates is a relatively new practice, and the necessary patient-to-doctor communication has been skewed by heavy pharmaceutical advertising and other factors over the past decade.
Orman Hall, director of the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, tells of a staff member taking his son for treatment of a sore throat. He received a prescription for medicine to treat his throat and one for an opiate painkiller.
Treating pain with opiates became the norm in the late 1990s, Hall said. This not only increased the dangers of addiction, but also of opiate-induced hyperalgesia, or an increased sensitivity to pain.
That switch in the 1990s was sparked by a surge in direct-to-consumer prescription advertising. Pharmaceutical companies' ad spending more than quadrupled from 1995 to 2000, when about $22.5 million was spent, he said.
This marketing effort led to patients seeking certain drugs from their doctors.
"We started down this path where patients joined up with the (pharmaceutical company). That matured significantly in the 2000-to-2010 window, where people developed arts of deception realizing physicians would do as you asked them to do because they're just trying to help people," Burke said.
"And until you know you've been deceived, you don't know you're being deceived. … The physician and the pharmacists no longer acted in collaboration."
With the dangerously addictive properties in these medications, a need for more open communication between doctors and their patients should have become obvious sooner, added Richard Whitehouse, executive director of the Ohio State Medical Board.
"Despite whatever background or experience, folks may still not appreciate the addictive properties of these medications," he said.
Kasich said the next step for Ohio should include redefining the treatment of pain.
"Long term, we're going to need the medical schools to begin to instruct physicians about the way to use these highly addictive drugs," Kasich said.
Burke agrees.
"If we're going to treat this as a disease, then we need to treat it as a disease," he said. "We've got to legitimize the art of pain treatment and management."
Deanna Pan and Pat Holmes are fellows in Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism Statehouse News Bureau.


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'Yossi': Out In Israel, And That's Just Fine
- Director: Eytan Fox
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Running Time: 84 minutes
Not rated; Language, some sexual content
In Hebrew with English subtitles
With: Ohad Knoller, Oz Zehavi, Orly Silbersatz
In the decade since Israeli director Eytan Fox made Yossi & Jagger, the precursor to his sublimely tender new drama Yossi, Israel has undergone two significant changes. A tacit and active homophobia has given way, at least in the open cultural climate of Tel Aviv, to a matter-of-fact acceptance of gay rights. At the same time, Israeli cinema has bloomed, becoming a thriving international presence in just about every genre.
True, Israeli film leans toward the arty (Footnote) or toward sober political self-scrutiny about the nation's conflict with the Palestinians; no fewer than two documentaries about the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza have been short-listed for Oscars this year.
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Fox, by contrast, is Israel's most beloved pop filmmaker. He's openly gay, and his films are colorful, boisterously irreverent box-office hits whose small-p politics also catch the anguished spirits of younger generations who have little use for the pioneering collectivism of their elders, yet still yearn to create guiding values for their infinitely more fragmented lives.
Fox's 2004 thriller, Walk on Water, plunges a Mossad hit-man into a crisis that forces him to re-examine the meaning of the Holocaust and his own desiccated existence. The Bubble (2006) repurposes the romantic comedy to examine a gay love affair between an Israeli and a Palestinian against the background of alienated Tel Aviv youth. And Yossi & Jagger (2003) is framed by a love affair between two male soldiers during Israel's war with Lebanon — an affair that ends with the death of one lover in a botched ambush.
Yossi & Jagger told the story of a secret love; its sequel turns on a painfully gradual coming-out. Ten years on, the titular survivor (played, as before, by a very good Ohad Knoller) is a cardiologist with his own heart frozen in grief — cheesy symbolism that Fox pulls off with cheerful aplomb.
Though he's competent at work, Yossi functions at just above zombie level in his private life. His bodily pleasures are furtive and tawdry, and not even those who pass for friends — a lonely nurse with a crush (Ola Schur-Selektar) and a colleague who tries to drag him into the sex-and-drugs party scene (the excellent Lior Ashkenazi, who starred in Walk on Water and last year's Footnote) — can rouse Yossi from his torpor.
Until, that is, two somewhat creakily staged chance meetings promise either to make his misery worse or to set him free. A heart patient (Orly Silbersatz) who turns out to be his dead lover's mother and is, like him, stranded in quiet sorrow, inadvertently confronts Yossi with a long-delayed decision about whether to reveal his past with her son.
And then, on a forced vacation in the resort town of Eilat, Yossi meets the model-handsome Tom (Oz Zehavi), a proudly out gay soldier whose happy-go-lucky hedonism and confident overtures take the older man by surprise. As does the casual acceptance, unthinkable during Yossi's own military service, of Tom's sexual identity by his comically macho fellow soldiers.
Funny, exuberant and shamelessly seductive (the soundtrack is by Keren Ann, who shows up to perform wistful covers of the Israeli songs Yossi and Fox grew up with), Yossi is an unabashedly populist entertainment with a spirit conciliatory enough to melt the heart of any naysayer. In Yossi's slow awakening to a world in which he has little to hide lies the moving story of a man emerging from grief and secrecy, and by extension a celebration of a society maturing into tolerance.
That's no fantasy: I just returned from Tel Aviv, where gay life is a nonchalantly urbane presence and no one turns a hair. Yet tucked into Fox's rejoicing is the articulation of qualms that runs through all his movies, taking inventory of the price in urban alienation that Israel has paid for jettisoning at least some of its founding values.
In Yossi's nightmarish sexual encounters — there's no reasonable way to call them dates — with a woman pushed on him by his boozy colleague, and then with a hard-bodied gay entrepreneur obsessed with appearances, lies a whiff of Fox's distaste for the cold hedonism and isolation that lie in wait for the free spirits — gay or straight — of an open society. There's an ambiguous moment late in the movie, when Yossi asks Tom if he's come out to his parents, that made me squirm. "I haven't," he says. "It's none of their business." Really?


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Son of Sub Pioneer Recalls Father's Place In History
East Lyme — As he was going through the Naval Academy in the early 1940s, and Submarine School in Groton after his graduation, Harry H. Caldwell learned a good deal about submarine history, but no one ever mentioned the role his father played in the development of the undersea fleet.
It wasn't until 10 years later, as he prepared to take command of his own submarine, that Caldwell pulled some boxes that had belonged to his father out of storage and found letters his father had written home, charts from New York Harbor, and newspaper accounts of his father's early command, as the first skipper of the USS Holland, the S-1, the first Navy submarine.
"There was not a lot, but enough to give me a thread to pull at, and to go off and look for more stuff," said Caldwell, now a retired Navy captain living in East Lyme. He also talked to his mother, who began to fill in some of the family history, how as an aide to an important admiral Caldwell had an opportunity to become one of the first Navy officers to ride the Holland, and that little bit of experience gave him an advantage when it came time to pick a captain. He learned, too, how his father, under the tutelage of Capt. Frank Cable, assembled a crew and conducted sea trials in New York Harbor.
"It must have been awful," Caldwell said. "You had all those sailboats so you couldn't hear them, and you couldn't see them because there was no periscope — it was a recipe for disaster."
But his father put the ship into commission, and through some exercises that began to demonstrate how the fundamental nature of naval warfare would be forever changed. And in an amazing coincidence, as the Navy prepares to celebrate the centennial of submarining on Tuesday, the only child of the commissioning skipper prepares to celebrate his own 78th birthday. Caldwell was born on April 11, 1922.
"By the time I came along, he was a writer, and that was his business, and he never looked back," said Caldwell. His father died the year his son turned 17, and never lived to see his son become a respected submariner in his own right. And until Caldwell junior began to investigate, there was little information available about his father's role in the early days of submarine warfare.
"He's pretty obscure," Caldwell said. "Most pioneers in the business have a tender named after them or something, but he was pretty much left out of it. You never hear about Lieutenant Caldwell."
A ride on the Holland
Caldwell senior was born Feb. 5, 1873, in St. Louis, the fourth of five children. His father died when he was 4, and family finances were tight.
"I think it was the free education that attracted my father to the Naval Academy," Caldwell said. "He was a real bright young guy, known to people as a real eager beaver."
Graduating in 1891, he seemed on a fast track, and was named an aide to Adm. George Dewey before the Battle of Manila in 1898. As the Spanish American War broke out, Dewey won renown as the commodore who wiped out an entire fleet without losing a single boat. Caldwell senior returned to his family, then living in Quincy, Ill., where townspeople presented him with an inscribed silver loving cup and a huge party for his role in the battle.
The following year, when Electric Boat demonstrated the Holland in the Potomac River, Dewey went to observe. The admiral declined the offer of a ride, but sent his aide down in the boat for a closer look. It was the first of several dives that Caldwell senior would make.
The Navy purchased the submarine with few plans for its use, and since Lt. Caldwell had more experience than almost any other officer, he was asked to help assemble a crew. He began consulting with EB engineers about the skills that would be needed, and as he grew more acquainted with the ship his superiors realized that he would be the best commissioning captain.
The Holland's official log records the commissioning with little fanfare: "11 Oct 1900, Acting Gunner O. Hill, Lieut. H. H. Caldwell reported for duty; 12 Oct 1900, Lieut. H.H. Caldwell today placed this boat in commission." Caldwell would command it until Nov. 25, 1902.
The Holland is a success
Caldwell was taking command of a ship that did what no other Navy ship in history would do — approach and attack from under the sea.
"I'm proud of him mostly because he started from zero," his son said. "He didn't have a ship's organization book to read — he had to write it. Captain Cable was able to tell him how to keep the ship level, but that was about all. That's where they started learning."
And he apparently learned quickly. During war games in Newport Harbor a couple of weeks before the formal commissioning, Caldwell was at the helm when the battleship Kearsarge played the role of attacker. Sneaking in close to the hull, Caldwell sent over the message: "Hello, Kearsarge, you are blown to atoms. This is the Holland."
A few months later, the senior Caldwell wrote that the little torpedo boat had amazing success during that evening exercise: "The 'Holland' was not seen by any vessel of the blockading fleet or torpedo boat, although she was within range of three of the former and several of the latter. I consider that the attack was a success because the 'Holland' could in all probability have torpedoed three blockading vessels without being discovered."
The captain of the Kearsarge, meanwhile, observed in his own report of the incident, "It is clear that the 'Holland' type will play a very serious part in future naval warfare."
Caldwell resigned in 1909 and joined the reserves, re-entering active duty for World War I, when he commanded the warship Amphritrite in New York Harbor. He did one stint at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton during his reserve years, some time in the 1930s, when he served on one of the R-class boats, almost 10 times the size of the Holland.
"I can't imagine what good he did, but at least he must have learned that R boats were palaces compared to the Holland," his son said.
Caldwell senior became a writer and editor in the movies, and was 48 when he married Katharine Clark, known as Katharine Hilliker in cinematic circles, where she did titles for the early silent films. Together they were involved with about 75 movies, travelogues early in their career, and later such famous films as "Ben Hur" and "Seventh Heaven," which won the first Academy Award. Histories of the Oscar still list H.H. Caldwell as a contributor to "Seventh Heaven."
"I was pretty proud because what that said was my dad had gone to the top of one profession, right to the top of another," Caldwell said.
A predetermined career
Caldwell senior lived long enough to see his son pass the entrance examination for the Naval Academy, but not long enough to see him enter the school. Forced to find a living in the year before he could win sponsorship to the school, Caldwell junior called on the old family friend Cable at EB. Cable helped him secure a job as mail boy, carrying a leather sack filled with messages around the shipyard, making the same route six times a day, for 37 cents an hour. Later, he would work as an assistant shipfitter, learning how submarines were built and how they worked, before entering the academy in 1940.
With war looming, Caldwell's was one of the classes that was put on a fast track, scheduled to graduate in three years instead of four. In the summer before his final year, he sought permission to return to Groton and ride submarines during his 30-day leave. He spent the month on an O-class boat doing training. The following summer, he and more than one-third of his 250-plus man graduating class reported to the Groton base for Submarine School.
"What choice did I have?" Caldwell jokes today. "With my background? It was a no-brainer."
His first assignment was on the USS Dace, SS-247, at almost 2,400 tons more than 40 times the size of the Holland that his father had commanded 43 years earlier. He made four war patrols, including the famous patrol where the Dace pulled the crew of the Darter off a reef and then scuttled the stranded boat in a spectacular rescue.
After the war Caldwell had a succession of assignments in submarines and ashore, including a stint at Yale University teaching officers-in-training. His own command came on the Spikefish, from 1956-58, and he quickly earned a reputation as a top skipper, the kind of commander enlisted men and young officers wanted to serve with.
"Because we were on the river, we caught a lot of basic training for students at the Submarine School," Caldwell said. "You'd bring them down in the morning, make 15 or 20 dives, move them through the various positions, and get them familiar with the boat."
Then came a succession of staff jobs, including materiel officer on the Atlantic submarine force staff in the early 1960s. The men in his office rode submarines during sea trials, and on April 10, 1963, one of the men who sat at a desk across from him went out with the USS Thresher; that boat was lost with all hands, a reminder that while the boats were getting bigger and better, it was still a dangerous profession.
Caldwell earned a deep-draft command on the oiler Marias, AO-57, and after a few more staff jobs got his final Navy job, as commanding officer of the Fleet Training Center in Newport, where his father had been homeported when he commanded Holland.
A few years ago Caldwell got a chance to experience first-hand what his father went through with the Holland. He knows retired Royal Navy Cmdr. Compton Hall, who had used a borrowed Navy minehunter and calculated the effects of currents and tides and wind to salvage the first British submarine, the Holland 1, commissioned in 1902 and modeled after the U.S. Navy's Holland.
"I was going over there anyway, so I wrote and asked him if I could come by," Caldwell said. "That submarine was 10 feet longer than the Holland, but it was still pretty small to me. You can move, but not much, and of course you can't move at all once you get under way because you would change the trim."
Pneumatic valves kept raising the air pressure inside, and there was a spring-loaded relief cap at the top of the boat.
"When the pressure got high enough inside the submarine, you would hear it pop up, and you would look up and see green water, and hope it would close quickly enough so the water wouldn't rush inside," Caldwell said. "The conditions must have been horrible."
"I already had a great deal of respect for what my father had done," Caldwell said, "but that made me realize it was much worse than I thought." Article UID=8d2b7631-f2db-405c-841a-3d4e6aa0d311
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Mudhoney: Celebrating 25 Years Live on WFMU
When WFMU broadcast Mudhoney live from ATP a few years ago, it was fully obvious that their instrumental power and Mark Arm's inimitable yowl were still very much in full force. Even more so at last year's Primavera broadcast (where they followed up after their set by bumrushing and taking over the WFMU fairway tent!). Twenty-five years down the line Mudhoney still have the bottles and bodies flying, soaking up a past and continuing to deliver the one-two riffage even as bands they influenced have vanished and reunited at half mast.
In celebration of both Sub Pop and Mudhoney's respective 25th anniversaries, they stop by WFMU's Brian Turner's show to rock faces off with a few live songs from their brand new full-length (their ninth!) "Vanishing Point."
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BTurner on 03/16/2012 at 01:50PM
WFMU live from Beerland, Austin TX Sat 3/17
WFMU returns to Austin Saturday night for it's showcase, this time an event independent of the SXSW Festival at the great Beerland, 711 Red River. It's a 6-band blowout featuring The Wedding Present, The Men, Xray Eyeballs, Electric Jellyfish, Death of Samantha and Supreme Dicks! Liz Berg, Jason Sigal, Brian Turner will be broadcasting the sets live over WFMU-FM and wfmu.org starting 8pm central/9 PM Eastern. $10 door entry, no SXSW badges or wristbands accepted. All proceeds to the bands. Special commemorative posters designed by Nevada Hill will be available at the show.
Lineup (Times Central):
8PM: Electric Jellyfish: Straight outta Melbourne: "Electric Jellyfish carry the torch along with Eddy Current Suppression Ring lighting the way to a legendary story of distinctive rock 'n roll beginning with bands such as Radio Birdman, The Saints, X, the Birthday Party, feedtime, etc. Their sound is on par with The Wipers in their heyday...such daring emotional vulnerability, yet it's psych/punk that's sonically full-fledged, solid, walloping, and (to quote Monoshock) 'philosophically Stoogely'".(Rick Ele)
9PM: The Wedding Present: The first band to play a WFMU show to have had 18 top 40 singles in the UK!
10PM: Death of Samantha: Full on reunion show by Cleveland post-punk/indie godfather legends! DoS tore through the late 80's early 90s and gave birth to Cobra Verde (which included members John Petkovic and Doug Gillard, who also spent time in Guided By Voices); Petkovic also was a member of Sweet Apple with J Mascis, Gillard made records with the great Gem, solo, and nowadays plays in Bambi Kino and Nada Surf. Drummer Steve-O was an Elvis impersonator in Memphis for a while. This is gonna rule.
11PM: Supreme Dicks: Uber-rare out-of-New England show by these reclusive woodsy Massachussetts psychedelicists! Their official recordings ceased in the mid 1990's, but have popped up live around their locale through the years, now lured to Texas on WFMU's special invite to which we are extremely grateful. The Dicks are also subject of a well overdue recent anthology on Jagjaguwar, a 4CD complete history called Breathing and Not Breathing.
12M: Xray Eyeballs: NYC new wave dance party faves, started up by OJ from Golden Triangle. Equal parts Jay Reatard and the Urinals, described by our own Liz Berg (who had them live on her show): "fuzzy, over modulated garage pop at a languid trot."
1AM: The Men: (photo left: Ryan Muir) Raucous four-piece post-punk combo out of Brooklyn who've cobbled together a pile of not-so-pounding influences (drone, Krautock, pop) and sets them into car-crash mode. Howling guitars, rocked-up Suicide references, this could be the great crossover Amphetamine Reptile spacerock band if they were around circa 1989. Seriously driving punk rock with intricate, layered structures amidst the raw power. Played live on Brian Turner's show in 2011 (issued as a tour CD), and have a new album out Open Your Heart on Sacred Bones. Perfect way to tear up the evening's finale!
Past WFMU Austin events [2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011] have included: Sun Araw, Kurt Vile, Half Japanese, Mayyors, Los Llamarada, Harvey Milk, Pierced Arrows, Dengue Fever, Cheveu, Kelley Stoltz, Whitehorse, Hank IV, Evangelista, Major Stars, Iron Man, Absu, Woven Hand, Gary War, XYX, Shit & Shine, Gunslingers, Home Blitz, Todd, Moon Duo, the Renderers, Sonny & the Sunsets, El-G, Amen Dunes, the Homosexuals, Lexie Mountain Boys, Psychedelic Horseshit, Gary Higgins, Paul Metzger, The Bad Trips, Citay, the Endtables, Obits, Slough Feg, Elm, Prizehog, Speedwolf, Prizehog, Epileptinomicon, Headdress, and True Widow. So you know it's gonna be a stellar night in 2012! Stop by, grab a poster, dance the night away with WFMU.


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6/6/13 Mets at Nationals: Nationals Park
I didn't know it by how it looked when I left to go to this game, but it would be defined by rain. There wouldn't be any rain when I got there, but the Nationals still didn't take any BP:
So I just sat around and talked to an usher I know in right field and a ballhawk out there until the Mets started hitting. Then David Wright hit a ball that bounced off the warning track. It then hit off a chair in the Red Seats–where I was standing when it came time for the Mets to hit, if you didn't catch that–and bounced right to my glove. It was one of those times where really the ball caught me. Anyway, here's my view of the field when the Mets started hitting:
The ball bounced pretty much between the two guys in red.
And then I got Collin McHugh to toss me a ball that I then immediately gave away to a kid to my left:
(Not the one who is in the last picture, but more on him later.) The next ball I got actually left me mad. I ran into a row as I tracked a Justin Turner home run and watched as the ball flew over my head. Thankfully there wasn't anyone behind me and I could go and pick the ball up:
I then caught a Marlon Byrd home run on the fly, which I'm actually pretty proud of; not because I tracked the ball and made a leaping catch or anything like that, but because right as the ball was coming, a kid in the first row threw his glove in the air, which blocked my view of the ball, but I still got it:
And I then gave it to a kid to my left:
The arrow closest to the field is the kid I gave the ball away to and the second arrow is the kid who threw his glove in the air. And during that same hitting group, it started pouring. And with that, the Mets ran in and batting practice was over:
So in watching a grand total of two groups of BP–roughly an eighth of a total BP– I had snagged four baseballs, which is frustrating because I can only think of how good the numbers I could have put up could have been if I would have had a full BP.
I rushed to the Mets dugout when they first ended BP, but I was too late to get a ball from them. So as the game looked like it was going to be delayed, I walked up to talk to some ushers I knew from last season behind the Mets dugout. I was just planning on saying hi to them and moving on, but I ended up talking to them for a good hour until the game was officially called. Yep, that's right. The game was postponed after what I would say was an hour+ rain delay. They probably would have called it sooner, but teams like to wait a while longer than they actually need in order for people to buy more things at the concession stands. But anyway, after watching the first few picks of the MLB draft on the big screen, this flashed up there:
And at that point I headed through the seats towards the outfield, where I planned to exit. I would have exited through the concourse, but it was a) Packed with people who had retreated up there to get away from the rain, and b) I wanted to see if anyone left their tickets in the stands, so I could possibly have an essentially free ticket to a future game. On my way out, though, I ran into an usher who knows me because he was the one who saw my ear bleeding in my first game back here this season, so talked with him for a couple minutes on what I believed to be was my way out of the stadium. In the time I was talking with him, though, I saw two Mets players coming out to throw just beyond the tarp, so when I was done talking with the usher, I headed back towards foul ground instead of taking off:
Okay, so the person throwing closest to me I could tell was Ricky Bones, but I couldn't tell who the far thrower was, but I figured he was an actual player on the Mets, since two coaches probably wouldn't come out to throw in the rain. The reason I was so far back is that I could tell the ushers at the top of the staircases were being instructed to keep all the fans at the top of the section. That meant that if I would have a very short window of opportunity at the bottom of the section before an usher would come down and tell me to leave. So as the far player started to inch in, and I could tell the catch session was coming to a close, I ran down to the bottom of the steps. Fifteen seconds into me being down there, the security guard on the field closest to the tarp in that last picture told me to go up. I asked him "I can't even stay for a couple seconds to get this ball from them?" To which he responded, "No; you gotta go up."
So I did technically obey his command, but as I sensed the players were done throwing, I first yelled out a request for the ball to Ricky Bones, but the two talked for a couple seconds. So I very slowly backed up the stairs; no doubt angering the security guard who had told me to go up. When the two Mets headed back towards the dugout, the other Mets–who I could now tell was Shawn Marcum–had the ball, so I waved my arms at him from now at least twenty rows deep into the section, and he launched me the ball for now my fifth on the day:
And while I was pretty excited about the ball myself when I got it, I heard a cheer erupt in what I thought was my head when I got the ball, but I turned around to see there was a full section of fans who had been watching the whole thing play out. It was the second loudest cheer I've ever gotten for a ball next to glove tricking a ball from the second deck of Miller Park. And with that, my day of ballhawking ended on five baseballs and I finally headed off home a little earlier than normal still.
- 5 Baseballs at this Game (3 pictured because I gave 2 away)
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- 110 Balls in 25 Games= 4.50 Balls Per Game
- 5 Ball x 36,000 Fans=180,000 Competition Factor
- 88 straight Games with at least 1 Ball
- 148 Balls in 32 Games at Nationals Park= 4.63 Balls Per Game
- 24 straight Games with at least 1 Ball at Nationals Park
- 8 straight Games at Nationals Park with at least 2 Balls
- 6 straight Games at Nationals Park with at least 3 Balls
- 4 straight Games at Nationals Park with at least 4-5 Balls
- Time Spent On Game 3:18-8:55= 5 Hours 37 Minutes


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EMC 2013 Outlook Falls Short, Plans $75 Million Restructuring
Shares of data storage company EMC are falling in pre-market trading this morning as the company reported quarterly earnings that beat expectations and disclosed plans for a corporate restructuring.
Earnings per share were 54 cents, compared with an estimate of 52 cents; sales were $6 billion versus an expectation of $5.98 billion. But its outlook for 2013 missed expectations. Earnings will be $1.85 a share this year, short of the $1.90 analysts were expecting, on expected sales of $23.5 billion.
EMC also announced plans for a corporate restructuring that will include a reduction in force, though it didn't say how many people will be affected. The plan will be completed by the end of the first quarter of the year. EMC said it expects to take an $80 million charge for restructuring costs.
It also said that VMware, the software unit of which it is a majority shareholder, will also restructure in order to streamline its operations. It expects to take a charge in the range of $70 million to $80 million to reduce personnel. It said yesterday that job cuts could reach 900. Another charge said to be in the range of $20 million to $30 million will cover costs associated with exiting certain lines of business.
EMC shares fell more than 4 percent in pre-market trading to $24.10. Shares of VMware are down more than 18 percent to $80.36.


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Located on the Costa Teguise just 200m away from the Playa de las Cucharas beach, the H10 Lanzarote Gardens has apartments outfitted with a full range of home comforts, and it includes two bars, a buffet restaurant, swimming pools, tennis courts and everything needed for unforgettable holidays. And for the children, the H10 Family Club programme has lots of activities for them to enjoy
Overview and HistoryThe Canary Islands lie off the west coast of Africa and exist as an autonomous community belonging to Spain.There are seven major islands in the archipelago and one minor island, then several small pointy bits which grumble about their diminutive status. The big ones are Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, La Palma, Lanzarote, El Hierro, and La Gomera.The whole group is the result of volcanic activity from 60 million years ago, which is why the beaches have black sand for you to crunch along on. There are no active volcanos at the moment, but one never knows. Another way to say it is that these islands are part of the Atlas Mountain range which can be traced across northern Africa.At one point in the 16th century the islands were called "the sugar islands" for their production of cane sugar. The economy has since developed wineries, agriculture and now tourism as principal activity.Getting ThereThe Canary Islands have six airports in total. Here's a quick reference for the airports. The main international airport is Gran Canaria Airport, the gateway to the islands. It's 18km south of Las Palmas and has EU, International and Inter-Island terminals.TransportationHighway maintenance to the Canary Islands is sorely lacking, ha ha. Ferry service connects the islands to each other, but you can also take a small plane to hop between them.On the islands you can rent a car but be sure to carry your passport and license with you all the time. People ride bikes and take the guagua bus to get around. (It's pronounced "wa-wa".) Bus schedules can be infrequent or sporadic. Tenerife and Gran Canaria have impressive public transport systems that cover most of their islands.People and CultureThe Canary currency is the Euro; the islands are one of the farthest outlaying regions of the Euro zone.The culture is undoubtedly Spanish, but the mainland custom of kissing on both cheeks when you say hello can be abbreviated to only one kiss. You need quick reflexes to get it right. There's an accent that's a little bit different from mainland, and not quite the same as South American spanish either. The saying is that islanders talk "with potatos in their mouth" because of their lazy-sounding pronunciation.Things to do, RecommendationsHere's a basic look at the main islands. The way we see it, if you need directions for how to have fun on a tropical island full of fruit and fish, you're beyond our help.The largest island is Tenerife with about two thousand square kilometers and a wide variety of plant life and terrain. It is home to the highest point "in Spain", the volcano El Teide at 3718 meters. Tenerife has excellent weather all year round, with a wide variety of terrain and vegetation including crops such as bananas, tomatos and potatos.La Palma does not have very many beaches, and they are not very long. Two popular ones are in Puerto Naos on the west side, and Los Cancajos on the east. Most of the island is a biological reserve. It's known as "the green island"; come here for the mountains, sweet bananas and vineyards.On Gran Canaria you can choose from endless sandy beaches, dunes, mountains and also lush green scenery. This island is home to more than half the population of the Canary Islands.Fuertaventura has the oldest history. Homer mentioned it in his brief travel guide called "The Odyssey." Its name may come from the expression "What a great adventure!", or possibly, "strong wind." It's only separated from continental Africa by a narrow channel. Fuertaventura has the longest of all the beaches, and wonderful fine sand.Lanzarote is a Biosphere Reserve under UNESCO declaration, and comprises one of the six universal models of sustainable development according to the World Tourism Organization. Lanzarote is the farthest East of the major islands and has a year-round average temperature of 22 degrees C.La Gomera sports a National Park with dense forestation, crossed by deep ravines and surrounded by a perimeter of cliffs along most of the coast. Islanders have a special whistling language to communicate across the gorges in the forest.Text by Steve Smith.


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However, just because a charity is registered in the US doesn't mean that it can't work overseas. In fact, we have a whole category of international charities. It contains more than 550 charities that work throughout the world to defend human rights, to promote peace and understanding among all nations, and to provide relief and development services.
And we have nearly 1,000 charities on our site whose scope of work is international. Those charities cut across all of our 9 categories of charities – from Animals to Religion.
If you can't find an international charity that matches your philanthropic interests via one of those lists, then check out our interactive world map. It will help you to identify which 4-star charities are working in specific countries around the world.


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United States accuses Soviets of using poison gas
The United States government issues a public statement accusing the Soviet Union of using poison gas and chemical weapons in its war against rebel forces in Afghanistan. The accusation was part of the continuing U.S. criticism of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
Since sending troops into Afghanistan in 1979 in an attempt to prop up a pro-Soviet communist government, the Soviet Union had been on the receiving end of an unceasing string of criticism and diplomatic attacks from the United States government. First the Carter administration, and then the Reagan administration, condemned the Soviets for their intervention in a sovereign nation. Because of the issue, arms control talks had been tabled, the United States had boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, and diplomatic tension between America and Russia reached alarming proportions.
Reports that the Soviets were using poison gas and chemical weapons in Afghanistan only intensified the heightened tensions. The U.S. government's official statement charged that over 3,000 Afghans had been killed by weapons, including "irritants, incapacitants, nerve agents, phosgene oxime and perhaps mycotoxins, mustard, lewisite and toxic smoke." Evidence to support these charges was largely anecdotal and a number of U.S. scientists had serious doubts about the data put forward by the Reagan administration. Some critics charged that the accusations were a smokescreen behind which the United States could go forward with further development and stockpiling of its own chemical weapons arsenal.
The U.S. attack must have seemed mildly ironic to the Soviets, who had pilloried America for the use of defoliants and other chemical weapons during its war in Vietnam. By 1982, many Americans were referring to Afghanistan as "Russia's Vietnam."


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Tender meat… bulging and exploding with a surprise inside. All you have to do is put it in your mouth.
Juicy, sticky, sweet and warm.
Would you like to nibble a lean little hunk? Or get your hands on something fleshy and chunky? Ooh, naughty: You want both at the same time, don't you.
Opened wide. Ready, willing. Waiting.
Or do you like it raw? Glistening and pink?
What a tease… Encouraging you to finger those folds.
Put your tongue inside, where it's moist and delicious.
Oozing. Just for you. You know you want it.
Biting is allowed… encouraged.
Can't you feel your heart race? It's dripping and luscious, waiting to be penetrated. [Ugh, Dodai, I'm blushing. -Ed.]
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General insurance or non-life insurance policies, including automobile and homeowners policies, provide payments depending on the loss from a particular financial event. General insurance is typically defined as any insurance that is not determined to be life insurance. It is called Property insurance and Casualty insurance insurance in the United States and Canada and non-life insurance in Continental Europe.
In the United Kingdom, insurance is broadly divided into three areas: personal lines, commercial lines and London market.
The London market insures large commercial risks such as supermarkets, football players and other very specific risks. It consists of a number of insurers, reinsurers, Protection and indemnity insurance, brokers and other companies that are typically physically located in the City of London. Lloyd's of London is a big participant in this market.http://www.iii.org/commerciallines/global/lloyds/ The London market also participates in personal lines and commercial lines, domestic and foreign, through reinsurance.
Commercial lines products are usually designed for relatively small legal entities. These would include workers' compensation (employers liability), public liability, product liability, commercial fleet and other general insurance products sold in a relatively standard fashion to many organisations. There are many companies that supply comprehensive commercial insurance packages for a wide range of different industries, including shops, restaurants and hotels.
Personal lines products are designed to be sold in large quantities. This would include auto insurance (private car), home insurance (household), pet insurance, creditor insurance and others.
ACORD, which is the insurance industry global standards organization, has standards for personal and commercial lines and has been working with the Australian General Insurers to develop those XML standards, standard applications for insurance, and certificates of currency.


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#4457 ThickWild Black Cherry Live Edge Slab
Length = 82"
Width = 10 1/2" at narrowest to 13 1/2" at widest
Thickness = 1 7/16"
All measurements at approximate (+ or - ¼ inch).
Kiln Dried
Two-Side planed (will need finish planning and sanding)
Great for table/bar top or bench
Some of these slabs have open knots, cracks, and wane in some spots, so please look carefully at the piece before purchase. I wouldn't want anyone to get anything they didn't want. Sides of the lumber are not finished. These cherry slabs come from northern NY where gypsy moths have defoliated the trees. This has left a dark streak through the wood, which gives these slabs a very unique character. mineral has been applied for the pictures seen, minerals spirits were used to bring out the grain of the lumber.
Shipping Information:
some of the pieces are long and i will be glad to cut them shorter to make shipping costs cheaper. We use UPS and try to ship orders the next day after payment. All shipping costs are the buyers responsibility and there is a $3.00 handling fee. I would be more than happy to combine shipping to save you money on shipping costs for orders up to 60 lbs. I need to know ahead of time if you want me to combine orders, and have 7 business days to do so (if you are going to combine orders, please do not pay for your purchases until you have notified me on the number of orders you want). Then I can send you a combined shipping invoice. You have 30 days to make returns and shipping costs are at the buyers expense.
***Since we have the same products list on our whitecreekcraftlumber website, we will try and keep the inventory lists on each site the same, but sometimes there may be a delay in the deletion of products on one or the other. If you purchase an item that has, for example, been purchased on our website and not yet deleted from eBay, we will notify you as soon as possible so you can find another product.
Also, visit our Facebook Page to see new products and what people are building with them! www.facebook.com/whitecreekcraftlumber
If you have a problem with your item, please contact me first before leaving negative feedback and I will do my best to make you happy!
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Here I am with another pop quiz for you. In this edition, I hope to get a little basic knowledge out to all of you on electrical safety. I'm not looking to go into a lecture on this topic today, let alone any day. I just want to find new ways to get knowledge to the masses and perhaps do it in a different and/or more entertaining manner.
So, without further ado…please enjoy!
Electrical Safety Pop Quiz
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8" marble clock decorated and assembled in Rhode Island, USA from the best available components world-wide. Clocks are equipped with a battery operated mechanism and are ready to hang or display on our cast-iron display easel (included).
Marble imported from Turkey. carved from large marble blocks, no two tiles will ever be alike. Variations in coloring, small fissures and tumbling all add to the beauty of this natural stone.
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Hellooooooooooo, I'm hoping if I post here then Thorne might receive an email informing them that this thread has had a reply!
We've just discovered that you have got some more books published and I want to buy a few! I've been looking on amazon and they retail your books for sale for about £18. There are some other retailers that have it for cheaper on the same site, however I want to check with you first that you will get the same cut no matter whom I buy from? I don't want to punish 3K authors by buying cheaper and stopping you from getting a fair share!


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This Diebenkorn from 1957 captures the visual sensation of traveling in a fast car on an empty freeway—an experience you're unlikely to have anywhere in Southern California for 53 infamous hours this weekend.
If you live in central Los Angeles and you're planning to be penned in by this weekend's epic car-pocalypse, fear not. There are various efficient and often pleasant ways to reach the museum without going near a freeway.
Metro is running extra buses during the freeway closure. The 720 Metro Rapid Wilshire bus is free all weekend and stops on the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax, half a block west of our main entrance. (We've even got benches to sit on while you wait for the bus, thanks to the recent improvements to the façade of LACMA West.)
As someone who bicycles to work, I recommend two-wheeled alternatives. (Little-known fact: In Los Angeles, it is legal to cycle on the sidewalk, as long as you do so slowly and respect the safety of those on foot.) Check out bike maps via LADOT—the one for Central City and Westside suggests various routes to reach LACMA.
You could take a helicopter to LACMA, if you prefer to be airborne and can afford the ticket. One local tour operator is even offering helicopter tours over the 405, complete with champagne.
Once you've solved the matter of how to get here, you'll probably want to stay awhile before braving city streets again. Between 11 am and 8 pm both days, you can take respite in our air-conditioned galleries, enjoy a Burton-inspired monster matinee (The Thing, 2 pm on Saturday), hear some live music for free, bring the kids for storytelling, and grab a meal in our new restaurant before catching one of our current exhibitions.
Meanwhile, let other visitors know how you reached LACMA this weekend via Twitter, #lacmaroute.
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Our department is very proactive in mentoring our students. Through classroom discussions, out-of-class meetings, departmental social events, phone calls, and e-mails, we work hard to help our students make the most of their education. We connect our students interested in particular fields with alumni working in those areas. Beginning in their first year, we inform and advise students on valuable enrichment opportunities, such as research programs, conferences, and study abroad.
Our faculty members have a wide range of expertise and interests. You will investigate a range of topics in pure and applied mathematics. Our faculty members have special interests in applied graph theory, computation theory, differential equations and mathematical modeling, mathematics education, number theory, and statistics.
Our students have the chance to become involved in research both on and off campus. Several projects enable students to participate in and present their work at academic and professional conferences on campus and around the country.
Student research topics have included origami, Galois groups, computer chip layouts, DNA nanostructures, space robotics, HIV infection models, and professional soccer league possession analysis. Some of our students have been able to research, study, and present at such schools and venues as Brigham Young University, Mathematical Association of America meetings such as the summer MathFest, and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Our students and faculty have received grants and funding for their research from such organizations as: Vermont Consortium for Language and Academics, The Vermont Genetics Network, The Louisville Institute, Vermont EPSCoR, National Security Agency, NASA, and the National Science Foundation.
Most of our majors participate in the annual Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference (HRUMC).
This one-day conference celebrates undergraduate mathematics research with students and faculty from across the Northeast, and provides students with the experience of attending and presenting at a professional mathematics meeting. There are also exciting plenary talks by nationally renowned mathematicians, and career and graduate school panel discussions. This is a great opportunity to meet a wide range of other students also excited about mathematics. Each year, several of our students present their advanced work in mathematics, computer science, statistics, and more.
Many of our students take part in Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) programs over the summer. These opportunities enable our students to learn the fundamentals of mathematics research and to explore the many applications of math in the real world. Our students have recently participated in programs at Texas A&M, University of Georgia, George Washington University, Northern Arizona University, Claremont Colleges, and Princeton University/the Institute for Advanced Study.
We host a variety of talks and lectures by distinguished guests and alumni as a part of our regular Colloquium Series. Some recent titles include: "Counting Self-Intersection Points of Loops on Surfaces," "Symmetry and the Monster: Mathematics as the Ultimate Complex System," "Graphs and Symmetry," "Differences in Global Mathematics Education," "Mathematics of Juggling", "Chaos and the Mathematics of Prediction," and "The Shape of Space."
Our Alumni Panels offer the chance for our math students to hear from and talk with math alumni who are using their degrees in different ways. Panelists share their career paths and/or graduate school experience, and give advice to students.
Saint Michael's also co-hosts a joint Combinatorics Seminar Series with the University of Vermont that brings together academic and industry researchers to discuss the theory and applications of combinatorics.
Mathematics has been a cornerstone of the liberal arts for millennia and remains a critical field in the 21st century.Along with pursuing the math major at Saint Michael's, you can choose to minor or double major in another field. Many of mathematics majors also take Saint Michael's courses in education, economics, computer science, engineering, as well as the lab sciences.
Saint Michael's is home to the Vermont Alpha Chapter of Pi Mu Epsilon (PME), the National Mathematics Honors Society. PME currently has over 340 chapters at colleges and universities throughout the United States. Math students who meet the requirements can be inducted into the society during their junior or senior year. We have regular events, such as an annual induction ceremony and reception, special speakers, and recognition at graduation.
Our spring semester math seminar courses offer opportunities to study and present on compelling topics in the math field. Our two most recent seminars focused on environmental issues related to water and the mathematics of games. Our fall semester special topics courses provide the opportunity to study mathematical fields not considered in our normal course sequence. Future topics planned are topology, graph theory, and population dynamics.
Our graduates excel in a range of professional fields including:
Our alumni attend graduate school in mathematics, statistics, and other fields at places such as the University of Minnesota, Clarkson University, Colorado State University, North Carolina State University, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Maine, and the University of Vermont.


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Since September 2001, MichiganVotes.org has allowed residents to track and better understand the activities of the Michigan Legislature. This first-of-its-kind Web site give users instant, free access to objective, plain-language descriptions of every bill introduced, amendment added and vote taken by representatives in Lansing. MichiganVotes.org has received acclaim from lawmakers across the political spectrum as well as from the news media.
Mackinac Center Legal Foundation
The Mackinac Center Legal Foundation is a public interest law firm that advances individual freedom and the rule of law in Michigan. The Foundation uses strategic litigation and education of the public to secure the liberties of Michigan's residents, workers, students and entrepreneurs. The Legal Foundation also provides the courts with amicus curiae — or "friend of the court" — briefs that explore the broader constitutional, statutory and public policy considerations at stake in these cases.


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Project Proposals for 2013
Proposals for 2013 are listed here, categorized in the following technology areas:
See CEWG Open Project Proposal 2013 for details about submitting a proposal.
Also, see here for details about this year's selected projects.
Boot Technologies / Boot Time
File systems
- More robust UBIFS support
- Improve UBI user space tools
- Implement scatter-gather lists support in UBI and UBIFS
Power Management
System Size
Exception Handling
Test and Debug
- Overwrite detection for kernel text and read-only data
- Kernel module binary compatibility with debug features
- Setup LTSI Testing/Validation infrastructure
- Improve devm_* and get rid of boilerplate code
- Mainline synaptics touchscreen driver
- Add device-tree support to pn544 NFC driver
- Fix IRQ Domain DT support issues and gpio IRQ


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Ferry man: Working on the weekends
Since 1870, the Hatton Ferry has been helping folks cross the James River one gentle float at a time. What was once a major throughway from Albemarle to Buckingham and back has become a weekend excursion for day-trippers.
Now sponsored by VDOT and the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society, the free ride is provided by 25-year-old Ashley Pillar. An AHS graduate, Pillar studied aviation in college, worked railroads last summer, and now spends his weekend plying the James.
The job seems simple enough. The ferry is tethered to a steel cable across the river. Ashley cranks the bow side up, which points the ferry towards the current. Water presses alongside the boat, propelling it across the river. Getting back is a little tougher, as the calm water gives little "umph," so Ashley uses a large pole to push the barge back across until it catches enough current to propel itself.
The science is simple, but the experience is much more complex. We live in a world of modern conveniences. No one uses the ferry much anymore, since we can now drive across bridges.
However taking the ferry allows time to touch base not only with the water, but also with the ferry operator. It's something that brings a little humanity to a daily commuter world.
Watching Ashley pole the barge back home after delivering a single driver safely on the far bank, you notice satisfaction in his face. It may be a simple feat, but that's all it takes to cross some obstacles in life.
Ashley Pillar, only the 8th or 9th ferry operator since 1870
This was a slow day on the river.
The ferry landing is also the pick-up spot for tubers, dude.
Ashley Pillar mans the winch to steer the ferry forward. What a beast!