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Exemplary embodiments disclosed herein pertain to digital memory used in digital electronic devices. More particularly, exemplary embodiments disclosed herein pertain to flash memory devices.
Computers use RAM to hold the program code and data during computation. Many types of RAM are volatile, which means that unlike some other forms of computer storage, such as disk storage and tape storage, they lose all data when the computer is powered down.
Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) is a type of computer memory which does not lose its information when power is turned off. NVM is used in computer systems, routers and other electronic devices to store settings which must survive a power cycle (like number of disks and memory configuration). One example is the magnetic core memory that was used in the 1950s and 1960s.
The many types of NVM under development are based on various technologies, such as carbon nanotube technology, magnetic RAM (MRAM) based on the magnetic tunnel effect, Ovonic PCM Memory based on phase-change technology, and FeRAM based on the ferroelectric effect. Today, most NVM is Flash memory based on Floating Gate technology, and is used primarily in cell phones, digital cameras and portable MP3 players.
Flash memory is non-volatile, which means that it does not need power to maintain the information stored in the chip. In addition, flash memory offers fast read access times (though not as fast as volatile DRAM memory used for main memory in PCs) and better shock resistance than hard disks. These characteristics explain the popularity of flash memory for applications such as storage on battery-powered devices.
The first flash memory products stored information in an array of floating gate transistors, called "cells", each of which traditionally stored one bit of information. Newer flash memory devices, sometimes referred to as multi-level cell (MLC) devices, can store more than 1 bit per cell, by varying the number of electrons placed on the floating gate of a cell.
Typical computer memory endurance requirement is 10,000 to 1,000,000 program/erase cycles. In some memory devices, called EEPROM, each program operation programs one byte (8 bits) in parallel, and each erase operation erases one page (about 1024 bytes) in parallel. In other memory devices, such as Flash memories, the erase operation erases an entire sector, called "Erase Sector" or "Block". An erase sector may contain typically 64 or 128 pages.
Another feature characteristic of Flash memories is that each program/erase cycle starts by erasing an entire erase sector, setting the value of all bits to "1", and then programming to "0" the specific bits that need to carry that respective information.
Because of the particular characteristics of flash memory, it is best used with specifically designed file systems which spread writes over the media and deal with the long erase times of flash blocks. The basic concept behind flash file systems is: when the flash store is to be updated, the file system will write a new copy of the changed data over to a fresh block, remap the file pointers, then erase the old block later when it has time.
One limitation of flash memory is that although it can be read or programmed a byte or a word at a time in a random access fashion, it must be erased a "block" or "sector" at a time. Starting with a freshly erased block, any byte within that block can be programmed. However, once a byte has been programmed, it cannot be changed again until the entire block is erased. In other words, flash memory (specifically NOR flash) offers random-access read and programming operations, but cannot offer random-access rewrite or erase operations.
When compared to a hard disk drive, a further limitation is the fact that flash memory has a finite number of erase-write cycles (most commercially available EEPROM products are guaranteed to withstand 106 programming cycles), so that care has to be taken when moving hard-drive based applications to flash-memory based devices such as CompactFlash. This effect is partially offset by some chip firmware or file system drivers by counting the writes and dynamically remapping the blocks in order to spread the write operations between the sectors, or by write verification and remapping to spare sectors in case of write failure.
Generally, during the normal operation of flash memory devices, the various write sectors are cycled evenly so that one part of the flash memory device does not become more worn over time than another part. Thus, all of the write sectors wear at about the same rate with respect to cycle count.
Since blocks or sectors degrade and eventually fail with usage, it is common to provide "spare" blocks to replace those primary blocks that have failed. However, in the prior art, the determination of how many spare blocks to provide is much more of a guess than a science. As a result, flash memory designers tend to provide too many spares, increasing the cost of the flash memory devices.
Moreover, there are no standards and no published methods that suggest how to verify that a product with a given number of spare blocks indeed meets its long-life reliability target, having sufficient number of spare blocks with respect to its physical degradation modes, rate of bad block generation and spare block consumption.
These and other limitations of the prior art will become apparent to those of skill in the art upon a reading of the following descriptions and a study of the several figures of the drawing.
In certain exemplary embodiments, a flash memory device with optimized write sectors has a plurality of flash memory write sectors and N flash memory spare sectors. Cumulatively, the flash memory write sectors correspond to the specified storage capacity of the flash memory. The number N of spares is approximately equal to the number of write sectors expected to be decommissioned within an operational lifetime of the flash memory.
In certain embodiments, set forth by way of example and not limitation, the N spare blocks are not pre-designated, physically distinguishable, or a-priory marked as spare blocks. Rather, the spare blocks may be extra non-designated and non-marked blocks of a product having more blocks than its specified storage capacity.
In an embodiment, N is no less than the expected number of write sectors expected to be decommissioned. In other embodiments, N is no greater than 10-20% more than the number of write sectors expected to be decommissioned.
In an embodiment, N=I+R, where I is the number of expected infant failures of the write sectors, and R is the number of expected random failures of the write sectors during the product lifespan. In another embodiment, I is determined in an empirical manner by writing to a first set of test write sectors. In another embodiment, R is determined in an empirical manner by writing to a second set of test write sectors which is smaller than the first set of test write sectors. In another embodiment, I and R are determined with the same set of test write sectors. In other embodiments, the operational lifetime is determined by writing to the same or different test write sectors as used by the I determination and/or the R determination. The first and second set of test write sectors may be an accumulation of sectors of different units, each unit having a plurality of write sectors, in an exemplary embodiment.
A method, by way of non-limiting example, of making flash memory includes specifying a plurality P of write sectors which define a specified storage capacity of a flash memory device, determining a number N of spare sectors, and making a flash memory device with about P write sectors and about N spare sectors.
By way of non-limiting example, the number N may be developed by determining the number I of infant failures, the number R of random failures, and calculating N =I+R. In an embodiment, the number I is determined empirically by writing to a first set of test sectors, and the number R is determined empirically by writing to a second set of test sectors.
In an embodiment, the second set of test sectors is smaller than the first set of test sectors. In another embodiment, the first set of test sectors is smaller than the second set of test sectors. In another embodiment, the first set of test sectors and the second set of test sectors are the same size. In another embodiment the first set of test sectors and the second set of test sectors are the same. In another embodiment, the first set of test sectors and the second set of test sectors overlap.
In an embodiment, the specified operational lifetime is determined empirically by writing to a set of test sectors. In an alternate embodiment, the set of test sectors is the first set of test sectors. In an alternate embodiment, the set of test sectors is the second set of test sectors. In an embodiment, the set of test sectors is separate from the first set of test sectors and the second set of test sectors. In another embodiment, the set of test sectors at least partially overlaps with at least one of the first set of test sectors and the second set of test sectors.
In an embodiment, set forth by way of non-limiting example, the number N is determined by developing a "bathtub curve" for the plurality P of write sectors including an infant mortality region, a random failure region, and a wear out region. The bathtub curve is then used to approximate the number N of spare sectors to be included in the products.
In an embodiment, developing the bathtub curve is accomplished empirically by writing to test write sectors and monitoring for degradation and failure of the test write sectors. In certain embodiments, infant mortality is determined by writing to a first set of test write sectors and random failure is determined by writing to a second set of test write sectors.
In another embodiment, N is approximated by integrating under the bathtub curve at the infant mortality and random failure regions. In other embodiment, N is approximated from the bathtub curve by other methods, including integral approximation, summation techniques, and other techniques known to those skilled in the art.
An advantage of certain embodiments is that a flash memory device is provided which has the statistically correct number of spare sectors. As such, a more economical and efficient flash memory device is provided.
An advantage of certain alternate embodiments is that a method is provided which permits the efficient and rapid determination of the number of spare sectors that should be provided, eliminating the guesswork that was prevalent in the prior art.
The preceding summary of certain exemplary embodiments and certain exemplary advantages is not meant to be exclusive. These and other embodiments and advantages will become apparent to those of skill in the art upon a reading of the following descriptions and a study of the several figures of the drawing.
Several exemplary embodiments will now be described with reference to the drawings, wherein like components are provided with like reference numerals. The exemplary embodiments are intended to illustrate, but not to limit, the invention. The drawings include the following figures:
CFR=1−exp [−(c/ξ)m]
This exemplary equation is a modified form of an equation developed by Weibull for cumulative failures in the time domain. It expresses Cumulative Failure Rate as a function of cycle count. Cumulative Failure Rate in this invention is defined as the fraction of cumulative failed blocks out of the total number of cycled blocks plus one, after cycle c. The variable c stands for cycle count; the parameter ξ is a Greek symbol denoting characteristic life expressed in cycles. This constant is also known as the scale constant, which defines the scale of this Weibull curve with respect to cycle count. A value of, for example, 10 cycles is typical for ξ when dealing with the infant mortality period of a mature manufacturing process of NVM devices.
The constant m is used to specify the specific shape of the Weibull curve. This constant is derived from the slope of experimental data which is plotted in a log cycle count domain. This value can be obtained graphically or through the use of linear regression techniques as are well known to those skilled in the art. The constant m is less than 1 during the infant mortality period and is greater than 1 during the end of life period. Since the cumulative failure rate is statistically constant during the random failure period, m is equal to 1 during the random failure period. It should be appreciated that at the point where the failure rate of the infant mortality regime equalizes the rate of random fails the shape of the bathtub curve tends to level off.
The constants ξ and m may be, by way of example and not limitation, derived experimentally for the infant mortality portion of the curve. Different values of these constants are derived for the random failure portion of the bathtub curve and for the end of life period. The constants ξ and m control the scale and shape of the Weibull curve in each section of the bathtub curve, respectively. It is possible to model the failure rate of the flash memory device 4 with respect to cycle count and thus it is possible to predict the fraction of blocks of a flash memory unit that will have failed at any given cycle count. This is done by combining the infant mortality CFR and the random failure CFR from cycle count zero up to the desired cycle count. Various other uses of this kind of model will be appreciated by those skilled in the art. Since the failure rate increases exponentially at the end of life, it is generally considered inefficient to attempt to extend the life of flash memory device 4 by attempting to reserve spare sectors beyond those that are required in the infant mortality and random failure periods. The shape of the cumulative failure rate curve during the end of life period is such that the failure rate increases as usable blocks are decommissioned. Thus, the reserved blocks would dwindle rapidly unless their number rivaled that of the usable blocks.
In an operation 48, the constant m is determined with respect to the infant mortality region shown in
In operations 54 and 56, the parameters ξ1 and ξ2 of the infant mortality region and of the random failure region, respectively, are determined from the data of the cumulative failures plotted against the cycle count. In operation 58, it is determined at what cycle count the random failure region ends and the end of life region begins. This can be done by, for example, determining the knee in the CFR plot that indicates the change from flat value of m to a regime where m>1. This transition may be observed only at relatively high cycle counts, e.g. above 100,000 cycles.
It should be noted that it is often considered impractical to reach a high cycle count such as 100,000 cycles with a large ensemble such as the one used to measure m in the infant mortality region. It is contemplated that a smaller ensemble of units would preferably be used for measuring high cycle counts such as 100K. The number of units chosen also depends on the quality target.
Then, in operation 60, it is verified that the wear-out region starts beyond the cycle count that is specified as the reliability target of the specific product. The operation is concluded in an operation 62.
The following expression is used to transform the value of the x axis:
Once the data is plotted in this manner, it should be immediately evident that a line is formed by the data points collected in operation 78. The constant m is the slope of this line, which can be measured on the plot using well known graphic analysis methods. Alternatively, the constant m may be measured using well known linear regression methods. Once the constant m has been derived, the operation may be concluded in an operation 84.
The flow diagram of
Once the model has been generated, it may be used for a variety of purposes as will be evident to those skilled in the art. For example, it may be used to qualify batches of units in large scale production. It may also, by way of non-limiting example, be used to measure the quality and reliability of different batches, or compare the quality and reliability of products from different sources.
It is contemplated that there may be different quality levels for products. For example, there might be three target quality levels for products that are intended to endure at least 100K cycles: A) Level A, corresponding to high quality, represents less than 500 DPM; B) Level B, corresponding to standard quality, represents less than 2K DPM; and C) Level C, corresponding to acceptable quality, represents less than 10K DPMs.
Corresponding to these three target quality levels are three Cumulative Block Failure Rate (CBFR) levels which are used when cycling beyond 1K cycles:
Level A, corresponding to high quality, represents 0.1% failing blocks in 100Kc. Level B, corresponding to standard quality, represents 0.1% failing blocks in 10Kc. Level C, corresponding to acceptable quality, represents 1% failing blocks in 10Kc. Other quality targets may be set according to the market requirements. There is therefore a method for estimating the number of write sectors expected to fail and/or otherwise be decommissioned during an array's lifetime. According to some embodiments of the present invention, information empirically derived about a given NVM array, batch of arrays, die or batch of dies may be used estimating: (1) the number of sector to fail and/or otherwise be decommissioned during a given array's lifetime, and (2) how many NVM spare sectors should be designated as spare sectors only to be used to replace decommissioned sectors upon decommissioning.
Such estimation may be empirically determined. Devices, such as non-volatile memory (NVM) die or chips (including chips with embedded NVM) are explicitly contemplated and disclosed.
Although various embodiments have been described using specific terms and devices, such description is for illustrative purposes only. For example, even though the exemplary embodiments have used Flash memory for the purposes of illustration, other embodiments can use other types of erasable solid state memory devices that are segmented into blocks, such as HDD and DRAM.
It will therefore be appreciated that words used herein are words of description rather than of limitation. It is to be understood that changes and variations may be made by those of ordinary skill in the art without departing from the spirit or the scope of the present invention, which is set forth in the following claims. In addition, it should be understood that aspects of various other embodiments may be interchanged either in whole or in part. It is therefore intended that the claims be interpreted in accordance with the true spirit and scope of the invention without limitation or estoppel.
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NEW YORK and LA JOLLA, CA. - The filmmakers from U.S. creative production company Shilo are very proud to announce that their "Burma Viral" project, produced with Carl Le Blond, Executive Creative Director at Ogilvy & Mather Amsterdam, John Jackson, Director of Social Responsibility, MTV Networks, Suki Dusanj, Founder of The Burma Arts Board, activist Sam Roddick and others, is featured within the pages of "For A Good Cause," a new collection of the world's best socially conscious design. Recently released by Barcelona-based publisher Index Book, the book was conceived and authored by Cactus Disseny (www.cactus-disseny.com), and is now available through major booksellers worldwide. For more information, please visit http://www.indexbook.com/libro.php?1034.
A provocative, groundbreaking 90-second Public Service Announcement featuring meticulously animated footage of warplanes bombing Burma with flowers as a dramatic call-to-action, "Burma Viral" invited viewers to visit a Burma Arts Board website to send messages of support to the people of Burma. Having debuted in May of 2008 on participating MTV networks worldwide, via countless video-sharing websites around the globe, and in New York's Times Square, the project won the 2008 London International Awards Gold Statue for Television/Cinema Animation, as well as the Silver Kinsale Shark Award in the category of International Craft: Best Animation. It can now be seen in its entirety on Shilo's new website at www.shilo.tv.
Shilo co-founder Andre Stringer served as the company's creative director on the project, and as its lead artist, together with Tamir Sapir and David Hill. Shilo's executive producers were Tracy Chandler and Mark Hanrahan, Lindsay Bodanza was their producer, and Brenda Bentz van den Berg was the agency's producer. "Having this project featured in 'For A Good Cause' is yet another great honor for us and everyone who contributed to this amazing project," said Shilo's Stringer and Chandler.
The custom score for "Burma Viral" was created by Amsterdam-based Good Sounds. Shilo's project team also included matte painting artists Mathieu Reynault and Rodeo FX, Marco Giampaolo, Cassidy Gearhart and Noah Conopask, 3D animators Henning Koczy, Richard Cayton, Ohad Bracha, Bren Wilson, Eugen Sasu and Kiel Figgens, 3D artists Christina Ku, Richard Kim, Warren Heimall, Craig Kohlemeyer and Scott Denton, compositors David Hill, Tamir Sapir, Cassidy Gearhart, Noah Conopask and Stieg Retlin, miniature designer Willi Patton, editor Nathan Caswell, sound designer Dante Nou, producer Lindsay Bodanza, and coordinator Danielle Bitner.
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Yoga originated in India and today it is practiced around the world mainly as a form of exercise. The postures of yoga are designed to help increase the flexibility of the body, improve balance and strength. There are also several different styles of yoga which include iyengar, ashtanga, hatha and more.
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If you are planning to add yoga to your exercise routine, you should remember that it is not a replacement for other exercises. You should continue to perform your other exercises while adding yoga on as a supplement.
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Before you decide to do yoga, you should talk with your doctor. Some postures may not be safe for people that have diabetes complications. Yoga is also not recommended for individuals that have neuropathy, foot problems or high blood pressure.
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text: Culture 24 September 2001 A butler's work Zeno and the Tortoise: how to think like a philosopher Nicholas Fearn <em>Atlantic Books, 187pp, £ Sign up for our weekly email * Introductions to philosophy fall into two categories: those with gravitas and those without. It is unfair to expect the writers of such works to emulate the brilliant simplicity of Bertrand Russell's The Problems of Philosophy, the definitive introduction to the subject; on the other hand, it is hoped that the tedious frivolity of the bluffer's guide will be avoided. Nicholas Fearn, a philosophy graduate, has written a brief introduction that manages to fall somewhere in between, summarising some of the methodologies of philosophy without trivialising them. The result is a book that, along with many other secondary texts, may find itself in the rucksacks of forlorn students of philosophy, or in the hands of the more speculative commuter. The book is divided into 25 chapters - brevities would be a better description - each devoted to a methodology and a particular philosopher associated with it. The idea is that one chapter can be read during the journey to work. This may or may not be a good thing: it is not difficult to imagine the effect of, say, Cartesian doubt on a stockbroker who is convinced that the fall in interest rates is only an illusion brought about by a malignant demon - and refuses to act on it. As the book's subtitle indicates, Fearn's particular interest is the methodology, that vast weaponry with which the trained philosopher can assail (or defend) the commonplace prejudices and conceits of even the most unreflective butler. These include reductionism, relativism, Socratic interrogation, analogy and allegory, hypothesis, Ockham's razor, induction, systematic doubt, Hume's fork, dialectic, even common sense. Each chapter outlines the method, its uses and flaws, together with a capsule biography of its chief exponent. Of those methods mentioned above, perhaps none enjoys more popularity in our casual discourse than relativism, the doctrine that right and wrong are meaningful terms only within cultures, rather than across them. This doctrine, as Fearn notes, originated with Protagoras, the first of the sophists, the rhetoricians who taught wisdom for money. The problem is easily stated: if truth is relative - as a relativist/sophist would claim - how can this be an objective (not relative) fact? Similarly, if all cultures are held to be equally valid, then how can there ever be any kind of moral progress? Many western liberals adhere proudly to the position of tolerance of other cultures. This is itself a social custom from within a particular culture that has a clear purchase beyond that culture; to adopt this position is to admit there are laws that apply across cultures. If tolerance applies across the board, then why not right and wrong as well? Notwithstanding this, it usually tends to be a tolerance that extends only to cultures similar to its own. A few pages of this book read in the morning on the way to work would remove the sophistry and illusion of a number of commonplace beliefs. Zeno and the Tortoise is both instructive and humorous. A marvellous example of the latter is the anecdote about Wittgenstein's application for citizenship of the Soviet Union so that he could live like a peasant. The writing enjoys a lightness and clarity that is appropriate for its audience. Fearn is eager to show how philosophy may be applied to one's own life and to the events that encircle it (not least to relationships that seem to have baffled him to the point of tortured philosophical analysis). The centrality of philosophy to our lives is inescapable. Perhaps the book's most instructive property is the bibliography pointing to the corpus of reading that awaits those who are sincere enough to take the subject on. There are not many works in the canon of philosophy. The problem is that, while they may not take a lifetime to read, they certainly take a lifetime to understand. Henry Sheen is completing a book of stories set in Lisbon Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 24 September 2001 issue of the New Statesman, The war that Bush cannot win More


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Just how biased would you have to be to think Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was the strongest Speaker of the House in the last 50 years?
If you're thinking as biased as MSNBC's Chris Matthews, you'd be right (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CHRIS MATTHEWS: There's never been a stronger speaker, I think, since Sam Rayburn than the speaker -- just recently was speaker. That's Nancy Pelosi.
So said Matthews on Wednesday's "Hardball."
For those unfamiliar, Rayburn was Speaker of the House on and off for many years until his death in November, 1961.
As such, in Matthews' opinion, Pelosi was the strongest Speaker since. Makes you wonder what he uses for qualifications.
Consider that the unemployment rate was 4.4 percent when Pelosi was sworn in back in January 2007. When she gave up the gavel four years later, the rate was a staggering 9.4 percent with over 8.5 million more people out of work.
Let's understand that the economy was booming when the Democrats and Pelosi took over Congress in 2007. By the end of their first year in charge, a recession began that many claim to be the worst since the Great Depression.
But that's not Pelosi's only "accomplishment." The budget deficit before she became Speaker was a mere $160 billion. When she stepped down, the deficit had increased tenfold to an almost unthinkable $1.6 trillion.
The total federal debt when Pelosi was given the gavel was $8.7 trillion. When she handed it over to current Speaker John Boehner (R-Oh.), the debt had increased 61 percent to $14 trillion.
So, Pelosi was Speaker when one of the worst recessions in decades hit causing unemployment to more than double, the deficit to rise tenfold, and the debt to increase by 61 percent.
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I am worried about how the skin can be pulled up in a facelift (back to the cheek area), and then after the underlying work, it is redraped and tightened, so how does the skin "reattach", and what is the protection for not taking too much skin so the mouth doesn't close, etc.
On a Facelift, How Does the Skin Reattach to the Tissues when It's Redraped?
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Healing and Surgical Redraping after Facelift Surgery
During a "facelift" procdure the underlying tissues are "injured" in a controlled fashioned, as the platysma and deeper tissues are tightened. The overlying skin has been surgically lifted off these tissues also creating a "controlled injury". The body then heals these area by laying down sheets of collagen - which are the bodies own natural glue. The collagen is smooth, and provides the facial skin a new smooth not overly tight look.
Facelift draping
Your question cuts to the heart of a successful facelift. The operation is not at all about skin tightening or pulling. It is about the tightening and support of the underlying muscle and fascia (SMAS). Once this is done, the skin is allowed to lay done and there will immediately be seen an amount of redundancy or extra to be be trimmed or removed. Only an amount that will leave what is left to lay without pull or tension should be removed. That will promote better healing and natural appearance. The normal healing process of the body will then let the skin adhere to the new position.
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The skin on the face is elevated just enough to put sutures underneath the fascia so as to give the pole. The skin in the neck is also pulled back after sutures are placed in the front of the back part of the platysmal muscle. To allow the skin to reattach to the underlying structure as quickly as possible, we use drains to create a vacuum underneath the skin during the first 48 hours after the procedure to prevent any hematoma and seroma formation. It is important to have an experienced surgeon who does not pull the skin too tight so that the end results are look natural.
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On a Facelift, How Does the Skin Reattach to the Tissues when It's Redraped?
I have performed Face Lifts for over 20 years and this is a very insightful question. The way to avoid pulling the corners, of the mouth and eyebrows, IMHO is to avoid the subperiosteal or Mid Face Lift (that pulls the entire forehead and face in that direction) and to be sure the Face Lift addresses the SMAS layer with imbrication and not plication or suspension. Impeccable aesthetic judgement as well as experience in performing Face Lifts, should be the main requirements in selecting a Face Lift Surgeon, IMO.
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Facelift skin tightening
Within 30 minutes or less of redraping the skin, the body begins to produce a sticky layer between the skin and the underlying tissues. The body will then begin to produce immature collagen as early as 24 hours, which will give the connection between the layers more strength.
With respect to your second question, it is very difficult to tighten your skin to the point of being unable to close your mouth and not be noticeable on the operating table. The deformity would be obvious to all.
The body is an amazing thing.
Within seconds of redraping the skin, the body begins the healing process. The same wound healing mechanisms that heal a small cut also go to work healing the skin lifted as part of the facelift. In fact these mechanisms are so effective that they are adapted as the basis for fibrin glue. In this case you heal using your bodies own fibrin glue. This matures into the new collagen that provides the long term strength for the facelift.
How Does the Skin Reattach after a Facelift
Skin will reattach to the deep tissue as healing progresses. The best protection to avoid too much skin being removed is selecting an experienced well-trained surgeon.
Reattaching Skin & Tissue After Facelift
A multiple layer facelift (SMAS), such as the "Lift & Fill" facelift that I perform, includes "lifting" the deep layers and "filling" the central fat compartments as one has to re-drape and reshape the deep fat compartment layers so they are in harmony and provide a natural and youthful appearance.
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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Swaziland: The Reed Dance
April 21st, 2013
The Reed Dance is a traditional Swazi dance where all the young, eligible female virgins of Swaziland gather, and most importantly, dance in celebration of the Royal Family. This event has been taking place for centuries! Although the festival is to celebrate the Swazi royalty, it is also to promote a sense of unity in the country.
All the young women take this opportunity to travel and socialize, meeting peers that they would never have otherwise, and having experiences away from home. Sometimes, the King has been known to use the festival as a beauty parade of sorts, to choose his next wives. But in all honesty, this is not the main reason for the festival.
The festival actually takes place within a week. The first few days are a private affair, but the last two days are a different story! Bare-chested, bare-lapped virgins, dressed in the most colourful beads and attires ever, pick up their reeds in a ceremonious affair, and dance towards the royal residence in a joyous and colourful procession.
Spectators often appreciate the dancing procession by throwing money at the girls' feet. The reeds themselves are symbolic of the Zulu tradition that their ancestors originated from a reed bed.
Zulu mythology has it that if a young woman who is not a virgin takes part in the Reed Dance ceremony, her reed will break and embarrass her in full public view! And still, today an expectant hush falls on the crowd as the chief princess is the first to choose a reed. Shouts of joy and celebration greet her as the reed remains intact and, with bated breath, each of the young women takes it in turn to choose a reed.
Accompanied by jubilant singing and dancing, the stately procession winds its way up the hill to the palace entrance where the king awaits, flanked by his royal regiment. As leader of the group of young women, the chief Princess kneels down before the king and presents him with a reed to mark the occasion, before joining the young women in a joyful dance of tribute to the king.
All in all, the festival has, and continues to be, an avenue to celebrate unity, life, virginity and royalty. 'The Reed Dance is Swaziland!'
References from Times Live, Zulu, Sowetan Live and Swazi Travel
By the way, Swaziland is here! (Image via CIA World Factbook)
This traditional dance is typical African, and traditions that enhance our values and identities in the continent should not be abused by anyone who does not understand. If the traditions harm lives, then we can all condemn, but dancing- oh my! Beautiful, beautiful!
Great culture. I'm proud of African. I love Swaziland. God bless all the Swazi people. Please let not this culture dies. Love from Nigeria.
I love this culture of Swazi n Zulu people, it is awesome
it is a pity that we from eastern Nigeria is losing some of rich cultural values due to the influx of western civilization
God bless Africa, God bless black race


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Speed up your personal computing experience by reducing time consuming, repetitive task through the use of abbreviations. Imagine typing a piece of correspondence in your favorite word processor and then typing the abbreviation -sign- to affix your closing and signature to the document. You can also use the abbreviation shortcuts to open applications, websites, your email client and do web searches. You can invoke abbreviations from any program.
Speed up your personal computing experience by reducing time consuming, repetitive task through the use of abbreviations. Imagine typing a piece of correspondence in your favorite word processor and then typing the abbreviation -sign- to affix your closing and signature to the document. You can also use the abbreviation shortcuts to open applications and websites.
You can even set up custom menus, for example grouping standard tech support answers or signatures.
Whatever application you are using, if you type an abbreviation, Direct Access suggests a command via a tooltip. If you press the SHIFT key, Direct Access performs the command and removes the abbreviation. If you ignore the suggestion and just keep working, the tooltip vanishes.
Direct Access is great for tech support, providing you with canned, pre-written and customizable replies that you can enter by just typing a word.
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Direct Access can be used to perform many tasks quicker and more precisely. For example, you can use it to execute commands by typing user-defined abbreviations across all applications; save time on repetitive tasks: open files, documents, websites, and insert text just by typing a word; open your favorite websites by typing a meaningful name; automatically search the web - Google, Wikipedia or Amazon are just a few keystrokes away; insert the same autotext anywhere - even in applications without built-in autotext; breeze through e-mails using combinations of boiler-plate text.
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A PENSIONER from Somerset has died following a three-vehicle collision on the A39 at West Quantoxhead earlier this month.
The 71-year-old man, from Burnham, died on Thursday (July 26) in Bristol's Frenchay Hospital, almost two weeks after the incident on July 14.
Police said the collision happened when a Vauxhall Meriva travelling on the A39 towards West Quantoxhead was reported to have crossed the double white line in the centre of the road.
It was in collision with a skip lorry travelling in the opposite direction, which tried to take evasive action, causing it to drive into the roadside verge, where it was in collision with an overhanging branch.
The branch hit a third vehicle – a Ford Transit van – which was also travelling away from West Quantoxhead.
The 71-year-old man, who was driving the Meriva, was taken by air ambulance to Frenchay Hospital, where he has since died.
Witnesses to the collision should call 101.


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Seasick Steve Announces New Album
'Man From Another Time' to be released on 19th October.Read more on Seasick Steve Listen to Seasick Steve on Spotify
Seasick Steve has announced the follow-up to his 2008 breakthrough album 'I Started Out With Nothin' And I Still Got Most Of It Left'.
The blues singer is to release 'Man From Another Time' on 19th October. Steve said of the live analogue recording: "I hope by making records like this, that it'll make people want to hear music that's recorded without the use of digital equipment, and that people's ears can get a little rest from all that shit. But if not, at least it was nice for me. Me and computers do not see eye to eye."
Seasick Steve plays Bestival in September, and will be touring the UK in November.


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PCL notes: Hill climbing back to bigs
After multiple surgeries, right-hander looking to prove himself
By Chris Jackson / Special to MLB.com | August 6, 2012 6:00 AM ET
The odds are often not very good, but they keep on fighting, keep on trying to reclaim their former glory.
Las Vegas 51s right-hander Shawn Hill is intent on being one of those lucky few to pull off the improbable.
"The past four or five years, I wouldn't say a nightmare, but about as close to it as you can get as a pitcher," said Hill, who made 44 starts for the Expos, Nationals, Padres and Blue Jays from 2004-10, despite missing long stretches with injuries.
Hill reached the Majors at the age of 23 with Montreal in 2004, but missed the entire 2005 season after undergoing Tommy John surgery. While that normally solves the problem for a pitcher, Hill said the pain in his arm did not go away.
Hill repeated Tommy John surgery in 2009, but felt pain even after that procedure.
"It was misdiagnosed the whole time," he said. "I had the pain in the back of the elbow and the forearm, [but] the symptoms didn't add up."
It was not until after the 2010 season that a doctor finally found the answer: Thoracic outlet syndrome, in which the blood vessels between the collarbone and rib cage become compressed.
"I had surgery Feb. 1, they took out the rib and [part of] the neck muscle," Hill said. "Since then, it's been fine. I've had the normal throwing pains that everybody goes through day in and day out. But the pain I had before is completely gone."
Though his pain was gone and Hill quickly worked himself back into shape, he did not find many offers coming his way.
"I threw for teams in April and a couple teams, they were interested, but they were basically scared of 'We'll sign you and you'll look good now and then you'll fall apart again,'" he said.
Hill trekked to the independent Atlantic League, joining the York Revolution. He went 2-0 with a 2.43 ERA in seven games, which in turn earned him a contract with the Blue Jays, for whom he pitched in 2010.
"It was an easy fit to come into," said Hill, a native of the Toronto suburb of Mississauga. "A lot of the coaches, the trainer here I knew. It wasn't like going to a new school, so to speak."
Hill said he's aware he will have to prove himself over and over to the Blue Jays -- and other teams -- that he can stay healthy. So far, he's done that while going 6-1 with a 4.50 ERA in nine starts for Las Vegas.
"The goal is to get back to the big leagues -- this is not where I want to be," Hill said. "I need to stay healthy and just prove to everybody that I finally am."
Storm catcher: Speaking of former big league players trying a comeback, ex-Mariners C Adam Moore is attempting to regain his form with Omaha. He played in 60 games with Seattle in 2010 but missed almost all of 2011 following right knee surgery, then missed time earlier this year with a broken finger and another knee surgery. The Royals claimed him off waivers last month and sent him to the Storm Chasers, with whom he's hit .258 (16-for-62) with two homers and seven RBIs in 19 games.
Up and down: LHP Martin Perez has bounced back and forth between Round Rock and Texas of late, but has managed to pitch well at both levels. Back with the Express on Saturday, he went five innings, allowing two runs on four hits and four walks. It was good enough for a win, but Tucson rallied to force extra innings and pulled out a 10-6 triumph on Matt Clark's grand slam in the 10th.
Bee ready: Salt Lake IF Ed Lucas has seen a surge in playing time since SS Andrew Romine was called up by the Angels. Playing mostly at shortstop, Lucas has made the most of his opportunity, batting .378 (14-for-37) with a homer and three RBIs in his last 10 games through Saturday's 6-4 win over New Orleans. He's hit .262 with eight homers and 38 RBIs overall as a super utility player for the Bees.
Chris Jackson is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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From: Alison Causton <>
Subject: [ARMAGH] Thomas ARMSTRONG, Flax merchant & Mr. HUTCHISON of Killycairn
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 16:15:52 -0500
The following article has been transcribed from The Armagh
Guardian (3 December 1844; microform), by permission of The British Library.
This reprint is intended SOLELY for the non-commercial use of family
historians, with the sincere hope that a Lister may find the content useful.
Please do not ask the transcriber for further look-ups from this
resource. Also, I am not descended from the person(s) mentioned herein.
IRISH FLAX.--We have it on the authority of a re-
spectable flax merchant of this city, Mr. THOS. ARM-
STRONG, that 40s per stone was offered for a lot of Irish
flax, in the possession of Mr. HUTCHISON, of Killy-
cairn, the gentleman who has the patent scutching
machinery, and who has been so successful in treating
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|From: Doug Williams (m.douglas.williams at gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jun 2 12:22:27 EDT 2010
So, if we stick with #lang scheme (and related languages) and .ss file extensions, we can write V5 code that will load in V4. It is tempting to just do that so users don't have to go to V5 to get the latest versions. But, eventually we want everyone to switch anyway and delaying it doesn't really buy them anything - the V4 versions are still in PLaneT and they will just get those. Can anyone think of any reason not to do this? So, my plan for my PLaneT packages is to move to the Racket language and conventions (it will be THE convention at some point anyway), bump the major version number (although this doesn't seem to be necessary), change the required core version to "5.0", and release them to PLaneT. Am I missing anything that might affect either PLT Scheme (V4) or Racket (V5) users during the transition? I have a number of users of my applications who are not developers (or even programmers) and they're on Windows (XP, Vista, and 7), Mac OS X, and Linux. Are there any other transition issues that I might need to plan for? For example, the new installer installs into a Racket directory instead of PLT. Should they uninstall PLT Scheme before installing Racket? Is this done automatically? Should we have them manually remove their old PLT application data folders for any reason? Will it make any difference if they do or not? [So far, it looks like it SHOULD be relatively painless.] Doug On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote: > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Doug Williams > <m.douglas.williams at gmail.com> wrote: > > If I have created (or updated) a PLaneT package that uses the new Racket > > names (i.e., #lang racket, .rkt extensions, etc.), will that still be > > loadable in V4? It would seem not, but I haven't tried it. > > Right: cannot. > > > Assuming that it > > cannot, should there be a V5 repository (i.e., a package in the V5 > > repository can only be loaded into Racket, but Racket can use V4 or V5 > > packages)? > > A new repository would imply that all Racket programs are incompatible > with version 4.0, but that's not the case, so I just extended the > existing 4.x repository to allow 5.x version numbers too. > > > In lieu of that, should we restrict packages using the Racket > > language by using (define required-core-version "5.0")? > > Right. > > Robby > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev
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As some of you know, am in the Philippines on a month-long teaching assignment at The Silliman University Divinity School. This was made possible by a new partnership between Silliman University, the Presbyterian Church (USA) World Mission Office and The United Church of Christ in the Philippines. I am based out of Dumaguete City, one [Read More…]
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Bob Gotti
New Direction - Poem by Bob Gotti
Are we inviting God's Righteous Wrath, on this present elected path?
Concerned not, of what we should be, but what's in it for you and me.
Sold on prosperity we should have, which is simply a temporal salve,
Ignoring the Laws God decreed, His views and ways, we do not heed.
God's people were, too destroyed, when in ignorance they employed,
A king to reign over them as a land, forsaking God's Protective Hand,
Desiring a king, like other nations, they saw no spiritual complications.
Not seeing that their new direction, towards God, was a total rejection.
God's Holy people had lost connection, with The God of their election,
One nation selected from the earth, to be for the Lord of special worth,
As He wanted to bless the other lands, through this work of His hands,
By God using but one tiny nation, to reach all others with His Salvation.
Not mentioned in God's Revelation, is our richly blessed Gentile nation,
One nation from among the rest, which by God, has been truly blessed.
We once too sought God's direction, within every choice and selection,
Back when as one nation under God, we truly sought His staff and rod.
Does our nation still in God abide, or have we pushed His Word aside?
As the world's greatest Gentile power, are we moving to our final hour?
My friend, if this be true, let us learn, and back to God, we must return,
To be for God a much needed light, while we are in this darkened night.
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The Prototype-Passing the torch: 4 years of Gameheroes
In today's special episode we welcome back to the show…Handsome Tom! The Gameheroes retired without warning last October and left us wanting to know what happened with the site and it's crew. We get those answers today in this special Prototype that looks back on the last 4 years of the site and Birdman and Tom talk about what made it so fun for so long. We get updates on past crew and where things are headed now for Tom and his family and a look towards the the future. We would love to hear your thoughts on this and will include call ins and emails in future episodes so please call into 817 717 7202 and leave us a memory.Read more
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By Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY
The aggressively silly YouTube-surfing video for Pork & Beans sets the tone for a full-tilt celebration of arrested adolescence on Weezer's sixth album, Weezers (* * * out of four).
Rivers Cuomo, 38, is the Peter Pan of geek rock on the band's third self-titled album, widely regarded as The Red Album (to distinguish it from 1994's blue Weezer and 2001's green Weezer).
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Cuomo may be a savvy pop-rock songwriter, but there's a whiff of demographic targeting in the immature humor of his unquestionably catchy tunes. He yuks it up about tipping cows and bashing mailboxes in Everybody Get Dangerous and daydreams about dropping out of school to become a rock star in Troublemaker and escaping adult responsibilities in Dreamin'.
These are hardly predictable concerns of a wealthy married father and Harvard grad, but the band's bounty of rock riffs and roaring choruses bolster the argument that Cuomo is appealing to the closet juvenile in all of us.
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ADELANTO - After months of legal wrangling and political drama, the parents who helped oust the teachers and administrators they say failed their children got to meet the woman soon to be in charge of their school.
"My number one goal is to make sure every child gets an education, period," Debra Tarver told a group of about four dozen at an information meeting for the new Desert Trails Preparatory Academy at the Adelanto Elementary School District offices Thursday evening. "And that's what I do."
In October, the Desert Trails Parent Union announced they'd selected Tarver to take over Desert Trails Elementary School, where three-quarters of students are unable to read and write up to standards, according to state testing scores. They used California's 2010 "parent-trigger" law, which allows groups who collect signatures from more than 50 percent of parents to imposing sweeping changes on the school, to force the district to relinquish control of the campus after the current school year comes to an end.
Tarver's existing charter school, LaVerne Preparatory Academy in Hesperia, received a 911 out of 1,000 Academic Performance Index score this fall, one of the highest in San Bernardino County, where the schools got an average 767 API. (Test scores range from 200 to 1,000, with 800 set as the target number by the state.) Desert Trails got a 699 this year, down 13 points from the year before.
The process was contentious, with parents divided over the effort, confusion over the process - Adelanto marks the first time the law has successfully been used - and months of legal challenges by the AESD before the courts came down on the side of the parent union and the district ultimately green-lit their plan to hand over the campus of Desert Trails to the charter school administrators chosen by a vote of petition signatories.
"There are going to be people at Desert Trails (Elementary) who will not want to attend," Tarver told those assembled. "And that's OK; we'll grow by word of mouth."
The Desert Trails Prep charter application put 600 students as the goal for enrollment at the new school. About 80 to 90 applications were filled out Thursday night, Tarver said, and formal registration for the school will likely begin on March 7.
"Anybody who is enrolled in Desert Trails now, they can continue to go" to the new school, including those who planned to transfer - some parent trigger opponents had vowed to transfer their children to other AESD schools. "As long as you are in the attendance boundary, you are fine."
There's some confusion in the community about who is able to attend, according to at least one parent in attendance.
"We were told there was a waiting list, that we might not be able to get into school," father Eric Sanchez said.
"And I know this," Tarver replied. "That's why I'm here."
Sanchez ended up enrolling two children at the school.
Tarver and her team expect to take possession of the campus on July 1. When their new charter school opens at the end of the month, the teachers and staff will be gone, along with many other elements of Desert Trails Elementary: The school's coyote mascot will be replaced with a scholarly owl, for instance. Students will also wear uniforms.
"When they come in, they're going to learn how to take off their hats," Tarver said. "Young men are going to learn how to be young men."
And DTP students will be expected to abide by a strict code of behavior.
"We don't have discipline problems" at Tarver's other schools, she said. "I think in the last eight years, I've had one suspension. I have never expelled a child."
For more information about the new Desert Trails Preparatory Academy in Adelanto, call 760-947-0050.
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The first thing you'll notice when starting Microsoft Office 2013 is it's clean, refreshing and coherent look across all supported platforms including desktop, smartphones and tablets. Through a subscription of Office 365 and the integration with SkyDrive you can access and edit your files from any computer via a browser. Among the new features are a "Read Mode" in Word 2013 which removes toolbars and lets you swipe and tab through a document like in an "E-Reader". Videos are better supported. They can be searched, added and viewed directly within Word. Excel 2013 has new easy ways of working with formulas and charts in spreadsheets. Powerpoint 2013 was enhanced with better controls while in presentation mode, for example "Slide Zoom" to zoom in on a section of your slide. Adding photos to a presentation also became easier as you can now search and add pictures from your albums on Flickr and other online photo and social network sites.


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For Roman Catholics seeking reform in their church, it might be fair to call this season the winter of their discontent.
In early February, the front page of The New York Times reported on the church's new offering of indulgences. This piece came on the heels of another cover story about the pope's decision to lift the excommunications of four schismatic bishops who reject the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
These actions arrived after a summer highlighted by the placing of a severe interdict against Sr. Louise Lears that banished her from her ministry and from receiving the sacraments, and an autumn colored by the excommunication of Maryknowll Fr. Roy Bourgeois . Both were punished as a result of their open support of the ordination of women.
Traditionalists were welcomed back to the dinner table, while those seeking to expand the guest list were sent away hungry.
At the same time, the faithful were given new opportunities to reduce their time in purgatory by days or years. They could even have their purgatorial sentence revoked via the plenary indulgence (assuming, of course, no additional sins are committed). Though they cannot be bought (such practices were outlawed in 1567), indulgences can be earned through charitable contributions and good works (limit one indulgence per sin per day).
Psychologists define "magical thinking" as the belief that one's thoughts, words, or actions can exert more power or influence over events than one actually has.
Lately I'm wondering if some of those in the church's leadership aren't struggling with a serious case of it. Not only are they assuming power that belongs to God alone, they are using functions like excommunication and indulgences on a people for whom these realities are no longer relevant or real. Indulgences and excommunications only create barriers between people and the understanding they seek, and they drive the church into an ever-deepening irrelevance, especially for younger generations.
The church has lost its power over the people through its unwillingness to meet human beings where they are. Anyone who argues that this is not the work of the church needs to wrestle with the mystery of the Incarnation: God's great act of taking on human flesh, meeting us where we are, in order to seek a deeper communion with us. Though they left the Medieval worldview regarding their faith decades ago, people today are no less in need of guidance and support in finding a spiritual path, in answering timeless questions about God and suffering, and in seeking out deeper understandings of life's purpose. The people of God are starving for meaning, and all the church seems willing to deliver is magical thinking.
Asked why the church was once again promoting the need for indulgences, Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, said, "Because there is sin in the world." But, really, is there any greater sin than willfully separating a human being from the love of God? Welcoming people to the table, regardless of their beliefs, their sins, their sanctimoniousness, was the central purpose of Jesus' ministry in this world. That the Roman Catholic hierarchy seems bent on undoing the work of the Incarnate God is not simply sad, it is profoundly erroneous.
But God always finds a way to break through the barriers.
In my recent travels, I had the powerful opportunity to listen to a member of Sr. Louise Lears' parish tell the story of the nun's attending Mass on the first Sunday after she was placed under interdict. Her 85-year old mother was at her side. Not wanting to jeopardize the parish any further, Sr. Louise followed behind her mother as she went up to receive Communion. Her mother took Communion, broke it, turned around and gave it to her daughter. After witnessing this, Sr. Louise's sister, Kate, and many other parishioners went and did the same. By the end of communion, Sr. Louise's hands were filled with fragments of the Eucharist. After the Mass was over, as the family was standing in the back, Louise's mother said to her daughter, "I was the first person to feed you, and I will feed you now."
O, Church, where is your victory? O, Hierarchy, where is your sting?
Though the church may attempt to magically separate the children of God from the table of God, Eucharist will always rise out of the people. True presence, true Communion becomes real not by the will of church authorities, but through the loving will of God. The power belongs to God and God alone. If our church leaders had their minds and hearts centered in God, rather than on their own power, they would realize that they were truly powerless when it comes to determining who is entitled to be a recipient of God's presence in this world. They would realize the absurdity of even assuming such a power. God breaks through, regardless of the defenses we construct.
The church hierarchy seems to have an unhealthy attachment to its power. Surrendering every now and then to the power of God might do them some good. At the very least — and this is no small thing — it would keep God's people from being sent away empty. Perhaps if God were given the chance to have God's way from the outset, the church would encourage the four schismatic bishops, Sr. Louise, and Fr. Roy to sit at the dinner table as equals, not with the mistaken understanding that any of them had any power over the other, but rather in an authentic effort to make God more fully present to one another.
And then perhaps, to paraphrase Shakespeare again, the winter of our discontent could begin to change into a glorious summer.
Jamie Manson received her master of divinity degree from Yale Divinity School where she studied Catholic theology, personal commitments and sexual ethics with Mercy Sr. Margaret Farley. She is the former editor in chief of the Yale magazine Reflections, and currently serves as director of Social Justice Ministries at Jan Hus Presbyterian Church, working primarily with New York City's homeless and poor populations. She is a member of the national board of the Women's Ordination Conference.
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