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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO assessed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) strategic plan for compliance with the Government Performance and Results Act.
GAO noted that: (1) CFTC's strategic plan contained all of the major components required by the Results Act; (2) there are several areas in which CFTC could improve its plan; (3) the plan defines goals and objectives that supported CFTC's mission, but most of these could benefit by being restated in a way that would facilitate future assessment; (4) the plan identifies activities for achieving CFTC's goals and objectives, but could be more informative by including the resources needed for the activities, schedules for completing key actions, and ways for assigning accountability to managers and staff; (5) the plan's discussion of the relationship between goals in the annual and strategic plans could be strengthened by including more results-oriented performance measures that could be used to reflect progress made toward achieving its goals; (6) the plan identifies some key external factors that could affect the agency's ability to achieve its goals, but the plan could be improved by describing how such factors are linked to particular goals and how a particular goal can be affected by a specific factor; (7) the plan indicates that CFTC will use its existing processes to evaluate its programs, but the plan could be expanded to include information on the timing and scope of future evaluations; (8) the draft plan was made available to stakeholders late in the process and reflects limited consultation with stakeholders during plan development; (9) the plan does not discuss how CFTC will incorporate stakeholders' views in the development of future plans, and (10) although developing performance measures and measuring program impacts present challenges to CFTC and to other regulatory agencies in addressing the requirements of the Results Act, it is important that CFTC and these agencies continue their efforts toward that end.
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Brains are pretty damn awesome, no matter how you look at them. That's not an invitation for you to start literally bashing people's skulls in and looking at their brains…what's wrong with you?!
Your brain is nothing short of amazing. I use "you" in the general sense, by the way. Yours specifically may be all kinds of horrific things. After all, you were just thinking of cracking people's skulls open earlier, so that tells you something.
But I digress. It turns out that scientists, as we speak, are hard at work finding ways to make science fiction a reality. And they're looking into brains, too. Without further ado, head on over to Listverse.com and read my article on the subject:
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With a rapidly evolving workforce reliant on more freelancers, globally dispersed teams and increasing generational and cultural diversity, today's businesses, government organizations and associations require more effective tools for collaboration, productivity and mobility. As a sponsor of Telework Week March 4-8, Citrix is encouraging businesses to take action and try some of the new ways that people are getting work done, collaborating across boundaries and being ever more productive.
In an increasingly fluid economy, where mobile technologies are increasingly blending work and personal lives, organizations are facing a number of important trends impacting how we think about and manage work. PriceWaterhouseCoopers reports that by 2020, companies will increase the number of host locations by 50%, so teams are, and will continue to be, ever more dispersed across different places rather than being physically co-located. It's also not uncommon for employees, customers and vendors to never meet in person, and there's a greater expectation for people to remain connected and in touch while on the go.
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While much of the buzz at any Consumer Electronics Show revolves around the sexier kids in school — TVs, computers, cell phones — there is a quiet rumble surrounding the impending release of a horde of "connected appliances," which is a blanket term for fridges, washers, dryers, dishwashers, stoves and ovens that communicate in some way with each other and maybe with the outside world. [More]
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A little bit of pricing news out of CES: LG told Dow Jones Newswires that their 3D TVs will be getting cheaper by 20% this year, as "production costs have been dropping with improved technology." [More]
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Wouldn't it be great to have a developed self confidence like a badass lion?!.. Just thought that sounded pretty cool..
But seriously – that would be awesome and I think that almost everyone in this world can agree that they want more confidence in a specific situation or in general..!
What I will discuss here is not the situational based confidence but rather the self based confidence.
I don't wanna go in depth with the difference but I'll give some quick pointers in order to cross a line between them.
Situational confidence works in a situation – let's say, you went out at night to meet with some friends at a club in your home town. Now when you enter the club you might feel happy depending on whatever state of mind you tend to have towards clubs and at this point you don't feel overly confident but you feel pretty normal… As you go inside the club you realize that all of your friends from town have showed up and suddenly you feel like a the coolest and you have no worries what so ever…! It might seem obvious what happened but a widely acknowledged opinion is that – back when the caveman lived several thousand years ago. The caveman had to make friends to raise his chance for survival and by that contributing to each other. Whereas now a days we don't need to make friends in the same way. But by having them we feel happy and subconsciously think that we have some sort of backup if it gets hot!
Self confidence springs out from a deeper level of the mind whereas situational confidence can be granted and taken away in a minute. Self confidence is something you have to work on consistently over time. It is a part of who you are… Like a part of your personality! You are getting your confidence from your mind and not from external situations that just happened. Its something you have everywhere you go – like your right arm or your glasses (if you use those). Lol – what a metaphor..
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Do you see what is happening…? You are in control of your mind and by practising this to get you out of "bad" trances and keep you in good ones. You will develop self confidence and more awareness of yourself by doing this.
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Purple Strategies, a national strategic communications firm that recently opened an office in Boston, says it polled 1,052 Granite Staters between Jan. 21 and 23 and found Brown and Shaheen tied at 44 percent. The margin of error is 3 percent.
Brown recently moved full time to his home in Rye and has been flirting with a possible Senate run in New Hampshire, but has not yet made any public announcement of his intentions.
Purple Strategies says its sample comprised 43 percent independents 27 percent Democrats and 27 percent Republicans.
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This seat is very comfortable and helps me to see better over the steering wheel when I drive.
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Henry William Brands (born August 7, 1953) is an American educator, author and historian. He has authored 25 books on U.S. history and biography. He is the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and a Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Ph.D. in history in 1985. His works have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.[1][2][3]
Early life and education[edit]
Born in 1953, Brands grew up in Oregon in the Portland metropolitan area. He attended high school at Jesuit, where he was a three sport athlete and national merit scholar. Brands enrolled at Stanford University studying mathematics and history, receiving his undergraduate degree in history in 1975.[4] Following graduation he worked for a year doing sales in his family's cutlery business before returning to Jesuit to teach mathematics. He taught at the high school for the next five years while earning a M.A. in Liberal Studies from Reed College in 1978, followed by a M.S. in Mathematics from Portland State in 1981. During this time he realized that he wanted to write, and determined his love of history might provide an avenue for him to do so.[5] He enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin to study under historian Robert A Divine. He wrote his dissertation on the Eisenhower administration and its foreign policy during the Cold War, earning his Ph.D. in History in 1985.[6]
Brands worked as an oral historian at the University of Texas School of Law for a year, then taught at Vanderbilt University in 1986-87. In 1987 he took a position at Texas A&M University where he taught for seventeen years. In 2005 he joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is the Dickson Allen Anderson Centennial Professor of History and Professor of Government, and holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History.
Brands is an animated lecturer who presents history through stories. Brands initially intended to write a history of the United States in six volumes, but he could generate no interest in a publisher for such an endeavor. He chose to come at the issue from the perspective of biographies, a genre for which a broad interest was well established. His biographical works are really 'life and times' stories with the emphasis on the times. Researching an historical period he looks for characters by which to tell the story of the time, creating through them a voice the readers can identify with.[7] Personal notes and writings, letters and diary entries are all items of great interest to Brands as they allow the period to come alive.[7] Said Brands: "History is a story... in fact, it is the best story I can think of."[5]
Though the focus in a biography must necessarily be more narrow than a general history of the time would be, principally the subject's life and experience, Brands uses this method with the intention of relating the history of the period in an interesting way. One method used is to describe the overall events transpiring, then cutting back to the personal writings of the individual, thus allowing the reader to place the subject's perception of the world in the broader perspective of the age. Examples of these biographical histories include his biographies on Benjamin Franklin, covering the Colonial Period and the Revolutionary War, Andrew Jackson, covering the War of 1812, Western Expansion and the conflict over the National Bank, Ulysses S. Grant, covering the Sectional Crisis, the Civil War and Reconstruction, Theodore Roosevelt, covering the Industrial Era and the Progressive Movement, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, covering the Great Depression, the New Deal, the Second World War, and the ascension of the U.S. as an international power.[8]
Brands views his writings as an extension of his classroom, where his teaching of history is centered upon creating an interesting narrative. "It is more important to me that my students come out of my class believing 'This story is interesting and I might want to know more about it' than to fill them up with information." Brands holds that whatever information students may learn in a classroom will slip away with time, but creating an interest in history can result in learning that will continue throughout a student's life.[7] "If I can remind them or convince them that history is interesting than I feel I have succeeded, because unlike Chemistry or Physics, History is a subject that anyone can teach themselves... if they are interested."[9] As an author and contributor to school textbooks, he believes this objective is particularly important in these works. Commented Brands: "I happen to think it is absolutely critical to write textbooks that engage the students."[5] One of the textbooks Brands co-authored is titled American Stories: A History of The United States, the title of which supports the view that history is best taught as a narrative.
He takes a progressive view on the founders and the U.S. Constitution, arguing that the founders were at heart radicals who were willing to challenge the status quo in search of a better future. That being so he believes that Americans today should not be constrained by the views of self-government held by the founders. "In revering the founders we undervalue ourselves and sabotage our own efforts to make necessary improvements in the republican experiment they began. Our love of the founders leads us to abandon and even betray the principles they fought for."[10] He believes the framers would not want the Constitution to be interpreted by the idea of original intent, and believes that we are in error when we view the founders in a "deified" way.[5]
Brands believes that Americans place too much importance on the individual in the White House. "We have this very interesting relationship with the presidents where the president is supposed to be one of us, but on the other hand he represents everybody so he is sort of above all of us. We make too much of presidents, but we can hardly help ourselves."[11] Though noting the power of the Office of the President has increased greatly since the opening of the twentieth century, when the United States emerged as a significant world power and U.S. foreign policy became far more important, Brands believes that popular focus on the president is excessive. "We have a cult of the president, where we make too big a deal of the president."[12]
Besides teaching history in his university courses, Brands has written extensively. In addition to his writings on US political history, Brands has works on the economic development of the United States and key leaders in corporate America. His books are known for their readability and narrative thrust.[13] He has authored twenty-four books, co-authored three others with T. H. Breen, and produced numerous articles that have been featured in newspapers and magazines. His writings have received critical and popular acclaim. The First American was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Prize, as well as a New York Times bestseller. The Age of Gold was a Washington Post Best Book of 2002 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. Andrew Jackson was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2005 and a Washington Post bestseller. What America Owes the World was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize in international affairs. The Wages of Globalism was a Choice Outstanding Academic Book winner. Lone Star Nation won the Deolece Parmelee Award. Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was his second finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has appeared in the documentaries The Presidents (2005), 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America (2006), America: The Story of Us (2010) and The Men Who Built America (2012). His writings have been published in several countries and translated into German, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.[6]
- Cold Warriors: Eisenhower's Generation and American Foreign Policy (1988)
- The Specter of Neutralism: The United States and the Emergence of the Third World, 1947-1960 (1989)
- India and the United States: The Cold Peace (1990)
- Inside the Cold War: Loy Henderson and the Rise of the American Empire, 1918-1961 (1991)
- Bound to Empire: The United States and the Philippines (1992), ISBN 0-19-507104-2
- The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War (1993)
- The United States in the World: A History of American Foreign Policy (1994)
- Into the Labyrinth: The United States and the Middle East, 1945-1993 (1994)
- The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (1995), ISBN 0-312-13594-7
- Since Vietnam: The United States in World Affairs, 1973-1995 (1995)
- The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power (1995)
- TR: The Last Romantic (1997), ISBN 0-465-06958-4
- What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (1998)
- Masters of Enterprise: Giants of American Business from John Jacob Astor and J. P. Morgan to Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey (1999)
- The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (2000), ISBN 0-385-49328-2
- The Strange Death of American Liberalism (2001)
- The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (2002)
- Woodrow Wilson (2003), ISBN 0-8050-6955-0
- Lone Star Nation: The Epic Story of the Battle for Texas Independence (2004), ISBN 0-385-50737-2
- Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (2005)
- The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar (2006), ISBN 0-393-06184-1
- Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (2008), ISBN 978-0-385-51958-8
- America Past and Present coauthored textbook; (9th Edition, 2010)
- American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 (2010)
- American Dreams: The United States Since 1945 (2010)
- Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It (2011)
- American Stories: A History of The United States, coauthored textbook (2nd ed. 2011)
- The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield [American Portraits series] (2011)
- The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace (2012)
- The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr [American Portraits series] (2012)
Edited books[edit]
- The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson: Beyond Vietnam (1999)
- The Use of Force after the Cold War (2000)
- Critical Reflections on the Cold War: Linking Rhetoric and History (2000), with Martin J. Medhurst
- The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt (2001)
- ^ "2001 Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
- ^ "2009 Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
Nominated Finalists are selected by the Nominating Juries for each category as finalists in the competition.
- ^ Muscolino, Joe (2013-05-28). "Behind the Books with H.W. Brands, Author of The Man Who Saved the Union". Biographile.
- ^ a b c d C-Span In Depth interview, 3 July, 2005
- ^ a b "H.W. Brands Biography". BookBrowse. 5 July 2011.
- ^ a b c Hollister, Stacy (October 2010). "A Q&A With H. W. Brands". Texas Monthly. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
- ^ H. W. Brands (2012-08-16). "Hauenstein Lecture: The Cost of Greatness". Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies. Retrieved 2014-03-10.
- ^ "LQ Podcast 34: H. W. Brands". Lapham's Quarterly Podcast. 2013. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
- ^ Brands, H.W. (September 2003). "Our reverence for the Fathers has gotten out of hand". Atlantic Monthly.
- ^ H. W. Brands (2013-03-07). "Hauenstein Lecture: Persona of the Presidency". Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies. Retrieved 2014-03-12.
- ^ Brands, H.W. (2012-11-30). "Don't Dare to Be Great: The Paradoxes of Presidential History". SMU Center for Presidential History.
- ^ Vognar, Chris (28 January 2011). "Interview: H.W. Brands writes history for real people". Dallas News. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to H. W. Brands.
- H.W. Brands official website
- Website at The University of Texas at Austin
- Hauenstein Center Lectures
- Booknotes interview The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s 25 February, 1996
- C-Span In Depth interview, 3 July, 2005
- Brands discusses Traitor to His Class, Pritzker Military Museum & Library, 22 January, 2009
- Brands discusses American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism 1865-1900 at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on November 4, 2010
- Hauenstein lecture on taking the measure of American presidents, 7 March 2013
- History through Haiku History as presented through twitter.
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A year ago this week officers from Walsall, from Birmingham, London and across the country found themselves in the midst of some of the worst rioting seen in England for years.
The destruction seemed wholesale, the rioters shockingly ambitious and at the same time random in their choice of victims. Images of police lines stretched across a blazing skyline shot across the world, leaving in their wake tough questions about how the riots had come to be.
Writing now, a year on, it's hard to believe that a year has passed since those three days in August.
Repairs to the stricken areas continue, buildings have been torn down and the empty gaps they've left stand as a stark reminder of what can happen when the perception spreads that law and order has broken down.
I can't claim to have played a particularly important role in the riots myself. I wasn't one of the officers charging past broken shops near the Bullring, nor was I stood watching the Carpetright shop engulfed by a firestorm in Haringey.
Instead I was one of the many officers working extended shifts to restore the impression that the law still stood, that those who had come to riot would face the consequences and that the public ought not be panicked by what they saw each night on the news.
Looking back, what stood out to me at the time and what still stands today is the impression that whilst the rioters seemed to enjoy a fleeting taste of the upper hand, the police and other emergency services reacted and adapted with a professionalism that was nothing short of inspiring.
Rest days were cancelled, officers found themselves in unfamiliar situations and faced people on the streets who appeared set upon harming them by any means possible.
Faced with such apparent hatred the officers I worked alongside didn't buckle, didn't hesitate – instead they volunteered to work on, shift after shift in unimaginable situations and without a word of complaint.
To me the riots were particularly disturbing owing to the suddenness with which they took hold.
Riots, I'd always thought, would be prefaced by a period of visible tension, by rising discontent leading to a tipping point at which tensions boiled over and barricades sprung up.
A great deal of work has been done investigating the cause of the riots, notably through the Guardian and LSE's collaborative project Reading The Riots, with various reasons raised by the rioters themselves in attempts to explain why they had taken to the streets.
Frustration at the use of Stop & Search powers in some areas has been floated as one reason and as a contributor; an argument could be made that these frustrations represent the preface I'd have expected with shooting of Mark Duggan representing the tipping point.
Sensible use of stop powers allied with better communication with the affected communities seem to be the way forward to address perceptions of frustration, and indeed forces across the country have already done a great deal of work to bridge divides.
Other explanations have looked towards gangs, social media and simple opportunism, the latter of which I think seems the most convincing explanation for why people, sometimes even those with no criminal background, found their way to the trouble spots and began to loot.
A year's hindsight has suggested to me that whatever the cause of the original riots in Tottenham, the disorders that followed were able to take place because the idea had taken hold that 'everyone was at it', that the opportunity had unexpectedly presented itself to loot with impunity and that this, for some, was an opportunity that could not be missed.
As for why the riots came to a close, officers being made available in large numbers through Mutual Aid, some 16,000 in London alone, now appears to have been the principle deterrent to those thinking of returning to the streets for another night of disorder.
Proposed cuts to police numbers in this respect need to keep this in view – financial circumstances make cuts necessary but not at the expense of our ability to raise large numbers should the need arise.
The tragic deaths of the three men on Dudley Road, Birmingham, similarly arrested the further development of the riots, accompanied as they were by the impassioned appeal for calm of Tariq Jahan, father of one of those lost.
The riots, already sinister in tone, had taken on a direction that even those originally enthusiastic about the looting seemed reluctant to follow.
A year seems like a long time but as I've said, looking back it's hard to believe that twelve months now stand between today and those chaotic, hellish scenes.
The need to maintain a visible, believable presence, alongside an ability to rapidly respond to incidents before they are able to escalate, will likely be the key elements in preventing a repeat of history and I think are some of the most important considerations to take from the riots.
Whilst the riots thankfully reached their conclusion after a few long days, a conclusion is yet to be reached on their legacy, with this anniversary reminding us that time does not heal all wounds.
The IPCC, for example, is yet to report on Mark Duggan's death and investigations are ongoing to identify outstanding rioters with Operation View still yielding results in the West Midlands.
We have the flexibility in our structure and the quality in our people to deal with situations such as those seen during last August.
The real measure of our response to the riots will come not on this anniversary but in ten, twenty or thirty years time – should those decades pass without a repeat of the 2011 riots then we'll know the steps we took away from Tottenham were steps taken in the right direction.
Olympics update – apologies for the lack of blogs over the past few weeks, I'd been down in London helping Lord Coe out at the games. I'm looking at putting a blog together about the experience of living and working in the capital just as soon as the games themselves draw to a close – highlights include the torch relay, Team USA and Wimbledon so stay tuned!.


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These boots are hot in the summer & freezing in the winter....
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This boot has a nice look; however, it scuffs very easily & it's hard to remove the marks. Once the boots are scuffed the boot is not so pretty. When the sun hits them, my feet were on fire. In the winter my toes were cold. I do not recommend this boot. If the right boot touches the left boot or vice versa while you are walking, more scuff marks. Sometimes windex will remove the marks but not all of them. I do not recommend this boot.
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I wasn't sure the boots would fit but was pleasantly surprised when they did (they run small)! I have no problem getting the scuff marks out and also understand that they are going to get scuffed if you are using them for work. I have received many compliments on them.
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I love my boots. I received them fast. I recommend this boot only if you work inside. They are to nice to wear outside. The fit is great. They do not run small. Its a very nice look. I have no problem getting the scuffed marks. I have heard of other people having problems getting marks off. I have not. This is my second pair of boots. I will continue to purchase them in the future.
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Soles are like wood....
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I purchased this footwear looking for a professional high shine boot for my job as a police officer. The soles on these boots are hard and uncomfortable. In addition, the laces began to split and fray within a few months.
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Sometimes conflict develops, even with a supportive spouse.
One wife said: "I try to buy healthy foods. Unfortunately, my husband goes and buys other stuff that he likes to eat. I try to teach my kids how to eat healthy, how to live healthy. But my husband tells me not to tell him what to eat because he is going to eat what he wants."
Next most important is emotional support—not what your partner does for you but how it makes you feel.
One person with diabetes said: "She is very cooperative. She thinks of me. I can't ask for more than that."
One partner said: "Talking nicely and asking him how he feels instead of telling him helps him feel better."
Another person with diabetes said: "[I value] that discussion, that back and forth to try and figure out something that doesn't make sense right away, and sometimes it still doesn't make sense at the end. But sometimes there is a possible explanation, or we'll discover a pattern. It is helpful having a sounding board."
Finally, even though you want to avoid becoming a member of the diabetes police, our group said that it's helpful if a partner reminds the person with diabetes about things like when it's time to check blood glucose levels or take medicines or to pack a snack.
One person with diabetes said: "I am really active. I ski and bike, and I am out alone a lot. My partner is always asking me whether I have candy with me and whether I have my cell phone."
But crossing over to "nagging" or "bugging" or constant "critical" reminding was the least helpful behavior. It's often difficult for partners to find the line between helpful reminding and unhelpful nagging.
One partner who has struggled with this said: "[I have found that] nagging and being scared and nervous hasn't been helpful. I think [it's more helpful] if I am calm about things. If I see signs that suggest that he needs to check his blood sugar, I try to say something to him nicely. That basically helps and still makes him feel like a person, too."
Dealing with low blood glucose
Low blood glucose (hypoglycemia) can develop when people who use insulin have injected too much insulin, have eaten too little food, or have exercised without extra food. Some oral medicines can also cause hypoglycemia under similar circumstances. These include the sulfonylureas, which include glyburide (brand names Diabeta, Glynase, and Micronase), glipizide (Glucotrol and Glucotrol XL), and glimepiride (Amaryl) and the drugs repaglinide (Prandin) and nateglinide (Starlix).
Hypoglycemia can cause shakiness, weakness, nervousness, headache, hunger, mental confusion, and blurred vision. If blood glucose levels get very low, a person can have convulsions or become unconscious. A partner who notices such signs and symptoms may need to act fast by giving the person food or a beverage that contains carbohydrate. However, if the person with diabetes has become confused and is not thinking clearly, he may resist the help. If the person with diabetes has lost consciousness and can no longer safely swallow foods or liquids, the partner will need to inject glucagon, which makes the liver release stored glucose into the bloodstream. In some cases a partner might also need to call emergency services.
Hypoglycemia is upsetting, both for people with diabetes and their partners. Both get scared, both get frustrated, and both can get angry, at each other and at the diabetes.
One partner's comments captured the mix of emotions that can accompany a hypoglycemic episode when he said, "I get very concerned about her having a low sugar and I become very annoyed at the fact that it is going to go down or is down. We had an incident this morning. I woke up, went in the shower and came out, and I generally check her blood sugar before I come down and have breakfast. Well, she is laying there in a cold sweat and she has a 36 blood sugar. I get aggravated because I am on a tight schedule [and now] I've got to feed her something."


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A Bruno impostor hijacked the Sydney premiere. Pulling up in a hot pink Hummer limo, dressed in what looks to be a Midwestern teenager in summer school's thrift store approximation of what gay people look like*, the impostor stormed the waiting stage with a bullhorn and a bevvy of bikini babes to shout vaguely homophobic "jokes" as a promotional gimmick for a…new sauce…at a chain of Portuguese-style family restaurants? Australia is weird. All those Silverchair concerts fucked everybody up.
Video evidence of the stunt now carefully edited into an advertisement for Nando's, the aforementioned chain of Portuguese-style family restaurants, after the jump. I particularly like the part where the fake Bruno shouts "I feel like I am being raped" as a police officer pulls him off the stage, you know, because of how rape and homosexuality go hand-in-hand? Or is it rape and homosexuality and Portuguese-style family dining that go hand-in-hand-in-hand?
The worst. Of course, it's only a preview of what is to come, as fools across America raid the local sex shops and Hot Topics (the gays love to accessorize), catchphrases at the ready, in order to make this Halloween the single-most nightmarish on record. (Thanks for the tip, Gideon.)
*Of course, the distinction between a Midwestern teenager in summer school's thrift store approximation of what gay people look like and the Official Bruno Costume is a fishnet-thin distinction at best.
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realpaid | Posted on Jul 6th, 2009 +6
Truly enlightened advertising ploy.
I love when they dumped the goopy sauce on their breasts. Nothing makes me hungrier. (Whoops! The opposite of everything I just said.)
Narrowstrife | Posted on Jul 6th, 2009 +22
I like the look on Sacha Baron Cohen's face in response to the imposter's rape "joke", the sort of "this is what my movie is causing people to do? oh lord what have i done?" realization kind of look.
An American Patriot CAN STILL NOT COMMENT WHILE HE IS LOGGED INTO HIS VIDEOGUM ACCOUNT WHICH IS THE | Posted on Jul 6th, 2009 +4
I sware to GOD if kids start dressing as Bruno everywhere I'm going to LOSE MY MIND.
I can't WAIT until some JACKASS gets the ingenious idea to make a JOKER/BRUNO COSTUME COMBO WITH AN EXTRA LARGE ORDER OF SAD.
(Also, is there a reason I can't commit when LOGGED IN and yet OTHER PEOPLE CAN?! I'm just REALLY CONFUSED and A LITTLE HURT. I thought this shit HAD BEEN FIXED ALREADY. )
I've been going ahead and writing my username and email on the little form and checking "Remember personal info" even though I'm logged in. That seems to do the trick. Or it does nothing and I'm just getting lucky.
An American Patriot | Posted on Jul 6th, 2009 +2
I'll be sure to GIVE THAT A TRY.
try harder.
An American Patriot CAN STILL NOT COMMENT WHILE HE IS LOGGED INTO HIS VIDEOGUM ACCOUNT WHICH IS THE | Posted on Jul 6th, 2009 +2
HAHAH yeah I get it. THAT SHIT DIDN'T WORK. I don't have the ability to put in my NAME and EMAIL ADDRESS when I'm LOGGED IN. UGH. This is most fuckin UNFORTUNATE.
ModernMANdroid | Posted on Jul 6th, 2009 -14
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5-0, 5-0 here they come here they come
Videogum: where the rape police are always on the scene. Any depiction, representation, utterance, or portrayal of rape will not go unnoticed. We will make it the foremost aspect of the discussion and call the proper authorities.
I know. Let's all ignore rape. That'll make everything okay!
ModernMANdroid | Posted on Jul 6th, 2009 -2
OH, we're in no danger of IGNORING it, whenever it's a component of anything, it becomes EVERYTHING.
kiss the pan | Posted on Jul 6th, 2009 +11
I have to disagree. Just because posts like this point out problematic jokes about rape doesn't mean it becomes the sole focus of the article. There is a short paragraph about it in this one, and the headline doesn't say RAPE JOKE ALERT: BRUNO IMPOSTOR MAKES DUMB RAPE JOKE BOO RAPE RAPE RAPE.
I'm sorry you don't find inappropriate and downright tasteless — maybe not truly offensive, but definitely in poor taste — "jokes" about fucking rape worth thinking about it, but lots of people do. When you use a topic as delicate as rape (and it is delicate and potentially deeply offensive, no matter what you think) as part of a joke or plot or what have you, you have to use it well and not just for cheap, dumb shock value. Funny: Blazing Saddles. Bad, unfunny, hacky, and just stupid: this Bruno impersonator dude.
Highlighting the problems of such a joke isn't a big deal, but you seem to want to make it one.
ModernMANdroid | Posted on Jul 7th, 2009 -3
A+, your paper was amazing. Here's your diploma. Oh wait, this is a website.
kiss the pan | Posted on Jul 7th, 2009 +4
For sure. Thoughtful responses are so stupid!!!
My first reaction to reading that post was "it's silvershair, you know, lower case s!". Apparently all of those concerts fucked up New Zealanders too. I'm stuck in '99- Pacey+Joey4Eva!
Barrel | Posted on Jul 7th, 2009 +2
Wrong Stacey, it is upper case now.
And you're right, all those Silverchair concerts did fuck everybody up.
P.S. Silverchair suck.
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