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Not 24 hours previously I was more than a little worried. I was afraid I'd run out of words.
I had encountered a mild case of writer's block brought on by downing four Pepsi Maxes in a six-hour period. While the soft drink is sugar free, it more than makes up for the sugar loss with twice the caffeine, hence the suffix "MAX" in red slashed capital letters across the front of the can.
My heart was beating faster than a Neal Peart drum solo.
But just when I thought I'd forever run out of things to write about, human kind came through for me again. It never lets me down.
I read an article in USA TODAY this morning that said overeating could lead to some mild forms of memory loss. I hate to coin the monosyllabic phrase – well, it's more a grunt actually, that sarcastically represents the obvious.
Duh. Why do you think we eat anyway? We eat to forget. We eat to find comfort from the daily grind of being our lonely and overweight selves.
Now I prepare for yet another Valentine's Day when I do not have someone with which to spend it. I turn to food during solitary times such as Feb. 14, and I eat in order to forget that I'm alone.
Again: Duh.
The article, which originated from another one of those studies commissioned by the American Academy of Neurology said "Older people who consumed more than 2,143 calories a day had more than double the risk of a type of memory loss called mild cognitive impairment compared to those who ate fewer than 1,500 calories a day."
According to the study, the more calories older people consumed, the more likely they were to have mild cognitive impairment, saying excessive calorie intake is associated with a greater risk of mild cognitive impairment.
MCI… Mild Cognitive Impairment, the condition between normal forgetfulness due to aging and early Alzheimer's disease.
I'm older. I've noticed some momentary lapses in my cognitive reasoning skills. Names no longer spew forth but instead linger on the tip of my tongue and then vanish altogether.
Sometimes I forget where I'm going and I catch myself driving aimlessly around town.
While I still manage to hit all the belt loops, the fly option continues to be a hit and miss thing, but I think that's more due to sloppy personal hygiene skills than memory loss.
And to think I spent the majority of my formative years trying to attain that stage between normal forgetfulness and early Alzheimer's via 12-packs of Bud Light.
I should have opted for the All You Can Eat Buffet instead.
It's long been said that memory is the second thing to go. I can't recall what the first thing was.
Well now I can blame that one on the Big Mac and fries I had for lunch today.
Man used to drink so he could forget. Who knew he had it all wrong? We eat to forget.
So forget the Jack Daniels and the Mad Dog 20/20. I am a man haunted by troubled thoughts and I'm hungry.
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While I am what most people would describe as an atheist, I normally call myself an agnostic, not so much because of any belief in a creator, but more because I would be open to accepting there was one if I had any proof. Dawkins has said about the same thing, but unlike him, I am not sure that the world would be a better place without religion. Yes, many bad things have been done because of religion, but there is a huge bias working in what we hear and see. Most religious people that have moderate views are silent and get much from their faith. Many if not most believe in science, evolution and such, but simply add the comforting belief that there a loving god and afterlife. I see this coming from several basic human needs.
There is also a big difference in peoples reality due to IQ differences. Most of us here have a higher than average IQ. My IQ is higher than 99.99 percent of the people around me. The world seems much different to someone with an IQ of even average range. I got a hint of what it would be like to be less logical when an illness affected my cognitive abilities. I had to learn new coping skills and it made me see how someone who just does not have the mental abilities to really understand things like deep time would simply come to the conclusions they have. Nature is really rather miraculous looking.
I have come to the conclusion that humanity will not ever be free of superstitious thinking and it is understandable. With that in mind, insulting religion does not seem to me a good way of fighting against it. Maybe we would be better off trying to influence religious beliefs instead to promote them being a more positive influence while insuring that as much science education as possible while trying to minimize parental indoctrination.
I am not at all sure that Dawkins is a positive force for atheism. I understand why we tend to have a chip on our shoulder. I am so tired to having people try to indoctrinate me, flipping through the religious shows on tv, etc. Before the Internet, I had not even met another person who would admit being an atheist. We have a lot of pent up frustration. But now, we have the Internet and people who are interested in atheistic ideas will find us. We should work towards ways of being seen positively.
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Please, Jared. Use personal insults to persuade your grandmother?
I said insulting religion and absurd concepts are effective ways of tearing them down, and criticism of religion generally qualifies as an insult. The examples I posted were satirical depictions of religion from literature, television, and a newspaper editorial.
Satire is social criticism presented with mockery and humor. The purpose is making a constructive point and effecting change by shaming something that deserves it. Twain, Colbert, and editorial cartoonists do it well.
You may never influence your grandmother as an individual. But you can influence teeming masses of people by daring to point and laugh at the outrageous and the forbidden, especially by trumping up the outrageousness.
There is no need to explain satire. I'm a huge fan of Pratchett and Douglas Adams.
Pissing off people is different then making them laugh at their religions absurdities. There is no guarantee that they will find it remotely funny.
Just to be clear "shaming" isn't constructive. In fact it's kind of a religious thing.
The grandmother thing was a poor example. Not sure if my point was taken correctly. but anyhow...
I once saw a shirt that said "I'm atheist. Debate me." I laughed. I know these people. These people wouldn't laugh. They would most likely try their hand at a debate over the shirt.
Satire is great for open minded people and people that already agree with you.
In the case of the religious there is not often a lot of open mindedness going on, especially on the extreme side.
You'd be surprised how pissed certain people were when this was posted on a certain forum. I doubt they were extremist.
being a fan of satire, I don't think it should go away or that it is useless however I don't think its going shame anyone into changing their minds. I' mean they are not going to be like "I deserve being shamed for believing that."
Just to be clear "shaming" isn't constructive.
I said "shaming something that deserves it" is constructive. Dishonor, disgrace, and embarrassment are powerful behavioral motivators.
Satire is great for open minded people and people that already agree with you.
Agreed: for them satire is great. For influencing minds already made-up, it's good-to-fair.
In the case of the religious there is not often a lot of open mindedness going on, especially on the extreme side.
True. But it doesn't take a lot. The irreligious population is growing very quickly in the US: most irreligious are formerly religious. American, European, and Internet cultures are permeated with satirical and irreverent depictions of religion. The audience is there.
You'd be surprised how pissed certain people were when this was posted on a certain forum. I doubt they were extremist.
That's a fine example, Jared. The message is simple and effective: Islam commands followers to kill unbelievers. The non-extremists get upset because the message confronts them with a shameful concept from an outsider's perspective.
If an insult was the only point, then depicting Mohammad would be enough and the commentary on suicide bombing would be unnecessary. One could make the insult far worse by showing Mohammad kissing a veiled pig on their wedding day. But delivering an insult for its own sake isn't satire, and it's not remotely the approach I've been advocating.
So they're insulted. But the anti-violence message is delivered in a powerful way that is almost impossible to ignore. Deliver that message (and others) often, widely and well enough, and it incites a reckoning, even if daring to deliver the message in itself is an insult. I say: keep delivering it.
What happens then? Non-extremists reflect on their beliefs. Some respond by disowning Islamic violence. Others leave Islam behind entirely. The "unchangeable" religion slowly starts to change. A small movement within Islam to strip away its worst qualities isn't atheism by a long shot. But it's a start.
Hey Gallup's Mirror,
What is your goal or intent in the "stare down" to which you refer? Is it to change minds? Alter belief? If I understand you correctly, you are saying that you can "influence" [teeming masses of] people in this way?
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I mentioned the intent earlier: tearing down religion and absurd ideas by making fun of them. That's what brings us to satire.
Examine satire academically as rhetoric and you'll find there are myriad criticisms of it. But notions that satire is ineffective at influencing social change (especially at a population level) have no traction: satire is effective. Differences of opinion are about why and how satire works, not about whether or not it works.
So, yes, I've been pointing out that persistent and pervasive satire does influence the teeming masses. As a secondary point, I've also mentioned that satire from iconoclasts is an insult almost inescapably, like any other criticism of religion.
The best satire is usually a didactic, informative, aggressive, focused, and (above all) humorous form of criticism that targets something in need of improvement, reconsideration, remodelling, or whatnot. The humor is the vehicle, hook, and payoff. The criticism is the payload. Go for a laugh: ideally a merry laugh or, less ideally, a bitter one.
The consensus is that satire is more effective at making up minds than at changing them, although it's capable of doing both. I agree with that consensus. Apparently, so do the politicians who work the late-night comedy shows.
Deliver a message, any message, with good satire and that message is more likely to get through, and the messenger is more likely to be seen as appealing and likeable. This effect works even when the message is challenging or delivered at someone else's expense, provided the message is not simply an insult for its own sake.
Human suffering being explained as a necessary circumstance in life to appease an invisible being is not that comforting to me. It actually just pisses me off.
It's called having a conscious. There is no rule book in life, contrary to popular religious opinion. The idea that I am good to placate an invisible being is a shitty reason to be moral. Morality was created, adapted, and advanced long before religion and supernatural myth had come into existence.
What if they believe the person is going to Hell because they happened to not play by the rules of religion? Life is a finite proposition. Why the wringing of hands?
First, the more miserable a life someone has, the more need there is to seek some sort of comfort. A belief that they suffer for a reason, that there will be something better is a powerful balm.
Human suffering being explained as a necessary circumstance in life to appease an invisible being is not that comforting to me. It actually just pisses me off.
But that is not how most religious people see this and this thread is not about how you see things anyway. This seems to be a common way responders here are getting off point. It's not about how you see things, it about how religious people see us. The bible says something about an atheist being blind and a fool. By telling religious people that we do not see the wonder of nature that could have only been created by god, it only affirms their beliefs and allows them to dismiss us as being poor creatures that have been misled by Satan or satin or something.
- Second, people often are tempted to do things that they morally know are bad, like stealing, lying, etc. Religious belief sets up within people a sort of self governance.
It's called having a conscious. There is no rule book in life, contrary to popular religious opinion. The idea that I am good to placate an invisible being is a shitty reason to be moral. Morality was created, adapted, and advanced long before religion and supernatural myth had come into existence.
You think I disagree? Again, it's about what religious people think and how best to mitigate the damage religion does. Our approach will reach some people who are already disbelievers but are religious because of indoctrination or social pressure and maybe some will convert, but being insulting and rude also lets people think this: "So what is my religion is false, I am a better person for it, look at how this atheist turned out." "He is angry and obnoxious, do I want to be like that". For some reason we seem to think that everyone values honesty over comfort. They don't. We are the exception, not the rule.
What if they believe the person is going to Hell because they happened to not play by the rules of religion? Life is a finite proposition. Why the wringing of hands?
- Third, people suffer when they lose someone they love, A belief in an afterlife removes much of the pain.
Again, what you think is not important. Religion is designed to motivate the follower to try and convert people. The idea that a son is turning away from the church and going to hell is horrible for a father and he will be motivated to keep that from happening. Religion is not fought against in the emotional arena which is what insulting religion does, they have that locked up. It is fought against in the part of the brain that values logic and knowledge. Not all people value that so their will always be religion until the basic human nature changes. That is not going to be anytime soon. All we can do is try and limit the damage that religion does and promote the good that it brings.
"Religion is not fought against in the emotional arena which is what insulting religion does, they have that locked up. It is fought against in the part of the brain that values logic and knowledge. Not all people value that so their will always be religion until the basic human nature changes."
So the mystery for atheists who attempt to embark on transforming someone's "basic human nature" is how to gain access to a theist's logic without upsetting them emotionally. When you figure that out let me know.
"All we can do is try and limit the damage that religion does and promote the good that it brings."
I don't believe the promotion of even the good aspects of religion is really necessary or even wise. I want to dismantle the institution, not prop it up.
And I'm actually a pretty laid back kind of dude (even a dudeist, if you will) who eschews being angry and obnoxious. Those traits are certainly apparent around here in the form of hell fire and brimstone fundamentalist Christians.
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I must respect the other atheist illogical folly, but only in the sense and to the extent that I can't force him to see the bigger picture or shut him up when he causes harm to my goals.
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I don't believe the promotion of even the good aspects of religion is really necessary or even wise. I want to dismantle the institution, not prop it up.
When you figure that out let me know. Seriously, we are trying to dismantle something that has been with humanity since we have been human and your idea of how to do this seems to be by making as big an ass of yourself as possible. Yep, that's going to work. Even politicians understand that when you want to make changes that are not popular, you instead make small palatable moves in the right direction. When the public could not stand the idea of making it so the police could pull you over for not wearing a seat belt, instead they compromised with the law making it mandatory to wear a seat belt but only allow a cop to write a ticket in conjunction with some other offense that was a pull over violation. Later, after the public got used to this, they quietly passed additional laws allowing the cops to pull for seat belts. This time the public went along without a whimper. The same will be true for changes to religion. What we want is to get rid of the dogmas that are the most damaging first, the anti-science push, the indoctrination of children, rejecting known facts, etc.
But every time you insult all religious believers, rub it in their faces, you turn away the moderates that already support the idea of getting rid of the dogmas that so damage humanity. And for what? Because it makes you feel better to give them back a little of what you have had to put up with? Yes, maybe religion does poison everything, but lets move on now to how do we best dilute the poisons.
I've understood for 40 years how silly and illogical religion is and spend a few years wanting to shout this in the face of every religious proselytizer who stepped in front of me, but I got past that and want to move forward. Maybe it's time you do too. And BTW, I did not say this:
So the mystery for atheists who attempt to embark on transforming someone's "basic human nature" is how to gain access to a theist's logic without upsetting them emotionally
That is a straw man you set up to knock down. Of course there are going to be times when you will emotionally upset a religious person, but you don't need to make this your goal and when he gets emotionally upset, then be compassionate and understand, not say "See how stupid you have been" How many generals have basically said: To defeat your enemy, come to understand him and when he is disarmed, make him your friend? And we are not going to change basic human nature anytime soon. We can however nullify the negative aspects of human tendency to see the hand of god in everything. I'm also not saying you should not speak out against the religious absurdities. But speak out in a way that does some good.
If this concept is too hard for you, then maybe you should sit silently on the sidelines and watch instead of grabbing the ball and running the wrong way because that is what every angry obnoxious mouthy atheist does IMHO.
Is that straight up enough for ya Ed?
I like that 99.99% thing. Old Pappy used to say, "The best way to make yourself look good Is to hang out with a bunch of ugly people".
Your "benefits of religion" list seems to center around Marx's famous criticism: Religion is the opiate of the masses.
Personally I think opiating the masses is a bad thing. And opiating myself is a bad thing. I would never numb myself against thinking about all the wonderful aspects of life (philosophy, scientific discovery, and yes, the bad things too, like pain, existentialist despair, etc). Something doesn't have to feel good to be a worthwhile life experience, and if you avoid everything that doesn't feel good, you're seriously missing out on life.


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There is no way to avoid the Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote metaphors when considering what would happen to Maryland's office market if Congress allows the federal budget to tumble off the "fiscal cliff" in January.
Already treading in mid-air due to the Great Recession and its subsequent stall in leasing activity by federal agencies and contractors, commercial property owners could feel the anvil fall, with the state losing as many as 113,700 jobs by 2014, according to the annual spending affordability report released last month by the Maryland Department of Legislative Services. That's the worst-case scenario, should lawmakers and President Barack Obama prove unable to cut a deal to stop the automatic spending cuts and tax increases that would take effect nationwide starting Jan. 2.
The report said federal aid to the state could fall by about $117.6 million for fiscal year 2013, and state income and sales tax revenues could drop by as much as $635 million in fiscal 2014.
How that would play out in space requirements for the office, industrial and retail real estate sectors is unknown. But if the office market had to absorb even 5 percent of the lost jobs, that could create as much as 1.2 million square feet of new vacant space, assuming the General Services Administration benchmark of 218 rentable square feet of space per employee.
The prospect of Congress and Obama chasing each other to the bottom has made pundits out of real estate economists, some of whom are setting odds for various scenarios.
Jones Lang Lasalle presented a compelling graphic in a report right after last week's election, suggesting how uncertainty about the federal budget has frozen hiring plans nationwide.
The data show that the nation added an average of 239,000 jobs per month in February through April last year, the months leading up to the showdown over raising the debt ceiling. "As the debate raged," the maximum monthly new jobs total fell to 85,000, the report said. Once the debt ceiling was raised, job growth bounced back to 202,000 in September.
Cassidy Turley chief economist Kevin Thorpe, for example, estimates there is a 50 percent chance of a deal to avert the spending cuts and tax increases, which he said would stimulate creation of 2 million net new jobs next year. That would translate into 56 million square feet of office space absorption nationwide and a 70 basis point cut in vacancy rates.
But if the worst happens and the federal budget does fall off the cliff, Thorpe forecasts that office space absorption would fall by 2.6 million square feet nationwide next year and vacancies would rise by 20 basis points.
Two Cecil industrial buildings sell for $78.5M
A Dallas joint venture announced it bought a pair of Cecil County industrial buildings totaling 1.8 million square feet.
The two properties sold for a combined $78.5 million, according to CoStar Group, a real estate information service.
Hillwood Investment Properties, a Perot company, together with Brookfield Asset Management, bought the two Class A facilities, giving them access to mid-Atlantic markets from Baltimore to Philadelphia.
Built in 2005, the 756,690-square-foot building at 451 Fletchwood Road in Elkton is on 71 acres in Broadlands Business Park. The building at 238 Belvidere Road in Perryville was developed in 2003 and totals 1 million square feet on 71 acres.
The Perryville location has active rail access served by CSX Railway.
"Given the Class A nature of the buildings and high credit quality of the tenants, these properties are a great addition to the Hillwood-Brookfield portfolio," Tom Fishman, Hillwood's executive vice president of acquisitions, said in a news release.
The properties are within Baltimore's I-95 North corridor industrial submarket, which consists of Hartford and Cecil counties.
Jones Lang LaSalle closes $62M in bridge loans
Jones Lang LaSalle Capital Markets announced that it has closed on $62 million in bridge loans for building in Bethesda and Baltimore.
Since July, it has closed on a total of almost $141 million in bridge financings, including three in Northern Virginia.
The transactions include a $44 million bridge/acquisition loan for Executive Plaza in Bethesda and an $18 million bridge refinancing for an office and industrial portfolio in Baltimore.
"A slowdown in the leasing activity due to a lack of clarity on the upcoming election and sequestration issues in the D.C. region have hampered efforts for borrowers to secure financing for a number of value-add, well-located opportunities," said Jones Lang LaSalle's Mike Yavinsky. "However, we are seeing a number of debt funds, banks and life companies looking for yield, step into this space to provide viable loans to bridge the gap."
College Park medical building has new owner
The Premier Cos. acquired the Science Park Professional Center, a 45,059-square-foot medical office building at 6201 Greenbelt Road in College Park, according to state records.
No information on the price was available.
Broker Avison Young marketed the property as a potential condominium conversion. The building was 73 percent leased to anchor Children's National Medical Center and 23 other tenants.
The building is assessed at $4.7 million and last traded for $1.6 million in 1997.
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Carr Properties and Transwestern broke ground Thursday on the first new office building started in downtown Bethesda in more than 11 years.
The 223,000-square-foot property at 4500 East West Highway will replace a McDonald's and a home converted to office space. The project was originally approved by the Montgomery County Planning Board in 2008.
Plans by developers include more than 13,000 square feet of street-level retail, below-grade parking, a fully equipped fitness facility, a conference center and a 4,500-square-foot rooftop terrace. It is scheduled for delivery in the summer of 2014.
Although this is the first new ground-up construction in downtown Bethesda in more than a decade, Akridge is putting the finishing touches on 120,000 square feet at 7550 Wisconsin Ave., a 1960s building it bought from the GSA in 2010 and rebuilt from bottom to top. A few blocks away, another whole-building renovation at 7700 Old Georgetown Road delivered 157,000 square feet during the first quarter of 2012.
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Quakes keeper is nominated once again for the top save of the week
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Quakes keeper Jon Busch is one of five nominees for the MLS Save of the Week. In Saturday's 1-0 loss to Seattle Sounders FC, Busch dove to his left to make a fingertips save on Blaise Nkufo.
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The global economic situation, which continues to dominate the business environment, has underlined one issue - that the role of the finance professional has never been more vital to business survival and success. It has become clear that accountants who have the benefit of a sound professional education are central to the development and ongoing success of all economies, which is why we believe our key theme Accountants for Business has relevance for our profession and all those who rely on expert judgement and advice.
Over the course of my term as president, I have had a unique opportunity to see how ACCA members have been working with businesses to help them navigate through these challenging economic conditions.
We have been working to support our membership at this critical time. This has included undertaking regular monitoring of the impact of the global economic conditions on members and their businesses. ACCA has made significant contributions to the public debate on matters of world importance, such as the agenda of the G20 nations; COP15 and climate change; the value of audit; financial regulation; tax; public financing and access to finance. We have also placed the issues facing smaller businesses at the heart of our work, for example through an influential report undertaken by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Council has looked in detail not only at the impact of the current conditions on our membership, but also at the implications for ACCA as an organisation, to ensure that we have been able to continue to operate through our global infrastructure and to manage the increased risks to our operations which have resulted from economic conditions. These include currency fluctuations and the social and political environment in some countries.
I am pleased to report to members that we continue to perform well in terms of member growth and financial performance, both of which are vital to fulfil Council's desire to see sustainable growth in the membership and an increase in ACCA's wider reputation and influence, consistent with our 2015 strategic objective to be the leading global professional accountancy body.
Following approval from members at the last AGM, we have moved ACCA's accounting reference date to March. This is helping us to manage our operations more effectively given the large numbers of registrations and subscriptions we have to process at the end of December. As a result of this change, we have moved the date of our AGM from May to September.
To enhance transparency in our reporting, we are publishing for the first time a standalone Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report. This forms an important part of our ongoing commitment to transparency and provides an opportunity for ACCA to put on record its own operational performance in corporate social responsibility, alongside its long-standing and world-leading programme promoting the role of accountants in this arena.
Enhancing service delivery and the global network
Turning to our own operational record, Council has been pleased to see the enhancements made in the services which ACCA provides to its customers, particularly to our 140,000 members, where a strategic priority is to enhance employability and career opportunities and to provide a level of service of which we can all be confident and proud. The percentage of members and students who have noticed the improvements in our customer service support is evidence that we are making a real difference.
Over the past year, ACCA has continued to develop strong global partnerships. ACCA believes in the importance of partnerships which strengthen the profession and bring value to accountants locally and internationally and we are proud of the 77 global accountancy partnerships we have now developed. With some new offices opened, we now have 83 offices and centres around the world. We are also working closely with leading employers to enhance opportunities to our members for development.
As a result of all of these activities, we have strengthened ACCA's reputation as a global body with employers around the world - a significant benefit to all our members.
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Looking to the future, we continue to plan carefully in the light of uncertainty surrounding the global economy. Council welcomes plans for the continued transformation of ACCA's organisation and service delivery to enable it to offer a high standard of service and an efficient and effective infrastructure. We will continue to offer support and valued services to our members wherever they are based, with increasing online delivery to maximise the opportunities of new technology. We will be working to strengthen our strategic relationships with employers and to strengthen our brand for the benefit of members around the world.
In conclusion, I thank the ACCA Council for its support, working in a difficult environment, and express my gratitude to the ACCA team - employees and committees around the world - for their hard work on behalf of ACCA and the wider profession.
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Anthony Charlsten Galoppa pled guilty in Jones County Superior Court April 17 and received sentences of 12 months each for three counts of obstruction of an officer and one county of simple battery. Two counts will run consecutively and all other counts concurrently for a total of 24 months. The first 30 days is to be served in confinement and the remainder on probation with credit for time served.
Galoppa was arrested Nov. 17, 2013, on charges of simple battery under the family violence act and cruelty to children in the third degree.
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RIM sheds old name, becomes BlackBerry
Baggage begone? CEO Thorsten Heins says the company's customers use BlackBerrys and its employees work for BlackBerry. So there.
Adios, RIM. Research In Motion is no more.
At the BlackBerry 10 launch event in New York City today, CEO Thorsten Heins announced that the venerable RIM moniker has been retired for simply, BlackBerry. "Our customers use BlackBerrys, our employees work for BlackBerry," Heins said before a packed house.
With its name change comes a change to the company's ticker symbol. On the Nasdaq, the Canadian handset maker has retired RIMM in favor of BBRY.
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Betsy Eckfeldt, who always sought to celebrate the beauty in life and generously shared her vibrant but gentle spirit, died peacefully in her home in Roxbury on August 13, 2013. She was 63 years old and had cancer. Betsy loved her husband Norm; mother Phyllis; daughter Emily; son Nathaniel; son-in-law Zubin; daughter-in-law Lindsey; grandson Cyrus; brother Grant and his family; late father Grant; late sister Cindy; the home she shared with Norm which they began building 40 years ago; their flower and vegetable gardens; their three tabby cats; trails through the woods where she walked, skied and snowshoed; colorful skirts, scarves and jewelry; fruit pies and jams; her devoted and varied community of friends; and the countless number of children she taught, read to and inspired.
Born and raised in Fitchburg, MA, in her youth, Betsy traveled to Stowe, VT, with her family every weekend to ski. She attended Applewild School, briefly Northfield Mount Hermon, followed by St. Mary's in the Mountains, and then Middlebury College, where she studied elementary education and French. After graduating in 1971, she lived in England before returning to the Green Mountain state. While working at a small ski lodge in Warren, she met Norm Vandal, a fellow "back-to-the-lander." Soon afterwards they began building a life together in Roxbury, growing their own food and raising two children, while Norm made period furniture and Betsy dried flowers to sell on a cart she parked at farmers' markets and craft shows.
Annual trips to Maine and Cape Cod were a highlight of Betsy's adult family life, and there she swam, voraciously picked blueberries and made jam for family and friends. Betsy's teaching career reflected her lifelong passion for early childhood education and literacy. She taught preschool at Waitsfield Elementary School for 24 years and briefly at both Warren and Moretown Elementary Schools. She ran Spring Hill School summer camps. Betsy inspired many and was excited in her incessant pursuit of inclusive, enriching, discovery-based classrooms.
She traveled to Reggio Emilia, Italy, to study their city's creative methods of teaching children. For years she was a library trustee and grant-writer and, in 1993, she began co-creating literacy programs for the Vermont Humanities Council to introduce new parents to the importance of reading to young children. She liked to say: "Babies need books!"
One of Betsy's greatest joys was teaching yoga and mindfulness meditation to youngsters, and she attended a yoga teacher training at Kripalu after retiring from Waitsfield Elementary School in 2011. She called it "yoga boot camp" and emailed family daily with her reflections starting at 6 a.m.! She was also a certified YogaKids instructor. In her career as a teacher she learned how helpful yoga postures and mindfulness can be to children, particularly to those with special needs, and she planned to consult part-time in schools and to teach privately in her retirement as part of what she fondly called the "Vermont Mindfulness Movement," a curriculum she was developing when she found out she had cancer in 2012.
Betsy's warmth, creativity, generosity and open heart were attributes she shared wherever she went. She was a friend to many, with a rare vibrancy for life and relationships. She was beautiful and she was kind. She taught us about living and dying gracefully. Her twinkling eyes, enormous smile, red hair and boundless energy will be remembered by many. She is survived by the love she shared and the extensive communities she created everywhere she went.
A ceremony and potluck celebration to honor Betsy's life will be held at Knoll Farm/Center for Whole Communities, in Waitsfield, on Sunday, September 8, at 3 p.m. Please bring flowers (no stems) for a community ritual art Mandala and a potluck hors d'oeuvre to share. Please carpool and consider dressing to honor Betsy. In lieu of flowers to the family, you may wish to make contributions in Betsy's memory to: Hope Lodge, Burlington or Vermont Humanities Council: "NTE" program. Betsy's family expresses deep gratitude to the Hope Lodge, Central Vermont Hospice Services, music therapist Islene Runningdeer and the network of friends and family who have offered support during this time.


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HAZARD – Hazard police arrested a man Tuesday suspected of breaking into a house this past weekend.
James Scott Oden, 20, of Hazard, was alleged to have broken into a residence on Cedar Street in Hazard Sunday morning. The homeowner was not at home, but had hired a house sitter who was inside the residence at the time. Police said the house sitter chased Oden into the basement of the house where a fight ensued. Oden was positively identified, but was able to get away, police said.
Oden was taken into custody Tuesday on Highway 451 near the foot of Town Mountain after police received information that he may be traveling in a vehicle in the area, said Det. Paul Campbell with the Hazard Police Department.
Major James East and Det. Adam Baker initiated the traffic stop of the vehicle, which was being driven by a female. That's when the officers also located Oden inside. He was arrested without incident, Campbell said, and later confessed to the break-in on Feb. 10. He was also served with arrest warrants from separate cases, Campbell added.
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Dr. Mary Jo Dropkin has worked exclusively with the head and neck cancer patient population for over 20 years at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. During that time, as a staff nurse and later, the Clinical Nurse Specialist for the Head and Neck Service, she provided a great deal of hands-on care for dying patients. Since obtaining her doctoral degree and moving to an academic setting, she has continued her dedication to the head and neck cancer patient population. She is certified as an End of Life Nursing Education Consortium trainer, teaches End of Life Care in the undergraduate program at LIU Brooklyn and was instrumental in making this course part of the required curriculum for undergraduate nursing students. She also teaches Nursing Research.
Over the course of her career, she has also published widely including journal articles, book chapters, and recently, she co-edited the monograph entitled "Head and Neck Cancer. She has also conducted several major research studies, building a specific research program over three decades, with the goal of determining how patients cope with the disfigurement and functional impairments sustained by this patient population in relation to treatment for the disease. She is currently funded by the National Institute of General Medical Services for a grant entitled "Oral Cavity/Pharynx Cancer Recovery in African-Americans".
Care of the Head and Neck Cancer Patient
Care of the End of Life Patient
Author (2012), "Evidence for practice: Long-term health-related quality of life in survivors of head and neck cancer," published in ORL-Head and Neck Nursing.
Co-author (2006), "Recovery issues for African Americans following treatment of oral cavity/pharynx cancer," published in OR-Head and Neck Nursing.
Author (2003), "Spotlight on research: Psychosocial intervention for newly diagnosed cancer patients," published in ORL- Head and Neck Nursing.
Author (2001), "Anxiety, coping strategies and coping behavior in patients undergoing head and neck cancer surgery," published in Cancer Nursing .
Co-author (2000), "Crisis in recovery," published in AJN.
Author (1999), "Body image and quality of life after head and neck cancer surgery," published in Cancer Practice. Co-author (1998), "Survey on research priorities for SOHN," published in ORL - Head and Neck Nursing.
Co-author (1998), "Research attitudes survey," published in ORL - Head and Neck Nursing.
Author, "Coping with disfigurement/dysfunction and hospital stay," published in ORL-Head and Neck Nursing.
Co-author (1983), "Scaling of disfigurement and dysfunction in postoperative head and neck patients," published in Head and Neck.
Author (1981), "Development of a self care teaching program for postoperative head and neck patients," published in Cancer Nursing.
Co-author (1980), "A stress coping model," published in Advances in Nursing Science.
Author (1979), "Compliance in postoperative head and neck patients," published in Cancer Nursing.
Co-editor (2005), Head and Neck Cancer
Chapters in Books
Author, (2005), "Nursing research issues," in Head and Neck Cancer.
Co-author (2005), "Introduction to head and neck cancer," in Head and Neck Cancer.
Co-author (2005), "Chemotherapy for head and neck cancer," Head and Neck Cancer, Pittsburgh: Oncology Nursing Press.
Co-author (1986), "Carotid artery rupture," In Standards of Oncology Nursing Practice
Co-author (1986)," Tracheostomy care," In Standards of Oncology Nursing Practice.
Co-author (1986), " Total laryngectomy," In Standards of Oncology Nursing Practice..
Author (1985), "Caring for the patient with head and neck cancer," in Foundation of Thanatology, curriculum for schools of medicine, nursing and related health professions.
Author (1981), "Changes in body image with head and neck cancer," in Cancer Nursing.
Author (1995). Anxiety, problem-focused coping strategies, disfigurement/dysfunction and post operative coping behaviors associated with head and neck cancer.
Samples Abstracts and Conference Proceedings
Co-author (2002), "Advances in head and neck surgery: Impact on quality of life," in The Many Faces of Oncology Nursing, Syllabus of the Oncology Nursing Society 27th Annual Congress.
Co-author (2002), "Advances in head and neck surgery: Impact on quality of life," Combined Otolaryngological Spring Meeting.
Author (1999), "Oral cavity/pharynx cancer: A recovery model," Abstracts of the Pan American Congress of Psycho-oncology.
Presenter (2012), Evidence-based practice: Everything old is new again. Poster presentation, SOHN Annual Congress.
Presenter (2009), Caregiving: The most difficult role. SOHN Annual Congress.
Presenter (2009), Oral cavity/pharynx cancer recovery in African-Americans: Pilot data. SOHN Annual Congress.
Presenter (2008), Pain management for head and neck cancer patients at the end of life. SOHN Annual Congress.
Presenter (2007), Oral cavity/pharynx cancer recovery in African Americans (Follow up). SOHN Annual Congress.
Presenter (2006), Oral cavity/pharynx cancer recovery in African Americans. SOHN Annual Congress.
Presenter (2004), End of life issues for head and neck cancer patients. SOHN Annual Congress.
Presenter (2002), Body Image Reintegration and Quality of Life after Head and Neck Cancer Surgery. Oncology Nursing Society, 27th Annual Congress.
Presenter (2000), Oral cavity/pharynx cancer: A recovery model. Fifth International Conference on Head and Neck Cancer, SOHN.
Presenter(1999), Anxiety and coping behaviors in patients undergoing head and neck cancer surgery. Eastern Nursing Research Society.
Presenter (1998), Body image reintegration and quality of life after head and neck cancer surgery. The Milton J. Dance, Jr. Head and Neck Rehabilitation Center at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center.
Presenter (1997), Anxiety, coping strategies and post-operative coping behaviors associated with head and neck cancer. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital 1997 Nursing Research Conference.
Presenter (1997), Nursing research in head and neck cancer. National Institute for Deafness and Communication Disorders. The National Institutes of Health.
Presenter (l996), Anxiety, coping strategies and post-operative coping behaviors associated with head and neck cancer. Third World Congress of Psycho-Oncology.
Presenter (l996), Anxiety, coping strategies, disfigurement/dysfunction and head and neck cancer surgery. Annual SOHN Conference.
Presenter (l996), Coping with head and neck cancer and length of hospital stay. Fourth International Conference on Head and Neck Cancer.
Presenter (l996), Coping with head and neck surgery and hospital stay. Celebrating Nursing Research '96: NYU At The Cutting Edge.
Presenter (l995), Coping strategies, disfigurement/dysfunction and coping behaviors in surgical head and neck cancer patients. International Congress of Nursing.
Presenter (l995), Care of the head and neck cancer patient: research findings. Beth Israel Medical Center.
Presenter (2006), Featured in A Dialogue with Cancer: Communication between Doctors & Patients, Cancervive, produced by Merck Oncology.
Presenter (2000), Body image and quality of life in head and neck cancer patients. American Cancer Society Radio News Service.
Presenter (1978), "Ever Before Me," slide-tape presentation on body image/head and neck surgery.
First Place Literary Award, Society of Otolaryngology and Head-Neck Nurses (SOHN), 2007
Most Cited First Author Award, SOHN, 2007
Academic Tenure, Long Island University, 2006
Pace University, Lienhard School of Nursing Award for Outstanding Clinical Nurse Researcher, 1994
Society of Otolaryngology and Head-Neck Nurses Honor Award, 1994
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Department of Nursing - Special Projects Award for Development of the Disfigurement/Dysfunction Scale for Head and Neck Cancer Patients, 1993
Oncology Nursing Foundation Doctoral Scholarship Award, 1992
Listed in Sigma Theta Tau: Directory of Nurse Researchers, 1990-present
"Who's Who in American Nursing," 1988-present
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Excellence in Nursing Research Award, 1987
Marquis' "Who's Who in Cancer Professionals and Facilities," 1987-present
Sigma Theta Tau, 1977-present
Oncology Nursing Society
• Research Committee
• Editorial Board, Oncology Nursing Forum
Editorial Review Board, Cancer Practice
Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Nurses
• Editorial Review Board, ORL & Head Neck Nursing
• Board of Directors
• Research Committee
• Chairperson, Strategic Planning Committee
• Assistant Editor, The Journal
Member, National Certifying Board for Otorhinolaryngology & Head-Neck Nurses
Research Committee, International Head and Neck Cancer Conference
Research Mentorship Program
• Research Forum Chairperson, Annual Congress
• Feature Editor, Spotlight on Research, ORL-Head & Neck Nursing
Editorial Board, Cancer Nursing
Advisory Board, "Let's Face It, U.S.A."
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research: Review Panel
for Clinical Practice Guideline, Management of Cancer Pain
Member, Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Human Development, Long Island University
Member, New York State Oral Cancer Control Partnership
Member, Grant Review Panel, National Institute of Mental Health
Member, Long Island University Institutional Review
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Phone: (703) 922-5757 | Fax: (703) 922-7681
Website: www.bwufa.org
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Sheila B. Coates, President
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Type of Organization: National Grassroots/Advocacy
Founded: 1985
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Spring cleaning should include readying that one place we've neglected all winter where we spend a lot of time, converse with family, eat a few meals and sometimes get ready in the morning: the car.
"Really the number one thing is maintenance overall," said Bob Kazmierczak, AAA Northwest Ohio vice president of automotive services and enterprise development. "The reality is, I think that if people would keep up on the overall maintenance, they would have not as many issues when it comes to repairs."
While cars are more computerized than ever, the basics still need checked regularly: fluids, tires, belts, hoses, batteries and lights. However, we're not only wired for procrastination, but to put things off that are out of sight, out of mind and perhaps even to ignore the warning signs.
"That's like telling a surgeon, 'I can take out this tumor later,'" Kazmierczak said. "Cars are becoming more and more complex, so when auto technicians are telling you something, it really should be checked."
We may put off car care because it involves those two factors we can never have enough of — time and money — but if complexity drives us away, there are still plenty of things drivers can do on their own.
"The first thing, and I stress this with family and everybody, is to check tire pressure once a month," said Ed Meggitt, manager of Goodyear Auto Service Center on N. Alexis Road. "Not only will you make the tires last longer, but it will help with gas mileage."
Another simple exercise is the tire penny test, according to Kazmierczak, where you insert a Lincoln penny head-first into the tire tread. If you can see the top of Abraham Lincoln's head, your tread depth is less than 2/32 inch and the tire needs to be replaced.
Kazmierczak also suggested looking at the belts, and if you see several cracks within an inch, then those should be replaced. Hoses should also be inspected; a good hose is pliable but strong, and with a bad one you can feel cracking on the inside, or it will be extremely hard.
Furthermore, lights should be inspected routinely.
In spring and summer, we're all getting ready to do trips we normally don't do, according to Meggitt, and we want to be safe.
Plus, the hot weather can wreak havoc on the battery, which supplies electric energy to the automobile.
"Batteries die more in the heat than they do from the cold weather," Meggitt said. "The heat is what destroys the grids and things on the inside. Cold weather lowers cold cranking amps but doesn't destroy a battery as much as heat."
A basic spring checkup of standard maintenance items may run around $200-$300, according to Kazmierczak.
Winterizing a car may be important to prepare for the cold, but it's the endurance of that long, brutal season that makes a post-winter checkup so vital.
"As bad as the potholes were this winter," Meggitt said. "Every car in Toledo should have their alignment checked."
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If you like Gmail Chat and you use Opera, there's a simple tip that will make you happy.
Download the latest build of Opera 9 (warning: Opera 9 is still pre-beta). Then go to gmail.com, logout if necessary, press F12, select "Edit site preferences", go to Network tab and select "Mask as Firefox".
Login to Gmail and you'll now have Gmail Chat in Opera.
Update: Gmail Chat works in Opera 9.10, thanks to a workaround in browser.js.
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Thursday, August 29, 2013
The death of one of your children is cruel pain. No matter how long the lifespan – from youngster to senior – the loss is deep and devastating. Part of you has gone.
But part of these offspring remain in the memories and methods you choose to keep them alive in your mind. It's hard to write about – but that doesn't mean it isn't worth doing. It's how these recollections – old and new, and the way we preserve them – are woven through our lives that I want to share.
Our first son, Christopher Joseph, was born and died before he was 24 hours old. I was extremely ill and never even got to see him. We were stationed at Oxnard AFB California, at the time and it was up to Jim to bear the burden of our little guy's final arrangements. All we had left of him was the small little nickel toned crucifix that adorned his tiny casket. This cross, as a quiet reminder, has hung on our many kitchen walls for 54 years. We also put up an angel Christmas stocking for him every year.
What meld of ancestral features would he have had if he'd lived? What would he be like? Would he have been in the Air Force like his dad or a writer like his mom? How about taking after one grandmother with her love of and skill at music or an aunt, who is an artist. Perhaps he might have been into propagating and showing camellias like one of his grandfathers. Or he might have been a safari hunter or a pro footballer. Whatever. He would have been as loved as our other children. We often talk about these things on his March birthday. But just last week his younger brother David did something so special, it marks a new and lasting chapter in our family story.
He was representing the Hills at a relative's California wedding. Just before he left, David, who had named his second son Adam Christopher, asked just where Chris was buried as he had something special he wanted to take to the gravesite. He came by the house to show us the memento.
It was a U-shaped pewter bracelet, the kind you can slide bead charms on. He'd gone to one of those bead stores where they had thousands of selections and picked out six personal icons. There was an airplane for Jim and a heart for me. Our oldest daughter Cathy, a stylish college exec, was represented by a glittery spike-heeled shoe, and David, an architect, selected a sleekly designed house for himself. The final two charms were for our twins: Jimmy, our special child, was shown as a Raphael angel and a treble clef ended the family sextet for our jazz saxophonist cum music teacher, Mary Clare.
Last Saturday David drove two hours each way to install that bracelet for all of us. It was a way to come full circle. It's comforting to believe in an afterlife when we can be together and Chris can catch up on all our lifetimes – no matter how long they were.
But I have the feeling he already knows.
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Talented son has finalized the design plans, yet to build it ourselves or not to build it ourselves, that is the question. Cabinets and worktop have been selected from that great Swedish warehouse in the sky while our neighborhood cuisinista, kitchen design studio, is luring us with a second design and the heavenly promise of shouldering the hard labor and assuming all responsibility. Each appliance has been mulled over, advantages weighed out and finally selected. Yet each day as we step over the threshold, as our bodies are enveloped and consumed by a fine white dust, as we breath in the heady scent of stripping solution and plaster, all thoughts of a shiny new kitchen, a cozy home flooded with sunlight fall away.
What to cook in my future kitchen, you ask? Shall I have images of bottles of Champagne nestled and chilling inside a shiny refrigerator in my head? Can I see myself sliding gooey layers of chocolate cake out of an oven as thick, creamy ganache cools on my beautiful new countertop? As I stand in the middle of an empty room, surrounded by broken chunks of woodwork, the hideous floor strewn with hammers, scrapers, crowbars and bulging plastic bags overflowing with bits and pieces of electric wiring, plaster and gravel, do shiny, cream-colored cabinets filled with china and glassware, pots and pans take shape in my mind? Does my excitement at standing behind stovetop, window thrown open, the breeze tickling the back of my neck as I chop and stir block out the mess at my feet or soothe the sores on my hands? Can I feel the weight and heft of a tray laden with choice delicacies, oysters on ice chips, glistening olives, crystal goblets of wine each time I slip on a grimy yellow work glove and curve my aching fingers around the handle of the scraper? At the pain of disappointing, I must admit that the answer would be no.
Therefore, I answer my friends who press me for my dream menu that I just cannot think about it at this time and place. In normal times, I am much more invigorated to cook and bake in the winter when the weather is cool than in the slow, stagnant, lazy days of summer when my mind is a blank stretch of road winding into the flat, hazy distance. I lie on the sofa, drowsily mumbling lists of items I should be picking up at the market and murmuring lists of dishes I could be cooking for this meal or that. Yet the energy eludes me and I remain sprawled in the same position, leaving my family to fend for themselves. And this summer more than ever, what with Clem out of town, only drifting in on the odd weekend, Simon slipping out with his friends or simply not hungry at the same time that we are and JP and I just flat out lethargic, drained from the renovations. We prefer the simple, the cool and fresh, stopping by the market on the way back from a morning's renovation to pick up fruit and a head of lettuce, cold cuts and cheese, a baguette or two. We may, in our attempt to put together a complete and balanced meal, boil pasta and eggs, slice tomatoes and toss it all together with a can of corn and another of white beans for a * ta da * pasta salad! But the cooking and baking bug has surely left on a long vacation.
(Here I must do justice, give credit where credit is due at the expense of my story and say that JP does indeed make much more of an effort to cook real meals during the summer than I do and we often eat scrumptious dishes much to my delight and our satiation.)
But once in a while, the urge and excitement to cook or bake wash over me, invigorating and refreshing like dashing into the sea. Maybe it's the weather, cooler now, like the early days of autumn, my favorite season. Maybe it is something along the lines of the old adage "absence makes the heart grow fonder"; when days and weeks flow by and I've had neither the time nor the energy nor the desire to bake, it all catches up to me like a cavalcade in pursuit of the bad guys. And then I will spend a full day or two kneading dough, rolling out puff pastry, slicing and chopping seasonal vegetables and tossing fresh fruit into whipped cream. This past weekend, as the men made runs to the dump and to the hardware store, I made both a sweet and a savory tart with my homemade puff pastry. Fresh peaches, the sweetest we have found them in years, were sliced and layered onto a French Peach Tart. And summer's local tomates nantaises were sliced and layered atop a tangle of caramelized onions and fresh goat cheese, dotted with salty olives and baked, served warm for a dinner for four that was consumed in joy and in record time. Both tarts, the sweet and the savory, were gobbled down by three hungry men, the persnickety, the finicky and the hungry husband and proud, little old me, both tarts loved by one and all.
At the end of a trying, physically exhausting, yet satisfying day, nothing beats a wonderful, homemade meal.
The idea for this came from the July-August 2012 issue of French Saveurs, the twists and turns are my own.
For the tart you need:
Dough (I used puff pastry about 14 oz/400 g), the original recipe called for bread dough (about 14 oz/400 g) or you could simply use a quiche dough for a 10-inch tart. The puff pastry dough needs to be rolled out, line a lightly oiled 10-inch (25 cm) tart dish, pricked and refrigerated for about 30 minutes while you make the filling. The bread dough, if using, needs to stay out at room temp for 30 minutes once you have rolled it out and lined the oiled tart dish.
For my homemade Puff Pastry, follow the recipe here and the step by step directions here (adding the butter to the détrempe).
Roll out the dough (even the puff pastry) so when you line the tart/pie dish the dough comes up the sides to make an edge just to the top of the dish.
For the filling you need:
3 yellow onions - peeled, cut in half and thinly sliced
2 cloves garlic chopped or minced (not too too finely)
Fresh or dried thyme and basil (I used dried), salt and pepper
About 6 medium (maybe 2 - 3 inches across) ripe tomatoes **
A small handful tiny olives, such as Niçoise olives or Greek olives
A bit of fresh goat cheese or feta, optional
Olive oil
** you can use about 400 g (14 oz) cherry tomatoes, sliced in half. Instead of brushing the cherry tomato halves with olive oil before baking, toss in 1 to 2 tablespoons olive oil before placing the halves in concentric circles, close together, on top of the caramelized onions.
While the dough is resting, caramelize the thinly sliced onions in about 2 tablespoons olive oil. After about 5 minutes, when the onions become translucent and just start to color, add the garlic, salt and pepper and the herbs and continue to cook over medium or medium-low heat until the onions caramelized a golden brown. This usually takes about 10 minutes total. Remove from the heat and allow to cool for a few minutes.
Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C).
Spread the onions in the tart shell. If using goat cheese or feta crumble or lay slices over the onions, as much or as little as you like but only one thin layer. Cut off and discard the ends of the tomatoes and slice tomatoes about 1/4 inch thick and lay on top of onions/cheese in concentric circles, pressing the slices closely together in one tight, single layer. Lightly brush the top of each tomato with olive oil, salt and pepper again, a bit of basil and the olives, as many or as few as you like. Bake until the edges of the crust are golden brown about 30 minutes.
Remove from the oven and allow to cool just a bit before serving in slices. This tart makes a wonderful meal with only a green salad, bread and a cheese platter and a bottle of wine.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Indoor tanning beds would come with new warnings about the risk of cancer and be subject to more stringent federal oversight under a proposal unveiled Monday by the Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA has regulated tanning beds and sun lamps for over 30 years, but for the first time ever the agency says those devices should not be used by people under age 18. The agency wants that warning on the devices and pamphlets, catalogues and websites that promote indoor tanning. And regulators are also proposing that manufacturers meet certain safety and design requirements, including timers and limits on radiation emitted.
The government action is aimed at curbing cases of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, which have been on the rise for about 30 years. An estimated 2.3 million U.S. teenagers tan indoors each year, and melanoma is the second most common form of cancer among young adults, according to the American Academy of Dermatology.
Recent studies have shown that the risk of melanoma is 75 percent higher in people who have been exposed to ultraviolet radiation from indoor tanning. While most cases are diagnosed in people in their 40s and 50s, the disease is linked to sun exposure at a young age.
Physician groups have been urging the U.S. government to take action on tanning beds for years, citing increases in the number of cases of skin cancer among people in their teens and 20s.
"As a dermatologist I see the consequences of indoor tanning. I have to diagnose too many young people with melanoma and see the grief that it causes to these families," said Dr. Mary Maloney of the American Academy of Dermatology, on a call with FDA officials. Maloney said the FDA action is an important first step, but that her group would continue to push for a ban on the sale and use of tanning beds for people under age 18.
Earlier this year, a study of Missouri tanning salons found that 65 percent of 250 businesses surveyed would accept children ages 10 to 12, often without parental permission. The study was conducted by dermatologists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Currently the machines are classified as low-risk devices, in the same group as bandages and tongue depressors. The proposal would increase their classification to moderate-risk, or class II, devices. That would allow the FDA to review their safety and design before manufacturers begin selling them.
"They don't have to provide any data in advance before they go on the market, so we have no way of providing assurance that the tanning beds are performing up to specifications," said Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, FDA's director for medical devices.
Safety standards are important because recent studies show that many devices can cause sunburn even when used as directed. A 2009 study found that 58 percent of adolescents who tan indoors had sunburn exposure.
"If you get an indoor tan you shouldn't be burning," Shuren said.
The Indoor Tanning Association said it supported any changes that improve its customers' safety. But, in a statement, the group added that "we are concerned that these changes will burden our members with addition unnecessary governmental costs in an already difficult economic climate."
The agency said it will take comments on its proposal for 90 days before formulating a final regulation. Agency officials didn't give a timeframe for completion, but said it would be a priority.
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Well, I'm 38 wks and 1 day along. I almost made this pregnancy complete without incident of PE but not to be so. I called doctor a couple times this week in the past couple days because I have noticed my evening pressures climbing to a slight degree. Today it was confirmed that I was spilling 2+ protein. I've had a slight headache but then again, the weather has not been great for us with allergies lately. I am officially on bedrest as of last night and will be induced on Monday May 9th in the evening. This means little boy will most likely be born May 9th or May 10th. I'm not in the danger zone persay but I do know that this dysfunction, disease, beast can turn on a dime. This is my 3rd time to have PE and I am just very thankful I have made it further with this boy than I have ever gone. I had a BPP today and it showed that he is healthy and fine. He was sleeping but practicing his breathing. I could not have made it this far without the treatments, thoughts and prayers offered up by all of whom I know.
I pray my story has still been inspiring to those who wish to try and get pregnant again after loss. It can be done. I've been extremely protective of this pregnancy seeing it is a boy due to the loss of my other son in 2002. I do not regret my decisions to try try again and pray that I make it through this next weekend without incident.
I will continue to keep log of my progress. And as soon as I get a picture of this precious little one, I will have it posted. :-)
God Bless all the mommies out there and Happy Mother's Day in advance!
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Alice in ChainsThe Devil Put Dinosaurs Here/Virgin/Universal
It has been a decade since Alice in Chains lead singer Layne Staley passed away and more than twice that time since the band released its breakthrough 1992 album, "Dirt."
After losing such an influential member, most bands might just hang it up, but Alice in Chains instead brought on a new singer, William DuVall, after he performed a few shows with the band following Staley's death.
The 2009 album "Back Gives Way to Blue," the first with DuVall at the helm, was well-received by fans and critics alike.
On Alice in Chains' latest, "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here," the band continues its revitalized winning streak with an album that captures the band's trademark gloomy alternative metal sound.
This new album is not likely to become a classic such as "Dirt" or "Jar of Flies," but the music dovetails nicely into the rest of Alice in Chains' output.
Listening to the rumbling bass line that starts "Lab Monkey" or the crunching guitar riffs that anchor "Hollow," it is apparent that the band has tried to keep the signature Alice in Chains sound intact.
DuVall's voice, while not identical to Staley's, is similar enough that when he sings the band's older songs in concert, the difference isn't jarring.
This band, one of the few of the grunge age still around, should be commended for continuing its musical journey despite some pretty major setbacks.
Key Tracks: "Hollow," "Stone," "Lab Monkey"
Queens of the Stone Age ... Like Clockwork/Matador
Most music enthusiasts have no problem agreeing that there is something undeniably original about the way the band Queens of the Stone Age plays rock 'n' roll.
What's a bit more difficult, though, is pinpointing exactly what it is that makes the music so attractively addictive.
From where I stand, it's the way that Josh Homme and his bandmates compose music that, while rock 'n' roll is at its core, continually colors outside the lines.
One might find a bit of punk irreverence on one track, a little Broadway musical flamboyance on another and a touch of Black Sabbath metal later still.
The music is always delivered in a wonderfully slippery manner that causes it to glide into your ears.
On Queens of the Stone Age's latest, "... Like Clockwork," Homme and company have delivered another collection of cerebral and emotional songs.
"Keep Your Eyes Peeled" is a great opening choice, with its plodding beat coupled with Homme's falsetto vocals setting the mood for the rest of the album.
Elsewhere, some of the more standout tracks include "I Sat by the Ocean," "My God is the Sun" and "I Appear Missing."
Especially great is "If I Had a Tail," which just might be the most commercially appealing song the band has written since "No One Knows."
Throw in guest appearances by folks such as Dave Grohl and Elton John, and you have a superb album from a band that continually redefines what rock 'n' roll can be.
Key Tracks: "Keep Your Eyes Peeled," "I Sat by the Ocean," "If I Had a Tail"
Barenaked LadiesGrinning Streak/Vanguard
When Steven Page, one of the Barenaked Ladies' founding members, left the band abruptly in 2009, many fans wondered if the remaining members would be able to continue its output of creative and often hilarious songs.
Page either wrote or co-wrote nearly all of the songs on the Barenaked Ladies' first few albums, so the concern was warranted.
Fortunately for the band, its remaining members all sing and play multiple instruments, so there was no lack of talent.
The subsequent release without Page by the band, 2010's "All In Good Time," proved that there was life after the departure of their cohort.
On the latest, "Grinning Streak," the band still strives for the same sort of catchy songwriting that made hits out of tunes such as "If I Had $1,000,000" and "One Week." The problem with "Grinning Streak" is that those brilliantly entertaining moments are in short supply on the new album.
To be fair, there are some catchy tunes, including the one-two punch of "Limits" and "Boomerang" to start things off.
However, the majority of the music on "Grinning Streak" lacks the same sort of melodic irreverence that got the band noticed in the first place.
Even promising titles such as "Did I Say That Out Loud?" come up short in the creative department.
The band likely will weather this low point in its catalog, and it still put on a tremendous live performance.
See for yourself July 27 as the band performs with Ben Folds Five and Guster at the Family Circle Stadium on Daniel Island.
Key Tracks: "Limits," "Boomerang," "Odds Are"
By Devin Grant
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