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|October 26, 2011
Volume 13, Issue 22
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"Sexual Abuse"
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Jan's Corner
Sexual Abuse
Sexual abuse is a horrendous offense that as many as one in three women and one in four to five men have suffered. These women are our pregnant and birthing mothers. These men are our birthing fathers. The effects of these experiences can color everything in the victim's life. Pregnancy and birth are times when healing can take place, but abuse often recurs within the truly broken birth systems throughout the world. With a rising cesarean and induction rate, women are often left with a real sense of helplessness. When a woman has suffered abuse, the sense of having no control is often multiplied.
We absolutely need to do everything we can to stop this personal affront on children. While doing that we need to treat everyone with the balm of love and kindness that can help anyone's life. We as midwives need to be aware of the help we can provide if it is called for. Some women will not want to deal with this issue. Some women will not know it happened to them until they experience a trigger such as the baby coming through. Others will be offended if they say something and you ignore their need. It is a balancing act that needs the utmost thought, love and intuition on your part.
Most midwives have a question on their prenatal forms now. Oftentimes the answer to the question "Have you been raped or sexually abused" will be no. Sometimes the truth comes out later when she trusts you. In the book, Survivor Moms: Women's Stories of Birthing, Mothering and Healing after Sexual Abuse, the authors and women suggest not to dig into a victim's past but not to ignore her if she puts out the seeds of revelation. I highly recommend this book, published by Motherbaby Press, to all birth practitioners. We owe it to the women and men we serve to understand sexual abuse as well as we can.
There is so much work we do in the prenatal course. We establish and maintain relationships, counsel and help women stay "normal" through nutrition. As I have said before, most midwives feel that 90% of complications can be avoided with good prenatal care. Now we add this consolation when working with mothers and fathers who may have suffered abuse, and the wonderful aspect of this is that the answer is the same for everyone, whether they have had this experience or not. It is my favorite scripture: "Love never fails" (1 Corinthians 13:8).
— Jan Tritten, mother of Midwifery Today
Jan Tritten is the founder, editor-in-chief and mother of Midwifery Today magazine. She became a midwife in 1977 after the amazing homebirth of her second daughter. Her mission is to make loving midwifery care the norm for birthing women and their babies throughout the world. Meet Jan at our conferences around the world, or join her online, as she works to transform birth practices around the world.
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In My Opinion—Birth as a Vehicle for Healing
According to conservative estimates, one in four women has been sexually violated. Many practitioners believe that this number is much higher due to underreporting. Moreover, if we include a wide variety of incidences of boundary violations, broken promises and inappropriate behavior directed at a child or in any situation where a power differential exists between one person and another, then the numbers are much higher. As a survivor and a midwife I am interested in how gentle birth can provide an opportunity to fully reclaim one's body and power.
Pregnancy and birth have the potential to be part of a woman's healing. However, midwives have good reason not to attempt to directly address sexual trauma. A gentle birth is powerful, and a woman's growing sense of power and her unique place in the world—discovered through birthing—can help her move away from feeling victimized. We all know that medicalized birth is filled with opportunities for harm. Common obstetric protocols that can re-traumatize include prolonged perineal pressure, finger forceps and episiotomy. Sexual violation is by definition non-consensual. Therefore, informed consent is an essential part of the healing offered by the midwifery model of care.
As midwives, most of us do not have the training to use traditional therapeutic strategies, and even if we do have training one of the most important skills when working with someone who has been violated is to maintain clear and strong boundaries. This is because sexual violation is an assault on boundaries.
Unless a woman brings her story to me, I do not ask about this aspect of her history. I believe that this is the first important boundary. Allowing a person who is healing from sexual violation as much control as possible over her self-definition and choice of action will help her move forward in her healing.
If a woman does disclose a history of violation, my role is to listen with sympathy and respond genuinely. I do not need to set an agenda to address this beyond what she requests. If I feel a pull to fix, save or repair her, I take a deep breath and remember the boundaries of our relationship. I remember that I am one small part of her journey toward healing. I have faith that it is her life and that her own faith and wisdom will be the agent of healing. By remembering this, and perhaps by communicating my faith, I clarify the boundary. I am her midwife, not her therapist.
— Kate Pendergast
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A: Make sure the baby is being cuddled and breastfed, a warm and relaxed baby doesn't react to the pain the same and bleeds better; also once the prick is done, wait a few seconds for the blood to collect and do one gentle squeeze…, I have a 100% success rate with this. As soon as you take the baby away from mum/breast, they stress and the test becomes difficult for everyone involved.
— Basia McAuley
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Educated parents breeding the second generation of Brooklyn hipsters are increasingly circumspect about their childbearing options, with mothers taking a more proactive role than a conventional hospital labor and delivery might allow. And those skittish about giving birth in their own bedrooms can still benefit from doulas…who are willing to attend hospital births: These doulas will work with a mother to create a "birth plan" and advocate its enforcement on behalf of a woman who may be in a vulnerable state during crucial decision-making stages.
— Ellen Killoran, on a new generation of midwives and doulas living in New York City. http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/tunnel-of-love-the-doula-and-the-banjo-player/Content?oid=1965218
…My breast milk is not something I've actually seen before. It goes from my breast into Finn's mouth, apart from the occasional drip (or spray−woah−didn't know those suckers could shoot so far!). It's kind of amazing that I can create food in the first place, and the process just seemed sort of magic.
— Sarah Crossman, mom and blogger for NPR's The Baby Project, on her initial reactions to breastfeeding. http://www.npr.org/blogs/babyproject/2011/08/08/139020461/milking-myself-a-surprising-emotional-reaction-to-pumping
Giving every child the best start in life is the highest priority. This is the key to reducing health inequalities and creating a fairer society. Prioritisation of community child health services is vital.
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Ina May Gaskin has won a very prestigious award, "The Right Livelihood Award for outstanding vision and work on behalf of our planet and its people"; you can read more about the award and Ina May here: http://rightlivelihood.org/inamay_gaskin.html
Midwifery Today has been very, very blessed in that Ina May has been a regular speaker at many of our conferences. She and her husband, Stephen Gaskin, who also received this award in 1980, will be teaching with us in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This is shaping up to be an excellent event. We hope you can join us for an amazing learning, sharing and caring experience. Many other great teachers will be joining Ina May and Stephen and Midwifery Today to bring a conference that will hopefully meet your needs and propel you with passion in serving motherbaby!
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Pregnancy can be challenging for any woman, especially a woman expecting her first baby. Almost all women express fears about medical procedures, labor and birth and being a good mother. Survivor moms may have additional challenges—even those who have managed the effects of their abuse history well up until pregnancy.
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Randomized Placebo Controlled Trial With Etoricoxib That is Taken to Prevent the Yom Kippur Headache
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Headache during fasting is a known entity in the scientific literature. The prevalence of such a headache is high and in a study conducted in Israel was found in 60% of people with a previous predilection for headache. A prior study showed a significant decrease in the incidence of fasting headache using rofecoxib, but the drug has been taken off the market. The goal of this project is to evaluate the efficacy of etoricoxib as treatment taken before the fast- a COX-2 inhibitor with a relatively long half life to prevent fasting induced headache. The study will be a prospective double blind placebo controlled trial using adult volunteers with a history of a fasting headache who will be abstaining from food and drink on Yom Kippur.
The study hypothesis is that treatment with etoricoxib prior to a 25 hour fast will decrease the incidence of fasting headache.
|Drug: etoricoxib Drug: placebo
|Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Randomized Placebo Controlled Trial With Etoricoxib That is Taken to Prevent the Yom Kippur Headache
- Incidence of Fasting Headache [ Time Frame: 25 hours after administration ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|September 2008
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|October 2008
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|October 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: A
Healthy Patients, age 18-65, who typically suffer from a Headache while fasting
Drug: etoricoxib
120 mg
Placebo Comparator: B
Healthy Patients, age 18-65, who typically suffer from a Headache while fasting
Drug: placebo
Detailed Description:
Fasting is a known trigger for headache. More specifically, headache associated with ritual fasting in compliance with religious edict has been documented and described in the literature. These have been described in Jewish and Muslim ritual fasts, and have been dubbed 'Yom Kippur headache,' and 'First of Ramadan headache' respectively. The incidence of fasting associated headache during the 25 hour fast of Yom Kippur (YK) wherein no food or drink is ingested, has been documented in approximately 40% of participants, but as high as 66% of those prone to headache. (1) A recent study was published in which the authors were able to show a marked reduction in YK headache using rofecoxib 50mg, a Cox 2 specific nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medication with a relatively long (17 hour) half life. In a placebo controlled double blind randomized trial, in a population with a history of fasting headache, the drug was ingested just prior to the start of the fast. The placebo group had an incidence of headache 65% of the time whereas the treatment group had an incidence of 19%. Headache in the treatment set was also on average milder than in the controls. These results were all significant statistically. (3)
Unfortunately for sufferers of fasting headache, rofecoxib (Vioxx), has been removed from the market and is no longer available.
We therefore propose to conduct a second study using etoricoxib (Arcoxia) - a Cox 2 specific antiinflammatory medication with a longer half life than rofecoxib.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 18 -65.
- Patients will be enrolled if they declared that they intended to complete the 25 hour YK fast, and had demonstrated their commitment by doing so for the previous three years (unless medically prevented.)
- We will only enroll patients who stated that they typically suffered from headache during the fast.
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients with chronic medical problems including:
- Heart disease,
- Kidney disease,
- Liver disease,
- Peptic ulcer disease,
- Hypertension,
- Diabetes,
- Lung disease including asthma,
- History of gastrointestinal bleeding,
- Patients with allergies or intolerance in the past to NSAIDs,
- Pregnancy or lactation.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00752921
|Contact: Zev S Wimpfheimer, MD
|972 50 868 5466
|Shaare Zedek Medical Center
|Not yet recruiting
|Jerusalem, Israel, 91031
|Contact: Zev S Wimpfheimer, MD 972 50 868 5466 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator:
|Zev S Wimpfheimer, MD
|Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem Israel
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Zev Wimpfheimer MD, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem Israel
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00752921 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|September 15, 2008
|Last Updated:
|September 15, 2008
Keywords provided by Shaare Zedek Medical Center:
Etoricoxib, Fasting Headache, Headache, Yom Kippur
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System Diseases
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Pathways Back to Work Act Introduced
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By Neil Ridley
A bill introduced today would address the ongoing jobs crisis by creating work and educational opportunities for unemployed workers, those who can't qualify for unemployment benefits and other disadvantaged individuals.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal today introduced the $5 billion Pathways Back to Work Act (S. 1861), which is modeled on provisions in President Obama's American Jobs Act. Rep. George Miller has introduced a similar measure in the House (H.R. 3425).
This is the third scaled-down jobs bill based on provisions in the Americans Jobs Act to be introduced in the past month. Two other measures failed to get enough votes to move past debate.
While the nation has dealt with an unemployment rate hovering around 9 percent or higher since 2009, policymakers cannot allow this to become a new normal. Nearly 14 million people are jobless and about 9 million more are underemployed. About one-third of the unemployed have been jobless for a year or more, according to a recent analysis by Pew Charitable Trusts. Given these challenges, Congress should consider the needs of those hard hit by the jobs crisis and act promptly to pass the Pathways Back to Work Act, along with other measures that meet the needs of long-term unemployed and disadvantaged individuals.
Of the total $5 billion under the Pathways Back to Work Fund, $2 billion would be available for subsidized employment programs that are patterned on the successful Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Emergency Fund that created 260,000 jobs in 2009 and 2010. Governors would have the option of administering the program through TANF agencies or local workforce boards under the Workforce Investment Act or a combination of the two.


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The El Producto Story
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"Come on George, try one of these Havanas," urged Berle and Co. "Live a little. Get rid of those damn Queens, and try something sweet and delicious."
But the patron saint of cigardom quickly turned down the Montecristos and H. Upmanns thrust in front of him.
Waving aside these premium cigars, Burns again emphasized his loyalty to a lifelong sweetheart. Taking out an ivory holder, he'd light an El Producto Queen, a perfecto-shaped cigar that Burns liked to call "my little lady."
"I'll never smoke anything else," promised Burns, a 10-a-day El Producto man. "I just love the taste of Queens. They never go out on the stage while I'm doing my act, and besides, I get them for free."
Burns remained true to his word. Until his death last year, the Sunshine Boy rejoiced each month when his shipment of 300 Queens, each packaged in a glass tube, arrived at his Beverly Hills home. "He'd act like a child at Christmas time, smiling ear to ear," recalls Sam Tuchten, the now-retired El Producto district manager who brought Burns those cigars. "He was in seventh heaven. But god forbid if the shipment was late. George would frantically call the company [Consolidated Cigar Co.], and send his butler to Beverly Hills' drugstores to buy all the Queens he could find."
That's where El Producto is still found: in undistinguished drugstores like Walgreens and Thrifty. Once a handmade premium blend of Havana and Puerto Rican tobaccos, enjoying such national popularity from the 1910s to the 1960s that even Elvis Presley was wild about El P's Altas and Diamond Tips, Burns' "little lady" has since become a pale shadow of her former self.
Now, machine-made El Productos have a short natural filler, while the wrappers and binders are produced from either reconstituted or homogenized tobacco, commonly called "sheet"--scrap tobacco ground into powder and held together with vegetable adhesives (only the Queens and Escepcionales have an all-natural wrapper and filler). The once hot-selling line of 14 shapes has been scaled down to nine shapes, and it's no longer Consolidated's "flagship" brand. Although El Producto still registers about $15 million a year in sales, the company's all-natural wrapper cigars far exceed that figure. Today, Antonio y Cleopatras reign as the company's leading machine-made cigar, with more than $30 million in sales, while El Producto has become the target of in-house jokes.
"The brand is now a poor stepchild," says Jim Colucci, Consolidated's senior vice president for sales and marketing. "El Producto was once a good, inexpensive cigar, a real strong regional seller. It just got really hurt when we started to use homogenized wrappers and additives. We then tried to dress her up a bit in the mid-1970s with new packaging--a fluffy-haired blonde in a flaming-red dress and bouffant hairdo. But modernizing the packaging never helped sales, and that blonde is still referred to as the company bimbo."
Yet George Burns can rest easy. Hoping El Producto will benefit from the "halo effect" of spiraling sales throughout the cigar industry, Consolidated is debuting a commemorative "George Burns Collection" of four shapes this spring that restores some of the brand's former luster. The cigars will have natural wrappers, either Dominican or Honduran filler, and feature the original turn-of-the-century packaging that pictured a serene-looking "little lady" sitting by a lake.
"We want to give El Producto a premium look with pretty cigar bands and return it to the time when George Burns was singing its praises on TV," says Colucci. "All our machine-made, natural-wrapped cigars grew over 20 percent last year, and in view of El Producto's proud history, we feel it can also be a big winner."
Hand-rolled and made with the finest Havana tobaccos during the first half of the century, El Producto has more than an illustrious past. Originally produced and marketed on Philadelphia streets by an enterprising Russian immigrant named Sam Grabosky, a grain broker turned savvy tobacco buyer, El Producto's hard-won success encapsulates the American Dream.
But first came "Mr. Sam's" rough introduction to the hotly contested Philadelphia cigar market. Landing in America in 1890, he struggled as a bunchmaker in a local cigar factory. "All thumbs" and unable to make bunches uniformly, Grabosky brought the bunches home, and his brother Ben worked through the night, making the cigars presentable enough to be sold. After a few years at the factory, Sam Grabosky became a tobacco broker. There was lots of money to be made in those days selling scrap tobacco, and Sam quickly acquired a reputation as a shrewd, yet honest, wheeler and dealer.
"My father sold so much tobacco to this company called 44 Cigar, his attorney advised him, 'Sam, you have such a big stake in 44, you better manage it to protect your interests,' " recalls 81-year-old Marvin Grabosky, Sam's last surviving son. "Along with Ben, he eventually did manage that company, and they built it up real fast. They soon had enough money to consider other ventures, to start their own cigar making company."
While ambitious, and devoted to supporting his relatives, Grabosky had little interest in starting a cigar company. Philadelphia was then a hotbed of competing cigar manufacturers, and many had gone belly-up. But one afternoon in 1905 in a store that bought labels from defunct cigar companies, Grabosky discovered the El Producto label. The tobacco dealer offered him the rights to the brand, as well as labels, boxes and bands, for $11.
Grabosky was apprehensive at first. But when he was shown a few boxes of cigars marked with an El Producto logo, he quickly became excited by the prospect of reviving a failed line. The sale was consummated, and with brother Ben's help, along with two other investors, Sam formed the GHP Cigar Co. to give El Producto new life.
That iffy venture began with a joint investment of $50. The partners purchased a few cigar tables and other production equipment. But after enlisting family members as rollers, they still faced one key problem. There was little money left to buy raw material.
The short and stocky Mr. Sam, though, was respected by other members of Philadelphia's cigar making community. A quiet but compelling figure, known for his tailored three-piece suits, avid card playing and fairness in all his business transactions, Grabosky didn't have to fast-talk possible lenders. With only a handshake, he got leaf dealers to extend him credit. Years later, when discussing his rise to prominence in the industry, Grabosky said, "I was amazed that, even with my having so little money, the dealers came to my support immediately."
But Grabosky needed more than money to survive in the early 1900s. To distinguish El Producto from the scores of other 5-cent smokes made in Philadelphia storefronts and small factories, this keen-eyed judge of tobacco leaf had to offer cigars that truly lived up to such names as Bouquets and Escepcionales.
The filler for both cigars was a mixture of Cuban and Puerto Rican tobaccos, wrapped in Connecticut broadleaf binders and shade wrappers. Besides the fat and pointed Escepcionales (Grabosky's personal favorite, which sold for a then-pricey three for 50 cents during the 1920s), GHP also offered thin panatelas and blunts at 10 cents apiece and coronas at 15 cents each. What made these cigars unique was their consistent, nutty taste.
"That uniformity, my father's insistence on always blending the tobaccos the same way, insured El Producto's success," says Marvin Grabosky. "The taste of most cigars fluctuated back then, constantly becoming either too mild or robust for the mainstream smoker. But by blending light- and dark-colored tobaccos from higher and lower lands, my dad sold a cigar that was much different than anything on the market."
Starting off by renting a two-story downtown building near the 2nd Street "cigar market," GHP moved a few blocks down to a four-floor factory, and then to a factory at 3rd and Brown. While facing stiff competition from such cigars as the 5-cent Bayuk Phillies and the 10-cent La Palinas, the company grew so quickly that, by the First World War, it had 36 factories in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. By 1915, that nutty-tasting uniqueness had made El Producto a Philadelphia phenomenon.
Grabosky filled his factories with tobacco, convinced that any oversupply would protect the company against "all the vagaries of nature." The chief buyer of leaf for GHP, he often traveled to Cuba and Puerto Rico, and on these expeditions "Mr. Sam" was always prepared to dazzle crop growers. He was a tough negotiator, quick to raise his voice in bargaining sessions. And, according to his grandson, Jack Grabosky, he'd seal a deal by unbuttoning his shirt and paying for tobacco with gold bars that were strapped around his waist.
While Grabosky "knew exactly what to look for when judging the color and grain of tobacco," according to Jack Grabosky, he was even more savvy when it came to using modern-era promotional strategies. Though initially averse to advertising on the newfangled radio, he quickly overcame this reluctance, and hired "Doc" Kinett, a University of Pennsylvania communications professor, to shape a broad-based marketing campaign. This cutting-edge promotional effort, begun around 1920, produced radio jingles, billboards and newspaper ads, as well as films shown at in-house company meetings that featured pointers on displaying and selling cigars.
America had rarely seen such a sophisticated, full-pronged ad campaign, and those promos made El Producto the top seller in major markets such as Chicago, Boston and New York. By the First World War, when El Producto was battling Dutch Masters for supremacy, Ben Grabosky supervised about 20 salesmen in each of those cities. While sales figures are unavailable, one family member insists, "These men worked their tails off. El Producto was so popular, even a [brand] like Life-Savers hooked their star to us. They ran newspaper ads next to ours, saying 'Make the Next Smoke Taste Better.' "
El Producto's success allowed Sam Grabosky to become a major philanthropic figure in Philadelphia and, as his son Marvin says, "to set up all his children (six sons and three daughters) in big houses." But success was tempered by tragedy; in 1918, his son Jack, a salesman, fell victim at age 23 to the great flu epidemic. The loss left Sam brokenhearted, and while continuing to be GHP's master blender, ever found in the company's humidor rolling sample cigars, he lost a bit of his fervor for the business.
GHP's fortunes still soared in the Roaring Twenties, and by 1926, El Producto had established dominance over Dutch Masters in several key Northeastern and Midwestern markets. Rather than continue that losing fight, Dutch Masters' parent company, Consolidated Cigar, chose another strategy: it offered to buy GHP for $11 million.
Though Grabosky was still mourning the loss of his son, he was not eager to relinquish control of his cigar business. But by this time he recognized that cigarettes were gaining new popularity, and that increasingly vocal women were growing more critical of cigar smoking. His son Harry, a recent graduate of the Wharton business school, also urged him "to get into something new." After weighing all of these factors, along with his love of cigar blending, Grabosky finally decided to accept Consolidated's hefty offer.
Under the terms of that agreement,which allowed GHP to function as an independent subsidiary with its own salesmen and production facilities, Grabosky was prohibited from starting another manufacturing company. But acknowledging his expertise in the selecting and buying of tobacco leaf, Consolidated hired him to supervise the purchase and blending of El Producto, Dutch Masters and their other Cuban-Puerto Rican cigar, La Palina.
"El Producto was my dad's baby, and he continued to help it grow until the 1930s," says Marvin Grabosky. "But he also wound up buying tobacco and making the blends for all the Consolidated cigars. He just had this knack for reading the market, knowing what to buy and when."
Yet a new--and stormy--era was beginning for El Producto. Consolidated issued yearly store displays (with the long-standing slogan, "For Real Enjoyment") in the late 1920s and instructed salesmen on how to set up cigar store cases with a "fine three-way lineup" of Puritanos Finos, Bouquets and Blunts. During the Depression years the company also implored employees to show a "fighting" spirit to counter lagging sales. But since the GHP Cigar Co. existed as a separate production entity under the Consolidated umbrella, with its own distinct sales force, that fighting was taken to nasty extremes over the next three decades.
Bitter in-house rivalries developed, as the Dutch Masters and El Producto salesmen used various tricks and strategies to snare retail shelf space. "It was all-out war between us, and we were out to kill Dutch Masters by whatever means necessary," says Lew Myers, who began selling El Productos in the 1940s and, like his father before him, stayed with the brand for 40 years.
"We owned places like Philadelphia, New York and Boston," says Myers. "To keep it that way, we'd take sharp pencils and put holes in Dutch Masters cigars. Made it look like [mites] had gotten into them. We'd also put our boxes on top of theirs, bury the Dutch Masters in store cases. We did all sorts of unsavory things, and they did the same to us."
During this battle for market share, the El Producto forces focused on urban areas. Some regions had specific preferences: "The 48-ring guage Escepcionale did nothing in New York," Myers says with a laugh. "Yet in Texas, where guys liked big cigars, that all-day sucker was king." Dutch Masters, meanwhile, became a more "national" smoke during the 1940s, easily found from California to Florida in the nation's smaller towns.
To solidify that national appeal in the 1950s and '60s, Dutch Masters lined up Ernie Kovacs, Danny Thomas and Sid Caesar to do TV spots, while the now machine-made El Productos were promoted by George Burns. But even as these two rivals slugged it out, budget-minded executives cut corners by utilizing "sheet" instead of natural binders, and generally gave both brands an unmistakeable uniformity.
"Both El Producto and Dutch Masters were interchangeable after a while," ruefully recalls a former El Producto salesman. "While each brand had a few distinct shapes, both cigars had the same taste, the same blend of tobaccos. The factories just packed them in different bands and boxes."
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Apple is quite literally selling up a storm when it comes to the iPhone, and a big reason is all of those apps -- about two zillion of them, at last count. Their main competitors -- Google Android, RIM BlackBerry, Nokia Symbian and more, and Microsoft Windows Mobile/Phone all have app stores of their own, emphasizing that that the PC-era (and earlier) model of having lots of software available for one's hardware products is a great way to build competitive advantage.
After all, we don't buy computers because we can't live without hardware or systems software, but rather because both of these enable us to run applications that help us get our jobs done and provide a wide variety of other life-enhancing benefits (with reasonable frequency, anyway).
So, no surprise that apps are showing up big time on handsets, and that folks just love them. But, from an IT perspective, are they a good idea? Well, I'd argue, no, they're not. In fact, apps can become the obvious trap that's nailed both IT organizations and users in the past.
Why, you ask? Because of the very nature of the apps themselves. Underlying vendor development tools are designed fundamentally to bind a given app to a particular operating system and, often, particular hardware as well. Apple leverages apps to sell iPhones – and makes a pretty penny as the sole distribution channel for these apps as well. Don't get me started on that now, but apps are a big win for Apple in more ways than one.
And that's what makes apps bad for IT -- apps are a lock-in. Once we adopt an app, whether proprietary or purchased, we're stuck with a particular handset and perhaps even a particular wireless carrier. Flexibility in both the platform and services domains is vital if we're to hold down costs, a core, essential objective in every IT shop today. Sure, some apps like games really do require local execution, but most IT managers don't cater to the entertainment needs of their user base. Rather, it's all about data (and apps!) in the cloud.
Perhaps even more important, the vast majority of enterprise-class apps today are really front-ends to web and cloud services regardless. OK, it can be argued that a local app is at least desirable here, as information display and user interaction needs to be modified to address the constraints of the mobile device, But there's a better way -- almost.
And that's to design all mobile apps to work within a browser. One would simply go to mobile.whatever.com (or perhaps use the .mobi domain for non-proprietary apps), authenticate, and then, well, that's it. Except for the almost part, and that is the fundamental lack of browser standards in most (Oh, what am I saying? All!) mobile devices today.
I've argued for some time that the protocol-layer interfaces to browsers must be treated in precisely the same way as the whole IP domain, i.e., via a formal standards process, and rigid shunning of proprietary extensions put in place for (here we go again) assumed competitive advantage.
To be fair, some of these extensions do indeed have value, but silly arguments between vendors, like the Apple/Adobe tiff over Flash, only serve to irritate customers and limit end-user productivity. It's 2010 -- why are we still putting up with such asinine behavior on the part of our suppliers?
I'd encourage all enterprise IT departments to think in terms of those hallmarks of what made this industry great -- choice, flexibility, open systems, and productivity. I think any IT manager pursuing these goals will quickly move to make their operation as platform-independent as possible. And I'm sure you'll join me in urging suppliers to adopt standards at the browser level.
And, OK, fine, let's keep apps -- but just for fun.
Craig Mathias is a Principal with Farpoint Group, a wireless and mobile advisory firm based in Ashland, MA. Craig is an internationally recognized expert on wireless communications and mobile computing technologies. He is a well-known industry analyst and frequent speaker at industry conferences and trade shows.


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Buddhist Scriptures as Literature
Sacred Rhetoric and the Uses of Theory
Ralph Flores - Author
Looks at a variety of Buddhist sacred writings as literature and includes insights from literary theory.
Buddhist Scriptures as Literature explores the drama, lyricism, and compelling storylines in Buddhist sacred writings, while illustrating how rhetoric and ideology are at work in shaping readers' reactions. Ralph Flores argues that the Buddha's life story itself follows an archetypal quest-romance pattern: regal surroundings are abandoned and the ensuing feats are heroic. The story can be read as an epic, but it also has a comic plot: confusions and trials until the Prince becomes utterly selfless, having found his true element—nirvana. Making use of contemporary literary theory, Flores offers new readings of texts such as the Nikāyas,the Dhammapada, the Heart Sutra, Zen koans, Shantideva's Way of the Bodhisattva, and the Tibetan Book of the Dead.Understanding these works as literature deepens our sense of the unfolding of their teachings, of their exuberant histories, and of their relevance for contemporary life.
"…a fascinating look at Buddhist literature in general … [Flores] explores the drama, lyricism and storylines in Buddhist sacred literature while illustrating how rhetoric and ideology are at work in shaping the reader's reactions … an interesting and thought-provoking book." — Journal of the Buddhist Society
Ralph Flores teaches literature at Thammasat University in Thailand and is the author of A Study of Allegory in Its Historical Context and Relationship to Contemporary Theory.
Table of Contents
1. Fictions of Reading: Westerners and Buddhist Texts
2. A Prince Transformed: The Nikāyas, the Nidānakathā, Aśvaghoşa's Acts of the Buddha
3. The Buddha Awakening: The Nikāyas
4. Winning Conversions: The Nikāyas
5. Passing on: The Nikāyas
6. Figures of Right Speech: The Dhammapada
7. Joyous Negations: The Heart Sutra
8. Masters of Emptiness: The Gateless Barrier and Zen Folktales
9. Extreme Giving: The Vessantara Jātaka and Shantideva's A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life
10. Final Emergency Reading: The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Epilogue: Images in the Reader
http://www.scribd.com/doc/106192215/R-F ... -of-Theory
Literary fabrication has always been at the heart of the Buddhist tradition. The Buddha was, as Flores notes, a master of images, a storyteller par excellence, and many tales from the Pāli Buddhist texts that are often read straight should be better read precisely as stories. The example that Flores gives is that of the well-known tale of Kisā Gotamī, the bereaved mother who asks the Buddha to cure her sick child. The Buddha asks her to bring as medicine a mustard seed from a house in which no one has ever died. If she can find such a seed, the Buddha will make a medicine to cure her distress. Kisā Gotamī goes from door to door and, as she does so, eventually learns that there is no house in which no one has died, that death is universal, and through this realisation her grief is, if not eradicated, at least diminished. Flores makes clear that the story does not ring true on several levels, and points out that it is rather more convincing if understood as itself a kind of medicine, as a form of 'skilful means' rather than as an autobiographical or historical account.
Yet once one admits that, in dealing with a great deal of Buddhist literature, we are dealing not with Gradgrindish facts, but instead with stories, Flores is well aware that questions concerning the orthodoxy of interpretation come to the fore, questions about the ways in which the reading of stories is policed. For if the guardians of orthodoxies of all kinds have long recognised that they need stories to do their work, it is also the case that stories are unruly beasts by nature, and that they do not always do their masters' bidding.
Bearing all this in mind, Flores sets out to re-read (and perhaps to deliberately misread) Buddhist texts, from the Nikāyas and the Heart Sutra to the 'Final Emergency Reading' of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, aware that he may along the way be treading on a few orthodox toes. His approach to reading is eclectic, drawing from such thickets of difficulty as rhetorical analysis, Russian formalism, reader-response theory and psychoanalysis, as well as literary texts that are more familiar to Western readers such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and the works of Kafka and Conrad, in an attempt to 'discern in Buddhist texts the cross-culturally understandable work of literary figures, storytellers, dramatists, rhetoricians, and poets' (9).
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Dr. Jed C. Kaminetsky, Urology, is named a Top Doctor: New York Metro Area
Mar 22, 2013, 14:05 ET from American Registry
Dr. Jed C. Kaminetsky, a Board Certified New York, NYphysician specializing in Urology, has been selected by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. for inclusion in its authoritative guide to the top primary care and specialty care doctors in the tri-state metropolitan New York area
NEW YORK, March 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., America's trusted source for identifying Top Doctors, has published the 16th edition of Top Doctors: New York Metro Area and has selected Jed C. Kaminetsky, MD for this exclusive honor.
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The 16th edition of Top Doctors: New York Metro Area includes over 5,500 top primary care and specialty care physicians in a twenty-county area spanning three states: New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Selected physicians, including Dr. Kaminetsky, represent the top 10% of doctors in the area in 65 medical specialties and subspecialties for the care and treatment of more than 1,800 diseases and medical conditions.
Castle Connolly Top Doctors® are selected each year by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. after being nominated by their peers in an online nomination process. Nominations are open to all board certified MDs and DOs and each year tens of thousands of physicians cast many tens of thousands of nominations. Nominated physicians are selected by the Castle Connolly physician-led research team based on criteria including medical education, training, hospital appointments, disciplinary histories and much more.
About Jed C. Kaminetsky: a short profile by and about the honoree:
Dr. Jed Kaminetsky, M.D. is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU Medical Center, an Associate Medical Director at Gramercy Surgical Center, and a Board Certified Urologist at University Urology Associates, one of the largest urology practice in the New York City area. He is highly skilled in treating all urologic disorders and excels in minimally invasive prostate surgeries and penile implants. His academic interests in male and female sexual dysfunction have been published in medical journals which led to a nationwide recognition and development of various treatment schemes.
For more information on this Castle Connolly New York Metro Area Top Doctor®, please visit Jed C. Kaminetsky's profile on www.castleconnolly.com.
Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.'s President and CEO Dr. John Connolly has this to say about Dr. Kaminetsky's recognition: "Roughly ten percent of area physicians were selected for our 16th edition of Top Doctors: New York Metro Area. Being nominated by Board Certified peers and then selected by our experts is an accomplishment worthy of recognition. The New York Metro area is home to a great number of very high quality medical professionals, yet some stand out. My congratulations to Dr. Kaminetsky."
To find out more or to contact Dr. Jed C. Kaminetsky of New York, NY, please call 212-686-9015, or visit www.universityurology.com.
This press release was written by American Registry, LLC and Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., with approval by and/or contributions from Jed C. Kaminetsky and was distributed by PR Newswire, a subsidiary of UBM plc.
Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. identifies top doctors in America and provides consumers with detailed information about their education, training and special expertise in printed guides and online directories. It is important to note that doctors do not and cannot pay to be included in any Castle Connolly guide or online directory. Learn more at http://www.castleconnolly.com.
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Perth Australian band The Gizzards get on television rocking a NES Guitar and other bent toys. Their facebook page stats the bands influences are, "Sheds, pools, cats and casios.". I was wondering if they would make a worthy blog post then I saw his cape: posted!
"The Gizzards performed on WTV's FNL (Friday Night Live) show." – ohmissjane
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UPDATE: 12/19/14: Our packing peanuts are now made with sorghum, instead of potato starch.
If you've ever received a package from us, you've likely encountered some of our packing peanuts (see right). Over the years, we've received many emails from concerned customers with questions ranging from environmental impact to worries about whether the peanuts have gluten in them.
The packing peanuts we use in our shipments are made from sorghum and will completely dissolve in water, making them both environmentally and allergen friendly. They are biodegradable and non-toxic, so if your dog is like mine and happens to chow one down, don't sweat it. The peanuts are not food-grade, but they will decompose unlike those nasty Styrofoam peanuts. Next time you receive a box of these peanuts, you can rest a little easier knowing they won't hurt you or the environment.


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Many kids snore. Like a small rumbling tornado, snoring can prevent everyone in the house from getting a good night's sleep. There's no cure for snoring, but there are some things you can do to keep your child from disrupting her sleep, and yours too.
Sometimes snoring is the result of a cold or nasal congestion. Other times, it may be caused by a condition called sleep apnea, when the walls of the throat actually close and the child stops breathing altogether for up to a minute at a time. Usually, snoring is simply the result of relaxed muscles in the throat.
Not for the person doing the snoring! Most snoring keeps everyone else awake, but the snorer is usually none the wiser. Sometimes snoring can wake up the child. Kids with sleep apnea may wake frequently and be tired during the day as a result. Severe snoring can cause sleep deprivation and fatigue for both parents and child. In some, infrequent cases, snoring in children can result in an increased risk of ADHD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Most snoring goes away on its on, especially if it is caused by congestion. Some snoring can be stopped by changing your child's sleeping position. Don't bother with drops, chin straps, and anti-snoring pillows, as these do nothing to prevent snoring.
Snoring is a very distinct noise - there is no chance that you won't know if your child is snoring!
There are a few tricks you can use to prevent your child's snoring. Snoring that is due to congestion will go away as soon as your child's cold is gone, so just be patient. Over-the-counter decongestants may help relieve congestion so you can all get a good night's sleep. Kids that snore for no apparent reason might benefit from a different sleep position. Kids snore more when they sleep on their backs. Try propping her on her side by placing pillows behind her back (Do not do this with a baby under 12 months old, as all infants should be placed to sleep on their backs). Snoring can also be the result of very dry air, so try a humidifier to keep your child's nasal passages moist at night.
If your child is excessively fatigued as a result of snoring or appears to have sleep apnea, call your doctor for advice. In some cases, a mouth guard may help lessen snoring.
Written by Rebecca Stigall for Kidspot, Australia's parenting resource for family health. Sources include Better Health Channel, NSW Health and Health Insite.
Last revised: Wednesday, 20 January 2010
This article contains general information only and is not intended to replace advice from a qualified health professional.


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Find 'Helping the Wild' at Tahoe Earth Day
April 16, 2013
TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. — Helping the Wild was started in November 2012 by 8-year-old elementary student Siena Lopez. Today, there are 32 students who create wildlife artwork to bring awareness to threatened and endangered wildlife. The theme guiding their work is the quote "For in the end we will conserve only what we love, We will love only what we understand, We will understand only what we are taught," by B. Dioum.
Helping the Wild, a program of Trails & Vistas, will have fun hands-on crafts for children and families at the Earth Day celebration. In addition attendees can learn more about this year's 10th anniversary art hike on the Pacific Crest Trail on Donner Summit that will take place this September. The art hike sells out annual and tickets will go on sale online at trailsandvistas.org on Earth Day, April 22.


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Melissa Winter '08
Brazil's plastic footwear company Melissa, whose latest new collaboration was with none other than the Grande Dame of British fashion, Vivienne Westwood, is keeping it coming with some other exciting models in its upcoming Winter 2008 collection that deserve spotlights. It's proof in the plastic that the mania for their candy-scented shoes—much of them done in partnership with major designers—will once again go unrivaled.
Melissa Joy + Alexandre Herchcovitch
Alexandre Herchcovitch's Melissa shoes last season were super feminine, with pointy toes and elevated soles. This time around he reverts to his tendency to turn his women androgynous with a sexy wing-tip in brilliant colors and a slight shimmer—must-haves.
Melissa Characters
Taking cues from popular characters from childhood, this fun line includes Le Petit Prince who gets a pointy flat for winter. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, the first-ever Disney character, stars on a special Ultragirl model that will first be sold at Colette in Paris before hitting Brazil.
Melissa Ultragirl + J. Maskrey
This crystal-studded shoe proved to be so popular that it's been brought back in a darker color called "smoke."
You can find Melissa throughout Brazil, and internationally at Colette and Le Bon Marche in France, Harvey Nichols and Dover Street Market in London, Beams in Japan, and Opening Ceremony in New York and Noodle Stories in Los Angeles.
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Quite often, we send our young people out into the world with a lovingly assembled collection of favorite family recipes. These homespun cookbooks are treasures, meant to help sons and daughters along their way — and to alleviate parental worries in some small measure.
But what happens when our young cooks want to branch out and try recipes that didn't appear on the family dinner table? Where do they turn when they want to roast a chicken or make a meal to impress a girlfriend or boyfriend?
OK, 20-somethings go online to peruse YouTube's massive collection of cooking how-tos and the recipe treasure troves on Epicurious and the rest. But it's always good to equip them with a basic cookbook or two, as well.
When a grandmother wondered which cookbook would make a suitable birthday gift for her 21-year-old granddaughter, many of you responded with advice. Among your suggestions:
Finally, if you want to try a number of cookbooks, check out your public library, Miller advises: "The public libraries are wonderful resources for cookbooks. We'll typically check one out, try a few recipes, and then make the decision to buy or not."
Many Plates readers were happy to serve up the carmelitas recipe Mary Ann Stoermer requested. Stoermer enjoyed the vintage bar cookie recently at an Oakland bakery. While Plates readers have acquired the recipe here and there over the years, it is apparently Minnesotan Erlyce Larson's entry in the 1967 Pillsbury Bake-Off. A crumbly base including flour, oats, brown sugar and butter is baked a bit before you top it with chocolate chips, nuts, caramel topping and more of the crumb mixture. "These bars are always a hit; my sister-in-law Eileen Golden Dye gave me this recipe 20-plus years ago," says Noreen Golden of San Jose. Mary Shapiro's neighbor gave her the recipe when Shapiro was a newlywed in San Francisco back in 1970. Marie Fake of Danville says her niece Amy wowed the family with carmelitas at a reunion.
As is true with most handed-down recipes, I noticed some variations in the many carmelitas submissions. I was particularly bemused to note a wide variance in baking times; I suspect we all adjust recipes to fit our own oven's temperature quirks, then pass the recipes along with those adjustments. I used the baking times from the carmelitas recipe on the Pillsbury website, but you, too, might need to adjust for your oven, of course. Becky Hawkins offers this helpful hint: "I usually 'nuke' the jar of caramel a minute or so, so it is more pourable and easier to distribute," she says. "No doubt, these are dee-lish!" Another Plates reader recommends using a nonstick or easy-release aluminum foil to line your baking dish. "These puppies really stick!" the reader says.
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- INTERPOL Nairobi
Member since :
1 October 1968
The Kenya Police Service
Headed by a Commissioner of Police who commands a force of more than 35,000 officers, the Kenya Police Service (KPS) is a department of the Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security. Its Headquarters are located in Nairobi's Central Business District.
The General Service Unit is an independent paramilitary mobile police force used for the apprehension of dangerous, syndicated or armed criminals.
KPS vision
To be a world class police service, with a people-friendly, responsive and professional workforce.
KPS mission
Committed to providing quality police services to meet the expectations of our customers by upholding the rule of law and creating and maintaining strong partnerships for conducive social, economic and political development of Kenya.
KPS core functions
- Maintenance of law and order;
- Preservation of peace;
- Protection of life and property;
- Prevention and detection of crime;
- Apprehension of offenders;
- Law enforcement.
INTERPOL Nairobi
The INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB) for Kenya deals with a number of priority crime areas. These include:
- Drugs and organized crimes;
- Financial and high-tech crimes;
- Motor vehicle theft crimes;
- Public safety and terrorism;
- Environmental crime;
- Maritime piracy.
INTERPOL strengthens cooperation in combating corruption in Africa
1,500 police in operation targeting crime networks across Eastern and Southern Africa
Organized crime networks behind ivory and rhino horn trafficking targeted in East Africa
Elephant ivory and rhino horn trafficking targeted across Africa in Operation Worthy II
Fighting pharmaceutical crime focus of INTERPOL training in Uganda
Tanzanian police hold suspected Kenyan ivory smuggling ring leader targeted in INTERPOL operation
INTERPOL holds training on digital forensics for maritime piracy investigations
INTERPOL announces formation of dedicated environmental crime team in Africa
Dangerous fake goods seized in INTERPOL operations across Eastern and Southern Africa
Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda unite efforts to combat illegal timber trade in East Africa
INTERPOL anti-piracy meeting reviews key evidence against network leaders
Response to elephant poaching and ivory trafficking focus of new INTERPOL report
INTERPOL issues Red Notice for arrest of Samantha Lewthwaite at Kenya's request
INTERPOL team deployed to assist Kenyan investigation into Westgate shopping centre terror attack
INTERPOL condemns Nairobi terror 'bloodbath'
Human, drugs and arms traffickers targeted in operations across Eastern and Southern Africa
Africa's central role in global law enforcement cooperation focus of INTERPOL Chief's visit
INTERPOL's largest operation combating illegal ivory trafficking targets criminal syndicates
INTERPOL-supported training aims to curb wildlife trafficking across Southern Africa
East Africa's Operation Mamba III bolsters fight against counterfeit medicines with INTERPOL-IMPACT support
Illegal ivory and rhino horn trade target of INTERPOL co-ordinated operation across southern Africa
East African countries crack down on counterfeiters in INTERPOL/IMPACT–supported Operation Mamba II
Africa sees largest-ever international operation against wildlife crime, co-ordinated with INTERPOL
Kenya wildlife rangers pursue poachers to curtail ivory trafficking
Red Notices 1
JOHN Age today: 54 years old
Nationality: Uganda
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EFFIE PAMELA Age today: 41 years old
Nationality: Switzerland , Kenya
- 48th INTERPOL General Assembly - 4-11 September 1979
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The contest with San Jose Earthquakes last Saturday ended in a goalless draw, but the match itself was not without controversy and that sparked some strong words from Rapids Podcast co-host Richard Fleming in his 'View from the Booth' column.
Fans across MLS have since taken to the internet to discuss the content of Fleming's article, and whether it was fair or even acceptable. The former BBC journalist is questioned on the matter by David Lindholm in this week's Rapids Podcast.
Rapids goalkeeper Clint Irwin is the guest on the podcast. In the week when one writer's approach is questioned, he opens up about his passion for story-telling. And, with some suggesting he could be the recipient, Fleming offers up his latest 'Numpty of the Week'.
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Egyptian singer Hakim is currently reading the script for the film "Sai' Fil Bahir" (Wanderer at Sea), which has been nominated to play the leading role in. The film has been postponed a number of times so far due to the fact that Egyptian actor Karim Abdul Aziz, who was originally chosen for the leading role, backed out of the film leaving the producers at a lost of whom best fits the role.
Hakim has not given his final acceptance of the role, and stressed that he needs some time to go through the script and from then decide on whether to accept the role or turn it down, reported the UAE based daily, Al Bayan. Hakim has previously postponed his film "Hassan Safari", which he was planning to film, to focus on his singing career.
Hakim is currently preparing to travel to the United States of America in the upcoming week to begin recording a new duet with American pop singer Janet Jackson, sister of internationally known American pop star Michael Jackson. The music video for the new duet "Walk Like an Egyptian" is scheduled to be filmed at the Great Pyramids in Egypt.
Hakim will also be filming another duet American singer James Brown at the Great Pyramids. Both duets are to shake the music industry with songs that blends Western and Eastern styles in one. After countless negotiations, Hakim had finally struck a deal with Brown and the two agreed on singing the duet under the title "Al Lail" (Night), which is scheduled to be released in the very near future.
Due to the lack of having enough time to perform the song together, James has recorded his section of the song in studios in San Francisco California, and Hakim in Cairo Egypt. The song is written by Hisham Abdul Rahim and composed by Mohammad Siraj.
Hakim had previously revealed in a press conference that he has reached an agreement for a duet with US pop singer Brian Adams. Hakim has also agreed with Latino pop singer Paulina Rubio for a duet. Hakim had held negotiations with singer Latoia Jackson for a duet but nothing came of it.
Hakim has proudly announced that he is expecting his first born child from his second wife Jihan in mid-September. The singer has expressed he joy at being a father to a third child and has stressed that he intends on completing the recording of his upcoming album as quick as possible in order to stand by his wife while his new baby comes into the world. –Albawaba.com
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BUFFALO NEWS: Law would make improper disposal of body a felony
A bill now before the State Legislature would remedy a disturbing legal shortcoming by making it a felony to improperly dispose of human remains.
The need for the legislation came to light after the death of Amanda Lynn Wienckowski. The 20-year-old Kenmore native's body was found frozen inside a trash receptacle on the morning of Jan. 9, 2009, outside a church at Spring and Clinton streets in Buffalo. That's how we learned that the disposal of a body without a burial or removal permit elicited not much more than a slap on the wrist. If that.
In response, State Sen. Mark J. Grisanti, R-Buffalo, introduced a bill that would make it a crime to conceal a death by knowingly moving or otherwise hiding a human corpse so that discovery of the death will be hindered.
The bill, also referred to as Amanda Lynn's Law, would make the improper disposal of a human body a class D felony, up from a misdemeanor.
The Senate recently passed the bill, 61 to 1. Now it's the Assembly's turn.
For most people, it was a surprise to learn that what happened to Wienckowski's body after she died didn't carry a severe criminal penalty.
The current law was written to deal with possible improper handling of a body by a funeral home or crematory. Grisanti took up the cause to put a definitive law with some teeth on the books.
Antoine J. Garner, the last person known to have seen Wienckowski alive, lived across the street from the church property where she was found. He denies harming the young woman, although he was recently convicted of choking and assaulting a prostitute.
The victim in that case survived and Garner is considered a "person of interest" in Wienckowski's death.
The case has created much controversy, with the Wienckowski family disputing the then-county medical examiner's finding that the death resulted from a drug overdose. Wienckowski's family continues to insist she was strangled and points to the findings of a West Coast pathologist whom it hired to conduct a second autopsy.
Adding to the mystery is a statement by a recently retired Buffalo homicide detective who investigated Wienckowski's death. He revealed that he and his fellow investigators never agreed with the medical examiner, but that they thought that more than likely a large person accidentally choked her to death.
Questions surrounding the case remain, but one thing that should be clear is the practicality of Grisanti's bill. The Assembly should join the Senate in passing Amanda Lynn's Law.


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Lamb eager for more after first Cactus League outing
SURPRISE, Ariz. - For Royals left-hander John Lamb, Saturday must have seemed like Opening Day for the rest of his career.
Lamb, who has been working his way back from Tommy John surgery since 2011, came to the mound in the fifth inning to face Texas in a long-delayed visit to Major League surroundings.
And, yes, he had a case of the nerves.
"Absolutely. For one, I was coming out of the bullpen for only the second time in my career. And I was anxious out there, just standing around," Lamb said. "But just getting back out in front of that baseball atmosphere again was pretty exciting. It was just a fun day for me."
Lamb threw 20 pitches, 16 for strikes, in his one inning of work. He gave up four hits but just one run, on an RBI double by Eli Whiteside. Lamb thought his pitches were effective.
"It looked like it was coming out pretty live," Lamb said. "I felt good out there. Command could always get better. Other than that, I don't like watching runs score when I'm pitching."
No problems with his surgically repaired left elbow. He wanted to pitch another inning.
"Everything's good, I wanted to go back out there," he said.


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NCAA under Siege
A look at some of the issues facing college sports:
Name, image, likeness: Two cases fall under this umbrella. Former UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon's antitrust suit goes to trial Monday in Oakland. O'Bannon is seeking injunctive relief, not damages. Meanwhile, ex-Arizona State quarterback Sam Keller, who grew up in Danville, has filed a Right of Publicity suit that focuses on video games and has a March trial date. Here's a look at the three main components to these cases:
Compensation: Several lawsuits are aimed at forcing universities to compensate athletes for the full cost of attendance, which exceeds the dollar value of scholarships. The most revolutionary of the four, filed in New Jersey by attorney Jeffrey Kessler, wants to create a free market in which athletes would become salaried employees. The Kessler case will be heard by the same judge, Claudia Wilken, who is overseeing the O'Bannon and Keller cases.
Concussions: The NCAA is attempting to settle a series of class-action lawsuits relating to concussions. One potential outcome is the creation of a medical monitoring fund of at least $70 million, according to CBSSports.com.
Unionization: The union movement spurred by Northwestern football players is unlikely to be resolved soon — public schools are excluded — but has served to expedite NCAA reform, especially in regard to improved medical care for student athletes and post-career educational opportunities.