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Are you more human than the competition?
So much of the leadership conversation centers around the question "how do I get more out of my people?" I don't think I've been at a conference or sat in on a conversation with business leaders where the subject—and that exact phrase—hasn't come up.
Now, without a doubt, bringing forth the full ingenuity, initiative, energy, and passion of every person in the organization is one of the most urgent agenda items for leaders in every realm of endeavor. But when it comes to unleashing the best gifts of people, that mechanistic metaphor of extraction ("how do I get more out?") and, more importantly, the approaches it engenders, quickly break down.
Which is why it's so refreshing to encounter a leader who brings an entirely different mindset (and vocabulary) to the challenge of shifting from an organizational model designed to generate rote productivity to one designed to yield genuine creativity, discovery and breakthrough (and to support human flourishing in the process).
Ivy Ross, the newest MIX Maverick, has been tackling that challenge with powerful results in a range of organizations for three decades. A veteran design executive who has injected new life into some of the world's most iconic brands—Calvin Klein, Swatch, Coach, and Mattel—she has recently shifted from head of global marketing for Gap, Inc. to leading innovation efforts there as the company's "creative catalyst." An award-winning artist with a National Endowment for the Arts grant to her name, Ivy's unique metalwork is featured in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. and the Cooper Hewitt in New York.
Even more impressive is Ivy's inventive and ever-evolving approach to cultivating creativity, collaboration, resilience, and humanity inside even the most convention-bound organizations. Ivy gets what so many leaders don't: productivity and creativity are not about what you can get out of people but what you can give them—and how you can get out of their way.
In other words, innovation is about how we feed and free people at work.
"CEOs love to talk about creativity and innovation," says Ivy. "And when they do, they're usually talking about layering in an innovation process. But innovation isn't about process, it's about people. It starts with creating a field of trust and then freeing people to play and explore. Specifically it's about the freedom and the conceptual ability to see things differently. Innovation starts with permission to question, permission to shake things up, permission to look at familiar things in new light. Those are just fundamental freedoms that are completely opposed to the general corporate attachment to 'the way we do things around here.'"
Ivy has spent her career cultivating that "field of trust" and those freedoms. At Mattel she created an entirely original approach to unleashing innovation and unleashing people—a deeply immersive and astonishingly productive creation tank called Project Platypus. That not only spawned a half dozen hit products (and 100s of millions in sales for Mattel), it also inspired a now-thriving program at Procter & Gamble (where Ivy sits on the design board) called The Clay Street Project. More importantly, it produced a set of insights and approaches to designing work, fostering collaboration, and sparking creativity with the potential to change the way organizations invent the future.
Ivy shares many of these insights in her series of maverick videos, but I'll just touch on a couple here.
Innovation begins with connection
Two of the most glossed over lies of corporate life: putting people on the same team automatically yields "teamwork" and your job title is an accurate description of what you do and what you have to offer. Ivy's approach is to put individual genius ahead of job titles and to counter the toxic fear and competitiveness bred in too many organizations with deeply personal connections. A simple example:
When Ivy was confronted with the challenge of moving her entire Old Navy design team from New York to San Francisco (and incorporating some 60 new designers into the group), she devised a clever and quick way to jumpstart bonds among teammembers. On the first day of work at the new digs, she asked each person to bring in his or her favorite object and then made a short video of each person talking about that object, themselves, and what designing clothing meant to them. The videographer edited each interview down to a potent minute and created a kind of video facebook that sat on the desktop. So, if you were going into a meeting with essentially six strangers you could click on their pictures and hear about who they were and what they loved—whether it was yoga or antique buttons or cooking.
Says Ivy: "It was amazing to see how quickly connections were made just by giving little bits of information—the kind of information you wouldn't normally learn at work. That gave people a way to connect."
It's a simple exercise that packs a powerful insight: the urgency and competitiveness that rule so much of corporate life crowds out genuine human connection. But it's that kind of connection that truly puts people on the same team. If you want fearless, collective creativity, Ivy argues, the most important thing you can do is to create a "field of trust" that opens people up to each other and to new ideas.
The "fundamental freedoms"
If trust is the first essential ingredient for creating a culture of innovation, freedom is the second. So much of organizational life is "about executing realities rather than creating possibilities," says Ivy. "The strategy process starts with a well-defined brief and a target: here's the consumer and the benefit we're after, here's the niche in the market, here's the technology. The message is basically, 'here's what we want.' And that's exactly what they get."
Of course that prescriptive approach will never yield something different enough to make an impact on the world. For that, organizations need a very different process of creation—one that starts with finding the freedom to dwell in possibility, explore unlikely directions, ask disruptive questions, and even play a little. "Innovation is really about being free to play and explore," says Ivy. "Corporations don't know how to play. They don't know how to explore—which means they have a hard time matching up to all the new things going on in the world."
In other words, most organizations are like Tiger Moms—drill sergeants insistent on rigor and structure in service of clear goals. Ivy sees her role as more Willy Wonka—coaxing forth the "child of wonder" in even the most hardened corporate citizen. "It's like the Marines," she says. "We break people of the habits they inevitably learn in organizations. It takes a strong individual to fight the suction of corporate life. We just reverse the suction by tapping into the oil well of each person's hidden gifts."
Often that starts with an energizing and mind-blowing infusion of insight, resources, stimuli, and collaborative methodologies. Whether she's working on the challenge of developing an entirely new category of toys for girls or re-introducing denim to the world, Ivy is fearless when it comes to playful exploration. If that requires clowns, Japanese tea ceremonies, improv artists, Chinese face readers, research on living systems, or the science of sound and harmonic vibration, then she's game.
The point? When you shift your focus from output—what can we get out of people? what's the product?—to input—how can we feed people with insight, the freedom to explore, trusted relationships?—you stand to expand both the quality and quantity of your output. It's a phenomenon Ivy's witnessed over and over again in her work. Simply put: the organizations and leaders that focus on human flourishing stand to flourish in the future.
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"Innovation Begins With Connection" - I like that. I also totally agree. After earning my honorable discharge from my post in the Marine Corps, I took a position in management at a well-known tech company. One thing I instantly noticed was that it was far more difficult to build a sense of unity with my new team than it was to do so with a group of Marines. I tried a lot of things, but what really seemed to work was when I was able to convince 5 of the 10 people on my team to start working out with me at LA Fitness 4 times a week.
As in the Marine Corps, physical exertion and increased performance translates to the "connection" that I needed to have with my team. We have a good sense of unity and these five tend to look out for the mission now that they see me as someone that is interested in them as people. The old saying is true, "They don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care."
I certainly appreciate the need to keep things simple, but there are inner freedoms (not just the ones the organization grants to us) that we need to take for ourselves – freedom from domination by own emotions, or our egos, for example. These are essential if we are to be truly autonomous. My golden rule template website is that I can finally start thinking about the return of perennials and bright colors after the exhibition!
I appreciate the need to keep things simple but the perennials and bright colors must be after the exhibition.
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A BCCI source told the newspaper that the IPL Governing Council is considering the switch as it will help the franchises to manage their expenses in a better way.
The inaugural edition of the IPL in 2008 had a standard rate of Rs 40 a dollar, which is still the case for Indian players. But the pay cheque for the expats is calculated at the current rate of exchange. According to the daily, the new system may come into force from 2014, when all the existing contracts have expired.
In another change to the auction process, most franchises want all the players to be part of the auction pool in 2014, including the domestic players. Currently only foreign domestic players are part of the auction, whereas domestic cricketers from India have fixed contract rates depending on their experience.
"This is an Indian league and our domestic cricketers should be treated at par with the domestic cricketers from foreign countries," a board official told the newspaper.

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Pharmaceutical sales is one of the most sought-after careers in the United States. The competition is fierce. If you have landed an interview, you have what it takes on paper; but that alone isn't enough. Your résumé may have gotten noticed and may have been pulled from those of over 500 applicants, but you may still be one of 30 or so candidates going for one opening. In that case, it is show time. Show your potential employers that you have done your homework, that you want to work for them, and that you have what it takes to be a successful pharmaceutical sales rep.
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DENVER -- Returning from a right knee bruise that forced him to miss five games, Carmelo Anthony started slowly but finished strong.
Anthony scored 10 of his 24 points in the fourth quarter, including consecutive 3-pointers midway through the period to help quash any chance of another upset by Minnesota, and the Denver Nuggets beat the Timberwolves 105-94 on Monday night.
"Early in the game ... it was hard to figure what I can do and what I can't do," said Anthony, who didn't get his first basket for more than eight minutes. "I was trying to ease my way into the game."
But with just over a minute left in the first quarter, the All-Star forward began to rediscover his form. He put a nifty move on Sasha Pavlovic, brushing past him for a layup despite getting fouled and then completed the three-point play.
"I made that move on the baseline, got that 1-on-1, and once I was able to do that, it felt pretty good," Anthony said.
The NBA's leading scorer, Anthony was injured Dec. 28 against Sacramento. His return was a welcome development for the Nuggets, who are getting healthy again after being buffeted by a series of injuries that saw some of their best players lose time due to various ailments.
"It was great to have him back," said Chauncey Billups, who scored 18 points. "He got an opportunity to run around, shake off a little rust, get a little bit of rhythm. I thought he really caught the rhythm in the second half."
Billups returned from a groin injury last week. The only Denver player who missed the Minnesota game due to injury was rookie guard Ty Lawson. He remained inactive because of a sprained left ankle, missing his third consecutive game.
Arron Afflalo added 15 points for Denver, which reversed the outcome of its Nov. 29 meeting with Minnesota. The Timberwolves overcame a 14-point halftime deficit to beat the Nuggets 106-100 in that one, snapping their 15-game losing streak.
Minnesota handed Denver its first loss of the season at the Pepsi Center, ending a 17-game regular season home winning streak that dated to last season.
But the Nuggets have regained their footing since that embarrassing loss, especially at home, where they have gone 9-2 since.
"They definitely did not want to lose to us again on their home court," said Minnesota's Kevin Love, who had 20 points and 14 rebounds. "They came out and kind of put us out in that third quarter. We fell too far behind in the fourth and we just couldn't pull it out."
Anthony said the Nuggets did not want to repeat the mistakes of their past meeting with the Timberwolves, when they blew a double-digit lead.
"We didn't want them to beat us at all," he said. "We didn't want to give that team no confidence. Last time we got up 14, we loosened up and they beat us. Tonight we didn't want to make that the case."
Anthony's return also made a difference.
"He comes right back and doesn't miss a step," Love said. "That's just kind of what you expect from him. You hope to contain him, slow him down, push him into a drought, but for us, it was too little, too late."
Corey Brewer had 25 points for the Timberwolves, who lost their fourth consecutive game on the road. Al Jefferson added 22 points and 15 rebounds.
Up by eight at halftime, the Nuggets extended their lead to 85-70 by the end of the third quarter. Billups had eight points in the period, twice hitting 3-pointers to deflate runs by the Timberwolves.
The Nuggets took a 58-45 lead when Billups converted a three-point play with 56.4 seconds remaining in the second quarter. The Timberwolves closed within 58-50 at halftime by scoring the last five points in the period, including a three-point play by Brewer, who had 20 of his points in the half.
- The three teams ahead of last-place Minnesota in the Northwest Division all have winning records, topped by Denver.
- Denver has defeated the Timberwolves in 11 of the last 12 meetings.
- Kenyon Martin had 15 rebounds to go with his eight points for Denver.
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The year is 1984. I am seven years old and clutching a pillow case. I have way too much make-up on and the sweat beading on my forehead has started to make it run. Feverishly I scan the row of houses to see if any lights are still on. There! Four houses down and on the right, I spot them – burning yellow eyes. I run.
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Full-face helmet. Check. Body armor. Check. Nerves of steel? Nope. A self-proclaimed "poster child for soft almost non-adventure", Mary Zinck has some interesting insights about one of Whistler's favorite summer activities — ripping it up in the Whistler Mountain Bike Park.
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The study conducted by Bohlen et al1 suggested that increasing the duration of foreplay and varying the type of sexual activity may help minimize the stress of sex for patients with myocardial infarction. The most commonly reported causes of sexual dysfunction in the Western world are the patient's or spouse's fear: ie, expecting a catastrophic cardiac event during coitus; inhibition of sexual activity because of fear of angina or dyspnea during coitus; drug-related reduction in libido; or problems with erectile or ejaculatory functions.2
The presence of these problems in an emancipated society shows the real need for research in the field to alleviate these problems. In Indian society, however, where sexual problems are not openly discussed (particularly when a wife thinks that it is a sin to think of sex when her husband is suffering from a serious disorder), the problems of a heart patient remain more complex.
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Bookshelf: A suitably hilarious, collaborative Bookshelf from the marvellous Layzell Bros
Could you get a much cooler scenario than two young brothers getting their brains together to melt down years of eating sugary cereal in front of cartoons as kids into an actual career involving animating videos for Adam Buxton and making gloriously juvenile illustrations? I can't. Paul and Matt Layzell have been blowing our minds with their hilarious videos and drawings for a few years now, so we were curious to see which books inspired them to become the fine young men they are today. With minimal squabbling they have chosen six books, and boy are you in for a treat…
Kazuo Umezu: Cat Eyed Boy Volume 1
We love us some horror manga and good old Kazuo's creation is a classic. The contorted, slimy imagination of some of these Japanese manga guys just gets our brains ticking. Junji Ito is another twisted sister in the mist of Manga misters.
Kazuo Umezu: Cat Eyed Boy
Man After Man- Dougal Dixon
This guy's vision of the future is fubble-duckin' crazy but oh-hoh-ho, it is a glorious one. What will there be in the future kids? Hover car highways? Virtual reality worlds? DON'T BE STUPID! We'll all revert back to being monkeys, some of us will be big whale things in jelly eggs and some will be fat tumorous mutants, then slave horses. The drawings make it seem real.
Dougal Dixon: Man After Man: A Zoology of the Future
Stan Lee, John Buscema: How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way
Whilst locked up in the cellar as kids, as mother sharpened the knives, we learned how to draw by studying comic books (mostly of the Marvel brand). Without them we'd still be attempting to draw a set of realistic boobs, clasping the pencil with both hands, shaking, sweating profusely, cursing under our breath. Thanks Stan, you beautiful old man, EXCELSIOR!
Stan Lee, John Buscema: How to Draw Comics the "Marvel" Way
Jeffrey Deitch, Suzanne Geiss, Julia Gruen: Keith Haring
This is a must-have for any artist, its heft alone is impressive, and you know what they say about a man with a big book! He's got a big sack!… to put his big book back in… the bag/sack. The dude had steez with a capital Z. Pumping out hit after hit, just pumping, pumping, forever pumping.
Jeffrey Deitch: Keith Haring
Paul Dini, Chip Kidd: Batman Animated
We loved watching this series whilst growing up into our tall, awkward bodies. It's one of those subconscious influences that maybe you can't see in our work but oh my Gaaad, honey, you better believe, it – is-a-there. The quality design that went into this cartoon definitely serves as a mark for us to shoot for. The best version of Batman, Noluns wuz SHIT!
Paul Dini: Batman Animated
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- The Gourmand visualises the intricate flavours of Glenmorangie whisky
- Victoria Vincent's animation captures the tragic pitfalls of online dating
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It felt as if I was in a bad dream, almost surreal. This wasn't my America, was it?
My three daughters 28, 9, and 7, my 3-year-old son and my 2-year-old grandson could not understand the goal of the so called Patriot-tea baggers. My girls were utterly confused. Which seemed to be the purpose of the evening. How proud the Tea-baggers must be. They will go down in history as the one group that tried to stop health care for all Americans. How humane!
While my daughters held up their signs saying, "health care now," thinking they would be making a difference, exercising their constitutional right. An elderly woman, started to scream in the face of my 9-year-old, "What is your Mother teaching you. You are terrible, I don't want to pay for your health care!"
I was shocked that someone, especially, of her age, would accost a child. I told that woman to leave my daughter alone. She is only doing what she feels is right. Why would you infringe on that? She is only 9, this is terrible.
With a painted swastika on the face of our president, blood spewing from his mouth, the Patriot-tea-baggers shouting, "Obama is going to kill your grandma," my daughters and I realized these people did not want their questions answered. They were only interested in infringing on the rights of the good Congressman Schiff and others.
Their purpose was to confuse the masses, so the message would not be remembered. Ironically, Hitler did the same thing in Germany all those years ago.
Have we forgotten what happened to the Jewish people? What will it take for us to wake up. What I saw was not democracy in action, but democracy held captive.
If the patriot tea-baggers truly believe in free speech, why do they, with every chance, infringe on that very right? These so called Patriots don't care about you or me. They only care that their man did not win last November. May I remind you, the election is over!
The time to do what is right for this country is now. We need to fix our health care system so that it is affordable for every one. Our health care initiative is truly one that will benefit all citizens and businesses alike. It is not free, Therefore it is not socialized. The delivery system will be the same, your choice is preserved. How can this be bad for America?
I think my 7-year-old daughter said it best, as she looked around, seeing all the horrific signs. Asking "Mommy what's wrong with these people?" I told her don't worry baby, they don't know what their saying. She then replied, "I have one question for them: If the President has health care, why can't we?"
The truth is, we are the richest nation in the world. There is no good reason why we shouldn't afford the opportunity for every citizen to acquire affordable, quality health care.
What has happened to the American spirit? Have we become so complacent we no longer aspire to our higher selves? We look at children on TV who are starving in other parts of the world, and our heart's break. Yet, when it comes to our own we fail? Why? Don't the people of this country deserve at least that much?
It is time to stand up unafraid, America. Ask yourself, "Who does it benefit if we stay divided? We are better than this. This is our country and our chance to make history. To go down in the books of life doing what is right for all. At the end of the day, when you tuck your children into bed or watch your ailing parents with all that entail's, ask yourself if it were yo, or someone you loved, where then, would you stand?
Do what is right, America. The future is watching.


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Subcutaneous or non-penetrating injuries of the abdominal viscera are of such frequent occurrence, and their early diagnosis so important, that it is somewhat surprising that they are not recognized earlier in the majority of cases than is the rule at present. A study of the early symptomatology of these visceral lesions is therefore desirable.
I shall consider only those injuries resulting from external violence of such character as does not produce any surface trauma of the abdomen, or at least leaves only slight evidence of external injury. I shall also further limit my subject by excluding injuries of the urinary tract.
Penetrating wounds of the abdomen naturally point to and make easy, comparatively speaking, the diagnosis of associated visceral lesions. When the internal injury is not accompanied by external abdominal trauma the diagnosis is usually difficult. Damage to other parts of the body often diverts the attention of the physician
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Running the Amazon
In 1985, writer Joe Kane set out with eight others to navigate the length of the Amazon. Some were expert kayakers, and otherslike Kanewere novices. They descended deadly rapids that had never been run and camped in steep canyons where boulders rained down from above. They endured the attentions of poisonous snakes, Shining Path guerrillas and narcotraficantes. Four thousand two hundred miles later, only two members of the groupKane and Piotr Chmielinskiemerged into Brazil's Marajo Bay to taste the salt of the Atlantic. Running the Amazonchronicles their adventures in thrilling detail with humor, honesty and warmth. The excerpt below tells the story of their encounter with the first big water of the trip. They are running the Apurimac, or"Great Speaker,": which the Incas considered their most powerful oracle speaking to them through thundering rapids. Kane writes that during the rainy season, the roar of the rapids can be heard from miles away. . .
There is an inherent, humbling cruelty to learning how to run white water. In most other so-called "adrenaline" sportsskiing, surfing, and rock climbing come to mindone attains mastery, or the illusion of it, only after long apprenticeship, after enduring falls and tumbles, the fatigue of training previously unused muscles, the discipline of developing a new and initially awkward set of skills.
Running white water is fundamentally different. With a little luck one is immediately able to travel long distances, often at great speeds, with only a rudimentary command of the sport's essential skills and about as much physical stamina as it takes to ride a bicycle downhill. At the beginning, at least, white-water adrenaline comes cheap.
It's the river doing the work, of course, but like a teenager with a hot car, one forgets what the true power source is. Arrogance reigns. The river seems all smoke and mirrors, lots of bark (you hear it chortling away beneath you, crunching boulders), but not much bite. You think: let's get on with it! Let's run this damn river!
It doesn't matter. The results are the same.
The world goes dark. The riverthe word hardly does justice to the churning mess enveloping youthe river tumbles you like so much laundry. It punches the air from your lungs. You're helpless. Swimming is a joke. You know for a fact that you are drowning. For the first time you understand the strength of the insouciant monster that has swallowed you.
Maybe you travel a hundred feet before you surface (the current is moving that fast). And another hundred feetjust short of a truly fearsome plunge, one that will surely kill youbefore you see the rescue lines. You're hauled to shore wearing a sheepish grin and a look in your eye that is equal parts confusion, respect and raw fear.
That is River Lesson Number One. Everyone suffers it. And every time you get the least bit cocky, every time you think you have finally figured out what the river is all about, you suffer it all over again.
As white-water rivers go, the Apurimac's dangers lie not in her volume, which is middling until she reaches sea level, but in her extreme rockiness and steep descent. She is inclined less to pound you unconscious with big waves than to trap you beneath an undercut rock or suck you into a"strainer"a submerged, sieve-like boulder pile from which there is no exit. She rewards technique over power. That is, she is better run on a small, maneuverable, four-man paddle raft capable of executing a series of tight turns, rather than the kind of boat often used on high-volume rivers like the Coloradolong, wide rafts that plow roughshod through big water and are usually controlled by a single man working two large oars.
Though both boats were paddle rafts, we had problems immediately. The raft Goycochea had loaned us, a lumbering sixteen-foot-long Avon, was stableit barreled right through waves that tossed Chmielinski's fourteen-foot Riken willy-nillybut not easily controlled. And as manned by Bzdak, Odendaal, Van Heerden, and Jorgensen, an exercise in floating anarchy. As the Avon plunged into a hard rapid, each man flailed away with his paddle as he chose, watching out mainly for himself.
Life was somewhat more orderly on the narrower, shorter Riken, if only because Durrant, Leon and I were so completely hopeless that we reacted to Chmielinski's every command as if our lives depended on it. For Chmielinski, the military man, failure was not an option. By the end of our second day on the river he had intimidated us into a passably competent crew which, if not strong, at least managed to pull together as a team, stroking frantically at his urgent direction.
And we had another advantage. In its own way, the state-of-the-art Riken was as profound a breakthrough in river technology as the canoe or the outboard motor. The beast's intelligent beauty lay in its self-bailing design. (Chmielinski called it "safe-bailing.") Its foundation was an independent, inflatable floor affixed to an inflatable side tubes by a webwork of rope lashings. When water filled the raft, its weight forced the floor down, stretching the lashings and opening a gap between floor and side tubes. The force of the pneumatic floor trying to rise back up from the river drove the water out through the gap. The manufacturer's claim was that when filled, the raft would drain out completely in five seconds.
The primary task for Durrant, who paddled the raft's left front corner, and Leon, who paddled at the right front, was to propel the raft forward. Manning the back corners, Chmielinski and I supplied both power and direction.
As a "driver" I was also charged with scouting the rapids on foot before we ran them in the raft. Chmielinski scouted, I should say. I scrambled along the bank behind him, slipping so often on the slick boulders and sharp rocks that after two days my shins were plum-colored and mushy and my face and hands were covered with scabs.
Nevertheless, Chmielinski committed himself to the unenviable task of teaching me how to pick a safe line of travel through the Apurimac pinball machine. He believed that he could teach us the requisite paddling skills if we had confidence in ourselveshe would provide the head if we hung in there with a little heart. But as a driver, I had to understand the consequence of each flick of my paddle, an understanding that involved the ability to decipher the river's complex hydraulic patterns. However, when asked from the safety of dry land to choose a possible route, I invariably described one that would have condemned us to a watery deathfor instance, twisted and pinned under a strainer, dying slowly of asphyxiation and head wounds.
Chmielinski would look at me with quiet exasperation, then patiently explain a more prudent route. As we memorized the turns, stops, and starts we would try to execute when we actually ran the rapid, our conversations proceeded something like:
"Okay, Joe. Pointy rock."
"Pointy rock."
"It is a killer for sure, that one. I am in with my paddle, you are out. We are turning left, then we are go, straight, we are running, we are pulling for our lives. A killer. But not a problem."
Such conferences were alwaysalwaysfollowed, on my part, by a vigorous expelling of urine. I learned to judge the true danger of a rapid, a danger that only my subconscious could objectively perceive, by the volume issuing from my bladder.
Almost without exception, our painstaking choreography evaporated the moment we entered the rapid. Then it was up to Chmielinski to bring us under control with his precise set of commands, delivered at a pitch never less than savage.
God help the crewman who got out of position on the raft , which, unfortunately was all too easy to do. The position one must master to paddle a raft correctly runs counter to all survival instincts. For example, as a driver, I was supposed to sit squarely on the left side tube at its junction with the black tube, tuck my left toes under the cross tube in front of me, and spreading my legs as if sprinting, push the bottom of my right foot hard against the back tube. Then, anchored to the bucking raft only by the tension on my left toes, right heel and buttocks, I was to hang my body out to the left, over the water, so that I could dig my paddle straight down into the river.
At first this struck me as mortally ludicrousChmielinski wanted me to expose half my damn body to that terrible river, daring it to snatch me. Over time, however, and after Apurimac had once too often treated me as a blender does a banana, I learned that being extended over the water, my paddle dug into it, was safer than bouncing about in the raft's interior. Our supplies were stored dead in the center of the raft, under a net. Carrying this weight, the raft floor delayed slightly before responding to the river's turbulence. It in fact moved in, often counterpoint to it, while the lighter, independent side walls moved in synch. Riding the floor was like sitting on a trampoline while someone else jumped. One was quickly vaulted up and out, into the smothering arms of the Great Speaker.
And so one fought one's instincts, a battle in which Commander Chmielinski was ever willing to assist.
The Apurimac tested his talents as captain and teacher most severely on the fourth and last day of our shakedown run from the military bridge to Cunyac bridge, when we confronted our worst rapid. It was a series of rapids, in fact, all of them Class Five, which means something like"high degree of technical difficulty, and if a mistake is made, possible mortal consequences." Your basic "killer, no problem" sort of thing. (Class Five rapids are considered the upper limit of runnable water.)
We scouted that particular chain of rapids, about a half mile long, for two hours. Finally, Chmielinski picked a line of descent. Two boulder formed a narrow chute at the top of the rapid. As the river forced its way through the chute, it compressed from some fifty feet wide to fifteen. Then it exploded through the chute like gas exiting a carburetor, spilled over a short waterfall, and at the bottom built a "keeper," a wave that flows back on itself. Someone caught in a keeper makes several mind-altering spins before escaping. People who have experienced them also call such waves "Maytags."
Below all of this lay the kind of roiling mess that you knew, just by looking at it, could send you home in a wheelchair.
"It's a killer," Chmielinski said when we had finished scouting the run.
I knew the correct rejoinder:"No problem."
Then I let fly with an act of urination so wildly out of proportion to my liquid intake for that day that I felt my face begin to pucker.
Back at the raft, Durrant asked about the rapid.
"It is a part of a cake," Chmielinski said.
We backstroked out of the eddy and turned upstream. (By paddling against the current we maintained control of the raft, sort of.) We swung our nose slowly into the current, like a hand on the clock: upstream, cross-stream, downstream. Then we inched into the quickening water.
I remember, as we hit the chute, the roller-coaster-stomach, sick-sweet sensation of falling through air. I remember white walls of water rising around us, that we blasted into several boulders, and that the explosions we made when we hit them were louder than the river itself. Once, my head snapped so violently I worried I had broken my neck. I remember the raft pinned to a boulder, up on its side about to flip, and us climbing up to the high side while the rapid roared at our feet. I remember staring straight down at a knife-edged rock and watching it shoot past my head. I remember the urgency of Chmielinski's screams, louder and more desperate by far than any I had heard from him before.
And then I remember calm sweet waters of peace and joy, drifting quietly in the raft in the wide easy river below the rapid. I remember that we were breathing hard but otherwise silent, and that in the low water it seemed as if we and the river were one, motionless, while mountains swept past us on their way upstream, to the source of the Amazon, or to wherever it is that the mountains and sky might choose to go.
"Good, guys," Chmielinski said after a while."Excellent. We almost made a bad turnover, but we did not." He shook our hands, and, exulting in the afterglow, Leon, Durrant, and I flashed the adrenaline-laced grins of fledgling river rats.
"The idea is not to beat the river," Chmielinski said. "The river always wins. It does not care. We try the river because we must try. White water is, how do you say it, like you are bleeding. . . "
"It gets in your blood."
"Yes. It is in your blood. It is a thing you are never forgetting."
Joe Kane has written for The New Yorker, National Geographic, and many other publications. His second book, Savages, was published in 1996 to wide acclaim and is available in paperback from Vintage. Joe Kane lives with his wife, Elyse, and their two children in Olympia, Washington.
Zbigniew Bzdak was born and raised in Poland. His work has been published in National Geographic, Outside , The New Yorker, Americas and American Way. He has received Communication Arts Award of Excellence in Photography for his book Living in Wyoming, and for his work in National Geographic. Between expeditions, he lives outside of Chicago where he is a staff photographer for The Times in Munster, Indiana.
Photographs by Zbigniew Bzdak.Special thanks for The Adventure Library for providing this article.
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Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide, and it has the fourth highest mortality rate among cancers in women.[1] Most cases of cervical cancer are preventable by routine screening and by treatment of precancerous lesions. As a result, most of the cervical cancer cases are diagnosed in women who live in regions with inadequate screening protocols.
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Estimated new cases and deaths from cervical (uterine cervix) cancer in the United States in 2014:[2]
- New cases: 12,360.
- Deaths: 4,020.
The uterine cervix is contiguous with the uterine body, and it acts as the opening to the body of the uterus. The uterine cervix is a cylindrical, fibrous organ that is an average of 3 to 4 cm in length. The portio of the cervix is the part of the cervix that is visible on vaginal inspection. The opening of the cervix is termed the external os. The os is the beginning of the endocervical canal, which forms the inner aspect of the cervix. At the upper aspect of the endocervical canal is the internal os, a narrowing of the endocervical canal. The narrowing marks the transition from the cervix to the uterine body. The endocervical canal beyond the internal os is termed the endometrial canal.
The cervix is lined by two types of epithelial cells: squamous cells at the outer aspect, and columnar, glandular cells along the inner canal. The transition between squamous cells and columnar cells is an area termed the squamo-columnar junction. Most of precancerous and cancerous changes arise in this zone.
Cervical carcinoma has its origins at the squamous-columnar junction; it can involve the outer squamous cells, the inner glandular cells, or both. The precursor lesion is dysplasia: cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) or adenocarcinoma in situ, which can subsequently become invasive cancer. This process can be quite slow. Longitudinal studies have shown that in patients with untreated in situ cervical cancer, 30% to 70% will develop invasive carcinoma over a period of 10 to 12 years. However, in about 10% of patients, lesions can progress from in situ to invasive in a period of less than 1 year. As it becomes invasive, the tumor breaks through the basement membrane and invades the cervical stroma. Extension of the tumor in the cervix may ultimately manifest as ulceration, exophytic tumor, or extensive infiltration of underlying tissue, including the bladder or rectum.


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In a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 225 patients with acute partial stable thrombotic stroke were randomly assigned to receive continuous intravenous heparin therapy or placebo for 7 days for the prevention of stroke progression or death. No statistically significant difference between the two groups was found in degree of neurologic change; incidence of stroke progression after 7 days; or functional activity level of survivors at 7 days, 3 months and at 1 year after treatment. Compared with controls, a statistically significant greater number of patients in the group receiving heparin died in the year after the stroke. These deaths occurred 3 to 12 months after the initial stroke and probably were not related to treatment. Results of this study do not support the use of intravenous heparin to treat patients who have had acute partial stroke.
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Forget pickles and ice cream. Rebecca Romijn has her own unusual cravings.
"Lemonade always has to be in our fridge," husband Jerry O'Connell told PEOPLE Sunday night before participating in the Nike + Human Race in Los Angeles. "That's my job. [Also] soy cream cheese. It's crazy, right? Can't be cream cheese. Soy cream cheese. Do you know how difficult it is to find soy cream cheese? It's usually in the corner of the supermarket someplace!"
The actress – who's expecting twin girls this winter – is "getting bigger by the day," added O'Connell, noting that he's already witnessed a big change in his wife's appetite.
"Meals are not missed," he joked. "We promptly hit them and if we're a little late, then ... somebody's not happy."
As for the babies' names, the actor said he and Romijn are "definitely" leaning towards Dolly for one, since the Ugly Betty star is a big Dolly Parton fan. ("The other [name] we're not really sure," he noted.)
Before the race started O'Connell – who was one of the 12,000 participants in L.A. for the 10-kilometer race – kept himself hydrated and chatted with another celebrity runner, Jason Priestley.
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WASHINGTON -- Several civil rights organizations are applauding the NBA for its lifetime ban of Clippers owner Donald Sterling because of racist comments the league says he made in a recorded conversation.
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The National Urban League, the National Action Network, the NAACP and the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation issued a joint statement cheering Silver's decision, but said Sterling's suspension isn't enough. The groups called for Silver to meet with them to ensure Sterling "remains an anomaly among the owners and executives in the league."
"Sterling's long-established pattern of bigotry and racist comments have not been a secret in the NBA," the statement said. "Yet until now, they have been tolerated and met with a gentle hand and a blind eye."
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Extraordinary 1898 Cameo Pepsin Gum Pin Collection (50)
Starting Bid - $5,000.00, Sold For - $26,437.50
1898 Cameo Pepsin Gum pin collection of fifty different (out of the 105 subjects known to date in the set) representing nearly half of all known subjects, and including four Hall of Famers (Duffy, Keeler, McGraw, and Nichols), and two newly discovered examples which are not listed in
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Cameo Pepsin Gum pins have a special place in the world of baseball collecting. In addition to being the very first celluloid baseball pin set, this set represents the only significant issue of any type dating from the late 1890s, featuring over one-hundred known players (with new discoveries no doubt yet to be documented), including many players which appear in no other set. Pepsin Gum pins are as significant to baseball in the late 1890s as E107s are in documenting the players of the first few years of the twentieth century. Cameo Pepsin Gum pins are, in fact, considerably rarer than even E107s, yet have received far less attention from advanced collectors, primarily because they are so rare that few have ever even considered attempting to collect the set. This is an extraordinary collection, by far the largest we have ever handled. The collection is being offered intact, exactly as it was found by our consignor decades ago, with the exception of the few examples which are being offered separately in this auction. The condition ranges from Good to Vg-Ex, many with varying degrees of foxing, and with all but one having the original advertising back paper complete and intact. The images of approximately half of the pins are a little light (as is often the case with this issue), but most of the balance have relatively strong photo quality and contrast. Organized by team, the collection is comprised of the following:
Baltimore (7 pins):
Bowerman, Clark, Horton, Keeler (HOF, portrait image is light and the back paper has a small moisture stain, otherwise Ex), McGraw (HOF, picture is light with a couple tiny spots of minor crazing, otherwise Vg-Ex), Pond, and Reitz.
Brooklyn (3 pins):
Anderson, Daub, and Dunn.
Boston (4 pins):
Dolan, Duffy (HOF, minor foxing on the front with exceptional contrast, Ex-Mt), Nichols (HOF, minor foxing on the front with exceptional contrast, Ex-Mt), and Ryan.
Buffalo (4 pins):
Fields, Rowe, Smith, and Urquhart (newly discovered).
Chicago (4 pins):
Dahlen, Decker, Hart, and McCormick.
Cincinnati (7 pins):
Breitenstein, Brown, Holliday, Miller, Peitz, Richie, and Vaughn.
Cleveland (3 pins):
O'Connor, Powell, and Tebeau.
Indianapolis (9 pins):
Beville, Cockman, Foreman, Goar, Gray, Motz, Phillips (newly discovered), Watkins, and Wood.
Milwaukee (2 pins):
Reidy and Speer.
Pittsburgh (7 pins):
Bierbauer, Donovan, Hastings, Hawley, Lyons, Smith, and Sugden. Cameo Pepsin Gum pins are one of the rarest and most significant of all baseball pinbacks. Issued as premiums with Cameo Pepsin Gum, this set is to baseball pins what Old Judges are to baseball cards. The extraordinary importance and rarity of Pepsins is just beginning to be recognized by collectors. This unique offering represents one of the largest and most significant collections of this rare issue to ever surface. Total 50 pins.
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Retronautsploration: The Street Fighter 2010 Verdict
It's called Street Fighter, but this bizarre creation is more like the lovechild of Strider and Gunstar Heroes.
By Jeremy Parish Jan 06, 2010 6:00PM PST
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Tags: NES Strider (PC) Street Fighter II (SNES) Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight (NES) Strider (NES) Gunstar Heroes (GEN) Strider (GEN) Strider (ARC) Gunstar Heroes (Wii) Street Fighter II (ARC) Street Fighter II (Wii) Street Fighter II (WIRE) Street Fighter (ARC) Street Fighter (T16) Gunstar Heroes (PS3) Gunstar Heroes (XBOX 360)
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JEREMY!!!!!!!!!!! you made me sign in to 1up!!! lolPosted: Jan 06, 2010 12:00AM PST by ConsoleKyle
I played the heck out of this game with my brothers back in the early 90s. The game, as I remember, was brutal hard for a 5 year old like myself at the time. It's funny you played it on New Years because my brothers and I were just talking about old games we played and this popped up. The box art if I recall correctly was pretty horrible/purple, so it should be considered for the next run of the horrid box art feature you guys run.
That box art is awesome in a airbrush a work van type of way.
Hmmm...Posted: Jan 06, 2010 12:00AM PST by boulet80
Street Fighter 2010 was one of only three games my parents purchased for my brothers and I for the NES. I remember it being fairly difficult but I've always had fond memories of the game. Maybe it's time to pull the ol' NES out of the closet and give it another go now that I'm older. I'm guessing that I'll find my memories of the game to be rose tinted.
One of my guilty pleasures.Posted: Jan 06, 2010 12:00AM PST by Obsoletesoul
It did indeed suck, at least taken as a whole, and not the sum of its parts. I just enjoyed the sadist-like diffuculty, and showing my friends I am the shit. It was a badge of honor to beat it, like Solar Jetman. When I was young, those two games were kinda meh, but I just couldn't stop playing.
Your day (or two) in (a) flopPosted: Jan 06, 2010 12:00AM PST by bear_left_right_frog
I think this is what Nathan Rabin (a la A.V. Club) would call a "Fiasco" among his three categories for flops ("Failure", "Fiasco", "Secret Success"). "Failures are simply the non-presence of success. Fiascos, meanwhile, find a strange glory in failure."
good memoriesPosted: Jan 08, 2010 12:00AM PST by andy_is_deadd
yeah I remember this title... sitting alone in the shelve of the store I rented games back in 92 when I was a Kid... although I never played it... I always wondered if that Ken was the same from SF.. I remember the box art with thedude crouching
ObjectivePosted: Jan 08, 2010 12:00AM PST by T.Geezy
Now that's an objective review. If only reviews of new games could be such, but I guess that would require total isolation from the knowledge of the games before they come out, as well as blocking out the influence from other similar games that might tend to colorize your vision of the game proper. Great write-up.
I remember renting this game when it was new, and found it frustrating as well. Never really got past the first stage, and I couldn't see much of the appeal. I'm not sure if I had played Street Fighter or Street Fighter II at that point, but I found the game difficult to control. I got bored of trying the same thing over and over, and since I couldn't really progress in this one, I moved on to another game. I preferred the action of Ninja Gaiden and Strider, and was expecting something closer to that. This game failed in its platforming, failed in its fighting aspects, and failed as a franchise. Its appeal was solely due to any Capcom flair that may have rubbed off.


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Photographer Ellen Fisher Turk Helps Women with Eating Disorders Gain New Insight into Their Problems
Still, when Del Castillo, now 32 and a singer and film producer in New York City, first saw the black-and-white images, she only focused on her perceived flaws. Then, "all of a sudden I saw something different," she recalls. "I saw the curve of my hip and said, 'Oh, that's lovely.' It's a moment of compassion for yourself."
For Fisher Turk, the hopeful response of Del Castillo—who has since overcome her bulimia—and the 100 women she has photographed since cemented her belief that allowing people with eating disorders to see themselves through the camera's unbiased lens can help them face their problems and eventually learn to accept their bodies.
Fisher Turk, 55, came up with the idea six years ago after taking pictures of a friend with a distorted body image. While viewing the contact sheets, the woman said, "I'm starting to see myself as you're describing me, not overweight and big, but beautiful." Intrigued, Fisher Turk found seven women with body-image concerns. She asked them to keep journals about their feelings before and after the shoot. "They started to look different," Fisher Turk noticed when they came back to see her. "They cut their hair, dressed differently, went after different jobs." But she emphasizes that the photographs aren't quick cures. "It's not like penicillin," she says. "I see it as a healing tool."
So do experts like Dr. Ira Sacker, head of the eating-disorders program at Brooklyn's Brookdale Hospital, who often sends patients to Fisher Turk as part of their therapy. "As a visual tool, this is the most effective thing I've ever utilized," he says. "Ellen's work gives a person another window. They begin to see themselves." And once that occurs, says psychotherapist Barbara Meyer, who has conducted workshops with Fisher Turk, "you have everything from total shock to sobbing."
Growing up in North Valley Stream, N.Y., Fisher Turk never suffered from poor body image. Her parents—sculptor Bette, 76, and retired insurance negotiator Martin Fisher, 80—doted on Ellen and her brother David, 51, a pediatric cardiologist in Columbus, Ohio. After earning a history degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Ellen married her college sweetheart, lawyer Harry Turk, 57. While raising their two sons—Eric, 35, a music producer in Atlanta, and Matt, 30, a singer-songwriter in New York—she held jobs as diverse as radio reporter and special-ed teacher before taking up documentary filmmaking and photography in 1987. Divorced from Harry in 1989, she lives alone in a one-bedroom Manhattan apartment.
Fisher Turk's empathy for her subjects dates back 25 years, when she joined Overeaters Anonymous to deal with sugar cravings. (She was later diagnosed as hypoglycemic and has been treated.) "I know what it's like to be controlled by a demon," she says. "I know the darkness, which is why these women let me inside."
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