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Taking pictures has never been easier. Use the Intelligent Auto function to allow the camera to make the optimal settings based on its recognition of the scene you are shooting, and the camera's Easy Mode for simplifying your menu. To avoid missing those smiling faces simply turn on the Smile Shutter Technology, which takes a picture whenever a smile is detected, based on your preferences. Take advantage of Picture Effect for more expressive photos and Party Mode to optimize your flash for ideal illumination in hard to photograph lighting conditions.
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E&C Dems Demand Text of ACA Repeal Bill be Posted for the Public to View At Least 30 Days Prior to Markup
Washington, D.C. – A letter signed by every Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee was sent to Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today demanding that the text of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal bill be posted for the public to view for at least 30 days before a markup is held in the Energy and Commerce Committee.
Earlier this week, Speaker Paul Ryan pledged in an interview on The Today Show with Matt Lauer that repeal legislation will be carefully considered and completed through the committee process with public engagement and transparency. Demands to review the draft legislation reached a crescendo after reports yesterday that the draft bill would be made available only to Republican members of the Committee and their staff in a secret room in the Capitol.
During consideration and passage of the ACA in the 111th Congress the House of Representatives conducted 79 committee hearings and markups over a two-year period. The House posted the original language of the bill online for 30 days, engaging public deliberation before the first committee held a markup.
A copy of the letter is available here and the text of the letter is enclosed below:
Dear Chairman Walden:
We are writing to demand that you post the text of your Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal bill at least 30 days before a markup is held in the Energy and Commerce Committee to honor Speaker Paul Ryan's promise to the American people to follow a thorough and transparent legislative process.
In an interview on The Today Show with Matt Lauer on February 28, 2017, the Speaker pledged that the majority's proposed ACA replacement legislation will be carefully considered and completed through the committee process with public engagement and transparency. He stated, "We're going through the committee process. We're doing this step by step. We're having public hearings. We're having committees work on legislation. This is how the legislative process is supposed to be designed. We're not hatching some bill in a backroom and plopping it on the American people's front door."
Yet, it is our understanding that Republicans have been able to review this legislation "in a basement room of an office building that adjoins the Capitol."
When our Committee considered the ACA during the 111th Congress, Democrats who were then in the majority conducted 79 committee hearings and markups over a two-year period. The House posted the original language of the bill online for 30 days, engaging public deliberation before the first committee held a markup. We ask for similar action and commitment to meaningful deliberation.
It is impossible to overstate the importance of transparent and open debate on this bill, which will have an impact on virtually every American's health insurance. Eliminating the ACA's premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions will likely make coverage unaffordable for many of the 9.4 million Americans who received financial assistance to purchase insurance through the ACA Marketplaces as of March 2016. Fundamentally restructuring the Medicaid program, without intensive evaluation or even an independent analysis of the state-by-state impact of such proposals, could lead to catastrophic outcomes affecting tens of millions of Americans, the majority of them seniors, children, and individuals with disabilities. In addition, Republican proposals to tax employer-based health coverage could destabilize employer-based coverage and raise taxes on the 170 million Americans who have health insurance through their employer.
A recent analysis issued by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimated that 18 million Americans would lose their health insurance in just the first year following repeal, even if the law's market reforms are kept in place. The CBO and JCT predict that 32 million fewer people would have health insurance by 2026. The Urban Institute has reached similar conclusions: if the ACA is even partially repealed, the number of uninsured Americans would increase by approximately 30 million in 2019, a 103 percent increase.
We are further deeply concerned by your decision to move forward with the markup in the absence of a CBO score of the bill. The decisions we make on health care will have real and drastic consequences on our constituents, their communities, and state and local economies. News reports suggest that the CBO reported privately to Committee Republicans that the reconciliation bill would have a net cost to the government, rather than achieve savings, and that the proposed tax credits would be "too small to help low-income people afford health plans."
Proceeding to markup without the CBO's views suggests that congressional Republicans want to avoid, delay, and conceal the negative repercussions of an unfavorable budget score and the reality of the bill's devastating impact on health insurance coverage. Regardless of the reason for doing so, proceeding to a markup without the CBO's views on how the repeal bill will impact Americans' health coverage and affect our nation's overall fiscal health is disingenuous and grossly irresponsible. Understanding the CBO's evaluation of the measure should be a prerequisite and not a convenience.
The American public deserves comprehensive consideration of any changes to health insurance coverage that will impact their families' lives, financial security, and access to healthcare. And, Congressional Republicans owe the American people the opportunity to fully examine this legislation and understand its effects given the enormous ramifications the measure will have on their health and financial security.
We cannot afford to be hasty or capricious on this matter. The issues under consideration are far too important and the effects are too far-reaching. We urge you to postpone the markup for at least 30 days, and begin hearings on the bill text before we begin the markup process.

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To evaluate the effectiveness of acupuncture in treating symptoms associated with myofascial pain of the jaw muscles.
Twenty-eight subjects over the age of 18 and diagnosed with chronic myofascial pain of the jaw muscles were randomized to receive real (n = 16) or sham (n = 12) acupuncture. Prior to treatment, each subject clenched his or her teeth for 2 minutes. Acupuncture or sham acupuncture was then administered at the Hegu large intestine 4 (LI4) acupoint for 15 minutes. Real acupuncture was given by penetrating the needle through a sticky foam pad at the acupoint. Sham acupuncture was conducted by pricking the skin, without penetration, with a shortened, blunted acupuncture needle through a foam pad placed away from the acupoint. General head and neck pain ratings were obtained before and after treatment on a numerical rating scale. A mechanical pain stimulus on the masseter muscle was given before and after treatment and rated on a visual analog scale to measure pain tolerance level. Paired t tests were performed to detect significant changes in pain levels.
Subjects receiving real acupuncture experienced a significant reduction in jaw pain (P = .04), jaw/face tightness (P = .04), and neck pain (P = .04), and a significant increase in pain tolerance of the masseter muscle (P = .001). Subjects were not able to determine whether they received real or sham acupuncture (P = .69). No significant pain reductions were observed in the sham acupuncture group.
A single acupuncture session using one acupoint at Hegu large intestine 4 significantly reduced most myofascial pain endpoints when compared to sham acupuncture.
Myofascial pain is characterized by localized, hypersensitive spots in palpable taut bands of muscle fibers (myofascial trigger points). These trigger points may be due to muscle overload from trauma or repetitive activities that cause abnormal stress on specific muscle groups. Clinically, patients complain of tenderness, headaches, restricted movement, and muscle stiffness and weakness.1,2
Acupuncture is an increasingly utilized treatment option for myofascial pain in the United States. According to the 2007 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), which included a comprehensive survey of complementary and alternative medicine use by Americans, an estimated 3.1 million adults and 150,000 children had used acupuncture in the previous year. Between the 2002 and 2007 NHIS, acupuncture use among adults increased by 0.3% (approximately 1 million people). In 1996, the United States Federal Drug Agency also promoted acupuncture needles from the investigational and experimental medical device category to the regular medical-device category, and the following year the National Institutes of Health (NIH) consensus statement on acupuncture supported the treatment efficacy of acupuncture for conditions such as pain and nausea.3 Despite this increased recognition of acupuncture as a treatment for pain, much evidence for its effectiveness comes from poorly designed studies with inadequate controls and blinding procedures.
A variety of mechanisms have been proposed to explain the analgesic effects of acupuncture. These mechanisms are based on concepts that range from traditional views that center on imbalances of energy flow (chi) through the body, to modern Western views that stress the role of activated neural14–17 and endogenous opioid systems.18 The involvement of classic analgesic systems has been supported by neuroimaging and other studies performed on human and animal subjects.19–22 It is also likely, however, that acupuncture involves a strong placebo component.23,24 For example, while manual needle manipulation and electroacupuncture at the Hegu large intestine 4 (LI4) acupoint produced prominent decreases of blood oxygen level dependent signals (BOLD) in the posterior cingulate, superior temporal gyrus, and putamen/insula, so did sham acupuncture.25 As more is learnt about the physiological basis of placebo analgesia,26 it becomes increasingly important that its effects be separated from true, treatment-specific effects.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of acupuncture in treating symptoms associated with myofascial pain of the jaw muscles. In contrast to many earlier studies, this investigation utilized a strong sham acupuncture procedure that allowed general placebo effects to be separated from acupuncture-specific effects. The authors' previous study was underpowered,27 so the power for this study was enhanced by increasing the sample size. It was hypothesized that acupuncture-specific effects would produce a significant amount of analgesia, even when controlling for expectancy with a sham procedure.
Thirty-one patients seeking treatment at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Orofacial Pain Center were recruited to participate in this study. Twenty-eight of the subjects, diagnosed with bilateral chronic myofascial pain of the jaw muscles and who met the inclusion criteria, consented and were consecutively invited to participate in the study. The inclusion criteria were: (1) at least 18 years of age, (2) confirmed diagnosis of chronic myofascial pain of the jaw muscles,28 (3) pain at least 4 times a week in the jaw muscles for at least 12 weeks, (4) average pain severity of at least 4 on a 10-point scale for at least 1 hour per day, (5) acupuncture naïve, and (6) pain in the jaw, temples, face, pre-auricular area, or in the ear during rest or function. The exclusion criteria were: (1) pregnancy, (2) current opioid use, and (3) diagnosis of metabolic disease, coagulopathy, neurological disorder, vascular disease, or neoplasia. Participants taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and acetaminophen were asked to stop those medications at least 1 day prior to their study appointment.
Acupuncture needles (Seirin 30-gauge) were used for all subjects. To apply sham acupuncture, the needles were shortened by 10 mm and blunted to avoid actual piercing of the skin. To ensure blinding of both subject and experimenter, needles were inserted through a 10 × 10 × 10-mm poly foam pad (Ace weather strip). The acupuncturist was aware of the study condition, but was instructed not to speak to the patient or experimenter during the session.
All study procedures were carried out at the UCSF China Basin Landing Radiology Department. Approval for clinical research was obtained by the UCSF Committee on Human Research (CHR#H 9237-23642-01A). All subjects were asked to discontinue any analgesic medication 24 hours prior to the study. After subject consent was obtained, baseline psychophysical measures were recorded. Participants rated the severity of their jaw and facial pain, jaw and face tightness, headache, neck pain, and tooth pain on an 11-point numerical rating scale (NRS). Using an analog algometer (FPK, Wagner Instruments), the blinded experimenter applied pressure to the right masseter muscle at the angle of the right mandible at a rate of 2 lbs/minute. A sticker dot was placed onto each subject's right masseter to mark the placement of the algometer. The stimulus pressure was increased at a rate of 1lb/second until the subject raised his or her hand at their maximum tolerance of pain. The pressure algometer reading was recorded and the subject was asked to rate his or her pain to the mechanical stimulus on a visual analog scale (VAS).
A single acupoint was used for all participants. The Hegu LI4 acupoint is located at the highest point of the adductor pollicis muscle between the thumb and index finger. The radial nerve innervates this site. This acupoint is commonly used for head and neck pain,29 A single needle acupuncture treatment modality was used for this study because past studies have shown it to be sufficient for clinically significant results, to minimized potential confounders, and for easy access.30–32 All acupuncture placements were performed by a state-certified dental acupuncturist.
Prior to the acupuncture treatment, the skin at the Hegu LI4 acupoint on the left hand was wiped with alcohol pads, air dried, and then covered with the foam pad. The participants was positioned supinely in a 3.0 Tesla GE Signa magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner system [MRI data not analyzed in this report] (GE Medical Systems), and instructed to close their eyes and relax throughout the session. After a baseline period of 2.5 minutes, the acupuncturist tapped the foot of the participant. This signal indicated that the participant should start clenching their posterior teeth at maximal force for 2 minutes. Participants were instructed to clench at maximal force, as a pain inducer. This 2-minute stimulus period was followed by 30 seconds of rest. Then, the acupuncturist performed the acupuncture or sham protocol by inserting a needle through the foam pad. Subjects were not asked by the acupuncturist about whether they felt the sensation of de-qi because all subjects were acupuncture naïve and would not understand the de-qi sensation.
A list of 50 random numbers was generated by computer and subjects were assigned a number subsequently by enrollment. Subjects with an odd number received sham acupuncture, while those with an even number received real acupuncture. Sixteen subjects received real acupuncture and 12 received sham acupuncture. Real acupuncture consisted of a needle insertion through the sterile foam pad into the left hand Hegu LI4 acupoint to a depth of 10 to 20 mm. The depth of the needle into tissue was estimated by subtracting the 10-mm thickness of the foam pad from the 30-mm length of the needle. Sham acupuncture consisted of a blunted needle insertion through the sterile foam pad, positioned 1 cm distal to Hegu LI4 acupoint, until the needle touched and did not penetrate the skin (Fig 1). After sham acupuncture, the foam pad was removed by the acupuncturist, who visually inspected the skin surface to ensure no skin penetration occurred. This procedure has been found to be an effective sham control for acupuncture.33,34
The acupuncture needle was left in place for a total of 15 minutes. After the initial 5 minutes of acupuncture, restimulation was performed by quick quarter turns of the needle for 15 seconds. The needle stayed in place for the remaining 10 minutes. After a total time course of 20 minutes (Fig 2), the subject was removed from the MRI Scanner, and the acupuncturist removed the needle and foam pad. The hands of individuals that received sham acupuncture were double checked to ensure no skin penetration had occurred.
After the acupuncture procedure, participants were reevaluated for general jaw and face pain, jaw and face tightness, headache, and neck pain on the NRS. Mechanical stimulation with the algometer was repeated by the blinded experimenter, using the same location and maximum tolerance levels determined at the beginning of the experiment. Participants were informed that the intensity of the two mechanical stimulations were the same and they were asked to provide a new VAS rating of their pain. Finally, participants were asked whether they believed that they had received real or sham acupuncture. Upon completion of the entire study, subjects were compensated for their time.
Power analyses were conducted separately for the real and sham acupuncture groups. Given paired t tests and the large variance in response (taken from the observed data), and α = 0.05, there was 0.86 power to detect a minor (30%) response in the real acupuncture group, and 0.73 power in the sham acupuncture group. For a major (50%) response, there was 0.99 power to detect effects in both real and sham groups.
To determine whether age and baseline pain measurements were significant variables between real and sham acupuncture groups, t tests were performed. The effectiveness of the sham control was determined using a 2 × 2 χ2 test between group assignment (acupuncture and sham) and the participants' guess (guess acupuncture and guess sham). A non-significant result from the χ2 test would indicate a successful sham procedure. To determine the main effect of acupuncture on myofascial pain, paired t tests were performed on the pre- and postacupuncture psychophysical measures on the NRS and VAS. As an alternative to underpowered interaction analyses, these tests were performed separately on the real and sham acupuncture groups.
A total of 31 female subjects were asked to participate in the study, but only 28 of them consented, which resulted in an unequal number of participants in each group. Three subjects withdrew prior to the start of the study because of needle phobia, claustrophobia, and lack of posterior teeth for clenching. The average age of the real acupuncture group was 36.94 years old (SD = 13.82). The average age of the sham acupuncture group was 44.83 years old (SD = 11.61). The age difference between both treatment groups was not significant (P = .12).
Before main analyses were carried out, the effectiveness of the sham procedure in blinding participants was tested. The results of the χ2 test (χ2 = 0.159, P = .69) indicated that participants were unable to accurately guess their experimental condition assignment (Table 1).
For data analysis, subjects were grouped by the treatment administered. Baseline pain endpoint measurements were similar in both treatment groups (Table 2). Paired t tests were first conducted on the acupuncture group (Table 3). Individuals receiving real acupuncture experienced significant reduction in jaw pain (t (15) = 2.06, P = .04), jaw tightness (t(15) = 2.25, P = .04), neck pain (t(15) = 2.28, P = .04), and masseter muscle pain tolerance (t(15) = 3.09, P = .01) (Fig 3). The reduced pain level for headache in the acupuncture group was only suggestive of statistical significance (t(15) = 1.88, P = .08); there were two outliers in the data and if these outliers were removed from the data, the average change in headache would not reach statistical significance (P = .41). In the sham group, there were no significant changes found in any of the endpoint variables (all P values > .1).
As a post-hoc analysis, the number of clinically significant responders in both the real and sham groups was determined. Minimal clinical response was set at 30% symptom reduction, and major clinical response was set at 50% symptom reduction.35 In the sham group, one out of the 12 participants was a minimal responder, and three were major responders. In the real acupuncture group, four individuals were minimal responders, and eight were major responders. Any participant in the real acupuncture group was significantly more likely to be a positive responder than any participant of the sham group (75% versus 33%, χ2 = 4.86, P = .02).
Increasing evidence supports the use of acupuncture in treating chronic conditions such as myofascial pain disorder. A retrospective review of 116 patients treated for musculoskeletal pain with acupuncture found that 69% of them benefited with a 30% or greater reduction in pain after an average of three treatment sessions with three acupoints.36 There were limitations, however, due to the relatively small numbers in each diagnosis group of myofascial pain (head, neck, leg, and back), the variability in acupoints used, and the lack of a control group. Smith et al took a more specific approach and tested 27 temporomandibular disorder myofascial pain subjects with six treatment sessions at two acupoints with real acupuncture or sham acupuncture with the Park Sham Device37 and found a significant improvement in signs and symptoms of myofascial pain with real acupuncture but not with sham acupuncture.38 A significant drawback of this study was the low baseline pain level of the sham acupuncture group (average VAS score of 1.3 cm), which limited the range for change in posttreatment pain levels.
The present study addressed these limitations with a focus on individuals with moderate pain levels of chronic myofascial pain of the jaw muscles. Participants were more likely to experience clinically significant reductions of jaw/face pain, jaw/face tightness, and neck pain with one treatment session at one acupoint of real versus sham acupuncture (75% versus 33% positive response rate of at least 30% pain reduction). Participants were also likely to have an increase in pressure-pain tolerance of the masseter muscle with real acupuncture than sham acupuncture. This suggests that acupuncture can increase the functional tolerance of the masseter muscle in myofascial pain patients, who have significantly lower pressure-pain tolerance than healthy individuals.39 The only clinical endpoint acupuncture did not significantly reduce was headache, which concurred with a placebo-controlled study of treating tension-type headache patients with multiple acupoint sites in 10 acupuncture sessions.40 Overall, these findings suggest that acupuncture has short-term beneficial clinical effects above general placebo analgesia induced from sham acupuncture for alleviating most myofascial pain symptoms.
The present study also has shown the successful use of a sham acupuncture procedure as a control method to compare real acupuncture and general placebo effects. While the sham procedure was associated with non-significant symptom relief, it may nonetheless constitute part of the clinical effect of acupuncture. When measuring jaw pain, for example, relief of symptoms in the sham group approached that of the real acupuncture group. It is still possible, therefore, that acupuncture involves nonspecific, placebo-related factors for its analgesic efficacy.41 These findings highlight the need for effective sham procedures in studies of acupuncture.
This study has limitations. First, all participants underwent a 2-minute clench period that was intended to acutely increase their jaw pain and other symptoms. Because of that activity, it is likely that the postacupuncture pain levels were higher than they would have been without clenching. Therefore, the percent relief of symptoms may not accurately reflect the true analgesic effect of acupuncture or the effect of placebo. Second, acupuncture treatment can involve the use of multiple acupoints over several treatment sessions; however, because of the strictly controlled experimental environment, only one acupoint in one treatment session was performed in the present study, which limited the maximum therapeutic effect of acupuncture. Third, the sample size was relatively small, with unequal participants in each treatment group due to withdrawals from the study. The reduced sample size limits generalizability of the results. With a reduced sample size, the 8-year age difference between the mean ages of both treatment groups was not statistically significant, but could have been a significant confounder. Fourth, there was no assessment of longer-term relief of myofascial pain disorder symptoms. The small sample size and lack of long-term outcome assessment of acupuncture remain common limitations amongst randomized controlled clinical trials.42 Thus large scale, randomized controlled trials in acupuncture are needed.
The authors acknowledge the UCSF Osher Center for Alternative and Integrative Medicine for funding this study and also like to thank Charles McNeill, DDS, and Patricia Rudd, PT, DPT, for the recruitment of subjects.
Yoshi F. Shen, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Center for Orofacial Pain, University of California, San Francisco.
Jarred Younger, Anesthesia and Pain Management, Stanford University School of Medicine.
Greg Goddard, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Center for Orofacial Pain, University of California, San Francisco.
Sean Mackey, Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Superpowers are, let's face it, cool. I defy anyone to have watched a superhero film or read a comic book without thinking WOW! Me? I always fancied being telekinetic, moving things with my mind and adhering to the lazy side of myself; which admittedly is less of a 'side' and more of a whole. And then I read Stephen King's Carrie about the bullied and traumatised girl who developed telekinetic powers of her own, and I kind of wanted that ability even more.
But the super aspect of superpowers can be exaggerated, and often film execs will look at the array of choice and choose one that's visually stunning. Take Wolverine: adamantium claws that embody what it is to be badass. Or Scarlet Witch's recent incarnation, creating a level of grace and beauty to a power that is terrifying in its own right. And, every power has its pitfalls. Take Professor X and his telepathy. He can read every thought a person has, erase memories on a whim, control minds like a revolutionary puppeteer, but he also has to listen to his students wondering if his head was shiny enough to use as a mirror.
Still, not every superpower is really all that useful. And I mean that in the context of superhero requirements, ergo, saving the world from generic villain mark three. Shooting laser beams from your eyes: useful. Teleportation: useful. Shapeshifting: useful for the more subtle forms of attack. But having a tongue like a reptile's? Nope, not quite.
So, here is my non-extensive list of the top 10 most useless superpowers.
1. Liquification
Maybe I'm reading too much into the metaphor or turning into an actual puddle at the sight of the bad guy, but I kind of feel that it's lacking in its uses. I would argue that Clayface from DC could refute this, but I would class his ability as edging towards shapeshifting; overall, the ability to just become liquid has little strategic advantage. Unless, of course, they could cause their villain to slip and fall into a conveniently placed vortex of doom... or at least off a cliff.
I considered the possible option of turning into water to act as conduit for electricity, to spread out around a live wire and zap the crap out of any enemies. But then, turning into a liquid doesn't exactly make someone invulnerable to electricity, so, nope. In a manner of saving the world, devoid of conveniently placed vortexes of doom or, well, cliffs, liquification is pretty useless.
2. Wings
This one will, no doubt, cause some controversy. There are various methods of flight - energy propulsion, magnetic levitation, sonic repulsion, telekinesis - that, although having limitations, seem less vulnerable than having a pair of wings attached to your shoulder blades. In the heat of battle, against other superpowered villains or just villains with a lot of firepower, having a pair of bright angel wings (à la Warren Worthington III) is essentially painting a huge target on your back.
I concede that the recent adaptation of Archangel in X-Men: Apocalypse does add a little more credence to the usefulness of wings: having them made out of metal is a pretty sure-fire way to limit the vulnerability. But, surely that form of armour would inhibit flight patterns and, whilst protecting the vulnerable appendages, slows your flight agility down to the level of an airborne sloth. Which is why, in a life-or-death Battle Royale, I would leave the wings to the birds who have already done the smart thing and migrated away from all this violence bullshit.
3. Astral Trapping
This is not astral projection, which also would have limited uses in the battlefield. No, no, no. This is the very job specific superpower in which a person has the ability to cause an astral projection to remain trapped in the astral plane. Which is great, if your opponent happens to be engaged in astral projection. Otherwise, the limitations are pretty substantial.
As shown in DC's Constantine, astral trapping has its uses and keeps the astral from becoming tangible, but in a superhero tête-a-tête, it would only succeed in very specific circumstances. If generic villain mark two uses astral projection, or exists in the astral plane, then voila. Problem solved. But if generic villain mark five shoots radiation beams out of their wrists, then the astral realm will become a little too familiar. To put it simply: dead as the much-referred to dodo.
4. Prehensile/Animated Hair
This power lends itself to animé superpowers in which, typically women, develop the ability to grow lusciously long locks worthy of a L'Oréal membership. Through this ability, each tendril of hair develops tensile strength akin to a rope or grappling hook, and can be used to similar effect. Think Tangled's Rapunzel and her makeshift keratin bungee cord.
As, admittedly, cool as this ability would look, there are numerous problems. One: the villain has a fire-based ability, burning a very flammable form of power. Two: the villain has heard of scissors, which speaks for itself. Three: my hair is nowhere near superpowered length and as soon as I stop brushed it, it becomes knot-central. I don't care what conditioner you use, that much hair is going to become a nest of knots, twigs, possibly random wildlife. Not the best form of weapon, unless the intention is to take down the villain with an aggressive hairball.
5. Cross-Dimensional Awareness
Championed by Marvel's Deadpool, this cross-dimensional perception, commonly known as breaking the fourth wall, is undoubtedly a unique aspect to the comic book world. Having a superhero acknowledge his own fictional status and engage with an active audience is, undoubtedly, what makes Deadpool one of the most entertaining heroes in the genre.
But, is it useful in a battle? Not at all. What makes Deadpool unique is his cross-dimensional awareness; what makes him good in a fight is his healing factor, strength, agility, and combat skills. As interesting as it would be to converse with inhabitants of the fourth wall during a final 'boss battle', it will ultimately do nothing to impede the path of a bullet or prevent being crushed by falling buildings (as mass destruction is a given in superhero final fight scenes).
6. Power Sensing
Used predominantly in the X-Men universe, most famously demonstrated through Professor X and his use of the machine, Cerebro, being able to sense powers within others is what frees them from obscurity and allows them to be seen for what they truly are. It is an enlightening gift (damning in some aspects) and allows for a unity between alike individuals.
So, not at all useless in any other sense, but in a battle, sensing another person's power is of no use if there is no reaction to it. Being able to identify that the villain fires spikes or can manipulate reality is great for pre-battle strategy, but pretty crappy in the middle of a fight. Like, really, did I need forewarning that the guy can generate 10,000 volts of electricity when he literally just lit up like a Christmas Tree in the middle of the city? Forewarned is only forearmed when the warning comes a little more than ten seconds before being fried.
7. Body Part Substitution
The best comparison for this is Frankenstein's monster and ensures longevity and an extended lifespan, with added benefits of strength and endurance. However, what this superpower needs is time; having limbs blown off in the middle of a battle and scrambling around trying to find nearby replacements will, while being a rather unique sight, probably result in death by blood loss.
Besides, with the 'hero' part of superheroes and superpowers being a core factor, there may be issue taken up with someone wandering through a field of corpses and collecting limbs to staple onto themselves; I say staple because it is probably the quickest and most effective method available. And as impressive as it would be in demonstrating a frankly disturbing form of survival, it is essentially useless. Reattaching limbs would serve only for them to be detached again after another psionic blast or energy pulse.
8. Duplication (Temporal)
Like flight, there are different forms of duplication, and the most commonly used is physical cloning: creating doubles of oneself for a variety of purposes. But, temporal duplication has a slightly different effect. This one causes past and future versions of a person to converge in the present. Advantage: more than one you, which could provide the whole strength in numbers thing. However, this advantage would be better served in creating body doubles or mimics rather than delving into all that timey-wimey temporal shit, which never fails to be problematic.
So, the disadvantage: if past, present, and future you exist in one moment - a moment rife with death, destruction and chaos - what happens if one of you dies? If future you dies, does it cause ripples in their timeline and the path that they were intended to walk? If past you dies, do present and future you fade from existence? Really, having all versions of yourself in one place is just asking for immediate eradication from every possible timeline. Best plan? Ask another superhero for help before resorting to the narcissistic trinity of Me, Myself, and I.
9. Spiritual Mediumship
Now, unless there is an urgent need to pull out a Ouija board in the middle of a fight, spiritual mediumship isn't going to be the most useful of powers. Mid-showdown, to put it simply, being able to commune with the dead provides very little benefit. If this mediumship extended to some kind of ghost-weapon - think LOTR: Return of the King style with the Army of the Dead - then I could definitely see this being used as a mode of attack. Already dead people don't tend to die again, which makes them a valuable asset.
However, what this ability does is akin to every medium portrayal ever shown on TV; FaceTime chats with the departed about whatever hot topic is needed to speed along the plot. In the heat of battle, the "I see dead people" phrase loses impact when there would literally be bodies everywhere. Sorry, Haley Joel, wait for M. Night to roll out another "twist".
10. Pheromone Manipulation
Admittedly, this one is borderline useful. Excluding the use of pheromones for attraction purposes - we'll go under the pretence that the supervillains tend to have little to no romantic attraction to anything besides death and/or a mirror - there is some benefit in the stimulation of disorientation or, if powerful, enough, susceptibility; borderline stepping into the territory of mind control. However, really, telepathy would prove to be a stronger bet with this area of psychological manipulation.
But, is it useful enough in a battle? I would argue no. Pheromone manipulation, as DC's Poison Ivy demonstrates, works well as a distraction tactic; drawing crowds of googly-eyed men and giving the user time to escape. Drawing crowds of innocents into the middle of a superpowered fight? Not so great for the hero image. In typical boss battles, the villain is immune to what we can call status attacks, like sleep or confusion. (Yes, I am resorting to Pokémon terms, but we all know that sleep, confusion, and poison were typically useless against the Big Bads of the game).
I'm not claiming that I wouldn't want any (or all) of these superpowers but in the context of an apocalyptic showdown being super good and super evil, I would rather be able to turn into a giant fireball or shoot bullets out of my fingertips. These 10 abilities? Let's just say...


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According to the Fight the Fakes campaign, in some areas of Asia, Africa and Latin America fake medicines may account for up to 30% of medicines in circulation. In Africa, one-third of all malaria medicines are probably fake and it is estimated that one medicine in two purchased on illegal Internet sites that hide their physical address is fake.
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Precaution: MAY DECREASE MILK SUPPLY, AND CAUSE IRRITABILITY
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Billy Henry, former University of Tennessee athletic department administrator and assistant tennis coach, died on Saturday night near Holly Springs, Miss., after attending the Tennessee-Ole Miss football game in Oxford with Belmont head basketball coach Rick Byrd. He was 77.
"In terms of mentors, Coach Henry would be one of the most significant," Byrd said. "I learned a great deal from him about how to coach a team, how to treat players, and how the team should represent the university, on the floor and on campus." A native of Calhoun, Mr. Henry is a member of the Lenoir City High School Sports Hall of Fame, where he starred in football and baseball,earning eight letters in the two sports and leading the Panthers' basketball team to the final four of the 1955 state tournament. He was named alldistrict, all-region, and all-state.
Mr. Henry also played basketball and baseball, earning seven letters, at Carson-Newman before earning his undergraduate degree in 1959. He earned a master's degree from the University of Tennessee in 1962.
Mr. Henry served as basketball coach and athletic director at Union University in Jackson, Tenn., before serving as an assistant coach at the University of Florida with head coach Tommy Bartlett and later as head coach of Baptist College of Charleston.
In 1976, he was named athletic director at Maryville College, hiring Byrd to his first headcoaching position.
After spending four years as head tennis coach at Austin Peay, Mr. Henry moved to the University of Tennessee athletic department, retiring in 2005 following two decades as assistant tennis coach and later assistant athletic director for spring sports. He also worked with the UTAD Development Office, helping coordinate the Big Orange Caravan and the school's car program.
Mr. Henry was serving as an assistant coach for the Belmont men's golf program for the 2014-15 season after serving as interim head coach the previous season. He had always admitted to a "40year obsession" with the game of golf, having navigated the best courses in the United States, Scotland, and England.
"Billy was the guy who had the patience to teachme the game of golf," recalled long-time friend John Melnick."I was the worst, but he stayed with me. We also played a little tennis.
"Not only did he teach me golf, but he also taught me life. He was a good friend." Mr. Henry is survived by former wife Martha Anne Henry of Morristown, former wife Jane Henry of Hendersonville; sister, Carolyn Jones and husband Eugene of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; daughters Robin Ann Henry of Houston, Cindy Henry Williams and son-in-law Douglas R. Williams of Hendersonville; Marty Lynn Henry of Morristown, and Jennifer and Bruce Irvin of Charlotte, N.C.; and sons William F. (Chip) Henry III and wife Angela Henry of Fort Worth, Texas; Chris Henry of Chicago; and Jeff Reynolds and wifeJennifer of Hendersonville. Grandchildren are Phillip and Katie Williams of Birmingham, Ala., Emily Williams of Hendersonville, Caroline and McClain Reynolds of Hendersonville, and Tucker and Wilder Irvin of Charlotte, N.C.
Mr. Henry's memorial service will be Friday at 3 p.m. (EDT) at Hendersonville First United Methodist Church (217 East Main Street, Hendersonville, TN 37075, 615-824-8725). Alexander Funeral Home in Gallatin (584 Nashville Pike, Gallatin, TN 37066) is handling arrangements.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the University of Tennessee Letterman's T-Club, the Lenoir City Hall of Fame, or the Athletic Scholarship Fund at Carson-Newman University.
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Utah Jazz at Boston Celtics - 2/29/16 NBA Pick, Odds, and Prediction
Utah Jazz (28-30) at Boston Celtics (35-25)
NBA Basketball: Monday, February 29, 2016 at 7:30 pm (TD Garden)
The Line: Boston Celtics -5.5 -- Over/Under: 202.5 See the Latest Odds
The Utah Jazz invade the TD Garden to battle the Boston Celtics tonight.
The Jazz have lost five of their last seven games and are in danger of losing a third straight after losing to the lowly Nets by 98-96 on Saturday. Gordon Hayward had a big game of 27 points and six assists, Rodney Hood added 15 poitns while Rudy Gobert had 12 points, 19 rebounds and six blocks but it still wasn't enough to beat the Nets who were just too good defensively for the first three quarters, leaving the Jazz too much ground to make up in the fourth quarter. With the loss, Utah fell to 28-30 overall which drops them to ninth place in the Western Conference standings, just half a game out of the eighth spot.
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Meanwhile, the Celtics have won 13 of their last 17 games and have now won their last 10 games at home after beating the Heat by 101-89 on Saturday. Marcus Smart led the scoring with 15 points off the bench, Evan Turner and Jae Crowder added 14 points each while three more players finished in double figures as the Celtics battled witht he Heat for three and a half quarters before closing the game on a 19-7 run in the final 6:43 of the game to improve to 35-25 on the season.
In ATS trends, the Jazz are 4-11 ATS in their last 15 road games and 0-4 ATS in their last four games overall, while the Celtics are 5-1 ATS in their last six home games but just 1-4 ATS in their last five games against a team with a losing record.
Head to head, the Jazz are 2-6-2 ATS in the last 10 meetings overall and 0-4-2 ATS in the last six meetings in Boston.
This should be a close contest for most of the game, but I'm fully expecting the red-hot Celtics to pull away in the second half and come out with their 11th straight win at home against a Jazz team that's been in a bit of a slump lately.


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Alan Moore, Creator on 'V For Vendetta' on Crowdfunding
Noah J Nelson on Wednesday, Jul. 17th
The thing about great writers is this: they have keen minds. Like sponges.
Reading an Alan Moore (V for Vendetta, Watchmen) interview can be like experiencing a kind of intellectual osmosis. I'm happy to say that's exactly what I experienced while reading this Salon interview with the author by Scott Till.
The reason for the interview is that Moore had a Kickstarter project running for the final film in a cycle of shorts, that will lead to a DVD. That project successfully closed today, but it's Moore's thoughts on crowdfunding that are my excuse for linking the article.
While the revolution will be certainly televised, it strikes me that there is a strong possibility that the revolution will also be crowd-funded. If Kickstarter and other enterprises are giving projects like Occupy Comics a chance, then it does suggest there are imaginative ideas out there with incredible use and application across the board. Not just in the arts, but in the sciences as well. It's an exciting concept, and I look forward to seeing what emerges from it.
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OT: Penn State/Temple
They are not good. Tons of issues on offense, and Temple has had some good plays. This game is a tossup for us, especially if the defense can develop a bit before then.
PSU doesn't scare me one bit this year, and while I'm at it neither do Iowa, MSU, the Illini, or Purdue.
Iowa and MSU have both been taking their cupcakes to the woodshed. Those will be tough games, IMHO. Purdue and Illinois, we better take apart. PSU looks totally beatable, even in Happy Valley.
I always thought it was weird that we were supposed to be the dog to PSU, while a push against Wisconsin. I seriously think we've got really good shots at the whole B10, especially PSU, with WI and tO$U being the toughest ones.
Not to be a stickler, but there is an afternoon games thread for general comments about the PSU-Temple game. This seems to have spurred some conversation about whether PSU will be a tough game though, so whatever. I personally think this game more is showing of the strides Temple has taken. They stopped a pretty good UConn team last week, and appear to be controlling PSU pretty well too.
You're absolutely right. It had fallen off the front page and I didn't see it, so wi the Ala/Ark thread I thought it was fair game. If a mod wants to merge this in with the afternoon games thread, that's just fine. My fault.
Penn St doesn't look as good as they have in the past. But you also have to give Temple some credit because they have come alot farther than people can give them credit for. They went to a bowl last year and beat UConn so they are not the same god awful team we think.
We are...the total opposite of Penn St. To paraphraise Jerry McGuire: They complete us.
I think in this instance our Napalm on cleats offense is more of a mismatch against their very good defense than their anemic offense is against our pillow soft defense. I like UM's chances.


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The Jabal Saraj cement plant in Afghanistan's Parwan province has resumed production two decades after its operations were halted due to the devastating civil war, which damaged almost all key infrastructure in the country.
Wahid Sediqi, provincial governor's spokesman, said the government has invested more than US$1m to help resume the operations of the factory, which was established in 1958 to produce 100tpd of cement to meet domestic demand. He said the works' capital is around US$2m and providing direct employment for around 150 people while indirectly providing jobs for around 5000.
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Peter Sissons wishes to announce his resignation as presenter of the BBC's Ten O'Clock News, and hands me his official statement. It is carefully composed, in the manner of sensitive announcements, and implies, without quite stating, that he is going entirely of his own volition.
But why would he want to do that? Sissons fronts the BBC's most prestigious, heavyweight news programme, which last week pulled in its fifth highest ratings ever: 7.1 million. After years of trailing ITN's News At Ten, the BBC's late news is now consistently ahead, attracting upwards of a million more viewers every night. The ratings war has been won, and Sissons is at the height of his powers.
True, he turned 60 in July, but this would be regarded as juvenile at the American networks, where Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings are deemed to have acquired authority along with silver temples. Sissons's eyes are still improbably sapphire blue, and he is greying nicely, in a manner entirely distinguished. He dealt with his drubbing over the burgundy tie he wore to announce the Queen Mother's death with quiet dignity and emerged from the incident with his reputation, if anything, enhanced. And in the cramped offices of a senior BBC news executive he is open about his undimmed enthusiasm for the job: 'I'm enjoying it,' he says, 'as much as I ever have.'
In February he will move to BBC News 24, and claims that he is relishing the challenge of rolling news. He will also deputise for Sir David Frost, and he will have 'more time in the week to do other things - not just corporate stuff, but other broadcasters, independent companies, may want voices, videos, corporate work'. Clearly, there is also an opportunity to make a bit of retirement money.
Even while all this is an opportunity, that doesn't necessarily mean he would have chosen it. There have been persistent suggestions that his co-presenter Michael Buerk's decision to leave the Ten O'Clock News was not voluntary. And asked directly if the move was his choice, Sissons blinks a lot, moves his foot up and down and talks vaguely about a seven-year itch before getting round to denying that he and Buerk were pushed. He does, however, acknowledge that recent events are 'in stark contrast to what is happening in the US, where I think some of the reporters on Sixty Minutes have turned 80'. He adds wistfully: 'Who knows, next year there might be a demand for greying 60-year-olds.'
His successor(s) will be announced this week. But it is already clear that, in pursuit of the elusive youth audience for news, the BBC believes that young, beautiful, possibly female, ethnically diverse presenters are more potent than experience and avuncular authority. The BBC will not, in short, be going the way of the US networks. And there is an additional internal political benefit: BBC News is known to be a fairly poisonous place at present, not least because of the jockeying for position of its presenters. Sissons admits his departure 'probably is a case of it suiting everyone. It frees up a log jam of ambitious young presenters who'd like to do more.
'There's an intention, I think, to give the programme a more modern look, though not, I believe, to fiddle with the news agenda. The Ten will remain a heavyweight, flagship news programme. And whoever gets to do it is very, very lucky, because it's a huge privilege. I've loved my time doing it.'
Not really the words of someone who's raring to go off and find new challenges. So does he think there's any truth in Kate Adie's claim that there's no place in the BBC for old trouts? 'I'm not in the business of knocking the BBC,' he says, 'but it does have one or two blind spots, and its biggest blind spot is its tendency to ageism. I've been to too many leaving parties for people who've turned 50 and they're at the height of their powers and they're out. Some really gifted people, who've cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to bring to that state of being so good. I think that's very sad.'
Colleagues say the only opinion Sissons ever allows to intrude into his professional life is that Liverpool is fantastic. Sissons himself says that he fears his body language when he reads the sports reports may occasionally betray him. (He also says he recently received an honorary degree from Liverpool University on the same day as Gérard Houllier, 'the most important man in the city'.)
He went to primary school with John Lennon and Jimmy Tarbuck, and to Liverpool Institute High School, now Paul McCartney's Fame School, with McCartney and George Harrison. He was not, he says, especially clever, and got into Oxford, to read classics, 'after a lot of trying'. He became the football reporter for the student newspaper, which proved enough to get him a traineeship with ITN.
He imagined he would make his career, glamorously, as a foreign correspondent. But he was shot in both legs in the Nigerian civil war in 1968 and had to be taken to the nearest field hospital in a pram, losing two pints of blood on the journey. He was less mobile after that, 'and you've got to be able to sprint occasionally in a hotspot', so he became ITN's industrial correspondent instead - which, since this was the Seventies and industrial relations were in chaos, meant he was never off the television.
He is appalled by what has happened to ITN since ITV started interfering with the scheduling of its late evening bulletin. (News At Ten was first moved to 10.30pm, necessitating a name change, then back to 10pm, but with the option to move around). 'It was a terrible strategic mistake, which benefited the BBC, though I take no pleasure in what's happening to ITN, because they taught me my trade and I still have a lot of good friends there. But ITV has committed a crime against ITN, and that is abolishing the brand name. ITN was one of the leading world brands in news, with a lever on the affections of the British people - and what do they do? Call it the ITV News.
'Former colleagues at ITN are also unhappy about the extent to which ITV interferes with their news agenda. You'll get letters denying it from people at ITN, saying nothing could be further from the truth, but I'm sorry, it's true. There are certain stories they're under a lot of pressure to carry. News stories relating to ITV programmes are frequently done and are effectively part of a publicity drive for an ITV product. These are stories that ITN would never have carried in the past.'
In the early Eighties, Sissons became the launch presenter for Channel 4 News - 'an absolute, total disaster for the first six months, with a set like a bad Allied Carpets warehouse and a map of the world in which Australia had moved 3,000 miles closer to Indonesia'. But Stewart Purvis became editor and turned the programme into a byword for intelligent news reporting. Seven years later, the BBC hired Sissons to chair Question Time and work on the Six O'Clock News.
He didn't care for Question Time. 'I got so fed up with some of the panellists. The names would never be dragged out of me, but I just thought, "I've got better things to do than sit around here while you lot tell fibs."' After four and a half years, he was glad to escape to the Nine O'Clock News. And his career since then has been, much like the man himself, pretty smooth. Until the burgundy tie incident, anyway.
And about this, he is evidently still steaming. He brings with him a list of words the Daily Mail used to describe him the day after the Queen Mother's death was announced: 'disrespectful, creepy, brutish, clumsy, dismayingly tentative, intrusive, shocking, embarrassing and an assault on any sense of decency.' These all appeared on one page, in two articles, one concerning the tie, the other Sissons's interview with the Hon Mrs Margaret Rhodes, who had been at the Queen Mother's bedside. He regards this interview as 'an old-fashioned scoop'.
The truth about the tie, he explains, is that it was BBC policy not to wear a black tie for any death but that of the head of state. 'The rules had been revised more than a year before the Queen Mother died. In my locker downstairs there are three sombre ties. A black one, a navy one and the burgundy one, which is so dark I never wear it on air. I went for the one I thought would look more sombre. In fact, it kicked up a bit more red.
'Now that the dust has settled, Nick Owen has revealed he wasn't wearing a black tie either. His was navy. And Mary Nightingale went on air for the announcement wearing her weekend beige, and only subsequently changed into black.'
So how does he explain the invective, or its personal nature? 'The Daily Mail has a vendetta against the BBC. Whoever had been there that day would have been caught in the middle and used as a weapon in its irrational campaign.' A newsletter distributed to former employees of ITN (which he also brings along) concluded: 'For 15 years the BBC has been rehearsing the death of the Queen Mother while at the same time the Daily Mail has been rehearsing its attack on the BBC's coverage. Oh, and its editor, Paul Dacre, is the brother of ITN editor, Nigel Dacre.'
Despite reservations about 'kicking up a fuss that might suggest I objected to the freedom to express an opinion', Sissons did eventually get his lawyers to write to the Mail. 'I think they totally lost it over that,' he says now, 'and their readers realised they had. The reporting of the whole thing was a travesty of the truth.'
Sissons's Liverpool accent retreated somewhere along the way, although you can still catch traces of it when he talks about the Daily Mail . He did, however, marry his childhood sweetheart - although when I suggest this to him, he says: 'Um, I suppose you could describe it that way. I've known Sylvia since I was 16 and she was 15' - an oddly unromantic remark from someone who is generally held to be such a charmer.
He claims that in his new role he will welcome 'getting home a little bit earlier', although when, later, I ask what he'll do with the time there, he says: 'I haven't really thought about it.' He and Sylvia have three children, of whom he is plainly very proud: Michael, a solicitor, Jonathan, who works in marketing for Fulham Football Club, and Kate, who has just left Rada.
Diplomatically, Sissons declines to speculate about his replacement, or to say which of the next generation of presenters he most admires. 'It will be one of about six people, or maybe two out of six. Of course, they could always astonish us; they could always bring in [CBS's] Dan Rather. I'll be awfully miffed if they do.'
We talk briefly about whether politicians are wrong to blame the media for the loss of interest in politics, especially among the young. 'The BBC, to its credit, takes criticism seriously, I sometimes think too seriously. It's certainly taken the political criticism seriously.' The pursuit of a younger audience for news, as he knows, is an aspect of this nervousness. (The BBC, dependent on Westminster for the licence fee, cannot be seen not to be trying).
'I'm not so sure it isn't a little bit misguided,' he says. He has, after all, a 22-year-old daughter, who 'gets her news on the hoof, from places like Radio 5 Live. But you can't get her to sit down in front of a news programme. The quest for the youth viewer of network news bulletins may be a hard slog.'
It may indeed. And getting rid of 60-year-old presenters could be entirely beside the point.
The reasons young people aren't watching the news or voting might turn out to be more complex than the glib solution of sticking someone younger and prettier on the screen implies. Peter Sissons might not, in fact, be the problem.


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