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If you are reading this blog, the chances are good that you are some kind of left-leaning soul.
And if you are a (United-States-of) American and your left sentiments are more than a purely private matter, the chances are decent that you&undefined;ve been told at least once to "stop being so negative" about social and political conditions in the glorious United States.
After all, as the smiley U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-Texas) once (in the summer of 2002) said —- in a positive speech happily authorizing her friend and fellow Texan George W. Bush to execute deadly force in his noble campaign to deepen U.S. control over Middle Eastern oil (sorry, that was a NEGATIVE thought…I meant to say "to export freedom to Iraq and the Arab world") —- the United States of America is "the beacon to the world of the way life should be."
It&undefined;s fun and cool to be the world&undefined;s life "beacon."
Sometimes I go "negative" and forget that, like when I recently published an article (see "Empire, Inequality, and the Arrogance of Power,"Dissident Voice,April 14 2006, www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr06/Street14.htm) in which I pointed out that:
* More than 37 million residents of the United States languish beneath the federal government&undefined;s notoriously low poverty level ($15,219 for a family of three in 2004).
* More than 13 million or 18 percent of US children live below that sorry measure, and the US child poverty rate is substantially higher than that of other industrialized nations.
* 15.6 million Americans live in what social researchers now call "DEEP POVERTY": at LESS THAN HALF the inadequate U.S. poverty level, comprising 42 percent of the nation&undefined;s giant poverty population.
* More than one in three US children live in or near poverty and more than 8 million Americans live in homes that frequently skip meals or eat too little.
* More than 45 million Americans lack health coverage, making up 16 percent of the U.S. population. The U.S. is still the only modern industrialized state without a universal, socially inclusive health insurance plan.
* The top 1 percent owns more than 40 percent of the wealth in the U.S..
* The top 10 percent owns two-thirds of US wealth, leaving the rest of us – 90 percent of the population – to fight it out for one third of the nation&undefined;s assets.
* As the New York Times acknowledged in a front-page story last May, "Life at the Top Isn&undefined;t Just Better, It&undefined;s Longer" because "class is a potent force in health and longevity in the United States…. Upper-middle-class Americans live longer and in better health than middle-class Americans, who live longer and better than those at the bottom. And the gaps are widening, say people who have researched social factors in health" (Janny Scott, "Life At The Top," New York Times, 16 May 2005).
* Unequal health care contributes to more than 100,000 black Americans dying earlier than whites each year. Middle-aged black men die at nearly twice the rate as white men of a similar age.
Since I tend to "dwell" on this sort of "unhappy" information (for an extended version see the chapter titled "Mirror, Mirror" in my book Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11) "so much," it has recently been suggested to me, I need to "focus a bit more on the good side of things…." you know the glass that is half-full as well as the glass that is half-empty.
And here, dear reader, is, I am told, an example of the half-full-glass —- the happy side of life in the beacon, brought to us courtesy of the positive thinkers at the Financial Times:
" &undefined;Very Rich&undefined; List Grows at Fastest Pace in a Decade"
Financial Times
April 19, 2006 10:12 PM ETUS
"The number of very rich people in the US grew last year at the fastest pace in at least a decade as their moves into international stockmarkets, real estate and alternative investments paid off."
"The number of households with $5m (€4m) or more in investable assets — excluding the family home —- rose by 26 per cent to a record 930,000, according to a study by Spectrem Group. That is the biggest jump since Spectrem began its survey in 1996. The number of millionaires rose by 11 per cent, to a record 8.3m — the second biggest jump in the decade since they were surveyed."
"The overall affluent market — households with $500,000 or more — rose by 7 per cent to a record 14m. This group fared the worst in the wake of the stockmarket collapse, with their numbers falling sharply from 2000. Last year was the first time their total passed that of their peak in 1999. Catherine McBreen, a managing director at Spectrem, said: &undefined;It&undefined;s been a great couple of years for America&undefined;s millionaires … the stockmarket, which posted solid improvement in 2005, was one reason for the advance. However, for the wealthiest Americans it appears the increased use of international markets and alternative investments were key drivers of their improvement.&undefined; "
"George Walper, president of Sprectrem, said the group had questioned respondents on their investments and returns, and also examined the returns of international markets and alternative investments to ensure the veracity of the results. In a sudden reversal of their longstanding affinity for their domestic market, US investors last year put more than $130bn into international mutual funds, more than three times the amount they put into US funds."
"Most overseas markets performed better than the US market, so their switch paid off."
"Hedge funds returned on average only slightly more than the US stockmarket last year, but investable real estate and some private equity investments returned more than this."
"Affluent households, on average, held close to half their money in assets — stocks, bonds and alternative investments —- and a larger than usual amount of cash, Spectrem said."
"The affluent reported a greater satisfaction with their financial advisers than in recent years, but this was still short of the highest level previously reported. Those who used advisers were shifting back to use full-service brokers as their main advisers."
Copyright 2006 Financial Times
Ok, how&undefined;s that for some cognitive therapy? I know I feel better. I hope you, fellow leftist, do to — feel better that is.
There I was sending Dissident Voice readers into fits of depression with my self-defeating "glass half-empty" thoughts when…. there was so much reason to be having totally postive "glass half-full" thoughts.
There I was looking, as usual — yes, there I went again (to paraphrase the recently departed icon of positive thinking Ronald Reagan) — at the 16 million people living at LESS THAN HALF the (laughable) U.S. poverty level even as the number of people with more than FIVE MILLION DOLLARS IN INVESTIBLE ASSETS was climbling to a record 930,000!
The number of "VERY RICH" (we&undefined;re talking $5 million and that&undefined;s just in INVESTIBLE assets baby!!) has been rising at the fastest pace ever recorded, for crying out loud!!
As Homer Simpson would say: "Woo Hoo, Hi Five!"
Sure a lot of those 16 million deeply poor folks are probably pretty sad. I know a neighborhood in Chicago (Riverdale on the far South Side) where more than half the kids were DEEPLY POOR in 1999, at the peak of the long 1990s "Clinton boom" (things are probably worse there today).
But they&undefined;ll get over it. I mean, come on. And, to focus on the positive for a moment…. how happy must those nearly 1 million qunitamillionaires be? A lot of those people are probably, like, well super happy. Their happiness is so big I bet it might be able to soak up the negative thinking coming out of the poor people&undefined;s neighborhoods and homes …when they have homes anyway (the Times recently ran a piece about the masses of American poor people who live in automobiles).
So yes, the glass is half-full. And no there&undefined;s no initimate or dialectical relationship between the grotesque super-opulence of the privileged few and the shameful misery of the systemically super-exploited many at the bottom of the steep socioeconomic pyramid in the industrialized world&undefined;s most unequal and wealth-top-heavy society (the "beacon to the world," that is). None at all.
Well, yes there is, but thinking so is "negative" and so should be be set aside.
I mean, what are you a Marxist or something? Karl Marx was a drag — totally depressing.
Better to think that most of those people are the bottom will some day rise to the top some day, if they just plug into the power of positive thinking. That&undefined;s the ticket. It&undefined;s called the "American Dream," pal (or gal), and it&undefined;s a big part of what made this country the big old "beacon to the world."
Never mind that the Wall Street Journal last May published a front page article acknowledging that the social class into which you are born matters a great deal when it comes to determing where you stand on the American socioeconomic ladder. It matters more in the "beacon" than it does in Europe, those anti-American negative thinkers at the Journal found. The American Dream of "rags to riches," those glass-half-empty types said, is less livable in America than it is in the aristocratic Old World that America rejected when its founding document proclaimed that "All Men Are Created Equal."
See "As Rich-Poor Gap Widens in the U.S., Class Mobility Stalls: Those on Bottom Rung Enjoy Better Odds in Europe" (May 13th), where Journal reporter David Wessel notes that recent scholarship does NOT bear out "the notion that the US is…a meritocracy where smarts and ambition matter more than parenthood and class." In reality, Wessel finds, the odds that a child born into poverty will climb into the middle or upper class are slighter in the U.S. than they are in "class bound Europe." According to the latest and best research, the Journal reports, the U.S. and its junior partner England are "the least mobile societies" among the world&undefined;s "rich countries." France and Germany "are somewhat more mobile than the U.S.; Canada and the Nordic countries are much more so."
Two days after Wessel&undefined;s article, the hopelessly negative New York Times noted that mobility up from poverty is less common in the U.S. than in Britain, France, Canada and "some Scandinavian countries." The best the Times could say about America was that American upward mobility is still "not as low as in developing countries like Brazil, where escape from poverty is so difficult that the lower class is all but frozen in place" (Janny Scott and David Leonhardt, "Shadowy Lines That Still Divide," New York Times. 15 May, 2005).
How fixed is class position in the supposedly hyper-fluid "land of opportunity?" The best current research determines, the depressing anti-American pessimists at the Wall Street Journal reported, that "at least 45%" and "perhaps as much as 60%" of "parents&undefined; advantage" is "passed on to their children." If you go with the 60% estimate, Wessel notes, then rich peoples&undefined; inherited edge – and poor peoples&undefined; inherited disadvantage – go back as far as five generations. That happens to take us back to the end of the Civil War and the constitutional abolition of slavery.
According to the negative thinking Marxist Chicago Federal Reserve economist Bhashkar Mazumdor, who matched government survey data with the Social Security records of thousands of men burn during the 1960s, just 14% of American men born to fathers in the bottom tenth of the wage structure have risen to the top 30%. Conversely, just 17% of men born to fathers in the top tenth have fallen into the bottom 30th.
It gets worse, Wessel noted, when you factor in race. He cited economist Tom Hertz&undefined;s finding that fully 42% of blacks born into the bottom tenth of families for income fail to escape the lowest ten percent. By contrast, Hertz determined, just 17% of whites born into the bottom tenth stay there as adults.
What a negative shithead!
It should also be noted that the Wall Street Journal&undefined;s focus only on income mobility leads it significantly understate the real degree of socioeconomic immobility in the U.S. The astonishing extent of American socioeconomic and related racial disparity becomes more fully evident when you factor in wealth. In the U.S., the most unequal nation in the industrialized world, the top 1 percent owns more than 40 percent of the wealth. The top 10 percent owns two-thirds of US wealth, leaving the rest of us – 90 percent of the population – to fight it out for one third of the nation&undefined;s assets.
Things get worse, again, when you factor in race. By 1999, economist Thomas Shapiro finds, the "net worth (all assets minus all liabilities) of typical white families was $81,000 compared to $8,000 for black families" in the US. By the recessionary year of 2002, black net worth fell to seven cents on the white dollar.
Talk about a bunch of stuff NOT to think! Forget you read all that here. It&undefined;s all a bunch of negative thinking.


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The Rams remained busy on the DT front Tuesday, trading former first-round draft pick Adam Carriker to the Redskins and signing starting DT Clifton Ryan to a one-year tender offer.
A person familiar with the deal says Davis has agreed to a one-year contract to remain with the Washington Redskins. The person said Friday that Davis opted to remain with the Redskins after exploring options with the Buffalo Bills and New York Jets.||||||| The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team has yet to announce the deal. Davis might have been one of the most coveted tight ends on the free agent market if he were healthy, but he's recovering from a torn left Achilles suffered in a loss to the New York Giants in October. He had 24 catches for 325 yards in seven games last year.
Free agent tight end Fred Davis intends to continue weighing his options after meeting with the Buffalo Bills for a second time.||||||| Davis visited the Bills' facility Thursday after dining with team officials last weekend. Though interested in Buffalo, Davis hasn't ruled out re-signing with Washington. He's scheduled to visit the New York Jets on Friday.
Davis tore his left Achilles tendon Sunday against the Giants and will miss the remainder of the season.||||||| Davis needed help to the sideline and then onto a trainer's table before he was carted to the locker room for further examination. He was the team's leading receiver with 23 catches for 312 yards entering Sunday's game.
Davis caught seven passes for 90 yards in Sunday's 38-31 loss to the Bengals.||||||| Davis came into Week 3 with four receptions for 52 yards, but could be poised for another big game next Sunday, as the Redskins face a Buccaneers team that is last in the NFL in passing yards, yielding an average of 353.3 per game.
Davis and left tackle Trent Williams are set to play for the first time since Dec. 4 in Thursday's preseason opener after they were suspended for the final four games of 2011 for failing multiple drug tests.||||||| Davis was having a career year with 59 catches and 796 yards before being suspended. He gets tested two or three times a week and meets weekly with a counselor. If he tests positive this season, he'll be suspended for a year.

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For some two decades now one fancy area of academic study in the Humanities has been that which is called "Postcolonial Studies."
The initial assumption here with regard to the Indian subcontinent would be that colonialism ended here in 1947 with the formal transfer of power.
That over the last six decades colonial oppression has indeed come to an end with regard to some 20% or so Indians—or, indeed, has taken on more subtle and seductive incarnations, often leading to voluntary consent—is true enough.
Alas, however, barring the right to exercise franchise, some 70% or more Indians remain at the receiving end of a homegrown colonial instinct.
And in every sense of the term as well: the "developers" say to the "hinterlanders", give us your land, your forests, your waterways, and we shall give to you our culture and religion. As to your livelihood, there is wage labour if and when you are competitive enough to get it.
Thus it is that the oral histories and folklore of
A losing sort of yearning, as India's own railroaders, robber barons, and hindutva peddlers mean everyday to obliterate the native Indians—this time the real ones—in true imitation of the successful conclusions of old across the atlantic.
"Postcolonial" modernity thus seeks to take on totalitarian dimensions within the framework of franchise, recalling the caution that Adorno and Horkheimer had sounded about the brutally instrumentalist aspects of Enlightenment reason (see Dialectic of Reason.)
Instructively, however, the legacy of India's freedom movement against British colonial rule, and the subsequent practice of democracy, however coercive and top-down during the first three decades after Independence came to breach the quiescence of the "hinterland," leading to the beginnings of armed revolt against the refusal of the "postcolonial" governments to pass on land-ownership to the real cultivators—a covenant upon which the Indian hinterland had been mobilized by the Congress party.
Interestingly, in the context of the current imbroglio in Lalgarh (which falls within the state of West Bengal), that revolt was also to begin in another part of
During that initial decade of "naxalism" when the Congress ruled
It was still largely conjectural where the agrarian masses would position themselves in the contention.
Then the Left came back to power in 1977. And to its great credit, it understood that state repression could not be a "socialist" answer to naxal violence.
Not until the allegiance of the agrarian hinterland was won could such violence be rendered infructuous. And winning that allegiance had to mean addressing the material cause of the unrest, namely the question of the ownership of land.
Thus it is that operation "Barga" came to be the flagship agenda of the Left-front government. For the next two decades or more, this government did not just pay lip-service to that agenda, but, despite brutal opposition from entrenched interests, steadfastly carried out the redistribution of agricultural land.
Another vital fact that gave to the new aspiring masses a sense of being true stake holders was the devolution of decision-making mechanisms to Panchayats—a democratic innovation and refinement of far-reaching consequence, and one that the future Congress prime minister of India, the late Rajiv Gandhi would pick up and install countrywide through what have proved to be monumental Constitutional amendments.
If all too often patedars (those who now had documentary proof of land-ownership in
The moot point is that land transfers in the
Unprecedentedly in democratic history world-wide, the Left-front was to be re-elected to power in
Uncontestably, the Spartan and deeply caring and imaginative helmsmanship of the Left front by the legendary Jyoti Basu, and the general probity of ministers in government contributed uniquely to this achievement.
That oppositional party-political forces have so long remained out of favour in
And yet, the elections to the Assembly in 2006 conducted by the Election Commission of India entirely under the aegis of forces, civil and police, drawn from outside
As comment is made on the failures of the LF, and of the recent depletion of its elected numbers to parliament, it is only just that those histories be kept in mind as well.
Having said that, it took one Nandigram episode to bring to a boil corrosions that had been accumulating over three decades of LF rule in
Broadly, the following distortions seemed to have progressively disfigured the idealist impulses of the LF:
–a steady but unremedied breakdown of direct communication with the people, wherein the Panchayats came to be fiefdoms of party sartraps;
–the consolidation of a cadre that now came to be distinct from the people, that instead of facilitating further extensions of the creative energies of the impoverished masses stood like an opaque wall between them and the government, no longer a receptive vanguard, but increasingly a red guard; no longer listening to the mass but telling them from time to time what was expected of them;
–a cadre that became instrumental in installing party over government, in distributing largesse and favour, in construing party hegemony as diktat, and being perceived with some justice as standing above the normal operations of law;
–a party and government that slowly but surely simply habituated itself to taking its mass base as a given, assuming that regressive turn-arounds in economic policy and new emphases in investment would be swallowed on trust;
askance at the fact that this base did not view the new LF love for the Tatas and other industrial tycoons with the same favour as the party and government;
–a shocking neglect of spheres of social concern such as services bearing directly on the daily lives of millions—health, power, education, employment;
–an attitude towards religious minorities that seemed to replicate the habits of mind of the Congress party—provide physical security and little else to boot, a fact that the Sachar Committee brought to light, and that became a major input into the disaffections among the Muslim farm community in Nandigram;
Rapidly enough, yesterday's Jacobins seemed to have transformed not just into Girondists but pleaders on behalf of class forces that wished to turn their balance now quite the other way.
Little wonder that a Left extremism that had defeated its own cause by refusing democracy and choosing to stay with armed struggle has been able to re-enter a West Bengal whose creative LF politics had usurped its legitimacy over the years, while in other parts of India all-too inimical and repressively anti-people regimes have continued to provide space for armed resistance to state policies.
In this renewed context, the West Bengal LF unsurprisingly finds itself in a piquant situation.
Much as it decries the politics of the gun, it now recognizes that the Maoists, all said and done, are taking up causes that are its own, and that somehow it allowed to fall by the wayside during its protracted rule.
It is therefore unable either to condone the violence or to lump the Maoists as just another "terrorist" organization that can be dealt with simply through a ban.
It is faced with the recognition that if in years gone by it had successfully taken the masses in the hinterland away from the extremists, the latter may now have returned the compliment.
As to coercion and violence, it must be a terrible thing for the perception to grow that between the gun-toting Maoists and the cadres of the LF, the distinction may not amount to a great deal, deeply erroneous as this surely is.
Caught between the state forces and the Maoists, the disenfranchised santhal adivasis that largely inhabit Lalgarh bordering with Jharkhand seem now to have only some sensitive urban voices to speak for their lives. Here is what some well-known academics and public figures have to say in a letter to the media:
faulting the WB government for using force to bring Lalgarh back into state control, they hold that negotiations should have been attempted, and that the state has failed to "differentiate between violent Maoists and unarmed civilians." Even as they also say "we deplore the reckless violence of the Maoists, who have exploited
Here then is the conundrum: vast numbers of the Indian intelligentsia who reject both the oppressive, colonial policies of "postcolonial" governments in
The problem with regard to the Indian hinterland has devolved around an increasingly rampant alliance between state power and marauding corporate interest.
Over the last two decades especially, the state has allowed indiscriminate mining activity in forest areas that have been the lifeblood of the adivasis. And all organized resistance, however democratic, to this pattern of "development" has been crushed with heavy hand. Throughout the length and breadth of north and central
And sadly, far from building concerted mass movements to thwart such depredations, the democratic Left has come to be seen as wanting to partake of the pie, however cautiously it frames its polemics in the matter. Not to speak of its failure in addressing forms of social oppression that go hand in hand with such neo-colonial exploitation.
What wonder then that a fillip has been provided to armed Left extremists who argue that the mechanisms of Indian parliamentary democracy will never allow class interests to be dented by noises made from the standpoint of morality and fairplay.
Conversely, there remains the perception that sporadic armed resistance to the state promises no lasting debilitation to the state either. Indeed, if anything, it provides a powerful state all the argument it needs to further hone its repressive machineries. After all, even in a state like
Within these macro-historical considerations, the failure of the West Bengal LF to practice and refine democracy is seen not just as an isolated occurrence within one Indian state, but a tragic collapse fraught with far-reaching consequence for the future of Indian democracy and of what may be possible for grass-roots politics within its stipulations.
All of which leads to the question: how irretrievable is the damage done? It is a question of the most relevance to those who seek not just to critique the LF but seemingly to discard it as well.
Contrarily, the West Bengal LF needs to recognize that not all those who critique its career wish it to disappear, but are rather daunted by the prospect of another sort of disappearance, namely, the dream of a vanguard that alone may turn around Indian democracy to the benefit of the last Indian standing.
Does the official Left in India have the intellectual and political reserves then to recast its organizational and ideological energies, and to renew its covenant with the people who have stood by it for three long decades in West Bengal, and with Indians elsewhere who look to it not just for holding back the cultural fascists but to reformulate the Indian centre through the power of peaceful mass mobilization?
Particularly, those that feel a stake in the Indian democratic experiment and wish to protect it from armed insurrection must recognize that these goals cannot be trusted merely to the Indian state-apparatus.
Indeed, the armed insurrectionists would wish for nothing better to happen.
Nor can the gung-ho neo-liberal policies of the corporate-led political formations be credited with the power to shame left extremism into compliance and disarray. Quite the contrary.
Upon every conceivable objective analysis, the conundrums of Indian democracy require a democratic politics of the Left, meant not simply to cushion the fatcats from extremism, but to help transform and enrich the content and quality of democracy itself towards the greatest good of the greatest number.


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Connecticut's 79-58 victory over Notre Dame in Tuesday night's NCAA women's basketball finale scored solid ratings on ESPN despite the lopsided score.
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Apparently word has spread that Derek Jeter soon will send his No. 2 shirts to the drycleaner for long-term storage.
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Toxoplasmosis (tok-so-plaz-MO-sis) is a disease that results from infection with the Toxoplasma gondii parasite. This organism is one of the world's most common parasites.
Toxoplasmosis may cause flu-like symptoms in some people, but most people affected never develop signs and symptoms. For infants born to infected mothers and for people with weakened immune systems, toxoplasmosis can cause extremely serious complications.
If you're generally healthy, you probably won't need any treatment for toxoplasmosis. If you're pregnant or have lowered immunity, certain medications can help reduce the infection's severity. The best approach, though, is prevention.
You probably won't know if you've contracted toxoplasmosis, although some people may develop toxoplasmosis symptoms similar to those of the flu or mononucleosis, such as:
In people with weakened immune systems
If you have HIV/AIDS, are receiving chemotherapy or have recently had an organ transplant, a previous toxoplasma infection may reactivate and you're more likely to develop signs and symptoms of severe infection, including:
In babies
If you become infected for the first time just before or during your pregnancy, you have about a 30 percent chance of passing the infection to your baby (congenital toxoplasmosis), even if you don't have signs and symptoms yourself.
Your baby is most at risk of contracting toxoplasmosis if you become infected in the third trimester and least at risk if you become infected during the first trimester. On the other hand, the earlier in your pregnancy the infection occurs, the more serious the outcome for your baby. Many early infections end in stillbirth or miscarriage, and children who do survive are likely to be born with serious problems, such as:
Only a small number of babies who have toxoplasmosis show signs of the disease at birth. Often, infected children don't develop signs and symptoms — including hearing loss, mental disability or serious eye infections — until their teens or later.
When to see a doctor
If you're living with HIV or AIDS or are pregnant or thinking of becoming pregnant, talk to your doctor about being tested. The signs and symptoms of severe toxoplasmosis — blurred vision, confusion, loss of coordination — require immediate medical care, particularly if your immune system has been weakened.
Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is a single-celled parasitic organism that can infect most animals and birds. But because it reproduces sexually only in cats, wild and domestic felines are the parasite's ultimate host.
When a person becomes infected with T. gondii, the parasite forms cysts that can affect almost any part of the body — often your brain and muscles, including the heart.
If you're generally healthy, your immune system keeps the parasites in check. They remain in your body in an inactive state, providing you with lifelong immunity so that you can't become infected with the parasite again. But if your resistance is weakened by disease or certain medications, the infection can be reactivated, leading to serious complications.
Although you can't "catch" toxoplasmosis from an infected child or adult, you can become infected if you:
Anyone can become infected with toxoplasmosis. The parasite is found throughout the world.
You're at risk of serious health problems if:
If you have a normal immune system, you're not likely to experience any complications of toxoplasmosis, although otherwise healthy people sometimes develop eye infections.
But if your immune system is compromised, especially as a result of HIV/AIDS, toxoplasmosis can lead to seizures and life-threatening illnesses such as encephalitis — a serious brain infection. In people living with AIDS, untreated encephalitis resulting from toxoplasmosis is fatal. Relapse is a constant concern for immunocompromised people with toxoplasmosis.
Children with congenital toxoplasmosis may develop disabling complications, including hearing loss, mental disability and blindness.
You're likely to start by seeing your regular health care provider, or if you're pregnant, your obstetrician. You may be referred to a doctor who specializes in infectious diseases. If you're pregnant, you may be referred to a doctor who specializes in fetal health (perinatologist) or newborn health (neonatologist).
Here's some information to help you get ready for your appointment, as well as what information your doctor might want from you.
What you can do
You may want to write a list that includes:
For toxoplasmosis, some basic questions to ask your doctor include:
In addition to the questions that you've prepared, don't hesitate to ask questions during your appointment.
What to expect from your doctor
Your doctor is likely to ask you a number of questions, such as:
Most pregnant women in the United States aren't routinely screened for toxoplasmosis, and most states don't screen infants for the infection. Without specific screening, toxoplasmosis is often difficult to diagnose because signs and symptoms, when they occur, are similar to those of more common illnesses such as the flu and mononucleosis.
Testing in pregnancy
If your doctor suspects you have the infection, you may have several blood tests that check for antibodies to the parasite. Antibodies are proteins produced by your immune system in response to the presence of foreign substances, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites, drugs and toxins. Because these antibody tests can be difficult to interpret, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that all positive results be confirmed by a laboratory that specializes in diagnosing toxoplasmosis.
What test results mean
Sometimes you may be tested early in the course of the disease before your body has a chance to produce antibodies. In that case, you may have a negative result, even though you're infected. To be certain, your doctor may recommend retesting several weeks later. In most cases, though, a negative toxoplasmosis test result means you've never been infected and therefore aren't immune to the disease. If you're at high risk, you can take certain precautions so that you don't become infected in the future.
A positive result could mean that you have an active infection, or it could mean that you were infected at some point in your life and you're now immune to the disease. Additional tests can pinpoint when the infection occurred, based on the types of antibodies in your blood. This is especially important if you're pregnant or you have HIV/AIDS.
Testing your baby
If you're pregnant and have a current toxoplasmosis infection, the next step is to determine whether your baby also is infected. Tests your doctor may recommend include:
Testing in severe cases
If you've developed a life-threatening illness such as encephalitis, you may need one or more imaging tests to check for lesions or cysts in your brain. These include:
Most healthy people don't require toxoplasmosis treatment. But if you're otherwise healthy and have signs and symptoms of acute toxoplasmosis, your doctor may prescribe the following drugs:
Treating people with HIV/AIDS
If you have HIV/AIDS, the treatment of choice for toxoplasmosis is also pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine, along with folic acid. An alternative is pyrimethamine taken along with clindamycin (Cleocin) — an antibiotic that can sometimes cause severe diarrhea.
You may need to take these medications for life. Your doctor may consider stopping toxoplasmosis therapy if your CD4 count — the amount of a particular white blood cell in your blood — remains very high for at least three to six months. Side effects of most drugs can be more severe in people with HIV/AIDS.
Treating pregnant women and babies
If you're pregnant and currently infected with toxoplasmosis but your baby isn't affected, you may be given the antibiotic spiramycin. Use of this drug can reduce the likelihood that your baby will become infected, without posing a risk to you or your child. Although routinely used to treat toxoplasmosis in Europe, spiramycin is still considered an experimental drug in the United States. Your doctor can obtain it from the Food and Drug Administration.
If tests show that your unborn child has toxoplasmosis, your doctor may suggest treatment with pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine — but only in extreme circumstances. These drugs can have serious side effects for both women and their unborn babies, so they're normally not used during pregnancy. Drug treatment may lessen the severity of the disease, but it can't undo any damage that's already been done.
Certain precautions can help prevent toxoplasmosis:
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The progressive communist conspiracy
This city's seen such heated discussions about what the word "progressive" means, it's fun to watch Glenn Beck proclaim that progressives are a disease facing America, really just Communists who don't have guns.
Jon Stewart had a lot of fun with this on his show the other night. And it's worth watching, just to remember what the progressives have done over the years.
The AM radio screamers and FOX news loudmouths are as relevant to the average American as the condescending progressives.
Hofstadters "Paranoid Style of American Politics" is even more relevant now, but if he wrote it today he would have to expand on his small part on the left.
Emulating the Enemy
The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms—he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barricades of civilization. He constantly lives at a turning point. Like religious millenialists he expresses the anxiety of those who are living through the last days and he is sometimes disposed to set a date fort the apocalypse. ("Time is running out," said Welch in 1951. "Evidence is piling up on many sides and from many sources that October 1952 is the fatal month when Stalin will attack.")
As a member of the avant-garde who is capable of perceiving the conspiracy before it is fully obvious to an as yet unaroused public, the paranoid is a militant leader. He does not see social conflict as something to be mediated and compromised, in the manner of the working politician. Since what is at stake is always a conflict between absolute good and absolute evil, what is necessary is not compromise but the will to fight things out to a finish. Since the enemy is thought of as being totally evil and totally unappeasable, he must be totally eliminated—if not from the world, at least from the theatre of operations to which the paranoid directs his attention. This demand for total triumph leads to the formulation of hopelessly unrealistic goals, and since these goals are not even remotely attainable, failure constantly heightens the paranoid's sense of frustration. Even partial success leaves him with the same feeling of powerlessness with which he began, and this in turn only strengthens his awareness of the vast and terrifying quality of the enemy he opposes.
The enemy is clearly delineated: he is a perfect model of malice, a kind of amoral superman—sinister, ubiquitous, powerful, cruel, sensual, luxury-loving. Unlike the rest of us, the enemy is not caught in the toils of the vast mechanism of history, himself a victim of his past, his desires, his limitations. He wills, indeed he manufactures, the mechanism of history, or tries to deflect the normal course of history in an evil way. He makes crises, starts runs on banks, causes depressions, manufactures disasters, and then enjoys and profits from the misery he has produced. The paranoid's interpretation of history is distinctly personal: decisive events are not taken as part of the stream of history, but as the consequences of someone's will. Very often the enemy is held to possess some especially effective source of power: he controls the press; he has unlimited funds; he has a new secret for influencing the mind (brainwashing); he has a special technique for seduction (the Catholic confessional).
It is hard to resist the conclusion that this enemy is on many counts the projection of the self; both the ideal and the unacceptable aspects of the self are attributed to him. The enemy may be the cosmopolitan intellectual, but the paranoid will outdo him in the apparatus of scholarship, even of pedantry. Secret organizations set up to combat secret organizations give the same flattery. The Ku Klux Klan imitated Catholicism to the point of donning priestly vestments, developing an elaborate ritual and an equally elaborate hierarchy. The John Birch Society emulates Communist cells and quasi-secret operation through "front" groups, and preaches a ruthless prosecution of the ideological war along lines very similar to those it finds in the Communist enemy.* Spokesmen of the various fundamentalist anti-Communist "crusades" openly express their admiration for the dedication and discipline the Communist cause calls forth.
On the other hand, the sexual freedom often attributed to the enemy, his lack of moral inhibition, his possession of especially effective techniques for fulfilling his desires, give exponents of the paranoid style an opportunity to project and express unacknowledgeable aspects of their own psychological concerns. Catholics and Mormons—later, Negroes and Jews—have lent themselves to a preoccupation with illicit sex. Very often the fantasies of true believers reveal strong sadomasochistic outlets, vividly expressed, for example, in the delight of anti-Masons with the cruelty of Masonic punishments.
the left, that quote is from his essay in Harpers which fits the modern progressive as much as the bircher world view.
This "The enemy is clearly delineated: he is a perfect model of malice, a kind of amoral superman—sinister, ubiquitous, powerful, cruel, sensual, luxury-loving." describes the far right and far left view of the other.
The AM radio gasbags and Faux News gasbags are as relevant to the average person here in the States as the condescending, know-nothing (rabid) regressives who never let facts get in their way. The regressives usually make up their own facts and arrogantly stick to them regardless.
I am sorry to see the Guardian even mention/print the name GB. I refuse to type that guy's name because any mention of his name is free publicity and promotion for him. Every so-called "progressive" website I go on has something on their website about these rabid trash who park at microphones and think their opinion is more important than anyone else's. There are these little contrived feuds almost daily between so-called "left" talk show gasbags and the rabid regressive talk show gasbags. And their audiences write what they think are little funnies and sillies about the other in their attempt to score points for their D or R "team." It's pathetic and immature. Some of these so-called "progressive" websites have saturation coverage of this tabloid garbage. I suspect the regressive sites do too, but I don't know that for a fact because I don't go to those sites. Martha Stewart recently said about one of these useless pieces of trash who is being obsessed over and fixated over daily by so-called "progressives" in particular, Ms Stewart said about this person, "she is a very dangerous woman and you couldn't pay me to listen to her." I couldn't be paid to listen to any of them. And I don't listen to the so-called "left" gasbags either. I used to but no longer. I don't need to be told what to think.
As for "progressives," GB doesn't really need to worry about progressives because the number of true progressives on the planet is probably less than 1%. People can call themselves anything these days---such as "progressive"---whether it has any basis in reality or not. From my experience, to most people the word "progressive" means nothing more than doing a little bit of recycling on occasion, being critical of Republicans only (even when your Dem "team" has worked for and been employees of the Republicans since 2000) and voting for anyone with a D behind their name (even when the D politician is really a Republican based on his/her voting record, which most people could care less about). Both of these D and R "team" believers put their brainwashed "my team is better than your team" mentality above the US Constitution. The US Constitution should take the priority.
Enviormatalists, Progessives, Liberal Collectivists, Fabian Society-Communitarianism, Socialism, Social Justice, Peace and Justice, Redistributive Justice Communism, Liberatin Theology, Maxism, Judeo-Bulsheviks, Marxist-Leninism, Trostkites, Satlinists, Maoists, Guevarism, German National Socialism, Corperate-Fascism, Totalitarianism, etc. It does not matter what you call it, you are all the same. In the last century Socialists, including the National Socialists of Germany killed over 100 Million People. How many are you useful fools, tools and fellow travellers planning to kill in this century? Socialism is a cancer on the human soul. It must be cut out of the body politic before it kills the American Republic and distroys our country. The "Progressive Utopia Wet Dream" will rapidly become what it really is, a hell on earth dystopia. Are these unintended consequenses? I don't think it is. As Fellow Traveller Rahm Emanuel says: "never let a ciris go to waste". The collectivists are using the current economic problem to their advantage to distoy Capitalism. (All you Limo-Liberals Colllectivists should think about this before you kill the goose that lays the golden egg.) Why do you hide behind the term Progressiveism? If you are so proud to be what you are, why not use your real name. Maybe the average person in America would see you for what you really all are and are planning to do with their freedom, liberty, and wealth. Prehaps you all could adopt the time honored revolutionary slogan from 1917, "Bread, Land, Peace" again before you round up us Kulaks for starvation or shooting...
Progressives love to denigrate the conservatives and call them racists, fascists, fear-mongers, etc....
Hitler and his gestapo did the same exact thing, except to the 'liberals' of the day. That is, those that believed in personal freedoms. Are you too ignorant and blinded by hate (of what?) to see whose side you are on now?
I could care less about Glenn Beck, Rush or anyone else on tv or radio. I do know history though, and how it tends to repeat itself. The question this time will be - will we stand together as one nation united, or will we attack our own people from within and become the evil that we once fought against.
Whose side will you be on?
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Dr. Dennis K. Cox holds the D.M.A. in Choral Conducting from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music, the M.A. in Education from West Virginia University, the M.M. in Choral Conducting from the University of Colorado, and the B.M.E. in Vocal Music from the University of Nebraska. Prior to assuming his present position as Director of Choral Activities and Graduate Coordinator at the University of Maine, Dr. Cox was Assistant Professor of Music at Salem International University in West Virginia, and taught voice in Colorado and Nebraska.
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Canada, and Europe. The University Singers, under his direction, tour the Northeast United States for one week every Spring and abroad every four years. The ensemble completed a European tour in May of 2004, making stops in Verona, San Remo, St. Gallen, Milan, Como, the Italian and French Riviera. In 2000, Dr. Cox was the recipient of the second annual Vincent Hartgen Award, presented by the Patrons of the Arts, for his contributions to the artistic community at the University of Maine. In 2001, Dr. Cox was presented the Black Bear Award for his contributions to the University of Maine Alumni Association. University of Maine choirs, under Dr. Cox's direction, annually perform major choral-orchestral works with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Cox is a past President of the Maine Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association.
Dr. Laura Artesani is the Assistant Chair of the Division of Music and Assistant Professor of Music Education in the School of Performing Arts at the University of Maine, teaching courses in the areas of music education, music history, and Women and Music. She serves as piano accompanist for two choral ensembles at the School of Performing Arts: the University Singers and the Athena Consort, and performs frequently in faculty and student recitals. She is the faculty advisor for the UMaine Collegiate Chapter of MENC, and is a member of the Executive Board of the Maine Music Educators Association. She has also served as secretary of the Maine Music Teachers Association.
Dr. Artesani graduated summa cum laude from Barrington College in Rhode Island, and received a M.M. in piano performance from the University of Maine. She earned a D.M.A. in
piano performance from West Virginia University, where she was the recipient of the Swiger Teaching Fellowship for four years. She has taught at the Lincoln School in Providence, RI; Center Drive and North Orrington Schools in Orrington, ME; and the Stillwater Montessori School in Old Town, ME.
Dr. Artesani has completed Levels I-III of Orff Schulwerk Teacher Training, and was recently awarded a Junior Faculty Research Fellowship from the University of Maine to support her research on Gunild Keetman and Doreen Hall. Recent presentations include Music Education as a Protective Factor: a Review of Findings from the Professional Literature with Dr. James Artesani at the International Society for Music Education World Conference in Bologna, Italy in July of 2008.
In addition to her duties at the University of Maine, Dr. Artesani is the Music Director at the Old Town United Methodist Church, where she directs the Adult, Youth and Handbell Choirs.
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Supervalu is cutting about 1,100 jobs nationwide following the sale of five of its grocery chains last week. The layoffs equate to roughly three percent of Supervalu's total workforce.In a letter to the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development, the Eden Prairie, Minn.-based company said 587 of the job cuts affect Minnesota employees.
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The Spokane Shock and Arizona Rattlers have only played against each other since 2010, but the two teams have quickly formed one of the greatest rivalries in AFL history. With today's game having playoff implications, the rivalry is clearly alive and well.
The games between these two teams have always been intense, to say the least. SWX takes a look back to the top five games that have made the competition between these two teams what it is today.
5. Shock Squeak Out a One Point Win
On July 2, 2010, the Spokane Shock beat the Rattlers 37-36, which made them the first team in the AFL to get to 10 wins that season. Spokane QB Kyle Rowley completed 58 percent of his passes and WR Huey Whittaker had six receptions for 73 yards.
4. A Road Win for the Ages
In a back and forth contest on May 7, 2010, the Shock wrapped the game up on the final play, winning 63-56. The game featured six tie scores and was won when Spokane Shock DB William Mulder intercepted the Rattlers in the end zone during the final seconds.
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Heading into the fourth quarter of this April 2012 game, the Shock led the Rattlers. Unfortunately, the Shock's lead did not hold. With five minutes left, Spokane fumbled the ball, which the Rattlers took all the way down the field to score with five seconds left to win 57-53.
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In the two meetings between the Rattlers and Shock prior to this 2010 playoff game, the Shock's average margin of victory had been four points. The Shock ended up winning 57-49 and only sealed the victory in the waning seconds of the fourth quarter. After Arizona recovered a fumble, the Shock's defense held strong and forced the Rattlers to throw four incomplete passes in a row. Spokane would eventually go on to win the AFL title that season.
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There seems to be a common theme with all of these games against the Rattlers: The majority of them come down to the final play. This April 2011 game is no different. Down one, the Rattlers recovered an on-side kick and decided to kick a field goal to win the game. However, a high snap gave Shock DL Khreem Smith enough time to break through the line of scrimmage and block the field goal securing a 70-69 Spokane win.


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Heavy Seas - Riptide - Heavy Seas Beer
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Reviews by Nutwood:
3.5/5 rDev -5.9%
07-22-2013 23:29:53 | More by Nutwood
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North Carolina
3.96/5 rDev +6.5%
Had on tap at Sticks and Stones a few days back.Came in a standard pint glass a hazed orange infused lighter golden with a somewhat creamy bone white head that really stuck to the sides of the glass like glue as it settled into a frothy mass.Light citrusy hops and yeasty spice in the nose,the yeast is bigger in the aromas than flavor wise.Tangerine notes really stand out on the palate along other citric flavors,it didn't seem as "big" as it is either with not a whole lot of alcohol sweetness,mild yeasty spiced notes in the finish.Not a bad BIPA it's not overly yeasty and a nice fresh fruity hop profile.
06-02-2014 17:32:11 | More by oberon
3.98/5 rDev +7%
12oz brown bottle with a freshness date.
Yeast hazed peach orange hue, lovely lacing. Citric herbal hops meets Witbier spicing in the nose, of course with some fruit esters as well. So smooth, lush crispness. Perfectly place hop bitterness within the Witbier spicing and yeast character. Citrus hopping with citrus spicing and Belgian yeasty phenols all mesh very well, long lingering finish that lands semi-dry.
All aspects of this beer work, not exactly the easiest style to tackle but Heavy Seas prevails. Long live the White IPA!
05-04-2013 03:22:14 | More by Jason
4/5 rDev +7.5%
06-18-2014 22:01:31 | More by mctizzz
3.25/5 rDev -12.6%
08-08-2014 20:36:37 | More by sgn4779
North Carolina
3.5/5 rDev -5.9%
05-22-2014 22:49:49 | More by Mantooth
West Virginia
4.06/5 rDev +9.1%
Fresh release into Ohio from Cavalier Distributing, pours a glowing orange golden hued slightly hazed as the yeast sediment disperses like cigar smoke in the room, light white head forms leaves fine intricate layered lacing. Aromatics heavy in the pinapple, mango, tropical fruit department with heavy spice arriving 2nd, big hops underneath the label of a White IPA. Smoking a La Aroma de Cuba Mi Reserva, a cigar influence by Cuba yet produced by the Holt's Cigar Company (Philadelphia, PA) the folks who brought us Ashton, and San Cristobal. This is produced in Nicaragua by Don Pepin Garcia at the My Father Cigar Factory wrapped with a beautiful Mexican San Andres wrapper, I'm in love with the pairing. And intrigued by the fact that this beer is brewed in Baltimore yet carries IPA and witbier characteristics that have been formed from a love of West Coast IPA and Belgian artisanal ales. What a hybrid of pairings, anyways on to the flavor of the uber fresh White IPA, heavy handed citrus and tropical fruit hops with bready yeast and spice laying down the law. It leaves a lingering bitterness catching those hops and house Belgian style yeast together but leaves an impeccable complexity of tropical fruit including mango and pineapples with tones of passionfruit. The spices come off very perfumey, like walking through a women's dressing room after a hoard of single females prepare to go out for a night on the town. It catches me with some balance but the extreme contrast of flavors that appreciate in a format that turns the volume up this loud is a bit distracting from what the base beer could actually provide to the drinker without all of the background noise. I know it's a trend to blend these two styles and this isn't a horrible version of it, it is just one that I'm not so keen on. The smell is beautiful even some green onion notes from the big hop barrage makes in through to my nares, it's just the clash of Belgian yeast and spice with the IPA that leave me wanting more cohesion and less clash. Know add in the cigar with earthy wood and sweet tobacco with black pepper spice and we have ourselves a magnificent pairing. Mouthfeel is very forgiving with a dry spice lingering bitterness and floral earthy pepper notes that linger kicking in but tasting rather good between sips, the mango fruitiness is complex because it limits the concentration of malt sweetness due to the fact that it's mainly derived from the hop varieties used in this beer. Overall I'm happier with my session with this beer than the flavor description details indicated, a very fine ale from Hugh Sisson and company of Baltimore keep bangin' out these beautiful complex ales and I will keep trying them.
05-18-2013 00:20:11 | More by WVbeergeek
4/5 rDev +7.5%
07-17-2013 03:00:04 | More by jamisonspitzer
3.75/5 rDev +0.8%
04-27-2014 00:13:47 | More by nhirsch04
4.25/5 rDev +14.2%
07-18-2014 20:58:25 | More by Rld85go
4/5 rDev +7.5%
07-03-2014 19:09:41 | More by marmstrong1212
4/5 rDev +7.5%
Poured from a 12 oz bottle into a pint glass. From outside the bottle, you can see some floaties rolling around the bottom of the bottle.
A - A moderate pour yields almost not head the fizzles away quickly. Lacing is practically non-existent and there is just barely a ring around the top. Color is dark gold and is mostly clear besides the sediment which is evenly floating around the beer. The latter part is actually quite cool looking.
S - Smells a lot like a spicy wheat ale. Smells very sweet. Don't get much on hops
T - A good marriage between a belgian ale and an IPA. It definitely tastes wheaty up front but finishes with a good hop bitterness. Very juicy.
M - Carbonation is spot on for the style.
O - A very interesting ale. I think this may be the first of the style that I have had and I will definitely seek out more in the future.
09-13-2013 20:12:14 | More by Dave128
4/5 rDev +7.5%
05-08-2013 22:49:15 | More by whatname
North Carolina
3.81/5 rDev +2.4%
A - cloudy yellowish orange with a thin lacing of white head
S - Belgian yeast, heavy spices, herbal
T - herbal, spices, faint malt, mildly bitter, some alcohol in the finish
M - medium bodied, well carbonated
This is a decent BIPA. There is a nice herbal hop character here which makes this pretty enjoyable. Unfortunately, this beer is simple and borders on boring after a while. It's definitely a nice addition to the heavy seas line-up, but this isn't a beer I would visit often.
04-27-2013 01:34:32 | More by tdm168
3.5/5 rDev -5.9%
05-12-2014 21:15:03 | More by WoodBrew
3.5/5 rDev -5.9%
05-29-2014 02:33:44 | More by avisong
District of Columbia
4.25/5 rDev +14.2%
05-27-2014 19:08:41 | More by earlholman
3.5/5 rDev -5.9%
05-11-2013 02:10:37 | More by beerhan
3.5/5 rDev -5.9%
06-07-2014 09:57:30 | More by needMIbeerinMD
4.5/5 rDev +21%
07-11-2014 00:16:21 | More by PintsAndPixels
4.5/5 rDev +21%
05-06-2014 15:40:31 | More by ConradKenney
New Jersey
3.28/5 rDev -11.8%
7/28 - Pours cloudy gold with remaining ring of white foam. Wheaty nose, some orange. Like a hoppy witbier. Opens citrus, chalky, then builds to a hoppy middle. Fast finish, orange rind close. Kind of an off construction, doesn't quite come together. 3.5 3.75 3 3.25 3
08-24-2014 13:08:48 | More by KTCamm
District of Columbia
3.75/5 rDev +0.8%
05-30-2014 17:22:24 | More by apasternak
4/5 rDev +7.5%
05-12-2013 21:01:25 | More by Hockey_Fan
North Carolina
3.75/5 rDev +0.8%
08-16-2013 23:03:55 | More by dvmin98
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