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Delahoyde & Hughes
- How does Ovid distort this convention a bit?
Ovid announces his theme of change, but not his purpose. This is similar to the typical poor essay that includes in the opening paragraph, "In this paper I will [examine the origin of Zeus, or whatever]" and proceeds to report factoids instead of work towards supporting a thesis. But Ovid, unlike that obtuse writer, knows what he's doing. It remains for us to determine what this unspoken purpose is.
Ovid invokes "the gods," but the invocation is minimal, weird, and ambiguous. Instead of begging for inspiration and humbly praising the higher powers, he says rather bluntly, that the gods "Will help me--or so I hope" (Ovid 3). Given what he will say about these higher powers in the next pages, this is not much of an assurance.
The Creation:The Four Ages:
- Compare the creation story here with that in Genesis. What are the changes among the familiar elements between the stories?
- There is a shift in emphasis from what in Genesis to what in Metamophoses, even from the opening lines of this section?
- What can be said about the character of the creator here?
- How confident are the respective authors of the truth of what they are saying?
The difference in perspectives between Ovid and the author(s) of Genesis most pronouncedly includes the emphasis on the creator Himself in Genesis vs. the emphasis on the creation in Metamorphoses; and Ovid goes so far as to blur the issue of the creator, attributing the work ambivalently to "God, or kindlier Nature" or "Whatever god it was" (4). He has no religious ax to grind, so Ovid's view is more worldly. But what happens when you remove the creator from the story? Emphasis falls onto what? And why is Ovid doing this?
According to Ovid, the creation is an ending of strife between innately warring opposites, parallel to the Chaos of Genesis. This underlying strife characterizes Western thought, and one is less likely to see this elemental instability in the creation myths of other cultures. In fact, Ovid's account on this score is more "scientific" than Genesis and apt to sound more familiar to us.
Also interesting are the details in Ovid; he sees the earth as a giant ball and he even gives us an account of the hemispheres, including a sense of global climate. He knows about the existence of both poles. What do you make of this? In other words, what happened to the history lesson where Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492? Didn't most of the people in the European world in 1492 suspect that the earth was flat? So was this information in Ovid's account added later? Is there any evidence? Or did Roman intellectuals know the reality of earth as planet?
- This section of the Book I also tells of the creation of humankind: what is our origin?
- How does that make "mythological" sense?
- Why does Ovid qualify and hesitate --"So Man was born, it may be, in God's image"?
- Does Ovid believe in the supremacy of humankind (anthropocentrism)?
- Ovid shows how evil and distress change the once idyllic world. Where in Ovid's Four Ages would you place Adam and Eve and their expulsion from paradise? (See Thomas Cole, American painter, "Expulsion from the Garden of Eden," 1828). Is there anything in Ovid's narrative that explains why these changes happen? (See Warren Hern's essay in Bioscience, Dec. 1993, for one interesting explanation.) The well-known metaphor "Cradle of Civilization" implies that civilization is like a human being growing up, advancing even maturing. Is this the case in Ovid's story of the four ages of humankind? Is Ovid giving us a moral evolution in reverse? Why?
- What is the diet during the Golden Age (6), or in the Garden of Eden? What does this signify?
- What is lycanthropy?
- Lycaon is singled out as wicked and offensive to Jove. How does the story relate to other stories or folk tales, particularly ones involving animalistic impulses and transformations?
- Is Ovid suggesting that human beings were invaded by an alien animal nature of is he suggesting that the savage rapaciousness of wolves originated in a human being? What contemporary cultures and agencies in the Pacific Northwest are reintroducing wolves into the wild? Why these groups rather than say some other groups like the Cattleman's Association or Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation? Why is traditional Western culture so vicious about wolves? How do wolves challenge human dominance?
- What then is the true mythological significance of lycanthropy?
The Flood:
- Compare Zeus in Homer's Iliad to Jove in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
- Compare Ovid's flood story to the flood story in Genesis.
Jove (Zeus) overthrew his father Saturn (Cronos), so humankind was not responsible for the first wave of degradation exactly, as Ovid may be hinting (6). Ovid interestingly personalizes the flood with colorful perversions of the natural order: fish in the tops of elm trees, etc. (12).
The wrath of god yields nearly genocidal flood, and one couple -- Deucalion and Pyrrha -- is saved. That sounds somewhat familiar. But in the aftermath of the flood, Ovid departs from Genesis; the biblical story gives us the covenant -- the promise inherent in the image of the rainbow. In Ovid's story, Deucalion and Pyrrha find themselves alone. They pray to Themis, daughter of Gaia, and she gives them an answer of sorts on how to redeem humankind -- it comes in the form of a riddle. What are the bones of the great mother?
- What does this riddle explain mythically and etiologically about humans? and about the earth?
"The earth is our great mother!" If this is taken simply as the answer to the riddle, the result will be the same blindness Oedipus experienced in answering the riddle of the Sphinx simply as if it were a trivial Jeopardy question.
Then there's some spontaneous generation so that the world seethes with all forms of life like a Wal-Mart on a Saturday afternoon.
Apollo and Daphne:
- Victimization will quickly seem rampant in this world. Daphne is the daughter of a river god, Peneus, and the first "love" of Apollo (although "love" here is characterized by "burning"). How reverent is Ovid in his portrait of Apollo? How does the metamorphosis of Daphne bring Ovid's portrait of Apollo to its comic finale? Mandelbaum and Humphries both place this story on the cover of their editions/translations of Metamorphoses. Why?
- What questions does a contemporary reading of this story raise about ownership of the female body?
Etymology: the laurel (more familiar as "bay") is sacred to Apollo, the god of lyric and other poetic creation. The victors in athletic contests and renowned poets of many societies have been honored with a laurel wreath. The title "poet laureate" comes from Latin poeta laureatus, meaning "poet honored with laurel."
Jove and Io:There's no reverential attitude towards the Olympian gods, but a lighthearted one, and maybe even critical. Jove is a philanderer: he always was in the myths but he seems especially cheesy here, perhaps because of the contrast with the pathos inherent in Io's experience, especially her futile attempts to communicate when in her cow form.
We get a story within the story -- Pan and Syrinx, the origin of reeds -- involving more victimization. And we get an etiology: how the peacock came by its (Argus') "eyes."
Final Questions:
- Is there a moral to Book 1?
- What is the general philosophy of life reflected in Metamorphoses?
What is the worldview manifested in Metamorphoses? The "metamophoses" themselves are dehumanizing: Lycaon to a wolf, Daphne to a tree, Syrinx to reeds.... And the stories so far mostly seem to involve arbitrary victimization: surely being a tree is not Daphne's dream come true; Io was changed back, but was toyed with cruelly -- through any fault of her own? Was Argus' fate justified?
- So what do we have here? Another "Please, Lord, don't let them hit it to me" philosophy as we examined in the Iliad?
Metamorphoses Book II
Ovid Index
Orpheus: Roman Mythology

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Last week we reported on Intel's Q4 (reminder: they made almost $2B but their stock tanked; details here and a million other palces). AMD's news was much more on the "leap out of a window" side of things.
AMD reported recently that they lost $1.722B in Q4, compared to $576M in Q4 a year ago. For the year AMD lost $3.4B, compared to only $166M in 2006. You have to admire a guy that can get that kind of news and then say this
"We were close to break-even operationally for the quarter, reducing our fourth quarter non-GAAP operating loss to $9 million. We improved gross margin by three points sequentially, driven by increased shipments of new products, higher average selling prices and cost containment actions," said AMD CFO Robert Rivet. "We shipped a record number of microprocessor units in the quarter, including nearly four hundred thousand quad-core processors."
I want some of what he's taking. He's right in the theoretical sense that the chip business did better than the numbers reflect — the loss was driven by a $1.68B write down from its ATI purchase. But that takeover of ATI is a symptom of AMD's problems: execution, execution, and execution.
Then last week came news of rumors in the markets. AMD shares were up 10% on speculation that it would deepen its relationship with IBM. From the story in Dow Jones MarketWatch
Analyst Krishna Shankar of JMP Securities said in a research note that the stock was "reacting positively to industry speculation regarding a more formal partnership between AMD and IBM, which may involve a strategic equity infusion or even an outright merger between AMD and IBM Microelectronics.""
IBM and AMD have relationships on chip development going all the way back to 2002 when they teamed up on new 65 and 45nm processes. That relationship was renewed in 2004 through at least 2008.
All of which is relevant to HPC in the biggest possible way. Right now HPC machines are dominated by chips from Intel and AMD. There are other players, notably Sun (Niagara) and IBM (with Power and, to a much lesser extent, Cell), but chips from the majors are nearly ubiquitous. I would be concerned about the pace of innovation in the chip market if Intel lost its AMD pressure. On the other hand, if IBM can bring its ability to execute to help AMD get its gear out the door, that could definitely be a good thing for HPC.


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Telstra's rivals have claimed potential benefits from the government's deal with the telco could quickly evaporate if the Senate fails to pass telecommunications legislation this week.
Optus, Macquarie Telecom and the Competitive Carriers' Coalition all said a legislative safety net was vital to ensure
The competition legislation was introduced in September to codify the potential structural separation of Telstra, but has since stalled.
Optus's director of corporate and regulatory affairs, Maha Krishnapillai, said he believed the government and Telstra had come to a fair price, but called on senators including Family First's Steven Fielding to pass the bill.
"We have to be eternally vigilant to make sure there is no wriggle out of what is now a fairly good outcome for Telstra, the industry and the economy. And to do that we need to make sure the legislation gets passed," Mr Krishnapillai said.
"It means whatever happens from the head of agreement to the final details have to have the proper scrutiny of the ACCC and this is underpinned by the actual reform that is in the legislation."
National executive regulatory and government at Macquarie Telecom, Matt Healy, said he was pleased to see some certainty emerging around the government's arrangements with Telstra, but flagged intense lobbying to get reform passed this week.
"Steve Fielding said that once the deal was done it would be appropriate to consider the bill, so we will be taking his lead on this matter and call upon all the senators to consider it and vote in favour of it," Mr Healy said.
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He said consumers and the telecommunications sector would benefit from a speedier NBN construction. Industry would be better off with increased competition, innovation and jobs, he said.
"From our initial examination of the announcement, the agreement is consistent with the federal government's earlier commitments of an open access network, structural separation and regulatory reform," Mr Malone said.
"The NBN is the future of broadband in Australia and iiNet had always believed it would be better served by having Telstra involved rather than not."
CEO of Telecom Corporation of New Zealand owned AAPT, Paul Broad said: "While the heads of agreement appears to be a step in the right direction, it's too early to comment without seeing the detail," he said.
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Jeb Terry
How did it feel after you scored on that first drive?
It felt great. The offense started off with a bang. We got up 7-0, and the defense came out and stopped them. Things were looking up for us. We were feeling it on the sideline, and we were working as a team. Then things started to snowball.
Why do you think it snowballed?
It's hard to explain. It seems like one thing after another bad happens. Good teams get over the bad things that happen. It seems like they happen to us again and again and again. We make a good play, and then we negate it with a holding penalty or something. We just shot ourselves in the foot every single time we tried to do something today, and the score shows that.
Do you think it could be because you are so young?
Being young is over and done with. This is the nineth game of the season. You aren't young anymore, no matter who is playing. Players just aren't playing well.
How do you feel about the final score?
Shocked, embarrassed, disappointed, and I feel bad for our fans. I feel bad for everyone who supports the Heels. We embarrassed ourselves today, and I hope our fans can forgive us for this. This is something [we] have to get over, but it hurts bad. It's humiliating.
Malcolm Stewart
How do you stay 'up' as a team with everything going against you?
We work on forgetting the past. We realize that we've only won two games, but we still can finish. Coach Bunting stresses finishing, and that is our focus right now--to finish this season off as positively as we can. A lot of people are doubting and have written us off--"They've only won two games, and that's all they'll win, but we have to continue to fight, and we will. We'll come out for Clemson next week and work hard and prepare and come out to try to win the game.
You guys stopped them on the first two drives, and they they hit for the 80-yard pass. How big was that?
That was really big. Plays like that just stab you. It hurts. You have to realize, "They got us," and move on. I think some of our problem is that we have to forget the past and continue to fight for the future.
What happened on that play?
It was play action, and everybody, pretty much, responded to the run, which has happened several other games. The guy was open. He should have been covered, but we blew the coverage and gave up a big play for a touchdown. We just didn't get it done.
What is it like to lose like this in front of your home crowd?
It's definitely bad for me. Going to class, my teachers say a lot about sports. I deal with the critiques, somewhat, in class trying to do my work. I get mad, but it's a part of the game. You just have to move on and try to ignore it.
Think positively is what I try to do a lot. I don't always focus on football when I'm out of this building. I think about other good things that I have and the future of Carolina football. I think about next week, the Clemson game. I know a lot of people are disappointed, but we can continue to make things better.
Why do you tink the future of the program is bright?
I truly believe that the coaches on staff are good people, and they are teaching the young players--and people like me--how to play football mentally, physically, and emotionally. It's not all about emotion; you have to go out and know what you are doing. You have to prepare. All the coaches continue to teach us that every week. They emphasize the little details. With the coaches we have, the future is bright even though it's down right now.
Michael Waddell
It looked like you guys were in the game early. How big was the long touchdown?
It was definitely a huge play. We came out and played a good first series. We had hopes of doing it again, and there it was--a big play that we just gave up too easily.
I know you are young on defnese, but were you surprised or shocked that you gave up 59 points?
Yes, it's a shock, but being young on defense is not an exuse. We've been through what, eight games now? That's a lot of experience. We should know better and be improving by now and making big plays and learning from our mistakes. It was a difficult game, but we will bounce back.
What does Coach Bunting say after a game like this?
What can you say? Encouragement, I guess--bounce back, don't put your head down, learn from your mistakes. Things like that.
Did he not say much?
A game like this, truely it hurts, and I guess he can't think of any words.
What happened on the 80-yard touchdown?
We were in cover-two, and he was split out fairly wide. As a corner, I don't have it, but my job is to press him inside, give him an inside release, but I pressed him outside release. That put a lot of pressure on my safety, and was too far outside for my safety to come up and defend.


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What's in a Name: The smaller-screen iPad to be launched by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) in October will be officially called the 'iPad Mini,' according to Japanese technology blog Macotakara. It will feature a 7.85-inch screen and will bear the standard iPad logo on its rear casing. Industry analysts have been batting around the name iPad Mini since rumors of the new device, aimed to challenge mini-tablets like Amazon's (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire, first surfaced several months ago. The iPad Mini will be unveiled at a special media event just a month after Apple debuts its next generation iPhone in September, sources say. While earlier rumors had suggested that the newest iPhone and iPad Mini would be revealed at the same media event, having two separate events helps Apple seize the media spotlight twice prior to the holiday shopping season.
Another Patent Victory Affirmed: As Apple celebrated its victory over Samsung in a California court on Friday, it also received good news from the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), which cleared it of violating three patents owned by Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Motorola Mobility, MacWorld notes. Motorola's claims over a fourth patent were remanded to an administrative judge for more study. Motorola filed charges against Apple over the patents in late 2010. In April, a judge ruled that Apple had violated one patent, but cleared the company of infringing on the remaining three. In June, the ITC decided to review the judge's ruling in light of industry comments. Motorola has since filed a second set of patent infringement claims against Apple.
Samsung Seeks Tablet Reprieve: In light of the patent lawsuit jury's finding that its Galaxy Tab tablet did not infringe on an Apple design patent, Samsung has requested that the court reverse its injunction against sales of the device, AppleInsider notes. The jury rejected Apple's claim that the Tab copied the iPad's external design, but did find that it contained software that infringed on a number of Apple patents. An injunction against Galaxy Tab sales issued earlier by the court was based solely on the design infringement claim. Samsung is also asking for damages resulting from the loss of Tab sales during the period of the injunction.
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Washington D.C., May 23, 2013 / 04:22 pm (CNA).- The Boy Scouts of America has voted in favor of a resolution that lifts the ban on openly gay members but will not allow gay adult troop leaders. During its annual meeting in Grapevine, Texas, some 1,400 Boy Scouts delegates voted on whether or not the groups should lift its ban on openly homosexual youth members. The resolution, which allows gay youth members, was passed with an over 60 percent majority of votes. In a May 22 op-ed for … [Read more...]
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Pope Francis urges Christians to not be 'museum pieces'
Vatican City, May 23, 2013 / 04:07 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis reflected May 23 on Jesus Christ's exhortation to be "salt of the earth," warning that Christians who do not live their faith become "flavorless salt" and are fit to be museum pieces.The pontiff said that God gives Christians the "salt" of faith, hope and charity. This salt should not be hoarded "because if the salt is preserved in a bottle it does not do anything: it is good for … [Read more...]
Mideast Christians unite in prayer for abducted bishops
Aleppo, Syria, May 23, 2013 / 02:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Orthodox and Catholic Christians in the Middle East gathered this week to pray for and appeal for the realease of two Orthodox bishops who were kidnapped in Syria one month ago. "We renew our request for the abductees to...release the two Archbishops without hurting their health or physical situation; and release all other abducted priests and innocent civilians," the Syriac and Greek Orthodox archdioceses of Aleppo said May … [Read more...]
US bishops praise immigration bill's advance in senate
Washington D.C., May 23, 2013 / 02:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The U.S. bishops welcomed a U.S. Senate committee's passage of a major immigration bill as an "important step," urging the full senate to consider the bill as soon as possible. Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, chair of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Migration, lauded the Senate Judiciary Committee's passage of S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization … [Read more...]
New academic post aims to renew Africa's political culture
Vatican City, May 23, 2013 / 08:31 am (CNA).- Cardinal Robert Sarah, the president of Benin and officials from the Pontifical Lateran University presented a new chair whose goal will be to study African politics and form new generations of leaders in the Church's social doctrine. The new position, which is named after the late Beninese Cardinal Bernard Gantin, was dedicated May 23, "to recall what his life meant for the people of Benin, for the Church in Africa, and for the … [Read more...]
Nigerian bishops lament disunity among local Catholics
Abuja, Nigeria, May 23, 2013 / 04:06 am (CNA).- As the Catholics of the Diocese of Ahiara protested the appointment of a bishop from a nearby diocese as their shepherd, local bishops expressed sadness at the disunity in the Church of Nigeria. Bishop Peter Ebere Okpaleke – formerly a priest of the Awka diocese – was consecrated bishop of the Diocese of Ahiara in Nigeria May 21, while many residents of the diocese rallied against the move. Due to the strong opposition among the … [Read more...]
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Geneva, Switzerland, May 23, 2013 / 12:03 am (CNA).- The head of a Vatican delegation to the World Health Assembly on Wednesday called for universal health care coverage and an "integral" approach to health care that responds to a person's spiritual needs.Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, head of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers, stressed the need for "integral development." This approach, he said, does not focus only on health … [Read more...]


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Short-distance falls, such as from a bed, are often falsely reported scenarios in child abuse. In attempting to differentiate between abusive and nonabusive injury, knowledge of factors that affect injury risk in falls could prove useful.
To assess the biomechanics associated with simulated short-distance falls in children (one fall scenario, without attempting to maximize injury potential) and to investigate the effect of impact surface type on injury risk.
Repeatable fall experiments from bed height (0.68 m) onto different surfaces were conducted using an instrumented side-lying Hybrid II 3-year-old test dummy. Biomechanical measures assessed in falls included head acceleration, pelvis acceleration, femur loading, and head injury criteria.
Fall dynamics resulted in the pelvis or legs making first contact. Biomechanical measures assessed in simulated bed falls were below known head injury criteria and lower extremity injury thresholds. The impact surface type had a significant effect on head injury risk and lower extremity loading. Playground foam proved to have the lowest associated injury risk of all the tested surfaces.
The biomechanics of a child falling from a short distance, such as from a bed, were investigated using an experimental laboratory mock-up and an instrumented test dummy. Despite the impact surface having an effect on injury risk, rolling from a 0.68-m (27-in) horizontal surface from a side-lying posture presented low risk of contact-type head injury and leg injury on all tested impact surfaces.
SHORT-DISTANCE falls, such as from a bed or sofa, are one of the most common falsely reported mechanisms of injury in child-abuse cases.1 Information aiding physicians in determining the compatibility between a specific injury and a reported fall from a bed or sofa would prove useful. Clinician guidance is needed when taking patient histories as to which factors of an injury scenario are critical to predicting injury outcome. For example, details related to a fall, such as fall height, impact surface, and landing position, have been previously shown to play a crucial role in injury outcome.2- 7 A systematic means of studying each of these factors in isolation, especially in short-distance falls, could be beneficial in attempting to determine their contributory nature toward injury risk.
To date, most retrospective bed or sofa fall studies8- 11 conclude that these falls do not lead to clinically significant injuries; however, there are some results that conflict with this conclusion.12 Perhaps one of the most critical factors in assessing injury outcome in these studies is whether the falls have been witnessed or corroborated. Studies using a hospital setting present a unique opportunity for evaluating injury outcome following corroborated bed falls.
Helfer et al8 studied 246 children aged 5 years and younger who had fallen from a bed. Their study found a low incidence of fracture and no serious head injuries. This study also compared corroborated falls with uncorroborated falls in terms of fracture incidence, reporting a 3.7% fracture incidence for the self-report group and a 1.2% incidence for corroborated falls. The authors conclude that physicians should be suspicious of child abuse if they examine a child with a serious head injury when the cause is reported to be a fall from a bed or sofa.
Lyons and Oates9 conducted perhaps the most rigorous review of bed falls, studying 207 children aged 5 years and younger who had fallen from bed during a hospital stay. This study is of particular value in that it was conducted in a controlled hospital setting, where abuse could be ruled out. Among these children, there were 31 cases of injury; 29 cases resulted in contusions and small lacerations, and 2 resulted in fractures (clavicle and skull). Despite the head being the most common impact site, loss of consciousness was not reported in any cases. Lyons and Oates concluded from their study that falls from short heights do not typically produce clinically significant injuries.
Nimityongskul and Anderson10 conducted another study of corroborated bed falls during hospital stays, with fall heights ranging from 0.3 to 0.9 m (1-3 ft). In 76 children, aged 16 years and younger, a very low incidence of fracture was found. Only 1 child was reported to have a skull fracture, and 1 child with osteogenesis imperfecta was found to have a tibia fracture. The authors concluded that severe head, neck, and extremity injuries are rare when children fall from beds.
Another review of children who had fallen from bunk beds found that none of the children who had fallen from the lower bed had injuries that warranted hospital admission.11 Of 60 children who fell from a top bunk, only 6 required hospital admission for injuries, including4 concussions, 1 skull fracture and subdural hematoma, and 1 laceration.
In contrast, a study12 of self-reported bed and bunk bed falls in the United Kingdom reported a higher incidence of injury. However, these cases were not necessarily corroborated by anyone other than a parent or caregiver. Among injuries from upper and lower bunk beds in this retrospective review of emergency department records, 52% of self-reported cases had significant injuries. Fractures, minor head injuries, lacerations, and soft tissue injuries were reported. Because a large portion (78%) of the injuries was found in children aged 6 years and younger, the author cautioned that children younger than 6 should not be permitted to sleep in upper bunk beds.
The variation in injury outcome found across these studies highlights the need for more detailed assessments of the fall environment (such as impact surface and fall height) in corroborated or witnessed bed falls. Because the question remains as to whether bed falls can produce extremity fractures or head injuries, our study estimated injury risk through measuring femoral loading, head acceleration, and head injury criteria (HIC) in simulated bed falls, using a 3-year-old anthropomorphic test dummy (ATD). Our experiments were not designed to maximize injury potential but instead were intended to investigate a simple lateral roll from bed height. A 3-year-old child ATD was chosen for this study based on findings from our Child Advocacy Center and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Center for Injury Research & Control indicating that children aged 3 to 4 years are at increased risk for child abuse. In the past 12 months, our center has had 102 cases of serious physical abuse—46 of these cases involved children older than 1 year. Of the 10 child-abuse–related deaths at our center, 6 of the fatalities were children aged between 1 and 4 years. In addition, the Children's Bureau reports ongoing concern for this population, identifying 45 454 cases of maltreatment among 3-year-old children during 1999.13
Repeated experiments were conducted using a pediatric test dummy to investigate falls from a side-lying posture and an elevated horizontal surface. These short-distance falls simulated one scenario of rolling off of a bed or sofa. The intent was not to maximize injury potential but instead to study one possible fall scenario—a simple lateral roll from a bed. We did not in any way cause the ATD to lead with its head. A Hybrid II 3-year-old ATD (First Technology Safety Systems, Plymouth, Mich) was used to represent the fall victim. The head and pelvis were instrumented with 3 uniaxial accelerometers, arranged with 1 accelerometer for each axis. The pelvis was modified to accommodate the mounting of 3 uniaxial accelerometers located posteriorly on the structure of the pelvis. The metal rod representing the femur was instrumented with 4 strain gauges to measure femoral strain for conversion into femoral loading. Three of the gauges were positioned to measure axial and bending load, and the fourth gauge measured torsion load. Equations that relate these strain measurements and the geometry and material properties of the rod were used to determine the loading conditions required to produce these strains.14 These equations were verified by applying a known load to the rod in various configurations to produce bending, axial, and torsional loading.
The ATD was positioned in a side-lying posture with legs fully extended and arms extended above the head. The ATD was placed at the edge of the horizontal surface. An actuator, in contact with the posterior of the ATD's lower torso, was used to introduce a repeatable force to nudge the ATD off of the horizontal surface. As recommended by the ATD manufacturer, joints were calibrated so that the friction was sufficient to just support the weight of the limb. The orientation of each joint was measured using a goniometer, and the ATD was reset to the position at the beginning of each drop to ensure repeatability. Overall gross motion kinematics were captured during the fall using videography.
A LabVIEW program (National Instruments, Austin, Tex) was created for the purpose of data acquisition. The data were collected at a sampling rate of 1000 Hz, based on the Nyquist sampling theorem. Data were filtered using a 1.6 kHz Butterworth filter (National Instruments).
Data were analyzed to obtain the peak values of each measure, duration of loading spike, and impulse. The head acceleration data were used to calculate HIC that account for duration of acceleration exposure. The formula for the HIC is defined as
where a(t) is the acceleration; dt, the differential operator of integral; and t1 and t2, the start and finish times of the acceleration spike. Because proposed criteria exist for calculating HIC for 15 milliseconds (HIC15) and 36 milliseconds (HIC36), HIC15 and HIC36 were determined for each fall scenario. The HIC are commonly used to assess risk of head injury in motor vehicle crashes,15 as well as to evaluate the safety of materials such as playground surfaces and motorcycle and sports helmets.16,17
The ATD was pushed from the horizontal surface 3 times onto each surface type (wood, padded carpet, linoleum, and playground foam) from the same initial 0.68-m height and initial position. The 0.68-m height of the fall was measured from the impact surface to the center of mass of the ATD (located at mid abdomen).
The ATD impact surfaces used in our study represented actual indoor and outdoor surfaces. Linoleum, carpet, and wood impact surfaces were adhered to a 1.83 × 1.83-m (6 × 6-ft) platform. The platform, built to standard building codes, consisted of 0.02-m (three-quarter-inch) plywood flooring covering 0.05 × 0.1-m (2 × 4-in) joists positioned 0.41 m (16 in) on center (ie, 0.41 m from the center of one joist to the center of the next).
The playground safety surface (playground foam) consisted of a series of 0.61 × 0.61-m (2 × 2-ft) tiles (0.05 m [2 in] thick) arranged to create a 1.83 × 1.83-m surface. No adhesive was used per manufacturer's instructions; instead, the perimeter was framed with wood to prevent tiles from slipping. Playground tiles were placed on top of a concrete subbase. Linoleum used in the study was a no-wax self-adhesive vinyl flooring. The 1.83 × 1.83-m wooden subfloor was covered with the vinyl flooring to create the impact surface. Carpet used in the study was open loop with padding and was installed using carpet tacks over the wooden subfloor. The wooden subfloor, without any covering, also served as an impact surface used in testing.
The coefficients of friction were measured between each impact surface and the ATD; the ATD head was used to represent the ATD surface properties in testing. The static and dynamic coefficients of friction were experimentally determined. The coefficient of friction results are shown in
Table 1.
The coefficient of restitution (COR) is a measure of how efficiently energy is returned to an object after impact. A COR of 1.0 is perfectly elastic, while a COR of zero is inelastic, having no rebound on impact. The COR was assessed by dropping a billiard ball from 0.91 m (36 in) onto the test surface and measuring the rebound height of the ball. Because the billiard ball deformed very little during impact, the returned energy came from the test surface. The square root of the ratio of the final and initial heights is equal to the COR. Each surface was tested 3 times. The mean COR values for the test surfaces were 0.57 for playground foam, 0.33 for carpet, 0.12 for linoleum, and 0.12 for wood.
Data from each of the conditions were considered as replicates to measure variability within each. A between-condition analysis was done to assess potential differences among the 4 surface types. Following a statistically significant omnibus test, post hoc comparisons were done. Each of the outcomes (ie, HIC15, HIC36, head acceleration, and pelvic acceleration) was analyzed separately. Because of the violation of the necessary statistical assumptions of homogeneity of variance and normality for the parametric tests, nonparametric tests were performed; however, the statistical results of the parametric and nonparametric tests did not differ. The nonparametric results are reported. Statistical significance was defined as P≤.05.
Fall biomechanics and the effect of impact surface were evaluated by conducting experimental short-distance falls from a constant height of 0.68 m (27 in) (measured from the ATD center of mass), which may represent a common bed, sofa, or bench height, onto various impact surfaces. The ATD dynamics during the fall onto playground foam are shown in Figure 1. The ATD exhibited a rolling motion about its longitudinal axis (midsagittal plane axis) during descent to the impact surface. The ATD completed approximately one half of a full rotation and impacted the playground surface on its side. In each of the fall experiments, the legs or the pelvis impacted the surface first, followed by head contact with the surface.
Experimental laboratory mock-up of Hybrid II 3-year-old anthropomorphic test dummy rolling from a 0.68-m (27-in) horizontal surface.
Significant differences were found when comparing HIC15 and HIC36 across the various impact surfaces. For HIC15, significant differences (P≤.05) were found when comparing carpet with linoleum, carpet with wood, and playground foam with wood. For HIC36, significant differences (P≤.05) were found between linoleum and playground foam, as well as between wood and playground foam. Compared with other test surfaces, playground foam resulted in the lowest HIC36 (mean, 55), HIC15 (mean, 53), and head acceleration (114g) (Figure 2). Conversely, the wood impact surface was associated with the highest HIC36 (mean, 418), HIC15 (mean, 313), and head acceleration (245g). No significant differences were found in head accelerations or pelvic accelerations generated in falls across different surfaces.
Head injury criteria calculated for 15 milliseconds (HIC15), HIC36, head acceleration, and pelvis acceleration for various test surfaces.
Axial tension in the femur (Figure 3) was significantly lower for falls onto playground foam compared with falls onto carpet and wood surfaces (left femur, P = .04). A significant difference was also found in right femoral tension associated with the effect on carpet (136 N; 31 lbf [pound force]) vs the linoleum surface (999 N; 227 lbf) (P = .04). Other modes of femoral loading (bending and torsional) did not vary significantly across the tested impact surfaces (Figure 4 and Figure 5).
Right and left femur maximum tensile load for various test surfaces.
Right and left femur maximum bending moment for various test surfaces.
Right and left femur maximum torsional load for various test surfaces.
Impact surface type played a role in HIC values produced in simulated short-distance falls from a 0.68-m (27-in) height. Playground foam and padded carpet appeared to be associated with the lowest risk of head injury. Mean HIC36 values associated with falls onto wood were 443% higher compared with falls onto carpet and 660% higher than HIC36 values generated with falls onto playground foam. This suggests that falls from beds or sofas onto a wood surface are more likely to lead to direct contact–type head injury than falls onto padded carpeted floors. However, to assess whether this difference would translate to a difference in clinical outcome, it is necessary to compare experimental measures with injury thresholds or criteria. Unfortunately, little data exist related to injury tolerance in 3-year-old children.
Despite the paucity of injury criteria for children, it is possible to compare HIC values measured in this study with HIC tolerance levels recently proposed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for the Hybrid III 3-year-old ATD.18 The NHTSA's proposed HIC36 threshold of 900 is associated with a 47% probability of skull fracture in 3-year-old children. In a more recently proposed Interim Final Rule for Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 208, NHTSA recommended calculating the HIC value for 15 milliseconds in lieu of the previous 36 milliseconds.19 Using HIC15 as the basis to predict a head injury threshold, NHTSA established a HIC15 limit of 570 when using the Hybrid III 3-year-old ATD. In our study, no test scenarios produced HIC36 or HIC15 values exceeding NHTSA criteria. The highest HIC36 mean value, 418, was generated with impact onto a wooden surface. The highest HIC15 mean value, 313, was also associated with falls onto the wooden surface. Inflicted brain injury is often the result of angular accelerations of the head, which are not described in this study. Although HIC do not account for noncontact head injury mechanisms, they provide a preliminary assessment of the likelihood of contact head injuries, such as skull fractures, in short-distance falls.
Compared with known injury criteria, our findings indicate that rolling falls from surfaces such as a bed or sofa from a side-lying posture onto different surfaces have a low risk of direct contact head injury in young children. These findings are echoed through epidemiological studies8- 10,12 of falls from beds in young children. Accordingly, head injuries associated with short-distance falls, such as those from beds or sofas, should be carefully scrutinized by the clinician to assess compatibility of the presenting injury and the reported fall scenario. The plausibility of head injuries from these short-distance, side-lying posture falls rests on the caregiver to specifically define circumstances and injury mechanisms that can explain the injuries.
Unfortunately, injury tolerance data for the femur in 3-year-old children are scarce. In quasi-static testing of a single 2½-year-old child, Martin and Atkinson20 found a cadaveric femur threshold bending moment of 52 N-m [Newton-meter] (465 in-lbf). None of the bending moments generated in our experimental falls approached this threshold. Among all of our experimental tests, the highest mean femoral bending was only 6.3 N-m (56 in-lbf) (12% of threshold) and was associated with the fall onto linoleum.
Stanley21 evaluated 17 cadaveric femurs from children aged 6 years and younger. Using data for the 3-year-old, they proposed a compressive fracture limit of 871 N (198 lbf). The weak point under compressive loading is often the distal epiphysis of the femur. None of our experimental falls onto various test surfaces exceededthis femur compressive load limit. The highest compressive load (620 N [141 lbf]) found in our series of experiments was associated with falling onto linoleum.
Hirsch and Evans22 proposed a strength range of 5700 to 13 200 N/cm2 (8358-19 355 lbf/in2) of the 6-month-old femur that is loaded in tension, as determined through testing of 8 cadaveric specimens. Using the cross-sectional area of the 3-year-old ATD, this converts to a tensile load limit of 11 396 to 26 400 N (2590-6000 lbf). In our experiments, the maximum femur tension, which was likely induced through a bending moment, was much lower (999 N [227 lbf]) than the fracture threshold and was associated with falls onto linoleum. This is reasonable because it is difficult to imagine conditions resulting from a bed fall that would lead to significant tension in the femur.
However, relative to femoral injury risk, loads measured in our study were not cadaver-based and were instead measured using a human analogue. Correlation studies between the Hybrid II ATD femur and cadaveric results would be necessary to make such a direct comparison and to validate the biofidelity of the ATD. Therefore, fracture prediction in our study provides only limited value. Although it is of interest to compare observed femur loading values with injury thresholds and to examine trends in biomechanical measures associated with various impact surfaces, it is not possible to definitively indicate the clinical outcome associated with such loading.
The sensitivity to initial position was not investigated in this study. Because landing position has been previously shown to affect injury outcome in falls23 and because initial position affects impact position, it is reasonable to assume that initial position can have an effect on our results. For example, in our testing, first-surface contact was with the legs or pelvis. Altering the initial position may increase the contact head injury but decrease the risk of angular acceleration–derived (ie, inflicted type) brain injury and extra-axial hemorrhage. Previous experimental tests of cadaver infant (neonate to 14 months) skull fragility showed that head-first contact from an 82-cm (32.2-in) height onto stone, carpet, and linoleum led to skull fractures of the parietal bone.24 Therefore, additional studies should explore the effect that initial position, in particular leading with the head, has on overall injury risk during a bed fall. In fact, some may believe that a head-first fall is a more likely bed fall dynamic for a child than that evaluated in our study.
This study provides preliminary biomechanical data associated with simulated short-distance fall events in 3-year-old children. This effort represents a first step toward a better understanding of injury risk associated with a short-distance fall, such as a fall from a bed. However, these measures are derived from a Hybrid II ATD, which only approximates a 3-year-old child. Because biomechanical response data on children are scarce, child ATDs are typically less biofidelic than their adult counterparts. Less than desirable scaling techniques from adult to child, based on geometry and mass, are often used in the development of smaller ATDs.18 In addition, despite a few studies25- 27 attempting to extend the use of the Hybrid II ATD to low-energy events, the Hybrid II ATD was developed for high-energy impact events, such as motor vehicle crashes. The application of this ATD to the study of fall biomechanics should therefore be limited to investigating trends in biomechanical measures. Active muscle response and protective reflexes that may be present in 3-year-old children during a fall are also not accounted for in our ATD model. Moreover, lower extremity response to loading, assessed through the addition of strain gauges to the structure representing the ATD femur, has not been previously validated for biofidelity. Therefore, lower extremity loads described in this study should be used primarily for assessing trends in femoral loading across various fall conditions. Increased lower extremity ATD biofidelity could be achieved through cadaveric assessment of pediatric femoral biomechanical properties and duplication of these properties withinthe ATD.
This study provides a biomechanical assessment of a simulated short-distance fall, such as a bed fall, using an experimental laboratory mock-up and an instrumented 3-year-old test dummy. Impact surface type significantly affected head injury risk and lower extremity injury in side-lying posture rolling falls from 0.68 m (27 in). These findings further highlight the effect that subtle fall environment differences, such as surface type, can have on injury risk and highlight the need for detailed clinical histories when attempting to differentiate between abusive and nonabusive injuries. However, despite the effect of impact surfaces, rolling from a short distance in a side-lying posture onto all tested surfaces presented a low risk of head and lower extremity injury. These findings are consistent with those of previousretrospective case-based studies that have found thatbed falls do not typically result in severe injuries in children.
Corresponding author and reprints: Gina E. Bertocci, PhD, Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, University of Pittsburgh, 5044 Forbes Tower, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 (e-mail: email@example.com).
Accepted for publication January 2, 2003.
This study was funded by The Whitaker Foundation, Arlington, Va; and the Child Advocacy Center and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Center for Injury Research & Control, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
We thank P. David Adelson, MD, Department of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, for his input and review of the manuscript.
Short-distance falls, such as falls from a bed or sofa, are one of the most common falsely reported mechanisms of injury in child-abuse cases. Most, but not all, existing epidemiological studies indicate that severe injuries do not result from bed falls. In a laboratory-controlled environment, our study investigated head and lower extremity injury risk associated with short-distance falls from a supine posture, using an instrumented test dummy. We also studied the effect that impact surface has on injury risk in these falls. Our study found a low risk of contact-type head injuries and lower extremity injuries associated with short-distance falls. Impact surface type affected the risk of injury. A better understanding of the likelihood of injury associated with short-distance falls could aid physicians in determining the compatibility between injury outcome and reported short-distance fall scenarios.
Bertocci GE, Pierce MC, Deemer E, Aguel F, Janosky JE, Vogeley E. Using Test Dummy Experiments to Investigate Pediatric Injury Risk in Simulated Short-Distance Falls. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2003;157(5):480-486. doi:10.1001/archpedi.157.5.480
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Open Letter #23
Dear Ryan,
The day after Justin Trudeau was elected the leader of the Liberal Party, the hate ads were on television. Luckily for the Conservative Party, the Liberals aren't given to litigation. There were at least two clear libels in those ads; one attributing a quote from Mr. Trudeau's father to him and the other implying that the modeling show was a silly party when in fact it was a fund raiser for the Canadian Liver Foundation. (He raised $1,900 on their behalf.)
Conservatives seem to be particularly upset over the thought of Trudeau taking his shirt off. Conservative Party Spokesman, Fred DeLory, said that; "We believe Justin Trudeau's eagerness to perform a strip-tease, regardless of the venue or putative cause, says something about his judgment." Lisa Raitt went further stating that, "You wouldn't see me making that move, getting up on a walkway and taking clothes off in front of a bunch of men or women."
Ryan, the next time you see Lisa Raitt and Fred DeLory; please reassure them. No one will ever pay money to see them take their clothes off.
Character assassination has been a conservative mainstay tactic since Mr. Harper first came into power. Tom Flanagan, former strategic adviser to Stephen Harper and author of Harper's Team, advised the use of slander and quoted Cicero: "See that your whole campaign is full of show, glorious and colourful; and see that your competitors are smeared with an evil reputation for crime, vice, or bribery."
Slander is a form of bullying. There has been a whole industry built up around it in Canada. For example, companies such as Sun News Network use slander and insults in their articles and features. Communications companies such as Summa Strategies Canada make good money from what they call "highly market-orientated approach to campaigning." Somebody produces those hate ads and is paid to do so. Senator Doug Finley was very well rewarded by the Conservative Party for his past contributions to character assassination campaigns. One can now create a profitable career out of malice, a career that might be very attractive to individuals with personality disorders.
This is one area where it hasn't been necessary to bring in foreign workers.
In response to the tragic suicide of Rehtaeh Parsons, Stephen Harper said that "bullying to me has a kind of connotation of kids misbehaving." This is an evasion. By separating the deadly harassment of a child from the less newsworthy activities of school yard thugs, Mr. Harper is attempting to say that bullying, and by extension conservative use of personal attacks on opponents, is only mischief. It's a "boys will be boys" sort of thing. Something we should shrug off with a wink.
It's not. Acceptance of bullying by adults is what makes children think that they can harass another child to death. This is true whether it happens on the playground, on the Internet or in politics.
As a part of my work, I frequently find myself in schools. They are plastered with anti-bullying posters. My favourite reads: "You are what you do."
If you slander people; you are a slanderer. If you spread lies about others it means that you are a liar. If you create hate ads and put them on television, that makes you hateful.
May you walk on the high road.
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Major Family Guy Character Dies On Sunday's Episode – Spoiler Alert
Sunday night's episode of Family Guy took a shocking turn when Brian Griffin, the beloved family dog, was hit by a car and died from his injuries in a major plot twist nobody saw coming. Brian has been one of the most popular characters for the entire 11-year run. The show's producers felt a big change was necessary and that killing off one of the children would have been much more traumatic than killing off the family pet. The problem is that over the last couple of years the show has become more about Brian and Stewie than anyone else and some would argue that Brian WAS the show.
Needless to say, viewers were not happy and Twitter absolutely blew up over Brian's demise. I believe there will be a silver lining in this cloud and we probably have not seen the last of Brian. Even though I am not a big fan of the show, I can't see the show continuing to be successful without Brian and I think we are going to see a 'Dallas' moment.
If you are old enough to remember the 80s and the iconic primetime soap opera 'Dallas', a similar thing happened to one of that show's main characters, when Bobby Ewing, played by Patrick Duffy was killed off in the 1985-86 season. There was such backlash over Bobby's death, the show's numbers began to tank. The Dallas producers did the only thing they could to save the show….bring Bobby back from the dead…..but how?
Simple, the 1986-87 season started with Bobby's widow, Pam (Victoria Principal), finding Bobby in the shower alive and well. Turned out, the events of the previous season were nothing more than a dream that in reality, made no sense whatsoever, but the fans got what they wanted…Bobby was back. Trying to explain that was kinda weird, but they pulled it off.
Look for the same thing to happen with Brian, who was voiced by Seth MacFarlane. I know it sounds far fetched, but I believe it will happen. Brian was too popular and meant way too much to the show. He will be back. Stewie will wake up crying and hysterical only to find Brian sipping a martini like nothing ever happened. What do you think? See Brian's death below.
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This wedding cake was a bit of an adventure, not for me but for hubby who is my hero now! I got stuck on a business trip and had to stay an extra day and then had a 4 hour delayed flight, which put me into SFO 43 hours before the wedding - and since both cakes need time cooling I enlisted my husband as apprentice. I don't think he's ever baked before
It all went well, though the chocolate oblivions he baked were 2.5", and he baked them until the internal temperature reached 150 F, which turned out to be the crumbling point of the upper half of the final product. Learning: If you need a thick chocolate oblivion bake two and put them on top of each other - which is what I did with the 12" layer, joined by a thin layer of chocolate ganache - that one came out perfectly.
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- Different white chocolates will make the ganache behave differently. This time I used Aldi's white chocolate, and there was never any fear it would curdle, even though - see next point. Last time I used Guittard white chocolate slabs, and I was always on the edge and had to watch it closely. No problems at all with Aldi's chocolate. Husband is already trained to raid the Aldi stores each time he's on an East Coast trip. Both contain cocoa butter, but the Guittard is much whiter and much harder. Must be some other ingredient that does it, perhaps more lecithin?
- If you must make the white ganache when it's warm in your kitchen do it in an ice water bath, otherwise you'll be beating it to death, which, with some white chocolates can be a curdling death.
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I have to say that chocolate bands are the way to go for tiered cakes: You only need to roughly slab the frosting on, no need to make it perfect, a real time saver, at least for me. And the tiers are easy to handle, you can use a spatula and then support with the other hand when putting them on top of each other.
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TENNESSEE TITANS (-3½) over Minnesota Vikings
This is such a crappy slate of games that the game of the week comes down to Kerry Collins against Gus Ferotte. I wouldn't expect much offense, as the Titans feature perhaps the most dominant defense in the league, and that's with Albert Haynesworth playing below 100%. When he returns to full health that defense will be even scarier.
That said, the Vikings defense can hold their own, at least against the run. They are still suspect against the pass, as Jared Allen hasn't been everything that was advertised. I'm thinking that we'll see a lot of Chris Johnson this game, particularly spread out and in motion as Jeff Fisher works to create mismatches against the defense.
Monday Night Cheerleader
Baltimore Ravens (+7½) over PITTSBURGH STEELERS
Now I'm changing around the cheerleader of the week. Rather than randomly searching through NFL teams for the cheerleader, I'm going to take a look at just the two Monday night teams and select the winner based on the team featuring the most professional, aka hottest, cheerleader. There will be some weeks like this week, where a team doesn't even have a cheerleading squad. This just leads me to the conclusion that the Steelers have no chance this Monday night.
Meaghan S. of the Baltimore Ravens is our Monday Night Cheerleader. She is a three year veteran to the squad and an alumni of Montgomery College. Meaghan's favorite movie is Superbad and she enjoys Deal or No Deal, Dancing With the Stars and The Bachelor on television. Her best characteristic is giving and having a big heart.
Football-wise, I don't think the Steelers lose much, if anything with Willie Parker's injury. Parker has a boom-or-bust style of running that is very conducive to creating second and nine or third and seven situations. Rashard Mendenhall is far more talented at this point, and it's amazing how little he's been utilized so far this season.
That said, the Steelers still feature a sore-shouldered Ben Roethlisberger, not to mention the most porous offensive lines in the league. The Ravens have a talented enough defense to pull off a repeat of the Eagles' dismantling of Roethlisberger last Sunday.
Lock of the Week
Buffalo Bills (-8½) over ST. LOUIS RAMS
It's pretty clear now that these Rams are on their way to become a historically bad team. Their defense never developed, their offensive line is terrible, Steven Jackson has never regained his pre-injury form, Tory Holt is a shell of his former self and the team now hopes for something by handing over the reigns of the offense to Trent Green.
The Bills on the other hand are starting to look pretty damn good, and yet much of that is diception created by one of the weakest schedules in the league that has the Bills facing teams like these very Rams.
Upset of the Week
San Francisco 49ers (+6½) over NEW ORLEANS SAINTS
Can any quarterback get luckier than J.T. O'Sullivan? The weak after he faces the Detroit "defense" he is handed the New Orleans Saints. Pretty soon we might get tricked into thinking he's actually good or something.
The Rest
Cleveland Browns (+3½) over CINCINNATI BENGALS
Brady Quinn will see snaps this game.
DENVER BRONCOS (-9½) over Kansas City Chiefs
The only reason this game is not the lock of the week is that the football gods will get back at Denver for the gift it handed them in their win over San Diego. I'm not saying it will be this game, but I'm not saying it won't either. Now that's a prediction…
NEW YORK JETS (-2½) over Arizona Cardinals
The Jets started moving the ball pretty well on San Diego when they decided to screw the run game, split everyone out and let Favre do his thing. Granted, much of that was during garbage time, but maybe that's an offense the Jets should utilize more this season, especially against a green defense like Arizona's.
Green Bay Packers (+1½) over TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS
Any team will look bad against the Cowboys in September. Green Bay will get right back on the saddle with a dominant win over Tampa Bay.
CAROLINA PANTHERS (-7½) over Atlanta Falcons
Matt Ryan on the road. Michael Turner will be held to under 70 yards.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS over Houston Texans (+7½)
Houston has some fight still left in them. Not enough to win, but enough to give Jacksonville problems. More fans will know the name Steve Slaton after this game.
San Diego Chargers (-7½) over OAKLAND RAIDERS
As long as Phillip Rivers stays away from Nnamdi Asomugha San Diego will be fine.
DALLAS COWBOYS over Washington Redskins (+11½)
I'm seeing Santana Moss beet Adam Jones deep on a pass where Jones goes for the interception rather than coverage and fails.
Philadelphia Eagles (-3½) over CHICAGO BEARS
Kyle Orton against a secondary featuring Asante Samuel, what's the over/under for interceptions, 3?
A Blast from the Past
- Straight Up: 11-5 Last Week, 31-16 for the season
- Vs. Spread: 9-7 last week, 27-20 for the season
- Game of the Week: 1-2 straight, 2-1 spread
- Monday Night Cheerleader: 2-1 straight, 2-1 spread
- Lock of the Week: 2-1 straight, 3-0 spread
- Upset of the Week 2-1 straight, 2-1 spread
The Ground Rules
Home team in CAPS, spread in ( paren ). If the spread is listed after the victor, then they will cover. If the spread is listed after the loser, then it will not be covered.
Spreads are taken from ESPN.com. I don't do lines.
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The battle of the airlines has intensified with the launch yesterday of Air New Zealand's new Tasman Express service, featuring low fares on every flight from Australia to New Zealand every day of the year.
The launch comes as the airline revealed it expects a 10 per cent increase in passenger numbers on flights between New Zealand and Australia in the fourth quarter from a year earlier.
The no-frills service has arrived amid an explosion of new campaigns by Qantas and British Airways promoting their new business class upgrades, including the new "skybeds".
M&C Saatchi were behind the initial Qantas campaign for the new business class services, while Singleton Ogilvy Mather have produced the current ads for the Rugby World Cup.
Yesterday Air NZ said discounts of up to 36 per cent would apply on Tasman Express flights, and an average 25 per cent of all fares would be available at the lowest SmartSaver levels.
The campaign will involve multi-million dollar sums spent predominantly on print formats until the end of the financial year. It will use a combination of junior page advertisements focusing on selling New Zealand as a destination (in order to expand the overall market), and strip ads focusing purely on selling the benefits of Tasman Express.
The airline said it was aiming to get across four key messages: its fares were the lowest available online; it had reduced fares by up to 36 per cent without compromising service standards; there were more than 100 flights a week to 25 destinations; and the discounted fares were not one-off specials.
The airline has introduced new Airbus A320 twinjets on routes from Sydney and Melbourne to Auckland and Christchurch, and yesterday unveiled new cafe-style catering on the trans-Tasman services.
It has also announced 12 additional trans-Tasman flights, four on the Melbourne-Auckland route, three each on the Sydney-Christchurch and Melbourne-Christchurch routes, and two between Brisbane and Christchurch.
Air NZ will also offer the year-round discounts from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Cairns to 25 destinations in New Zealand.
Air NZ Australian vice president Paul Donovan said the airline had New Zealand "covered", with discounted fares from Melbourne to "every destination we serve in New Zealand".
"Our new Tasman Express service guarantees low fares on every Air New Zealand flight from Melbourne to New Zealand every day of the year," he said.
Air NZ has placed orders for 15 Airbus A320s, largely for use on trans-Tasman services, replacing a mix of smaller Boeing 737-300s and larger Boeing 767-200s.
Initially, the 146-seat Airbuses, which offer both business and "Pacific" classes, will operate from Melbourne and Sydney to Auckland and Christchurch, with the network expanding to other east coast routes as more A320s enter the fleet.
To take advantage of the increase in business class travel, British Airways has also launched a new advertising campaign, Sleep Well, for its business class, Club World.
In the increasingly competitive Asia-Pacific business class market, and with the recent launch of competing products, the campaign, done by M&C Saatchi Sydney, aims to maintain British Airways' leadership position.
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So a lot of people have been complaining about how Kakashi don't stand a chance against Obito, since Obito can use Kamui without draining his chakra like Kakashi does, but aren't you all forgetting something? Here I'll show a pic:
That's right! Naruto still has a BM clone inside in Obitos "universe/world", so that means Obito can't use Kamui unless he wants another Rasengan to his face! :D So I think that Kakashi has a chance against Obito since Obito most likely can't use kamui I'm not also totally convinced if he can use Rinnegan jutsu either, since we have never actually seen him do this (feel free to correct me). I'm not sure about this thought
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There is but one thing to do in life for all of us, and that is to grow. All of creation is about growth from seed to maturity. Without continual growth, especially spiritually, success has no meaning. We must internalize and personalize the absolute truth we have learned. Great revelation and awareness of how to truly live come to those who remain constant learners through every experience in their life. By growing and living in the authenticity of the truth we have come to know, truth becomes … [Read more...]
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(Cleveland) -- You won't have to go to New York to see this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions.
Rock Hall officials say the April 10th ceremony will be simulcast on screens at the museum.
Local music fans will see KISS, Nirvana, Hall and Oates, Peter Gabriel, Linda Ronstadt and Cat Stevens join the hallowed halls of rock history. Next year's ceremony will be held in Cleveland.
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The police canine's seven years with the Menlo Park Police Department saw him assist with 17 arrests, provide protection to top government officials, including President Obama, and win several medals in competition against other canine-handler teams.
Gert made time for community service above the call of duty, providing comfort for veterans with brain injuries.
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ZAPATA, Texas — All the unbelievable bass fishing stories that surfaced during practice on Falcon Lake this week were proven true on the first day of the Lone Star Shootout, presented by Longhorn.
It was predicted that Dean Rojas' BASS single-day, five-bass record of 45 pounds, 2 ounces, was in jeopardy. And Aaron Martens proved that was true by catching 42-0 Thursday, the second-heaviest single-day bag in BASS history.
He was one of 18 Bassmaster Elite Series pros who caught over 30 pounds on Day One of the four-day tournament.
"It was everything we thought it would be — and more," said Mark Davis, who is in fourth place with 35-4.
"It's just phenomenal. Words can't describe it."
Even Mark Tyler's record 14-pound, 9-ounce bass, which is the largest caught in a BASS tournament, was threatened by a 13-2 landed by Scott Campbell, who is in seventh place with 33-15. And Tyler still isn't sure his record will survive the week.
"I've held the record for one more day, maybe," said Tyler, after being informed of Campbell's Purolator Big Bass Thursday.
Martens' 42 pounds was especially spectacular when you consider he did it in only half a day of fishing. He and his co-angler spent most of their afternoon trying to keep their fish alive. The livewells in Martens' boat were so stuffed with big bass that fish care — not fishing — became the priority. Martens limit was anchored by an 11-1 lunker.
"There's not enough room in there for 70 pounds of fish, which is what we had," Martens said. "It's impossible to cull fish at that point. It was almost funny, until they started getting sick.
"This is the best largemouth bass lake I've ever been to."
Angler after angler after angler said the same thing — that Falcon is easily the best bass fishing lake in the U.S. This 83,654-acre impoundment on the Rio Grande River is full of Florida-strain largemouth bass, food and cover, plus it has a year-round growing season.
There was also lots of talk about how hard these fish fight.
"They are mean and strong," said Martens, who lives in Leeds, Ala., but grew up in California, fishing on legendary big bass lakes like Castaic. "I imagine this is what a 10-pound smallmouth would pull like."
When the day started, Martens thought about how tough it would be to surpass that 45-2 single-day record that Rojas established on Lake Toho in January 2001.
"I thought that would be harder to do — 45 pounds — then I'm like, unh-uh. This is like Castaic was in the late '80s and early '90s. It's like Castaic, but it's 30 times bigger. It's an incredible fishery.
"When one guy throws this way, and the other guy throws that way, and you're doubled up on 7-pounders, you know something's up."
Scott Rook of Little Rock led a trio of anglers who caught over 35 pounds. He sits in second place with 35-12.
"I caught all those fish in about 45 minutes this morning," Rook said.
Ish Monroe, in third place with 35-6, and Davis are the other anglers with 35-plus pounds. Monroe noted that catching a double-digit size bass is the key to separating yourself from the pack at Falcon.
"Aaron caught that 11-pounder," said Monroe, who lives in Hughson, Calif. "An 11- or 12-pounder goes a long way. I would have had 40 pounds if I'd caught an 11 or 12. All my fish were the same size. It's just an awesome fishery.
"But I still don't believe this lake can kick out 40 pounds a day. I don't believe Aaron is going to back it up with another 40 pounds. I don't believe I'm going to back it up with another 35. I think I can catch another 25 to 30 (pounds), but anything can happen."
Almost everyone at the top of the leaderboard was fishing deep, in 20 to 40 feet of water, where big schools of fish are located. Monroe noted that many of his bass are full of eggs, in pre-spawn mode, when just about every pro in this tournament considered the spawn over and done with on Falcon.
"It's a staging spot," Monroe said of the place where he caught his 35 pounds by 10 o'clock Thursday morning. "It's pre-spawn. All the fish are fat and full of eggs. They are ready to move up.
"It's one of those glory spots you look for. It's a point that leads up to a spawning flat. I've got them coming and going, I think. There's just so many fish there, it's unbelievable."
It seems that every aspect of Falcon Lake is unbelievable, as far as bass fishing is concerned. Brent Chapman noted that he caught the biggest bag he'd ever brought to a weigh-in stage — 31-15 — and that put him only in 13th place on Day One.
The 109 angler field will be cut to the top 50 after Friday's weigh-in. Mark Menendez is currently in 50th place with 24-11 — a bag that would put him at or near the top of the Elite Series leaderboard on any other lake.
Usually, when some big bags come in on Day One, the question to each angler is: Will your fish hold up for three more days?
The question at Falcon is: Will the anglers hold up for three more days?
"I'm absolutely worn out," said Davis, who estimated he caught 100 bass Thursday, most of them 4 pounds or better. "My back hurts. My arms are sore. My shoulders are sore.
"It was a heckuva day."
Visit Bassmaster.com for full coverage of the Elite Series Lone Star Shootout on Falcon Lake, from Zapata, Texas, April 3–6, 2008. Daily weigh-ins with live streaming video and real-time leaderboards start at 5:50pm ET. "Hooked Up" will air Sunday at 10 a.m., noon and 5:15 p.m. ET.


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A Nargle is a supposed magical creature that infests mistletoes according to Luna Lovegood. Nargles probably do not exist.
At the last DA meeting before Christmas, Harry Potter stands under a mistletoe when Luna enters the Room of Requirement. He quickly jumps away when she points this out to him. Luna congratulates him on this, saying that mistletoe is often infested with Nargles. Harry is saved the embarrassment of asking what Nargles are by the entrance of Alicia Spinnet, Angelina Johnson and Katie Bell. After the meeting, Cho Chang and Harry are the last members left in the room. When Cho, who has been crying, points at the mistletoe above their heads, Harry nervously says that it is probably infested with Nargles. Cho asks what Nargles are and Harry replies that he has no idea. Cho half laughs and sobs before she moves closer and kisses him (OP21).
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Product Bulletin, No. 1848
Cisco IOS Software Release
This product bulletin describes the new features introduced in Cisco IOS® Software Release 12.2(8)YL.
New Features
•Software-Based LZ Compression with Hardware Encryption
LZ Compression, the major industry standard for Layer 3 data compression, supported in Cisco IOS Software. Previous to this feature, LZ Compression could be enabled on the Cisco 1700 Series routers, but not when the Cisco VPN Hardware Acceleration Module (part number MOD1700-VPN) was installed in the router. Software-Based LZ Compression with Hardware Encryption enables the Cisco 1700 Series routers to support Layer 3 compression (via the LZ standard) in software with hardware-based IP Security (IPSec) encryption. This combination has not been previously supported.
During the Digital Encryption Standard/Triple Digital Encryption Standard (DES/3DES) process, additional bits are added to each packet to support the authentication and Encapsulating Security Protocol (ESP) headers. The benefit of LZ Compression is that through the LZ compression algorithm, DES/3DES packets being transmitted are decreased in size, resulting in reduced WAN bandwidth demands. LZ Compression allows IPSec VPNs to be supported more effectively in regions of the world that utilize only low-speed WAN links because fewer bits are transmitted.
Because the encryption process is demanding on the supporting processor, the recommended configuration for the Cisco 1700 Series routers to provide encryption services is to install the Cisco VPN Hardware Acceleration Module. This setup assists the router CPU by not inundated it to support encryption tasks. Software-Based LZ Compression with Hardware Encryption allows greater processing power to be used for the encryption while Layer 3 compression is used. Combining LZ Compression with hardware encryption, customers can achieve high-performance VPNs and reduced bandwidth demands.
Supported Cisco 1700 Routers
Cisco 1710, Cisco 1751-V*, Cisco 1720, Cisco 1721, Cisco 1751, and Cisco 1760 routers support Software-Based LZ Compression with Hardware Encryption.
Note: * The Cisco 1751 platform is limited to 16 MB Flash only, whereas Cisco 1751-V supports up to 32 MB Flash. Due to this, Cisco 1751 and Cisco 1751-V are denoted separately.
Maintenance Support
Maintenance for these features will be available on future Cisco IOS 12.2X special releases until the code is incorporated into the sixth maintenance software release of Cisco IOS 12.2T.
Detailed Information
For more detailed information about the platforms and features of Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)YL, see the following document: Release Notes for Cisco 1700 Series Platforms for Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)YL at:
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Cisco IOS Release 12.2(8)YL will be sold until the sixth maintenance release of Cisco IOS Software 12.2T.
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What does Peggy mean?
Peggy [peg-gy]▼ as a girls' name is pronounced PEH-gee. It is of English and Greek origin, and the meaning of Peggy is "pearl". Nickname of Margaret. Used as an independent name since the 18th century. Skater Peggy Fleming; singer Peggy Lee; actress Peggy Lipton.
ASSOCIATED WITH greek, 18th century
VARIANTS Peg, Pegeen, Pegg, Peggie▼
RELATED FORMS VIA MARGARET Maggi, Maggy, Margy, Meg, Megan▼, Meggi, Meggie, MeggyCREATIVE FORMS
(female) Peggia, Pengy, ..
(male) Pegge, Pegley, .. MIDDLE NAME PAIRINGS
Peggy Marilyn (P.M.), ..
How popular is Peggy?
Peggy is a very popular first name for women (#101 out of 4276, Top 2%) but a rare last name for all people. (2000 U.S. CENSUS)
Peggy reached its highest position of #37 in the U.S. in the 1930s, but is not in the Top 1000 at the moment. (2015 BIRTH Statistics)
Which version is better?with its variant forms and related girl names. Margaret (#154 A YEAR AGO), Margy, Meg, Megan (#384), Peg and Peggie are the popular related forms of Peggy rated in the Top 2000. Other variants, like Meggi, are seldom used. Usage of these forms of Peggy was well-received among parents 125 years ago (MEDIAN #1466) and is now significantly less (#1505, ▼96%).
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The Strand Urban Italian, Silk Asian Chop House and More Coming Soon to Downtown Phoenix
Carol Blonder
The Downtown Phoenix Partnership unveiled the second annual Downtown Dining Guide Wednesday at the recently opened Westin Phoenix Downtown. It was a chance to graze on offerings from six downtown restaurants and learn about what's up next for the downtown dining "district," ambitiously dubbed "Arizona's Urban Heart" after the name Copper Square never quite caught on.
Promises of Italian fry bread (a "new take" on pizza) and fine Asian dining were made over chicken Cuban bocadillo from Province, yellowtail sashimi from Nobuo at Teeter House and peach cobbler from Karim's Cobbler Shop and Deli .
Learn about Strand Urban Italian and Silk Asian Chop House -- opening in the fall -- and more, after the jump.
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Jimmy Carlin from Maven Hospitality Group announced plans for two projects opening this fall at Cityscape. The Strand Urban Italian ( target opening for October) is a fast casual concept -- "hip, stylish, think Milan," featuring frozen cocktails, a twist on pizza (as Italian "fry bread"), salads, pasta, and zeppoles (deep fried pastry).
Anticipated fall openings listed in the guide include The Breakfast Club, Huey's 24/7 Diner (burgers, fries and big easy favorites), Rasputin Vodka Bar (a Jason Doyle restaurant and lounge concept) and Bowl of Greens (fast casual Mediterranean).
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Nicknamed "Satchmo," Louis Armstrong was a prominent jazz musician. On Feb. 21, 1949, he was celebrated on the cover of TIME magazine and became the first jazz musician to accomplish this. On the cover, Armstrong is flashing his signature smile and crowned with shining trumpets on his head, his signature instrument.
By this point in history, the New Orleans-native career was widely celebrated and had crossed over into the mainstream music world despite discrimination toward African-American performers at the time. The musician's most famous song was "What a Wonderful World," released in 1967, a record that was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.
Armstrong recorded more than a dozen studio albums in his career. Before his death, he performed and toured in Africa, Europe and Asia under sponsorship of the U.S. State Department. In July 1971, the great musician died in his sleep in Queens, New York.
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Subject: Re: [TMG] Census tags was RE: Custom tags
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:44:51 -0700
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Teresa Elliott wrote:
> To show how diverse TMG users are and to show a newbie like Rose the power
> TMG has to be customized for the user's convenience. Bob has two census
> tags.
> I have:
> 1790-2000 census tags (21 custom tags)
> 1790-1930 census image tags (for recording an image of the census so I can
> print the image or choose not to by selecting or deselecting the tags) (14
> custom tags)
> 1850-1860 slave census tag (2 custom tags)
> 1880 Agricultural census tag (1 custom tag)
> 1890 Civil War census tag (1 custom tag)
> For a total of 39 custom census tags
> Soon I will be adding the 2010 census tag (where I record where to find my
> current family for future researchers) and a 1940 census image tag (as soon
> as the 1940 census is released and I can start researching in it.)
> Each tag has custom roles, that have different sentence structures that tell
> what that census recorded, what type of data a person would expect to find,
> and finally what my family reported.
> Each method works for the person using TMG. Unlike some genealogy programs
> you aren't pigeonholed into what the programmers think is data you should
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