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How DNA influences breast cancer risk
By opting for surgery to remove her breasts while they were still healthy, Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie joined a growing number of women who have used genetic testing to take control of their health.
Here are answers to some common questions about how DNA influences breast cancer risk and what women can do about it.
Question: What genes are involved in breast cancer?
Answer: The two primary ones are known as BRCA1 and BRCA2. Hundreds of variants of these genes have been found that make a woman - or a man - more likely to develop breast cancer. The mutations can increase one's lifetime risk of breast cancer from about 50 per cent to more than 85 per cent, said Rebecca Nagy, president of the United States National Society of Genetic Counselors.
In her essay in The New York Times, Jolie said her doctors believed the mutation found in her BRCA1 gene raised her chance of developing the disease to 87 per cent.
Scientists know of variants in other genes that also play a role in breast cancer, but these occur more rarely than the BRCA mutations, said Nagy, who works at Ohio State University's James Cancer Hospital in Columbus.
Q: How many people have these mutations?
A: Everyone has the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, but only about 1 in 600 women have variants known to increase the risk of breast cancer, said Ellen Matloff, director of cancer genetic counselling at the Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Connecticut.
The variants are more common in certain groups of people, including Jews from Europe, and are also linked to ovarian cancer in women. BRCA2 mutations, additionally, are associated with an increased risk of pancreatic cancer, Matloff said. Other cancers have also been linked to mutations in the two genes.
Q: Should I get tested to see if I have these mutations?
A: Not necessarily. At the Yale Cancer Center, genetic counsellors only recommend testing for people who have a strong family history of a type of cancer that is known to be linked to these genes: breast cancer before the age of 45, several family members with the disease on the same side of the family, breast cancer and ovarian or pancreatic cancer on the same side of the family, a family history of male breast cancer, or Jewish ancestry combined with even one case of breast or ovarian cancer in the family.
Matloff emphasised that most cases of breast and ovarian cancer are not related to these mutations.
Q: How does the test work?
A: Generally, a woman who is concerned about her cancer risk begins by consulting her GP and a genetic counsellor, who can examine her personal and family history to determine what tests might be useful. A genetic counsellor can also discuss the pros and cons of testing, including implications for other family members, Matloff said.
The test involves collecting a sample of blood or saliva and sending it to Myriad Genetics, a company that performs the analysis and can deliver a report on which variants you have and how much these variants increase your risk of various types of cancer.
However, Matloff warned that sometimes the test results are misinterpreted, with variants that are not known to cause cancer confused with variants that do.
"We've found that a lot of women who've had this surgery had their test results read incorrectly," she said.
Q: If the test says I have a high risk of breast cancer, should I have my breasts removed?
A: That is a very personal decision that patients should make in consultation with their families and doctors. Cosmetic factors and the availability other options - including heightened surveillance for early signs of disease or taking a drug such as tamoxifen, Matloff said - can come into play as a woman makes her decision.
Nagy said studies have estimated that at least 35 per cent of women who have a dangerous BRCA mutation decide to get the surgery when they are still healthy. Doing so can reduce their lifetime risk of breast cancer to less than 5 per cent.
Q: Why doesn't it reduce the risk to 0 per cent?
A: Even after a double mastectomy, some breast cells remain - and there is always a chance that cancer could develop in this tissue, Matloff said. However, a risk of less than 5 per cent is much lower than the 12 per cent to 13 per cent risk faced by a typical woman, she added.
Q: What is involved in a mastectomy?
A: All mastectomies involve removal of most of the breast tissue, but patients have options when deciding whether or how to have their breasts reconstructed, said Dr Maureen Chung, a surgeon and medical director of the Margie Petersen Breast Center at St John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California.
"The trend is to leave more and more behind," she said, noting that increasingly women are choosing to keep their skin, areolas and nipples intact for a better cosmetic outcome.
Breast reconstruction can take place when the breast tissue is removed or later, depending on the type of reconstruction a woman chooses, Chung said.
In Jolie's case, tissue expanders were put in place for a couple of months to create a pocket to accommodate breast implants.
Q: Are there any risks involved?
A: There is always a risk involved in any surgery, but generally speaking the procedure is very safe, Matloff said. You can live a healthy life without your breasts - and reconstructed breasts can look very good.
Q: What about having your ovaries and fallopian tubes removed?
A: This surgery is also routine but one consequence is that women who have it no longer have the estrogen produced by the ovaries; as a result, they go into a kind of early menopause.
However, a lot of women who have their ovaries removed are good candidates for hormone replacement therapy, Matloff said.
According to Nagy, about 70 per cent of women with dangerous BRCA mutations choose to have their ovaries removed eventually. The numbers are higher than for mastectomies because it is very difficult to screen for ovarian cancer.
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Associate Professor, Coordinator of the graduate online Coaching Education & Athlete Development program
Xavier University
Current and previous involvement with the NSCAA
I have been an NSCAA member since 1976 when I began my teaching and coaching career, and my very first article was published in the Soccer Journal on choosing a soccer camp in 1979, thanks to the urging of Dr. Tom Fleck. I was a member of the NSCAA Coaching Academy from 1985 – 1993, during which time I helped design the NSCAA's National Youth Diploma, served as the administrator for the Academy's non-residential programs. I've been a member of the Soccer Journal editorial board since 2006, and in 2008 received the NSCAA Youth Long-Term Achievement Award.
Coaching experience
I've just completed my 34th season as a head soccer coach, 17 at the collegiate level (12 women, 5 men) and 17 at the high school level (7 girls, 10 boys), currently the head girls' soccer coach at Seton High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. As a result of my high school and collegiate coaching, I was selected as the Ohio Scholastic Soccer Coaches Association Girls Division I
Private/Parochial School Coach of the Year in 2013, the Ohio Collegiate Soccer Coaches Association Coach of the Year in 1998 and 2000, and in 1988 and 1989 NAIA Regional Coach of the Year. Additionally, I severed as an assistant coach for the Pennsylvania Stoners in the ASL in 1979-1980; quite an experience.
As a result of a lifetime involvement in coaching and coaching education, I have been fortunate to have received the NSCAA Youth Long-Term Achievement award in 2006; the US Youth Soccer, Dr. Thomas Fleck Excellence in Youth Coaching Education in 2007, and a 2008 induction into the Lehigh Valley, PA Soccer Hall of Fame.
What other experiences in soccer, other sports and/or organizations would be important to your work as an NSCAA Board member?
I have been very fortunate to have had many wonderful opportunities to give back to the game largely due to NSCAA Past Presidents, Honor Award and NSCAA Hall of Famers, Dr. John McKeon (former NSCAA Executive Director and my college coach), and Dr. Tom Fleck.
As previously mentioned I coordinated the non-residential courses for the Academy which included curriculum development, staff training and selection, and program administration. In 1996 under the leadership of Dr. Tom Fleck, I was one of four others to develop the National Youth License for US Youth Soccer. This was one of the first child-centered coaching education programs in the world, and many of our concepts have become common-place within coaching and coaching education programs. I have also been a member of the Soccer Journal Editorial Board since 2006, and a USSF "A" Licensed coach since 1978.
From an administrative perspective, I have been a high school athletic director and physical education department chair, and a collegiate sports information director. Additionally, I've designed undergraduate curriculums in sport management at DeSales University and Xavier University, as well as graduate programs in sport administration, and the online coaching education and athlete development program both at Xavier.
Outside of my university responsibilities, I've served two terms (2005-2012) as a member of the Board of Directors for the National Council for the Accreditation of Coaching Education Programs. Additionally, in the Spring of 2016, I was recognized along with several others, as a founder and board member of the Urban Soccer Collaborative and Symposium at their 10-year anniversary.
What do you believe are your strengths that will make you an effective Board member of the NSCAA?
I believe my strengths come from 40 years of personal experience with the NSCAA, which has provided me an historical perspective of where we have been, while also allowing me to have a vision of where we need to go, and my graduate degree in Sport Administration provides the academic foundation to serve as an organization leader. I believe my experiences as a teacher, administrator, coaching educator, program developer, and researcher will contribute to my ability to work within the diversity of the organization and its many stakeholders.
Finally, my entire career has been dedicated to helping grow the game through publications, books and countless presentations and clinics. I am a product of this organization, and believe that, at this time, it is my responsibility to carry on the NSCAA legacy of Dr. John McKeon and Dr. Tom Fleck to whom I owe a great deal of gratitude.

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Ralph D. Hofelzer, 49, passed away suddenly, Monday, June 4, 2007 at Lakewood Hospital. He was a life long resident of Avon Lake. Ralph graduated from Avon Lake High School in 1977 and then attended Lorain County Community College. He worked as a machine operator at Welded Ring Products in Cleveland for 20 years. He was a Scout Master for Troop 300, enjoyed hunting, back packing, fishing and he tied flys. He attended St. Joseph Catholic Church in Avon Lake.
He is survived by his wife of 27 years, Sue M. (nee Ketterer); his two children, Melissa Hofelzer and Michael Hofelzer, both of Avon Lake; a grandson, Ian; his parents, Ralph L. and Joan R. (Schaefer) Hofelzer; his brothers, Russell Hofelzer of Avon Lake, Richard Hofelzer, out of town; and sister, Susan Johns of Marblehead.
He is preceded in death by his grandparents, with whom he spent much time, Mary and Irvin Schaefer.
Friends may call from 4 to 9 P.M., Thursday, June 7, 2007 at Busch Funeral Home, 163 Avon Belden Rd., Avon Lake. The mass of Christian burial will be at 10 A.M. Friday, June 8, 2007 at St. Joseph's Church with Father Timothy O'Conner officiating. For more information or to send a condolence go to www.buschfuneral.com


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PHARMACEUTICAL firm ProStrakan is snapping up a rival in a £230 million cash deal that will give it access to new products and boostits presence in some of Europe's biggest markets.
The Galashiels business is being backed by its Tokyo-based parent Kyowa Hakko Kirin (KHK) in the transaction to buy Archimedes Pharma.
Tom Stratford, ProStrakan chief executive, believes the acquisition will lead to further strong increases in revenue with the firm having previously announced a 20 per cent hike in turnover to £155m for 2013.
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Archimedes, which has its headquarters in Reading and a development facility in Nottingham as well as a presence across France, Germany and Spain, had itself recorded a 33 per cent rise in revenue to £41 million last year.
Mr Stratford said: "I actually think the businesses will be even stronger in a combined position. There is a great fit with our business and their business.
"It is very much a growth strategy. We see new brands, new people and growing revenue."
The main product produced by Archimedes is a nasal spray called PecFent which is used to help alleviate pain in cancer patients and has been used by NHS Scotland since 2011.
ProStrakan's own product range includes an anti-nausea patch for cancer sufferers called Sancuso.
Mr Stratford said the deal brings a lot of attractive intellectual property and patents.
He feels PecFent has a "great opportunity" ahead of it in terms of growing sales while there are plans to look at taking the Archimedes product line beyond Europe.
He said: "We'd definitely be potentially looking to the US but also towards Asia and Japan where our parent group is.
"I think there will be plenty of opportunity for some of those brands in those areas."
Alongside that Mr Stratford was keen to stress the additional scale of human resource for sales and marketing across Europe.
ProStrakan's workforce stands at about 300, with about one-third of those in the Scottish Borders. Archimedes has in the region of 160 staff.
Mr Stratford is confident that will give ProStrakan a strong base to build its operations on in the coming years.
He said: "The acquisition of Archimedes represents a rare opportunity to enhance the scale of our successful European operations by adding a strong portfolio of high-value medicines as well as further strengthening our teams in major European markets. That prepares us really well for the longer term future products and novel drugs that KHK has coming down the pipeline."
Among the drugs KHK is working on is a tablet to help Parkinson's patients with the symptoms of their disease and another product which involves antibodies designed to combat cancer.
Although the deal is being funded by KHK, Mr Stratford said it had been initiated and led by the Scottish company.
He admitted ProStrakan had been looking at deals for quite a while but started working seriously on putting together an offer for Archimedes in the past few months.
He said: "ProStrakan identified the opportunity, worked with our banking team and legal team here in the UK to run the process and complete. Obviously with close dialogue with our colleagues in Tokyo.
"It demonstrates a great trust and support from the parent company and also demonstrates that ProStrakan has earned that trust to give KHK the confidence to make such a big investment."
Lazard acted as financial advisor to KHK and ProStrakan with Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co the legal counsel.
KHK paid around £292m to buy ProStrakan, which had been listed on the stock exchange, in 2011.
The Archimedes owner, Danish private equity firm Novo A/S, has agreed to sell the business although the deal still has some minor regulatory hurdles in Germany to clear before being formally completed.


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Final Fantasy 15 sequels are planned, director Tetsuya Nomura has confirmed to Famitsu.com.
"In the trailer, there was a line that read 'A World of the Versus Epic,' which suggests that it will be part of an epic," said Nomura (translated by Siliconera). "While Final Fantasy XV will have one climax, as a story, we plan to continue it further."
And don't expect the wait for FFXV sequels to be as long as the wait for the first game.
"As for as how it will be released, we'll announce that later on; however, having you wait a long while for a next title isn't something we would desire," said Nomura.
He added: "Also, we've been exploring online compatibilities ever since the shift towards the next-generation hardware was decided."
Regarding the wait for FFXV, Nomura had the following message for fans.
"I deeply apologise for having you wait for so long. I hope that our latest announcement has been able to meet all of your expectations. From this point on, the quality will only be getting better. We plan on revealing more information at future large events such as the Tokyo Game Show, so keep a close eye on the upcoming evolution of Final Fantasy XV.
"There are many of you who feel that Japanese developers have fallen behind those from the West in the current generation. I believe that this title will show you otherwise for the next generation."
Final Fantasy 15 will be released for PS4 and Xbox One.
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My son is teething! We've tried it all, teething toys, hot & cold rags for him to naw on, teething tablets, teething strips, frozen food (waffles etc), literally everything and this child still continues to cry. I feel bad that he's hurting but what gets me is his teeth are barely breaking through and he's been teething for some weeks now, when will they make their appearance?
Baltic Sea Amber Teething Necklace. God's gift to Earth. Google it!!
Baby tylenol? Rub a little on his gums. Or baby oragel? use that WITH stuff for him to chew on warm&cold.
It really only is excruciating for them while the tooth is breaking the gum line. You should be good in a couple of days if it has started to poke through!
Soon. They can come up and recede back into the gums multiple times before they finally cut. Honestly, if he's in a ton of pain a little tylenol isn't going to hurt. Also have you tried a finger toothbrush? I bought one for my daughter and I just put it on and she'll sit in my lap just munching away forever. It's brilliant.
We give him tylenol when nothing else works and he seems like he's in a lot of pain but that doesn't even help :(
Let him use your finger as a chew toy.
That was a lifesaver with Dyl, but now that he has 4 teeth it hurts and so I need to find something else :P
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Fed stays the course; home prices, ADP jobs increase
Posted August 1, 2012
A busy week of economic reports started off on the right foot Tuesday, with the S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index showing an increase of 0.8% in May. This is the fourth consecutive monthly increase, and the trend begins to lend credibility to the fact that home prices may be on the mend around the country. This was well received for not only being positive, but for exceeding economists' expectations as well.
Wednesday's July ADP Jobs Report also managed to exceed economists' expectations by delivering 163,000 private sector jobs for the month. The market is poised to react to Friday's July Jobs Report as well.
Weekly Mortgage Applications were up again last week, although only slightly as the rise was 0.2% for the week ending July 27th. Refinances are once again driving the mortgage application train, now accounting for 81.2% of all transactions. Purchases fell 2.1% for the week.
Since the QE3 discussion has been at the center of many economic conversations recently, it's appropriate that we received Wednesday's Fed Statement which indicated that economic conditions will warrant the Fed to keep rates low through the end of 2014. According to the Fed, "The Committee will closely monitor incoming information on economic and financial developments and will provide additional accommodation as needed to promote a stronger economic recovery and sustained improvement in labor market conditions in a context of price stability." That statement reflects the majority position of the Fed, with their vote of 11-1 in favor of their monetary policy action which continued their trend line of thinking today.
Bond Market and Mortgage Rates have been relatively flat recently, although today we experienced a slight bond yield retreat following the Fed's announcement. We could expect market volatility around tomorrow's ECB announcement or Friday's Jobs report.


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So, what did you answer to that question? If it was, "Meh, that's not going to happen to me", think again. If it is, "I'm making backups", good for you. But how safe are your backups? Some say, one backup is no backup. This is especially true if you're just backing up to an external drive connected to your computer. Yes, it will safe your hide when the hard disk in your computer dies, but what if a bigger disaster happens? Of course, I wish no one to have their hard disks crash on them, let alone worse. However, what if your upstairs neighbour has a leak and it is right above your computer? Or what, heaven forbid, you have a fire?
In the past, I gave these questions some thought. I thought I had found the golden goose when I came up with this; buy two external disks, set them up both with Time Machine, and swap them on a regular basis, keeping one connected to the computer, the other at my parents' house. That way, even if both the computer itself and the primary backup drive (the one currently connected to the computer) dies, I still have the "offsite" backup. Well, in practice I think the offsite backup was maybe switched once, after which it grew old. Very old.
Now, I do have the solution, though. I use an online backup service. I chose Backblaze (full disclosure: this is an affiliate link, see further down in this post), because of recommendations from some podcasts I listen to (The Talkshow, Hypercritical and Build & Analyze when they still existed, and ATP). I haven't looked back since. It's only 5 USD per month per computer for unlimited backups, with no strings attached (except maybe that you can't backup drives containing Time Machine data, but that's more a technical issue than anything else). There's even a way around the one computer thing; just setup something like Carbon Copy Cloner on your other machines to make regular backups to the machine that is being backed up to Backblaze. Their Mac client software is really nice. It has that native feel; if you ever used badly ported software from other platforms, or software developed by someone that clearly is not an experienced Mac developer, I'm sure you know what I mean.
Something else I can recommend related to Backblaze is their blog. They share tremendously interesting stuff they have a unique position to acquire, because they have so many (consumer grade, which makes it relevant to you and me too) hard drives that are being pushed to the very limit. Don't worry, consumer grade doesn't mean your data is less secure, because they have all kinds of early warning systems to make sure bad hard drives don't screw with your data. Recommended reading: Seniors are the Kings of Data Backup, Hard Drive Temperature – Does It Matter?, Storage Pod 4.0: Direct Wire Drives – Faster, Simpler and Less Expensive and last but not least, What Hard Drive Should I Buy? (I just bought a Western Digital Red for my Drobo based on this).
So, after all that, I hope you will look into getting your data backed up, securely and off-site. By all means, do your own research and pick the one you like. But, if you like the above, consider using this link to get Backblaze one month for free. If you do, and you decide to get a paying subscription, I will get one month free as well. I hope you don't hate me for dropping an affiliate link at the end of this post without warning you up front, but I did not because I did not want to put you off from the post; I do genuinely believe this stuff is important.


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Whether you call them appetizers, hors d'oeuvres, canapés or whatever, they are the scrumptious little morsels served before the start of a full-course meal.
Appetizers can also function as the main course for a meal. Many times my wife and I have gone out to restaurants and just ordered three or four hors d'oeuvres instead of the usual entrée. This can also work at any of your cocktail or holiday parties.
Civil War group to meet Dec. 7
The Brunswick Civil War Round Table will meet Tuesday, Dec. 7, at Trinity United Methodist Church, 209 E. Nash St. in Southport, across from the Southport post office. Registration begins at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free.
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Get ready for strange things in the sky—a Full Beaver Moon; horns that never run empty and an ancient chariot racer holding a goat, plus two kids.
Yep, all this weird stuff in the sky and all we see is a random scattering of stars across the heavens.
Using a sky map as a treasure map you can reveal all the hidden stories of old and even see a ram with a fly buzzing around his tail.
Lisa Milligan, manger of the Leland Public Library, addressed the fall meeting of the Friends of the Leland Library (FOLL) on Nov. 4, presenting the current status of the library construction project and plans for the library during a planned closure period and the re-opening of the library in 2011.
Attended by about 30 members and guests of the FOLL, the meetings allowed Milligan to also mention she is appreciative of the support and concern patrons of the library have shown, once it was known there would be a temporary closure.
Giving market set for Nov. 21
Calabash Presbyterian Church on Georgetown Road in Calabash will host its annual Alternative Giving Market from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 20, and from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 21.
Buy a gift of a farm animal such as a yak or a goat or a flock of chickens to provide a renewable food supply, or help a child by giving them the chance they need in a third-world country.
In a world of turmoil and chaos, we want simple solutions. We want an ordered, peaceful life. This is especially true for those of us who have reached the pinnacle of middle age and are heading downhill, perhaps too quickly. Having already lived through and with crises, we are eager for stability. Opportunities for change are irksome to say the least and odious at our worst.
Nearly 500 students from Bolivia Elementary, Lincoln Elementary, Town Creek Elementary, Belville Elementary and Supply Elementary attended the 2010 4-H Life on the Farm program at Funston Farm in Winnabow on Sept. 21, 22, 24 and Oct. 6, 7 where a day in the classroom outdoors-style was accompanied by a hayride and tour of the farm owned by Wilbur and Mary Earp.
The tour educated students on crops and animals grown on the farm, which included swine, beef cattle, corn, soybeans, wheat and hay.
Universal Health Care/Brunswick co-hosts Edwin and Sara Ray's 70th wedding anniversary on Nov. 11. Mrs. Sara's home away from home, they worked side-by-side with her daughter Carol Hepler and managed to turn its gathering room into a room filled with special memories, music, family and friends.
Announcement is made of the forthcoming engagement of Amanda Varnam of Calabash and Aaron Gibson of Calabash. The bride-elect is the daughter of Olaf Dale Varnam and Linda McCumbee Parker of Supply. The prospective groom is the son of the late Timothy Gibson and Jeff and Christine Strasser of Shallotte. A May 7, 2011, wedding is planned at Windy Point.
Once again, youth gathered at the North Carolina State Fair to show off their top turkey hens they had raised during the North Carolina Youth Market Turkey Show program.
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Those things get so big, when the waters are laced with them they've been known to clog waterways. The sole solution is to sock it to 'em so hard that they won't last.
Hard to follow…At least it's not a breeding pair.
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Most of us, as kids, lived in a world colored by crayons, and for those of us fascinated by words and names, those assigned to the different hues in the big 64-crayon Crayola box were particularly evocative. I can still remember, as a little girl, being intrigued by such mysterious names as Burnt Sienna and Raw Umber.
These memories were reawakened by a communique from our inspired creative contributor Nephele, when she wrote:
"Perhaps one of the fondest childhood memories shared by many of us is that of opening up a fresh box of crayons. What a joy to the senses it was to experience that clean scent of wax and the beautiful sight of those colorful rows of pointed tips awaiting one's creative process. Adding to the delight was the fact that one's crayons bore wonderful individual names on their wrappers, such as "Periwinkle" and "Cadet Blue." With such names, how could a child not help but personify her crayon friends?
'Crayola' was synonymous with 'crayon' in my childhood days, as it pretty much is today. The bonus for today's children is that the Crayola company now includes, along with English, both French and Spanish language versions of their crayon names on the wrappers of each crayon–providing even more name choices for one's crayon companions!"
Here is Nephele's list of crayon names which might also make pleasing names, with a few additions by Nameberry:
ALMENDRA (Spanish, "Almond")
A couple of weeks ago, we looked at the favorite girls' names on a Nameberry Message Board thread–led by the lovely Beatrix, Penelope and Clementine–and now it's time to look over at the boys' side.
The most striking result is the strong showing for the good old traditional, timeless classics, with many votes for William, Henry, Charles, James, Edward, Joseph, George, and Thomas, and a resurgence of interest in Theodore (#2!–perhaps because of the popularity of nickname Theo), Frederick, and Peter. Does this mean that parents are still (or once again) looking at safer, more conservative choices for their sons than their daughters? Is it somehow a reflection of the cloudy economic climate?
Some smaller trends noted: a preponderance of names starting with the vowel E—Elliot (in its various spellings), Edward, Emmett, Everett, Ethan, Ezra, Elias; and the characteristic nameberry love of some quirkier choices, several not found in the Top 500 of the Social Security list–Gideon, Amos, Emmett, Dexter, Atticus, Asa, Harvey, Callum and Cullen–and some not even on the list at all–Dashiell, Archer, Malachy, Laszlo, Ambrose. It takes time for the rest of the world to catch up!
So here, as of today, are your top choices:
And then:
Followed by:
When Matthew McConaughey chose the name Levi for his son, he was, in a subtle way, naming the baby after himself. How so? Because in the New Testament, Matthew and Levi are two names for the same person.
There are many other such pairs of names with close connections that aren't immediately evident, whether they be different ethnic versions of the same name, double identities for the same person, having historic or literary ties, or as sharers of linguistic elements. Being aware of this can be a useful tool for baby namers seeking not-too-obviously linked twin or sibling names or, like McConaughey, another less egoey version of your or your spouse's name.
And of course it could also come in handy when looking for a more modern substitute namesake for a fustily-named family member. As much as you may have adored your Grandpa Roland, for example, you still might prefer the more dashing Orlando for your baby boy.
Here are a few examples, though of course there are countless other ethnic-switching possibilities out there:
AURORA has the same meaning as DAWN
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The number of food-related TV shows seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. Here are a few delicious viewing possibilities for April:
'Eat St.'
Hosted by comedian James Cunningham, this Cooking Channel series is all about street food, from Half Moon Bay's Sam's Chowder House to Miami's Mojo and Houston's Waffle Bus. The new season kicks off at 5 p.m. April 16 with San Francisco's Sanguchon, a Peruvian food truck whose Lomo Saltado and Barbacoa sandwiches are the reason we will not be ready for bikini season any time soon. Sam's chowdermobile pops up on the 23rd, and on the 30th, you'll glimpse an eggs-ceptional food truck from Portland, Ore., that offers up music-inspired breakfast fare. Yolk-O Ono, anyone? Details: 5 p.m. Tuesdays; www.cookingchanneltv.com/shows/eat-street.html.
'America's Best Bites'
This new foodie-travel series on the Cooking Channel takes host Natalie Forte on a cross-country search for delicious local secrets. First up on April 20: Forte heads for Louisville, Ky., where California chef Anthony Lamas gives empanadas and other Latin flavors the Southern comfort-food treatment. Details: 1:30 p.m. Saturdays on the Cooking Channel, www.americasbestbites.com.
'Chopped All-Stars'
A new season of Food Network's "Chopped All-Stars" kicks off April 7, but we're actually considerably more interested in what happens the week after when the "mega chef" competitors — who include San Francisco's Elizabeth Falkner and "Top Chef" winner Richard Blais — have to turn sea bass and cream soda into a palatable dish. Egad. Details: 9 p.m. Sundays, www.foodnetwork.com.
'Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives'
If you've been missing the spiky-haired charm of Santa Rosa chef Guy Fieri and his off-the-beaten path finds, his signature Food Network series returns at 10 p.m. April 22 with an episode devoted to tacos and tots (the potato kind, not the toddler variety). Details: 10 p.m. Mondays, www.foodnetwork.com.


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|I've climbed this route a number of times, but never found myself in the wide crack to the left. There are plenty of face holds to get to the 1st bolt. Maybe stem a bit on the left wall. Besides, who brings a #5 out to a sport area?
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"This acquisition by Manipal Hospitals also includes a new 200 bed tertiary care hospital which is presently under construction in a nearby location, which will be commissioned by last quarter of the financial year 2014-15," Manipal Health Enterprises (MHE) said in a statement.
The hospital will focus on a combination of wellness, prevention and curative care for both the domestic and an emerging overseas patient traffic into Malaysia from neighbouring countries, it added.
"This acquisition is a part of the company's evolving strategy to expand its footprint in India and in identified countries of Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific," MHE Executive Chairman Swaminathan Dandapani said.
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In light of some negative press surrounding the potency of marijuana edibles, members of the Colorado marijuana industry have launched a new campaign called First Time 5, which is aimed at educating the nugget novice how to consume cooked cannabis five measly milligrams of THC at a time.
Although state legislators recently imposed standards for marijuana edibles, limiting these products to 10 milligrams of THC per dose, the Council for Responsible Cannabis Regulation wants to encourage the beginner cannabis consumer to ease into his or her experience with edibles by splitting the recommended dosage in half.
"We sometimes hear from friends or friends of friends who are trying edibles for the first time and end up having a bit more than they find enjoyable," Steve Fox, executive director of the CRCC, told the Denver Westword, adding that the effects from eating cannabis are more intense than some people can handle.
Unfortunately, this can be a harsh lesson for the first time user who consumes an entire marijuana edible containing 20 to 100 milligrams of THC. "There's a big difference between inhaling and ingesting marijuana," said Fox. "So there's the possibility that they might consume a bit too much — and given the longer lasting effects of edibles, it might be unpleasant. Whereas, if they knew the more appropriate amount, it would probably be a more enjoyable experience."
This is apparently what happened to New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who in a recent piece about her experience with marijuana edibles entitled "Don't Harsh Our Mellow, Dude," she writes about an eight hour horror show inside a Colorado hotel room that clearly indicates that she consumed way too much. "As my paranoia deepened, I became convinced that I had died and no one was telling me," she wrote.
The First Time 5 campaign, according to Fox, hopes to counter some of the unsavory media coverage that has emerged in recent months, using pot edibles as the scapegoat in the death of a young Wyoming student and the murder of Kris Kirk. He says the goal of the Council for Responsible Cannabis Regulation is to put a more positive spin on marijuana edibles by teaching people how to use them properly.
"That way, other states can see what Colorado is doing, learn from it and maybe bring it to their state," said Fox. "Imagine if the alcohol industry were new and no one really understood the effects — and they thought doing five shots of vodka in a row made sense. We're just getting basic information to consumers so people will have a good impression of the product and a good experience when they visit Colorado."
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I've never been to any art class, I'm just drawing for myself, because I do enjoy it a lot.
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Salsa Red Beans 'n' Rice Recipe
Diane Harrison of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania up this quick side dish using canned kidney beans, brown rice and salsa. It's an ideal accompaniment to Mexican-style entrees but can also be served as a meatless main dish for a light meal. "This is a family favorite," relates Diane.
- 1 medium green pepper, chopped
- 1/4 cup chopped red onion
- 3 green onions, finely chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 5 cups cooked brown rice
- 1-1/4 cups salsa
- 1 can (16 ounces) kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1. In a large nonstick skillet, saute the green pepper, onions and garlic in oil until tender. Stir in the rice, salsa, beans and salt. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 2-3 minutes or until heated through. Yield: 8 servings.
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3/4 cup: 222 calories, 3g fat (0 saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 421mg sodium, 40g carbohydrate (3g sugars, 7g fiber), 7g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 2 starch, 1 vegetable, 1/2 fat.
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Airbus statistics appear to support Boeing's contentions that the average size of airliners is going to shrink. Smaller aircraft carry lower sticker prices and Airbus figures suggest Boeing's backlog comprises aircraft with fewer seats and lower average values than those in the Airbus order book. The U.S. manufacturer's sales ledger represents an average unit value of $94.11 million, compared with the European company's 9.3-percent-higher $102.86 million per aircraft figure, according to Airbus chief commercial officer John Leahy.
The disparity in average values reflects 139 firm orders for the new Airbus A380 flagship, in contrast to a diminishing requirement for Boeing 747s. Another factor is perhaps the traditionally strong market for smaller single-aisle 737s, which inevitably command lower unit prices and therefore dilute overall values. Nevertheless, for 2004 Airbus claimed a whopping 81-percent share of single-aisle orders from low-cost airlines for its competing A320 models.
For its part, Airbus has consistently argued that average aircraft size must increase if industry forecasts of greater travel demand are to be satisfied under continuing airport capacity constraints. Ironically, as indicated by Boeing's performance early this year, it is the U.S. manufacturer that has been selling larger aircraft. While the two manufacturers essentially took an even share of the 321 jetliners with 100-plus seats ordered up to May 10 this year, the $28.1 billion value of new business has been split 55:45 in favor of Boeing, reflecting the higher average aircraft capacity–and related price–involved in new busine


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Beckham loyalties divided
LA Galaxy midfielder David Beckham claims he cannot pick between Tottenham and Real Madrid in the Champions League, having played for both clubs.
Beckham spent four seasons at the Bernabeu before moving to America, while he also came close to signing a loan deal at White Hart Lane in January and trained with the side ahead of the new MLS season.
Now, the two clubs are set to face off in the Champions League quarter-finals, for the chance to play either Barcelona or Shakhtar Donetsk in the semis, but Beckham's loyalties are divided.
"I played for Real Madrid for four years and I've always said that I would support them,'' Beckham said. ''But I was also with Spurs, so there are mixed emotions because my granddad was a fan. I'm just going to enjoy the game."
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Anonymous Iranian Group Unveils Portrait of Sadat's Assassin
An unknown conservative group in northern Iran unveiled on Sunday a portrait of the assassin of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat.
A street named after the assassin in Tehran is a key sticking point in Iran-Egypt relations, reported the Iranian official news agency (IRNA).
The group, known as the Followers of (Prophet Mohammad's cousin) Imam Ali, displayed a giant portrait of Khaled Eslambouli with the caption "I killed the pharaoh of Egypt," said IRNA.
About 70 to 80 people, among them Muslim clerics, were present at the function, witnesses told the agency.
Before the ceremony, Mohammad Kiadehi, a member of the Sari City Council said, "We should not rename the street only for the purpose of normalization of ties with Egypt."
"If we do so, one day for normalization of ties with neighboring Iraq, we will have to agree with conditions set by her on renaming the streets named after martyrs of the (1980-1988 Iraqi-imposed) war," he said, adding, "we should not be affected by the dominating atmosphere."
Last Saturday, another hardline group threatened to take measures if Iranian officials renamed the street in Tehran.
"We will react if the name of martyr Khaled Islambouli is lifted" from the street, the group said.
The actions come nearly one month after an unexpected vote by the Tehran City Council to open an urgent debate on the issue, which has hampered efforts to improve Iran-Egypt ties, cut 22 years ago.
Members of the council were said to have agreed to a proposal to change the name of the street from Khaled Islambouli to either 'Intifada (popular Palestinian uprising) Martyrs' or 'Mohammad Ad Durra,' after a young Palestinian who was shot dead by Israeli troops while huddling beside his father for shelter from bullets in October.
Egyptian officials were also said to have welcomed the decision, calling the move "a positive step."
Tehran-Cairo ties have significantly warmed since June of last year when President Mohammad Khatami spoke over phone with his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak, the first such conversation by the presidents of the two countries since they broke ties in 1979 after Egypt signed the Camp David peace treaty with Israel.
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Construction of the "USS Gabrielle Giffords" is underway in Alabama.
Gabrielle Giffords etched her initials into the keel of the combat ship being built for the U.S. Navy.
It's the first naval vessel of its kind to be named after a living woman.
Giffords was chosen because of how far she's come since being wounded in an assassination attempt in Tucson in January 2011.
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How Luther found comfort
Posted By Ray Ortlund On January 18, 2013 @ 9:11 AM In Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Years after Luther stayed at the Castle Coburg during the Diet of Augsburg, a friend visited the room he had used as a study and found that Luther had written on the walls the thoughts that stabilized him day by day. They included:
"There are times when, for the sake of God's word, we must endure the hardship, anguish and persecution which the holy cross brings upon us. In such times we can rightfully bestir and strengthen ourselves with God's help in such a way that we can be bold, alert and cheerful, committing our cause to God's gracious and fatherly will."
"It would neither be good nor prudent to take matters into our own hands, because we could and would easily be defeated."
"If we perish, then Christ the Almighty Ruler of the world himself must suffer with us. Even if this cause [the Reformation] were to collapse, I would much rather be ruined with Christ than rule with Caesar."
"If this cause, this doctrine, be a mistaken one, why do we not recant? But if it be a righteous cause – and as true as God lives and will remain in eternity, it is such – why do we make lies out of God's many comforting, unchanging and eternal promises?"
"Even though we worry and fret so much, such needless anxiety will avail us nothing. We only plague and trouble ourselves and make matters all the worse. God wants us to look on him as our God and Father in Christ, to call upon him in every time of need and to be confident that he will provide for us."
"Though, if God so ordains, we ourselves might be destroyed for the sake of his word, the Almighty and Merciful God who in Christ has become our Father, will then be a kind and gracious father and guardian, defender and protector for our wives and children, our widows and orphans, and he will manage matters a thousand times better than we could if we were living."
"Thus we are ever firmly assured by God's word that after this wretched and fleeting existence, in which we are never safe for even one moment, there shall be an eternal and blessed life and kingdom."
"Let us be calmly confident in this cause which has to do with God's word. Christ, whose cause it is, will staunchly defend and uphold it against the cunning of the vile devil and the tyranny of the wicked and deceitful world. For those who confess him before this evil and adulterous generation and must suffer much thereby, Christ in turn will confess them before his heavenly Father and requite them for their suffering with the delights of eternity."
Gustav K. Wiencke, editor, Luther's Works, Volume 43: Devotional Writings II (Philadelphia, 1968), pages 171-177.
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SAO PAULO, Brazil (Oct. 31)
The Justice Ministry today rejected an appeal for reconsideration of its action banning the Brazilian Zionist Federation on the ground that it was conducting foreign political activities. Proposed amendments to the present law against foreign political activities were also turned down.
The order closing the Zionist center here affected the fund-raising campaigns for Palestine colonization and for assistance to Polish refugees. A new amended statute changing the character of the Zionist Federation is being urgently prepared.


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Seeing both infrared and visible light creates new opportunities for infrared cameras.Images from nightly news broadcasts are striking; stilted video of gray-green vehicles and soldiers moving stealthily through the desert night, or the sudden bloom of an explosion that whites out the screen as a laser-guided missile finds its target. To most people, these are the images that define what they think of as infrared (IR) technology. Based on near-IR image intensifiers and long-wave IR cameras, night vision systems and thermal imagers have changed the way warfare is waged.
As with many other technologies that were developed primarily for the military, IR camera technology is now being used in more mainstream applications as well. The advent of uncooled detector technology is a main reason for the technology's proliferation into areas such as security surveillance, fire fighting, and vehicle collision avoidance.
New, uncooled IR detectors are lighter, cheaper, less complex, and consume less power than their predecessors, which makes them more feasible for common use. Gone are the heavy, high-current-consuming thermo-electric coolers, and the result is IR cameras that are nearly equivalent to visible-spectrum cameras in ease-of-use, size, and weight.
Infra-red detectorsIn the IR-camera community, the term "uncooled" is usually associated with long-wavelength-sensitive cameras based on detector arrays composed of bolometerselements that undergo a resistance change in response to absorbed radiation. However, in addition to bolometers, there are other technologies for uncooled IR detectors, such as photodiodes, which can be fabricated from a variety of semiconductor materials. Collectively, these materials provide sensitivity over a broad range of wavelengths.
For a given application, the appropriate detector technology is determined by a host of factors, such as the amount of ambient light, the temperature of the object or area of interest, and environmental factors such as smoke, fog, or dense foliage. Long wavelength (>6 µm) detectors made of arrays of titanium oxide or vanadium oxide micro-bolometers, for example, can see through dense smoke or fog, which makes them particularly useful in fire-fighting and collision-avoidance schemes.
This versatility extends into the telecom, biomedical, and agriculture arenas, which require sensitivity to wavelengths in the near-IR (NIR, 1-3 µm). Since these applications tend to have a low level of IR light, a single detector array with the ability to simultaneously image visible light and NIR (i.e., multi-spectral imaging) can offer better images without the need for additional image enhancement.
|Images of an identical scene taken with a) a conventional visible-light camera, b) a NIR-only camera, and c) a VisGaAs camera. In (a), the visible-light camera clearly shows the projection of the Google homepage, but there is no indication that the soldering iron tip is hot. In (b), the standard InGaAs camera shows heat emanating from the soldering iron tip against what appears to be a blank screen due to the inability of InGaAs to detect visible wavelengths. In (c) the VisGaAs camera reveals the heat of the soldering iron tip as well as the projected Google image on the screen, thus demonstrating the multi-spectral response of the VisGaAs detector array.
Dual capabilitiesNear-IR cameras are available based on any of several technologies, but focal plane arrays of indium-gallium-arsenide (InGaAs) photodetectors offer a direct, high-speed response, which results in significant advantages in quantum efficiency, dynamic range, and cost. But the typical responsivity of InGaAs drops off at around 0.9 µm, which is well above the visible spectrum. Indigo Systems, Goleta, Calif., which recently merged with FLIR Systems, Inc., Portland, Ore., has developed a multi-spectrum InGaAs detector technology, VisGaAs, which shows direct responsivity in both the near-IR and visible spectra, down to wavelengths as short as 600 nm. According to Austin Richards, Indigo research scientist, while the technical impact of VisGaAs won't be fully understood for some time, he expects to see initial application of VisGaAs technology in such areas as through-wafer IC inspection, chemical imaging, fiber-optic spectrometry, and laser designators for weapons targeting systems.
Fabrication of the VisGaAs detector array, which begins with standard InGaAs material, includes proprietary processing methods that are the key to the broadened responsivity spectrum. Ted Hoelter, Director of Systems Engineering at Indigo, characterizes the process as being complementary to that used to produce conventional lead-antimonide detectors.
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Collision avoidance initiatives based on IR sensors are in the works at several major automakers. Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Mich., for example, is featuring "Active Night Vision" based on IR detection in their S2RV (Smart Safe Research Vehicle) concept SUV. In the S2RV, an infrared sensor system mounted above the rear-view mirror is able to "see" objects further out than with normal high-beam headlights. The infrared imager views the scene ahead of the car and projects a real-time image onto a heads-up display on the dashboard. Toyota Motor Corp., Torrance, Calif., offers an alternative system called "Night View" on select 2004 Lexus models, in which NIR light is projected from lamps located in the front bumper. The reflected NIR radiation from oncoming objects is then detected by a CCD camera, processed, and projected onto the lower half of the windshield, in front of the driver. The resulting image enhancement affords the driver a forward view nearly four times the range of conventional low beam headlights.
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Integrated packagingTo expedite the testing and development of VisGaAs, its focal plane array was designed and constructed with the same form factor as that of Indigo's commercially available Phoenix camera system. In the Phoenix system, the imaging optics direct incoming radiation from the observed scene onto a 320 x 256 array of detectors located in the focal plane of the optics. Front-end electronics, (i.e., the readout IC), digitize the output of the detectors and interface to the back-end video electronics, which prepare the signals to be displayed. Once digitized, sophisticated signal conditioning is performed, which includes non-uniformity correction, noise-cancellation, and the elimination of bad pixels through signal interpolation.
The combination of the focal plane array and the readout IC substantially impacts the camera's performance. Due to the high fill factor and large number of electrical connections (>160,000) associated with the plane array, conventional wire bonding cannot be used to interconnect the two die. Instead, a variation of ball-grid array (BGA) technology is used wherein the BGA technology employs high-density indium solder bumps and a focal plane array with coplanar contacts that enable direct bonding to the readout IC.
Performance trialBut the question remains, how well does this camera perform? Typically, thermal imaging tends to provide a binary view of the world, with only modest gray-scale response. VisGaAs, on the other hand, provides the user with a view that more closely resembles the visible world. Case in point, the simple imaging demonstration of a hot soldering iron and a video screen in the attached photos and caption illustrate how the response of VisGaAs detectors bridges that of conventional visible light detectors and standard InGaAs detectors. Critical camera requirements include high per-pixel sensitivity, pixel-to-pixel uniformity, and high dynamic range to avoid blooming and washed-out areas from hot spots while still seeing cooler areas.
What's next for VisGaAs?Further development of VisGaAs is expected to yield improved performance. An enhanced anti-reflection coating, designed to cover the broader spectral range, and an optimized lens are being developed and it is hoped that future VisGaAs focal plane arrays can be made to show further enhancement in the shorter wavelengths, perhaps even extending into the ultra-violet.
According to Richards, VisGaAs offers the first truly multi-spectral camera with responsivity across the entire visible and NIR bands, and sees near-term application in high-temperature thermography and wafer inspection as just the beginning.
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A repeat con man is headed back to prison for running a $500,000 investment scam that targeted owners of missing pets.
Between June 2007 and January 2010, Eric Stein sold distributorships of his "Return-A-Pet" business, a service that purportedly recovered missing pets using traceable ID tags. Dozens of investors paid between $5,000 and $50,000 each for these distributorships, only to realize that the business was a sham when Stein failed to deliver the promised pet tags and marketing materials.
The phony entrepreneur was arrested in January, and pled guilty to two counts of fraud. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum sentenced him to five years and three months in prison, and ordered him to return $528,000 to his victims.
Stein should feel right at home behind bars—he perpetrated his most recent fraud while on supervised release for an earlier $34 million investment scam. In that scheme, he convinced victims to invest in late-night television commercials for bogus products including water-filled dumbbells and "Xmas Tree Alarm" smoke detectors. He was sentenced to eight years in prison on 73 charges including securities fraud and money laundering.
"It was not Eric Stein's first investment fraud scheme," said Manhattan U.S. attorney Preet Bharara, according to the Wall Street Journal, "but with today's sentence, it will hopefully be his last."


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New Delhi Attack: The Victim's Story
Krishna Pokharel, Saurabh Chaturvedi, Vibhuti Agarwal, Tripti Lahiri • Wall Street Journal
A profile of the 23-year-old woman who was savagely raped on a private bus as it circled New Delhi.
The two met at Select Citywalk, a trendy mall where New Delhi's 20-somethings gather to spend pocket change and enjoy a small taste of the glamour promised by India's economic rise. The young woman—her family's nickname for her was "Bitiya," which means daughter—admired a long coat in a shop window, her friend said in an interview. He thought he would like to buy it for her later. Then, they took in a movie, "Life of Pi," sitting in the same seats where, on an earlier visit, they had watched "Gulliver's Travels" together. A few hours later, the pair were dumped, naked and bleeding, from a private bus along a highway. Both had been viciously attacked with an iron rod, according to police, and the young woman so violently raped that she died two weeks later, on Dec. 29.
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Into the Unknown
David Roberts • National Geographic
In 1912, 300 miles deep on a trek into the uncharted Antarctic wilderness, Douglas Mawson lost most of his crew and supplies. The story of how he made it back.
Something was wrong with Mertz. He was rapidly losing strength. Too weak to move on January 2, he could manage only five miles the next day before giving up, forcing Mawson to pitch the tent. In disbelief that his fingers had been frostbitten, Mertz surprised Mawson by biting off the tip of one. Mawson knew that their only hope was to keep moving, but on January 5, Mertz refused. It would be suicide, he said. Though racked with pain himself, Mawson persuaded Mertz to ride the sledge. Summoning extraordinary powers, Mawson pulled the terrible load by himself for two and a half miles. In his diary that night, he wrote, "If he cannot go on 8 or 10 m[iles] a day, in a day or two we are doomed. I could pull through myself with the provisions at hand but I cannot leave him."
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A Two-Year Travelogue from Hell
Christoph Reuter • Der Spiegel
After years of on-the-ground reporting, a journalist reflects on the war in Syria and its mounting toll.
This is also a story of loose ends. The people with whom it begins, in the summer of 2011, are almost all dead or missing. Some have taken their place, and some of those are now dead, too. Others have become hardened and obsessed with revenge. Still others have transformed themselves: Interior decorators have become guerilla commanders and electricians are now mayors. They are doing things they have never learned how to do, building a new system even before the old one has been overthrown.
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'Disturbing' & 'Misleading'
Steve Coll • The New York Review of Books
On truth and torture in Zero Dark Thirty, a film about finding Osama bin Laden.
It is not unusual for filmmakers to try to inject authenticity into a movie's first frames by flashing onscreen words such as "based on real events." Yet the language chosen by the makers of Zero Dark Thirty to preface their film about events leading to the death of Osama bin Laden is distinctively journalistic: "Based on Firsthand Accounts of Actual Events." As those words fade, "September 11, 2001" appears against a black screen and we hear genuine emergency calls made by victims of al-Qaeda's attack on the World Trade Center. One caller describes flames spreading around her and says that she is "burning up"; she pleads against death and then her voice disappears. Before any actor speaks a single fictional line, then, Zero Dark Thirty makes two choices: it aligns its methods with those of journalists and historians, and it appropriates as drama what remains the most undigested trauma in American national life during the last several decades.
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In the Time of Cholera
Jonathan M. Katz • Foreign Policy
The U.N.'s role in creating an epidemic in Haiti.
By weekend's end, 200 people were dead. The cameras were back on Haiti. Brian Williams set the tone on NBC: "It's what all of us worried about when we arrived in Haiti just hours after the quake … beyond the death toll, the inevitable spread of disease. Now it's happening in Haiti, an outbreak of cholera in that nation struggling every day, still, just to survive." But the narrative didn't make sense. If cholera was the inevitable result of the earthquake, centered 15 miles southwest of the capital, why had the first concentration of cases appeared in the countryside, some 45 miles to the north? And why had it taken nine months to appear?
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A headteacher at a special school has been awarded an OBE for services to education.
Julie Mudd – who has worked at Ivel Valley School and the former Sunnyside School in Biggleswade all her working life – was named in the New Year's Honours List 2013.
Julie, who lives in Potton, will attend a ceremony at Buckingham Palace where she will meet the Queen, Prince Phillip or Princess Anne.
One of the three Royals will present Julie with her award. The 57-year-old – who started as a teacher at Sunnyside School back in 1976 – found out about the honour five weeks ago but was sworn to secrecy.
She said: "I had a letter from the Cabinet Office telling me about the OBE but they said it was in the strictest confidence so I had to keep quiet until it was all announced officially!
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Julie moved to Chronicle Country from north London shortly after starting her first teaching job at Sunnyside and she has lived in the area ever since.
She went on to become headteacher at the school and then head at Ivel Valley after Sunnyside and fellow special school Hitchmead were merged in 2010. Working with youngsters with learning difficulties has been a long-term ambition of Julie's.
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Several raised their price targets and the results issued after market close Monday were positive enough for Canaccord Genuity analyst David Tyerman to upgrade the stock to "buy" from "hold."
Earnings per share rose 32 per cent from a year earlier to $1.18, handily beating the mean Street estimate of $1.03. CN exceeded expectations on both sales and margins, and hiked its earnings per share growth guidance to 10 per cent from "up to 10 per cent."
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Mr. Tyerman raised his price target by $6 to $91, adding that "we believe CN is a good investment for strong EPS growth and related dividend growth."
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"We acknowledge the momentum in the stock will likely be positive following the quarter. However, CN's valuation at 13.2 times price to earnings on our 2013 estimate vs. the group at 11.9 times remains expensive in our view," Ms. Maraachlian.
Baja Mining Corp. said projected capital costs have risen $246-million to $1.389-billion at its El Boleo copper-cobalt-zinc project in Mexico.
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Raymond James Ltd. analyst Adam Low downgraded Baja to "market perform" from "outperform" to reflect "our unease regarding the many moving parts at the company, some of which are moving in the wrong direction, and our uncertainty over the company's ability to fund the cost increase."
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Mirabela Nickel Ltd. reported that first-quarter nickel production dropped 16 per cent from a quarter earlier and reduced its output guidance for the full year by 5 per cent. UBS analyst Matt Murphy also noted that Mirabela's quarter-end cash balance of $60-million was below his estimates. Given his forecasts that the company will have negative operating cash flow, he expects it will have to raise additional equity, diluting share value.
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By Jason Hundhausen
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rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
|Very nice route. Direct start (straight through the bulge) is definitely the most difficult. Easier alternatives lie to each side. I'd rate the moves for the direct start as 5.10, but they're also height-dependent; after that it's 5.8/5.9. Well protected; certainly one of the best routes on Cattle Call Wall.
By George Perkins
From: The Dungeon, NM
Sep 24, 2010
rating: 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
There is an alternate 2-bolt variation start just to the right of the normal start of this climb that bypasses the first crux (making the route easier: 5.8?).
There is also a single bolt above the 2-bolt anchor, which one could use to set a TR or to drop down the few feet to the anchor to set a TR.
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|Great route! The getting to the first bolt seems to be the crux and it can be a bit tricky to get the hands and feet in the right place but worth the effort. One of my favorite climbs on the Cattle Call Wall.


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High pressure sits almost overhead Friday allowing Northern Michigan to sit underneath partly/mostly cloudy skies with dry conditions. That will be the case through Saturday afternoon. Clouds will be on the increase Saturday from the west with all of the area clouding up completely by Saturday evening.
The next storm system for us sweeps in late Saturday evening through Sunday. We may see a few snowflakes in the U.P./Straits region later Saturday afternoon, but the bulk of precipitation holds off until Saturday night. With south winds, temperatures will be warm enough for mainly rain across the Lower Peninsula into Sunday, but interior spots of Northern Lower Michigan could see some freezing rain mixing in setting up slippery roads. Across the Eastern Upper Peninsula, it may remain cold enough for primarily snow with some rain mixing in at times near the Great Lakes. Snow amounts will be in the 1-3" range there.
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reported at Pretty Prairie. The strong winds did damage across Reno County.
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Some of you who know me know how much I detest the NBA and pro sports in general. So how am I letting myself watch the Celtics-Lakers tonight? I don't know. I think it helps to keep the sound muted and to only occasionally glance at the screen. It makes the never-ending game of 'clear-it-out, high pick-n-roll, kick-it-out, then either shoot or drive' only slightly bearable.
I used to be a huge Lakers fan back when the NBA was actually legitimate and there was a time when the idea of a Celtic title would produce a real conniption in me. It was easy to hate Boston when they had so many ugly players and ugly fans and the alternative was the upscale, flashy Lakers who played just down the freeway.
But that was a long time ago and I now confess to having watched a grand total of perhaps 1 or 2 NBA games this season. Combined. It's not like anyone else is watching, either, as ratings have been plummeting. It's just a bad product that keeps getting worse and nothing bores me more than hearing grown men talk about a bad product while pretending it isn't getting worse.
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AT THE official launch for the Parramatta Eels in February, I asked new coach Ricky Stuart what he would deem as a successful season.
He said that he would consider a top-eight finish to be a fantastic result.
After Monday night's 50-point shellacking at the hands of the rampaging Roosters, this aspiration would appear nigh on impossible.
But most importantly it will not affect the approach and effort the Eels have in trying to turn it into a reality.
From day one Ricky has never downplayed the task at hand and made it clear that there never has been a quick fix.
All the loss to the tricolours did was emphasise the enormity of the assignment in taking the Eels from where they are to where they want to be.
This is a side that finished on the bottom of the ladder last year, winning just six games from the 24 played.
To put that into perspective, if they had won twice as many games they may have snuck into eighth position on the competition ladder.
Achieving that many victories this year would see a similar result because registering as many wins as losses has proved to be the cut-off point for finals football in recent seasons.
Captain's call: Eels need to play smarter
With basically the same playing personnel, the odds have always been stacked against them.
When you secure the wooden spoon, the belief is that the only way is up.
Even that line of thinking can soften the reality of just how difficult it can be to move in that direction.
There is no doubt that the club is paying the penalty for a lack of foresight in recruitment over many years. It is very true that if you haven't improved your roster from one season to the next, you are in fact going backwards.
It was clearly evident on Monday night that at the moment the Eels do not have the quality to match many of their opposing teams and that is why Ricky admitted that there will be similar results to deal with before things get consistently better.
The onus is now on all the players to show why they should be ultimately retained to be a part of future Parramatta campaigns.
No quick fix: Ricky won't rush rookies
Quite simply the Roosters were too big, too fast and generally too skilful to deal with. They have the necessary ingredients to put the sword to plenty of other line-ups as this year unfolds.
As excruciating as it was to sit through Monday night and to hear that things are likely to at times get worse before they get better, I would rather that than being bullshitted to and fed false information.
Parramatta fans have every right to be livid and disillusioned at a 50-0 scoreline, but that is where we are at the moment and being a true supporter is keeping the faith through thick and thin.
I find that easier to do because I did not see evidence of individuals giving up as the scoreboard continued to tick over.
In fact, I felt the players actually contributed to their own demise much more the previous week against the Wests Tigers.
I can tell you from experience that when momentum is all one way, you get to a stage where you feel powerless to stop it.
I once played in a game in which we had 64 points scored against us and I can honestly say that not one member of our team that afternoon threw in the towel.
As bad as it may have looked from the outside, the effort was still there, albeit often misdirected and ineffectual.To survive as a coach I would think you would have to work to the adage that things are never as good as they seem, nor are they ever as bad.
For Ricky Stuart and his squad it is now about getting back to business and preparing as best as they possibly can for this weekend's clash against the Sharks.
The only way to get better is to work harder.
It is often said that every journey begins with a first step.
It should also be understood that on an arduous journey there are times when a step is taken forward, only to be followed by two steps back.
However, the destination never changes.
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By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABERWASHINGTON (AP) a¿¿ The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits dipped 2,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 339,000, evidence that layoffs are low and hiring will likely remain steady. The Labor Department said Thursday that the less volatile four-week average rose 8,500 to 357,250. The average was driven up in recent weeks by spikes that reflected seasonal volatility around the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. The government struggles to account for seasonal hiring by retailers and other businesses and for temporary layoffs of school employees during the holidays. Applications are a proxy for layoffs. They appear to have stabilized near pre-recession levels and are at a level consistent with solid hiring. The job market has picked up in recent months. Employers have added an average of 200,000 jobs a month from August through November. That's helped lower the unemployment rate to a five-year low of 7 percent. Still, nearly 4.5 million people received some form of unemployment benefits in the week ending Dec. 14, the latest data available. That's 180,000 more than the previous week. Of those recipients, about 1.3 million stand to lose their benefits this month, according to the National Employment Law Project, an advocacy group. That's because Congress opted not to renew an emergency federal program, which provided up to 47 weeks of additional benefits. The program expired last week. Economists predict that the benefit cutoff will cause the unemployment rate to fall by as much as a quarter of percentage point in early 2014. But they worry that the drop will likely occur because many of the former recipients will give up on their job searches, which are required in order to receive benefits. The government counts people as unemployed only if they're actively seeking jobs. The job market appears to be strengthening and there have been other signs that the economy is improving. Americans are more confident and spending more. And orders to U.S. manufacturers jumped in November, evidence that businesses are spending more on factory-made items such as machinery, computers and electrical goods.
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Doctor Who stars humbled by fan turnout at London event
Thousands of fans have turned out at the official Doctor Who anniversary celebration in London, ahead of the screening of a special 50 year anniversary show.
The three-day event, which is being attended by 8,000 fans a day, features appearances from Doctor Who stars from all eras of the series.
Doctor Who's Matt Smith and Jenna Coleman said they were humbled by the number of fans at the event.
23 Nov 2013
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