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The structure of consolidated rapidly solidified powders of Ni3Al
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Rapidly solidified powders of stoichiometric Ni3Al and Ni3Al containing boron and titanium have each been consolidated by two distinct routes, namely hot extrusion or hot compaction. The resulting microstructures have been examined by optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. The consolidated material did not retain the non-equilibrium structure of the rapidly solidified powders. The addition of titanium and boron produced material with a larger final grain size, a decreased incidence of twinning and, in the extruded material, led to cracking. Although all processing was performed in inert atmospheres, oxides were present in all consolidated products.
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I agree with Jane's review (B+) of Juliana Gray's second book in her trilogy about three ladies and three gentlemen who wind up sharing the same rented castle in 1890's Tuscany. I enjoyed book one very much and the same holds true for book two. The writing is crisp, at times breezy, witty and poignant. The story is (for the most part) believable with real issues to be overcome. As the review says, there are really two love stories developing in the book - the h/h and the hero, Roland, and the heroine (Lillibet)'s son, Phillip. I loved Phillip's character - not cutesy saccarine nor obnoxious brat, he seemed realistic and fully developed. I loved how Roland would call him "old boy" or "old man" like he would any other man of his acquaintance!
I have been very pleasantly pleased with this series and look forward to book three about the pompous Duke of Wallingford who more than meets his match in free spirited Abigail. Can't wait!
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I just finished AGNT today. I semi-read the previous book (A Lady Never Lies) and had a hard time getting into it for some reason. I think part of it was that there was too much going on, as there were several "pairings".
Anyway, though, I had AGNT at hand and figured I'd give it a whirl. I liked this one much better than ALNL! Enough that I thought I'd post in this thread rather than in the Recently Read thread.
First, I was really impressed with the author's ability to blend this story in with the previous one, as they take place during the same time period. This means that in some cases, you read about the same event, only in the first book it's experienced from Burke's POV and in AGNT it's experienced from Roland's POV. Pretty cool.
Also, AGNT--well, Roland, to be specific--was quite funny. The whole scene in which Roland is in Burke's workshop, and Burke is trying to shoo him out, had me chuckling.
Did I mention that Juliana Gray really has a flair for witty, elegant language?
Funny thing is, this book has a lot of stuff I might not overlook in a less well written book. Like, the idea that the hero had been faithful to the heroine--even though she was married to another man--for 7 (I think 7) years? Really? And the idea that when they meet up again, years later, and she believes he's slept with untold numbers of women over the years, she willingly has a quickie with him, leading to a pregnancy, so the plot thickens, etc.?
Plus, I usually don't care for stories where the H/h are in love and it's just a matter of overcoming external obstacles to reach the HEA. Moreover, I found the heroine here, Lilibet, to be pretty forgettable, as heroines go. This is Roland's book; Lilibet is kind of along for the ride.
Despite all that, the writing was so strong, and Roland was so witty, I still enjoyed the book.
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PULLMAN, Wash. – Johnny Melero pitched 6 1/3 innings to lead San Jose to a 7-3 victory over Washington State at Bailey-Brayton Field, Thursday night.
Melero (1-3) allowed two runs on three hits, struck out two and walked three. The Spartans (8-18) scored in each of the first two innings to grab a 2-1 lead against the Cougars (9-13) and starter Jason Monda (1-2). Washington State's first run came courtesy of a double by Trek Stemp and a run-scoring single by Yale Rosen.
In the fifth, San Jose State chased Monda during a four-rally to extend its lead to 6-1. The Cougars scored in the bottom of the inning on a RBI-ground out by Stemp. The Spartans added a run in the sixth against Sean Hartnett. Washington State capped the scoring in the eighth on a double by Rosen and an RBI-single by P.J. Jones.
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The structuralist point of view on mathematical objects has two aspects:
On the one side, a mathematical object is seen as a concrete structure of abstract dots, e.g. a graph.
On the other side, a mathematical object is seen as an abstract dot in a concrete structure (of abstract dots), e.g. a category.
Most mathematical objects fit easily into both of these pictures: a graph, group, ring, field, etc. can be seen as a concrete structure of abstract dots, and as an abstract dot in a concrete structure, e.g. a category.
Even a single natural (= finite cardinal or ordinal) number fits into both pictures: as a specific dot in the infinite structure of natural numbers $\bullet\rightarrow\bullet\rightarrow\bullet\rightarrow\dots$, or as a bag of dots $\lbrace\bullet\bullet\dots\bullet \rbrace$, resp. a finite initial segment $\bullet\rightarrow\bullet\rightarrow\dots\rightarrow\bullet$ of the natural numbers.
The same goes e.g. for hereditary finite sets.
The natural numbers $\mathbb{N}$ as a whole do fit also: as an abstract dot in some category, and as the concrete structure $\bullet\rightarrow\bullet\rightarrow\bullet\rightarrow\dots$
For some objects I find it harder to fit them into both pictures. While it's easy to imagine an abstract ring that is isomorphic to a polynomial ring - with its dots representing "polynomials" - I have no idea what a polynomial is as a concrete structure (of abstract dots) in the sense above - or at least as a equivalence class of such concrete structures, equivalent with respect to the relation of "representing the same polynomial".
Is there something like a polynomial as a concrete structure (of abstract dots)?
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High School: Ranked as the 13th-best defensive end in California by one recruiting service ... in his senior season, made 57 total tackles, 40 were solo ... averaged 6.3 tackles per game ... had 10 sacks on the year ... recovered one fumble ... an honors student in high school who was on the honor roll for six semesters ... first-team All-Sunset League ... team captain and Most Valuable Player ... blocked one field goal ... helped Los Alamitos to a 7-4 record in 2006.
Personal: Born March 3, 1989 ... parents are Carolyn and Ken Borg ...has one brother Casey ... co-captain and co-MVP with Steven Clark (Utah State) at Los Alamitos... also likes to snowboard... a kinesiology major ... also recruited by Nevada, Colorado State, San Diego State and Utah State.
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Rabbi Ovadia Yosef passed away Monday, October 7th at age 93. He was a bold leader of the the Shas Party and advocated for the interests of Jews with Middle Eastern and North African origin.
On Monday evening, over 800,000 people fled the streets of Jerusalem mouring the passing of Rabbi Yosef. It took the van carrying his body over four hours to arrive at the Sanhedria Cemetery traveling from the Geula neighborhood.
During Rabbi Yosef's leadership, the Shas Party became a major force in governing coalitions. Many Israeli leaders from all different backgrounds and views sought support from Rabbi Yosef.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented "The Jewish people have lost one of the wisest men of this generation. Rabbi Ovadia was a giant in Torah and Jewish law and a teacher for tens of thousands."
President Shimon Peres said he had been at the rabbi's bedside hours before his death. "When I pressed his hand, I felt I was touching history," Mr. Peres said, "and when I kissed his head, it was as though I kissed the very greatness of Israel."


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NVIDIA Launches The GeForce GTX 400 Series GPUs
NVidia is unveiling the new GeForce GTX400, based on the Fermi chipset, and it looks like most of the rumors were true.
I'm not going to bore you with all of the details, but I will update this post with crucial nuggets of information and links to other reviews. First off is this morning's leaked TechARP report, which is now back online:
- TechARP : NVidia Launches the GeForce GTX400 Series GPUs
- TechARP: The NVidia GeForce GTX400 Tech Report
- Toms Hardware: GeForce GTX480 & 470
- Anandtech: Nvidia's GeForce GTX470 & GTX480: 6 Months Late, was it worth the wait?
- Guru3D: GeForce GTX 470 & 480 Review
- HotHardware: GF100 Has Landed
- Gizmodo: NVidia's GTX480 First Fermi Benchmarks
- FiringSquad: NVidia GTX480/GTX470 Performance Preview
- DailyTech: Nvidia Soft Launches GTX480,470
- Engadget: NVidia Unleashes GeForce GTX480/470 tessellation monsters
- HardOCP – Nvidia Fermi – GTX470 – GTX480 – GTX480 SLI Review
- LegitReviews – GTX480 review
If you have more stories or news, post it in the comments and I'll integrate them into this post!
Update: Some detailed specs:
Special thanks to our "Inside Agent" at PAX for the photo of the Big Reveal.
More after the break…..
Updated 6:22pm with LiveBlog Transcript
Updated 8:51pm with tomsHardware, Anandtech, and Guru3d
Updated 9:24pm with Gizmodo, Engadget, HardOCP, LegitReviews, HotHardware, DailyTech
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NVidia live-blogged the event (What, a Video Company? With no Live Video Stream? oh well) on their nTersect blog. Transcript follows:
5:53 : There is a huge line outside, the doors have opened and we're letting people in!
5:55 : People are streaming in and trying to get the best seats. And they've brought plenty of green thundersticks that we've been giving out in the booth all day so it's going to not just be packed, but it's going to be NOISY
5:56 : No livestream guys but we will post some great video clips of this as soon as we can after the event
5:58 : the crowd is screaming
5:59 : t shirts are being thrown out to the crowd
6:02 : yes, there will be benchmarks…or at least some perf data
6:03 : We're still waiting to start because the people just keep coming in. There are people piling up in the balcony and the entire main floor is almost full.
6:06 : the show is about to begin
6:13 : Drew Henry, GM of NVIDIA GeForce is coming on stage
6:16 : Drew's explaining why we are launching the new GTX cards at PAX- because we wanted to go where the gamers were
6:16 : the passion in the gamers- how they drive 40 hours across country from Washington to be here…how they pack 11 people in a hotel room to attend
6:17 : Drew is explaining that we thought it was so important to build a new architecture that would allow the next generation of gaming to be different and exciting…and thanking everyone for their patience
6:18 : "instead of wasting time, just to get right to it, I want to show you our new GeForce GTX 480"
6:18 : "without a doubt,the best GPU we ever built"
6:18 : "The GeForce GTX 480 is something you're going to be really delighted with"
6:19 : Now he's showing the the actual GPU. "The most complicated GPU we ever built. It has 3 billion transistors in it"
6:19 : which is the same as 4 Intel quad core core i7 CPUs
6:20 : "it has so much compute capabilities in it that it's gonna let you blow some shit up"
6:20 : We also have the GTX 470. "The 480, top of the line, hands down the fastest GPU we've ever built. The fastest GPU on the planet."
6:20 : GTX 480: 1.5 GB frame buffer, 480 cores. The 470 1.2 GB frame buffer, 448 cores
6:21 : Comparing perf of GTX 285 versus 480
6:21 : GTX 480 is up to 2x faster than the 285, sometimes MORE
6:21 : "pretty good from one generation to the next"
6:21 : He's showing perf charts and everyone is cheering
6:22 : "2x the performance in gaming so you can tear stuff up"
6:22 : It's not a GPU just for gaming. It has a lot of new featues built into it….we've invested a lot in PhysX to let you blow things up…and that's what this GPU does. It has up to 2.5x the PhysX performance of the last gen (285)
6:23 : He's showing a gorgeous photo-realistic car on the huge screen…and for the first time ever, you can do interactive ray tracing
6:23 : We're shipping this interactive ray tracing app with every new GTX 470 and 480
6:23 : "So what does that mean for you as a gamer?"
6:24 : "You can CRANK THAT S#!T UP"
6:24 : Drew's showing the NVIDIA Crank that s#!t up t-shirt
6:25 : To really experience what "Crank that S#!t up means", we're going to move into 3D
6:25 : now the whole rest of the preso is in 3D…one of the most technically complicated shows we've done…
6:26 : Drew is inviting up Gordon Van Dyke, Lead Producer from Need For Speed at EA
6:27 : Sorry, correction: not of Need For Speed, Battlefield Bad Company 2
6:27 : They are going to show Bad Company 2 in 3D VIsion on a huge 25 foot wide screen
6:27 : They want to crank that s#!t up….now it's blown up in 3D Vision Surround
6:28 : Gordon is explaining how incredible it is to have peripheral vision like this in a 1st person shooter
6:28 : "it adds a new experience when you're playing a game"….they're blowing down complete buildings in 3D on the screen now
6:30 : the gamers are cheering…things are exploding everywhere on the screen in BC2
6:30 : WOW just appeared on the screen
6:30 : Louder cheers for Horde than Alliance.. 🙂
6:31 : Now WOW is in 3D Vision Surround across all 75 feet of the big screen
6:32 : It is 3 25 foot screens in total when using 3DVS
6:33 : Like Shanee said in her comment, we know you want video. We couldn't stream this live but we are going to provide video as soon as possible.
6:33 : Jesse Abney just came on stage from Need For Speed
6:34 : Drew is talking about the new technology we've been working on with EA so that we can make cars look amazing in games
6:34 : He's showing how you can now do interactive ray tracing in the Design Garage demo on an actual Need For Speed car.
6:34 : Jesse: "This shows what can happen next"
6:35 : "what you're looking at is one of the most complex, high-fidelity images we've ever made of a car"
6:36 : Drew is talking about the possibility in the future of being able to spend a lot of time customizing your car, making it completely ray traced…and then being able to unlock a level in the game where you can use it.
6:36 : Jesse "Your innovations today are aspirational for us."
6:38 : Design Garage will be shipped for free with the new cards. We also wanted to create a whole game that we'll ship free so that you can experience everything the architecture is capable of
6:39 : It's called Supersonic Sled.
6:39 : Barney is the test pilot on a supersonic sled. The goal is to get to the end of the track without going off as fast as posssible. It's DX11, has tessellation, PhysX, works in 3DVS…
6:40 : Barney is racing down the track in 3DVS
6:44 : "10,000 particles all being calculated by the GPU" – Drew talking about the bridge in the supersonic sled game….he cranked it up to a million particles to show the difference in the explosion
6:46 : Crates full of chickens have been destroyed from the rocketsled.
6:46 : Drew is inviting Luis Gigliotti, the creative director from Metro 2033 on stage
6:48 : Luis is showing Metro 2033….going in the tunnels under the ground
6:49 : now he's killing monsters underground
6:51 : Luis: "When we think Crank S#!T up, this is what we mean…"
something is about to go horribly wrong in the game
6:51 : monsters are swarming in all over the place
6:51 : The Metro 2033 gamer is blowing them up all over the place…they are jumping right up in the screen and looking incredibly real
6:53 : "Reviews will be posting in about 10 minutes or so" and they'll be in stores in about 14 days
6:53 : everyone take your glasses off…if you have green nail polish in the center of your glasses you just won a GeForce GTX 480
6:54 : there are 2 winners
6:54 : the tshirt gun is coming out on the stage
6:57 : The place is rounding out…everyone screams "CRANK THAT S#!T UP!"
6:57 : And we're done!


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Maybe it's because Birmingham, England is known for a labyrinth of highways so convoluted that it resembles a plate of spaghetti, but the intricate metalwork jacketing the city's new library brings fettuccine to mind.
The mass of metalwork also conjures up trusses and scaffolding that create another impression. Though just opened, the library looks like it's still under construction.
Either way, the bedecking that overspreads the exterior looks messy.
So far, my impressions come only from a virtual tour of the place, mission statements by the Dutch architect Francine Houben, and an assortment of inside and outside photos. Maybe it looks better face to face.
Houben's curly-hair-like filigree pattern of metal rings larding up the building's surface is supposed to refer to Birmingham's jewelry quarter. But you might not think jewelry when you see the filigree. You might think you need to wipe hair out of your eyes.
The metal wrap is also supposed to remind you of the craftsmanship of Birmingham's steel industry. But to this writer, it's a visual interference, and it follows you inside, where the filigree cast shadows on the floors of the reading rooms.
"I didn't want to make a brick building, because we needed a lot of light, but I didn't want to make a glass building either," Houben told the press. "It's so beautiful to sit inside because of the reflections and the shadows, and the changing of the weather."
Is it? Should the inside of a reading room have the distraction of intricate shadow patterns on its floor?
"Our dream is to create a 'People's Palace,' Houben continued "inviting, welcoming, inspiring for all ages and backgrounds, one that entices passers-by to enter and embark on a journey of discovery."
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The 2014 theme for GCSE photography was order and/or disorder. Finding myself once again in a school environment in a classroom, I decide to follow the same brief as the students, looking at everything that is in the school except the students.
The school which is in Wembley London, is a magnificent building, however is soon to be knocked down.
The importance of showing more that just a functional space is what I have tried to do in this colourful work.
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Writers' Award Winner: Experiences of Family Members Acting as Primary Caregivers for Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury
Research on caregiving experiences of families of patients with traumatic brain injuries has been limited to studies emphasizing negative aspects of care. During this study, families caring for patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) shared their experiences, allowing us to collect basic data about factors related to their psychosocial adjustment. Fifteen primary caregivers were interviewed using semistructured interviews, and content analysis was performed on obtained data. One thousand eighteen recording units were grouped into seven categories: (1) spending time with the patient with TBI and understanding invisible disabilities, (2) evaluating medical professionals' handling of the case, (3) devoting oneself to caring for the patient with TBI despite feeling psychological distress, (4) accepting the disability and constructing a care system, (5) seeking out and participating in specialized treatment (rehabilitation) for TBIs, (6) hoping for better understanding and creation of an appropriate response system for TBIs, and (7) making efforts to influence people around the caregiver and those in similar circumstances to promote deeper understanding of TBIs.
In Japan, a country that lacks an organizational and economic infrastructure for supporting people with traumatic brain injuries (TBI), an understanding of the realities facing patients with TBI remains inadequate. Although results from two national studies about TBI have been reported (Dohi, Ariga, & Nakamura, 2003; Uzura, Okuno, & Ogawa, 2008), only 19 facilities (of the more than 200 emergency and critical care centers in Japan) participated in these studies. Furthermore, very few studies have evaluated the affects of TBI on the families of patients with TBI.
According to a survey conducted by the Nagoya General Rehabilitation Center (Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation Research Group, 1999), approximately 80% of caregivers of patients with TBI experience psychological stress. The emotional stress experienced by caregivers increased as opportunities for the patient with TBI to participate in society decreased and the severity of cognitive and behavioral disorders increased. Furthermore, Akamatsu, Ozawa, and Shirasawa (2000) found that roughly 80% of families who provide primary care to patients with TBI complained of subjective hardship in four categories: (1) lack of rehabilitation of intellectual functions, (2) interpersonal relations within the family, (3) impact on the lives of family members, and (4) psychological stress. In another study, Watanabe, Shiel, Asami, Taki, and Tabachi (2000) followed the families of patients with TBI admitted to the emergency room of Saga ¨Medical School for 1–3 years and found that families of three out of nine patients with brain injuries were at risk for anxiety or dysphoria, and that the patients' inability to complete cognitive or behavioral tasks was a significant source of stress. In another study, Watanabe, Shiel, Asami, Taki, and Tabachi (2000) followed the families of nine patients with TBI for 1–3 years and showed that three families were at risk for anxiety or dysphoria, and that patients' inability to complete cognitive or behavioral tasks was a significant source of stress. According to Watanabe, Shiel, McLellan, Kurihara, and Hayashi (2001), their results were consistent with a study reported in Great Britain; however, families in Great Britain were more likely to know how to cope with the problems associated with being a caregiver of a person with TBI. One survey, conducted from the perspective of nursing care, tracked nine family members who cared for relatives who had sustained a TBI through traffic accidents to measure the strain of providing this care. This survey identified seven categories of strain, three of which were distinct from those also associated with the stress of caring for elderly dementia patients and patients with higher brain dysfunction: anxiety of becoming isolated from society along with the disabled family member, economic strain incurred due to the accident and disability, and psychological strain caused by treatment after the accident and interaction with others (Nagashima, 2006).
These family studies conducted in Japan stress the negative aspects of the caregiving experience. However, the experience of accepting one's own existence, functioning, and abilities in a positive manner—known as the "stamina experience"—influences the process through which the disabled person accepts their disability (Misawa, 1985). Similarly, it is important that families accept their own situation and the situtation of their disabled family member to attain psychosocial adjustment. McCubbin and McCubbin (1991) developed the adaptation and adjustment model for families caring for a disabled person. They have demonstrated that one form of support that facilitates a family's adjustment involves encouraging the attribution of positive meaning to events. The findings mentioned above suggest that to support families caring for TBI patients, it is necessary to not only correct the negative aspects of caregiving, but also to emphasize the positive aspects of their experience.
Similar studies in other countries have reported on the experiences of caregivers of patients with TBIs (Johnson, 1995; Karpman, Wolfe, & Vergo, 1986; Stansfield, 1991). These studies were limited by the type of family relationship between caregiver and patient and the period of care. This study aims to present an overall picture of the caregiving experiences of families caring for patients with TBIs to provide nursing support to families in this situation. By clarifying these caregiving experiences, we can obtain basic data on factors related to the psychosocial adjustment of caregivers.
Our study included 15 people who provided primary care to patients with TBI and who belonged to the Traumatic Brain Injury Association in the Chubu and Kanto regions of Japan. Officers of this association helped us select participants for the study. Families received a written explanation of the study's purpose, methods, and methods of storing and processing research data. It was also explained to potential participants that interviews would be recorded on audiotape, their anonymity would be maintained in the survey results, and they were free to refuse participation in the study. After families agreed to participate in the study, researchers explained the project again, and participants signed a consent form. Approval was also obtained from the ethics committee of the researchers' home institution.
Interview Description
We conducted interviews from August 2008–December 2008 in private rooms at the Traumatic Brain Injury Association. Each interview lasted 30 minutes–1 hour and was tape recorded with participants' consent. We used a semistructured interview method, and participants were asked to speak freely about their experiences following the injury sustained by their family member. During the course of the interviews, the following information was collected: (1) case background, including the age of the patient with TBI (at time of injury and current), sex, occupation (at time of injury and current), date of injury, cause of injury, description of medical condition, course of treatment, disability, family composition, participant age and occupation (at time of injury and current); and (2) experiences following injury, including how the participant felt about different aspects of the patient's condition following injury, how the participant has treated or responded to the injured person, and how the participant's life has changed.
We used the Berelson method of content analysis (Berelson, 1952). Specifically, we created verbatim transcripts of the interviews. We then selected statements pertaining to the primary caregivers' experiences following the injury, with one content statement used as a recording unit. These were used to inductively generate subcategories based on similarities in semantic content. Three university faculty members familiar with the field of rehabilitation care independently assigned the recording units to subcategories. Reliability was confirmed by agreement of two of three evaluators. Instances in which no agreement was reached were reevaluated. The three researchers then generated categories from the subcategories based on similarities determined by consensus, and the frequency of recording units was calculated.
Participant Backgrounds
Demographic information about the caregivers and patients is presented in Table 1.
Elements of Family Experiences
We identified 1,018 recording units through content analysis and, based on similarities, classified these into seven categories and 19 subcategories (Table 2).
Spending time with the patient with TBI and understanding invisible disabilities. There were 541 recording units included in this category (53.1% of the total number of recording units). These were further divided into four subcategories: recognizing the TBI patient's specific symptoms (134 recording units), evaluating symptoms exhibited by the TBI patient (302 recording units), analyzing the behavior of the TBI patient (14 recording units), and recognizing the complexity of higher brain dysfunction (91 recording units). This category was mentioned in 14 of 15 cases. The details of the subcategory are shown in Table 2.
Evaluating nurses' and medical professionals' handling of the case. There were 50 recording units included in this category (4.9% of the total number of recording units). This category was mentioned in 13 cases. This category is composed of a single subcategory—evaluating nurses' and medical professionals' handling of the case.
Devoting oneself to caring for the patient with TBI despite feeling psychological distress. There were 123 recording units included in this category (12.1% of the total number of recording units). The category is divided into three subcategories: providing intensive care to the patient with TBI (71 recording units), feeling emotional distress and being unable to accept the disability (43 recording units), and perceiving stress from caregiving and recognizing effects from this stress (9 recording units). Statements in this category were made by all 15 participants.
Accepting the disability and constructing a care system. There were 228 recording units included in this category (22.4% of the total number of recording units). These were classified into the following seven subcategories: accepting that the disability is permanent (16 recording units), self-evaluation of care and other family members' responses (55 recording units), evaluating responses and mental state of family members (41 recording units), reorganizing family roles and duties (10 recording units), changing ideas about care by attributing positive meaning to events (27 recording units), providing care in a way that utilizes societal resources and social support (45 recording units), and providing support geared toward securing the independence of the patient with TBI and family members (34 recording units). Statements in this ¨category were obtained from all 15 cases.
Seeking and participating in specialized treatment (rehabilitation) for TBIs. There were 31 recording units included in this category (3.0% of the total number of recording units). Statements in this category were obtained from 13 cases. This category is composed of one subcategory—seeking out and taking on specialized treatment (rehabilitation) for TBIs.
Hoping for better understanding and creation of an appropriate response system for TBIs. There were 20 recording units included in this category (2.0% of the total number of recording units). These were classified into two subcategories: hoping for appropriate responses from nurses and medical practitioners and hoping for understanding and appropriate treatment of TBI patients from society. Each of these subcategories included 10 recording units. This category was obtained from 6 of 15 cases.
Making efforts to influence people around the caregiver and those in similar circumstances to promote deeper understanding of TBIs. There were 25 recording units included in this category (2.5% of the total number of recording units). This category was obtained from five cases and includes one subcategory—making efforts to influence people around the caregiver and those in similar circumstances to promote deeper understanding of TBIs.
The seven categories and 19 subcategories identified in this study included not only problems (burden and psychological distress in caregiver), but also positive or affirmative expressions. Below is a discussion of the characteristics of primary caregiver experiences identified in this study, as well as issues associated with nursing care support as they relate to previous studies.
Overview of Primary Caregiver Experiences
Karpman and colleagues (1986) interviewed 10 parents of patients with TBI about the adjustment process and identified 12 themes. Although the themes identified in this study differ in name (e.g., maintenance of a positive attitude; continuation of care, power of resistance, endurance, etc.; family unity and cooperation; external support systems; efforts at reception; and people who provide advice), they are similar in nature to some of our categories (e.g., accepting the disability and constructing a care system, making efforts to influence people around the caregiver and those in similar circumstances to promote deeper understanding of TBIs). Karpman and colleagues' theme of training and cognitive stimulation echoes our category of seeking out and participating in specialized treatment (rehabilitation) for TBIs. Similarly, Karpman and colleagues' themes of overprotectiveness and psychological tension are analogous to one of our categories—devoting oneself to caring for the TBI patient despite feeling psychological distress.
Categories identified in Karpman and colleagues' study that did not correspond to any in our study were faith and economic problems. Perhaps the absence of the category of faith from our study reflects cultural differences between our study population and that of Karpman and colleagues; only 30% of Japanese people have religious affiliations, and of those, the rate of participation in religious activities is low (Ishii, 2008). None of the participants in our study mentioned serious economic problems, although some caregivers were saving money to provide for their patients after they passed away. Participants in our study may not have been as concerned with economic problems as those in Karpman and colleagues' study because in 10 of 15 cases, the patient with TBI receiving care was a son or daughter who had been single before the injury and the patient's siblings were already adults, so the parents did not have to worry about a large financial expenditure. In addition, caregiving parents were of an income-earning age. In two of the cases in which the patient receiving care was the caregiver's husband, the patient was around the age of retirement and had already prepared savings for old age. The remaining three cases were receiving workers' compensation.
Several categories were identified in this study that were not reported by Karpman and colleagues, including spending time with the patient with TBI and understanding invisible disabilities, evaluating nurses and medical professionals' handling of the case, and hoping for better understanding and creation of an appropriate response system for traumatic brain injuries. One of the greatest barriers to treating TBI in Japan is that the disorder is inadequately understood by healthcare professionals. Stansfield (1991), who studied the families of patients with comas caused by TBIs, identified the following four themes based on the families' experiences in the week following hospitalization: visiting the patient, the role of nursing staff, the role of physicians, and perception of recovery. The role of nursing staff had four subthemes: (1) nursing duties (busy, organized, and efficient, occupy a position close to patients), (2) leaders, (3) information suppliers, and (4) caring and other behavior. The role of physicians included diagnosis/treatment and explanation of the medical condition. In Stansfield's study, participants became aware of the roles of nursing staff and physicians by actually experiencing their intervention. Although our study found some positive evaluations of nurses and physicians, negative evaluations were more frequent, and the perception was that information provided by medical practitioners was insufficient. This suggests that because primary caregivers are forced to try to understand the real-life conditions of TBI patients without any prior knowledge of the disorder, they need more information and support from physicians and nurses. Factors contributing to this negative perception include medical practitioners (including nurses) having little knowledge about these disabilities or their treatment or experience in providing support because they have spent limited time focusing on higher brain dysfunction. Furthermore, compared to brain damage caused by cerebral hemorrhage or stroke in which the focus is fixed, there is no single trauma site in cases of higher brain dysfunction caused by TBI. This often results in disabilities that are complex. For this reason, cases differ widely in characteristics, and it is very difficult to understand the clinical condition. As Stansfield's study notes, nurses play an integral role in the treatment of patients with TBI; however, nurses in Japan are not yet adequately performing their roles as leaders and information suppliers.
Issues Related to Nursing Support for Caregivers
A number of studies conducted in the United States have demonstrated that families have significant needs when it comes to receiving information from medical professionals (Junque, Bruno, & Mataro, 1997; Kolalowsky-Hayner, Miner, & Kreutzer, 2001; Kreutzer, Serio, & Berquiest, 1994; Serio, Kreutzer, & Witol, 1997). It is common for medical professionals in acute hospitals to offer candid explanations of their patients' conditions. Duff (2002) reported that because medical staff at hospitals tend to express negative opinions regarding patients' prognoses, families look to other sources other than hospitals for support and advice. On the other hand, some families use denial and repression as defense mechanisms, believing that "things will get better once the patient returns home," and thus are unable to accept instructions provided by medical practitioners (Paterson, Kieloch, & Gmiterek, 2001). It is very difficult to subsequently restore a relationship with a patient's family after a medical practitioner has given the impression that he or she does not understand the family's position. Although healthcare professionals must discourage families from harboring unrealistic expectations about a patient's recovery, physicians and nurses, particularly in acute hospitals, must also work to improve knowledge about the disabilities accompanying TBIs and their treatment, take steps to respond appropriately to the needs of patients and families, and provide information that will help families access facilities offering specialized treatment and use societal resources.
The most frequently observed category in this study was spending time with the patient with TBI and understanding invisible disabilities. Through daily living, primary caregivers monitored their own and their family members' coping and responses by understanding disabilities accompanying TBIs. We believe that this understanding of disabilities is a key component of primary caregivers' psychosocial adjustment process. As Paterson and colleagues (2001) have noted, because families have trouble accepting instructions and advice provided at acute hospitals, it is necessary for the medical staff at outpatient clinics to listen to families' experiences when they come in for treatment and provide information in a way that addresses these experiences. Listening to a family talk about their living conditions can deepen nurses' understanding of disabilities and caregivers.
Kosciulek (1994) reported that families of patients with TBI employ five coping strategies for their psychosocial adjustment: positive evaluation, acquisition of coping resources, changes of mood or pace, reduction of demands based on the disability, and acquisition of social support. Of these, they found that positive evaluation and change of mood or pace are closely related to psychosocial adjustment. In this study, caregivers who considered the coping strategies were few. The adjustment process takes time, but outpatient medical professionals must collect information about coping strategies and the stresses experienced by caregivers. They must also provide support in such a way that caregivers can adopt the appropriate coping strategies to ensure that the process is not prolonged unnecessarily.
In addition, because the number of institutions providing specialized rehabilitation therapy for patients with TBIs is limited, it is not always possible for patients to receive specialized therapy immediately following their release from acute hospitals. Patients often receive home care or visit a number of hospitals before undergoing specialized rehabilitation, so there is a need to provide continuous nursing care.
Study Limitations and Future Tasks
The focus of this survey was limited to 15 family members belonging to the Traumatic Brain Injury Association within a particular region in Japan. Fortunately, members of this association have access to many forms of social support and can view—or are beginning to view—the situation in which they find themselves and their loved ones more objectively. Because of these quantitative and background factors, the extent to which our data can represent the experiences of all families who care for TBI patients is limited. Furthermore, the familial relationships of caregivers to patients in this study were mother-son, mother-daughter, and wife-husband. Although the results from this study may contribute to an overview of families' experiences in caregiving, it is necessary to broaden the study to include additional types of patient-caregiver relationships to provide feedback regarding nursing support.
As a result of interviewing family members providing primary care to chronic-stage TBI patients and performing content analysis of their caregiving experiences, seven themes emerged that described caregivers' experiences: (1) spending time with the patient with TBI and understanding invisible disabilities, (2) evaluating medical professionals' handling of the case, (3) devoting oneself to caring for the patient with TBI despite feeling psychological distress, (4) accepting the disability and constructing a care system, (5) seeking out and participating in specialized treatment (rehabilitation) for TBIs, (6) hoping for better understanding and creation of an appropriate response system for TBIs, and (7) making efforts to influence people around the caregiver and those in similar circumstances to promote deeper understanding of TBIs.
Two of our themes were distinct from those identified in previous studies conducted in other countries examining caregiver experiences: evaluating medical professionals' handling of the case and hoping for better understanding and the creation of an appropriate response system for TBIs. These themes underscore that caregivers and healthcare professionals in Japan face some significant challenges in treating patients with TBI, including a lack of knowledge about higher brain dysfunction among medical professionals and nurses and an inability to appropriately respond to these situations.
The results of this study suggest that to provide support to families of TBI patients, nurses must (1) enrich their knowledge of higher brain dysfunction; (2) listen to the families talk about their actual living situations, stress perception, and coping strategies; and (3) provide information that is appropriate to a family's circumstances and encourage the use of appropriate coping strategies.
We would like to offer our sincerest thanks to the Japan Traumatic Brain Injury Association and all its members for their cooperation with this study.
About the Author
Fumiyo Ishikawa, MS RN, is a professor at the School of Health Sciences, Tokyo University of Technology, in Nishikamata, Ota-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Address correspondence to her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Sumie Suzuki, PhD RN, is a professor in the Department of Nursing at Kokkyo Medical University in Tochigi prefecture, Japan.
Akiko Okumiya, PhD RN, is a professor in the Department of Nursing, Sapporo Medical University in Sapporo, Japan.
Yasuko Shimizu, PhD RN, is a professor in the Division of Health Sciences at Osaka University in Osaka, Japan.
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Baby Names of Antarctica – Solveig, Emilio, Juan, Gisella
|November 15, 2008
Only a handful of babies have been born on Antarctica. Ever wonder what their names are?
Me too. So I thought I'd look them up.
First I should mention Solveig Gunbjørg Jacobsen, a Norwegian baby girl who was born on South Georgia Island on October 8, 1913. She wasn't the first baby born on Antarctica itself, but she was the first to be born in the southern polar region.
The first true Antarctican baby was Emilio Marcos de Palma, born at Argentine research station Esperanza Base in Hope Bay, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica, on January 7, 1978. "Over the next five years, four more boys and three girls were born at Esperanza," according to the book Antarctica by Jeff Rubin. (I haven't had any luck tracking down the names of these seven other babies.)
The only other civilian settlement in Antarctica, Villa Las Estrellas, located on a Chilean military base on King George Island, welcomed its first baby, Juan Pablo Camacho, in 1984. Two more babies (one named Gisella) have since been born there.
Have you ever met (or do you know of) any of the other Antarctican babies? If so, what are their names and nationalities?
Source: The Times
5 Responses to Baby Names of Antarctica – Solveig, Emilio, Juan, Gisella
Jack Coleman , United States
I know a friend who was born in antartica. His name if Tireque Jhonson. His nationality is black.
I know a person from Taiwan born in Antartica, name is Jenny.
My best friend name is Hector. He was also born in Antarctica.


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I'm trying to upgrade from MySQL 5.1 to MySQL 5.5.
I followed the instructions here:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/windows-upgrading.html I also adjusted the Datadir.
But after the upgrade, all tables are gone. I only use Innodb tables.
The Datadir setting seems to be correct, cause the ibdata1 file changes if I change something in the db. But even if I add a new schema with a new table it does not create a directory for it.
Am I missing something completely?


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Dubious Newbie? A Theme Cruise Could Change His Mind
December 17, 2012 | By Colleen McDaniel | No Comments
You've probably got that skeptic in your life. You know, the guy who rolls his eyes when you mention your upcoming cruise vacation, or your pal who says she just "couldn't imagine" spending all that time "trapped on a boat."
Mention that the cruise offers the opportunity to hang out with a legend of rock or sports star, and your buddy might quickly change his tune.
Theme cruises have a way of bringing first-timers to sea, Joyce Landry, co-founder and CEO of Landry & Kling, Events at Sea, said.
Perhaps that's because few opportunities can bring you so close to celebrities or allow you to fully immerse yourself in the things about which you're so passionate. Where else can you share that fervor with several thousand people?
Despite its reputation, theme cruising isn't just for the Comic-Con set (fear not, fans, there's plenty for you, too).
These sailing events have evolved and feature a range of themes, one of two of which surely might tickle your fancy.
(Booking for all cruises mentioned is still available as of publication)
Love rock? You can party with other like-minded fans while seeing your favorite legends on stage, including Foreigner, Kansas or 38 Special onboard Royal Caribbean's Liberty of the Seas for the second annual Rock Legends Cruise II January 10-14, 2013.
Dig wine? AmaWaterways has come up with a handful of river cruises throughout 2013 that will take you on a tour through some of Europe's top wine spots, including ports in France and Germany. Itineraries include activities such as a visit to the Wine Museum (who knew?) in Paris or onboard wine lectures, as well as numerous tastings in ports.
Dying to dine? Top Chef: The Cruise will take place April 11-15, 2013, onboard Celebrity Constellation. The event is hosted by chefs/TV personalities Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons, and it will feature many of the chefs from Bravo's hit TV series.
Crazy about sports? Even ESPN is getting into the game. The network dubs itself the "Worldwide Leader in Sports," but can it capture the cruising market, too? It's banking on it.
Starting in 2013, ESPN International is launching several sports-themed events at sea. To kick things off, the ubiquitous sports and entertainment champ is throwing its hat into the football — and futball — arena with two themed Caribbean cruises that set sail February 2, the day before that great American holiday: Super Bowl Sunday.
To capture the international market, though, ESPNatSea is bringing aboard a guest list that combines the U.S. passion for the NFL and the international thirst for soccer. Featured guests include former NFL players Mark Duper and Mark Clayton, former U.S. women's national soccer team captain Julie Foudy and ESPN soccer commentator Tommy Smyth.
Jewel of the Seas will sail a five-night ESPNatSea itinerary February 2-7 out of Tampa; Oasis of the Seas will sail a seven-night itinerary February 2-9 out of Fort Lauderdale.
While theme cruises are a great way to break in first-time cruisers, Landry said they also draw repeat business. Once someone has booked one theme cruise, they're likely to come back next year to do it again.
Count Cruise Critic member vickiw0318 as a repeat customer.
"DH and I went last year and are back again for this one too," she wrote of the Rock Legends sailing on the Meet & Mingle board.
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Yesterday a press release was available to those writers in the pet industry. The release brings about some very important news for dog parents that love their dogs regardless of any health or emotional issues that the dogs may have.
One issue that is hard for pet parents to witness is hip dysplasia. There are just so many issues that they have to face when their four-legged companion is afflicted with this painful abnormality. You see, when a dog has hip dysplasia, it means that they have an abnormal formation in their hip socket. It the abnormality is bad enough, it could cause the dog to be crippled, lame or to develop painful arthritis in his or her joints. What the experts are discovering is that this disease is much worse than previously thought.
Canine hip dysplasia can be inherited as well as environmental. The cause of canine hip dysplasia is basically a lack of proper development in the hip joints. After time, the condition gradually deteriorates; leading to the eventual loss of the hip joint function.
It is known to affect one in four dogs; more common than originally thought to be. It affects both male and female canines equally. Originally, experts thought that canine hip dysplasia only affected larger pure breed dogs like Saint Bernards, Mastiffs, German Shepherds and Border Collies. Now they know that that is not true. A recent study conducted by the Journal of American Veterinary Medical Association revealed that small mixed breed dogs were as likely to suffer as large pure breed dogs from this disease. In fact, the study involved more than 80,000 dogs was a determinant that all dogs are equally likely to suffer from hip dysplasia at any age.
It is unfortunate, but the dogs that do suffer from this disease have issues with basic activities like sitting down, getting up from a prone position, running up or down the stairs, or even walking, to name a few. Just as with humans, if the dog sits or lies in the same position for too long, they experience pain. Pressure on the hip joints results in inflammation and pain which affects the dog's life in every aspect.
Dogs old and young can manifest symptoms of canine hip dysplasia. There have been cases manifested in puppies as young as three to four months of age and older dogs develop the issue as well. Sometimes hip dysplasia will rear its ugly head due to other symptoms such as arthritis or joint cartilage deterioration.
If your canine displays pain symptoms due to hip dysplasia, you should seek veterinary treatment as soon as possible. The type of treatment will vary with the degree of pain and the resulting life degradation. In mild cases, the dog may just receive medication. In extreme cases, surgery will most likely be the viable option. Only the veterinary expert will be able to determine this though after a thorough examination and x-rays have been taken.
There are a few highly trained professionals out there that may be able to help the dog with stem cell therapy. Stem cell therapy is a costly procedure (ranging from $5,000 or more), but it may be well worth the investment, especially if the dog is young and otherwise healthy. Danada Veterinary Hospital has performed several of these procedures without incident. In fact, the dogs have shown improvement in walking in about 48 hours and within two weeks, dramatic changes have occurred where the dog no longer feels pain and can run again.
Fortunately the pain, problems, and medical costs associated with canine hip dysplasia can oftentimes be prevented. One way is to monitor your pet's weight; feeding him or her a well-balanced diet. Avoid fatty table scraps. Exercising the dog on a regular basis also helps to prevent the onset of symptoms. If the dog exercises, it will help maintain its weight as well.
As a pet parent, you should know that the dog's sleeping situation needs to be monitored to prevent symptoms of hip dysplasia, too. A proper resting place for your canine is very important. Although it may be slightly more costly up front, in the end, it could save you a bundle!
Look for a good quality dog bed; one capable of supporting the size and weight of your dog. Although there are many pet bed manufacturers with products in the market, many are not qualified to properly support a dog's weight. There are some out there made with orthopedic or memory foam; high density foam tends to work best in this situation because they eliminate pressure from your dog's hip joints. Research sites such as Amazon.com to find one right for your dog.
Canine hip dysplasia is awful for your pet and awful for you, but knowing that it can be prevented is helpful. If you get your dog when it is older and it has already manifested signs, know that surgery can treat this disease – and not all are as costly as stem cell therapy.
The disease affects all dogs of all ages and sizes; more so than originally thought. Proper care up front, however, can be a detriment to it developing further. Remember, proper diet, proper exercise and proper rest on a proper surface can help your dog to live long, healthy and happy with you!


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Ronald J. Johnson
Position: WR
Height: 6-3 Weight: 190 lbs.
Born: September 21, 1958 in Monterey, CA
High School: Monterey
College: Long Beach St. (school history) (Johnson college stats)
Drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the 7th round (170th overall) of the 1981 NFL Draft.
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 9 (7518th overall since 1950)
Other SR Links: College Football at Sports-Reference.com
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Nokia tablet is in development, head of design confirms
The oft-rumored Nokia tablet is real and it's in development right now. And it's been confirmed by Nokia. Sort of.
The Finnish company has stopped short of issuing an official press release saying that a tablet is in the works. But Nokia's head of design, Marko Ahtisaari has admitted in an interview with Finnish magazine Kauppalehti Optio that he is currently spending about a third of his time on design for the new tablet.
In fact, he was quoted as saying "we're working on it". That comes to contradict Nokia's previous official stances on the matter, which have never come even close to admitting that a tablet is in development.
Nokia's tablet will apparently stand out in the sea of iPad-challengers. Or at least that's what Ahtisaari and Nokia would want to happen.
Previous rumors talked about a dual-core processor being used for the tablet, alongside a 10-inch screen. It will probably be launched towards the end of this year, and will be running Windows 8.
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"Weanlings are little horses. Give them little goals so they can be sure to succeed."
- Jaime Foutty
"No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want."
- Ken Rockwell
OH MY GOODNESS! What a fun time I had today! Thank you to Katie and Patty for helping me put together the poodle costume for my horse, Kadence. I think I could have done it alone but it was much easier and way more fun with eager help!
The arena was very muddy so they allowed everyone in the class to walk around the outside of the pen. There were fifteen entries!
We paraded around and I could hear people say, "that's a poodle!" My main goal was to have not a single person ask what we were, and it was a success! Everyone claimed they knew that Kadence was a poodle because she looked just like one!
One minor embarrassment was that I was the only entry in the class over the age of 20 but that's ok. I was thankful not to win and clapped for the winners, which were two little boys dressed as football players leading their mini who was dressed as a cheerleader, complete with her own pom poms attached to her front legs!
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By Julie Palomba
Jesus said, "I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." (John 10:10) And for that I am truly grateful for God has blessed me with a very full, wonderful life filled with more adventure, love and happiness than I could have ever imagined!
The deepest passions that fill my heart are simple: God, family and running. I see the second two as just an extension of the first. They are the reasons I get out of bed in the morning. They are on my mind when I go to bed at night. These three passions are what you will find me talking about to anyone who will listen. Mathew 12:34 says: "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks". Wow; that is true for me as I am eager to talk to anyone about Jesus, my family and/ or running 24 hours a day.
I grew up in Detroit, lived around the country but now am settled in North Carolina. I was raised Catholic and have come to appreciate this fact more as I get older. I love being a part of my parish and actively participate in their various ministries. It's just awesome to feel God's presence daily, respond to His call and feel it is never too late to grow as a Christian.
My family truly inspires me. I have been married 31 years and have five grown children. None of our children were really runners during high school or college but over the years each one has taken up the challenge of competitive running. We love getting together for running events!
I personally did not start running seriously until about four years ago. Never being very athletic growing up, my first half marathon was a BIG accomplishment for me. I trained, prayed, trained some more and then God carried me through the last three miles of the last incline. Since then, I have been hooked.
I have lost count of the number of events I have completed but I cherish the moments more than the milestones. Each event has its own story but my favorite events are those that I run for charity or with my family. It makes me feel I am a part of something bigger than just myself. Through all the pain, injuries and sometimes, even tears, I know it is all good!
"Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us." Hebrews 12:1
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Jul 15, 2011
Damn You Rihanna
Oh Rihanna, you have a lot to answer for. You and your weird wigs, chains and whips and sex in the air. It's your fault I had to tell my daughter what 'S & M' stands for.
Now, my daughter is 16 and not a particular Rihanna fan, she's more of a Muse, Foo Fighters and Green Day kinda girl who even likes my Simple Minds, The Cure, Radiohead and Birds of Tokyo CDs (thank you baby cheesus for giving me a rock chick and not a dance diva), she is not innocent as pure snow (we don't get snow in Adelaide), she watches True Blood and has therefore seen simulated sex acts, fellatio and horny fangbangers (but as of last week is still a virgin which she announced in front of our friends *cringe*) so when the Rihanna video came on TV I was a little taken aback when she turned to me and said,
'What does S & M actually stand for anyway?'
I thought of lying. 'Sunshine and Moonbeams' came to mind.
'Smiles and Memories.'
'Sausages and Mash.'
I'm not sure how I would have connected sausages and mash with having sex in the air but it would explain Rihanna loving the smell of it.
Anyway, I didn't lie. Whenever she's asked me a straight-out question, I've never lied. Except that time she asked why the Tooth Fairy hadn't visited and I went into a detailed bullshit story about lots of kids losing their teeth on the same night and demand being high and the Fairy's schedule being backed up, when in fact the Fairy had a few wines and went to bed with no thought of tooth collecting.
So I told her.
And then a strange thing happened. I found I couldn't speak in complete sentences. I kind of spat the words at her, sort of like a really twisted word association game.
And so on.
It was weird, as my 18 year old son was also in the room, smirking in the corner, shooting aliens and pretending he wasn't interested but absorbing every stilted, staccato word I spat out.
And you know what was weirder?
I realised my daughter had said 'Ahh, okay, I get it...' and wandered off after the first five or so words, no longer wanting to listen to her mother speaking of such things.
But I kept talking.
And now I have part of the song stuck in my head.
"I like it, like it, come on, come on..."
Which is ridiculous, let's face it, we're lucky to find the energy for a quick bounce these days, let alone worrying about getting tied up, having hot wax dripped on each other and attaching pegs to nipples. Knowing my luck I'd set fire to the bedroom, and not in a good way, and have to confront firemen looking like I'd had the washing hung from me.
Damn you Rihanna.
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Doesn't popular culture sometimes bring to the fore those awkward moments? Like my four year old almost sort of singing the Family Guy theme and when it comes to "and sex on TV" she has this mash of sounds so it comes out like "shares on TV" - phew - dodged a bullet there, for now at least.ReplyDelete
What is she doing watching Family Guy? Umm, the DVD was lying around?
This is currently one of my daughter's favourite songs. Thankfully, she's only 11 months old so can't talk. Trust me, I'll be changing what we let her dance to before she gets older!ReplyDelete
- Amos KeetoJuly 15, 2011 at 11:03 AM
When Mr10 was 7 or 8 he asked about the tooth fairy,Santa etc so I told him the truth, then asked if there was anything else he wanted to know about. he says, "I know how men and women have sex, but how do gay men do it?" o_OReplyDelete
So I told him, and had a rather large scotch.
hahaha.....those lyric are ridiculous. I can't imagine having to explain them, although we as kids did pretty well on our own figuring out Price's Computer Blue lyrics off of Purple Rain.ReplyDelete
Praise to Mothers!
I didn't even have a daughter yet when The Blackeyed Peas released 'My Humps'. I heard it in the car, in disbelief I remember thinking "Oh My. SO glad I haven't got an 8 year old singing along and bopping to this."ReplyDelete
Now I have one who loves Justine Clark and Hi5. I know my days are numbered. :(
Song lyrics today are just terrible aren't they. The trouble is we just sing along to them without really thinking what they are. You'll suddenly realise what you've been singing and think wow that's not suitable for my little girl.ReplyDelete
Hahahaha...hahaha! Oh My....You know Cate; I bloody wish that we lived side by each! You'd be the best neighbor to have. Never a dull moment!ReplyDelete
Girl...You make me laugh, Laugh, LAUGH!!!! God Bl....oh Hell...who am I kidding! Don't want the walls of the church falling down! *CLinK* ;P
Baahaha. LOVE THIS. Great post. Really funny. Damn you Rhianna indeed.ReplyDelete
You could always get her a copy of some Marquis de Sade - Justine is a great example of S & M and not sexy at all.ReplyDelete
OK so you are lucky to have a rock chick, not a dance diva (sorry to any dance divas) - I'm trying to ensure my 5yo boy doesn't like crappy r&b stuff, so far so good but do you recommend the hands off approach, as in find out yourself what you like? Or the Play all of your music to them so it will rub off? Please help before it's too late for me! -HMxReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 4:08 AM
very interesting info ! .ReplyDelete
Dear God, you make me laugh. Now I'm stuck with a vision of you with clothes pegs and hot wax and even hotter firemen. There is so much wrong with music today and Rihanna is just part of it. At least she was 16. She could have been 10. Imagine the joy of the conversation at that age.ReplyDelete


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Prison Bus
The Prison Bus is exclusive to the downloadable episodic pack The Lost and Damned for Grand Theft Auto IV. The prison bus is very different to the normal bus as it is shorter, faster and heavily armored for prisonmate transportation and protection.
The bus appears in the mission Off Route where Johnny must hijack it full of inmates, lose a three-star wanted level and then drive it down to Acter Industrial Park. It disappears after the cutscene. It also can be seen in the mission Get Lost when the player must break into the Alderney State Correctional Facility and then when he is breaking out. There is only one way to obtain this vehicle and that is to purposely kill all prisoners using sniper rifle and then yourself by using a rocket launcher at your desired Safe House and you have to be some considerable distance away from the Prison Bus to prevent you from destroying your Prison Bus, However you will have to do this fast because you will be redirected to a different location on the map. This also makes you fail the mission but you do as always you will receive a text from Stubb's saying "Start Off Route again". If you was to back to that location you will see your very own Prison Bus at your Safe House location.


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In this presentation Ian Pope, Australian Olympic coach, describes the "arm power zone" and proper body rotation to bring the body toward the hand. Also, watch to see how the swimmer can utilize the "one arm press" to engage the under arm and lats to supply more muscle into the stroke.
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Hello Chicago! Excited to be eating, drinking, and sharing the Chicago must-dos with all of you!
Chicago is home to some of the best restaurants in the world, but more than that, it is a city with a foodie culture to serve any palate. Some of my favorite evenings in Chicago are around a casual table, with good friends and delicious food, but not necessarily with all the frills. If you are looking for a great casual night out, here are some great Chicago staples and new favorites to head to, with any cuisine on your mind.
- Little Goat (American, diner) - Stephanie Izard does it again at Little Goat (sister to Girl and the Goat). Here you find casual diner favorites, like Chicken and Waffles and Shrimp and Grits, in a trendy diner setting. But don't be fooled by the famous name, this is a great casual spot for lunch or dinner any day. (www.littlegoatchicago.com)
- Lyfe Kitchen (International, Vegan, Vegetarian, Healthy) – California comes to Chicago at this very hip, very healthy spot. If you are vegan, vegetarian or even just love veggies, this spot is casual with a healthy kick, and sports gluten free and vegan menus as well. My favorite menu item, the vegan corn chowder, which is comfort food bliss in every spoonful. (www.lyfekitchen.com)
- Pizzano's (Italian) – The best Chicago Pizza debate can go on forever, but if you are looking for a great spot to dine in and enjoy delicious Italian deep dish, head to Pizzano's for several hearty and cheesy deep dish delights. And if you don't want deep dish, try the thin crust, with all the baked goodness in a smaller shell. (www.pizzanospizzaandgrinderz.com)
- Thalia Spice (Asian, tapas) – This small plates Asian spot is a Chicago staple for those who love flavor and spice, but want to be able to order more than one dish. The Malaysian Roti Canai is delectable, and the Drunken Spice Noodles are a crowd favorite time and time again. (www.thaliaspice.com)
- Irazu (Latin American) – Have a hankering for some empanadas, then this is the spot. Irazu in Bucktown is a gem of a spot for a taco or other latin treat, or to order in from. (www.irazuchicago.com)
Here's to enjoying more great casual meals in Chicago in shorts for the rest of the summer. Bon Appétit!


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Anthony Horvath is a speaker and author, addressing the importance of equipping the Christian Church for today's challenges. A former religion teacher and long time apologist, Anthony is in touch with today's shifting trends.
Posted 5/4/11 at 10:24 AM | Anthony Horvath
Anthony Horvath is the Executive Director of Athanatos Christian Ministries and the author of the Birth Pang series and other short stories. He is also a pro-life speaker.
The reported death of Bin Laden generated crowds of people on the street wrapped in American flags and cheering. A casual look at the reaction to this reaction revealed to me that many people shared my apprehension with such a response. Different reasons for the apprehension have been produced:
I guess this sums it up.
Personally, my apprehension was not as laudable as any of these. I am distrustful whenever I see people being carried away on emotion, and resist it in myself to the best of my ability. If today we are whipped into a frenzy for something socially 'safe' to be frenzied about, we probably won't put up as much of a fight if someone whips us into a frenzy for something we might regret later after we had time to think about it and get more information about. Indeed, some of the 'frenzy' I saw resembled how I imagined Romans would have reacted when gladiators and lions tore into Christians centuries ago.
It was glee for the sake of glee and a cheer for a victory for our 'team.' FULL POST
Posted 4/6/11 at 10:21 AM | Anthony Horvath
The conference that my ministry is hosting this year has a unique perspective. As an apologetics ministry, a defense of the faith is never far from our mind. But what is the best way to mount that defense? Is it logic? Argument? Evidence? These all have their place, but the Scriptures seem to think that the best defense is a good offense: proactively and deliberately raise your children in the faith.
The traditional tools and methods of apologetics will certainly come in handy, but they'll come without much of the hostility, cynisism, and hyper-skepticism that is often witnessed in many 'targets' of apologetics. Instead, the children begin from a position of trust. In their relationship with their parents, they will have seen that the great concern is truth. The parents have no intention of hurting or harming or deceiving or tricking their children. You can't get this kind of trust relationship with people on the web. You can't even get it with your neighbor, probably. But within your family...
Is it no wonder, then, that the family is under attack at all levels? Divorce rates are as high among Christians as outside the Church. Sex outside of wedlock is rampant both in and outside of the Church. Even what constitutes 'marriage' is being redefined. What will the ultimate effects be on a society that has supped deeply from the cup of laisse-faire sexuality? Nevermind that- what will the effects be on the individual souls who make up that society? FULL POST
Posted 11/19/10 at 1:34 PM | Anthony Horvath
By Anthony Horvath
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Apparently, a letter has been written to GOP leaders by conservative homosexuals and some tea-party activists requesting that the GOP lay off its traditional pro-life stance. That would be horrible for many reasons. One reason: In actuality, de-emphasizing life issues is a threat to conservative notions about limited government and individual liberty.
The very first thing that has to be made clear is that those in the culture of death themselves strongly believe that social issues and economic issues are linked. The pro-death camp is perfectly able to present their "social issues" in economic terms. Not only are they able, but they are happy to do so.
A brief glance at history reveals this to be utterly obvious and conclusively true. To take one prominent example, the eugenics movement was very concerned about improving the race, but it was more than that. Activists' position on these "social issues" was closely connected to the economic realities on the ground as they perceived them, as this quote from Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood) will quickly corroborate: FULL POST
Posted 11/10/10 at 7:07 PM | Anthony Horvath
"Anthony Horvath is the Executive Director of Athanatos Christian Ministries and a national pro-life speaker. He is also the author of the Birth Pangs series."
Some Christians will begin seeing red just from reading the title of this entry. They will be angry and annoyed and may even jump up out of their seats. Therefore, let me say it again: apologetics is the answer to everything.
Whether it be the rapid decline of the Christian Church in America, the brisk acceptance of homosexual 'marriage,' the prevailing and deepening culture of death, the shallow spirituality of many of the Christians who actually remain in the Church- and certainly much of the lack of action- and many other issues can track back to nothing less than disobedience, for the Scriptures themselves command: "Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have." 1 Peter 3:15 In the Greek, 'answer' is 'apologia.' FULL POST
Posted 11/2/10 at 9:50 AM | Anthony Horvath
Anthony Horvath is the Executive Director of Athanatos Christian Ministries. A national pro-life speaker, he blogs at sntjohnny.com.
In this election season it seems like there is a fair number of the American electorate that needs to be asked: "What is it about 'Thou shalt not steal' that you don't understand?"
Now, there is little use putting this question to secular humanists and atheists. While to a man they all very much hope that humanity abides by the general principle (as far as their possessions go), since most of them reject any notion of there being a moral standard, obviously we cannot call them to act according to that standard.
Christians and others who abide by the Judeo-Christian worldview, however, are another matter. This column is directed only to those who make it their earnest goal to abide by the Scriptures. More to the point, it is directed at those who say they want to act in accordance to the Scriptures, but really aren't.
"Thou shalt not steal." What is theft? It is taking what doesn't belong to you, of course. Sometimes we think we can justify this taking. A great many Christians in our country today align themselves politically as liberals. In short, a great many Christians believe that they can take from others, against their will and without their consent, and use it for their own purposes- theoretically to give it to those who are 'needy.'
Usually, these Christians haven't actually bothered to think about the moral and biblical basis for what they are supporting. They hear Jesus say "Love!" and they figure that no further thought is necessary. We can take a lesson from the Sermon on the Mount, though, where Jesus said that he didn't come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. Love, certainly. In the name of Love, though, one does not steal. This command is still on the table. Obedience to it does not win you salvation, but it is not obliterated. People who claim to abide by the Scriptures are not permitted to steal. Period. FULL POST
Posted 9/30/10 at 2:48 PM | Anthony Horvath
Book Review by MaryAnn Kreitzer
It's a parent's worst nightmare -- hearing the words, "You have a very sick child." For a dad, it's particularly difficult because his job, besides providing materially for his family, is to protect his loved ones from harm. But when illness strikes a child, a dad often stands helpless to "fix it." Decisions about dealing with a critical illness in an already born child are difficult enough, but when that illness occurs in utero, parents are faced with another issue. The question is inevitable - "Will you keep it?" Since Roe v. Wade made abortion-on-demand legal in all 50 states at any time during pregnancy, vulnerable families faced with a sick little one are often given the bad news and immediately invited to consider abortion. How will they respond to the challenge? Anthony Horvath, in his book "We Chose Life: Why You Should Too," shares his story, his faith, and the reasons he believes others should "choose life" as he and his wife did. Those who find themselves in similar circumstances with a seriously ill unborn child would do well to put their panic on hold and read his story.
In December 2006, after two normal pregnancies that filled their home with three boys including a set of twins, the Horvath's were thrilled to learn during a routine ultrasound that they were expecting a little girl. Then the shoe dropped. The ultrasound showed something else. "The doctor came in. She wasn't smiling. Her expression was grim ... she went right to the point. Our new baby girl had a lot of fluid in her skull, a condition called hydrocephalus. The doctor told us that it could be just hydrocephalus, or, worst case scenario, it could mean that she had spina bifida (SB)" [spina bifida is a general term for a group of a neural tube defects where a segment of the spinal column fails to close resulting in a buildup of fluid in the brain.] FULL POST
Posted 3/9/10 at 10:14 AM | Anthony Horvath
Besides a CP blogger, I am also the Executive Director of Athanatos Christian Ministries. I am proud to announce that our ministry will be hosting its first annual online apologetics conference this May, 2010.
Held entirely online, this allows for Christian artists, writers, pastors, teachers, etc, from all over the globe to attend without having to bother to leave their homes. Note: everything will be in English! FULL POST
Posted 12/14/09 at 10:53 AM | Anthony Horvath
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton wrote his spiritual autobiography, Orthodoxy, in 1908. The amazing thing is how relevant his arguments and insights are today.
I think there is an unfortunate tendency in our society to always be focusing on the 'new.' The newer truth is always to be preferred over the older, even if this flies in the face of the definition of 'truth.' Let's face it, we give incentives to make this happen. A good example is in academia, where the surest way to fame is to posit the newest and most unique proposal- the more controversial the better. One sees this very clearly in the 'historical Jesus' debate. Jesus was married, Jesus was gay, Jesus didn't exist, Jesus was a philosopher, Jesus was... these proposals make headlines and the proposers famous. Since scholars utter them, newspaper men assume they are credible. There is little fame to be gathered from defending the 'traditional' line. But the 'traditional' line exists precisely because after this weeks scandalous announcement is forgotten, the 'old' position still stands. But that isn't reported, so no one ever hears that. FULL POST
Posted 11/30/09 at 10:04 AM | Anthony Horvath
"You can't take it with you." That's what we Christians think but I'm not so sure it is strictly true.Do you remember Matthew 6:19-21?
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where theives break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where theives do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
I always understood the general idea of this passage but for a long time, the closer I looked at it the more confused I got. How does one store up treasures in heaven? Apparently, there are things you can take with you! What are they? And again, just how does one store something in heaven? FULL POST
Posted 11/19/09 at 9:48 AM | Anthony Horvath
A review of Maafa 21: Black Genocide in 21st Century America, a documentary produced by Life Dynamics.
Anthony Horvath is the Executive Director of Athanatos Christian Ministries and a member of Lutherans for Life's national speakers bureau. He regularly blogs at his apologetics site, sntjohnny.com.
Maafa 21: Black Genocide in 21st Century America demonstrates beyond a reasonable doubt that organizations like Planned Parenthood have their origins in eugenics movements which in turn were formed to deal with the 'problem' created to society by the end of slavery. Using primary source material throughout the 2 hour documentary, Maafa 21 details how birth control measures such as abortion and sterilization were originally presented in the context of eliminating 'undesirables' from society. Highest on that list for the original eugenicists: black people.
Maafa 21 focuses on the 'womb-lynching' of blacks in America but given my own personal story I want to emphasize that the same arguments given by eugenicists regarding black people was- and is- applied to other groups, as well. Maafa 21 makes the important point that the eugenics programs under Hitler didn't merely single out Jews, but also targeted black people. I should like to add that those with birth defects and disabilities were also targeted. This is not to take away from the compelling argument that Maafa 21 makes, but simply to point out that eugenics arguments are not exclusively applied (in the past, or today) to black people.


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Feb. 15, 1998
SEATTLE, Wash. -- Washington's men's tennis team, ranked 40th in the nation, upset No. 29 Virginia Tech, 4-3, to claim its first Great Northwest Shoot Out championship since its induction three years ago. Washington defeated two ranked teams during the tournament and raised its record to 4-2.
Junior Eric Drew clinched the championship with his 6-7, 6-3, 6-2 victory over Virginia Tech's Marek Pfeil in No. 2 singles action. Drew used a powerful serve to wear down Pfeil and thrusted his fist into the air after Pfeil could not return his serve on match point. Drew raised his season record to 9-5 with the win.
The Huskies won the important doubles point to start the day. The No. 2 doubles team of Nick Quatrochi and Mark Woolley defeated Virginia Tech's Mark Tepes and Pfeil, 8-6, while the No. 3 doubles duo of Andy Posavac and Sasha Rampazzo blanked Rahul Basole and Lance Mills, 8-0.
Washington takes next weekend off before hosting the Oregon Ducks at home, Feb. 27 at 4 p.m.
RESULTS Virginia Tech 3 Washington 4 Singles 1. Aaron Marchetti (VT) d. Robert Kendrick (UW) 6-3, 6-2 2. Eric Drew (UW) d. Marek Pfeil (VT) 6-7, 6-3, 6-2 3. Adam Marchetti (VT) d. Andy Posavac (UW) 6-1, 7-6 4. Marius Lunde (UW) d. Mark Tepes (VT) 6-4, 6-0 5. Sasha Rampazzo (UW) d. Rahul Basole (VT) 6-3, 6-2 6. Lance Mills (VT) d. Jeremy Berman (UW) 6-7, 6-3, 7-6 Doubles 1. Marchetti-Marchetti (VT) d. Drew-Kendrick (UW) 8-5 2. Nick Quatrochi-Mark Woolley (UW) d. Pfeil-Tepes (VT) 8-6 3. Posavac-Rampazzo (UW) d. Basole-Mills (VT) 8-0