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Tara Brach is a celebrated teacher and activist who founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington fifteen years ago. In February Brach released her new book True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart,the follow up to the book that made her famous, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha.
So I drove out to her house deep in the woods of Northern Virginia – an actual fox trotted up her driveway just as I arrived – to talk with her about her work, her life, and what it's like to walk a spiritual path. This is the final installment in an ongoing series.
Beandrea: You have said that therapists are like the shamans of our time. What do you mean by that?
Brach: Most everyone I know has encountered something difficult where having someone else that is trustworthy and wise helped them to begin to unpack it, unfold it, digest it. We all need other people, and sometimes, skilled others that can help us. I think of it as like sangha [community]. It's taking refuge in loving relationships. Psychotherapy – that's one form of loving relationship that can be really helpful.
Beandrea: As a psychotherapist, what do you think mindfulness has to offer traditional psychotherapy?
Brach:: There is a huge kind of synergy going on between the worlds of meditation and psychotherapy. Psychologists want to know how to train in mindfulness, and it is being integrated into [traditional] psychotherapy. I did a whole training for therapists on how to start integrating these practices. There's usually more attention to the stories often in the traditional forms of psychotherapy, which is fine, and even in mediation you can use a story as a portal into an experience. But in meditation what you're doing is you're training yourself, so that even when you're not with a therapist you have a way to pause and really discover what is going on inside you. You're not dependent on a therapist to help you unpack your own experience.
I have found that for most kinds of emotional suffering unless you allow yourself compassion there's not going to be any real shift. When we're learning to take refuge in the present moment, it's recognizing and allowing what's going on, it's beginning to inquire, it's the self-compassion.
What allows us to have self-compassion is when we really get that we're suffering. When I get, 'Oh I'm really down on myself, and that hurts.' And I don't say, 'well other people have it worse.' or, 'well but I deserve to be down on myself. I should really get my act together.'
Brach:: No, not at all. For some of the stories you heard the story over a few years and if you had caught them in year one and a half, I would've said still struggling, and even after the happy ending still struggling because the patterns still emerge, there's just more of a capacity to know 'Oh this is what's going on and I can handle it.' I still get into slumps. I get scared. I can turn on myself and feel bad about myself. I feel guilty. All that stuff still comes up, there's just less lag time until I recognize what's going on and say 'okay, come back, come back.' I don't believe so much in the story my mind is telling me.
Beandrea: It seems to me that's what is different from self-help writ large where the idea is 'make over your life and everything will be better.' This is a radically different thing, which is saying 'well your life may or may not get better necessarily but you'll be able to handle it or you'll be able to cope with a different way.'
Brach:: When you start training in mindful awareness and you start loosening the grip and start letting things be as they are, in a way you feel like your world is falling apart. You're no longer so confident that you're right about certain things. That people should do things a certain way. All your shoulds come into question. It's like the world is turning topsy-turvy and it can feel a little insane. That's a sign of increasing freedom. And if you have the courage to tolerate the uncertainty you start finding out in a much more deep way this aliveness, this richness, this mystery of who you are. But it takes tolerating uncertainty so it's groundlessness. And at first it feels really scary, and then it starts feeling spacious and freeing.
Beandrea: To some activists who are concerned about the world, finding peace within doesn't seem to be enough. How would you respond to that?
Brach: Spiritual life includes activism. I really don't think it's enough to just sit on the cushions. I think that to be congruent we need to sit on the cushion and then when we are talking with each other to live that kindness and to be generous and to expand. And you know one of the interesting things when you start researching compassion the parts of the brain that light up when you start to awaken compassion are in the motor cortex. Which means not only do you feel this tenderness of 'oh you're suffering, I care about it,' but there's actually an impetus to move and do something about it. So it's the same thing with any spiritual practice. It's just like you are awakening the conscious and the natural expression of that is to reach out.
For me right now the major project that I'm excited about is bringing mindfulness into the school systems, and we're doing a teacher training, a mindfulness teacher training here with 65 people in the Washington area…We are also working on a program to help the prisons. So I don't separate it so much. I just feel like each of us is finding our own form of expression. If you don't wake up and cultivate awareness then all the activism in the world is going to eventually seed the same violence and greed, but if you can do it from a more awake place there's the possibility of it really serving the healing of our world.
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Tara Brach is a celebrated teacher and activist who founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington fifteen years ago. In February Brach released her new book True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart,the follow up to the book that made her famous, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha.
So I drove out to her house deep in the woods of Northern Virginia – an actual fox trotted up her driveway just as I arrived – to talk with her about her work, her life, and what it's like to walk a spiritual path. This is the third installment in an ongoing series.
Beandrea: Your work reminds me think of this quote from Jacob Needleman: "Seeing yourself as you really are is a great healing force, but in self help you're chiefly working on the self you see. Spiritual change takes place when the seer, and not merely what is seen begins to change and deepen." And that seems to be just what you're just talking about. No quick fixes, right?
Brach: Yes, you're not trying to make yourself into a better person. You're trying to come home to who is really here, and that just takes time.
Beandrea: A lot of people today who just start meditating because they heard it would be good for them. Or you know they went to a mindfulness-based stress reduction class or come to your Wednesday night classes on River Road. What do you think about that?
Brach: People come for all different reasons, and there are definitely some people that are just really stressed out, and they get it, that if they do the mental exercise and meditation, their minds are going to shift to a place where there's just a little bit more peace and freedom. And then some people come because there's this very deep impression that who they are is mysterious and way more than they have really been spending time tending to. I find it doesn't matter what level people are coming at, if you just start training your mind to be here, in that experience you find the silence. And you find the skills, and in that you find tenderness. You find that presence and reality itself is what wins you over. It's what we're longing for. And so that's why I always say we're not meditating to improve ourselves so we can become something different. Meditation actually deconditions all this chatter and reactivity so that we can relax back into who we actually are.
Beandrea: A hundred years or two hundred years from now it will be interesting to see what people say about this time we're in. There is so much access to all these teachings that weren't widely practiced or known about, and you had to go to the ashram or the monastery to learn about them.
Brach: And that is what's so interesting about right now. It's actually so out of the closet now. I mean even ten or fifteen years ago I would talk about meditation, and it was like this far out exotic thing. Now there have been over 10,000 research projects validating meditation. There are brain scans showing that when you direct your attention this way it correlates in your brain that way with positive emotion. No matter what we think mystically, training the mind to pay attention actually changes your mood. It changes your brain chemistry. It cultivates empathy and compassion. So science has really brought it into mainstream. Unlike anything else could have.
Beandrea: In reading True Refuge you talk about how our brains are wired to hang onto negative experiences and the positive ones are like Teflon. I felt relieved reading that.
Brach: You said 'I'm not alone!'
Beandrea: Right, yes, and it's not my fault! It's just how I was made, you know? There's so much emphasis on thinking positive these days.
Brach: I have found so many people get a glimmer of True Refuge through meditation, but then they quit because in some way the way the meditation structure they are given leaves them feeling like they're not very good at it. People come to me to confide, 'I'm really not cut out for this. I have a busy mind.' As if they're the only person in the world, and they're confessing it. It's really important to say right out front that the way that our brains are designed is to leave the present moment. It is part of our genetic inheritance to keep vigilant, to keep scanning our environment, to move to the future, to move into the past, to be a virtual reality. In our design we get lost in thoughts, and the more stressed the more quickly, it's like being on bicycle, we start peddling away from that present and get lost in that virtual reality. So we're going against the conditioning of our psyches, but the good news is we actually have what's called self-reflective awareness – the capacity to notice that.
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Tara Brach is a celebrated teacher and activist who founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington fifteen years ago. This month Brach released her new book True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart,the follow up to the book that made her famous, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha.
So I drove out to her house deep in the woods of Northern Virginia – an actual fox trotted up her driveway just as I arrived – to talk with her about her work, her life, and what it's like to walk a spiritual path. This is the second of four installments.
Beandrea: You often talk about the "trance of unworthiness" or the "trance of the small self." Would you explain where this comes from?
Brach: On some level I always felt that I was letting somebody down. That I wasn't enough as a mother or enough as a friend, a parent, a daughter. I was seeing it in myself and then as a psychotherapist with clients. Whomever I was working with, if we started looking below whatever the presenting issue was, there was that same sense of 'I'm not good enough. I'm not enough.'
I started asking myself 'well how come we feel that way? How does that happen?' On one level we could say there's an existential predicament, where any being that comes into existence feels separate. It's almost like there's this membrane where inside the membrane is 'me,' and everything else in the world is 'out there,' and hand in hand with that is the sense that something can go wrong. The primal mood of the separate self is fear. There's a sense of 'something's wrong or something is going to wrong,' and then through our personal history we sense that the something wrong is me. That 'I am going to go wrong.' And we blame it on other people too.
Some of us got more of those messages than others. Some of us were neglected, traumatized, abused. Depending on how severe the early experience of stress was, the transfer of abuse is thicker.
So with Radical Acceptance, to the degree that we can be aware, the sense of who we are enlarges and we're not caught inside the trance. Radical Acceptance has two wings. One is to notice what's happening. Okay, notice 'feeling ashamed,' notice thoughts of 'I'm going to fail.' And the second way is hold that with kindness and compassion.
Beandrea: I'm struck by the whole notion of how we're taught to be good in society. The idea that you have to be educated, to strive and climb ladders, and that amps up that trance even more. That's the sign that a person is doing well, that they are in the trance you're describing.
Brach: Exactly. We have a culture where in order to belong you have to strive and you have achieve and you have to meet certain standards no matter what you're doing. You have to have a certain kind of intelligence that matches our culture's idea. Even though there are many, many kinds of intelligence, and for everybody that doesn't have that kind of intelligence, they end up with that stamp of 'not really smart.'
Beandrea: In your new book True Refuge, you talk about false refuges. You've already named some, but what are some of the common false refuges that people get caught in?
Brach: We all have our strategies for trying to make it. I often think of it like a space suit. We come into this world, and there are all these standards you're supposed to meet, and you're supposed to be a certain way, and it's hard, and so to defend ourselves and prove ourselves we all take on strategies to make it through the day. They are false refuges because it's a temporary fix. We feel better for the moment, but they don't last.
An example is getting everything done. We have this thing where if we can just get things done, if we can check things off of a list, then we'll be happy. But I can speak for myself, as soon as I've gotten something done I get a reprieve of maybe seventeen seconds. My mind is immediately fixed on what next needs to be done. So the self-soothing of getting things done is really temporary. Now sometimes we achieve certain things that give us a little bit more of a ride, but anyone that's trying to achieve to feel okay about themselves will keep on having to achieve. There's never enough.
Beandrea: So you notice in that seventeen seconds you're being drawn to do another thing on the list. Do you then, mindfully do the next thing? Do you just notice that you want to do that next thing? Walk us through that discernment process.
Brach: So the first step is just noticing it, and then what you do when you notice is note that there is a false refuge in play. There's a wonderful phrase that Victor Frankel says, which is "Between the stimulus and the response, there is a space, and in that space is our power and our freedom." So the awareness when we recognize the false refuge creates a space. A little pause, and that makes all the difference. In that pause you may be able to decide to do something different. Or you may realize there's still a real pull, but at least you can move through the false refuge with more awareness and be less identified with it.
Beandrea: So how you do that second thing on the to-do list matters? That you're doing it from a different place?
Brach: Yes. Because if you're more awake, if you're more mindful, then you're here, but if you're in this trance of 'I have got to get this done so that I can do that, so that I can feel better about this,' you've missed out on your life.
Beandrea: And with the compassion and acceptance piece, even if you notice that you're running to that second item on the to-do list and you're still feeling stressed and anxious, there's the compassion of 'Today I'm not able to slow down and do that, but maybe someday I will.'
Brach: That's essential. If you don't, if you look at the false refuges like bad things that you have to overcome then it's just another way of doing the trance. It's patterning that got set in at a very early age. It was the best we could do at the time. It has its own organic time of releasing, but all you can do is offer presence, and then sometimes out of that presence there will actually be some sense of, 'Well I actually don't feel like I need to do that.'
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So I drove out to her house deep in the woods of Northern Virginia – an actual fox trotted up her driveway just as I arrived – to talk with her about her work, her life, and what it's like to walk a spiritual path.
Beandrea: Ten years passed between your first and second books, and a lot changed in your life. How you were affected during that time?
Brach: When I wrote Radical Acceptance the suffering I was addressing a lot was how much people struggle with a sense of not okay self, that feeling of 'something's wrong with me.' In True Refuge basically is about understanding that all of us on some level are saying, 'Help, I need to find a way to deal with the difficulty of life.' And certainly one layer is the sense of something's wrong with me. But there's a much, perhaps more, fundamental or deep kind of struggle that we face which is really getting that our bodies are going. That we're losing beings that we love. That everything that matter to us will pass. And so how do you make peace with the uncertainty? How do you make peace with the reality that we can't control anything?
Beandrea: You grew up Unitarian. Was spirituality and/or religion something important in your upbringing?
Brach: No, not at all. I grew up in a very humanistic kind of family. My parents, their values were deeply about how to help the suffering on Earth. And so they were very committed to contributing to the humans of the world. And so it was a very liberal, progressive kind of religion committed to social justice basically and peace. So I grew up on more that milieu of very, very liberal left family that wanted to make a difference. But then of course I also grew up when there was a lot of drugs, and a lot of exploration of consciousness, and that's what grabbed me. The realization that the reality that we were living in was very thin layer of the truth of what was, and there was this fascination with what was reality. Who am I really?
Beandrea: I was struck by that you decided after college to go into an ashram. How did that come about for you?
Brach: When I was in college I was very involved with radical leftist activities, tenants rights work and again social justice peace work, but I also started doing yoga and I was also doing psychedelic drugs, and the combination of the experiences I had doing yoga which really altered my state of mind and psychedelics, again just something opened and I realized there was this world that I wanted to experience and that I needed to throw myself into some forms of spiritual practice to keep opening that up.
Beandrea: How did you find your way to this particular ashram?
Brach:There were a few people teaching yoga on campus, and it happened that they were Sikhs wearing the white garb and turbans and they taught a form of yoga, Kundalini yoga. It was a pretty quick match for me because it's a very energetic, dynamic form of yoga that was very enlivening. Very quickly I could sense the opening of consciousness. That really grabbed me. I liked the vigorousness of it, the engagement.
I was not looking for religion. I was really just looking for a way of practicing yoga that would just wake me up. And so I found my way to an ashram, and I was a little surprised by the religiosity of it. It took me a lot to adapt to that because, again, I had come from this very liberal, not religious background, so I was in it for the yoga and I found that it came with a religion. So I would say that a lot of years of my time in an ashram what kept me there was I was a very dedicated yogi. I described myself as a Type A yogi. I would say I was over ambitious. So the yoga kept having its effects, but I always bristled a little at some of the religious parts that were not necessarily a fit for me.
Beandrea: When you look back now on being in the ashram, what stands out to you?
Brach: A number of things. I mean one piece of being in an ashram is that I loved the camaraderie of all of us really passionate about spiritual practice and about just discovering more of these states of heart and mind that were right and alive and peaceful and beautiful. We would get up early together and there was something very beautiful about our shared commitment. We worked together and we were young and idealistic and we had this sense that we were doing something that was really pure and beautiful and good and was going to help other people. We taught other people yoga. Our restaurant served really delicious food. So there was a sense of this shared vision, and an extended family of people that had this beautiful commitment, and we had a lot of fun. There was a lot of humor and there was a lot of generosity and a lot of care. There was real beauty. When I say the religion didn't really quite match, there were parts of the religious practices that were totally beautiful. The chanting together was devotional and I loved it. What I didn't like was there was certain rigidity and that it was hierarchical, and that we were told what to do from the top down.
There were a lot of rules — some of which I didn't think were that wise or good. It was somewhat male-dominated. Even though there were some women in a lot of power, it had a common male-dominated feeling. We weren't free politically to continue to express ourselves and work for the causes we really liked. It had to all be within the frame of the organization, and ultimately I found that some of the ideals we believed in weren't being lived and weren't being walked by our leader, and that has happened in many many organizations. There were different kinds of abuse that ended up making me feel like I could no longer participate.
Beandrea: In Radical Acceptance you talk about how you eventually broke with the ashram and how that led you on your path that opened up your whole life as a teacher.
Brach: I felt like my life in the ashram was also a good and rich spiritual life, and I was learning and growing, but there was more to unfold and leaving the ashram let me kind of listen inwardly and find my way to what else wanted to unfold itself. I have an enduring respect for my friends who are still a part of it because they are absolutely dedicated to living and giving and growing.
Beandrea: Then it was after you left the ashram that you encountered Insight meditation and the teacher Joseph Goldstein right?
Brach: Yes, I started reading even while I was still in the ashram. I was reading books like Chogyam Trungpa's Shambhala which I love, and Be Here Now [by Ram Dass], and Zen Mind Beginner's Mind [by Shunryu Suzuki], and Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield's Seeking the Heart of Wisdom. I went to a 10-day meditation retreat up at the Insight Meditation Society [in Barre, Massachusetts].
Brach: Right away – I think it was the second day of the retreat – I remember this sense of 'Oh, okay so this is my path.' And when I said that it wasn't so much 'Oh I am a Buddhist.' It was more this way of paying attention, of cultivating a mindful awareness, cultivating compassion. Because the difference was in the ashram the mediation was all very directed, more of a yogic, more concentrated practice. You concentrate on a mantra, concentrate on your breath. Whereas in Buddhist meditation, at least in the style that I've mostly been trained in and that I teach which is Vipassana, the practice is really just to notice what is actually happening moment to moment. The difference is that when you stop controlling your intention and open to what is happening in the moment, you can actually see the nature of reality. You can actually see what's true. You're not manipulating or controlling or directing anything, you're simply a wakeful presence. So it was a whole new evolution in my experience, a whole new level of unfolding.
This is the first installment of a four-part interview.
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Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom. -Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Thank goodness! March 19th is the first official day of spring.
As we say goodbye to winter, this day marks a time of balance.
Night and day are now of equal length.
Again I say, 'Thank goodness!'


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When you watch old science fiction movies, you can see the clichés of the 21st century. Of course, before they became clichés they were first innovative… sometimes frightening... ideas. One of the constant themes of "sci-fi" is imagining how the future will unwind. From the 30s and on, 20th Century science fiction produced a lot of stories about what it would be like to live in the 21st century, and beyond. The usual cast of characters in these stories included: computers that take over the world, flying cars or rockets to your home, robots that become self-aware (usually not a good thing), rockets into space and bases on the moon. We're now in the 2nd decade of the 20th century, and it's not quite what those sci-fi movies told us it would be. The US space program is on hold, and we retired our last US built working spacecraft in 2011. Moon bases (and missions to mars) are off the budget until the economy is much better. Don't get me started on flying cars! I'd just like to go to an airport where I don't have to take my shoes off! And yet, there is one thing that we were promised that we're just getting. Supercomputers!
Even before the 21st Century, there were hundreds of millions of computers in use around the world. However, we've learned that as amazing as these machines are, they have their limits. It takes a massive amount of processing power to do some functions. Such as predicting the weather, which has huge implications for agriculture. And for avoiding weather related disasters like Hurricane Katrina. Or accurately predicting the path of a tsunami after an earthquake. After the devastating Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004, perhaps as many as 300,000 people were killed. While the tsunami swept under the oceans, creating tidal waves where it touched land, one scientist was running a prototype application to predict where lives would be lost. Unfortunately, the only computer at his disposal was a laptop. As amazing as laptops are, it lacked the processing power to predict where the wave was headed. Falling further and further behind the data, it could only belatedly "predict" where lives had already been lost. If supercomputers were as available as laptops, things might have turned out a bit differently.
Over at Amazon Web Services, they have been hard at work developing a solution to the growing need for supercomputers. Amazon, the on-line marketplace, launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2002 as a "Cloud Service" for software developers. Rather than buying and building their own server rooms, they could buy a slice of capacity from AWS. Because of Amazon's massive purchasing capacity, they can buy the equivalent service from Amazon at a fraction of the cost of doing it themselves. Furthermore, by tapping into knowledge that ASW has in building CPU and storage capacity (arguably the greatest in the world, based on the amount they manage) their servers will be more efficiently set up and managed than anything that you could do yourself.
At some point around 2010-2011, AWS worked with its partners to develop virtual supercomputers. By bundling together CPU's a virtual service can be created to simulate the computing power of one of the most powerful computers in the world. Before AWS, if you wanted this kind of computing power, you needed at least one of the lesser of these ultra-fast machines. That meant spending millions of dollars to purchase, and millions more to maintain one of these processing behemoths. Of course, in just a few years, your massively powerful supercomputer would be obsolete, and you would need to make yet another purchase. That's why there are so few of these machines, and why many of them are in well financed experimental use, or in the military, weather services, etc. Universities, smaller hospitals and start-up biotech firms, all of which would derive enormous benefits from access to supercomputer capacity, just can't afford to become users. However, AWS has completely changed the game.
AWS is changing the game because it is a cheap supercomputer. A typical supercomputer project might take just a few hours to process, which means just a few thousand dollars. That can fit just about any budget. For comparison, I was at an AWS conference earlier this year where one of the virtual supercomputer providers told of a project for their client. The client had a fairly large number of computers at work, where they were processing data on proteins, to find the best candidates for anti-cancer drugs. This process would take about three years to complete processing the data. The virtual supercomputer processed the data overnight. Not only was this cheaper than running the desktop level computers for three years, it moved ahead an important cancer study by three years. If supercomputers were available to all the heath-related studies today, decades of waiting for new treatments and new drugs could be eliminated.
While this virtual supercomputer is fast and cheap, the good news is that the computer is getting faster and cheaper as AWS expands. As of 2012, it is one of the 50 fastest computers in the world. It is expected to climb the list of fastest computers as AWS's services continue to grow. That means that just about everyone who needs supercomputer power will be able to get it. This may not be quite the 21st century you were planning on, but the arrival of the "personal" supercomputer just might be a sign that our flying cars will arrive any day now!

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Arizona Cardinals
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Left in Manning's wake
With Peyton Manning headed to Denver, what will the other teams who were vying for his services do at the all-important QB position?
Kolb receives roster bonus from Cardinals
Apparently out of the running for Peyton Manning, the Cardinals decided to pay Kevin Kolb a $7 million roster bonus Friday that keeps him on the team.
Cardinals re-sign OT Brown
Days after releasing him, the Cardinals have re-signed OT Levi Brown to a five-year contract.
Manning to work out for Denver; Miami out of running
Peyton Manning will work out for the Broncos Friday at Duke University, the Denver Post's Mike Klis reported, but the Titans remain in the running.
Dolphins upgrade nickel by signing Marshall
The Dolphins have yet to make the big splash in free agency but did add DB Richard Marshall, who appears to be the favorite to play nickel.
Dolphins ink DB Marshall to three-year deal
Former Cardinals DB Richard Marshall tweeted that he had agreed to a three-year deal with the Dolphins on Wednesday evening.
Cardinals sign OL Snyder
The Cardinals have signed former 49ers OL Adam Snyder to a five-year contract.
Report: Cardinals to release OT Brown
The Cardinals are expected to release OT Levi Brown, who is reportedly due a base salary of $8.3 million in 2012.
Manning spends six hours at Cardinals HQ
Peyton Manning spent nearly six hours at the Cardinals' headquarters and training facility on Sunday in meetings designed to lure the superstar to the desert.
Report: Manning to visit Arizona
The Cardinals are next on Peyton Manning's free-agent tour. After spending more than 24 hours in Denver, Manning is reportedly heading to Arizona.
Cardinals give one-year offers to three RFAs
The Cardinals have given one-year qualifying offers to S Rashad Johnson, RB LaRod Stephens-Howling and CB Greg Toler.
Concerns at OT position weigh heavily on Cardinals
With Calais Campbell's franchise tag out of the way, we hear the Cardinals' concerns at offensive tackle are as primary a focus as any with free agency around the corner.
Handicapping the odds for Manning's next team
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The Cardinals have placed the franchise tag on DE Calais Campbell, meaning the fifth-year player will earn approximately $10.6 million in 2012.
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Lisa writes: "Is that normal?" was the first, second and probably third question I asked my pediatrician every time I walked into his office. Normal. Young moms are looking for normal but, in truth, we don't know what it looks like. Enter the internet and Mom bloggers. My kids were born in the 1990s and my access to online information was limited in their early years. Had I been able to consult this tribe of supporters, I would have learned that "normal" looks like a lot of different things and that my kids were fine.
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Sean Lau (Kwok) and rough-around-the-edges M.B. Lee (Leung) are uncomfortably sharing the position of acting police commissioner while their veteran superior is overseas. Strained relations reach the breaking point when emergency-squad commander M.Y. Shun (Joyce Cheng) and four of her team members are kidnapped. With his son Joe (Eddie Peng) among the hostages, and talk of a rat in the house, Lee assumes control of what ends up being a failed rescue. Supported by fellow top-brass buddy Vincent (Chin Ka-lok) and convincing Lee loyalist Albert (Lam Ka-tung) to back his actions, Lau steps in to call the shots… But has the entire hostage drama been an elaborate set-up?
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Now that Coachella and Stagecoach have set beneath the Indio sun, music festival warriors are returning from the desert with tanned skin and stories that make everyone they talk to wish they had gone.
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Albert Pujols will play his first regular season game as a member of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim tonight and fans have been eagerly anticipating this moment since his signing in December.
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Twentynine Palms, CA– This Tuesday night is for me a happiest of occasions. We all worked very hard to see our own Cora Heiser elected in November to a seat on the 29 Palms City Council.
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Coachella 2010 (FAITH NO MORE!)
The last two Coachella's have had a pretty shit line-up and to be honest, so does this one. However it has a few redeeming bands:
1.) Faith No More
2.) Thom Yorke
3.) The Dillinger Escape Plan (and I pray, pray, pray that since Patton will be around that he'll do a guest song with them).
Coachella is a 3-day festival but there will be NO single-day tickets being sold for the first time ever which is complete and utter bullshit as I'm not going to fork out $269 to see a few bands surrounded by an avalanche of shitty indie pretentious bullshit that Coachella has become. Especially considering where California is right now, I think its fucking horrible that they expect each and every person, many of whom like myself would just be going for a day/two to see a few bands, to fork out almost $300 dollars. Also take in consideration money for lodging (which is also hard to get because everything gets booked months in advance), food, gas, drinks, etc - you're looking at $500+ easily.
Well Coachella has a lot of good shit most of the time, and the atmosphere there is quite good aswell. So I can't imagine you being pissed off there, cause you already saw FNM and have to spend 2 extra days there. There's always cool people there.
I'd disagree. It can get unbearably hot there and that place is hipster central so, unless I'm seeing a lot of great bands, I'm going to be cranky.
I don`t really like TheDillinger but Faith No More is badass
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US Shogun 2: Total War pre-order bonuses announced
SEGA has announced what eager US pre-orderers will get for free with Shogun 2: Total War as a reward for pre-ordering.
For those pre-ordering Shogun 2 at GameStop either in store or online, they will receive an unlock for the Battle of Kawagoe. This is a re-enactment of a historic night battle where the Hojo clan successfully defended their fortress from an attack by a massively superior Uesugi clan force.
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St. Petersburg Police say a 29-year-old St. Pete man has life-threatening injuries from being struck by a vehicle on Jan. 3 after allegedly running after the vehicle.
According to the police report, Jonathan Daniel Eyer allegedly blocked the path of a northbound vehicle driven by 19-year-old Kyle Jones of Pinellas Park at 13th Avenue North and 58th Street. As Jones backed up to get away from Eyer, police said Eyer ran after Jones.
Eyer was then struck by Jones' 2010 Chevrolet.
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By Ashley Graves
The Cullman Times
For the longest, a pile of metal sat in the floor of County Clerk Charlotte Slatton's office.
No one knew what to do with the pieces of clock taken from the front of the Cullman County Courthouse.
Put them in storage in the basement? Or, find a way to preserve it?
Slatton was in favor of the latter, and after much thought and time spent brainstorming, came up with the idea to make a decoupage clock to be displayed on the wall outside of the Cullman County Commission meeting room located on the first floor of the courthouse. A photo of the marble-clad courthouse, dedicated on July 3,1965 , serves as the background for the piece. Meanwhile, the original clock face is stopped at 2:54 p.m., marking the time a tornado struck the building on April 27, 2011.
"To me, it's a part of our history that needs to be shared and not thrown away or tucked away somewhere," Slatton said.
After tossing the idea around to Elaine Fuller, director of the Cullman County Museum, Fuller put her in contact with John Kelton, of Kelton Design in Huntsville, as someone who could design what she had in mind. Kelton's company specializes in planning, designing, and producing exhibits for museums across the state, including Cullman. In addition to the work done at the Cullman County Museum, he's also worked for the Paul W. Bryant Museum in Tuscaloosa, Vulcan Park in Birmingham, as well as the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville.
"Charlotte came to me with a rough idea," Kelton said. "I looked at the clock frame, and we worked with Elaine at the Cullman County Museum to find the best photo. I then did the design concepts with what Charlotte had in mind, and this is the idea we came up with."
Also on display, around the corner in the entrance way of the courthouse are the contents of a time capsule found by maintenance worker Dalton McCluskey. According to Slatton, McCluskey was taking down a plaque from the 1965 dedication of the courthouse when he stumbled upon the box.
"At first he thought it was an electrical box," Slatton said. "But then when there weren't any wires, he realized what it was."
Inside the box were several old copies of The Cullman Times dating back to 1912, as well as various coins, pins, a copy of the courthouse dedication program from July 3, 1965, a name plate of former chairman C.L. Vest, and wooden pieces of a cigar box, which Slatton believes to be what stored the contents at one time.
Slatton said the items will be kept on display in the lobby until the dedication of the remodeled courthouse takes place. A date has yet been set.
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*Western New York has been awarded $52.8 million in economic development funding by the state.
*A police officer has been suspended and her supervisor has been demoted following an incident in which the officer stole another person's dog.
*Business Reporter Jonathan Epstein will have a wrap-up from today's meeting of Buffalo Place, the nonprofit downtown business improvement district centered around Main Street.
*Senior Sports Columnist Jerry Sullivan is working on his column for tomorrow, which may be about Eric Wood's comments about the Bills' Toronto series.
*The ninth annual "Tree of Life" ceremony in memory of homicide victims and in support of their families will be held tonight at the Merriweather Library.
*Tomorrow's edition of NeXt will feature favorite holiday stories from our correspondents.


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— IA Construction of Cumberland is building two entrance toll booths at the entrance to the Rocky Gap State Park day-use area. The project includes the addition of a travel lane, installing two new entrance booths and replacing gates. Pictured, from left, are Steve Wiley, State Highway Administration inspector/engineer; and IA workers Rich Bookheimer, Bob Slider, Greg Duvall and Steve Haines.


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Raiders rally, beat Jaguars in overtime
Sebastian Janikowski kicked a 40-yard field goal after Cecil Shorts III fumbled on the opening possession of overtime and the Raiders beat the Jaguars 26-23.
Demotion a foreboding sign for Raiders' McClain
Removing MLB Rolando McClain from the Raiders' sub-packages is being hailed as a key to Oakland's improved defensive showing.
AFC West Spin cycle: Manning's miracle on Monday night
Analyzing the fallout of Monday night's stunning Broncos comeback and the rest of the AFC West action in Week Six.
Bryant's game-winner keeps Falcons undefeated
Roddy White caught a TD pass and Matt Bryant kicked his second game-winning field goal in three weeks as the Falcons remained unbeaten.
Raiders RB McFadden not finishing like he used to
Through a quarter of the 2012 season, Darren McFadden has not been the same player that averaged more than five yards per carry in each of the past two seasons.
AFC West Spin cycle: Week Five
It was a rough week for the AFC West, going 0-3 (the Raiders were on bye). We'll learn a lot more next week when the Broncos face the Chargers.
Raiders' Seymour, Kelly not providing needed push
Richard Seymour and Tommy Kelly, who accounted for more than one-third of the Raiders' sacks in 2011, have combined for one this season.
AFC West Spin cycle: Week Four
Order seemed restored in the AFC West after two divisional games in Week Four saw the Chargers and Broncos roll past the Chiefs and Raiders, respectively.
Manning, Broncos rout Raiders
Peyton Manning led Denver to three third-quarter touchdowns Sunday in a stress-free, 37-6 rout over the Oakland Raiders.
Raiders sign veteran DE Carter
The Raiders signed veteran DE Andre Carter, the team announced Wednesday. They cut second-year OT Joe Barksdale.
Raiders add LB So'oto
The Raiders signed second-year LB Vic So'oto and waived DE-LB Carl Ihenacho.
AFC West Spin cycle: Week Three
The winds changed drastically in the AFC West in Week Three, proving that this division is extremely hard to figure.
Raiders WR Heyward-Bey released from hospital
Raiders WR Darrius Heyward-Bey was released from Eden Medical Center on Monday morning, the team announced.
Raiders rally past Steelers to get first win
Sebastian Janikowski kicked a 43-yard field goal on the last play as the Raiders beat the Steelers 34-31 on Sunday.
Raiders RB McFadden's start leads to scheme scrutiny
Greg Knapp has maintained that his zone-blocking scheme is not the problem, but it's not working thus far for the Raiders.
The Raiders acquired Seattle backup Matt Flynn on Monday for draft picks, bringing an end to Carson Palmer's brief tenure as starter in Oakland even before they are done paying the steep price they dealt to acquire him.||||||| Flynn, a backup in college at LSU to former Raiders quarterback JaMarcus Russell, has started just two games in five seasons as a pro. But it's those brief appearances that intrigue many NFL teams. He threw for 251 yards and three touchdowns in a loss at New England in place of an injured Aaron Rodgers late in the 2010 season. He then started the regular-season finale the following season, going 31 for 44 for 480 yards and six touchdown passes in a 45-41 win over D
Flynn will be the Seattle backup to rookie Russell Wilson after Seahawks coach Pete Carroll announced that Wilson will start the club's opener. Wilson being named the starter leaves Flynn on the sidelines and according to Carroll understandably disappointed.||||||| Flynn was Seattle's big free-agent splash in the offseason and the most highly sought after quarterback not named Manning after spending the last few seasons as Aaron Rodgers backup in Green Bay. But Flynn failed to show the same flashes as Wilson during his two preseason opportunities and sat out the game in Kansas City with a sore elbow. Fantasy owners have to be kicking themselves now if they picked up the overhyped Flynn.
Seattle coach Pete Carroll announced on Tuesday that Russell Wilson will start against Kansas City on Friday so there is speculation that Flynn could be the backup to the rookie.||||||| Flynn has struggled in the preseason and could easily lose the job that seemed to easily be his if he doesn't get his act together. Fantasy owners should monitor the situation closely.
Matt Flynn will get his second straight preseason start for the Seattle Seahawks with rookie Russell Wilson expected to play the second half on Saturday in Denver.||||||| Flynn was efficient, going 11 of 13 for 71 yards and an interception against Tennessee. Wilson was 12 of 16 for 124 yards, one touchdown passing and one rushing.
Flynn says it was made completely clear before he agreed to join the Seattle Seahawks that he was going into an open competition with incumbent Tarvaris Jackson for the starting quarterback job.||||||| Flynn said during a conference call on Monday that when he visited with the Seahawks late last week, the entire situation felt comfortable and felt like the team was moving in the right direction. Flynn chose the Pacific Northwest over the chance to be reunited with former Green Bay offensive coordinator Joe Philbin in Miami, where Philbin is the Dolphins' new head coach.


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By Anvil Welch
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Inability to hit in the clutch kept the Joplin Outlaws in their MINK League doldrums on Tuesday night at Wendell Redden Stadium.
The Chillicothe Mudcats, although outhit 10-6, received clutch pitching from Steve Adkins and reliever Chase Anderson in stopping the Outlaws 2-1.
The Mudcats, 2-2 against the Outlaws, hiked their record to 10-10 overall and 8-10 in the MINK. Joplin dropped to 10-11, 8-11 with its fourth loss in a row.
The teams meet again at 7 tonight in the second game of their three-game series at Redden.
The Outlaws stranded eight runners with two left in the fourth, seventh and nine innings. They didn't tally in the fourth after opening singles by Koby Chadick and Taylor Eaves, who continued to second on the throw to third, placed runners at second and third.
"That's a tough loss," Joplin head coach Rob Vessell said. "The guys came out and played hard. We actually swung the bats well. We hit the ball hard several times right at the defense.
"We just needed to execute," Vessell said. "We couldn't get the key hits.
"Chillicothe's pitching was solid and they played great defense (errorless) defense," Vessell said. "They came up with the big hit when needed."
The Mudcats snapped a 1-1 tie in the seventh inning against Travis Northern who virtually matched fellow right-hander Adkins through seven.
But Andy Westfall drew a two-out walk and, running with the pitch, scooted to third on Mitch Huckabay's single to left. Isaac Smith then pulled a single to left on a 0-2 pitch to score Westfall.
Left-handed reliever Anderson wound up securing strikeouts with two runners aboard in both the seventh and ninth innings to preserve Adkins' win.
Joplin scored in the second inning on doubles by Eaves and Zack Steadman.
Chillicothe caught up in the third inning on Huckabay's single, Smith's sacrifice, an infield single by St. Mary's-Colgan product Nate Arnold and Ryan Busch's run-scoring fielder's choice.
Arnold was robbed of a possible two-run, extra=base hit by a diving Chadick in center field in the seventh.
Northern and Adkins, each backed by solid defense, worked quickly and effectively during most of their time on the hill.
Notes: Mark Rains, the Outlaws' president/general manager, is expecting a strong turnout at tonight's game with the friendliest town contest finishing at the park. Free pie and a car show are scheduled between 6 p.m. and 7 in the parking lot. Judges of the contest will duel in a pie-eating contest after the fifth inning. Hot dogs will be 50 cents. ... Probable starting pitchers are left-hander Drew Milligan for the Outlaws and right-hander Ryan Lavoie for Mudcat skipper Eric Peterson.


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A battle for trustBy Randy David
When we find ourselves having to make decisions in the face of so much confusion, we rely on trust to find our way and keep going.
When we find ourselves having to make decisions in the face of so much confusion, we rely on trust to find our way and keep going.
It was P-Noy who originated the concept and used it to powerful effect over the years. That is the "Boss," the ultimate ruler of this country to whom even presidents bow down and serve.
We were transported last Friday to a different world. Whilst transport transported no one anywhere in the gridlock that was Friday night in Makati, we went to a wonderful concert at the Ayala Museum: the "Rush Hour Concert" hosted by the museum and one of Asia's oldest (1926) symphony orchestras, the Manila Symphony Orchestra. (Why, by the way, was it called "rush hour"? The last thing you were doing was rushing. "Stalled hour" would be a better description of the reality.)
Salivating with delight, their eyes moistening and pupils constricting/dilating, detractors of President Aquino and his administration who have been wishing to see him fail since Day One are now seizing the moment to make good their ultimate yearning. They are calling for his ouster, impeachment, resignation—whatever form it will take—so that they can put in place their own agenda and have the last laugh.
It is almost ironic that the current tension between President Aquino and the Supreme Court is about Congress' definition of savings.


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Now that the ride is over and the Shockers are home, resting from three weeks of providing history-making thrills for Wichita, fans are feeling philosophical.
Many Shocker supporters will be watching Monday night as Louisville (darn them) plays Michigan in the NCAA championship game whether they do so from their already-purchased seats in Altanta or from the comfort of their couches in Wichita, a city still buzzing from the self-image boost of a lifetime.
And even though most of them say they think the Shockers deserved a spot in that game, theyre not losing sight of whats already happened.
Even though the Shockers didnt win, everyone is going to look back and say they saw something very special here, said Jerry Marcus, a season ticket holder whos been attending Shocker games since 1947 and had close seats at Saturday nights game.
The teams tournament success will provide a boost for sure, fans said, and not only for the basketball program.
Erin Snodgrass, a WSU senior who attended Saturdays game, said that shes already noticing a change of attitude on campus.
A transfer from a private school that had a united, involved student body, Snodgrass said it took her time to get used to Wichita State feeling like a disconnected commuter school.
But during the past three weeks, KU and K-State sweatshirts frequently seen in classrooms have been replaced by all black and gold.
Students have been excited. Proud. Finally unified.
Its been a great thing, she said. We dont always have a lot of camaraderie. But this has brought that camaraderie we didnt have.
Larry Beamer, a Wichita surgeon whos had season tickets for more than 30 years, said hes noticed a change in Wichitas attitude, too.
That famous inferiority complex Wichita notoriously suffers from seems to have evaporated.
He talked about the surreal experience of being at the pregame pep rally in Atlanta, which was packed with more than 4,000 giddy Wichitans politicians, WSU employees, young families, retirees, students. He saw lifelong fans, new fans, fans whod moved from Wichita years ago but wanted everyone to know theyd once lived there.
The team is letting the city piggyback on their moment of pride.
We have nothing to be ashamed of, Beamer said. We got to this point, and we could have been in the final game. Get rid of a couple of questionable referee calls, and were there. We belong here.
Rest assured, said WSUs play-by-play broadcaster Mike Kennedy, that as good as the moment was for Wichita, itll be even better for Wichita State basketball.
He said he cant wait to see what the results of the Final Four appearance will be over the next year.
Will Wichita State get even better recruits?
Will even bigger opponents want to put the Shockers on their schedules?
Will people fight even harder for season tickets?
Itll be interesting to see how it all develops and to see what the returning players do with their Final Four experience invaluable experience that can only be gained by reaching the Final Four, he said.
And few teams ever do that.
This will be a run people remember for the rest of their lives, Kennedy said. Even if we get back here in the future and even win it maybe, this will be the one people always remember.


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Studio: First Look Studios
Director: Tim Blake Nelson
Screenwriter: Tim Blake Nelson
Starring: Edward Norton, Tim Blake Nelson, Susan Sarandon, Richard Dreyfuss, Keri Russell, Lucy DeVito, Steve Earle, Josh Pais
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for violence, pervasive language, and drug content)
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Plot Summary: When Ivy League classics professor Bill Kincaid receives news of the murder of his estranged identical twin brother, Brady (both played by two-time Academy Award� nominee Edward Norton), in a pot deal gone bad, he leaves the world of Northeastern academia to travel back to his home state of Oklahoma. Upon arrival, he finds that reports of his brother's death are greatly exaggerated, and he's soon caught up in the dangerous and unpredictable world of drug commerce in the backwaters of the Southwest. In the process, he reconnects with his eccentric mother (Academy Award� winner Susan Sarandon), meets a wise and educated young woman who has bypassed academia in favor of the gentler rhythms of life (Keri Russell), and unwittingly helps his troubled brother settle a score with a pernicious drug lord (Academy Award� winner Richard Dreyfuss) who uses Tulsa, Oklahoma's small Jewish community for cover. "Leaves of Grass" follows a twisting narrative path merging crime drama, drug comedy, classical philosophy and sudden violence in pursuit of answering one of humanity�s oldest questions: What does it truly mean to live a happy and constructive life?
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text: Less we forget, we are American first. If it were the other way around, there wouldn't be a black president to blame or a black mayor to hold responsible for what amounts to s blatant disregard for the less fortunate in our society. Once the working class, now the poverty stricken, sucker of the economy. Aid is supposed to be temporary. Unless you are diabled, then its called disibility. Blame the appropriate parties for the inappropriate BS. Don't blanket blame or stereotype.


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Rihanna didn't just get to party with sexy Victoria's Secret models this week - she also got to pose topless with legendary supermodel Kate Moss.
The "Diamonds" singer rocked the runway at the Victoria's Secret fashion show, and she apparently did such a good job that she's now an honorary model. Ri-Ri and the great Kate were recently paired up for a very sexy V Magazine photo shoot that required them to get nude and climb on top of each other. Of course the shoot was probably a piece of cake for the lovely ladies - Ri-Ri's leaked nude photos can easily be found on the internet, and Kate Moss has posed topless countless times during her lengthy modeling career.
In one of the V Magazine photos, a lingerie-clad Kate lounges on top of a topless Rihanna. The ladies then switch positions with Ri-Ri sitting on the lap of half-naked Kate. The 38-year-old model doesn't look much older than the 24-year-old pop star.
Ri-Ri has been getting tons of publicity by hanging out with models and releasing "Diamonds," but her rumored rival Rita Ora also managed to score a little extra attention recently.
The sexy singer is currently dating Rob Kardashian, and she definitely proved that she should fit right in with the Kardashian clan - just like Kris Jenner and Khloe Kardashian, she recently suffered an embarrassing nip slip.
Those who believe that there's a beef between Ri-Ri and Rita Ora might think that she orchestrated her wardrobe malfunction to steal the spotlight from Ri-Ri. However, according to Hollywood Life, Rita later offered this explanation for the nip slip she suffered during a concert in London:
"I got straight off a moterbike from O2 to Wembley I didn't have time to change and then all of a sudden the zip got lower.... And lower I rushed on stage and pop! It happened, f**k! Sorry guys."
Hopefully Rita learns something from Ri-Ri and Rob Kardashian's other sister Kim - it's never a good idea to let your boyfriend take nude photographs of you or videotape you while you're having sex.
So who do you think wins the bad girl battle here: Rita and her wardrobe malfunction or Ri-Ri and her topless pics?
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Memphis filmmaker and actor Kentucker Audley stars in a new Memphis-based film being released online for free by director and Audley collaborator Joe Swanberg, according to an item posted today on the Los Angeles Times' website:
Joe Swanberg --best known as one of the pioneers in the independent filmmaking movement known as mumblecore -- is releasing a new film online for free next week. It's called "Marriage Material." The film is about a young couple living in Memphis who agree to babysit their friend's 6-month-old for a day. The experience causes them to examine their own relationship and their feelings about marriage and children.Swanberg worked as cinematographer on Audley's 2009 film "Open Five," and Swanberg tapped Audley's unconventional marketing tactics as one of the reasons he is releasing "Marriage Material" at no cost:
4. Kentucker Audley, the star of "Marriage Material," has posted several of his films on Vimeo for free and runs a website, No Budge, that "showcases the new class of no-budget films," so it seemed appropriate to premiere the film this way.PICTURED: Kentucker Audley (left) and Joe Swanberg film a scene for "Open Five" on Aug. 13, 2009, at DejaVu Creole restaurant.


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Are You on Antibiotics And Have Stomach Bloating?
If you are on antibiotics read this now!
Genie suffered from diverticulitis and was one of the unlucky ones who had to have some of her colon removed.
But then a whole new problem came up. Here's what she writes:
On September 9, 2009 I had 12 inches of my colon removed because of diverticulitis.
The surgery went well, but because of the antibiotics I was given I developed C. difficile bad bacteria. This is where the bad overthrow the good.
This is very hard to get rid of, and I had two relapses.
One day I was praying and I believe that God led me to an answer. I have been on probiotics for one month and have not had another relapse of this bacteria.
The doctor never told me about probiotics.
I am grateful to have found something that works.
While antibiotics have many beneficial uses, they have a dark side, and causing bad bacteria overgrowth is a big part of that dark side.
The overgrowth that Genie had was Clostridium difficile, often called C. difficile or "C. diff."
Usually our bodies can fight off C. diff if we're healthy. But if our bodies are low in beneficial bacteria (which is a result of taking antibiotics), then the harmful ones can easily take over.
The antibiotics that most often lead to C. diff are:fluoroquinolones, cephalosporins, clindamycin and penicillins.
Mild C. diff causes diarrhea and abdominal cramping, but the real concern is if the overgrowth continues and becomes severe–then it can become life-threatening.
Severe C. diff causes your colon to become inflamed (aka colitis) or to form patches of raw tissue that can bleed or produce pus (called pseudomembranous colitis).
Symptoms of severe C. diff include:
- Watery diarrhea 10 to 15 times a day
- Severe abdominal cramping and pain
- Fever
- Blood or pus in the stool
- Nausea
- Dehydration
- Loss of appetite
Severe C. diff can also lead to kidney failure, bowel perforation (a hole in your colon), a ruptured colon or even death.
Now here's the kicker–the standard medical treatment for C. diff is:
MORE antibiotics.
The claim is that these antibiotics "work" by stopping C. diff growth.
But the problem is that they kill the beneficial bacteria in your gut, too.
As Genie mentioned, C. diff is very hard to get rid of. So once you get off the antibiotics, C. diff can easily come back…and you won't have a good supply of beneficial bacteria to fight them off.
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Will preservation groups ink the final K-25 pact? Signing deadline approaches
A month ago the U.S. Department of Energy released its "final" Memorandum of Agreement in hopes to gaining the signatures of historic preservation parties and enabling DOE to move ahead with the final stages of demolition at the K-25 uranium-enrichment building in Oak Ridge. Friday is the deadline for signatures to be returned to DOE.
Under the proposed plan, DOE would spend about $17.57 million to mitigate the loss of historic K-25 and establish facilities to commemorate the World War II Manhattan Project work and the role of the K-25 enrichment operations.
DOE spokesman Mike Koentop said today the federal agency had already received the signatures from the City of Oak Ridge and the East Tennessee Historic Preservation Alliance, both of whom were "invited" signatories to the agreement because they would play roles in carrying out the plan.
However, DOE is still waiting to see if two of the signers of the original agreement (in which DOE initially committed to saving K-25's North Tower for future generations to see and visit) will approve the new MOA. Those are the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the Tennessee Historical Commission.
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The New Jersey-bound lanes of the Lincoln Tunnel have reopened Wednesday evening after a debris spill on 495 in New Jersey was cleaned up, officials said.
A dump truck carrying rocks and debris malfunctioned and dumped its entire load on the road, the AP reported. Police have charged the dump truck driver with 13 summonses, including delaying traffic, dropping injurious substances on the highway and careless driving.
While crews cleaned up the debris, the north tube was closed and traffic already in the tunnel was diverted to the Hoboken exit, the Port Authority said.
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A 7-year-old boy was taken to the hospital Thursday night for second-degree burns after being left home alone in Lauderhill.
Officials say the child was handling either matches or a lighter in his home at 4222 Inverrary Blvd.
Arrangements were made for the boy to go home afterschool with a classmate, but the 7-year-old decided to go to his home by himself, according to Lauderhill police Lt. Michael Butkus.
Were still trying to piece together what happened but we know the child did not listen and went home on his own, Butkis said.
The boy called 911 and was taken to Broward Health later that evening.
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HAVERHILL — The Haverhill Alternative School graduated one of its smallest classes in recent years — just two students, — but still nothing was left out during last night's ceremony and the graduates were given their moment to shine.
The school awarded diplomas to seniors Tyler Quarrell and Jordan Sargent during an intimate ceremony held in Winnekenni Castle, the same setting in which the school's 11 previous graduation ceremonies were held. With family and friends in attendance, Quarrell and Sargent were lauded for their hard work and efforts. As it does each year, the school also presented certificates to its eighth-graders.
Principal John DePolo addressed the graduates, saying this school year had had more than its share of challenges and tragedies and that it is important to support and celebrate "all of our successes."
"This select group of graduates has stepped up to the plate and actively supported, through fundraisers, the people who have been affected by some of the tragedies of this year," he said. "Each of these students has shown the courage and resilience in overcoming their own personal obstacles.
In a tradition that began years ago, each year's graduates chooses one staff member to speak on his behalf. Teacher Aaron Shultz spoke about Quarrell, and had some surprising things to say about the young man who has a job and plans to attend Northern Essex Community College.
"There was a point this year where he questioned whether or not it was worth it to graduate," Shutlz said, noting that Quarrell had once told him that graduating wouldn't make a difference and that "It won't change anything."
Shultz said there was a turnaround earlier this year when Quarrell decided to finish his senior year strong.
"You set your mind to graduating high school and I see the effort you are putting in to be a better man," Shultz said. "Thank you for asking me to do your graduation speech. Keep up the good work. It will make a difference in your life and the people around you."