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Andy Maser
Photograph by Trip Jennings
Birthplace: Maryland
Current City: Portland, Oregon
What did you want to be when you were growing up?
I picked up my first video camera when I was 14 and made my first whitewater kayaking adventure film when I was 16. After the 500th VHS copy I made and sold, I pretty much realized that filmmaking was going to be a long-term passion!
I always loved outdoor recreation—kayaking, skiing, climbing, mountain biking—to a point of obsession, so it was inevitable that my career would somehow involve being outside.
How did you get started in your field of work?
Though I'd been on several international exploratory kayak expeditions prior, a project in Papua New Guinea in 2007 solidified my passion for adventure-based science and conservation storytelling. Our team explored, from source to sea, a river that began deep underground in the world's largest cave system and flowed through remote jungle to the Pacific Ocean. The jungle, home to numerous endemic species and subsistence tribes, is under attack by Asian logging interests. It is very likely that much of the land around that river, accessible only by a long caving and kayaking expedition, has since been clear cut and the indigenous tribes forced to leave their land.
Our team shot an episode of Wild Chronicles for National Geographic about the expedition, and I've been doing similar work ever since.
What inspires you to dedicate your life to filmmaking?
Inspiring passion in others to help protect our world is my driving force. I'm fortunate that I get to spend time out in our world exploring and learning about really interesting things. It's through these experiences that I come to really care about places, wildlife, and cultures. Using the stories of my adventures to help others feel what I felt when I was there is how I strive to inspire people to care. When I see excitement on people's faces and motivation to take action to protect a wild place or creature, all the hard days fade away.
What's a normal day like for you?
I spend about half of my year in the field and the other half locked in my basement office in Portland, Oregon. Field days are typically long and often involve some combination of carrying heavy equipment, being really hot or cold, waking up in spectacular places, and learning from incredibly interesting people. Days at home are grounding—a cup of good coffee, a run in the park with my dog, and many hours at my computer either editing video or planning the next project.
Do you have a hero?
My heroes are all of the people that dedicate their lives to following their passions. Life is short, and it's what you make of it. I have nothing but respect and admiration for those who have the courage to do what they love. For me it's exploring, learning, telling stories, and helping to protect the planet; for others it could be anything.
What has been your favorite experience in the field? The most challenging?
My favorite experiences always involve the people that I collaborate with or meet during a journey. During a recent two-month elephant conservation expedition to the jungle of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the energy and humor of several of our local guides made some of the toughest days enjoyable. Our days were spent crawling under branches, tripping over vines, and wading through creeks in search of elephant dung. No matter how many fire ants were biting at once, no matter how many bees stinging at the same time, or how destroyed our feet got, our guides were always quick to crack a joke in half-Swahili, half-English that we barely understood. By the end of the journey we'd accomplished our goal because of them, and made great friends at the same time.
Looking back on all of my experiences, it always seems like the most challenging experiences later become my favorites. I think it's not so much a masochistic desire for suffering as the raw emotion and strong bonds that can only come from overcoming an incredible challenge with other people. The time I got held up by machine gun-toting rebels was just plain terrible though.
What are your other passions?
My other passions in life are pretty basic: good food and drink, good friends, physical challenge, and a place to call home.
What do you do in your free time?
Admittedly, much of my free time is spent with a camera in my hand. I love to get outside and play though-whether it's backcountry skiing, whitewater kayaking, or mountain biking. I also have a cool old 29-foot sailboat in Baja that is the perfect escape when I need to check out.
If you could have people do one thing to help reduce the human impact on the planet, what would it be?
The easiest way to help protect our world is for us all to be aware of the consequences of our actions. Ask where your food comes from, where the materials for products are sourced, if it's reasonable to get somewhere without driving. If we all internalized some of the sometimes hard-to-grasp consequences of our actions, we might all be able to work together to solve our planet's greatest challenges.
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Ed Martell.
NCAR lost one of its most multidisciplinary scientists when Edward Martell died peacefully in his sleep early Wednesday morning, 12 July, in the library of his home where he had retired to read before going to bed.
Invited to Boulder by Walt Roberts in 1962, Ed had been a radiochemist at NCAR ever since. He was the epitome of a scientist who lives and breathes his field of study virtually every waking moment of his life. Ed also was a "lone ranger" of sorts for the theories that he believed in passionately. For instance, in recent years he had taken on the medical establishment and the National Institutes of Health for what he saw as insufficient funding for the study of radiation-induced lung cancer.
Ed was educated at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, and became part of the military establishment for the next 20 years. Immediately after graduating in 1942, he was commissioned as a young second lieutenant and served in the Okinawa campaign of World War II. He retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
In 1950, Ed completed his Ph.D. in radiochemistry from the University of Chicago. For the next 12 years, he was involved in nuclear research as a group leader at the Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies at the University of Chicago and at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory in Bedford, Massachusetts. Ed was in charge of radiation-effects projects in three series of nuclear weapons tests in Nevada and in the 1954 hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, South Pacific.
Ed's joining what is now the Atmospheric Chemistry Division marked the turning point in his professional career. Having witnessed the devastating effects that nuclear bombs had on life in the South Pacific, Ed executed a 180-degree turn from his previous work and spent the last 33 years of his life and career researching those dangers and publishing his findings. While some wondered why his research was based at NCAR, there were always strong in-house supporters of his work in latter years, including John Firor, director of the Advanced Study Program, and Ralph Cicerone, former director of ACD.
"Ed was an excellent, original, and independent scientist," says Bernard Vonnegut, professor emeritus at the State University of New York at Albany. "He was invariably stimulating and a helpful friend."
Niels Schonbeck, professor of chemistry at Metropolitan State College of Denver, was a protegé of Ed's at NCAR in the early 1980s. "Ed was a highly creative and courageous scientist who loved every minute of his long life of productive work," says Niels. "His courage came in his decision to cross boundaries of disciplines into areas outside of his formal training. His rewards were his unique insights into the effects of radiation on biological systems. Some of his conclusions covering the origin of life, marine aerosols, cancer, and aging are today considered controversial. In my opinion, this is because he was ahead of his time."
While at NCAR, Ed served as president for four years of the International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Radioactivity, one of the several commissions of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences. He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of numerous other scientific societies.
Ed served as an expert witness on radioactive fallout in hearings before the U.S. Congress and the United Nations. He was an active critic of soil contamination through plutonium radioactivity and was the first scientist to measure radioactivity in and near the Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons manufacturing site. Ed also was a strong supporter of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which represents low-income blacks who were victims of government-sponsored radiation testing.
An avid researcher until his death, Ed published a paper in 1993 on the origins of life, theorizing that ionizing radiation in artesian groundwaters may have been the energy source that fueled evolution of DNA and the first living cells. Ed had exchanged ideas on his theories of which evolved first-RNA or DNA-with Tom Cech, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist at the University of Colorado. At the time of his death, Ed was working on a book for Yale University Press entitled Natural Radionuclides and Life. Survivors include Ed's wife of 52 years, Marian; a son, Robert, of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; a daughter; Maribeth; of Fairfield, Iowa; and one granddaughter, Lief. Two children, Margaret and Edward, Jr., preceded him in death. --Joan Vandiver Frisch, Media Relations

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I am 35 years old, ideal weight, and in good health. My plastic surgeon wants me to have the vaginal surgeries first and states I can have the tummy tuck 4 weeks later. Is that too soon?
How Soon After Rectocele, Cystocele, and Uterine Prolapse Repair, Can I Have my Tummy Tuck?
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Tummy tuck
The four week interval between the two procedures should be sufficient. Make sure both surgeons are in agreement that you are ready to proceed with the tummy tuck as planned about a week before the tummy tuck. Everyone recovers at different rates. If you are slow to recover from the first surgery, you can always push back the date of the tummy tuck. I'm sure your plastic surgeon will understand and can give you the best guidance, but a four week interval should work fine.
Timing of Tummy Tuck after Pelvic Floor Repair
The timing of a second surgery after a gynecological procedure depends on your general medical condition as well as your state of mind. If your health is good and your energy has recovered from your first surgery then the tummy tuck can be scheduled at one month. if you do not feel ready there is no rush. Do it when it fits well into your own priorities.
Learn more: https://www.maryleepetersmd.com
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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MOBILE phone owners and users on Exmoor are set to benefit after improved mobile coverage was announced for England's National Parks.
Environment minister Lord de Mauley, said: "Our National Parks are living, working places worth more than £4bn to our economy - it is essential businesses and homes there have access to 21st century communications.
"This spirit of cooperation is exactly what is needed to bring modern technology to remote areas so we can close the digital divide and help grow our rural economy.
"The Government takes this issue extremely seriously - we are funding the £150 million Mobile Infrastructure Project to deal with mobile 'notspots' across the UK, just one aspect of our long term economic plan."
The announcement comes following a landmark agreement between National Parks England and the Mobile Operators Association which aims to help communities living in National Parks benefit from quality connectivity while protecting the Parks and minimising any adverse environmental impacts.
Exmoor's National Park officer, Dr Nigel Stone added: "National Park Authorities have developed good working relationships with the installers of mobile phone networks where close working has enabled areas to receive good coverage without detriment to some of England's most sensitive landscapes.
"Increasingly, the cost of deployment and operation of new mobile phone masts has been the most significant barrier to wider coverage as we have worked together to enable careful siting and design of new installations.
"We welcome interest from mobile operators in extending their networks to the benefit of local communities and visitors to National Parks.


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Grandparenting and mothersí labour force participation: A comparative analysis using the Generations and Gender Survey
Using data from seven countries drawn from the Generations and Gender Survey, we study the relationship between informal childcare provided by grandparents and mothersí employment. The extent of formal childcare varies substantially across European countries and so does the role of grandparents in helping out rearing children. The extent of grandparenting also depends on their attitudes, which in turn relate to social norms and availability of public childcare, and hence the country context where individuals reside matters considerably. Within families, attitudes toward childcare are associated with attitudes towards womenís working decisions. The fact that we do not observe these attitudes may bias the estimates. By using instrumental variable techniques we find that only in some countries mothersí employment is positively and significantly associated with grandparents providing childcare. In other countries, once we control for unobserved attitudes we do not find this effect.
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Dust mites.
I know, not the most fun topic.
What are they, exactly? There is a website dedicated to these creepy little creatures called Dustmites.org. They define dust mites as "microscopic creatures that live in your bedding by the millions and cause allergies."
In fact, they say that "Dust Mite Allergies are the most common type of allergy. It's been estimated that 70% of all allergy sufferers are allergic to dust." This website has some good suggestions, like removing carpeting in bedrooms, improving ventilation with air conditioning or opening the windows, and vacuuming or mopping floors weekly (I would try daily for awhile). But they did not mention Geraniol . . .
Geraniol, the primary component in Palmarosa essential oil (Cymbopogon martini var. motia) was proven in a 2008 research study to be one of the most effective essential oil constituents for controlling dust mites (which can aggravate respiratory allergies) and is considered more effective than DEET (1).
To fight dust mites with essential oils, I suggest using a simple linen spray made with Palmarosa and Lavender.
After washing your linens in a hot wash, spray it on your sheets a few times a day.
Dust Mite Linen Spray
8 oz (240 ml) water in a spray bottle
60 drops Palmarosa essential oil
20 drops Lavender essential oil
I recommend making a fresh bottle every few weeks.
Research Reference:
1. Jeon JH, Kim HW, Kim MG, et al (2008) Mite-control activities of active constituents isolated from Pelargonium graveolens against house dust mites. Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 18(10):1666-1671
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Original Sin - New Twitch.tv Stream
Larian Studios Swen Vincke hosted a new Twitch.tv Stream a few hours ago where he talked about new areas, and the level editor for Divinity: Original Sin.
Live QA stream! And well done Belgium!
Hello everybody!
Belgium won its first game in the World Cup today and to celebrate we decided to release a new beta update. Version 1.0.112 already.
Highlights are the new lobby browser which makes it a lot easier to find old and new friends, several quality of life improvements and the mysterious 'b' button. This in addition to plenty of bugfixes and balancing improvements.
The release of Divinity:Original Sin is still scheduled for June 30th which is in 13 days. And in case you're wondering, yes we do still have some surprises up our sleeves.
If you want to know more, come watch our high-level twitch stream tomorrow June 18th at 20:00 CET, 11:00PST, 22:00 Moscow time at http://www.twitch.tv/larianstudios.
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Dunne: Address to Rotary Club of Tawa
Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of my first election to Parliament.
There are some days when it feels like it has been all of that time – but others, many more others, feel like it was just literally yesterday, and I have only just begun.
In that time, Jennifer and I have had, and seen our family grow up.
Both our sons have now embarked upon what already have been extremely successful careers for them – one as a lawyer, and the other as a doctor.
The last 30 years have seen remarkable change.
When I first became an MP, Parliament was still dominated by men – mainly men too – who had fought in World War II, and who had come back, keen to preserve the New Zealand of their youth for future generations.
By 1984, the sad folly of that approach had been exposed for all to see, and although I have no doubt that they were genuinely conceived, the controlled economy and Fortress New Zealand approaches of the Muldoon Government were hopelessly and dangerously disconnected from the reality of the times.
Sir Robert himself increasingly seemed like the Franco of the South Pacific – irascible, often dictatorial, and out of touch, but so fearsome that few dared challenge him.
The 1984 election and the advent of the process of economic reform of the 1980s and 1990s changed all that forever.
However, I do not accept the view offered by some – invariably opposed to the reform process – who say that the reforms turned New Zealand's traditional values on their head, and made us a different country from what we were before.
In my view, there has been a consistent thread in New Zealand's economic and social history over the past nearly 200 years that the 1980s and earlier reforms reflect, and which remains a powerful policy driver today.
It is the quest for security.
Economic depressions in the 1870s and 1880s – following the gold booms and the New Zealand Wars – led to the development of the refrigerated meat export trade to the mother country in return for imported consumer products, which was to be the backbone of our economy and society for almost a century thereafter.
In the aftermath of the Great Depression, we clung more tightly than ever to the skirts of Mother England, the disdain of Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England notwithstanding.
Michael Joseph Savage's famous "Where Britain goes, we go" statement at the outbreak of war in 1939 was as much an economic statement as it was a political one.
Although the advent of the Labour Government in 1935 did see attempts at diversification, principally through industrialisation as a means of import substitution, (to control the balance of payments and keep the Bank of England happy) which continued through until the 1980s, there was to be no real change to this equation until Britain started to look seriously at joining the European Community in the 1960s.
At that time, the quest for security was manifest every year in the annual pilgrimages of successive New Zealand Overseas Trade Ministers, most notably Sir John Marshall, and others through to the 1980s to Brussels to plead for New Zealand's annual export quota for sheepmeat, beef and dairy products.
Looking back, the tragedy was that New Zealand took most of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s to wake up to the fact that Britain was serious about Europe and that when the crunch came, Commonwealth sentiment would count for only so much.
I always found the so-called "New Zealand Case" a little incongruous and naïve – that we seriously expected farmers in Europe's agricultural nations to give something up for farmers nearly 20,000 kilometres away on the other side of the world.
But we clung to the "New Zealand Case" with almost unnatural fervour, and it was not really until the early 1970s that we realised things had to change here.
That process had only just begun when the first of the oil shocks hit in 1974 and again in 1977 with dramatic effects on our vulnerable, now exposed economy.
Little wonder, then that the Muldoon Government reacted the way it did – the men of the depression generation reverted to the methods that had served the country so well in the 1930s.
But times had changed, and it was the Lange and Bolger Governments historic mission to reinvigorate the quest for security by bringing New Zealand into the modern economic reality, through the pursuit of open markets, a floating exchange rate, and far more transparent management of monetary and fiscal policy.
As a result, the subsequent Clark and Key Governments have had the leeway to pursue the quest for security in other ways – through social policy initiatives like Kiwisaver, and foreign policy developments like our improved relationship with the United States of America.
It has been my privilege to have been part of the Executive at one time or another of every New Zealand Government since the time of Sir Robert Muldoon, and therefore I have been fortunate enough to have seen many of these changes discussed and implemented at close quarters.
That experience has reinforced some key values in me.
I am fiercely proud that we, as New Zealanders, believe in a "fair go" as a foundation stone of our way of life.
We must always be there to help people in health, in education, and in welfare.
But I am also more certain than ever that we cannot live a fair life unless we have a viable and flourishing market economy.
Labour and National seem to believe these two things are an "either, or" but to me, as a liberal, they are inextricably linked.
That pursuit of balance is why I belong to UnitedFuture.
When I started thinking about politics in the 1960s, I was an idealist.
I wanted a better, bolder, freer, more independent New Zealand.
I admired Norman Kirk as the man who spoke passionately about our nationhood, and who put us on the world stage all too briefly in the 1970s.
I am just as much an idealist today.
An important part of that idealism is appreciating the significance of our historical quest for security.
But, today, it is not just economic security through a properly functioning and competitive economy that produces wealth and income for families, or community and social security through policies that contribute to a safe and compassionate society.
It is also increasingly about protecting personal security from the intrusive powers of the state, or other states, under the perfectly understandable guise of preventing the scourge of terrorism, something previous generations of politicians could never have contemplated.
This is an area that I have followed closely for many years.
In 1991, I introduced the largest Private Member's Bill ever – the Information Privacy Bill, to protect people from intrusions on their privacy, which laid the foundations for the Privacy Act passed three years later.
I have had a close and ongoing interest in intelligence and security matters, having served on the Intelligence and Security Committee, and also having experienced personally what happens when the State uses intrusive powers improperly and recklessly to access private communications.
That was why I was so determined to make our intelligence services more fully accountable to Parliament and the public and why, when given my situation at the time there were arguably strong incentives for me to do the opposite, I worked closely and strongly with the Prime Minister to tidy up the security legislation last year to stop illegal activity by our intelligence agencies.
Today, as Minister of Internal Affairs, I have responsibility for the range of IT services across government.
That represents a likely investment of $30 billion or more over the next decade, as we modernise and upgrade systems across government from Inland Revenue, to MSD, the Cabinet Office, the ACC and others besides.
Two things are important to me in this process.
First, the services we provide must make it easier for citizens to do their business with government, in a joined-up way, when and where they want.
And second, citizens must be able to be confident that their personal data is at all times secure, and free from improper access or snooping.
But my interest goes beyond that.
I do not have a problem with countries that work together sharing intelligence when it is in their mutual interests to do so.
That, to me, makes common sense.
So, I am not inherently against arrangements like the Five Eyes partnership New Zealand belongs to.
But when I hear that the United States, for example, is spying on Germany, and other partners, and read of some of the revelations of whistle-blower, Edward Snowden, I become extremely worried indeed.
I accept the reality of the explosive growth of telecommunications services around the world and how profoundly that changes the international security game.
I am as mind-boggled as anyone when I hear that over 200 million emails are sent every minute of every day, and I understand the potential implications of that.
Speaking about this recently, the Director of our GCSB contended that, "intelligence collection and self-protection in the information domain will continue to be a proper activity for liberal democracies."
It is very hard to argue against that.
He then went on to lay out three pillars of how an agency like GCSB should operate in today's environment.
He said it should be "effective at defending the government's own critical information against sophisticated cyber espionage, and against disruption from any source."
Again, a reasonable assumption, although one might quibble at the breadth of the description of "disruption from any source."
However, his two further pillars are potentially more problematic in my view.
He said his agency should be "conducting sophisticated intelligence activities against any legitimate target, no matter how hard", and that it should also be "a potent and effective contributor to military capability."
With respect, I say to the Director those are not his calls to make.
One of the concerns people around the world have about intelligence agencies is that they operate in a way that is often unaccountable and in spite of the law.
And that accordingly, because they are in the shadows, they have developed a culture that not only are they above the law and government, but also quite detached from it.
According to this culture the pursuit of their objectives, regardless of what governments or anyone else might think, is paramount, because no-one else understands the subtle world in which they operate.
Indeed, it was the disclosure last year that the GCSB may have spied illegally on 88 New Zealanders that did its credibility the most damage.
The determination of what is a "legitimate target, no matter how hard" is one for the Government of the day to make, not the intelligence agencies.
And, again, the extent to which the intelligence agencies may contribute to military capability is a Government decision, not a GCSB one.
And as they are Government decisions, they should be formally conveyed by the Minister to at least the Intelligence and Security Committee and arguably the whole Parliament, and then the GCSB required to report upon them.
At a time when there is constant speculation about drone attacks in the Middle East and potential New Zealand casualties, this becomes more than an arcane point.
Now, of course, while important, this is not the major issue gripping the country as it prepares for the General Election.
Issues such as ensuring we have a stable, coherent functional government that stands up for the values and aspirations of families and communities in electorates like ours, and respects the love of the great outdoors that many New Zealanders feel, are far more to the fore, and I will have plenty to say about them in the weeks ahead.
But to the idealist who entered politics 30 years ago to seek a bolder, freer, more independent New Zealand, that, and the ongoing quest for security are important and enduring, and are what spur me on, which is why I am a candidate for Parliament once more at this election.


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Type of Document Dissertation Author Perera, Inoka Chinthana URN etd-07082010-164601 Title Urate Responsive MarR Homologs Degree Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Department Biological Sciences Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Grove, Anne Committee Chair Ding, Huangen Committee Member Newcomer, Marcia Committee Member Waldrop, Grover L. Committee Member Williams, Cathleen Dean's Representative Keywords
- oxidative stress
- transcriptional regulator
- urate
- MarR
Date of Defense 2010-06-17 Availability restricted Abstract
Differential gene expression in response to internal and external stimuli is studied in detail to understand the intricate mechanisms underlying response to various environmental stressors in microorganisms. MarR family transcriptional regulators have been studied for their involvement in such mechanisms. This work elucidates the mechanism of urate-induced attenuation of DNA binding of HucR, a MarR homolog, and extends this mechanism to describe a novel subfamily of MarR homologs responsive to urate, proposing a physiological relevance of utilizing urate as a signaling molecule.
HucR (hypothetical urate regulator) binds to the shared promoter region between uricase and hucR genes. It has high specificity for urate in attenuation of DNA binding. The ligand-binding site in HucR was identified using molecular-dynamics guided mutational analysis, leading to a proposed mechanism for the attenuation of DNA binding upon interaction of urate. According to this model, urate is anchored in the binding pocket by W20 and R80 while a charge-repulsion displaces D73, which propagates the conformational change to the DNA recognition helix.
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Tuesday's American League results
Red Sox 2, Tigers 1 — Jon Lester outdueled Max Scherzer and the Boston Red Sox beat visiting Detroit to end the Tigers right-hander's chance to become just the second pitcher to open a season with a 20-1 record. Lester (13-8) lowered his ERA to 1.71 in his past six starts. He allowed one earned run and eight hits with a season-high nine strikeouts and no walks. Scherzer (19-2), who won his first 13 decisions, lost for the first time since July 13 when the Texas Rangers beat him 7-1. Roger Clemens is the only pitcher to start off at 20-1 and ended up 20-3 with the New York Yankees in 2001. Rube Marquard was the only other pitcher with a 19-1 record, but lost his next decision in 1912 with the New York Giants. Boston scored on Will Middlebrooks' two-run single in the fifth after Detroit's Jose Iglesias doubled in a run in the second in the matchup of division leaders.
Yankees 6, White Sox 4 — Eduardo Nunez's two-run double capped a five-run eighth inning that rallied the host New York Yankees to a crucial victory as they chase an AL playoff berth. Derek Jeter got the Yankees started on a vintage comeback, and pinch-hitter Curtis Granderson tied the score with an RBI single. New York, which began the day 2½ games out of a wild-card spot, won for the 12th time in 14 home games to improve to 16-7 in its last 23 overall. Alexei Ramirez hit a two-run triple and Alejandro De Aza homered to build a three-run lead for All-Star ace Chris Sale, but the last-place White Sox couldn't hold it. They dropped their fifth in a row to start a 10-game trip against AL East contenders.
Royals 4, Mariners 3 — Salvador Perez drove in Mike Moustakas with two out in the eighth inning, and the host Kansas City Royals survived after blowing a three-run lead. Billy Butler had just grounded into a double play against Seattle reliever Yoervis Medina (4-4) when Moustakas legged out a double to center in the eighth. Perez, who earlier hit a solo home run, followed with a single to left, and Moustakas had just enough time for a headfirst slide ahead of Endy Chavez's throw to home.
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Pirates 4, Brewers 3 — Pinch-hitter Travis Snider homered in the ninth inning to lift visiting Pittsburgh to a win that clinched the Pirates' first non-losing record in 21 seasons and boosted their lead in the NL Central to two games over St. Louis.. Snider drove a 2-2 pitch from Jim Henderson (3-5) over the wall in center for his second pinch homer of the season. It was victory No. 81 for Pittsburgh, ensuring it will not finish with a losing record for the first time since it went 96-66 in 1992. Mark Melancon pitched the ninth for his 11th save.
Braves 3, Mets 1 — Kris Medlen pitched seven strong innings, and Andrelton Simmons and Evan Gattis homered to help the host Atlanta Braves win their second game in a row. Gattis tied it at 1-all off with his 16th homer in the seventh. After Mets starter Carlos Torres (3-3) walked Dan Uggla, Simmons hit his 13th homer.
Reds 1, Cardinals 0 — Speedy Billy Hamilton got his first major-league steal and came around on Todd Frazier's double in the seventh inning to send the host Cincinnati Reds to their second win in a row over the St. Louis Cardinals.
Nationals 9, Phillies 6 — Wilson Ramos hit a three-run homer and Corey Brown also went deep to back Gio Gonzalez, helping the visiting Washington Nationals win. Gonzalez (9-6) gave up five runs — one earned — and five hits, striking out six in 5⅔ innings. Rafael Soriano tossed a scoreless ninth for his 37th save in 43 chances.
Marlins 6, Cubs 2 — Donovan Solano and Christian Yelich both had three hits and drove in two runs to lift the visiting Miami Marlins. Four Miami relievers shut out Chicago for 4⅔ innings.
Dodgers 7, Rockies 4 — Carl Crawford and Nick Punto combined for seven hits at the top of Los Angeles' order to power the visiting Dodgers. Crawford had three hits and two RBI.
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Honestly, viewers don't care if it's possible, just that it seems plausible within the show. "Star Trek" fans aren't bothered by the fact that faster-than-light travel isn't realistic.
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I recommend you consider one of two forms of therapy. Sometimes logical looking at things doesn't help much as the emotional pain continues and a different type of approach can be more helpful.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy may help. This form of therapy is useful for helping with this type of problem from childhood.
I also recommend schema therapy, in particular an approach called limited reparenting. There have been a number of research trial which have demonstrated the effectiveness of this treatment. Here is a link which describes more about the treatment:
I hope this helps. Please do reply if you have any further questions. I will be away from the computer for around 12 hours but will check in later.
Thanks for your reply. You have overcome so much to make your life successful, demonstrating that you have the resources needed to tackle this set back too. The symptoms you describe do sound like PTSD. I thought I would post some additional information about this.
As my fellow expert has mentioned, EMDR has been shown to be effective for PTSD, as has CBT. I was interested to read that you did not find CBT helpful. CBT practice has at it's core a number of interventions or techniques which have been demonstrated to be effective. Because of this and to be sure therapists deliver consistently good results, they are sometimes grouped together in quite a rigid treatment program. However CBT therapist are also trained to be guided first and foremost by the specifics of how the problems developed and are maintained in an individual. The more experienced or highly trained the therapist is, the more likely they are to practice in this more flexible, individually tailored way, whilst still using the standard interventions.
As you've mentioned, the environment may not have been right for you but also the program may have been too rigid to pick up the individual presenting factors or to adapt the CBT sufficiently. A careful assessment would have been needed to see how the issues from the recent past have activated the schema from childhood and the treatment adapted accordingly.
In the UK, CBT therapist who use schema therapy tend to be the more highly trained. These are also the therapist more likely to use individually driven formulations as the basis for their work, rather than standardised treatment manuals. Many are also trained in EMDR. If the same is true in the US I think it should be possible to find someone who has had training in CBT, Schema therapy and EMDR. This would increase the range of approaches available to you both in treating the combined effect of your recent history and childhood issues.
All the best,


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Infant Mortality
Childbirth is a dangerous time for mothers and for babies. In Ancient Egypt, maternal and infant mortality were high. This is not because Egypt was more dangerous than other countries. For most of human history, between twenty and fifty percent of babies have not lived through their first year. In Ancient Egypt, a mother would be very lucky if half of her children lived to be adults. Many men would lose their wives in childbirth, and many older children would grow up without their mothers.
There were many causes of this high death rate in infants. Many diseases that can now be cured, such as smallpox, were deadly before modern medicine.
Mothers who did not get enough to eat could not have healthy babies, and endangered their own lives with every pregnancy. Sometimes people can eat a sufficient amount of food, but still their diet lacks certain vitamins and minerals essential to health. Though the Nile usually provided Ancient Egyptians with a good and varied diet, there were years when the Inundation was not sufficient to water all the land, and people went hungry.
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Malaria still kills a million people a year throughout the world; it was present in Ancient Egypt, sapping people's strength, making them more susceptible to disease and infection.
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Alan_SP, I've had a look this morning, and tried to recreate this but can't so far. Can you tell me the steps that you take when you encounter it? Does it happen when you've posted? Is it after a post by using quick reply? How long after you've posted do you find you have the problem, immediately? Or after a few minutes of inactivity (i.e. you've not reloaded the page or moved to another area of the site). Do you get this only when you use Opera? Have you had it on any other browser?
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I've been thinking about this, and I'm wondering it you get it only when you post a second post quite quickly, and they merge the threads. When I post this message, which will update the last I made (to prevent double posting) it will create an Edit Post option that when I click, nothing happens, because the post doesn't exist, but has been merged. Is that what you are finding, or something completely different?


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Retiring Liberal backbencher Jan Kronberg is set to receive a $70,000 taxpayer-funded payment under a plan to install her in an unwinnable position at this year's state election.
Premier Denis Napthine on Thursday did not rule out Ms Kronberg being installed into the fourth or fifth spot on the ballot paper for the upper house region — which would entitle her to a $70,000 resettlement package.
It follows Dr Napthine denying on Wednesday that the party had done a deal with Ms Kronberg.
Under changes made to politicians' pay last year, MPs who lose at an election are able to access the resettlement package of up to $70,000.
On Wednesday, Ms Kronberg, 66, announced she would not recontest her upper house seat in the Eastern Metropolitan region. It is understood that up until just over an hour before nominations closed she had planned to run.
The decision gave senior minister Mary Wooldridge — who has been searching for a seat after Doncaster was abolished in a redistribution — an unimpeded run at the upper house.
The fourth and fifth spot on the party's ticket for the Eastern Metropolitan region are considered unwinnable and candidates are appointed by the administration committee of the party.
Sources say Ms Kronberg will be selected in one of these spots.
Ms Kronberg has not returned calls from Fairfax Media.
On Thursday Dr Napthine was asked on radio station 3AW to rule out Ms Kronberg being installed in an unwinnable position.
Instead of answering the question, Dr Napthine spoke about the history of politicians' superannuation.
Later, he was repeatedly asked at a heated press conference about Ms Kronberg running in a lower position on the ballot paper.
His response was was that Ms Kronberg would not be in the top three spots on the ticket.
"Jan Kronberg made her own decision not to contest the Eastern Metropolitan preselection for the three position available," Dr Napthine said.
Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews said redundancy payments were made for people who were made redundant and not resign.
"Ms Kronberg has indicated she is resigning and Denis Napthine needs to explain why he thinks this is OK," Mr Andrews said.


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