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Semi crash backs up I-40 EB near Colonias
Posted at: 09/12/2013 7:34 AM
| Updated at: 09/12/2013 7:37 AM
By: Elizabeth Reed, KOB.com
The right lane of I-40 eastbound near Colonias is closed after a crash involving a semi truck.
According to NMDOT, the left lane is now open.
Traffic is very backed up in this area. Drivers are asked to reduce speed as they approach mile marker 267.
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What if the ACC went to pods next year with 14 teams? They could be laid out like this:
- Pod B – Maryland, Wake, NC St
- Pod C – VT, UVa, UNC, Duke
- Pod D – Clemson, GT, FSU, Miami
For Pod A, play the other 2, plus 2/3 of Pod B, plus 4/4 of either Pod C or D
(Pod B does just the opposite) 2 + 2 + 4 = 8 games
For Pod C, play the other 3, plus 2/4 of Pod D, plus 3/3 of either Pod A or B
(Pod D does the opposite). 3+2+3 = 8 games
UVa would still get to play VT, UNC, and Duke every year, and there would only be a need for 8 conference games per year (leaving 4 non-conference games for the Cavaliers to play a schedule like this year: Penn State, TCU, and 2 extra home games. Plus, each player would get to play every ACC team home & away before he graduates – assuming he stays all 4 years.
What do you think? I describe the whole thing in detail on my blog – LINK.


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Students are assessed in grades 2 through 11 in English language arts and math, in grades 5, 8 and 10 in science, and in grades 8, 10 and 11 in history/social science. In grades 9 through 11, students may also be assessed in math and science, depending on course enrollment.How is it Scored?
Students receive one of five ratings: far below basic, below basic, basic, proficient or advanced. The goal is for all students to score at or above the proficient level.
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LOUISVILLE, KY. (WDRB) -- Bardstown Police say a jail escapee stole a car after tricking a salesman into leaving him alone in a vehicle he was taking a test drive in.
It happened shortly before 9:30 Monday morning.
"He came in at approximately about 9:30 this morning," says Perry Luttrell, G. M. Bardstown 44 Auto Mart. Luttrell says they had no idea Ronny Stutes was on the run. He says Stutes was "Very smooth...had all of his i's dotted and t's crossed."
On Friday, Stutes walked away from a minimum security jail in Marion County, and on Monday he was eyeing a Ford Escape. And little did his salesperson know it was going to be part of his escape.
Luttrell says, "Normally a person comes in, we make a copy of their drivers license and let them demo the car...he said he had recently got a dui and could not drive the car so he wanted my sales associate to drive for him to go show his daughter."
The salesman drove Stutes to a nearby Walmart, and he even agreed to go inside and find his daughter. "You know her name supposedly was Tiffany. Go in ask for Tiffany and let her know that she has a surprise out here for her," says Luttrell.
But police say that's when Stutes made his move. WDRB News has obtained surveillance video of him getting behind the wheel and driving off.
Luttrell says, "Actually when he went in and asked for tiffany and they said there's no Tiffany that works here and at that point he realized he...so he ran back out into the Walmart parking lot and found out that she had...that he had taken the vehicle."
"He kind of pulled a fast one on him," says Officer Tom Blair, with Bardstown Police.
Police say Stutes has a history of breaking out of jail, and they believe he is getting desperate.
"He is very brazen if anything you know...that he would walk up to a carlot and dream up some kind of story and then steal the car...I think that's very desperate," says Officer Blair.
And there's more, police say Stutes drove the car to Louisville where he robbed the First Capital Bank in Fern Creek. He was eventually arrested at a nearby Walmart.
"My sales associate is very happy of it because like I said...he is very new and it did shake him somewhat," says Luttrell.
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Is the Print Atlas Dead Yet?
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A recent article in The Chicago Tribune about how traditional maps have been vanishing from classrooms got me thinking about one of the staples of the print reference collection, the atlas. While print dictionaries and encyclopedias have crumbled under the onslaught of digitization, it has taken awhile for the atlas to be replaced by online sources, partly because of problems with imaging and display. This is changing, however, thanks to better scanning.
If you're looking for online maps, the Perry-Castaneda Library at the University of Texas is a good place to start. It has a collection of more than 250,000 maps, and more than 11,000 images from the collection are now online. The Web site also offers links to numerous other online resources ranging from Google Earth and MapQuest to maps published by the CIA to The JewishGen ShtetlSeeker.
Of course, like everything else on the Web, map sites vary widely in quality, and the Perry-Castaneda Map Collection site has a disclaimer about the timeliness and geographic accuracy of the map sites to which it links. Even with the advent of Google Maps and similar sites, it's still hard to beat a standard atlas like The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World for authority, as Reference Books Bulletin's atlas expert (and Points of Reference blogger) Chris Bulson keeps reminding us in her reviews.


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Four held for SSP Hewitt's killing could be released
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KINGSTON, Jamaica - Four men detained in relation to the murder of retired Senior Superintendent Anthony Hewitt were not pointed out at an identification parade yesterday afternoon.
Three of the men are Jermaine 'Duppy Bat' Smith and Richard 'Red Head' Francis, who were listed by the police as persons of interest, and Jomo McLeod.
"They brought their witnesses and none of clients was identified," attorney Chris Tavares-Finson told the Jamaica Observer.
"Considering the outcome of the identification parade I expect that my clients will be released immediately," Tavares-Finson said.
Tavares Finson is representing three of the suspects and Peter Champagnie representing the fourth.
Champagnie said in relation to his client: "I'm anticipating now that the police will do the relevant processing and my clients will be released."
Hewitt was shot and killed two Sundays ago off Red Hills Road in St Andrew.
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Kansas hosted a good number of recruits this past weekend with several of them coming from the junior college ranks. Charlie Weis has already shown that he will recruit and add talent by any means necessary and after this weekend the Jayhawks have potentially landed a solid addition to the defensive line.
Jayhawkslant.com is reporting that Hinds Community College defensive end Andrew Bolton has committed to Kansas following his visit over the weekend. Bolton was one of three players to attend the game from Hinds and he claims offers from Kansas, LSU, Iowa, Mississippi State and more. If all those are legitimate, that's pretty good company and a nice set of offers for the 6'3" 280 pound end out of Mississippi.
One would have to assume that playing time is a huge factor here. Combine that with the willingness of the Kansas staff to play transfers immediately when they earn there spot and it is probably a fairly attractive option for some. There is obviously a long way to go until Bolton is locked up, and with his offer list this will be one worth keeping an eye on.
Hinds Community College is currently ranked 6th in the National Junior College poll. The two other players reportedly on campus were defensive tackle Tedarian Johnson and linebacker Mitchell Hoskins. All Hinds players have strong offer sheets. If Kansas can convince the trio to stay together it could provide a pretty big lift to the defensive depth next season.


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|Aug 18, 2014
|Feed Tillers A simple Data Broker plugin that lists the Tiller, what food they want for the quests A Dish for ... and if you have completed that quest today. You need a LibDataBroker "Broker" display. Some examples include ChocolateBar, NinjaPanel, Fortress, StatCore. While Titan Panel supports Broker plugins, it is not a native Broker display, and comes pre-loaded with its own Titan plugins. The advantage of Broker displays (aside from Titan Panel) is that you can change display addons...
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|Adds a button to the quest completion interface which allows you to auto equips selected quest Item after completion. it works as follows Scenario 1: No Rewards - No button should be visible Scenario 2: One or more Quest Rewards with at least one Equippable - Button is visible stating "Complete Quest & Equip Item/s" >>(when pressed equips all rewards possible) Scenario 2: Two or more Quest Reward Choices (may also have One or more Quest Rewards with non being Equippable) - No button visible...
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|SorhaQuestLog is a basic Quest/Achievement addon similar to MonkeyQuest and nQuestLog. It allows the display of quests and achievements on the screen in an configurable way. Options panel is accessible using /sql or /sorhaquestlog Features Core Features: Individual Minions for Quests, Achievements and Scenarios Auto Show/Hide options when entering instances, arenas, combat, pet battles, the outside world etc. Can hide the default blizzard quest frame Handles blizzards remote quests Borders...
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|Description AllPlayed display the total time played, rested XP and money for each of your WoW characters. It's just a snapshot of the current state, no history, no stats. You can look at the total time you have played WoW and be proud (or afraid ;-)). This addon has been tested and works fine with Mists of Pandaria. Just check the "Load out of date addons" for it to work. Acknowledgement AllPlayed is an Ace2 (now Ace3) re-write of an addon created by Riboflavin and latter updated to Titan...
|Jul 21, 2014
|Broker RestFu is a continuation of FuBar_RestFu using LDB (Data Broker). It will present you with a tooltip listing the rested XP state of your characters, so you can quickly tell who you might want to level next.
What Just Procced
|Jun 13, 2014
|This addon feeds off the "Spell Alerts" that Blizzard added to the game in Cataclysm, incorporating many of the various HUD-type spell/proc alerting mods out there. The downside of the builtin Spell Alerts is that for new players, there's no easy way to tell which flashy thing in the middle of the screen corresponds to which flashy button on their action bars, especially when their talents are proccing often in a short period. What Just Procced is a training helper for the builtin alerts....
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|What is QuestAgent? QuestAgent is a small LibDataBroker data provider that helps you track the quests of other party members. Rather than just give you brief updates about quests your party is on (like QuestsFu), QuestAgent gives you other party members' full and entire quest log, just as if you had the quests! In addition, QuestAgent fully integrates with LightHeaded if you have it installed. With QuestAgent, pulling up a party member's quest and checking out the LightHeaded comments...
Broker: LootSpec
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|Broker: LootSpec Simple loot specialisation display with specialisation selection in its tooltip. Requires a LibDataBroker Display Addon, like StatBlockCore or ElvUI. Also known as: Broker_LootSpec Broker: Loot Specialisation Broker: Loot Specialization Features Displays the currently active loot specialisation Adds an asterisk (*) when loot specialisation is in the default "current specialisation" mode Mouse-over tooltip to change the loot specialisation Left click toggles tooltip for loot...
Raid Tracker
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|Keeps account of attendance, loot and DKP for raids, parties, battlegrounds, arenas and now solo for questing. Works with SexyMaps, Minimap Button Frame, Titan Panel, FuBar, and others for easy access menus, and a minimap icon if no other manager or bar is installed. Provides export strings for DKP for most popular DKP posting formats. Supports loot filtering via loot options window /rt io, or on the minimap menu. Chat commands: /rt - main window /rt o - options /rt io - item options /rt help...
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|This is a small little utility that shows how much XP is needed for the next level and what percentage full the bar is. I like having my xp bar show XXXXX/YYYYY but I also want to know how many XP I need and, more recently, what percentage full the XP bar is. This little utility shows that in the right side of the XP Bar. Commands: There is no GUI interface. The commands are activiated with /xpleft or the shrotcut /xp if available. /xpleft - shows the list of other commands /xpleft number -...
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|Double-click certain frames(see below) for context-sensitive actions. Generally double left-click to advance and double right-click to go back. As an example, take or hand in completed quests just by continuously double-clicking the questgiver frame. Nothing more, nothing less. No extra libraries, in-game options or other fluff nor bloat, just couple hundred lines of double-clicking goodness. Frames handled: Quest and gossip frames Double left-click anywhere to select first available...
|Sep 20, 2013
|Notifies you of experience gains in the chat frame. The notification is emitted every time you gain XP and shows: How much you gained (in absolute and percent). How much more XP is needed to reach the next level (in absolute and percent). How many repetitions are required to reach the next level. If AddonLoader is installed, it is loaded on demand when you gain experience the first time, so it doesn't prolong log-in time. Does not load if you're max level, so can be left enabled for all...
Sick Of Clicking Dailies
|Sep 13, 2013
|Sick of Clicking Dailies is an addon designed to make picking up daily and weekly quests and turning them in easier and more streamlined when you quest in bulk. This addon simply skips through all the quest text when interacting with the NPC giving the quest. It also can automatically skip through gossip options and select a quest reward for the ones that have them, you can always leave it on none and the dialogue will stop there. This addon now automatically detects daily quests. Repeatable...
|Sep 12, 2013
|A Data Broker plugin for displaying the current experience, works with any Data Broker display addon.
|Sep 12, 2013
|A Data Broker plugin for displaying the quest count, works with any Data Broker display addon.
|Sep 12, 2013
|Turninator is designed to speed up the turning in or acceptance of quests through the use of a keybind shared with the "Interact with Target" command and, optionally, any one other command such as an action bar button. The simplest way to put it is that one of the keys I normally mash in combat, I can now mash on out of combat to speed up npc interactions and questing. It can also make it easier to use quest items on their target npcs. As an example, I use ` key with Turninator on my...
|Sep 11, 2013
|About QuestItemBar Automatically shows a bar with buttons for the quest items you possess. It looks similar to a standard action bar. It is based on Ace3 and various embedded libraries provided by the Ace-community. New features in 0.8 Display quest name and objective status in tooltip if information found. Better handling of keybinds. If a quest item is no longer in possesion the keybind will be cleared instead of jumping to another item. If the player gets the previously keybound item again...
|Sep 11, 2013
|OneChoice tries to help you reduce quest reward choices down to, ideally, one choice. Blizzard's quest UI marks items your character can't use in red so you know they're unusable. For classes that can use multiple types of armor this leads to a lot of choices, but your Mail wearing Warrior or Plate wearing Death Knight probably won't be interested in Cloth armor. So OneChoice marks all armor (except relics, rings, trinkets, necklaces and cloaks) that doesn't match your character's preferred...
|Sep 10, 2013
|QuestPointer puts the quest POI icons from the world map onto your minimap. It'll integrate with TomTom's crazyarrow, if you have it installed. Click the broker plugin or type "/qp closest" to have the crazyarrow point to the current closest quest POI. You can choose to: Auto-track the closest POI in TomTom Only show icons for quests you're watching Make icons on the edge of the minimap become arrows to make it more obvious that they're far away Change the icon scale TODO: Arrowed-icons...
|Sep 10, 2013
|BetterQuest provides an improved quest tracker, and enhances the blizzard quest log. If other people in your party are using BetterQuest, FuBar_QuestFu, or anything else that uses the LibQuixote-2.0 library, it'll display their quest status. It can automatically track quests when you get near them, play sounds when you complete quests, and do other wild and wacky things.


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Josh Levin, an editor of Slate magazine, wrote an article today called "The Case for Canceling College Football's National Title Game" in which he basically says that no one has differentiated themselves this year to the point where the winner of any one game should be named national champion. It's a pretty simplistic article, as the Sports articles on Slate usually are. But then in the last paragraph, he drops this bomb:
My modest proposal for college football is to have a little flexibility. In an ideal world—one without pesky things like TV contracts—the sport would play it by ear. If Texas vs. USC is the only game anyone wants to see, make it happen. If there are four one-loss teams, throw them all into a playoff.
Huh. That sounds awfully familiar...like perhaps something I wrote almost a year ago and posted on this very website. In fact, it sounds exactly like something I named the Flex System and explained in great detail.
Now, I'm willing to believe that Mr. Levin didn't just blatantly copy my idea without giving credit. His little "proposal" isn't nearly in depth enough for me to know whether he got it from me or just came up with it on his own. And I'm a firm believer in the notion that once an idea is out there in the "ether" so to speak, people end up formulating that same idea and legitimately believing it to be their own. Hell, maybe that's how I came up with mine, I don't know.
Anyway, I've written a nice e-mail to Mr. Levin with the links to my piece. If he writes back, I'll let you all know what he says. Regardless, good to see something BON made "famous" getting some play in the MMM, even without a shout-out.


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URL with Japanese Group Name
Hi, I have a group which name is in Japanese. It will generate the following URL.
It's OK to open with Google Chrome but IE doesn't recognize it. Our user says it was fine before upgrading to version 1.8.1
Is there any fix or any plugin to give alternate English name for URL but keep the Japanese Group Name on the title?
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I have created 4 at the moment but more to follow from the other stamps that ive not used yet.
The first pic shows a group photo of all 4
Card 1 was done using a distres ink as a watercolour weakening it to get degrees in colour. The background was made with masking tape, inks and embossing powders to create a distressed leather look. The leaves were again coloured with distress inks and then ranger gloss on top and added as finishing touches to the card using pinflair.
Card 2 was created using Derwent watercolour pencils and distress inks - nothing fancy to create this one.
Card 3 was created using distressed inks to colour the scene - various colours of alcohol inks dabbed onto the accetate wrap and then one of the swirl stamps as a decorative feature ontop of the accetate.
Card 4 was created again with distress inks - a yellow and blue mixed together in various strengths to create the main scene.
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Biotopo Cerro Cahuí
Comprising a 7.3-sq-km swath of subtropical forest rising up from the lake over limestone terrain, this nature reserve offers mildly strenuous hiking and excellent wildlife watching, with paths to some brilliant lookout points.
Comprising a 7.3-sq-km swath of subtropical forest rising up from the lake over limestone terrain, this nature reserve offers mildly strenuous hiking and excellent wildlife watching, with paths to some brilliant lookout points.
Xela's many language schools attract students from around the world.
The Río Pacuare is the next major river valley east of the Reventazón, and has arguably the most scenic rafting in Costa Rica, if not Central America.
One of the best ways to fully appreciate the extent of the canal is to travel from Panama City to Colón along the historic Panama Railroad.
This storied rock-lined river has its beginnings at the Lago de Cachí, an artificial lake created by a dam of the same name. It begins here, at 1000m above sea level, and splashes down the eastern slopes of the cordilleras to the Caribbean lowlands.
The Asociación de Rescate y Conservación de Vida Silvestre, a Guatemalan NGO, has a rescue and rehabilitation center on the mainland northeast of Flores for wildlife such as macaws, parrots, jaguars, monkeys, kinkajous and coatis that have been rescued from smugglers and the illegal pet trade The rehabilitation center itself is closed to visitors but a Centro de Educación e I.
A popular (but strenuous) hike visits the Catarata San Luis, a gorgeous ribbon streaming in three tiers from the cloud forests into a series of swimming holes just screaming for a picnic. The distance from the parking area to the falls is only a few kilometers, but it's steeply graded downhill, and the rocky, muddy terrain can get very slick.
Barton Creek rises high in the Mountain Pine Ridge and flows north to join the Belize River near Georgeville. Along the way it dips underground for a spell, flowing through the Barton Creek Cave. During the Classic Period, the ancient Maya interred at least 28 people and left thousands of pottery jars and fragments and other artifacts on 10 ledges.
ASTOP has built a guarded turtle hatchery to deter poachers and thieves. Travelers can volunteer as turtle guards to patrol the beaches alongside local 'turtle guides.' To volunteer, you'll have to pay a US$30 registration fee, in addition to a daily US$15 lodging fee that includes training, accommodations with a local family and three meals daily.
Considering the link to Mass Audubon, it's no surprise that Río Bravo is one of the country's prime birding areas. The conservation area may attract fewer birders than more accessible destinations like Crooked Tree, but it attracts more birds – more than 390 species to be exact.
Take a full day to explore the natural and cultural attractions of Costa Rica! Visit a still-active volcano at Poas Volcano National Park and a family-owned coffee plantation at the Doka Estate before stopping in the historical artisan city of Sarchi.
San Marcos La Laguna's claim to fame, this retreat by the lake has been providing spiritual guidance for more than two decades. Most structures on the property are pyramidal in shape and oriented to the four cardinal points, including the two temples where sessions are held.
An excellent place where those looking for a deeper understanding of the area can be found at the Spanish Creek Rainforest Reserve . Begun in 2004 by Sol Tucker and Marc Ellenby, the 2000-acre solar-powered farm cultivates the largest collection of noninvasive clumping bamboo in Central America, using no pesticides, herbicides or energy-intensive irrigation.
The association offers a worthwhile tour of San Juan La Laguna's points of interest, led by indigenous guides (Q110 per person), in Spanish. You'll visit two weaving cooperatives, both of which use dyes from native plants, and an art studio/gallery featuring the Tz'utujil primitivist painting style.
Lago de Atitlán is a cycling, hiking and riding wonderland, with hill and dale spread among a fantastic setting. You can take a bike by boat to Santiago Atitlán, San Pedro La Laguna or another village to start a cycling tour around the lake.
The biggest complex in the area has some Disney–Flintstone queso to it, but there are 11 thermal pools ranging from 36°C to 40°C, split into two areas. The upper pool complex is older, though it does have a swim up bar and waterslide. Much more tasteful are the five stone pools and sauna in the leafy lower sector.


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Apigee Corp., a fast-growing Silicon Valley software company that makes tools for mobile device applications, has bought a small Austin company and plans to expand here. Apigee, which raised $20 million in venture capital last month, bought Austin's InstaOps Inc. for undisclosed terms. InstaOps develops analytics software that tracks mobile app performance. Cofounders of the Austin company, Alan Ho and Prabhat Jha, will join the Apigee team.
APIs are not only critical when it comes to extending the digital reach of an organization; they can also provide tangible brick and mortar benefits as well. Walgreens, for example, recently announced that it has developed an API and software development kit that allows developers of mobile applications to include the ability to print out photos within their applications at any one of 7,907 Walgreens locations.
Scalability and automatic RESTful API generation are two of the most important features mobile app developers can expect from mobile Backend-as-a-Service, an emerging, cloud-based set of services that provide developers with customizable back ends for mobile app platforms so that developers can focus their time and energy on the app itself.
Chet Kapoor thinks he's riding a huge wave. "Apps are everywhere and their changing the world," he told me. "It's at least as profound as the browser and the web itself." But Kapoor and the company he leads, Apigee, aren't about apps, per se. Their about the back end that makes apps work. The company forges APIs, the tools that tap into a company or publisher's data to make apps possible. That's turning out to be a pretty good strategy.
Not only is there an app for pretty much everything, now there are companies to help developers manage how apps communicate. And venture capitalists are loving them.Last week alone, Apigee and Mashery pulled down a combined $30 million from VCs betting businesses need help managing what has become a labyrinth of internal and external facing apps connecting to their corporate back ends.
Walgreens, a 111-year-old retail pharmacy, might have the right prescription for staying young as a business: Find new customers through third-party developers, who connect to your services through a public application programming interface (API).Walgreens did that July 10 with its first publicly published API for third-party developers. It issued an API for its QuickPrints photo development service.
Apigee, a company that helps manage and monitor APIs, snagged a $20 million round of funding led by new investor Focus Ventures, with participation from current investors Bay Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, SAP Ventures and Third Point Ventures. The eight-year-old company plans to use the money to match its growth with the overall rise of APIs and the app economy.
Well, look at this – only yesterday, API management platform Mashery announced its close of an additional $10 million in Series D funding, and today competitor Apigee is announcing a $20 million round led by new investor Focus Ventures. Also participating in the round were existing investors Bay Partners, Northwest Venture Partners, SAP Ventures and Third Point Ventures. This API business? It's hot.
Apigee Corp., which makes mobile "application programming interface" technology used by Netflix, AT&T and GM, announced a $20 million round of funding just a day after competitor Mashery touted a $10 million raise of its own.APIs are the "magic ingredient" of the world of apps, Palo Alto-based Apigee says, because they are the control for mobile and other Internet applications, dictating how and what kind of data flows between apps and the services that support them.
Hot startup Apigee landed another $20 million round of funding.That brings its total to $72 million since it launched in 2004.The reason it's on everyone's radar isn't the cash that CEO Chet Kapoor has raised, though—it's the team he's assembled. Notably, he hired Sam Ramji as VP of strategy in 2009. Ramji was at Microsoft where he had the difficult task of teaching Microsoft to like open source.


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Images of Jews and Antifascism in East German Film
Bronsteins Kinder (Bronstein's Children)
1990, Germany,
color, 98 min. Feature
Bronstein's Children is a story of the intergenerational conflicts that exist between the victims of the Holocaust and their children, as well as questions of redemption and forgiveness. Based on a book from Jurek Becker, author of Jacob the Liar, and featuring a performance by acclaimed actor Armin Mueller-Stahl.
Hans Bronstein is about to finish secondary school and needs to decide what to do next with his life. He has a girlfriend, Martha Lepschitz, who is an actress and whose parents seems to accept him with even fewer reservations than they accept their own daughter. Martha's profession also provides a motif that comments on the cultural context of the film: as the Holocaust intrudes on Hans's life and his relationship with his father through the narrative, Martha finds acting jobs in the presumably quite conventional output of Holocaust films, in which Jews are consistently portrayed as victims, confined safely to the historical past.
Hans has considerably more difficulty dealing with his Father, who is opinionated and authoritarian in regard to his son, and with his sister Elle, who is hospitalized in a mental institution. Her affliction leads her to attack people at random, in the apparent belief that they are about to do her harm.
The plot of the film puts places a historical dilemma against this backdrop: Hans goes to his father's cottage outside Berlin one day, expecting to meet Martha there for one of their romantic trysts. Instead he finds his father and two other men, Rotstein and Kwart, who are holding a captive, intimidating him with the threat of torture until he confesses his crimes as a former concentration camp guard. Hans tries to convince his father to simply turn the captive over to the authorities, who in the GDR would certainly be harsh on him in any case. But when Arno Bronstein refuses, his son also finds himself unwilling to betray his father's secret either.
Here the film, albeit in reduced scope from the novel, explores the conflicting aspects of identity and allegiance – Jewish and German, generational, legalistic. On the one hand, Hans is determined to set out on his adult life without either the advantages or the stigma of being the "son of a Holocaust survivor." Through the dilemma with his father's kidnapping and imprisonment of the old Nazi, however, he is forced to confront the reality of his father's past for the first time – learning details about his father he had never known or been interested in.
At first, in the words of critics Susan Figge and Jenifer Ward, Hans "seeks to excape from the series of difficult identity choices confronting him on all sides. His father demands that he decide whether he is a Jew or a German; Martha needs him to retain his unquestioned reconciliation of his Jewishness and Germanness; the guard begs him to be a reasonable man and a fellow GDR citizen" (Figge/Ward 92). When Hans finally decides to intervene and set the prisoner free, thus making a break with his father at one level, it is too late for the latter aspect of the confrontation to take place. Instead of the feared death of the prisoner due to maltreatment or lack of needed medicine, Hans discovers that his father has died of a heart attack next to the concentration camp guard's bed. In the film version, truncating the son's ability to incorporate this event into his development as a morally conscious adult, Hans is left with both the unresolved conflict with his father and his father's generation of victims of Nazism, and the unresolved dilemma of what to do with the perpetrators who remain present for him.
Film, Novel
and German History
This critique of the "antifascism" from above in GDR history is mitigated by the many metaphors of generational change present in the novel. Hans Bronstein is coming of age as he develops his own view of his Jewish and German identity, and his own position on the crimes of the Nazis and his father's and others' scars from their sufferings. A new generation was "coming of age" in Germany as well, as the novel refers to two major transitional events of the time: the death of Walter Ulbricht, the long-time Party leader of the GDR, and the resignation of Willy Brandt, the West German Chancellor of Ostpolitik (foreign policy toward East Germany specifically and Eastern Europe in general).
The novel's details specific to East Germany are much reduced in the film, however, and Figge and Ward theorize that this is due to the fact that 1989 and German reunification have replaced 1973 as the historical turning point against which the questions of memory and identity are set. Instead of the "prescribed antifascism" of the East German state, 1990 threatened to bring not only a return of anti-Semitism, which has indeed occurred, but also an institutionalized forgetting – which is still brought into dramatic focus by the dilemma of Hans Bronstein in the film. "In the evolving post-Wende context, the film addresses the legacy of the Holocaust in a new Germany, where a certain kind of historical accountability may be about to disappear – an accountability shaped in the GDR by its own function as the officially antifascist state, in the West by the Cold War, and in both cases by the passage of time." It is no longer the responsibility or burden of Bronstein and the World War II generation to see that memory and justice are served; it is the task of the generation of Bronstein's children.
Jurek Becker
on Film and Television
In addition to his work's investigation of Jewish identity in a GDR context, he was involved in productions in the West that pursue parallel investigations from that historical vantage point. Two examples are films where Becker contributed to the screenplay: Peter Lilienthal's David (1980) and Thomas Brasch's The Passenger – Welcome to Germany. The former was the first West German film to narrate a Jew's experience in, and survival of, Nazi Germany from the Jewish point of view. Brasch's film features Tony Curtis as an American Jew who returns to Germany for the first time after decades of absence, to confront both a changed reality as well as the specters of the past.
Becker's greatest audience success in West Germany, however, was the ARD television detective series he created, Liebling Kreuzberg, starring the popular (and former GDR star) Manfred Krug. Otto Meissner, producer of Bronstein's Children, also worked with Becker on the series.
Becker's screenwriting career came full circle in a way, however, with the Hollywood version of Jakob the Liar starring Robin Williams. Although the film was not released until after Becker's death, he was involved with and approved the French director Peter Kassovitz's early development of the script from the novel.
East and
West Europe
In collaborating with the veteran Polish director Jerzy Kawalerowicz on Bronstein's Children, Becker again built bridges across national and political divides. Kawalerowitz began as an assistant director in the late 1940s, working on films such as director Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stage (Ostatni etap, 1948) about women in Auschwitz working for the Germans—the first Polish film to receive international distribution. Kawalerowicz's film Mother Joan of the Angels (Matka Joanna od Aniołów, 1961) won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes. According to Kinoeye, "For over fifty years, Jerzy Kawalerowicz has remained a major figure in Polish cinema. Like his colleagues Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda, Kawalerowicz is both a well-established director in his own right and the long-time artistic director of the film production unit KADR Films, established in 1955. Among other things, the films Kawalerowicz has directed are distinguished by bold, multi-faceted characterizations, subversive religious and political iconography, excellent camera set-ups and use of off-screen sound. Many are also adaptations of some of the Polish language's most celebrated novels."
Depictions of Jewish life have often played a role in Kawalerowicz's work, such as his 1983 film The Inn (Austeria, 1983). In an interview, he explained his facility with depicting Jews as the result of his Ukrainian origins: "In the town where I was born, 60 percent of the people were Jewish, 30 percent were Ukrainian and 10 percent were Polish. It was a very typical Galician town, which was totally destroyed by the Holocaust. But because I lived with many people who died in the Holocaust, I remember everything about them. They were the basis for my film Austeria" (Kinoeye).
Kawalerowicz alienated himself from many of his colleagues in 1983, however, by signing a government report attacking the filmmakers connected to the Solidarity movement in Poland and sanctioning the closing of the film production units headed by Andrzej Wajda ("X") and Krzysztof Zanussi ("TOR"). Thus, in Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Becker had a partner who had been active in Polish filmmaking throughout the postwar period, had vast experience in adapting novels to film, and had personal experience with the antifascist claims and the political compromises of the socialist milieu of Bronstein's Children.
Born 1922 in Gwóździec, Ukraine, Jerzy Kawalerowicz was one of the leading figures of the "Polish School" of the 1950s and early 60s, and was prominent in the "second wave" of Polish films of the 1960s. Noted for his powerful, detail-oriented imagery he is considered one of Eastern Europe's most talented post-WW II directors. Kawalerowicz was versatile and his subjects ranged from historical dramas to intense psychological studies. He made his directorial debut in 1951 after working as an assistant director. In 1955 and 1972 Kawalerowicz was appointed head of the prestigious KADR production unit with Tadeusz Konwicki as his literary chief. Their work together on Matka Joanna od Aniołów (Mother Joan of the Angels/The Devil and the Nun, 1961) won a Special Jury Prize at Cannes. In 1983, Kawalerowicz alienated himself from many of his peers by signing communist government-generated reports condemning all filmmakers aligned with the Solidarity Movement and promoting the destruction of production units run by long-time associates Wajda and Zanussi.
Celuloza (A Night of Remembrance, 1954), Pod Gwiazdą Frygijską (Under a Phrygian Star, 1954), Pociąg (Night Train, 1959), Matka Joanna od Aniołów (Mother Joan of the Angels/The Devil and the Nun, 1961), Faraon (The Pharaoh, 1966), Śmierć Prezydenta (Death of a President, 1977), Austeria (The Inn, 1983), Za chto? (Why?, 1995).
Becker, Jurek. Bronstein's Children. Trans. Leila Vennewitz. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
Figge, Susan G. and Jenifer K. Ward. "(Sich) Ein genaues Bild machen": Jurek Becker's Bronsteins Kinder as Novel and Film." Germanic Review 70.3 (1995). 90-98.
Fox, Thomas C. Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust. Rochester [NY]: Camden House, 1999. 124-126.
Privett, Ray. "God and country (or maybe not): Jerzy Kawalerowicz interviewed." Kinoeye 1. 7 (26 November 2001).
Taylor, Richard, Nancy Wood, Julian Graffy and Dina Iordanova, eds. The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema. London: British Film Institute, 2000. 124.
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Research Brief
Recent research suggests that some diagnoses of fibromyalgia may actually be undiagnosed small-fiber polyneuropathy (SFPN.)
First, let's break down that term:
- Neuropathy is pain from damaged or dysfunctional nerves;
- Poly means in multiple places:
- Small fibers are structures in your skin, organs, and peripheral nerves that provide sensation to your skin and help regulate autonomic function (the automatic jobs your body does, like controlling temperature and breathing.)
In this study, researchers analyzed SFPN-associated symptoms, conducted neurological exams, and looked at pathological and physiological markers in a small group of people with fibromyalgia and a control group. They found:
- skin biopsies showed SFPN in 41% of the fibromyalgia group but only 3% in the control group;
- fibromyalgia participants scored higher on two neuropathy scales than did health controls;
- similar autonomic function between the groups.
Researchers concluded that some people diagnosed as fibromyalgia actually have unrecognized SFPN. That suggests that doctors should consider SFPN before diagnosing fibromyalgia, especially since SFPN is a well-defined disease with specific treatments that are often quite effective.
It's worth noting that some treatments approved for neuropathic pain, including Lyrica (pregabalin), are successful in many people diagnosed with fibromyalgia.
Learn more or join the conversation!
- August 16, 2013 at 8:25 am(1) dfwmom says:
Please expand on your statement that there are specific treatments that are quite effective.
According to Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2011 June; 15(3): 193200.
doi: 10.1007/s11916-011-0181-7, I saw this quote:
"Treatment of any underlying causative etiology of a small fiber neuropathy is likely to be the most effective treatment of pain, when possible. Many cases of small fiber neuropathy will remain idiopathic, or will still require treatment of pain. There is very limited evidence for specific medications in the treatment of pain from small fiber neuropathies"
It sounds like you are only in luck if they can figure out WHY you have SFPN. If it's diabetes or something, you might make some progress. If you can't treat an underlying cause, it sounds like you are back in the same boat — getting "pain management" treatment. After years of pain management treatment, my impression of it is very poor. Throwing your money on a bonfire and setting it on fire might be a better choice, since "pain management treatment" can actually worsen your condition. Biofeedback and self-hypnosis were the best they had to offer. Add some snake oil, and you still don't have much for your time and money.
Your best luck would be if someone could find out what was causing the SFPN. Otherwise, pain management treatment for SFPN sounds a lot like pain management treatment for fibro, to me. A rose by any other name…
- August 16, 2013 at 10:58 am(2) K. Martin says:
I think it makes sense that neuropathy is a possible treatable element of Fibromyalgia, but does it account for all of the symptoms?
- August 16, 2013 at 3:33 pm(3) Anonymous says:
I echo the comments from dfwmom. For those with fibromyalgia or related central sensitivity disorders, a pain management program is the last place you want to be. They are very expensive and not worth your time or money. Not only will they have no positive impact on your condition, they will often leave you worse off then before you began the program.
I completed a four-week pain management program a year-and-a-half ago and am still trying to deal with the spread of symptoms that resulted from my time there. A pain doctor who stared more at the computer screen than interacted with me, a licensed professional counselor whose counseling sessions and presentations were of no value to me, and physical therapists who just didn't understand fibromyalgia and its associated pain. All this from one of the supposed best pain management programs around (this one in Dallas).
Did they set out to make my condition worse? Of course not. Did I leave the program much worse than when I entered it? Unfortunately yes. The spread of my accompanying symptoms was compounded by the hit to my bank account. These places simply do not know how to treat individuals with fibromyalgia or similar conditions. Biofeedback, CBT, and physical therapy are expensive and worthless. Being a human dartboard for medication is no fun either, especially when nothing helps but often results in terrible side effects.
Even if it's determined to be neuropathy/SFNP, what is the cause? Without a proper diagnosis AND the determination of its cause, treatment will not work. You cant treat symptoms and expect a good outcome. You treat the CAUSE(S) of a diagnosis. Thus, it's better to find a good rheumatologist or internal medicine physician to keep working at finding the cause of one's condition. Hopefully, it will come in one's lifetime and before one goes broke — financially, spiritually, and emotionally.
- August 16, 2013 at 5:09 pm(4) MegK says:
I agree with the previous comment that this research identifies a possible cause for SOME fibro symptoms, but seemingly not all. The longer I live with this
condition, the more I'm convinced it's a multi-causal condition. I definitely could believe this type of neuropathy could be contributing to my conditions, but I also think immune issues, allergies/asthma, pain/sensory sensitivity, "leaky gut" (vitamin deficiency) and HPA dysfunction are part of the picture for me. And I know for me personally the engine at the front of this long train is depression.
- August 16, 2013 at 5:23 pm(5) Mary says:
Treatment of pain may not be perfect but it can be effective. There is so much that is unknown about fibro AND about sfpn as well— I was reading recently that they have found that many Children with widespread pain have neuropathy.
Folks should not give up hope. Maybe if you have neuropathy they won't find the cause–or maybe they will-but either way it can at least be treated.
Not cured probably but 'helped' at least. I know that my treatment is helping me feel a lot better than I used to, no I'm not cured or painless–but I'm functioning and grateful for it.
Thanks Adrienne for continuing to look for any thread of hope to tug at.
- August 16, 2013 at 5:49 pm(6) Liz Kerman says:
I can't help but think that if it the cause or seat of Fibromyalgia was one of these more obvious and recognised conditions, they would have a cause and treatment program that is effective!
- August 16, 2013 at 6:54 pm(7) Diana says:
I was diagnosed w/fibro more than a decade before my mother was diagnosed w/diabetic neuropathy which was exclusively in her legs & feet. It wasn't until that event that I became aware of the symptoms of neuropathy & how akin to the pain in my hands & feet it was.Even I thought maybe I'd been misdiagnosed. However, aside from the numbness etc. in my hands & feet I have traditional tender points thruout my body as well as overall dull achiness plus sharper pain in my hips, back & shoulders as well as overwhelming fatigue, stiffness & fibro fog. It should be added I also have psoriatic arthritis, tendonitis in my elbows & am hypothyroid which also contribute to making me feel like crap everyday. After 27 years of pushing & dragging myself just to take care of the basics & I do mean basics (shopping for groceries & Rx, cooking, light housekeeping, personal care & doctor visits) @56 don't know how much longer I can do this. My family all predeceased me, so much of my motivation & support is gone & its just getting harder. My 1 inspiration remaining is my fibro friend who is now in her 70′s & has had it since her 20′s, even longer than myself.Unfortunately she's in another state, but thanks to the internet we have a link to each other & a window to a world our illness has marginalized us from. I look forward to your blog on Friday's, ever hopeful it may impart some life-affirming developments for us to cling to.
- August 16, 2013 at 7:41 pm(8) Dianne says:
I have had fibro for more than 30 yrs. and am on a cocktail of drugs for pain management including cymbalta, vimovo, tylenol for arthritis, and antidepressants. I have also been going to a pain clinic for over a year now where I receive 18 injections of Marcaine every 2 weeks in my neck, back and shoulders. It is amazing how well those injections work as long as I am careful not to overdo it. I live in Canada so my drugs are mostly covered by husband's work and the pain clinic is covered by health care. I love health care here. I don't know what I would do without it with all the doctors and specialists I have to see. I am considered uninsurable because of fibro, arthritis and back problems.
- August 16, 2013 at 9:27 pm(9) Gloria says:
I was diagnosed with polyneuropathy and was not offered ANY kind of treatment. In fact the neurologist made a throw away comment — "I could go to the coffee shop and find that 60% of the people over 60 would have symptoms of neuropathy!"
Luckily I do not have much pain with my fibromyalgia since I am on a fairly high thyroid dose, but the tingling and NUMBNESS is rather bothersome!!
So I too would like to hear about "treatments" for neuropathy!!
- August 16, 2013 at 9:30 pm(10) Julia says:
Adrienne – When you mention a clinical study, please include the investigator names and where the study was performed.
- August 16, 2013 at 10:40 pm(11) C says:
Interesting but not surprising. I think there is more to this illness from a neurological standpoint than has been realized thus far. …just my hunch. It would be great if there were medications such as this that would help but I get really bad side effects to some so it's a bit frustrating. Gabapenten for example is a drug I cannot take. Once I hit a certain dose I was crying for the majority of the day every day on it. My doctor was smart enough to take me off of it and to deal with the situation. Glad he did because not all docs have been this prompt in listening to me regarding nasty side effects and it has taken it's toll. I'm just wondering if there would be other drugs..less risky drugs when it comes to side effects for this sort of illness. Wonder how baclofen is thought of in regards to this…..
- August 16, 2013 at 11:08 pm(12) David Whiteford says:
Bravo Adrienne, yes SFPN is certainly correlated with Fibro.
Fibromyalgia is a bucket diagnosis into which various symptom clusters are thrown, as is SFPN. Both are diagnosed most often by the exclusion of other diseases. As I have suggested to you before I believe that Fibro is the result of damage to multiple areas by what is called Morgellons disease.
Morgellons seems to attack the skin, and also the nervous system, resulting in SFPN. It also damages the hypothalamus deregulating the sleep cycle resulting in Chronic Fatigue. The nerves from the hypothalamus extend to the digestive system, Morgellons deregulates this system as well, resulting in many symptoms not the least of which is suppression of the immune system. There is much more to this to list here.
As long as the CDC denies the existence of Morgellons many illnesses will continue to exist without an apparent cause, such as Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, SFPN, etc., as well as the great reduction of capacity that must be transpiring among the functional unknowing sufferers. May all be healed!!
- August 17, 2013 at 2:51 am(13) kathy says:
I have had fibro for 18 yrs. In the last year and a half I began having burning pain in my feet. We checked for sugar problems, circulation problems, and all that is ok. I was put on gabapentin, and it worked great! BUT, the side effects made it impossible for me to take. Things like suicidal thoughts (something I really don't need, with the way this life is working out), very angry, hopelessness (again, don't need any more of that). Since taken off the gabapentin, the pain level has steadily risen. I'm getting ready to try Lyrica, which lists similar possible side effects. But I'm gonna give it a try, only because the gabapentin
did take away most all of the neuropathy pain. I forgot to mention that I went to a specialist for a bunch of tests and got a dx of neuropathy, but was given no cause for it. I'm just writing about my experience to put it out there, I don't have any suggestions or help to offer. But I often feel so much better after having read of someone else who is having similar problems. But I will add, if it wasn't for Jesus, I would probably be long gone by now.
- August 17, 2013 at 6:16 am(14) sue oetrie says:
Confusion in diagnosis due to multiple terminology. Cfs.me.burn out.fibromyalgia and the patient specific collection of chronic conditions associated with each. Hard to diagnose and difficult to treat. Lack of understanding means medical profession not consistent and public show little empathy. Victim can feel isolated and helpless. Best approach using variety of therapies eg CBT mindfulness meditation and yoga therapy with graded exercise. Make it your life philosophy to live your best day today. Work on positive reinforcement of everthing you do and agree to do better next time.
- August 17, 2013 at 9:42 am(15) David says:
I was diagnosed back in 1998 with fibromyalgia. My earlier years were the worst in not knowing what was wrong and I struggling with horrible reactions to different medications. I cannot take anti-depressants or anxiety drugs. I even had one small town doctor who got so flustered with me ,he told me that it was all in my head. He was right in that I ended up at the Medical College of Georgia under the care of a doctor who did studies on anti depressant drugs. He stated it was a wonder I was still alive becauseI was that 1% who dies when taking the drugs. The effects of the drugs had me daily with constant depression,anxiety and panic attacks for about 2-5 years before my brain healed back. Also during this time I had my Pastor praying and counseling with me. The peak of the mountain came when I excepted that life would never be the same,but with the help of God I was going to make it. After trial and error with other drugs including herbs I ended up taking the max dosage of Ultram 400mg ,4000mg of Neurontin and lots of advil each day. This allowed me to function for years as a zombie but where I could do my job about 60% pain free. Then when Lyrica came on the scene it helped me drop my Neurontin back to about 800mg daily with about 75% pain free. During this journey there has been days the pain was greater but with the help of the Lord I made it through. Now I am entering a different challenge in life.Over the last 5 years my left arm ,hand and foot have had feelings of pins,needles and total numbess and now my right side. It has gotten so severe I have now increased my Lyrica to 400mg Ultam 400mg and Neurontin to 1600 and advil but the pain continues to increase. It presently has me sleeping about 2 hours each night sitting in a padded chair. Ps : My mentor in life is my dad who has suffered for over 40 years with even greater pain than I have. He is now 83 and still fighting with the help of God.
- August 23, 2013 at 5:40 pm(16) Buddy says:
I was on that roller coaster for over three years, I was told there was nothing wrong, Sjogrens syndrome, fibro, I kept getting worse, was sent to Mayo of course nothing shwoed up there, back to Pittsburgh where they fialy did a punch biopsy, yep, SF neuropathy, with no know cause, now its to late for any kind of reversal, the medical community can be ruthless when it comes to listening to us, they seen to know it all
- August 24, 2013 at 1:02 am(17) Sylvia says:
After I was diagnozed with Fibromyalgia fairly quickly, about 12 years ago, somebody sent me to a traumatologist and he said that was nonsense, that I really had Polyneurophathy and that it was easy to cure. Yay!! He prescribed terribly high doses of Vit. B complex and said I would be OK in 6 months.
I came out walking on air to purchase the B's, but soon after felt nausea and my clinician said it was very dangerous to take SO MUCH vit. B, to stop at once!
After trying a few of the regular stuffs for Fibro, I've chosen to kill the pain with Tramadol and some acetomiphen. That keeps me going but they say the body gets used to Tramadol.
I think the polyneurophy idea is as old as the hills. BTW, I see somebody is taking Ultram along with Lyrica and Neurontin, please do be careful, those mixes are dangerous and don't help much. All of these medicines affect one's liver and kidneys, heaven help us!!
Good luck to all, great to read you, God bless!
- August 24, 2013 at 5:17 am(18) sue Petrie says:
I identify several issues with ME. Confused terminology and a lack of differentiation between them. ME is used in UK to identify a phsycho somatic disorder linked to stress combined with complete and overwhelming fatigue often coupled with hypothyroid poor sleep and cognitive dissonance wrapped up with pain and heightened intolerance to any extended physical activity. There may be as many as thirty minor additional symptoms such as sweating cold and flu symptoms etc making diagnosis and treatment haphazard and often ineffective. While western medicine can treat individual symptoms their erratic nature makes taking a variety of medication costly and ineffective in the long term. Increasingly doctors are encouraging patients into CBT mindfulness meditation and yoga therapy in the belief that a person with ME needs to change their lifestyle and take a different view of their world which avoids stress.
- August 24, 2013 at 6:51 am(19) Jeanne says:
I refused to accept Fibro and CFS as a diagnosis. I wanted to know why I had them.
If you or anyone in your family is having problems with joint pain ,shooting pains, digestion, eye conditions, (negative sjogrens, corneal differences to name a few) poor quality of teeth (weak enamel, white spots etc, cavities), all manner of ear/hearing problems, hand and foot pain (maybe you wear "comfortable shoes")you have pronounced veins, autonomic dysfunction, just to name a few, maybe you have a genetic condition called Ehlers Danlos, Hypermobility type. Though there are other types, this is the one I was diagnosed with. The reason it can affect all body systems(to include the neurological like brain fog) is because if you have it, you are missing a collegen gene. It affects everything ,some systems worse than others.
Instead of taking all of just your symptoms to doctors, FIRST talk to relatives and ask them if they have any of these problems. Research the syndrome. You might not see yourself in the criteria–I didn't for years– so try googling your weird symptom with EDS, Hypermobility type. Take what you find with a grain of salt obviously!
Make a family health tree. Did one of your parents have heart issues? (Mitral valve problems maybe) Foot problems with orthotics? Achy stiff hands? Anxiety? Depression?
In my family, each person has a different presentation to the same thing. Some of us get Fibro/CFS, most of us don't. Some of us can do what you see in the pictures of EDS, Hypermobility, some of us, not so much. Maybe I still have Fibro and CFS, but at least I know why. For me, its easier to live with if I know what I am fighting, or what I have to make friends with!
This is a good site!
Good luck to all of you. There is power in knowledge!
- August 25, 2013 at 12:20 pm(20) David Whiteford says:
According to Jeanne's comment a genetic condition that results in low collagen causes many of the same symptoms of Fibromyalgia. Not to beat a dead horse, but according to the Carnicom Institute Morgellon's disease results in extremely low levels of the amino acids which are the building blocks of collagen. I strongly suspect Morgellons as the casual agent of our diagnoses. Check out Carnicom.com
- August 26, 2013 at 4:39 am(21) Debra An says:
I am so tired of doctors treating symptoms and NOT treating the cause. That is just crazy! I do not want a pill for each of my many symptoms, with the chance that the pills will cause permanent damage and possibly death. I have gotten with one pill I was prescribed permanent damage. I keep telling the doctors to treat the problem, not the symptoms. I get no where when they treat the symptoms and not treat the underlying cause!
I am thinking about trying Chinese medicine, as the western medicine doctors, who are strict western medicine doctors, do not believe in additional supplementation! I have heard great things about Chinese medicine and how it has helped so many people. Most of the people whom I spoke to told me that they usually give them a tea to drink a few time a day. I love tea, I just hope if they give me some, that I like the flavor!??!
- August 29, 2013 at 4:36 pm(22) dZ says:
Agrobacterium is used to GM our food supply and it's DNA has been shown to be absorbed by people and it changes human DNA. Agrobacterium causes a genetically induced disease called "crown gall disease" in plants. It is an opportunistic infection that takes advantage of a weakened immune system. The typical progression is that someone gets "Lyme" and that compromises their immune system then sometime down the road they develop morgellons disease also. Morgellons is crown gall disease in humans.
- September 5, 2013 at 8:49 pm(23) Julie says:
Interesting report on this research. I've read several reports on this research and you are the first one to point out that they said some cases of Fibro might be un-diagnosed SFPN, rather than every other report just saying that they've come up with a new way to diagnose Fibro. Good article!
- September 9, 2013 at 3:11 pm(24) Coping Today says:
It's interesting that half the patients had undiagnosed SFPN although my guess is none of them had metabolic syndrome OR glucose intolerance. As a result, doctors and researchers need to re-evaluate what they believe to be the root cause of SFPN. At the same time, they discovered 1/2 of the fibro patients tested had autoimmune diseases. This is significant. What diseases did they have and how were these diseases discovered??
As far as SFPN – from what I've read, it's a chronic, progressive and there is no cure: http://www.ccjm.org/content/76/5/297.full
- September 11, 2013 at 10:18 pm(25) Caroline says:
My grand mother has done everything mentioned here, had all types of therapies and tests ending in pain and more pain. She also went to several pain management centers which made her condition much worse.
We were sick of seeing her suffer with all types of medications, needles, CBT, more pain killers etc.. one day we decided we would try something different and did our own research as doctor were literally killing nana with all of those medications. The first step was to try acupuncture and that helped her a bit, then based on a remedy report (prize the lord) ended up changing her diet, and following it everything they recommended step by step. It's been about five months since my nana is herself, doesn't complaint about pain and her Psoriatic Arthritis went away almost immediately.
We found it here: http://www.healyounaturally.com/fibromyalgia/ at the end of the page.
None of her conventional doctors ever, ever told us to try to change her diet, or try acupuncture etc…
We will never pump her with medications or put her through pain again.
- October 2, 2013 at 1:53 am(26) TNMOM says:
I was diagnosed almost 2 years ago. Since then, my PCP and I have have done so much research trying to figure things out. My hands and feet burn constantly. I have been through so many different drugs. This study was done, and yes, it is neuropathy. Some Fibro patients experience this type of pain others do not. It would be interesting to find out what those that have this type of pain have in common. Do we have low vitamin levels? Where we all on many anitbiotics for various infections? I don't know the answer. I don't think doctors will know either until they start looking at the all of the patients and looking dividing them into groups and looking at the similarities. I think our past may have something to do with it, I am just not sure what that is yet. I stay in constant pain, and I keep telling myself, I don't want to be like this the rest of my life. There has to be an answer.
I recently saw a "Fibro" specialist in my area. He basically told me that, everyone is response differently to meds, and that even when I find something that works, it will quit working after a while, which already happen to me once. I thought when I first had the pain almost 2 years ago, that it was the worst pain of my life. I was wrong, the pain came back even worse this time. No combo of meds has worked. The specialist said to not waste my time or money with the morphine type meds as most Fibro patients don't find relief with those unless on really high doses. My PCP & I had tried 2 different types of those and neither had worked, and I did not want to go to any higher of a dose. So, it was back to the Tramadol, which works sometimes. There really is nothing that I have found yet, that works for the burning pain in the hands and feet, even after raising the Gabapentin to 3600 mg a day.
As many have said, until they find the cause or causes of our problems, I don't think we will get much relief.
- April 3, 2014 at 8:33 pm(27) paula says:
Dear fellow fibro friends
If no one cares I just need to …complain for a minute. I've been in a flare up now for almost 3weeks and see no sign of getting better. I've had to cancel hair appt., Dr. Appt., carpet cleaning and counseling appt. My brain is solo bad right now that I'm almost afraid to say anything to anyone for fear of how it will come out. This is the worst flare I've had in a long time. It seems as if I have had to put my entire life on hold. It seems I can't make plans to do anything.I am solo depressed! Thank you for listening to my tirade and God bless all of you.


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Passion is a conference that takes place at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta,GA with 50,000+ college age students coming together for Christ
I went to Passion for the first time last year and was completely blown away! It was easily the most exhausting yet fullfilling week of my life. God is moving in the youth of this world and getting to see that first hand is beyond description. Last year's conference was a movement against human sex-traffiking and modern day slavery and took the nation by storm. Together we raised millions of dollars to fight this horrible crime and free the men, women, and children held captive by it worldwide. I am going again this year with my church and community group, and your support would help tremendously! Thank you so much for any donation you can make, every little bit helps. =)


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During his weekly morning spot with 106.7 the FAN, Brooks Laich was asked to rank which of his teammates were best in class in skating and stick skills. McHandsomePants fearlessly answered the Junkies, nominating three or four players for each category. Always willing to jump on an opportunity to take a good idea too seriously, we here at Rock the Red took it a step further and isolated the Capital that most embodied some of hockey's most-needed abilities in a plan to join them together to form a giant super robot, with which to defend the galaxy from evil. [Ed. note - that was actually Voltron]. Only rule is, aside from el Capitano, each Cap can only be used once! And away we go!
Hands- Nicklas Backstrom
Lars is a playmakers' play maker, averging .73 assists/game, capable of dissecting an opposing defense faster than Rebecca Black became irrelevant.
Shot- Alexander Semin
In case Semin's 177 career goals aren't enough evidence, take Olie Kolzig's word for it when he said at the goalie panel at Caps Con that Semin's shot was the scariest he's ever encountered.
Skating- Marcus Johansson
MoJo's skating is so smooth it makes Jason Chimera's head weep out of jealousy.
Grit- Matt Hendricks
Never afraid to get dirty, Hendricks led the team in PIM's last year. Fighting, in-the-crease goal scoring, trash talking [naughty word alert] – you name it, Hendy's your man.
Speed- Jason Chimera
From full stop to top speed faster than a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport.
Brain- Alex Ovechkin
Covered by two Canadiens? No problem. Tripped up while heading to the net? No problem. Goaltender blocking low and only have one hand free? No problem. There isn't an obstacle Ovi can't creatively work his way through.
Size- Jeff Schultz
Logging in at 6'6″, Schultzie is the tallest member of the Caps roster and is tied for second at 230 pounds. As the one and only Craig Laughlin describes Schultz – he's one big rig.
Heart- Joel Ward
Undrafted. Played through his four years of eligibility in the OHL without being picked up. Attended the Red Wings' training camp on a try-out offer. Played four years of college hockey. Second go-round at training camp. Spent two years in the AHL. Became a rookie at 28, and signed a four-year contract with the Caps in 2011. If that doesn't say "never give up," I don't know what does.
Toughness- Mike Knuble
You want tough? How about playing in 84% of your teams' games every season but one since the lock out.
Versataility- Brooks Laich
Last season, McHandsomePants played in all 91 of the Caps' games, posting a +14 rating. He led all Caps players in SH TOI (221:58), and was fourth on the team with PP TOI (245:39). Laich also won 52.1% of his 634 face offs, including 55.5% in the playoffs.
Celebration- Alex Ovechkin
Often imitated, but never duplicated "jumping the glass" can been seen in every NHL promo this side of Pluto.
Beard- Karl Alzner
The really are no other contenders, so kindly move along.
Choice of mode of transportation- Mike Green
Exhibit A. Exhibit B. If you need more than that to convince you, you're out of luck.
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The Texas Stars dropped their second straight game and fifth in the last six, falling 4-1 to the Grand Rapids Griffins at Cedar Park Center Saturday night.
Colton Sceviour scored the lone goal for Texas. Jack Campbell got the start in goal and stopped 23 of 27 shots for the Stars, who fell to 3-5-0-0 on the season.
"Throughout the game, whether it was penalties, times that we dominated or times that we were dominated, we were all over the place," said Sceviour. "We need to sustain that level where we can control the game as much as we can. We didn't do that enough tonight and the results showed from that."
The Stars outshot the Griffins 15-7 in the first period, but found themselves trailing 2-1 heading into the first intermission. Adam Almquist staked Grand Rapids to a 1-0 lead, scoring off a wrist shot 3:08 into the game.
Sceviour, playing in his first game of the season after missing the first seven due to a hand injury, tied the game ten minutes later. After taking a pass from Jamie Oleksiak off the rush, Sceviour scored on a wrist shot at the 13:48 mark of the first.
Less than two minutes later, the Griffins grabbed the lead for good when Joakim Andersson scored off a scramble in front of the Texas net.
Almquist tallied on the power play early in the second and Gustav Nyquist scored late in the third period to round out the scoring in the game.
The Griffins got a big game from goaltender Petr Mrazek, who stopped 29 of 30 shots in his AHL debut.
Texas ended the game 0-7 on the power play, and has now scored just three times on 37 power play opportunities this season. The penalty kill, which came into the game as the lowest ranked in the league, was 5-6 Saturday night.
"We have to work on our specialty teams," said Texas coach Willie Desjardins. "It's been a theme since we started here. There's nothing you can do but keep working at it."
*Jamie Oleksiak's assist in the game was his third of the season. He now has four points (one goal, three assists) in eight games this season.
*Forward Scott Glennie, who had been scratched in the first seven games, played in his first game of the season. He skated on the fourth line with Luke Gazdic and Antoine Roussel.
*Defenseman Cam Barker led Texas with seven shots on goal. Cody Eakin was next with six shots on goal.
*Texas was 0-7 on the power play Saturday night and is now 3-37 (8.1%) on the power play for the season.
*The Stars were 5-6 on the penalty kill in the game and are now 22-33 (66.7%) on the season.
Texas lineup
R. Smith-Eakin-Vincour
Dillon-Jo. Benn
Campbell (starter)
Nilstorp (backup)
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Definition: The Lord's Prayer is a common name for the Our Father, which derives from the fact that it is the prayer that Christ taught to His disciples when they asked Him how to pray. The name is used more often today by Protestants than by Catholics, but the English translation of the Novus Ordo Mass refers to the recitation of the Our Father as the Lord's Prayer.
Also Known As: The Our Father, Pater Noster
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"When I was younger I thought, 'By golly, by the time I get to be 66, I'll be way old and ready to retire,' but then I discovered when I got here that I'm not," he said.
Judge Gregory Todd's term also expires this year. So far, he has not announced any plans for seeking a re-election.
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Interesting item that the NBA will eliminate the center position from the all-star ballot, and will have 3 "front-court" positions to vote for instead of 2 forwards and 1 center.
Is it time to rethink the C in fantasy basketball? I've disliked Yahoo's default of having two C's to begin with. I remember when nba.com ran fantasy, they had the F/C position to go with 1 C as the default.


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Research in basic and clinical sciences in these areas is fully integrated in the School, which offers state-of-the-art facilities, including the Institute of Biomedical Research and the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility. It also has links with major NHS Trusts in the region including the University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham Women's Hospital, the Heart of England and the Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Trusts .
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The Interco Super Swamper TSL with the patented TSL tread design offers unsurpassed tire traction under the toughest of conditions. Nine years of developing and testing produced the ultimate tire tread design for Interco Superswampers. Short, intermediate and long massive tire lugs are uniquely arranged, each proportioned and spaced to bite quickly and to self-clean rapidly. The overall tire design gives today's on-and-off-road driver a tire that is both directionally and laterally stable; unmatched in performance. This Interco tire is an extremely aggressive design that requires strict attention to air pressure when run on the highway.
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The SSR Series of Interco Super Swamper Radial/TSL tires is the next generation of light truck radial tires. This tire series has many of the OEM sizes for Sport Utility Vehicles and 4 Wheel Drive light trucks who do not want to modify their vehicles but still need the performance of Interco Super Swamper tires. The design incorporates a slightly tighter tread pattern, siping for wet pavement traction and icy conditions, greater tire sidewall protection with traction features and is quieter running.
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The Interco Super Swamper TSL/BOGGER tire is built primarily for the professional mud bogger. The tire is versatile... D.O.T. approved and street legal... and the tire is easy to modify for the cut, open, and pro stock classes. Interco's new design for a new generation of competition tire performance.
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Nov 29, 2011
Wilson Center launches report on U.S. civilian assistance to Pakistan
Progress for Women, but a Long Way to Go
Nov 23, 2011
In a year of some major successes for women — the Nobel Peace Prize, the commanding performances of Angela Merkel and Hillary Rodham Clinton, the end of men-first in the line of succession to the British throne — a new worldwide study concludes that women remain well behind men in two crucial areas: economic equality and political power.
Book Review: "Plundered Nations? Successes and Failures in Natural Resource Extraction"
Nov 18, 2011
In many resource rich countries, natural assets have not led to development. Plundered Nations?, edited by Paul Collier and Anthony Venables, lays out a series of decisions that need to be got "sufficiently right" for the depletion of natural assets to be converted into sustained development.
Wilson Blog Recognized for Population Coverage
Nov 07, 2011
"New Security Beat," Environmental Change and Security Program's blog, has won The Population Institute's Global Media Award for Best Online Commentary or Blog.
Helping Hands: An Integrated Approach
Jun 06, 2011
From the June 2011, Centerpoint cover story: Many who research, and work on, population-health-environment (PHE) issues are increasingly advocating integrated solutions.
U.S. Energy Security Policy: A Global Perspective
Jan 11, 2011
Making sure markets are open, fair, and transparent is a key tenet of the Obama administration's global energy security agenda. At a January 11 Director's Forum, State Department special envoy David Goldwyn outlined the United States' plan for energy security policy.
Latin America in 2010: Opportunities, Challenges and the Future of the U.S. Policy in the Hemisphere
Dec 01, 2010
Latin American Program Director Cynthia Arnson testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere at the December 1 hearing "Latin America in 2010: Opportunities, Challenges and the Future of the U.S. Policy in the Hemisphere." Read her testimony about major political and economic trends in the region, and the challenges they pose for U.S. policy.


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morning cram [start edition]
The outcome of today's Senate vote to ratify the new arms reduction treaty with Russia remains in nail-biting doubt.
~NPR has more on the last-minute lame duck initiative.
KENTUCKY~ No Paducah garbage pickup at the end of this week. McCracken County hires a new Facilities Director. Fort Campbell prepares for thousands of troops to return to base. Murray's mayor gets a swear-in. You have until the end of the year to flip-flop political party affiliation. Some Christian County School officials had no idea the state was investigating two of their schools. Crittenden High plans to build a greenhouse. The newest Census results won't change any of the Commonwealth's congressional lineup.
TENNESSEE~ The State Comptroller calls out a corrupt weatherization program. The EPA still doesn't know if TVA's coal ash should be labeled: hazardous.
morning cram [finders keepers edition]
The Justice Department is proposing to overturn 30 years of legal precedent by sharply limiting patents on genes.
~NPR reports the government surprised just about everyone when it suggested this change of policy in a court filing last week.
KENTUCKY~ The Dorena-Hickman Ferry is on winter hours. Smithland's gone damp and the historic Gower House may end up a 'frontier' restaurant. Hopkinsville plans to be bigger come January. US-60 work starts today in Union County. What's ahead for state lawmakers? Budget tweaks, school reforms and redistricting (oh my!). Poll: Almost half of Paul supporters don't party with the Tea. Want to run for office in 2011? Filing deadlines are set.
TENNESSEE~ Study: Clarksville cops are underpaid.
ILLINOIS~ Brady won't concede to Quinn in Governor race.
morning cram [edge edition]
The Pew Research Center's final pre-election poll is out, and (no surprise) it finds the GOP will likely recapture control of the House.
~NPR hears how independent voters may be pushing Republicans over the edge this election.
KENTUCKY~ Paducah Schools' property buyout extravaganza: 7 down, 24 to go. The National Park Service meets in Paducah tonight to talk about extending the Lewis & Clark trail. A wreck on I-24 covers the roadway in lactose. A Marshall County grand jury indicts a man on DUI-murder charges. Local officials will break out the shovels today for the construction of Murray's Merryman House. PSC: natural gas prices should hover around last year's. The state launches a new child ID initiative to protect kids. Jack and Rand are still running around ahead of tomorrow's election.
TENNESSEE~ A Henry County jury finds a man guilty of vehicular homicide in connection to a Paris Landing DUI boating accident. A car hit and killed a pedestrian in Clarksville over the weekend.
OVC Football~ MSU < EKU, APSU < EIU, & UTM > Lambuth.
morning cram [profit prisons edition]
NPR reports some prison companies have a new business model to lock up illegal immigrants and one company's plan became Arizona's immigration law.
KENTUCKY~ Meteorologists: 3 tornadoes touched down Tuesday. Drivers in and around Gilbertsville and Grand Rivers should watch out for a few loose cows along the roadways. McCracken County School officials look over several possible design changes to the consolidated high school. Paducah's WKCTC receives a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant. A Murray man is charged with trafficking narcotics. A Union City man died yesterday in a coal mining accident. Rand Paul isn't going to return donation$ from a supporter (who stepped on an activist's head outside the last senatorial debate).
TENNESSEE~ 2 of 7 Clarksville mayoral candidates spend tens of thousands, while 5 others spend < $100. Police: Clarksville man was dragged from a home and shot dead. Republican candidate for governor Bill Haslam is frustrated about the media's coverage of his gun comments.
morning cram [aqua buddha edition]
In a discussion with NPR's All Things Considered co-host Robert Siegel, Jack Conway didn't retreat from his recent attack ad against Rand Paul, saying that candidates must be accountable for their actions.
~Siegel implicitly asks Conway: how relevant are college pranks in a senatorial election?
KENTUCKY~ Paducah officials draft a contract to lock in city manager-select Jeff Pederson. MSU's Women's Golf team dominates @ an APSU tourney. Have a profitable clean energy idea? You could get it funded. Federal money will help Kentucky figure out the whole state health insurance exchange thing. Drivers should watch out for the Commonwealth's 900k deer lurking 'unpredictably' just beyond the road's edge. Spot election fraud or fishy polling activity? Call 1-800-328-VOTE. Jack leads Rand in a new Democrat-funded poll.
TENNESSEE~ The state's website wins high national honors.
ILLINOIS~ Judge: locked out Honeywell workers violated a restraining order at the plant.
morning cram [secret hurricane edition]
Scientists aboard a NASA DC-8 hope to better predict the strength of hurricanes at landfall.
~NPR hears how scientists aboard a flying laboratory hope to figure out what makes the storms so sneaky.
KENTUCKY~ A Murray schizophrenic pleads guilty to murder. Paducah Power christens its gas plant. A Benton man is charged with a DUI murder. Officials ID the dead body found near Earlington. A 200-mile yard sale begins this weekend. Flags are @ half-staff today in honor of another Fort Campbell casualty and one soldier at the base is awarded a bronze star. Nightly roadwork begins tomorrow on a couple of Paducah I-24 interchanges. An education report calls the Commonwealth's schools too slow after poor test results. You have only 1 week left to register if you want to vote in November.
TENNESSEE~ A Clarksville shooting suspect turns himself in.
morning cram [young guns edition]
As Republicans are expected to pick up seats in the House of Representatives, the GOP hopes that voters will give them the majority. They call themselves the Young Guns.
~NPR reports the group of ambitious conservatives know they can't bring more of the same.
KENTUCKY~ Murray State creates a nursing doctoral program (coming 2012). A man accused of a Murray rape claims his innocence in court. Police: man left toddler in his yard as he ran from detectives. Train vs. SUV in Christian County claims 3 lives. Paducah's mayor is slated to be the next president of the Kentucky League of Cities. High schoolers are voting in fake elections this week. Area foresters seek to burn +11k acres. Another Fort Campbell hero dies in Afghanistan. Beshear tackles nursing home abuse.
TENNESSEE~ A former Fort Campbell gun smuggler sentenced to +9 years.
SPORTS~ (football) MSU < CAU, APSU > TTU, UTM > EIU. (soccer) MSU < LTU & WMU, APSU > Valparaiso, UTM > SIUe.