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BROOKFIELD – Nearly 3,600 runners and walkers leaped like gazelles at the Brookfield Zoo's Zoo Run Run for the Conservation Fund 5K on Sept. 22.
The course led participants through an forest of 100-year-old forest of oak trees, past Andean condors near The Living Coast exhibit and by giraffes, zebras and camels along 31st Street, before a final stretch as runners breezed by lions, tigers and snow leopards.
The overall male winner was Christopher Schiel, of Schaumburg, with a time of 17:49, and the overall female winner was Jane Simpson, of Western Springs, with a time of 19:40.
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Id like to thank Heavyiron and IML for the chance to log Halo. This is an H-drol clone but has the addition of 5a-Hydroxy Laxogenin which is the reason this product has intrigued me. Below I have listed some information on Laxogenin and its benefits. I will be running it for 4 weeks as directed. I just started pre loading my cycle support and will start my first dose Sunday. Once the log starts I will list in detail my workouts and all support supplements as well as my PCT.
HALO EXTREME - Pro-Anabolic Complex
-Helps with Cutting (getting lean)
-Increases Strength & Hardness
-Does Not Aromatize (convert to estrogen)
-Can be used as part of bulking, lean bulking or cutting cycles
Users of Halo Extreme can expect significant body-recomping effects by implementing this product into their programs, which will be realized through moderate increases in high quality, water-free muscle mass and visible reductions in body fat. Vascularity will be augmented and the users muscularity will become harder and denser. This has led many to compare Halo Extreme not only to Turinabol, but also to steroids such as Anavar and Winstrol.
5a-Hydroxy Laxogenin
5a-Hydroxy Laxogenin was discovered by a American scientist in 1996. It was shown to possess an anabolic/androgenic ratio similar to one of the most efficient anabolic substances, in particular Anavar but without the side effects of liver toxicity or testing positive for steroidal therapy. Athletes have found dramatic strength increases in 3-5 days, and muscle mass increases in 3-4 weeks. Muscle mass or fat loss is only a function of caloric intake. If you are a male that is a hard gainer or someone that is looking to put on extra lean muscle and most important, keep it. Tests showed that protein synthesis increased by over 200% , the key to lean muscle growth and accelerated repair. Body fat reduction is one of the key components of this molecule. When you restrict your calories you reduce body fat dramatically. In testing the molecule has balance cortisol response which is the major cornerstone to healthy recovery and reduction of muscle wasting. It's also been shown to balance cortisol on calorie restricted diets, helps control glucose and increases thyroid function.


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Boehner is willing to let the country default. aside from all the logical reasons for this, i'm curious how he plans to deal with the aftermath. There are an awful lot of people who believe Obama is right. These are the same people who will be most hurt by a default. The GOP constituents generally have resources and can better suffer the inflation a default will cause. The others are already suffering under the increased costs of living. They are not going to blame the democrats no matter the commercials and charts the GOP publishes, and taking away their reason for working (since they barely have any now) will not take away their motivation for striking back. GOP should read some history, specifically the sepoy rebellion of 1857....
House Speaker John Boehner says there wouldn't be enough votes to pass a "clean" continuing resolution in his chamber, though various counts have put the number of Republicans who'd be willing to join with Democrats at more than 20.
"There are not the votes in the House to pass a clean CR," the Ohio Republican said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
Pressed on the vote estimates, including the 195 voting House Democrats who've said they would support the clean bill, Boehner insisted that negotiations are necessary.
"The American people expect in Washington when we have a crisis like this, that the leaders will sit down and have a conversation," he said. "I told my members the other day -- there may be a back room somewhere, but there's nobody in it."
Boehner said that statements from President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) insisting that they won't negotiate under threat of a government shutdown or default on U.S. debt would mean yielding on his own positions. "So it's my way or the highway. Complete surrender and then we'll talk to you," he said.


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DePauw Completes Weekend Sweep
March 2, 2008
BOX SCORES: vs. Monmouth | vs. Centre
March 2, 2008, Danville, Ky. - DePauw improved to 4-2 on the season afer defeating Momouth, 10-2, and Centre, 9-8, in 10 innings.
Against Monmouth, the Tigers scored four in the fourth, two in the seventh and four more in the eighth in claiming the win. DePauw totaled nine hits with Justin Weiner, Adam Ford and Jack Gavin each finishing with two. Gavin drove in three and collected the team's lone extra base hit with a double.
Ryan Stubler and Brian Wilhelm each had two of Monmouth's eight hits. DePauw starter Aaron Meyers improved to 1-0 after allowing two runs and striking out nine in 5 1/3 innings. Matt Bourne suffered the loss.
The Tigers rallied from a 8-4 deficit against Centre with four in the eighth and then scored the game-winning run in the 10th.
Ford drove in the first run of the eighth with a double before Sam Linette homered to make it 8-7. Taylor Hoffman's RBI single scored Jon Newman and tied the game.
In the 10th, Newman led off with a walk, moved to second on Eric Reese's sacrifice bunt. Weiner then singled and Hoffman walked to load the bases. Matt Kleine was hit by a pitch and drove home Newman with the eventual winning run.
DePauw totaled 14 hits with Reese and Mike Stout each collecting three. Hoffman added two, while Kleine drove in three. Stout also homered in the contest.
John Clark led Centre with three of their 11 hits, while Brandon Rosen and Kevin McGee each added a pair.
Derek Bryant improved to 2-0 with a win in relief, while Paul Rodenhouse notched his second save with a perfect 10th. Centre's Jeffrey Williams suffered the loss.
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MONTEREY, Calif.- There is still a lot to be fleshed out with this plan Cal Am has proposed, not only does it have to be approved by the Ca Public Utilities Commission, peninsula mayors are listening to the propsal from Cal Am.
The main difference from the original regional desalination project that fell apart is Cal Am isn't hanging it's hat only on a desal plant. Now there's a three-pronged approach.
The cost will be a little less than the $400 million price tag of the original project.
Peninsula water rates will still go up in the next few years before the state's deadline of 2016 to reduce how much water is pumped out of the Carmel River.
Here's the three pronged approach: First, a desalination plant in north Marina.
Second, expanding Cal Am's aquifer storage program in Seaside. Third, buy water from the Peninsula's Groundwater Replenishment project, a form of recycling water.
Carmel mayor Jason Burnett said he will have questions for Cal Am at presentation.
"Who should own and operate this? What are the pros and cons of Cal Am versus a public enity or a public private partnership. Second, who should finance it and how should it be structured? The third, a question of the technical proposal where it's located and how it would technically operate?" said Burnett.
There is some question as to why Pacific Grove's city council voted to look further into The People's Moss Landing Desal Project last week when no other peninsula city has seriously looked into it.
Pacific Grove's city council spent about an hour talking about this last week, 6 of the 7 people involved voted to move ahead.
Central Coast News checked with the Monterey County Elections office Monday, listed on Garcia's campaign disclosure forms is Moss Landing Commercial Park LLC for $2,000 in March.
Central Coast News reached out to the state's Fair Political Practices Comission who handles these things, we're still waiting to hear back.
In prior conflict of interest cases, the big question is: Would it have been better for Garcia to remove herself from that vote because it was an obvious campaign supporter?
Plans for the original desal plan broke down because one of its main supporters, Steve Collins, had a conflict of interest.
He pushed for the desal plant to happen, while working for a company that would make money from it.


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In his Criminal Law column, Ken Strutin, director of legal information services at the New York State Defenders Association, writes that the Internet is providing new information streams for client advocacy rooted in the print world, and inmate letters and newspaper stories have established patterns that can carry over to the new media.
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Dear all,
I am Luca Bencini an employee of Tecnosistemi S.p.A.
I have to realize an IEEE 802.11 b/g/n sniffer. For this purpose I am looking for a wifi transceiver that support the "monitor mode". The "monitor mode" allows a wireless network interface to monitor all traffic received from a wireless network.
Does TiWi01-R2 support monitor mode? How can I configure it?
Thank you for your help.
Luca Bencini
Hi Luca,
The WL1271 FW does not support monitor mode. TI has licensed the FW to several partners that may be interested in helping you to implement a sniffer. If you want me to help you get it touch with them, please send out your contact information.
Hello Eyal,
I prefer not to disclose my company name right here and now, but if there is a way to discuss with you in private it would be a pleasure to give you more details.
I am also hoping to realize a 802.11 sniffer using WL1271/WL1273 and feel disappointed to read that its FW does not support monitor mode...
I am not sure I exactly understand what you replied to Luca: does this mean that under some conditions it is possible to have access to WL1271 FW source code in order to adapt it?
Could you help me going further in this direction?
Thank you very much in advance for your help.
Hello again Eyal,
I am coming back to you regarding this.
I wish we could find a way to go on. Is there another way I can contact you?
Thank you very much in advance,
Best regards.
I got your email which i will respond
I verified that with Marketing and got their advice. the way to get that contact is to contact TI Local distributer in your Aria and they will be able to help
Thank you for your reply.
Could it be possible that you give us the list of companies that could help us more directly with the firmware? Maybe some of the ones you mentioned in your first post above?
Please note that my company already signed a NDA with TI.
Hi FS,
There are 2 "types" of FW:
I do see the rx-filters registers in the NLCP driver but for some reason they are commented out. Maybe trying to forcely change these value will also do the trick.
- Elad Raz
Would this provide
- all packets for all BSSIDs ?
- or just all the packets for the BSSID that I am part of ?
( My understanding of the wireless promiscuous mode is that it would provide all the packets for the BSSID that I am part of)
Has any tried this and sucessfully got the equivalent of the MONITOR mode running on a wl1271?
All packets that are in the same band. The HW will not drop any packet out. This is risky, since the memblocks in the FW will be block very very fast...
So the packet poll rate suppose to be higher.
I never tried it, and I'm not sure that anyone tried it out.
I was asking if had been tried because my undestanding is
that this approach works on the wl1251, but the wl1271 has more "intelligence" and there might not be the right hooks to completely disable the filtering so we can see all packets for all bssids (although some might be encrypted of course) for a given channel
Yep, I look at the FW code, in wl12xx (open-source driver) there is "link" classification for RX, and there are couple of places there to change:
Hello Elad,
Thank you very much for the very valuable information you posted recently.
I am also very interested in enabling wl127x monitor mode but so far all my attempts were unsuccessful. Thanks to you I think I better see why now...
There is something I didn't get: you wrote : "So you need to change the FW as well". I would be super happy to do so, but how can I get access to the firmware sources?
I think that I searched quite thoroughly, but there is no way to get something else than .bin files for firmware...
Could you help me with this?
Thank you very much in advance.
You can't get any access to TI FW. It's not a public code.
You can use external design house (such as ourselves).
- Elad.
Hi Elad,
Thank you.
So: What is the best way for me to contact you directly?
Should I use the contact form on your company's website?


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Oracle Beehive – Next Next Generation of Collaboration software
One of the major announcements during Charles Philips' keynote: Oracle Beehive: integrated and secure collaboration platform.The successor to Oracle Collaboration Suite.Targeted at Enterprise Collaboration. And allegedly 'built from scratch in 3 years'. The demo showed the Outlook Client running against the Beehive server. And not Outlook as we know it – Outlook extended with many collaboration features. Access to Workspaces in which teams collaborate on documents, presentations etc. In a workspace, members have access to joint resources, on line communication (IM/Chat) and on line conferencing. The demo included two clients working in a virtual collaborarion environment – jointly developing a Powerpoint presentation, both making changes. The Beehive software ensure bi-directional synchronization – changes on one client are rapidly synchronized among all members in the workspace. It looks cool!
However, at some point in time, Oracle Mail, Oracle Office, Oracle InterOffice and Oracle Collaboration Suite looked cool too. And neither of them was very successful in the market. What makes Beehive different? …. (more…)


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Monday, December 9, 2013
The Associated Press
BOSTON — David Ortiz has been through a lot in nearly a decade with the Red Sox.
Boston Red Sox's David Ortiz, center front, applauds with former Red Sox players Tim Wakefield, center right, and Jason Varitek, right, during ceremonies held to honor the life of the late Johnny Pesky at Fenway Park, in Boston, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. Pesky, who died in August at the age of 92, was a player, manager, and coach for the team. The Associated Press photo
He's earned two World Series rings and owns the club record for homers in a season. He suffered through a monumental September collapse last year and has been sidelined with a strained right Achilles as the team faded out of the playoff picture this season under first-year manager Bobby Valentine.
This winter, like the last one, he will be a free agent. And though a return to Boston is quite possible, you never know.
"It's just been hard," said Ortiz, who has played in just one game since the injury in mid-July. "It's just one of those years that the front office and everyone knows that we've got to put a better team together. Everybody in the off-season has to reinforce it. Now we have more competition in this division.
"If we want to compete at this level, we've got to bring a better team."
The Red Sox, off Monday, are 69-85 and 20 games behind the first-place New York Yankees in the American League East.
"We're competing right now to not end in last place in the division. Is that competition? No, that's not competition. Competition is when you are trying to go to the playoffs and you are in the top two," Ortiz said. "That's what we need, guys that are capable to come in and provide that."
The 36-year-old slugger has become the face of the Red Sox. He was called the "greatest clutch hitter" in club history by ownership after helping them capture their first World Series title in 86 years back in 2004. The eight-time All-Star hit a team-record 54 homers in 2006 and was having another solid year, batting .318 with 23 homers and 60 RBIs before going down with the injury this summer.
During the 2004 postseason, he posted consecutive game-winning hits in Games 4 and 5 of the ALCS when Boston rallied from an 0-3 deficit to stun the Yankees. But despite the postseason success, Ortiz, like the club, is in a funk. After all, the Red Sox will miss the postseason for the third straight year next month.
He understands, of course, how one's performance can be affected in a market that highly scrutinizes its players. Many on opposing teams even ask him about it.
"Oh, yeah, I hear that a lot. I tell them pretty much exactly how it is," he said, as he sat at his locker along a back wall in Fenway Park. "I mean, you don't have to be mean every day. If you can be a good player, that's a plus. But try to be consistent, that's all they ask for (here). And if they sense you're being consistent at this level, that's the hardest thing to do.
"What makes it hard here is how the team is doing. If the team's doing OK and everybody's fine and you don't see stupid things popping up, everything's fine. But when everything's going badly — like it has the past couple of years for us — people are going to try and make some noise.
"And I understand that."
Ortiz feels what he calls the "drama" about being on the Red Sox can even get to him at times.
"Sometimes I get frustrated, I'm not going to lie to you," he said. "I think that's the toughest part about playing here."
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July 25, 2013
By Zenitha Prince
Special to the NNPA from the AFRO
The recent acquittal of neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in the shooting death of 17-year-old unarmed Trayvon Martin has led to intense scrutiny of Florida's 'Stand Your Ground' law and similar "no retreat" self-defense laws and their impact on people of color.
"I think the Trayvon Martin case highlighted the racial inequalities that exist in American society," said Brendan Fischer, general counsel of the Center for Media and Democracy. "It is a symbol of how the American justice system devalues the lives of people of color. [And], 'Stand Your Ground' has embedded a lot of these injustices into the system. Statistics have shown its application has been anything but equitable."
Supported by the National Rifle Association, "Stand Your Ground" was passed by the Florida legislature in 2005. The measure turned age-old self-defense principle on its head by allowing persons to use deadly force to defend themselves, without first trying to retreat, if they have what they consider a reasonable belief that they face a threat.
The law's template was then adopted by the American Legislative Exchange Council, a nonprofit organization made up of corporations, foundations and legislators that advance federalist and conservative public policies, authorities said. Since Florida passed the law, similar measures have been introduced in one form or another in about 30 states, usually those with state legislatures dominated by Republicans.
"That law gives law-and-order activists, right-wingers and vigilantes an arguable basis for defense and opens up a pathway for unjust dispositions of justice because it allows civilians to shoot first and make certain determinations later," said Dwight Pettit, 67, a renowned Black attorney in Baltimore.
Pettit drew comparisons to police-involved shootings of African Americans when the officers make claims such as "I was in fear for my life," or "I thought he was reaching for his gun," and are exonerated. He discusses the phenomenon in his soon-to-be-released book Under Color of Law.
"Blacks don't fare well with these laws at all," Pettit said. "It's another lessening of protection for African Americans."
An analysis conducted by the Tampa Bay Times last year showed that defendants in Florida who employ the "Stand Your Ground" defense are more successful when the victim is Black. In its examination of 200 applicable cases, the Times found that 73 percent of those who killed a Black person were acquitted, compared to 59 percent of those who killed a White.
Similarly, an analysis of Supplemental Homicide Reports (SHR) submitted by local law enforcement to the FBI between 2005 and 2010 demonstrates that in cases with a Black shooter and a White victim, the rate of justifiable homicide rulings is about 1 percent. However, if the shooter is White and the victim is Black, it is ruled justified in 9.5 percent of cases in non-Stand Your Ground states. In Stand Your Ground states, the rate is even higher—almost 17 percent, according to John Roman of the Urban Institute.
The trends could partly explain Zimmerman's verdict, some legal experts said. While his defense team did not invoke the law, Circuit Court Judge Debra Nelson introduced the principle in her instructions to the jury.
"If George Zimmerman was not engaged in an unlawful activity and was attacked in any place where he had a right to be, he had no duty to retreat and had the right to stand his ground and meet force with force, including deadly force, if he reasonably believed that it was necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony," she said in her instructions to the jury of one Hispanic and five White women.
To police officers and prosecutors in Sanford, Fla.—who had initially decided not to charge Zimmerman—and to jurors in the case, Zimmerman's "fear" of Trayvon Martin, a hoodie-wearing Black teenager, likely appeared to be justified, Fischer said.
"If you have a case like George Zimmerman, who is part White, alleging that a young Black male is a threat to him, a lot of times law enforcement would agree that such as person did [constitute] a threat because of the biases and presumptions about Black males, in particular, which exist in society," he said.
Conversely, Stand Your Ground laws are less accommodating of Black defendants. Such was the case of successful African-American businessman John McNeil who was found guilty of aggravated assault and felony murder in Georgia in 2006 in connection with the fatal shooting of White contractor Brian Epp. McNeil said Epp threatened him and his son during a hostile encounter after going onto McNeil's property to confront him. He was released earlier this year on time served.
Similarly, in July 2012, Marissa Alexander, 31, the mother of three, was given a 20-year mandatory sentence for an aggravated assault conviction for firing a warning shot into the air in the garage of her home at her abusive husband. Alexander said the man was moving toward her as she attempted to retreat from him when she fired the shot. He was not injured.
Florida Sen. Gary Siplin (D) said the Alexander case was his motivation to attempt to get the Stand Your Ground law overturned. He was unsuccessful, however, because "there are more Democrats in Florida, but more Republicans [are] in charge and they don't want to change the law," he told the AFRO.
Working toward a repeal of the laws would be a positive outcome or response to the verdict in the George Zimmerman case, Fischer said.
"People have to vote and elect legislators that would support more just laws that protect the rights of all people instead of just a few," he said.
In the meantime, many officials are vowing to examine the laws and work toward their repeal, if necessary.
"It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods," U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a speech to the NAACP on July 16. "By allowing, and perhaps encouraging, violent situations to escalate in public, such laws undermine public safety."
The Trayvon Martin case "opened up a nationwide inquiry into the appropriateness and efficacy of Stand Your Ground laws," said Commissioner Michael Yaki, of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, who initiated the body's investigation into racial bias in the application of such laws. He said the commission is committed to investigating the laws.
"To honor Trayvon and his family, we will continue this inquiry with resolve and renewed purpose," Yaki said.
July 25, 2013
By CHRIS TALBOTT
Associated Press
Samuel L. Jackson's just like everybody else: He has no idea what's going on with the new "Star Wars" films.
Jackson was at Comic-Con on Saturday to promote his new film "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" and held court on a number of subjects in an interview, including J.J. Abrams' new installments in George Lucas' cinema-changing franchise.
Unlike the tens of thousands of fans at the annual gathering of fans, though, Jackson has had the opportunity to ask what's up. And he still doesn't know.
Jackson played Jedi Master Mace Windu in the "Star Wars" prequels. He'd like more work for Windu and his purple light saber. But when he saw Abrams recently at Lucas' wedding, he gleaned no information about what will come next as the franchise moves on to its seventh film in 2015.
"J.J. was there, I was there," Jackson said in an interview at the Hard Rock Hotel. "I was like (raises eyebrows) and he was like (noncommittal shrug), and he just went about his business. I don't know what that means. Harrison (Ford) was there too, and he was like (shrug). I just think it would be cool to have some of us that people relate to as being part of the 'Star Wars' franchise to give entre to the new characters that they're going to bring to whatever the new thing is. It kind of makes it an easier entrance."
Jackson also wonders why his Nick Fury character isn't part of the new "Marvel's Agents of SHIELD" television series. Fury oversees the global security spy agency in Marvel's cinematic universe, including "Marvel's The Avengers." But so far he hasn't been contacted about the show, which stars Clark Gregg as Agent Coulson and debuts on ABC in September.
"I don't know how they've got the TV show without me, but they do," Jackson said. "Maybe I could be like Charlie in 'Charlie's Angels.' You just hear my voice. I send (the agents) out every week."
July 18, 2013
By Thandisizwe Chimurenga
Sentinel Contributing Writer
George Michael Zimmerman, the accused murderer of Trayvon Benjamin Martin, was found not guilty by a jury of his peers on July 13, 2013. The insurance investigator and self-proclaimed neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Florida, had been charged with 2nd degree murder in the death of Martin, 17, who was on his way home after going to a 7/11 store to purchase some Skittles and iced tea.
The verdict was shocking but not necessarily surprising. "Long before the jury announced its decision, many people had seen what the outcome would be, had known that it would be a strange echo of the words Zimmerman uttered that rainy night in central Florida: they always get away," stated Jelani Cobb in the New Yorker magazine not long after the verdict was announced on July 13.
Around the country, civil rights and social justice leaders, activists, journalists, parents, and others have decried the verdict, stating that the message it represents is that "Black life has no value."
"The Zimmerman jury told young Black men what we already knew," said Cord Jefferson writing on the online site Gawker.
"To the contrary, what is constantly reinforced and restated in every way imaginable is the idea that in this country a white life is more valuable than a Black life," wrote Bakari Kitwana. "It's part of our educational structure. It comes screaming daily through our news media, our criminal justice system, and from all three branches of the federal government, be it the Supreme Court, Congress or even the president himself," said Kitwana on the Global Grind online news site.
Contrarian voices have also been raised throughout this entire ordeal, asserting that had the murderer of Trayvon Martin been African-American there would have been no outcry and no movement at all.
"49% of murder victims are black men. 93% of those are killed by other blacks. Media don't care. Obama doesn't care, according to Ben Shapiro, an editor for the Breitbart News website. Shapiro is a conservative, but his central thesis that violent acts such as murder committed by Blacks against other Blacks is a non- issue in the Black community was echoed long before Zimmerman shot Martin through the heart with a 9 mm.
The issue of Black on Black on violence is important however there is one glaring difference between the majority of such instances and the death of Trayvon Martin: Zimmerman was not charged with a crime until six weeks later after both social/new and traditional media picked up the case and a special prosecutor had been appointed by Florida's governor. As Jamelle Bouie wrote on The Daily Beast on July 15, " ... Martin's case had less to do with the identity of the shooter and everything to do with the appalling disinterest of the local police department."
Just like with the initial attempts to have George Zimmerman arrested and stand trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin, calls for George Zimmerman to be tried on federal charges of violating Trayvon Martin's civil rights have been made by the NACCP and Rev. Jesse Jackson. Speaking on the CNN program New Day on July 14, Rev. Jackson stated "There's a Trayvon in every town. That's why the Department of Justice has a role to play, to look at this pattern, because equal protection under the law remains elusive."
Benjamin Todd Jealous, executive director of the NAACP, said "We will pursue civil rights charges with the Department of Justice, we will continue to fight for the removal of Stand Your Ground laws in every state, and we will not rest until racial profiling in all its forms is outlawed."
The U.S. Justice Department has stated that they will look into the case to see if it is feasible to bring civil rights charges against Zimmerman. "Experienced federal prosecutors will determine whether the evidence reveals a prosecutable violation of any of the limited federal criminal civil rights statutes within our jurisdiction, and whether federal prosecution is appropriate in accordance with the Department's policy governing successive federal prosecution following a state trial," Dena W. Iverson, a Justice spokesperson, said in a statement released July 14.
Relying on federal intervention to correct wrongs that go unaddressed (or inflicted by) the states is a time-honored Civil Rights tactic that also comes as no surprise.
Beyond the legal and investigative routes and the time it takes for such matters to conclude however, there remains another unanswered question: how do we protect ourselves and our children from this happening again?
Bakari Kitwana's answer is blunt and to the point: " ... the takeaway message from the "not guilty" verdict is this: if police, law enforcement and by extension, self-appointed neighborhood watch vigilantes are authorized to kill your son or mine with impunity, then it is up to us to invoke our own justice — because today the country we call home has shown us again that we have no justice coming from anywhere else."
July 18, 2013
By Thandisizwe Chimurenga
LAWT Contributing Writer
More than 400 people from Southern, Central and Northern California converged on Corcoran State Prison on July 13 to show solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike throughout the state. An estimated 30,000 prisoners have been refusing their meals since July 8, resuming a hunger strike begun in 2011 over what they say are torturous conditions in some of the state prison's Security Housing Units (SHU).
Family members of prisoners, former prisoners and supporters congregated at Corcoran State Prison where an SHU currently holds close to 2,000 prisoners in solitary confinement. The Hunger Strike was initiated by prisoners in the SHU program at the Pelican Bay State Prison in Northern California near the Oregon border..
More than 6,000 prisoners throughout the state of California went on a hunger strike in the summer of 2011 to protest inhumane conditions in the state's prisons. Confinement in the SHU program, which has been labeled as a form of torture by various human rights organizations, means a person is confined to a cell by themselves, sometimes for decades, with no human contact with other prisoners, guards or correctional workers, or even family members during visits. The men on hunger strike say those conditions are designed to lead to their mental and physical breakdown and a hunger strike is the only weapon they have as prisoners to dramatize how depraved the conditions are inside the SHU programs.
On July 8, close to 100 people also demonstrated in solidarity with the Hunger Strikers in front of the Ronald Reagan State Office Building in downtown Los Angeles.
John Imani, a long-time Los Angeles activist, took part in the July 8 action even though he has no relatives or acquaintances currently being held in Pelican Bay or any of the three other state institutions that have SHU programs. "I was there to empathize with ... a whole class of humans," he said. "It isn't this or that person in 'solitary confinement' but all who face that inhumane form of societal retribution."
Other actions in support of the hunger strikers were held in Seattle, WA and as far away as Pennsylvania. Matt Graber, a local Philadelphia activist, helped coordinate publicity about a solidarity action organized by the Global Womens' Strike because, he said, "...What our society is doing ... there's people all over this country who have been held in solitary confinement for decades, and its inspiring to see so many people rising up and resisting torture such as this."
Graber agreed with hunger strikers that solitary confinement was torture because " ... human touch is so essential to life; I was listening to a radio program, a profile of one of the hunger strikers — his sister hadn't touched him since 1983, and that just seemed so inhumane — that people cannot touch their loved ones, that people have to go decades without human touch."
The July 8 action was organized in part by the Community Coalition for Self-Defense, "an initiative of the National Hood Alliance, which grew out of the Occupy Movement, that seeks to unify Black struggles in America," which it sees as being "fragmented on issues of dire concern to the Black community," said Bilal Ali, a founder of the group.
The Coalition, along with others, delivered a package containing a typed copy of the five core demands of the hunger strikers, which they say prison officials have reneged on during the 2011 Hunger Strike, to the Speaker of the California Assembly John Perez; California Attorney General Kamala Harris and Governor Jerry Brown. One of the primary demands is that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) abolish what it calls Gang Validation; a process where prisoners are identified as being a member of a prison gang and then placed in the SHU program. The strikers maintain that the only way out of the SHU program is to inform or "provide intelligence" on other gang members in the prisons, a process known as "debriefing."
Ostensibly to cut down on violence in the prisons and maintain safety, critics and supporters of the strikers say that removing suspected prison gang members from general population and placing them in solitary confinement has become a punitive issue for prisoners who have a political and activist orientation.
Forty-six year old Mutope Duguma (aka James Crawford), has been incarcerated in Pelican Bay since 1988 and he's been in the SHU program since 2001. Duguma was placed in the SHU because he was "validated" as a member of the Black Guerilla Family (BGF), a charge which he denies. "I was involved in gang life as a young man in South Los Angeles ... but I was never a member or associate of the BGF. I never even met a member of the BGF during my first decade in prison," said Duguma, who claims he was targeted for the SHU program because of his political activity; Duguma won a lawsuit against CDCR for keeping his mail from him on the basis that his political writings constituted "gang activity," according to the website Solitary Watch.
The strikers want an end to the long term solitary confinement as well as the debriefing policy which places so many men in the SHU program in the first place, as well as an expansion of programs and resources for the men who are held in the SHU program with no release date, as well as adequate and nutritious food since since their confinement also affects them physically.
Bilal Ali of the Community Coalition for Self Defense says that the group will hold additional actions in the future to continue to show solidarity with and raise awareness of the conditions of the Hunger Strikers.
"We organized families in the 2011 hunger strikes and we're doing this in solidarity because the strike was resumed because the CDCR reneged on their agreements with the prisoners to end these torturous conditions," said Ali. "We see this as a catalyst; genocide is being waged against the Black community here in America through the prison system. We can't sit idly by."
July 18, 2013
By PETE YOST
Associated Press
Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday called the killing of Trayvon Martin a "tragic, unnecessary shooting," and said the Justice Department will follow "the facts and the law" as it reviews evidence to see whether federal criminal charges are warranted.
In his first comments since the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Martin case, the attorney general said the 17-year-old's death provides an opportunity for the nation to speak honestly about complicated and emotionally charged issues.
He said the nation must not forgo an opportunity toward better understanding of one another.
On Sunday, the Justice Department said it is reviewing evidence in the case to determine whether criminal civil rights charges would be brought.
The department opened an investigation into Martin's death last year but stepped aside to allow the state prosecution to proceed.
Holder said, "We are ... mindful of the pain felt by our nation surrounding the tragic, unnecessary shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., last year." The attorney general's characterization of the killing drew strong applause from the audience at the 51st national convention of the Delta Sigma Theta, the nation's largest African-American sorority.
"Independent of the legal determination that will be made, I believe that this tragedy provides yet another opportunity for our nation to speak honestly about the complicated and emotionally charged issues that this case has raised," Holder said.
"We must not — as we have too often in the past — let this opportunity pass," he added.
"I hope that we will approach this necessarily difficult dialogue with the same dignity that those who have lost the most, Trayvon's parents, have demonstrated throughout the last year — and especially over the past few days," said Holder. "They suffered a pain that no parent should have to endure — and one that I, as a father, cannot begin to conceive."
The Justice Department says the criminal section of the agency's civil rights division, along with the FBI and federal prosecutors in Florida, are all continuing to evaluate the evidence generated during the federal investigation, plus evidence and testimony from the state trial.
The NAACP and others are calling on the Justice Department to file civil rights charges against Zimmerman. Thousands of demonstrators from across the country protested the jury's decision to clear Zimmerman in the shooting death of the unarmed black teenager.
Also on Monday, the White House said President Barack Obama won't involve himself in the Justice Department decision on whether to pursue civil rights charges against Zimmerman. White House spokesman Jay Carney said it would be inappropriate for Obama to express an opinion on how the department deals with Zimmerman.
Barbara Arnwine, president and executive director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, called the verdict "a travesty and miscarriage of justice" and urged the Justice Department to bring criminal civil rights charges against Zimmerman.


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The Polar Express 3D
The Polar Express, released in 2004, pushed the bounds of animation by using motion capture technology to transcribe actors' movements and gestures onto the digitally crafted models in the movie. The advancement of motion capture technology demonstrated in The Polar Express was pioneered by Sony Pictures Imageworks. Titled "Imagemotion," this motion capture system simultaneously records facial and body motions of multiple actors at once. It does this by using several motion capture cameras designed to provide 360 degrees of recording coverage.
To start, live actors' motions are digitally reordered and then applied to 3D models. The physical motion recording can be done via one of two methods: (1) the actors wear a bodysuit wired with complex sensors that detect their movements; (2) actors attach smaller singular sensors at pivotal points to capture the motion of those particular joints which are then translated into full-limb motion. These sensors send digital readings which are then imported into 3D animation programs. From there, the information is applied to character models by mapping recorded motion data onto key points defined in the 3D models.
There is a great deal of work that is involved in going from live captured data to its digital form. In many cases, if even one mistake is made recording the motions, the entire scene will need to be re-shot.
Check out the video below to learn more on how motion capture technology was used in the film and be sure to see it during its limited holiday engagement at the Digital Adventure Theater!
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Michigan justice tells staff she's not quitting amid rumors
Michigan Supreme Court Justice Hathaway tells judges, court staff she's not quitting
A spokeswoman for the Michigan Supreme Court says Justice Diane Hathaway has told colleagues that she's not quitting.
Marcia McBrien says Hathaway sent an email to court staff and other justices knocking down speculation that she's resigning.
Records show some properties were put in relatives' names while she and her husband were persuading a bank to allow a short sale on a home in Grosse Pointe Park. Chief Justice Robert Young Jr. has urged Hathaway to "clear the air" on the matter, but she won't comment.
Hathaway attorney Steve Fishman won't comment on reports that the FBI is looking at the transactions. He's said there's nothing "underhanded."
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Ok.. Like so many of us I am now taking a serious look at post production.
And like so many of us I am impressed by FCP and what they propose to have.
Up to this point I have been a PC guy. And RED, while cheap compared to similar cameras, is DAMN expensive for a single owner (Evin, I'm going to be writing you about this personally, with the hopes you can help me out with advice on a couple things).
So when selecting my capture/monitoring device, it's kind of important I can make use of my existing PC hardware and STILL be able to move to MAC when I feel the time is right.
The MOTU V3HD seems like a winning combo for me. We can go over the details later (And I am sure we will). Mike Curtis did a good job wth a fly by comparision, but I would like to take some time and really get into the guts of this since I know a lot of people are in my boat.
Here are the two main differences that separate them (There's are lots, but here are the big ones):
MOTU supports both PC (Premiere) and MAC (FCP) editing. AJA does not.
AJAIO supports a nice high-end codec (Pro-Rez) and V3HD does not (They support DVCProHD, which is still cool, but not as good)
Now of course if V3HD supported something like say... Cineform, then this would be a no brainer, but that has not happened yet.
Read up on these two items and let's talk about it.
If you make small features (And you are any good) then you know that sound is more important than picture (Sorry RED guys, but it's true). You can have a sucky picture and some dweeb will call it "Traffic" but if you have lousy sound, you're hosed. Mike and others say in this area MOTU SPANKS the AJA IO (Has something to do with MOTU being a SOUND company).
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October 29th, 2012 GTD Times Team - Staff ContributorsCategories | David Allen | Getting Things Done | Implementation | Inspiration | Interviews | Latest News
James Fallows of The Atlantic has posted highlights from his conversation with David Allen, about coping with the modern nightmare of email and all-hours connectedness.
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By James Fallows, Oct 24 2012, 10:40 PM ET
I know that you've laid out your message in your books and in seminars and recordings. Still, I'll ask you: What is the single main point you'd like people to remember again, gaining a feeling of control in their lives?
All the stuff that is coming in needs to be externalized. I don't know that I could get it any simpler than that. You need to capture the stuff that's potentially meaningful, you need to clarify what those things mean to you, and you need to keep a series of maps of the results of all of that so you can step back and see it from a larger perspective. That's the only choice: you're ultimately going to have a lot more to do than you can do, so the question is, do you want a half-empty or half-full life?
You can read the full post—highly recommended—here.


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By Mayo Clinic staffOriginal Article: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/polymyositis/DS00334
Polymyositis (pol-e-mi-o-SI-tis) is a persistent inflammatory muscle disease that causes weakness of the skeletal muscles, which control movement. Medically, polymyositis is classified as a chronic inflammatory myopathy — one of only three such diseases.
Polymyositis can occur at any age, but it mostly affects adults in their 30s, 40s or 50s. It's more common in blacks than in whites, and women are affected more often than men are. Polymyositis signs and symptoms usually develop gradually, over weeks or months.
Remissions — periods during which symptoms spontaneously disappear — are rare in polymyositis. However, treatment can improve your muscle strength and function.
Signs and symptoms of polymyositis appear gradually, so it may be difficult to pinpoint when they first started. They may also fluctuate from week to week or month to month.
Polymyositis signs and symptoms include:
- Progressive muscle weakness
- Difficulty swallowing (dysphagia)
- Difficulty speaking
- Mild joint or muscle tenderness
- Fatigue
- Shortness of breath
Polymyositis typically affects the muscles closest to the trunk, particularly those in your hips, thighs, shoulders, upper arms and neck. The weakness is symmetrical, meaning it involves muscles on both the left and right sides of your body.
The disease worsens over time. As muscle weakness progresses, you might find it difficult to climb stairs, rise from a seated position, lift objects or reach overhead.
When to see a doctor
If you develop signs and symptoms associated with polymyositis, see your doctor for an evaluation and diagnosis. If you've already been diagnosed with the condition, contact your doctor if new symptoms occur or if existing symptoms worsen.
The exact cause of polymyositis is unknown, but the disease shares many characteristics with autoimmune disorders, in which your immune system attacks normal body components. Normally, your immune system works to protect your healthy cells from attacks by foreign substances, such as bacteria and viruses. If you have polymyositis, an unknown cause may act as a trigger for your immune system to begin producing autoimmune antibodies (autoantibodies) that attack your body's own tissues. Many people with polymyositis show a detectable level of autoantibodies in their blood.
Possible complications of polymyositis include:
- Difficulty swallowing. If the muscles in your esophagus are affected, you may have problems swallowing (dysphagia), which in turn may cause weight loss and malnutrition.
- Aspiration pneumonia. Difficulty swallowing may also cause you to breathe food or liquids, including saliva, into your lungs (aspiration), which can lead to pneumonia.
- Breathing problems. If your chest muscles are affected by the disease, you may experience breathing problems, such as shortness of breath or, in severe cases, respiratory failure.
- Calcium deposits. Late in the disease, particularly if you've had the disease for a long time, deposits of calcium can occur in your muscles, skin and connective tissues (calcinosis).
Associated conditions
Although these are not complications, polymyositis is often associated with other conditions that may cause further complications of their own, or in combination with polymyositis symptoms. Associated conditions include:
- Raynaud's phenomenon. This is a condition in which your fingers, toes, cheeks, nose and ears initially turn pale when exposed to cold temperatures.
- Other connective tissue diseases. Other conditions, such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma and Sjogren's syndrome, can occur in combination with polymyositis.
- Cardiovascular disease. Polymyositis may cause the muscle of your heart to become inflamed (myocarditis). In a small number of people who have polymyositis, congestive heart failure and heart arrhythmias may develop.
- Lung disease. A condition called interstitial lung disease may occur with polymyositis. Interstitial lung disease refers to a group of disorders that cause scarring (fibrosis) of lung tissue, making lungs stiff and inelastic. Signs and symptoms include a dry cough and shortness of breath.
Concerns during pregnancy
Pregnancy may worsen signs and symptoms in women whose disease is active. Active polymyositis can also increase the risk of premature birth or stillbirth. If the disease is in remission, the risk isn't as great.
Preparing for your appointment
You'll probably first bring your symptoms to the attention of your family doctor, who may refer you to a rheumatologist — a doctor who specializes in the treatment of arthritis and other diseases of the joints, muscles and bone.
What you can do
When you go in to see your doctor, be sure to have a record of your symptoms. Although it may be difficult to pinpoint when symptoms started, try to estimate when you first noticed weakness, and which muscles have been affected. You may want to write a list that includes:
- Detailed descriptions of your symptoms, including which muscles are affected
- Information about medical problems you've had
- Information about the medical problems of your parents or siblings
- All the medications and dietary supplements you take
- Questions you want to ask the doctor
Prepare a list of questions ahead of time to help make the most of your limited time with your doctor. For polymyositis, some basic questions to ask your doctor include:
- What is likely causing my symptoms?
- Are there other possible causes for my symptoms?
- Are my symptoms likely to change over time?
- What kind of tests might I need? Are any special preparations required?
- Are treatments available for my condition? What treatments do you recommend?
- I have other medical conditions. How can I best manage them together?
- Do you have any brochures or other printed material that I can take with me? What websites do you recommend?
In addition to the questions that you've prepared to ask your doctor, don't hesitate to ask questions during your appointment.
What to expect from your doctor
Your doctor will likely ask you several questions, such as:
- When did you first notice muscle weakness?
- Did your condition develop gradually or did it come on suddenly?
- Are you easily fatigued during waking hours?
- What other symptoms are you experiencing?
- Does your condition limit your activities?
- Has anyone in your family ever been diagnosed with a disease or condition that affects the muscles?
- Are you currently taking any medications or dietary supplements?
- What, if anything, seems to improve your symptoms?
- What, if anything, appears to worsen your symptoms?
Tests and diagnosis
Diagnosis of polymyositis isn't always easy and can be a lengthy process. Even though the attempt to diagnose your condition may be frustrating, remember that an accurate diagnosis is necessary to receive appropriate treatment.
In addition to a thorough physical exam, your doctor will likely use other tests to confirm a diagnosis of polymyositis:
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A scanner creates cross-sectional images of your muscles from data generated by a powerful magnetic field and radio waves.
- Electromyography. A doctor with specialized training inserts a thin needle electrode through the skin into the muscle to be tested. Electrical activity is measured as you relax or tighten the muscle, and changes in the pattern of electrical activity can confirm a muscle disease. The doctor can determine the distribution of the disease by testing different muscles.
- Muscle biopsy. A small piece of muscle tissue is removed surgically for laboratory analysis. A muscle biopsy may reveal abnormalities in your muscles, such as inflammation, damage or infection. The tissue sample can also be examined for the presence of abnormal proteins and checked for enzyme deficiencies. In polymyositis, a muscle biopsy typically shows inflammation, dead muscle cells (necrosis), and degeneration and regeneration of muscle fibers.
- Blood tests. A blood test will let your doctor know if you have elevated levels of muscle enzymes, such as creatine kinase (CK) and aldolase. Increased CK and aldolase levels can indicate muscle damage. A blood test can also detect specific autoantibodies associated with different symptoms of polymyositis, which can help in determining the best medication and treatment.
Treatments and drugs
Although there's no cure for polymyositis, treatment can improve your muscle strength and function. The earlier treatment is started in the course of polymyositis, the more effective it is, leading to fewer complications. However, as with many conditions, no single approach is best; your doctor will tailor your treatment strategy based on your symptoms and how well they respond to therapy.
For most people, the first step in treatment for polymyositis is to take a corticosteroid medication. Usually for polymyositis, the chosen medication is prednisone.
Corticosteroids are medications that suppress your immune system, limiting the production of antibodies and reducing muscle inflammation, as well as improving muscle strength and function.
Your doctor may prescribe a very high dose to begin with, and then decrease it as your signs and symptoms improve. Improvement generally takes about two to four weeks, but you may take the medication for several months. Prolonged use of corticosteroids can have serious and wide-ranging side effects, which is why your doctor may gradually taper the dose of medication down to low levels.
Because of the potential for serious side effects, your doctor may recommend supplements to combat them, such as calcium and vitamin D, and may prescribe medications to help protect your bones.
Additional immunosuppressive therapies
If a corticosteroid medication doesn't seem to be working effectively in your case, as a secondary approach your doctor may recommend that you add or switch to another medication:
- Corticosteroid-sparing agents. When used in combination with a corticosteroid, a corticosteroid-sparing medication can decrease the dose and potential side effects of the corticosteroid. These medications include azathioprine (Azasan, Imuran) or methotrexate (Trexall, Methotrexate, Rheumatrex). Your doctor may prescribe azathioprine or methotrexate initially along with prednisone if your disease is very progressive or if you have complicating factors. Some doctors prescribe these medications as a first line treatment for people in whom corticosteroids aren't recommended.
- Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG). IVIG is a purified blood product that contains healthy antibodies from thousands of blood donors. The healthy antibodies in IVIG can block the damaging antibodies that attack muscle in polymyositis. This treatment is given as an infusion through a vein. The effects of IVIG are beneficial, but don't last very long. Repeat infusions every six to eight weeks are often necessary.
Other immunosuppressive medicine. Tacrolimus (Prograf) is a transplant-rejection drug that may work to inhibit the immune system. Tacrolimus is often used topically to treat dermatomyositis and other skin problems. When taken orally, it may be helpful in treating people who have polymyositis complicated by interstitial lung disease.
Immunosuppressants, such as cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan) and cyclosporine (Gengraf, Neoral, Sandimmune), may improve signs and symptoms of polymyositis and interstitial lung disease.
Biological therapies
If your case is severe and other treatment options have failed, your doctor may recommend one of these investigational medications as a third line approach to treating polymyositis:
- Rituximab (Rituxan) has been studied in small numbers of people with polymyositis and dermatomyositis and shown to improve muscle strength, lung involvement and skin rash.
- Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors, such as etanercept (Enbrel) and infliximab (Remicade), are medicines that target key proteins associated with inflammation.
However, there aren't many scientific studies to date about the effectiveness of these agents on polymyositis. If your doctor prescribes one of these medications, you'll be closely monitored for side effects. These medications can be expensive and, because they're experimental for treating polymyositis, may not be covered by insurance.
Other treatment approaches
Besides taking medication, your doctor may recommend additional therapies for polymyositis treatment, including:
- Physical therapy. A physical therapist can show you exercises to maintain and improve your strength and flexibility and advise an appropriate level of activity.
- Dietetic assessment. Later in polymyositis, chewing and swallowing can become more difficult. A registered dietitian can teach you how to prepare easy-to-eat foods.
- Speech therapy. If your swallowing muscles are weakened by polymyositis, speech therapy can help you learn how to compensate for those changes.
Coping and support
Living with a chronic autoimmune disease can make you wonder at times whether you're up to the challenge. To help you cope, try supplementing your medical care with the following suggestions:
- Know your illness. Read all you can about polymyositis and other muscle and autoimmune disorders. Talk to other people who have a similar condition. Don't be afraid to ask your doctor any questions that you may have concerning your illness, diagnosis or treatment plan.
- Be a part of your medical team. Consider yourself, your doctor and any other medical experts involved as a united front in the fight against your disease. Following the treatment plan you agreed to is vital. Keep your doctor updated on any new signs or symptoms you may experience.
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- Acknowledge your emotions. Denial, anger and frustration are normal feelings when you must deal with an illness. Things don't seem normal or fair and likely seem out of your control. Feelings of fear and isolation are common, so stay close to your family and friends. Try to maintain your daily routine as best you can and don't neglect doing those things you enjoy. Many people find support groups to be a helpful resource.
- NINDS polymyositis information page. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/polymyositis/polymyositis.htm. Accessed May 26, 2011.
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- Dalakas MC. Inflammatory disorders of muscle: Progress in polymyositis, dermatomyositis and inclusion body myositis. Current Opinion in Neurology. 2004;17:561.
- Miller ML. Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of adult dermatomyositis and polymyositis. http://www.uptodate.com/home/index.html. Accessed June 1, 2011.
- Di Martino SJ, et al. Newer therapeutic approaches: Inflammatory muscle disorders. Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America. 2006;32:121.
- Koski CL, et al. Intravenous immunoglobulin use for neurologic diseases. Journal of Infusion Nursing. 2006;29:S21.
- Baer AN, et al. Polymyositis & dermatomyositis. In: Imboden JB, et al. Current Rheumatology Diagnosis & Treatment. 2nd ed. New York, N.Y.: The McGraw-Hill Companies; 2007. http://www.accessmedicine.com/content.aspx?aid=2726184. Accessed June 6, 2011.
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- Miller ML, et al. Initial treatment of dermatomyositis and polymyositis in adults. http://www.uptodate.com/home/index.html. Accessed June 1, 2011.
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It's too early to assign blame — Internet addresses can easily be manipulated and the investigation could take weeks — but suspicion for Wednesday's shutdown quickly fell on North Korea, which has threatened Seoul and Washington with attack in recent days because of anger over U.N. sanctions imposed for its Feb. 12 nuclear test.
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