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The White House on Friday announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin had telephoned President Obama to discuss a diplomatic resolution to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. The administration said Obama had asked Putin to put a "concrete response in writing."
The Kremlin, of course, had a slightly different take on the phone call, saying that Putin had drawn Obama's attention to the "continued rampage of extremists who are committing acts of intimidation towards peaceful residents, government authorities, and law enforcement agencies in various regions and in Kiev with impunity."
However, there are clues that they weren't totally talking past one another, which appears to have been the case in previous phone calls between the two men since Russia seized the Crimean Peninsula. The Russian government said that Putin had "suggested examining possible steps the global community can take to help stabilize the situation," and that Russian and U.S. officials should discuss such "joint work" in the near future. Ryu Spaeth
The Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James hit back at President Trump on Twitter Saturday morning in response to Trump's tweeted announcement that the Golden State Warriors will not be invited to the White House to celebrate their NBA championship after point guard Stephen Curry criticized Trump's policies and rhetoric. As James sees it, Curry's Friday statement that he does not want to meet Trump means the president had no invitation to rescind:
U bum @StephenCurry30 already said he ain't going! So therefore ain't no invite. Going to White House was a great honor until you showed up!
— LeBron James (@KingJames) September 23, 2017
James, who is vice president of the NBA Players Association, was not the only pro athlete to take issue with Trump's weekend critiques of Curry and Colin Kaepernick, the latter of whom Trump referred to as a "son of a bitch" for his habit of declining to stand for the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice in America.
Trump stay in ur place... football have nothing to do wit u smh
— Zach Brown (@ZachBrown_55) September 23, 2017
And I doubt he's man enough to call any of those players a son of a bitch to their face...
— Chris Paul (@CP3) September 23, 2017
It is a sad day when the #POTUS seeks to disregard and punish American citizens for peacefully exercising their constitutional rights. https://t.co/QPvrKDS29D
— Benjamin Watson (@BenjaminSWatson) September 23, 2017
A #POTUS whose name alone creates division and anger. Whose words inspire dissension and hatred can't possibly "Make America Great Again"
— Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) September 23, 2017
Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner, also pushed back on Trump's remarks, calling Trump's comments "divisive" and demonstrative of "an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL." Bonnie Kristian
Mexico was struck by a 6.2-magnitude earthquake Saturday morning, sparking alarm and suspending ongoing rescue efforts in response to two other recent quakes.
The new tremor follows Tuesday's 7.1-magnitude earthquake, as well as an 8.1-magnitude quake that struck off the coast of Mexico earlier this month. The combined death toll from the earlier quakes has nearly reached 400 people.
Saturday's tremor, believed to be an aftershock of the 8.1 quake, collapsed a bridge in the town of Juchitan and toppled some previously damaged buildings. "Homes that were still standing just fell down," said Bettina Cruz, who lives in Juchitan. "It's hard. We are all in the streets." Bonnie Kristian
Iran has successfully tested a new ballistic missile, state-run media reported Saturday, one day after displaying the weapon at a military parade.
The Khorramshahr missile has a range of 1,200 miles, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani labels it "a deterrent" to guard Iranian security against attack. President Trump has accused Tehran of violating "the spirit" of the 2015 nuclear deal with this sort of test, but Rouhani maintains Iran is committed to upholding the agreement.
The new missile could reach Iranian rivals like Saudi Arabia or Israel and can carry multiple warheads. Bonnie Kristian
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday notified 21 states they were targeted for hacking by the Russian government in advance of the 2016 election.
In most cases, this targeting amounted only to research and preparation, and no voting machines were compromised in any state. "What this boils down to is that someone tried the door knob and it was locked," explained Reid Magney of the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
DHS announced the 21-state figure several months ago but had not previously communicated to the states in question. Friday's notification is intended to give the targeted states, a complete list of which has not been released, time to beef up security before 2018. "We heard feedback from the secretaries of state that this was an important piece of information," said Bob Kolasky, acting deputy undersecretary of the National Protection and Programs Directorate at DHS. "We agreed that this information would help election officials make security decisions."
In his Friday night speech in Alabama, President Trump again denied election collusion with Moscow. "No, Russia did not help me, that I can tell you, OK?" he said, calling this "hoax" Democrats' greatest achievement of 2016. Bonnie Kristian
President Trump announced on Twitter Saturday morning that he is no longer willing to host the Golden State Warriors at the White House, a traditional way to honor their NBA championship victory, because of comments from point guard Stephen Curry:
Going to the White House is considered a great honor for a championship team.Stephen Curry is hesitating,therefore invitation is withdrawn!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 23, 2017
Trump's tweet comes hours after Curry on Friday told reporters he did not wish to meet the president, alluding to Trump's much-criticized responses to the white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
"You can talk about all the different personalities that have said things and done things — from [Colin] Kaepernick to what happened with [Michael] Bennett to all sorts of examples of what has gone on in our country that has led to change," Curry said. "We're all trying to do what we can using our platforms, using our opportunities, to shed light on that. That's kind of where I stand on that. I don't think us going to the White House will miraculously make everything better, but this is my opportunity to voice that."
This is Trump's second clash with professional athletes this weekend. On Friday night, he told a campaign rally crowd that NFL players like Kaepernick, who has knelt during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice, should be fired. "Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 'Get that son of a bitch off the field right now?" Trump said. Bonnie Kristian
As-yet unidentified tremors were detected in North Korea early Saturday near the site of previous nuclear weapons tests. While China labeled the 3.4-magnitude quake a "suspected explosion" that could be Pyongyang's second nuclear test in a matter of weeks, an official from South Korea's meteorological agency said initial assessments indicate it was more likely a natural earthquake. North Korea has not commented either way.
On Friday, North Korea's foreign minister, Ri Yong Ho, said his government might test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean. "This could probably mean the strongest hydrogen bomb test over the Pacific Ocean," Ri announced. "Regarding which measures to take, I don't really know since it is what Kim Jong Un does."
Also Friday, President Trump once again called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "Rocket Man," the latest in a series of insults the two men have traded this week. Bonnie Kristian
President Trump issued a profane call to NFL team owners to fire players who engage in peaceful political protest on the field while speaking Friday night at an Alabama rally for Sen. Luther Strange (R). "Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, 'Get that son of a bitch off the field right now?'" Trump asked his audience. "Out. He's fired. He's fired." The rally crowd responded with cheers.
"You know what's hurting the game?" the president continued. "When people like yourselves turn on television and you see those people taking the knee when they're playing our great national anthem." Trump encouraged his supporters to walk out of the stadium in counter-protest should they ever observe an NFL player's protest in person.
Trump was referring to football players like Colin Kaepernick, formerly of the San Francisco 49ers, who has silently declined to stand for the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice in America.
Trump's comments were widely decried, including by other NFL players, with many noting his words for Kaepernick were harsher than his responses to the white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. The NFL Players Association issued a statement Saturday vowing to "never back down when it comes to protecting the constitutional rights of our players as citizens as well as their safety."
Watch an excerpt of Trump's comments below, or see the entire speech here. Bonnie Kristian
Trump: NFL owners should tell players who kneel to "get that son of a bitch off the field right now." pic.twitter.com/eUYtJgNixK
— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) September 23, 2017
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ST. FRANCISVILLE — A West Feliciana High School senior submitted the winning design for a postcard contest held by Interact, the Rotary International service club for young people.
Haley Lavergne, 18, will be recognized next month during a Rotary Global Peace Forum in Honolulu, one of three peace forums scheduled by the international service organization.
The forum will feature Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, of Myanmar, as the keynote speaker.
Lavergne participates in the West Feliciana Parish school district's gifted and talented art program, led by teacher Kelly Morantine, who also is the high school's Interact Club sponsor.
The contest was part of Interact's 50th anniversary, and entrants were asked to illustrate how Interact contributes to peace and international understanding.
"With the theme being peace through service, I thought if you looked at the world and magnified what it is that's bringing about world peace, it would be service," Lavergne said.
The drawing shows a magnifying glass focused on a globe, revealing the hands of teens working together to serve others.
"That's how I went with the magnifying glass and the world, off center so that it wasn't the main focus, and the hands represent service," she said.
"I thought I'd do something iconic that people would recognize and easily get.
"A bunch of tiny peace signs make up the background. It's really not obvious, but if you look closely, you see them," Lavergne said.
West Feliciana High's Interact Club participates in numerous service projects throughout the year, from organizing food drives to raising money for organizations such as the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
"I can't see it going to anyone other than Haley, because this is right up her alley," Morantine said.
"When I first met Haley, for her birthday last year, this still blows my mind, she insisted that she not receive any gifts and that everyone come together to make pillowcase dresses to send off to children in Africa," her teacher said.
"Haley is a very diligent student, always comes into class prepared and always goes far beyond what's expected."
During the forum, Lavergne will attend a variety of workshops and other activities.
"We'll get to mingle with people from all over the world. I'm really excited," she said.
Her mother, Tonya Lavergne, gets to accompany her.
"We're really excited. It'll be neat to go with her and have a girls' trip," Lavergne said.


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Efficacy Trial of Zonisamide for Myoclonus Dystonia (EpsilonZêta)
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Myoclonus Dystonia is a disease in which myoclonus distort the precision of movements and so cause a handicap in the movements of the everyday life. Response to oral medications may be incomplete and surgery may cause operating risk.
Zonisamide is an antiepileptic drug which could bring a therapeutic profit in Myoclonus Dystonia on the severity of the myoclonus.
|Myoclonus Dystonia
|Drug: zonegran Drug: placebo
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Comparative Study of the Efficiency of Zonisamide in Myoclonus Dystonia: A Monocentric , Randomized in Cross Over and Double Blind Study Versus Placebo Study
- Measure of the evolution of the severity of myoclonus by a specific scale (UMRS) [ Time Frame: from day 0 to week 23 ]
- Measure of the evolution of the severity of dystonia by a specific scale (BFM) [ Time Frame: from day 0 to week 23 ]
- measure of the evolution of the severity of myoclonus by electromyographic recording [ Time Frame: from day 0 to week 23 ]
|Study Start Date:
|February 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|July 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|July 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Zonegran
Zonegran / Placebo Zonisamide (Zonegran ®) and its placebo appear under the shape of virgin capsules of size 1. Each drug will be dispensed successively in a box containing blister packs of 14 capsules. For every period (A and B), box will contain 26 blister packs. A phase of progressive increase of doses by stages of 50 mg / week is planned before reaching the fixed dose of 300 in the daytime during 4 weeks. Then, a progressive diminution over two weeks is planned before the stop.
|Drug: zonegran Drug: placebo
Placebo Comparator: placebo
Placebo /Experimental Zonisamide (Zonegran ®) and its placebo appear under the shape of virgin capsules of size 1. Each drug will be dispensed successively in a box containing blister packs of 14 capsules. For every period (A and B), box will contain 26 blister packs. A phase of progressive increase of doses by stages of 50 mg / week is planned before reaching the fixed dose of 300 in the daytime during 4 weeks. Then, a progressive diminution over two weeks is planned before the stop.
|Drug: zonegran Drug: placebo
Detailed Description:
In "dystonia", the involuntary abnormal movements cause a driving handicap and a change of the quality of life. A particular shape of dystonia, the Myoclonus Dystonia, is characterized by the ascendancy of myoclonias (abrupt and brief movements) associated with the abnormal dystonia. Myoclonus is an additional source of handicap in the movements of the everyday life, because they distort the precision of movements. Response to oral medications may be incomplete and the tolerance poor, such that deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery is useful for the major forms but it is also an invasive therapeutics which the operating risk is not totally estimated in the absence of controlled study. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate other pharmacological therapeutic tracks which present a good ratio profit / risk.
Zonisamide is usually used in France in the epilepsy's treatment. It showed its efficiency in the progressive myoclonus epilepsy, not only on the seizure but also on the myoclonia. Therefore, it showed its efficiency on post-anoxic and propriospinal myoclonus. So, we make the hypothesis that this medicine could bring a therapeutic profit in the Myoclonus Dystonia.
The aim of this study is to demonstrate the efficiency of the zonisamide on the severity of myoclonus (UMRS) at those patients. The others outcomes are to estimate the impact of the treatment on the myoclonus's neurophysiological characteristics, the dystonia's severity (BFM score), the quality of life (SF-36 and CGI scores), but also to investigate the tolerance of the treatment.
We conducted a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, two-period cross-over design to evaluate the effect on severity of myoclonus in response to placebo or zonisamide (until 300 mg) in 32 patients.
The study includes an evaluation at the beginning and at the end of every period (4 evaluations at all). Each period includes a phase of titration (six weeks) followed by a phase of fixed dose (three weeks). Those two periods are separated by a period of wash-out (3 weeks) preceded by a phase of progressive decrease of doses (two weeks).
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion criteria :
- Age >18 and < 60
- Diagnosis of myoclonus dystonia including the isolated myoclonus caused by epsilon-sarcoglycans mutation or deletion.
- Myoclonus present in both hands
- Myoclonus decrease quality of life
- Insufficient efficiency of the benzodiazepine's tolerated maximal dose during one year
- Agreement to use a medically acceptable method of contraception throughout the study for female of childbearing potential
- Normal physical and neurological examination, except myoclonus dystonia
- No hepatic disease
- No renal disease
- Able to comply with study visits and procedures
- Has voluntarily signed consent form
- Taking no medications or stable doses medication for 4 weeks prior to the Baseline visit
Exclusion criteria :
- Patients who are not enrolled at social security
- Individual who have MMS ≤ 24/30 or patients legally protected or inability to provide an informed consent
- Pregnancy, breast feeding women and women who are of childbearing age and not practicing adequate birth control
- Weight < 40 kg
- history of serious psychiatric illness
- history of renal stones
- history of allergy to sulfonamides
- taking medications : topiramate, rifampicin, ketoconazole, cimetidine
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01806805
|Pitié salpetriere hospital
|Paris, France, 75013
|Principal Investigator:
|Emmanuel Roze
|Responsible Party:
|Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01806805 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|March 6, 2013
|Last Updated:
|April 23, 2015
Keywords provided by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris:
Movement disorder
Myoclonus dystonia
Antiepileptic drugs
Clinical Trial
Double-mind method
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Dystonic Disorders
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System Diseases
Signs and Symptoms
Movement Disorders
Central Nervous System Diseases
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Protective Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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The Cool for School promotion is still going strong from AT&T- this week's prize? A Samsung Galaxy Note! (Is it bad I'm dying to have one of these? I need a new phone!)
What comes with the prize?
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Parks wrote:The classic example being that black people doing sit-ins in whites-only restaurants were also doing illegal things.
to mean you were calling me a racist. That one is my bad and I apologize. I took it way out of context, you were just playing devil's advocate and I see your point.
Apothecary wrote:Parks wrote:Itchy wrote:Parks: Boom, I'm a racist too. Were the sit-in-ers deliberately keeping the police corralled so that if real crimes happened they couldn't leave?
right? look, itch, i know its hard to enunciate when youre talking out your asshole, but could you at least TRY to make sense? did OWS corral the cops? i hadnt heard that. please cite your source.
OK, I'll cite your post as my source then...
Apothecary wrote:7ontheline wrote:This hardly rates versus all the shit going on in the world today but if you want to non-violently protest at the University of California... this cop is a true professional!
Univ. police chief on leave after pepper spraying
In this Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, photo University of California, Davis Police Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray to move Occupy UC Davis protesters while blocking their exit from the school's quad Friday in Davis, Calif. Two University of California, Davis police officers involved in pepper spraying seated protesters were placed on administrative leave Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011, as the chancellor of the school accelerates the investigation into the incident. (AP Photo/The Enterprise, Wayne Tilcock)
ooh the anons didnt appreciate this officers services. theyre urging personal communication via email, home and cell phones and address for communicating via pissed off pizza delivery boy.
Now onto Anonymous. Giving out a police officer's home address or phone number maliciously is a crime as well.
146e. (a) Every person who maliciously, and with the intent to
obstruct justice or the due administration of the laws, or with the
intent or threat to inflict imminent physical harm in retaliation for
the due administration of the laws, publishes, disseminates, or
otherwise discloses the residence address or telephone number of any
peace officer, nonsworn police dispatcher, employee of a city police
department or county sheriff's office, or public safety official, or
that of the spouse or children of these persons who reside with them,
while designating the peace officer, nonsworn police dispatcher,
employee of a city police department or county sheriff's office, or
public safety official, or relative of these persons as such, without
the authorization of the employing agency, is guilty of a
But in this case, it seems the shoe is on the other foot. I've never heard of an individual being held responsible for something Anonymous does. Much like I've never heard of an individual police officer being held responsible for what they thought was upholding the law.


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August 30, 2012
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Is Stephen Strasburg Wearing Down?
ESPN Stats and Information published an article about Stephen Strasburg's less-than-successful start on Tuesday that noted, "Strasburg's velocity declined as his start went on. His heater averaged 96.6 MPH in the first two innings and 94.8 MPH after. "
Here's that decline as graphed from BrooksBaseball.net; you can see a substantial velocity loss over the course of the start.
The natural question is how common this is for Strasburg. But how do you summarize velocity loss?
Earlier this year, I introduced a method in which the number of fastballs thrown in the game and the speed of those fastballs was related using a simple linear model to note within-start velocity loss (or gain).
I've replicated that analysis for Strasburg, below, for 25 of his 26 starts in 2012, using pitch tags from the PITCH INFO database.
It is true that his most recent start has the most negative coefficient, indicating the highest amount of velocity loss. But it doesn't seem as though the coefficients overall are on a downward trend: in other words, he's not progressively losing more velocity during each start as his innings count climbs.
Instead, I would say there's a more or less stable pattern for Strasburg, with the exception of the one very high coefficient. As a sanity check for the method, let's examine that game: 2012-06-13.
The plot shows a fairly obvious rise. But the point here is that this kind of rise isn't characteristic of Strasburg; it's much more normal for him to show something between little-to-no decline and a slight decline in fastball speed during each start. Tuesday's velocity loss was slightly out of the norm, but it's probably not a reason to panic.
*Update* A complete list of velocity coefficients for pitchers with at least 20 starts this season is available here. Not surprisingly, Justin Verlander is at the top.
Dan Brooks is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @brooksbaseball
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Nice analyses (and thanks for the link to your previous article...great read). I appreciate your digging deeper into Strasburg's tendency. I will say that I thought that the graph of coefficients per start was slightly downward trending at first glance.
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daverupa wrote:acinteyyo wrote:dhamma follower wrote:How do you define life as you experience it?
Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, thinking/feeling/imagining...?
Is any of these is permanent, satisfactory, commandable?
Best wishes,
excellent answer!
this should be kept in mind and considered well...
Sadhu! Sadhu!
yes i do define life as such. is it not a deep joy to see the world like this???????????????? metta befriend


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Both formerly, monks, and now, it is just suffering that I make known and the ending of suffering.
although if I were to use this description personally, I would change the sixth word from the indefinite article to the definite article.Buddhism is traditionally conceived as a path of liberation attained through insight into the ultimate nature of reality.
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text: Sherry Hill: Unstamped letters not returned to sender November 3, 2012 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- There once was a little girl who loved to write. She would write letters, put them in envelopes and give them to her grandmother to put in the mail. They had no stamps on them, but the little girl thought they would get to their destination.To her grandmother's amazement, those letters did arrive -- as if by magic. Happened all the time.This little girl knew the mailman who delivered the mail: He was tall, handsome and his name was Mr. Haynes. He always took time to talk to her and gave her the mail to take in. Did he know that she adored him? Probably not.She continued to write to people and, as usual, these envelopes went into the mail and were received -- still with no stamps on them. She had started this at age 4, and by age 8 realized no letter could be mailed without a stamp: Was it Mr. Haynes who helped these get delivered?She didn't even have a complete address on her envelopes -- and yet they were received. She knew because people told her that they had gotten her letters.Into her teenage years, she would see Mr. Haynes when she was at her grandmother's house: He was his usual chipper self and still took away her breath. She thought of asking him if he were the one who put the stamps on her childhood letters, but by this time, she was reluctant to ask him.One day she was watching her grandmother work on a scrapbook; she had made at least 25 and this girl knew all of them by heart for she loved looking at them. But when she looked at what her grandmother was pasting onto a page, she was more than shocked: There was a letter that she had written when she was 4 or 5. And it had a stamp on it! "How did you get that letter, Grannie?" asked the girl."Mr. Haynes delivered it to me a long time ago. In fact, he delivered a lot of your letters."The girl just couldn't believe it and laughed hysterically! The secret was out finally, although the girl suspected that the mailman had put stamps on her letters because no one else had. But she said nothing about it to Mr. Haynes as she felt embarrassed.When the girl reached womanhood, married and became a mother, she lost her grandmother, but she did inherit one-third of those scrapbooks. While at her late grandmother's house one day, she caught a glimpse of Mr. Haynes.He was, of course, older now, and so was she. The fondness that she had for him still lingered, only this time it was coupled with gratitude. He had spent his own money to make a little girl happy.You can guess that the little girl was me, and I never quit writing on anything I could find. Those scrapbooks I inherited mean more to me than words can say because those letters are in there pasted by my grandmother and stamped by Mr. Haynes.Sherry Hill, of Charleston, may be emailed at email@example.com. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD 2 New company planning $73M synthetic fuel plant in Greenbrier County 3 Richwood mayor on leave amid investigation of purchases 4 WVU law professor announces run for Congress 5 Morgantown coal operator Laurita indicted in alleged campaign finance scheme Wrap it up -- I'll take it Previous Story Sunday's Child: Boy needs a family that won't give up on him Next Story


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Learning to Love Latin America
Allison Irby, MA Spanish: Latin American studies '06, shares her experiences in the program and how she is using her degree now.
At age eight, I made a friend who changed my life. She didn't speak any English and I didn't speak any Spanish. Our bond made me want to learn Spanish to be able to elevate our friendship.
In high school, I focused my language learning on Spanish, and I continued to study both Spanish language and Latin American/Spanish culture in undergrad by majoring in Spanish with a Latin American studies minor. I studied abroad in Spain, which was another pivotal moment in my life that led me to pursue a job opportunity in Barranquilla, Colombia.
I moved to Colombia soon after undergrad, and I worked as a fourth grade teacher. Every day, I fell more in love with Latin American culture, history, and social identity constructs. Although I quickly became an honorary Colombian and quickly immersed myself in the Colombian culture, upon my return, I realized that before I moved to Colombia, I'd had very little knowledge about the history of the internal conflicts, diversity, and ways that that nation and others like it wanted to grow, share its history, and shape its future.
Even as an outsider, I wanted to take a role in positively shaping that future. To do that, I felt the need to backtrack and capture the important information that I lacked before I leaped into Colombian culture without any solid context or elevated knowledge of the culture and surrounding cultures. After much research into Latin American studies master's programs, I pursued the MA program in Spanish: Latin American Studies at American University. There were so many schools that offered Latin American studies, but one of the components that made AU's program so unique and enticing was the language component. The Spanish-only approach allowed me to continue to grow as a professional, academic, and language learner through presentations, classroom engagement, and research. Not only was I understanding concepts more deeply, I was able to see Latin America through the language that the Latin American authors and researchers used to depict their experiences and tell their history.
Learning about Latin American culture, politics, and society through the various voices of Latin America without the language filter or translation added another level of intensity to the program that I wouldn't have gotten at any of the other programs I considered. Not only did my experience help me to process my previous experiences living and studying in Latin America, but it also helped me to develop as a professional.
During my two years at American University, I worked for the U.S. Office on Colombia and worked on campus with a think tank that collaborated with the U.S. Border Patrol to develop new-hire Spanish language curricula. Being able to continue to learn about Latin American politics and culture helped me to understand the needs of the populations we'd be serving at the border and incorporate cross-cultural competencies into the design of the curricula.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- TheStreet continues to have some of the best coverage on Apple ( AAPL) TV.We're not into rumor mongering like countless others who have been wrong about what Apple TV will be and when it will come out for the last year-plus. After all, this is a product that, as far as we know, doesn't even exist. All we can do -- unless we get a real scoop from a real source -- is speculate. Creative speculation often yields the most relevant insights. I love speculation. Kicking ideas back and forth around the water cooler that is the stock market. TheStreet's Carlton Wilkinson wrote a nice piece last week: Apple TV: The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of. I addressed C's take in Is 2013 the end of Apple? And Dana Blankenhorn kept the hits coming with Monday's Sports Opens Door For Apple TV. If I read Dana right, he thinks Apple has the physical incarnation of Apple TV in the bag. I don't agree. He believes the real focus as Tim Cook prepares to roll this thing out is on negotiations with content owners for the right to offer unbundled programming. Dana reckons Apple can convince cable companies and content owners to do what so many consumers dream of -- unbundle their programming and offer it a la carte via Apple TV. Apple already does that via iTunes. However, it's not all that different from Netflix ( NFLX) in this regard. The major similarity: Apple remains at the mercy of the major programmers; Hollywood only gives Cupertino access to a limited lineup. The most sought-after programming doesn't see the light of day on iTunes or Netflix; it only makes it to Hulu Plus and the programmers own disparate TV Everywhere ventures. The big difference: Programmers like Apple more because it charges a premium for the content it gets. That's why it receives so many new releases. For example, you can already watch the final episode of the Nickelodeon hit iCarly on iTunes, but it will cost you:
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A SHIPSTON charity has been awarded a Community Initiative award for its lifesaving Hearts & Goals campaign.
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ATLANTA -- Mets closer Bobby Parnell never received a second opinion on his ailing right elbow. Parnell simply decided, after a bit of deliberation, that pitching with a torn MCL was not good for business.
So rather than drag out his decision for weeks or even months, Parnell chose sooner than expected to undergo season-ending Tommy John surgery. The right-hander had the procedure on Tuesday in New York, with the goal of being back to full strength by Opening Day 2015.
"He was real concerned about always waking up every day knowing he had a tear in there, and 'How long would it last?'" Mets manager Terry Collins said. "So he made the right decision."
There are, of course, no guarantees that Parnell will be back to normal by next April. Even pitchers who undergo successful Tommy John surgery sometimes need additional time to fine-tune their control and command after making it back.
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Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Spine Tumors
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|Spinal Metastases Vertebral Metastases Benign Spinal Tumors Chordoma Meningioma Schwannoma Neurofibroma Paragangliomas Arteriovenous Malformations
|Radiation: SBRT for Benign Extradural Spine Tumors Radiation: SBRT for Vertebral/Paraspinal Metastases
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Phase IV Trial Evaluating the Use of Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for the Treatment of Spine Metastases and Primary Spine Tumors
- symptom control [ Time Frame: 6 weeks post RT ]
Evaluation of pain relief will be assessed using a 10-point visual analog scale.
Analgesic use will be documented to ensure that pain improvement is not due to an increase in the amount of analgesic usage.
Evaluation of neurologic improvement will be assessed by physical exam using the American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale.
- local tumor recurrence rate [ Time Frame: 5 years ]
Local recurrence is defined as tumor recurrence or progression within the planning target volume.
Local control rate will be evaluated by imaging techniques and/or clinical symptoms(worsening or no improvement in pain or neurologic compromise). If follow-up imaging is available, a local recurrence will be defined as an increase of > 20% in tumor size.
- late toxicity rate [ Time Frame: one year ]Toxicity will be assessed using CTCAE grading criteria at specified timepoints.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|September 2008
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|September 2017
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|September 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
SBRT for Benign Extradural Spine Tumors
Benign extradural spine tumors such as chordomas, meningiomas, schwannomas, neurofibromas, paragangliomas, and arteriovenous malformations (AVMs).
Radiation: SBRT for Benign Extradural Spine Tumors
14-25 Gy / 1 fraction OR 21-27 Gy / 3 fractions (7-9 Gy per fraction) OR 25-30 Gy / 5 fractions (5-6 Gy per fraction)
Other Name: Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT)
SBRT for Vertebral/Paraspinal Metastases
Vertebral and/or paraspinal metastases, with or without prior surgery and/or fractionated radiotherapy
Radiation: SBRT for Vertebral/Paraspinal Metastases
12-16 Gy / 1 fraction OR 21-27 Gy / 3 fractions (7-9 Gy per fraction) OR 25-30 Gy / 5 fractions (5-6 Gy per fraction)
Other Name: Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT)
Detailed Description:
This study is a single site, non-randomized, prospective, phase IV trial. Patients are composed of 2 groups:Spine Metastases OR Benign Spine Tumors. Data collected will include patient demographics, pathology data, tumor stage, SBRT dose fractionation scheme, dose received by adjacent critical normal tissues, tumor recurrence data, and acute and late toxicities.
Follow up data will be collected during the patient's standard office visits. The anticipated duration of this study is 5 years
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Eligibility Criteria:
- Patient age >= 18 years
- performance status of 0-3
- Vertebral and/or paraspinal metastases, with or without prior surgery and/or fractionated radiotherapy
- Benign extradural spine tumors such as chordomas, meningiomas, schwannomas, neurofibromas, paragangliomas, and arteriovenous malformations (AVMs).
- Established histologic diagnosis of a benign or malignant tumor of the spine.
- Arteriovenous malformation of the spine identified radiographically (no biopsy)
- Well-defined lesion involving no more than 2 adjacent vertebral levels or spinal segment
- Minimal spinal canal compromise that is not rapidly progressive. Ideally, the tumor should not be within 5 mm of the spinal cord.
- If chemotherapy is planned, ideally it should not have been given within 30 days of starting radiation and should not resume until at least 2 weeks after completing radiation. In addition, it is not recommended to perform SBRT when targeted anti-angiogenesis therapy is planned within 2 months of the procedure.
- Signed study-specific consent form
Exclusion Criteria:
- Lesion involving > 3 adjacent vertebral levels
- Overt spinal instability
- Neurologic deficit due to bony fragments/bony compression of neural structures
- Prior radiotherapy at the involved level(s) within 3 months of radiosurgery, more than one prior course of radiotherapy at the involved level(s), or more than 45 Gy previous radiation exposure at the involved level(s)
- Rapidly progressive spinal cord compromise or neurological deficit
- Paralysis, or otherwise compromised motor function due to radiographically confirmed cord compression
- Patient unable to undergo an MRI
- Pregnant or lactating women, due to potential exposure of the fetus to RT and unknown effects of RT on lactating females
- Patients with psychiatric or addictive disorder that would preclude obtaining informed consent
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01347307
|United States, Missouri
|Mercy Medical Center, St. Louis
|St. Louis, Missouri, United States, 63141
|Study Chair:
|Bethany Sleckman, MD
|Mercy Research
|Responsible Party:
|Juli Mai, MD, Radiation Oncology, Mercy Research
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01347307 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|May 2, 2011
|Last Updated:
|February 10, 2017
Keywords provided by Juli Mai, MD, Mercy Research:
stereotactic radiotherapy
spinal metastases
vertebral metastases
benign spinal tumors
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasms, Second Primary
Congenital Abnormalities
Nerve Sheath Neoplasms
Arteriovenous Malformations
Carotid Body Tumor
Spinal Cord Neoplasms
Spinal Neoplasms
Neoplastic Processes
Pathologic Processes
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Vascular Tissue
Meningeal Neoplasms
Central Nervous System Neoplasms
Nervous System Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Nervous System Diseases
Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms
Peripheral Nervous System Diseases
Neuromuscular Diseases
Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary
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Scratch the instant lottery tickets from gift list for kids
Lottery tickets may seem like a good stocking stuffer or Hanukkah gift, but you might want to avoid giving them to the kids.
Kids who get instant lottery tickets as a gift have a greater risk of developing gambling problems, says Donald Weinbaum, executive director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey.
"In compulsive gamblers, the brain circuits show abnormalities," he said. "And since they're still forming in adolescents, the later that a child holds off on gambling of any kind the more protective it's going to be."
Weinbaum says some problem gamblers began gambling when they were 10 or 11 years old. He says parents can set their kids on the right path to becoming responsible adults by finding a more appropriate gift than a scratch-off ticket.


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Phonetically SpeakingLanguage brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Using the SOUNDS of the following words or pairs of words, which one of the four W word/word couples do not belong?
1. Wired
2. We, Duct
3. Whittle
4. We, Essence
HintWrite down what you hear and then you will see the difference.
AnswerWord couple Number 2 does not belong because phonetically speaking, all of the other words/word-groups can be used along with ACQ to form new words as demonstrated below:
When you separate ACQ from the following words, you have a 'W' sound left. (PHONETICALLY)
1. ACQ+ 'Wired' (UIRED) = ACQUIRED
3. ACQ+ 'Whittle' (UITTAL) = ACQUITTAL
4. ACQ+ 'We' + 'ESSENCE' (UIESCENCE) = ACQUIESCENCE
2. AQUEDUCT would be AQ+ We + Duct.
AQUEDUCT is the only word that begins with AQU instead of ACQ like the others, thus not fitting in with the rest of the group.
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Rio Faculty Exhibit Work in Chillicothe Gallery
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September 20, 2012
University of Rio Grande faculty members Kevin Lyles (sculptor) and Benjy Davies (graphics and printmaking) displayed True Stories, a show of printmaking and sculptural works in the Patricia Scott Art Gallery in Bennett Hall.
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Dr. Thomas McNemar believes that practicing plastic and reconstructive surgery is a delicate balance of the medical sciences, art, and the true understanding that every patient is unique with individual needs and desires.
Dr. McNemar's training is extensive. Born and raised in Ohio, he attended the Medical College of Ohio where he made the decision to pursue a surgical career. After completing a General Surgery Residency at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic, he continued his surgical education at Akron City Hospital as a Plastic Surgery Fellow. Realizing he possessed a natural gift for detail and perfection, he elected to round-out his formal education at the Bunke Clinic in San Francisco California as an Attending Fellow specializing in Hand and Microvascular Surgery. Currently, Dr. McNemar is a member of a private practice with offices in San Ramon and Tracy California. He is also a voluntary clinical faculty member of the Stanford Medical School Division of Plastic Surgery as well as a diplomat of the American Board of Plastic Surgery.
An appreciation for fine art, music, and athletics complement Dr. McNemar's formal education by demonstrating abilities in design, attention to detail, and aesthetic purpose. He views every patient as a fresh canvas utilizing the lessons of both his medical schooling and passion for art.
Personally, Dr. McNemar is married and the father of two wonderful children. He and his family have fallen in love with California and the abundance of outdoor leisure activities and fine art opportunities the bay area has to offer. He is an avid skier and cyclist. Additionally, he has an appreciation for the culinary arts and fine wine.
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Our practice specializes in Cosmetic Plastic surgery. In Dr. McNemar's book, "Your Complete Guide to Breast Augmentation and Body Contouring" ( Addicus Books 2006 available on Amazon.com), you will find frequently asked questions that will assist and inform you in your journey through cosmetic surgery.
Dr. McNemar's practice specializes in cosmetic surgery with a state-of-the-art approach. From Mid-Face Lifts and Endoscopic Brow Lifts, utilizing an Endotyne to Liposelection using a Vasar system, these procedures offer a less invasive approach for the patient, yielding an easier recovery with fabulous results. Each consultation is viewed as if it were Dr. McNemars first. Communication is the key to achieving the best results for each patient. Our goal in my practice is to make this journey through cosmetic surgery the best it can be. We believe in the highest standard of patient care.
- B.S. - Ohio University, Athens Ohio, 1980 - 1985
- M.S. - University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, 1985 - 1988
- M.D. - Medical College of Ohio, 1988 - 1992
- General Surgery Residency - Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, 1992 - 1997
- General Surgery Chief Resident - Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, 1996 - 1997
- Plastic Surgery Fellowship - Akron City Hospital, Akron, OH, 1997 - 1999
- Plastic Surgery Chief Fellow - Akron City Hospital, Akron, OH, 1998 - 1999
- Hand and Microvascular Surgery Attending Fellow - Bunke Clinic, San Francisco, CA, 1999 - 2000
- American Board of Plastic Surgery 2001
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Exploring the effects of concussions and the implications of the seven-day disabled list.
On Wednesday, after making an exceptional play on Tuesday, George Springer joined Alcides Escobar on the 7-Day concussion DL. Four years ago, Corey Dawkins and Marc Normandin wrote about the implications of the 7-Day DL. This article originally ran on April 19, 2011.
Hitting a baseball isn't the most difficult activity in sports—changing a long-standing culture is. For many years, a player was not officially diagnosed with a concussion unless there was a loss of consciousness. That started to change a few decades ago, but the physiological causes and long-term effects of concussions still were not fully understood. Thus, practices among players and non-medical personnel remained static.
March 20, 2012 8:00 am
Some of your favorite baseball writers are banding together to produce a book about players who haven't made it to Cooperstown but are enshrined in our hearts, minds, and memories.
You love baseball. You're here, reading this, so that's an easy assumption to make. Well, I love baseball, too. I'm lucky to be able to do what I do for a living, and I hope no one ever realizes how much fun I'm having while working, lest the privilege be taken away.
October 22, 2011 8:30 pm
With Omar Minaya rumored to be in the running for the Angels job, we present for the first time at BP.com, our review of his tenure from Baseball Prospectus 2011.
If you had to script an end to the Omar Minaya era in Queens, you couldn't have outdone reality: Oliver Perez, the $12 million-a-year albatross in the Mets' rotation, pitching for the first time in a month on the last day of the season, promptly walked three straight batters to send the Mets home losers in extra innings. A sarcastic chant of "M-V-P" followed the first out that Perez recorded during the debacle, and illustrated how fed up the fanbase was—not just with Perez, but with everything the pitcher and his contract represented.
Perez embodies so much that was wrong with the mindset of the Mets' previous administration under general manager Minaya. The Mets gave Minaya his first genuine GM job, since his mandate as the league-appointed guardian of the dying Montreal Expos had included overseeing a form of organizational euthanasia, as opposed to the involuntary manslaughter he could be convicted of for bringing the Mets' roster to its knees. While he had his successes in New York, there were far more misses, and they all came back to one fundamental and repeated problem.
May 26, 2011 9:00 am
Marc assesses the top fantasy performers at each position to see whose hot starts can be trusted, then rides off into the sunset to fight crime in the next town down the road.
With nearly two months of the 2011 season behind us, let's take a look at which players are leading the pack at their respective positions, and whether or not we can expect those starts to develop into trends, or if we should be selling high before the bottom falls out.
May 20, 2011 9:00 am
Mark DeRosa's bum wrist acts up again, Brian Roberts and Chris Dickerson suffer blows to the head, a pair of Cardinals play the strain game, and Tyson Ross leaves the A's rotation reeling.
Brian Roberts, BAL (Concussion-like symptoms)
Our ability to assess concussions has greatly improved in recent years with the advancement of ImPACT testing and even more detailed neuropsychological testing, which allows us to get an idea of just how set back a player is as a result of his concussion. Everyone can agree that Roberts started experiencing symptoms after one particular moment—his head-first slide. He will still have to progress through all the various steps necessary to get back onto the field, regardless of whether or not his condition is officially called a concussion—you have to give MLB credit for playing it safe with its players.
May 18, 2011 9:00 am
A once-retiring Royals rookie races to the Show.
In the last two weeks, I have written about both Royals prospects who were expected to make it to the majors in 2011 and pitchers who are striking out a significant number of batters in the International League. Because of those specifications, Danny Duffy, who starts tonight for the Royals against the Rangers, didn't make the cut for either—Duffy's ETA, according to Kevin Goldstein in his Top 11 prospects ranking of the Royals, was 2012, and he has been blowing away hitters in the PCL, the league I had not yet covered.
May 18, 2011 9:00 am
David Wright's back cracks under stress, the Red Sox are down two starters, and two high-profile setup men hit the DL with somewhat mysterious ailments.
David Wright, NYN (Low Back stress fracture)
Often one particular repeated action is a contributing factor–in the lumbar spine, it is usually hyperextension or bending backwards–but as the condition worsens other actions also become symptomatic. One factor that always plays a role, however, is the muscular and connective tissues' inability to absorb the forces from these actions that break down tissue.
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May 16, 2011 9:00 am
Five pitchers who are lighting up Triple-A and could soon be seeing time in the big leagues.
Today we will take a look at a few pitchers who are striking out at least a batter per inning in the International League, and who may make their way onto a big league roster near you this summer.
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May 16, 2011 9:00 am
Chipper Jones lives up to his injury billing, Magglio Ordonez experiences weakness, Grady Sizemore has trouble with his other knee, Brandon Beachy is not feeling peachy, and Colby Rasmus' right side hurts.
If baseball injuries were anything like the health issues on "House," we would have something new and exciting to tell you about every day, and it would take a team of specialists—along with heavy doses of sarcasm and sexual tension—to solve the mystery each one presented. (Conversely, if baseball injuries were anything like how "Scrubs" presents things, then we would just need to sing "99 Luftballons.")
Instead, we are left with common injuries—considered so for a reason—such as hamstring, oblique, and quad strains. The most valuable sports medicine staffs aren't necessarily the ones that find and treat that one-of-a-kind injury; the ones that can both prevent and get the common strains back on the field sooner than the rest deserve that praise. No matter how great the staffs are, though, there will be injuries. The players are not robots, despite what some of their post-game interviews may lead you to believe.
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May 13, 2011 9:36 am
Though there was a considerable amount of unhappy news for fantasy owners from impact players last week, there was still happy news from a couple of unlikely sources. But whose gains are here to stay?
It's tough to argue with this week's drops—Kendrys Morales is out for at least six months thanks to surgery to remove scar tissue from his foot, Chris Young elected to have surgery to repair the shoulder that has knocked him out three years running, and Dallas Braden is having a similar procedure done on his own noodle. Nick Hundley is next up for most drops in the past week, but let's think about this for a moment: He is a catcher who can avoid embarrassing himself at the plate, and there are not nearly enough of those. You don't want to cut him because he will be out for a few weeks. As for the most popular adds of the week…
Homer Bailey, Cincinnati Reds (63 percent owned, +29 percent)
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May 13, 2011 9:00 am
Bartolo Colon enlists the aid of modern medicine in an unorthodox recovery, Kendrys Morales still has ankle issues, and a pair of pitchers get their capsules repaired.
Bartolo Colon, NYA (Stem cell therapy)
This story on Bartolo Colon and the use of stem cells raised as many eyebrows throughout baseball as it did questions about the effectiveness of Colon's procedure and the obligation of a player to accept that his career has come to an end. Because Dr. Joseph Purita—the orthopedic surgeon who treated Colon—admitted to using HGH in procedures on the general public, MLB was forced to launch an investigation into both him and his practices. He claims not to have used HGH on professional baseball players—since it's illegal, and all—and for now we'll just have to take him at his word.
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May 11, 2011 9:00 am
Multiple Mets and a Mariner face the end of their seasons, Luke Scott tries to play through his own serious injury, and Bruce Chen and Edward Mujica succumb to strains.
Jenrry Mejia, NYN (Right elbow—TJS)
All injuries come down to one basic premise: can the tissue deal with the forces necessary for the act that is about to be performed? In most cases, the body creates force production and subsequent force dissipation without any difficulties (even when you fall down on your arm or back). Other times it is simply unable to dissipate the forces fast enough, which results in injury when a player is hit by on the hand by a pitch or dislocates a shoulder while diving.
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PORTLAND, Ore. - Sexual assault in the military has become a topic of a national conversation just in the past couple weeks as top lawmakers in Washington, D.C. push new bills to crack down on it.
And a San Antonio newspaper's seven-month-long investigation shows victims are struggling to get help.
Myah Bilton-Smith of Vancouver, Wash. said she was raped twice on a Texas Air Force base. She was featured in the newspaper's story and reached out to KATU News to share her story.
For her, the pain is still fresh. Her interview with KATU News came more than a year after the sexual assaults began and just weeks after the Air Force honorably discharged her.
She has some brain damage from her attacks, which affects her speech.
"Sometimes I find myself getting really aggressive, getting mad at the people I really shouldn't be made at, crying, hysterically," she said during her interview with KATU News.
Those are the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. But the 21-year-old has never been to war.
"I sometimes get afraid. I don't know when it comes to higher ups, the chain of command," she said.
Instead, she's fighting a battle with her military brethren.
"The last thing I want to do is cry in front of the world, but at the same time, it's like, sometimes you gotta cry."
Myah's tears started last April. She says she was raped at Goodfellow Air Force Base in San Angelo, Texas. She was stationed there to become an intelligence analyst.
She doesn't remember much about the attack because she says she was drugged.
"I was freaking out because of the embalming fluid cigarette," she said.
It's a date-rape drug that has similar effects of PCP.
Myah says commanding officers didn't send her to a regular hospital. Her records show she ended up somewhere else.
"They put me in a psych ward and then they said, 'OK, we're going to put you back on and expect you to ride through.'"
Three months passed and Myah got put back with her unit. But an allergic reaction she suffered to medication doctors gave her weakened her motor skills.
"It hurt because I was denied my promotion because I couldn't do it at the time," she said.
Myah's salary was also reduced.
Three days later she says she was attacked again. She says reporting the problem made it worse.
"I just yelled at them. You know, I shouldn't have yelled but I said, 'I got raped.' You know, and I started crying."
By this time Myah's mother, Tina Cleman, had already quit her job in the Northwest and moved to Texas to help.
"No parent should have to move to make sure that their child is alive or remains alive," she said.
Cleman discovered that Myah's first rape had never been reported. She took photographs with her cellphone more than a week later. One shows a gash in Myah's head and another shows bruises on her body.
"If my daughter would have been given the rights that that is supposed to - the purpose that it was put there, she would have a military career," Cleman said.
Military policy states that Myah was eligible to apply for an expedited transfer to another base. She did that after each attack. Ironically, that law was put in place the same month Myah enlisted - December 2011.
She was denied both times.
She said death could have been the end result for her.
Myah credits not only her mom but an organization called the Military Rape Crisis Center for saving her life.
KATU was unable to reach a base or Pentagon spokesperson by deadline about Myah's case.
However, a similar story about Myah in the San Francisco Chronicle quotes a Goodfellow Air Force Base spokesman as saying they can't comment on the case because of privacy issues.
Earlier this month the Pentagon released a report estimating that as many as 26,000 military members may have been sexually assaulted just last year. But thousands of victims are unwilling to come forward because of fear of retaliation.
New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is pushing for a system in which sex assaults are reported outside the chain of command, directly to a military prosecutor


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Chewy gingerbread blossom cookies rolled in sugar with chocolate Hershey kiss centers. A holiday favorite no cookie tray should be without!
The cookies are perfectly spiced with ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and molasses. All the things that give them the unique snappy flavor we love gingerbread for.
They're rolled in sugar to give them a crackly coating, a step you definitely don't want to skip. Not only does it make them look pretty but adds yet another layer of texture that heightens their joy.
Every bite is interesting with a little crunch from the sugar, a lot of soft chewiness and the best part of all the sweet kiss in the middle.
The prize.
Chewy gingerbread blossom cookies rolled in sugar with chocolate Hershey kiss centers.
- In a large bowl whisk together flour, ginger, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg and salt. Set aside.
- In a separate large mixing bowl beat butter and brown sugar together with an electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add molasses, egg and vanilla; mix well.
- On low speed gradually beat in the flour mixture until well mixed. Press dough into a flat disk, wrap in plastic and refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Shape dough into 1-inch balls, roll in granulated or coarse sugar to coat and place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.
- Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges of cookies just begin to brown. Remove from oven and immediately press a Hershey kiss into the center of each cookie.
- Remove to wire racks and cool completely. Store in an airtight container up to 5 days.
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My First Golf Course Cigar
Posted: May 7, 2007 10:17am ET
Finally, the Northeast had a golf weekend to remember, the first of 2007 (if you don't count January 6th when it was 70 degrees). Since I started playing golf in 1995, we have never had a later start to the spring season. This weekend was warm and pleasant, although it did cool off a bit on Sunday. But hey, 55 and sunny is better than snow, even if the wind was whipping up to a two-club level sometimes.
I also had my first golf course cigar late on Friday afternoon, a well-aged La Aurora 100 Años. It smoked great, and had enough flavor to stand up to the outdoors. I gave my playing partner, a guy who I joined up with on the first tee, a robusto from Montecristo, a non-Cuban cigar that was specially made for a golf tournament a few years back—it has a Habanos2000 wrapper and has aged beautifully. We both enjoyed every puff as the late afternoon sun set over the Hudson River on our club's course. It didn't hurt that I had my best round in over a year.
Sunday was the nippy day, and again, I had a few cigar cases in my bag. There was not one "predictable" cigar in there. I do play golf with a lot of Wall Street guys, and men who have the wherewithal to buy whatever cigar they want, and many are on a first name basis with some of the world's great retailers of Cuban cigars. But I hate to be predictable. I'm more likely to stock those cigar cases with some aged A. Fuentes, an old Padrón, a new brand like Tatuaje, or a La Flor Dominicana or some other premium non-Cuban cigar. My ploy is simple. I want to surprise them with the quality and taste of cigars that some of them are not prone to try.
What do you smoke on the golf course? Are you looking to impress your partners with some well-known illegal smoke, or are you willing to dig deep into your humidor and surprise someone with a nicely aged cigar that you've been waiting to savor and that you can buy down the street at your friendly neighborhood tobacconist?
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http://dailydoormatt.blogspot.com/2007/05/coronado-by-la-flor-lasted-me-10-holes.htmlPretty much says it all. A cigar you should be familiar with.
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Fredi leaning on bench in stretch without off-days
ATLANTA -- As the Braves played the 11th of 17 consecutive days out of the All-Star break on Monday, manager Fredi Gonzalez started Jordan Schafer and Phil Gosselin as part of an effort over the next few days to play the reserves and rest the regulars.
"After the All-Star break, we have 17 straight," Gonzalez said. "I'm going to pick this time to play the bench a little bit."
Gonzalez started Gerald Laird and Ryan Doumit on Sunday in place of Evan Gattis and Jason Heyward. Gattis was off Sunday as part of Atlanta's plan to sit him down every three games.
By resting B.J. Upton and Tommy La Stella on Monday -- similar to sitting Andrelton Simmons on Thursday and Heyward on Sunday -- Gonzalez is able to space out the off-days.
Gosselin earned his first start of the season after reaching on an error and lining out in his first two pinch-hit opportunities over the weekend. The infielder aims to build on the .344 batting average he posted in 407 plate appearances with Triple-A Gwinnett this season.
"I figured I might be in there just because it's a day game after a night game, that kind of thing, so I just came here prepared to start," Gosselin said. "I want to get out there and get a few at-bats and help the team any way I can."
Atlanta hopes Gosselin's hot bat will jolt a bench that has struggled to produce this season. Braves pinch-hitters ranked 25th in the Majors with a .165 batting average (19-for-115), and 26th with a .236 on-base percentage entering Monday.
"There's no question," Gonzalez answered when asked if some extra at-bats in the next few days could help the slumping bench. "Play the bench, get them some at-bats."
Joe Morgan is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Spread the dough out with a rolling pin until it's about 1/4 inch thick. (Add more flour if it's too sticky.)
Cut out heart shapes with your cookie cutters and arrange the hearts into cookie animals. You can copy the designs seen here or use your imagination to create any animal you like.
Place them on a lightly greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for about 10-12 minutes. (Ask an adult for help.) Remove the cookies from the baking sheet and let them cool completely.
Add frosting and decorations to make your cookies look like animals.
Enjoy the oohs and aahs when you serve up a plateful of creatures!
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Madson has scar tissue removed, feels better
ANAHEIM -- Two weeks ago, Halos reliever Ryan Madson was scheduled to throw a simulated game at Angel Stadium and his return to baseball appeared to be on the horizon.
However, the simulated game did not go as planned, and Madson felt tightness in his arm shortly after he finished -- tightness that had not been there in bullpens leading up to the simulated game.
"I'd probably be playing right now if that had gone well," Madson said.
On Thursday, Madson -- who spent the past week in Arizona getting treatment -- planned to play catch prior to the game against the Orioles.
"It feels better now, but that could just be the non-throwing," Madson said.
Madson did not throw a baseball while he was in Arizona, but used his time there to get the scar tissue removed from his elbow.
Scar tissue is a regular part of the recovery from Tommy John surgery. It usually tears off while a pitcher is throwing and rehabbing, but that never happened with Madson, so the tissue was manually removed.
William Boor is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Content Marketing Panel: Creating New Relationships and Revenue Streams
November 15, 2012
Executive Summary
As publishers season their multimedia brands with apps, videos, special issues, and more, it's important to leverage the unique aspects that differentiate the brand. A panel of publishers and experts at the Alliance for Audited Media's annual conference discussed how to use content marketing to develop audiences and increase engagement.
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"Content Marketing Panel: Creating New Relationships and Revenue Streams." Jonathan Harris, Managing Director, Infomart, and VP of Business Development, National Post; John LoGioco, SVP and General Manager, Americas, Outbrain; James Moroney III, Publisher and CEO, The Dallas Morning News; Liz Schimel, EVP and Chief Digital Officer, Meredith National Media Group. Alliance for Audited Media Annual Conference, 11/15/12.
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Hall of Fame mods for August were announced recently at Planet Elder Scrolls. According to APY, all six projects come from modders that have never been inducted before — so congrats to all the first-time honorees!
- Frostmourne and Lich King's Helm by jojjo: Adds enchanted and unenchanted one and two-handed versions of the sword and enchanted and unenchanted versions of the helm.
- Better Letters by Cliffworms: Want a new twist on the game? With this mod, all written letters (love notes and such) have been replaced with new stuff.
- Qarl's Texture Pack 3 – Redimized by Bomret and Dev_Akm: A project that lets folks enjoy Qarl's Texture Pack with lower PC hardware requirements.
- Building Up Uvirith's Grave by Acheron: This mod allows Telvanni players to expand Tel Uvirith into a town which reflects the player's tastes and faction affiliations. Check out all the options here.
- Necessities of Morrowind by Taddeus & Nymeria: Realism increases with this mod as it requires your character to eat, drink and sleep.
- GIANTS Ultimate by The Puma Man: A mod that adds nearly 200 new enemies to fight — giants, mummies, and more…oh my!
Again, congrats to this month's nominees…great work!


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Volunteer at Food Pantry: OPCC (Santa Monica)
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Weekly Event - Every Sunday: 9:15 AM to 11:30 AM (PDT)
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AGES: 4-95 (all are welcome)
PARKING: 503 Olympic Blvd. (between 5th and 7th). Best parking is the free meters along 5th Street or Colorado Blvd.
54,000. That's the number of people our food pantries have fed so far this year. Each and every Sunday, at the Temple Campus and at OPCC in Santa Monica, we feed hundreds of the most needy in our city. It has become a tradition for us to donate food to our food pantries during the High Holy Days season. Last year's drive for tuna and peanut butter was our most successful in our history—we collected enough tuna and peanut butter to stock our Temple Campus Food Pantry for an entire year. This year we're trying something different. This year we're not asking you to donate food. We're not asking you to donate money. We're asking you to donate time—one Sunday.
You see, we can have all the food in the world at our food pantries, but unless we have enough volunteers on a Sunday morning to distribute it, it's useless. Our food pantries only work because Temple members, just like you, donate two hours of their time—they show up. That's all it takes to make our food pantries run and continue to feed tens of thousands of hungry people every year.
Give us one Sunday. Commit to showing up at either our Temple Campus or Santa Monica OPCC Food Pantries one Sunday in the next year—it's worth more than any other donation you can make, and it just might change your life.
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Weekly Event - Every Sunday: 9:15 AM to 11:30 AM (PDT)
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Are you interested in international affairs or international business? Do you hope to someday work for the government or an NGO? If so, join Mr. Chris Klemm, from the U.S. Department of State, to learn more about how to find a job with international organizations or the State Department. Refreshments will be provided.
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-increase distance to a reliable 400 feet - failed
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Helston and St Keverne young farmers have braved the cold for a smelly evening of bagging up dung.
The saying that many hands make light work proved true, however, and with 25 members helping there is now plenty of muck ready to sell for the club's annual charity dung run.
This will take place on Saturday, February 23, with dung sold from Sithney Common Hill lay-by for £2 per bag.
Orders can be made in advanced, with the dung delivered, by contacting Christina Jenkin on 01326 231327.
All proceeds will go to the two charities the club has chosen to support this year: Cornwall Air Ambulance and the Farm Crisis Network.