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Working additional hours on smartphones before and after work could be storing up mental and physical health problems for the future, physiotherapists are warning.
A poll for the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) found that two thirds of the 2,000 office workers surveyed said they continued working on a smartphone or other device after their left the office, and spent an average of more than two hours doing so.
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The CSP is concerned that 'over working' can lead to back and neck pain, as well as stress.
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Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 765782, 8 pages
Linear Total Variation Approximate Regularized Nuclear Norm Optimization for Matrix Completion
1Laboratory of Image Science and Technology, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
2Centre de Recherche en Information Médicale Sino-français (CRIBs), France
3INSERM, U1099, Rennes 35000, France
4Université de Rennes 1, LTSI, Rennes 35042, France
Received 15 February 2014; Accepted 7 May 2014; Published 28 May 2014
Academic Editor: Zhiwu Liao
Copyright © 2014 Xu Han et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Matrix completion that estimates missing values in visual data is an important topic in computer vision. Most of the recent studies focused on the low rank matrix approximation via the nuclear norm. However, the visual data, such as images, is rich in texture which may not be well approximated by low rank constraint. In this paper, we propose a novel matrix completion method, which combines the nuclear norm with the local geometric regularizer to solve the problem of matrix completion for redundant texture images. And in this paper we mainly consider one of the most commonly graph regularized parameters: the total variation norm which is a widely used measure for enforcing intensity continuity and recovering a piecewise smooth image. The experimental results show that the encouraging results can be obtained by the proposed method on real texture images compared to the state-of-the-art methods.
1. Introduction
The problem of matrix completion, which can be seen as the extension of recently developed compressed sensing (CS) theory [1–3], plays an important role in the field of signal and image processing [4–11]. This problem occurs in many real applications in computer vision and pattern recognition, such as image inpainting [12, 13], video denoising [14], and recommender systems [15, 16]. Reconstruction algorithms for matrix completion have received much attention. Cai et al. [17] proposed an algorithm, namely, the singular value thresholding (SVT) algorithm for matrix completion and related nuclear norm minimization problems. In [18], a simple and fast singular value projection (SVP) algorithm for rank minimization with affine constraints is exploited. Keshavan et al. [19] dealt with the matrix completion based on singular value decomposition followed by local manifold optimization. In order to achieve a better approximation of the rank of matrix, Hu et al. [11] presented an approach based on the truncated nuclear norm regularization (TNNR), which is defined by the difference between the nuclear norm and the sum of the largest few singular values. Since most of the existing matrix completion models aim to solve the low rank optimization via nuclear norm, we recall here this model. For an incomplete matrix of rank , the model can be described as follows: where and , and is the set of locations corresponding to the observed entries.
Unfortunately, the rank minimization problem in (1) is an NP-hard one, so the following convex relaxation is widely used: where is the nuclear norm given by where denotes the th largest singular value of .
In this paper, our objective is to exploit the intrinsic geometry of the data distribution and incorporate it as an additional regularization term to deal with the images which are rich in texture. The total variation (TV) norm has demonstrated its usefulness as a graph regularizer in the field of image processing, so we propose here a method that combines the nuclear norm with the linear TV approximate norm to solve the problem of matrix completion. We call it the linear total variation approximate regularized nuclear norm (LTVNN) minimization problem. This combination optimization problem will be solved by simple and efficient optimization scheme based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) model [20, 21].
The paper is organized as follows. In the next section, we introduce the proposed LTVNN model and we describe the optimization schemes. In Section 3, we establish the convergence results for the iterations given in Section 2. Experimental results on a set of images are provided in Section 4. Finally, we draw some conclusions in Section 5.
2. Proposed Method
2.1. Some Preliminaries
The total variation along the vertical and horizontal directions can be described as So the total variation of X is the summation for the magnitude of the gradient of each pixel [22]: And the equvalent total variation formula as follows: Here, we use the linear total variation approximate of (7) to approximate the second kind of total variation; that is,
2.2. Proposed Model
As mentioned above, the key point of the proposed approach is the combination of the nuclear norm and the linear total variation approximate norm; therefore, the optimization problem is described as where is a penalty parameter, is the nuclear norm defined in (3), and is linear total variation norm approximate defined in (8), which can be reformulated as where "" means the trace of the matrix, denotes the Frobenius norm of the matrix, and and are, respectively, the column and row transform matrix given by
So, the problem in (9) can be rewritten as
2.3. The Optimization Scheme
The alternating direction method of multipliers-ADMM [20, 21] is an efficient and scalable optimization model which exploits the structure of the optimization problem. In this section, we use ADMM to deal with the problem in (12), which can be reformulated as where and are the indicator functions. The augmented Lagrange function of (13) is where is the penalty parameter and is the multiplier. The solution can be obtained by incorporating the solutions of each regularization problem separately which are defined as follows. Row TV is as follows: where denotes the optimization result along the vertical direction of the total variation defined in (4). Column TV is as follows: where denotes the optimization result along the horizontal direction of the total variation defined in (5).
We deal with column linear TV optimization problem in (16) by the following steps in each iteration.
Step 1 (initial setting). , , , with the tolerance .
Step 2 (computing ). Fix and , and minimize (16) for obtaining as
Ignoring the constant terms, (17) can be rewritten as
To solve (18), Cai et al. [17] introduce the soft-thresholding operator which is defined as follows:
where .
Using the operator in (19), the solution of (18) can be obtained as
Step 3 (computing ). Fix and and calculate as follows: which is a quadratic function of and can be easily solved by setting the derivation of to zeros, and then we get Then we fix the values at the observed entries: where denotes the set of the missing entries.
Step 4 (computing ). Fix and and calculate as follows:
Until the stop condition: .
Row TV problem defined by (15) can be solved in a similar way to that of column TV problem. The only difference is the in the second step, which is given by And the stop condition is .
Finally, we obtained as the average of and ; that is,
3. Convergence Analysis
In this section, we give the proof of the convergence of column total variation (16) and the convergence of row total variation is similar to the column total variation. Here, the objection function (16) about column variation is as follows:
Lemma 1. Let and . Then The details of the proof can be found in [17].
Theorem 2. Assuming that the sequence of step size obeys , and . Here, denotes the optimization result and denotes the th iteration object variable; then by the iteration procedure defined in Section 2.3, we can obtain the unique optimization result, that is, . And the details of the proof can be found in the Appendix.
4. Experiments
In this section, we test the proposed method on a set of images. The algorithm was implemented with MATLAB programming language on a PC machine, which sets up Microsoft Windows 7 operating system and has an Intel Core I5 CPU with speed of 2.79 GHz and 2 GB RAM.
We deal with three channels () of color images separately and combine the results together to get the final outcome. We use peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) values to evaluate the performance: where MSE denotes mean squared error,
In the experiments, we consider two situations: random mask sample and word mask sample. Figure 1 describes the recovered results with 60% random mask and word mask for and 1 by LTVNN. Figure 2 shows the recovered PSNR for Pepper under different random sample ratios and word mask sample for from 0 to 1 with step of 0.1 by LTVNN. It can be observed from these two figures that the best result is obtained for the value of near to 0.5, which corresponds to the case where the two norms (nuclear and LTV) are equivalently used in (9). For the two extreme cases: (only the nuclear norm is taken into consideration) and (only the linear total variation approximate norm is considered), the algorithm loses its efficiency.
We also compare our method (LTVNN) with other matrix completion methods including TNNR [10, 11], SVT [12], SVP [13], and OptSpace [14]. Figure 3 plots the recovered PSNR for Pepper for with different random sample ratios (from 40% to 90%) by LTVNN and other four methods (TNNR, SVT, SVP, and OptSpace). It can be seen from Figure 3 that the proposed LTVNN method achieves much higher PSNR than the other methods. Figure 4 shows the comparison of PSNR of recovered methods for Lena under word mask with by LTVNN and the other methods. Table 1 lists the PSNR results under word mask sample with for different images by LTVNN and the other methods. From Figure 4 and Table 1, we can see that the proposed method outperforms the other matrix completion methods under word mask for different images.
5. Conclusion
In this paper, we have proposed a new model that combines the nuclear norm and total variation norm for the matrix completion problem, which was then solved by ADMM model. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm compared to other methods.
Before we give the proof of Theorem 2, we supplement one proof about Without loss of generality, we take an example matrix and the corresponding transform matrix . Then, so the term . The proof of Theorem 2 is as follows.
Proof. Let be primal-dual optimization for the problem (27). The optimality conditions give
where and . Then from (A.3), we deduce that
and combine (A.4) with Lemma 1 that
We observe (23) that ,
Here, we set ; then
where , .
Based on (A.7), when , that is, , the term is nonincreasing and converges to limit. The parameter is very easy for satisfying this condition when is smaller constant. And we can obtain other properties as follows.
Let , and then . Due to the fact that converges to zero, so is infinite small about and converges to zero. Now we reconsider (A.2); evidently the first column in converges to zero; that is, , , , . The second column converges to the first column and then converges to zero; that is, , , , . The third column converges to the second column and then converges to zero; that is, , , , , so through the iteration converges to except the last column due to the definition in (4) and (5); the last column and the last row are set to zero.
Fortunately, this problem does not have side effect for global result. Theorem 2 is established.
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.
This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China under Grant 2011CB707904, by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61201344, 61271312, and 61073138, by the Ministry of Education of China under Grants 20110092110023 and 20120092120036, the Key Laboratory of Computer Network and Information Integration (Southeast University), Ministry of Education, and by Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant BK2012329. This work is supported by INSERM postdoctoral fellowship.
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The "50 things" dealieMar 10, 2009
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The Bottom Line I am always a sucker for lists.
I just read a couple of these "50 things" lists from other Epinionaters, and decided to join in on the fun. Here goes: 1. High heels or boots? Boots 2. What time did you get up this morning? Just before 9 AM, which is very early for me 3. What is your favorite TV show? Top Chef 4. What do you usually have for breakfast? I often skip it, but when I don't, I love having eggs, sausage, bacon, and/or hash browns 5. What is your middle name? Delaine, after a great aunt 6. What food do you dislike? Grilled cheese 7. What is your favorite CD at the moment? DJ Cam - DJ-Kicks 8. What characteristic do you despise? Casual personal insults - save them for when they are really deserved, heh heh 9. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation? England 10. Are you an organized person? Usually 11. Where would you like to retire to? I'm still too young for thoughts like this 12. What was your most recent memorable birthday? 2005, when my fiance got me a trophy entitled "The World's Greatest Lover" 13. What are you going to do when you finish this? Play a video game 14. Furthest place you are sending this? Around the world 15. Person you expect to send it back first? Don't know 16. When is your birthday? November 9 17. Morning person or a night person? Night all the way..my preferred bed time is 3 AM and my preferred wake time is around noon, but the world doesn't usually work that way, and I am constantly trying to "fix" my schedule 18. What is your shoe size? 6 19. Any animals? A hyperactive and opportunistic cat named Maggie 20. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share? Not really 21. What did you want to be when you were little? A painter..I eventually realized I couldn't paint worth an expletive 22. What is your favorite flower? Don't know 23. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to? Any weekend 24. What was the last thing you ate? Michelina's shrimp scampi 25. Do you wish upon stars? No 26. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Cerulean 27. How is the weather right now? Warm and mild, but storms are expected here tonight 28. Last person you spoke to on the phone? My beloved 29. Favorite soft drink? Diet Dr. Pepper or Coke Zero 30. Favorite restaurant? Red Lobster (I am a total shrimp fanatic) 31. Hair color? Black, although the natural brown roots are starting to show 32. What was your favorite toy as a child? My Leonardo ninja turtle and my Range Viper G.I. Joe 33. Summer or winter? Winter..I am a pale, Minnesota-born girl with Russian and Norwegian roots, so cold is natural to me 34. Chocolate or vanilla? Vanilla (I know the stereotypical female answer is chocolate, but I actually prefer vanilla) 35. Coffee or tea? Coffee 36. Favorite food? Pizza 37. Do you want your friends to reply? Sure, if they like 38. When was the last time you cried? A couple of weeks ago 39. What is under your bed? Books to hold it up because the support was crushed awhile back 40. What did you do last night? Played video games, surfed the Internet, nursed my rashes..nothing major 41. What are you afraid of? Getting killed by some road rage maniac 42. Salty or sweet? Salty 43. Best quality you have? Devotion 44. How many years at your current job? Still don't have one yet..the search continues 45. Favorite day of the week? Saturday 46. Positive or negative? I hope for the positive but usually expect the negative 47. How many people will you send this to? An entire web site 48. How many will respond? Not sure 49. Do you like finding out all this stuff about your friends? Yes - for all my introversion, I like reading about other people and their idiosyncrasies 50. What do you do for Fun? Love, read, sleep, eat, surf the net, play video games, watch and play various sports (especially basketball), run on the treadmill, weightlift, write, listen to music, collect trading cards, play with my maniacal cat, play board games like Monopoly, do puzzles, etc. |


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ROUSES POINT - In an era of iPods and other MP3 music players, compact discs seem to have fallen by the wayside. However, one group aims for people to dust of their CDs and bring them by the Dodge Memorial Library.
Local composer and pianist Adrian Carr recently received a New York State Decentralization Grant to promote music throughout the Northern Tier. Aside from various concerts he is planning, including a fundraiser for the Chazy Public Library, Carr has recently begun a music appreciation club at Dodge Memorial Library.
"It's kind of just building awareness of music in the North Country," Carr explained. "That's my goal. It's just to bring music to people."
The club first began in January when eight people participated by bringing in their favorite CD.
"He would play [the CD] and he would explain to them the different parts of it," said library interim director Colleen A. Pelletier. "That was giving these people that were attending the club a whole new way of looking at their favorite music, which got them to enjoy it even that much more."
Although the first month's meeting involved people bringing in their favorite CD, every month will be based on a different theme. For February, attendees brought in their favorite film music, which made them see movies in a different way.
"I guess I just didn't get all the nuances of the music in the movies," said Joanne Haring of Rouses Point. "You're just following a story [and] you lose track of that. I think I'm going to be looking at movies in a different way."
The club's next meeting - which will be held Tuesday, March 31 - will have the group discuss their favorite classical music, which Carr said is really whatever someone considers "classical."
"I love taking into consideration the ideas of the group," Carr said. "I could talk about a variety of topics. But, I love talking about ideas that the group, that people have - questions they have. I like making it relative, so people can enjoy it more, get more out of it."
Carr added the group is not a lecture, but instead a sharing group.
"When you get people's reactions and ideas flowing you learn to appreciate it maybe in a new way," he said.
Club meetings will be held at the library, 144 Lake St., the last Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. However, Carr will take some time off after the April meeting and continue the club in September.
"Anybody can come," said Pelletier. "It's not a true club in that sense. It's just a group meeting and it's open to everybody."
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Prediction: Someday soon, restaurants, schools, hospitals and any public building won't be allowed to have peanuts anywhere on their premises. I'm just guessing that allergies to peanuts must have increased dramatically since I was a kid because I've never read so much about how businesses have had to accomadate people with peanut allergies. "More than 3 million Americans now have some kind of nut allergy, with cases of peanut allergy in children more than tripling between 1997 and 2008, according to a report released this week." http://www.livescience.com/8268-peanut-allergy-cases-triple-10-years.html So 1% of the population actually has the allergy...ONE percent. So I'd still send your kids to school with a nice big PEANUT BUTTER sandwhich even such laws are passed.
Actually, it's 2.1% of children. The prevalence of combined peanut or tree nut allergies in children was 2.1 percent in 2008, compared to 0.6 percent in 1997. Rate of childhood peanut allergies more than tripled from 1997 to 2008 Which means if you've got a school cafeteria with 300 kids it's a good bet that at least 6 or 7 of them are allergic to peanuts or peanut products. It's good to know what you'd do with my kids, PR, really good. I suppose we can also count on you to explain to the mother of the kid who died of anaphylaxis caused by peanut exposure just how her trauma was caused, too, right? Perhaps you're not aware that allergies to either peanuts or tree nuts cause about 80% of the 30,000 anaphylaxis cases seen in U.S. emergency rooms each year. Perhaps you don't realize that anaphylatic reactions, which always require medical assistance, often end, forgive the word, but I'm sure you'll understand, tragically even if the total medical support offered by an emergency room and a physician is available. Good to know you wouldn't mind being the cause of such a tragedy - or advising others to become the same. I'm not sure any parent, if there is a child or a teacher in their child's class who has a severe peanut allergy and they were made aware of it, would ever send their child to school with even a teeny-tiny peanut butter sandwich - much less a "nice big" one. What would be the point, PR? To prove that you have the right to send some other mother's kid to the hospital swollen up like a ballon and unable to breathe without mechanical assistance after being asked not to? Now there's a point we'd all love to prove, I'm sure.
Are there any thoughts on why these severe allergies are increasing so dramatically? Tripling in a decade is a huge increase. When I was a kid, a couple decades earlier, I don't think anybody I know had this kind of allergy.
Several theories - all of them probably somewhat valid and it's most likely a combination of all of them which has caused the dramatic increase. 1.)that we introduce peanuts to children too early; 2.)the increased use of soy in formula and other processed food (soy and peanut are both beans); 3.) the use of roasted peanuts in food (heating changes the protein which the body is more likely to react to), rather than raw/boiled peanuts. 4.)The hygiene hypothesis which believes that our immune systems have little to fight anymore because we live in a cleaner, healthier, antibacterial world and therefore, the immune system reacts to certain food proteins and mistakes them for a threat. 5.)A lowered immune function due to increased antibiotic use, vaccinations, high processed food and pesticide use are also factors to be considered. http://www.beyondapeanut.com/Peanut_Allergy_Information.html Same thing with autism which was virtually unheard of when I was growing up and pretty uncommon even in my own kid's generation.
I've always assumed that one aspect of the rise autism was previous misdiagnosis (though there is absolutely no substance behind that ). Some of these don't make sense to me, unless they, too, have changed dramatically over the past decade, and in the decades before that. (For example, the first one -- did parents start introducing their children to peanuts earlier than was previously the case, at least in a form separate from #3?)
You wanna know the real reason behind why these sorts of things (like autism or ADHD or whatever) increased so much over the past decade or so? Because they get much more media coverage these days than ever before, so now everyone is on the lookout for such things in their own children/patients. You expand the definition of what a certain affliction is, see something (even when it's not there) and all of a sudden you have far more cases of a certain ailment than ever before. Sometimes this comes about from an increase in knowledge of an affliction; sometimes it simply comes from an increase in paranoia. Just because something is being diagnosed more frequently does not necessarily follow that it is occurring more frequently.
I pick options 4 and 5. The others are easy to fix. The last two are impossible to fix and would result in lawsuits X infinity, not to mention the complete re-tooling of our entire economy. The damage was done after WWII and we are now in the process of paying the piper. Much of the damage has been done to the genetic viability of the reproductive system of my generation and the one before it. We pass on these genetic and epigenetic deformities to our children. I say this because peanut allergies are linked with other allergies and maladies like asthma, which is increasingly being linked to environmental factors and genetic susceptibility. There's a non-allergenic breed of peanut available, but has yet to be approved by FDA (tool of corporate agriculture, mind you, so it might take a while)
Your last sentence is true. Your first two are pure speculation. You left out the causation option of pesticides and chemicals in the food supply, air and water. Has that been ruled out?
I don't know that much about it, Chico. Only what I've read and what I've observed. I did find out that using soy based formulas has decreased by 50% since 1999 - which may account for some of the current kids with peanut allergies since they would have been in that time frame of the 90's where soy was all the rage. There was a huge brou-ha-ha about children being "lactose intolerant" around then - and countless moms who did not breastfeed simply bypassed regular formulas and went right to soy - all the while thinking they were saving their child from developing a lactose allergy. (Which, while uncomfortable, seldom, if ever, causes anaphylaxis.) They are now finding all sorts of things wrong with feeding infants nothing but soy products and it is seldom recommended by pediatricians. Soy Infant Formula Information My personal opinion is that #4and 5 are probably more likely to be causes than the first three. I'm old enough and stubborn enough to believe that my grandmother was right when she'd laugh and say, "Oh every kid has to eat a peck of dirt before he grows up," when her grandchildren or great-grandchildren got caught eating something off the floor or shoveling sand in their mouths. Parents nowdays are hyper-vigelant about using all these new disinfectant hand wipes and soaps and things.....all bodies demand some balance of flora and fauna - and that includes bacterias of all kinds. If you're never exposed to it you never develop a tolerance to it - nor does your body develop a balance of good and bad bacterias. We all need strong immune systems - but an infant who is never or seldom exposed to bacterias grows up in a body which is unable to recognize a threat and fight it because it's never seen it before. In truth, most of the microbes on and around us are harmless and many are even beneficial¹. Bacteria naturally inhabit our skin, digestive tract, the soil, and our homes, helping to maintain a balance in both our internal and external environments. There's even mounting evidence that exposure to bacteria might be a good thing. According to the "hygiene hypothesis," bacterial assaults help children's immune systems to develop. Studies have shown that inner city children, and children without older siblings, are more likely to develop allergies, asthma and autoimmune disorders because their immune systems are less regularly stimulated². Read more: Antibacterials and Disinfectants: Are They Necessary? | Healthy Child Healthy World And, honestly, you don't even want to get me started on the overuse of antibiotics. It's a personal pet-peeve and I believe someday we'll all die because of it.
I'd say that we, as a society, are far more knowledgeable about (and protected from) pesticides and chemicals these days than we were, say, in the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's. So no, I do not consider those to be an acceptable reason behind why peanut allergy rates tripled from '97 to '08. If you're trying to find the cause of an increase in some sort of phenemenon, a good place to start is by looking at things which have changed since the increase began - not by taking something that started 50+ years ago and saying that explains a change which began in the 90's.
Biological effects, including genetic damage, can be delayed by a generation or two. Not all biological effects are expressed immediately. Mother and father with identical recessive mutations have to procreate for full genetic expression consequences. It could even be multiple generations for that to take place.
I agree with what you've written but you have to understand that that is a ridiculously poor starting point when trying to determine any sort of cause and effect correlation. This is simply the scientific method speaking here - combined with a healthy dose of Occam's Razor. When trying to figure out why something happened over (roughly) the past decade, you really need to focus primarily on things that have changed over that time period, not things that changed 50 years beforehand.
Yes, that is definitely something that goes along with what I termed possible misdiagnosis or lack of diagnosis in the past. Good point, BUT I think it probably applies more to ADD than autism or, especially, severe peanut allergies.
Yeah, PR, the hell with those losers. Kill 'em. They're only 1% of the population! Sorry, I love peanut butter but no peanut butter sandwich is that important to me and my non-allegic family to ever do that if our schools asked us to refrain. It's called kindness and respect for other human beings. There's a nice article and video in the Globe today about what the Red Sox are doing regarding this these days: http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...ic_red_sox_fans_cheer_breathe/?p1=Upbox_links http://www.boston.com/video/editor_picks/?bctid=987382585001&p1=Upbox_links What the optimal situation is if facilities can be compartmentalized - - like what Fenway did - so that people can still enjoy peanuts without it becoming a life threatening situation for the small but rapidly growing population that is affected by it.
My opening contention was that someday soon, peanuts won't be allowed in public buildings. I stand by my desire not to see that happen. If there's a child with a severe peanut allergy in your child's classroom, I agree that you should do the right thing to help out the child. I often make facetious comments to make my point. I forgot they're easy to take literally. As long as we don't start passing laws that restrict restaurants & businesses to fit the needs of those with allergies, I'm fine. Fenway Park recently set aside 226 seats (out of 36,000 total seats) for families of children with peanut allergies so they could sit through a game. Good for the Red Sox owners and management. I believe that's a good thing. What wouldn't be good is that if a law were passed that stated no one can eat peanuts in Fenway Park. Even a law that said "X"% of all professional stadium seats must be peanut-free would be wrong in my opinion.
I read that article this morning and it is what inspired this thread. Again, as long as "Peanut-free seats" are never mandated by law, I'm fine.


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Of Montreal's 'She Ain't Speaking Now' Is Full of Psychedelic Sickness
Kevin Barnes sings about family's illnesses on 'Lousy With Sylvianbriar' single
Give Kevin Barnes some credit — the Of Montreal singer knows how to turn family woes into upbeat pop tunes. As it turns out, he was inspired to write just-out second single from the band's upcoming LP Lousy With Sylvianbriar, during a period when his wife and daughter were extremely sick. That a ditty titled "She Ain't Speaking Now" could sound so strangely gleeful would be disconcerting if it wasn't par for the Athens psych-pop course.
"I wrote the song when both my wife and daughter were bedridden with a terrible illness," Barnes told Rolling Stone, who premiered the track. "It was during the middle of our recording sessions for Sylvianbriar, so I was pretty paranoid about catching what they had. I would sort of hold my breath whenever I was near them. I wrote the song while fearing the worst. Fortunately, they both recovered."
Yes, that'd be a real bummer if they didn't, right? Thankfully, they're still with us and show no signs of disrupting the Of Montreal album cycle further. Stream that manic little slab of '60s throwback below, and pick up the Elephant 6 graduates' 12th album on October 8, via Polyvinyl.


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Just when you thought the platform wars were over ... okay, maybe you didn't. Either way, Apples vs. Robots by umetec is a very simple tower defense-type game, where the player protects a group of technology enthusiasts from an oncoming horde of robots by chucking apples. Unsurprisingly, this pay-once-and-play game is an iOS exclusive.


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Groundhog Day makes little sense to me
Published 8:00am Wednesday, February 2, 2011Traditions are an important part of who we are as humans. Whether the traditions are at the national, state, local or family level, they offer us a sense of comfort with their familiarity.
These traditions can come in many different forms and can signify a variety of things.
The drop of the ball in Times Square in New York City on New Year's represents change.
The Iron Bowl represents the quest for bragging rights over friends and coworkers for the next 365 days.
There is one tradition though that I do not understand — today, Groundhog Day.
I understand the belief that if the groundhog sees his shadow there will be six more weeks of winter and I understand how this day evolved from the old Christian tradition of Candlemas Day.
What I don't understand is why this has grown into such a popular tradition.
Several hundred years ago people did not have the advanced scientific research we have today, so I can appreciate their need to find a way to decide how much longer winter would last.
It started with candles being handed out by the church — although I don't know exactly how that worked — before the Germans decided to use hedgehogs with the now familiar shadow concept. When Germans began moving to America, they switched to groundhogs, which were much more abundant in Pennsylvania.
Roll ahead a couple of hundred years and we have better knowledge of the Earth's movement around the sun, can predict weather patterns and can usually have a relatively accurate estimation of when cold weather will begin and when it will give way to higher temperatures.
So why do so many of us still choose to allow a flea-bitten, rabies infested rodent decide how much longer winter will last?
There are so many questions to be asked.
How do we know if the groundhog actually saw his shadow? Maybe groundhogs are incapable of seeing their own shadows.
How do we know he isn't coming out of his hole to take a bathroom break? He has been sleeping for a couple of months, surely his bodily functions have caught up with him — I know I usually need a trip to the bathroom every morning. I would burst if I had to hold it for a few months.
Why is the groundhog always a "he"? Are female groundhogs incapable of predicting weather? If female groundhogs can predict winter, why hasn't a feminist organization shown up at the annual event in Punxsutawney, Pa. to educate people about the plight of groundhogette meteorologists throughout this nation?
Can this concept be applied to other holidays? Personally I think it would be interesting if following the ball drop in Times Square somebody asks Dick Clark if he sees his shadow. If he does we get a year of economic recovery, if not, the recession continues.
Personally, I am hoping the flea-bitten, rabies infested rodent does not see his shadow — that is if he, or she, is capable of seeing it — because I am tired of winter.
I much prefer the warmer weather beginning in April. I love having time to enjoy the great outdoors before the oppressive heat waves begin showing up in July and August.
That is when we need Groundhog Day. If the furry rodent heads back into his hole in the ground it would be a sign for us to stay inside for six more weeks enjoying the comforts of central air conditioning.
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Front page, 5 March 2009
Type | Daily newspaper |
Format | Berliner |
Owner(s) | Nuova Iniziativa Editoriale S.p.A. |
Editor | Luca Landò |
Founded | 12 February 1924 |
Political alignment | PCI (1924–91) PDS (1991–98) DS (1998–2007) PD (2007–14) |
Ceased publication | 31 July 2014 |
Headquarters | Rome, Italy |
Circulation | 20,937 (April 2014)[1] |
Website | http://www.unita.it/ |
L'Unità was an Italian left-wing newspaper, originally founded as official newspaper of the Italian Communist Party, and since then supportive of its subsequent successor parties, the Democratic Party of the Left, Democrats of the Left and from October 2007 until its closure the Democratic Party. The newspaper closed on 31 July 2014.[2]
History and profile[edit]
L'Unità was founded by Antonio Gramsci on 12 February 1924[3] as the "newspaper of workers and peasants", the official newspaper of Italian Communist Party (PCI). The paper was printed in Milan with a circulation of 20,000 to 30,000. On 8 November 1925, publications were blocked by the Prefect of the city together with Italian Socialist Party's Avanti!. After an assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini (31 October 1926) its publication was completely suppressed. A clandestine edition was resumed on the first day of 1927, with irregular circulation in Milan, Turin, Rome, and in France. Publication was officially resumed after the Allied conquest of Rome on 6 June 1944, the new editor-in-chief being Celeste Negarville.
After the liberation from the German occupation, in 1945, new local editions were started in Milan, Genoa and Turin, the latter edited by philosopher Ludovico Geymonat. Elio Vittorini became the editor-in-chief of L'Unità during this period.[4] The newspaper's contributors included Davide Layolo, Luigi Cavallo, Ada Gobetti Cesare Pavese, Italo Calvino, Alfonso Gatto, Aldo Tortorella and Paolo Spriano. In the same year the Festa de l'Unità was launched in most Italian cities.
In 1957 the Genoese, Milanese and Torinese editions were merged into a single edition for northern Italy. The newspaper's editorships were unified in 1962, under Mario Alicata, who was succeeded by Maurizio Ferrara in 1966. In 1974 daily circulation of l'Unità amounted to 239,000 copies, but this number dropped considerably starting from early 1980s, mostly from the competition with the new, left-oriented, La Repubblica: the 100 million copies sold in 1981 decreased to 60 million, in 1982. In the subsequent year a document published by the newspaper, which accused the Christian Democratic minister Vincenzo Scotti of being a collaborator of the Camorra leader Raffaele Cutolo, which proved to be a false. The editor-in-chief Claudio Petruccioli resigned and was replaced by Emanuele Macaluso. Massimo D'Alema, the future Prime Minister of Italy, was managing-director until July 1990.
The 1988 circulation of the paper was 300,000 copies.[5]
From 1989 to 1990 the newspaper was accompanied by a satirical weekly magazine, Cuore, directed by Michele Serra. In 1991 the title changed from Journal of the Italian Communist Party to Journal founded by Antonio Gramsci with a daily circulation of circa 156,000. Next year its circulation was 124,000 copies.[6] From 1992 to 1996 director was Walter Veltroni, who started periodically accompanying the newspaper with free gifts such as books and videocassettes.
The newspaper ceased publication for 8 months from 28 July 2000 to 28 March 2001, because of financial troubles. Since then it was published by Baldini & Castoldi, a company not officially linked to the Democrats of the Left or Democratic Party. Its political position, however, continued to be strongly tied to the Democratic Party.[3]
On May 2008 Tiscali founder and Sardinia President Renato Soru finalized a deal to become the new newspaper owner.[7] One of the first moves made by the new property was the appointment of former La Repubblica journalist Concita De Gregorio as new editor-in-chief in August 2008,[3] replacing Antonio Padellaro.[8] On 7 May 2012 the paper began to be published in Berliner format.[9]
As of April 2014[update] the average daily circulation of the newspaper was 20,000 copies.[1] l'Unita again suspended publication on 31 July 2014.[2][10][11] A meeting of shareholders was unable to decide how to keep the newspaper financially viable; debts amounted to €30 million.[12]
l'Unità was accused by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of being a politically biased newspaper, allegedly making a "criminal" use of news against him. On 23 December 2005 Berlusconi produced in a press conference a 1953 copy of l'Unità which headlined Joseph Stalin's death.[citation needed]
On 29 March 2006, in a personal attempt to demonstrate the factiousness of Corriere della Sera, a popular Italian newspaper which endorsed centre-left coalition The Union in the 2006 general election, he showed that both l'Unità and Corriere had the same headline that day, referring to a phrase he pronounced ("Bambini bolliti: Cina contro Berlusconi" — "Boiled children: China against Berlusconi").[citation needed]
- ^ a b Data (April 2014) from the Accertamenti Diffusione Stampa
- ^ a b "Addio a l'Unità dal 1° agosto. I giornalisti: ci hanno uccisi". E Polis. 30 July 2014. p. 2.
- ^ a b c Anna Momigliano (16 September 2008). "In Italy, Female Editor Signals Women's Rise". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 24 November 2014. – via Questia (subscription required)
- ^ Herbert Lottman (15 November 1998). The Left Bank: Writers, Artists, and Politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War. University of Chicago Press. p. 252. ISBN 978-0-226-49368-8. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
- ^ Peter Humphreys (1996). Mass Media and Media Policy in Western Europe. Manchester University Press. p. 90. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ David Forgacs; Robert Lumley, eds. (1996). Italian Cultural Studies:An Introduction. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 December 2014. – via Questia (subscription required)
- ^ "Editoria, Soru compra l'Unità. Una fondazione gestirà il giornale". La Repubblica (in Italian). 20 May 2008. Retrieved 28 August 2008.
- ^ "Concita De Gregorio alla guida dell'Unità". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 22 August 2008. Retrieved 26 August 2008.
- ^ "Redesign newspaper: L'unita, Italy". Behance. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ^ Hanno ucciso l'Unità, l'Unità, 30 July 2014
- ^ "Italian Communist party paper folds after 90 years". The Local. 2 August 2014. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ^ Lizzy Davies "Italian newspaper stops publication as shareholders fail to agree rescue deal", The Guardian, 30 July 2014
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GOLIAD, TEXAS (Catholic Online) - Forty two years ago in January of 1970, after being taught morals and values, I found myself pregnant. I was only fifteen years old. It was a shocking surprise and we all went through the gamut of emotions: alarm, concern, fear, worry and confusion.
A little baby, a human being, was at stake here.
My family and I, and the baby's father, Chuck, and his family had some serious decisions to make, but abortion was not one of them. For one thing, abortion was illegal in 1970, and for most people, immoral as well.
My mother, I think in sheer desperation, did quietly mention abortion to me as I lay in my bed one evening. Sitting next to me on the edge of the bed, she posed it as a question, but then quickly shook her head and dismissed the subject saying abortion was not possible.
She never mentioned it again.
Had abortion been legal and convenient then as it is now, my parents may very well have considered it as the easy way out.
My baby deserved life and a future just as much as anyone, and ending its life, thankfully, was not an option.
We lived in the small town of Alice, Texas and in 1970 teenage pregnancy was not as commonplace as it is today.
For several days, both families grappled with the news, pondering what course of action should be taken. In the meantime, I began pre-natal care with a local obstetrician. I experienced my first gynecological exams and suffered embarrassment and humiliation at my predicament as I continued my sophomore year of high school.
Being faithful and devout Catholics, Chuck's parents were understandably fearful of uniting us in a church marriage. They knew that statistically, our marriage would ultimately fail. They suggested rather strongly that we put the baby up for adoption. My parents however, adamantly refused. They could not fathom giving away their own flesh and blood. Still a child myself, I had no particular convictions either way and followed my parents' wishes, deciding against adoption.
Negotiations and discussions continued between our families. Finally, my parents drove over to his parents' home with the proverbial "shotgun" and threatened to charge Chuck with statutory rape (he was eighteen) if they would not agree to a lawful marriage between the two of us which would, of course, commit him to financial support of the child. A church wedding was out of the question, but both families agreed to a civil ceremony.
Chuck, his parents, my parents, and I did the deed one cold afternoon in late January. Following the somber ceremony, we all went out for lunch at Ship Ahoy Seafood Restaurant, and afterward I went home with my parents and Chuck went home with his.
My parents were somewhat appeased - they got a legal union between us, but his parents were still reluctant to have us "act out" or consummate the marriage by living together. As Catholics, this would have been sinful since we had not married in the Church. It was hard for both sets of parents, I know, because we were so very young, still children ourselves.
Chuck and I continued to attend high school. I hid my growing belly under large, loose dresses and blouses, missed early classes because of morning sickness, and desperately fought against dizziness and nausea during the long, hot afternoons. We had no air conditioning in the schools back then. This arrangement continued until my parents stepped up once again and insisted that we live together as man and wife. So, I turned sixteen in February and moved in with his family until I finished tenth grade and Chuck graduated from high school.
That summer Chuck and I moved to Kingsville, about thirty miles from Alice. Chuck began college at Texas A&I. Our daughter, Lisa, was born in September and I became an official high school dropout and teenage mother.
I missed out on the traditional high school parties and dances, football games and pep rallies. I never attended a prom. Instead, I cooked cleaned, shopped and changed diapers. I had to learn about babies, diapers, loose stools, cracked and bleeding nipples, staying up all night, hospitals, croup and croup tents, vaporizers, diaper rash, etc.
Chuck and I stayed married about two years. Not surprisingly, we divorced and I moved back home with my parents. I enjoyed taking some college classes, but living at home was not fun and I became restless and lonely. I longed to go out and date again, so when a friend set me up on a blind date, I couldn't wait! Maybe I was craving love and attention, maybe I was just eager to get out of my parents' house, or maybe I was simply a victim of the times, but I fell in love immediately.
It was the seventies and the sexual revolution that began in the early sixties had reached my neck of the woods.
Sex without guilt. If it feels good do it. Free love. These were the slogans I was becoming accustomed to. Throwing caution to the wind, I fell headlong into this new relationship and was thrilled, excited and happy. Terry and I had fun together and I took advantage of my parents as babysitters while I went out as often as I could. I thought we were in love and he was the one for me.
In November, 1973, I found myself pregnant again. Though I was only nineteen and still a teenager, I was not the innocent, helpless child I had been at fifteen. This time, I hid my pregnancy from my parents, confident that Terry and I would marry soon and all would be well. I was wrong.
Terry balked, making it clear that he did not want to marry me. He even accused me of "trapping" him by getting pregnant on purpose. I had been careless and ignorant with birth control, but I had not done what he accused me of.
Even though he had been raised a Catholic, Terry wanted me to get an abortion.
Feeling hurt and betrayed, and even desperate, I decided it was the only way I could prove to him that I had not done this on purpose.
After the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court ruling earlier that year, abortions were now legal and easy to get. No big deal. Planned Parenthood clinics were abundant and easily accessible. Abortion had become the instant quick fix nationwide.
I was impressionable, lacking in hard-core common sense and ignorant when it came to the knowledge and insight that comes with age. Had I been then, the person I am now, I would have told Terry to get lost.
Instead, heartbroken and crushed, I unwittingly let him drive me to a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Houston.
The building was large, white and scary.
Overwhelmed with fear, I ascended the steps and entered the building.
Terry escorted me inside where I signed in and then he left me in the waiting room which was full of girls, most of them very young like me. Some were alone and some even had their mothers with them.
I remember a set of identical twins, two blonde girls, sitting across from me, and wondered if they were both getting abortions or if one was simply there for moral support.
To this day, I cannot remember seeing any boys or men in that room.
My name was called and I was led into a small office and seated in a hard chair facing a woman sitting behind a desk. She shuffled some papers and without looking up and in a very businesslike manner asked me a few basic questions and wrote on the papers. She gave me some simple instructions on how to take care of myself after the procedure including activities to avoid and problems I should look out for. But as for the procedure itself, she said not a word.
Looking back now, I realize I didn't have a clue about what an abortion actually entailed. All I knew was that I would no longer be pregnant.
I had no idea how the "fetus" would be removed or what would happen to it.
When the paperwork was completed, a nurse came for me. She was actually a little more friendly and the first person to smile at me that day. She led me down a hall into what I guess was the operating room, and handing me a sheet to cover myself, instructed me to remove my clothing from the waist down. I did so and with the sheet wrapped around me, climbed up onto the examining table, where she helped me into position with my knees wide apart and my feet in stirrups. When she left, I lay there open and exposed, completely enveloped in fear and dread with no idea what lay ahead.
When the doctor came in, followed by the nurse, he never even looked at me. In a hurried and no nonsense manner he went straight to the end of the examining table, slipped on surgical gloves, and began an exam. In less than a minute, he jerked his head up, looked toward the nurse and exclaimed with little emotion, "We can't do this. She's too far along."
All I can remember then was a physical whoosh, a rush of relief as my whole being instantly relaxed and without thinking blurted out, "Thank goodness!"
Then for the first time since entering the room, that doctor looked at me.
I tensed up again as I saw the anger in his eyes. He frowned and said sternly, "Now you'll just have to go somewhere else!" Without waiting for a response, he abruptly turned and left the room.
I don't remember getting off that table or even getting dressed. All I remember is feeling ecstatic with relief and a tremendous urge to literally jump for joy.
I left that room and searched for the exit. Passing once more through the waiting room, I looked around at all the pretty, sad faces and felt so overwhelmingly sorry for them. I remember thinking how fortunate I was to not be one of them.
Then I met Terry at the top of the steps outside the building. He looked at me questioningly. "Well?"
"They didn't do it," I told him.
"What?" he asked in surprise.
I explained to him that the doctor said I was too far along and I would have to go somewhere else to do it. I saw the relief in his eyes and thanked my lucky stars.
We never did go to another clinic. Maybe his Catholic upbringing got the better of him. Maybe he cared about me after all. I only know he had a change of heart and decided to marry me.
Oftentimes I think about what happened that day. Though I did nothing to deserve God's hand in stopping what was about to happen, I can only believe it was divine intervention. There was no possible way I could have been more than twelve weeks along in the pregnancy. I had only missed two periods and the math just didn't add up. I don't question it any more, however, because I'd just go crazy wondering why. Why only me? Why not all those other poor, unfortunate souls in that waiting room?
Six and a half months later, I gave birth to a healthy, happy baby boy we named Kenny. He is now thirty eight years old with an engineering degree from Texas A&M University. He has a great job, a beautiful, intelligent wife who is a certified public accountant, and five lovely, lively and precocious children.
My first child, Lisa, has a biochemistry degree from the University of Texas and a nursing degree from Texas A&M. She is married to a great man with a PhD in Physics from Princeton University. Together they have seven precious, beautiful, intelligent and amazing children.
Their oldest son, a national merit scholar, graduated valedictorian from his high school in Corpus Christi and will attend Princeton University in the fall. And do you know what? He could very well be president of the United States one day. He would make a great one. Yet, had abortion been legal then and my parents chosen to terminate the pregnancy, not only would this young grandson of mine not exist today; neither would his beautiful siblings.
I have no doubt every one of these precious grandchildren of mine will grow up to do important and amazing things someday. We are all designed by God with a purpose in life and none of these precious souls would have had the chance to achieve this purpose and realize their potential in this world had I aborted my babies.
I can't help but wonder about all the young girls dropped off at abortion clinics nationwide by boyfriends who leave them to live with the consequences the rest of their lives.
I think about the women who, as young girls, were betrayed by our culture into believing their fetuses were not real babies and then victimized by laws that made it too easy to get abortions.
I think about all the girls who choose abortion over adoption because our government has made it so much easier to kill a child than to give it away.
I think about the women, traumatized by an abortion when they were young, who now suffer from depression or even thoughts of suicide.
I think about these women because they can only imagine what they lost.
Judy Schulte is a retired teacher living in Goliad, Texas. She taught in elementary school twenty eight years for the Victoria Independent School District during which time she earned a Master's degree in education with a reading specialization. For ten years she also served as a consultant for the New Jersey Writing Project in Texas teaching summer writing institutes to teachers in area school districts. She now works part-time as a librarian at Mission Valley Elementary School in Victoria and is an active member of the First United Methodist Church of Goliad.
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