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Did Ian Somerhalder Cheat on Nina Dobrev?by Free Britney at .
The breakup of Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev is the talk of the web, with crushed fans everywhere scratching their heads and looking for answers.
Or at least wondering what might have torpedoed the romance.
While neither has officially commented, Ian posted a cryptic Tweet after news of the split broke, and now a recent comment of hers is sparking speculation as well.
The general consensus is that The Vampire Diaries stars are at different points in life and just drifted apart, while remaining best friends, there may be more to it.
Last month, before the split became public, the actress wrote:
"Quote of the day: Ask for forgiveness, not permission."
At the time, fans speculated that Ian had been caught stepping out on her, and that rather than try to make things right, he suggested they take a break.
Now, weeks later, in light of the breakup, that sentiment rings true to many in the actress' camp who say that she effectively ended their relationship.
Pure celebrity gossip here. No more, no less. Those Tweets could mean anything, and we certainly don't know what caused them to call it quits.
Still, when the breakup happens and then you read "quotes of the day" like they've both posted with what seem like clear allusions to the other ...
Makes you think, no?
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Im sorry that they split but I know that their going to get back with each other because she made him happy and he made her happy thats all that matters most of people dating if someone doesnt love you the way you do he or shes not going to be happy + 9x out of 10 most of realatinships split up so happynous and love is what dating is so if you love someone and he or she loves you back the same more than likely its a good realationship
Cheyenne Frankowski
Wow. Most of you are so judgmental! You do know you don't know these people, right?! Who are you to say for sure what happened? All we know for sure is that they're over. Such is life. If they say they grew apart, that's what I'll take to have happened. It's not up to the fans to try to figure out why. That doesn't matter. All they need right now is our support as fans. If that. I don't think less of either of them. They're both wonderful people and great actors.
I've read articles left and right about Ian and Nina. Some say he cheated, some say she did not want to marry, but either way the articles say they were told by a 'close source'. This tells me not to just go by what is written. Since Nina went to the beach she seems to be surrounded by people, almost like a buffer? Protection? Ian is mostly seen alone and when in NYC Friday in candid photos, he looked like he had allot on his mind. Who knows what happened. I will say this. They knew there was a 10 yr difference 3 years ago. # yrs is a long time to just up and break up out of the blue, so me figures something drastic set this in motion. If you are proposed to and you say no, that does not mean you break up. Heck, maybe she cheated, maybe he did. Before people bash remember the nice biblical passage that states let he who has not sinned cast the first stone. Mistakes unfortunately happen. I've no idea what kind of pressure thy are under. Ian is still a wonderful caring man. No matter why they are apart he is still great in my opinion. I am honestly not as impressed with Nina. Just something about her that comes off a bit flakey to me. Not to say that makes her a bad person but not on the same maturity level with Ian, but no matter what I think. I am worried about Ian, he does not look like himself..He does so much for our planet and tries to empower the ones around him.
You make a very good point about the suddeness of the break up. They went from very cozy and into each other to tension and nervousness in each others' presence. I agree with you also about not splitting simply because someone isn't ready at this point to get married especially if you're so into each other. That's where a compromise comes into play. I hadn't thought of that but you're right about her being surrounded by friends. It could simply be that she finds comfort and support in her close friends and is using time with them to fill the gap from breaking up. He looked very stressed and exhausted (probably from traveling) in NY. What struck me odd was a report about how the "handlers" made sure there was enough space between them on the red carpet. Why, if it was a friendly split? Obviously something happened between March and May that made them part. The sad part is that they seemed like a solid couple. We'll never know what really happened because it's none of our business. But it's difficult not to be curious when something seemingly falls apart in a short period of time. He has looked really rough lately in pictures. I hope he doesn't wear himself down between traveling and this stress that he gets sick.
IMO, something major definitely happened between March and May. I do believe that there could have been cheating involved and I have a feeling it was Ian who made the misstep. Nina started tweeting telling things in March or April that indicated trouble in paradise to me. I believe that she was not in a good frame of mind and Derek showed up and made her feel better about herself and gave her the confidence to leave the obviously problematic relationship with Ian.
people must learn that the relationship on tv ? itz not a relationship in real world................in life theres no lovey dovey like they do in tv.................people change and people say what they are feeling 'ulike on tv that they must read a script to say what they feel..........
if your a fan u willl understand that theres lot of differences between DELENA and NIAN...........
Don't you guys think they'd get sick of seeing each other so much? They're stuck together on set and once they started dating, they were together for an even longer period. A relationship can't work out if the individuals are constantly together an have no time to assess their partner in their own time. And there IS a lot of pressure on there relationship…
I hate how people automatically think that've cheated on her- one, there's no proof, and two, if he wasn't serious about her, he wouldn't have proposed! Yes folks, he proposed to Nina! They could've just broken up like any other NORMAL couple. Ever thought of that? I did! (I know, smart cookie I are!)
Ian did cheat on Nina several times, just like he cheated on Meghan Auld with Nina and other people like Ashley Greene, who is also an ex. In fact, Ian cheated on both Meghan and Nina, who were his long-term girlfriends of 3 years with Ashley, and some other ex-girlfriends such as Maggie Grace while Meghan and Nina stayed faithful to this manipulative player. Ian was not been caught cheating, because he has quite a grasp and control over the media, as well as the TVD fandom. If you look at his track record with girlfriends and the timing, as well as his inappropriate behaviour; it should be fairly obvious he strayed. Ian is a fake and fraud. His stans are blinded, or covering up for him.
Another thing to clear up is that neither Ian or Nina wanted to get married as this was just a stepping-stone for fame. That's all it was; a showmance. It wasn't always like that because at the start of their dynamic which was friends with benefits, when he was having an affair with her, things were better. It is when they became official, when their dynamic became messed up. It wasn't a strong bond they had anyway. It was shallow and superficial. Nian were doomed to break-up, and it was an inevitability.
Dear Nikolina Constaninova Dobreva
Ian Joseph Somerhalder did not cheat on you The your fan are wong about That Can you say together Yes or No. I'm mad about That Nikolina Constantinova Dobreva Loves Ian Joseh Somerhalder. Please say Together Yes or No Forever Years 4 Yes or No . From Your fan Jaye Eileen Draper To
Niklina Constantinova Dobreva Ps Write Back soon
ian as a cheater? that is the biggest joke of the century. have you heard that guy talking? there is not one cheating bone in his body. he was totally head over heels in love with nina. he even asked her for marriage. you guys seriously have to brush up on your knowledge. he is the most sweetest and the romantic guy ever.


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Velcade (Bortezomib, PS-341) and Rituximab in Relapsed/Refractory Mantle Cell and Follicular Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
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This study will determine the overall response rate and toxicity of rituximab and Velcade in combination in patients with relapsed or refractory mantle cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Drug: Velcade
Drug: Rituximab
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase II Study of Velcade (Bortezomib, PS-341) and Rituximab in Relapsed/Refractory Mantle Cell and Follicular Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
- Overall response rate [ Time Frame: Every 3 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Assess side effects [ Time Frame: Day 1 of each cycle ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- Progression and overall survival [ Time Frame: 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Correlative studies [ Time Frame: During induction (weeks 1-15); PK every 2 months during maintenance. ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Study Start Date:
|December 2004
|Study Completion Date:
|March 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Drug: Velcade
- Bortezomib
Induction: 1.3 mg/m2 IV days 1 and 4 of weeks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13 & 14.
Maintenance: 1.3 mg/m2 IV day 1 weekly x 2 weeks beginning week 20 and continuing every 6 months until month 23.
Induction: 375 mg/m2 IV day 1 of weeks 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13 and 14 prior to Velcade administration.
Maintenance: 375 mg/m2 day 1 weekly x 4 weeks.
Rationale: Previous studies testing bortezomib and rituximab separately indicate these agents have some efficacy against mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). Bortezomib is a targeted cancer drug that blocks proteasomes. The proteasome is an enzyme complex existing in all cells that influences proteins controlling cellular processes. By blocking the proteasome, bortezomib disrupts biologic pathways such as those related to the growth and survival of cancer cells. Rituximab is a monoclonal antibody that attaches to a protein called the CD20 antigen that is found almost exclusively on the surface of B-cells with leukemia. Once rituximab attaches to the protein, the immune system activates to kill the malignant B-cells. The current study combines bortezomib and rituximab in patients with relapsed or refractory MCL.
Purpose: This study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of bortezomib and rituximab in patients with relapsed or refractory MCL. Blood, molecular, and tumor analysis will be conducted to provide researchers with information about areas such as rituximab resistance, the effects of bortezomib on cells associated with immune function, and protein alterations related to the cellular growth and death of MCL. In addition, the role of maintenance therapy and timing of administration in MCL will be assessed.
Treatment: Patients in this study will receive bortezomib and rituximab. Both drugs will be administered through intravenous infusions. There are two treatment periods in this study. The first is considered induction therapy where patients will receive bortezomib and rituximab intermittently over an eighteen week period. Lower dosages of rituximab will be given to patients at the beginning of the study to ensure no severe toxicity occurs. Those patients without disease growth after the eighteen weeks of treatments will continue with maintenance therapy. During this time period, patients will be given bortezomib and rituximab for up to one year and a half. Several tests and exams will be conducted throughout the study to closely monitor patients. Treatments will be discontinued due to disease growth or unacceptable side effects.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Histologically confirmed mantle cell or follicular lymphoma
- Relapsed or refractory disease
- ECOG performance status of 0, 1, 2 or 3.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pre-existing sensory or motor peripheral neuropathy
- No active or untreated CNS lymphoma
- History of severe, life-threatening hypersensitivity or infusion reactions prior rituximab treatment.
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|Responsible Party:
|Kristie Blum, Principal Investigator, Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
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|NCT00201877 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|September 12, 2005
|Last Updated:
|May 29, 2012
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
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Lymphoma, Follicular
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Pharmacologic Actions
Antirheumatic Agents
Therapeutic Uses
Antineoplastic Agents
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
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Jon Fasman was born in Chicago in 1975 and grew up in Washington, D.C. He was educated at Brown and Oxford universities and has worked as a journalist in Washington, D.C., New York, Oxford, and Moscow. His writing has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, Slate, Legal Affairs, the Moscow Times, and The Washington Post. He is now a writer and an editor for The Economist's Web site.
Find out how Russia, language, lack of friends and money all helped in the creation of Jon Fasman's thrilling novel The Geographer's Library.
When did you begin writing your first novel The Geographer's Library?
Actually, this is not exactly my first novel: in my very early 20s I wrote a rather puerile and boring novel and a half on an old computer in my mother's attic – to which I quite soon intend to take a sledgehammer (the computer, not the attic). After that, I put fiction aside for a while and turned to academia and then journalism. But I had never lost the desire to write, only, I thought, the habit and the ability. Increasingly, my interest turned back toward mystery stories, which had been my first love as a reader (specifically Sherlock Holmes and Tintin stories, as well as modern crime writers like Elmore Leonard and George Pelecanos, and writers who play with the form of mysteries, like Umberto Eco, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Haruki Murakami).
Meanwhile, my wife persuaded me to move with her to Moscow, where she had lived the first three years of her life, and to which she had always intended to return. I began working on The Geographer's Library shortly before I left, but wrote the bulk of it there. I can recommend no more conducive conditions to writing than travelling to a country where you can barely speak the language and lack both friends and money: privation concentrates the mind. Also, I learned so much in such a short time, and was surrounded by a profoundly rich culture about which I knew shamefully little – although I am partly of Russian extraction, I never studied the language or culture before travelling there. I wrote the novel at my desk beneath a bookshelf crammed with complete sets of Turgenev and Tolstoy in the bedroom of a huge, old, unrenovated Soviet flat, with worryingly powerful plumbing, a hot-water heater that nearly blew our eyebrows off every time we lit it, and windows that didn't quite fit in their frames. My wife taught and left for work early in the morning, I wrote until I left in the afternoon to go to work at The Moscow Times (an English language newspaper) and when she returned home my wife read what I had written that day; then we would do it all again the next day.
And did you think while you were writing it that this one would be different than the others and would become your first published novel?
One of the strangest things about this experience is that up until Penguin bought the book, I really had no sense that I was writing it for anyone other than my wife. I was fuelled by a mixture of unease (at being in a city where I was a functional illiterate), and a sense that I was both doing precisely what I wanted to do and could not possibly sink any lower: as my friends were advancing further and further in their careers, here I was, broke and freezing cold, in Moscow. Anyway, that was our life - cloistered, basic, sort of creaturely, but totally fulfilling. And everything I learned there just seemed to take root: conversations I overheard at the newspaper about Turkmenistan, articles I read about Siberia, discussions with my one friend there about hitchhiking across Russia. I just figured I might as well throw everything I could into this one book and do exactly what I wanted to, because I wasn't writing it for anyone but me and my wife (who seemed to like it).
Alchemy features heavily in the plot of your novel. Have you always had a special interest in it?
Not really. In graduate school I studied Renaissance English literature, and worked on a thesis having to do with medical history and the philosophy of emotion – melancholy, specifically, with a heavy reliance on Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, which dealt glancingly with alchemy. When I first started thinking about my book I happened to pick up A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery by Lyndy Abraham, which discussed the symbology of alchemy: the ways in which the discipline's literature renders concepts concrete. That reification – a formalised but not systematic system in which tangible objects stand for ideas – was what appealed to me most about alchemy, and was what allowed for the imaginative leaps that led to the interchapters in The Geographer's Library.
Tell us about the interchapters.
The main narrative follows Paul Tomm, a cub reporter for a small New England paper, who is investigating the mysterious death of a local professor. Interspersed among the strands of Paul's story are chapters which each chronicle a different object from twelfth-century geographer Al-Idrisi's collection, or library. They tell a parallel story to Paul's, one that allowed me to indulge my imagination in a freer way.
Your novel seamlessly interweaves history and imagination. Why did you choose to include some real historical figures and events?
As a writer, but especially as a reader, I have always enjoyed the slipperiness of Borges, Calvino, Eco, and Conan Doyle – the way these writers mixed fact and fiction in a particularly wanton way. I allowed myself a similar freedom, and enjoyed the challenge of disguising history as fiction and vice versa. So Al-Idrisi, for instance, is an actual figure, who did live around the time I say he did, and who did, in fact, undertake an expedition to Estonia at the behest of the King of Sicily, who was, if you can believe it, named Roger. Some of the objects described in the interchapters are based on real items. An alembic is, in fact, a distilling apparatus (used today not to turn lead into gold, but for the infinitely more noble purpose of making whiskey), but the specific alembic I mention is a product of my imagination. The same holds true for the ney. Similarly, some of the books I mention are real books; most aren't, and the quotes that form the epigraphs are all fictive, as are their sources.
Did you conduct any research on these characters and objects?
I remember reading an interview with E.L. Doctorow in which he advised writers to do as little research as they could get away with, and I more or less agree. As a journalist, I am bound to report what happened, and to limit myself to the truth; as a novelist I feel absolutely no fidelity to history as anything other than an inspiration.
As for the way I did the research, I tried to be as asystematic as possible, stealing and forging together bits of information from books, films, conversations, newspapers, and – the most indispensable tool of all for asystematic research – the Internet.
How much are you like your protagonist Paul Tomm?
Like Paul, I graduated from a liberal-arts college in Rhode Island (where I lived a block off of Wickenden Street, which gave my fictional Providence its name), and my first job out of college was at a small weekly newspaper. I think we have similar senses of humor, and a similar misdirected streak. Our parents are both divorced; and while I don't come from Brooklyn, of all the places I have lived in the world that's where I feel most at home. For all that, Paul is braver, sweeter, and more patient than I am, and I suspect his future in journalism is far brighter than mine.
You've said that you find plotting one of the more difficult aspects of fiction writing but, at its heart, The Geographer's Library is a mystery and has a complex plot full of twists and turns.
That's true. The central problem with the soon-to-be-sledgehammered novels I mentioned earlier was their plotlessness. I would get mired in pages of back-story, reams of character description, and could never quite figure out what to make my characters do. One reason writing a mystery appealed to me is that it forces a writer to pay attention to plot - one thing always has to lead to another, and when the mystery is resolved, the story ends. This may sound limiting, but actually I found that it both freed and guided my imagination. Think of Bach (and let me say, before a lightning bolt strikes me down, that in no way am I comparing myself to Bach but I did find inspiration from him, as I always have): the Goldberg Variations is perhaps the single most impressive piece of music in human history, but it is, in its own way, beautifully formulaic. Or think of his solo cello suites and violin partitas: again, works of mind-boggling imagination following set forms.
So thus inspired, I figured out who I wanted Paul to be and what I wanted him to do, then met him halfway: I couldn't make him do anything that seemed unnatural for the character, but I did have to make sure he did his job and did it convincingly. Worrying about the plot more or less independently of character – that is, treating it structurally, as something constructed rather than something organic – allowed me to make it more complex. I figure if you're going to build a plot, you might as well build something as intricate as possible.
Though your novel is mostly narrated by Paul, you end with Hannah's version of some key events. Why?
I wanted the book to be ambiguous: is Jaan a jewel thief or an acolyte in a mystical sect? Was Hannah a dupe or perspicacious? I hoped that by having Hannah end the narration, it would give her a chance to speak without Paul's skeptical mediation.
What are you working on next?
Another mystery set in Wickenden, which deals with gambling, piracy, immigration, colonization, the American suburbs, and the history of playing cards.
Scene of Crime – Jon Fasman, author of The Geographer's Library, writes about the importance of place in crime fiction
One evening a couple of weeks ago, I made the always-to-be-avoided trip from my home in Brooklyn to one of those white-wine, chat-and-circulate functions with which the literati punish themselves for some notable success or another. The secret to parties like this is that everybody wants to have been there; nobody actually wants to be there. I think I went for what Saul Bellow called "a humanity bath" – a biological need for human contact. After months of chuffing and chugging on a novel in my New York writer-sized apartment, I needed to give myself some perspective, to remind myself that as crucial as every sentence and plot nubbin in my book is to me, plenty of people – most people – don't really care. I took great comfort from this; I walked myself back from the ledge.
I believe we were celebrating a magazine's anniversary. The function lacked the focus and good cheer of a book-publication party, and had a suspiciously high ratio of glossy, chipper publicists to grumpy, booze-sucking writers. Either that, or the former just did a great job of defending the open bar from the latter. Anyway, having ducked, dodged, and barreled through enough terrifyingly professional white-toothed grins, there I was, a plastic cup of room-temperature vinegar in one hand, munching on something skewered and grilled that had allegedly, at one time, lived in the ocean but which in fact tasted exactly like a piece of filleted racquetball, explaining myself to a guy in chunky black glasses who had buttonholed me by the drinks table. He asked what I wrote, and I told him.
"Mysteries," he said, in a descending tritone of condescension. "Cool. Really great. So stuff for the masses – like, popular stuff? – more than, you know, real literature?"
It wasn't the first time I'd heard this kind of sneer, and I'd love to be able to tell you that I had a riposte – or at the very least a quick left – at the ready, but in fact I never quite know what to say. I'm sure this same guy would have been able to parse the minutiae of whatever rock band was enjoying its fifteen minutes; I'm sure if I said I had written a biography of, say, Charles Mingus he wouldn't have looked down his nose and said, "One of those popular musicians, is it? Josquin and late Beethoven are beyond you?" I'm sure, too, that he's watched the films of Martin Scorsese, Ang Lee, and Michael Winterbottom, no matter how many suburban multiplex screens their films have graced. I would even guess he could discuss "American Idol" – with the requisite ironic detachment, of course, but that fools nobody. And yet crime fiction and mysteries, at least in the United States, especially within the self-selected guardians of literary culture (who would, of course, never admit to being anything of the sort) still has to fight for respect.
And yet, I'm aware as I write this that I'm preaching to the converted, selling snake-oil to oleaginous ophidians, carrying coal up Tyneside-way. If you're here you swallowed the Kool-Aid. Really what I wanted to do was to write the above scene – the party, the snob, the grumpy solitary author – which is all, of course, fictional. I wanted to write that scene because it seems to me typically, archetypically, New York, and I believe crime writing at its best serves a more sociological function than traditional literature. At its best what one takes away from a good crime story are not the details of the crime itself, but the details surrounding the crime, the way the author brings to life the milieu in which the crime occurs.
Of course, I'm not the first author to say this; Ian Rankin once said that before he visits a city for the first time, he tries to write a crime novel set in that city. And though our styles and subjects matter differ, I doubt I could have begun writing had I not first read the novels of George Pelecanos, which bring Washington, D.C. – the city where I was raised – to vivid life. Pelecanos – like Connelly, Mosley, Chandler, Hammett, and Conan Doyle: the masters – both creates an imagined city at the same time he painstakingly describes an existing one, in a way nobody before him has. Just as Conan Doyle, in creating London, brushes up against the world of the powerful but focuses with zeal and sympathy on the underworld, so Pelecanos's Washington is composed not of politicians but of the working people – mostly but not exclusively black – who comprise the real Washington, which begins where the news cameras' halos end. This was the city I had grown up in but had never seen portrayed in fiction. Chandler's Los Angeles, Rankin's Edinburgh, Hammett's San Fran, Conan Doyle's London: all of these were fictional constructs to me, because I didn't know the landmarks, the smells, the vistas, the rhythms. But Pelecanos's D.C. was his, but also mine; I finally saw how to translate from eye to page.
This is not to imply, of course, that the Wickenden or Lincoln I created in my first novel (fictional cognates of Providence, Rhode Island and Washington, Connecticut) are as deeply or skillfully portrayed as Pelecanos's D.C., nor to claim our goals or legacies are totally parallel: the grime on his shoes is real and hard-earned; for better or worse, I'm a little more comfortable in a library carrel. Still, however divergent our styles or books, I still would not have understood the process of literary translation without him, and his mission – shining a light on the complex web of social networks in which people actually live – seems to me crime fiction's cardinal mission. It differs from what we could call – for better or worse, and however sloppy the category – "literary" fiction in focusing on the rich, multivalent surface of life shared by many characters (those in the story and, by implication, many more) rather than the interior life of a limited number of people. To put it more simply: crime fiction glides above a city; literary fiction delves deep within the residents of a single apartment.
And after moving to Moscow, I had to glide, as best as I could; I wanted to write my way out of Rankin's Rule: that is, if reading a crime novel set in any given city allows you to better understand that city, surely writing one would do the same. Right? Yes/no/maybe? Anyway, that's more or less what I had hoped. The Geographer's Library was an attempt – however feeble, however error-riddled, however misguided – to understand something about the ruined, glorious country in which I was living. It was also a long valentine to Providence, Rhode Island (incarnated in TGL as Wickenden), the best and weirdest of American cities. It was also an attempt to say something about the evils we permit ourselves to do in the name of a good cause, in Hannah's case, in the name of belief. It also…well, who cares about any of this really. The only thing that matters is: was it a good story? Did you live in Paul and Hannah for a while; did you care about them? Do you remember them? That's the only metric for a story, crime or otherwise; anybody who writes for any other reason – therapy, revenge, the edification of others, vanity (well, it's perhaps not such a bad thing to have a little bit of this) – is asking for trouble.
That's what I would have, I hoped, told the guardian in guardian glasses, had he existed. That the social novel, whose disappearance everyone laments, did not die with Tolstoy, Dickens, or Balzac; rather, novelists rose in prestige and education; they became college-educated and usually graduate-schooled; and society expanded, doubled back on itself, expanded again, and – through technology, migration, and travel – kept on expanding. That the crime novel is as valid a means of understanding what happens in the world as any other novelistic form. And that what matters is the story, not where you find it on the bookshelf. I would have said all of this if I'd left Brooklyn that night. Instead I had a beer on my roof and watched the sun set over lower Manhattan.
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That southern drawl, charm, and warmth drew me to her like a magnet. I met Lou at the 2010 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, where she and her husband Billy (who cracks me up) gave me a big old hug. When I looked at her, I noticed she had this gorgeous decorative patch over her right eye. I opened my mouth, inserted my foot and said, "What happened to your eye?"
The day of the birth of her daughter in 1973, she noticed that the vision in her right eye was making objects appear curvy instead of straight. Subsequently, a small tumor was found in the right eye. It was monitored frequently, and by 1978, had begun growing. A biopsy, revealed the tumor to be Spindle B Melanoma, a rare and deadly form of cancer that aggressively spreads throughout her body if left unattended. The specialist recommended complete removal of the eye immediately, and Lou agreed. After removal of the eye, she began wearing a prosthesis. She currently has two benign tumors in her left eye that also cause
blurry and curvy vision, but is now 32 years post cancer.
After losing the eye, there was an adjustment period in everyday life. She had no depth perception and half of her peripheral vision is gone. When walking, it was common for her run into posts, signs, and sometimes even other people. A pinball machine comes to mind — without bells and whistles. She had to learn once again how to drive safely. Not trusting what she saw in the side mirrors, she would turn her head and look instead. She has adjusted, but still occasionally walks into things.
Note to ask Lou: Did you have a bumper sticker that said, "If you don't like the way I drive, get off the sidewalk?"
In 2005, MaryLou was diagnosed with MMP/CP by way of a biopsy of her inflamed gums. When she learned that it could spread to the eyes and result in blindness, Lou was staring her worst fear in the face; losing the sight in her one remaining eye.
Eye specialists she had been seeing did not know enough about the disease to offer any guidance.
Searching the Internet, Billy found Dr. Irving Raber at the Wills Eye Institute in Philadelphia. Upon examination, Dr. Raber saw no evidence of MMP/CP in the left eye. However, the MMP/CP had attacked the socket of her right eye, where the blistering and scarring had already forced her to discontinue wearing her prosthesis in favor of a patch. Tiring of people staring at a plain patch, she had the gumption to give them something to stare at!
Lou first began using rubber stamps on the patches, then coloring in the figure. Because of the time and effort required to color the patches and make them look good, she began using temporary tattoos instead of the stamps and coloring. This was much faster and easier, and garnered positive reaction. Smiling people often approach her for a closer look, thinking that she has tattooed her eye, and then compliment her on how good the patches look. They even laugh when an application with something funny, such as a big, moving googly-eye stares back at them.
Lou continues making patches, even though at times does not feel like doing it. Nevertheless, in the brief moment of joy seen in the faces of people who see and appreciate the patches, she finds the encouragement to continue making them. She does seasonal patches for holidays and special occasions. Oh, and they must ALL be color coordinated with whatever clothing she is wearing. (Meanwhile, I am the one walking around with a striped shirt and checkered pants!)
Not satisfied with answers or treatments by doctors that had examined and treated her; she continued her quest on the Internet. She connected with Molly Stuart at the IPPF who put her in touch with Marc Yale, a Health Peer coach. Marc also has MMP/CP. He referred her to his eye specialist in Boston, Dr. Steven Foster. In addition to her trip to Boston to see Dr. Foster, Lou felt that her trip from Mississippi to Boston would be wasted if she did not also pay a visit to Dr. Razzaque Ahmed while there.
Dr. Ahmed examined her in his office that afternoon and determined the MMP/CP to be active in all other areas of mucosal tissue that he could visually see, and at an advanced state. He described the MMP/CP in detail, including a two-year course of treatment that could put the disease into remission. Despite her initial fears of another letdown, his compassion, knowledge, and confidence made her ecstatic! Lou is currently about one year into her treatments, starting with Rituximab, and the mucosal activity initially subsided. Despite her monthly IVIG treatments, she is developing painful lesions on her chest, back, scalp, and arms. There is also evidence that the mucosal areas are beginning to flare again. Her hematologist at the University of Mississippi Cancer Institute has already begun administrating 12 more weeks of Rituximab in hopes of bringing it back under control.
In spite of this setback, she remains upbeat and determined to win her wrestling contest with the MMP/CP. It pleases her that the staff at the Cancer Institute comes to see her just to gander at what is on her patch each treatment day.
With daily fatigue and constant pain, she is overcome with a pity party a few times a year. However, Billy, her rock/hillbilly psychologist, will intervene after a day or so. Lou says of Billy, "It is not his nature to be overly affectionate, but when I need him most, he listens to me patiently, holds me and tells me that he loves me regardless of my physical condition. He says that I am still the same woman that he loved and married in 1991, and will always feel that way. Therefore, I need to turn off the tears, leave the pity party, and get on with enjoying the many good things in our lives." After his reassurance, she is able to pull herself together, begin feeling good about herself again, and enjoy life.
Lou states, "It helps when we can focus positive energy upon getting well rather than dwelling on the negative 'poor me.' We must first do what we can to help ourselves, follow the guidance given to us by skilled and learned physicians, and finally look for ways to help someone else. Helping others takes your mind off your own problems, and you frequently find someone whose problems are worse than your own. If a person is willing, they can use the experience of their own ordeal to assist others with similar health problems, showing them first hand that there is hope. That is the ultimate reward in life."
Her grandson Ryan calls her Jammaw Patches. Me? I call her special!
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5 Superpowers You Didn't Know Your Body Was Hiding From You
Those motivational speakers are right: You are capable of amazing things. You wouldn't know it, because 99 percent of the time your body or brain hides these superpowers from you.
Sure, they say there's a good reason, but we're not sure we're buying it. Dammit, we want our...
You may have heard urban legends about "the lady who was able to lift a whole car in an emergency" but, believe it or not, it's not just a legend. They're talking about Angela Cavallo, whose son was working on the suspension of a 1964 Impala, when the car slipped off of the jack and trapped him in the wheel well.
Angela ran out to find her unconscious son pinned under the car. Rather than saying something passive agressive about how she "told him to get that thing out of her garage," she yelled for a neighbor to go get help, and when help wasn't coming fast enough for her liking, proceeded to lift the fucking car off her son with her bare fucking hands.
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OK, maybe she didn't lift the thing over her head like She-Hulk, just the few inches it took to get it off her son for the several minutes he needed to drag his ass to safety. But that's no small feat considering that the vehicle weighed at least 3,340 pounds. Go out to your driveway and try it (The Cracked Legal Department asks that your recreation leave out the unconscious loved-one trapped in the wheel well).
Then you've got guys like Sinjin Eberle, who was rock climbing in New Mexico when a 600-pound boulder came lose, smashed into him (crushing his hands in the process) and started pushing him, Wile E. Coyote-style, toward a 150-foot drop and a splattery death. Again the "shit hitting fan" adrenaline mode kicked in and the man tossed the boulder aside, crushed hands and all.
"Next time I get panic muscles, I'm tossing boulders with my dick."
Why Can't We Do This All of the Time?
So the evidence suggests that our actual muscle fibers physically have the ability to let us punch through a wall like the Terminator if they really really want to, but our brain arbitrarily limits us. Why? One problem is the tendons and other tissue that hold you together aren't made to take that kind of abuse. It's the same logic that makes steroid users more prone to injuries--the support structures can't keep up with their juiced muscles.
Also, when you're in that "lift the boulder or die" mode, the body gets that strength by stopping other bodily functions like digestion and immune response. It's the sort of thing that is only awesome for a few minutes at a time.
Still, we're kind of pissed that we can't seem to just summon the super strength at will. Wouldn't that mugger have been surprised if you had thrown him across the street into a plate glass window? But we suppose if science found a way, the muggers would know how to do it, too. Man, that would make for some awesome fights though.
This is the superpower that the Daredevil has. He overcomes his blindness with sonar-like sense of hearing that's so sharp it basically replaces his vision.
This is a real thing. In the real world we call this echolocation, and guys like Daniel Kish have it. He is completely blind and has been his whole life. Despite this, one of his favorite pastimes is mountain biking.
And as easy as it is to imagine this guy crashing hilariously through your window clutching a Braille map, he's actually pretty good at it. And he does it all by using sound to mentally paint a picture of the world around him, and doing it so fast he can avoid trees, boulders and bears while speeding down the side of a mountain.
You may remember that we previously wrote about another guy with this ability, Ben Underwood. This is the guy who trained Ben.
Why Can't We Do This All of the Time?
For the same reason people who use calculators suck at math. Most people choose the easy way, in this case relying on your vision to tell you where things are, and lose the ability to do it the much harder and far more awesome way.
But any one of you can pick up echolocation even without losing your eyes in some kind of superhero origin story. Tests have found that blindfolded people can learn to judge distances to objects based on the echoes of their own footsteps. Soon they can even judge the shape and texture of unseen objects by echo alone. Try it; close your eyes and slowly walk toward a wall while talking, listening to the change in your own voice as it echoes back to you.
Your brain recognizes all of those subtleties in echo (you've been hearing them your whole life, after all) and it's just a matter of training yourself to use them.
To fight crime.
Hey, remember that March afternoon when you were eight-years-old? And you were pooping? And nothing remarkable happened?
You don't remember that? Why not? After all, just as your muscles technically have the ability to let you twist a dude's head off, your brain technically has the ability to store every single damned thing you've ever seen or heard or experienced.
Just ask Jill Price; she has a condition called hyperthymesia which gives her that nearly perfect autobiographical memory we just talked about. Give her a date and she can remember everything that she did that day, what the weather was like and all the other seemingly trivial events that no one else remembers happened.
But even if you don't have a disorder (and only a few cases have been studied), there are tricks to make your memory perform many levels above what you're getting out of it now. In a study on short term memory they tested subjects on their ability to memorize strings of numbers. With a little training one subject went from being able to memorize about seven digits at a time (about average) all the way up to about 80, something that would seem like a pretty damned cool magic trick if you did it at a party.
Why Can't We Do This All of the Time?
First, it's important to note that what Jill has is not a "photographic memory" like some people have claimed to have (where they can, say, flip through a phone book and remember all the numbers). That is thought to be a myth; science has never been able to verify anyone who actually can do it beyond second-hand stories. You may have noted that Jill doesn't even have a gargantuan noggin in which to store all those memories. She's able to store her entire life in a brain that is roughly the same size and shape as yours. Why?
Let's look at the brain like it's a computer. It has a really fast processor and almost unlimited storage space. But it also has a very unique and often inconvenient filing system. It's less like the directories you have on your hard drive and more like the results you get back from a search engine.
Your brain makes memories accessible by creating links to other memories, with all those links to each memory sorted by relevance (based on similarity and how emotional you were when the event happened).
So a memory is only accessible by opening one of the other memories that the brain arbitrarily linked to it, or by inputting the same information again (that is, somebody reminds you). Otherwise, it's gone forever. That's why you can forget about an appointment, but when reminded suddenly slap your forehead and say, "Oh, right!" with all the details suddenly spilling back into your mind. The appointment didn't get deleted, the link just got broken.
So with somebody like Jill, her perfect memory of decades of personal minutiae is thought to be the result of an obsessive/compulsive dwelling on and refreshing of those memories... at the expense of everything else. Like the people who were trained to remember those strings of digits, she "trained" herself to remember years of unimportant shit. But your brain forgets that unimportant shit for a reason: so it can prioritize the important stuff ahead of it.
So brains with hyperthymesia are like a broken search engine that returns porn no matter what you search for. So basically, like Google Image Search, we guess.
Oh, and did we mention Jill's depression? Yeah, it turns out it's not all that awesome to remember all the times you peed your pants in front of your friends when you were seven. Honestly, if we could give you a pill that would let you remember every minute of your teenage years, would you take it?


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Sweet news for chocoholics: it makes you smarter!
Few stories will match this one in terms of the joy it will bring to people with a sweet tooth.
At long last, scientists have confirmed what the rest of us chocolate junkies have known for a long time – eating the chocolatey deliciousness actually makes you smarter.
Scientists say they've found a "linear" correlation between chocolate consumption per capita and the number of Nobel laureates per 10 million persons in a total of 23 countries. We say "Hooray for that".
According to Columbia University professor Franz Messerli, "flavonoids", which is s the name for antioxidants found in cocoa, green tea, red wine and some fruits, appear "to be effective in slowing down or even reversing the reductions in cognitive performance that occur with age."
In other words, the more chocolate you eat the less likely you are to lose your memory.
So now that we know there is a direct correlation between eating countries who win Nobel prizes, what more evidence do you need?
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Joe says:
Makes zero sense. Correlation between two things does not imply cause. If correlation always implied cause then Labradors might be blamed for making people blind. Scientists are really getting dumb these days while the media assist them in their demise.
maria says:
Sweet news for chocoholics: it makes you smarter!
Swiss chocolates: it makes you smarter!
Another area where Switzerland shines, thanks largely to well-educated voters, is in its fierce defense of national sovereignty and neutrality.
That's why the swiss are champion in democracy and understand the true meaning of it.
Switzerland is a wealthy and stable modern free market economy with low unemployment, a highly skilled workforce, and a per capita GDP among the highest internationally.
The Swiss have been using referendums for centuries. Their system is unique; they can vote on virtually anything. They can amend the constitution, accept or reject government foreign or domestic policy and introduce their own laws. Anyone with 100,000 signatures on a petition can sponsor an initiative to demand changes to the constitution and anyone who can gather 50,000 signatures on a petition can call for a referendum on a law passed by the federal government. The final result in both cases, of course, is subject to a vote by all citizens.
Not rats talking…..no rats behave…..everything sweet as chocolale.
K2 says:
"Scientists say they've found a "linear" correlation between chocolate consumption per capita and the number of Nobel laureates per 10 million persons in a total of 23 countries."
This is the perfect example of a non-sequitur….
The conclusion does not necessarily follow the evidence. Good grounds for more study, but not difinitive proof by any means.
Mind you, I do eat alot of chocolate (only the good stuff 70% dark lindt) so you're probably right because I am way smarter than any of youse all so nyahhhh.
Mouse says:
It is no news to us chocoholics, Lucy.
We need no scientific confirmation, no correlation of evidence, because we already know!.
The darker the chochie, the smarter we get and, as K2 says, we are waaaay smarter than any of the abstainers/deniers. It also makes us funnier, sunnier, hunnier and just damn nice people to be around! hehehehehe ;o)
Admiral Ackbar says:
Makes all that child labour getting the cocoa totally worth it. Ahh, the happy sides of slavery.
Nikki says:
Scientific research brought to you by Cadbury and Lindt.
I'm going to feed my baby a bowl of choc chips for dinner tonight and let her have a crack at the Sudoku in tomorrow's paper, I'll post my 'research findings' here and expect a cheque from Nestle by the end of the month.
Nikki says:
Did you also know that chocolate combats cancer? I've been eating it all my life and haven't had cancer once.
bananabender says:
Frank Messerli just happens to be Swiss. A potential conflict of interest here methinks.
Pete says:
While there's no hard causality here, there is a possible reason: the phenylethylamines in chocolate act as a natural 'speed', and can improve brain function. It also makes sense that periodic high-performance will result in overall, more permanent improvements in performance. I think coffee does something similar, via a different mechanism.
Another interesting correlation: murder rates with IQ. The association is particularly strong in high murder rate countries eg. South America. So much for us all being part of a 'global village' that tired old 90s dream.
Dman says:
Statistics 101: Correlation does not equal causation.
There are obviously a multitude of other reasons for the findings. For example, people who can afford to buy a luxury food like chocolate are also likelier to live in more developed countries with better educational opportunities, hence the increased number of Nobel laureates from those countries. Didn't have to be a Nobel prize winner to work that one out!
Yours, the Cat says:
Yes miss but…chocolate has fat and sugar and it will make me fatter than I already am… and….oh I suppose green tea and tomatoes and blueberries will have the same sort of effect….if there is an effect at all. My doctor says it is bad for me and will increase my cholesterol and he disapproves even of the dark variety.
Mind you of course we cats are not supposed to eat chocolate at all, or even like the stuff. You humans lead us into bad ways.
Sigh…would love to think it really was all right to indulge in a little good chocolate now and then…prowling off to think about it.
trey says:
Slightly off topic here but there was an excellent episode of Southpark recently about the current state of the obesity epidemic in America. Highly recommend as long as you dont completely despise the program which in more recent seasons has been lacking.
Josephine says:
If further testing is required, I'm happy to volunteer and eat more chocolate. But only if it's dark 70% chocolate. I'm not too keen on the sweet milky stuff.
stephen says:
Ignore the Noble Prize ; I do not remember any famous recipient since Einstein ... and I have a suspicion that winners are too important to an economy of 'donor' countries, to NOT to win a prize.
In other words, cumulative and systematic knowledge is worthless.
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This pamphlet is Thomas Jefferson's personal copy of A Summary View of the Rights of British America, which he originally drafted in July 1774 as a set of instructions for the Virginia delegates to the first Continental Congress. Jefferson argued that the British Parliament had no rights to govern the colonies, which he claimed had been independent since their founding. He also described the usurpations of power and deviations from law committed by King George III and Parliament. Jefferson was not present in the Virginia House when his draft ...
Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Mathew Ahmann, Executive Director of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, in a Crowd
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Declaration of Intention of Maria von Trapp
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Treaty Between the Ottawa, Chippewa, Wyandot, and Potawatomi Indians
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Articles about the Transfer of New Netherland on the 27th of August, Old Style, Anno 1664
On August 27, 1664, a fleet of four British warships under the command of Colonel Richard Nicolls sailed into the harbor of New Amsterdam (present-day New York City) and demanded that Peter Stuyvesant, the director-general of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, surrender the colony to the British. The out-gunned Stuyvesant had no choice but to comply, and under English rule Nicolls became the first governor of the renamed Province of New York. This document lists the articles of capitulation by which the colony was surrendered and that established the ...
Freedoms, as Given by the Council of the Nineteen of the Chartered West India Company to All those who Want to Establish a Colony in New Netherland
The Lords Nineteen, the governing body of the Dutch West India Company, established the patroon system as a way to encourage the settlement of New Netherland, the Dutch colony in North America that covered parts of present-day New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware. Patroons were wealthy Dutchmen who were given extensive tracts of land, powers of local government, and some participation in the fur trade in exchange for settling colonists in New Netherland. In June 1629, the West India Company issued the Charter of Liberties and Exemptions, which declared ...
Poster from the First Postwar General Election
The first general election in Japan after World War II was held on April 10, 1946, in Showa 21 (Showa years number the regnal years of Emperor Hirohito, starting in 1926). This was also the first election to be carried out after the electoral law reforms of December 17, 1945 (Showa 20), which granted all men and women aged 20 years and above the right to vote. This election poster includes text by the female author Ikuta Hanayo (1888–1970) and calls upon women to cast their votes. The voters ...