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Public Policy Update
As the 108th Congress begins its first session, the Public Policy Office (PPO) faces major challenges in achieving APA's public interest policy goals. Wartime spending, homeland security, a sustained economic slump and severe budget deficits will make it difficult to attain even level funding for vital domestic programs, particularly those serving vulnerable populations. Your help is urgently needed to direct congressional attention to important health and education programs, which are at risk for termination if statutory authority is not extended.
In addition, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are likely to consider issues that will generate a great deal of debate and controversy, including affirmative action, reproductive rights and the relationship between church and state. Your federally elected officials will make many key decisions this year based on what you--their constituents--tell them. Therefore, you are an integral part of APA's efforts to ensure that psychological expertise is heard on Capitol Hill.
Programs still awaiting reauthorization
A number of federal programs, including unemployment insurance, welfare reform and special education, were due to be reauthorized by Sept. 30 of last year but carried over into this Congress.
Unemployment benefits need further extension. Although President Bush signed a narrow extension into law on Jan. 8, a longer-term solution is needed to aid the 2.5 million unemployed people benefited by this program. Unemployment inevitably leads to higher numbers of Americans without health insurance because more than 40 percent of those losing or changing jobs become uninsured. It has been recently reported that two-thirds of the states are cutting Medicaid benefits, increasing copayments and restricting eligibility.
The National Governors Association estimated that one million to two million low-income people would lose insurance coverage as a result of the cutbacks. This is of particular concern to APA, since Medicaid is the largest funder of mental health services in the country. The unemployed and the uninsured remain a top priority for PPO, and we will be working to keep them on the congressional agenda.
Welfare needs additional reform. The Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program--created by the 1996 welfare-reform legislation, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act--is still operating on borrowed time through short-term extensions. Although welfare caseloads have declined dramatically due to recent reform measures and a strong economy, the U.S. General Accounting Office reported that TANF recipients with mental or physical impairments (who constitute 44 percent of current caseloads), or those caring for children with such impairments, were found to be half as likely to leave the program as other recipients.
It is expected that a version of the welfare-reform bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives last year and included very strict work requirements--often a more substantial hardship for the recipients with mental and physical impairments (or those with children with such impairments)--will be reintroduced in the 108th Congress. PPO will continue to advocate for comprehensive services for those TANF recipients who face multiple barriers to self-sufficiency, particularly mental health, substance abuse and domestic violence problems. In so doing, we will also strive to forge stronger linkages with vocational rehabilitation services provided under the Rehabilitation Act--also due for reauthorization this year--to enhance the transition to work for these TANF recipients.
Special education also left behind. Another hold-over from last year for reauthorization is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This federal legislation outlines the requirements for educating children with disabilities, such as procedures for identifying disabilities and for developing individualized educational plans, including mental health and other related services. Although certain parts of IDEA expired last year, neither the House nor Senate introduced reauthorizing legislation. Among the key issues to be debated this year include whether children with disabilities can be expelled from school for disciplinary infractions related to their disability and the use of discrepancies between IQ and achievement test scores to determine if a child has a learning disability. PPO will continue to bring psychological research to bear on these significant issues.
Programs due for reauthorization this year
An early start for Head Start? On a related front, Head Start, a comprehensive social development program for children ages 0-5, is scheduled to be reauthorized this year. It consists of Early Head Start for ages 0-3 and regular Head Start for preschool-age children. During the last reauthorization in 1998, Congress stressed school readiness by emphasizing pre-literacy and pre-numeracy skills.
Over the last year, there has been much discussion about the possibility of moving Head Start from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Department of Education. Such a move is opposed by those who fear the social development aspects of the program would be undermined. Related debates will center on how the program can promote literacy and school-readiness skills without forsaking its other features. PPO will work hard to ensure that both the social and academic needsof young children are considered during the reauthorization debate.
Another look at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Authorization for this federal agency also expires on Sept. 30. SAMHSA is undergoing significant changes under its new administrator, Charles G. Curie, with an increased emphasis on accountability, capacity and effectiveness. One new initiative would replace the Community Mental Health Services and Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grants to the states with two new Performance Partnership Grant programs. SAMHSA is also developing more initiatives for children, including programs for co-occurring substance abuse and mental disorders.
The reauthorization process may codify some of these changes. With the anticipated issuance of the final report of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health at the end of April, it is hoped that the recommendations will provide an impetus for legislative changes in the mental health delivery system that will benefit both children and adults. PPO has been working closely with SAMHSA and congressional staff and will continue to do so throughout the reauthorization process.
Controversy looms on social issues
Anti-discrimination measures warrant attention. APA will continue to support equal opportunity and the civil and constitutional rights of minority populations and others at risk for discrimination. Accordingly, PPO is pressing once again for passage of antidiscrimination legislation blocked for a number of years by various factions in Congress.
Most notably, these bills include hate-crime legislation--such as the Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act--which in part would extend legal protections on the basis of gender, disability status and sexual orientation, and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would provide basic workplace protection from discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation.
On a related front, the Bush administration has challenged the University of Michigan affirmative action policy at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the U.S. Supreme Court cases of Gratz and Hamacher v. Bollinger et al. and Grutter v. Bollinger et al., respectively. APA has filed an amicus brief in support of the policy.
Reproductive rights in the balance. On the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that recognized a constitutional right to abortion, opponents of reproductive rights are preparing a major push for new abortion restrictions in the 108th Congress. Many congressional opponents of abortion have adopted a step-by-step approach by introducing legislation to prohibit late-term abortions, to limit adolescent access to reproductive health care and to allow hospitals and other health-care providers to refuse to perform abortions without losing their federal funds.
Also of concern, there is growing congressional support for abstinence-only sex education that does not discuss other ways to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. PPO will strive to ensure that the debate over reproductive rights and sex education takes into account APA policy positions and relevant psychological research.
Legislative priorities of the new Congress and call for action
The top legislative priorities of the congressional leadership include tax cuts, domestic and national security, prescription drug coverage for the elderly, reducing racial health disparities, and financing the President's education plan that passed last year. Although APA's public interest policy goals will not always match those of the congressional leadership, we will nonetheless continue to advocate on behalf of vulnerable populations and for programs that serve them.
Our strategic plan includes working with our friends in Congress, cultivating new allies and finding common ground with our opponents, in addition to working with our coalition partners. Yet, the most important tool in our advocacy strategy is you--our APA Members. We hope that you will join us in advocating on behalf of psychology in the year ahead. Your public interest policy staff can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com report was compiled by APA's Public Policy Office.
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jhu7276 wrote:How about a reference about "the U.S. subsidizing Israel's healthcare"? You continually post about this...what are the actual facts?
You may have to wait a long time for a rational answer to your question, jhu7276.
My understanding of Brooklyn's political beliefs is that any and all American aid helped fund social programs for other Nations, which American citizens have been consistently denied. The fact that Egypt has received American military aid close to Israel's is a problem for Brooklyn....because in Egypt healthcare isn't as accessible as Israel or America. Brooklyn's theory also breaks down in the light of his largely unfounded grievances against the State of Israel among other issues.
No doubt the population of South Vietnam and South Korea (per American foreign aid) also had greater healthcare access and social benefits before most Americans too.

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Saturday, April 20
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REIBERCROMBIE (NW5000) Left, tucked, pulled, came uncovered, challenged the favored pacesetter a long way and proved gamest on the wire. Can take another with any kind of decent racing luck.
Monday, April 22
IGOTYOURCRAZY (NW1) Closed well from second over and was clearly second best to short priced favorite in last.
SUPER SOPH (PRINCESS) Launched a brave uncovered bid in last and dug in with good speed as the odds-on favorite closed stronger.
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This is a FANTASTIC book to read!! It makes for the PERFECT book club book to discuss, too! Oh, the many topics you could chat with amongst book members and the points of view each of the member would support/not support. I would love to be a fly on a wall to hear what everyone has to say.
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Even before the baby, just having the affair really left everyone involved vulnerable and the author addresses every s point of view is also explored, through her so her questions are going to be more basic than those of the adults, which I loved. t saturate the little girl with so much complexities and thoughts that are really beyond a child so young. She kept each character as realistic and vulnerable as possible, while showing the good/bad parts to each relationship and how they all move past the affair.
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"Sharp and biting, and sometimes wickedly funny…Meyers writes beautifully about a formerly good marriage."
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"Meyers' complex characters feel familiar yet flawed, and this sharply woven tale demonstrates her uncanny ability to explore and illuminate the nuances of life's most thorny dilemmas."
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"Meyers' carefully told story is a satisfying examination of the imperfect paths we all walk."
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"Meyers has crafted an absorbing and layered drama that explores the complexities of infidelity, forgiveness, and family"
Since the release of her debut The Murderer's Daughters in 2010, international bestselling author Randy Susan Meyers has earned glowing critical praise, award nominations, and a devoted readership around the globe for her thought-provoking, emotionally-resonant novels.
Now available in an affordable paperback format, Meyers returns with her bestselling second novel, THE COMFORT OF LIES (Washington Square Press/Atria Books; On-sale: January 28, 2014; $16.00), a richly textured story that explores the complications of love and collateral damage of infidelity, as well as universal themes of motherhood, identity, trust, and forgiveness.
Told in alternating points of view, THE COMFORT OF LIES reveals the darkest and most private thoughts of three very different women all connected to a five-year-old girl: Tia, the birth mother; Caroline, the adopted mother; and Juliette, the wife of the birth father. The year their lives collide, the women must confront their choices while discovering sobering truths about their relationships and most importantly, themselves.
Five years ago, Tia fell into obsessive love with a man she could never have. A married man and a father, Nathan was unavailable in every way. When she became pregnant, he disappeared and Tia gave the baby up for adoption. Five years later, she struggles with the decision and yearns to connect with her daughter—and her former lover.
Caroline, a dedicated pathologist, had always been a bit ambivalent about motherhood, much preferring the freedom of her childless, work-addicted lifestyle, but attempting to please her husband, she agreed to adopt, hoping her misgivings would disappear. However after five years, she's questioning whether or not she's really cut out for a domestic life.
Juliette thought she had it all—a loving husband, two healthy sons, and a successful business. Then she discovered Nathan's affair. He promised he'd never stray again and she trusted him. Five years later, when Juliette intercepts a letter meant for Nathan containing photos of his daughter, her world crumbles, again. How could he keep this from her? What else is he hiding? Most importantly, how could he deny his daughter?
Desperate for the truth, Juliette goes in search of the little girl. Her quest leads her first to Caroline, then Tia, and before long, the women are on a collision course with consequences none of them could have predicted.
THE COMFORT OF LIES: A Novel
By Randy Susan Meyers
Washington Square Press/Atria Books || January 28, 2014 || $16.00 || Paperback
I was born in Brooklyn, New York, where I quickly moved from playing with dolls to incessantly reading, spending most of my time at the Kensington Branch Library. Early on I developed a penchant for books rooted in social issues, my early favorites being Karen and The Family Nobody Wanted. Shortly I moved onto Jubilee and The Diary of Anne Frank.
My dreams of justice simmered at the fantastically broadminded Camp Mikan, where I went from camper to counselor, culminating in a high point when (with the help of my strongly Brooklyn-accented singing voice), I landed the role of Adelaide in the staff production of Guys and Dolls.
Soon I was ready to change the world, starting with my protests at Tilden High and City College of New York . . .. . . until I left to pursue the dream in Berkeley, California, where I supported myself by selling candy, nuts, and ice cream in Bartons of San Francisco. Then, world weary at too tender an age, I returned to New York, married, and traded demonstrations for diapers.
While raising two daughters, I tended bar, co-authored a nonfiction book on parenting, ran a summer camp, and (in my all-time favorite job, other than writing) helped resurrect and run a community center.
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This revised publication replaces The Canadian System of Soil Classification (second edition) published in 1987. The changes incorporated in this current publication are based on the work of the Soil Classification Working Group (SCWG) formerly of the Expert Committee on Soil Survey, and continued by the Land Resource Division of the former Centre... more...
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Miley Cyrus' Weed Habit Gets Parodied in Hilarious SNL Skit [VIDEO]
There's nothing better than Saturday Night Live's amazing 'The Miley Cyrus Show' skits, featuring Vanessa Bayer as the irrepressible Miley herself and Jason Sudeikis as a goofy Billy Ray Cyrus. But SNL brought the hilarity to new heights in this new clip, which features Maya Rudolph doing a spot-on Whitney Houston impression, cautioning Miley against the dangers of smoking crack. Miley's good-girl image may have gone up in smoke, but at least it's created this kind of opportunity for comedic gold.
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
GFCF Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 cup Spectrum Naturals Organic Shortening (Whole Foods has this)
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 Tablespoon organic gluten free vanilla extract
2 cups plus 2 Tablespoons Brown Rice Flour Mix (see below)
1.5 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon xanthum gum
1/2 teaspoon salt
12 ounces Enjoy Life gluten, dairy and soy free chocolate chips
1.Heat oven to 375 degrees. I use teflon sheet or you can spray cookie sheet with cooking spray.
2. Beat shortening and sugar with electric mixer. Add eggs and vanilla. Beat until fluffy.
3. Add flour, baking soda, xanthum gum and salt. Mix at medium speed until well blended.
4. Drop tablespoon of dough onto cookie sheet 2 inches apart. Bake in center of oven for 8-10 minutes until light golden brown.
ALSO...I grind up cashews in a coffee grinder to make cashew flour. Then I mix 2 parts cookie dough with 1 part cashew flour to add some protein.
Brown Rice Flour Mix
6 cups brown rice flour (extra finely ground)
2 cups potato starch
1 cup tapioca flour
2 cups sorghum flour (optional)
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
GFCF Burger and Fries
Cooking is hard work, but I have also realized that it is my job to keep my kids healthy and if you do it all the time it somehow becomes less of a burden as it is woven into your everyday life. You stop thinking about it and just do it. Sort of like putting on a shirt or your shoes when you are getting dressed. You just stop thinking about how difficult it is if it something you make a part of your routine life. What has helped me is embracing the new home cooked, old fashioned lifestyle we have found being gluten free.
GF Burgers with Butternut Squash Puree
inspired by Jessica Seinfeld's book...but DIDN'T WORK with GF breadcrumbs and turkey. I am leaving it in my blog so you can get an idea of the recipes in her book, with a disclaimer that while I thought it was yummy, my kids actually prefer plain old hamburgers with salt. "Deceptively Delicious", Jessica Seinfeld's new cookbook, is interesting. It is sort of homemade processed food where you are hiding pureed vegetables in food instead of chemicals. If it gets people to cook homemade food for their kids without additives and preservatives--I think it is a huge success. But, the recipes are a little too gluten and casein loaded to translate to GFCF.
1/2 pound ground organic beef
1 cup gluten free breadcrumbs (3 rice cakes and a handful of potato
chips in the cuisinart)
1/4 c. butternut squash puree (cut squash in half, bake face down on
cookie sheet until soft, then puree in food processor or blender)
3 clove garlic, minced
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
1. Cut squash in half. Bake flesh side down in 400 degree oven for 1
hour. Puree in food processor.
2. Make breadcrumbs in cuisinart by breaking up rice cakes to smaller
pieces into the food processor. When they are finely ground, add a
handful of potato chips.
3. Mix ground turkey, breadcrumbs, squash puree, garlic and salt and
pepper together. Form into six small burgers.
4. Cook in skillet over medium high heat in a little bit of oil for
4-5 minutes. Turn burger and put the pan in the over to bake for 5 more
French Fries
Unlike baking, cooking can be more of a free for all without all the
fuss of measuring and being so careful.
2 potatoes
1. Peel potatoes
2. Cut 1/2 inch rounds and then cut 1/2 inch fries from rounds.
3. Put potatoes in mixing bowl and add 1 T. of oil to coat
4. Carefully line potatoes on baking tray so that they will brown nicely. Sprinkle salt on top.
3. Cook in 350 degree oven for 40 minutes turning once to get crispy.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
The Dangers of Processed Food
The article: "Surprise Ingredients in Fast Food" I found at NaturalNews really opened my mind to how bad processed food is for developing children and how most processed food contains "six ingredients commonly used to hide free glutamate (MSG): calcium caseinate, hydrolyzed corn, yeast extract, soy protein isolate, spices, and natural flavors."
"MSG-Hidden Sources" on NaturoDoc also gives a thorough explanation of how MSG is hidden in most processed food. According to the article: "Manufacturers also hide MSG as part of "natural flavorings," because it is a natural product. But being natural is not the same as being harmless.
For snacks, we try to have fruit, nuts, homemade cookies, homemade muffins, rice cakes, Organic Kettle potato chips, corn chips or organic popcorn which have three ingredients (organic potatoes, safflower or sunflower oil and salt) and are clearly labeled NO MSG, NO TRANSFATS, NO ARTIFICIAL ANYTHING.
Monday, November 26, 2007
One GFCF day at a time
it wasn't me but it stuck.
There is no double blind study for your child.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Our GFCF Story
It turns out six months of worsening diarrhea and illness had destroyed his gut flora and the antibiotic injection wiped it out completely. Changing his diet and giving him probiotics and enzymes has turned him from a perpetually sick boy with a verbal processing delay and red cheeks and a blistering diaper rash to a perpetually healthy bright talkative boy without any developmental problems (that we know about :).)
This blog is our story of his recovery and how other people in our family also got better through dietary intervention.
At 11 months, my son started projectile vomiting, I thought it was a stomach virus. Days later it was a strange blistery diaper rash that wouldn't heal. At the same time, he developed a cold and cough that never went away. An ear infection, then another cold. Then another blistery diaper rash. The whole time he never napped for more than 1/2 an hour or 45 minutes during the day and he still didn't sleep through the night. And his diapers smelled worse and worse. When he was on milk, he was severely constipated, when he wasn't on milk he had diarrhea.
At 15 months I consulted two allergists and a GI doctor about what I thought was a milk allergy. They told me he wasn't allergic to milk and there was nothing wrong. At 17 months I told my husband to bring my son's dirty diaper into the pediatrician because something was wrong with it. Then he got a high fever which led to the antibiotic injection and subsequent personality change.
I put him on the gluten free, casein free immediately and told my doctor that I needed to see a GI doctor because I suspected his developmental issues were driven by the months of worsening diarrhea. I have consulted many doctors about his illness and recovery. In the process I have acquired a huge amount of information on celiac disease, food intolerances and nutrition.
It turns out my son and my daughter both have two genes (DQ2/DQ8) for celiac disease and all the symptoms of celiac which resolve on a gluten free diet.
I say I turned heaven and earth to get my son better and it worked. The most important thing I would like to share with parents is that the gluten free, casein free AND SOY FREE diet works. It doesn't work for everyone, but it worked for us. It saved my son's life. He went from no words, no mama no dada at 18 months to "Mom, I am a musician...What is a musician?" at 3 years old.
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Penelope Reed Doob
BA (Harvard), MA, PhD (Stanford)
Professor, Department of Dance, Emeriti
Dr. Reed Doob is a Professor Emerita of Dance, English and Women's Studies at York University. The recipient of Woodrow Wilson, Kent and Guggenheim Fellowships, her teaching and research have included medieval and Renaissance studies, dance history and criticism, sexual stereotypes in opera, literature and dance, and non-fiction writing.
She has written three books: Nebuchadnezzar's Children: Conventions of Madness in Medieval Literature (Yale University Press), The Idea of the Labyrinth from the Classical Period through the Middle Ages (Cornell University Press) and, with C. Morse and M. Woods, The Uses of Manuscripts in Literary Studies (Western Michigan University Press), and co-authored Karen Kain's autobiography, Movement Never Lies.
Professor Reed Doob's dance reviews and feature articles appear regularly in publications such as the Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, Dance Magazine, Ballet News, Performing Arts in Canada and Ballet International. She developed more than 20 documentaries for the CBC Radio program The Dance, and has written extensive historical program notes for the National Ballet of Canada and the Kirov Ballet's North American tour.
Currently she is preparing a book on the nature and nurture of creativity in dance, with a focus on the National Ballet and the National Ballet School of Canada.
Dr. Reed Doob has been active as a facilitator for strategic planning in several arts and academic organizations in Canada and the U.S.A. During a three-year stint in the early 1990s as founding president of Reed MacFadden, a medical research company focusing on HIV/AIDS, her work included clinical trial design, fundraising, statistical analysis and health-related quality of life research. She has been a director of the Actors' Fund of Canada and the World Dance Alliance since 1994.
Professor Reed-Doob has served as York University's associate vice president (Faculties), associate principal (academic) at Glendon College, and academic director of York's Centre for the Support of Teaching, and has served on York's Senate Executive Committee and the York Board of Governors.
Areas of Research and Academic Specialty: Dance Writing, Dance History, Creative Process


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Detroits new emergency financial manager, Kevyn Orr, started his first day Monday by extending a sincere olive branch to the City Council, while opponents protested his arrival.
Orr, 54, who was appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder to address Detroits financial crisis, arrived at 7 a.m. in the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center. Orr said hell work on the 11th floor, the same floor as Mayor Dave Bing.
He appeared alongside Bing at a press conference this morning and laid out his agenda for the week.
I want to offer a sincere olive branch and opportunity to work together, Orr said of the City Council. I envision them participating in this process to the extent permitted by law.
Although state law grants Orr broad powers previously held by the mayor and City Council, he said the council will continue to play a role and hell form a partnership with Bing.
The salaries and benefits of council members and the mayor are to be eliminated under the states new emergency manager law, which takes effect Thursday. Orr later can restore their salaries at an amount he deems fit an issue he said will be addressed this week. He wouldnt elaborate on how.
Said Bing: I didnt come here for a salary. If mine is cut, its cut.
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Orrs first day in office was met by protests.
About 100 demonstrators gathered at 11 a.m. near the Spirit of Detroit statue, some holding signs as they chanted, "No justice, no peace," "Democracy now" and "Hey, hey, ho, ho, the emergency manager's got to go."
Led by the Rev. D. Alexander Bullock, founder of the Change Agent Consortium and president of the Detroit branch of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, they spoke out against the appointment of an emergency financial manager for the city.
"We are here today in front of the Spirit of Detroit because we believe in the city of Detroit," Bullock said. "We believe in democracy, we believe in human dignity, we believe in freedom and economic equality."
Speakers talked about camaraderie with other Michigan cities with emergency financial managers, and Bullock urged those in attendance to reach out to supporters in Flint, Benton Harbor and Highland Park.
"We are here today because Gov. Rick Snyder has enacted and supported legislation that has disenfranchised the voting rights of over 50% of the African Americans in the state of Michigan," Bullock said. "Over 75% of the elected officials that are African American in this state have no real role because emergency managers have targeted urban cities. And in the name of urban policy, Gov. Snyder's administration has destroyed democracy. Today is not about Kevyn Orr. It's about Rick Snyder."
Bullock said the group is planning a strategy session for 11 a.m. Tuesday at Bethany Baptist Church, 15122 W. Chicago, on how to rally support at churches on Easter Sunday.
Earlier Monday at Eastern Market, a busload of about 70 protestors headed to Cleveland to demonstrate outside the headquarters of Jones Day, the law firm where Orr was a partner before coming to Detroit. Jones Day also is handling Detroits legal affairs while the city undergoes financial restructuring.
The Cleveland protest was organized by the National Action Network.
"Jones Day was certainly not happy with our demonstration," said the Rev. Charles Williams II of the networks Michigan chapter, calling the effort successful.
Protestors returned to Detroit after lunch, he said.
Williams said they aren't finished. On Thursday at 10:30 a.m., Williams, the Rev. Al Sharpton and several lawyers plan to lead a march from the AFSCME headquarters on West Lafayette Boulevard downtown to the federal courthouse to file their lawsuit challenging the legality of emergency financial managers.
Williams said he believes Orrs appointment was a move engineered by Snyder and Jones Day to make sure bondholders and banks controlling the citys debt get their due before the residents of the city.
Detroits continued financial crisis includes more than $14 billion in long-term liabilities.
Staff Writer Eric D. Lawrence contributed to this report.


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In July 2005 Joulwan ventured to Chicago, where over the course of a two-day conference, fifty-five skaters representing twenty leagues formed the Women's Flat-Track Derby Association. A freelance writer by day, Joulwan assumed the title of PR director for the body. She says the first annual Rollercon, held in Las Vegas a month later, drew 400 rollers.
The sport was developed by a Chicago promoter in 1935. Leo Seltzer envisioned his creation as an answer to the dance marathons of the day and called for 25 pairs (one man, one woman) to race around a track until they covered an aggregate 3,000 miles. But high-speed crashes proved better at attracting audiences than endurance did, and play evolved into the team-based, point-scoring model that's still practiced today.
A roller derby lineup comprises five skaters: one pivot, three blockers and one jammer. A match or, in derby parlance, a "bout" consists of three twenty-minute periods, each divided into a series of two-minute "jams" during which the two opposing teams skate together in a tight pack around an oval track, with each squad led by its pivot. The two jammers then lap the group and earn points by passing opposing blockers a second time; the blockers, meanwhile, may employ a variety of means and body parts to prevent being passed.
The Transcontinental Roller Derby took to the road during the 1940s, playing to millions of spectators and spawning fan clubs and newsletters. Derby fever peaked during the '50s and '60s, when Seltzer's son Jerry moved the still-unisex sport's base to San Francisco, home of the high-profile San Francisco Bay Bombers, and all three major television networks covered the sport weekly. In the late '60s, leagues included National Roller Derby, the Canadian National Roller League, the Japanese National Roller League and the International Roller Derby League, whose Midwest Pioneers team entertained crowds in St. Louis, Chicago, Indianapolis and Green Bay. The sport inspired songs (Jim Croce's "Roller Derby Queen") and films (Kansas City Bomber and Unholy Rollers). But by the mid-'70s roller derby had lost its luster, despite intermittent TV revivals that kept it flickering in the national consciousness.
Buckles recalls watching derby bouts on Sundays when she was a kid, after the St. Louis favorite Wrestling at the Chase. Fitting programming partners, considering that both sports were heavily choreographed. "Oh, the fighting's still there," laughs Joulwan. "But it's real, instead of being scripted and played up to fit some story line."
In contrast to the banked ovals of yesteryear, most of today's leagues utilize flat tracks, which are cheaper to build, easier to maintain and place an emphasis on skating prowess. "It really is different athletically, because you're generating your own speed when cornering," Joulwan explains. "It completely changes the way the game is played."
With increased athleticism comes more substantial padding. Participants used to rely primarily on minimal knee pads built into tights and the occasional elbow pads and helmet; today's skaters are required to wear knee pads, elbow pads, wrist guards, mouth guards and a helmet. Special "speed skates" distinguishable from normal quad (roller) skates by a higher boot, Velcro strap over standard laces, thicker and wider wheels and a more stable plate joining the wheel chassis to the boot are mandatory.
The typical roller derby personality reveals itself in several manifestations: the wardrobe (traditionally black, torn and form-fitting); the hair (dyed); the piercings (numerous); the tattoos (prevalent); the nickname (fear-striking). Taken together, they form a skating identity, a fearless alter ego that obliterates any trace of one's day job, be it schoolteacher, stay-at-home mom, retail associate, tattoo artist, bartender, graphic designer or librarian.
In turn, imparts Joulwan, "We take the strength we have on the track and carry it back into our own lives. It's rewarding seeing that happening."
"There's an energy to it, more than camaraderie, that also encompasses the audience," echoes Windy City Roller Carrie Becker, who adds: "It's the most fun I've ever, ever had."
Buckles, Graphics Committee head Liesl "Teasel von Tramp" Christman and Bobbi Jo "Jane Saw" Leykam of the Events Committee have taken the stage for some speechifying and a brief state-of-the-union update.
The three, along with the other women sporting spanking-new ARRG T-shirts tonight at the Way Out Club, show signs of having undergone a steady transformation over the past few months. Faded sweats and loose ponytails have been replaced by black leather skirts and meticulously dyed hair. But although they may look the part of asskickers-on-wheels, it'll take more than skating skills and ripped fishnets to get the new league off the ground.
It requires money.
Forty dollars a month in skater fees won't cover insurance, a skating coach, a private practice space in which they can knock each other into the next millennium without fear of admonition or a venue in which to stage bouts. Buckles concedes that procuring bout space, building a track and scheduling regular events is "more of a 2007 thing."
Short term, the Arch Rivals intend to make their debut with a demonstration bout between Hooserweight boxing matches at the Soulard Market Gym during Mardi Gras. "It'll add a little variety to the fights," confirms Hoosierweight impresario Steven Fitzpatrick Smith. "[The fights] have that sort of rough, south-side appeal, and that's what roller derby seems to have in its blood. It's the perfect complement to that roughneck yet glamorous way of life."
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Let's just say Kim Kardashian should be glad she wasn't competing with Khloe for the hosting gig on The X Factor.
Radar Online reports that music producer Damon Thomas, Kim's first husband, has been tapped to be a mentor to the contestants on the show.
Damon and Kim tied the knot back in 2000 (when the reality starlet was just 19!) and divorced three years later, with him accusing her of cheating with several men and her alleging physical abuse during their marriage.
Since then, Damon's made a name for himself in the industry working with the likes of Pink, Justin Timberlake, and R. Kelly.
"We're sure Simon is going to have great fun with this," said one source close to the situation. "You know the tension is going to be unbelievable between Khloe and Damon."
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Here's a little story just in time for Halloween that we'd like to share with you about Ke$ha and the ghost that once lived in her vagina.
Yes, vagina, and no, it wasn't a friendly ghost.
**throw handful of sand into a burning campfire "Are You Afraid of the Dark"-style**
Talking to Rolling Stone magazine, Ke$ha told this crazy story about how she was pretty much possessed (being followed non-stop rather) by negative spirits. The undead got so stalker on her living a*s, she had to have a psychic exorcise her.
Let's follow a rundown of this anecdote in her own words:
"I know it sounds like the most ridiculous story, but I went to my healer that I go to whenever I'm at home, and she told me that because of my job, I exude energy. I exude light as a profession. You're on stage and you're just exuding."
Still with us? Okay, good…
"Because I exude energy, dead entities cling to me. I had a spirit follow me into my house. You see it in the [reality] show. Things were flying off the shelf. That's not bullsh*t, that really happened. So my healer, she had to literally give me an exorcism. I know that sounds crazy, but it worked."
Catch that? Ke$ha's saying she needed to have an exorcism…on her vagina. When asked about the exorcism of the unwanted specter from her nether region, she replied "Yes, my dry spell is over. It's no longer cock-blocking me."
Just don't assume you'll ever see it play out Paranormal Activity style on her reality series; she kicked out the camera crew, but here's what went down.
"There's a lot of screaming and grabbing energies and she was talking in tongues. She was speaking Latin or something, I'm not really sure. It was definitely another language, and she was making all sorts of crazy noises. At one point she started choking…Like she couldn't breathe. It was super intense. I know you don't believe me."
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The Apostle Paul wrote: God has chosen you. (1 Thes 1:4) We can learn a lot about being saved from this little sentence. We learn that God is the one who chose us to be his child, we did not choose him. Jesus made this clear when he told his disciples in John 15:16, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit…"
Jesus has chosen you… That is huge.
When I was a kid, going to the mailbox was always exciting. Even the junk mail was great, of course back then I don't think we had near as much junk mail as we do these days. And let's face it, as a kid you don't worry about the bills.
But the best part wasn't the junk mail, it was the cards or letters addressed directly to me. Before e-mail or text messaging or Instagram or Facebook, there was the regular old U. S. Mail. Birthday card and letters would always bring excitement and anticipation.
It's not too late in the season to benefit from an inspection and tune up of your home heating system. Whether you have a forced-air furnace with full house vents, direct vent heaters in multiple rooms, a wood or pellet stove or an oil-fired boiler with radiators, we have a long winter ahead of us.
Any necessary repairs can be made now before we're in the full force of winter, when quick service might be impossible to get. Plus, you'll add years to the life of your heat system by doing regular maintenance.
Dear Savvy Senior,
I'm interested in getting a walk-in bathtub for my wife that's easy for her to get into and out of, but could use some assistance. Can you offer any consumer tips?
Need Help
It looks like this late turnip crop is going to be a good one thanks to cool temperatures and adequate rain fall. I may even have some little ones ready in honor of Halloween this year, too, even though they will only be salad size. What does the turnip have to do with Halloween you may ask? Well, they just may be more authentic than that pumpkin on the porch.
Dear Savvy Senior,
What resources can you recommend for researching hospitals? I need to get a knee replacement next year, and want to find a good, safe hospital to have it done in.
Shopping Around
Dear Shopping,
Most people don't give much thought when it comes to choosing a hospital, but selecting the right one can be as important as the doctor you choose. Here are some tips and resources to help you research and check up on your area hospitals.
Have you ever been stuck in a waiting room? The other day I spent over an hour in a waiting room. This was a scheduled appointment and I had waited 3 or 4 weeks to get in already. It was my first time with this doctor, so I came in a little early to fill out paperwork. I got there at 9:15 for a 9:30 appointment. They led me back to the examining room at 10:36!
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A Reading from Philippians 4:4-13
Winter will be here before you know it. It's a good time to start thinking about your horses' needs before the cold, snow and ice arrive. Winter can be a particularly stressful time for horses, but there a few simple things you can do to make them more comfortable.
When temperatures start to dip below freezing, you have to make sure your horses still have constant access to fresh water. Check your water sources now. Are the heaters in good repair? Turn them on and check the water temperature.
Many of us are familiar with the story of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32). The story about a son who left his father's estate to seek his own fame and fortune. When he spent all he had, he crawled his way back into his father's house begging for mercy. His father received him with love and forgiveness. The older brother however was not so forgiving.
A Reading from Philippians 2: 3-5
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus…..
Today, I want to spend a few minutes talking about attitudes. Do you have a worldly attitude or a Christ-like attitude.
Some of us are morning people. Some of us are not! Some people wake up early every morning and just jump out of bed, others, like me, sort of groan out of bed.
I don't mean that I wake up in a bad mood or anything, I'd just rather sleep in a little more. My wife sometimes complains about my use of the snooze button! You see I go to bed planning to get up early and do 62 things before breakfast, but come morning it just doesn't work that way.
A grant of nearly $200,000 could help local farmers become more profitable.
Kentucky State University's College of Agriculture, Food Science and Sustainable Systems received the grant through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of Outreach and Advocacy to target farmers in 73 Kentucky counties. The initiative aims to improve their participation in USDA programs.
FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Department of Agriculture was awarded a Specialty Crop Block Grant for $302,620.11 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to work with the University of Kentucky and other organizations and commodity groups to strengthen markets for specialty crops in Kentucky.
"This funding will greatly enhance our efforts to help Kentucky's specialty crop businesses grow and prosper," Agriculture Commissioner James Comer said. "This investment in our specialty crop industry will boost Kentucky's rural economy."
Over the past couple of weeks I have had a half dozen people come up to me with stories of amazing vegetables appearing in their yards and gardens. My mother, for one, has what she calls a French squash growing by the sidewalk around a newly planted serviceberry.
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Durban climate change conference: 'Sideline the UN' says leading academic
Matilda Lee
7th November, 2011Ahead of the latest UN climate conference, leading academic Anthony Giddens explains why it's time to switch to smaller agreements between major world powers more...
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Occupy the Streets: voices from inside the London protest
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26th October, 2011It started in Wall Street but has now spread to cities all over the world. The Ecologist visited the London demonstration against financial greed and inequality to hear what activists had to say... more...
Ignore the sceptics, the 'peak oil brigade' is right
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20th October, 2011Peak oil sceptics argue the real problem for climate change and our planet may be too much fossil fuel, not too little. Lionel Badal explains why he disagrees more...
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The carbon con: investigating the true cost of offsetting
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Food speculation – how betting on food commodities fuels Mexico's tortilla crisis
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15th September, 2011As London fashion week kicks off, the problem of unfair labour practices tarnishing UK high street brands isn't going away. Rosie Spinks reports more...
Time to ignore bankers and start fixing our broken markets
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Mexico's poor suffer as food speculation fuels tortilla crisis
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Food speculation 'boom' linked to volatile food prices
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This is an impeccably translated version of a book that was first published in Italy in 2006. In a single volume it provides several possible routes into differential geometry. For example, it could be used as a follow-up to a less rigorous introductory course on differential geometry. Indeed, almost one quarter of its 400 pages are devoted to 'supplementary material' of an advanced nature.
The minimal path (optimistically said by the authors to be appropriate for 2nd year students and onwards) consists of:
This introduction to differential geometry terminates with an examination of Gauss' Theorema Egregium, which (in the authors' experience) nicely rounds off a two-month course. For a one-semester course, a selection from the following additional material is recommended:
To my mind, the level at which the material is presented means that readers who haven't taken a course on advanced calculus or real analysis will struggle. Moreover, they will benefit greatly from having done a course on introductory topology (point set and algebraic). Lastly, although not specified by the authors, some knowledge of linear algebra will be of help.
What I like about this book is the provision of analytic and topological underpinnings of geometrical ideas. And, although this may compound the complexity of the narrative, it provides very strong foundations for readers who subsequently wish to continue beyond this book. Indeed, the nature of the supplementary material is such that readers will have a good idea as to the broader foundations upon which differential geometry rests. For example;
Another of the book's major strengths is the clarity of its explanation and its mathematical accuracy. Then there are over 300 graded exercises preceded by many carefully worked examples.
In short, I can't speak too highly of this book; and it certainly challenges my view that the best route into differential geometry is via differential forms. However, although I've no idea as to the standard of 2nd year students in Italian universities, I think it might be too much of a challenge for anyone other than senior undergraduate maths majors and above.
Peter Ruane was introduced to differential geometry over forty years ago, by means of Barrett O'Neill's classic text. That approach was based upon (you've guessed it!) differential forms.


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People gather before the '12-12-12' benefit concert at Madison Square Garden in New York on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. Music royalty from the Rolling Stones to Kanye West are gathering at Madison Square Garden Wednesday for a benefit concert to help storm victims. (AP)
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Rock Band is a rhythm-based music game, developed by Harmonix Music Systems and published by Electronic Arts and MTV Games. Rock Band differentiated itself from the already existing Guitar Hero franchise by adding vocals and drums as additional playable instruments. Players must watch a stream of notes move from the top to the bottom of their screens, and play the notes at the correct time. Vocalists, however, have the top part of the screen sectioned off, where the pitch and lyrics of the song are shown.
Rock Band has been released for the Xbox 360, PS3, PS2, and Nintendo Wii, and has sparked many spin-off games, including The Beatles: Rock Band and Green Day: Rock Band. Only 58 songs were included with the original game disc, but there are over 1000 songs that can be downloaded in the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions.


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Two percent of FCUs are military-based but they represent 21% of FCU assets and may feel the pinch of federal furloughs.
Operation begun as credit union-focused Digital Insight in 1995 now gets third owner.
Somebody is winning. Somebody is losing. Just don't expect an easy to decipher who will win the battle in this update on the credit union core systems war.
Credit union core systems are old, truly antique in computer terms, but they also seem to be immortal in most institutions.
Core processing systems can often do more than they're typically used for, but less than what's needed.
The announcement last month by Fiserv that it would acquire Open Solutions Inc. for roughly $1 billion, most of that in debt assumption, has sent some shivers through the credit union core processing world.
Intuit CEO touts new generation of field-leveling analytical tools.
An asset-liability management model makes a number of complex calculations for computing your credit union's interest rate risk. The model's results depend on the assumptions and whether the model was set up correctly to handle them.
New regulations that aim to benefit consumers have become such a burden for credit unions that the cost of compliance may hamper growth and bring changes in the products, services and convenience consumers want the most.
Rules aimed at helping consumers may cost them at the credit union. Find out how in this preview from next week's print edition.


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JP Sotille: Everyone is a potential target in the War on Terror's lingering "With Us or Against Us" protection racket, and drones are the crooked-nosed enforcers that kill without remorse, without hesitation and without accountability.
Elegy for Our Empire
Defending Everything is Defending Nothing
Ivan Eland: Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright recently led a panel of experts in coming up with a report, "NATO 2020," which will be used to draft a replacement for NATO's current strategic concept, adopted in 1999. The report essentially advocates a continuation and expansion of NATO's quest to be all things to all people. Unfortunately, this effort resembles the "expand or die" mantra that was applied to NATO as its primary mission—countering the Soviet Union—was tossed into the dustbin of history. Instead of expanding in territory and mission after the Cold War ended, NATO probably should have died back then and may die—or be severely crippled—by its likely loss in Afghanistan.
American Empire: How the Military-Industrial Complex Is Warping America's Values
Tim Gatto: Now that corporate control of our elections is out in the open thanks to our Supreme Court, we might as well realize that what we see on our televisions and read in our newspapers is also corporate-controlled. We can still tune into the internet to see world news and different opinions, but I can see that soon even the internet will swallowed up by corporate money.
LA Progressive: February 7-13, 2010 — Table of Contents
Articles this week by Tom Hall, David A. Love, Kenneth Weisbode, Andrea Christina Nill, Denis Campbell, Robert Reich, Michele Wasdin, Jasmyne Cannick, Rev. Irene Monroe, Robert Letcher, Sharon Toji, Berry Craig, Anthony Samad, Randy Shaw, K.C. Johnson, Tim Gatto, Ron Wolff, Mary L. Dudziak, Sharon Kyle, Paul Kiel, Joseph Palermo, H. Scott Prosterman:
American Empire: How the Military-Industrial Complex Is Warping America's Values
Tim Gatto: The U.S. has brought back the 5th Fleet that will patrol Latin America and the Caribbean. The U.S. has also leased seven military bases in Colombia (Venezuela's next door neighbor) for a 10-year period. These bases are being promoted as a way of interdicting the supply of cocaine that reaches America. According to the L.A. Times, back in 2003 the U.S. and Columbian governments were successfully eradicating coca plants. We can all see how well that has worked out. Personally, I am very skeptical about America's resolve in wiping out the coca crop. I am also skeptical about Columbia's commitment to stopping the flow of cocaine into the United States.
Reports from Flies on Cheney's Wall and Undisclosed Bunkers
The average life of a spy fly, Musca ivestigatus, is two weeks. That means for the past 10 years, there has been approximately 260 generations of spy flies doing surveillance work on or about former V.P. Cheney's walls and undisclosed bunkers. Some authorities suggest the fly has been more reliable in gathering and digesting investigative […]
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When you stop to think about it, people measure how well their lives are going not by their absolute state of being but by their situation relative to their expectations. For example, a poor person in a developing country may be ecstatic about getting a pair of shoes for the first time; in contrast, a […]
The "I Didn't Do It" Letter
Scott McClellan's new confessional that's pointed the finger at Bush administration figures in the Valerie Plame scandal reminds me of something my husband got in the mail, in the autumn of 1983. We called it the "I Didn't Do It" letter. It arrived unexpectedly one afternoon from the offices of gold trader Alan Saxon, the […]


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5 Physical Changes To Expect From CancerJuly 1, 2014 6:55 am
When undergoing cancer treatment, it's important to understand that your body will change. Whether your body looks different or you simply feel that you look different, recognizing the physical changes in your body and coping with them in a healthy way is crucial to your well-being.
These physical changes can be a result of cancer itself or side effects from the treatment you are receiving. Regardless of their cause, just as there is no routine cancer, there is no routine cancer journey; the changes and side effects you may experience will be unique to your experience.
Below are five changes that you may encounter during cancer care and treatment. They can be undesirable and challenging, but there are resources available to cancer survivors to alleviate the stress and unwanted attention they cause.
Hair Loss
Hair loss is the most noticeable and obvious change cancer patients see when undergoing chemotherapy and, sometimes, radiation. It can be stressful, particularly for women, and cause an undesirable self-image. Fortunately, resources like Hope's Boutique are available to help you. At Hope's, you can find a number of products to assist you with your hair loss, including wigs, hats and hair wraps.
Pale Skin and Lips, or Changes in Skin Color
The first thing people see is your face. If it's pale, that can be an immediate indication that you are ill. While it's important to embrace your cancer care and treatment, it is equally important to maintain your sense of self. Carefully applied makeup can drastically improve color for those undergoing cancer treatment. At Hope's Boutique, specialists can help cancer patients find a look that makes them feel more positive about their appearance in an easy-to-apply way.
Poor Concentration
A common side effect of cancer treatment is poor concentration or mental cloudiness, frequently referred to as "chemo brain." This side effect can be characterized by:
- Memory lapses
- Trouble concentrating (you can't focus on what you're doing, have a short attention span, may "space out")
- Trouble remembering details like names, dates and sometimes larger events
- Trouble multi-tasking
- Taking longer to finish things
- Trouble remembering common words
For most people, these cognitive side effects happen quickly and last only a brief time. However, some individuals have reported long-term mental changes. In either case, many cancer patients do not share this concern with their treatment team until it begins affecting their everyday life. If you do begin to experience any of the previously mentioned cognitive impairments, talk with your cancer treatment team.
The good news is that oncologists and researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James) are conducting studies funded by Pelotonia to improve our understanding of these cognitive issues.
Changes in Appetite
Appetite changes are a common side effect of cancer and cancer treatment. Patients may experience appetite loss causing them to eat less than usual, feel full after eating only a small amount or not feel hungry at all. Persistent appetite loss can lead to serious complications, including weight loss, malnutrition and the loss of muscle mass.
While you may not feel like eating, it's important to remember that good nutrition and maintaining a healthy weight is not only vital to your overall health, but an important part of your recovery. Nutrition experts at the OSUCCC – James and JamesCare for Life are experienced with guiding cancer patients toward nutritious choices that are easy on their lifestyles and their bodies. By attending a cooking demonstration or other classes through JamesCare for Life, you and your caregiver can learn more about choosing and preparing meals that will help your recovery.
Fatigue is one of the most common and stressful side effects of cancer and cancer treatment. Cancer-related fatigue is more intense than the feelings of being tired people have on occasion; it can be debilitating and can greatly impact a person's quality of life.
However, patients and caregivers rarely report fatigue to their cancer treatment team. If fatigue is causing you distress, tell your treatment team so they may provide you with assistance or resources to battle it.
For example, patients at the OSUCCC – James can attend a number of JamesCare for Life classes that not only teach cancer patients about fatigue, but also help them combat it.
Visit cancer.osu.edu to learn more about the programs and services available to those diagnosed with cancer and their caregivers.
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