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Me and my Group has been playing Scion For over 6 months now, been meaning to buy a second copy of hero for a while. I'm Glad I finally did (I got the PDF+Hard Cover).
Scion: Hero is my favorite RPG ever. The system is brilliant and works wonderfully for this level of gameplay. Admittedly, the system seems to break down a bit once you reach Demigod and God (primarily in regards to the game balance of epic dexterity, in my opinion), but the game is brilliant enough that it doesn't seem that big of a deal.
White Wolf/ Onyx Path does a brilliant job of creating settings in most of their work because they do a lot of research into the subjects. They didn't just throw a couple of pantheons together and make up some stories for them, they dug into the actual mythology from various cultures and put it all in a meta-narrative. As I said at the beginning, this is my favorite RPG ever, and I've played a large number of systems and settings.
Even the included stories alone would by themselves be worth the purchase.
Scion is a great game.
Unfortunately, it is a great game with a decent system that has some holes in it. At first glance most of these holes in the system are hard to notice but it will not take your troupe long to find them once you start playing. More than likely you will muscle through the rough spots because at it's core, Scion is still a great game.
It is a good scan for the most part. You can search, except in some of the headings. What really annoys me is that on some of the pages with black background there are huge white boxes on the page covering the text. This is a particular problem on the pantheon pages about Aesir. I got around it by cut'n paste over to a text editor to read what is behind the boxes. This is a amateur mistake they never should have allowed in a sold product.
Great game but the book leaves a bit to structure. During your character creation process, you have to jump around a bit before you get every thing accomplished. Also, the provided character sheet is lacking on some necessary stats. Most of the book explains things great so you shouldn't have many questions on how something works.
A game with much promise and no follow through. A terrible system tacked onto a shakily supported premise. Only the art saves it from being a complete waste of your money.
White Wolf has put out some great products over the years but SCION: Hero is even better.
A fascinating concept in magic-flavored superhero gaming. As the children of gods (with the potential to become gods themselves) the PCs are goodly powerful to start, but not unmanageably so. Even with only a few pantheons detailed in full for player characters there is room for a huge variety of concepts.
The rule system is a little more complex than it needs to be, and more complex than previous World of Darkness games. It took me way longer than it should have to create even a simple character. I wouldn't recommend this as a first RPG to anyone, and experiecned Storytellers may want to trim down the mechanics a little. Even taking that into account, though, the game is a great value for its rich, deep background material.
Let's get one thing out of the way: I don't like the storyteller system. In fact, I hate the storyteller system. Scion, which uses this system is one of the single best gaming books I have ever read.
Scion meshes the ancient and the modern in a flavorful and beautiful way. It is quite possible that a reader may be looking through it in order to find a specific rule and get distracted by some interesting power or back story.
The book itself is well organized, especially considering that White Wolf made it, but most of the rules can be found easily, and the rules themselves are very simple.
Scion allows characters to exhibit the character to use cool powers from the straightforward like lifting a light pole and bashing a monster with it to the out-and-out awesome like locking eyes with someone and prohibiting him from moving until you remove your gaze or talking to the spirit of inanimate objects.
There are a few balance issues, but it plays so well that these will likely become a non-issue. The included adventure takes up a good deal of space, but seems well put together and is fun to read, if nothing else.
I love this system! I discovered this book at my local game store, and had to buy it. Then I found this wonderful site and now have all the released books, and the subscription, for this marvelous system in digital format. That is WAY awesome!
I actually own the hard-copy of this book, and I'm even happier to own the pdf now as well. Despite using the Storyteller system, it is NOT the World of Darkness. However, because the game uses the ST system, it's extremely playable. The ideas behind the gods having mortal children is very original, and well worth exploring. I DO wish that more gods were listed, but since there's a Wiki with fan-submitted gods, this isn't much of a problem. A great game, all in all.
I actually hown the hard-copy of this book, and I'm even happier to own the pdf now as well. Despite using the Storyteller system, it is NOT the World of Darkness. However, because the game uses the ST system, it's extremely playable. The ideas behind the gods having mortal children is very original, and well worth exploring. I DO wish that more gods were listed, but since there's a Wiki with fan-submitted gods, this isn't much of a problem. A great game, all in all.


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Barbara Leaming's Marilyn Monroe is a complex, sympathetic portrait that will totally change the way we view the most enduring icon of American sexuality. To those who think they have heard all there is to hear about Marilyn Monroe, think again. Leaming's book tells a brand-new tale of sexual, psychological, and political intrigue of the highest order. Told for the first time in all its complexity, this is a compelling portrait of a woman at the center of a drama with immensely high stakes, a drama in which the other players are some of the most fascinating characters from the world's of movies, theater, and politics. It is a book that shines a bright light on one of the most tumultuous, frightening, and exciting periods in American culture.
Basing her research on new interviews and on thousands of primary documents, including revealing letters by Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan, John Huston, Laurence Olivier, Tennessee Williams, Darryl Zanuck, Marilyn's psychiatrist Dr. Ralph Greenson, and many others, Leaming has reconstructed the tangles of betrayal in Marilyn's life. For the first time, a master storyteller has put together all of the pieces and told Marilyn's story with the intensity and drama it so richly deserves.
At the heart of this book is a sexual triangle and a riveting story of betrayal that has never been told before. You will come away filled with new respect for Marilyn's incredible courage, dignity, and loyalty, and an overwhelming sense of tragedy after witnessing Marilyn, powerless to overcome her demons, move inexorably to her own final, terrible betrayal of herself.
Marilyn Monroe is a book that will make you think--and will break your heart.
From the Hardcover edition.
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On January 16, 1951, a black Lincoln convertible pulled into the driveway at 2000 Coldwater Canyon Drive in Beverly Hills. Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan had just traveled cross-country by train from New York. Miller, tall and lean, had a dark, angular, weathered face and a receding hairline. Kazan, known as Gadget or Gadg to his friends, was small with a large nose and a mop of wavy black hair. The men were in Los Angeles to set up their first film together. Miller had written a screenplay for Kazan to direct, and both had a great deal riding on the venture. But already there was a serious problem. On the train, Kazan had read the most recent draft of The Hook, a story of union corruption on the Brooklyn waterfront, and he'd been disappointed by what Miller had accomplished so far. Kazan made it clear that the script needed to be much better.
Greeted at the front door by a servant, Miller and Kazan entered the home of Charles Feldman, a prominent Hollywood agent and independent film producer. He was producing Kazan's latest project, the film of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh. As Feldman told his friend and investor Joseph P. Kennedy, he believed that Kazan's work had been outstanding. Shooting had been completed before the holidays, but some post-production work remained to be done. Feldman, away on business and anxious to keep the director happy, had offered Kazan the run of his art-filled house. An inveterate collector, Feldman purchased paintings and bibelots in quantity, often sight unseen. The furniture, mostly English antiques and modern pieces, was kept to a minimum to emphasize the Chagalls, Renoirs, and Toulouse-Lautrecs that covered the walls. There were Thai bronze Buddhas. There were Ming and Sui stone heads. There were Tang and Chou horses and birds.
In the garden, steps led up to a heated swimming pool, beside which Miller set up his typewriter on a glass table. To understand the strain he was under, it is essential to keep in mind that The Hook was not just any screenplay. It was to be the work with which Miller followed Death of a Salesman, which had been a huge success on Broadway in 1949, directed by Kazan. Many critics thought the thirty-three-year-old Miller had written the great American play, and some pronounced it the century's finest drama. There was a price to be paid for acclaim of that magnitude. After the premiere, Miller confided to his producer, Kermit Bloomgarden, that he knew he was going to have a hell of a time topping that. Indeed, there had been moments when Miller wondered whether he would be able to write another play at all.
As Kazan perceived, Miller was not a playwright who invented stories. He needed to find his material in his own life. Yet The Hook was not based on anything Miller had actually experienced. The screenplay did not come out of a crisis that he himself had endured, and as a result he did not completely trust it. Miller began to worry that for a man his age, he had not lived enough. Yet the pressure was on to revise quickly while they pitched to Twentieth, Warner Bros., and Columbia Pictures. Unfortunately, Miller was not like his rival Tennessee Williams, who could work anywhere, under almost any conditions. He was a creature of routine, who found it difficult to write in unfamiliar surroundings.
Adding to the playwrights pressures was the threat of losing Kazan. In a period dubbed by the critic Brooks Atkinson the Williams/Miller era, Kazan seemed at times to enjoy playing each against the other. Kazan, wavering provocatively between the two, had finally chosen to film A Streetcar Named Desire instead of Death of a Salesman. Afterward, when Williams had had every expectation that Kazan would do his new play, The Rose Tattoo, on Broadway, the director jumped ship at the last minute, going off to Los Angeles for The Hook. Evidently, Kazan was not about to give either playwright reason to take him for granted. Always the director, he controlled people and situations; he didn't like being controlled by them.
Kazan was then probably the most powerful director in America. On Broadway, he had directed three Pulitzer Prize-winning plays. His association with Miller and Williams had earned him a reputation for being a playwright's director, but he was also clearly an actor's director. His work with Marlon Brando in the first stage production of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947 had broken exciting new ground. In Hollywood, he'd negotiated a six-picture, non-exclusive deal with Twentieth Century Fox, at the highest per-picture director's salary the studio had ever agreed to pay. Kazan had already won an Academy Award as Best Director for Gentleman's Agreement, but it was Streetcar, on which the advance word was spectacular, that promised to be his watershed. Before that, despite the Oscar, Kazan had confided in Williams that he didn't really know how to make films yet. In Streetcar, Kazan demonstrated the mastery he so often showed on stage. The Hook was particularly important to Kazan, since he needed to follow Streetcar with another great film; that's why the current draft had been such a big disappointment. As it was, the script wasn't going to give either man what he needed.
There was an even greater pressure burdening Kazan. The House Un-American Activities Committee, which since 1938 had been attempting to document the Communist infiltration of American film and theater, was preparing to launch motion picture industry hearings in March. Its investigations had been given new and vigorous life by Americas entry into the Korean War in 1950. Having belonged to the Communist Party for about nineteen months between 1934 and 1936, Kazan figured it was only a matter of time before HUAC summoned him. He was visible. He was successful. He was very much in demand. Those qualities made him a prime target for a committee whose raison dêtre, in large part, was publicity. If they call me, I'll tell them to go fuck themselves, Kazan vowed to Kermit Bloomgarden. If he did that, his Hollywood career would be destroyed. The inevitability seemed to shadow Kazan's every action.
The climate of fear in Hollywood also had an impact on the particular project he and Miller were selling. When they met with Darryl Zanuck in his high-domed office at Twentieth Century Fox, the production chief turned down The Hook because of its politically sensitive subject matter. Zanuck, though eager to begin Kazan's next film, wouldn't touch Miller's script, concerned as it was with unions and labor. Abe Lastfogel, Kazan's agent at William Morris, left the meeting and went directly to Warner Bros. to try his luck there.
Meanwhile, Kazan had something else he wanted to do on the Fox lot. Ostensibly, he took Miller to the set of As Young as You Feel to visit the director, Harmon Jones, who had previously worked as Kazan's film editor. But the real reason was to see a girl he had heard about from Charlie Feldman. The detour offered a way to blow off some of the tension.
Before Miller and Kazan actually saw her, her name echoed through the studio. Marilyn! an assistant shouted frantically while Jones told Kazan about the trouble he'd been having with the twenty-four-year-old actress. She was forever disappearing from the set. Worse, when she returned, her eyes were often swollen from crying, making it difficult to film her. Fortunately, her role was a small one. This was to be her final day, if only Jones could get the shots he needed. She appeared at last, her skin-tight black dress disclosing a body perfect even by Hollywood standards. She had blue-gray eyes, a turned-up nose, and luminous white skin. She wore her fine blonde hair pinned on top of her head.
Marilyn Monroe was in crisis. When she finished work on this picture, she had no further assignments. After today, she had nothing to do and nowhere to go. A career that meant everything to her might well be over. Though Marilyn was under contract to Twentieth, Darryl Zanuck, who loathed her, was unlikely to pick up her option in May. Though she had signed a three-year contract with the William Morris Agency as recently as December 5, suddenly no one there would take her calls. Marilyn felt as if she were about to fall off the face of the earth.
Highlighting Marilyn's predicament was the fact that she had just had the best year of her professional life. She owed it all to Johnny Hyde, a partner and senior agent at William Morris. For two years, he had worked tirelessly on her behalf. Very much in love with Marilyn, the dwarf-like agent believed in her, and in her dream of being a star, as no one had done before.
From the Hardcover edition.
Meet the Author
Barbara Leaming is the author of the New York Times best-seller Katharine Hepburn, as well as the much-acclaimed Orson Welles. She was for many years professor of theater and film at Hunter College. Her articles have appeared in Vanity Fair and The New York Times Magazine. She lives in Connecticut.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Was interested in learning more about her life but I found this book dragged on talking more about the people surrounding Marilyn and their lives rather than hers.
it is a great book to read if you wish to have a much deeper knowledge about Marilyn manroes life. It is well written and easy to follow. I would most certainly reccomend it to a friend. The author did a great job, by telling a very detailed story of her life. Just by reading the first few pages of it you are eager to find out mroe about her unpredictable life. reading this book is deffinatly a positive experience.
although this book doesn't talk about a whole lot of her childhood, it is very detailed in the rest of her life. it gives detailed occurences of most of the movies she made and detailed dilemas that she faced on a day-to-day basis. it also goes very in-depth about the people around her and her husbands. i would definitely recommend it!
I was so disappointed in this book. It's very dry, reads like a compilation of production notes from her movie sets plus newspaper articles, with a thesis thrown in on the writings of Arthur Miller and how his wife Marilyn influenced his work. The insights into Miller's writing is interesting, but you have to know that that's what you're in for before reading this book. Personally, I was in the mood for more Marilyn.
Very touching look at how Monroe struggled with self-esteem and apparent inherited mental illness. Gives her a much more substantive image - way more intelligence behind this sexy beauty than I ever realized.... Also an interesting look at other famous people during these times. Highly recommended for anyone aware of what was going on in the 50's - it will fill you in on a lot of what was happening behind the scenes....
Hello l just came form Paris and l am in cal what ls this is must be enjoyable right.
This book gave a really in depth look into Marilyn Monroe's complicated, controversial life. I enjoyed and would recommend this book because I've always been interested in her and her role in Hollywood. My only complaint about this book is that it briefly mentions a ton of different people that make the reading a little hard to follow but not enough to distract from the context. What made me pick this book up was my ethnography project in English class and I am so glad it brought me to it. This book connects to my project because it is all about theater and even though Monroe was a film star, her life still highlights a lot of the real struggles theater and film people alike go through. They have to get to know the right people, like ,"Johnny Hyde who had the power to make Marilyn's dream a reality", struggle to be known, likeable, and stay relevant, and land the roles that will propel their career forward. Another connection is the yearning she and a lot of other actors feel growing up, "she had become completely absorbed by the fantasy of the movies – a world of glamor and beauty that bore no relation to her own existence." Acting was her life raft through an unloving childhood that motivated her to become the icon everyone recognizes today. Over all, I really enjoyed this book and I have a new appreciation for her and any actor/actress for their persistence and dedication.
Very personal look at what it must have been like to be closely involved with Marilyn--her drug abuse, emotional dependency, paranoia. Still doesn't detract from the attraction she holds for us all, for some reason. She knew what she wanted to be from childhood, and she became that despite all her fears--one of the biggest fear was acting, ironically.
New insight into the relationship between Arthur Miller & Marilyn, absolutely falls flat for the last 8 months of her life. No energy & a terribly dull ending to the life story of a woman who still almost 50 years later generates interest. Her concensus that her dealth is a suicide and nothing more is a boorish way to end the book. Just decided to change my overall rating, as I rethink the writing.
Although the book was okay, it seemed to me that it focused too much around the circumstances and people surrounding the movies productions Marilyn was involved with. All of that seemed to be filler for a biography that doesn't offer much more than any other book about her.

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A report from the Ohio Board of Regents shows a high percentage of city school graduates who attended college had to take remedial college courses.
The report, from 2009 but released last August, shows that 72 percent of Chaney High School graduates, 83 percent of East graduates and 38 percent of Youngstown Early College graduates took either developmental math or English in college.
The percentages were highlighted in February during a city schools Academic Distress Commission meeting.
"We have to make sure we have rigorous instruction and make sure kids are prepared to meet the challenges at the university," city schools Superintendent Connie Hathorn said.
He questions whether the standards being taught in high schools match what's required by college and universities.
The problem isn't exclusive to Youngstown.
Nearly 62 percent of first-time undergraduates at Youngstown State University last fall took at least one developmental course.
The Ohio Board of Regents report shows that about 53,000 recent Ohio high school graduates enrolled in Ohio public colleges and universities in fall 2009.
"The percentage of students that continue their studies after high school is a positive development, but a large proportion of them are not prepared for college-level work either in mathematics or English," the report said. "Forty-one percent of those college freshmen enrolled in at least one developmental course in their first year of college."
An additional 34 percent enrolled in developmental math courses, and 19 percent enrolled in development English courses, the report found.
The OBR shows that 72 percent of Campbell Memorial High School graduates and 80 percent of Sebring's McKinley High School graduates took development math or English.
Those percentages were lower for Canfield, Poland and South Range graduates at 32 percent, 40 percent and 39 percent, respectively.
The report doesn't include information on remediation for students who attend college either out-of-state or at a private college or university.
Ohio Chancellor Jim Petro points out that students who take remedial college courses not only have to pay for them, but it also means they'll be in college longer.
"We have to make sure they're ready for college before they graduate from high school," he said recently. "My goal is really all about completion. Right now we've not done well."
If a student is in college for a longer time, they're more likely to drop out without securing a degree, Petro said.
The regents' report says that among full-time students pursuing a bachelor's degree, 34 percent of those who took developmental coursework their first year earned a degree within six years. That compares with 69 percent for students who didn't take developmental courses.
Stan Heffner, state superintendent of public instruction since July 2011, talked about the problem during a November speech at the Mahoning County Career and Technical Center.
The skills kids need to secure good jobs are the same as those needed to get into college, but students aren't getting those skills in schools, he said.
Schools have been playing by the rules set by the state, the state superintendent acknowledged.
"The problem is we've been asking them to do the wrong thing," he said.
The standards are so watered down and expectations set so low that the school system is now just a warehouse of children.
Do you mean PARENTAL STANDARDS, that is were the problem begins and ends.
Parental standards is the problem. If parents aren't holding their own kids accountable, it is not going to happen in the schools.
My son had to take a remdial english class. His ACT score was 30 for English and 31 for the reading section. His grades in English were A's. YSU had an English placement test and based on the results of that test they said he had to take an extra english class. We didn't fight it, but looking back I know it was a way to get more money by the university. They now use ACT scores for the placement of classes.
How about refusing admittance to kids who don't reach the bar? Maybe they shouldn't be in college at all.
I'll bet if these colleges raised their own standards, the kids would take development of high school skills more seriously. As it is, they take high school instructors' exhortations lightly, knowing colleges like YSU will admit them regardless of demonstrable skills.
This story and the editorial that matches it are so biased.
Check out what they DIDN'T say.
These are from a chart in the print version of the paper.
Remediation Rates:
Youngstown Christian 81%
Sebring McKinley 80%
Chaney and Campbell exactly the same.
JFK, Warren, for cripes sake, 62%
Who knows what other schools are not mentioned at all.


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The official statement from the Carter-Knowles family was released with this heading: "Beyonce, Jay-Z And Solange Say They've 'Worked Through' Private Issues That Caused Elevator Fight."
I guess the time finally came for the very private family to finally say something because if they didn't, they knew the speculation would just keep going and going and going.
A day after the scandalous video leaked the one we've all watched over and over with eyes wide and mouth open showing Solange Knowles punching, spitting on and kicking her brother-in-law while big sis Beyonce stood by, Beyonce and Jay-Z announced additional shows have been added to their upcoming "On The Run" Tour.
Talk about keeping it moving.
I don't know about you but sometimes when I get embarrassed, overwhelmed, frustrated, scared or tired, I want to give up or go somewhere and hibernate. Not them. They are continue to make public appearances and keep the brand intact.
Things might be in complete behind closed doors (although I hope not) but their example of grace under pressure and tenacity under fire is yet another example of that the show must go on! There's a lesson for us all here. Regardless of how you feel, don't let your emotions win or get in the way of your goals and dreams.
Emotions can change like the wind, but it's the power of focus regardless of circumstances that always wins the race. Whatever Beyonce, Jay and Solange are or aren't going through as a couple and a family can't be easy. Private drama, let alone public scandal, never is. News Flash: successful people cry at night, too.
Can you walk through the fire like Beyonce did with a heavy heart but a smile on your face? One of her songs is entitled, "Pretty Hurts" and from this point forward, I'm going to listen to that one differently. But the bottom line is, while we're watching, they're still working and working through it and past it.
Word for the Day: If you have to deal with life's fears, failures and frustrations anyway, you might as find a way to may it work for you! Regardless of what you may be going through right now, say this with me: I CAN'T BE STOPPED. I WILL KEEP GOING!
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John Gray on His Book, 'Why Mars and Venus Collide'
What motivates a man is to feel like he did this project for her, so she could do what she really likes to do.
Q. What are some ways women can manage their own stress?
A. There are three stress-reducers for women. The general one is to do the things they love to do. The context of my book is to give women permission to support themselves first, knowing that that's even a greater gift to their partner.
Next, what a woman can do to get a man's support is to ask for a date [with this] simple request: "Honey, would you get tickets to this play? Would you pick a movie -- here are three I was thinking. Would you make dinner for me?" That's the romantic factor.
Two, ask for conversation. You can't have any intention of solving a problem with this conversation, but you say, "I'm so glad you're here. I just want to download my day to somebody, and it feels so good when I can do it with you." You have to be very clear. This is FYIO ("for your information only.") You say to him, "You don't have to say anything or do anything. Just look in my direction. I'll do it for 5 or 10 minutes and I promise you, it will really help. It will make me let go of my day."
The first time will seem really awkward, but [afterward] you need to say, "Wow, that really helped. Thanks for listening." Then walk into the other room, which eliminates the temptation for you to talk and the pressure for him to comment. That gives him an experience of just listening. And if he starts to say something, you say, "No, no, no, no! You don't have to say anything. You don't have to fix it."
The third thing is, once [a woman has] been doing all this, to [then] start asking him to do things for you in the domestic arena. Would you run this errand for me? [Ask him for] little projects that are more than what he normally does. But only when your stress levels are lower.


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Four sisters walking home in north India have suffered severe burns after being attacked with acid by two men on a motorbike, police said Wednesday, in a brutal example of a growing problem in South Asia.
The youngest sister, a 19-year-old student, was admitted to hospital after the attack on Tuesday evening in the Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh state, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the capital.
"The victims were walking together when two men on a motorbike made lewd remarks and the man who was riding pillion splashed acid on all of them," Abdul Hameed, the senior police officer investigating the case, told AFP.
"The youngest sister suffered maximum burn injuries and she had to be rushed to a hospital in Delhi."
Hameed said no arrests had been made and the motive behind the crime was being investigated, with other family members set to be questioned to identify possible suspects.
The three other sisters were all teachers at a local government school and were returning home from work. They were taken to hospital for treatment but not admitted.
Attacks on women have topped the national agenda since December, when a medical student was assaulted and raped by six men on a moving bus in Delhi. She died two weeks later of her injuries.
Public anger prompted parliament to toughen sex offence laws including doubling the minimum prison sentence for gang-rape to 20 years, but lawmakers voted against increasing the punishment for acid attackers.
They can be jailed for eight to 12 years depending on the injuries inflicted, but the offence is bailable.
The incident prompted senior police officers in the state of Uttar Pradesh to meet. They decided to ask shopkeepers to register the name and address of people buying acid, said senior state officer Atul Saxena.
"We have no powers to stop the sale of acid. It is for the local government to curb the availability of the dangerous chemical," he told AFP.
Campaign group Stop Acid Attacks has accused the federal government of ignoring the growing trend of such assaults, which are often perpetrated by jilted boyfriends or their relatives.
It has called for India to regulate the sale of an acid called "Tezaab" which is designed to clean rusted tools but is commonly used in attacks.
"Acid has become the cheapest and most effective tool for men to attack women in India," said activist and victim Archana Kumari, who hails from northern Uttar Pradesh state where Tuesday's attack took place.
"Why is the government not stopping the sale of acid? Why are they supporting a weapon that has the power to kill and ruin a woman's life?" she said.
The country's top court in February ordered the federal government to find ways to curb the sale of acid, and draft a new set of laws that promise compensation and medical aid to the victims of acid attack.
According to the London-based charity Acid Survivors Trust International, about 1,500 acid attacks are reported globally each year.
But many more victims do not report their injuries to the authorities and instead suffer in silence.
In 2011 neighbouring Pakistan adopted legislation increasing the punishment to between 14 years and life for acid attacks and a minimum fine of one million Pakistan rupees ($10,200).


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The hefty price tag for Air Jordan sneakers and the fatal consequences for kids enamored with the footwear have struck a nerve with Stephon Marbury.
The former New York Knick took to social media to blast Michael Jordan for the violence he has ensued over the highly sought after kicks.
Labeling Michael Jordan, an NBA legend and six-time champion, "greedy," Marbury retweeted fans while noting the struggles some parents may face to buy Jordans for their children.
In addition, Marbury touched on the fact that the masses have gotten "caught up in the greatness" of Jordan and vowed that "the time would change."
The following are Marbury's tweets pertaining to Jordan:
Marbury's comments come as he prepares to bring back his Starbury sneakers, which were once on sale for $15 at the now-closed Steve and Barrys stores, a tenth of what Air Jordans go for today.
The violent history of Air Jordan sneakers was noted by Vibe, which referenced several riots taking place at sneaker stores following the release of the Jordans in 2014, 2012 and 2011. Three people were killed following the releases during that time.
In December, a 16-year-old boy in Ohio was shot and killed after attempting to steal a pair of limited edition Jordans. Jordan's relationship with his popular sneaker brand has been a profitable one, with him bringing in more money than he made in the NBA with $100 million in 2014.
Nowadays, Nike's website lists Jordan basketball sneakers from $100 to $195 in men's sizes.
With the violence and high price associated with Air Jordans, does Marbury have a point in his criticism of the brand and Jordan or is he simply hating just to be hating?
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Theo to Cubs Ever so Close
This appears just about close to being finalized. Here's the latest and to open up a new set of comments.
- Epstein and family are apparently house hunting already in Chicago.
- Heyman tweets that there is a bit of discussion whether #cubs send cash or minor leaguers to #redsox for theo. so far boston prefers the $.
- A WEEI report said the deal would be 5/$15M, ESPN is saying it's 5/$20M. There's some confusion over a $3.5M transfer bonus that Epstein would receive, so that could be part of the difference.
- Same article says ...an industry source said Tuesday that Cubs owner Tom Ricketts spoke with Epstein last week and that Epstein met with Cubs president Crane Kenney in Chicago last weekend (I presume to settle how much of Kenney's salary would be going to Epstein).
- Kaplan with a pretty thorough rundown of how the events transpired. I can't find it now, but I think it was Kaplan reporting that Epstein's very comfortable with Wilken and Fleita.
- Kevin Goldstein at BP and ESPN Insider (subscriptions required) goes over the state of the organization that Theo will inherit.
- George Ofman tweets: Word from sources close to situation: Ryne Sandberg not on Theo's short list to be manager at this time
Theo did try and hire Ryno to manage Pawtucket though last year, so even if he doesn't quite think he's big league ready, possibility as a major league coach could loom.
- Red Sox pull a page out of the Cubs playbook and start the smear campaign on Francona, Epstein and some of the players.
Some video of Epstein discussing player evaluation after the jump...
That's all for now folks...
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Pretty good read...interesting.
Curse...blah. Build a team for long term success...ignore the curse please.
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I wanted a reboot last season, but this will do.
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LOL MGL...Tom Tango I could get behind, though.
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I think most of those suggestions were pretty on target. I wish Theo best of luck getting someone to take Soriano and Zambrano with anything coming back to the Cubs.
I'm actually pretty stoked that Ricketts is thisclose to replacing Hendry, more so than any time of being a Cubs fan. Obviously, circumstances/fate/luck have contributed to Theo even being available - if Boston makes the WC, this probably never happens.
My optimism is, however, based on these assumptions: (1) Theo is President of Baseball Operations and answers only to Ricketts; (2) Crane Kenney can sit in the meetings but has to shut up when Theo says so - he has absolutely no say in anything involving baseball games, players, scouting, coaching, player development, signing free agents, trades......well, you get the point; (3) Theo and Ricketts REALLY do re-build this thing from the ground up - no quick fixes to compete.
If all this happens, I really don't give a crap if 2012 is a write-off and 2013 for that matter. Wouldn't it be nice to see an organization filled with pitchers who throw 70% first pitch strikes, who have 3.5 to 4/1 K-BB ratios, who routinely challenge hitters? How about an everyday lineup where 7 or 8 players can not only hit, get on base, and manufacture runs BUT field their position at least major league average?
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Those sound like rather lofty goals as we start to rebuild the system. Maybe draft smart, allocate a large portion of the budget to developing a stable and productive farm system, manage the 40-man roster to get the most out of what you have, and don't overspend on journeyman relievers or middling free agents coming off of career years would be more realistic?
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Sorry, but "start to rebuild the system" is an insult to Fleita and Wilken. In high A and double A, where they separate the men from the boys, the Cub teams were #1 and #2.
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Is Rob having a bad day or did someone hack his account and is posting as him?
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fight the power, bro.
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i was looking for...
"i'm not your bro, dude."
i'll get my logic on, though.
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There's a difference between calling out bullshit and being rude.
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"Smokies have made the AA championship the last 3 years, not really a pipeline to the majors there."
Nobody said it was a pipeline to the majors, more of a percolator. Think of coffee brewing slowly.
You have no idea what will become of Jackson, Flaherty, Ridling, Chirinos, Guyer, LeMahieu, Smith, Thomas, Clevenger, Campana, Colvin, Barney and the others who have contributed to Daytona's and Tennessee's success.
Anyway, I don't think it's necessary to rebuild a system where the most important teams--A+ and AA--were 15 and 26 games over .500, respectively.
If it were necessary, it would take six to eight years and nobody here would want to hang around that long.
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Castro, Barney and Campana are major leaguers.
In my quick list, I left out Vitters, Lake and Ha. Vitters will be a major leaguer and the other two have real potential.
Not long ago you argued that Stockstill did as well as Wilken, what with Theriot, Soto and McGehee making the majors and succeeding pretty well. I pointed out that if you synch up the time frames, Stockstill only had Brendan Harris's 23 games as a September callup to show for his first six seasons as scouting director, whereas Wilken has over 600 games from Colvin, Barney, Campana, etc.
When Wilken was hired, Cub fans made a fuss about his streak of 12 first-round draft picks in a row making the majors. I don't recall hearing how many of them became regulars for five years. We were impressed at the time because Cub first-rounders were longshots to have a cup of coffee in the majors.
Of Wilken's six first-rounders with the Cubs, only Simpson is really a longshot at this point. If you want to raise the bar now and talk about long-term success, that's fine. But I think you're underestimating the importance to a major-league team of an organization that churns out major leaguers, period. And several of them--it's difficult to predict exactly who or how many--will be stars or near-stars.
The neat thing about young players is that they get better from year to year. Explain that to a typical Cub fan, whose only experience is with players who have started to decline before they get fitted for Cubby blue.
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"But you know what's not expensive to find on the open market? Bench players and below average regulars."
The below-average players on the Cubs were acquired: Soriano, DeWitt, Byrd, Baker, Hill, Grabow.
Castro, Soto, Barney and Campana--all homegrown--are average or better, as are homegrown pitchers Marshall, Marmol, Samardzija, Cashner and Russell. Of course, there are acquisitions who are average or better: Ramirez, Pena, Garza, Dempster. (Not a long list.)
We need stars, sure, but we also need to be less dependent on the second-hand pieces that are acquired during famine years on the farm. Those lean years, I think, are behind us.
I conveniently left out Colvin, who is obviously below average, but I've been saying for months that he needed to be back in the minors, out of the spotlight. For some reason, Hendry wanted this to be Colvin's make-or-break season.
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"the fact that you think Barney and Campana are average or better means you're talking about something not related to baseball."
Barney has numerous defenders, so I'll concentrate on the guy who doesn't seem to have any. In April, 2010, I wrote this:
In recent seasons, the Cubs have addressed their need for speed with additions like Pie or Fuld or Gathright. The next time that particular need is addressed, the call will probably go out to Campana–or possibly Brandon Guyer. The absolute least you can say about Campana is that he is on the team's radar, that he is a prospect.
Something must be wrong, then, with prospect rankings, because I can't find Campana's name on any list of Cub prospects. See for yourself on this [TCR] page of links. Most of the lists have ten, fifteen or twenty names, but one of them (Diamond Futures) ranks 38 Cub prospects and then throws in another 31 as unranked C-level honorable mentions. Campana isn't in anyone's top 10, 15 or 20, or even DF's top 69. What is going on here?
What was going on there is the same thing that's going on here. You don't like Campana, but then you didn't like Bourn or Morgan or Juan Pierre, either. And yet, there is Pierre with 2000 hits. There is Morgan in the NLCS. There is Bourn, identified by the Braves at the trading deadline as the missing puzzle piece. And there is Tony Campana, playing in 95 games with the Cubs in 2011.
So speed is "something related to baseball," right?
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The idea that speed is overrated is an important element of the Jamesian playbook. All gurus sing from the same hymnal, otherwise they would be excommunicated. They live in a circular world where stolen bases are not counted in any standard offensive stat, so naturally base stealers don't look like they're pulling their weight. Naturally, Tony Campana gets excluded from a list of the top 69 Cub prospects one year before--very much on schedule--he rises to the majors.
OPS and its variants are supposed to summarize offensive production, but without SBs, of course. I, for the life of me, can't see the difference between a double with the bases empty and a single plus a stolen base, except that the base stealer is more likely to score than the slower runner who doubled.
Using a simple formula--total bases + walks + SBs, divided by something (games, PAs)--I am in a position to explain why Morgan and Bourn were coveted by playoff contenders, why Juan Pierre has earned $57.25 million over ten years along with the opportunity to amass 2000 hits, and why Cub fans who don't have gurus appreciated Pierre and consider Campana's specialized toolset a welcome addition to the team's arsenal. You can't explain these things, so you fall back to asserting that the player sucks or the team is stupid. Your guru can't explain these phenomena either, nor can his guru, nor can his guru's grandfather Bill James.
Billy Beane must have fired his guru. In the movie, he gives a player the order, "Don't steal!" In the real world, I note that Coco Crisp set a personal best in stolen bases when he joined the A's last year, and upped it by 50% this year.
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It'd be awesome if Campana could put the bat on the ball often enough to be as valuable as Bourn, Morgan, or Pierre.
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Your tactics would have been above Hendry's skill level on his best day. For what Ricketts is willing to spend on Theo or Beane or Cashman or Friedman, those things would be like - pants first, then shoes.
As Cubs fans, we should all reach higher. It's OK to consider any season where you don't win the last baseball game played that year a failure.
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As Cubs fans in general, I would have to say we're a stupid lot. Even so, we're not half as lame as Cardinals and Tigers fans waving Homer Hankies at games during the playoffs... what a bunch of tools.
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a true "work hard, play hard" kid...his dad's money didn't ruin his work ethic. he's well aware of what making dad's money can bring him, though.
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He's in the trade for Theo.
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I understand you're joking, but Dunston jr. couldn't be traded even if they wanted to. He was drafted less than 1 yr ago an is ineligible to be traded until next June.
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I think it's signing date not draft date.
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wet blanket
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zombie has a nice little cottage for sale in lake forest last i heard...think of it!
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River Forest, actually. Very nice 'hood.
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I saw that house on the nets, it's like $300k overpriced. Lake Forest price in River Forest=no buyer.
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You have to account for the fact that the house has trace remainders of Zambrano's sperm in some parts of it. That makes it a potential MLB collector's item.
Think of it as an investment, not a purchase.
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*golf clap*
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I haven't seen the listing, but there are plenty of $1 million-plus homes in River Forest.
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so the cubs are going to give $6.5m this season to get a suit?
i hope that the $3.5m comes out of a non-player budget concern at the very least. a GM is gonna cost upwards 1-2m anyway for a club of this size...3m is an eye-roller, but expected with this name brand GM.
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We will make that up in not rostering guys like Neifi, Glendon and John Grabow.
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Nothing wrong at all with having any of those guys on the roster. Paying them a combined $8 million, and giving them 450 PA's and 120 high leverage innings is a different story.
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Best GM in baseball knows better than to sign the best player in baseball, right?
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i dunno if the best GM in baseball will have 20-25m+ to blow on the best player in baseball without some crazy backloading on a contract...or a griffey jr style "pay you til 2024" type contract.
RF/3rd/1st/SP with immediate need...yow.
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Cubnut tweeted this lie from the Sun Times today
"A key for the Cubs to land Epstein is a title that represents a higher rank, presumably of comparable standing to ''president,'' in part to assure he's not making a lateral move, as baseball protocol dictates.
In practice, sources said, it's to assure that Epstein would have the authority to keep meddlesome Cubs president Crane Kenney out of baseball business.
Multiple high-level executives from other organizations said they viewed Kenney as an interfering, credit-seeking suit with little baseball acumen and an impediment to landing a top general manager.
Despite chairman Tom Ricketts' vow that Kenney operates independent of baseball operations — and that Kenney wouldn't be involved in selecting the new GM — a Cubs source said Kenney remains involved in the process. Ricketts recently lauded Kenney's efforts in that process to members of the organization, the source said."
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imo, it's highly likely theo will be president and kenney reassigned to do the "president stuff" that theo has no business dealing with. it's not uncommon in the game.
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Somebody may have already posted this (if so, apologies) but it really sums up how I think/feel about this move.
Gist: Cub-world has been burned too often the last 8 yrs (or so, tee hee) by getting the 'big name'. That said, if the man can capture lightning twice, we'll build him a bronze statue...
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Aramis speaks out regarding his multiyear beisbol contract manifestado...
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ESPN sports center video interview of Bruce Levine waxing about GM packages, Quade, Sandberg, Fielder/Pujols, starting pitching after Garza & Dempster.
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And to follow up on my serious of questions about "When do you think..."
When do you think Bruce Levine's body was no longer able to supply his brain with oxygen?
I am going with January of 1999. Totally arbitrary, but that dovetails nicely with the question.
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old video with Alyssa Milano interviewing Theo on TBS Hot Corner.
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I have a question--in reading many Boston-related baseball posts since the regular season ended, they sure seem to have some hate on for Jon Lester. Why? Unless I'm missing something, he makes just $6MM/year and his stats have been nearly identical for 4 straight seasons now. 15-ish wins, 180-190 IP, 8-9 K/9, ERA low to mid 3's, WHIP 1.2-1.3, lefty, in baseball's toughest division. What gives?
I'd take him for a #2 or #3 slot in the Cubs rotation in a heartbeat.
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I'd have to think that Lester would give Garza some damn stiff competition for staff #1.
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A little familiarity breeds contempt, and a little he needs to make 34 starts, throw 230 innings and finish top 3 in Cy voting 'cause he's a fuckin' Red Sawk, ain't he?
Re: hate for Lester
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Good. We'll take all three of them too.
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Just because we can... What's the over/under on how long it'll take Cubdom to start calling for Theo's head? I put it at two years... If the Cubs aren't playing in Oct 2013, people will be on this very blog making donut jokes, and using the phrase "At least Hendry ______".
Just sayin.
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And those people would be idiots.
This will take 3-4 years min.
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What leverage do the Red Sox have at this point? ZERO - the Cubs should offer $24K in compensation. If the Red Sox ask for too much, the Cubs should just wait a year to get him. Are the Red Sox going to take Epstein back and pay him $6M ($3.5M balloon payment, plus $2.5M salary) for one year when he doesn't want to be there and has stated he's leaving? Why would they want him making their decisions for the future? The only compensation they'll get is something for appearances sake so MLB is happy.
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Koyie Hill will make Boston's pitchers drink better.
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I would think Hill would be ample compensation, but if the Bosox play hardball I would include DeWitt and Baker, too.
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Perhaps the compensation is not so much for releasing Epstein from his current contract as it is for allowing him to take along with him a key lieutenant or two who would be a big help to him in his new job in Chicago.
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I'm sure Theo can find a gorilla suit in Chicago too.
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trevor clifton (high-A) could be interesting in a couple seasons...could even become a high/middle rotation guy. he's got a lot of pluses in his pitching except control.
eric leal's (high-A) progression through the minors should be worth watching even if only projects to be an mid/end-rotation starter.
we also gotta keep a long-distance eye on guys like jose paulino (ss-A) and preston morrison (A).
As Johnny Bach used to say when it was time for the MJ Bulls to crank up the defensive pressure: "Release the Dobermans!", and Jordan, Pippen, Rodman and Harper would just suffocate the other team.
I'd love to add Carl Jr. to that group - he's got the stuff.
Historically, the Moneyball guys have been great at identifying productive hitters. Not so much with pitchers.
Wow - Pierce Johnson with an ERA of 8.01 in 42IP!
What a stud prospect! Must be pitching with a pierced johnson.
Looks like Ryan Williams is the only legit prospect there. That is sad...
Well it would seem that's all they need now. "Stropy" can have his moments, but he's been more consistent post-asg.
Take THAT, Cardinals -- you beat Fernandez, we beat Sale.
I really like Lackey as a 6-inning pitcher.
Three amigos? Because the Dominican, the Venezuelan, and the Cuban?
Maybe the three-headed dragon?
Who says Contreras can't frame? Stone cold robbery of Eaton with that called third strike for the first out in the eighth
Three amigos time?
he should hit more of those. that would be an ideal outcome. /moneyballs
Russell with 19 RBI in July so far. Grand Slams help.
...and Familia with back-to-back blown saves. Blows a one-run lead vs. Rockies today, gets his 2nd consecutive loss.
I am OK with the Mets missing the playoffs and suffering crushing losses at home --- just want them to beat St. Louis.
He played with fire twice agains the Cubs -- unfortunately, the Cubs couldn't stop swinging.
How about Kyle Farnsworth? I know he was consistently upper 90s.
If he puts up Soriano numbers I will be ecstatic
I think Javy is learning--but he's learning to make contact, not learning to lay off pitches out of the zone. A quick glance at his plate discipline numbers on Fangraphs shows that his contact rate is up, especially his contact rate out of the zone, but his swing rate is up too, especially his swing rate out of the zone.
I definitely saw ballpark radar guns go up to 102 on Kerry Wood back when he was still a starter, but who knows how accurate they were.


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Medications that slow blood clotting (Anticoagulant / Antiplatelet drugs)
Interaction Rating: Major Do not take this combination.
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Some medications for high blood pressure include captopril (Capoten), enalapril (Vasotec), losartan (Cozaar), valsartan (Diovan), diltiazem (Cardizem), Amlodipine (Norvasc), hydrochlorothiazide (HydroDIURIL), furosemide (Lasix), and many others.
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Teens who were depressed as children are far more likely than their peers to be obese, smoke cigarettes and lead sedentary lives, even if they no longer suffer from depression, according to a study.
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"Part of the reason this is so worrisome is that a number of recent studies have shown that when adolescents have these cardiac risk factors, theyre much more likely to develop heart disease as adults and even to have a shorter lifespan," Robert M. Carney, PhD, the studys first author and a professor of psychiatry at Washington University, said in a news release.
"Active smokers as adolescents are twice as likely to die by the age of 55 as nonsmokers, and we see similar risks with obesity, so finding this link between childhood depression and these risk factors suggests that we need to very closely monitor young people who have been depressed."
The study was reported March 15 in Miami at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society.
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The researchers studied children who had participated in a 2004 study of the genetics of depression. At the time, their average age was 9. The investigators surveyed 201 children with a history of clinical depression, along with 195 of their siblings who never had been depressed. They also gathered information from 161 unrelated age- and gender-matched children with no history of depression.
In 2011, when the study participants had reached age 16, the researchers surveyed them again, looking at rates of smoking, obesity and physical activity in all three groups of adolescents.
Of children who were depressed at age 9, 22% were obese at age 16. The obesity rate dropped to 17% among the non-depressed siblings and 11% in the unrelated children who never had been depressed, Carney said.
The researchers found similar patterns when they looked at smoking and physical activity. A third of study subjects who were depressed as children had become daily smokers, compared with 13% of non-depressed siblings and 2.5% of the control group, Carney said.
When gauging physical activity, the teens who had been depressed were the most sedentary. Their siblings were a bit more active, and members of the control group were the most active.
When the researchers took a closer look and used statistical methods to eliminate other factors that potentially could have influenced smoking or obesity rates in the depressed children, they found that the effects of depression grew even more pronounced.
In that analysis, Carney said, the siblings of depressed children were five times more likely to smoke than children in the control group, "so depression wasnt the only risk factor for smoking. But the depressed children in the study were another 2.5 times more likely to smoke than their nondepressed siblings."
Heart disease risk factors were more common in formerly depressed children regardless of whether they remained clinically depressed at the time of the second survey. In fact, only 15% of the depressed cohort still reported depression at the time of the second survey.
The results suggest any history of depression in childhood appears to influence the presence of cardiac risk factors during adolescence, Carney said.
"Depression seems to come first," he said. "Its playing an important, if not a causal, role. There may be some related genetic influences that give rise to both depression and to heart disease, or at least to these types of cardiac risk behaviors, but more study will be required before we can draw any firm conclusions about that."


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Puffed Bananas and Caramel
Total Time
Prep 5 mins
Cook 25 mins
From James Reeson Alive and Cooking. A good way to use up scraps of puff pastry, I've listed 1/2 sheet of puff pastry cut into strips but James used some scraps that he had frozen from other recipes and thawed them. Times are estimated. Please also note that in Australia pre-rolled pastry sheets are about 22/23 cm square.
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- 4 bananas
- 1⁄2 sheet puff pastry (cut into strips)
- icing sugar
Caramel Sauce
- 125 g unsalted butter (sweet butter)
- 125 g caster sugar
- Preheat oven to 200°C.
- Lay out pastry trimmings if using or cut strips from the 1/2 sheet.
- Place the banana down on top of pastry.
- Dust with icing sugar, then wrap the pastry around the length of the banana.
- Bake in pre-heated for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Caramel Sauce - in a saucepan, melt the butter and add the sugar and continue to stir until caramel consistency is achieved.
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I made this for the September 2010 Aussie/Kiwi Swap. This was my first successful use of phyllo dough. So, thank you for sharing this recipe. The banana was warm and melty. I unfortunately burned the caramel, so had to use store-bought. I will make this again!
Yum, yum, yum! This dessert is amazingly simple and delicious. Our family loves warm bananas, so it seems this recipe was destined for us. The only modification I made to the recipe was omitting the icing sugar, as I felt the natural sweetness of the bananas was just right. The caramel sauce was the perfect accompaniment. I served each warm, puffed banana with caramel sauce artfully drizzled atop with a dollop of whipped cream on the side. Delicious! DH, DD and MIL all give their approval... and of course me too! (Made for AUS/NZ Recipe Swap #41)
I made this with phyllo dough the first time as I had no puff pastry. I then made it with puff pastry as the recipe called for and both were very tasty. Will make again, both ways ;)


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Having played 48 consecutive nights with no time off, The Beatles' residency at the Indra Club in Hamburg ended on this day. Read more »
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The Beatles' second day in Hamburg
Following their first performance at the Indra Club, The Beatles stayed at venue owner Bruno Koschmider's flat in Hamburg. Read more »
The Beatles' first performance in Hamburg
The Beatles arrived in Hamburg, Germany in the early evening of 17 August 1960, for the first of 48 nights at the Indra Club on the Grosse Freiheit street. Read more »


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Domnopalus sculpture final by DomnopalusWatch
©2012-2016 Domnopalus
The final pix of my Domnopalus sculpture. I started this guy back in 2007 or 2008 - he's been a labor of love for several years now (slowly). I intended to carve the scale pattern all over him but it was getting to the point where as I was adding more toolmarks, I was erasing others simply by holding the thing; so it had to be baked unfortunately. This guy was really my first serious sculpture ever and I learned SO MUCH from working on him. Can't wait to do a new one of him with my newfound skillz.
Made from Super Sculpey on wire armature, cracks sealed and tail added with Amazing Sculpt and Apoxie Sculpt.
He's the size of a Breyer Traditional
Made from Super Sculpey on wire armature, cracks sealed and tail added with Amazing Sculpt and Apoxie Sculpt.
He's the size of a Breyer Traditional
So Majestic !
He is amazing *_____________________________*
He's still gorgeous, even after so long. So glad you finally got pictures!
This is the most impressive sculpture I've seen in a very long time - not to mention one of my favorite beasties. You did an incredible job.
This is absolutely astounding... wonderful, wonderful work, hon!
It turned out SO EXCELLENT!!!! You know you could always bake in phases, when I do my posable dolls I bake for the minimum amount of time but do the head and feet seperately so I don't bungle "done" bits He looks so beyond amazing
I very much like
Have you ever considered carving the details in after you bake?


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I'm trying to edit some values of an info.plist file that is located in an .ipa file. First, I open the .ipa in Winrar and drag the info.plist to the desktop. Here, I edit the file using the Properly List Editor that's included on OS X. Finally, I drag the file back into the .ipa, but when I try to sync the file to my iPad, it says that there is an error. Any suggestions?
Your editing breaks the signature and iOS is designed not to run apps that have been modified. It's a security feature. A nice explanation is here.


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Just installed NextGEN and generated a gallery. It doesn't look anything like the demo site one. Changing the css style to some of the other ones doesn't seem to do anything other than change the thumbnail borders.
Can someone tell me what the "style" of the demo site is? I'm talking mainly about the thickbox/lightbox styling of the images once clicked on, but also how close and organized the thumbnails are. It looks way different on my site.
My site also has a weird orange highlight one mouseover of thumbs, but the demo site doesn't have anything like that.
Here's where I'm using it: http://louiselfman.com/portfolio/buzzine/