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This guest post comes from Frank Curmudgeon at Bad Money Advice.
Would you rather pay $399 now and $20 a month for two years, or $199 now and $30 a month for two years? If you are a rational consumer, you probably prefer the $399 deal. The other one is like a $200 loan at 20% interest.
And yet, according to a long and meandering article from The New York Times on the madness of cell phone pricing schemes, we wacky Americans preferred the iPhone at $199 with a $30 data plan over the previous deal of $399 with a $20 plan. I'm not sure I buy that. IPhone sales could have increased for a number of reasons, including the fact that the $199 phone was an upgraded version. Still, the Times piece does bring up a number of peculiarities about the economics of cell phones.
Target, Wal-Mart have the bargains to beat this year
The much-anticipated Black Friday sales ad from Wal-Mart was released today after much of its deals had been leaked to online bargain sites.
The ad, which comes six days ahead of schedule, contains a number of hot early-bird specials (5 a.m. to 11 a.m.), while supplies last:
Is the rising werewolf a victim of the recession or an empowered creature fighting back?
Are you wondering why you're hearing so much about werewolves lately?
It's the recession, say Bob Powers and Ritch Duncan, authors of "The Werewolf's Guide To Life -- A Manual For The Newly Bitten."
In a post at The Huffington Post, they say, "We believe that the plight of the werewolf reflects the American economic mood at the current moment."
The story of the werewolf is about personal struggle over adversity. No one chooses to become a werewolf. You're afflicted with the condition as a result of dumb luck. If you're unlucky enough to be walking down the wrong wooded path when the moon is full, a hungry werewolf just might jump out and change your life forever. The werewolf has no concern for how much money you have in the bank or how many people are counting on you, and he definitely isn't concerned with how attractive you might be. Anyone can be turned.
Many Americans are dealing with a similar feeling of helplessness as they study their bank accounts and listen to the workplace rumors about more layoffs coming down the pike. The pervasive feeling is that at any moment, a little bad luck can send everything spiraling out of control.
The reality of the werewolf lifestyle is all about making do, and finding a way to keep in control.
The vampire, so popular just a few years ago, has gone the way of the spendthrift years of the middle 00s, "when money flowed like blood from a jugular and no one had any idea that the vein might run dry." Vampires, Powers and Duncan say, are the elite, a "creature of the country club."
Plus 4 secret spendthrift confessions.
This post comes from Frugal Duchess at partner blog Wise Bread.
From time to time, I take inventory of my frugal habits. This review helps fine-tune my money-saving strategies.
Here is my latest list of 25 frugal things I do, plus a few spendthrift habits. It's a tradition I've picked up from my friend Dawn at Frugal for Life.
- Use mascara, coffee and tea to color my hair.
- Use organic apple cider vinegar as a natural conditioner; clean my kitchen with white vinegar.
- Avoid ordering drinks or beverages in restaurants.
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If you decided at the last minute you'd like to travel for the Thanksgiving holiday, you may get a pleasant surprise: A number of airlines have put tickets on sale for holiday travel.
Midwest is offering round-trip fares starting at $108, and Smarter Travel found that fare was being matched or beaten on most routes by AirTran, Frontier, Northwest, Continental, American, United, and Delta.
Airlines experiment with onboard shopping.
One of our favorite things to do on an airplane is read SkyMall magazine, which is really a catalog full of products you've never heard of but now you've seen them, you absolutely, really, truly need them.
We've never actually ordered anything, but the fantasy is fun.
Now American Airlines is hoping it can persuade customers to go beyond browsing and actually buy things on board, beyond sandwiches and drinks. The airline is calculating that it can make some money off a captive audience, The New York Times reports.
USDA study shows a sharp increase in the number of households that run out of food.
The Great Recession will be known for many things -- home foreclosures, lost jobs, inappropriate bonuses on Wall Street.
For us, it has a new face: Nearly one in four U.S. children "struggled last year to get enough to eat," The Washington Post said in a story about a newly released government report.
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"This is unthinkable. It's like we are living in a Third World country," Vicki Escarra, president of Feeding America, a network of 200 food banks, told the Post.
The Post reports:
In 2008, nearly 17 million children, or 22.5%, lived in households in which food at times was scarce -- 4 million children more than the year before. And the number of youngsters who sometimes were outright hungry rose from nearly 700,000 to almost 1.1 million.
New study says people get smarter with money only to a certain point, usually around age 53.
Researchers have been tracking the financial mistakes people make in their lives, and came up with an interesting conclusion: The mistake pattern is U-shaped, with the most mistakes occuring early and then later in life.
So when are we the smartest in life, financially speaking? At age 53. After that, we get dumber with money.
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Allen Trompke - September 03, 2013Allen Trompke, 51, of Marquette, died Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, at St. Francis Medical Center in Grand Island.
Funeral services will be held 10:30 a.m., Friday, Sept. 6, at the United Methodist Church in Aurora. Pastor Mary Scott will officiate. Burial will be in the Aurora Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at United Methodist Church, 1104 A Street, Aurora.
Memorials may be made in care of family. Condolences may be e-mailed to the family through the mortuary website at www.higbymortuary.com.
Allen L. Trompke, son of Larry and Deanna (Spencer) Trompke, was born at Grand Island on Dec. 19, 1961.
He grew up in Grand Island. Allen attended Barr Junior High and went on to graduate from Grand Island Senior High and Hastings Community College.
Allen was very active in his daughter's sporting activities. He loved Husker football. He had two dogs and a cat that he loved very much. Allen was like a second father to all of Alyson's friends. .
He was preceded in death by his father.
Survivors include his daughter, Alyson Trompke, who is currently attending UNL; mother, Deanna Mohr of Marquette; two sisters, Shari Trompke and Nadine Williams and fiancé Doug Weber all of Grand Island; stepsister, Jennifer (Jim) Klein of Lincoln; four nieces, Joni (Tony) Ayala and family of Savannah, Texas, Jennie (Eric) Wright and family of Grand Forks, N.D., Ashley Zlomke and fiancé Jeremy of Columbus and Heather Zlomke and special friend Adam Emerson of Plano, Texas; a nephew, Robert Olivo and friend Jenn and family of Grand Island and stepfather, Fred Mohr of Marquette. He is also survived by two uncles, Ed (Janet) Spencer and families of Mason City and Jim (Le) Spencer and families of Kearney.

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In most of our work, we're not trying to prove complex statistical hypotheses. Usually, we just want to know what happened – which stores had too much overtime, which salespeople met their quota, which products drove the most profit. While none of these numbers are perfect (as discussed in point three of 7 Ways to Make Data Work for You – Ditch Your Decimals), they're mostly accurate enough. After all, some calculations, like figuring out store sales numbers, is a fairly concrete activity. You count the cash, add the credit card charges and reconcile your deposits. But not everything is so straightforward, and we sometimes have to warn clients that yes, we can produce the report you want, but it may not tell you much. Or as one CIO client put it, "That report is vaporware."
Take a collection agency as an example. Every month, their phone agents make thousands of calls to try and collect bad debt. Their system tracks, by agent and debtor, how many call attempts are made, how many message left, how many parties spoken to. The agency wants to use these numbers to figure out how affective each agent is. Can they?
What they're trying to do is establish a link between agent calls and cash received. The problem is that cash can come in in two ways. One, the debtor can make a payment while on the phone with the collector – something which doesn't happen often. Two, the debtor can make a payment sometime in the days after receiving the collector's call. So, the agency uses a report to try and match the timing of calls with cash received, and then "credit" the appropriate agent. But as is quickly obvious, why these transactions happen is not so easy to decipher. Why did the debtor send the check? Was he/she going to do it anyway? Did multiple agents leave messages over a period of time? Did the cumulative effect of calls make any difference?
The point here is that when companies try to link individual transactions to people, they often mistake correlation for causation. They end up saying this data point hooks to that data point and then proceed as if all the numbers are as certain and accurate as if counting products sold from a store.
In this type of scenario, it's often better to look at patterns instead of individual transactions. In the case of the collection agency, it's better to approach things from the debtor perspective than from an agent perspective. How many calls (on average) did debtors receive in the previous month before making a payment? Compare that number to the average number of calls to people who don't make payments. The agency can then drill deeper – is there some connection between the timing of the calls and the receipt of cash? And they need to keep asking whether they are seeing real trends or just statistical noise.
This kind of thinking is often a stretch for folks coming from a back office background where numbers are more concrete, and where they can more accurately subscribe meaning to them. They're used to counting, whether it's finance or inventory. So when they come up against more amorphous information, the temptation is to keep on counting. To people in other fields, like marketing folks, this inability to ascribe causation is more obvious. Marketers already know the impossibility of saying this advertisement caused this sale.
Do you ever see people use data to make connections that the data can't justify?


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Kraft Food Groups is recalling more than 7,000 cases of cheese.
Two New Madrid County deputies were injured after a police chase Thursday night.
A woman now officially faces charges in connection with a police chase, in which two new madrid county deputies were hurt.
Jessica Diane Fox is charged with stealing a motor vehicle, assault - intoxicated with alcohol or drugs, three counts of assault - recklessly causing serious physical injury, and resisting arrest.
The Missouri Highway Patrol arrived and assisted in putting the woman in a highway patrol vehicle.
Stevens says the woman somehow got her handcuffed hands from behind her and took off in the highway patrol car.
During the chase, Stevens says the woman hit two New Madrid County vehicles.
The chase went south on I-55, then north on I-55. Stevens says, at one point the woman drove the wrong way on the interstate.
He says she exited I-55 at Marston, took Hwy. EE and turned on to County Road 314.
Then, Stevens says the woman hit another highway patrol vehicle and ended up in a field a couple miles north of Portageville.
That's when she was taken into custody.
Two sheriff's deputies have minor injuries.
In another twist, as one of the deputies was waiting for a wrecker to pick up his car after it hit spike strips during the chase, a semi hit it and the car hit the deputy. He was taken to the emergency room and is one of the three sheriff's deputies with minor injuries.
Traffic was backed up for about two hours from the 44 to 40 exits in the southbound lanes of the interstate following the crash.
An investigation is underway.
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2011-12 Arsenal Anniversary shirt leaked
Who knows if this is a final version, but this is a leak of the purported 2011-2012 Arsenal 125th anniversary shirt. I like the red collar, I like the all-white sleeves, but I wish they'd use one of the old Arsenal crests on it because the current one is Word clip-art level boring. I do like that it does appear to be all white, though.


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The Most Missed Pathfinder R.I.P. by loud_pathfinder on 10/21/2011. Trim: 1998 Nissan Pathfinder XE 2WD, Owned 3 years.
Pros: power, in black in white the pathfinder has lower specs than its competition but from my experience the 3 years i had it it gets up to speed fast and i got it up to 143 on a trip to austin and that was 5 people and a rear full of car audio in it the interior and exterior quality were great 13 years old and not a scratch it was roomy and comfortable, i never had a single mechanical issue either it was a great suv
Cons: only thing is gas mileage but its a midsize suv thats very reliable the gas you buy over competitors is worth it with the pathfinders reliablity
Overall review: when i was looking at buying an suv i went out looking for isuzu rodeo's and went to look at one and the dealer showed me the pathfinder 2 yrs older 4500 less miles and $500 cheaper so i took them both for test drives and the pathfinder had a better ride better driving postion more room and was over all more comfortable and an all around better suv i got it and never looked back, and it convinced me fully after the 3yrs of owning it (totaled 1,5yrs ago, unfortunatly, and not my fualt. thaty made it worse, lady on cell phone took my pathfinder from me) and with gas so high i didnt get another suv as i didnt want 2 buy gas for i, now i want a pathfinder again it i had a 270k mile sentra before this suv and now a 99k sentra after NISSAN FOR LIFE
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My Old Wheels by kms1990 on 04/17/2012. Trim: 1998 Nissan Pathfinder XE 2WD, Owned 4 years.
Pros: bought used in 08 so already 10 years old had about 115k miles on it drove it to almost 160k it ran like a champ the whole time only 1 issue in 3.5 yrs was a bad distributor cost me somewhere like $100 did work myself these suvs are just amazing well nissans in general, ive had 3 and all ran like champs one sold(had 300k miles on it) 2 now taken from me in wrecks
Cons: only con of this one was gas mileage but you get a choice with any car powerful reliable and great gas mileage you can only have 2 so take your pick i prefer eithe power and reliabilty or reliabilty and gas mileage which is every nissan in line up
Overall review: get this suv if you want a great used suv
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part time 4x4's rule by Pdiddy Pathfinder on 09/17/2002. Trim: 1998 Nissan Pathfinder SE 4WD, Owned less than 1 year.
Pros: I like the ride, the handling, the color, the part time 4wheel drive helps on gas and I like that my friends are jealous!
Cons: nothing
Overall review: best vehicle I have ever owned!
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Great Pathfinder by Kevin on 02/27/2001. Trim: 1998 Nissan Pathfinder XE 4WD, Owned 3 years.
Pros: Absolutely no maintenance in Nissan's, ever!
Cons: I have never had good defrosting in any Nissan.
Overall review: I just love Nissan's. There is never any money put into my Nissan's except the normal lube, oil, filter etc.
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GREAT BUY NISSAN FOR LIFE by KEV FROM FORT WORTH on 11/19/2008. Trim: 1998 Nissan Pathfinder XE 2WD, Owned less than 1 year.
Pros: roomy, comfortable, easy layout this car seems to be a very Reliable car i haven't had it but 2 and a half weeks but my prior car was a nissan sentra with over 270k miles on it so it'll last engine is strong for my usage great ride overall, mpg gets what its rated
Cons: ride can be a bit bumpy in town hidden compartment door under rear floor mat made cheap my handle broke but it still stays there power for heavy towing is a little low but great for everyday use mainly just very minor unimportant stuff its nissan you can trust them to help if something breaks but dont count on it breaking
Overall review: very solidly built suv nissan is a great company reliability very good great styling and interior design and overall quality love it buy 1 if you are thinking of a 4runner or Isuzu rodeo or even a chevy tahoe or ford explorer get the pathfinder much better quality, reliability, everything!
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Faye DiMassimo, Cobb County DOT Director, was recognized last week as the Woman of the Year by the Women's Transportation Seminar's Atlanta Chapter.
The award was announced at their Annual Scholarship Luncheon at the Georgia Aquarium. The Woman of the Year Award is presented to honor a person, not someone within the chapter, who is an outstanding role model in transportation.


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In 2007, three more states joined 12 others in requiring crane operators to be certified: Nevada, Minnesota and Utah.
Here you will find information on regulations in those three states. The certification program offered by the National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators meets the requirements for all of the states listed below.
The requirement for crane operator certification in Nevada took effect on January , 2007. The regulation affects operators of Tower cranes and those Mobile cranes with a maximum machine rated capacity of 15,000 lbs or greater or a usable boom length of 25ft or greater. You can visit the home page of the Nevada Division of Industrial Relations or go directly to the adopted regulation. The Nevada law can be viewed here.
In Utah, certification of crane operators was required as of July 1, 2007. The new law states that operators must be certified by the National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators or an equivalent certifying organization that meets ASME B30.5 standards and the accreditation requirements of the National Commission for Certifying Agencies(NCCA) or an equivalent organization as determined by the division. You can view the legislation on the Utah State Legislature website.
An overview of the Minnesota law that also took effect on July 1, 2007 can be found on the MN Department of Labor & Industry website. The regulation states that any operator on a construction site operating a crane with a capacity of five (5) tons or more must be certified. The certification must come from a nationally recognized and accredited program. To read more on the statute, rule, requirement and exemptions visit the License Minnesota website.
Here are some other links that may be of interest to those seeking certification:
State Licensing Requirements: Find out the difference between licensing and certification as well as a list of cities and states that require licensing.
NCCCO Handbooks: In the NCCCO Mobile, Tower and Overhead Candidate Handbooks you will find information on the certification program, exam outlines, a list of reference material and other valuable information.
Test Dates and Locations: This is a list of current written exam sites and locations. The site is updated as new exams are scheduled.
Training Providers: NCCCO has created a page listing organizations who indicate they offer preparatory training for the NCCCO certification exams.
Permanent Practical Exam Sites: This is a list of organizations that have a site set up to administer exams on a regular basis. This is supplemented by many employers and organizations who have established NCCCO Practical Exam Sites to test on an as needed basis. You should also contact your Written Test Site Coordinator regarding Practical Exam availability.
Holding Written and Practical Exams at your site: If your organization would like to get operators certified at your facility please see the criteria for hosting Written and Practical Exams. You can also download the Test Site Coordinator Handbooks.
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The suburban man shot in the attack at Los Angeles International airport is recovering in the hospital.
Brian Ludmer from Lake Forest was at LAX waiting to fly back to Chicago when a gunman opened fire with an assault weapon. He was shot in the leg.
Ludmer's mom has flown to Los Angeles to be with him as he recovers.
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Personal Views are the self-expression medium for Society members. The views expressed here are the author's and are not necessarily shared by the Society, or a majority of its members.
PV 5 stated the Aim and Objectives of the SSS.
Personal View 5
by Ken Goodwin.
Ken Goodwin is an accountant with British and Australian
qualifications. Ken resides in Australia, but has spent extensive periods in
Brazil and Spain.
It was during his stay in the latter that he became interested in the phonetic qualities of Spanish, which contrasted with the chaos of English, despite a common alphabet and similar form of pronunciation.
towards a common International alphabet & form of pronunciationThis paper explores the possibilities of converting English spelling into a phonemic system, consistent with the phonemic requirements of other European languages, making all of them easier to learn both for native and non-native speakers.
It makes no attempt to justify spelling reform, as this subject has been amply explored in previous publications by many writers.
Contents [on this page]:
Appendices [on other pages]:
|A. Alphabet revisited.
B. Sample proverbs and idioms.
C. Double vowels using y.
|D. "Confusion reins, rains, reigns".
E. Sample texts.
F. Foreign language application.
The author would like to thank Chris Upward, Paul Fletcher and the late Bob Brown (for their critical comments), those who contributed to the development of Cut Spelling, and the author's wife Marie-France and friends Tanya Völler and Charlie Disaro (who helped with the French, German and Italian).
In this article, Traditional Orthography uses normal print, Cut Spelling uses italics and Yurabet uses bold print. Yurabet options not adopted use *bold *print.
Message for those who favour gradual evolution:
Ceynjng owvr tuw desiml kurunsy kud hav byn a bit ov a xok. So furst wy xud hav ceynjd qu xilings. Qen, wen qu dust had setld, wy wud hav ceynjd qu pens.
Introduction.Many schemes of simplified spelling approach the problem by evolving the language from its historical base. They often respect whole chunks of traditional custom, however illogical these may be. They are backward-looking rather than forward-looking. Others use impractical letter-symbols and written accents to try to achieve academic perfection.
In contrast to these approaches, Yurabet is a practical and modem phonemic alphabet, designed with specific purposes in mind. These purposes are closely related to current and future communications needs in Europe and between continents, given modern telecommunications systems and freer cross-border trade. This breach with the past enables the rules of Yurabet to be quite simple and dogmatically directed towards the most logical sound/ symbol relationships. The freedom of this approach is impressive, enabling objectives to be achieved with minimum effort.
In particular, Yurabet accepts the 26 letter-symbols of the standard English computer keyboard and also the most common form of pronunciation of each letter-symbol. Yurabet contains no written accents, irrespective of language. Sound and letter-symbols are matched dogmatically. However, there are 30+ (some say 40+) individual sounds in the English language and these have to be accommodated into the 26 letter-symbols. So the principle of closest fit applies and some compromises are necessary. These compromises are not that great given that some of the supposed 40+ sounds, when analysed, are actually combinations of existing sounds which already correspond to individual letter-symbols.
Yurabet does not choose an existing form of pronunciation or dialect. It does, however, impose a common (cross-region, cross-country) form of pronunciation, selecting the simplest form in each situation. A spoken text will be understood by the residents in any region or country, although the spoken accent will not necessarily be familiar.
This is an important characteristic of Yurabet, given that the form of pronunciation which emerges will be common to all European residents and in the world scenario, thus facilitating international communication. The ultimate practicality test will be when a person reasonably versed in Yurabet, after say a day's training, is able to read a text in a language, with which he/she is totally unfamiliar, and be fully understood by a native of that language.
One of the criticisms of an "absolutely" phonemic language is the difficulty in accepting radical change. Of course, the changes needed are proportionate to the level of existing chaos. Chaos can be "organised" or "disorganised", the former meaning simple conversion rules can be established to link Traditional Orthography with Yurabet. German is a good example of organised chaos. On the other hand, disorganised chaos refers to anarchy in the sound/symbol relationship. The clearest example of this is English, with French coming a distant second. Portuguese, Spanish and Italian are substantially non-chaotic in structure.
Purposes of Yurabet* To simplify learning a mother tongue
* To simplify learning a foreign language
* To provide a practical replacement for the International Phonetic Alphabet
* To provide a consistent code of conversion from languages using a non-romanic alphabet
* To help English retain its current position as the leading medium of international communication
StructureYurabet uses the existing traditional vowels a e i o u in their most common and simple English application, which also tends to be the most common and simple application in European languages.
In Yurabet, the letter y ceases to be a vowel-consonant hybrid and becomes a fully fledged vowel. Consequently, Yurabet has 6 vowels and 20 consonants. Combinations of two or more vowels can be (and in Yurabet are) structured to always include y. In any vowel combination, the traditional vowels will only appear once or not at all.
Yurabet uses the existing consonants b d f g h j k l m n p r s t v w z also in their most common and simple English and European application. This leaves the letters c q x which require special attention.
The letter c initially becomes redundant (success = skses). It is reallocated in the Italian tradition to the (English) ch tch sound. Thus chap = cap (but cap = kap); pitch = pic (but pick = pik). The letter x also becomes initially redundant (axe = aks) and is reallocated in the Portuguese tradition to the (English) sh ti ci ssi sound. Thus shop = xop; detention = dtenxn; suspicion = sspixn; possession = pzexn.
The letter q is also redundant (quiet = kwayut) and is reallocated to a sound common in English, but which corresponds to no letter-symbol, that is th. So thick = qik. In northern and central Spain, the th pronunciation is widely used for c before e or i. However, under the principle of simplest application, Barcelona would be spelt Barselona (pronounced as such in southern Spain and Latin America) not *Barqelona. Over time, one would expect the q sound to disappear altogether as it has in Ireland and Latin America.
Capital letters are used in the middle of words to eliminate written accents in all languages, where the stress is not where you would expect it to be. For instance, in English the stress is commonly on the first vowel of a word. So where it is not a capital letter is used. For instance, possibility = posibIlity, but possible = posibl.
See Appendix A, "Alphabet revisited", for the complete Yurabet alphabet, and Appendix B, "Sample proverbs and idioms", in which familiar expressions, written in Yurabet, can hopefully be recognised.
Extensive examples of the structure are shown in Appendix D, "Confusion reins, rains, reigns", and Appendix E, "Sample texts".
Doubling up on similar sounds.As mentioned previously, to fit the excessive number of individual sounds into the 26 letter alphabet, some compromise is required. This means certain letter-symbols are used for two similar or adjacent sounds, usually a voiced and unvoiced version of the same sound. In doing this, it is important that the resulting distortion in pronunciation does not create misunderstanding (although it will sound a little strange). It is also important that we resist the temptation to add letter-symbols to the 26 letter alphabet.
The letter q is our first example of use of a single letter-symbol to represent two similar sounds, under the principle of closest fit. Thus, that becomes qat even though the th sound in that is slightly different to the th sound in thick. The former is voiced and the latter is basically the same sound but unvoiced.
The other consonants which double up in English Yurabet are g h j. These consonants are also characterised by the voiced/ unvoiced relationship of similar sounds. The letter g is used in Yurabet for all hard g sounds and continues to be used at the end of the present participle. Thus, get (voiced g) stays the same (get) and standing (unvoiced g) = standng.
The letter h is voiced or throaty as in loch (loh), in the Spanish gente (hente) and in the German acht (aht). It is also common in arab names, such as Ahmed, Mohamed. It is unvoiced as in hat (hat).
The letter j is voiced as in gem (jem) and unvoiced as in pleasure (plejr). The voiced version also appears in Argentinian Spanish: yo is pronounced jo for example. The unvoiced version appears regularly in French and Portuguese (Georges/ Jorj and Jacinta/ Jasinta). This produces occasional anomalies in English, such as in ledger and leisure (lejr and lejr), which are of no great significance in the overall context.
An alternative which has been rejected as too complicated is the use of *dj for the English voiced use (just = *djust), with j applied as in the French/ Portuguese current use. Another rejected alternative would be to use *jh for the French/ Portuguese sound, but this also is too complicated. Another alternative would be to use voiced sh (x) for the French/ Portuguese sound (in English, pleasure = *plexr). However, this would also create problems in French and Portuguese. In the final analysis, natural language development might produce a merger of these two adjacent sounds.
In the voiced/ unvoiced arena are also the consonants n r s. The letter n is commonly voiced in most European languages. However, it can have a nasal or unvoiced sound in French and Portuguese. In both cases, n has a similar (voiced) sound to that used in English; but it is also used nasally. In French, the nasal sound is written into the word, eg non. In Portuguese, it is recognised by the use of the tilde, eg não. With international communications predominating in the future, one would expect both the nasal n in French and the tilde in Portuguese to lose importance and eventually disappear from the written word.
The letter r has various acceptable forms of pronunciation. In Scotland, USA, Italy, Portugal and Spain it is voiced. In the latter two cases double rr and r at the start of a word are rolled. However, in Brazilian Portuguese they are swallowed. The German r is throaty, the French r is unvoiced and in England r is widely ignored at the middle or end of a word. Yurabet in all cases uses the single r and accepts that the mainstream Yurabet form of pronunciation, as is common in Scotland, USA, Italy, Portugal and Spain, will be different to these other forms.
The letter s is bitten off in Chile at the end of words. Yurabet accepts this variation on normal Spanish pronunciation as a regional difference from mainstream Yurabet.
This brings us back to the versatile y. Yurabet uses y in its existing context as well as in replacing ce ea e+consonant+e. Therefore: yet = yet, but meet = myt, meat = myt and complete = kmplyt. It is considered that y in this expanded role does not have to be considered as a vowel-consonant hybrid; it simply becomes the sixth vowel.
Double vowels using y.Earlier reference was made to the restrictions on vowel combinations, with the traditional vowels a e i o u not being allowed to combine with each other. Similarly, for simplicity, these same vowels are not doubled, although technically they could be. Examples follow of Yurabet, as applied with a little compromise, compared to alternative Yurabet spellings, using combinations of traditional vowels, which have not been adopted:
In the interests of having simple rules, Yurabet accepts the yy combination:
In Yurabet, ay is used to portray long i, as in excite = eksAyt. Long a, as in break, is portrayed by ey (breyk). Other frequent vowel combinations are yu (potassium = ptasyum) and oy (toy = toy), but any other usual situations which would tempt us to use a combination of the traditional vowels can be accommodated by a vowel+consonant or consonant+vowel. For example, argue = argiw not *argiu and acquire = akwAyr not *akuAyr. Further examples are shown in appendix C, "Double vowels using y".
Double consonants.Yurabet follows the Cut Spelling example of only allowing double adjacent consonants where the corresponding sound is made twice. However, Yurabet does not distinguish between doubling caused by two consonants being pronounced separately and two consonants with redundant schwa between them. Examples of both types follow:
The same principle applies to past participles, comparatives and superlatives.
Therefore: padded = padd; nearer = nyrr; loosest = luwsst.
Use of Cut Spelling principles.Cut Spelling is a form of simplified spelling which eliminates redundant letters and also makes other simplifications, such as replacing ph with f and soft g with j. The book "Cut Spelling" was prepared by Chris Upward and published by SSS. It is an extensive, almost encyclopaedic, work which provides a superb catalyst for further debate.
Yurabet uses Cut Spelling principles extensively with consequent significant reduction in word length. However, Yurabet does not accept that a word need not contain a vowel (the = th = qu not *q).
On the other hand, Yurabet extends the cutting process. It removes redundant schwa in the middle of words in instances where Cut Spelling does not. Yurabet also uses the Cut Spelling principle of eliminating some apostrophes, but Yurabet gets rid of all apostrophes.
Appendix F, "Foreign language application", illustrates how Yurabet with assistance from Cut Spelling reduces word length.
Use of capital letters.Yurabet uses capital letters for names and start of sentences, but follows the lead of Cut Spelling in eliminating other existing uses in English which have no continental equivalent. In addition, in order to allow the written word only one possible location of the stressed vowel, the capital letter now has a new use.
In English Yurabet where the stress is not on the first vowel of a word, the stressed vowel takes a capital letter. However, the elimination via Yurabet of unpronounced schwa in the middle of words (on top of what Cut Spelling does) reduces dramatically the potential incidence of unstressed first vowels. This minimises the use of mid-word capital letters (phonetic =fonetic = fnetik not *funEtik).
In Appendix D, only 6% of English Yurabet words take a mid-word capital. This characteristic of Yurabet, together with its virtually 100% phonemic quality, should facilitate considerably the programming of multi-lingual talk-back computer systems. This in turn should result in a dramatic improvement in language teaching methods, whereby (as in Spanish) each word does not have to be learnt twice. The spoken word will be easily converted to the written word via a set of simple rules, and vice versa.
Whilst the usual stress in English is on the first vowel, in the Latin-based languages it is often on the last or penultimate vowel. For practical reasons, the stressed vowel should not take a capital letter if located in the usual position for that language. If the English position were taken as the norm, words in other languages would be littered with mid-word capitals. To resolve this, in each language the normal position of the stressed vowel will be set and, in words where the stress is on a different vowel, the capital letter form will be used to locate the stressed vowel.
Talk-back computers would then have to recognise the language in which they are working at a particular point in time, to determine the correct stressed vowel. The good news is that this method eliminates the need for written accents and provides the basis for a single computer-based phonemic code.
Plurals, third person present tense, possessive.In these word forms the ending s is often pronounced in English as a z. Yurabet, for simplicity and consistency with European languages, retains the s ending. In doing so Yurabet does no more than apply the voiced/ unvoiced double up principle to these word forms. The imperfect pronunciation of a word ending in s with the z-type normal pronunciation should not impede good communication. It will simply be a characteristic of the common Yurabet form of pronunciation.
Examples are: quizzes = kwizs not *kwizz; does = dus not *duz; Jim's = Jims not *Jimz). No doubt in other languages similar compromises are required. The flexibility to make such compromises comes from the principle of allowing slight pronunciation differences, compared to all existing spoken accents and dialects, as long as understanding is not impaired.
Past Participles.Some words ending in d have a t-type pronunciation in English. Along the lines of the argument in the previous paragraph, the Yurabet spelling of these words retains the ending d. Examples: packed = pakd not *pakt (however, pact = pakt); lapped = lapd not *lapt; crashed = kraxd not *kraxt.
Imports.There are probably three main categories of imported words: proper nouns (places and names of people); words imported a long time ago with a history of distorted pronunciation; newly imported words or those with little distortion from the original.
In the first category, Yurabet favours retention of the genuine original, because these proper names tend to be universally accepted in their original format, even though specific importation may have distorted it. Examples: Paris = Pari in French and ParI in English (not *Paris); Lisboa = Lxboa in Portuguese and also in English (not *Lizbn). The distinction between French and English results from different rules on stressed vowels taking a capital letter. In the Lisbon example, the stress is on the same vowel in both Portuguese and English.
In the second category, it may be wise to treat the word as if the origin was from the same language, ie "phonemicise" the word based on existing pronunciation. Thus, mason in English = meysn, not as in the French *masOn. In the third category, the thing to do would be to respect the original and spell accordingly: macho = maco in the original Spanish and all other languages; spaghetti = spageti in Italian and spagEti in English.
Implementation.Yurabet is a convenient modern replacement for the existing International Phonetic Alphabet, which uses a myriad of impractical symbols and written accents. Further work clearly needs to be done on non-English romanic languages to support an application for sponsorship from the United Nations or European Union, with the objective of rewriting the International Phonetic Alphabet on a coordinated, interlingual basis, with eyes on the future of international communications. Yurabet will then have achieved its first objective of complementing existing forms of pronunciation.
This would be followed by application at the level of uni-language and multi-language dictionaries. Concurrently, it would be taught at schools and adult colleges, alongside the usual language classes. It would eventually gain acceptance in newspapers and books, progressively becoming familiar to all, but without eliminating traditional forms unless these disappear through normal attrition.
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A. Alphabet revisited.
B. Sample proverbs and idioms.
C. Double vowels using y.
D. "Confusion reins, rains, reigns".
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Maher: Only Neonazi Party and Kirk Cameron are to the Right of Santorum
On Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher, as he analyzed GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's predicament of fending off Rick Santorum on his right, host Maher made his latest racially tinged hit on conservatives as he cracked that only "Kirk Cameron and the Neonazi party" are further to the right than Santorum. (Video below)
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And also, what I find interesting about this fight he's now in with Santorum, as opposed to the one he used to be in with Gingrich, is that he really can't attack Rick Santorum because he can't, see, he can't be to the left because he's so suspect to the Republican base as a conservative that he cannot in any way go to the left of Rick Santorum.
Maher then brought Neonazis into his analysis:
That's why, when the idea of states outlawing contraception came up, he said, well, maybe that's a good idea. But he can't be to the right to Rick Santorum because there's nothing to the right except Kirk Cameron and the Neonazi party
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Seriously...Who is this
Submitted by gopsteve on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 10:46am.
Seriously...Who is this guy?
I only ever see his name on this site...
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who is the guy?
Submitted by oldfart on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 11:16am.
Someone no one watches.
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Well, I watch him until he starts cussing like Ann Couter
Submitted by lrgon on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 1:17pm.
then I turn the boob off.
He does however need schooling on right wing - left wing politcal spectrum.
Hitler and the Nazi party were socialists and socialism is leftwing.
Hitler and Stalin were politcally in tune and ideologically twins to such an extent that that they signed a non aggression pact. Historian refer to this pact as the Molotov- Rippentrop pact.
For Maher to refer to senator Santorum as to the right of neo Nazis is laughable since the neo Nazis are basically presently occupying positions of power in the current administration.
Hitler had his nationalized healthcare system too.
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Submitted by oldfart on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 11:15am.
And there is no one to the left of Maher. Not even BO, Ayers, Alinsky, Marx or Lenin. He is so far left he is LEFT OUT.
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan
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Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 11:28am.
If Maher hates Santorum that much, I can definitely vote for him.
By the way, my hero politician of all time was Senator Jesse Helms, and he was waaaaaaay to the right of Santorum. I just wish that he was still in Washington today. Obama would not know what to do to shut him up, as he can his little bitches, Mitch and Boner.
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Hes trying to be funny, you know,,
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 12:08pm.
The way a spoiled brat kid tries to yell and scream for attention!
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Submitted by lilium479 on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 12:15pm.
That's nice since a Nazi belongs to the left, thus Maher and his party.,,,,,,,what an ignorant fool.
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Bill's wrong.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 12:39pm.
There's me, Attila the Hun, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee.........
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I know some have accused
Submitted by forest on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 12:58pm.
I know some have accused Santorum of expanding the government through a few of his votes, but there's no way he's left of the big government collectivist authoritarian Nazis. The only ones left of them are their ideological cousins in the communist camp.
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Dont forget ...
Submitted by Fredy on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 1:48pm.
... about the Islamo-fascists!
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Maher's a nihilist, and an
Submitted by ray johnson on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 1:37pm.
Maher's a nihilist, and an idiot...big time!!
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I'm not even sure Pol Pot was to the left of Bill Maher
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 3:06pm.
But if he was, he was the only one.
Vote for the American in November
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lol what a moron.. Nazi is
Submitted by JdfinCT on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 3:50pm.
lol what a moron.. Nazi is short for National Socialist German Workers' Party..yeah that sounds like a right leaning/conservative organization to me.
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I couldn't get past the
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I couldn't get past the reference to the imaginary "neo-nazi" party. Bigfoot... Yeti... Loch Ness...
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There has to be
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There has to be people to the left of Maher; since he is always the pivot-man in their circle jerk, he has guys all around him.
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The majority of the Quarry is west facing, so the seasons dictate when is the best time to climb. In the summer you can climb to noon, in the winter climb in the Agony Arch area in the morning and the rest of the crag in the afternoon. When it is really windy a few climbs in Slab City are protected. This is a popular area for dirt bikers; on the weekends it can get really busy and noisy. There are so many climbs here that crowds are sparse.
The Quarry is on private property and driving into the quarry is not allowed - please park on the street. The land owner has a mutual understanding with the rock climbers and allows us to climb here. Please be respectful and keep the noise down, pick up your trash (I know it seems kinda pointless sometimes), and smile and be polite to the police officers when they come through. The more you do, the less likely it is for this place to be closed.
Although there are lots of fast food restaurants nearby the preferred choice is the nearby TJ's Tacos which is just north of the 60 Freeway on the right-hand side (as you drive to the crag) which has amazing tacos (try the carne asada tacos) for $1.35 they are amazing.
A lot of the route beta (# of bolts anchors at the top, and locations) are taken from the guide book, for the sole purpose of providing information and developing further interest in the area. Please contact Louie Anderson (firstname.lastname@example.com) to get a copy of the guide book. This are has been very well developed, and most of the cost has been paid for by the route developers. 100% of the proceeds of the guidebook go towards paying for bolts and anchors at the Riverside Quarry. The cost of the guide book is $19.95.
Getting There
From Los Angeles and points west: Take the I-10 Freeway East, South on I-15, East on the 60. Exit Valley Way. Turn left; the cliffs are now visible to the NE. Turn right on Sierra, and then left on the dirt road after the housing development.
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The original Holy Trinity Anglican Parish Church in Tauranga, New Zealand, was destroyed by fire in 1999, only to rise from the ashes four years later as a striking new structure of concrete and steel. The centerpiece of the new church complex is the 900-seat, semi-circular worship auditorium, where a stunning acoustical ceiling treatment (made with rare kauri wood salvaged from the old church) conceals a nearly invisible system of Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeakers.
"It has a very sweet, natural sound to it," says church music director Peter Minson of the new sound. "The comment we get from outside people coming in for concerts is that they are not even aware of amplified sound."
The semi-circular seating arrangement made four UPA-1P compact wide coverage loudspeakers an appropriate choice for the main system. The UPA-1Ps are mounted in the gaps between the elegant overhead acoustical panels and configured in a left-right-left-right arrangement to provide stereo spread. Sound for seats under the balcony is augmented by a dozen MM-4 miniature wide-range loudspeakers, while deep bass is provided by an under-stage pair of USW-1P compact subwoofers.
Both the sound system and the room acoustics were designed by the international consulting firm of Marshall Day Acoustics, with Larry Elliot of the company's Auckland office handling the primary system design chores. According to Elliot, the Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeakers were the keystone of the system design.
"The contractors could offer alternatives on other components, but not the loudspeakers," he says. "We had gone to a lot of effort to integrate them with the architectural design. I knew the Meyer products would be ideal for this application because–and this is something I've never quite got a handle on–there's something about the Meyer speakers that always seems to provide excellent speech quality in a room that is more optimized for music. I'm not sure whether it's the time coherence or the extremes of frequency response, but the end result is excellent speech intelligibility and a full musical sound as well."
Elliot says he specified the UPA-1P as the main cabinet because the compact size allowed discreet placement inside the narrow gaps in the acoustical ceiling treatment. Because of the relatively short throw distances and moderately live acoustics, he notes that the system easily produces levels of 95 to 100 dB (C weighted) throughout the room "with plenty of headroom above that."
The Holy Trinity project marked the first installation of Meyer Sound loudspeakers by the system contractor, AV Solutions of Hamilton, and company president Hanspeter Frick was immediately cognizant of the advantages. "The cable runs from the equipment room at the rear of the church to the main cluster are quite long, and to minimize losses and avoid amplifiers from becoming unstable, it was much easier and cheaper to install a multi-core, line-level cable from the Media Matrix DSP outputs to the individual self-powered loudspeakers."
Other key components of the new system include a Midas Venice console, QSC amplifiers, a Clear-Com production intercom, and Ampetronics inductive loop assisted listening system. The amplifiers drive the MM-4 loudspeakers, Meyer Sound's only non-self-powered product, which are too small to house onboard electronics.
In its first year of operation, the church auditorium has hosted a number of outside concerts. Although orchestral and operatic programs normally are unamplified, most pop and jazz acts use the house system and find it more than adequate for their needs. As for the church's own requirements, Holy Trinity's Peter Minson is delighted with what he hears on a weekly basis. "We have everything here, from gently amplified acoustic sounds to howling, head-banging rock for the all-electric youth service on Saturday nights. It can handle all of those sounds without batting an eyelid."
In an intimate setting such as Holy Trinity church, claims Minson, the best sound system is one that seems invisible to the eye and transparent to the ear. "When you're listening in our church, you're not aware that the sound is coming from overhead. When lips move on the stage, you get the impression that all the sound is coming from the speaker or singer directly. That's as it should be."


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Life has thrown 15 year-old Trey some curve balls. He's been in foster care for four years.
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Trey's situation is different because when he goes to school most of his peers have homes. But, he said he has faith the future holds something good.
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Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear attended a groundbreaking ceremony Monday for a Transitional Care Center in Cold Spring.
Carespring Health Care is breaking ground on its new facility, which will bring more than 200 jobs to the area. The new community will specialize in short term rehabilitative care and long term nursing care.
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The brooding West Yorkshire countryside that inspired classics such as Wuthering Heights has been protected from plans for more turbines because of the importance of the famous sister writers.
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SEATTLE—For the first time, we are hearing a 911 call from a witness who was first on the scene.
Meanwhile, raw emotion spilled out in a King County courtroom Wednesday as the man accused of killing two teenagers in a drunk driving crash pleaded not guilty.
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From Ken Rosenthal: "he Rangers are scouting Philadelphia's Cole Hamels and Milwaukee's Zack Greinke as potential trade candidates, according to major-league sources."
Or not. Peter Gammons says the Rangers won't be entering the Greinke Sweepstakes.
What about Cole Hamels, though? Will the Phillies give him up? And do the Rangers have what it takes to get him? Rosenthal:
The Phillies are seeking a long-term answer at third base and likely would ask the Rangers for star prospect Mike Olt in a trade for Hamels. Olt, who is blocked at third base in Texas by Adrian Beltre, has been one of the best hitters in the minor leagues this year. He has a 1.005 OPS with 20 home runs in 70 games at Class AA Frisco. The Rangers would be very reluctant to part with Olt in any trade.
As they should be. Mitch Moreland's having a pretty good season, but it doesn't look like he's going to become a star and might just settle in as a nice platoon player for a few years. Even with Beltré locked up for a few more years, there might be openings at third base and DH within a year or two. If Olt keeps hitting -- and right now he's hitting 304/412/593 in the Texas League, granted he's almost 24 -- the Rangers will find a place for him. Without even having to work too hard.
That said, Olt shouldn't be untouchable. Because he's 24.
Then again, neither should Beltré. Because he's 33.
The Phillies are "seeking a long-term answer at third base"? Adrián Beltré is signed through 2016. Even if this season is lost, you know the Phillies are planning to compete in 2013 and beyond. Is Beltré's deal probably look a bit extravagant in the out-years? Sure. But when has that ever stopped them before.
Wait, what's that? Oh. Right. Ryan Howard. Including this season, the Phillies owe him $125 million through 2016.
Aside from the obvious overpay when Howard got that deal, there was something else that teams seem to rarely consider: opportunity cost. Sure, maybe the Phillies could "afford" to overpay Howard, because they've got plenty of money and he's got plenty of intangibles. But unless you assume an unlimited budget, that $125 million is $125 million they won't spend on another player. Say, a top-notch third baseman who's barely older than Howard and is making $82 million over that same span.
Look, I'm not saying the Rangers would trade Beltré; they probably wouldn't, considering Olt's still in the Texas League. I'm not saying the Phillies should, considering lots of stuff. I'm saying that committing a huge amount of money to a player necessarily limits your flexibility down the road. And in the world of baseball management, flexibility is the coin of the realm.


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Michael Beck, 26, of 671 Noank Ledyard Road, Groton, was charged Wednesday with criminal violation of a protective order.
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One of the most reported sexual problems in women relates to orgasm. For women who receive treatment for female orgasmic disorder, the prognosis is good.
There is no universally accepted definition of orgasm in women. Meston et al have defined it as "a variable, transient peak sensation of intense pleasure creating an altered state of consciousness, usually accompanied by involuntary, rhythmic contractions of the pelvic striated circumvaginal musculature, often with concomitant uterine and anal contractions and myotonia that resolves the sexually- induced vasocongestion (sometimes only partially), usually with an induction of well-being and contentment."1
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) defines female orgasmic disorder (FOD, formerly inhibited female orgasm) as a persistent or recurrent delay in, or absence of, orgasm following a normal sexual excitement phase.2 The diagnosis requires that another axis I disorder does not account for the orgasmic dysfunction better than FOD and that the dysfunction is not exclusively due to a direct physiologic effect of a substance or a general medical condition.
According to the DSM-IV-TR, FOD can be lifelong or acquired, generalized or situational, or due to psychologic or combined factors. It should be emphasized that the presence of a sexual excitement phase is required to diagnose FOD. The presence of decreased desire for sexual activity, aversion to sexual contact, or decreased lubrication represents different disorders that may coexist with anorgasmia.
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Investigators from the National Social and Health Life Survey noted that the second most frequently reported sexual problems in women are related to orgasm.3 In this study, 24% of a random sample of 1,749 US women reported having no orgasms for at least several months in the previous year. Due to the lack of well-controlled studies, the wide variability in defi nition, and the lack of objective diagnostic markers for FOD, the available epidemiologic evidence most likely represents an underestimation of the true prevalence of this condition.
In 1966, Masters and Johnson reported that the female (and male) sexual response is characterized by a sequential progression of events starting with sexual interest and culminating in orgasm.4 This view likely oversimplifies the nature of the female sexual response. More recent theories, such as Basson's model, suggest that the female sexual response is much more complex than originally understood and integrates emotional intimacy, sexual stimuli, and relationship satisfaction.5 Numerous laboratory studies have shown a "disconnect" between objective and subjective arousal in women.6,7 In other words, if a woman is not psychologically and physically receptive to sexual contact, her chances of achieving orgasm are decreased.
Erotic stimulation resulting in female orgasm can originate from a variety of genital and nongenital sites. Although the clitoris and vagina are the most common sites of stimulation that result in an orgasm, stimulation of other body sites (eg, periurethral glands, breasts, nipples, or mons) can also trigger an orgasm. Scientists, however, are beginning to shift their focus off of the clitoris toward the most important sex organ—the brain.
Researchers are beginning to understand how the central nervous system functions prior to and during orgasm by recording how the brain activates (or shuts down) during orgasm. Some researchers are training women to increase their orgasmic capacity by letting them observe their own personal sexual brain patterns (sexual biofeedback). 8 Mental imagery and fantasy have also been shown to facilitate orgasm in some women.9 Interestingly, wakefulness is not a requirement for orgasms, as they have been reported to occur during sleep.10 Others have found that spontaneous orgasm can occur without any obvious stimulus.11
Depression and anxiety may cause sexual dysfunction in general, including anorgasmia. If the axis I disorders are present, they should be treated fi rst. A lack of emotional closeness, as well as anger, resentment, and lack of trust can decrease sexual desire and inhibit the orgasmic response. In addition, boredom in sexual activity, embarrassment about sharing with their partner what they require for sexual satisfaction, and religious beliefs may contribute to secondary FOD. These sociocultural beliefs are often deeply entrenched and must be delicately managed in a therapeutic setting.
A recent study found a correlation between EQ (emotional intelligence) and orgasmic capacity. The study suggests that the more emotionally intelligent a woman is, the more orgasms she has.12 Women who have self-confi dence, empathy, access to their own emotions, and comfort with emotional intimacy (all measures of EQ) are better positioned to achieve orgasm than are women who lack these traits.
There is no consistent evidence that psychosocial factors alone can lead to FOD.13 Nevertheless, psychologic factors have a strong impact on the female sexual response and the ability to achieve orgasm. It is important to keep in mind that a number of illicit drugs or prescribed medications, especially alcohol, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, and antihypertensives may negatively affect sexual functioning.
It is crucial that the clinician establish a rapport that puts the patient at ease, creating an environment where she feels comfortable discussing her sexual issues (Table). The evaluation of a woman with an orgasmic disorder includes a thorough medical and psychologic history. The clinician should assess if the patient previously achieved orgasm (and if so, through what means), the regularity with which she was able to do so, and if her current problem is limited to a specifi c relationship. Neurologic disorders including multiple sclerosis and diabetic neuropathy, as well as hormonal disorders such as hypothyroidism and decreased androgen levels, should be assessed.
A comprehensive physical examination, including a neurologic examination, should be performed. Laboratory work-up should include blood glucose levels, a chemistry panel (including calcium levels) to rule out any electrolyte abnormalities, and a hormonal panel including androgen, estrogen, testosterone, prolactin, and thyroid hormone levels. A full blood count and vitamin B12 and folate levels need to be checked to rule out a peripheral neuropathy. Most of these tests can be performed in a primary care office. Additionally, a vaginal pH may be useful.
The cornerstone of treatment for FOD is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Evidence regarding the eff ectiveness of psychoanalytic or psychodynamically oriented therapies is inconclusive. More recent approaches are focused on the importance of a woman being able to reach orgasm as desired under any circumstance. CBT for FOD focuses on promoting changes in attitudes and sexually relevant thoughts.
The underlying assumption of CBT-based interventions is that orgasmic ability and satisfaction can be increased by reducing sex-associated anxiety and cognitive distortions. Th is strategy is based on the belief that many women develop performance anxiety, embarrassment, or guilt related to having an orgasm with her partner, thereby misdirecting her attention from enjoying erotic stimulation to performance-related concerns.
Lastly, purely behavioral exercises involving directed masturbation have been eff ective for treating FOD in a variety of modalities including bibliotherapy (reading books recommended by the therapist), as well as group, individual, or couples therapy. Meston and Levin reported that masturbation was an empirically valid and eff ective treatment for women with lifelong, generalized FOD.13
A number of medications have been evaluated for the treatment of female sexual dysfunction; bupropion and sildenafil citrate are probably the most commonly used. To date, there is no FDA-approved medication for the treatment of FOD.
Bupropion (Wellbutrin®), a dopamine-agonist class of antidepressants, has emerged as a treatment for FOD. Bupropion was studied in nondepressed women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder and was shown to significantly improve sexual arousal and orgasm, but not sexual desire.14
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Sildenafil citrate is a phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor and is FDA approved for the treatment of male erectile dysfunction. A randomized placebo-controlled trial evaluating sildenafil in women with antidepressantassociated sexual dysfunction found the ability to reach orgasm and experience orgasm satisfaction was signifi cantly better for those in the sildenafil group.15
Other clinical trials have shown increased vaginal engorgement in the presence of sexual stimuli, but the subjective experience of arousal was not reliably achieved.16 The fact that objective physiologic arousal, but not necessarily subjective arousal, was documented in these studies reinforces the notion that there is a "disconnect" between objective and subjective arousal in women.
Female orgasmic disorder can be a challenging condition, for both the patient and the clinician. Little is known about the natural course and prognosis of women with untreated FOD. Some cases of the acquired and situational types seem likely to remit spontaneously. Patients with lifelong and generalized types of FOD appear to have a good prognosis with treatment but an uncertain prognosis without treatment. Fortunately, in recent years there has been increased interest and research in women's sexual health, which hopefully will facilitate improved treatment options for women with sexual health concerns.
The authors report no actual or potential conflicts of interest in relation to this article.
Lara J. Burrows, MD, MSc, is Director, Center for Vulvovaginal Disorders, and Kimberly Resnick-Anderson, LISW, is Director, Center for Sexual Health, both at Summa Health System, Akron, OH.


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on Oct 21, 2013 at 12:41 pm
No one over 80 should be driving anymoe.
on Oct 21, 2013 at 12:48 pm
Some 80 years old people are great drivers, some are not. I do think that after a certain age - maybe 75 - we should require an annual vision test and behind the wheel test. I think over 80, people are required to retake the written portion, but if you are 80 and driving still, I don't think the issue will be knowing the rules of the road, its the physical ability to obey them that is an issue.
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I read in the initial article that once bystanders were able to pull the confused driver out of the car so they could put the engine in neutral and push it off this poor child, he asked for his walker. This whole situation is unfortunate all around, but I am curious:
Does someone who needs a walker also require an adaptation for the foot pedals in a motor vehicle?


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Older women 'still at risk of cervical cancer'
– Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust director Robert Music.
Recent reports point to an increase in women having new partners' later in life and this will increase their risk of contracting HPV.
However, even if this is not the case, typically cervical cancer is a slow growing cancer which usually takes 10 to 15 years to develop, so women who have not been sexually active for some time may still be at risk.


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An elderly Warren County couple has been released from the hospital this morning after being shot during a home invasion Tuesday night.
Sheriff Martin Pace says two men forced their way into the home on Shenandoah Road when the couple heard a noise in the carport and opened the door.
The home invaders demanded cash, and stole a television, then shot both in the head with a small caliber gun.
Pace says investigators don't know what type of gun or projectile was fired, adding that they didn't know the couple had been shot until they went to the hospital and got x-rays.
"We had two African American males, one slightly taller than the other one. One wearing a camouflage jumpsuit or overalls and armed with some type of long gun possibly a rifle," said Sheriff Pace.
Family members declined to talk on camera, but they said the unidentified couple would do anything to help anyone. They spend their free time translating bibles for people who don't speak English.
The Warren County Sheriffs department has dedicated a team of investigators to solving the home invasion and shooting of the couple.
Sheriff Pace said, "This case will be solved, we are pursing this literally around the clock. Were going to resolve this. We want the public to know that were doing everything we possibly can to resolve this as quickly as possible. Again were asking for the publics assistance in this case."
The public is being asked to provide any tips on the case by calling the sheriffs office at 601-636-1761 or Crime Stoppers at 601-355-8477.
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