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Joe Girardi signs 4-year extension with Yankees
|FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2013, file photo, New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi walks off the field during a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Toronto. Girardi signed a four-year contract extension to stay with the New York Yankees, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Girardi's return as manager of the New York Yankees was all about family. Girardi signed a four-year contract that could be worth up to $20 million Wednesday to stay with New York through 2017.
With the Yankees missing out on the playoffs this season for the second time in 19 years, the 48-year-old Girardi got an early start on determining his future. He went over several possible scenarios with his wife, Kim, and three children that included taking a year off, pursuing a broadcasting job or managing somewhere else. But they quickly came to the conclusion that six years in New York was not enough.
"It wasn't ever a lot of thought that I might not possibly come back. I just had to make sure that everyone was still on board," Girardi said on a conference call.
Girardi was in the final month of his second three-year contract (worth $9 million) with the Yankees since taking over for Joe Torre after the 2007 season, and he asked for a fourth year in the new deal.
The contract includes $16 million guaranteed and up to $4 million in bonuses, according to a person with knowledge of the agreement. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because financial details were not announced.
"Our lives have been here for six years," Girardi said. "I think stability is important."
The pull of returning to his native Illinois to manage the Chicago Cubs, the team he grew up rooting for, did not factor greatly into his decision because once his family agreed he should manage it was set on New York.
"Chicago is special to me. And I think it'll always be special to me," Girardi said. "But this place is really special to me, too. Because of what I've experienced here. ... And my kids and my wife are established in the community here. We just thought it was important to stay."
In a 15-year career as a catcher, Girardi won three World Series titles with the Yankees from 1996-99. As manager, he has led New York to the playoffs in four of his six seasons, winning the World Series in 2009.
Under Girardi, the big-spending Yankees have gone a major league-best 564-408 (.580) since 2008.
Even though New York finished tied for third in the AL East at 85-77, Girardi had what many believed was his best season as a manager. He kept the Yankees in the playoff chase until late September despite significant injuries to stars Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira and Curtis Granderson.
"I wouldn't have come back if I didn't think we could win a championship," Girardi said. "I know there's a lot of work to be done. I know there's a lot of holes that we have to fill. There's people leaving and people retiring. But I have faith in our organization."
Girardi is sticking with a team that places the utmost premium on winning championships but is entering the offseason with uncharacteristic uncertainty. Girardi thinks it may be the most uncertain time during his tenure in New York.
"It was something that I definitely thought about. What would the New York Yankees look like in 2014, and beyond?" he said.
Quite different, it turns out.
Mariano Rivera and Andy Pettitte just retired, Jeter played only 17 games this year after breaking his ankle last October and A-Rod is appealing a 211-game suspension.
All-Star second baseman Robinson Cano is a free agent, as are pitcher Hiroki Kuroda and Granderson. Cano could be seeking a 10-year contract worth up to $305 million.
Also, Yankees managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner has said the team is determined to get under next year's $189 million luxury tax threshold — which includes about $177 million for player salaries. General manager Brian Cashman, though, recently said it's unclear if staying within that limit is possible.
"I think $189 million's still an awful lofty number," Girardi said.
He acknowledged the Yankees will have to mix in players from their minor league teams to help remake the roster. Steinbrenner has expressed disappointment in the farm system after several players failed to produce when thrust into major league roles this year.
But Girardi, the NL Manager of the Year in 2006 when he led a young Florida Marlins team to a 78-84 record in his first year as a manager, is hopeful.
"We want to see these guys move, and move quickly," Girardi said. "And you'd like to be able to say you have a core again of young players, which I think would be important to this organization."
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Students design and construct devices to trap insects that are present in the area around the school. The objective is to ask the right design questions and conduct the right tests to determine if the traps work .
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- International Technology and Engineering Educators Association: Technology
- D. Identify and collect information about everyday problems that can be solved by technology, and generate ideas and requirements for solving a problem. (Grades 3 - 5) [2000] ...show
- E. The process of designing involves presenting some possible solutions in visual form and then selecting the best solution(s) from many. (Grades 3 - 5) [2000] ...show
- F. Test and evaluate the solutions for the design problem. (Grades 3 - 5) [2000] ...show
- National Science Education Standards: Science
- Next Generation Science Standards: Science
- Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost. (Grades 3 - 5) [2013] ...show
Pre-Req Knowledge
Learning Objectives
- Design and build structures based on provided criteria and materials.
- Follow the steps of the engineering design process to create a prototype insect trap.
- Discuss the environmental issues surrounding the creation of an insect trap.
- Discuss how engineers would be involved in the design of an insect trap.
Materials List
- paper, regular weight or construction (include several colors, including the color that the target insect is attracted to), 2-3 times the number of teams in the class
- markers, any kind and any color, 4-packs (for students who wish to add designs on their traps)
- plastic cups, any kind, 1-2 per team (include several colors, including the color that the insect is attracted to)
- 1 ball of string
- plastic plates, large and small, any kind, 2-3 times the number of teams in the class (include several colors, such as yellow, white and red, making sure to include the color that the insect is attracted to)
- 1 large box Popsicle sticks
- masking tape, 2 rolls
- 75 drinking straws
- scissors, inexpensive but sharp
- 1 box Q-tips
- 1 bag cotton balls
- food items to act as lures, whatever is specified as the material(s) that attracts the insect, for example: vanilla, coffee, soda
- assorted building materials, such as wire, screen, cardboard, twist ties, foil, tape, glue (items that might help students create imaginative insect traps)
|A scientist who studies insects.
|An object used to catch insects.
|Smells or scents that attract organisms.
|A chemical passed through scent that triggers a(n innate) behavioral response in another member of the same species.
|An original, full-scale and functioning model of a device or product that is used for testing to help designers learn what works (and what doesn't work) and make improvements towards achieving a final best design.
|Colors or shapes objects that attract organisms.
Before the Activity
- Does the insect fly?
- Is the insect attracted to color?
- Is the insect active during the day or at night?
- What does the insect eat?
- Does the insect sting or bite?
With the Students
- Remind students that they are working for an engineering firm that will design a trap to capture these insects in the region.
- Mention some overall design requirements: The traps must be strong enough to withstand natural elements such as rain and wind, but still relatively simple to move and set up. They must be able to be opened up to permit frequent removal of trapped insects.
- Show students the supplies available for building the trap (hold them up as you review the items). Let students know that this is an open-ended design challenge and they can use some or all of the different items available to them: cups, paper, tape, string, plates, food items (to act as lures), markers, scissors, cotton balls, Q-tips, Popsicle sticks, straws, etc.
- Direct students to follow the steps of the engineering design process while they create their prototype traps. Write the steps on the classroom board:
- With a partner, create a list of many ideas for your new insect trap.
- Compile your ideas into your best design to develop into a prototype.
- Create a drawing of your trap on paper. Indicate dimensions and materials.
- Remember that you are capturing a small insect, not a big animal. Make the dimensions of the trap no larger than 12 in x 12 in.
- Show the design to your teacher for approval.
- Using engineering skills, build a prototype insect trap to help homeowners, farmers and entomologists capture live insects.
- Your engineering team presents your trap design to the class and explains how it works. Point out the features you incorporated to lure and trap the insects.
- Ask the audience for questions and comments about your trap design.
- Think about improvements that you would make to your trap if you could redesign it.
Safety Issues
- Always be careful when using scissors.
Troubleshooting Tips
Investigating Questions
- Will your trap be efficient at catching insects?
- How many insects will the trap hold?
- What criteria related to insects did you use for designing the trap?
- How will you test if the trap is effective in trapping insects?
- What could you have done differently?
Pre-Activity Assessment
- What would you like to know about the insect before you design your trap? Answer student questions with known information. If students ask questions for which the information is not provided, let them know that it is unknown, and that this is a good research question.
- Questions likely to be asked by students (write the answers on the board):
Activity Embedded Assessment
- Presence of color and odor for attraction of the target insect from a distance.
- Entrance into the trap such that once the insect has entered it cannot escape. Hint: Use a funnel shape at the entrance.
- Mechanism for removal of insects from the trap so that some can be removed alive and released. Hint: Insects are cold-blooded, so they are inactive at low temperatures. If the trap is emptied when it is cool or is placed into a cool environment such as shade, a refrigerator or an ice box, the insects can be removed more easily.
- Adjust the trap size and the planned frequency of monitoring and removal of insects to each other. Given that the abundance of the insect and the ability of the trap in capturing it are unknown, if students plan to check the trap weekly, the trap needs to be fairly large. Students may choose to build a smaller version, but then it might need more frequent monitoring.
- Trap placement. For flying insects, the trap must be suspended.
- Ability to hold up to weather conditions. The materials provided are inexpensive and unlikely to withstand heavy wind, intense heat and light or rain. At activity end, have students discuss what (improved) materials would be best for the final design so that the trap can withstand wind and heat from the sun, as well as any (improved) design modifications so that it can handle the rain and ongiong monitoring.
Post-Activity Assessment
- Ask students how their designs and insect trap prototypes relate to engineering. Why might engineers be involved in the creation of insect traps?
- Ask students what the environmental and ethical issues might exist surrounding the trapping of insects.
Activity Extensions
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Interesting read Op. Leaves one to wonder if there is life in this new found galaxy. And if there is, I hope it's more intelligent than the life in our galaxy.


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beckmart May 24, 2011 4:07 PM
in response to mopppish
Thanks, mopppish, for your hint on switching off the external drive!
I'm working with OS 10.6.5 and I had never seen that problem since I upgraded to OS 10.6 many months ago.
Yesterday I had such a crash the first time:
Finder does nothing any more, can be stopped immediately, but relaunch with the dock symbol has no effect. (no Finder at all).
Today it happend again - it seems to have something to do with my external FireWire hard drive, as the crash happened while Time Machine was preparing a backup to that drive.
When I finally switched off my external FW400 drive, the finder was responsive again immediately!
Strange, I'd like to know how to avoid that problem in the future.
mopppish May 24, 2011 7:02 PM
in response to beckmart
It just happened again. I had rebuilt launch services yesterday in hopes that it would help. Unplugging my external drive did indeed make everything make to normal, but only after Logic crashed again and I got the old "this disk was not properly ejected message".
Guess I'll be spending a good part of tomorrow doing a new system install...
EDIT: Really, Apple? I can't say d - a - m - n?
surigo98 Jun 1, 2011 11:54 AM
in response to Kel Solaar
Found the solution on Cnet:
Basically it has to do with drives that are mounted mines was a network drive but it can also be externals. I went into terminal (you can get there through spotlight or quicksilver, if you have that app installed) I used the command "mount" and copied the mounted drive's name(and path) then used: umount -fv DRIVENAME after unmounting a few network shares my finder started working when I hit the right one. So good to not restart anymore.
arnj Jun 24, 2011 10:55 AM
in response to Kel Solaar
This is a very serious issue that needs to be fixed by Apple.
I just spent two days getting my MacBook Pro (mid-2010 model) back to working condition. It was out of commision, and I rely on it for business. I'll be getting a backup laptop in the near future for these scenarios.
I've been working on Macs for years, and have never seen such an unsolveable mess as the dreaded
*The application Finder.app can't be opened.* -10810 dreaded error.
I'm posting this in hopes that it will help someone else in their troubleshooting. I think I tried just about everything. Keep in mind that I've got some extensive Mac hardware/software troubleshooting experience (not bragging, but offering for reference so you can have an idea about the competence of my attempts).
I'm ashamed to say that my Time Machine HDD was elsewhere (for bi-locating backup purposes), and the backups were about a month old. I just hadn't gotten around to getting a replacement TM drive, so naturally, the problem popped up during this gap. Thanks Mr. Murphy.
Here's my config:
- MacBook Pro 4 2.66ghz i7/4gb ram/500gb hdd
- Snow Leopard (recently updated to 10.6.7
- Regularly cared for with Onyx and left on so Mac native cleanup scripts can run.
- No AV permanently, but install/uninstall Norton and scan periodically
- 2nd Apple 20" Cinema Display (circa about 2006-7)
- slim Apple keyboard
- Apple bluetooth mouse
- Firewire audio interface
- a couple of USB hdd's for Time Machine
Here were my symptoms:
- Overall slowness accumulating over the last few months.
- Glitchy behavior after updating to 10.6.7 (occasional slowness, pinwheeling)
- Made the eggregious mistake of closing lid when Photoshop CS5 was open with unsaved work (I was tired.. it was late). This is when the real trouble began.
- Later that night, tried to wake Mac, which had never been an issue. It took about 30 minutes.
- Tried to save document in Photoshop. No luck. Forced quit and lost work.
- Tried to shut down multiple times. Waited a good 30 minutes again. No luck.
- Forced power-down.
- Upon power-up, which took forever (even after Finder appeared), Finder then "flashed" (appeared/reappeared) and ultimately crashed.
- Spotlight no longer could bring up apps, like Terminal.
- In fact, NO APPS would launch, at all. Tried from dock, spotlight etc. This included Terminal, which made things severely limiting.
- Tried shutdown. Had to force again.
- Started up again, got 10810 error. Apps still would not launch. Shutdown/restart not possible. This was now the permanent state of affairs until the end, with various dock appearances, dissapearances, Finder "flashes", icon dissapearances, items not being draggable.. and on and on.
What I tried - none of it worked:
- Many many many reboots.
- Zapping PRAM and resetting PMU.
- Booted up in Safe mode (still could not launch apps, including Terminal)
- Booted up in Safe mode / held down shift again after login (this supposedly blocks any auto-starting apps for the account).
- Booted in Safe mode >console. Terminal ran fine. This is the only time Terminal would run outside of booting to the install CD.
- Tried the umount suggestions per the CNET article (and many other places) http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10365239-263.html
- Booted w/ cmd-shift-v. Tons of disk0s i/o errors.
- Booted to Snow Leopard install CD. Ran Disk Utility. Checked HDD and repaired permissions. No disk errors, and very few permissions issues (some help file w/ a bunch of jpgs needed repairing).
- Tried deleting all the standard preferences files (see this thread and others) via >console Terminal.
- Reinstalled Snow Leopard over top of existing install. Same symptoms.
- At this point, I'm definitely thinking it's hardware. Booted into the Apple Hardware test (cmd-d) and ran extended testing. No issues.
- Ran DU from install disk a few more hundred times. Zapped PRAM and PMU.
- Even read somewhere that a low battery warning from a BlueTooth mouse could cause this. Put in fresh batteries. Really.
- Created new admin user from >console. Tried logging in w/ Safe and non-safe. Same symptoms.
- At this stage, everything was getting worse, not better. Icons vanished both in Safe and non-safe mode.
- Followed some ill-advised advice to CHMOD the /private/tmp directory to 1777. Got vertical black/white bars upon reboot instead of gray or blue screen. Now only Safe mode brought up a useful visual.
- Attempted launch services rebuild.
- I'm sure I'm forgetting some things, but that's about all I can remember from the 18 hour marathon.
How I fixed it.
- Had Time Machine backup, but didn't want to restore the System via this thinking that it would bring back old ca-ca (would use TM to get back my docs et al).
- Did one more backup via Terminal using ditto (an awesome command) of libraries, docs, photos, movies music etc. One MUST use ditto, because Finder copying wreaks havoc on permissions and resource forks. Ditto's faster and much less error-prone.
- This part sucked. But I had to DELETE THE PARTITION and REFORMAT with erasing Zeroing out free space.
- Reinstalled Snow Leopard.
- Got system update 10.6.8 Combo via Software Update. Installed fine.
- Mac is behaving fine now. I just need to reinstall all my apps. Fun fun.
In retrospect, I should have just thrown in the towel and reinstalled much sooner. I was lead down the road of hopefulness by various posts about this chronic Snow Leopard Finder/apps issue. I was trying to "save time" and not having to bring everything back from TM / reinstall all my apps.
In retrospect, the 2-3 hours of reinstalling things was probably healthier for my Mac going forward here, as I had "migrated" user directories from several Macs ago, and things were probably not as clean as they should have been anyway. I definitely should have known better.
I also didn't call Apple support, as history has taught me that it's usually an immense waste of time. That may or may not have been true on this issue, but I probably should have "given in" at some point and called the "Geniuses".
This is a very serious issue with Snow Leopard that has remained unrepaired by Apple. I think if we still are seeing it with Lion, this die-hard Mac fanboi may consider moving to the Evil Windoze Empire, or Ubuntu. I cannot afford the lack of productivity.
Sending Mr. Steve and Feedback a message about this. Grrr...
Decodex Jun 24, 2011 11:56 AM
in response to arnj
Honestly, I migrated to MAC thinking it will have less problem than Windows. Now that I see this thread I am now questioning if MAC is even better than Windows. In my 17 years of using Windows I rarely have problem as severe as described in this thread. Best of all, since 2005 I never had to worry about this problem because I started using Acronis TrueImage which basically boots before OS and can restore the partition byte by byte so I never had to worry about catastrophic failure ever again on Windows.
arnj Jun 24, 2011 12:13 PM
in response to Decodex
While this is a really serious problem, this is the first I've seen that was this unsolveable in 20 years of Mac usage.
I've been using Windows and been a Windows server sys admin for many of those years, and anectdotally speaking, the Windows problems like this are quite a bit more common. I've had to redo so many Windows servers in the middle of the night with bizzarre unsolveable issues that it makes my head spin. There are countless hours of my life lost to my wife's successive Windows laptops that she keeps insisting on buying that end up having myriad errors, problems and infections. This has absolutely not been the case with my Macs over the years.
Windows 7 is a vast improvement over the dogs XP and Vista, but there are still ongoing troubles. And don't get me started on the crappy untested hardware that's out there.
I still say, knowing both of them very well, and using both for work that the Mac is by far the superior platform.
Any type of computer is bound to have problems from time to time. The question is, how often (and how impactful)?
I just landed on a rotten egg on this one. It happens.
beckmart Jun 24, 2011 7:18 PM
in response to Decodex
@ Decodex:
I'm using Macs at home since more than 15 years and this is the first problem which is so serious that I can remember.
(I had much more strange problems with the Windows machines of my wife.)
I think MacOS and especially OS X is a very stable platform, but this issue shows that nobody's perfect and that having a recent backup or clone at hands can be very important at each and every moment.
Anyway, the very very severe symptoms that arnj encountered, are really disturbing.
in general, I've become very slow in upgrading to a new OS X update, as I fear such issues.
I'm still on OS 10.6.5 and I did not have this issue any more since my report above in this thread.
Message was edited by: beckmart (added "p.s.")
Decodex Jun 24, 2011 10:21 PM
in response to arnj
LOL! You must have been living in he11 for the past 20 years!! A WINDOWS ADMIN who is a MAC DIEHARD!
Decodex Jun 24, 2011 10:26 PM
in response to beckmart
@ beckmart
Okay, so this is just the first such event in MAC.
On a related note....so what do you guys suggest for a good backup program? (remember I am still very new to MAC platform, just started using it for the past year or so)
As I understand TIMEMACHINE only backup user data, but not system/OS/program. So in event of catastrophic failure like this thread, it will still require me to install everything manually which could take hours.
Is there anything that's like Acronis trueImage or Norton Ghost on Windows platform that let you back up the whole hard disk byte by byte ??
Any suggestions?
beckmart Jun 24, 2011 11:22 PM
in response to Decodex
Time machine can (IMHO) backup everything, if you want, but the standard options exclude some system files as caches, logs, etc.
I admit that I never had to restore a whole disk with Time Machine yet.
TM is fine and I use it regularly (and it some times saved me when I accidentally deleted or changed a file, I still needed).
In addition I'd suggest (as you want to) to regularly clone the whole drive to another volume (partition or disk image).
You can do that with onboard tools:
* "DiskUtility" (is part of OS X)
or with 3rd party apps:
* CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) is great, free and can clone a disk byte by byte or just do incremental backups (also scheduled)
* SuperDuper can do even more, but only in the paid version.
Both tools are worth a look. There might be others as well.
If you clone your startup disk to a firewire drive, you can easily boot from this clone, if ever your system should be damaged.
And if this clone is (relatively) recent, there is nearly no loss and you can just go on working (or work on another mac, if yours should be damaged).
As I've heard (as said above I never had to do that yet) recovering a system from TM backup might take some more time and you can not just boot a TM Backup, you have to restore it to another disk to have a usable system partition.
ds store Jun 25, 2011 1:42 AM
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A 'hold c/option bootable' burned ISO of PartedMagic to cd and a couple of 'hold option bootable' time staggered/rotated free Carbon Copy Clones on powered external Firewire/USB drives are my recovery options.
Along with a free WinClone copy (runs from OS X) of a Windows Bootcamp partition on another drive.
Supposedly Clonezilla while c/option booted from a PartedMacgic or Linux cd has the ability to clone a entire drive, differnt formatted partitions and all, but I haven't gotten around to trying it, also OS X needs to be "blessed". Which CCC does.
bigstick Jun 28, 2011 12:07 AM
in response to ds store
I have never had this error before until I upgraded to the latest system update. This was the one released last week (around June 20th?) in preparation for 10.7 Lion.
Now I have the same problem occurring intermittently on my Mac Pro in the Office, and my MacBook Pro at home.
In both cases, the problems were caused by connecting to external storage devices. One was a DVD which was burned on a PC without the session being closed (or something like that - the burn process had a problem somewhere) the other was a USB memory stick.
Restarting fixes the issue - temporarily.
arnj Jun 28, 2011 8:53 AM
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@Decodex: Yes, there have been many times when Windoze sys admin has definitely been less than fun - thankfully I'm not doing it anymore. I was in bliss when xserve came out, but alas, the $$ didn't seem to follow that kind of work.
At least I have serious ammo when the Mac vs. PC argument comes up!
@bigstick: In my crazy amount of research on this issue, it does seem that the 10.6.7+ updates have kicked in your variant (external storage causing the problem) for many, and then restarting / detaching drives temporarily fixed things. But only temporarily... posing a pretty big problem for people relying on massive external media and server storage.
Helloooo ... Apple? Listening?
arnj Jun 28, 2011 8:58 AM
in response to arnj
I do wish to report that several days after a full zero-ing out hard drive reformat, and full system reinstall (along with all my friggin' apps), my Mac is operating at peak performance, and literally better than when I first got it.
That tells me that something was possibly brought over via Migration Assistant over a year ago when I first purchased the laptop (I brought in my multi-year User info from subsequent Macs).
Once again, I learned my lesson (again), and will not **** around with "fixing" these issues when they get this serious. Reformatting and reinstalling turned out to be the ultimate fix for my scenario.
redcard78 Jun 28, 2011 10:02 AM
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I've owned macs since 2003 and never ever had I had a problem up until a few days ago, when I received a brand new Macbook Pro i7. I migrated all of my data from my older 2006 Macbook Pro and hoped that this new notebook would blow away my previous one.. Well for my suprise, I started doing my very first Time Machine Back up and this new MacBook Pro started behaving like I've never seen a mac behave before. The finder which is essencially the only way you can operate the computer, started freezing and continued to become unresponsive. I would have to be foreced to do a hard reset on the computer. After serveral time machine back up tries I gave up after finder becoming not-responsive. Then I opted to manually dragging my most valuable files into my eternal hard drive, and again, the finder becomes unresponsive and there is not way to get it to force quit, I have to hard reset the machine. After only 32 hours of having this new laptop, I've had to hard reset this computer at least 18 times... The best part is yet to come.. I called Applecare support and they said: "Oh, this is typical, all you have to do is back up your data and do a fresh clean installation of OSX and reinstall all your programs." Yay!!!!!! Are freacking kidding me??? How can I back up my data if the **** finder won't allow me to copy anything to my external hard drive?
I'm really, really ****** off!!! Apple charges so much more money for their machines but when it comes time to provide you with a solution to a problem they just easily blow you off!!
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Sayyid Qutb, a budding, 42-year-old Egyptian revolutionary, came here to pursue his master's degree in education at what is now the University of Northern Colorado. He left hating this country, convinced it was the epicenter of godless secular culture.
Qutb, who was hanged in 1966 for trying to bring down Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, is considered the founder of modern Islamic radicalism.
At a time when America's values were still respected throughout the Middle East, Qutb wrote prolifically about how its music was vulgar, its women promiscuous and its values wholly incompatible with Islam.
So, wait. Could the germ of al-Qaeda and modern terrorism really be rooted, even in part, in this conflicted, frail, angry little middle-aged man's issues with aggressive coeds and his disdain for pop songs like "Baby, It's Cold Outside"?
"Amazing, isn't it?" says TheatreWorks artistic director Murray Ross, who has written a play that imagines Qutb's six months in Greeley.
John Calvert, an associate professor of history at Creighton University in Omaha and America's leading authority on Qutb, says we probably should not have been caught so unaware by 9/11. "Things had been taking place under our radar for decades," he said.
Qutb (loosely pronounced Koh-tub) came to America with an agenda, Calvert said. He arrived in a fearful, pre-McCarthy New York in 1948, the year E.B. White was warning that "a single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers . . . (and) cremate the millions."
"This world was a dangerous place," said Calvert, whom Ross consulted on the writing of his fictionalized play. "This was the dawn of the nuclear age. The Cold War. There was a clear division between good and evil. You were either with us or against us. There was no middle ground in this world — one that replicates our own in uncanny ways. This new Islamist enemy has just replaced the old red enemy."
Qutb, he said, saw what he wanted to see here. "He viewed our world through the tinted spectacles of a man already converted to a cause," Calvert said.
The U.S. had been seen as "the good guy" in the eyes of many Arabs since the first world war, Calvert said. But things started to change with the creation of Israel, and America began to look for regional allies in Africa and Asia.
"When America started to get involved in the Middle East, that was a bad sign for people like Qutb," Calvert said. "It appeared to him that the Americans were going to replace the British and the French as the arch-imperialists of the time.
When Qutb left New York for Greeley, he found a much more ideologically compatible home, at least on the surface. It was a dry, slower-paced town, with churches on nearly every corner. He believed it to be a spiritual place.
"Greeley didn't have any of the noise or brutality of New York," Ross said. "If you had to pick anyplace in America that Qutb would have approved of because of its order, quietness, serenity, sobriety and morality, this would be the place."
The then-named Colorado State School of Education was a distinguished destination school. James Michener was on the faculty. The international student body was robust. The mood was cheerful. "There was a feeling that America was the country of the future," Calvert said, "that it was on the right side of history."
But Qutb grew increasingly tormented by the simultaneous lure and revulsion of American pop culture. He loved wholesome Hollywood films and especially Western classical music. But he found the songs of Dinah Shore and Doris Day to be vulgar and permissive. And he hated jazz.
"He thought it was the music of Negro animals that brought out all the worst tendencies in people — meaning emotions that would lead to dancing, and worse," Calvert said.
Racial hypocrisy
His torment was compounded by ideological American hypocrisies that soon became evident to him: Though he was racist himself, for example, he criticized how blacks were treated in Greeley.
Then there were his own demons, chiefly a lifetime of failure with women. "I think Qutb was afraid of women," Calvert said, "and I think he projected a lot of (his anger) onto them."
Qutb was a lifelong bachelor, and that was an affront to the ancient prophesy that had declared, "There is no monkery in Islam."
There wasn't much monkery in Greeley, either, which stirred Qutb's deep resentment for the free mingling of the sexes, the comparative sexual aggression of women, the very fact that women were being groomed for successful careers.
"He regarded women as a potential source of fitna — an Arabic word for 'social discord,' " Calvert said. "You want harmony in Islamic society. But women can excite passions and lust that can lead to infidelity. And I think he was always afraid of women exciting something in him."
After one semester and several months spent in California, Qtub was back in Egypt, scornful of America and even more radicalized in his beliefs.
He found our proliferation of churches to be a lie, according to Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer-winning "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," when the fact was, to Qutb, "materialism was the real American God." He wrote that the soul had no value to Americans.
"The white man in Europe or America is our No. 1 enemy," he wrote. " . . . Let us plant the seeds of hatred, disgust, revenge in the souls of (our) children. They should destroy him at the first opportunity."
The irony, Calvert said, is that, "I don't believe Qutb had quite the bad experience in the U.S. that we might suppose from his writings."
After he was hanged in 1966, he was forever known as "The Martyr."
While Ross says Qutb's visit to Greeley serves as "the germinal seed" of his play, "Dar al-Harb" is not a documentary. "We're no more faithful to history than William Shakespeare was when he wrote 'Richard III,' " Ross said. Still, Calvert added, "I think it communicates very well the conflict of this man who was both attracted to and repelled by American culture. As you know, it's kind of a rule of thumb that when you really rail against something, you are often railing against something that's in you."
Ross says his play is not a portrait of a scorpion. "He's more complex than that."
Despite the cultural polarity that exists between these warring civilizations, Calvert has plenty of hope for a resumption of a lasting coexistence.
"Because I think the problem between Islamists and the West is not American values or American culture at all — it's American policy," he said.
"For many centuries, Muslims have had an issue with Western liberalism — but they hadn't attacked us for it."
John Moore: 303-954-1056 or email@example.com
"Dar al-Harb"
World-premiere new play. Presented by TheatreWorks, 3955 Cragwood Drive, Colorado Springs. Written and directed by Murray Ross. Through April 6. Presented in repertory with Heather Raffo's "9 Parts of Desire," starring Karen Slack. $12-$22. 719-262-3232 or theatreworkscs.org .
"Dar al-Harb" performances:
Sunday, March 16, 4 p.m.
Saturday, March 22, 2 p.m.
Sunday, March 23. 4 p.m.
Wednesday, March 26, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, March 28, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 29, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, March 30, 4 p.m.
Thursday, April 3, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 5, 2 p.m.
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Friday March 21 7:30 p.m.
Saturday March 22 7:30 p.m.
Thursday March 27 7:30 p.m.
Saturday March 29 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday April 2 7:30 p.m.
Friday April 4 7:30 p.m.
Saturday April 5 7:30 p.m.
Special event
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Flatulence is passing gas from the digestive system out of the back passage. It is more commonly known as passing wind or farting.
Farting is often something that is laughed about but excessive flatulence can be embarrassing, and make you feel uncomfortable around other people. However, it can usually be controlled with changes to your diet and lifestyle.
Flatulence is very common and it is something that everyone experiences regularly. Like breathing and sweating, flatulence is a normal biological process. On average, people pass wind about 15 times a day, some people pass wind only a few times, others a lot more.
If you are suffering with flatulence you can use our online Flatulence Symptom Checker to find out what to do.
Why do we fart?
When you swallow food, water or saliva, you also swallow small amounts of air, which collects in the digestive system. Gases can also build up when you digest food.
The body needs to get rid of the build-up of excess gas and does so either by flatulence (farting) or belching (burping).
Sometimes, you may not notice you have passed wind because most of the gases are odourless and are often released in small quantities.
Flatulence usually only has a bad smell if it contains gases that smell, such as sulphur. However, it is important to remember that it is normal for the gas you pass to sometimes smell a bit.
Excessive flatulence can be caused by swallowing more air than usual or eating food that is difficult to digest. Or it can be due to an underlying health problem that is affecting the digestive system.
There are also several medical conditions that can cause flatulence, such as constipation and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), which is a condition that causes indigestion and bloating.
Read more about the causes of flatulence.
When to see your GP
There are no medical guidelines defining what the normal frequency or volume of flatulence is. You are therefore probably the best person to assess your own symptoms. You should see your GP if your flatulence is particularly troublesome, such as frequently passing smelly gas, for example.
You should visit your GP if you are experiencing other symptoms such as:
These symptoms could be an indicator of a more serious health problem and require investigation, such as a blood or stool test to look for an infection.
If you have excessive flatulence, the problem can usually be controlled by making changes to your diet and lifestyle, such as:
There are also some over-the-counter medications that can help if your flatulence is troublesome, such as charcoal tablets or simethicone.
If your flatulence is related to an underlying health problem, treating the condition may help resolve the problem.
Read more about treating flatulence.
Most cases of excessive flatulence are not serious and can be treated using self-care techniques. A visit to your GP is usually only recommended if you have additional symptoms that may suggest that you have an underlying digestive condition.
The symptoms of flatulence are usually only considered troublesome if:
There are no medical guidelines defining what is the normal frequency or volume of flatulence. Therefore, you are probably the best person to assess your symptoms. Treatment is available if you think that your symptoms have become troublesome.
When to seek medical advice
The additional symptoms listed below could be an indicator of a more serious health problem. You should visit your GP if you experience:
There are several natural causes of flatulence. Flatulence can also be caused by some health conditions that are related to the digestive system.
There are three main causes of excessive flatulence. They are:
These are discussed below.
Swallowing air
It is perfectly normal to swallow air while breathing and eating. However, it is easy to swallow a lot more air than usual without realising it. This can lead to symptoms of excessive flatulence. Excess air can be swallowed by:
Hot and fizzy drinks also increase the amount of carbon dioxide in your stomach, although this is more likely to lead to symptoms of belching rather than flatulence.
Food and drink
Much of the food that you eat is carbohydrate. Carbohydrates are made up of long chains of sugar molecules. Some carbohydrates cannot be digested and absorbed by the intestines and pass down into your colon. These are known as unabsorbable carbohydrates, or fermentable oligo-, di- and monosaccharides and polyols (FODMAPs).
Your colon contains more than 500 different types of bacteria. The bacteria start to break down the carbohydrates and, in the process, they produce gas, which is released as flatulence.
Foods that contain a high amount of unabsorbable carbohydrates include: beans, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, artichokes, raisins, pulses, lentils, onions, prunes, apples, brussel sprouts.
Slimming products that contain sorbitol (a sugar substitute) or fructose (a type of sugar) can also cause flatulence because both sorbitol and fructose are unabsorbable carbohydrates. Many fruit juices also contain high levels of fructose.
Certain foods, such as cabbage or onions, can lead to the production of gases containing sulphur, which can result in foul smelling wind.
However, the production of smelly wind can vary from person to person depending on what you eat, so it is up to you to work out which foods cause the most smell.
Health conditions
Medical conditions that can cause symptoms of flatulence include:
Flatulence does not usually require a medical diagnosis. However, if you are also experiencing additional symptoms, such as persistent abdominal pain or blood in your stools you should see your GP. These symptoms suggest that you may have an underlying digestive condition.
In these circumstances you will be given a blood test. This is used to check for the presence of infection. It can also determine whether you have a condition that is linked to a food intolerance, such as coeliac disease or lactose intolerance.
Your GP may also ask you about your symptoms and bowel movements, such as whether you have to strain to pass a stool or whether you experience abdominal pain after eating. This type of information can be useful in confirming a diagnosis irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
If you have additional symptoms that are particularly severe, your GP may refer you for an endoscopy. This is a procedure where a healthcare professional examines the inside of your stomach using a piece of equipment called an endoscope. An endoscope is a long, thin flexible tube that has a light and a video camera at one end.
If you have additional symptoms that are particularly severe, your GP may refer you for an endoscopy. This is a procedure where a healthcare professional examines the inside of your stomach using a piece of equipment called an endoscope. An endoscope is a long, thin flexible tube that has a light and a video camera at one end.
Excessive flatulence can usually be treated by making changes to your diet and lifestyle. There are also several over-the-counter treatments available if your flatulence is becoming a problem.
Self-care advice
Avoid eating foods that are high in unabsorbable carbohydrates (see causes of flatulence for a list).
However, it is still important for you to eat a healthy balanced diet, including at least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day. You should choose foods that contain carbohydrates that are easy to digest. These include:
It is important to note that different people will react differently to certain foods, so some of the foods listed above may still cause flatulence. It is therefore recommended that you keep a food diary to see whether certain foods make your symptoms better or worse.
You may find it useful to eat six small meals a day rather than three large ones. Smaller meals are easier to digest and may produce less gas. There is also some limited evidence to suggest that drinking peppermint tea can help improve the symptoms of flatulence.
When eating, make sure that you chew your food slowly to reduce the amount of air that you are swallowing. This will also help with digestion.
Avoid chewing gum because it can also cause you to swallow more air than usual.
You should also give up smoking if you smoke. Smoking can cause you to swallow more air than usual and tobacco smoke can irritate your digestive system.
Read more information and advice about how to give up smoking.
Taking plenty of exercise can help to improve the functioning of your digestive system and bowel. It has also been shown to help with bloating and the clearing of gas.
Medication and other remedies
There are several over-the-counter remedies that can be used to help treat the symptoms of flatulence.
Alpha-galactosidase is a dietary supplement that has been shown to improve the digestion of carbohydrates and reduce the symptoms of flatulence. It is found in a product called 'Beano', which has been shown to have some effect in reducing flatulence and is available from some pharmacists and health food shops.
Charcoal tablets are another type of medication that is available over the counter from pharmacists. The charcoal absorbs gas in the digestive system, which helps to reduce the symptoms of flatulence.
Charcoal tablets may not be suitable for you if you are currently taking other medication. This is because the charcoal might absorb the medication and make it less effective. If you are taking other medication, you should ask your GP or pharmacist for advice before taking charcoal tablets.
Clothing containing activated charcoal, or charcoal pads that are placed inside clothing, is intended to help absorb the gas that is released during flatulence. This can help mask foul-smelling gas.
Simethicone is another over-the-counter medication that can also sometimes help with gas problems
Probiotics may also be useful in treating flatulence. Probiotics are a dietary supplement, usually sold in liquid form, which encourage the growth of 'friendly bacteria' in your digestive system. The 'friendly bacteria' should help to aid digestion and reduce the symptoms of flatulence, particularly in those with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
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Inadequate due diligence and negligent hiring practices in the healthcare sector harms not only an organization, but its patients, as well. Indeed, poor hiring can be cited as a contributing factor in the rise of lawsuits, medical malpractice claims and resultant multimillion dollar settlements.
Over the last few years, a number of factors have contributed to the quality of medical workforce personnel throughout the healthcare industry—particularly the issue of placing qualified employees into the appropriate positions.
Employers in the healthcare industry need to obtain a thorough understanding of a prospective employee's history, particularly if that person will have access to patients, medications and confidential information. Moreover, liability for negligent hiring and retention can occur if the healthcare organization fails to conduct a comprehensive background check on employees. Simply stated, the potential for lawsuits and corporate liability for negligent acts reinforces the importance of due diligence in hiring practices.
Pre-employment screening is one of the best risk-management defenses against workplace violence, abuse and theft, especially when it comes to hiring reliable and trustworthy workers. Not only is it possible for an employee steal prescription medications or abuse a patient, but a malevolent employee with access to critical system information could potentially inflict serious financial damage to a healthcare organization—putting jobs and even public welfare at risk. Used effectively, a pre-employment screening program can assist healthcare organizations to limit violence, deter abuse, protect company assets and confidential information, reduce liability, and prevent litigation related to hiring practices.
Criminal background checks can reveal whether a prospective employee has engaged in a violent crime or has been convicted of abuse or theft. Healthcare organizations can also use the screening process to determine whether an applicant has been honest through the initial application process. In fact, the Society of Human Resource Management reports that 53% of all job applications contain false information. Supplying false information on an employment application may indicate a potential hiring risk, and can be a justifiable cause for termination.
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Healthcare employers have a duty not to hire people whose criminal history indicates that they are unsuitable for the job. As such, these organizations must investigate a candidate or employee thoroughly, and carefully evaluate the information received from a background-check provider.
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Knowing as much as possible about employees before they become intimately familiar with the organization is crucial. New hires must be able to interact successfully with both co-workers and patients. Furthermore, a number of positions may not be directly supervised on a constant basis, leaving the door open for potential liabilities. A thorough background check can identify applicants with high-risk factors, such as a criminal record, and provide valuable information that can help minimize an organization's exposure to such liabilities before an offer of employment has been extended.
Although pre-employment screening and background checks are important, periodic screening is also vital to mitigating unlawful behavior and maintaining a dependable healthcare workforce. For example, an applicant may pass an initial criminal background check but, after being hired, commit a criminal offense justifying termination. Since such actions could be imputed to employers, it is imperative that organizations periodically screen employees to identify those individuals who may have committed crimes. Additionally, to reduce the likelihood of an employment discrimination action, healthcare organizations should create a standard screening policy across the enterprise rather than conduct background checks on a case-by-case basis.
The Checks and Balances of Background Checks It's important to investigate a candidate or employee thoroughly and evaluate the information received from a background-check provider. Companies should ensure that the information used to select or deny an individual candidate is based on established facts relevant to the position. In addition, a thorough background check should include a combination of national database and single-county searches.
When conducting background checks, companies must adhere to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The employer must obtain written authorization from the applicant that allows the company to perform a background check, obtain past education or employment references, obtain professional license reports, and so on. Additionally, if a background-check report produces negative or adverse information, the applicant, under FCRA guidelines, has a right to dispute the report.
A single negligent-hiring lawsuit can cost millions of dollars and healthcare organizations must be proactive to avoid such litigation. But even if a poor hiring decision doesn't result in a lawsuit, the subsequent negative publicity can cause irreparable damage to a company's reputation among patients, community leaders and other key stakeholders.
An employer's obligation to maintain a safe working environment arises from legal principles. By implementing a consistent screening policy, healthcare organizations will avoid costly hiring and recruiting mistakes, mitigate exposure to risk and litigation, and reassure employees that the individuals working with them have been properly investigated.
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Meredith Corp. reached an agreement in principle to buy Every Day With Rachael Ray from Reader's Digest Association. Meredith adds Rachael Ray to a group of food-focused media properties, which it's been…
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