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The Am Law 100: Firms Ranked by Revenue Per Lawyer
Growth in revenue per lawyerthe most reliable indicator of a firm's overall financial healthslowed to 1.9 percent in 2011, compared to 4.4 percent the previous year. Nearly three-quarters (74) of the Am Law 100 firms reported a gain in revenue per lawyer, compared to 81 in 2010. However, nearly a quarter of the firms (24) had RPLs of at least $1 million, compared with 19 in 2010. Hunton & Williams had the largest growth in RPL with a 12.1 percent gain. Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan saw the biggest decrease at 7.1 percent.


text: Jourdan Dunn is back with a new season of her Life + Times show Well Dunn. Continuing her insight-peppered cooking lessons, the season 2 premiere finds Dunn joined in the kitchen by model of the moment Cara Delevingne. Teaming up to produce some shrimp tempura, it becomes obvious right from the get-go that Cara's expertise lies on the runway and not in the kitchen. Entertaining, insightful and full of salty language courtesy of Delevingne, this latest episode is great a start to the second season. We can't wait to see what else Dunn whips up this season.


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People feel holidays are "non-negotiable"
People are continuing to take holidays this summer, despite the credit crunch, because they feel that holidays are "non-negotiable", one industry expert has suggested.
Tom Hall, travel editor of the Lonely Plant series of destination guide books, said that the "savvy traveller … can still travel cheaply".
He added: "People are increasingly aware that if you want real value when you are in your destination you need to get outside of the euro zone and that can mean mid-haul or long-haul.
"I think people are aware that there is real value available there."
According to a report by the International Air Travel Association (IATA), world passenger numbers were up by 3.8 per cent in June compared to a year ago.
However, this was the slowest growth in air travel demand since the SARS crisis in 2003.
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A set of processes is deadlocked if each process in the set is waiting for an event that can be caused by another process in the set. The events that we are mainly concerned with are resource acquisition and release. The resources may be physical resources (CPU, I/O devices, memory) or logical resources (files, semaphores or monitors).
Kinds Of Resource
A resource might be Preemptable or non-preemptable.
Preemptable meaning that without harm, the resource can be borrowed form the process. Sometimes a resource can be made preemptable by the OS at some cost. Example: Memory can be preempted from a process by suspending the process and copying the contents of the memory to disk. Later the data is copied back to the memory
And the process is allowed to continue. Preemption effectively makes a serially reusable resource look sharable.
A non-preemptable resource is one that without causing undesirable efforts, cannot be taken away from the current user.
Deadlock involves non-preemptable resources.
Conditions for Deadlock
So, deadlock can arise if 4 conditions hold simultaneously:
Resource Allocation Graph
Deadlock is more precisely described in terms of a directed graph called Resource allocation graph. It consists of a set of all active processes and resource types in the system. Processes are described by circles and resources by squares connected by appropriate directed arrows depending on whether a resource is requested by a process or is holding on it.
If a graph contains a cycle then:
Methods Of Handling Deadlock
Deadlock Prevention
Ensure that at least one of the necessary conditions does not hold.
Deadlock Avoidance
The simplest and most useful model requires that each process declares the maximum number of resources of each type that it may need. The deadlock avoidance algorithm dynamically examines the resource allocation state to ensure that there can never be a circular wait condition. Resource allocation state is defined by the number of available and allocated resources and the maximum demands of the processes.
Recovery from Deadlock
The following parameters need to be examined before deciding which process to terminate:
Demonstration Of Deadlock In JAVA
The scariest thing that can happen to a java program is deadlock. It is a special type of error that you need to avoid that relates specifically to multitasking which occurs when two threads have a circular dependency on a pair of synchronized objects. This occurs when two threads are blocked, with each waiting for the other's lock. Neither can run until the other gives up its lock so they'll sit there forever. For example, suppose one thread enters the monitor on object X and another thread enters the monitor on object Y. If the thread in X tries to call any synchronized method on Y, it will block as expected. However, if the thread in Y, in turn, tries to call any synchronized method on X, the thread waits forever, because to access X, it would have to release its own lock on Y so that the first thread could complete.
Deadlock is a difficult error to debug for two reasons:-
This example creates two classes, Dead1 and Dead2, with methods m1( ) and m2( ), respectively, which pause briefly before trying to call a method in the other class. The main class, named Deadlock, creates an Dead1 and a Dead2 instance, and then starts a second thread to set up the deadlock condition. The m1() and m2( ) methods use sleep( ) as a way to force the deadlock condition to occur.
class Dead1
MainThread entered Dead1.m1
RacingThread entered Dead2.m2
MainThread trying to call Dead2.last()
RacingThread trying to call Dead1.last()
Because the program has deadlocked, you need to press CTRL-C to end the program. You can see a full thread and monitor cache dump by pressing CTRL-BREAK on a PC . You will see that RacingThread owns the monitor on b, while it is waiting for the monitor on a. At the same time, MainThread owns a and is waiting to get b. This program will never complete. If a multithreaded program locks up occasionally, deadlock is one of the first conditions that should be checked for.
Another Example that demonstrates deadlock:
public class Deadlock
Demonstration Of Deadlock In Database
When several transactions occur concurrently in the database the isolation property may no longer be preserved. To ensure that it is preserved the system must control the interaction among the concurrent transactions. Such mechanisms are called concurrency- control schemes. One of such scheme is based on the serializability property. One way to ensure serializability is to require that data items be accessed in a mutually exclusive manner. That is while one transaction is accessing a data item no other transaction can modify that data item. The most common method used to implement this is to allow a transaction to access a data item only if it is currently holding a lock on that item.
Lock is a variable associated with a data item that describes the status of the data item with respect to the possible operations that can be applied to it.
There are various modes in which a data item may be locked. But we restrict our attention to two modes:
Shared:- If a transaction T1 has obtained a lock a shared mode lock (denoted by S) on an item Q then T1 can read but cannot write Q.
Exclusive:- If a transaction T1 has obtained a lock a exclusive mode lock (denoted by X) on an item Q then T1 can both read write and Q.
It is required that every transaction request a lock in an appropriate mode on data item Q depending on the types of operation that will be performed on Q.
But unfortunately locking can lead to an undesirable situation. Consider two transactions T1 and T2. T1 is holding an exclusive lock on a data item B. T2 is holding a shared mode lock on a data item A. Now T2 requests a shared mode lock on B. It is waiting for T1 to unlock B. T1 requests an exclusive mode lock on A. So T1 is waiting for T2 to unlock A. So a situation has arrived where neither of these transactions can ever proceed with its normal execution. This situation is called deadlock. When deadlock occurs the system must rollback one of these two transactions. Once a transaction has been rolled back the items that were locked by that transaction are unlocked. These data items are then available to the other transaction which can then continue with its execution.
When such a situation is detected by the Oracle Engine both update statements are rolled back automatically and the deadlock is resolved.
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Locks and Sleeps are things you should never use. The software I develop is fully event based and has no locks. This is especially important for daemons or other server software that needs high availability.
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Today in women's history: Police evict striking Woolworth's clerks
New York City police evicted and arrested striking Woolworth's store clerks - mostly women - who had occupied stores demanding a 40-hour workweek.
Today in women's history: Lida Gustava Heymann born
A leading figure in the women's rights movement in Germany.,Lida Gustava Heymann was born in Hamburg, Germany on March 15, 1868.
Today in women's history: Long live Fannie Lou Hamer
On this day in 1977 Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer passed away.
Today in women's history: Suffragist Susan B. Anthony died
On March 13, 1906, Susan B. Anthony died in Rochester, N.Y., shortly after her eighty-sixth birthday.She was a pioneer leader of the cause of women's right to vote.,
Today in women's history: Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" published
The book, by 21-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, is frequently called the world's first science fiction novel.
Today in women's history: International Women's Day
March 8, International Women's Day, grew from two sources -- the struggle of working women to form trade unions and the fight for women's right to vote.
Today in women's history: Trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins
The frame up of the Rosenbergs, fueled by Cold War, anti-communism and anti-Semitism, remains a terrible blot on our nation's history - a gross miscarriage of justice.
Today in women's history: Mary McLeod Bethune honored
On March 5, in 1985 the U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative honoring Mary McLeod Bethune.
Today in women's history: Frances Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor
The appointment on March 4, 1933, made Perkins the first female cabinet member in U.S. history. She helped bring about the National Labor Relations Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Social Security Act


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Obscure references and even more obscure records.
If you've followed LeBron James of late, you've heard him make plenty of the former and take runs at plenty of the latter.
Thursday, after shooting 11-of-15 to score 26 points with 12 rebounds and seven assists in a 86-67 dismantling of the sloppy Bulls, James explained why he's been pressing his open palms toward the floor after made jumpers on the road.
"Yeah, I'm on my Nick Van Exel thing right now, anybody who knows the history of the game," James said. "The fans are always on me on the road, they stay on me, they continue to say I can't shoot the ball, I can't shoot."
James said he would eschew Van Exel's trademark high socks. Even so, it was an impressive pull from the NBA's past, ranking up there with James mentioning Jud Buechler during an All-Star Weekend interview.
Even more impressive?
James' recent run of accomplishments.
Every couple of weeks, it seems, he's chasing history, with some remarkable milestone or streak.
He went 254 minutes at one point without committing a foul.
He went 33 straight games to start with the season without scoring fewer than 20 points.
And then, in six straight games, he scored at least 30 points while shooting 60 percent.
"Just when you think he's done it all, he does something else that you didn't even know existed," Bosh said. "I didn't even know there's a stat for 60 percent, 30 points a game."
In Bosh's view, "The only way you can get better breaking that record is to do it eight times, nine times, or 10 times, or nine out of 10."
The next five slides include some other ideas for the next statistical standards James can stalk.
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New research has uncovered a previously unnoticed 20-year increase in the incidence of rectal cancer in patients younger than 40 years. A team of researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study using data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) cancer-registry database of the National Cancer Institute. They identified a total of 7,661 patients with colon, rectal, or rectosigmoid cancer diagnosed before the age of 40 years, from 1973 through 2005. Analyzing this trend over time, they found that the incidence of rectal and rectosigmoid cancer began climbing 3.8% annually in 1984, while the incidence of colon cancer remained unchanged. The increase was independent of sex and race. Approximately 70% of the tumors were adenocarcinomas. Lead author Joshua E. Meyer, assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, emphasized that rectal cancer shouldn't be confused with anal cancer, which is most often a squamous cell carcinoma associated with human papillomavirus or HIV infection.
Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer-related death in the United States, but it's often considered a disease of older adults. Younger patients often have more advanced disease on presentation, and their survival rate is lower than older patients', perhaps because of delayed diagnosis. "This research is very relevant to nurses, who see these patients frequently," Meyer said. "If clinicians see inflamed hemorrhoids or rectal bleeding, we suggest flexible sigmoidoscopy to rule out rectal cancer." The researchers don't yet recommend a change in current screening guidelines.
Pamela J. Haylock, director of the Association for Vascular Access and former president of the Oncology Nursing Society, agreed, saying that nurses should keep this diagnosis in the back of their minds, "especially when young people have unusual symptoms. Nurses often complain about not having enough time, but we've got to be more aggressive in ruling this out and following up. It costs practically nothing to do a fecal blood test as a first step in ruling out rectal cancer."—James M. Stubenrauch
* $520 million: Aggregate hospital charges related to urinary tract infections in U.S. children in 2006.
* $70 billion: The one-year (2005) cost of medical care and productivity losses associated with injuries incurred in motor vehicle accidents, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
* 5 million: The number of U.S. children eligible for Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program but not enrolled, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
* 9,237: The estimated number of cases of heat-related illness in high school athletes that lead to missed days, according to the CDC.
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In the team's first match of the preseason, the Montreal Impact came from behind to earn a 2-1 victory over Sporting Kansas City (1-1 at half-time), on Saturday, at the Walt Disney World Pro Soccer Classic tournament, presented at the ESPN Wide World of Sport in Orlando, Florida. Forward Marco Di Vaio scored in stoppage time in the first half, while Andrew Wenger scored the game winner in the 61st minute.
SKC opened the scoring in the 18th minute when midfielder Graham Zusi fired one from 25 yards out, which left goalkeeper Troy Perkins no chance on the play.
The Impact tied things up just before the half-time whistle when midfielder Patrice Bernier played a long ball down centre field to Designated Player Marco Di Vaio, who squeezed through the defence and beat SKC goalkeeper Jimmy Nielsen with a low shot as he broke in on goal.
The Impact took the lead in the 61st minute. Just seconds after coming on as a substitute, Academy product Maxim Tissot dribbled down the left flank and played a through ball for Wenger, who beat Nielsen with a low shot.
"It's the first game in three months for this group. The important thing is we won the game," said Impact head coach Marco Schällibaum. "There are things we need to work on as we had some difficulty in the first 20 minutes. But we never gave up on going for the win. In the second half, after the second goal, we continued to show that we wanted to win this game. I saw a lot of players who were ready to suffer for this team."
"We were happy to finally play a game after three long weeks of training," said midfielder Patrice Bernier. "We didn't dominate the game but came out with the win. We need to play as quickly as possible with the ball and move a lot on the field. It took some time to adjust to the field, but we got better and better as the game went."
Troy Perkins made a game saving stop in the 89th minute off of a header by defender Ike Opara.
The Impact had its best chance of the first half in the 26th minute. Midfielder Sanna Nyassi, deep in Kansas City territory, played a cross to team captain Davy Arnaud, who one-timed his shot, but Nielsen dove to his left to knock away the low ball.
The Impact will play its second game of the tournament against the Tampa Bay Rowdies (NASL) on Wednesday, February 13.
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ABC Family acquires 'Friday Night Lights' reruns
Kyle Chandler, Connie Britton and the 'FNL' gang will begin cable airings later this year
ABC Family has acquired the rights to "Friday Night Lights," or at least the basic cable rights for the first five seasons of the award-winning drama.
ABC Family's deal with NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution was announced on Tuesday (May 25) and will include the two "Friday Night Lights" seasons that ran exclusively on NBC, the two seasons that ran on DirecTV's The 101 Network and were rebroadcast on NBC and the fifth season, which will follow the broadcast model of the last two.
"We're thrilled to add NBC's critically-acclaimed series 'Friday Night Lights' to the mix of our defining original and quality acquired series," states Tom Zappala, Executive Vice President, Program Acquisitions & Scheduling, ABC Cable Networks Group. "The series is beloved by critics and viewers, and fits in perfectly with ABC Family's blend of optimistic, heartfelt programming."
Agrees Bruce Casino, Senior Vice President Cable & Ancillary Sales NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution, "'Friday Night Lights' is a perfect fit for ABC Family's sensibility for the modern day family program. ABC Family will introduce this award-winning show to a whole new audience segment where the series can thrive in its new environment."
While Emmy voters have mostly ignored "Friday Night Lights" -- save for a 2007 casting win -- the Texas football (and much more) saga has made countless critics' Top 10 lists (including our Best of the Decade list), as well as a Peabody Award in 2006.
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In the essay "The World as I See It," Albert Einstein wrote: "A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other people, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."
I understand tikkun olam, the repairing and healing of our world, as the central calling of our people. All of the prayer, teaching, outreach, pastoral work and congregational activities that I help facilitate lead me back to the notion that they are somehow helping to add the necessary energy into our global cosmos, which can facilitate the advent of a new and better time for all people. And I know that each of us is working, in our own way, to help better the world.
But how do we know what to do, when to do it and how much energy to apply to any given task? We are all so busy, so overscheduled that we need to prioritize the ways in which we help others, ways in which we give back to the world. All of us need the reminder that Einstein found in his life. I know that I struggle with balancing my time among the needs of my local community, my larger Jewish and American communities, Israel and the rest of the world. I learned from the Torah this week, however, that my balancing act might actually not be appropriate.
This Shabbat, we begin Bamidbar. Two verses near the end of the parsha, speaking about the roles of the Levites, say, "But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint every one to his service and to his burden. But, they shall not go in to see the holy things, as they are being covered, lest they die" (Numbers 4:19-20). It is clear that the work of the Tabernacle was incredibly holy and invariably dangerous, as both the Torah and subsequent mishnaic writings tell us. However, one midrash from Bamidbar Rabbah expounds on the unique dangers facing the Levites:
Rabbi Eleazar Ben Pedat said, in the name of Rabbi Yose ben Zimra: The sanctity of the ark caused the people to be struck down by it, and all would run away preferring, at all costs, to take some other vessel -- the table, the candlestick and the altars. The ark would thereby be slighted and the Holy One Blessed Be would be angry with them: let Aaron and his sons come along and give each one their task and burden so that they will not be able to transfer from one service to another and from one burden to another.
In Bamidbar Rabbah, Rabbi Samuel Bar Nachman said: Heaven forbid that the sons of Aaron should leave the ark and run to the table and candlestick. On the contrary, they were ready to give their lives for the ark.... Rather, they knew that whoever carried the ark merited greater reward. All would then leave the table and candlestick and come running to the ark, in order to reap a greater reward. As a result, quarrels would arise and each one would claim the right to carry the ark, thereby slighting the other appurtenances. Let Aaron and his sons come along and give each one their task and burden....
To me, the opposing rabbinic views here illustrate the great struggle in doing tikkun olam. Many of us want to do the work of local healing, which is perhaps not that exciting or glorifying, as incredible and necessary as it is. Yet, if the chance comes along to be part of a larger effort, one that might bring recognition, greater reward and is exciting, we might take that chance, leaving the ordinary, but as important, work to someone else. Conversely, there are those of us who shy away from the larger efforts, seeing them as too burdensome, cumbersome or overwhelming, choosing instead to stay focused on the needs of our local community.
There are dangers in all of these choices, dangers that the midrash helps us to sort out. The work of local efforts, namely homeless shelters, soup kitchens, clothing drives and volunteering in a number of capacities, can't be dropped when the chance to work on a larger campaign presents itself. And, the larger campaigns, such as ending the genocide in Darfur, making peace between Israelis and Palestinians, fighting our government as they strip social services from the poorest and neediest in our country and ending poverty and hunger in the world, cannot be shied away from because they are too daunting or overwhelming. We need to be battling on all fronts, each one of us taking the task that we are best suited to fulfill.
That does not mean that we cannot sometimes interchange our tasks and do different things, but rather, we must always be certain that someone is working on both the smaller and the larger tasks of tikkun olam. As Pirke Avot teaches, "The day is short, the work is long ... it is not up to us to complete the task, but neither are we ever free to desist from trying."
This midrash helped me to focus my attention and not juggle everything; I hope that it can do the same for you. May God bless our hands as we work in all corners of our community, nation and world to bring about a world of peace, humanity, justice, food and love for all beings.
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater is the spiritual leader of the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center. Learn more about PJTC at www.pjtc.net.
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(1) I would never pose something with silk flowers, it's not my style
(2) my sides never turn out that nicely, and
(3) I haven't put mine in the oven yet.
Oh, and (4) I don't have a marble serving platter (surprise!)
ASIDE: I don't really understand how a recipe can be either original or stolen. For example: I thought up, in my very own mind, the recipe for Jalapeno Chicken Popper Roll-Ups (I'm still working on the name). I did. I had some Poppers, and thought to myself, "Wouldn't it be great if I could eat these for a meal?!" So I thought about it, cogitated on it, and came up with this recipe. And then, I went on AllRecipes.com and found 3 other recipes for it. Now, they're not exact, but they're similar. So was my idea original? What if I took someone else's recipe, and tweaked it a little? Have I stolen their recipe, or have I made my own? I think that, no matter what I come up with, someone else somewhere in the world has tried the exact same thing. So are any recipes original? Please advise, I'm all tangled up inside over this very issue.
ASIDE: Also, what is up with recipe developers? How do they do it? How do people come up with new recipes and not just take one's they've eaten before and write them down, or tweak them a little? That'd be like being a "Name Developer". Again, any name you come up with is probably already in use by someone throughout the history of the world. Maybe, maybe you've put together a middle & first name that have never before been paired, but they've both been used. I just don't get it.
ASIDE: What if I wrote my whole posts in "aside"'s? Would you still love me? I won't test it. Too risky.
Oozi's Cheesecake
2 ½ lbs Cream cheese
1 1/3 C Sugar
6 Eggs
1/3 C Sour cream
½ C Heavy whipping cream
1 t Vanilla
1/4 t Lemon Zest
Crust (My own creation):
1 box Nilla Wafers
½ t Ground Cinnamon (heaping)
1 stick Butter (melted)
Mix together Nilla wafers & cinnamon. Pour in melted butter, and combine. Pat into 3 pie pans, or 1 springform pan and 1 pie pan. Beat cream cheese until soft. Add eggs, one at a time. Mix in remaining ingredients. Pour into 3 pie crusts and bake at 350˚ fro 30 minutes. If using a spring form pan, bake one at a time, with a bowl of water on the rack underneath, until edges are browned and only the very center jiggles.


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School bullying's chilling new front
By Francey Hakes Special to CNN | 9/5/2013, 10:53 a.m.
Editor's note: Francey Hakes served from 2002 to 2012 as a federal prosecutor and from 2010 to 2012 as the first National Coordinator for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction at the US Justice Department. She is CEO of Francey Hakes Consulting, which provides advice on child protection and national security. She blogs at FranceyHakes.
Can cruel words really kill?
The answer, unfortunately, is yes. Recently, a teenage boy killed himself in Connecticut. Bart Palosz was just 15 when he took his family's shotgun and decided, apparently, that he had no other option but suicide. Last year, 12-year-old Joel Morales of New York hanged himself in his family's home. Earlier this year, 17-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons of Nova Scotia, Canada, died from self-inflicted hanging injuries.
What did these two boys and one girl have in common?
They appear to have been bullied to death, friends and family members have said. For Bart, it was his size and Polish accent that the bullies repeatedly targeted. With Joel, bullies targeted him because of his small stature and stuttering. Joel's mother said she reported this to the school, but the bullying merely escalated.
Rehtaeh was the target of a bullying campaign after she made allegations that four teens sexually assaulted her. After the alleged assault, during which at least one photo was taken, someone distributed the photo, an illegal act, and still police indicated at the time that they would charge no one.
Rehtaeh's mother said her daughter suffered more than a year of harassment where her tormentors used the photo to ruin her reputation and break her spirit. We learned only last month, far too late to help Rehtaeh, that officials have finally charged two people in connection with the distribution of the photo.
Many schools say they have zero tolerance to bullying policies in place. In fact, officials at Cowetta Intermediate High School in Oklahoma say they have just such a policy. Authorities are still investigating whether 15-year-old Triston Stephens, who shot and killed himself in that school's bathroom on a Monday morning earlier this year, was a target of bullying. Some parents in the district said school officials ignored bullying that was taking place there.
Why do these problems seem more frequent and the bullying more vicious than ever before? After all, bullying existed long before cyberspace, social networking and text messaging. What has changed?
Are bullies meaner? Are there more of them? Why do children who are bullied today experience overwhelming feelings of isolation and despair, such that they feel compelled to end their young lives rather than endure any more torment?
The answer is simple. Now one person or a small group of bullies can exponentially raise the torment to an unimaginable level in cyberspace. One nasty comment can be "liked" on Facebook, retweeted or forwarded dozens or hundreds of times in an instant, making it seem to the bullied child that the whole world is out to get her.
Teens naturally feel a need to belong, to fit in. When they are bullied, especially by those using technology as a weapon, it may seem that they are all alone and that everyone they know is participating in the hate. The bullying is also much harder to escape, no longer limited to occasions when bully and victim are in the same place.


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Austin Gold 34, Crockett Gold 18
The Lady Bears kept a pretty tight lid on the Lady Pioneers' scoring opportunities, allowing a deuce in the first quarter, and 3 in the second. Meanwhile, Austin built an 11-5 halftime advantage. The Lady Bears scored 11 points alone in the third quarter and a dozen in the final frame to win by 16.
Crockett Silver 20, Austin Silver 14
The Lady Pioneers held a slim 10-8 halftime lead before exploding for 10 points in the third while limiting the Lady Bears to 2. Crockett outpointed Austin 6-4 in the final frame to take the 6-point victory.
Mann Gold 39, Travis Gold 18
The Lady Texans scored 4 unanswered points to take an early lead in the first quarter but the Lady Buffaloes roared back with 18 unanswered points in the second for the lead they wouldn't relinquish. Following a 14-2 Mann run in the third, Travis outscored the Lady Buffs 12-7 in the final frame.
Mann Silver 34, Travis Silver 17
The Lady Buffs opened the game with a 12-4 run and held a 16-8 advantage at the half. Mann outpointed the Lady Texans 18-9 in the second half to win by 17.
Bowie Gold 36, Fannin Gold 21
The Lady Braves opened a 17-5 lead at halftime and held off the Lady Panthers in the second half to win the game by 15 points.
Bowie Silver 23, Fannin Silver 18
The Lady Panthers took an early lead and maintained the advantage into the third quarter but the Lady Braves overcame them to take a 16-14 lead by the end of the quarter and a 7-4 run in the fourth gave Bowie a 5-point triumph.
Houston Gold 49, de Zavala Gold 13
The Lady Rangers overwhelmed the Lady Wolves early, taking a 20-2 lead in the first quarter and a 28-4 advantage at the half. Houston scored a dozen points each in the third and fourth quarters to put the game out of reach.
Houston Silver 16, de Zavala Silver 11
The Lady Rangers took a 10-4 lead at halftime but the Lady Wolves pulled within 4 heading into the fourth quarter. Houston outpointed de Zavala in the final frame to win by 5.
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Tia Guy, Crockett Silver, 10
Elainabeth Robinson, Austin Silver, 4
Markeshia Polite, Mann Gold, 10
Andrea Johnson, Travis Gold, 7
Shaymonea Collins, Dondrett Johns and Lindsey Rees, Mann Silver, 6 apiece
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Taylor Geter, Fannin Gold, 12
Aubrea Bustos, Bowie Gold, 9
Jessica Reynosa and Mitzi Rodriguez, Bowie Silver, 6 each
Lacy Barker, Fannin Silver, 6
Reed, Houston Gold, 21
Keela Leal, de Zavala Gold, 5
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Saw this in 3-D. Visually, it looks amazing. Should give Inception a run for its money in the Visual FX category come Oscar time (though I still think Inception will win). Great Sound FX also.
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Why We Travel
Travel Stories: In a classic essay, Pico Iyer explores the reasons we leave our beliefs and certainties at home to see the world with open eyes
We are the comic props in Japanese home-movies, the oddities in Maliese anecdotes and the fall-guys in Chinese jokes; we are the moving postcards or bizarre objets trouves that villagers in Peru will later tell their friends about. If travel is about the meeting of realities, it is no less about the mating of illusions: You give me my dreamed-of vision of Tibet, and I'll give you your wished-for California. And in truth, many of us, even (or especially) the ones who are fleeing America abroad, will get taken, willy-nilly, as symbols of the American Dream.
That, in fact, is perhaps the most central and most wrenching of the questions travel proposes to us: how to respond to the dream that people tender to you? Do you encourage their notions of a Land of Milk and Honey across the horizon, even if it is the same land you've abandoned? Or do you try to dampen their enthusiasm for a place that exists only in the mind? To quicken their dreams may, after all, be to match-make them with an illusion; yet to dash them may be to strip them of the one possession that sustains them in adversity.
That whole complex interaction—not unlike the dilemmas we face with those we love (how do we balance truthfulness and tact?)—is partly the reason why so many of the great travel writers, by nature, are enthusiasts: not just Pierre Loti, who famously, infamously, fell in love wherever he alighted (an archetypal sailor leaving offspring in the form of Madame Butterfly myths), but also Henry Miller, D.H. Lawrence or Graham Greene, all of whom bore out the hidden truth that we are optimists abroad as readily as pessimists as home. None of them was by any means blind to the deficiencies of the places around them, but all, having chosen to go there, chose to find something to admire.
All, in that sense, believed in "being moved" as one of the points of taking trips, and "being transported" by private as well as public means; all saw that "ecstasy" ("ex-stasis") tells us that our highest moments come when we're not stationary, and that epiphany can follow movement as much as it precipitates it. I remember once asking the great travel writer Norman Lewis if he'd ever be interested in writing on apartheid South Africa. He looked at me astonished. "To write well about a thing," he said, "I've got to like it!"
At the same time, as all this is intrinsic to travel, from Ovid to O'Rourke, travel itself is changing as the world does, and with it, the mandate of the travel writer. It's not enough to go to the ends of the earth these days (not least because the ends of the earth are often coming to you); and where a writer like Jan Morris could, a few years ago, achieve something miraculous simply by voyaging to all the great cities of the globe, now anyone with a Visa card can do that. So where Morris, in effect, was chronicling the last days of the Empire, a younger travel writer is in a better position to chart the first days of a new Empire, post-national, global, mobile and yet as diligent as the Raj in transporting its props and its values around the world.
In the mid-19th century, the British famously sent the Bible and Shakespeare and cricket round the world; now a more international kind of Empire is sending Madonna and the Simpsons and Brad Pitt. And the way in which each culture takes in this common pool of references tells you as much about them as their indigenous products might. Madonna in an Islamic country, after all, sounds radically different from Madonna in a Confucian one, and neither begins to mean the same as Madonna on East 14th Street. When you go to a McDonald's outlet in Kyoto, you will find Teriyaki McBurgers and Bacon Potato Pies. The placemats offer maps of the great temples of the city, and the posters all around broadcast the wonders of San Francisco. And—most crucial of all—the young people eating their Big Macs, with baseball caps worn backwards, and tight 501 jeans, are still utterly and inalienably Japanese in the way they move, they nod, they sip their Oolong teas—and never to be mistaken for the patrons of a McDonald's outlet in Rio, Morocco or Managua. These days a whole new realm of exotica arises out of the way one culture colors and appropriates the products of another.
The other factor complicating and exciting all of this is people, who are, more and more, themselves as many-tongued and mongrel as cities like Sydney or Toronto or Hong Kong. I am, in many ways, an increasingly typical specimen, if only because I was born, as the son of Indian parents, in England, moved to America at 7 and cannot really call myself an Indian, an American or an Englishman. I was, in short, a traveler at birth, for whom even a visit to the candy store was a trip through a foreign world where no one I saw quite matched my parents' inheritance, or my own. And though some of this is involuntary and tragic—the number of refugees in the world, which came to just 2.5 million in 1970, is now at least 27.4 million—it does involve, for some of us, the chance to be transnational in a happier sense, able to adapt anywhere, used to being outsiders everywhere and forced to fashion our own rigorous sense of home. (And if nowhere is quite home, we can be optimists everywhere.)
Besides, even those who don't move around the world find the world moving more and more around them. Walk just six blocks, in Queens or Berkeley, and you're traveling through several cultures in as many minutes; get into a cab outside the White House, and you're often in a piece of Addis Ababa. And technology, too, compounds this (sometimes deceptive) sense of availability, so that many people feel they can travel around the world without leaving the room—through cyberspace or CD-ROMs, videos and virtual travel. There are many challenges in this, of course, in what it says about essential notions of family and community and loyalty, and in the worry that air-conditioned, purely synthetic versions of places may replace the real thing—not to mention the fact that the world seems increasingly in flux, a moving target quicker than our notions of it. But there is, for the traveler at least, the sense that learning about home and learning about a foreign world can be one and the same thing.
All of us feel this from the cradle, and know, in some sense, that all the significant movement we ever take is internal. We travel when we see a movie, strike up a new friendship, get held up. Novels are often journeys as much as travel books are fictions; and though this has been true since at least as long ago as Sir John Mandeville's colorful 14th century accounts of a Far East he'd never visited, it's an even more shadowy distinction now, as genre distinctions join other borders in collapsing.
In Mary Morris's "House Arrest," a thinly disguised account of Castro's Cuba, the novelist reiterates, on the copyright page, "All dialogue is invented. Isabella, her family, the inhabitants and even la isla itself are creations of the author's imagination." On Page 172, however, we read, "La isla, of course, does exist. Don't let anyone fool you about that. It just feels as if it doesn't. But it does." No wonder the travel-writer narrator—a fictional construct (or not)?—confesses to devoting her travel magazine column to places that never existed. "Erewhon," after all, the undiscovered land in Samuel Butler's great travel novel, is just "nowhere" rearranged.
Travel, then, is a voyage into that famously subjective zone, the imagination, and what the traveler brings back is—and has to be—an ineffable compound of himself and the place, what's really there and what's only in him. Thus Bruce Chatwin's books seem to dance around the distinction between fact and fancy. V.S. Naipaul's recent book, "A Way in the World," was published as a non-fictional "series" in England and a "novel" in the United States. And when some of the stories in Paul Theroux's half-invented memoir, "My Other Life," were published in The New Yorker, they were slyly categorized as "Fact and Fiction."
And since travel is, in a sense, about the conspiracy of perception and imagination, the two great travel writers, for me, to whom I constantly return are Emerson and Thoreau (the one who famously advised that "traveling is a fool's paradise," and the other who "traveled a good deal in Concord"). Both of them insist on the fact that reality is our creation, and that we invent the places we see as much as we do the books that we read. What we find outside ourselves has to be inside ourselves for us to find it. Or, as Sir Thomas Browne sagely put it, "We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. There is Africa and her prodigies in us."
So, if more and more of us have to carry our sense of home inside us, we also—Emerson and Thoreau remind us—have to carry with us our sense of destination. The most valuable Pacifics we explore will always be the vast expanses within us, and the most important Northwest Crossings the thresholds we cross in the heart. The virtue of finding a gilded pavilion in Kyoto is that it allows you to take back a more lasting, private Golden Temple to your office in Rockefeller Center.
And even as the world seems to grow more exhausted, our travels do not, and some of the finest travel books in recent years have been those that undertake a parallel journey, matching the physical steps of a pilgrimage with the metaphysical steps of a questioning (as in Peter Matthiessen's great "The Snow Leopard"), or chronicling a trip to the farthest reaches of human strangeness (as in Oliver Sack's "Island of the Color-Blind," which features a journey not just to a remote atoll in the Pacific, but to a realm where people actually see light differently). The most distant shores, we are constantly reminded, lie within the person asleep at our side.
So travel, at heart, is just a quick way to keeping our minds mobile and awake. As Santayana, the heir to Emerson and Thoreau with whom I began, wrote, "There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar; it keeps the mind nimble; it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor." Romantic poets inaugurated an era of travel because they were the great apostles of open eyes. Buddhist monks are often vagabonds, in part because they believe in wakefulness. And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.
This piece originally appeared on Salon.com.
23 Comments for Why We Travel
PeggyCoonley/SerendipityTraveler 04.27.09 | 10:49 PM ET
Thanks for reposting this stellar travel essay by Pico Iyer . May we continue to travel the landscapes
and hidden gems of our heart bringing with us peace, and leaving love as our footprint.
Vera Marie Badertscher 04.28.09 | 3:39 PM ET
Such a beautiful paean to the urge to travel. Thank you.
Bobby 04.29.09 | 2:21 PM ET
I enjoyed your insightful article. It inspires me to write myself, perhaps more so to travel and experience this beautiful world through my own lenses both via canon and the optic nerve….
Tim Patterson 04.30.09 | 11:53 AM ET
I love this essay so much. It's a staple for some Where There Be Dragons student travel programs - instructors read the essay to students at the start of the trip.
Thanks for republishing and congrats on the anniversary - here's to 80 more years of World Hum.
Roger 04.30.09 | 1:14 PM ET
This essay is a masterpiece.
Carlo Alcos 04.30.09 | 8:55 PM ET
Happy 8th birthday! This is my first read of this essay - it blew my mind. It's everything I know in my heart but can't come close to expressing. Thanks!
unstranger 05.01.09 | 5:01 AM ET
Intelligently written and so insightful.
Travelanthropist 05.01.09 | 11:28 AM ET
This is such a wonderful essay on the inner journey, discovery, open-mindness—all bundle up in an activity we can do call travel.
Edna Hickey 05.08.09 | 8:14 AM ET
Wow!! Every place I have ever been i.e. Kalalau Trail in the darkness, Bryon Glacier (off the trail), driving on the Seven Mile Bridge, just woke up!! Thanks for taking me there again. I'm excited to read more and will share this journey with others!!
shakester 05.08.09 | 12:20 PM ET
thanks for resposting for those of us unlucky enough to have not read this before. Absolutely wonderful, at almost 1am, reading this in near silence, and feeling both excitement and calm within.
here's to many more years!
pax 05.27.09 | 1:21 PM ET
this made my day.
thank you for reposting it. I definitely have to look for other of Pico Iyer's writings.
Danielle 06.17.09 | 12:09 AM ET
I am so happy I have found this essay. Iyer has reassured and aided me on a clearer journey to express my experiences from travel. It is exciting to know there are others who find travel just as intoxicating as I do. Thank you.
Johnny B 10.07.09 | 4:05 PM ET
I travel because I need to be in touch with the dynamics of nature. Urban dwellers face an imminent risk of getting entangled in plastic life. A life that has come to define our unpleasant existence. Most of us can't think beyond it. The laptops are babies and the internet is a pamper. Believe me, life is much more that that. Much more beautiful and mystical than what you could imagine at home.
I travel because it gives me a sense of freedom. A sense that is hard to come by in this utterly boorish urban landscape. I don't mean to suggest that Karachi is boring. No, it's not. It's just that I don't like it here any more. I want more of something new. The difference need be quantifiable in terms of pleasure bits and love bytes.
The exoticism of lands and of seas and of mountains is yet another charmer for me. But landscapes in isolation can be dreadful at times. They need animation. It is here that the best part of traveling comes in - the birds, the animals and the humans.
Johnny B
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Ryan 01.04.10 | 5:28 PM ET
James L. Moore 01.12.10 | 2:45 PM ET
Congratulations on your 8th anniversary! And thank you for re-posting Iyer's essay and re-minding all of us of why we travel. Of why it is important to reach out beyond our own personal space, reach out beyond our borders, reach out beyond our cultural expectations.
Pico Iyer delves into the actual meaning of travel—- as getting outdoors can stave off 'Nature deficit', traveling can stave off 'cultural deficit'.
Mary 08.11.10 | 12:33 PM ET
I can say that travelling is like getting into new reality, even if you travel to the same place it is always something new there. This essay inspires to expand new horizonts!
Kelly Harmon @hiptraveler 11.13.10 | 1:27 AM ET
intelligently written and infinitely relate-able by all travelers.
keep discovering! ~cheers, @hiptraveler
Nina 11.13.10 | 2:59 AM ET
I love this article By Pico Iyer. Thank you World Hum for republishing it. So beautifully written.
Heather Bosely 11.17.10 | 11:23 AM ET
Thank you for republishing this article! What a joy to read and hear expressed so clearly the wonders of travel to be experienced by really seeing.
Boomergirl 11.22.10 | 12:03 PM ET
Made my Monday morning!
deepa gupta 11.29.10 | 8:44 AM ET
profound writing,immensely strong and impressive-your beginning of this article is truly deadly.thanks for sharing this .
Raghuvir 12.04.10 | 6:31 AM ET
Loved this article. Hope you republish more of such articles.
WhiteApple 12.22.10 | 9:10 AM ET
I've watched a big amount of videos on the issue on this site http://www.tubesfan.com and got my own vision of the philosophy of travelling. Well, if a person is too fond of travelling, in my humble opinion it means that they are infantile, this is a direct evidence of the immaturity of thinking, selfishness, irresponsibility if you wish, though in the best meaning of those qualities.)) Most people travel to escape their daily lives. Unfortunately, when they come back to reality, their problems, family, friends, and issues they face are still there. Travel to enjoy it, meet new people, get rid of your baggage, learn about culture and history, and enjoy yourself.


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London architects Carmody Groarke have completed a pavilion in London featuring a steel plate supported eight meters above the ground on thin poles. More »
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The Design Museum in London have announced the shortlist for the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2010. See full the shortlist below. More »
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TIME and 20x200 collaborate for Sandy relief
TIME magazine's photography editors and the 20x200 art site have collaborated to launch Art for Sandy Relief. The program features a curated collection of iconic photographs, museum-quality prints being offered as benefit editions.
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Summerfest boss Don Smiley's package goes from $280,864 to $772,575
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It's also one really sweet gig. »Read Full Article(177)
MAM After Dark takes a cue from 'Mad Men'
You'll want some sharp vintage '60s garb for MAM After Dark, on Friday night.
The theme takes its cue from television's "Mad Men," and the party runs in tandem with current exhibit "Color Rush: 75 Years of Color Photography in America." MAM After Dark is a chance to explore the images in the exhibit; dance to the music of the Mad Men era or groove to '60s tunes from DJ Chris Schulist. »Read Full Article
SXSW sights, sounds reverberate
Austin, Texas - I saw at least twice as many bands as I had hours of sleep, but my first trip to the South by Southwest music conference, the industry's biggest networking and showcasing event of the year, was worth the exhaustion.
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Fools for Tragedy's 'Lysistrata' misses the big picture
Here's a plan for stopping men from slaughtering one another in seemingly endless wars: Bring all the women together and declare a sex strike, to be continued until the guys bury the hatchet and make peace.
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Singer, song and instrument captivating in Early Music Now concert
Which came first - the aria or the diva?
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Penelope Cruz
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Olivia Wilde
& Alec Baldwin are also featured in the latest "Let the Memories Begin" photo series from the Disney Parks as the evil queen and the Magic Mirror from "Snow White", while…
Queen Latifah
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Previous stars who have been snapped by Leibovitz as some of Disney's most memorable characters include Scarlett Johansson as Cinderella, Beyoncé as Alice in Wonderland with Oliver Platt & Lyle Lovett, David Beckham as Sleeping Beauty's Prince Phillip, Rachel Weisz as Snow White, Roger Federer as King Arthur from "The Sword in the Stone", Julie Andrews as the Blue Fairy from "Pinocchio" with actress Abigail Breslin as Fira from "Disney Fairies", Julianne Moore as Ariel with Michael Phelps as a merman, Whoopi Goldberg as Aladdin's Genie, Jessica Biel as Pocahantas, Gisele Bündchen & Mikhail Baryshnikov as Wendy Darling & Peter Pan and Zac Efron & Vanessa Hudgens as Prince Phillip and Princess Aurora from "Sleeping Beauty".


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Ph.D. - French Language and Literature - 18th century novel - University of Virginia, 1988
M.A. - French Language and Literature - University of Virginia, 1983
(including 10 months in Orleans, France)
B.A. - French and Spanish in the School of Education - Niagara University, 1980
(including 5 months in Avignon, France)
French - near native fluency (official ACTFL test done by Dr. Cindy Yetter-Vassot)
Spanish - reading and auditory proficiency, some speaking ability
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Bethany teen has unique open heart surgeryUPDATED 11:47 AM CDT Oct 09, 2012
A Bethany teen, Caleb Frazier, is recovering after undergoing a unique open heart surgery to repair a hole in his heart.
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I'm not working outside the home now, but when I did, I had a 60 - 80 hour per week job so I got good at the quick meal. I used the crock pot a lot (soups, roasts, chicken) and cooked a lot on the weekends. I'd always cook more than we'd eat & freeze the rest in 1 -2 portion sized plastic containers. I still do this so the hub has lunch ready to go for work.
I also bought already cut up veg so I didn't have to cut stuff up or bought the veg & cut it up as soon as I got home & put it all in zip-lock bags (still do this with CSA/farmer's market veggies). Thaw meat in the fridge that I wanted to use later in the week.
I acutally find eating Primal is easier than cooking some grain that takes an hour to cook (and that I inevitably forgot to prep a la Weston A. Price style so I would have a good serving of guilt to go along with the meal!).


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Spinal Muscular Atrophy Carrier Testing
Understanding your testing options helps you prepare for the future.
You may have many reasons for testing, including if you have:
Genetic disorders are caused by a change in a gene; this change is called a mutation. Every person has two copies of each gene, one inherited from each parent. A carrier is a person who has one normal copy of a gene and one abnormal copy. Having one normal gene is enough to prevent the disease. However, if both parents are carriers of the same abnormal gene, there is a chance that each parent will pass his or her abnormal gene on to their baby. If the baby inherits two copies of the abnormal gene, the baby will have the disease. Diseases that are inherited this way are called autosomal recessive diseases.
Couples may decide to have carrier testing to find out if they are carriers, and therefore are at risk of having a baby with one of these genetic diseases. If both parents are carriers of the same disease gene, prenatal diagnosis can be performed to determine whether or not the fetus is affected.
Given the severity and frequency of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) recommends SMA carrier screening be offered before conception or early in pregnancy to everyone. The primary goal is to allow carriers to make informed reproductive choices.
If both parents are carriers of an abnormal gene, there is a chance that each parent will pass the abnormal gene on to their child. An individual with two abnormal genes for an autosomal recessive disease will be affected with the disease. When both parents are carriers, with each pregnancy there is a:
You could be a carrier of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) even if no one in your family has SMA and even if you already have children without SMA. Carriers of the abnormal gene for SMA have no symptoms of the disease.
As with most inherited diseases, the risk for being an SMA carrier varies by ethnic background. Because SMA is such a severe disease with a high carrier frequency, ACMG guidelines recommend all people be tested regardless of race or ethnicity.
SMA Carrier Risk in People with No Family History of SMA:
If a relative of yours has SMA, or is known to be a carrier of SMA, your chance of being a carrier is greater based upon your family history.
If you are not sure whether you should have carrier testing, please talk with your doctor, a genetic counselor or other specialist in genetics. See "Questions to Ask Your Doctor".
The purpose of SMA carrier testing is to see if a couple is at increased risk for giving birth to a child who will be affected with SMA. SMA carrier testing is done on a sample of blood. If testing determines that a couple is at high risk, prenatal testing (chorionic villi sampling [CVS] or amniocentesis) can be done to see whether or not the baby has inherited two abnormal SMA genes.
If the baby is determined to be affected with SMA, additional testing will be performed to help determine which type of SMA the baby may have.
Carrier testing is performed by testing a blood sample to see if a person has one abnormal copy of a specific gene.
For a couple planning a pregnancy, one partner is usually tested first. If that person is found to be an SMA carrier, the other partner should be tested. If a woman is already pregnant, both partners may be tested at the same time.
Carrier testing usually tests for the most common mutations that can result in an abnormal gene. Carrier testing often does not detect less common mutations.
A negative result significantly lowers, but does not completely eliminate, the risk of being a carrier of SMA. Carrier screening does not detect less common abnormalities (mutations) that cause SMA.
For SMA, if the test determines that you are a carrier, the next step is for your partner to have carrier testing performed. Both parents must be carriers for the baby to be at risk for an autosomal recessive disease. If you are determined to be a carrier and your partner has a negative test result and no family history of SMA, the chance that your baby will have SMA is less than 1%. If testing determines that a couple is at high risk, prenatal testing (chorionic villi sampling [CVS] or amniocentesis) during pregnancy can be done to see whether or not the baby has inherited the disease. A follow-up visit with a perinatologist and/or genetic counselor may be recommended.
It is important to remember that if you and your partner are both found to be carriers of an abnormal SMA gene and have a child together, there is a 1-in-4 (25%) chance with each pregnancy that the child will be affected with SMA. This is true even if you already have other children with or without SMA.
If carrier testing shows both parents are carriers, you may be referred to a genetic counselor. There are several choices couples in your situation can make when thinking about possible future pregnancies. Some couples decide to:


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Minnesota storms back to beat Penn State
STATE COLLEGE -- DeAndre Mathieu scored 16 points and Andre Hollins added 14 as Minnesota overcame a late six-point deficit to defeat Penn State 68-65 Wednesday.
Four late free-throw conversions by Malik Smith in the final 30 seconds and one by Elliott Eliason with 33 seconds, enabled the Gophers (13-3, 2-1 Big Ten) to hang on after taking its first lead of the second half with 1 minute, 43 seconds remaining.
Tim Frazier scored 20 points for Penn State (9-7, 0-3) but fouled out with 2:08 left with Penn State leading 59-57.
Mathieu forced back-to-back Penn State turnovers, including a strip of John Johnson and his ensuing basket gave the Gophers a 63-60 lead and forced Penn State to foul.
The Nittany Lions' Allen Roberts missed a game-tying 3-point shot with 1 second to go.
Minnesota has won 30 out of 40 games in its series with Penn State.


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The Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme (GASDS) is welcome, but will only be effective if it is made less complex according to a coalition of charity sector umbrella bodies in their response to the consultation on the measure.
Charity Finance Group (CFG), Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) submitted its joint response on the scheme which is designed to provide small charities, who would find it difficult to collect the donor details necessary to claim full gift aid, to receive up to £1,250 on cash donations up to £5,000.
The groups welcomed the "supportive move" to create the scheme but warned that it is "extremely complex and difficult to understand, even among those familiar with gift aid".
Caron Bradshaw, chief executive of CFG (pictured) said: "The basic premise of this scheme has real potential to make a difference for the very smallest of charities. However, as it is currently set out it will be too complicated to have a real impact.
"Eligibility for the scheme is limited and this will stop those that need it most from using it. We propose a rethink on how to implement GASDS to ensure it is easy to use, achieves its potential, and doesn't further complicate gift aid."
The fact that GASDS differs from gift aid, in that the former is a public expenditure, rather than a tax relief measure should be made very clear to charities, the group warned. This status means that the scheme will be "subject to future changes in political priorities and public spending decisions". As a measure of distinction they suggested changing the name so that it sufficiently differs from gift aid.
Despite the difference in status the scheme as it stands is "tangled with anti-fraud model more appropriate to the tax system", and fraud could be better mitigated using a robust application process, they advised.
Further, Bradshaw said that: "There is already substantial regulation to stop organsiations registering with the HMRC to abuse the system. We believe that these, along with the already low limit of £1,250 per charity available under the scheme should be enough to reduce fraud."
The group also voiced concerns over the scheme's potential to detract from wider gift aid reforms, including online gift aim claims and simplification of the current system.
The GASDS is set to be introduced in England in 2013 and is subject to consultation with devolved administrations for its application in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The scheme aims to allow small charities and community amateur sports clubs (CASC) a top-up payment on small cash donations. Not all small charities will qualify, however.
Restrictions include:
The consultation, which launched on 27 March closes for comments today.
Barry Gower
Gain Gift Aid Recovery Consultants
25 May 2012
It is somewhat disappointing that although the Gift Aid on Small Donations Scheme has (quite rightly) elicited a generally negative response that it is too difficult and complex, I have not really seen any alternative proposal except for the advice that there need to be a major re-think. This will inevitably mean delays which in turn will mean that charities will lose out for another year and possibly longer.
So here are some positive suggestions.
• Draw up some income levels or bands which will differentiate the various levels at which charities will claim this money.
• Use the approach that has been successfully implemented with Self Assessment and put the onus on the charity to be responsible for creating their own claim and being able to substantiate.
• Use a similar registration system to that employed previously under SA Giving so that more detailed questions, such as connected charity status and previous fundraising and Gift Aid history can be asked and recorded.
• Let HMRC use their established systems of measuring and tracking trends to highlight any obvious deviant claims.
• Make the core claim, on the basic £5,000 relatively straight forward, but any charity, or group of charities wish to use the 'top up' will need to jump through the much more onerous hoops as envisaged in the Consultation Paper.
This is a suggested initial approach and is presented as a first step in developing a solution to what is a very exciting and innovative submission on behalf of the Government. Over and above everything else, despite the fact that it is not 'Gift Aid' in the pure sense, it has the look and feel of Gift Aid and may just achieve what Gift Aid has not really be able to do so far and that is a much deeper up-take in the sector as a whole, as well as a small but possibly meaningful cash injection to smaller charities.
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From Los Altos to Brooklyn, these 20 cities have the most million-dollar homes.
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Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity may be more than residents can afford
I wish to comment on a
letter from Corkey Christensen
(April 8) concerning the purchase of the 13-and-a-half acres by the City of Woodinville.
The $7.75 to $8 assessed cost on a $150,000 home seems like a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," indeed, for such a wealth of property. It would be wonderful to have that property as a part of Woodinville.
What Corkey and other supporters don't seem to understand is that the wee cost of "62 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation" is a lot of money when coupled with all the other "wee costs" already imposed upon the local homeowners by the city and King County.
Many here on Hollywood Hill and the surrounding areas are already strapped with very high property taxes. These rising taxes dramatically go up when more bond issues are voted in. The interest rates on those bond issues will have most of us paying and paying for many decades to come.
There are quite a few people who have lived in the area for 40, 50, and 60 or more years who have seen taxes go so high they can no longer remain in their own home, long ago paid for. They either have to leave, or have their children move in with them to carry the burden and help defer the costs.
So, while 62 cents may seem like a small amount, it can be the straw that breaks the camel's back. I hope Corkey and others understand and realize that most of us cannot afford much of what we might like to have.
To keep taxes from rising, homeowners should consider a big change in their government. Do you realize that all of King County has only 1,613,600 people as of the census taken one year ago today? Why do we have 14 elected officials (this includes the County Executive) to govern under two million people?
Los Angeles County has over 10 million people and has only five County Council members (called Supervisors). They are both legislative and executive and make all the decisions without farming out so much money to study groups, commissions, task forces, committees...
Sure, do a quick study on something to learn all about it, but don't pay out large sums of money. All these committees and study groups have too much power to spend money on their own, without asking permission of the County Council. The council has given them that permission, and ... our money. We cannot vote out a committee or commission. We are at the mercy of the 14 men and women who appoint these people.
Five county councilpersons should be able to do all the same work for under two million people that Los Angeles does for over 10 million. Then, there would be the money, and the ability for all to pay that 62 cents per $1,000 of assessed valuation for the 13.5 acres of land in Woodinville.
Karen Ward, Woodinville


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Natsumi lives the life of a happy housewife. She however lived on the edge in the past meeting many people and therefore experienced a dark chapter in her life. She has worked hard to forget her dark past but her mind and body will not allow her to do so completely. She has done a good job of controlling herself until one day her husband brought a friend over to the house and that particular friend happened to be someone that she had a fling with during her wilder, darker days. The lust that was caged for so long has now broken free...
Alternative Titles
English: Insatiable
Synonyms: Immoral Wife, Haitoku Tsuma
Japanese: ???
Type: OVA
Episodes: 2
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Dec 25, 2005 to Dec 25, 2006
Producers: Milky Animation Label
Duration: 30 min. per episode
Subtitle: ENGLISH
Censorship: UNCENSORED
http://www.filesonic.com/file/4073424665/Haitoku Tsuma - 01 [ENG] [UNC].mkv
http://www.filesonic.com/file/4073424675/Haitoku Tsuma - 02 [ENG] [UNC].mkv