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Understanding CD4 Cells and CD4 Cell Tests
July 2013
The Basics
Your immune system protects your body by fighting germs and infections. White blood cells are an important part of your immune system. HIV infects and destroys a type of white blood cell called a CD4 cell (sometimes called a T-cell).
As the immune system loses CD4 cells, it becomes weaker and is less able to fight off germs. When it loses a large number of CD4 cells, people living with HIV (HIV+) become at risk of getting AIDS-related opportunistic infections (OIs), which are infections that can cause serious illness or death.
The number of CD4 cells you have gives a picture of the health of your immune system. A normal CD4 cell count is about 500 to 1,500 cells per cubic millimeter of blood (a cubic millimeter is a very small amount, about one drop). The number of CD4 cells a person has -- their "CD4 count" -- usually decreases as HIV disease progresses. Your CD4 cell count can help your health care provider tell whether your HIV disease is progressing, whether you should start HIV treatment, and whether the treatment you are taking is working well.
CD4 Count and HIV
Without HIV treatment, HIV infects and destroys more and more CD4 cells. As the CD4 count goes down, an HIV+ person becomes more likely to develop OIs and cancers.
CD4 Count and HIV Treatment
The US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) treatment guidelines now recommend treatment for all people living with HIV, no matter what their CD4 count.
The DHHS panel's recommendation to begin treatment with a CD4 count above 500 is a "moderately strong" recommendation based on expert opinion and not on data from clinical trials. The panel's recommendation to begin treatment with a CD4 count under 500 is based on the results of well-designed studies.
[Note: Because the panel's expert opinion is not based on results from randomized controlled trials, which are often considered the 'gold standard' for providing evidence, there is some debate about the DHHS panel's new recommendation to begin treatment with a CD4 count above 500. In other words, while some experts agree that the current level and quality of evidence supports treatment above 500, other experts do not.]
The DHHS treatment guidelines state:
Many people see their CD4 counts increase when they start effective HIV treatment. If the drugs succeed in slowing or stopping HIV, fewer new CD4 cells will be infected and your CD4 count may go up. However, your CD4 count can also go down again if you stop taking your HIV drugs correctly, or if your HIV becomes resistant to the drugs. Along with your viral load, your CD4 count is a very valuable tool for monitoring your HIV disease and how well your HIV drugs are working.
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Local librarians are on a crusade to keep teenagers reading with next week's Teen Read Week, a national literacy initiative.
Held every year during the third week in October, Teen Read Week aims to encourage teens to "Read for the Fun of it," by hosting activities and events geared to get teens motivated to read.
"People should be reading all through their life," said Dan Owens,
Owens and fellow librarians aren't picky about where or what teens read or even the format.
This year's theme is "Seek the Unknown at Your Library," which is meant to inspire young readers to pick up something new.
"They're encouraged to read other things," Owens explains. "Some teens are reading books other than 'Harry Potter.' " They're picking up Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' and works by [Albert] Camus."
"Our library clerk Shirles Johnson has encouraged young people to visit the library through activities such as the summer reading program, hosting a sock drive for area nursing homes, book drives for children in the hospital and coat drives for local homeless children," Thompson said. "Her thought was to get them working toward projects that help the community."
For Teen Read Week, Coastal Branch Library is inviting local teens to create a poster based on their favorite book. Paper and arts supplies are available at the library. All poster artists will be entered in a drawing for a Barnes & Noble gift certificate.
"It's important for teens to see other teens reading and to set an example for younger kids," Thompson said.
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The DeFuniak Springs Library, built in 1886, is the oldest continuously used library in the state.
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When the library first opened in July 1887, it had only a dozen or so books. Today, it has more than 50,000 items. Libraries aren't just book lenders, they can be a portal to the past.
"It's funny — there's a photograph of the library from 1891 and in front of the library is a bush about 3-feet high," Owens said. "It was an oak tree, and now, it's massive."
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YouTube to shut down, announce winner on April Fool's Day
Year after year, Google pulls the best pranks. It'll be tough for Maps or Gmail to top this tomorrow.
Thanks for all your great entries. YouTube finally has enough videos to begin selecting a winner. What do you think is the #bestvideo on YouTube?
We've been thrilled with all of the diverse, creative entries we've seen so far, and we can't wait to begin the process of selecting the best video. We'll be announcing the winner in 10 years.
Slow clap, YouTube. Slow, building clap.
Update: Apparently Google April Fool's 2013 product line is more extensive. Here's a bunch more:
And in honor of YouTube's shuttering, here are some of my favorite iMore videos over the years.
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YouTube to shut down, announce winner on April Fool's Day
This was a good video. I enjoyed seeing some of the video sensations on you tube. A great promotion to get people to load up their videos tonight. YouTube shutting down... Yeah Right!
If this really does happen there will probably be protests and utter chaos around the globe. All businesses will shut down tomorrow because all employees won't have cat videos to watch at work. Everyone barricade yourselves inside tomorrow the world might end...haha
I almost choked on my water reading it. Because it is funny and sadly true.
If nothing else, this freaked out my parents. But they're old and gullible. Nevertheless, props to the video Google. Well played.
YouTube won't shut down. But I did watch all those old videos, great stuff as always. We need more torture test videos for stuff again. How about the Incipio Atlas vs Seidio OBEX vs Otterbox Armor vs LifeProof?
Bahaha. I love how they got youtubers to comment on how they want to win.
For the cost of creating this video, Google could have kept Google Reader going another 5 years.
I just feel bad for the technician that gets assigned to review all the "Call Me Maybe" covers and also for whoever gets the task of reviewing all of the (insert every white chick that thinks she can sing) covers of Lana Del Ray songs.
-seriously, why does every young white chick with the slightest vocal talent insist on covering Lana Del Ray!!??!!?? This is definitaly a thing & it really needs to stop....even SHE can't sing her own songs well!!!
Let the games begin!
You have to give it to Google, even if you're not a fan of their products, they really go all out for there April Fools jokes. Pretty funny stuff here.
As I sat here and played the video, my wife kept looking over from the other side of the room with this weird look on her face. She could only hear the video, not see it. She had this look of WTF? Too funny.
Silly Google, tricks are for kids.
Ha ha got my daughter to believe it really happening she has been downloading all her and her friends videos she been at it for a few hours now
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Introducing the McBike—McDonald's New Bike-Friendly Takeout Container
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Yeah I'm a Laker fan. No I'm not one of those $#@!ing annoying bandwagon Laker fans who only roots for LA because Kobe Bryant plays for them. I sat through the years when Tony Campbell was our PG, Sedale Threatt played an integral role and Vlade Divac was the focus of the offense. I can vividly recall the 1st round matchup against Phoenix in 1993 when Charles Barkley had an offensive goaltending that wasn't called in the last 30 seconds of the 4th quarter of Game 5. If it had been the Lakers would've beaten the Suns and we would've never seen the Bulls beat them in the 1993 Finals. I hate those retarded bandwagon Bryant fans and their only use is in buying jerseys and other merchandise. I've been on board since the 86-87 season when I was 7 and I'm still here today.
I know a lot of you hate the Lakers more than satan, but $#@! it here's our thread. Unlike the other team threads, if you want to come here and post your dislike of the Purple and Gold feel free to do so. I have no problem listening to Mavs, Spurs and Rockets fans coming here to talk $#@! about my guys.
Tonight we knocked off a Rockets team who played their ass off. If The Black Mamba had decided to let Bynum do his thing against an undersized frontline, Bynum would've had the first 30/20 game of his career instead of having his first 20/20 game. I have respect for the Rockets fans out there. You're being asked to put an undersized frontline out there each night thanks to Herr Stern screwing you over. Those guys for Houston (Especially Scola) play their ass off and I respect them. They made tonight's game a dogfight for most of it, partially due to the Laker backcourt refusing to give Bynum the ball when he had position.


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Carly recalls happier holidays, Sam envisions Alexis in her mind and Robert returns to Port Charles to meet his granddaughter.
Jax has brought his gift for Morgan over to Carly's house. He explains that Lady Jane misses Jerry so he's going to spend the holidays with her. Morgan wants her to come here, but Carly says that won't work. Jax lets him open his gift early. When Morgan delights at the new gaming system, Jax promises Carly that she'll enjoy it as much as Morgan does. Carly thanks Jax for staying in Morgan's life and points out that he lost a lot this year. Jax tells her that no matter how much has changed since last Christmas he'll be thinking of her. Carly tears up and Jax tells her to concentrate on the son that she has in order to help deal with the one she lost.
Sonny has come home and busted Claudia looking at a DVD on her laptop. She quickly puts it away and tells him to respect her privacy. She covers by saying that her secrecy has something to do with the Christmas gift that she's getting him. Sonny notices that the tree is trimmed and insists that he's not celebrating this year! He sees the ornaments that Michael made and Claudia tells him that he's not mad at her, he's mad at the universe. To prove his point, Sonny smashes an ornament against a wall. Claudia tells him that she's sorry if she made things worse for him this year by putting up the tree. He says that Devlin broke the rules by trying to kill him in front of his own kid and adds that he doesn't believe that the crooked doc was working alone. Claudia reminds Sonny that Devlin paid with his life, but Sonny says that's not enough.
Back at Carly's house, Carly looks through some old ornaments and recalls a year when Sonny came over to hang stockings with Michael and Morgan. Tears stream down her face as she picks up the phone and tells Sonny that she needs to see him.
As soon as Sonny leaves home for Carly's house, Claudia goes back to watching the DVD. Jerry gives her a hint as to where the next DVD with a clue is. "It's hidden in the window of your soul," Jerry quips.
Matt and Patrick are at GH arguing over patients. Matt insists on taking Patrick's patients so that Patrick can start some holiday traditions with his new family. Patrick asks Matt why he's warm and fuzzy all of a sudden? Then he tells Matt to take the 26th off because he needs a best man. Matt asks if he's desperate and Patrick insists on an answer. Matt stalls by saying that he has plans with a six-pack and a large-screen TV that day. He adds that Patrick doesn't have to compensate for what Noah did. Patrick claims that's not what he's doing. He says that he has chosen a different path than their father and family means something to him. He says that Robin's an only child and he only has one brother. Fresh out of excuses, Matt accepts.
Anna is shocked to see Robert on Robin's doorstep. He insists that he's in remission and didn't bust out of the clinic in Switzerland. They start to argue and Robin can hear them from the hallway as she returns from walking Emma. She is thrilled to see him. Robert smacks Anna on the rump and says they were only playing 'catch up', not arguing. Then, he only has eyes for Emma and sits down so that he can hold her. He says that she is proof that he has done something right. He references his battle with cancer and says, "You, my darling, were definitely worth the fight." When he notices that both the women have teared up, he says that he survived the cancer and they need to lighten up! He tells them to call the doctors and they'll reassure them that he's in great shape now. They agree to take his word for it. Robert switches the conversation to the wedding and asks if there's any way he can help. Robin says that she has everything she needs.
Patrick comes home and Robert says that he's come to have that 'talk' with him before the wedding. Patrick takes it good naturedly. Anna whisks Patrick away so that Robert and Robin can have some time alone together. Robin says that she's really glad that he's here. He admits that he's at about 90% and that his appetite is back and the hair is on its way. Robin says that since he's doing so well would he walk her down the aisle?
Down in a pit somewhere outside of Port Charles, Sam is in bad shape. She is very tired, but hears Alexis's voice in her head urging her not to fall asleep because she'll freeze to death. Sam tells her that she doesn't like being her mother so why does she care? Alexis says that's not true and that she needs to save herself! "Get up and start moving," Sam hears in her head.
Jason meets Sasha on the waterfront and learns that Sam escaped when they were transporting her out of town. She says that she could've killed her, but is glad to use her instead. Jason surmises that Sasha will trade Sam's location for freedom. She says it's only a matter of time before her organization wants her dead, so she needs his help escaping them. She says that Sam was alive less than an hour ago and she can help him find her. As an act of good faith, she tells him that the Russians are starting to doubt coming to Port Charles and if he makes one or two good moves, they'll likely leave. Jason calls Bernie and orders him to transfer money to Sasha's account and before Sasha can tell him where Sam is, she is shot.
Carly lets Sonny in and thanks him for coming. He compliments her on her pretty tree and then Morgan comes out and stands before him. "Merry Christmas Dad," the little guy says. Sonny looks over at Carly and then back at his beautiful son with a big smile.
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Carly and Jax end up under the mistletoe at the same time.
Sam's time is running out quickly.
Robert and Luke recall some of their glory days.
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An Aiken Public Safety officer will join hundreds of bicyclists riding in the 2013 Police Unity Tour, which honors law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. The tour will end at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C., where Master Cpl. Sandy Rogers' name will be etched into a memorial wall.
Lt. Karl Odenthal will bike 250 miles over three days from Portsmouth, Va., to the nation's capitol beginning May 9. Before the trip, though, he needs to raise $2,000 to cover the entry fee. As of Wednesday night, he's raised $1,050.
To take part in the tour, a cyclist must have some tie to an officer killed in the line of duty. Odenthal said he was originally turned down when he registered in November for the tour.
"My first impression was, all I have to do is sign up and I'm in," he said. "Evidently, they only allow a certain number of riders in."
Tour officials allowed Odenthal on the waiting list, and he sent them a "passionate" email.
"I told them Sandy's story, and that I was her immediate supervisor, that I was there and how much it would mean to me to ride on her behalf," he said.
Rogers was gunned down on Jan. 28, 2012, while responding to a call about a suspicious vehicle in Eustis Park. She was the second Aiken Public Safety officer killed in the line of duty in as many months. Master Public Safety Officer Scotty Richardson was shot on Dec. 20, 2011, and died the next day. His name was placed on the memorial wall following last year's tour.
Tour officials met this weekend and added Odenthal to the tour. He found out Sunday night, which he said was significant because Monday was the anniversary of Rogers' death, and now he'll be riding in her honor.
According to the event's website, the inaugural tour was held in May 1997 with 18 riders. About 1,600 rode in last year's tour.
Participants must meet stringent health criteria and be able to maintain a certain pace for the trip.
"If one of the event organizers taps you on the shoulder and says, 'Hey, you're not cutting it,' they pull you out," Odenthal said. "There's a pace for this thing, and they can't wait on two riders."
Odenthal said he'll be biking to and from work and taking long rides on weekends to prepare for the 250-mile trek.
Following the tour, there will be a ceremony at the wall in Washington, D.C. Odenthal said members of Rogers' family will be there, as well as Aiken Public Safety's Honor Guard and officers who were working on Rogers' shift when she died.
Odenthal has set up a webpage for his fundraising campaign: www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/KarlOdenthal/police-unity-tour-viii-2013. On the webpage is a photo of him and Rogers.
"Sandy was one of the first officers I met," Odenthal said of when he came to Aiken Public Safety in October 1990. "I'd gone on to other assignments in the department and she stayed on the shift. We always maintained contact. For the last eight years, I'd been on shift with her. We started together and ended up coming back together."
Odenthal said one thing he'll remember about Rogers is her instincts. He recalled a disabled car an officer had seen on the side of the road.
"No big deal, no one was in it," he said, adding that Rogers later said she wanted to check on the vehicle.
"Instincts, something told her to go check on it," he said. "She goes by there and there's somebody breaking into the car – the guy's inside the car as she's checking on it. She just had a knack for it, and it was years of experience."
It's their friendship that Odenthal said he'll miss the most.
"The last thing I remember Sandy doing was laughing," he said. "She was laughing like crazy. We said something funny during roll call and she couldn't even sit in her chair straight, she was just straight back laughing."
In a photo submitted to the Aiken Standard, Odenthal is standing next to his bicycle in front of a Public Safety patrol car and holding a picture of Rogers. However, he is not visible from the shoulders up.
"The reason I had that picture taken like that is because I want it to be about Sandy," he said. "This isn't about me, it's about Sandy Rogers. I'm riding in her honor."
Teddy Kulmala covers the crime beat for the Aiken Standard. He is a graduate of Clemson University and hails from Williston.
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Glee Spoiler: Is Bram Done After Christmas or Will The Relationship Continue?
Fans of Brittany (Heather Morris) and Santana (Naya Rivera) wanted Britt's relationship with Sam (Chord Overstreet) to be over like five minutes before it started. The idea of Britt moving on so quickly after Santana broke up with her — and with a boy, no less — felt almost too hard to bear.
We've already watched Britt and Sam spend a good deal of time together during Glee's Season 4 Christmas episode together, and now it's looking like their relationship will continue even after that.
On December 7, Chord Overstreet tweeted:
Bout to shoot a fun little scene w @iqbaltheba and hemo— Chord Overstreet (@chordoverstreet) December 7, 2012
Uh-oh... Sounds like Sam and Britt were sent to the Principal? What exactly were they caught doing, anyway?
At the time, Glee was wrapping up filming for Season 4, Episode 11: "Sadie Hawkins," so it seems likely that the scene will take place during that episode.
It's sounding more and more like Britt and Sam's relationship won't fade immediately after Christmas. How much longer do you think Glee will keep these two as an item?
Source: Chord Overstreet on Twitter
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MarQo Patton (pronounced "Marco"), is a dynamic speaker, singer and motivator. MarQo graduated from Fisk University with honors in 2010. He holds a Masters degree in Education. He was a member of the Fisk Jubilee Singers (nominated for a Grammy Award) and, after graduation, committed two years of his life to teaching through Teach for America, a program designed to improve inner city schools. In 2012, he received the Rising Human Rights Advocate Award, which recognizes young advocates who demonstrate great potential for continuing their work in the field. Today, Patton teaches middle-school science and math at Smithson Craighead Academy in Nashville, Tenn. Come out and hear this powerful young man speak. You won't want to miss this opportunity!


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- The absolute configuration of the title molecule, [Fe(C5H5)(C38H34NP2)]·CHCl3, is R,Rp. The molecular structure is similar to the structure of the solvent-free compound [Fukuzawa, Yamamoto & Kikuchi (2007). J. Org. Chem. 72, 1514-1517], but some torsion angles about the P-Cphenyl bonds differ by up to 25°. The P atoms and the N atom have a distorted trigonal-pyramidal geometry. The chloroform solvate group donates a C-H...[pi] bond to the central benzene ring and is also involved in six intermolecular C-H...Cl contacts with H...Cl distances between 2.96 and 3.13 Å. Key indicators: single-crystal X-ray study; T = 163 K; mean σ(C–C) = 0.003 Å; R factor = 0.039; wR factor = 0.088; data-to-parameter ratio = 24.2.


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The Health Rights Clinic is a medical legal partnership operated in collaboration with the UM Miller School of Medicine. Students participating in the Health Rights Clinic represent multiple clients in different legal matters related to health. Under the guidance of Director JoNel Newman and Associate Director Melissa Swain, clinic students spend the academic year representing low income patients of the South Florida AIDS Network, Jackson Hospital and other medical partners.
Law students function as the client's primary advocate and conduct client intakes/ interviews, conduct legal research, file legal pleadings and legal documents, develop case strategies and theories, and provide representation in administrative hearings and court.
Representation is focused on the following priority areas:
Social Security/Public Benefits – Students provide legal services in Social Security and other public benefits cases. Students represent clients obtaining Medicaid and other insurance. Many students file appeals and/or appear in federal administrative court.
Advanced Directives – Students draft advance directives such as wills, living wills, health care surrogacy, pre-need guardianships and guardianships.
Immigration – Students represent health impaired clients in immigration related matters. Specifically, students file applications and regularly appear before the Department of Homeland Security on behalf of our clients seeking U.S. Citizenship or Legal Permanent Residency.
Veteran Benefits – Students supervised by faculty work with doctors, medical residents, social workers and attorneys to advocate for veteran's legal rights in light of medical scenarios. The Health Rights Clinic presently provides legal services on-site to veterans receiving health care at Operation Sacred Trust (OST). Read More.
Collaborate directly with medical professionals – UM Miller School of Medicine medical students, fellows, residents and psychiatrists – to evaluate cases and obtain evidence for clients.
Experience cross-training with medical residents in each other's disciplines – physicians teach at the law school and law students teach at the medical school; also medical students can take this clinic as a clinical rotation offering.
Work together as legal-medical team to review and examine relevant medical records, charts and (for example, termination of life prolonging treatments or loss of mental capacity).
Students develop lawyering skills as they conduct all aspects of the client's case including:
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Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation
Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation (CES) uses a cellphone-sized device that stimulates the cranium and brain with a current that cannot usually be sensed by the consumer (below four milliamps). No serious side effects have been reported. The FDA has recognized CES as a Class III device for treatment of depression, anxiety, and sleep disorders.
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A proceeding is pending for Class II status, focused on its use in people recovering from substance use conditions.
Studies and clinical experience also suggest benefits for:
- attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),
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- decreasing assaultive behavior.
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Although a prescription is required, CES can be used safely and conveniently in the home, without professional supervision. It can be used adjunctively with most other treatments.
Side Effects
Experts (Brown et al II) caution against the use of CES in pregnancy. Lactation seems not to be an issue. Differential effects on children remain to be tested. Persons with bipolar disorder need to be cautious, since use of CES could worsen the condition, as can also occur with other antidepressants. At a minimum, a mood stabilizer should be considered.
The lack of drug interactions, low incidence of side effects and suggestive findings in small studies require additional research attention and counsel responsible consumer use as the data are being developed.
Research Needed
MHA encourages additional research to determine whether the promise of CES can be fulfilled, without the serious side effects of large-current ECT, Transcranial Electrostimulation ("TES") or deep brain stimulation (higher-intensity forms of brain stimulation, not discussed in this outline). Future studies should target an understanding of the mechanisms or neurophysiology of both DC and AC methods of neuromodulation, as well as results for a broad range of mental health conditions, particularly depression, since most past studies of depression have been small and generally not double-blind. Efficacy with bipolar disorder has not been studied at all, although the anecdotal evidence is positive. A large number of suggested uses remain to be explored.
Promising, but not yet proven. But given minimal side effects, experimentation with CES is a reasonable choice if other treatments prove ineffective or are poorly tolerated.
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And now the union is extending its anti-MMA effforts to complaining that a local gay and lesbian community center is honoring the UFC.
The union often creates a fictitious anti-MMA organization that purports to do good, while their real intention is to unionize a casino chain, where the workers don't want to unionize. Thus this time the complaints are not coming from the United Allied Group of LGBTQQIA Patriots Against Violence and Cat Juggling, but rather from the union itself.
Yesenia Amaro from the Las Vegas Review Journal has the story.
Last spring, the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada recognized the UFC as its corporation of the year.
In a letter dated Sept. 16, the Culinary union told the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevadas Board of Directors that its alarmed that the Center is honoring the Ultimate Fighting Championship as the corporation of the year.
Not only are the owners of the UFC embroiled in a bitter labor dispute with the Culinary Union over casino properties, Station Casinos, which provides no benefits to domestic partners through their 2013 health plan, but the UFC has a history of tolerating offensive comments by fighters and company representatives, including anti-gay and misogynistic remarks, the letter says.
Ryan Marquardt, spokesman for the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada, said the UFC donated about $200,000 to the center in early 2012. The award by the center to the UFC was presented in late April or early May of this year.
The center will not reconsider rescinding its recognition of the UFC, he said Monday.
Raymond Wilmer, president of the centers board of directors, said in a statement that the partnership between the center and UFC is unlike any other joint effort they have.
From the outset of our partnership, the participation by UFC in the life of the center has been about more than just funding, he said. They have had an impressive presence at significant events, and they have ensured that this participation has been inclusive and has included the highest level of leadership of UFC. The center, in turn, has committed ourselves to supporting UFCs long-standing efforts to ensure that their operation is fully supportive of equality and the LGBT community.


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Google Chrome 7 started to support folder uploading, but not many people used this feature until Google Docs enabled it. "We've added folder upload via the new Upload menu in the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari. The existing folder structure is preserved on upload which means that folders within folders will also upload and become collections within collections," explained Google.
Firefox and Safari users will have to install a Java applet to upload folders. These browsers don't have native support for uploading folders, but the Java applet has an important advantage: you can upload both folders and files simultaneously.
Google replaced the uploading page with a more intuitive interface. Files and folders are uploaded to the selected collection and you can check the progress in a new panel at the bottom of the page. Files are displayed immediately after they are uploaded, so you can quickly share them or edit them.
You can also upload files using drag and drop in Chrome, Firefox and Safari. It's faster and much easier, especially if you want to upload some files from the desktop. All these features are slowly rolled out, so you may not see them yet.
Google released a basic Android app for Google Docs that lets you upload files, in addition to viewing and editing your documents. The application doesn't add many features that aren't available in the mobile web app: you can quickly find files, share them with the phone contacts and create documents from photos. "The Docs app also allows you to open documents directly from Gmail. You can also add a widget to your home screen for easy access to three core tasks: jumping to your starred documents, taking a photo to upload, or creating a new document with one tap," informs Google.
Google Spreadsheets now lets you upload images and add them to your sheets. "From the Insert menu, select Image... Then, choose an image file to upload into your spreadsheet. With this feature, you can upload an image already stored on your computer, search for an image online, or add personal photos directly from one of your Picasa Web Albums."
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@CurlingZone at the Brier by Gerry Geurts
The Tim Hortons Brier returns to Saskatoon for 2012, and this year presents us with a very intriguing field with two obvious favourites: Alberta's Kevin Koe, and Ontario's Glenn Howard. These teams, along with four others, could reach the playoffs and make some noise on the weekend.
Howard is 1-4 in the last 6 years in Brier finals, add an upset loss to Stoughton in the 2009 semifinals, and an overall 3-7 record in Brier Finals when including his games with brother Russ and you wonder how this stains his reputation on an elite team.
"Choker" is such a dirty word in sports, a title no one wants to be called. I wouldn't assign that to Howard now, but in his early days as skip they did lose some big draws they shouldn't have: two provincial finals after being a strong favourite (2004 to Mike Harris, 2005 to Wayne Middaugh) and nearly giving away a big lead when he finally won his first Ontario Tankard in 2006, again to Middaugh.
Jump to the 2006 Brier final, Howard as the class of the field only losing just one game in the round-robin, to give up a couple very bad early ends spotting Jean-Michel Menard with 4 stolen points to single-handedly hand over the game to the upstart Quebec team. If there was ever a definition of choking, I believe this would be it.
But in 2007, things changed for Howard. The last minute change prior to the final forcing Steve Bice into the lineup after Brent Laing left due to the birth of his child, likely forced Howard and team to focus more on the moment at hand, thus dispensing Middaugh again. After the win, the team walked into the Brier and dominated the field, losing only one round-robin game to Martin before slipping in the Page 1v2 game to Brad Gushue. Howard rebounded with a semifinal win over Jeff Stoughton and then took advantage of some youthful impatience to claim the Hamilton Brier trophy.
Howard went off to Worlds and posts one of the most dominant performances by a Canadian team, only losing a meaningless game to USA's Todd Birr late in the Round-Robin and claiming World Championship Gold.
Since this win though, Howard has struggled in finals, but I have a hard time considering that he has "choked". Choking implies being the favourite and outside of the 2010 Brier final against Kevin Koe, where Blake MacDonald stood on his head in the final to win the championship game, you can't say Howard has ever been the favourite.
In 2008 in Winnipeg, Martin dominated the week, the beginning of the Fit to Curl revolution was evident in the team of John Morris, Marc Kennedy and Ben Hebert, who defeated Howard three times to claim the title. Howard came out of the three-four game, defeating Simmons to get to the final, but held the hammer to start the game, and used it effectively to win.
2009 in Calgary, Martin was the host province favourite, and cruised through the week, starting every game with the hammer and going undefeated. Howard lost a tight Page 1v2 game to Martin, and then struggled in the semifinal, losing to Jeff Stoughton.
In 2011 in London, Stoughton was the week's best team, reaching the final and holding the hammer and best record. Howard had to defeat his arch-rival Martin in the Page 3v4 game and then Gushue in the Semifinal to get an opportunity at Stoughton. Problem was, only 1 team has ever won the Brier coming from the three-four game (Koe in 2010) and the effort required made him the strong underdog.
This is the year for Howard, and while it may seem like Kevin Koe could do it again to him, I don't hold a lot of merit in the reasons why. Howard has had yet another dominant season, while Koe has struggled to find consistency with his squad. Howard is sitting second on the CTRS and Order of Merit, winning two Grand Slam titles and reaching the Semifinals in the other, while Koe sits sixth overall on the CTRS without a Tour victory to his name.
Howard holds a dominant advantage over Koe, a 14-4 record over the Alberta skip since he stepped back into the house again in 2006, including a 5-1 record this season. Howard's confidence playing Koe is night and day different when compared to the other Wild Rose rock legend. If anyone has a right to feel snake-bitten, it's Koe who has also lost three Grand Slam finals to Howard, and five Grand Slam finals overall. In addition to his 2010 Brier title, Koe has the 2008 Canada Cup title to his credit as well.
The other factors I considered to come to this pick is the big-game experience of Wayne Middaugh at Third Stone and the change of dynamic this brings to the Team Howard lineup, and the game that will really matter will be Thursday evening, which should go a long way in identifying who will win this Brier. Winner here gets the hammer in the Page 1v2 game and likely in the final as well.
I'll pick Howard to win this one, and carry the all important hammer (and favourite tag) into the playoffs, and the Middaugh/Simmons matchup will be all the difference this time for Howard to prevail. Lock it in.
Finalist: Kevin Koe, Alberta
The question remains, can Kevin Koe get to the final? Outside of the other challengers, none have a lot of success against Koe, and you know he'll place high during the week. Give Koe the hammer against everyone else, and they're tough to beat.
Playoff Bound: Rob Fowler, Manitoba
My third pick will go to Manitoba's Rob Fowler, a hugely underrated team who wins a lot of games. Overshadowed by Jeff Stoughton and Mike McEwen, Fowler holds his own in the Grand Slams, rarely missing the playoffs. He has Howard's number to an extent as well, and I predict Fowler will jump ahead of the "other four" with a win over Howard in the Round-Robin.
Fourth Place: Brad Gushue, Newfoundland & Labrador
A strong team and they're likely the only of the "other four" I can see winning the whole event. Gushue has big game experience and put his team on his shoulders last year and got them into the Page 1v2 game. After a switch in November, the young front end of Adam Casey and Geoff Walker have gelled and the results on the season show this team is always dangerous.
Northern Ontario's Brad Jacobs and British Columbia's Jim Cotter are again on the brink. Jacobs has been playing well, I just wonder if they play these big teams enough to be able to beat them when it counts. Jim Cotter and his team of Kevin Folk, Tyrel Griffith and Rick Sawatsky finished the year strong, reaching the semifinals in the most recent Grand Slam event, and they'll be a team to watch this week.
Shooting for .500
Quebec's Robert Desjardins has been in contention in Quebec, losing several finals before breaking through at third with Francois Gagne last season. "Bob" has stepped back into the skipping shoes and finished the job this season and will be a team to be careful with here.
The Rest of the Field:
I'll rank the rest of the teams together, I can't see more than 4 wins out of any of them, unless one decides to go and beat all the other teams down here. Ice conditions are not what any of these teams are used to, and several surprises from normally strong representatives make predicting success a difficult proposition for these teams.
Team Saskatchewan and Scott Manners is a great feel-good story, but I hope the home crowd doesn't boo them late in the week when they're trying to scratch out a few extra wins. Bruce Korte would have likely been able to get into the .500 group, but missed two makeable shots to give Manners the opportunity to be the Cinderella darlings. On a side-note, when Saskatchewan is hosting the Brier, I'm not sure putting their provincials into a club facility is the best way to send a well-prepared team who might win the first Brier for Saskatchewan since 1982.
Jamie Koe and his Territories squad just don't play enough down south, he put a great run together with three friends and ran to the final in the Red Deer Classic, but I'm afraid he's showing up to the party lacking a lot of ammunition to work with.
Nova Scotia's Jamie Murphy, PEI's Mike Gaudet and New Brunswick's Terry Odishaw were all minor surprises out of their provinces, but again it's going to be a struggle for these teams.


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By Butch Morris
The Tea Party meeting is this Friday night! We haven't had one since October. I for one am looking forward to it.
The reason we have been off for the last nearly 3 months is because of the holidays in November and December. Not because of the presidential election. Even though that is a sad thing to a conservative and obviously to most Oklahomans. 70% of us voted for the other guy.
Which leads to the question, "Since Obama won why is the Tea Party still relevant?" Because someone has to be a watchdog. Someone has to rally the troops to send conservative messages to our congressmen to stay the course and fight the good fight. We can't give up to the assaults on our constitution. Because we are Patriots!
We should have a good program this Friday evening. our keynote speaker is Dwayne Thompson. If you recall, Dwayne ran for Dan Boren's congressional seat in the election. Dwayne is now a field rep for Markwayne Mullin, winner of that race. Dwayne is always an interesting speaker so I invite all to come and hear him.
The meeting is Friday evening. Dutch treat meal starts at 6 p.m. Meeting at 7 p.m. it all takes place at Molina's Restaurant here in beautiful Antlers, Oklahoma. See you there.


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Investigators with the Bryan Fire Department are trying to figure out what caused a fire in the rent-drop box of a local apartment complex.
That fire broke out at the Quail Hollow Apartments in the 3500 block of Plainsman Ln. in Bryan Monday, sometime between midnight and 6 a.m.
A representative with the department says seven to eight rent checks were destroyed, as well as one cash rent payment. Quail Hollow's management is working to resolve the payment problems. Investigators say they are considering arson as a possibility, and are looking for witnesses to come forward.
A firefighter on scene told News 3 that the damage was limited to the office, and that there is some light smoke damage to the building's interior.
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PILOT MOUNTAIN — Surry County's Middle School Battle of the Books competition opened Tuesday at Pilot Mountain Middle School with teams from Pilot Mountain, Gentry, Central Middle and Meadowview Middle squaring off to show their knowledge of literature.
Pilot Middle placed first in the event with Central Middle School in second, Gentry Middle was third and Meadowview finished fourth.
"This is a great competition," commented Battle of the Books Coordinator Donna Bledsoe. "They have to read all the books from our list as well as answer very specific questions. It's very competitive, but the kids really love reading. It's a great chance for them to be a role model for their peers."
She paraphrased Mortimer Jerome Adler's sentiment that the point of good books is not how many one can get through but how many can get through to a person.
"I believe this sums up this competition well," added Bledsoe. "The students all read 27 books and were able to recall details from each one in competition this morning. In the end, it is not about winning but about attaining a life-long love of reading and learning. Each of these students demonstrated great success today and showed not only the ability to compete but also to collaborate with their peers. The characteristics they demonstrated in order to compete this morning will be life skills that we help them achieve long into their future. We are very proud of each team."
Information supplied by the system indicates Pilot Mountain has won the district competition for five consecutive years. In 2010 and 2011, they also won the Region 7 competition. Pilot placed second at the state competition after a tiebreaker round for first place in 2010 and won the state in 2011. Regionals will be held at the Statesville Civic Center on April 22 at 9 a.m. for the Surry County Schools champion team.
"Rene Mosley, coach of Pilot Middle, has made winning Battle of the Books second nature," commented Bledsoe. "She continues to coach her teams to excellence among our district, region and the state."
Much of the reading and teams practicing began in November of 2012. Books on the local team's reading list include Airborn by Kenneth Oppei, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, The Nine Pound Hammer by John Claude Bemis, Storm Warriors by Elisa Carbone and White Fang by Jack London.
Pilot Mountain Middle team member J.T. Tarn has been involved with Battle of the Books for three years and said he still enjoys the competition. Tarn also plays football and is a wrestler.
"I started in my sixth-grade year," recalled Tarn. "I was the only sixth-grader on the team. It was an interesting experience. I really like reading though and I was in the Million Word Club in elementary school."
Students on the Pilot Middle team were Austin Burton, Anthony Fulp, Elena Heath, Abby Key, Nathaniel McGraw, Elizabeth Porter, Abigail Robertson, Katarina Sechrist, Nathan Sheets, J.T. Tarn, Cassidy Torrey and Jayne Willard. The Central Middle team members were Mckenzie Boyles, Emma Childress, Emma Hernandez, Amy Hinson, Polly Kreh, Olivia Lane, Ryan Martin, David Meyer, Sarryn Meyer, Katelynn Shinault, Lela Shinault and Teresa Vazquez.
The Gentry Middle team members were Karleigh Badgett, Citally Chaire, Sydni Coason, Carson Draughn, Emma Haynes, Kelly Hunsucker, Kaleb Hunter, Korrine McHone, Isaac Phipps, Allyni Tate, Brianna Voland and Grant Whittington. The Meadowview Middle School team was composed of Nidhi Borad, Maddy Boyer, Marcos Castillo, Aashton Day, Emily Edwards, Jonah Edwards, Jordan Edwards, Zion Greene, Vanessa Hernandez, Jake Lawson, Dakota Queen and Hannah Terrell.
Central Middle's team was coached by Lisa Crede, Emily Dollyhite and Tracey Poindexter. Mary Cowles, Tamara Osburn and Shannon Snow coached Gentry Middle's team. Amy Edwards coached Meadowview Middle School, and Rene Mosley was the coach for Pilot Mountain Middle. Dana Draughn and Janet Sutphin served as moderators. Other coordinators for the event included Bledsoe, Amber Flippen and Assistant Principal Dustin Webb.
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Dr. Debi Toporoff has an unusual story about why she decided to become a writer.
"I was trying to tame a bobcat in my backyard," said the Beech Island resident, "but I ended up taming a possum. We named him Roscoe, and then we started joking around and saying that maybe we ought to turn the experience into a children's book."
After thinking about it some more, Toporoff decided that writing about Roscoe's imaginary experiences was a good idea, and she ended up producing a series of children's books, including "Roscoe Goes To The Gym," "Roscoe Meets Gramps The Catfish" and "Roscoe Meets Nurse Quacker." She also has written books for teenagers and adults.
Toporoff had a large and colorful display of her books at the Local Author Gathering at the Nancy Carson Library on Edgefield Road on July 23.
"Roscoe is 3 or 4 years old now, and he still comes around," Toporoff said. "He's kind of cute. Did you know that after possums eat, they wash themselves like raccoons?" Among the other authors who participated in the Gathering were historian Wayne Anthony O'Bryant, Aiken Standard columnist Marti Healy and Dr. Maggie Thurmond Dorsey, who has written books about a boy whose father is a nurse.
The Gathering was designed "to give the public a chance to come and meet some of the local authors and find out about the different types of books they have written," said Barbara Walker, who is the library manager for the Nancy Carson facility.
"We had been doing an event for authors every year, but last year we decided to take a little break. It was getting to be too big because we had almost 40 authors, and that was too many for this room (where the Gathering and previous events were held). This year, the theme of our adult summer reading program is 'Groundbreaking Reads,' so we decided to do an author gathering. We have a little bit of everything here – children's books, adult fiction and history."
Twenty-two authors were invited to Gathering, and the library provided each of them a table on which they could display their books and a gift basket filled with a book light, candy and other items.
"I love it," Toporoff said.
Carol Harris of North Augusta came to the library with her nieces Cali Settles, 12, and Joyner Settles, 10, to check out some DVDs they wanted to watch. They also attended the Author Gathering.
"We walked around and we talked to the different authors," Harris said. "I know Mr. Wayne O'Bryant personally; he is a member of my church. I like books and I wanted some information about how to publish a book."
Also attending the Gathering was Gabrielle Merritt, 16. The Clearwater resident writes stories and poetry. She posts some of her work online on Wattpad (www.wattpad.com).
"I figured it would be good to meet other authors and poets and try to learn a few things," she said. "I thought that if I got up close and personal with some of the authors here, some of their success might rub off on me."
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My earliest childhood ambition (at least in response to the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?") was to become a paleontologist. This fascination with prehistory arose in part, as it must with many children, in response to some well chosen dinosaur toys. I learned to say and spell the names of the various species and staged mighty, improbable battles on plateaus made of sofa cushions. At some point, a field trip to the La Brea tar pits catalyzed my interest and I began to read whatever I could find not only about Mesozoic megacritters but also about the Pleistocene scene. I was particularly interested in the edge cases — misapprehensions such as "brontosaurus" and mysteries such as the Neanderthal/Cro-Magnon nexus.
Eventually, this obsession gave way to another (and then another, and then…). I never returned to it in a serious or specializing way, but I continue to feel the allure of prehistoric artifacts and the poorly understood cultures that produced them. Interpreting art historical objects unaccompanied by textual or verbal cues — interpreting them only in relation to site-specific material factors and explicitly speculative cultural models — has a way of infusing complex questions of methodology with simplicity, clarity, and humility.
I recently received a copy of the latest (8th) edition of Janson's History of Art and since I happened to have an earlier edition (4th) on hand, I took interest in what had changed in just shy of twenty years. The quantity of color photographs, like the price, has increased dramatically. The production values are better. The earlier text was Anthony Janson's adaptation of his father's famous work. In the preface, the son embraces Horst Janson's traditional historiography and (with a profession of sympathy if not regret) fends off the encroaching "new art history". In contrast, the new volume has been revised or rewritten by a committee of six specialists; after a score of years the vitality and value of the (by-now-not-so-) new art history is a settled matter.
The rise of more granular specializations and more contextually and semiotically sensitive interpretive systems in art history is apparent even in the way the authors have reorganized the book. The 4th edition divides the entire 20th century into four century-long chapters based on medium: painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography. The 8th addresses the 20th century chronologically and thematically with chapters on Modernism before the first world war, art between the wars, the post-war transition to postmodernism, and art since 1980. In the 4th, the Rococo and Neoclassicism are treated briefly as supplements, the former postfixing the Baroque and the latter prefixing Romanticism. In the 8th, each receives its own weighty chapter. Northern Renaissance art is handled in the 4th edition as an awkward exception to the humanistic drift of Italy's Renaissance. The 8th, in contrast, pays considerable attention to the north's rich formal, expressive, and technological innovations.
These differences speak to developments in the academic discipline. But the most striking difference between the earlier and later editions of Janson's survey is the handling of Prehistoric art. In the 4th edition, in the chapter called "Prehistoric and Ethnographic Art," Janson asserts boldly that
[T]he Old Stone Age gave way to new developments… except for a few particularly inhospitable areas where the Old Stone Age way of life continued because there was nothing to challenge or disturb it. The Bushmen of South Africa and the aborigines of Australia are– or were until very recently– the last remnants of this primeval phase of human development" (79).
Later in the chapter, he maintains that
"There are… a few human groups for whom the Old Stone Age lasted until the present day. Modern survivors of the Neolithic are far easier to find. They include all the so-called primitive societies of tropical Africa, the islands of the South Pacific, and the Americas…. The term 'ethnographic' … stands for a way of life that has passed through the Neolithic Revolution but shows no signs of evolving in the direction of the 'historic' civilizations" (86).
In the space of these twin claims, Janson moves smoothly between examples from Lascaux and Cernavoda on the one hand and examples of Ife work from Nigeria, an Oceanic mask, and Navajo sand painting… on pretty much the same hand.
The historical teleology and rigid cultural Darwinism of these claims seem crude and obtuse in retrospect. And since the conceit of the volume as a whole is to present a story of art motivated by this model of "progress", the remainder is tainted by reductionism. Drawing easy equivalences between prehistoric and non-European art (Plastered skulls from Jericho alongside Ife portrait heads? Really?) marks the 4th edition (of 1991) as a work whose argument and story are both best consigned to the early twentieth century. From the new 8th edition's chapter on Prehistoric art, this body of "ethnographic" material has been entirely and properly removed. Simple, clear, and humble.
Part of what makes the study of Prehistoric art in the early twenty-first century so different, so appealing, is the growing recognition that these undocumented cultures must be taken on their own terms with some expectation that the complexity of those terms might surprise us. Evidence, technology, and methodological rigor converge on this point.
With respect to evidence, nothing speaks more eloquently than the spelunker Jean-Marie Chauvet's discovery, in 1994, of startlingly naturalistic pictorial art in a cave complex in Ardèche. Radiometric dating places the older images within the complex at about 30,000 BC, approximately twice as old as the famous paintings of Lascaux.
The picture made by hand is like a fingerprint. Just as the latter is an index of the finger that left it, so a picture may be construed as a mindprint, an index of the choicemaking and values evident in the material practice of picture making. What can we make of that mind? We cannot safely assume, for example, that the lionesses depicted in the Chauvet Cave form a coherent group, that they are one picture rather than many, that they form a pride, that they're on the prowl, and so forth. Nothing we know justifies these interpretive interpolations. But we can observe, of one lioness or another, that the person who drew these had obviously looked quite carefully at animals of this kind in nature. The artist was not only someone strongly motivated to study them, but likewise someone driven to practice and develop the skill of making pictures of them. And the artist wanted those pictures not only to signify the lionesses but to look like them. But why? The time and labor implicit in this artistic achievement implies a supporting and sustaining culture that not only enabled the great expenditure of time and labor, but very likely joined the artist(s) in prizing the lionesses, and the pictures of lionesses, with some fervency.
The ivory Lion-Human sculpture, dating from about the same time as the Chauvet Cave paintings but recovered from the Stadel Cave in the Swabian Alps, tells a similar tale. Together, these cultural clues whisper a tantalizing, not quite indiscernible message about how the cultures that crafted them regarded themselves and regarded the Queen of Beasts.
It is, in fact, characteristic of paleolithic painting to give little attention to the human form and spectacular attention to the grand beasts of nature. Why this might be so has of course been the object of much speculation. Several decades back, it was fashionable to suppose that images of critters constituted a sort of hunting magic. The notion was that depicting an animal enabled the tribe to lay claim to it in advance of a hunt, a difficult undertaking in which any advantage was welcome. More careful attention to the kinds of animals, to the ways in which they're presented on the rock surfaces, to the kinds of subterranean spaces reached, and to the tools (mostly oil lamps) discovered there has turned scholarly opinion toward less simple, less obvious, and in many ways more evidentially grounded speculations. Among these, David Lewis-Williams's The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art is noteworthy for its rigor and plausibility in a domain of discourse riddled with uncertainty and unknown unknowns.
The human form is rare in paleolithic painting, but it is not entirely absent. Indeed, it plays a fascinating role in at least two cases. One, in the Chauvet Cave, gives us a more vivid sense of just who might've been making this art. The other, in the Lascaux Cave complex, offers what might be the earliest pictorial story with a human protagonist.
The Chauvet cave offers not only many generations of mimetic imagery, but also a number of surfaces that include spots and shapes probably made by spraying chewed-up tint from the artist's mouth. Several surfaces show handprints clustered among spots made this way, and one carries the effect to an extreme:
This display of splatters and hands raises any number of questions. Among these, perhaps the most notable is the one that Linda Nochlin asked in 1971: "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?"
We humans as a species are sexually dimorphic, which means that as a statistical matter, we come in two familiar shapes, male and female, with many overlapping characteristics and some distinctive ones. The female pelvis is generally suited to childbirth in ways the male pelvis is not. The male skull is, generally speaking, less rounded and somewhat lumpier. And so forth. Another such tendency appears in human hands– not always, but as a statistical tendency: the male hand typically has a ring finger somewhat longer than the index finger, while these are usually close to the same length in the female.
Look again at the photograph, and you'll soon recognize why students of prehistoric art now suspect that the first great women artists might well have been those who participated in painting the Chauvet complex! (Children were involved, too, as their undisturbed footprints demonstrate.)
Handprints are indexical, caused by the very thing they resemble. But the human form also appears more creatively and abstractly in what is perhaps the earliest tale of a superhero: Bird-Man.
Maybe he was a member or leader of the tribe. Maybe he was an imaginary figure– even a legendary one. Perhaps he was a man wearing a bird-like mask that matched the avian avatar atop his shamanesque staff. Or perhaps the artist envisioned him as a hybrid being, like the Lion-Human from the Stadel Cave.
Whatever the case, Bird-Man was clearly quite a mighty hero as he singlehandedly took on his fearsome competitor, the formidable bison. The lack of a background or groundline makes the scene spatially ambiguous, but this much is clear: Bird-Man and the bison have gone head to head and the former's toppling form suggests that we're witnessing in this scene the climactic moment of their encounter.
Bird-Man seems to throw back his head and release his staff and perhaps even to relinquish what appears to be a spear thrower. The menacing horns of the bison accuse the negative space surrounding Bird-Man's outstretched left arm, which suggests that his defense against their penetration has proven inadequate. Perhaps fatally gored, the valiant Bird-Man declines. He falters, but he has not failed, for the bison turns its head away to survey injuries of its own. One spear appears to pierce its belly, and another its flank. Loops of intestine seem to spill forth, to the bemusement of the wounded creature. Perhaps it, too, is fading, slain by the hand of Bird-Man in his last heroic act.
Drama. Conflict. Action. Pathos. Theme. The struggle of humankind to come to grips with the material circumstances that make a great horned beast seem at once intimidating and appetizing. A dose of magic or mythology and a dash of derring-do. Here, in a Paleolithic painting made well after the Chauvet Cave's reverent arrays but well before wedges in wet clay first make writing, humankind takes a stand.
Looking back into the mystery beyond history, there's so little we can tell. It's fundamentally paradoxical to be a historian of prehistoric art. But the more we look and the more carefully we think, the more this much becomes clear: whoever those people were, they're cousins not so distant, not so different. In fundamental ways, we are them and they are us. But the great gulf of ignorance that separates now from then defies navigation. Dimly we hear the music of their voice. But we can't make out the words.


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Despite having three fights left on his current contract, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez has signed a brand new eight-fight deal with the UFC.
UFC President Dana White announced Velasquez's contract extension with the organization following the UFC 157: "Rousey vs. Carmouche" pre-fight press conference on Thursday (Feb. 21, 2013), telling Ariel Helwani of MMA Fighting that the two-time heavyweight champion "deserved it."
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