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Bartholumue: Gym
Bartholumue Somerville
The first day back of a new year and what was the first lesson to ease me back into a routine? Gym. That was great... Just perfect.
I scurried quickly through the halls, weaving my way between people and making sure to keep my head down. I really did not want to have to mend my glasses while blind on the first day back. Not after the 'attempted world record' the jocks tried last year.
When I reached gym, I immediately started to think of a way to get out of having to do anything. The combination of my size, strength, height and lack of co-ordination was lethal when in a room with the jocks doing sport. I really did not want to have to spend an entire period getting in the way of the jocks playing football. I do hold my life with some respect. Besides, the coach would flatten me whether I did anything or not that lesson.
Hastily, I darted into the changing rooms and got changed so the coach would see me there and mark me in. After that, I attempted to hide in the toilets, without much success. Coach entered and shouted at me until I left.
As I walked out, all I could see was a mass of jocks and cheerleaders.
All I could hope for was to be ignored and not to be abused too badly during this period.


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The sky is falling!
The man with the red, round face walks into the office wearing a bright blue batman motorcycle helmet, and a silk outfit made for some type of escapee martial art.
I raise an eyebrow. The man is a new patient. I've yet to dive into the joy of mysteries that he calls his personality, but it looks like it might be a fight. As long as he doesn't use that helmet for head-butting.
"Hello Mr..."
"Joyce," he murmurs, settling upon the couch like a shot-put on a car spring. He places his hands flat upon his knees and fixes a level gaze upon my face. "You're brave," he adds.
For a moment I think he's threatening me with his mental illness, and I blink rapidly with a slim and nervous smile edging upon my lips. And then I compare my simple suit to the man's protective gear and shiny space ball helmet. I am not brave. He is paranoid.
"And what should I fear?" I ask.
"You've only to look up for the answer to that one," he says in a low voice. His eyes are staring straight ahead. He seems to have practiced that stare.
I slowly turn my eyes to the ceiling. "It's a ceiling," I say. "Rather harmless."
"The object itself, Dr. Fraud, is of no importance!" he claims. "It is the law of attraction that brings death raining upon your head!"
"Are you speaking of gravity?" I ask.
"Do not speak its name!" he barks. "It will hear you. It is everywhere. It is in the very air. It has its grip wrapped around every partical of your arrogant self. I had said brave, but you are foolish."
I calmly lick my lips and gaze down upon my notebook. "Mr. Joyce," I say carefully. "Gravity is a good thing. It holds the entire world together. It keeps you on your feet. It keeps the earth rotating around the sun."
"Exactly," he says. "It has too much power."
I laugh. "Mr. Joyce, gravity is not a corruptible agent. It is a simple law of nature. You must learn to accept it."
"Accept it?" he cries. "Do you go your whole life just accepting the way things are?! Do you simply accept that I am afraid of the falling sky, and leave it at that? No! You are curious, you wish to understand...you dig deeper. Let me tell you: I have dug deeper."
Now would normally be the time to interrupt, judging upon my patient's level of excitement, but something in me just cannot wave aside his passionate cries. I decide to let him continue. I decide to allow him to let it all out.
Maybe I should've opened my umbrella first.
"Think about it, Dr Fraud: if the universe is infinite, then we are nothing compared to what's out there! And yet everything is pulled to the center of the earth! We are at the center of the universe with an infinite amount of mass pressing down upon us! We are a single bubble of air being compressed from all sides with an infinite force! The very air we breathe is being pressed upon us!"
"We are not at the center of the universe," I say. "Everything has its own gravity. The sun has more of a pull than the earth. Come now!--You don't need a psychiatrist, you need a physicist."
I immediately regret this last statement as the man bolts from the couch with his hands over his head and a cry issuing from his lips. He lands in a heap on the far side of the room where he crouches as if from a bomb.
"Did you feel that?" he cries.
I shake my head. "No," I say. An obvious answer.
"I just felt a mass one million times bigger than the earth move toward me at one third the speed of light!"
I raise an eyebrow. "How could you have felt it, if it didn't touch you?"
"I feel all the connections of gravity. It's a gift I have. And let me tell you: the masses that move out there in the universe could swipe the earth aside like a monster truck hitting a flea. Don't you see? Two masses could pull themselves together, squishing our entire solar system in the process!"
I lick my lips. My physics is rather lacking so I decide to address the fear side of it. "Mr. Joyce, you are afraid of something that has very slim probability and even less preventability. If something did happen, then what would your fear accomplish?"
"I'd jump out of the way," he says.
"Oh," I say. "Jump out of the way of the sky?"
"Yes. It involves a few extra dimensions, but that's another of my gifts."
"Well if you are so gifted," I ask drily, "Then why are you consulting a psychiatrist?"
He fixes two wide eyes upon me. "My friends demanded that I do."
I tap randomnly on my keyboard, and then sigh. "I have a solution."
He listens intently.
"Take off all of your protective gear; it will do you no good. And if you truly wish to be prepared if something was to fall from the sky, do not be afraid, be aware. Do not show your fear. Keep it hidden. Act as if you are relaxed. But all the while: be utterly aware and ready to react. But do not react too soon; react only when you are absolutely sure that something is falling from the sky...when you can see it."
He holds a steady eye contact with me, which is very peculiar from a mental patient, and I find it hard not to look away. "Maybe you are brave," he says after a while.
"Thank you," I mutter. "Now that is all the time we have. I will see you next week."
He leaves in a silence. I am silently amazed. I look up at the ceiling. A speck of dust falls loose and gently spins down to meet me. I laugh.

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A powerful 8.3 magnitude earthquake followed by a dozen strong aftershocks has struck off the coast of central Chile. Authorities have issued tsunami warning for the area, urging people along the coastline to evacuate.
A powerful earthquake has hit central Chile, causing buildings to sway in the capital Santiago, officials say.
The 8.3-magnitude tremor was centred off the coast, about 144 miles (232km) north-west of the capital.
Five people are now known to have died, and one million residents have been evacuated from coastal areas. There were reports of panic in some cities.


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Join us for this FREE family-friendly event! Saturday, August 19, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
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Stop smoking services
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Prescribing and advising on pharmacotherapies
When to prescribe
- Offer NRT, varenicline or bupropion, as appropriate, to people who are planning to stop smoking
- NRT, varenicline or bupropion should normally be prescribed as part of an abstinent-contingent treatment, in which the smoker makes a commitment to stop smoking on or before a particular date (target stop date). The prescription of NRT, varenicline or bupropion should be sufficient to last only until 2 weeks after the target stop date. Normally, this will be after 2 weeks of NRT therapy, and 3–4 weeks for varenicline and bupropion, to allow for the different methods of administration and mode of action. Subsequent prescriptions should be given only to people who have demonstrated, on re-assessment, that their quit attempt is continuing
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Fine, Jamaal Charles is out of the picture. But the Kansas City Chiefs' defense — remember, the one that was supposed to pull the sled, the one purported to be the best in the division? — has been out of the frame for most of the stinking month.
When you're 1-4 and trying to right the ship in Minneapolis, there's plenty of mud to go around. But what's interesting is how the most telling decline from two years ago in AndyLand, statistically, continues fall at the feet of coordinator Bob Sutton's unit. SportingCharts.com tracks, among dozens of team stats, NFL clubs' points per drive on offense (scored) and defense (allowed), a barometer of relative scoring efficiency. And here's how the Andy Gang has progressed — or, rather regressed — in both departments:
Off PPD: 2.18 (10th in the league)
Def PPD: 1.5 (4th)
Off PPD: 2.04 (13th)
Def PPD: 1.58 (5th)
Off PPD: 1.89 (17th)
Def PPD: 2.38 (27th)
So: Good offense, elite defense; 'Meh' offense, elite defense; Average offense, terrible defense.
Offense: Steady decline. Defense: Falls off the freaking table.
Bash on Alex Smith until your knuckles bleed, but this particular tank wasn't really built to lead with a point-a-minute passing attack first, was it? The Chiefs' offensive efficiency is down 0.29 points per drive — or 13.3 percent off its pace two years earlier.
Defensively? Chiefs opponents are up 0.88 points per drive — almost an entire point, for a jump of 59 percent off the 2013 pace.
(And yes, overall special teams contributions are down, too: FootballOutsiders.com rates the units as just 2.7 percent better than the NFL median in terms of Defense-adjusted Value Over Average, or DVOA, good for ninth in the circuit. Dave Toub's men ranked third in the NFL last fall and first in '13.)
Enter Sunday's dance partner, the Minnesota Vikings:
Off PPD: 1.86 (20th)
Def PPD: 1.74 (9th)
Conclusion: Roll with the under. Probably.
Plus,the numbers cut to the meat of why the visitors are 3.5-point 'dogs at TCF Bank Stadium — and heck, even that line seems a tad conservative given that the Chiefs amble up I-35 without Charles, their best offensive weapon, and a defense with millions of dollars of talent and about a quarter's worth of mojo and self-trust. Young Ramik Wilson and almost-as-young Dee Ford figure to see a lot of snaps at inside linebacker and outside linebacker, respectively, but the jury's still out to whether the latter circumstance (Ford's ProFootballFocus.com grade was -3.4 on 86 snaps going into Week 6; Tamba Hali's was +4.8 on 294 snaps) is a good thing, short-term.
And yet who starts for Sutton on Sunday might not be as important as which defenders actually finish. Or attempt to. Because of all the what-the-expletive-is-going-on-here statistics blighting what was supposed to be the Chiefs' bread and butter, this set of numbers might be the worst:
Opponents' 4th Quarter Points Per Game
Chiefs, 2014: 3.2 (1st in the NFL)
Chiefs, 2015: 10.2 (tied for 29th)
Teddy Bridgewater isn't the second coming Aaron Rodgers or Peyton Manning yet — YET — and the law of averages dictates that Sutton's defense might actually be due for a little bit of redemption. Or correction, given that there's too many studs in the fold to look this much like a collective turnstile. Then again, if Jay Cutler taught us anything, it's that we've been fooled before. And trust, like leads, can be fleeting.


text: BAUDETTE, Minn., July 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ANIP) today announced that it has acquired the NDA for Lithobid® (lithium carbonate extended release 300 mg tablets) from Noven Therapeutics, LLC. Total consideration for the product was $12 million including an $11 million upfront payment and a $1 million future milestone payment. ANI is expected to launch Lithobid® in July 2014 under its own label. The transaction is immediately accretive and is expected to generate approximately $4 million in revenues and $3.9 million in non-GAAP EBITDA annually. Arthur S. Przybyl, ANI's President and CEO stated, "We are excited to add Lithobid® to our portfolio of mature brand products. Prior to the acquisition, ANI contract manufactured Lithobid®, which allows us to immediately launch ANI-labeled product. This transaction represents our second mature brand acquisition and underscores our strategy of augmenting internal generic product development efforts with acquisitions and partnerships for late stage ANDA products and mature brands." About ANI ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the "Company" or "ANI") is an integrated specialty pharmaceutical company developing, manufacturing, and marketing branded and generic prescription pharmaceuticals. The Company's targeted areas of product development currently include narcotics, oncolytics (anti-cancers), hormones and steroids, and complex formulations involving extended release and combination products. For more information, please visit our website www.anipharmaceuticals.com. Forward-Looking Statements To the extent any statements made in this release deal with information that is not historical, these are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements about the Company's plans, objectives, expectations and intentions with respect to future operations and products and the timing or success of the introduction thereof, the anticipated financial position, operating results and growth prospects of the Company, the value of the Company's pipeline or the size of potential markets therefore, and other statements that are not historical in nature, particularly those that utilize terminology such as "anticipates," "will," "expects," "plans," "potential," "future," "believes," "intends," "continue," other words of similar meaning, derivations of such words and the use of future dates. Forward-looking statements by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, subject to change. You should not place undue reliance on those statements because they are subject to numerous uncertainties, risks and other factors relating to the Company's operations and business environment and other factors, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the Company's control.


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Dual monitor system died?
Ok this is a bit of a long one and i've tried a few different things so please bare with me as I try to explain the problem and attempts (which have failed) to solve it:
I recently updated my nVidia drivers to the latest and also my SiSandra Lite
software (for quick access to accurate specs of my PC). After updating SiSandra
Lite, I looked at the GPU section. As usual it loaded the primary monitor first
where everything was fine. I then changed to look at my secondary and my primary
monitor turned off and my desktop was shifted to my second.
Now when I
boot my computer, my primary comes on, but after the pre and post bios. Only
when Grub comes on does something appear on my primary monitor, but it's very
low resolution (compared to what it used to be). The windows 7 loading bar
appears on my primary but before the logo can appear and glow, it swaps to my
secondary monitor where it stays.
Windows 7 cannot detect my primary
monitor trying both screen resolution detection and it's missing from the
devices menu. Really confused about this whole business.
I have now also tried 2 system restores before both the install and GPU driver
update and still the problem persists. Strangely enough when I boot into safe
mode, it displays on my primary monitor but only at 800x600 resolution, which I
cannot change. Only 1 useless reply from SiSandra Lite company and no reply yet
from ASUS (GPU manufacturer). I also tried changing the secondary monitor to the primary slot in the GPU and the slot still works. I have also tried changing the cable going to my primary monitor.
I am now at a loss of what to do...pls help!
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I have (after aa week of seaeching) found the solution. For no apparent reason, my monitor now has a faulty DVI port, as when I use the VGA port, the sceen comes back as normal. The resolution while using the DVI is still at 640x480 where's with the VGA it reverts back to 1440x900 as it should be.
Any fixes for the hardware for resetting the monitor or will I have to use a VGA cable from now on?


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Movie Interviews
DAVE DAVIES, host:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross.
(Soundbite of television program)
Unidentified Man #1: This is NBC Nightly News, Friday, September 1st.
Unidentified Man #2: Good evening. We'll have more on the developments in the Watergate bugging case. We'll hear George McGovern talking about tightening up his campaign organization and we'll have a look at the new unemployment figures. And first, Bobby Fischer. Today...
DAVIES: In 1972, nobody was bigger news than chess master Bobby Fischer. He squared off against Russian Boris Spassky in a historic match seen as a showdown of the Cold War.
Fischer's life as an extraordinary chess genius and troubled soul is the subject of a new documentary directed by my guest, Liz Garbus, called "Bobby Fischer Against the World." It premieres Monday on HBO.
The film chronicles Fischer's unusual family life, his rise to celebrity as a chess master and his increasingly bizarre behavior after his 1972 match with Spassky. Fischer eventually became an angry, paranoid anti-Semite who fled the U.S. to avoid criminal prosecution.
The film includes interviews with many who knew Fischer, including chess master and physician Anthony Saidy, who also joined our interview.
Liz Garbus has directed more than a dozen documentaries, including her Oscar-nominated film about a Louisiana prison called "The Farm: Angola, USA." "Bobby Fischer Against the World" features a lot of archival footage of Fischer. You can hear his awkwardness in this interview, conducted in his late 20s when he was in his chess-playing prime.
(Soundbite of interview)
Unidentified Man #3: Bobby, you've given virtually your entire life to the world of chess. What about Bobby Fischer the man? What's he like?
Mr. BOBBY FISCHER (Chess Master): I don't know. It's pretty - chess and me, you know, it's like it's hard to take them apart, you know, just like my alter-ego, you know. I dont need to...
Unidentified Man #3: But there are times when you get away from that chess board. What do you do?
Mr. FISCHER: I don't do too much for the most. See, I'm really, you know, tied up in chess. I intend to expand, but first I've got to get the title, basically.
DAVIES: I asked Liz Garbus and Anthony Saidy about Fischer's early years, growing in New York with his mother, Regina.
Well, Liz Garbus, Anthony Saidy, welcome to FRESH AIR. We know that Regina, Bobby Fischer's mom, was deeply involved in left-wing activity and was monitored by the FBI. Liz Garbus, do you know what kind of impact this had on the kids growing up?
Ms. LIZ GARBUS (Director, "Bobby Fischer Against the World"): Yeah, I mean, it's kind of remarkable. We got both Bobby Fischer's and Regina Fischer's FBI file. And Bobby Fischer being someone who was actually ultimately hunted by the U.S., a fugitive, arrested in Japan, his FBI file was, you know, about an eighth of the size of his mother's, Regina Fischer, which just tells you a lot about the period in which they were growing up and the suspicions the FBI had about her communist activities.
It was a paranoid time, right, McCarthy, and this was the Cold War, and this is the environment in which they were growing up, so that, you know, one imagines that that paranoia would have transferred to the young Bobby.
One of our interviewees told a story about how - that Regina had instructed Bobby, if he was ever sort of sitting on the steps outside of his house, if anybody asked him what his name was or where he lived, he should just say: I can neither confirm nor deny that.
(Soundbite of laughter)
So he was apparently trained at a young age how to kind of watch his back.
DAVIES: Wow. Now, of course, he's a terrific chess player, and at 13 or 14, he starts beating people who are much, much older and making it clear what a master he could become.
I thought we would listen to a clip from the documentary of Bobby Fischer as a teenager. Here he is at age 15. He's appearing on the TV show "I've Got a Secret." We're going to hear the voice of Garry Moore, who is the host, and Dick Clark, who was a panelist. Let's listen.
(Soundbite of film, "Bobby Fischer Against the World")
(Soundbite of television program, "I've Got a Secret")
Mr. GARRY MOORE (Host): Can you tell us how old you are and where you're from?
Mr. FISCHER: I'm 15. I'm from Brooklyn.
Mr. MOORE: He's 15 years old, and he is from Brooklyn, all right?
Unidentified Person: Yay.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Mr. MOORE: Will you show your headline from camera three to Dick Clark because we'll make him go to work on you. It says: Teenager's Strategy Defeats All Comers.
Mr. DICK CLARK (TV Personality): This strategy, did it involve finances?
Mr. FISCHER: No.
Mr. CLARK: Did you have any help?
Mr. FISCHER: No.
Mr. CLARK: Is it all by yourself. Did it make people happy?
Mr. FISCHER: It made me happy.
(Soundbite of laughter)
(Soundbite of buzzer)
Mr. MOORE: This young man's name is Bobby Fischer, and already, he is the United States chess champion. He is 15 years old, and he has defeated the masters. He is the United States champion in chess.
(Soundbite of applause)
DAVIES: And a piece of Americana there, Bobby Fischer at age 15 on the TV show "I've Got a Secret." That's from the documentary "Bobby Fischer Against the World," directed by our guest, Liz Garbus. Also with us, Anthony Saidy, an international chess master who knew Bobby Fischer.
Liz Garbus, did Bobby Fischer's mother Regina want him to be a public figure? Is that how he got on TV?
Ms. GARBUS: It seems that as they, you know, sort of Bobby's accolades grew, and it was clear, you know, what his prowess was and his potential on the chess board that she did support that rise, that she was deeply ambitious and ambitious for her son.
At a certain point, I think that ambition and that drive of hers was probably too much for Bobby, and Bobby had to separate from her and would only go to chess tournaments with his sister, Joan. He had to pull away from perhaps her drive and her ambitions for him.
DAVIES: And she actually moved out of the house when he was 16. Is that right?
Ms. GARBUS: Yeah, apparently at age 16, Regina moved out of the house, leaving Bobby there to kind of raise himself. And people who went over to the house at that time, and I imagine Dr. Saidy was one of them, talking about kind of the total chaos and disarray that he lived in.
You know, but then he sort of, I think, quickly, you know, went on tour and was sort - became more of a life of living in hotel rooms and playing chess tournaments.
DAVIES: Anthony Saidy, did you know him to be, in these years when he was a teenager and in his 20s, a difficult person to get along with?
Dr. ANTHONY SAIDY (Chess Master): He was difficult, yes, from teenage on. In terms of just every day agreement on, you know, where do we eat? Or, what hotel should we stay in? There was always an issue, and it had to be his way.
He didn't have empathy for other people's desires or needs at all. I guess it was exemplified when he came to my family's home in Long Island prior to the big match, and I said to Bobby: Incidentally, my dad is very ill. And Bobby said: Oh, I don't mind.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Ms. GARBUS: And Bobby, you know, Bobby was holed up there. From what I know and from what Dr. Saidy has told us, Dr. Saidy's mother was going to great lengths to keep Bobby Fischer happy and fed and all the great food spreads, but, you know, meanwhile there were sort of greater needs going on in the household.
DAVIES: Now, was he making his living at chess from, you know, his teens on through his 20s?
Ms. GARBUS: Bobby would travel around, and Larry Evans, who has now passed away, his father would organize tours for Bobby Fischer. And Bobby would go, and people would pay to play Bobby Fischer. So there were different ways that Bobby made money.
There would be people in chess clubs who would just pay to play Bobby Fischer, and he's play blitz matches against - you know, and then he would make money this way.
The purse in chess matches at the time was quite small, and it was difficult for a chess player to make a living playing chess, and this was one of the major things that Bobby actually took on as his cause and really caused a change in the purses so you could actually make a living as a chess player.
DAVIES: You said he did blitz matches. What are they?
Dr. SAIDY: Blitz is a term for a timed game in which each side has only five minutes. It's a very action-packed form of chess.
DAVIES: And would he play more than one opponent at a time?
Ms. GARBUS: Yeah, there's footage in the film - people always remark on it because it looks to those of us outside the chess world so remarkable, but to people in the chess world, it was quite a normal scene, where Bobby would play 20 opponents at once, going from board to board, making a move while the other people, you know, sometimes four times his age, would still be pondering the move. He would be back after having played, you know, 19 other people.
DAVIES: He would rotate around a circle where there are boards of other people, and he would look at the board for two seconds, make a move and just keep moving.
Ms. GARBUS: Right, so ostensibly keeping all of those patterns in his head, you know, of each board and sort of the state of play.
DAVIES: We're speaking with documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus and chess master Anthony Saidy. We'll talk more after a short break. This is FRESH AIR.
(Soundbite of music)
DAVIES: If you're just joining us, we're speaking with documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus. She's the director of "Bobby Fischer Against the World," the documentary about chess master Bobby Fischer, which will be premiering on HBO.
Also with us, Anthony Saidy, a chess master who knew Bobby Fischer. So let's talk about the historic match between Bobby Fischer and the Russian Boris Spassky. Liz Garbus, why were so much attention paid to this confrontation?
Ms. GARBUS: It's hard to imagine that in 1972, all eyes were on a chess match, but it in fact seem to be the case. Bobby Fischer was this, you know, self-taught Brooklyn boy who kind of took the New York chess scene and then the national chess scene by storm.
And the Russians had been dominating the sport for decades. The Soviet Union had made chess its national sport. It was a way of demonstrating intellectual superiority over the rest of the world, including certainly the U.S. and the West. And so for an American, Bobby Fischer, to have a real chance at beating that machine, this was big stuff.
I mean, it was as if, you know, there was going to be a chess match between or a boxing match between a representative of the U.S. government and al-Qaida. I mean, it was the organizing principle of the time, and here they were going to have, you know, have war over the board. So the symbolism of the match was enormous.
DAVIES: A real Cold War confrontation, national prestige on the line.
Anthony Saidy, you were in touch with Bobby at the time. It was not easy getting him here. He was living in Los Angeles, right? And what was his...
Dr. SAIDY: In Pasadena, near Los Angeles.
DAVIES: Yeah, what was his state of mind as this approached?
Dr. SAIDY: Ambivalence. He wanted to go and win the world championship, but he had many provisos that had to be met, and it was always touch and go whether he would go through with the match.
I thought it was an event of great historical importance, and I wanted to see it take place. So I bent every effort to go on the positive side and get him at least from California to New York, where he could be dealt with by many negotiators.
DAVIES: Right. Now, the event itself was going to be in Reykjavik, Iceland. And you said he had a lot of provisos. What were some of his demands to get the match going?
Dr. SAIDY: Money was a chief arguing point at the beginning, and in fact, I don't think he would have gone and played if the British financier James Slater had not doubled the purse overnight and issued a challenge to Fischer: Come out and play if you're not a chicken.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Ms. GARBUS: And we should add that there had been opportunities for Bobby to make it this far before. Bobby had backed out of matches before. So there certainly was no guarantee that these were just antics or provocations.
You know, he really had lived up to his threats before of, you know, if you don't satisfy my conditions, I'm not coming. Bobby was already 29. You know, he probably could've won the championship earlier, but he had really - when people hadn't met his conditions before, he had dropped out.
So there was extraordinary pressure on it this time to really get him to go. People knew how serious he was.
DAVIES: Is it true that Henry Kissinger called?
Dr. SAIDY: I can personally confirm one call of Kissinger placed to our family home when Fischer was there. That's beyond dispute.
Ms. GARBUS: We spoke to Dr. Kissinger for the documentary, and he said, you know, it was important for an American to win this match. So he wanted to call Fischer and tell him to go.
He very simply said: You know, this is a matter of national importance. And Bobby Fischer, get out of Dr. Saidy's house and get on a plane and go to Reykjavik.
Now, this coincided with the purse being doubled by a financier, and so it was kind of the perfect storm. Finally, Bobby would go.
DAVIES: Now, it's interesting, you know, Anthony Saidy, you said that Bobby was living in Pasadena, California, and you sort of coaxed him to New York. You said: I need to go back. My father's ill. Let's go to New York. And you were really simply trying to get him a step closer to Iceland, right?
Dr. SAIDY: Correct.
DAVIES: Right. Now, what happened the first time he went to JFK Airport to go to Reykjavik? Were you there?
Dr. SAIDY: He seemed headed for Iceland, and our troubles were over, we thought. But as we were headed toward the check-in desk, a New York Daily News photographer had spied Bobby and started chasing us with about 50 pounds of photographic equipment on his back.
And Bobby saw the guy and started running. I turned around and blocked the photographer, and the photographer said: What are you going to do, stop me? I said: Oh, no, no. In any event, that spooked Bobby.
He had this phobia of the press for a long time, and instead of checking in for the flight, he just left the airport.
DAVIES: All right. So eventually, he does get to Reykjavik, and there is the appointed day at which Boris Spassky is there. This is going to be televised. The whole world is watching. And I thought we'd listen to a moment from the documentary and get a flavor of this, and this is a bit of a montage from Liz Garbus' documentary.
We're going to hear some - mixed in some of the broadcasters who are telecasting it.
(Soundbite of film, "Bobby Fischer Against the World")
Unidentified Man #4: The clock has now been started. It was officially 5 o'clock in Reykjavik. Spassky is obviously anxious about the whereabouts of Mr. Fischer.
(Soundbite of music)
Mr. SAIDY: Bobby was nowhere to be seen, and all of us despaired.
Unidentified Man #5: If Fischer doesn't show up by the time one hour has elapsed, he forfeits the game automatically.
Unidentified Man #6: Oh, there he goes now. He's just played one pawn to queen four.
Unidentified Man #7: You saw Spassky make his move. Then he touched his clock, which turns his clock off but turns his opponent's clock on. So Fischer's time is now ticking.
DAVIES: And that's from the documentary "Bobby Fischer Against the World," directed by our guest Liz Garbus. Also with us, Anthony Saidy, whose voice is in that clip. He is an international chess master who knew Bobby Fischer.
So when this confrontation happens. Bobby Fischer doesn't show up on time for the first round. Anthony Saidy, what was going on?
Dr. SAIDY: That was a minor blip because he was just late to start the first game. The major blip came for this in the second game, when Bobby didn't show up at all in a big dispute over cameras and noises and conditions in the playing room. That's when despair mounted and we feared that the match would just end.
The Soviets told Boris Spassky: You have been disrespected. The Soviet Union has been disrespected. You have every right to go home now and keep your world championship title because this American upstart is too rude.
And Boris said: No, I want to play chess. He was a great sportsman.
DAVIES: Now Fischer, and I have to say this is depicted really well in the documentary because there is this surviving television footage of this. He said he could hear the TV cameras. Anthony Saidy, do you believe him?
Dr. SAIDY: I think he had a heightened sense of hearing. Yes, I do believe that. I also believe that his ego was involved, and he insisted on making everyone kowtow to his demands.
DAVIES: So the match gets moved into a quiet room in the back, and even though there's a huge purse here that I assume depends upon, you know, internationally televised transmission of this, the public really has to follow this through a chess board. It was that right, Liz Garbus, where the moves are relayed to crowds, and then the television doesn't actually see the players?
Ms. GARBUS: Yeah, it's really remarkable. I mean, it was the most anticipated match and had been anticipated for months and months, and everybody had followed the shenanigans of, you know, would Bobby even show up.
So Bobby shows up. You know, as you played in the clip, he's late for the first game. Spassky, the world champion, got to - in game one, he plays white, so he played first. So he got to open, and, you know, nobody was there. And then Bobby Fischer emerges, you know, comes into the room saying he was caught in traffic.
And of course it was just a blip, but at the same time, it, you know, wasn't the way these things were usually played.
For game two, the Icelanders had refused to remove the cameras from the hall originally, which Bobby wanted because Bobby didn't like the noise, and he didn't like the cameraman, Chester Fox, who had been given the contract to record the match and distribute it all over the world.
So for game three, for the match to continue, the Russian team would have to agree that the match be moved into a different room. And so they end up -Spassky agrees, as Dr. Saidy pointed out. He did not need to agree. He could've just insisted that the match be played as per the plan. But he wanted to play Bobby Fischer.
He wanted the match to continue. So he agreed to move this monumentally important chess match into the back, into a little ping-pong room with, you know, just Bobby, Boris, the official and a couple other guys.
So all the people who had been anxiously awaiting this match were forced into this room, and they had to watch it through closed-circuit television and boards reporting the moves, calling out the moves. And so the whole thing - the whole arrangement kind of went south.
DAVIES: And Boris Spassky takes a two-nothing lead, which Anthony Saidy, seemed like an insurmountable deficit to a lot of people at the time, right?
Dr. SAIDY: It's a huge lead in a match where the challenger actually has to win one more game than the champion in order to take the title. And this forfeiture of the second game, of course, was under protest. And I can't really fathom how many critical moments had to go the right way in order for this match to reach a conclusion.
DAVIES: Anthony Said, a chess master who knew Bobby Fischer, and documentary Liz Garbus, whose film "Bobby Fischer Against the World" premieres Monday on HBO. We'll be back in the second half of the show. I'm Dave Davies, and this is FRESH AIR.
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We're talking about the troubled life of the late chess master Bobby Fischer with Liz Garbus, whose documentary "Bobby Fischer Against the World" premieres Monday on HBO, and with Anthony Saidy, a chess master who knew Bobby Fischer and appears in the film.
The pinnacle of Fischer's career and the centerpiece of the documentary is the historic 1972 world championship match between Fischer and Soviet master Boris Spassky.
Bobby Fischer committed a foolish blunder to lose one of the early games and then he had this unorthodox strategy which allowed him to win game three, get back into it. People still talk about game six. Anthony Saidy, we don't understand chess like you do. What made game six special?
Mr. SAIDY: Let's compare chess to music, and of course there are many varieties of music. Game six in a musical sense would be Mozartian. It was a placid symphony of squeezing Boris Spassky's pieces to the point that they had hardly any moves left. And then the coup de grace at the end, sacrificing, you know, rook for a knight. Everyone in the world thought that this was a magnificent game. And also it started with a move that Bobby had never hardly ever played before, which was a surprise weapon. He kept springing these surprises on the Soviet side again and again and them off-balance.
DAVIES: And how did Boris Spassky react to this game six?
Mr. SAIDY: Great sportsman that he was, he joined in the crowd's applause for the game. He stood up and applauded his opponent. And Fischer, the humanity of that even got to Fischer.
Ms. GARBUS: The stories were that after Boris had, you know, stood up and applauded for Bobby at game six, Bobby said, you know, did you see that? Did you see that? You know, did you see what he did? He was moved. Bobby, who didn't really pay attention to other people's emotional displays, was really quite moved and satisfied at the end of game six.
DAVIES: Anthony Saidy, how did it end? How did the match end?
Mr. SAIDY: That was the turning point. Bobby seized the lead in game six and he won going away. He lost only one more game out of the 21-game match. Totally dominated Boris Spassky. The chess world was surprised, very surprised at the one-sided nature of the match. And it's clear to me that Boris was not himself, at all these disturbances and shenanigans at the beginning of the match had upset him.
I don't think Fischer intended to upset him, he was just being himself. But we weren't going to protest the outcome. We were just thrilled that a lone American who had virtually no help had managed to defeat the world champion from the Soviet Union, who had all kinds of help that we never dreamt of in New York.
DAVIES: At age 29, Bobby Fischer achieved this historic victory. What kind of celebrity did this confer on him?
Ms. GARBUS: People said when he returned home to the United States there was a sense that nobody was bigger, nobody was more important than Bobby Fischer right then. And when he got home he got all sorts of offers to endorse products. But Bobby responded in his usual Bobby-ish way. For instance, Steinway piano wanted to pay him several million dollars to pose for ads with their piano, and Bobby said but that would be dishonest because that would give the impression that I play piano and I don't. So Bobby was, you know, a bit of a naive in this world and certainly did not embrace it.
Though when he did come back, he did appear on many talk shows - Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, Dick Cavett. And I think actually the most revealing moment in those months after the match was on the Johnny Carson show, when Carson asked Bobby, you know, Bobby, how did you feel what it was all over? You know, it must've been kind of a letdown, you know, after the match was all over. And Bobby said, yeah, you know, I kind of feel like something has been taken from me. And that really was a harbinger of what was to come later in Bobby Fischer's life. The great triumph was actually a loss of something for Bobby Fischer.
DAVIES: And he gradually sort of retreated into isolation. Anthony Saidy, were you in touch with him during this period? Do you know what was going on in his head?
Mr. SAIDY: Yes. He became very close to the Worldwide Church of God, headquartered in Pasadena. And I never saw him unless he was transported by one of his church fellows or I picked him up myself. He was in retreat. He turned down so many good offers. I personally was involved in one offer of half a million dollars to make a record on how to play chess. And his reason for turning it down, I don't think any American in history has given a reason like this. He said, I could make a mistake and 10 years from now the Russians could find the mistake and bad mouth me.
Well, it was a half-million bucks. You know, we don't make decisions like that most of us.
DAVIES: Did you have concerns for his mental health then?
Mr. SAIDY: I had concerns moderate concerns. I thought he was certainly capable of taking care of himself at all times. But he started to develop such deep resentments of classes of people. I can understand his resenting the Soviet Union, which had cheated and had perhaps delayed his ascendancy to the title. I could understand some of the things. But he became truly paranoid.
DAVIES: And you mentioned this church. Was it the United Church of God?
Mr. SAIDY: Worldwide Church of God.
DAVIES: Yeah. What were they about? Ms. Garbus, did you look into them?
Ms. GARBUS: The Worldwide Church of God was a church where Bobby found sort of a home and a community, especially after '72, when he actually started living in an apartment that the church are rented for him. Yeah, they were a church with a very charismatic leader, Armstrong, and an apocalyptic vision. And when that particular apocalypse did not come to pass, Bobby Fischer became disenchanted with the church and rejected them.
DAVIES: And, of course, he got interested in anti-Semitic ideologies. He read the Elders of Zion. Anthony Saidy, did he recognize that he himself was ethnically Jewish? Did he...
Mr. SAIDY: He certainly considered himself Jewish when he was a kid. In fact, he told me one time, he said those Irish kids, they don't like us Jewish kids at all. So there was no doubt he felt that he was Jewish.
DAVIES: So what do you make of his embracing anti-Semitism?
Ms. GARBUS: I think at a certain point Bobby just rejected everything that he was, everything that he had come from. You know, in addition to feeling angry at the Soviets for having cheated, and what Dr. Saidy was referring to there was that it was established that the Soviets would prearrange draws so that their better players could rise up in the ranks of tournaments without being exhausted by tough matches.
And this was something that Bobby had complained about a lot. People called him paranoid about that at the time. But it turned out it was true. So Bobby was angry at the Soviets for this. But also, Bobby also became very disenchanted with the U.S. You know, as Harry Benson, one of the photographers who was with Bobby all throughout Reykjavik in 1972, said, you know, there was never a fruit basket. You know, Kissinger called him to tell him to go. But you know, there wasn't support for Bobby once he got there, he was really on his own. And then, of course, later the United States really pursued Bobby. So Bobby rejected Jews. He became an anti-Semite. And he also rejected America, applauding the events of 9/11 in one of his sort of most infamous speeches. So Bobby rejected everything that he had come from and he even, you know, stopped playing professional chess.
DAVIES: You know, Anthony Saidy, what about the idea that when you look at what chess is, it's this infinite possibility of moves and a game in which you are thinking 20 moves down the road about how your opponent might get you. That's almost the definition of paranoia, isn't it?
Mr. SAIDY: You've got it. Somebody is scheming against you every minute. But most people are able to see reality and keep friendly relations with their opponents.
Ms. GARBUS: One of the other greatest chess players who ever lived is Garry Kasparov, who we interviewed for the film, and he is, you know, remarkably sane, charming and socially well-developed, so it's certainly not a rule. But yet chess is a game which involves, you know, constantly feeling like you are under attack, and indeed you are under attack from many places anticipated and not anticipated. So it's a game certainly that heightens one's sense of paranoia.
DAVIES: Documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus and chess master Anthony Saidy. The film "Bobby Fischer Against the World" premieres Monday on HBO.
More after a short break. This is FRESH AIR.
(Soundbite of music)
DAVIES: We're speaking with chess master Anthony Saidy and filmmaker Liz Garbus, whose documentary "Bobby Fischer Against the World" premieres Monday on HBO.
Bobby Fischer was a recluse, it seems, or at least not often seen for 20 years. Then he reemerges in 1992 and does this spectacular rematch with Boris Spassky in war-torn Yugoslavia, violating a UN boycott, which gets him indicted in the United States, and kind of emerges as this angry crank.
And I thought we'd listen to a piece of tape, and this is, I think, a call in to a radio show after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, where he well, maybe, Liz Garbus, is this where he's calling a radio show in the Philippines? Is that where this is from?
Ms. GARBUS: That's right. Bobby through the '90s would call in mostly in the Philippines to radio shows there and air his views, largely anti-Semitic and anti-American.
DAVIES: So let's listen. This is him calling in to a radio show after the September 11th attacks.
(Soundbite of radio show)
Mr. BOBBY FISCHER (Chess Master): This is all wonderful news. It's time for the (bleep) U.S. to get their heads kicked in. It's time to finish off the U.S. once and for all. This just shows you that what goes around comes around, even for the United States.
(Soundbite of laughter)
DAVIES: And that's Bobby Fischer in 2001, reacting with glee to the September 11th attacks. That's from the documentary "Bobby Fischer Against the World," directed by our guest, Liz Garbus. Also with us, Anthony Saidy, an international chess master who knew Bobby Fischer.
Liz Garbus, how do you describe his mental state in these last years?
Ms. GARBUS: I mean it's a very, very sad story. I mean we got into our possession tens of hours of Bobby's ranting on these radio show. And it was really the rantings of a man who was not at all well and whom nobody was kind of steering back in the right direction, without any kind of protective factors or supports. You know, the 9/11 comments are what they are, they're hateful, and we listened to many other hours of Bobby ranting this way. I listened for any clues. I kept on trying to sort of wade through them, find some truth, some introspection, and it really wasn't there. By the late '90s it was really just, just that, just a lot of ranting paranoid idea.
DAVIES: Yeah, he ends up being unable to return to the United States because he is under indictments, spends time in Japan. Finally Iceland offers him citizenship and he finishes his life there before he dies in 2008. And you know, Liz Garbus, this interested me as someone who - you study people and images, and when I looked at a lot of the film of Bobby Fischer when he was young and in his prime and playing chess competitively, when he was interviewed he often seemed awkward. He looked away frequently, almost twitched at times, just did not seem comfortable. And those troubling scenes at the end where he's giving these angry rants, he seems at ease. He seems completely comfortable in his skin. Did that occur to you?
Ms. GARBUS: It absolutely did. I think it's a great observation. There was a part of him that was never - that was always sort of fighting with himself to kind of, you know, be present in the media in all of those appearances. And then I guess the sort of floodgates were opened and everything just kind of poured out, there was no censor. He was unhinged at that time.
DAVIES: He had romantic partners. I mean there was a woman in Japan who I believe an Icelandic court concluded was his wife and was entitled to his estate. There was also a romantic partner in the Philippines, right? I assume you tried to reach these folks?
Ms. GARBUS: We did. We interviewed - there was a dispute after Bobby Fischer passed away. There was a dispute over his estate. A woman with whom he'd been involved in the Philippines claimed to be the mother of his child. Her name was Marilyn Young and the child is Jinky. It's clear that she did have a relationship with Bobby and that Bobby was fond of this little girl. The little growth would come visit him in Iceland. They would walk around the streets. People saw them together. There were letters they had written back and forth.
Ultimately, a DNA test proved that she was not Bobby's daughter. And Miyoko Watai, who is involved in the Japanese Chess Federation and also a friend of Bobby's, was found to be Bobby's legal wife. There continues to be a dispute over the estate. Bobby had two nephews. His sister Joan had two sons who claim they are the rightful heirs to the estate.
DAVIES: Liz Garbus, did you ever learn anything about his romantic relationships, how he related to women?
Ms. GARBUS: Yeah. We did learn about his romantic relationships. It seems that Bobby was not interested in women for conversation, in women as peers. Romantically his relationships seem to be somewhat stunted. From the Filipino woman, Marilyn Young who we interviewed, she, you know, they had a relationship. Bobby, they didn't really, she didn't understand anything about chess. In fact, she barely spoke English and so their relationship was not intellectually probably or emotionally or, you know, stimulating for Bobby. There were other women Bobby was involved with. A Hungarian woman named Zita Rajcsanyi, who also we spoke to over the phone and, you know, her relationship with Bobby was very difficult and he was not easy with women.
Dr. SAIDY: I think Zita made a cute remark when asked why she was friendly with Bobby. She said she had worked in a mental hospital and she had an understanding of this kind of person.
DAVIES: Hmm. Now Anthony Saidy, this was somebody that you knew well when he was young and brilliant. And then you watched him from a distance as he deteriorated. Did you think of him much in those years when you weren't in touch?
Dr. SAIDY: I certainly did. And I intervened once in public and asked the world to leave him alone out of, quote, solicitude for the mentally ill. And somehow he found out about that and he resented that quite a bit.
DAVIES: When people see the documentary theyll see the images that go along with the voices that we've heard. But it's so striking when you see this kid, a 15-year-old kid on television and how awkward and vulnerable he is. And then see Bobby Fischer in his old age as this contemptible anti-Semitic crank. I don't know, how do you regard him Liz Garbus? Do you like the guy?
Ms. GARBUS: I have a lot of empathy for Bobby Fischer. One of the most surprising things for me in making the film was looking at all the footage of him, 71, 72, and he was, yes, he was awkward and nervous but he had moments of real charisma and kind of inhabiting that rock star role he was being given at the time. He could laugh at himself when an interviewer made him comfortable, like Dick Cavett made Bobby very comfortable. You know, he had a sense of humor and could laugh and be very, very charming.
So, you know, yes, I like that man. And then later, you know, over the course of the years and you listen to Bobby, I listened to all these hours of Bobby calling into radio shows, you can't help but feel empathy. I mean these ideas are not well organized ideologies to commit violence against anybody. They're really just the ravings of somebody who has become unhinged and for whom there is really nobody sort of pulling him down and helping him. So yes, I felt very empathetic to Bobby Fischer.
DAVIES: Well, Liz Garbus, thanks so much for speaking with us.
Ms. GARBUS: Thank you for having me.
DAVIES: Anthony Saidy, thank you as well.
Dr. SAIDY: My pleasure.
DAVIES: Filmmaker Liz Garbus and chess master Anthony Saidy. Garbus directed the documentary Bobby Fischer Against the World. Here's a scene near the end of the film when Fischer was living in Iceland reflecting here on his life and talent.
(Soundbite of film, Bobby Fischer Against the World)
Mr. FISCHER: I don't consider myself to be a genius at chess. I consider myself more to be a genius who just happens to play chess. In a sense, so I could be doing any, I could have done and I can do any number of other things, you know? You know, I always wanted to write some songs. I was telling Evans, Larry Evans, this is back in the 60s, I remember saying, you know, I listen to all these songs and I wish I could write them. I try to write some, I try to think of something and I just nothing comes out. And he says yeah, because you haven't lived.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Mr. FISCHER: I started thinking about it. He's right.
(Soundbite of laughter)
DAVIES: Bobby Fischer died in 2008. The documentary Bobby Fischer Against the World premieres Monday on HBO.
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The endothelial lining of blood vessels presents a large surface area for exchange of materials between blood and tissues, and is critically involved in many other processes such as regulation of blood flow, inflammatory responses and blood coagulation. It has long been known that the luminal surface of the endothelium is lined with a glycocalyx, a layer of membrane-bound macromolecules which has been determined by electron microscopy to be several tens of nanometers thick. However, investigations in vivo have indicated the presence of a much thicker endothelial surface layer (ESL), with an estimated thickness ranging from 0.5 µm to over 1 µm, that restricts the flow of plasma and can exclude red blood cells and some macromolecular solutes. The evidence for the existence of the ESL, hypotheses about its composition and biophysical properties, its relevance to physiological processes, and its possible clinical implications are considered in this review.


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Mitt Romney, who as a moderate Republican governor brought universal health insurance to the bedrock liberal state of Massachusetts, announced a run for the White House yesterday.
Mr Romney, 59, the chief executive of a multibillion dollar venture capital firm, would be the first Mormon president if elected over more visible rivals, the maverick senator John McCain and the former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
He returned to Michigan, where he was born and where his father was governor for three terms, to make his announcement, posing in front of a DC3 aeroplane at the Henry Ford museum. He was due to travel on to Iowa, traditionally the first state to hold caucuses for the presidential primaries. Michigan was intended to symbolise American ingenuity as embodied by Mr Romney, whose management skills rescued the Salt Lake City Olympics from scandal and financial disaster in 2002.
In his announcement Mr Romney said Americans' loss of faith in government could not be fixed from within and needed an outsider with an executive mindset. "I do not believe Washington can be transformed by someone who has never tried doing such a thing before, in any setting, by someone who has never even managed a corner store, let alone the largest enterprise in the world," he said.
"Throughout my life I have pursued innovation and transformation. It has taught me the vital lessons that come only from experience, from failures and successes, from the private, public and voluntary sectors, from small and large enterprise, from leading a state, from being in the arena, not just talking about it."
Jewish Democratic activists immediately accused Mr Romney of embracing Ford's notorious anti-semitism by appearing at the museum.
After one term as governor of a small state regarded primarily as the breeding ground for Democratic presidents and candidates - from John F Kennedy to John Kerry - Mr Romney has a lower profile than other Republicans in the fray. He lags a distant third in popularity and name recognition behind Senator McCain and Mr Giuliani. But he hopes to capitalise on Mr Giuliani's weaknesses among conservative Republican primary voters - his liberal stand on gay rights and abortion - by repositioning himself as a conservative.
During his earlier campaigns in Massachusetts, Mr Romney has supported abortion rights and been supportive of gays - although he opposed same-sex marriage. But in recent weeks he has lobbied for support from evangelical leaders and conservative Congressman who can confirm his transformation and overcome doubts about his Mormon faith. He appeared yesterday with his wife, Ann, his five sons and their wives, and declared his belief in the sanctity of human life and the family as the bedrock of American values.
He has tried to distance himself from Mr Bush on Iraq, offering only guarded support yesterday for the troop increase and warning that a failure there could be "devastating" for America.


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Encouraging men to visit their doctor is one of the aims of a national sexual health conference in Hobart.
The president of the Australian Society of Sex Educators, Dr Margaret Redelman, says men are often reluctant to seek help, especially when sexual matters are involved.
She says the sexual health of men needs to be promoted.
"We need to sell the message that clever men look after their sexual health and especially now we're living longer we want better quality of life, better relationships," she said.
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"I woke up and heard the news on the radio on Friday morning," says a magic circle partner, "and thought, 'Christ, I hope that law firm they're talking about isn't us'."
For that morning the BBC business news led with the story that the Lehman bankruptcy examiner had not only identified serious lapses by Ernst & Young in auditing the failed bank, but had also singled out "a City law firm" for giving an opinion that an accounting loophole was okay under English law. The bank was then able to import that loophole back into the US, allowing Lehman to shift $50bn (£33.24bn) of assets off its balance sheet.
As we all now know, that City law firm was Linklaters, which was only briefly able to benefit from the anonymity that broadcast media always seem to give to commercial law firms. Indeed, I'm sure it was delighted for once that its brand was not deemed well-known enough for a namecheck on the Today programme.
But Linklaters' opinion, predict numerous City lawyers slightly ghoulishly, will be leapt upon by the class action junkies over in the US, particularly since Weil Gotshal & Manges refused to sign off any such opinion under New York law.
Well, we'll see. It would hardly be surprising if some US plaintiff lawyer decided to take action; we've seen plenty of them crawling over the wreckage of the financial crisis. However, the 2008 decision in Stoneridge affords some comfort to Linklaters, because the US Supreme Court refused to extend liability to third parties linked with fraudulent businesses. And how was Linklaters to know that Lehman would leap on its opinion and use it to justify trades in the US? This isn't necessarily a question of getting too close to a client and telling it what it wants to hear, although some of the US business blogs are intimating as much.
There's a more general question to contend with. Accountants are neurotically specific about limiting the scope of their advice, while lawyers tend to be more generous. And yet, if you're a major law firm that has sold itself on its global capability, it's going to be very difficult to parcel up your advice into ever-shrinking little boxes and sell that to increasingly impatient clients. It certainly gives something for the risk managers to chew over.


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ARLINGTON, Texas Texas right-hander Colby Lewis, who is out for the season after tearing his right flexor tendon, has been signed for the 2013 season. Lewis, who would have been a free agent after the season, will make 2 million and could make up to 6 million if he reaches all of the incentives in his contract. Lewis had surgery to repair the flexor tendon July 27 and isn't expected to be able to pitch until next summer. He went on the 15-day disabled list July 23. It was the second time he was on the DL for the injury. Lewis, 33, was 6-6 with a 3.43 ERA in 16 starts before getting hurt. The best postseason pitcher the Rangers have had over the last two seasons, Lewis was 4-1 with a 2.34 ERA in the playoffs. Texas signed him to a two-year deal before the 2010 season and he's gone 20-16 over the last two regular seasons. Lewis was originally drafted by the Rangers but struggled in the majors. He played in Japan in 2008 and 2009 before re-signing with Texas.
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Full of fragrance and sweet, golden-orange apricots are another summer season delicacies of Asian origin. These much-prized fruits were first brought to the Europe by Greeks, who named them as "golden eggs of the sun."
Botanically, the fruit is closely related to peaches and nectarine; sharing with them in the broader Rosaceae family of fruit-trees in the genus; Prunus. Scientific name: Prunus armenia. Today, some of the chief producing regions of this fruit are Turkey, Iran, Italy, France, Spain, Syria, Greece, and China.
|Fresh apricots (Prunus armeniaca).
|Fresh fruits in a basket. Note for bright golden-yellow color fruits.
Apricot is a medium sized deciduous tree that grows best in well-drained mountainous slope soils. During the spring, it bears plenty of beautiful pinkish-white flowers that attract bees. The fruits have almost uniform size, 4-5 cm in diameter, and weigh about 35 g. In structure; the fruit is a drupe, consisting of a centrally located single pit surrounded by crunchy, aromatic edible flesh. The seed is enclosed in a hard stony shell, often called as "stone."
|Delicious dried apricots.
Fresh, ripe apricots have a sweet flavor similar to plums. Sun dried organic apricots fruits are nutritiously denser than fresh ones, although they have less in vitamin-C content. Its seed-kernel is also edible and taste like that of almonds. Oil extracted from these kernels has been used in cooking.
Fresh fruits are low in calories, composing just 50 calories per 100 g weight. Nonetheless, they are rich source of dietary fiber, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals. The fruits are enriched with numerous health promoting phyto-chemicals; that helps prevent heart disease, reduce LDL, ("bad cholesterol") levels and offer protection against cancers.
Apricots are excellent sources of vitamin-A, and carotenes. 100 g fresh fruits carry 1926 IU or 64% of daily-required levels of vitamin A. Both of these compounds are known to have antioxidant properties and are essential for vision. Vitamin-A is also required for maintaining healthy mucusa and skin. Consumption of natural fruits rich in carotenes helps protect the body from lung and oral cavity cancers.
Fresh fruits contain vitamin-C, another natural anti-oxidant. Vitamin-C helps the body develop resistance against infectious agents and scavenge harmful oxygen-free radicals.
They are an also good source of minerals such as potassium, iron, zinc, calcium and manganese. Potassium is a heart-healthy mineral; an important component of cell and body fluids that help regulate heart rate and blood pressure.
The total anti-oxidant or ORAC value of raw apricots is 1115 umol TE/100 g. Much of this in these fruits comes from some important health promoting flavonoid poly phenolic anti-oxidants such as lutein, zea xanthin and beta cryptoxanthin. Altogether, these compounds act as protective scavengers against oxygen-derived free radicals and reactive oxygen species (ROS) that play a role in aging, cancers and various disease process.
Further, zea-xanthin, a carotenoid selectively absorbed into the retinal "macula lutea" in the eyes where it is thought to provide anti-oxidant and protective light-filtering functions. Thus, consumption of fruits like apricots rich in zea-xanthin helps eyes protect from age-related macular disease (AMRD), especially in the elderly people.
|Dried apricots.
Apricot season lasts from May until September. Buy fresh, well ripe fruits that feature uniform golden-orange color and rich aroma.
Avoid those with pale yellow color as they were picked too soon. Ripened apricots are delicate and should be handled with care.
Store them inside the refrigerator in an egg tray set at high relative humidity. Use them as early as possible.
Sundried apricots are equally popular as fresh fruit and can be easily obtained in the markets worldwide.
Wash fresh fruits gently in cold water and pat dry in soft cloth. Ripe ones can be eaten as a whole including skin to get the maximum benefits.
Sliced sections of the fruit can be a great addition to salads.
They are also used jam, marmalade, syrup, and jelly preparation.
Sundried organic fruits can be used like raisins and currants in sweet/confectionary preparations.
In order to extend their shelf-life, dried apricots are often treated with sulfites which prevents oxidation and bleachs colors. This is as in the case of other dried fruits like raisins, figs, etc. However, sulfite treated bright orange-colored fruits can be a cause of acute bronchospasm in sensitized people who are suffering from asthma episodes. Therefore, sulfite sensitive persons can instead safely use unsulfured dry fruits that have brown color.
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Matthew 26:36-39
INTRO: I want you to take your Bibles now this morning and be finding your place at Matthew chapter 26. We are coming very quickly to the conclusion of our series of studies on the life and ministry of Jesus that we've entitled, "One Extraordinary Life."
I hope that you have been blessed and encouraged, like I have been, as we have looked at and learned from -
• What took place on that silent, starry night in Bethlehem when the infinite, eternal God was born as a little, bitty baby boy.
• How the God who created the universe - the sun, the moon and the stars; the hills and the valleys and the rivers; everything that is - was raised in a simple carpenter's home in a little wide spot in the road called Nazareth.
• How the God who is all truth, and gives all truth, amazed and astounded the teachers in the Temple - the educated elite of that day - when His parents left Him behind in Jerusalem.
• How the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world came to the Jordan River to be baptized by His camelhair-wearing cousin, John the Baptist.
ILLUS: I heard about a church that had installed a brand new baptistry in the auditorium as part of an extensive remodeling project. But when the county building inspector came out to inspect it, he wouldn't sign off on the installation. Some of the older men who were there that day asked him "why not?" He told them that he couldn't approve it because it had to have its own septic tank. Well, the trustees just couldn't understand why a baptistry had to have its own septic tank. The building inspector told them that it was to avoid any pollutants getting into the ground and into the water table. One of the men rubbed his head for a moment and then all of a sudden it hit him. "I guess it would pollute the ground with all of those sins that it washed away."
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mycostaricafarm.com is a unique development in Costa Rica. Clients "Farmers" are able to grow their own coffee patch, remotely. People in North America have complete control over the way their coffee is grown.
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-Beautiful Aesthetical Appearance (Sleek, not too Large, nice LED Tint, Ethernet ports at the bottom)
- Functional AC Connector (Option to plug straight into wall or use an adapter to extend it off from the socket via power cord)
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I use this on a Tech bench in my basement (router is on ground floor) and having 2 ethernet points in version 2 of this is very useful. I can have my main tech bench PC online always and then having a PC im building/repairing hooked up for driver/update downloading with this and it is very efficient.
-Setup Requires use of their software to setup (Other extender brands simple have you to hook up the ethernet to your pc and just open an internet browser window to start configuration, however with this you NEED to put in the CD and run the setup wizard.
Since it is only N600 (300 mbps per band) the speed is only decent, it's almost the lowest grade and the range is going to be only decent as well. I have a smaller home so it isn't an issue and it isn't too far from my router either. My router is AC1750 so I can only tap into a fraction of that speed with this however it is just good enough for techbench use for updates/driver downloads.
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Mosaic CEO-Potash volume over price plan fails 'economic sniff test'
Sept 17 (Reuters) - A potash marketing strategy that focuses on maximizing sales volume rather than price fails the "economic sniff test," Mosaic Co Jim Prokopanko said on Tuesday at the Credit Suisse Chemical and Ag Science investor conference in New York.
Potash prices have slipped since midsummer, when the biggest global producer Uralkali OAO quit its export partnership with Belaruskali and said it would seek to maximize sales volumes.
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