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National Newspaper Week begins today.
I fully accept and acknowledge when it comes to the value of newspapers I am totally biased. I completely support this year's slogan "Newspapers: The Cornerstone of Your Community."
I know of no other daily medium that provides in-depth information, analysis, entertainment, opinion (both ours and yours) , sports information, meeting schedules, club and social activity updates, faith-related information and services, and countless other pieces of news valuable to the reader and puts it at your door every morning.
Yes, I am biased. I've been working at newspapers as a reporter and editor since 1970 and never would have stayed in this crazy, stressful, demanding, never-ending, ever-changing career if I didn't fully believe what we do in our profession is important to keep the public informed about what directly and/or indirectly affects them and their daily lives.
Yes, the newspaper industry has changed dramatically since my first byline at a six-day paper in Delaware, Ohio, when newspaper people constantly were told we were dinosaurs and radio and television would put us out of business within a decade. Four decades later those same naysayers tell us the Internet, which gets most of its reliable information from newspapers and other printed news products, will put us out of business.
Well, we are still here, journalism is still being taught in colleges, college graduates are still finding jobs in the industry and people still want their newspaper at their front door in the morning to read with breakfast or at their business when they arrive for the day.
Of course the industry has changed. We've had to adapt, become more web-friendly, expand our horizon and seek new markets and revenue streams, but isn't it that way with all viable, ongoing enterprises?
This week we will salute newspapers and share ideas and columns dealing with the future of our industry; we will blow our own horn because there certainly are those in opposing mediums that want our horns to be permanently still, thus denying the public a place to express themselves, exercising free speech and a supporting a free press.
National Newspaper Week is our time to remind readers we are their cornerstone of their community.
If there is any doubt that bath salts are dangerous, the fatal shooting of an armed, threatening man who was high on the illegal drug should end the debate.
The evidence surrounding the fatal shooting of Jody Wilson by three Wood County sheriff's deputies verified through autopsy that Wilson was under the influence of bath salts, had more bath salts in his possession and had fired several rounds from a .223-caliber semi-automatic rifle at deputies after they confronted him and tried to take him into custody at his mother's Lubeck home.
The events leading to the shooting can directly be attributed to bath salts, which have the side effect of driving the user to paranoia.
According to the evidence presented to the grand jury - which found the deputies had not violated any laws in their shooting of Wilson - Wilson was armed with a rifle, a Glock pistol and had a shotgun and several other weapons inside the house with multiple rounds of ammunition.
While no one wants to condone a man's death at the hands of law enforcement, there are times when officers have few options but to defend themselves and potentially protect others by using deadly force. And, the fatal shooting of Wilson would appear to be one of those sad, tragic incidents.
The exhaustive evidence, crime scene photos, crime scene diagrams, interviews of witnesses and law enforcement officers, autopsy report, toxicology report, ballistic reports, 911 telephone call analysis, radio transmission analysis was impressive nearly beyond comprehension.
It would appear when Wilson first began his drug abuse, he started down the path that ended his life, the final step of which was when he exited the house with a raised weapon and fired three shots, according to evidence presented to the grand jury, and deputies returned fire.
The entire episode is beyond senseless and tragic, but unfortunately is one of the serious outcomes of drug abuse and especially bath salt use.
Sadly, all those involved in this shooting have to carry the tragedy with them for the remainder of their lives because taking a life should never be done lightly.
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Fr. Tom Burke's 3-15 Galway 3-19
Galway took the half time break five points to the good. A three goal salvo put Galway in the drivers seat. At one stage Galway threatened to put the game away. Late in the half the tribesmen led by 10 points and Tom's looked to be completely out of it. John Moylan had put two goals away, and Thomas O'Hanrahan the third as the Galway forward line cut the Tom's defence to pieces. With Rory Hickey's free taking keeping the points column rotating, Galway's lead grew. Tom's did threaten however, and James Skehill was called on to make a fine save from close range. Tom's managed to throw themselves a lifeline with a David O'Mahoney goal late in the half to keep matters in hand. Shane Howley, Zane Keenan, and Niall O'Brien's points had reined the lead to 5 points.
Tom's got the second half off to a flying start with a goal from Mr. X, and a couple of points to one for Galway brought the difference to a single point. As the teams tried to get the advantage each side made a defensive stand. Tom's keeper Alan Keating pulled off a great save and then worked hard to prevent the rebound going in. At the other end Skehill pulled off another top notch save from Keenan. Each side continued to pick off the points, Keenan from the dead ball for Tom's and David O'Mahoney. Galway had a little more firepower in the half forward line. Hickey, Paul Holden, and Moylan all picked off points and edged that difference back up to 7 points with full time approaching. Zane Keenan netted a consolation to improve the look of the scorebard. Galway coming strong with the playoffs approaching.
Tom's: A. Keating, G. Joyce, C. Healy, D. Costello, C. Joyce-Power, J. Costello, Z. Keenan, S. Higgins, S. Howley, I. McDonnell, J. Mulhall, N. O'Brien, D. O'Mahoney. Galway: J. Skehill, P. Dowling, C. Murphy, G. Lally, S. Phelan, JJ Doyle, J. Regan, O. Floyd, P. Holden, R. Hickey, J. Moylan, T. O'Hanrahan, R. Cummins.

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So far, BP settlement plaintiffs have received $134 million combined
Published: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 9:43 a.m.
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Gulf Coast residents economically damaged by the 2010 oil spill have received $134 million through an interim claims process established after BP and a plaintiffs' committee reached a settlement agreement last month, the company said Tuesday.
Under the proposed settlement, an interim setup replaced the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, through which BP had paid out $6 billion for economic damage since the deadly April 20, 2010 blowout of its Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico.
The proposed settlement established the interim arrangement to handle claims that were pending with the Claims Facility when the deal was announced March 2, or filed after that date but before the New Orleans federal judge overseeing the tangle of spill litigation decides whether to approve the settlement.
The interim process has been operating since March 8.
''The Transition Process continues to receive, process and pay claims, and there has been no interruption in the flow of claims during this time," said Patrick Juneau, the administrator appointed by U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier to oversee the process.
Under the proposed settlement, individuals or businesses that filed claims before Feb. 26 and received settlement offers but did not receive a final payment would be eligible to receive 60 percent of the claim without releasing BP from further liability. That allows them to assess whether the proposed settlement might pay more than their total offer from the Claims Facility.
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I'm so angry I can't see straight. I'm sick of hearing about TV footprints and brand names and all that stuff. I mean, it's college football played with student athletes. How is any of this stuff good for the student athletes? How is more travel better for students and fans? Oh right, no one gives a rip about them.
I just see an opportunity being passed up. I guess it begins with Dan Beebe being weak a commissioner of the Big 12. On the other hand, who could be strong enough to referee this mud fight between Texas A&M and Texas?
Don't the fans have a say? Has anyone at these schools stopped for one minute to try and build something that would be good for all of us? Or is money the only consideration?
If you look at what's about to happen, not one school in Texas will be better off. Aggies are going to jump up and scream about how great the rivarlies will be in the SEC. Listen, brothers and sisters, those rivalries are irrelevant. You're going to need about a half-century to make them as important as the ones you already have.
Rivalries are about history and familiarity and that kind of thing. Around 2020, you may have some of that in the SEC, but it still won't be the same. You don't work and play and go to church with SEC fans. Your history is here, and there's nothing a TV deal can do to change that.
I know I'm wasting my time. I know that the Big 12 is going to vaporize and that Texas and Texas A&M will be playing a bunch of schools they have no history with.
The thing is, TCU is back in play given the developments in the Big East. Texas A&M hasn't officially joined the SEC. Why not have a meeting of the families?
Are you telling me a conference with Texas, Texas A&M, TCU, Texas Tech, Baylor, SMU, Houston and Rice would be of no interest to anyone?
When those schools play one another, it means something. Does anyone remember what it was like when Houston and Texas played? There was emotion on both sides, sometimes more emotion than Texas-OU or Texas A&M-Texas.
There's enough good football in this state alone to form the nucleus of a conference. And driving 100 miles to a game makes a lot more sense than driving 800 miles to a game.
SMU, UH and Baylor are really interesting interesting programs. TV people would tell you they're irrelevant programs, that they mean nothing, get no ratings and would kill a conference.
Perhaps they're irrelevant because no one has bothered to pay attention to them. Maybe if they were part of this conference, if they got some TV play, fans would come to like them. Boise wasn't always a TV darling. Neither was West Virignia.
Things change. Opinions change. SMU, Baylor and UH have really good coaches and play exciting football. SMU has a nice stadium. Baylor and UH hope to build new ones. If those three programs don't bring something to the table, then someone is screwed up.
Unfortunately, doing anything of this sort would mean that the alpha dogs, Texas and Texas A&M, would have to take the gloves off and have a conversation, and there's just virtually no chance of that happening. I think that's just sad.


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In Their Own Words – If You Knew
This poem is by Lisa Madren, whose son has autism.
You do not know my child
But if you did, you'd regret the time spent that you did not know him
He is different
But that does not mean he is not a wonder to behold
Sometimes beauty lies behind what is considered "normal"
Sometimes the beauty of a special soul lies within an enigma
A pearl that lies imprisoned in a tough clam's shell
A treasure that you must work hard to get at
To pry open
To find the jewel underneath
And once you saw that pearl, you would want to admire it
You would want to possess it
You would want to display it proudly
And you would wonder why you had not seen it underneath its shell before
And you might stop to observe the other previously unnoticed gems in the sea
You might discover that not all the coral must be red
Or all the fish must be golden
Or that all the seaweed must be green
To have value
To deserve friendship
To be capable of love
If you knew my child your vision would widen to see all the colors and possibilities
That lie within all of God's creatures
If you knew my child
If you really knew my child.
"In Their Own Words" is a series within the Autism Speaks blog which shares the voices of people who have autism, as well as their loved ones. If you have a story you wish to share about your personal experience with autism, please send it to email@example.com. Autism Speaks reserves the right to edit contributions for space, style and content. Because of the volume of submissions, not all can be published on the site.
In Their Own Words – Special
This "In Their Own Words" is by Kimberly Cecero Brown of South Portland, Maine, who has a daughter with autism.
I feel I have always embraced people's differences and, in fact, have been inspired and sought friendships with those who I perceive walk through life to a beat of a different drummer. I find those who think outside the box interesting and am always enthralled to listen to those who innately think different than myself. That's why I find it curious why I am struggling, at times, to celebrate Eme's differences. It brings me shame the days I find myself quite traumatized to imagine our lives if Eme's autism becomes severe, if she never recovers to a point where she could be among typical peers in the classroom and at social gatherings, if she is never accepted into the world of her peers.
At this point in time, with Eme being so young, we do not yet know if her autism will be considered mild or severe. We have no idea what her or our family's future holds. Yes, this is true for everyone. No one knows what will happen. But if you are the parent of a very young child with autism, you don't know if you'll be dropping your child off at a normal school or if she'll be at a special school at six years old still trying to learn to speak, to complete a simple task children many years younger could do, if she'll be flailing on the floor like a hooked shark on a boat deck just because she can't do what she wants. It is terrifying. This is why it is so important that parents of children with autism stay present in each day. To discipline their emotional selves to not think of the future. To do your best, and love your most, every single day without expectations for tomorrow. It sounds like an empowering philosophy, but very difficult to master. I struggle every day to stay present.
I am a stay-at-home mom, and on the worst of days when there is no escape from the reality, I can't help but think, "How am I going to keep this up? How am I going to deal with this autism thing for my whole life. I can't do this. It's killing me. My heart is being repeatedly ripped out of my chest, put back in, and ripped out again."
Rationally, I know this stream of consciousness is a complete failure of any sort of coping mechanism. It's not coping at all. And I wish I can snap my fingers and come out of it during those times and think positive thoughts and not think of the future. But when you're in "it," it's like being stuck in the middle of a sopping bog, your wellies emerged deep into the mud up to your knee caps. You feel stuck and when you finally find the strength to lift your boot out of the muck, you have to step in more of it to get across.
So when I go on some autism sites and see this celebration of autism and how beautiful it is that our children are "different," I feel conflicted. Now that is a philosophy I've held onto steadfastly the majority of my life, celebrating "differences", so why do I digest it all with a tad of reflux? On emotionally horrible days for me, I think it's all a bunch of hogwash, a facade developed to keep parents sane and to brainwash us to think we're special because our kids are so special. To keep us all from running out of our houses, screaming our heads off in frustration, anger and sadness at the lot our children have been given. I almost want to sarcastically laugh that someone like me is pleading that I don't want my kid to be celebrated as "different", that I want my kid to be ho hum "normal" (typical).
And I suppose the shame comes in, because not am I only thinking these things, but I keep these thoughts secret. Like if I was to say them aloud, even in a room alone, it makes me a bad mother who is ungrateful for being given the beautiful gift of a child with autism.
And then a paranormal force lifts me from the muck and back to solid ground, and I feel a sudden embrace around the bottom of my legs. I look down to see two sparkling blue eyes peering up, emitting intense love and admiration for me, tiny arms hugging my knees with enthusiastic might. There is my Eme, my Golden Soul, and yes, she is special. And not special, aka autistic, but a small little being beyond extraordinary. A little girl, despite her diagnosis, who has found a way to embrace and express such pure love, without the need to use spoken language to do so. She can speak volumes with her eyes and you can sense the presence of a venerable and significant soul through her stare. A joyful child who wants to fly to the sky to convey her authentic happiness when it overcomes her. I am blessed and I am grateful. I feel honored to be her mother. I feel that no scale of autism severity can define my little girl, for she is a gift, no matter her progress, and has so much to give to this world. I celebrate our Eme and her extraordinary self. With or without autism, she is important in this world, especially my world.
"In Their Own Words" is a series within the Autism Speaks blog which shares the voices of people who have autism, as well as their loved ones. If you have a story you wish to share about your personal experience with autism, please send it to email@example.com. Autism Speaks reserves the right to edit contributions for space, style and content. Because of the volume of submissions, not all can be published on the site.


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WINSTON SALEM, N.C. – An off-duty police officer thwarted a robbery attempt at a dealership, shooting the would-be robber.
Police told the Winston-Salem Journal detective Michael S. Poe was inside Kevin Powell Motorsports on Aug. 17 when a man entered and demanded the keys to a motorcycle. The man's face was covered, and he was carrying a gasoline can and a pistol-grip shotgun.
Poe, in plain clothes, was on duty but was not on official business at the shop, police said. A customer told Poe what was going on and Poe confronted the masked man and fired at him, striking him. Poe then called other officers to say that the shooting had taken place and that he was with the suspect, police said.
Shop owner Kevin Powell issued the following statement after the shooting:
"I am so thankful that none of our employees or customers were harmed or injured," he said. "I want to express my sincere appreciation to the Winston Salem police officer whose quick actions and bravery undoubtedly saved lives."
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|Tennessee's State Capitol
Calaveras, Tennessee Students in Calaveras County will be taught by none other than Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd himself, on the first day of school. Of course, the pupils will not be taught the specifics of English, Math, and Gym by the Son of God, but by teachers dressed up and playing the role of the historical character Jesus of Nazareth.
The state legislature, in response to horrible school performance statewide, passed the Historical Character Act. The Act stipulates that the first day of school sets the tone for the rest of the school year, and what better way to doing that than having a major historical figure teach the students? After the law was passed local teachers unions voted on and agreed that the most significant character in world history was Jesus.
"I am so happy that Jesus is returning to the classroom," stated Cindy Hall, a Calaveras resident. "It is part of our heritage. After all, Jesus is the reason for every season!"
There has been some controversy amongst school committee officials and the teachers' union concerning the upcoming first day of school. There are a handful of African-American teachers. "We have asked the black teachers to show up in white-face on the first day of school. And not just white-face either, we're talking about hands and feet, too," stated an anonymous source in the school committee. "Everyone knows Jesus was as white as virgin snow." African-American teachers are to report to their principals a few hours before class and make sure that they are officially white enough.
There has been one science teacher, Mr Alfred C. Tapper, who is making a fuss over the event. He points out that the law does not stipulate that the historical figure needs to be Jesus. While the rest of his peers are dressed as the Nazarene, Mr Tapper will teach his students as Carl Sagan.
"Besides the death threats I have garnered since I made my choice public, the major problems I'm having is getting Carl's hair just right and the proper intonation of billions and billions," stated the teacher. "But I'm sure everything will be OK. What's the worst that can happen?"
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Cirrhosis of the liver is a life-threatening disease in which normal liver tissue is replaced by non-functioning scar tissue (fibrosis) and nodules which inhibit the normal flow of blood to the liver and impair normal liver function. Cirrhosis is the third most common cause of death in people ages 45-65, after heart disease and cancer.
As the body's largest internal organ, the liver performs numerous vital functions. It metabolizes food and drugs; removes toxins from the blood; stores vitamins, minerals, and sugars; converts food into energy or waste; produces proteins which help the blood clot; breaks down the body's waste products; and produces bile, which helps digest and absorb food and vitamins. Almost all the blood leaving the stomach and intestines flows into the liver before it travels elsewhere in the body. So any impairment of the liver's function can have important effects on the rest of the body.
Liver specialists at the Center for Advanced Digestive Care (CADC) of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center are among the nation's best and have extensive expertise diagnosing and treating cirrhosis. We have a number of experts in the areas of hepatitis and primary biliary cirrhosis as well. The early diagnosis and treatment of cirrhosis is critical, because the liver damage it causes is irreversible.
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What Causes Cirrhosis of the Liver?
Symptoms of Cirrhosis of the Liver
- Tiredness
- Weakness
- Weight loss
- Yellowing of the skin or eyes (jaundice)
- Persistent itching
- Spiderlike blood vessels in the skin
- Water retention
- Confusion
Diagnosis of Cirrhosis
- Liver function tests
- Liver biopsy (examination of a small amount of liver tissue obtained through a long needle inserted through the skin and into the liver)
- Cholangiography (x-ray examination of the bile ducts using an intravenous dye)
- Computed tomography scan (CT or CAT scan)
- Ultrasound (also called sonography)


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Saturday, February 14, 2009
The Brutal Reality...
15 comments:
- Courtney said...
oh, karen. praying for His strength to OVERWHELM you. {and a break too.}
- February 14, 2009 at 12:12 PM
- Heather Nicole said...
Karen, is there anything I can do? We can come down give you a lift or watch Madi for the day...anything at all. just let me know and we will be there in a second. praying for you. Heather
- February 14, 2009 at 12:18 PM
- Jennifer said...
Praying for comfort and a break for you and your family...
- February 14, 2009 at 12:43 PM
Karen - we are praying. Please don't hesitate to let me know if there is absolutely anything else we can do to help...
Beth Taylor
- February 14, 2009 at 12:45 PM
- Heather said...
Keep the faith my friend.I know it so,so difficult right now.and when you are far too weary to pray,let us do it for you.It is about all we can do right now.I wish I could cross the great divide and stand beside you.My spirit is there.I hope you can feel it.
- February 14, 2009 at 12:47 PM
- Kaitlyn said...
Phil 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
I can only imagine how incredibly difficult your lives are. I continually pray for you and your family, and I will keep on doing so. I pray you find some comfort soon. You are all in my thoughts and prayers.
- February 14, 2009 at 1:11 PM
- grey like snuffie said...
praying for a breakthrough! Thank You Jesus for keeping everyone safe with all these car troubles.I can not even begin to imagine...
- February 14, 2009 at 1:27 PM
- Misty said...
always praying for you all!
- February 14, 2009 at 3:10 PM
- Reagan Leigh said...
Sending many prayers your way! You WILL get through this!
- February 14, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Karen, I also wish there was something we could do to help. Prayers from California are the best, I am sorry to say. Please know that we are praying to God to help guide you through this darkness.
- February 14, 2009 at 8:07 PM
- Shari said...
Oh Karen: I hear your frustration, tiredness and pain. You did nothing to deserve this. I am praying for some kind of break. Love you!
- February 14, 2009 at 9:13 PM
- Betsy said...
Praying for you.
- February 14, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Storming Heaven with so many Prayers.
Asking for Strength to help you through all of this....
I know you will
- February 15, 2009 at 6:30 AM
- brunettekoala said...
Hi Karen,
You don't me, but I came over to your blog through another blogging friend.
It frustrates me that I can do no more than pray for you and your beautiful family. But it is what I will do. It's what I'm doing right now as I type this.
I pray for God's peace, His strength, His power in your lives...
- February 17, 2009 at 10:36 AM
- Roslyn Dahl said...
I found your blog and wondered if you had heard of the Oley Foundation yet.
We offer free information and peer support for families like yours with a member on home tube or IV feeding. Check out our website at www.oley.org.
In particular you might be interested in the
• Meet Patients Section (try all three links)
• Oley's annual conference -- where you can learn a lot about tube and IV feeding and meet other families facing similar challenges. Preliminary details are posted now, but keep checking for updates at http://www.oley.org/2009_Annual_Conference.html
There are travel scholarships for first time attendees.
If you have any questions or would like to be introduced to another family, feel free to contact me.
Warm regards,
Roslyn Dahl
Oley Foundation Staff Member
- March 4, 2009 at 3:07 AM


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"Bud the Spud" by Stompin' Tom Connors
My friend Robin Renee hipped me to this over at our Facebook page. Thanks, Robin!
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Definition of stricture in English:
1A restriction on a person or activity: religious strictures on everyday life
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- Significantly, ministers are to impose new strictures on police and social workers.
- You experience freedom from restrictions imposed by ideas and strictures.
- In all four gospel traditions, Jesus consistently makes the first move to reach out to the marginalized, often transgressing contemporary social mores and religious strictures in the process.
constraint, restriction, limitation, restraint, curb, impediment, barrier, obstacle
2A sternly critical or censorious remark or instruction: his strictures on their lack of civic virtue
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- These tracts heed the critical strictures against both love and wit.
- Understanding the historicity of Adorno's strictures and imperatives is an unavoidable task for critical theory and aesthetics today.
- Such strictures may seem ironic coming from a historian whom some critics have seen as letting the landlords off lightly when it came to the abuse of their social and economic power.
criticism, censure, condemnation, reproof, reproach, admonishment, animadversion
3 Medicine Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body: a colonic stricture jaundice caused by bile duct stricture
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- At the time of referral, she was awaiting surgery for a colonic stricture resulting from a recurrence of carcinoma of the colon.
- A clear distinction between the dysphagia of an inflammatory stricture and that of carcinoma is impossible on clinical grounds alone.
- His past history was significant for chronic alcoholic pancreatitis with pancreatic duct strictures and stones which had been treated with dilation and stone extraction 4 years ago.
narrowing, constriction
strictured adjective
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- These writers indicate a world where mature-age students are keenly looking for new learning and new social interactions after having participated in strictured career lives.
- In these 23 patients, the main pancreatic duct was considered to be strictured or obliterated to various degrees due to the ampullary carcinoma.
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Even as US military commanders seek a troop increase in Afghanistan to check a resurgent Taliban, US voter support is fast eroding. A CNN poll in September showed that 58% of Americans oppose the war while only 39% support it. Among Democrats, only 23% support the war, and the number keeps falling.
President Obama initially called the war in Afghanistan one of necessity, and proposed a big US troop increase. But with voter support slipping, Obama now says he will not rush the decision. Democratic Congressmen say in private that US withdrawal is a matter of time. One told me, ''The British couldn't pacify Afghanistan, the Russians couldn't, and we can't either.''


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British Bible Plan Hits a Snag
Britain's education secretary had what he thought was a culturally significant — and perhaps politically potent? — idea: Send a copy of the King James Version of the Bible to every school in the country, to mark the 400th anniversary of the translation (which fell in 2011).
Unfortunately, as the Guardian reports, the plan has "run into a spot of bother." Prime Minister David Cameron told Gove that private philanthropists, not taxpayers, should pay for the scheme — or so the Guardian reports. But he has apparently yet to find willing donors. "[S]ome Whitehall sources said he has been told he cannot distribute the book until he does so, leaving thousands of copies in a warehouse abroad," the newspaper says.
The Department of Education disputed some parts of the Guardian story, and said that the plan all along was for the Bibles to be sent out by Easter, so it's not yet delayed.
In December, Cameron extolled the King James Bible: It has, he said,
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Human Resource Management is a distinct process consisting of activities like planning, organizing, directing and controlling which are performed to determine and accomplish the desired objectives with the use of human beings and other resources.
Human Resource management ensures that the processes involved in hiring the employees, during his/her tenure and till the time he/she exits the organization are extremely smooth both for the employee and the employer. Great effort needs to be put in so that the employees remain satiated and motivated in the organization so that their positive energy can be tapped and synchronized to attain the common goals of employee and the organization. Therefore, the different jobs allocated in the HR department are bestowed upon professionals who can perform them exceptionally well.
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Recruitment Personnel
They carry out the recruitment process smoothly. Their main task is to leave no stone unturned in filling the vacant positions in different departments in no time. Because lack of manpower means a drop in the output and overall productivity. They receive staff requisitions from different departments every week and based upon that, they design the job descriptions and specifications and fasten up the recruitment process.
They hunt for the right candidates on job portals, through campus placements or employee referrals and post screening their applications, the candidates are interviewed to determine if they possess the desired skills suitable for the job. The selected candidates are handed over the offer letters and later confirmation letters by the recruitment personnel.
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The training manager has a highly important role to play in the organization. He or she needs to ensure that the new employees are made to acquaint with the organization's culture, structure, policies, procedures , etc. For this purpose, the training manager takes up the induction and orientation sessions for new employees to make them feel more comfortable at the new place.
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One team should be looking after the PMS in the organizations. A healthy PMS ensures the timely performance appraisals of the employees so that even they can understand about their shortcomings as well as the excellent performers can be rewarded suitably to keep their motivation levels high.
Performance appraisals can vary from 360 degree feedback, Management by Objective(MBO) or Assessment Centers, depending on which one the organization follows. The PMS team remains in constant touch with the training department so that they can be intimated about the employees poor or average performance which can be later rectified by providing adequate training.
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This recipe comes from "A Cook's Guide to Chicago," by Marilyn Pocious. This salsa was served at her booksigning event in the Old Town shop in January 2005.
This salsa is a great complement to spicy summer foods, such as Jamaican Jerk Chicken, or any grilled or roasted meats. It's also good as a dip.
- 2 mangos, cut into bite-sized chunks
- 2 jalapenos, minced
- 1/2 medium onion, chopped fine
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- Juice of 2 limes
- 1 bunch fresh cilantro, chopped
- salt, to taste
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Mix all the ingredients together, adjust seasoning, and allow the flavor to mingle for at least 30 minutes. Taste again, and adjust seasonings, before serving.
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The double-header will be the first competitive games in charge for the 43-year-old who came under pressure from fans and media after three defeats and one draw in mid-season friendlies.
Serbia scored just one goal in the process but Mihajlovic was confident after naming his 28-man squad that they could get off to a flying start and qualify for the 2014 event in Brazil from a tough group.
"We are better than both Scotland and Wales and I think we can win both games, but our work rate will have to match our talent because merely turning up won't be enough," he told a news conference on Sunday.
"A win and a draw would also be a good tally while I would certainly be disappointed with two draws," he said. "We all believe we will be among the teams flying to Brazil at the end of a long qualifying road, it's going to be a tough task but we are up for it."
The other three teams in Group A are Serbia's bitter Balkan rivals Croatia as well as Belgium and Macedonia.
If Mihajlovic's men are to live up to his expectations, they will need to show much more creativity in midfield and bite up front and that will be no easy task with his squad already blighted by injuries.
Playmaker Zdravko Kuzmanovic and winger Milos Krasic are both sidelined with long-term injuries while forwards Miralem Sulejmani and Marko Scepovic were named in the squad to make up the numbers despite being unfit.
"They are here to gel with the squad because they are important players in our system and will be a welcome bonus when they return," Mihajlovic said.
Serbia's squad for the World Cup qualifiers against Scotland and Wales:
Goalkeepers: Vladimir Stojkovic (Partizan Belgrade), Zeljko Brkic (Udinese), Damir Kahriman (Tavriya Symferopol).
Defenders: Branislav Ivanovic (Chelsea), Neven Subotic (Borussia Dortmund), Matija Nastasic (Manchester City), Aleksandar Kolarov (Manchester City), Nikola Maksimovic (Red Star Belgrade), Milan Bisevac (Olympique Lyon), Aleksandar Lukovic (Zenit St. Petersburg), Nenad Tomovic (Fiorentina), Dusko Tosic (Genclerbirligi).
Midfielders: Srdjan Mijailovic (Red Star Belgrade), Nemanja Matic (Benfica), Milos Ninkovic (Dynamo Kiev), Aleksandar Ignjovski (Werder Bremen), Dusan Basta (Udinese), Ljubomir Fejsa (Olympiakos Piraeus), Radoslav Petrovic (Genclerbirligi), Dusan Tadic (Twente), Filip Djuricic (Heerenveen), Nemanja Tomic (Partizan Belgrade), Zoran Tosic (CSKA Moscow).
Forwards: Darko Lazovic (Red Star Belgrade), Marko Scepovic (Partizan Belgrade), Miralem Sulejmani (Ajax Amsterdam), Lazar Markovic (Partizan Belgrade), Dejan Lekic (Osasuna).
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Book your room at Holiday Inn Biloxi - Beach Blvd
Beauvoir-The Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library is within 2 miles (3 km) of Holiday Inn Biloxi - Beach Blvd while other popular attractions such as Biloxi Lighthouse are within 3 miles (5 km). This 3-star hotel welcomes guests with 99 rooms and conveniences like an outdoor pool, free in-room WiFi, and free self parking. In central Biloxi, the hotel is also close to Miramar Park and Cavalier Field.
Sit down for a leisurely bite to eat at the onsite restaurant, or enjoy a drink at the bar/lounge. Satisfy your hunger from the comfort of your room with room service. For your convenience, breakfast is available for a fee each morning from 6 AM to 10 AM.
Holiday Inn Biloxi - Beach Blvd's 99 rooms are air-conditioned and provide microwaves, refrigerators, and coffee makers. Guests can expect free WiFi and flat-screen TVs with satellite channels. Bathrooms have hair dryers and free toiletries. Free local calls, ironing boards, and desks are also standard.
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Guests of Holiday Inn Biloxi - Beach Blvd enjoy an outdoor pool, free WiFi in public areas, and conference space. If you plan to drive, free parking is available. Front-desk staff are standing by 24/7 to assist with any requests.
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The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. This beach hotel also offers an outdoor pool, room service (during limited hours), and an elevator (lift). Onsite self parking is complimentary.
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Basil Grill - This restaurant serves breakfast and dinner.
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Grown Ups 2 is a comedy without a plot — or laughs.
War, plague, pestilence, famine, tornadoes, drought, head lice, cold corn dogs, the fourth hour of the Today show, that Train song where the guy sings about wanting a two-ply Hefty bag — all of these things are far worse than Grown Ups 2. And yet sitting through this deluded, directionless, relentlessly puerile comedy somehow feels equally punishing.
The first Grown Ups was a middling family comedy about a guy named Lenny (Adam Sandler) and his childhood friends (Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider) who reunite after their basketball coach's death and reconnect by spending part of the summer together with their families.
All you need to know about this new movie is that Rob Schneider sat this one out. Yes. The guy who played Deuce Bigalow, male gigolo — twice — apparently said: No thanks, I'm busy.
Good move by him, because nobody escapes untainted from Grown Ups 2; it's bad enough to make you look askance at Salma Hayek, Maria Bello and Maya Rudolph, all of whom deserve a chance to do something funny other than pose as wives exuding various degrees of sexiness.
Here's what the sequel has for a plot: Lenny, the successful filmmaker, has left Hollywood and moved back home with his family (Hayek and three kids) to enjoy the slower-paced, small-town life. School is just about over for the summer. His pal Kurt (Rock) suggests Lenny throw a party to celebrate. And Lenny does. The end.
Before we get to that finale, though, there are many flatulence jokes, vomiting, a guy shooting himself in the face with pepper spray, a guy dressed as Boy George making out with a dog and Shaquille O'Neal in a cop uniform.
There's also an ongoing battle between the middle-age gang and a group of jerky frat brothers led by Taylor Lautner; the final confrontation takes place at Lenny's big party, which has an '80s theme, presumably so Sandler could dust off and reuse some costumes from The Wedding Singer. He also dusts off the J. Geils Band to perform and suddenly that Train song doesn't seem so awful.
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The 33-year-old, who signed a short-term contract with MK Dons four weeks ago, has been forced to give up the game due to a persistent knee injury.
Bullard suffered two serious cruciate ligament injuries - for Fulham in September 2006 and Hull in 2009 - and ongoing complications convinced him to visit a specialist last week, only to be advised that it would be best for him to retire.
"My old knee injury has never allowed me to get back to where I want to be as a football player," he told MK Dons' official website. "It's always hindered me.
"There are a lot of games in this league and I now know my knee won't allow me to play Saturday-Tuesday-Saturday-Tuesday, it's not built for that now.
"I want to be out there playing but at the same time I know my knee won't allow me to play at my best and to keep my place in the team. I'm hindering myself more than I am helping myself for the future.
"In the summer I knew I wanted to give it one last crack and show people what I could do. But what I think with my strong head and what I could physically do are two different things. My head tells me I can do it, but my body tells me, no Jim you can't."
Bullard joined West Ham from Gravesend & Northfleet in 1999 before coming to prominence following a move to Peterborough United in 2001.
From there he joined Wigan Athletic in 2003, going on to help the Latics reach the Premier League and establish himself as a respected and much-liked top-flight player in the process.
Fulham brought him to Craven Cottage for £2.5 million in 2006 before a knee injury suffered in a game against Newcastle forced him out of the game for a prolonged period.
Hull paid a club-record £5m for him in January 2009 but he lasted just 37 minutes before succumbing to another injury following a tackle from Scott Parker - who also injured him in the Newcastle match.
He had his contract annulled at Hull following disciplinary issues and subsequently spent a spell at Ipswich before making three appearances for MK Dons this season.
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By Karl WeiselSeptember 25, 2007
HANAU, Germany - As 1st Armored Division Soldiers deploy to Iraq for the next 15 months, they leave knowing there are a host of resources in place to keep them connected to families here and stateside.
In fact, the Army's online Virtual Family Readiness Group provides a portal to a host of links, information and ways to communicate with those left behind.
However, the one-stop VFRG Web site doesn't only serve married Soldiers; single Soldiers, too, will find a host of useful tools available for reaching back to their parents, grandparents and siblings in the United States, according to 1st Armored Division family readiness liaisons.
"This is the perfect venue for people to get information that's available and to stay in contact around the world," said Sadie Trainor, who, along with India Cook, manages the 1st Armored Division's Special Troops Battalion VFRG website, in their role as family readiness support assistants.
"There is so much information available through the site, and they won't have to go all over to search for it," added Cook, encouraging Soldiers and family members to visit the Web site to become more familiar with its resources and tools.
"It's very easy to access and use the site," said Cook. "We just have to ensure that we have everybody in the database."
A handout available from the 1st AD STB family readiness liaisons describes the process to access the site. In order for a family member to subscribe to an FRG on the Web site, the "Soldier of interest" must be in that FRG's Soldier database. The Soldier must also have included the family member on his or her sponsor list.
"Make sure whatever information you've entered into the database you use to access the VFRG," said Cook, explaining that it's important Soldiers and family members provide a valid email address.
This need not be an Army Knowledge Online address, said Cook, explaining that some spouses and family members may not have an AKO account but still would like to use the secure features of the VFRG to stay in touch and access information.
"VFRG allows spouses to dictate how involved they want to be in the FRG and to access a myriad of resources ranging from bus schedules to R and R news, deployment information to a nurse's hotline and financial information," said Trainor. "You can also email anyone in the FRG through the website." Links to Army-wide and local community resources are also available.
"We designed it so that Soldiers downrange and stateside would find it useful," said Trainor.
Not only Germany-based units with 1st Armored Division are represented on the site but also attached units, such as the 442nd Cavalry Battalion, a Reserve unit from Rhode Island that will serve with the division in Iraq, are included, said Cook.
Upon entry to the VFRG - which is available at www.armyfrg.org - Soldiers and families can browse to their individual unit site by clicking on the "Find an FRG" link on the left navigation bar. First-time registering requires family members to their names, sponsoring Soldier's name and the last four digits of the Soldier's Social Security number. Both the family member's and Soldier's names must appear exactly as originally entered into the database, said Cook.
Once registered, family members can simply log onto the VFRG website and proceed to their individual FRG page.
(Karl Weisel is a member of the USAG Hessen Public Affairs Office)


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Right before I left for Ukraine, I did an order of tea pots for an Alice In Wonderland wedding shower tea party. What fun! I love it when I'm given the colors and patterns they are to be used for the celebration. In this case, I received a template of the invitations/tags used for the shower.......stripes and dots. So fun!
I hope your Sunday is blessed beyond measure. :)


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Time with God
In Reaching Out, Henri Nouwen proclaims, "We simply need quiet time in the presence of God. Although we want to make all our time, time for God, we will never succeed if we do not reserve a minute, an hour, a morning, a day, a week, a month or whatever period of time for God and God alone."
Of course, "this takes much discipline and risk taking," Nouwen continues, "because we always seem to have something more urgent to do and 'just sitting there' and 'doing nothing' often disturbs us more than it helps." However, Nouwen says, "There is no way around this. Being useless and silent in the presence of God belongs to the core of all prayer."1
In Sanctuary of the Soul, Richard Foster records a story that has a similar sentiment.
Anthony Bloom tells the story of an elderly woman who had been working at prayer with all her might but without ever sensing God's presence. Wisely, the archbishop encouraged the old woman to go to her room each day and "for fifteen minutes knit before the face of God, but I forbid you to say one word of prayer. You just knit and try to enjoy the peace of your room."
The woman received this counsel, and at first her only thought was, "O how nice. I have fifteen minutes during which I can do nothing without being guilty!" In time, however, she began to enter the silence created by her knitting. Soon, she said, "I perceived that this silence was not simply an absence of noise, but that the silence had substance. It was not absence of something but presence of something." As she continued her daily knitting, she discovered that "at the heart of the silence there was He who is all stillness, all peace, all poise." She had let go of her tightfisted efforts to enter God's presence and, by doing so, discovered God's presence already there.2
This spring, Lifelong Learning's Spirituality Program offers two classes in the form of retreats that will deepen your prayer life and relationship with God. April 26-29, Roberta Martin teaches Living Prayer: Experiencing Prayer in Many Forms at Montreat Conference Center. April 30-May 4, Lalor Cadley and Sister Kathleen Gallas will lead a Contemplative Women's Retreat entitled, In the Warmth of Love's Flame: Exploring the Sacred Mystery of God's Love at the Sacred Heart Monastery in Cullman, Alabama. All participants are welcome. You do not need to be enrolled in the Certificate in Spiritual Formation to attend these retreats.
1. Henri J. M. Nouwen. Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life. Garden City:
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975, p. 97.
2. Richard Foster. Sanctuary of the Soul: Journey into the Meditative Heart of Prayer. IVP Books, 2011.
2. Richard Foster. Sanctuary of the Soul: Journey into the Meditative Heart of Prayer. IVP Books, 2011.


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Live at Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems Launch
By Terri Wischmann-Oracle on Nov 10, 2008
I am live at the CEC show today, lots of things going on. Looking forward to hear John Fowler talk on Sun Storage 7000 family (AKA Amber Road). It will be exciting today!! Check out what is happening. I will keep you posted as the day progresses. Great to see the integrated story between systems and software.
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Southern Miss coach Larry Fedora took two players off suspension on Monday, but the verdict is still very much out on his two top running backs for Saturday's game against East Carolina.
Offensive tackle Calvin Wilson and defensive back Jamison Hughes will be available on Saturday after sitting out the last two weeks for an undisclosed violation of team rules, Fedora announced at his weekly news conference.
"They've taken care of their business," Fedora said. "I guess anytime you get suspended if you go the other way you sure as heck won't get back. They didn't have to prove anything. They just had to take care of their business."
The players practiced with the team but did not play in USM's victories over UAB and Central Florida. Kyle Burkhart appears to have taken Wilson's starting left tackle spot, while Hughes must now work his way back into the nickelback situation for the Golden Eagles.
Meanwhile, running backs Damion Fletcher and Tory Harrison continue to battle hamstring injuries. Fletcher, the team's leading rusher, missed last Saturday's 17-6 victory over UCF and Harrison went down late in the first half against the Knights.
Fedora said he won't be able to say much about their availability for Saturday's game until after practice today.
Fedora tempered his praise in recapping Saturday's win.
"Obviously, we're happy with the win last week and we're very happy to win a game on the road in conference play," Fedora said. "We're not happy with how we started the game defensively. We had them pinned down, but they took it 91 yards on eight plays. They made it look easy.
"Offensively, we slopped around a little and didn't move the ball. We ended up punting, but we regrouped on the sideline and made changes. From that point on, UCF had only 117 yards the entire game and offensively, we got things rolling a little better."
With Fletcher and Harrison out, quarterback Austin Davis took on more of the load than usual. The redshirt freshman responded by throwing for 188 yards and a touchdown and rushing for 73 yards and another TD.
He was sacked five times, which made Sunday's practice a difficult one.
"I was pretty bad," Davis said. "If I had to rank it, it was probably second-worst to Boise State. It was rough. I had to run the ball a little bit and I took a few hits. But that's what we had to do."
Fedora credits much of the recent running game success to the offensive line, which dominated UAB and helped the Eagles grind out a win against UCF.
"I can't say enough about those five up front," Fedora said. "They are not like defensive linemen, who roll in every three or four plays so they can stay fresh, get off the edge and pin their ears back.
"Those offensive linemen, if we play 88 snaps, they are playing 88 snaps, if we play 93 snaps, they are playing 93 snaps. There is no taking a break, no let's get some rest. It's we have to go, we have to have our intensity rate up on every play, every series, ready to go, have to make the adjustments. I am going to have to say I am very pleased with where those guys are."
USM is one of six Division I-A schools averaging at least 200 yards rushing and 200 passing.
USM, which ranks 16th in total offense with 447 yards per game, is averaging 206 on the ground and 241 through the air.


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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
by Seth Grahame-Smith
Abe's Children
Character Analysis
Abe and Mary have four sons together, and only one makes it to adulthood: Robert Todd Lincoln (born 1843) survives; Edward Baker Lincoln (1846) dies at 3 years old; William Wallace Lincoln (1850) becomes Abe's favorite and dies (thanks to vampire poisoning) at 11, which especially crushes Mary; and Thomas "Tad" Lincoln (1853) dies in 1871 of tuberculosis.
The kids don't have much of a role in this story except to motivate Abe. Robert gets his dad to quit vampire hunting, and then Willie gets refrigerated, which only drives Abe to hate vamps even more.


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Pair of Big Innings Help No. 17 UCLA Defeat SDSU 14-6
April 19, 2011
LOS ANGELES - UCLA put together a pair of five-run innings and defeated San Diego State, 14-6, Tuesday night at Jackie Robinson Stadium in Los Angeles. Five Bruin pitchers limited the Aztecs to five hits, but surrendered a total of 11 walks that contributed to SDSU's run production on the evening.
Just as it had done in each of its previous five games, San Diego State gave up a run in the first inning. After starter Mike Hachadorian retired the first two batters he faced to open the contest, he gave up a single, walk and RBI double that gave the home side an early 1-0 lead. The Aztec junior right-hander would only go one inning, but the run he allowed would cause him to eventually take the loss to fall to 0-3 on the season.
After scoring an unearned run in the second that came courtesy of a two-out fielding error, the 17th-ranked Bruins jumped on freshman Philip Walby, SDSU's third pitcher, for five runs on four hits and a walk in the third to take a 7-0 lead.
SDSU (11-26) got two of those runs back in its half of the fifth. Cody Slader was hit by pitch and Evan Potter walked before Cody Smith delivered an RBI double to left that brought Slader home. Pat Colwell's ground out to first then scored Potter to make it a 7-2 contest. Those runs came off Bruin starter Zack Weiss, who would depart after the fifth inning, but pick up the win to improve to 3-1.
Any hopes for an Aztec comeback were quickly diminished as UCLA (20-12) added five runs to its total in the bottom of the same inning. SDSU freshman right-hander TJ Kendzora was the victim on this occasion, allowing five hits capped off by a three-run homer by Bruin third baseman Cody Regis.
Trailing 14-2 heading into the eighth, San Diego State scored four time thanks in part to control problems by Bruin reliever Scott Griggs. Griggs walked the first three hitters he faced to open the top of the eighth. After a strikeout, catcher Ben Vasko singled to right to score the first run of the inning.
A wild pitch brought home the second run before Evan Potter walked to re-load the bases. Another base on balls to Cody Smith brought home the third run and ended Griggs' relief effort. Ryan Deeter then gave up an RBI single to Colwell to account for the game's final run.
Colwell was the lone Aztec with more than one hit as he finished with a pair of singles and two runs batted in while Cody Smith also had two RBI.
San Diego State will now head to Colorado Springs where it will resume Mountain West Conference play with a three-game series at Air Force that gets underway on Thursday, April 21, at 2:00 p.m. (MT) at Falcon Field.


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Constant fatigue can have various causes, ranging in severity from 'minor' to 'generally fatal'. Finding the true cause means ruling out or confirming each possibility – in other words, diagnosis.
Diagnosis is usually a complex process due to the sheer number of possible causes and related symptoms. In order to diagnose constant fatigue, we could:
|Iron Need
|Kidney Disease
|Ruled out
|Short Bowel Syndrome
|Ruled out
|Caffeine Intoxication
|Ruled out
|Diabetes II
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Do you have fatigue that is present most of the time, not improved by ordinary sleep? In other words, do you wake up tired or not have the energy to do what you want to, even after a good night of sleep?
Possible responses:→ Don't know
→ No
→ It is a slight problem but I function quite well
→ Moderate problem - I can not function sometimes
→ Major problem - I am unable to perform my duties
Fatigue is the most common symptom of Anemia.
A British study of 71 healthy volunteers aged 21 to 76 found that a daily 30 minute program of yogic stretching and breathing exercises had an invigorating effect on mental and physical energy and mood.
An early symptom of congestive heart failure is fatigue.
One study found that all those subjected to carb-free diet complained of fatigue after just two days. "This complaint was characterized by a feeling of physical lack of energy... The subjects all felt that they did not have sufficient energy to continue normal activity after the third day. This fatigue promptly disappeared after the addition of carbohydrate to the diet." [Arch Internal med 112(1963): p.333]
Daytime grogginess is a possible symptom of environmental illness.
Unusual and excessive sleepiness/fatigue is a symptom.
Many patients with even mild IgAN report extreme fatigue.
Fatigue can be one of the most debilitating symptoms experienced by people with HIV disease, as well as one of the most under-reported and under-recognized aspects. The rate of fatigue increases as the disease progresses and women are more likely to experience fatigue than men. HIV-positive men with CD4 cell counts below 500 cells/ml experienced more fatigue than men with CD4 cell counts above 500. However, studies so far have not found a consistent correlation between viral load and fatigue. The fatigue may be due to anemia, depression, the HIV virus, secondary infections, hormone deficiency (testosterone, adrenal exhaustion), malnutrition, poor sleep quality or quantity, inactivity, or drug side-effects.
Early symptoms of magnesium deficiency can include fatigue, anorexia, irritability, insomnia, and muscle tremors or twitching.
As nephrotic syndrome progresses, the patient feels increasingly weak and fatigued.
The frequent arousals caused by OSA and the inability to achieve or maintain the deep stages of sleep can lead to excessive daytime sleepiness and nonrestorative sleep. Patients often complain of waking up feeling like they had not slept at all, and often feel worse after taking a nap than before napping.
Phosphorus helps your body metabolize protein, fat and carbohydrates into energy. A lack of phosphorus can lead to lower energy levels and fatigue.


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Harassment as Activism: Men's Rights Redditors Gleefully Dox a College Student, Face No Repercussions
No long post today. Instead, I urge you to go over to the AgainstMensRights subreddit to read about how several long time Men's Rights Redditors have doxxed and harassed a college student, with one of the regulars gleefully setting forth a plan to stalk her and ruin her life and another seeming to suggest he might want to pay her a visit to "debate" her.
Some screenshots from the original Men's Rights subreddit discussion:
The thread (which remained up for many hours) has now been scrubbed by the Men's Rights mods — I got these screenshots from u/Aceyjuan and u/TraceyMorganFreeman's respective timelines — but as of right now none of the doxxers have been banned from the subreddit, or from Reddit itself.
The "crimes" of the woman in question? According to her main stalker — who has apparently been harassing her for months — she's tweeted comments like "white men are like the gum on the bottom of my shoe" and "Jared Leto looks like the kind if guy that gives you herpes."
Yep. Apparently the second-worst evil misandrist comment she made was … a joke about Jared Leto. For these comments, apparently she deserves to have her life ruined.
Here's the thing: If you don't like someone's comments online, you are certainly well within your rights to quote them and point out why you don't like what they said. That's kind of the point of this blog. But it's one thing to point out these comments, and another thing entirely to track down their identity and stalk them in real life. It's another thing to whip up a virtual mob against them.
Doxxing by Men's Rights Activists isn't an accident; it's the inevitable result of the peculiar style of Men's Rights Activism.
MRAs, you see, seem utterly incapable of engaging in any kind of activism that might actually benefit men in the real world in any concrete manner. What they as a group specialize in is demonizing women, and in the case of too many MRAS, nothing gets their activist juices flowing faster than the opportunity to attack an individual woman.
That's why A Voice for Men "activists" put up "wanted" style posters featuring their favorite feminist villains of the day; it's why they started Register-Her.com. That's why a certain red-haired Canadian activist who yelled at some MRAs once at a protest now finds her image splashed everywhere online as a visual representation of an evil feminist. That's why MRAs show up at protests with cameras and threaten to expose the women they film — even if they've done nothing more than stand there with a sign.
And that's why they doxx.
The Men's Rights movement isn't a civil rights movement. As it stands right now, it's a union of abusers, and their enablers.
EDITED TO ADD: Lest anyone claim that the OP didn't "really" dox the woman in question because he didn't literally post all her personal details, he provided enough to allow anyone with even rudimentary Google skills to find out her real name and a great deal of other personal identifying information in less time than it would take to order a pizza online.
Posted on April 9, 2014, in a new woman to hate, a voice for men, antifeminism, doxing, evil women, harassment, men who should not ever be with women ever, misogyny, MRA, not-quite-explicit threats, reddit and tagged a voice for men, antifeminism, doxxing, harassment, men's rights, misogyny, MRA, online harassment, reddit. Bookmark the permalink. 238 Comments.
I think a lot of the issue with communication between asexual and allosexual folks is society's fixation with sex, and how it simultaneously idealizes and villainizes sex. People who have lots of sex are less pure, deviant, slutty, or objects of envy but at the same time don't you know that sex can be the ultimate expression of love between people? And look at all these products meant to attract (sex) partners, don't you want these? Better watch out though, you don't want to catch any filthy STIs. But there's definitely something wrong with you if people don't want to have sex with you. Sex is the most peasurable experience there is! But don't be a hedonist!
It's a constant tug-of-war between the two extremes and I think it's ridiculous. I really don't think that sex is as good or as bad as it is made out to be, and the media definitely amps up the sexuality that is shown, because that sells.
Ace folks live in a culture that is saturated with sexuality and how important it should be and how people who don't want to have sex are frigid, repressed, traumatized, etc.
Allosexual folks, on the other hand, have to deal with the other prong of this bullshit, where they are told they can't/shouldn't have sex the way they choose because IT'S DIRTY.
So when there is dialogue between the two, sometimes there's misunderstandings, especially derived from media, wherein allosexuals come across as "You don't want to have sex? Clearly there's something wrong with you." and asexuals come across as "Clearly nothing matters to you but having sex, it doesn't even matter who they are!" When neither of these generalizations are right, and sometimes not even intended to come across that way.
Even if the difference only comes in how the individual decides to define themselves, if that makes any sense?
I… think. Or at least I hope I have understood you. But I also think therein lies the problem. Basically, I feel it's a bit of "overlabeling". As you say, sexuality can be pretty fluid, and in any case, observing several people, will pretty much always be a gradual thing. But I kinda draw the opposite conclusion: Given that fact, do we need a label for every little bit of variance? Especially as such labels pretty much always imply a variance from "the standard" – what you call allosexuals, in this case. Personally, I think the variance between what you define as allosexuals and demisexuals is not that great to warrant own labels; certainly not when compared to the variances between hetero-, homo-, bi- and asexuals (hetero- via bi- to homosexuality might also be a gradual spectrum, but one with a great enough width to have those categories). I suppose our difference is how we look at these labels: You say they can be pretty helpful on a personal level, which sounds to me like a subjective approach. For me the question is rather how much use in observation and categorization they have, so a more descriptive approach.
For me personally at least, I think the difference comes in that allosexual people can generally conceptualize there being people who they would like to have sex with, wherein demisexuals have no concept of someone they would be sexually attracted to until they in fact do bond with someone. This idea might be erroneous, though, because I am neither allosexual or demisexual and I can't really speak from experience about their outlooks.
Hm. This is an interesting question. There are women where my first mental reaction to seeing them is "She's hot/cute". But that doesn't mean I'd imagine sexual acts involving me and such strangers (while there are some people who totally do this). Does this count as sexual attraction? If you really define it as "would imagine having sex with that person" vs "would not imagine such a thing", then I suppose your distinction makes sense, but I still think that's a very narrow difference. After all, it does not mean the 'demisexual' could not have sexual thoughts unrelated to any emotional bonds – sexual thoughts not focused on any specific person, or not even involving oneself, are a thing, after all.
Ah, damn. That does sound bad. Good to hear that at least now things are better for you, especially love-wise. Yeah, okay, what you say makes sense. But it also kinda fits to what Kitteh says about pigeon-holing; in this case pigeon-holing gay men. I can see where simply choosing another pigeon hole can in fact be a helpful personal strategy. But that says nothing about the validity of those pigeon holes; not how much sense they make as observational categories. As I've said above, in discussing those terms I guess it depends on what you stress more.
Octo- I think that because sexuality is such a complicated and fluid thing, descriptive labels will always tend to fall short of the mark, and attempts to make them specific enough to apply to everyone's interests will indeed lead to what you consider overlabelling.
My opinion on such things is: If someone finds a label that they identify with, that makes them feel more comfortable in their own skin, then all the power to them. If someone doesn't feel the need to label themselves anything specific, that's fine too. If two people with functionally identical sexualities decide on different labels for themselves, that's up to them.
And I believe, when it comes down to labelling what sexualities other people have, you really don't need to know it unless you'd like to be sexually involved with them, in which case you should ask if they are interested in doing that with you. Choosing a label for yourself and having one arbitrarily applied to you are two very different things, and I don't think many people appreciate the latter.
But that's just my two cents. *shrugs*
RE: Kittehs
LBT – cripes, that sounds a traumatic way to fall in love.
Well, let's face it, I was not really in a condition to be falling in love in the first place. I was the exact opposite of thrilled. (And I still find the calmer, steadier love we have now to be much more pleasant! Seriously, fuck the butterflies.)
oh gross, is there ANY term that can't get made homophobic? D:
For me (sorry, late response) I'm sometimes… not happy about being asexual. Probably because I think I'm aromantic as well, as it's very rigid in both cases, there's nothing fluid about it. So sometimes it makes me very depressed and and I feel like I have nothing to live for because I'll never be sexually attracted to someone or want to date or fall in love, you know?
And I have to remind myself a lot that those are just things society tells me I'm SUPPOSED to want and that society has very narrow views about what humans are, want, and need. Still, I do often feel like I'm missing out on really important things in life, especially as my friends are mostly all married or in relationships (recently my best friend found like the PERFECT guy for her). And it's not like someone who can't get a date or sex, right now I have several guys pursuing me and I'm going out on a date with one of them next week to TRY and see if anything clicks romantically, but I don't have high hopes. My friend who recently found the perfect guy has been encouraging me, that was the first time in her almost 21 years of life she's felt romantically attracted to someone so maybe I just haven't clicked with anyone yet but I do feel as though I really am aromantic even though I want her to be right.
A life without a romantic partner isn't necessarily empty, and plenty of people choose alternate family arrangements for themselves, Lids, not to be nosy, but where do you live? If you're currently in a not so progressive area that might be adding pressure to hop on the dating/marriage/buy a house/have kids train that might potentially be minimized a bit by living in an area where there's less pressure to follow that life model. Like leftwingfox said, what do you want? What would be your ideal living situation?
I know, I just feel like I am missing out on something important. I know I can't change my sexual and romantic orientations, but it doesn't mean I don't want to. And honestly, I don't feel pressured to date, no one is pressuring me to date at all. I guess I just feel like I'm going to be left behind because the people I'm closest to are married and dating and it makes them happy. Like today, I spent today with my two best friends for one of their birthdays. One of them is married and brought their husband, and the other is dating a guy that is their ideal in like every way. And they were cuddling and having private conversations and I guess I feel like a 3rd wheel in those situations. Even though I did have some fun I felt like maybe it didn't matter that I was there because I was just sort of a background object. And I know my friends weren't ignoring me, I just feel like the person outside the sphere.
I think my main issues are a) I feel like I'm missing out and, b) I feel like I can't really relate to other people because romance and sex are such big parts of people's lives and I don't actually desire those things. They just make me uncomfortable and awkward. Whenever I date, even when I think I'm interested in someone, I end up feeling like awkward because I'm supposed to be kissing this person and a deeper inspection of my feelings tells me I just see them as a friend (though, to be fair, I just don't like kissing – i hate touching other peoples' faces and I hate how squishy lips are ughghghg).
And I mean I'm trying to figure out how to deal with the situation with the guy. He's legitimately nice, and he seems legitimately interested in me but I know that if I go out on a date with him it won't be any more than an experiment to see if it's possible for me to click with someone. He's cute, he's nice, he thinks I'm pretty and wants to cook dinner for me. But I find him kind of boring, like he's nice but I couldn't see myself even trying if I was pursuing him as a friend because he bores me. Our conversations are stilted (though part of it is the language barrier, he's still learning English) and I don't know.
To clarify, just in case there are lurking Nice Guys, I don't find him boring because he's nice, he's just boring. Our conversations are boring to me.
I don't live in a small town, no. The area I live in is medium sized I guess? Not a cosmopolitan area by any means though.
I've not met any other asexual people, I mean I've talked to a few online via ace groups on facebook, but really I don't talk to them outside the groups.