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THIS is why bariatric surgery shouldn't be taboo!
Bariatric surgery improves/reverses diabetes! Yep, that's the headline to the press release. Thats the study that has been done and the findings have shown definitive numbers favoring bariatric surgery as a treatment for overweight people who have type 2 diabetes. Some people have even gone into remission!
Yes, I'll share the study with you, but not before I chime in here…
I understand why some people prefer to keep their decision to have WLS secret. I know that SO MANY people think that it is "the easy way out" or that it is just simply lazy. I know that dealing with ignorant people is INFURIATING! And, in understanding that emotion, I DO understand your desires to keep your surgery to yourself. HOWEVER…. If we don't raise our voices and educate the ignorant people about just how much of a journey WLS is, then the taboo label will never go away. And that just doesn't sit well with me.
Clearly, I am not one of the secretive ones. I tell people quite openly at times (when the situation calls for it) that I have had weight loss surgery. I have had people say to me "Oh, well that's still okay." "Not everybody is cut out for the gym." (<—-seriously!!!) and "Really? Did your family know?" (Nope, they thought I went on a vacation for a day, in a hospital, with an IV and sutures in my gut???) Each time I have smiled (with effort) and explained to the people that weight loss surgery isn't an easy process, and it certainly is not a walk in the park. Lets face it folks, we deserve every stinking accolade that we get, for every damn ounce we lose… because look at where we started and look at where we are NOW! My life speaks for itself.
My point is this…. Weight loss surgery has its risks. The life after weight loss surgery is not magical, its real. You have to still work to be healthy. You still have to invest some time and some pride in yourself. While you won't be obese, you will have loose skin. You will face the possibility of other surgeries because of that. There is no magical moment. But there is this….. With out weight loss surgery, you will struggle more, and fight harder to get healthy. No, not everybody should have weight loss surgery, BUT… if it can save a life? BY ALL MEANS do your homework!
With no further Ado…. here is the press release :
Overweight, diabetic patients who underwent bariatric surgery achieved significant improvement or remission of their diabetes, according to new research from Cleveland Clinic.
In a randomized, controlled trial, some weight loss surgery patients achieved normal blood sugar levels without use of any diabetes medications. In others, the need for insulin to control blood sugar was eliminated. Recent observational studies had demonstrated that bariatric surgical procedures reduce the incidence of type 2 diabetes and lead to substantial improvement for many patients with pre-existing disease.
"After one year, patients who underwent gastric bypass or sleeve gastrectomy lost more weight and were significantly more successful at controlling their diabetes, compared to those who simply took medications," said lead investigator Philip Schauer, M.D., Director of the Cleveland Clinic Bariatric and Metabolic Institute. "We believe that bariatric surgery represents a potentially valuable strategy for control of diabetes that should be considered in more patients who do not respond to conventional treatment."
Results of the STAMPEDE (Surgical Therapy And Medications Potentially Eradicate Diabetes Efficiently) trial were published today in The New England Journal of Medicine and presented today at the Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology in Chicago.
The STAMPEDE trial involved 150 patients with obesity and poorly controlled diabetes. The patients were divided into three groups of 50: those who received intensive medical therapy of their diabetes, those who received intensive medical therapy plus gastric bypass surgery, and those who received intensive medical therapy plus sleeve gastrectomy.
"This trial demonstrates that bariatric surgery can eliminate the need for diabetes medications in many obese patients whose diabetes is poorly controlled," Schauer said. "Furthermore, the surgical patients showed major improvements in other measures of heart health, including reduced need for high blood pressure and cholesterol medications, while significantly boosting HDL – the so-called 'good' – cholesterol."
Effectiveness was gauged by the percentage of patients who achieved an average blood sugar within the normal range 12 months after treatment (measured using the hemoglobin A1c – HbA1c – a standard laboratory test that reflects average blood sugar over three months).
After 12 months, a normal HbA1c (less than 6.0) was achieved in 42.6 percent of patients who underwent gastric bypass and 36.7 percent of patients who underwent sleeve surgery, but just 12.2 percent of medically treated patients. The HbA1c of less than six is a more aggressive target than the American Diabetes Association guidelines.
Participants entered the study taking an average of three medications each for diabetes. In all of the gastric bypass patients who achieved the target level, the normal blood sugar was attained without use of any diabetic medications. Seventy-two percent of sleeve patients who reached normal blood sugar also did so without the use of any diabetic medications. In surgically-treated patients who continued to require drugs, researchers observed a substantial reduction in the need for diabetic medications.
As expected, the patients who received bariatric surgery lost more weight during the 12-month study, averaging 64.7 pounds for patients who received gastric bypass, 55.2 pounds for patients who had stomach reduction surgery, and 11.9 pounds for patients treated with medications.
The study authors reported some complications of surgery, but most were not serious. However, four patients did require a second operation. The study authors caution that the favorable results were observed after a relatively short follow-up period (12 months) and that long-term studies are needed to determine the durability of the findings. The authors will continue to follow these patients for four years to attempt to answer these questions.
More information on the clinical trial can be found at clevelandclinic.org/stampede.
This study was funded by Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, which is a company that designs and manufactures medical devices and surgical instruments.
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I saw this on the Today show, it was really interesting….I haven't yet decided how public I'm going to be, I've recently had a set back in that area, but I'm working on girding my loins
tz recently posted..two more things off my surgery to-do list
I made a few replies to the ignorant people on Yahoo. The basic was: "Oh, I did it the HAAAAAARD way with diet and exercise."
Well good for freaking you. I don't watch my diet or exercise at all and the pounds just melt off.
Also: "Well gee, if these people would just quit stuffing their pie-hole and hit the gym they could beat the diabetes.:
Hey Poindexter, RTFA! It says that none of the non-surgical people beat the disease; not one.
I was more polite than that, but it was hard. I should also note that on the Sleeve Talk board, most will not tell people. They have panic attacks when invited out to restaurants where family, friends and co-workers can see how little they eat. They try to make up stories: "Well I have a virus." "Oh gee, thanks for dining with us and spreading pathogens."
Just tell the truth and educate people.
Apologies for the following lengthy comment……but this kind of thing just gets me going!
I will be open about my second WLS, although very selective as to whom I disclose to. I can already tell you that there are some people who will NOT be told unless it's over my dead body, and only because of their reaction the first time (I under went lapband the first time). When, after 4 years, I wasn't able to make the band work, I had to listen to countless "I told you so", and "what a waste of money and time……why don't you just get rid of that thing and come to Weight Watchers with me?" by a rather large number of people.
I still can't rationalize that last one….because I've been to WW so many time in the last 32 years that I have been a member of every new program they've thrown out…..some more than once….. am still fat! In fact fatter than ever. Why on earth would I bother going back yet again? I can't make WW work any more than I could the lap band (not the surgery I requested, but the one I was talked into).
When people scold over "taking the easy way out" with WLS, they're right, it IS the easy way out…but not quite the same "easy way out" as they mean. They think that you go in get a silicon band put in or have your guts re-routed and voila! the fat just melts off you like butter melts off a knife if you hold it near heat. WRONG. Wrong wrong wrong WRONG!!! WLS takes just as much hard work, self control and discipline as any diet or weight loss program – the surgery is only a tool to ASSIST in the effort. It doesnt do anything FOR you (the exception is malsorptive procedures, and even those can be sabotaged very easily). I'll be honest and say that even though I wasn't able to use them band to my benefit, I have never put in as many hard yards as I did the first 2 years I had the band. And I still only lost a fraction of my excess weight, roughly the same as with any other means I tried. I believe I actually wasn't getting enough to eat. I didn't experience anything with the band like I was told I would. I never felt full, I never had restriction….. Nomatter what I ingested, no matter how thoroughy I chewed, no matter how closely I followed the rules my surgeon layer out, everything just got stuck (painful!), even liquids! Adjustments up and down had no effect. I just learned to eat around the "stuckage" – well, I mean, I was HUNGRY! And constantly dehydrated…….most of my minimal weight loss was due to dehydration.
No, the easy way out I refer to is that it's easier to undergo WLS than it is to keep dieting and failing or, God forbid, actually trying to live a happy life as a fat person in a society that values looks based on unrealistic and largely unattainable standards (thank you Photoshop and retouching for narrowing margins that were already too 'slim' to begin with…..play on words intended).
However, all of this falls on deaf ears, because some people will not be educated despite a persons best efforts, because they are only willing to understand what agrees with their preconceived notions. You can only educate someone who wants to learn.


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Dumas and the CountNovember 21,2012The senior Alexandre Dumas was a very prolific writer, particularly of historical novels, which sometimes ran to several volumes. He wrote in the days before there were typewriters, and sometimes hired hacks to write the background text for his works. But when he wanted to concentrate on personalities, he had a keen ear for dialogue and human nature.
The Count of Monte Cristo is a Gothic tale of unjust imprisonment, fabulous wealth and implacable revenge. One section is about a breakfast in Paris, given by a viscount, Albert de Morcerf, for the count. He met the count in Rome and invited him to the breakfast at 10:30 on a certain date. He had invited various friends to participate and the dialogue perfectly reflects the banter and gossip of upper-class Parisians of the time.
The background international event has to do with a pretender to the Spanish throne, Don Carlos, who the French have taken into protective custody on the Spanish border. The first guest to arrive at Morcerfs apartment for breakfast is Lucien Debray, secretary to the minister of the interior. Morcerf says:
Your punctuality really alarms me. You, whom I expected last, arrive at five minutes to 10, when the time fixed was half-past. Has the ministry resigned?
No, my dear fellow returned the young man, seating himself on the divan. Reassure yourself. We are tottering always, but we never fall....
Morcerf says: I see you have a blue ribbon at your buttonhole.
Yes, they sent me the order of Charles III, returned Debray carelessly.
Come, do not affect indifference, but confess you were pleased to have it.
Oh, it is very well as a finish to the toilet. It looks very neat on a black coat buttoned up ... It is for that reason you see me so early.
Because you have the order of Charles III and wish to announce the good news to me?
No, because I passed the night writing letters, 25 dispatches. I got up and went for a ride. In the Bois de Boulonge boredom and hunger attacked me at once. I then recollected you gave a breakfast this morning, and here I am. I am hungry, feed me. I am bored, amuse me.
After a little more conversation comes the arrival of Beauchamp a newspaper editor, But Debray says contemptuously that he never reads the papers.
Come in, come in, said Albert rising and advancing to meet the young man. Here is Debray, who detests you without reading you.
He is quite right, returned Beauchamp, for I criticize him without knowing what he does. Good-day, commander.
Ah, you know about that already, said the private secretary, smiling and shaking hands with him.
Soon there arrive a young aristocrat, Chateau-Renaud, and a soldier, Maximilian Morrel. After more chit-chat, Debray is impatient for breakfast, and says, Come, my dear Albert, confess that your cook is behindhand, that the oysters have not arrived from Ostend ... say so at once, and we are sufficiently well-bred to excuse you.
Morcerf explains how the Count of Monte Cristo rescued him from bandits outside Rome. His friends listen, half doubting, and just as 10:30 strikes the valet announces the count. The story continues:
The count advanced, smiling, into the center of the room and approached Albert, who hastened toward him holding out his hand in a ceremonial manner. Punctuality said Monte Cristo, is the politeness of kings, according to one of your sovereigns, I think. But it is not the same with travelers. However I hope you will excuse the two or three seconds I am behindhand. Five hundred leagues are not to be accomplished without some trouble, and especially in France where, it seems, it is forbidden to beat the postilions.
The count makes quite an impression on the group of young men, as blase as they profess to be, and the plot thickens as the story continues, but the conversations listed here illustrate what an acute ear Dumas possessed for the interchange of thoughts among upper-class Parisians of his day.
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Prem Rawat attained brief public notoriety and ridicule as the "Guru Maharaj Ji", the teenage fat boy guru whose apparent skyrocketing following in the early 1970's had journalists in the "West", especially the USA and Great Britain, astonished and eager to write about his Divine Light Mission. This period ended with the failure of the "most important spiritual event in human history", Millenium '73. The debts left by this failure and his personal extravagance nearly bankrupted the organisation.
For another few years stories about Rawat became more derisory as knowledge of his bleeding ulcer, his materialistic and extravagant life style, his claims to Divinity and the worship of his followers became common. His marriage to a much older and taller devotee in 1974 was followed by his own mother disowning and disinheriting him in 1975 for his meat-eating, drug abuse and general "playboy" lifestyle. Since the early 1980's, he has continued to minister to his core of devotees in self-imposed obscurity until this century when he has attempted to become known as an internationally respected teacher of peace and renowned philanthropist through the use of phony public relations publicity.
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Prem Rawat was born on December 10, 1957. His father's self-proclaimed title was Shri Hans Ji Maharaj. Prem Rawat claims he was a descendant of Indian Royalty, and Hans also claimed to be the living incarnation of God of his time from whom Prem inherited his position. The process of Prem's incarnation, as he described it often, began on July 19th, 1966 when his father left his body in samadhi (died) and ended on August 1st to the ecstatic recognition of him as the new Perfect Master by thousands of his father's followers in the party of the century.
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He never responded, and immediately opened a case. I escalate it to eBay, and they rule in my favor. After all, he opened the case in an attempt to say that I misrepresented the size, which he never claimed when he originally messaged me.
Yesterday, he ended up leaving a negative feedback, changing his story for the third time. In the feedback he said that the item "was not first quality and bad customer service," or something like that. The person can barely speak English — which probably explains how he missed the three reminders in my auction to check the measurements.
I called eBay, they reviewed the messages between us and the lady says that she can clearly see that the person was lying about the quality issue, because his original claim was that it didn't fit, and his first change of story was when he opened the case and claimed that I misrepresented the item. The lady from eBay goes on and on about how I'm right and he's wrong and how she also runs an eBay business so she understands, but basically says there's nothing they can do. And of course, I can't leave him negative feedback, so there's nothing to warn future sellers about this buyer's dishonesty. Is there anything I can do about it? — K. Green
Dear Green: I would contact eBay again, and ask to speak with a supervisor. I would explain to them that you did not sell him seconds, but first quality stuff, and everyone at eBay should be able to tell by reading the feedback left, communication and the eBay case that this buyer is lying. Explain that it is easy for them to see who is right, but the buyers will think you sell seconds. I really don't believe you can get them to change the feedback, but it never hurts to try. I would also try a couple of other things:
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I know that you don't want to accept the return, but that might be the only way to get your negative removed.
The buyer then sent a series of messages requesting my address to send the suit back to me, even though I would not issue a refund. As this makes no sense, I denied this request as well.
Buyer then posted negative feedback for me this morning, first time in nine years of selling I ever received negative feedback. This seems totally ridiculous to me for a $160 sale. I guess I should have just given them a refund, but I just couldn't do it on principle. Someone has to take a stand from time to time.
So what recourse do I have? I reported the buyer twice, I messaged the guy to ask for a revision in feedback, even opened the door for an eventual refund. I got a bit angry and decided I should leave negative feedback for the buyer, but eBay only allows positive feedback for buyers. What's that about? Only sellers deserve negative feedback? What about when buyers are illiterate, morons and cheats? I'm not even a volume seller — maybe five to 10 sales a year.
If anyone else has experienced this, does eBay ever remove negative feedback? Not that it matters much I guess, since this absurd experience has soured me on eBay selling for the foreseeable future (even more so than their fees, which should have stopped me from selling in the first place ... what robbery to send you a bill once a month for 10 percent of your sales). Can you help me? —— Simmering Swimmer
Dear Simmering: Buyers have up to 60 days after the date of the sale to leave feedback. In this particular situation, there is not much else you can do. I have heard of sellers taking buyers to small claims court to have negatives removed, and if you are willing to spend the money you could do that, otherwise it drops off after a year.
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Apart from the Healtcare this will be another high light of Obama in his term as President/
Posted in: Obama immigration plan good, not great for economy
There is already direct communication line between Japan and China in case you do not know.
Posted in: China pledges more dialogue on regional conflicts
" But there were question about whether any of the sounds were the breakthrough that searchers are desperately seeking or just another dead in a hunt seemingly full of them with experts expressing doubt that the equipment aboard the Chinese ship was capable of picking up signals from the black box,"
Nick Perry are we talking about cooperation among nations to have this unfortunate accident solve or you are trying to make political mileage out of this.
"But the paper on Friday added that Japan would try to improve the thorny relations with ChinaAsia's two biggest economies, sure responsibility in Asia and beyond."
Yep sound like this must be the new policy to do the job
Posted in: China, S Korea lash out at Japan foreign relations report
@ Heart Let Gomia
No Heart Let Gomia in the Philippines they were not escorted by warship but barbarically shot them.
Posted in: Japan coast guard arrests Chinese coral fishing boat captain
@ OssanAmerica Nov. 03 2013
"Please name the strategic Alliance between the Russia Federation and PRC and when it went into effect"
Having best relation does not mean that they need to enter into a strategic Alliance. Sound like you could not differentiate between the terms best of relation and Strategic Alliance.
US, please don't further increased your military presence in this Asian region any more, we and my future generation would really want to live in peace
Posted in: U.S. looks to Asian nations to build their militaries
There seem to be some fallacies and assumption in this reported article. Economic growth had slow, capital expenditure had been cut back. Even if consumers spending increased before the increase in the sale tax this is only a one off even,t then what happen next.
If domestic demand is weak,economic growth is also weak, individual investors are cutting back investment, capital expenditure cut and the coming increased in sale tax will add more stress to price hike and is it real that industries will hire more people with higher wage. This does not sound like a likely scenario.
Something is loss in translation.
Posted in: Japan growth seen slowing in third quarter
Sound like this diabetes drug under research has great potential. The main research seems to center on obese people with diabetes, I wonder whether what will this do to slim people that also have diabetes given that this potential drug could result in weight loss.
Posted in: Researchers move step closer to oral diabetes treatment
highball7 and Tigerta9. There is nothing to be sad about the Brits not get a go at the deal, It's a matter of which bidder offers the best deal, price and completion time. 16 Billion pound is not a small sum for any British company and EDF undertook it at their risk.
Posted in: Britain to build Europe's first nuclear plant since Fukushima disaster
Yes BertieWooster I like the Gold Standard, they should bring it back.
Japan and China are US perpetual lender, unlike your fixed term deposits in the bank which you can withdraw on maturity.
Posted in: As U.S. averts default, Japan and China brace for next dollar drama
It seems that TEPCO is forever battling to contain the radioactive water at the nuclear complex, Its pumps are battling to keep up with the rainwater and they are battling to come up with a solution, won't be long they will be battling to survive as a going concern.
Posted in: Radioactive water overflows barriers at Fukushima plant during heavy rain
Under the Japan-China Peace and Friendship Treaty the Island issue was to be resolved by future generation with an open mind.
Posted in: Abe open to talks with China but no concessions on Senkakus
Bertie. Well said
lostrune2, Generic and financial sectors are the one that benefited the US greatly, Bertie is correct.
Posted in: Japan's trade deficit swells 25% in August
This is a heroic human instinct that know no boundary between races. Island dispute should not be dragged in in such circumstance for point scoring.
Posted in: Chinese exchange student rescues 9-year-old boy from fast-moving river
A good initial positive outcome from this meeting and negotiation. Now it's time for both sides to keep their hashed rhetoric to themselves. Further threats and counter threats will do no good to further conclude a positive outcome.
Posted in: U.S., Russia agree on Syria weapons; Obama says force still option
@ JoeBigs How does these two statements tied up 1.0 South Korea running a trade surplus with PRC. 2.0 South Korea has been a tributary state of the PRC ( For your informationl South Korea has not been a tributary state of PRC?). Do you think you can write factual comments?
Posted in: New Komeito leader urges greater efforts to build trust with Japan's neighbors
@ LSpiro
This dispute issue has its origin at the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco which China was not invited to, Understandably US is the party that sow the seed of discontent between China and Japan. May be its time US come clean to have this uncertainty resolved instead of issuing insinuated conflicting comments on the ownership of the disputed Islands.
Posted in: China military tells U.S. not to encourage Japan over isles
BertieWooster "When Abe was asked whether the situation was under control, he was either misinformed or lying"
Misinformed, highly unlikely
Posted in: TEPCO exec tells DPJ Fukushima plant not under control
Why so eager to bomb another country? Is war and bombing the only answer?
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I think that that the link should open the unsubscription web page in my browser where I must confirm my unsubscription. (I could have clicked the link by mistake so it's nice to provide a confirmation button) When I confirm my unsubscription all I want is just a message that says whether or not I successfully got unsubscribed. What I see in a lot of newsletter-systems that you unsubscribe from is that you get a unsubscription success email. Yes, another email you don't want. I wanted to opt out from the newsletter subscription because I didn't want to get any more emails.
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The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office on Tuesday proposed three options to make the school busing funding formula more equitable and rational than the program under the new education funding system effective last July.
To adopt any of the report's three options would be a "notable improvement," in funding for home-to-school transportation, said Kenneth Kapphahn, a fiscal and policy analyst for the LAO and author of the report, which was requested by the legislature after it acknowledged that the current $491 million transportation program under the state's new Local Control Funding Formula needed reform.
He added that a new option would "help the Legislature further its goal of building a school funding system that is simple, transparent and rational."
Currently, all school districts annually receive the same amount of transportation funding they received in 2012-2013, which is actually based on the transportation funding they received in the early 1980s.
"We have indicated that this is a very irrational and outdated approach, and suggest the Legislature get started on an alternative this year," Kapphahn told STN.
The three options are:
- Phase out funding for the current program during the next several years and allow school districts to decide how much to spend on busing from money received under the Local Control Funding Formula. This mechanism overhauled the previous education funding system that hadn't been changed since the 1980s.
- Create a threshold for reimbursement and pay most of the costs above that level, easing the burden of districts facing disproportionate busing expenses
- Create a new formula that would reimburse all districts for a portion of their transportation costs.
Click here for an executive summary of the report and three proposals.
Kapphahn noted that the state Assembly Budget Committee is scheduled to review the issue on March 4, with the Senate Budget Committee set to hear about this on March 20. He added that currently there is no specific timeline for adopting a new funding approach.
Gov. Jerry Brown and the legislature eliminated nearly all "categorical" programs and folded the funding for them into the Local Control Funding Formula, which ties school funding to student demographics by providing extra money for disadvantaged students. It increases base grants for grades K-3 and 9-12, while schools with students who are low-income, English learners or foster youth would receive additional grants.
Under the new formula, Brown and the legislature left state subsidies for transportation alone, but they didn't address the inequities of the formula, so the legislature asked the LAO to recommend a solution.
Kapphahn said when legislatures conclude their hearings, they may choose to pursue one of the options presented in the report or postpone a decision pending more information.
"For all three options, there would be some additional work required to implement the option and work through various transition issues," he noted, adding that full implementation of an alternative could take a few years.


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"It is really to increase awareness about the cancer and the organization," said Teresa Warren, a member of Chattanooga's Pancreatic Cancer Action Network organization.
According to Warren, more than 700 participants came out for last year's 5K. Some 900 participants are expected to turn out for Saturday's run. This will be the fourth annual PurpleStride event.
Individuals who wish to participate in the race may do so by registering in person on Saturday. Registration will be $35 for a timed adult and $30 for untimed adults. Youth who wish to be a part of the one-mile fun run can register for $10 on Saturday. All survivors and volunteers are free.
"We have outgrown Coolidge [Park]. There are too many people showing up to do that," Warren said. "We have a company that comes out who helps guide us through the route. We want this to be great for avid runners and people who are doing this for fun."
Warren said there are teams for the event, as well. She and her family put together one each year in her husband's honor and memory.
"This cancer is the fourth-leading cancer killer. It is predicted to be the second cancer killer by 2020, possibly even 2015," Warren said. "It has a 6 percent five-year survival rate. We know 74 percent of people diagnosed will die the first year."
The 5K is geared toward both serious runners and families. According to Warren, there will be music, children's activities, refreshments, and information on the cancer. Participants are expected to come from as close as Cleveland and as far away as Alabama.
Registration will open at 8 a.m and the opening ceremony will take place at 9 a.m. Events will begin with the 5K at 9:30 a.m., followed by the one-mile fun-run at 9:45 p.m. More information on the 5K can be found at www.purplestride.org/chattanooga.


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> My normal homemade applesauce recipe calls for Rome apples and
> cinnamon. Unfortunately, Romes aren't common here in Washington. I
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Lexus shows off LS reveal video, reminds us how strange debut events can be
Posted Aug 1st 2012 12:30PM
Lexus has revealed more of the 2013 LS through a video 'news broadcast' of its unveiling ceremony. Through the party footage, we are able to seem more angles of the Japanese automaker's spindle-grilled flagship, which shares quite a lot visually with the slightly smaller GS. The Lexus shindig also has its own on-air correspondent, Jeff Krapf, to guide video watchers through the San Francisco event. Prior to the debut, Krapf recorded a canned interview with Lexus Global Marketing Chief, Mark Templin, which is here,too.
Things get weird (at least for a vehicle debut) when Lexus brings in designer power couple Simon Doonan and Jonathan Adler to direct an art exhibit, highlighted by photographers displaying photos of what they feel 'attraction' is.
Perhaps more interesting is a second trailer-like video that has Lexus reflecting on the history of the LS range, including the model's many range of industry firsts.
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Following emerged from discussions today between Pritchett, Wilson and Cawsey, Ambassador Schippenkoetter [sic]1 and Ramisch2 of German delegation and von Herschenberg3 of South Africa. Ramisch made following points to Wilson.
1. Germany is particularly concerned about the interpretation of 'manufacture' in Articles I and II because the USSR has already made statements as to what Germany should not be allowed to do in the nuclear field. Since the USSR is already training scientists from nonnuclear countries for service as IAEA inspectors, Germany is concerned that the agency might give undue emphasis to USSR views.
2. References in the debate to 'non-proliferation of nuclear weapons technology' have provided opportunities for the undermining of the more precise interpretation agreed between the NATO countries. Accordingly, every opportunity should be taken to establish the most liberal interpretation possible.
3. Japan, Italy and Germany have all registered with the United States their concern that the treaty should not inhibit any activities in the enrichment area. In view of the number of countries interested in retaining full freedom in enrichment activities it is unlikely that any restrictive interpretation could be sustained if the treaty was to attract support.
4. Germany has been cooperating with Holland on centrifuge development. Both countries intend taking the position that the treaty does not impose any legal obligation on them not to transfer information on centrifuge development. They propose to evaluate the transfer of information to other parties on the basis of their own political judgements and economic interests. Ramisch stated that Japan had refused to yield to United States pressures to classify its centrifuge work on the grounds that its constitution did not give it the power to do so.
5. The Germans are concerned that technological developments might pose new problems in the interpretation of what is prohibited by the treaty. Ramisch said that the Japanese have pointed out to the United States their concern that the treaty should not prevent them engaging in controlled fusion development work involving high shock pressures. They had made the point that one projected controlled fusion process could involve pulsing shock pressures equivalent to those associated with the explosion of a multi-kiloton nuclear explosion.
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6. Ramisch agreed that the treaty leaves open the possibility that safeguards might be required on mining activities. He said that Germany had questioned the wisdom of coupling source and special fissionable materials throughout the treaty because in its opinion different types of safeguards are required for source and special fissionable materials. Source materials should be subject to statistical-type safeguards only (e.g. total production figures) whereas special fissionable materials required the detailed inventory control currently envisaged. The United States had not been responsive to the proposal and the Germans had not pressed it, judging it marginal to their specific interests.
7. Ramisch contradicted an assertion by Ambassador Schippenkoetter that worries on industrial espionage were now a dead issue. He said that German industry considered that industrial espionage remained a major concern in the fuel fabrication and fuel processing areas. He supported this statement by arguments based on the long-term economic significance of marginal adjustments to fuel parameters. He maintained that some United States fuel fabricators and processors shared the German concern.
8. Ramisch expressed the view that in the longer term IAEA safeguards would prove inadequate for the purposes of the treaty. The diversion of 1 percent to 2 percent (i.e. the current uncertainty level of the agency safeguards system) of the predicted 1980 plutonium production would allow the manufacture of several hundred weapons. This made the development of black box inspection methods a matter of urgency. (Ramisch's argument appears to ignore the fact that most of the plutonium would be unsuitable for weapons.)
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9. Ramisch said that Germany has not yet decided the position it will take on the treaty. It has made a close study of the capacity of all states to achieve weapons production within the next 12 months and has decided that it is unlikely that any will do so. With non-proliferation an issue of international debate it believes that over the next 12 months to 2 years no country would risk inviting Security Council attention by going 'nuclear'. Under these circumstances it argues that the interests of non-proliferation would be best served by using the next 6 months to hammer out a treaty which better meets the concerns of all likely signatories.
10. Schippenkoetter, whom Scoville when in Canberra, described as a 'Strauss man'4 and determined opponent of the treaty, urged the critical importance of clearly establishing in advance the precise meaning and implication of all indefinite wordings on the treaty, which was a political compromise and necessarily vague.
11. In particular Australia should take every opportunity publicly to state the interpretation it sought for 'manufacture', should insist on knowing before ratification exactly what was to be the safeguards agreement and should resist any suggestion that later IAEA amendments should automatically be incorporated in the safeguards agreement. The IAEA was not a 'police state' and there was no reason why countries had to do what it said.
12. Schippenkoetter said the German view of 'manufacture' would allow any nuclear work short of actual assembly of a weapon or explosive device.
13. Regarding duration, he said concern about this article had been allayed by the new provisions for 5-year reviews, though review conferences should be automatic and should be empowered to more than simply 'review'.
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14. Von Herschenberg, a senior diplomat with IAEA experience, said the South African delegation was still without instructions. They were concerned about the detailed meaning and interpretation of the treaty and considered the debate so far 'airy-fairy'. However, it was quite uncertain whether the South Africans would interfere in any substantial and detailed way. Their main anxieties related, von Herschenberg said, to the interpretation of 'manufacture'(he had not studied the Netherlands comment) and to the position of mining and commerce in relation to safeguards. They had no intention of accepting the safeguards agreement until they knew what would be in it, but had not taken a position yet on subsequent amendments. Von Herschenberg displayed sensitivity to African attitudes and intimated that these would be important in shaping South Africa's position.
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Ro Ransom – Even The Devil May Cry
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Ro Ransom, the hiphop Artist formerly known as NERO, has a sick new track. I hate to say this, cause Donald Glover is fresh, but Ro sounds like a better version of thee Childish Gambino. Again, we will be seeing a lot more of this dude in the future…..
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Check out the video for Cyan by Adam Bainbridge of Kindness, an atmospheric and airy track produced by the infamous Phillipe Zdar of Cassius. The album was released March of 2012. We've taken a listen and interestingly it has a very '80s Tears for Fears feel to it.
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Since 1988, EPA has required manufacturers of wood stoves to certify that each model line of wood stoves offered for sale in the United States comply with the EPA particulate emissions guidelines in the Clean Air Act. As part of the certification process, each wood stove model line is required to undergo emissions testing in accordance with EPA Reference Method 28 and sampling methods 5G or 5H by an EPA-accredited laboratory. Only after successfully passing these tests can a wood stove be offered for sale in the United States.
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One of the most important weeks of the season for the Philadelphia Flyers has not gone too well. After losing in New York to the Rangers on Tuesday and blowing a lead at home against the Penguins on Thursday, the Flyers headed to Boston to take on the Bruins.
Both teams were off to slow starts when the puck dropped at TD Bank Garden to start the first. A shot was not fired on net by either team until about six or seven minutes in. The Flyers went to the power play early in the game thanks to a trip by David Krejci, but were shut down by the best penalty killers in the league.
About eleven minutes into the first, Kimmo Timonen was the next one to sit for two. When Andrej Meszaros, who returned to the lineup today, failed to clear the puck, Tyler Seguin scored his eighth of the year on a feed from Lucic.
In less than two minutes after that, Chris Kelly extended the Bruins' lead to two, and a minute after that, Daniel Paille made the Flyers' deficit 3-0 thanks to a turnover by Sean Couturier. In a span of just three or four minutes, the Boston Bruins went off, scoring three goals. To say the least, a very bad period for the Flyers.
After a hectic first period in which three of six Bruins' shots found the back of the net, a very quiet second period followed.
Eleven minutes into the second, Zac Rinaldo laid a huge hit on Johnny Boychuk in the corner. In response to this, he dropped the gloves with a tough customer in Shawn Thornton, and Rinaldo was taken to the ground.
The Flyers found themselves in a hole, still trailing 3-0, but now heading into the final period.
In the third period, the hot Flyers power play had two chances to go to work. However, Jakub Voracek finding the post was the closest they came to scoring. The score would not change after the 6:29 mark of the first period, as the Boston Bruins hung on to win by a final score of 3-0.
Ultimately, this game was over and done with in the first period. In the span of about 4 minutes, the Boston Bruins scored three goals which would be unanswered. With this win, the Bruins take over the first spot in the East, while the Flyers drop their third straight game.
The Philadelphia Flyers' power play had four opportunities to put one by Rask. However, the Bruins, who coming into this game were effective 91.9% of the time on the penalty kill, shut them down. Rask hung on for his second shutout of the season.
The Flyers will now head home to take on the Buffalo Sabres tomorrow night, hoping to put an end to a three-game losing streak.
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For most observers, Leon Wieseltier's latest attack on me as an anti-Semite, without even the candor to say so (since that would contradict his previous categorical refutation of the idea), may seem somewhat over the top. And, as many have already noted, there is a long history here, which it is unseemly to disinter and tedious to recount.
But I do want to note that it is a history of deep love and friendship and mentorship, for which I shall always be deeply grateful, as well as of eventually profound animosity. The day I sero-converted to HIV, a fact I couldn't tell anyone (even my mother who was hospitalized with severe depression at the time), he took me into his home and cared for me like a brother. He is a man capable of immense kindness, of brilliant humor, and is probably the funniest single person I have ever come across. I also deeply respect his quite remarkable legacy as editor of the literary section of the New Republic which I was honored to edit for a while under his guidance. In the good old days, I took him to gay bars (he has not a shred of homophobia); as a Jew and a Catholic, we read Buddhist scriptures together. We were, in fact, somewhat painfully alike in many ways: religious traditionalists whose reverence for our faiths was also marked by our rebellion within them. We share a commitment to secularism and religion, these days a very rare combination. His mentor was Isaiah Berlin; mine Michael Oakeshott. Their differences are fascinating but minor - and they too, sadly, came to despise each other.
Although the collapse of our friendship was among the most hurtful of my life, and for which I take my own share of responsibility, I remain an admirer of his intellect. I have tried to move on, and although I have occasionally thrown a tease about his sometimes impenetrable prose, or got him to make a factual correction, I also posted this quite recently of a review he wrote for the NYTBR:
This is a very pithy summary of a view of politics and religion that I share and that Leon helped me appreciate and understand. The quote is an hors d'oeuvre before the main course, however, which is this essay: clear, stringent, restrained where necessary, vicious when warranted ... and, well, humane. It's an important essay because within it, there pulsates a whole slew of vital issues where some level of contradiction and tension is far more defensible than their opposites: being a Jew and an American, being a conservative who can see the role of liberalism in the West (and vice-versa), and being a secular citizen with profound respect for and engagement with religious truth.
I think it's the best thing Wieseltier has written in memory - and reminds me of what an immense and powerful talent he remains.
People have referred to this contretemps as the continuation of a tit for tat. More tit than tat, I'd say. But his newest charge deserves treatment beyond this personal history, because it is a very grave one.
His accusation of anti-Semitism is wounding because from my teenage years, the Holocaust has remained in my mind and soul as a defining event in human history, and, as a Catholic, I have struggled mightily to hold my own faith fully accountable for its historical contribution to it. I have also an extremely long record of calling out genuine anti-Semitism on this blog - not as a way to score points against my critics, or to police the domestic discourse - but because I think it is an eternal toxin for which my own Church bears a huge amount of responsibility and which needs to be confronted wherever it appears. I despise the Iranian regime in part for its murderous and disgusting anti-Semitism, as I do Hamas and Hezbollah. Maybe other non-Jewish writers have a stronger or deeper record of this than I, but I did my best. It is demeaning to point to the many instances, as if I were in a dock and presumed guilty before having to prove myself innocent. But the record is plainly there (just search this blog or google it); it is voluminous; it is deep; and it is quite patently sincere.
There is also some irony here since my political position on Israel remains, so far as I can tell, extremely close to Leon's. I favor a two-state solution along the 1967 lines (give or take a few adjustments to reality on the ground), a partition of Jerusalem, and guarantees for both Israel's security and that of the Palestinians, whose suffering and constant humiliation is indisputable. I cannot see a full right of return being viable, and I would like to save the idea of a specifically Jewish state from demographic suicide, and because I see the Jewish faith as the foundation of my own and my Jewish friends as more than just my friends, but part of a spiritual brotherhood.
Even on the Gaza war, which was, for me, a turning point in my view of the Israel that is emerging with ever more danger to itself and the entire world, Leon and I have very similar positions, so far as I can tell. He has a long record of calling out the racist religious right in Israel, although much less so now than in the past. Again, I posted on this blog his very elegant description of the situation a year ago:
"I have a sickened feeling about the recent campaign in Gaza. No sovereign state can accept regular aggressions across its border, but Operation Cast Lead seems to have accomplished nothing. Hamas is again firing its rockets, Israel is again retaliating against them, and Israeli politicians are again making virile promises to finish the job. The suffering of the people of Gaza during the war was partly the responsibility of their own astoundingly callous leaders, but not entirely. Israel's choice of tactics and strategies was its own; and when it chose blunt instruments, it guaranteed harsh consequences."
Now Leon used those words weeks after the onslaught, and I am a blogger writing in real time, reacting to the horrifying scenes of suffering, of the heads of children buried in rubble. Whatever the context, watching largely defenseless, densely packed urban areas being pummeled with missiles is traumatizing. I don't see how a human being can watch it and not feel for those innocents trapped in terror below. I have Irish blood and a Catholic conscience. Seeing this happen in real time was as vivid for me as it was watching the people of Iran last June. There will be times in which the emotion of the moment overwhelms me. Leon despises blogging, but I see its merits as long as it is seen in proper context as provisional truth, not considered analysis. Read my Sunday Times columns or Atlantic essays to see the difference. So maybe my reaction was over-wrought. But it was certainly not over-wrought because of some kind of anti-Semitism. To be honest, I was also shocked. This was not the Israel I thought I knew.


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The Walt Disney Company Completes Lucasfilm Acquisition
Continuing its strategy of delivering exceptional creative content to audiences around the world, Robert A. Iger, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) announced today that Disney has completed its acquisition of Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC.
"We're thrilled to welcome Lucasfilm to the Disney family," said Iger. "Star Wars is one of the greatest family entertainment franchises of all time and this transaction combines that world class content with Disney's unique and unparalleled creativity across multiple platforms, businesses, and markets, which we believe will generate growth as well as significant long-term value."
Under the terms of the merger agreement, at closing Disney issued 37,076,679 shares and made a cash payment of $2,208,199,950. Based upon the closing price of Disney shares on December 21, 2012 at $50.00, the transaction has a total value of approximately $4.06 billion.
Lucasfilm's assets include its massively popular Star Wars franchise, operating businesses in live action film production, consumer products, animation, visual effects, and audio post production, as well as a substantial portfolio of cutting-edge entertainment technologies. It operates under the names Lucasfilm Ltd. LLC, LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic, and Skywalker Sound.Forward-Looking Statements: Certain statements in this press release may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements relate to the expected benefits of the integration of Disney and Lucasfilm; the combined company's plans, objectives, expectations and intentions and other matters that are not historical fact. These statements are made on the basis of the current beliefs, expectations and assumptions of the management of Disney regarding future events and are subject to significant risks and uncertainty. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. Disney does not undertake any obligation to update or revise these statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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Service sector activity contracted in March, according to the latest survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Retail sales fell, though by somewhat less than in February, while revenues at service-providing firms contracted a bit further. Big-ticket sales sagged again March, although less deeply than a month ago. Weakness in shopper traffic also subsided. Retailers reduced inventories in March, nearly equaling last month's decrease. Looking ahead six months, survey respondents were less pessimistic this month than in February about expected demand for goods and services.
In service sector labor markets, the number of employees shrank, although retail cuts were less pervasive than a month ago. Average retail wages declined by less in March than in February, but average wages fell more broadly at service-providing firms.
Price growth inched up across the overall service sector in March. For the six months ahead, survey respondents looked for price growth to strengthen at services firms and to soften at retail establishments, compared to their predictions in February.
Conditions in the broad service sector remained weak in March. Revenues contracted, keeping the index at −28, while employment reductions picked up with that index settling five points lower, at −31 this month. Average wages fell, with that index matching February's −6. However, survey respondents were less bleak about demand for their goods and services in the months ahead — the expectations index rose five points in March to −5.
Retail sales continued to fall in March, although the decline eased somewhat from a month ago, as the collapse in big-ticket sales abated. The index for sales revenues gained six points to finish at −26, and the big-ticket indicator strengthened to −50 in March from −68. Shopper traffic also fell by less, with that index adding 22 points to end at −13.
Retailers continued to cut inventories; at −26, the index nearly matched February's reading of −29. Retailers' expectations for the coming six months were brighter than last month. The expectations index climbed 19 points in March, to 11.
On the labor front, retail employment cuts slowed this month, bringing the index for the number of employees to −24 from −34. Average retail wage growth also slowed its descent, with that index settling at −6 in March compared to February's −16.
Revenues dropped at services-providing firms in March. The index slipped to −29, just below February's reading of −27. In addition, employment cuts deepened at services firms, dragging that index to −32 in March from −23. Average wages contracted, with that indicator losing six points to end at −8. Despite reporting weaker conditions in the current month, respondents were less grim about their business opportunities for the six months ahead than they were in February. The expectations index rose five points to −8 in March.
Price growth in the service sector ticked up to an annual rate of 0.72 percent in March, following February's annual rate of 0.53 percent. Separately, retail price growth slowed to 1.26 percent compared to 1.33 percent a month ago. Price growth at services firms rose to 0.52 percent, compared to 0.11 in February.
Going forward, survey respondents expected annualized price growth of 1.06 percent, compared to their outlook for 0.75 percent a month ago. Retail merchants looked for prices to increase at a 1.47 percent pace; in February, they expected 1.78 percent price growth. Survey respondents at service-providing firms anticipated price growth of 0.95 percent, compared to their expectation in February for 0.16 percent.
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