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I've had a BA about 9 months ago under the muscle thorugh the breast crease. My right breast has lost some sensation from the nipple down.Since I will need an implant replacement eventually I'm concerned that the 2nd surgery will cause complete sensation loss, & I was considering going a cup bigger in the future during the replacemnt.I'm very worried that the sensation may never come back are there any treatments or surgeries that will help? What are my options and what causes sensation loss?
Treatments for Sensation Loss After Breast Augmentation?
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Breast augmentation
Unfortunately there are no treatments of surgeries to regain sensation after breast augmentation. I have had some patients who regained sensation even a year or more after surgery so there is still some hope.
Treatments for Sensation Loss After Breast Augmentation?
Some sensory loss, particularly in the lower breast is common after breast augment. It varies from patient to patient which is likely due to individual variation in the position of sensory nerves. There is no treatment available that will improve this for you, but even after nine months some improvement is possible. A second augment through the same incision is not likely to worsen the situation.
Treatments for Sensation Loss After Breast Augmentation?
I am sorry to hear about the loss of sensation after breast augmentation surgery; as you know, this is a known risk of any type of breast surgery. Generally speaking, most patients regain lost sensation within the first year after surgery, if return of sensation is going to happen. Unfortunately, if loss of sensation is permanent, there are no surgical or nonsurgical modalities that are helpful. Best wishes.
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Treatments for sensation loss after breast aug?
It is one risk of such a procedure, and one that you must consider, amongst others, as with any surgical procedure. You should consult with a plastic surgeon well-trained in breast procedures who will examine and discuss with you the various risks and benefits of the procedure(s) and assist you in deciding if such a procedure will be the right decision for you.
Sensation loss after BA?
Thank you for your post. In general, most women who have a disturbance in nipple sensation, whether it be less (hypo-sensation), or in some cases too much (hyper-sensation), the sensation goes back to normal with 3-6 months. Occasionally, it can take 1 - 2 years to be normal. Extremely rare, the sensation never goes back to normal. This is extremely rare in augmentation alone, more common in lift or reduction. Signs that sensation is coming back are needle type sensation at the nipple, itchiness at the nipple, or 'zingers' to the nipple. The number of women that lose sensation is much lower than 10%, closer to 1% in a simple augmentation. Unfortunately there is no surgical correction for this. Massaging the area can help sensation normalize faster if it is going to normalize, but will not help if the nerve does not recover. In women with hyper-sensitive nipples, this will go away with time. usually 3 months or so. In the interim, I have them wear nipple covers or 'pasties' to protect them from rubbing.
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Sensory loss after Breast augmentation
This is normal after breast augmentation through an inframammary approach. There are small nerves that need to be divided so that the implant can be inserted. If your second surgery is done through the same incision then you should not get any more numbess. If you get bigger implants, then you may lose sensation to the nipples. About 10-15% of patients get permanent nerve damage.
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Nipple Sensory Loss After Breast Augmentation
As the prior physicians have stated, this is unfortunately a relatively common problem following breast augmentation. Although we do everything possible to avoid nerve injury (placement of realistically size implants, gentle dissection), there is absolutely not way to completely avoid nerve injury.
That being said, many patients will experience transient sensory changes that eventually improve and may even go back to normal after a period of anywhere from a few months to a few years.
There is really no surgical procedure that will improve these changes and really nothing that you can do on your own to hasten recovery. Your best bet is to be patient and allow for your breasts to heal.
I hope that helps!
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Sensation Loss after Breast Augmentation
Most patients do not have sensation loss and those that do, the vast majority have a temporary sensation loss. I am sorry to hear that you are having longer-term problems. However, if you do end up having additional surgery, most likely the same incision can be used and there really should be no or very minimal risk to any further sensation loss. However, it is good for you to discuss your concerns with your surgeon.
Good Luck.
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Treatments for Sensation Loss After Breast Augmentation?
Loss of sensation is relatively common after augmentation. This can involve the nipple or anywhere else on the breast.
I advise my patients that nerve recovery can occur for 2 years after surgery.
About 15% of patients will have persistent loss of nipple sensation at that time.
It is also the case that the risk of sensory loss rises along with implant size. However, as long as you are not planning a dramatic increase in size, your risk of further loss at a second operation would be small.
Good luck!
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Breast Augmentation and Breast Skin Sensability
Hello Marissa 155,
I am sorry that you have experieced partial loss of sensation on one of your breasts. This situation may improve slightly over time, as improvements have been seen as far out as 12 to 24 months. This is a relatively frequent issue, with 5 to 10% of patients experiencing some permanent changes to breast skin/nipple sensability after breast augmentation.
The cause of this problem is injury to sensory nerves that are injured by stretch, heat (cautery), or divided at the time of surgery. The nerve injury occurs near the ribs and is not associated with the skin incision. The likelyhood of nerve injury increases with the size of the implant, requiring an ever large pocket to be made for it to occupy.
If you choose to have reaugmentation, you may in fact put yourself at risk for further nerve damage, especially if larger implants are replaced.
I hope that your sensation returns fully. Best of luck!
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Baseball impresario Bill Veeck brought us exploding scoreboards, bat-day promotions, and much more, but probably his most important contribution to the game was an accounting device he introduced in 1959, allowing people to write off the lion's share of the cost of acquiring a baseball franchise. The trick was to treat baseball players as depreciable assets with a fixed useful life. By assigning a high proportion (say, 90%) of a franchise's acquisition price to the value of its players, a purchaser could recoup most of his investment in a few years simply by taking large annual deductions from taxable income for depreciation of the team's most valuable asset. In effect, taxpayers picked up the tab.
When asked if his loophole was fair, Veeck replied, "Look, we play 'The Star-Spangled Banner' before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?"
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Following a students suicide in October, CSU has implemented policies designed to increase residence hall staff interaction with students who might be struggling.
Freshman Amelia Sundblad, 18, died Oct. 23. A day earlier, she was transfered for undisclosed reasons from her room in the Durward residence hall to the fourth floor in the Westfall residence hall. She died early the next day by suicide, having overdosed on her prescription of Welbutrin, an antidepressant, a Larimer County Coroners Office investigator said Tuesday.
The night before her death, Sundblad emailed herself, according to a CSU Police Department report released Wednesday. In the email, the 2013 Arapahoe High School graduate and equestrian wrestled with feelings of guilt for stealing numerous things and said she was falling apart.
Her death shocked friends, who described her as an incredible and beautiful spirit known for her love of horses and talent at capturing lifes little moments on camera.
Two Westfall resident assistants and a resident found Sundblad five days later. She didnt have a roommate.
The housing staff offered to help Sundblad transfer her belongings to the room in Westfall, but Sundblad declined, CSU spokesman Mike Hooker said. She told them shed be OK and gather more of her things the next day.
Mental health experts and CSU leaders say no one is to blame for Sundblads death, but they agree more can be done to prevent suicide.
Students may change residence hall rooms for a number of reasons, including roommate, disciplinary or health issues.
CSU Housing and Dining Services employees including RAs are now asked to escort students to their temporary lodging rather than give them the option to move in unassisted. Making diligent, repeated attempts to follow up with that student in-person, by email and phone within 24 hours is also apart of policy changes prompted by Sundblads death.
Hooker said the university walks the fine line between respecting the privacy of adult students and potentially intervening before a suicide.
In this case, were going to insert ourselves into their lives a little more, he said.
Students are assigned an RA whos there to provide support and assess how freshmen are feeling through a survey called Taking Stock. Using results, RAs can connect students with campus resources.
CSU implemented prevention efforts following a spike in suicides five years ago. Five students died by suicide in the 2008-09 school year and four more followed in 2009-10. Following the suicides of Sundblad and freshman Nikita Krasko, 18, on Oct. 12, the university re-assessed its resources.
Prior to Thanksgiving and running through the semesters end, representatives from the faith community were and are available to talk with students about anything they desire as part of a program called the Listening Post. More and more students are also taking advantage of a new interactive screening program that allows them to assess how theyre feeling and connect with mental health professionals online.
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Oct 19, 2009, Vol. 15, No. 05 • By EDWIN M. YODER JR.
In The Jefferson Image in the American Mind (1960), Merrill Peterson of the University of Virginia patented a new kind of history--the history of a great reputation. Peterson traced the "image" of Jefferson as it evolved and showed that Jefferson had been a mirror in which each age saw itself reflected . . . [as] the touchstone of democratic legitimacy. Thirty-five years later, Peterson added an illuminating companion piece, Lincoln in American Memory. . . . From the outset, as Peterson
I wrote those words more than a decade ago, and there is no reason to qualify them at Merrill Peterson's death at the age of 88 in Charlottesville, where he served for decades as professor of history.
Peterson was one of a magisterial cadre of 20th-century American historians (including C. Vann Woodward, David Donald, and David
That, in turn, exposed him to an ironic hazard. He was one of two great Jefferson biographers--the other was Dumas Malone--who were occasionally caricatured as a "Charlottesville mafia," fiercely defending Jefferson from imputations of an improper sexual relationship. To know Merrill Peterson even slightly, as I did, was to see the absurdity of the caricature, not less in his case than in Malone's. They did not care about the possible clay feet. They cared about evidence. And yet the canard persisted. At Peterson's death a colleague in the University of Virginia history department told the Washington Post that, as supposed "evidence" of Jefferson's liaison with Sally Hemings grew, Peterson "didn't argue with it. He just distanced himself from that discussion."
My own guess about that "distancing" is this: Peterson knew that historical inquiry rarely, if ever, lends itself to demonstrating negatives. I imagine that it was that conviction that led him to ignore the unfolding Hemings controversy. But thereby hung the irony. For Peterson was, indeed, one of the authoritative guardians--one might even say modern creators--of what he called (in the title of his Bancroft Prize masterwork) "the
Which is to say that his specialty was the evolution and power of ideas--the ideas that Jefferson and Lincoln generated, as well as the ideas their countrymen later came to entertain about their ultimate significance. Intellectual history, so-called, has been out of fashion lately, especially among apostles of "bottom-up" social history--who are almost invariably devoted to some form of determinism. Yet ideas, far more than social or economic forces, are often the chief propellant of human history, as Keynes insisted when he wrote in The General Theory that "the world is governed by little else."
Merrill Peterson's brand of the history of ideas required its practitioners to delve into the caprices of popular memory. Jefferson was the great ideologue of democracy, eventually claimed as Founder by nearly every shade and school of political opinion--with the proving exception of Jefferson's original Federalist foes. Those who remembered Jefferson as the prophet of human equality could cite his Declaration of Independence (as Lincoln did at Gettysburg); the would-be Confederate states with which Lincoln was at war could view the Jefferson of the Virginia Resolution of 1798 as the prophet of "interposition," even secession. What
The martyred Lincoln's former law partner "Billy" Herndon scoured the backwoods of Illinois and Kentucky for Lincoln reminiscences of every degree of reliability, from fact to pure fancy. Herndon's endeavor (especially his unresting effort to dash sentimental notions of Lincoln's piety) became the overture to an endless process of mythologizing. Rarely has the power of myth been so cogently or interestingly inspected as it was by Peterson in Lincoln in American Memory (1994). On these two great and original works--the Lincoln study and The Jefferson Image in the American Mind--as on his one-volume Jefferson biography and his magisterial study of the Compromise of 1850--rests Merrill Peterson's reputation. It is formidable, and will endure.
A personal footnote: When the late Staige Blackford, editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, asked Peterson to review one of my books (from which the opening quotation is drawn), he politely declined. I was disappointed, of course. But Peterson told Blackford that, since he had been favorably mentioned in the book, he feared being less than objective. Nothing was said about that great bugaboo, "the conflict of interest." Good historians rise well above such conflicts, which smack of personal favor and whim and do small justice to their professional standards and scruples.
For Peterson, the integrity of the past was a legacy approaching the sacred. Had he reviewed my amateur history, professional candor might have obliged him to note differences of interpretation and even an error or two; so he had to choose between friendship and history; and he chose history--rightly so. His was no frivolous or finicking scruple. It was Merrill Peterson's obeisance to the contours of the past. And that, after all, is the first obligation of a great historian.
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A new book by married-couple social scholars Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson compiles the stories of more than 100 low-income fathers in Philadelphia and Camden—and suggests some intriguing new perspectives.
Kervan, a black 21-year old who had been working construction but has just finished bartending school, says that without his kid, "I'd probably be in jail." Quick, who is black, 24, and a student at the Community College of Philadelphia, says, "I'd be dead, because of the simple fact that it wasn't until Brianna was born that I actually started to chill out." Apple, a black 27-year-old who washes dishes six days a week at a hoagie shop on South Street, says, "I guess after I got caught up in the bad life, as far as jail, the kids helped me keep my head up, look forward. I got something to live for. Kids give you something to live for." Lee, who was just laid off from an optical lab and is currently working odd jobs to get by, is an African-American 42-year-old father. He says, "Without the kids, I'd probably be a dog. I hope not with AIDS." Thirty-seven-year-old Seven, an on-and-off house painter, tells us, "I couldn't imagine being without them because when I am spending time with my kids it is like, now that is love. That is unconditional love. It is like a drug that you got to have."
For these men the imagined alternative to becoming a dad is not a college degree or a job as a CPA, it is incarceration, death, rehab, "the bad life," "a dog with AIDS." Kids, on the other hand, are something to live for, to fight for, "a drug that you got to have."
Self is a 21-year-old African American who is certified as a home health aide but can only get part-time work at a nightclub. He recalls, "What influenced me to have children was that I felt alone. It's a good feeling to always know that I have somebody to relate to. Somebody that's going to look up to me, to learn from me and things like that."
White metal finisher and part-time construction worker Alex, 22, says that without his children, "I would be out getting high because I would not have anything. I would have my girlfriend but my baby is the most important thing in my life right now." Will is white, 24 and works part-time as a mechanic, and teaches boxing on the side at the Joe Frazier gym. He says, "I think I'd probably be in jail. My little brother is in jail, and I figure without kids, whatever he was doing I'm sure I would have been doing it with him." A white building superintendent and jack-of-all-trades, Bill, 38, says, "I'd still be out there. I'd still be fucking off, drugs and all. I think about my kids and there's just this hope I have now of getting a good relationship with them."
We ask Lacey, a black 42-year-old who works as a cook in a restaurant in North Philadelphia, "How did you see your future before you became a father?" "I didn't have no future," he replies. "I didn't care. I lived for the moment." We ask, "Did you think you would live to see 42?" "No. Nobody did," he admits, and then adds, "Nobody expected me to be there to see 17." Lacey now lives with his fiancée and daughter and the nine-year-old child whom he gained custody of a year ago. He gets up at 5 a.m. to ensure he's on time for his 7 a.m. shift, works 40 hours a week, never touches anything stronger than beer, and spends most of his leisure time with family—visiting with his 18-year-old daughter and her kids, offering advice to his 17-year-old son, or spending time with his fiancée and the two little girls who live in his household. "I spend as much time as I can with my family," he says with satisfaction.
His life wasn't always this way, though. The two oldest children— only nine months apart—were conceived on the heels of his release from prison at 23, after his murder conviction was overturned on a technicality. Both women lived on his mother's block, and "it was back and forth. I'd mess with her for a minute. I'd go mess with the other one for a minute. Once one got my nerves, I went with the other." In both cases, Lacey says, he was "just not thinking" when conception occurred. By 24 he was incarcerated again for robbery. He began seeing the mother of his nine-year-old while in prison, where, somehow, she got pregnant; Lacey wasn't released until the child was five. Lacey treasures all his kids, but especially the youngest, because she offers him the opportunity to watch one of his children grow up. When asked what his life would be like if he didn't have children, he says, "I can't imagine that one. I really can't. I can't imagine it. 'Cause my life without them, it would be empty. It would be empty. That's what kept me going in prison, knowing that I had to come out and be there for them."
For young men who haven't yet had a chance to make many mistakes, a child—so pure and innocent—is a symbol, almost a magic wand that has the power to vanquish the oppressive sense of negativity that quite literally surrounds those who come of age amid frequent violence in the inner-urban core… The neighborhood context throws the decision of how to respond into sharp relief: Against these often lurid backdrops, embracing new life offers young men a chance to participate in something viewed as utterly good.
Those who have lost their way in these environments may especially welcome the chance to turn their lives around. They may look at their past and regret "rippin' and runnin'" with the wrong crowd, dropping out of school, getting caught up in dealing or using "substances," or having sexual liaisons on the side. Some can clearly see how they failed their other children. But with each new pregnancy, there is a possible child who exists only as pure potential, and this is where men's optimism shines. Being a father to this baby is a saintly calling in an evil and chaotic world, and a relationship he hasn't screwed up yet. Who wouldn't be excited by such an opportunity?
How does this turn out in the long run? Unfortunately, not so well for most of these fathers. The story we tell in Doing the Best I Can is much like a Greek tragedy in which the fatal flaws that bring about the hero's demise—both as a partner and father—are evident from the beginning.
Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City, by Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson (University of California Press), is available now in both hardcover and ebook. The authors are scheduled to appear on WHYY's Radio Times this Friday.
* Names have been changed to preserve the privacy of subjects in this selected excerpt from Doing the Best I Can.
"What is so appalling about this story is the attitude of the perp -- only a self centered attitude toward his own interest. No awareness of what obstacles this child will be subjected to. '' I'll be there for it.'' Whatever that means !"
"Of course we all want things. But you need to PAY for things. Sorry, this story is sickening. Just more uneducated bottom feeders who have these kids and thing it's OK because welfare will feed and take care of them. Meanwhile, those that DO work and pay for their own kids......are being eroded away with more and more taxes to have to be given to these selfish freeloaders."
"Will the Ivy League researchers have the courage to report that "doing the best I can" does not even remotely come close to good enough? All they have to do is walk into any neighborhood school, especially any middle school in the Philadelphia School District, and they will see the consequences of an entire generation of children whose parents are not doing the job of parenting. The article seems to focus on the surprising reactions of of inner city fathers at learning that they are going to be fathers. That's the easy part. The hard part is supporting the mother from minus 9 months to raising the child for the next 18 plus years to give that child all the advantages of thriving and succeeding in the child's life. Food, clothing, education, sports, music, tutoring, mentoring, keeping them from harm, raising moral, compassionate kids to a productive adult hood is not rocket science. It's hard work. It's sacrifice. More sacrifice than being there at your child's birth."
"It is digusting that so many people (males and females) do not understand that children are not possessions or accessories to accumulate just because "everyone else has one". The "best they can do" is to use a condom because if they are unable to be responsible for their own lives (and body parts) then they will not be responsible for the well being of the pawn...I mean child."
"Incredible story, simple incredible. I applaud the authors for researching a message we have been putting out for years. That our fathers are doing the best they can with what they have. We teach fatherhood classes and host a fatherhood conference to bring the knowledge of child development to males. I cannot wait to get the novel and read it for myself. We look at every dad through a window of expectation, which is wrong for any gender, sexuality, creed, color or faith to do. Thank you again, until you work with fathers, you will never understand fathers. Austin"
"Breathtaking. The genuine goodness of the male of the species is admirably on display, here, unless of course, you choose to blind yourself to it, rather like the first four commenters here, whose responses smack of a Sangerian disdain for the less privileged classes. (Sanger, Margaret, founder of Planned Parenthood, whose fundamental impetus was to limit the growth of the population of th poor.)
Admittedly, there's work to be done to improve prospects for such individuals, but if society weren't set up as if to cause young adults to fail..."
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Let the Great World Spin
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Book list *Starred Review* After the rigors of Zoli (2007), his historical tale of Romani life, best-selling literary novelist McCann allows himself more artistic freedom in his shimmering, shattering fifth novel. It begins on August 7, 1974, when New Yorkers are stopped in their tracks by the sight of a man walking between the towers of the World Trade Center. Yes, it's Philippe Petit, the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary Man on Wire and one of McCann'sĀmany intense andĀvaliant characters.ĀTheĀcast also includes two Irish brothers: Corrigan, a radical monk, and Ciaran, who follows him to theĀblasted Bronx, where he encountersĀresilient prostitute Tillie and her spirited daughter Jazzlyn. Gloria lives in the same housing project, and she befriends Claire ofĀPark AvenueĀas they mourn the deaths of their sons in Vietnam. McCann's hallucinatory descriptions of a great city tattooedĀand besmirched with graffiti, blood,Āand drugs in the midst of a financial freefall are eerie in their edgy beauty, chilling reminders ofĀhow quickly civilization unravels. Here, too, are portals ontoĀwar,Āthe justice system, and the dawning of the cyber age. In McCann's wise and elegiac novel of origins and consequences, each of his finely drawn, unexpectedly connected characters balances above an abyss, evincing great courage with every step.--Seaman, Donna Copyright 2009 Booklist
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Publishers Weekly McCann's sweeping new novel hinges on Philippe Petit's illicit 1974 high-wire walk between the twin towers. It is the aftermath, in which Petit appears in the courtroom of Judge Solomon Soderberg, that sets events into motion. Solomon, anxious to get to Petit, quickly dispenses with a petty larceny involving mother/daughter hookers Tillie and Jazzlyn Henderson. Jazzlyn is let go, but is killed on the way home in a traffic accident. Also killed is John Corrigan, a priest who was giving her a ride. The other driver, an artist named Blaine, drives away, and the next day his wife, Lara, feeling guilty, tries to check on the victims, leading her to meet John's brother, with whom she'll form an enduring bond. Meanwhile, Solomon's wife, Claire, meets with a group of mothers who have lost sons in Vietnam. One of them, Gloria, lives in the same building where John lived, which is how Claire, taking Gloria home, witnesses a small salvation. McCann's dogged, DeLillo-like ambition to show American magic and dread sometimes comes unfocused-John Corrigan in particular never seems real-but he succeeds in giving us a high-wire performance of style and heart. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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More than 90 people spent Wednesday night at Seipelt Elementary School discussing where a new school building should be built.
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and here was me thinking that gnomes were a friendly bunch!
My brother is in the army and is shipping out to Afganistan in the new year, but before he goes he plans to 'acquire' a garden gnome. He then plans to send pictures and letters back to the owners to tell them of their gnomes travels!
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^^Good luck to your bro. Make sure he sends the pics to you, too!
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Q: You mentioned daphne in a recent article but can you list other fragrant plants that do well in our climate?
A: I don't think I appreciated the value of landscape fragrance until the last few years in my garden. I was delighted a few weeks ago when I discovered, by nose alone, a newly blooming gardenia. Here is a list of fragrant plants that do well locally, in approximate order of blooming:
Winter honeysuckle – Lonicera fragrantissima
Daphne – Daphne odora
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Koreanspice viburnum – Viburnum carlesii
Coastal flame azalea – Rhododendron austrinum
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Alabama azalea – Rhododendron alabamense
Lily of the valley – Convallaria majalis
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Rose – Rosa
Gardenia – Gardenia jasminoides
June – July
Southern magnolia – Magnolia grandiflora
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Stargazer lily – Lilium x 'Stargazer'
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Ohio State Adds Eight for 2013
Nov. 9, 2011
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State baseball program has signed eight recruits for the 2013 season, head coach Greg Beals announced Wednesday. The class features five players from Ohio, two from Indiana and one from Wisconsin.
"I am very excited to announce this class of recruits," Beals said. "These are great young men that come from great families and I am honored to have them joining our Buckeye baseball family. I obviously like the baseball talent in the group but, more importantly, I like the character and competitive toughness this group has. I believe that we have addressed the needs of the program moving forward with a group of student-athletes that have proven themselves on and off the field."
After a 26-27 first season at the helm of the Buckeyes and a No. 4 seed in the Big Ten tournament, the foundation has been set by Beals and his staff and the new direction of the program has attracted future Buckeyes.
"I am thrilled to be a part of the Ohio State baseball program," Craig Nennig, an infielder from Kaukauna, Wis., said. "I love the energy and commitment to success the coaching staff has. I can't wait to start working with Coach Beals and Coach Holick."
The newly renovated turf at Nick Swisher Field at Bill Davis Stadium also has added to the excitement of the newcomers.
"It's a very exciting time to become a Buckeye. With the new coaching staff and the facility improvements with the new turf, there's obviously a focus and dedication to the baseball program and its future success," Zach Ratcliff, a first baseman from Blacklick, Ohio, said. "I'm excited to be a part of a team that has set expectations of winning Big Ten titles and returning to Omaha on a consistent basis."
A closer look at the 2011 Ohio State baseball recruiting class:
Jacob Bosiokovic – INF/RHP – 6-6, 195 – Delaware, Ohio (Rutherford B. Hayes)
Coach Greg Beals: "Jacob has a very bright future. He is a physical corner infielder with power potential at the plate and the ability to also help us on the mound. Jacob is a dynamic athlete that combines size, power and speed."
Logan Bowles – RHP – 6-3, 175 – Canton, Ohio (South)
Coach Greg Beals: "We saw Logan early and really like his arm action – a sinker-slider type pitcher who will add strength to our pitching staff. Logan also is a good left-handed hitter who will get the chance to swing the bat as a Buckeye."
Troy Kuhn – INF – 5-10, 170 – Zionsville, Ind. (Zionsville Community)
Coach Greg Beals: "Troy is a fast-twitch athlete who can play all infield positions and has also played some outfield. He is simply a baseball player. His arm strength, speed and bat will provide us many diverse playing opportunities."
Luke McGee – LHP – 6-3, 180 – Wooster, Ohio (Wooster)
Coach Greg Beals: "Luke is a long, lean lefty with huge upside. Because of his athleticism, our coaching staff is really excited about his future. With our emphasis on player development we believe Luke will become an impact pitcher in our program."
Craig Nennig – INF – 5-11, 165 – Kaukauna, Wis. (Wrightstown)
Coach Greg Beals: "Craig is a smooth, athletic defender in the field. He has quick hands at the plate and a track record of success. Craig's ability to make all the plays is what attracted me to him."
Jacob Post – RHP – 6-3, 185 – Valparaiso, Ind. (Chesterton)
Coach Greg Beals: "Jacob is a prototypical power pitcher with a live fastball and the makings of a great breaking pitch. We see Jake competing for a weekend spot right away."
Zach Ratcliff – 1B – 6-4, 210 – Blacklick, Ohio (Columbus Academy)
Coach Greg Beals: "Zach possesses as much power as anyone I saw all summer. He is a three-sport athlete who will continue to make great developmental strides as he begins to focus on one sport as a Buckeye. Zach will bring the physical presence to our lineup that we are looking for."
Joey Stoll – LHP/OF – 5-11, 170 – Westlake, Ohio (St. Edward)
Coach Greg Beals: "Joey will be a two-way player for us as an outfielder and a left-handed pitcher. He flew on the screen late for us but what really impressed me was his overall baseball savvy. His development as a pitcher will be fun to watch."


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The Plymouth Whalers are back in action this weekend with their home opener Saturday night at Compuware Arena.
The Whalers host the Erie Otters at 7:05 p.m. The team plays its first regular season game Friday night against the OHL champion London Knights in London.
Plymouth won their 12th West Division title over 23 seasons last year and will compete in the tough Western Conference race again this season.
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This is something I truly don't know. I've never had a relationship so I don't know what love feels like.
What does love feel like?
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Its a happy comfortability.
Love is when you move past the insanely high hormonal part of it. You still get giddy to see them, they still give you butterflies, but you don't get the sick to your stomach head rush.
You begin to plan your life around them and with them, and you visualize them in your future. You see yourself coming home to them, owning a house with them, and your lives become one, and you live your lives together, every day. You no longer see yourself as singular, but you see yourself as a unit, a team, a pair.
Its not at all what the movies show it.
i like this answer!
oh my gosh, it is the greastest feeling ever. like it's so hard to describe, but when you're with them, all the bad things just go away and you forget about it because you're just thaat happy with that person. You always miss them, and you always want to talk to them. Love really changes you like before I wasn't open about anything, and I wouldn't cry about anything, not even in movies or anything. But now I understand and I cherish things more. Like you learn a lot about yourself, and your feelings. That might be confusing, but I really hope you experience it soon
Love romantic or (friend, family...) be able to accept the other person, alway have the best intenstion for them. You worry able them, you want to share everythimg with them. Sometimes are heart aches frommissing them. If you can talk or be with them it is the greatest moment in earth. You don't want that person to get hurt. It is also selfish, you want them to be all to your self. The greatest love is when the other person is ready to move on for whatever reason, you don't want to let go og course, but you wish them well and behappy for them. I think it takes a saint to do somethimg like that. Because we are human and we want that person for ourselves. Hope it makes sense to u.
It's the pain I get when I don't see him for one day, the pain I get when he gets injured from bmxing or when he feels sick. The pure joy I get when I kiss his lips and the amazing rush I get when I stare into his beautiful green eyes. The feeling of nothing else matters or will matter to me as long as he is with me. Or the feeling of nobody else is around, how it's just me and him and the whole world is blurred out. The feeling of how I'm being spun around and around as if I'm going to fall but I never do. Or how when I take care of him I know it's what I was meant to do, to take care of him and all his needs. It's kind of complicated it's just a rush of emotions all in one it's an amazing feeling and when you lose it it's crazy depressing.
idk. from what I've gathered from bad television, love feels like getting hugged by a big white pedo-bunny.
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TRUE romantic love is like meeting someone who fills the holes in your soul and amplifies your great qualities. The sum of you is greater than you and your partner alone. I will channel Mort Fertel here and adjust what he said. It's like you and your other person are like puzzle pieces and your love allows you to "fit" together.
I have but only touched on this deep topic.
What I can tell you is that you must be happy with who you are first. If you can't love you for who you are, completely, "from balls to bones" as the Oracle said in "The Matrix', you are NOT ready for love.
You'll get there my younger friend! You'll find it and it will WELL be worth the wait!
uh relationship doesn't equal love man... that is where so many people go wrong and why no relationship lasts. no one knows what love is. honestly I've never been in love myself and I know it, id like to be because I'm sure it feels totally awesome! too many people are "in love" and have no clue how stupid they sound.
"Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. I say, fall head over heels. Find someone you can love like crazy and who will love you the same way back. How do you find him? Well, you forget your head, and you listen to your heart. And I'm not hearing any heart. Cause the truth is, honey, there's no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven't lived a life at all. But you have to try, cause if you haven't tried, you haven't lived. "
You can't put love into words, it's unexplainably (hope I spelled that right) wonderful feeling, it's like a drug, you never wanna let that feeling go away. BUT if it still gets taken away from you, it's the exact opposite, worst feeling in the world sure to bring you down from the previous euphoria.. But it's still worth the risk.
To me, it was the hardest thing to feel because it just hit me like a ton of bricks. It scared me the first time it happened. To me everything I think and do eventually comes down to her, every little thing that reminds me of her and my mind goes right back to her no matter what. She broke up with me about a week ago, and I live every day now scared I'll never hear her voice again or be able to look in her eyes. I sometimes pray that I could turn back time so I would never have met her because I feel alone every day since she came and left. I pray all the time things will work out again and so I can feel like I have myself together again. Its a feeling that if everything else in the world went wrong, so long as I had her, it couldn't be that bad.
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Kes7, I think that in the context of the world of "Restoration," it's interesting that your understandable umbrage at Colin stems partly from his ham fisted attempt at subtlety. In fact, if Colin is, indeed, a lothario, he kinda puts the "b" back in "subtle." But (and I grant that this might be wishful thinking; and who knows where Joel is planning on taking this character), I have a feeling that Colin's attempts at subtlety stem not necessarily entirely from sexual insidiousness on his part, but a robust cognizance that just about ANY of the objects of his ardor could kick his ass. I mean really!---he seems to have had an affair with an augment, and now he's cruising the Cardassian first officer. What's next, giving Karala the eye? I would NOT advise that, Mr. Groves.
That's a very good point. He may just be trying not to get killed or maimed, rather than actually manipulate these very strong women into believing he's genuine. (And yes, I agree he fails at subtlety, but he does seem to be at least trying.) Ham-fisted is a good way to describe him. He seems to think of himself as quite a player, but his weakness for women appears to bite him in the ass as often as not, as far as what little we've seen of him.
(Oh, and for the record, I didn't like Curzon Dax much, either.)
Food for thought, indeed! You know it's Trek, well-done, when it makes you think. Good job, Joel!
HAH! I KNEW you'd have disliked Curzon. I, too, often found him his overweening swagger to be unctuous in the extreme. But it was something of that same quality that made him the right person to build diplomatic bridges with the Klingons back in the day, all the way back in the mid 24th century. Jadzia wasn't a great fan of Curzon either; and neither was Ezri, I think, even after both female hosts gained a deeper and more nuanced understanding of Curzon after their respective joining.
I quite look forward to seeing if Colin proves to be as surprisingly competent as Curzon did. Unfortunately, he doesn't have a centuries old vermiform "worm" in his gut tempering his more callow characteristics.
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How to Help Your Daughter Get Over a Bad Breakup
Breaking up is hard to do at any age, but for teenagers it can be even harder. With social pressures and not wanting to look "geeky" for being single, teenage girls can become wrecked from a breakup. As loving parents, you probably want to help your daughter get over this, for her sake as well as yours (you probably can't take many more days of endless tears!). This is a sensitive topic for most people, so tread lightly.
1Discover the reason for the breakup. After all, wouldn't it be a shame to end a positive relationship over a simple misunderstanding? This is best done by listening to what your daughter has to say and providing feedback.Ad
2Sit her down and talk to her. Ask her what she is feeling and why is she crying. If you want you can compliment her but never overdo. She will not like it and thus can get more irritated.
3If the relationship can be saved (i.e. problem was a miscommunication), don't resolve the problem for your daughter. Teens hate nothing more than when a parent interferes, and they need to learn to sort out problems by themselves. Instead, talk it over with her. Help her explore the different options that the situation yields.
4Let her know that there are many boys out there that would love to date her. Tell her that she is beautiful and any boy will want her and tell her to wait and see.
5Make sure she knows you love her and that you will always be there to help her, no matter the issue: boys, school or girlfriends.
6Be available to listen in ways that don't make her feel you want to control her feelings. You know when she is most likely to talk -- first thing in the morning? in the car? before bed? -- so make sure you're around then and available to listen.
7Never comfort her more than two times (if she is not crying and all). Try to make her forget about her breakup.
8Tell some positive things about her and negative things about his ex.
9Go out for shopping,food etc. Have fun.
10Suggest some sleepovers with her girl friends.
11Tell her about your first breakup and how you healed. She will feel better and will get courage to overcome her breakup.Ad
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- Make sure she knows you care. This is a very sensitive topic, so show care and understanding at all times.
- Take her shopping, get her nails done, take her to a hair salon. Make her feel good about herself. But also remember to talk with her about anything.
- Tell her that after every dark night there is a bright morning. Forget the past and start a fresh life.
- Have fun.
- Make her talk to some people who have gone through this stage. Let her know that she is not the one and only person who has gone through tough times.
- Go for jogging and exercise with her.
- Make her love herself. Tell her she is her best friend and why need a boyfriend or something when there are so many people who actually care about her and she can love them back.
- Getting over a relationship is sure to take time.
- Suggest her to do some yoga and you also join her.
- Be patient.
- Many teens don't eat food during this. Make her favourite food and insist she have some.
- Don't pry. If you know that you daughter is uncomfortable talking to you about this, back off a little. She may open up to you soon. If not, let her learn her lesson in her own manner. SHE WILL LEARN!
- Take her to a councillor if anything gets out of hand.
- If she isn't in the mood to do something don't pressure her.
- Shouting, screaming, throwing things, crying are normal. Allow her to let her anger out, but control her if she's causing any serious damage.
- She may shout and swear at you. Don't take this to heart! She is just letting out her anger.
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I received a very pleasant email from Urban Kindult, rep for Sweden's JAYS, promoting its line of higher end earphones (manufacturing since 2006). The noise canceling, dual armature, small beauties sounded intriguing, so I requested a pair of the top end q-JAYS for review. A week later they arrived safe and sound from the Stockholm suburb of Västerås.
Straight into the ear, the sound was heavily balanced towards the upper end. I decided to enlist the help of my son to aid with driver break in. Off he went for 25 hours of indie music and Miles Davis.
Upon their return, the sound was very much improved. Balanced and very detailed. If you are lucky enough to own a pair, be sure to break in at least for 25 hours before critical listening.
Technically, the q-JAYS are very impressive, especially technology on such a small scale. The dual micro armatures of q-JAYS are the smallest in the world. Each earphone has one woofer for the mids and low frequencies and one tweeter for the detailed highs. JAYS suggest '…by dividing the frequency curve on separate drivers it is possible to get an even clearer sound than with single armature drivers.'
The specifications of the q-JAYS are 95 dB SPL @ 1 kHz Sensitivity, Impedance of 39 Ohm @ 1 kHz and a Frequency Response of 20 Hz - 20 000 Hz. Size is (L)19 x (W)7.5 x (H)7.4 mm with a weight of 8 grams (0.28 oz).
The shipping box contains lots of accessories, including …'a stereo splitter, flight adapter and a carrying case [too small for anything other than the shortest cable - Ed]. A wide range of silicone sleeves and a pair of foam sleeves will make sure you find a proper fit. The eight pairs of changeable 'Sound Tube Filters will make your earphones last forever so make sure to change them every now and then if they get dirty or if you're experiencing a decrease in performance.'
I opted for the largest silicone tips for comfort. Even these had difficulty staying in during workouts, more a criticism of my odd canals rather than the very comfortable tips! If you've read any Audiophilia earphone reviews, you know of my problems finding tips that stay in during workouts. [After the review period, I changed to the smaller tips and that worked!]
The noise canceling 'JAYS Sound Isolating System' is a little confusing. There is no Bose wizardry, here, but the small size of the armatures and the fit of the silicone tips allows for up to 90% of sound isolation. I can attest that this 'analog' solution works. The ambient noise was drastically reduced with the earphones stuffed into the canals.
They do not burrow like Etymotics or some of the other devilishly shaped ear tips, but the snug fit is extremely effective without the feeling of a weevil burrowing into your brain!
The sound continued to improve over the lengthy listening period. The balance was excellent but the actual information retrieval (and recorded ambiance) was spectacular. Very refined and detailed. The sound spectrum is ever so slightly balanced in the treble, but the bass is rock solid and the mids rich and also very detailed. I enjoyed the soundstage replicated from the original recorded event, be it Chicago Symphony Hall with Reiner conducting Rachmaninov or Coldplay's processed sound from Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends. Miles' Kind of Blue was also excellent on the q-JAYS, the famous idiosyncrasies of that seminal recording date intact.
The q-JAYS are not inexpensive at US$270. But, they do offer the listener a very refined experience, at least as good as the Shures and Etymotics in the same price range. There are add ons that iPhone fans will need to purchase. From the JAYS site: 'The m-JAYS is designed to give you the free option of using any earphone or headphone you like. We believe in freedom for the user and m-JAYS will give you first class audio performance with a microphone that has a superior speech quality. A big button makes controlling the cell phone much easier. It controls all the functions your original iPhone headset does with the difference that you can connect your favourite earphone or headphone to it. Your choice.' For the price, and with the obvious care the company takes with its products, I think JAYS should have included this with the original manufacture. Also, the aforementioned case needs a size upgrade!
Those two small caveats out of the way, I can recommend the q-JAYS for a wonderful aural experience. They'll bring more of the music to your ear canals in comfort.
The q-JAYS Dual Micro Armatures Sound Isolating Earphones
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From the Lab: Nanotechnology
Faster plastic-based semiconductors and a step toward lighter, nonsteel auto engines
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Organic transistors get up to speed
Context: Organic transistors, which are made from semiconducting plastics, are cheap to manufacture. Although they enable thin, bendable electronics, so far they can't implement the fastest, most efficient circuit designs, because the plastics can't transport electrons. Instead, they rely on a flow of positive charges, or electron "holes," to pass current, which limits their use. Now, in a surprising discovery, Lay-Lay Chua at the University of Cambridge and Peter Ho at the National University of Singapore have shown that the transistors' inability to move electrons is due not to the plastic itself but to an interaction with other materials in the transistor.
Methods and Results: In a transistor, current passes through a semiconductor under the control of a gate electrode. The gate electrode is separated from the semiconductor by an insulator, typically silicon dioxide. In conventional silicon transistors, electrons pass through the semiconductor without interacting with the insulator. But in most plastic semiconductors, atoms at the interface between the insulator and the plastic trap electrons, so they can't flow through the transistor. By carefully designing an alternative insulator to replace silicon dioxide, Chua, Ho, and colleagues demonstrated that organic semiconductors can indeed conduct electrons. The discovery could make for simpler, higher-quality organic transistors that can implement the most commonly used designs.
Why It Matters: Organic transistors can be built using relatively cheap fabrication technologies such as ink-jet printing. The new insulator should let such cheap transistors perform many more tasks. The first application that beckons: electronically active tracking labels known as radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. With the new understanding of organic transistors provided by Chua and his colleagues, fast and cheap plastic electronics could soon be as ubiquitous as ink.
Source: Chua, L.-L., et al. 2005. General observation of n-type field-effect behaviour in organic semiconductors. Nature 434:194-9.


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Hal Durham's life had apparently been running on fumes for a long time before he ended it out in the Nevada desert—maybe for most of the 56 years since he was born in Tacoma, Washington, the son of a ranching preacher.
"His mother and I called him 'Harold,'" emphasizes the Reverend Ernest Everett Durham, who turned 85 in July. He's breathing a little heavily because he has just finished feeding the horses on the church ranch he still runs in the little town of Roy. He and his wife, Wilma, separated some 30 years ago. "We named him Harold, and he was a good boy. Never a problem at home. The only thing he wouldn't do is go to school."
Durham was a high school dropout, leaving him with a life that consisted mostly of hard physical labor. He didn't shirk work, but the financial returns he earned for it were inevitably checkered. "Harold always had a job," his father recalls proudly. "I can look back to when he was 14 years old, driving a wrecker truck. I remember him going out on a call when it was pouring down rain. He went to get a car that was upside-down in the ditch. He knew just how to wrap a cable around that car, block the wheels and use a winch. He just rolled that car right up on the road. He knew just how to do it."
Durham's succession of jobs combined with a series of failed romances—including a costly divorce—to mire him in debt and, eventually, bitterness. "He got married too young, like lots of people do," his father reflects. "Then he and the wife had a couple of kids real quick, too."
The marriage didn't last. "His wife left him, sued him for alimony and child support," says the elder Durham. "Harold never went to court to defend himself. He just ignored it. That was his way. Then the judge put fees against him he couldn't pay. And when Harold realized that, he just went down to California to run away from it all. Like I said, that was just his way."
Ernest Durham sighs for a moment with a loving father's exasperated regret. "You can't run away," he says, pinpointing the lesson he wishes his son had learned. "That gal hounded him. He went to California, but it wouldn't have mattered if he went to Mexico, South America or Australia. That stuff follows you around. The welfare people were on his neck from then on—all the time."
And when Durham's back went bad, his luck turned worse. "That's when Harold took up bartending," says his dad. "The doctor told him, 'Learn to do something where you'll never have to pick up more than 10 pounds.' He picked up a drinking habit."
From the old days of Buck Owens and Johnny Cash to the new days of Big Sandy and 00 Soul, the music at the Foothill was always rootsy and raucous. The drinks were, too. But while the club persevered near the intersection of Cherry Avenue and Pacific Coast Highway for 56 years, lots of change came to the surrounding neighborhoods—little of it for the better. Today the streets sag with dingy motels and cluttered liquor stores that cater to poverty, prostitution and the drug trade. Farther up the hill, drying oil wells have drained the color from Signal Hill's public face, as the red-hot ambition for black gold steadily fades into earth-toned, view-lot housing tracts. But when Bonnie Price founded the Foothill in 1944, the oil fields were gushing, and the work force was teeming.
Bonnie was a big-boned, straight-talking woman who commanded attention when she slapped her hand on the counter—whether it was to make a point or order a drink. She turned the Foothill into one of the nation's hottest stops for top-name country-music touring acts after World War II and the center of local social life. And she lived up to her burgeoning legend. She moved into a castle-sized house behind the club, filled it with velvet paintings, stood on one or another of its three landings and held forth as Signal Hill's no-nonsense first lady. Even when age and infirmity forced Bonnie to turn over the Foothill to her grandson Ron, her can-do reputation endured.
Hal Durham was among her legions of admirers. "It's too bad someone couldn't have gotten a printout of her brain," he once said, quoted in a Press-Telegram story about the Foothill. "She knew stuff I hadn't even dreamed of. And she knew everybody. She was always on top of things. Even when she could barely see, she'd say, 'Somebody over there is waiting for a drink.'"
Over the years, the Foothill's core customers became a tired, desperate mixture. They ranged from the exhausted leftovers of the grimy crews that tended the drying oil wells to the nervous, preening scenesters who came from miles around hoping to quench their soul-deep thirst for a little honky-tonk authenticity. Night after night, year after year, Durham stood behind the Foothill's famously kitschy bar—between its long, dark countertop and a fluorescent full moon painted over a western-prairie landscape on the back—and he stewed. He endured the slow shifts that dragged by, and he despised the large crowds that besieged him on busy nights. Because of the music, customers frequently had to shout their orders, which gave their requests the tone of demands. As Durham was dispatched to fetch their booze, he came to regard them with more and more disdain. Determined to take no shit from anybody, he made certain he dished out plenty of it to everybody. And his bad reputation grew.
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The Gamecocks outscored the Tigers 13-4 in the 5-minute extra period to win going away, as LSU (9-5) lost its third in a row to fall to 0-3 in the Southeastern Conference. South Carolina (11-5) won its first SEC game to improve to 1-2.
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