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New file adding "wizard", tagging and more prominent content blockingposted by Dark0ne Site NewsWhile we have our cluster setup looked in to we've been busy looking in to some other areas of the site we'd like to improve before we "centralise" the Nexus in to supporting mods for all games.
We've come up with a new file adding wizard that's usable on all sites. Indeed, when we finally get around to centralising our database you'll be able to add a mod for any game ever made to the site through this one file wizard, but for now it's setup to work with the sites and games we already support. The idea is that the new file wizard will take you, step-by-step, through the process of making a complete file page for your files. While in the past you would simply add a few details and then be expected to add things in later, now you're taken through every step of the process, with 9 steps in total.
You can skip steps that you don't want or don't need to do (like required files), or skip the wizard entirely if you so wish, but I'm hoping that this new process will at least introduce new mod authors to all the file page features we currently support so they can provide as much relevant information to their users right from the start while also providing veteran mod authors of the site with a quicker way of get their pages set up on the site without having to keep going backwards and forwards.
We've also added a new set of options to the wizard that allow you to better categorise your files. It actually makes use of our tags system, but in a much more obvious manner, in an attempt to better support our content blocking system, which I'll now discuss.
Recently we had a couple of nude mods show up in our hot files on Skyrim Nexus. It's not a particularly rare occurrence by any stretch of the imagination, but what was a bit more rare was the content of one of the mods. A penis. EEK, A PENIS! Lets get this out the way. Please repeat after me: penis penis penis, vagina vagina vagina. Got that out your system? Good. While we get the occasional rant about big boob mods or general female nudity on the sites, nothing sparks an absolute outpouring of pent up closet-case emotion like the showcasing of a penis mod on the site. Indeed, no less than 6 people sent me a message to inform me of their outrage of bearing witness to a penis mod on the sites. When pressed for clarification on why vagina mods were ok but penis mods weren't the conversation went ominously silent. While I'm no expert in the field let me provide some advice: if seeing a penis mod throws you into a fit of quizzical fury you might need to explore your own sexuality a bit further. Don't repress it, explore it. You'll save yourself lots of therapy payments in the future.
With that said, I can completely understand why you might not be interested in seeing a penis, or a vagina, or boobs, or scantily clad men or women, or translations, or lore-breaking files, or save-games or any number of various types of content (indeed, the issue isn't in not wanting to see the content but the way in which people get so comically worked up over the issue). While we can't provide a 100% success rate method of removing this content from your viewing we can try our hardest to tailor the mods you see to your specific preferences.
We've had content blocking available for a long time. It works by blocking files that have been tagged with specific tags. If you block the "Sexy/skimpy" tag you won't see any mods that are using that tag. There are a few pages that are the exception to that rule, the hot files originally didn't block this content but it now does (we fixed it recently) and the new today/new recently pages don't. However, the category results/search result pages will block this content. We even go one step further and tell you that you're currently blocking content and you're only seeing X number of files as Y number of files have been blocked from your viewing, with an easy link to see the results with your previously blocked content showing as well. The systems are in place, you just need to use them.
There are two inherent problems; (1) not enough mod authors tag their files and (2) people complain about files not being tagged but then don't tag files themselves. Your profiles have a statistic on them called "Files tagged". It tells people how many files you've successfully tagged. If you complain about files not being tagged properly and your "Files tagged" statistic is 0, you're a part of the problem and not a part of the solution. Your complaining about the lack of tagging doesn't fix the issue, your actual tagging of files does. So next time you see a nude mod that hasn't been tagged properly, "doing the right thing" isn't complaining about it, doing the right thing is actually tagging the file yourself so that others don't have the same problem you did.
With that said we're trying to do our part to make these features more prominent. In the new file adding wizard we've hand-picked some tagging selections that are known to be the most regularly blocked tags on the sites. You're asked "Tick any of the boxes that apply to your file. My file..." and on Skyrim Nexus, for example, options include "contains nudity", "contains sexy/skimpy outfits", "is a translation", "is for male characters", "is for female characters" and so on. (Note: as of writing I haven't actually gone around and added these, but they'll be up within an hour of me posting this article). Ticking these boxes will automatically tag your file with the relevant tag.
On the user end, we've added these same tags to the file search page under "Attributes". Each tag is given a tick box. If the tag is ticked then you'll see files using that tag. If you untick the box you will no longer see files using that tag. It works exactly the same as our content blocking system but it's just much more obvious, and provides a link to the full range of tags you can block on the sites.
The aim is to make content blocking both more relevant, by asking direct questions about the type of content your mod contains, and also more prominent, by making it a part of our extensive filtering system that should help you to drill-down in to the file database and discard the types of mods you would never be interested in anyway. While this system was always present on the site it was never this prominent.
You'll also notice the new file wizard has some new options for categories. This is more of a precursor for our centralisation work as I think most of the sites are pretty set in their categories now, but I'll quickly run through it. You now have three category options. You must pick from a pre-set list (as before) but you can also suggest your own category that you think would best suit your file, or you can select from a pre-set list of what others have suggested. What's the point of this? With current sites there's not too much of a point to it as there's already plenty of usable and relevant categories, however if we start supporting new games we want to be as automated and flexible as possible. The idea is if you've got a texture replacer mod for a new game, you add the game yourself and the site will automatically setup the game site along with a "Miscellaneous" category (all games have that category in them, current and future). You select the "Miscellaneous" category for your file but you suggest a "Texture replacer" category. While the file will begin in the Miscellaneous category if an admin agrees with the suggested category any files uploaded to the "Miscellaneous" category but using that suggested category will then be moved over to this new suggested category. The suggested category becomes a new category in and of itself. It sounds complicated but it's really not.
Alrighty, I've gone on long enough. I hope these new features can be put to good use and if you think something isn't working properly then let me know.


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My son is 4 weeks today and has not been eating like he normally does. He on average eats every 1.5-2 hours for a total of 20-30 minutes. He'll go for a 3 hour stretch at night sleeping.
He definitely went through what seems as the 3 week growth spurt last week as there were times when we were nursing much more frequently than our average. Today he seems much different though. He had a 4.5 hour stretch of sleeping which surprised me (I must have been sleeping soundly as well because I would of woke him up at the most 4 hours). When he woke he had a lot of spit-up that was very thick. He does not really spit-up that often. Since we've been up he just doesn't seem as interested in eating. He'll latch for a couple of minutes and then just go back to sleep. When he latches it is not as strong as normal either.
Am I overreacting or is this just maybe a transition?
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Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 cup
Calories 186
Total Fat 6 g
Saturated Fat 1 g
Cholesterol 34 mg
Sodium 302 mg
Potassium 602 mg
Total Carbohydrate 18 g
Dietary Fiber 2 g
Protein 15 g
Ingredients and Preparation
Ingredients Measures
Vegetable oil 2 tablespoons
Onion, coarsely chopped ¼ cup
Celery, coarsely chopped ½ cup
Carrots, sliced 1 cup
Potatoes, raw, peeled, cubed 2 cups
Thyme ¼ teaspoon
Paprika ½ teaspoon
Bottled clam juice 2 cups
Whole peppercorns 8
Bay leaf 1
Fresh or frozen (and thawed) cod or haddock fillets, cut into ¾-inch cubes 1 pound
Flour ¼ cup
Lowfat milk 3 cups
Fresh parsley, chopped 1 tablespoon
- Heat oil in large saucepan. Add onion and celery, and sauté for about 3 minutes.
- Add carrots, potatoes, thyme, paprika, and clam broth. Wrap peppercorns and bay leaf in cheese cloth. Add to pot. Bring to boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 15 minutes, then add fish and simmer for an added 15 minutes, or until fish flakes easily and is opaque.
- Remove fish and vegetables. Break fish into chunks. Bring broth to boil and continue boiling until volume is reduced to 1 cup. Remove bay leaf and peppercorns.
- Shake flour and 1/2 cup lowfat milk in container with tight-fitting lid until smooth. Add to broth in saucepan, along with remaining milk. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture boils and is thickened.
- Return vegetables and fish chunks to stock and heat thoroughly. Serve hot, sprinkled with chopped parsley.


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Just a friendly warning: A lot of babies are very distractible at 9-12 months and it seems like they won't nurse unless you offer frequently, because they are always so busy. But then around 12 months, a lot of babies rediscover the boob and want to nurse all.the.time. Especially with those molars coming in. But it's not the breastfeeding that's keeping you up all night - it's the molars. The breastfeeding actually helps your baby sleep better, most likely, although this can seem hard to believe.
Anyway, in my own experience, the number of sessions did NOT go down at a year, but probably went up. They are decreasing now as Joe gets closer to two. But I did pump wean around a year (I stopped pumping at work) so even though Joe was nursing as much as ever, breastfeeding was so much easier for ME. It was like I took away the hard, tedious part, and was left with only the fun, snuggly part!


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"Harvard Project on Climate Agreements Hosts Chinese Climate Change Study Tour"
News, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Belfer Center
February 16, 2012
Author: Robert C. Stowe, Co-Director, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
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The Harvard Project on Climate Agreements hosted, on January 10, 2012, a study tour of Chinese officials working in climate and energy policy. The tour was organized by the World Resources Institute (WRI)'s China office. The Chinese delegation was led by Mr. SU Wei, the Director General of the Department of Climate Change in China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and China's chief negotiator in the multilateral climate negotiations, under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Other NDRC participants included Ms. HUANG Wenhang, Director of the Division of International Cooperation in the Department of Climate Change. A number of Chinese provincial officials dealing with climate and energy, WRI staff, and other NDRC officials also participated.
The study tour included Dr. ZOU Ji, until very recently director of WRI's China office and an environmental economist on the faculty of Renmin University of China. Dr. Zou is becoming Deputy Director of the newly-formed National Center for Climate Strategy Study and International Cooperation in China, which is affiliated with the NDRC. Dr. Zou is also Co-Coordinating Lead Author, with the Harvard Project's Director, Robert Stavins, of a chapter in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report, "International Cooperation: Agreements and Instruments."
The study tour and several members of the Harvard faculty discussed options and prospects for international policy to address global climate change. Professor Stavins and Director HUANG each gave presentations to generate discussion. Both presentations may be downloaded at the bottom of this page.
Harvard faculty participating, in addition to Professor Stavinsall experts variously in environmental and energy economics, policy, and sciencewere Jeffrey Frankel, James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth (Harvard Kennedy School); Rebecca Henderson, John and Natty McArthur University Professor (Harvard Business School); William Hogan, Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy (Harvard Kennedy School); Richard Lazarus, Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law (Harvard Law School); Erich Muehlegger, Assistant Professor of Public Policy (Harvard Kennedy School); and Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment (Faculty of Arts and Sciences).
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Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome
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Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome (LEMS) is a rare autoimmune disorder characterized by the gradual onset of muscle weakness, especially of the pelvic and thigh muscles. Approximately 60 percent of LEMS cases are associated with a small cell lung cancer (SCLC), and the onset of LEMS symptoms often precedes the detection of the cancer. The LEMS patients with cancer tend to be older and nearly always have a long history of smoking. In cases in which there is no associated cancer, disease onset can be at any age.
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Food and Water Watch just released this amazing interactive factory farm map of the United States, which is fascinating and terrifying at the same time – I can't stop clicking through it. Below "the fold" are some eye-opening numbers that come attached to the map. I've been doing some digging of my own, but it's (quite literally) tons of, shall we say, waste to wade through.
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This favorite recipe for Grilled Ginger-Soy Pork Chops is something I've been making for more than 20 years, and when I used to cater houseboat trips at Lake Powell, everyone loved this recipe. In the Lake Powell days I used to make this with vermouth as the tenderizing ingredient in the marinade, but every time I gave someone the recipe they didn't have vermouth, so I've used rice vinegar in this recipe for the last few years.
These are the pork chops I made when my sister Pam and some of her family came to dinner (and my brother in law made history by asking for seconds on vegetables) and my niece's husband Nick told me I could definitely say that the pork chops and vegetables were greatly enjoyed by everyone! These pork chops are so good I'd cook them all winter long on a stove-top grill pan with ridges, so try that if you don't have an outdoor grill.
(Grilled Ginger-Soy Pork Chops were updated with better photos and step-by-step instructions, September 2013.)
Roasted Spicy Cauliflower or The BEST Easy Cauliflower Rice with Garlic and Green Onions.
Grilled Ginger-Soy Pork Chops
(4-6 servings, recipe created by Kalyn)
4-6 bone-in pork chops
Marinade Ingredients:
1/4 cup peanut oil (or other high-heat oil)
1/4 cup soy sauce or coconut aminos
1/4 cup rice vinegar (not seasoned rice vinegar which contains sugar)
1 tsp. dried chili pepper flakes (I used Aleppo Pepper. You could use cayenne pepper, but reduce the amount by quite a bit.)
2 tsp. ginger puree (also called ground ginger)
2 tsp. garlic puree (also called ground garlic)
1 tsp. dried mustard
When you're ready to cook, take the pork chops out of the fridge and let them come to room temperature. Spray grill with non-stick grilling spray and preheat grill to medium hot.
Lay pork chops at an angle to the grill grates and cook 4-5 minutes (or until you see nice grill marks when you lift up the edge.) Rotate the pork chops so they're going at the opposite angle on the grill grates and cook 4-5 minutes more (or until you see nice criss-cross marks when you lift up the edge.)
Turn pork chops over and cook 4-5 minutes more on the second side, or until the pork chops feel firm, but not hard to the touch. (Actual cooking time will depend on the thickness of the pork chops. Use a digital meat thermometer and cook to a temperature of 145F if you want to be more precise.)
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Grilled Lime and Chipotle Pork Chops ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Grilled Pork Chops with Garlic Lime Sauce ~ Dine and Dish
Kalyn's Souvlaki ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
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Getting to Know U.S. Under-19 Throwback Midfielders
by Joel Censer and Lane Errington | LaxMagazine.com
With the Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) Under-19 World Championship coming up July 12-21 in Turku, Finland, Lacrosse Magazine is taking a closer look at the U.S. U19 squad that will compete for a seventh straight gold medal.
Today: Team USA's midfield group. Check back to LaxMagazine.com the next three Tuesdays for previews of USA's attack, defense and goaltending.
On today's lacrosse field midfielders often gravitate — or are confined — to one end. You play offense or you play defense. You face off or you grab a long pole to play the wing.
But before you declare the two-way, 60-minute midfielder extinct, consider the 2012 U.S. Under-19 men's national team. The nation's 23 best players come from all corners of the country and in all shapes and sizes. Some played high school lacrosse this spring, while others have a season or two of college lacrosse under their belts.
But talk with them and their coaches, and common traits start to emerge, especially among the midfielders. You won't see any of them make a beeline to the substitution box after a split dodge or a change in possession. Instead, this carefully selected unit consists of versatile, jack-of-all-trades types who can score goals, but who are also athletic and tough enough to scrap between the lines and play defense. Seven of 10 Team USA midfielders even have experience on faceoffs.
"With the way we want to play, if other teams have guys who are strictly offensive players and our offensive players can stay on, it gives us an advantage," said U.S. head coach Tim Flynn, an assistant on the 2008 team that won its sixth consecutive gold medal. "It's a good way to play the game."
The nature of Team USA tryouts — held over four grueling days in July 2011 at UMBC — had a way of drawing attention to these hard-nosed throwbacks willing to commit to both sides of the field. Temperatures reached 100 degrees on the turf. They played one scrimmage without long-stick midfielders.
"The coaches were looking for players who wanted to get ground balls and leave it all out on the field," said U.S. midfielder Brent Armstrong, who just finished a standout prep career at St. Stephen's & St. Agnes (Va.) School. "Guys who could fit into roles and aren't afraid to get dirty and play blue-collar lacrosse."
Ryan Tucker is the offensive headliner. The son of three-time former Team USA member John Tucker, Ryan will wear jersey number two, the same number his father wore in the 1986, 1990 and 1994 senior world championships. A Baltimore native, Tucker scored 13 goals as a freshman second-line midfielder at Virginia, where he showcased a blistering shot with the range to extend defenses.
Another versatile threat will be Harvard sophomore Sean Mahon, who is as effective in half-field offensive sets he is on faceoffs. Robby Zoppo ran on the Towson midfield as a redshirt freshman this spring and has a nice shot on the run. Matt Florence, a Kent Denver (Colo.) High product who will attend Virginia in the fall, is another end-to-end athlete who adds a left-handed presence.
Three North Carolina recruits round out the rest of the offensive midfield — Armstrong, who was originally recruited as a faceoff man; Steve Pontrello, an electric dodger from St. Augustine Prep (N.J.); and Mike Tagliaferri, who handles much of the offensive load at San Ramon Valley High in Northern California. Tagliaferri was also a key two-way player for the San Ramon football team that made it all the way to the North Coast Division I championship game, where it lost to national power De La Salle.
"There's a certain attitude on the midfield that's in line with Coach Flynn," Tagliaferri said.
Gritty midfielders who want to push tempo could be a huge boon for the U.S. in the international game, which features quicker restarts. They could also be a distinguishing factor against Canada and the Iroquois – two teams with a plethora of box players who are savvy around the goal but may not have the same athleticism between the 30s.
Tyler Barbarich (Delaware) and Charlie Raffa (Maryland), who will be the primary faceoff options, gained valuable experience facing off at the collegiate level this season. Young gun Stephen Kelly, a rising senior at Calvert Hall (Md.) and another North Carolina recruit, has lightning-quick hands to spell them.
As for Tucker, he seems willing to do whatever he can to help the team find gold in Turku. Whether that means finding space for a time-and-room set shot, guarding a Canadian on a pick-and-roll or even rolling up his sleeves and taking a faceoff as he did during his prep years at Gilman (Md.) School, he's honored to compete for his country.
"To put on the USA jersey is something I've never experienced," Tucker said. "As much respect as I have for [my father's] number, to wear it for our national team is a dream for me."
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Around the time slapstick comedian Tom Murphy turned 60 he had a dream. There he is, aged 86, on stage, and ready to delight with his typical repertoire of tricks and flips. But, he finds, his joints and muscles aren't quite up to the acrobatics.
The dream, or perhaps nightmare, Murphy jokes, sparked his newest one-man show, "Laugh 'til You Die," premiering with four performances this weekend at Montpelier's Lost Nation Theater. Murphy also leads a two-hour workshop on Saturday as part of the final weekend of "Winterfest 2013."
"I'm having a hard time adapting to being 60 when last week I felt like I was 22," said Murphy, whose brand of comedy follows in the slapstick vein of Charlie Chaplin and the Three Stooges.
After nearly four decades of performing comedy acts, Murphy was forced to reassess his physically demanding career when he sustained a neck injury a year and a half ago.
At a doctor's recommendation, he took a few months off. It was a dramatic change of pace from an international touring schedule that had rarely allowed him longer than two consecutive weeks at home in twenty-five years. During that time, Murphy started thinking about how his act might need to change as he ages.
"All those years of comic — we'll call it 'abuse' — caught up with me," said Murphy. "All of a sudden, between the age 60 and the injury, I was old."
"Here's a physical comedian who has to be able to fall down and get back up again, repeatedly in all different ways to make us laugh," said Kathleen Keenan, producing artistic director of LNT. "He's trying to come to grips with how can he can keep doing what he loves to do now that he hit the big six-zero?"
Murphy, who lives in Waterbury Center, began developing "Laugh 'til You Die" after attending last year's "Winterfest" at LNT. He expects to take the show on the road. It is the fourth and final performance of Winterfest 2013, which this year has featured all new theatrical works.
"Laugh 'til You Die" comprises a series of sketches: Murphy's 86-year-old self, an evangelical preacher for the art of slapstick, and the debut of Murphy's latest skill, plate-spinning.
Murphy moved to Vermont in the 1970s with aspirations to be a freestyle skier. A college gymnast, he is a natural acrobat, but he didn't think of the theatrical potential of his skill until watching at street performer during the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. Inspired, he drove down to Harvard Square in Boston to put on his first slapstick act.
In quick succession, Murphy made the leap from street performing to touring his show around college campuses. In the early 1990s, he had an offer to take his show to Germany, which he jumped at, despite not speaking a lick of German. From there, opportunities to work in Europe kept coming.
Murphy, a former teacher at the Ringling Brother's Clown College, also brings his acting workshop, "The Innate Comedian," to Montpelier on Saturday. While the workshop can be beneficial to actors of all levels, Murphy has found that "The Innate Comedian" is useful even to non-thespians.
Over the course of improvisation drills, Murphy helps participants identify the things that are inherently funny about them. "It's a way to look at stuff we hold inside of us that we don't ever let out because of social norms and expectations."
"It's great for folks here in Vermont to get a chance to see him because he's often touring," said Keenan. "It's amazing the talent and skill that are hidden away in the Green Mountains."
When Murphy took his one-many show to the New Victory Theater on Broadway, he had a sold-out run. The New York Times called him "a sure-fire cure for the blahs."
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By now, the American people surely appreciate the fact that the costly days of President George W. Bush and his principal advisers, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, are behind them, that no longer is it Americas impulse to send in the troops whenever a crisis erupts overseas.
But echoes of that unfortunate period in modern American history are still being heard as doctrinaire conservatives train their sights on President Obamas reluctance to go head-to-head, militarily, with Vladimir Putin over Russias behavior in Ukraine.
We have a weak and indecisive president that invites aggression, U.S. Sen. Lindsay Graham, of South Carolina, declared the other day. President Obama needs to do something.
Joining Grahams criticism of Obama was the presidents rival in the 2008 election, Sen. John McCain, of Arizona, who said that nobody believes in Americas strength anymore.
McCain and Graham have been a partisan political pair for some time now, and it seems their common bond is a deep reservoir of contempt for this president. If the American people have grown tired of their act, the senators have only themselves to blame.
But it appears that nearly all conservative commentary led by the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal and the one-note harping by the pundits on Fox News would love to see the White House emulate the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld approach to foreign affairs and once again put American lives needlessly at risk.
Americans need to understand this: As offensive and abrasive as Putin may be (and few would argue hes not deserving of our contempt), there is no plausible reason for our country to mount a military response to Russias behavior in Ukraine and especially its virtual invasion of Crimea.
Does anyone (outside the conservative community, that is) truly believe that Putin acted only because he regarded Obama as indecisive? If so, how then do they explain similar events in history, including the Soviet Unions invasions of Hungary in 1956 or Czechoslovakia in the 1960s?
Are these critics of a supposedly weak Obama prepared to suggest that President Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican, was woefully indecisive and thats why Moscow acted so brutally against Hungary? Would they argue that President Lyndon Johnson, he of Vietnam fame (or notoriety), was so weak that Czechoslovakia was vulnerable to Moscows ruthless predations?
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Sprint Chief Executive Officer Dan Hesse has decided to return over $3.25 million after shareholders expressed concern with the company's recent move regarding employee bonuses and Apple's iPhone.
According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, Hesse returned the $3.25 million after previously excluding the financial effect of carrying Apple's iPhone when determining employee bonuses.
This move upset shareholders, so Hesse decided to return the money to the company.
"I do not want, nor does our Compensation Committee want, to penalize Sprint employees for the company's investment with Apple," said Hesse. "I'm hopeful that these actions will
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on delivering the best overall customer experience in the wireless industry, which is what will serve the company best in the long run."
Sprint agreed to purchase 30.5 million iPhones for about $20 billion over a four-year period last year. In August 2011, Hesse reportedly told the Sprint board of directors that the company would likely lose on the agreement with Apple until 2014, but believed in the deal because he said iPhones were more profitable than others like Android-based phones. According to Hesse, iPhones have a "low churn rate" and iPhone users consume less data.
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Why are some gardens called healing gardens, when it seems as though all gardens (and nature) are intrinsically appealing and beneficial to humans?
The term healing gardens is most often applied to green spaces in hospitals and other healthcare facilities that specifically aim to improve health outcomes. These gardens provide a place of refuge and promote healing in patients, families, and staff.
According to two leaders in this field, Clare Cooper Marcus and Marni Barnes, healing comes because the gardens promote:
Any environment can promote healing, but gardens are particularly able to do so because humans are hard-wired to find nature engrossing and soothing [5].
Healing gardens differ somewhat from therapeutic landscapes, which is another term used in healthcare. Therapeutic landscapes or gardens are designed to meet the particular needs of a specific patient population. They often engage that population actively and deliberately. Healing gardens, on the other hand, generally aim for a more passive involvement and are designed to provide benefits to a diverse population with different needs.
Regardless of age or culture, humans find nature restorative. In one study, researchers Marcus and Barnes found that more than two-thirds of people choose a natural setting to retreat to when stressed. In another study, 95% of those interviewed said their mood improved after spending time outside, changing from depressed [1], stressed [4], and anxious [1] to more calm and balanced.
Why do we find nature so restorative? One school of thought holds that it is hardwired in our genes. Roger Ulrich, a leading researcher in healing gardens, summarizes it thus: "We have a kind of biologically prepared disposition to respond favorably to nature because we evolved in nature. Nature was good to us, and we tend to respond positively to environments that were favorable to us."
Another reason for our biological connection to nature could be that humans who paid close attention to nature gathered key information that helped them survive and reproduce. So the tendency to find nature engrossing lived on in those genes.
Many studies show that after a stressful event, images of nature very quickly produce a calming effect. Within three to four minutes after viewing nature scenes, blood pressure, respiration rate, brain activity, and the production of stress hormones all decrease and mood improves. This again has an evolutionary advantage because it allows us to recuperate and recover our energy quickly. This ability to recover from stress quickly in order to be ready to respond to new threats was important for our ancestors' survival.
Nature is also fundamentally linked to our human spirituality. Out in nature, we feel how we are connected to entities beyond ourselves and understand our interdependencies with other living beings. Nature also prompts us to reflect on the ever-changing nature of existence and what might lie beyond it. Nature provides a space in which we can connect spiritually [6] both with ourselves and outside ourselves.
Nature provides a great distraction. Because we are genetically programmed to find nature engrossing, we are absorbed by nature scenes and distracted from our pain and discomfort.
Nature reduces stress and anxiety. One explanation for this is that nature provides a respite from the constant effort to screen out competing stimuli in our busy lives. Because humans find nature inherently engrossing, we don't have to make an effort to focus when presented with natural views. This reduces mental fatigue and refreshes the mind.
Another idea is that plants offer psychological comfort. As one researcher in this area, Lewis, says "Plants take away some of the anxiety and tension of the immediate now by showing us that there are long, enduring patterns in life." Their growth is steady and progressive, not erratic.
While there are various theories why nature is so helpful, there is no variance on the outcomes. We know that viewing plants, flowers, water, and other nature elements reduces patient anxiety, even if the patients are very anxious.
The benefits of nature hold even for confirmed city dwellers. In a study of cardiac patients in New York who were shown various scenes, anxiety was reduced the most in those who saw a nature scene and heard a sound track of water, birds, and breezes.
In addition to the psychological benefits, reducing patient stress and anxiety has concrete physical benefits. This is nicely demonstrated in a study of patients who underwent gallbladder surgery; half had a view of nature and half had a view of a wall. The half with the nature view tolerated pain better, slept better, reported less stress, and spent less time in a hospital.
Thus, it is no wonder that the Center for Health Design [7] identifies nature as one of the key factors that reduces patient and staff stress and leads to better outcomes and staff satisfaction.
In addition, the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAHO) recommends that "Patients and visitors should have opportunities to connect with nature through outside spaces, plants, indoor atriums and views from windows."
Of course nature can benefit everyone, not just those in hospitals. One fascinating study reported that tenants in Chicago public housing who had trees around their buildings reported knowing more people, having stronger feelings of unity with neighbors, beomg more concerned with helping and supporting each other, and having stronger feelings of belonging than tenants in buildings without trees. The findings also showed less violence in buildings with tress than in those without trees.
Gardens provide psychological, social, physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits to humans. A large part of this is because of the positive reactions humans have to nature, so it is important for healing gardens to have lots of green vegetation, flowers, and water elements.
Gardens can also be designed to promote and encourage activities that further benefit patients.
Gardens provide distractions, reduce stress [11], and promote a sense of wellbeing. This leads to measurable psychological, physiological, and behavioral benefits, such as reduced anxiety [1], sadness, and other negative moods, lower blood pressure and improved immune functioning, and better compliance with treatment protocol.
The most important feature in a healing garden is real nature-green vegetation, flowers, and perhaps a calm water element. A garden full of sculptures and structures will not offer the healing benefits of nature.
It is particularly important to avoid abstract art and sculpture, which ill people often interpret in negative ways. For example, patients thought that a large gazing ball in one garden was the "evil eye." A somewhat abstracted sculptures of birds was seen as "vultures that scrape flesh."
Healing gardens should also be situated where sounds of the city or loud mechanical noises (such as an air conditioning unit) don't intrude. And the outdoor smoking area should be located far away from the garden!
All the benefits of viewing a garden are also present when you are gardening. In addition, engaging in gardening is a great physical activity [8].
Gardening can also enhance self-esteem, because plants respond to care regardless of who gives it and are non-threatening and non-discriminating. Plants can give elderly or other patients who have no family something to care for.
As experiences in New York and Philadelphia demonstrate, gardening can transcend severe social problems to create a sense of community. In one fascinating example, inhabitants of public housing in New York experienced more neighborly connection, reduced vandalism, and increased cleanliness when the housing authority initiated a gardening contest.
[1] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/conditions/anxiety-depression
[2] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/enhance-your-wellbeing/environment/your-personal-environment/how-does-your-personal-environment-impa
[3] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/feeling-down-or-stressed-try-eco-therapy
[4] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/wellbeing/health/stress-mastery
[5] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/wellbeing/nature-and-us
[6] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/wellbeing/spirituality
[7] http://www.healthdesign.org/
[8] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/wellbeing/health/physical-activity-fitness
[9] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/wellbeing/relationships
[10] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/wellbeing/community
[11] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/enhance-your-wellbeing/health/stress-mastery/become-aware-your-stressors-and-reactions
[12] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/our-experts/mary-jo-kreitzer-rn-phd
[13] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/our-experts/jean-larson-ma-htr-ctrs
[14] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/activities/what-healing-environment-you
[15] http://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/activities/what-can-i-do-healthcare-setting


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O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree!
O decisions, O decisions!
Each species has characteristics unique to it, so picking the right one for your home can be daunting. And, as for the size of a tree, are you thinking modest, tastefully impressive or just plain huge?
Of course, there's also the fragrance factor.
"As long as you buy a real tree and not a fake one, we're happy," said Rick Dungey, spokesman for the National Christmas Tree Association, based in Chesterfield, Mo.
Whether you're cutting one yourself or buying one that is already cut, whether you need a behemoth for a high-ceilinged living room or a miniature for a studio apartment, consider these details to make your tree experience merry and bright.
Six species account for most of the trees sold in Ohio, according to the Ohio State University Extension:
• Blue spruce is "a very pretty tree," Dungey said, adding that its color varies by tree — from blue-gray to deep green. A potential downside: The needles are very sharp, which might make decorating a challenge and pose a hazard to young children.
• Canaan fir, relatively new on the Ohio market, boasts soft needles and firm branches. Tree farmers like it because it grows on sites where pickier varieties languish.
• Douglas fir — not a true fir — grows in "a classic shape and is very pyramidal," Dungey said. The softness of the branches and needles is about average.
• Eastern white pine — which Dungey described as having a "willowy" look because of its flexible needles and branches — is one of the most popular varieties. Although the variety is considered beautiful by many, its soft foliage doesn't support heavy ornaments.
• Fraser fir, grown throughout North America, is "tough and durable," Dungey said. The branches are stiff and the needles are soft, making decorating easier.
• Scotch pine, another popular variety, is common throughout North America, he said. "It's tough enough, durable enough, to be cut, baled and shipped," he said. Its strong branches can support heavy ornaments, and it's one of the best for needle retention.
And what about aroma? For many people, that's the biggest factor, Dungey said.
"Which is the best-smelling? It's impossible to answer," he said, because "the sense of smell is subjective."
However, he allowed that some types of trees have a stronger scent than others. Firs, he said, typically have a more intense scent, and Scotch pine has the classic "Christmas tree-type smell."
Those not known for aroma include white pine and blue spruce.
On another factor, however, Dungey didn't equivocate.
Measure your space at home, he urged, and measure a tree before you buy.
"When you're out in a farm field and the sky is your ceiling," he explained, "it's easy to lose your sense of proportion."
Diana Lockwood is a freelance writer covering gardening topics.


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Have you checked out Big Cliffy's latest blog entry about yesterday's rain out and Cory Lidle tragedy? It's more than worth a look. Man, yesterday was tough indeed. And I know all our thoughts and best wishes are with Cory Lidle's family.
But no team deals with adversity like our team. We're gonna do this thing tonight. My voice has gotten nice and rested, so I'm ready to cheer like **** again.
And everyone, do us a favor. The Evil Eye is a cultural superstition that I've had inbred in me from my mother and grandmother since I can remember. Said Eye of Evil comes 'round when things look to be going well–just to screw it all up. So, work with me here and say a hearty kinnahura to keep it away. And then maybe spit on it a little. Can't hurt.
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I have the same "evil eye" background… I have already done my part on keeping it looking the other way. Or not looking at all.
I would like to know what has gotten into my guy Shawn Green since he was traded to the mets?hE NEVER hit this much in arizona.Maybe he has found his place in New York.
Nice win for the guys last night! Now the pressure shifts to the Cardinals. If they don't win w/ Carpenter on the mound tonight, this could be over quickly.
Kaylee… Green is really winning me over this October. After a slow start, he's really come to play!
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Since his first gig in Green Bay as the quarterbacks coach in 1999, Mike McCarthy has seen Lambeau Field undergo so many renovations and remodeling projects that he's lost count.
So when the Packers coach started talking about the new cafeteria and new weight room that are in the works at 1265 Lombardi Avenue, he wasn't quite sure which project will be completed when. There's the in-progress project in the south end zone, which should be done before the start of the 2013 season, and there's the planned renovation of the atrium area, which is next. Both have projects that will improve the football facilities.
"I don't know if this is part of the current renovation or what," McCarthy chuckled during a break in the annual NFL Meetings at the Arizona Biltmore hotel.
But those capital projects aren't the only renovations the Packers have on the docket. The coach has a rebuilding project of his own planned: An overhaul of his offseason program and training camp after he felt poor practices were among the reasons the team's 2012 season was, in the end, a disappointment.
"I wasn't real happy with the way our offseason program went last year, so we're going to do a much better job of that this year," said McCarthy, whose offseason program kicks off on April 15. "I didn't like all the practices. I didn't like all the attention to the practices. I didn't like all the attention to our particular team about the practices."
With the different offseason rules in effect from the new collective bargaining agreement with the NFL Players Association – remember, the 2011 offseason was wiped out by the lockout – McCarthy felt that his players and coaches weren't on the same page in terms of what could and could not be done during practice.
In fact, at one point during an organized team activity practice, veteran center Jeff Saturday – the player who'd been instrumental in the writing of the practice rules in his role with the NFLPA – turned to a group of reporters on the sideline and said, "Does that look like contact to you guys?" He was referring to rules that non-padded OTA practices were to be non-contact.
"I think (with) our players, there was confusion. …I think there was (a variety of) opinions and new rules," McCarthy said. "I don't care if you handed every one of us the new rule, we'd have different interpretations. That's human nature."
Asked if he felt players took issue with the practices or complained, McCarthy replied, "I wouldn't say it was pushback, I just think it's a matter of when your players take the field, especially our players, we've got the same coaching staff, a lot of the same players (and yet) it took us too long to get going.
"Every coach goes through it: You set a practice schedule, you have drills, you have tempo, you have expectations of what you're trying to get done. It's my job to ultimately hit those expectations, and it wasn't our best offseason OTA wise."
It's unclear if Saturday, who signed with the Packers after 13 years with the Indianapolis Colts and wound up playing only one season in Green Bay, or anyone else ever complained to the league or the NFLPA about the Packers' practices. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said Monday that he was unaware of any complaints but suggested contacting the NFLPA. George Atallah, the NFLPA's assistant executive director of external affairs, did not respond to an email.
McCarthy felt the poor spring practices led to a trickle-down effect that impacted the quality of his team's training-camp practices.
"I just thought coming out of Phase II and into Phase III, you usually get a lot more done, and I did not feel good about it," McCarthy said. "We keep daily notes of everything that goes on at every practice, and especially this time of the year when you're going back and trying to nail it down, I didn't feel like we did the amount of work (needed) — which I knew we wouldn't get the same amount of work done with four weeks less time.
"But I didn't feel very good about what we accomplished in the OTAs, so (now) we're really diving into that, looking at a number of different things."
And the less-than-ideal spring and summer led to a slow start in the fall, as the Packers opened the season by losing three of their first five games before a five-game winning streak.
"We didn't start fast. I'm not talking about our record, I'm talking about quality of play," McCarthy said. "Our quality of play was not what it needed to be the first four weeks."
Before the lockout and the CBA changes, McCarthy had felt very good about the team's offseason program. He expressed his concerns about the new rules at last year's NFL Meetings, and given the success his team had under the old offseason rules – they went on to win Super Bowl XLV after the 2010 season – it was clear that McCarthy and his staff really did have reason to feel good about the structure of their program.
Now, their goal is to find a way to replicate that structure under the new rules. McCarthy emphasized that his coaches enter every offseason expecting "25 to 30 new faces" each year by the time the draft is over and undrafted rookie free agents are signed, and that figures to be the case this year, too.
"I really felt before the (new) CBA we had a really good program. The amount of work and progress we were able to accomplish in March, April and June and see it carry into training camp (was good)," McCarthy said. "To me, I always look for that point in training camp where my team starts going. And we didn't have that this year.
"It was just a change, a change in the offseason program, and in my opinion it takes time to get your team to practice the right way. And the right way wasn't good enough."
Meanwhile, McCarthy said the process continues on the medical staff's study of the high number of injuries the Packers sustained in 2010 and 2012, and while some of the data culled from the study will also impact the offseason and training-camp plans, McCarthy acknowledged that the study won't lead to all the answers. He also said he had no issue with the medical staff – "We don't need better care," he said – or how the trainers and doctors handle injuries.
"Breaking the injuries down into different categories, which we've done, now you look at the ones that are preventable," McCarthy said. "That's where you go back and look at every rep – whether it's on the practice field, in weight room, the load of every rep and those type of things. We're going to adjust.
"When our players get back, it's going to be different. We believe in our program, we believe in the way we go about things, but there's going to be some clear-cut adjustments, and it's important that we accomplish that and it pushes us to where we want to go to."
McCarthy said the analysis didn't show the poor OTA practices, which then led to the greater workload in training camp, resulted in more injuries.
"What do you do (after OTAs)? You push them harder in training camp. So then what happens when you push them in training camp? Do your fatigue injuries go up? I thought that was going to be the case. That wasn't really the case," McCarthy said. "Did those loaded reps really hurt at the start of the season? Believe me, those are the things I'm looking at.


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Anti-Syrian regime protesters hold banners and chant slogans during a demonstration in the neighborhood of Bustan Al-Qasr in Aleppo, Syria, on Friday.
BEIRUT The chief of Syrian rebel forces said Friday that his fighters are in desperate need of weapons and ammunition rather than the food supplies and bandages that the U.S. now plans to provide.
The Obama administration on Thursday announced it was giving an additional $60 million in assistance to the countrys political opposition and said that it would, for the first time, provide non-lethal aid directly to rebels battling to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad.
The move was announced by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at an international conference on Syria in Rome, and several European nations are expected in the coming days to take similar steps in working with the military wing of the opposition in order to ramp up pressure on Assad to step down and pave the way for a democratic transition.
A number of Syrian opposition figures and fighters on the ground, however, expressed disappointment with the limited assistance.
Gen. Salim Idris, chief of staff of the Syrian oppositions Supreme Military Council, said the modest package of aid to rebels consisting of an undetermined amount of food rations and medical supplies will not help them win against Assads forces who have superior air power.
We dont want food and drink and we dont want bandages. When were wounded, we want to die. The only thing we want is weapons, he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
We need anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to stop Bashar Assads criminal, murderous regime from annihilating the Syrian people, he said. The whole world knows what we need and yet they watch as the Syrian people are slaughtered.
Syrias main rebel units, known together as the Free Syrian Army, regrouped in December under a unified Western-backed rebel command called the Supreme Military Council, following promises of more military assistance once a central council was in place.
But the international community remains reluctant to send lethal weapons, fearing they may fall into the hands of extremists who have made inroads in some places in Syria.
Idris, who defected from the Syrian army and is seen as a secular-minded moderate, denied media reports that the rebels have recently received arms shipments.
Croation officials have also denied reports by local media and The New York Times that arms, including machine guns, rifles and anti-tank grenades used in the Balkan wars in the 1990s have recently been sent to the Syrian rebels.
These reports are all untrue. Our fighters are suffering from a severe shortage in weapons and ammunition, Idris said.
The only weapons we have are the ones we are getting from inside Syria and the weapons we are capturing from the Syrian military, he said.
Idris spoke from northern Syria where fierce clashes continued between government forces and rebels attacking a police academy near Aleppo, Syrias largest city and commercial hub.
Rebels backed by captured tanks have been trying to storm the police academy outside the city since launching a new offensive there last week. Activists say the academy, which has become a key front in the wider fight for Aleppo, has been turned into a military base used to shell rebel-held neighborhoods in the city and the surrounding countryside.
The Syrian state news agency said Friday that government troops defending the school had killed dozens of opposition fighters and destroyed five rebel vehicles.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activist group also reported heavy fighting Friday around the school, and said there were several rebel casualties without providing an exact figure.
The Observatory said clashes were still raging around Aleppos landmark 12th century Umayyad Mosque in the walled Old City, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The mosque was heavily damaged in October 2012 just weeks after a fire gutted the old citys famed medieval market.
There were conflicting reports about whether the rebels had managed to sweep regime troops out of the mosque and take full control of the holy site.
Mohammed al-Khatib of the Aleppo Media Center activist group said the mosque was in rebel hands, although clashes were still raging in the area.
The regime forces left lots of ammunition in it (the mosque) with guns and rocket-propelled grenades, he said via Skype.
Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman said rebels have been in control of at least half of the mosque for days, but he could not confirm that they now had captured the entire grounds.
Near the capital, Damascus, activists said the bodies of 10 men most of them shot in the head were found dumped on the side of a road between the suburbs of Adra and Dumair.
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