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While the brand's popularity has undoubtedly ebbed since an event that I will refer to as Peak Phantom Luggage Tote, models still have lots of love for their treasured Céline bags. Models across the US were seen carrying Céline bags in droves this week; when they weren't carrying Saint Laurent, of course. These two brands are apparently at the top of the list of the four or five approved brands that models are allowed to carry this season. (Others would include Chanel, Givenchy and whichever brand has them on the payroll.)
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Chrissy Teigen
Céline Boxy Tote
I like the Boxy Tote conceptually; its charm is its simplicity, and the fact that it is unquestionably a Céline bag. But Chrissy's doesn't seem to be holding up so well. Scuffs and scratches really stand out on a bag with such a lack of detailing.
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Elsa Hosk
Céline Box Bag
Swedish model Elsa Hosk prefers a cherry red Celine Box Bag, which has always been one of my favorites. Carrot smoothies? Not so much.
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Jessica Chastain
Saint Laurent Monogramme University Flap Bag
$1,990 via SSENSE
Jessica Chastain isn't a runway model, but she IS the current Vogue cover girl, and she's on the Saint Laurent bandwagon with everyone else.
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Kate Upton
Céline Luggage Tote
Kate Upton has an undying affection for her large stash of Luggage Totes. We do occasionally see her carrying something else, but more often than not, she opts for a Céline Luggage Tote. She's especially partial to the croc ones.
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Kendall Jenner
Céline Nano Luggage Tote
Kendall Jenner is particularly fond of this little black Nano, which we also saw her carryingduring NYFW several months ago. (That's like 5 years ago in model time.)
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Miranda Kerr
Saint Laurent Classic Duffel Bag
$1,990 via Net-a-Porter
Miranda wisely chose this navy blue bag to accent her exceedingly matchy-matchy navy blue designer ensemble. I like the Saint Laurent Classic Duffel, because it somehow manages to communicate class and affluence in the same way that women did throughout most of recorded history of Western civilization: by being really portly.
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Nina Agdal
Céline Nano Luggage Tote
Danish model Nina Agdal was recently spotted at Miami Beach, enjoying the eternally warm weather with her own Nano in tow. On an unrelated note: were button flys ever meant to be functional? And does it matter when you're a model? (Answer: Probably not, and no.)
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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Saint Laurent Sac de Jour Tote
$3,290 via Net-a-Porter
Another day, another pic of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley looking flawless at the airport and carrying a Sac de Jour. Her life just seems so boring sometimes.

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I notice that on the most recent comic frame (#10) there is both violence and social commentary for the first time. At first, the serpent-thing seems to be malliciously strangling the guard. However, the next frame shows that the serpent-thing is merely resorting to forceful tactics to improve the social understanding of the ignorant guard. The serpent clearly feels that social equality is such an important virtue, that it must be administered to the less civilized (even if by force). This situation reminds me of the days when the U.S. was stretching its imperialistic legs by invading Cuba. I feel that this symbolism could be made more apparent if the serpent-thing were named Omer-Eeca and the guard were named Q-Ba. This would give more intellectual depth to the frame.
Then, in frame #11, I hope to see Teddy Roosevelt make an appearance as he conquers the San Juan Hill of injustice. He should be shot in the shoulder, like all good cowboys, but not killed. In his weakest moment, I hope to see him muster the strength to beat all of the other characters to death with the pointed heel of his boot. If things progress something along these lines, the comic is sure to be an inspiring success.


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The statistics surrounding osteoporosis are astounding. More than 1.3 million fractures occur each year as a result of this condition. Eighty percent of the 250,000 hip fractures in the United States each year occur in women over age 65 as a result of osteoporosis. About one-quarter of these women die within one year from complications, such as blood clots and pneumonia, caused by their convalescence. Another one-third never regain the ability to function physically or socially on their own. These women spend the rest of their lives requiring long-term care in nursing facilities. In addition to causing hip fractures, osteoporosis is also responsible for loss of bone in the jaw, gum recession (both of which are early signs of this condition), dowager's hump, loss of height, back pain due to compression and fractures of the vertebra, and fractures of the wrist (called colles fractures by physicians).
Often these fractures occur when only mild stress is put on the bone. This can include missing a step and falling down, falling on an extended arm or lifting a heavy object. Because of the underlying weakness of the bone, fractures can also occur spontaneously without any preceding trauma. This often occurs with vertebral fractures.
This chapter will discuss what happens to bones with osteoporosis, risk factors for osteoporosis, diagnosis of osteoporosis and other structural changes associated with menopause. Finally, therapies for osteoporosis and other structural changes will be explored.
What Happens to Bones with Osteoporosis
Bones are living tissue; we are constantly forming new bone cells to add to our skeletal mass and removing old cells that are no longer useful. This simultaneous addition and subtraction of bone from our skeleton is called bone remodeling; from five to ten percent of our bone is replaced through this process every year. Bone remodeling involves two types of bone cells. Osteoblasts create new bone cells, while osteoclasts are responsible for removing old cells from the skeleton. This delicately balanced process is carefully regulated by many of the hormones in our body such as estrogen, progesterone, calcitonin and thyroid (as well as other hormones).
During the first 30 to 35 years of life, we deposit more bone in our skeleton than we lose, provided our health status is normal. In fact, our bone mass is at its peak in our 20s and begins to decrease in the mid-30s. According to peak bone mass theory, our bones reach their peak level of healthy density by the early 20s. The more healthy our bones are at this stage, the less risk of osteoporosis later in life. In the years preceding menopause, bone loss begins to exceed the addition of new bone to the skeleton. As a result, bones begin to lose important minerals such as calcium, as well as their matrix or intracellular substance. This causes a decrease in bone density as well as an increased brittleness or porousness of the bones
Initially, this process occurs very slowly, and women are not even aware that it is going on. However, with loss of hormonal support to the bones at the time of menopause, this process accelerates. The first years after the onset of menopause can be a time of rapid bone loss for many women unless they have instituted therapies that emphasize prevention. Bone is lost at the rate of one to three percent per year for five to ten years after menopause. If the process of bone loss continues unabated, osteoporosis may eventually result. Unfortunately, most women are unaware that they are losing bone during their early postmenopausal years. By the time osteoporosis becomes apparent as they begin to suffer from pain and fractures, women are already in their 60s or 70s. Older women with osteoporosis may have lost as much as 40 to 45 percent of their total bone mass.
Men also start to lose bone mass around age 40 (approximately three to five percent per decade). However, they have thicker bones to start with; men have approximately 30 percent more bone mass than women. In addition, the male hormone, testosterone, helps maintain bone mass and strength. Both estrogen in women and testosterone in men help control calcium absorption by the bones. These hormones prevent the resorption of calcium from the bones into the blood circulation where calcium can be excreted from the body. However, unlike women whose estrogen levels drop precipitously at menopause, men can maintain their testosterone levels well into old age. As a result, their bones remain thicker and stronger far longer than those of women. This translates into more osteoporosis related fractures for women than men eight times more hip fractures and ten times more wrist fractures.
Although gender and age contribute greatly to the fractures that occur in old age because of osteoporosis, these are not the only factors. Many physicians also attribute fractures in the elderly to poor balance and lack of ability to right oneself when tripping or stumbling. Many older people lack flexibility, so when they fall, they absorb a much greater shock than if they could cushion themselves effectively or right themselves quickly. As a result, hip fractures increase with age, mirroring the loss of agility that occurs for many elderly women (and men).
Risk Factors for Osteoporosis
Not all women have the same risk of developing osteoporosis. Some women maintain strong and heavy bones throughout their lives, while other women develop accelerated bone loss soon after menopause. If you suspect you are at risk of developing osteoporosis, become knowledgeable about which factors have been linked to a higher incidence of this disease. This will help you and your physician evaluate your risk when planning an optimal treatment program. These factors include racial background, family history, hormonal status, lifestyle habits and pre-existing health conditions.
Racial Background
Skin pigmentation appears to parallel bone mass. African-American women are less likely to develop osteoporosis than white women. In fact, women at the highest risk are small and fairskinned. These are typically women of Northern European ancestry such as Dutch, German or English background with blond, reddish or light brown hair and pale skin. Oriental women have a higher risk of developing osteoporosis, too. Even among similar groups, the risk is lower with women who have darker skin. For example, in Israel the darker skin Sephardic Jews have a lower rate of fractures than do Jewish women of European origin.
Family History
If your close female relatives suffered from osteoporosis, you have a higher risk of developing this problem. Many women have seen their mothers or grandmothers develop a dowager's hump or become disabled after suffering a hip fracture. This can be quite upsetting for the entire family who must deal with the longterm disability.
Hormonal Status
The age at which women begin menopause and how much hormonal support they maintain during their postmenopausal years affects bone density. Women who have had a surgical menopause before age 40 with removal of their ovaries are at high risk of osteoporosis because of the abrupt withdrawal of estrogen at a young age. Similarly, women who go through an early natural menopause are at high risk. A woman going through early menopause at age 35 or 40 has as much as 10 to 15 years less estrogen protection for her bones than a woman going through menopause at age 50. Thus, the older you are when going through menopause, the more years of hormonal protection are provided for your bones.
Although obesity is a health risk for many diseases such as osteoarthritis and uterine cancer, being overweight does offer some protection against osteoporosis in postmenopausal women. This is because the fat cells produce a type of estrogen called estrone through conversion of an adrenal hormone called androstenedione. This type of estrogen provides some support for the bones once the ovarian source of estrogen has dwindled.
Lifestyle Habits
Women who engage in regular physical exercise and are more muscular have a lower risk of developing osteoporosis. Physical activity also helps keep women flexible and agile which reduces the likelihood of fractures. Conversely, inactivity increases your risk. Young women and men confined to bed for long periods show a decrease in bone mass.
Many nutritional factors affect your risk of developing osteoporosis, too. Women who drink more than two cups of coffee per day or large amounts of other caffeine-containing beverages such as black tea or colas, or who consume more than two alcoholic drinks per day, are at higher risk. Smokers also run a higher risk of osteoporosis. High protein or salt intake are risk factors, as is inadequate calcium intake. When you do not have an adequate intake of calcium, the body takes it from your bones to maintain a blood level necessary for various processes such as heart rhythm and blood clotting.
Pre-Existing Health Issues
Women with a history of bulimia, anorexia or malabsorption syndrome have an increased risk of poor calcium absorption or low estrogen levels (often the case in women with anorexia who do not have a body fat level high enough to produce adequate estrogen). Women who use thyroid medication, suffer from an overactive thyroid gland, or use cortisone for a variety of chronic conditions are at higher risk. This is also true of women with chronic kidney disease. All these conditions can adversely affect calcium balance in the body.
Risk Factors for Osteoporosis
You may choose to have a bone density test done if you are trying to decide whether or not to use HRT. If the tests show accelerated bone loss for your age group, you should seriously consider the use of HRT unless other major health issues contraindicate the use of hormones.
Another test for osteoporosis involves collecting a 24 hour urine sample. The laboratory then determines the ratio in the urine of calcium to a chemical called creatinine. A high calcium ratio indicates increased calcium excretion and accelerated bone loss.
Other Structural Changes Associated With Menopause
The loss of hormonal support affects not only the bones and teeth but other structural elements of the body such as the joints, muscles, body shape, skin and hair. Although bone loss may occur silently for many years, women notice changes in these other structural elements within a few years of entering menopause.


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I can't believe it is already 2013!
For the past couple of years the ladies I scrapbook with have done a calendar share, this year no one seemed interested so I just made one myself. WOW, it was more work than I thought.
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"Do you really know who people are?" That's the slogan for pay site PeopleFinders.com's freshly launched (and totally free!) companion site, CriminalSearches.com. Do you want to know? Everybody has something to hide — so the cliché goes. That's where CriminalSearches.com comes in.
Totally free and possibly the most intuitive Web site of its sort, CriminalSearches.com painstakingly culled and standardized the disparate record-keeping practices of counties, municipalities, cities and states to provide an almost-instant snapshot of neighborhoods and people with criminal records.
Parents may favor the comprehensive Sex Offender section of the site, which includes photos and details of offenses with its record returns. Meanwhile, privacy advocates are apoplectic. What's more, critics decry such sites as yet another attack on America's privacy — not to mention potentially disastrous inaccuracies, incorrect or incomplete information provided by the original record keepers.
Still, nobody's talking about the totally awesome aspect of this whole criminal record compilation. Why settle for Google stalking your ex when you can confirm your worst suspicions by looking them up on CriminalSearches.com? Who wants to read about happy marriages and job satisfaction on Facebook?
Do it! Do it now! CriminalSearches.com your ex!
That Power Point presentation can wait an extra minute. If you've ever questioned for one second the direction your life's taken — or even if you haven't — it may do wonders for your self-assurance. I myself never doubted ditching that age-inappropriate bad boy once I finally extracted myself from that unfavorable situation in my late teens. For years however, I did beat myself up for the length of time it took me to finally see the light. But two seconds on CriminalSearches.com washed away any remnants of self-recrimination that may've been lurking.
My ex Loser's name returned almost-immediate confirmation that getting out of that relationship — not to mention that state — was the right choice, even if it took me longer than I'd prefer. There, under Loser's name, corresponding birthday and county of residence was an early conviction that occurred before we became involved, one of which I was previously aware.
(Sad to say, at the time, his run-in with Johnny Law was part of the attraction – that's before I wised up and started finding my dates in music magazine classifieds, under "Guitarist Available.")
In the years since I ended my acquaintance with Loser, there were a couple of shocking additions to Loser's record — most appalling, a record of child abuse/neglect accompanied on the same date with a creepily oblique "O" offense for "Other." (CriminalSearches.com conveniently color codes offenses with letters for quick reference: Red "S" for sex offense, purple "V" for Violent, etc.)
My inner Sherlock piqued but stomach nauseous, I chose not to pay the $40 to get further details from the affiliated PeopleFinders.com. Instead, I called a friend and insisted she do the same. Always game for a good Internet scavenger hunt, she inserted the name of a former beau she knew for a fact had some sort of police record related to owning a pet wolf that mauled some dude — and fully expected to see his name pop up with the specified "O" icon.
So I turned to my sister. Seeing as we share a genetic predisposition for bad seeds, I felt certain she'd get some positive returns in the ex department. Instead, she decided to search for herself.
What she found was a woman of a similar name living in an entirely different state and a list of that woman's traffic offenses — yet no acknowledgement of my sister's identity let alone her own speeding ticket legacy. Disappointed, she made what some might consider a risky move and looked up her husband — fully expecting to find his own collection of traffic offenses.
Again, nothing.
So she tried Charles Manson and came up with many — but none that appeared to be THE Charles Manson. So she tried some more recent notorious criminals of somewhat less renown, (who, along with Charles Manson, she never, ever dated) and found their records straight away.
Then she was on to her ex-husband, a man we lovingly refer to as "Wingnut." Alas, nothing. A search for our other sister's husband also proved an exercise in futility as we're unsure of his birthday and he shares a ridiculously common name. She then moved on to her neighbor, of whom she'd heard rumors of a youthful indiscretion. But again, there were so many people who shared his name, the search was inconclusive.
My sister reasoned that she could probably find out his birthday and search again, but by then, she was bored. What's more, he's good guy and also a friend so she wasn't so sure she really wanted to know what he did in his younger years. Which, given omissions and possibilities of incorrect or misinterpreted information, is probably the best policy when using such sites. Consider it like your horoscope — for entertainment value only.
Like my friend, who we'll call "Grumpy." He checked up on each member of his family just for giggles and learned that his buttoned-down uncle got busted for drug possession in 1979.
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Ugh, I'm annoyed. Today, D. and I banged out (pun intended) two more positions. But the results weren't so great.
I went out last night and met up with D. and his friends, stayed out late, and crashed at his house, too exhausted to do anything but sleep, spooning. (And by the way, that is by far my favorite sleeping position.) I woke up before him and stole a move from the Cosmo playbook—getting D. up by uh…getting him up. When we started this challenge, D.'s concern was that 77 positions in 77 days would turn into 0 acts of oral sex. My wake up treat definitely appeased his fears.
Two hours and a few pancakes later, we were back in his bedroom. D.'s roommate is away for the week, which means we can make every little activity racy (topless cooking, anyone?) and keep ourselves in a constantly sexed up state of mind.
I had already chosen the Straddle His Saddle without consulting D. I decided that if we browsed the book or went online every time we were about to have sex, it would kill the spontaneity. At least this way, it would seem spontaneous.
We started in girl on top then I grabbed D.'s shoulders to pull him up into sitting position. Just like The Python, our faces were really close together, which made it very intimate. Sigh. This kind of close-sex always makes me feel a little mushy. I'm not usually the type to say I love you mid-sex, but I kinda got the urge. Before I could get the words out though, D. flipped me over and suddenly we were doing it doggy-style.
There's something about being "put" in a new sex position without warning that makes me think of a guy ordering for me at a restaurant. Part of me thinks, Did you really have to do that? But another part of me thinks, Hey, just go with it.
So I went with it. A minute in, D. told me to prop myself up on my arms. (I found out later that he'd also already chosen a sex position of the day—the G-Spot Jiggy—and wanted to make it seem spontaneous.) It definitely felt good and I noticed more penetration than usual. But something about having my I love you moment cut short really threw me off and D. finished before I was even close.
And within 30 seconds—no exaggeration—he was asleep. And I'm…well, unsatisfied. Trying not to be annoyed at D., but it's really difficult. Come on, two orgasms to one? Unfair!


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Lindenwood University and St. Charles Community College have agreed to a partnership in which Lindenwood will operate an academic advising office on the community college campus in Cottleville.
The office, which opened on Aug. 20, enables Lindenwood University to assist SCC students considering transfer and admission to Lindenwood after completing their associate's degrees or 60 credit hours of classes at SCC.
The office is in room 1226 on the first floor of the community college's Administration Building and is staffed by a Lindenwood admissions counselor.
"This is an exciting step in our partnership with St. Charles Community College," said Jim Evans, Ph.D., Lindenwood's president. "We already had a great relationship with the college, and this takes it to a new level."
"The academic advising agreement provides a helpful, in-house service to our students considering continuing their education at Lindenwood," said John McGuire, Ph.D., president of St. Charles Community College. "We welcome the opportunity to work closely with Lindenwood in a partnership that focuses on student success and ease of transfer. Lindenwood University continues to be one of the top choices for our graduates who are looking to transfer to a four-year college."
For more information about Lindenwood University, call 636-949-4933. For more information about St. Charles Community College, call 636-922-8000.


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I'm sure no one will consider hiring Dick LeBeau as a head coach. I'm also sure he would do a better job than at least half the head coaches in the NFL. No one would hire LeBeau because he is way too old, having been born Sept. 9, 1937. So what if John McCain -- born Aug. 29, 1936 -- was young enough to run for president?
I'm sure no one will consider hiring Dick LeBeau as a head coach. I'm also sure he would do a better job than at least half the head coaches in the NFL.
No one would hire LeBeau because he is way too old, having been born Sept. 9, 1937. So what if John McCain -- born Aug. 29, 1936 -- was young enough to run for president?
LeBeau is the best defensive coordinator in the NFL. His zone blitz stays ahead of the curve while a league full of offensive geniuses try to guess who the old dog will send next.
This year has to be his master stroke. The Steelers have an offensive line that at times couldn't block a beach ball, but the team thrives behind that defense.
Mike Tomlin can forget about the 2009 playoffs if he doesn't keep LeBeau.
One of the younger head coaches you'll ever see, Tomlin is to be commended.
The fire coming out off his face spreads to the employees the way it did when Bill Cowher was breathing flames. Tomlin has the requisite natural charisma.
Still, he doesn't have the second-best record in the AFC without LeBeau.
Pittsburgh arguably has the best defense on earth since LeBeau took it over in 2004. The 2008 Steelers rank first in run defense and first in pass defense.
Your offense may be a Whopper. He makes it look like a White Castle hamburger with a bite chomped out of it.
Poor LeBeau. He didn't get a shot at head coaching until later in life, and it came where the sun don't shine, Cincinnati.
He was 12-33 with the Bengals at a time Vince Lombardi would have been what -- 12-32-1?
Given who he is, the head coaching experience would only help at this point.
A bonus: He's a nice man. He's only tough when it's time to start punching noses.
But what's the point? He's 71. He'll never be asked. Maybe there should be a Rooney Rule for old guys.
Future is now in Miami
I knew Tony Sparano when he was a Browns line coach in 1999. He seemed like a nice man. One time he apologized that he couldn't be interviewed on the record -- his boss, Parcells disciple Chris Palmer, didn't like the assistants talking.
Who knew Sparano would be back in a Parcells-style camp with Parcells himself.
Sparano the surprising new head coach has been as much a revelation as Miami the undead team.
Parcells has something to do with this, but give Sparano credit. He had the gumption not to hide behind a three-year plan. He said a team that went 1-15 in 2007 could win now.
"Coming in here," Sparano said this week, "the natural reaction was that you were going to maybe rebuild and all those things.
"Well, I know I don't have the patience for that. I know Bill Parcells doesn't.
"I made no bones about saying that the first time I met the team. They don't give you any trophies and you don't get anything accomplished with six wins."
Sparano's team and the Patriots both are 6-4 heading into the weekend's most interesting matchup. The Dolphins won the first one, and this time it's at Miami.
Nostradamus calling
The War Room scouts of The Sporting News have doomed the dregs to their final draft spots and assigned 2009 picks.
The way they see it:
- Georgia QB Matt Stafford goes to the Lions at No. 1 overall.
- Georgia Tech DE Michael Johnson becomes a Chief with the second pick.
- The Bengals get Alabama left tackle Andre Smith at No. 3.
- Cornerback-happy Al Davis brings Ohio State's Malcolm Jenkins to the Black Hole at No. 4.
- Remembering where they were before Orlando Pace wore out, the Rams tap Mississippi left tackle Michael Oher at No. 5.
These guys are pretty thorough.
They have the Giants taking Ohio State linebacker James Laurinaitis at No. 31, and the Titans coming off a Super Bowl win by snagging Missouri wideout Jeremy Maclin at No. 32.
A surprise: The War Room sees Ohio State's Beanie Wells sliding to No. 9, to the Chargers.
It's a tad early for this kind of stuff. But for some fans with teams on the skids, it beats paying attention to 2008.
The agony of defeat
This isn't the Rose Bowl. It isn't even the Rose Colored Glasses Bowl. It's the Roughing the Eyeballs Bowl, Texans at Browns.
These are the NFL's last two expansion teams.
Since coming back as the team in orange helmets in 1999, the Browns are 54-100 -- make it 54-101, if you count the lone playoff appearance.
Since kicking off in 2002, counting a win over Dallas in Game 1, the Texans are 36-71 and haven't sniffed the playoffs. Not to say they haven't smelled.
Extra points
- Teams have taken on players with rap sheets as troubling as Michael Vick's. In a business whose losers get flash fired from their jobs, someone will find Vick more appealing than what is on board. If Vick expresses remorse, we have no trouble with that. If it's clear he's faking remorse, it'll be sad day for the team that takes him.
- What's the point in all that marching? The Saints lead the NFL with 411.5 yards a game but have just a 5-5 record to show for it.
- The league's top 10 defenses all have winning records.
- Rams guard Richie Incognito has criticized Rams fans for a lack of passion. Has he checked the standings since 2006?
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Plate No. 9: Medicinal Plants
- Part of The Book of Health
- 1898
Depicts peony, St. John's wort, aconite or monkshood, and lily of the valley.
- Author Lyman, Henry M. (Henry Munson), 1835-1904
- Publisher W.P. Mason
- Subject Hypericum, Peonies, Medicine, Popular, Monkshoods, Medicine, Lilies-of-the-valley, and Medicinal plants


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American Jobs Act
On September 12, four days after he addressed a joint session of Congress, President Obama sent lawmakers the American Jobs Acta set of ideas supported by both Democrats and Republicans to put more Americans back to work and put more money in the pockets of working Americans. Among other provisions, the bill proposes two jobs programs to ensure every child has the opportunity for a world-class education. First, it allocates $30 billion to keep hundreds of thousands of educators facing potential layoffs and furloughs in classrooms where they belong. Second, it invests $30 billion to put hundreds of thousands of construction workers, engineers, boiler repairmen, carpenters, and electricians back to work rebuilding and modernizing aging public schools and community colleges. The full text of the bill, as well as videos, fact sheets, and state-by-state impact information and officials' responses, is available here.
Getting outside of Washington, D.C., the President also highlighted the American Jobs Act in a series of events in Richmond, Virginia, Columbus, Ohio, and Raleigh, North Carolina. Secretary Duncan joined the President at Fort Hayes Arts and Academic High School in Columbus, where they praised recent renovationscomputers in every classroom, state-of-the-art graphic design and science labs, a new media center, and new music roomsas "a great example of where jobs can come from if we can finally get our act together..." For details on the modernization program for each state and the 100 largest high-need public school districts that will receive funding directly, see the fact sheet.
Meanwhile, from the road (see below), the Secretary (here) and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Communications Development Dave Hoff (here and here) blogged about the American Jobs Act's programs, and the Department welcomed educators "who have personally felt the sting of tough economic times."
Back to School Tour
Students were not the only ones getting back on buses last week. Secretary Duncan and senior Department officials held more than 75 events in seven states across the Midwest as part of the Department's second annual Back to School bus tour, entitled "Education and the Economy: Investing in Our Future." The Department's blog has a wealth of stories, pictures, and videos chronicling the tour, among them the top 10 tour highlights, daily recaps (September 6, September 7, and September 8), and a brief video review of the tour by the Secretary. Also, the Secretary's signature bus tour speech, delivered at the stop in Merrillville, Indiana, is posted online.
Blue Ribbon Schools
Yesterday (September 15), Secretary Duncan named 305 schools as "2011 National Blue Ribbon Schools." This program recognizes high-performing schools (schools, regardless of their students' backgrounds, that rank among the state's best performing as measured by state assessments [public] or that score at the highest performance level on nationally normed tests [private]) and improving schools (schools, with at least 40% of their students from disadvantaged backgrounds, that have reduced the achievement gap by improving performance to high levels, again as measured by state assessments or nationally normed tests). Chief State School Officers nominate public schools. The Council for American Private Education nominates private schools. Of the schools nominated by each state, at least a third must have 40% or more of their students from disadvantaged backgrounds, and public schools must meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) requirements, as defined by their states. All schools will be honored at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., November 14 and 15. The principal and a teacher will receive a Blue Ribbon School flag and plaque.
IDEA Regulations
The Department has released final regulations under Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). These final regulations will help improve early intervention services and outcomes for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families. Part C is a $436 million program administered by states that serves infants and toddlersthrough age 2with developmental delays or who have diagnosed physical or mental conditions with high probabilities of resulting in developmental delays.
The final Part C regulations incorporate provisions in the 2004 amendments to Part C of the IDEA. Also, they offer states with flexibility in some areas, while ensuring state accountability to improve results and providing needed services. The regulations focus on measuring and improving outcomes for the around 350,000 infants and toddlers served by the Part C program, with the goal of ensuring that such children are ready for preschool and kindergarten.
Additionally, the Department has released a notice of proposed rulemaking to amend regulations under Part B of the IDEA, regarding when a state or district seeks to use a child's or parent's public benefits or insurance (for example, Medicaid) to pay for special education services.
Student Loan Default Rate
The Department announced this week that the Fiscal Year 2009 national student cohort default rate increased to 8.8%, up from the FY 2008 rate of 7%. The rate increased for all sectors: from 6% to 7.2% for public institutions, from 4% to 4.6% for private institutions, and from 11.6% to 15% at for-profit schools. This rate is a snapshot in time, representing the cohort of borrowers whose loan repayments came due between October 1, 2008, and September 30, 2009, and who defaulted before September 30, 2010. Roughly 3.6 million borrowers entered repayment during this time, and 320,000 borrowers went into default. They attended 5,900 participating institutions. (Borrowers who default after their first two years of repayment are not measured as defaulters in this data.) As a historical comparison, in FY 1990, 22.4% of borrowers defaulted on their federal loans, an all-time high. The rate dropped to a record low of 4.5% in FY 2003. Schools with excessive default rates (of at least 40% in a single year or 25% or greater for three consecutive years) may lose eligibility from one or more federal student aid programs. This year, five sites are subject to sanctions. (Note: The public can search for individual school default rates online.)
Since the time when these borrowers enrolled, the Obama Administration has expanded flexible loan repayment options via the Income-Based Repayment (IBR) Plan, which makes payments more affordable by capping the monthly payment at an amount based on income and family size.
And, this summer, the Department released several college affordability and transparency lists to supply students and their families with clear data about college costs to help them make informed decisions about their choice for higher education.
Odds and Ends
The August 2011 edition of "School Days," the Department's monthly video journal, features the Administration's plans to give school relief from parts of the No Child Left Behind Act, the Secretary's visit to a tribal college in South Dakota (see his commencement address), and employees talking about the recent earthquake.
On September 7, some $180 million in grants were awarded to six states through the Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Program, which helps states pursue a comprehensive approach to improving literacy outcomes for all childrenbirth through grade 12including limited English proficient students and students with disabilities.
On September 13, $14.8 million in grants were awarded to 42 colleges and universities to support professional development activities to improve classroom instruction for English Learners.
Also on September 13, the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services held a pre-application technical assistance workshop for states on the Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge. This in-person workshop was held in Washington, D.C., with simultaneous video-teleconferencing to 11 cities throughout the U.S. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), the complete transcript from the September 1 pre-workshop webinar, and the slides from the September 13 workshop are already available online, while the workshop video and transcript will be posted shortly.
The Department has issued proposed requirements for the $200 million Race to the Top grant competition for the nine finalist states that did not receive awards in the first two rounds of the program.
Dr. Karen Mapp, Director of the Education Policy and Management Program at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, recently sat down with Anna Hinton, Director of the Department's Office of Parental Options and Information, for a conversation about a number of issues, including the need to move family engagement from an event-driven approach to a strategy that is embraced as a critical component of whole school reform.
On the SAT, this year's college-bound seniors averaged 497 (out of 800) in reading, 514 in math, and 489 in writing. Since 2007, the first year for which June cohort data is available, students' reading and writing scores have decreased by four points, while math scores have remained stable. Also, 43% of this year's college-bound seniors met the new SAT College and Career Readiness Benchmark, which indicates a 65% likelihood of achieving a "B-" average or higher during the first year of college.
Registration closes October 7 for America's Home Energy Education Challenge, aimed at educating youth about the benefits of energy efficiency.
Registration is open for the Real World Design Challenge, an annual aviation design competition for teams of high school students.
Jumpstart's Read for the Record campaign mobilizes children and adults to close the early education achievement gap. On October 6, more than two million voices will read "Llama Llama Red Pajama," by Anna Dewdney, setting a world record in the process. (Jacqueline Jones, the Department's Senior Advisor on Early Learning, will read to children at the Capitol Visitor's Center in Washington, D.C.) There is still time to pledge to read, and simple tools are available to spread the word.
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|Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Karen Duncan (9/2011), in an open letter to their children
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Today (September 16), the Secretary will help launch "Digital Promise," a new national center created by Congress to advance breakthrough technologies that can help transform teaching and learning.
Next week (September 21 and 22), the Department will host the second annual Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention Summit in Washington, D.C.
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Scheduled for Saturday, May 17th, this year's tour promises to be another memorable event that allows you to wander through the private garden gates of some of La Jolla's most cherished secret gardens. As in past years, the tour will offer a potpourri of hand-tended gardens adorned with designers' touches, live music from a variety of musicians and artists painting memorable garden scenes.
This year's poster features the painting, "Garden Joy" by artist Sharon Hinckley. Each year, a painting is chosen to grace the following year's poster - a long tradition that began with artist Pati Sofia, who painted whimsical La Jolla garden scenes for the tour's first three tour posters.
Last year, Susan Vandendriesse organized a successful garden boutique on the grounds of Wisteria Cottage and it will return again this year. The boutique is open to the public and will offer garden related items for sale, as well as handmade lanterns, vintage and new furniture, shell art, jewelry, herb and edible garden containers and of course chickens - the perfect addition to a sustainable urban garden. When you stop by the boutique you will also be able to see all the wonderful changes that have taken place at historic Wisteria Cottage, the Society's new headquarters.
The tradition of the Secret Garden Tour has been to keep the garden locations a closely guarded secret until the day of the tour, but here is a little peek into what the tour has in store for you ... This year's gardens beautifully demonstrate how gardens are ever-changing works of art that always seem to be evolving. Our changing lifestyles, children, grandchildren, pets, interest in health, the environment, as well as our weather, have all had profound effects on both garden design and how we care for them. In each garden you will see how the gardeners have dealt with some of these changes and how their gardens have evolved with them.
Reservations are available for either the self-guided tour, or Platinum Tour. The Platinum Tour offers brunch at the Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa, docent-guided shuttle service to the gardens and the tour of a special garden open to Platinum patrons only. Reservations for both tours can be made online at the Society's website: www.lajollahistory.org or call them at (858) 459-5335.
Linda is a local Realtor, who specializes in historic & architectural properties and she is a member of the City of San Diego's Historical Resources Board. A co-founder of the Secret Garden Tour, her garden was featured on the 2001 tour. Take a tour of Linda's garden on www.LindaMarrone.com.


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Former Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan seeks Liberal nomination
James Keller, The Canadian Press
Published Friday, November 9, 2012 10:39AM PST
Last Updated Friday, November 9, 2012 8:06PM PST
VANCOUVER -- Two high-profile British Columbians have thrown in their names for next year's provincial election: one who is the only person ever to beat Premier Christy Clark on a ballot and another who came within a whisker of defeating her last year.
Former Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan announced Friday he'll be seeking the nomination to run for Clark's Liberals in the riding of Vancouver-False Creek. Sullivan defeated Clark for the mayoral nomination of one of Vancouver's municipal parties seven years ago.
On the other side of the aisle, David Eby, executive director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, was acclaimed as the Opposition NDP's candidate in Clark's own riding of Vancouver-Point Grey. Eby lost to Clark in a byelection last year by just 564 votes.
The two announcements come just six months before the next provincial election, scheduled for May 14, when the governing Liberals are expected to face an incredibly difficult fight against the Opposition New Democrats.
Sullivan, who became a quadriplegic at the age of 19 in a skiing accident, was elected mayor of Vancouver in 2005 after serving as a councillor for more than a decade. He's perhaps best known outside B.C. for the image of him waving the Olympic flag from his wheelchair during the closing ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Games in Turin, Italy.
Sullivan won the 2005 mayoral nomination by defeating Clark -- a former deputy premier who was seen as a potential star candidate for the Non-Partisan Association -- by 81 votes. In 2008, he was forced out of the mayoral race by his own party, effectively ending his career in municipal politics.
On Friday, Sullivan worked quickly to dispel any notion that old rivalries remain between him and the premier. He said Clark was gracious in defeat seven years ago, even serving on his campaign committee, and he praised her job as premier.
"I think the government is going in the right direction and I would be proud to be a member of her team," Sullivan, 53, told a room full of reporters and supporters.
Clark has seen a list of caucus members and cabinet ministers announce they won't be running in the next election, including Kevin Falcon, George Abbott and Mary McNeil, whose departure opens up Vancouver-False Creek.
The premier has said she's working to attract a roster of fresh candidates to renew her party -- and salvage its dismal popularity.
Sullivan said he met with the premier and she was open to his candidacy, but he declined to say whether he or the premier first broached the subject.
The Liberals won Vancouver-False Creek by a healthy margin in the 2009 election and the party's nomination there will likely be strongly contested. Sullivan said he anticipated a "mighty battle" for the nomination.
Lorne Mayencourt, a former member of the B.C. Liberal caucus who currently works for the party, has said he's considering seeking the nomination in the riding.
Sullivan said he hopes his involvement helps the party's fortunes, but he brushed aside polls that have put the Liberals behind the New Democrats.
"I've been around politics for a long time, and I do not believe the chatterers," said Sullivan.
"I believe the B.C. Liberal party is strong. I believe that by the time the election comes around, there will be quite a different situation."
David Eby's nomination in Vancouver-Point Grey was solidified on Thursday evening when the party's deadline for nominations there passed without anyone stepping forward to challenge him.
Eby ran an improbable campaign last year against Clark, who, as freshly elected Liberal leader, chose former premier Gordon Campbell's seat as an easy route into the legislature.
Clark won, but only barely. She captured 49 per cent of the vote, compared with 45 per cent for Eby.
In an interview, Eby insisted he can win next spring.
"There are a couple of differences," he said.
"Certainly, one is that people have seen Ms. Clark in action in terms of her leadership of the party and the province, and I'm sure they've formed some opinions on that. Second, there may well be a Conservative candidate who will be challenging Ms. Clark for some of her traditional base."
Norman Ruff, a retired political science professor at the University of Victoria, said Eby may be right. Ruff said Clark likely benefited in the byelection from the enthusiasm around her new leadership, and that will be gone this time.
"We shouldn't be too quick to say he's going to be a sacrificial lamb," said Ruff.
"In the byelection, she (Clark) had more of a glow around her that seems to have dimmed."
As for Sullivan, Ruff doubted his presence, if he wins the Liberal nomination, would do much to improve the Liberals' popularity.
"He has the advantage of name recognition and profile, but in terms of renewal and giving a new sense of direction for the party, Sam Sullivan is hardly someone to do that," said Ruff.
"It's a name from the past. She (Clark) has been criticized for not having a clear vision for the future, and she's not going to overcome that by drawing on old-style politicians."
Meanwhile, former CBC-TV reporter Steve Housser, who covered provincial politics during the New Democrat governments in the 1990s, is seeking the Liberal nomination in the Vancouver Island riding of Cowichan Valley. The riding is currently held by New Democrat Bill Routley.
The Liberals also announced Victoria business owner Christina Bates will challenge NDP incumbent Rob Fleming in Victoria-Swan Lake.


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Women are awesome: We can rock the boardroom and the bedroom—and still have time to watch The Bachelor on Monday nights.
Our ability to multi-task and assess risk is exactly the reason why female-managed hedge funds are earning more than funds run by men.
Just how much more? Funds owned or managed by women earned—on average—8.95 percent through September 2012, compared with 2.69 percent average for all hedge funds, according to a study by consulting firm Rothstein Kass.
Pretty impressive, huh?
The reason for the high returns? According to the study, women are more risk-adverse and take more time to assess the market before acting. Women also tend to improve their financial skills with age.
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Note: This post has been superseded by "Free Will Without Dualism".
Free Will is an Illusion?
When it comes to philosophical discussions, what can be said of everything can be said of nothing. It's meaningless and dogmatic to apply such pat answers to dismiss all objections. That's the problem with the claim that free will is an illusion. It's a scientifically unfalsifiable claim.
I'm sure you've encountered the materialist claim that causality predetermines all events -- even our acts and thoughts. Based on this simplistic interpretation of causality, determinists then assert that the experience of choice, and therefore free will, is an illusion. Aside from illustrating that "what can be said of everything can be said of nothing", that argument is also recursive reasoning. It's circular logic that begs the question by paraphrasing it's conclusion as its premise -- "Our acts and thoughts are (i.e. "Everything is") predetermined, therefore our acts and thoughts are (i.e. "everything is") beyond our control."
If you've ever made a plan and executed it, revised a strategy or out-maneuvered an opponent, then you've got empirical evidence of free will. Everybody lives as if they have free will. They work, play, think and plan as if they have free will. That's a LOT of empirical evidence for free will. What's the evidence for the claim that free will is an illusion?
I've become convinced that determinism is a surrogate religion for far too many atheists. It's replete with all the trappings of religion: dogma, denial, fatalism, vehemently closed minds and recursive reasoning.
My biggest question is why people would want to deny their experience, not to mention the empowerment of free will, in favor of a worldview of illusions and fatalism. Maybe it's because, like Christians, they get to keep their Prime Mover and a simple doctrine absolving them of personal responsibility.
My position has evolved since this discussion started. I've since found a way for self determinism to emerge from determinism. You'll find the assertion repeated in later posts to this thread but, for the sake of this topic outline, I'll repeat it here.
Imagination is a causal effect of the human brain. The ability to imagine the future results of cause and effect plays into the mix of other causal effects such as heredity, experience, education, etc., to influence the choices we make. This ability is a temporal advantage over causality that allow us to anticipate and be prepared for causality when it arrives (in the present). By factoring into the causally determined decision-making process, our imagination guides us down the causal paths to our goals. This is self determinism. Free will.
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Alumnus Publishes Reflections on Major Feasts
SVOTS alumnus Fr. Rodney Torbic ('01 D.Min.) started out simply collecting notes for his adult education classes at St. George Serbian Orthodox Church in Carmichaels, Pennsylvania. He ended up publishing a book. His recently released title, Reflections on the Major Feasts, was deemed worthy of publication by the Clergy Brotherhood of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America in December 2010.
Wednesday evening Fr. Rodney publically presented the new title at a gathering on our campus. The President of the Clergy Brotherhood, Protopresbyter Djokan Majstrorovic, who also is the rector of St. Sava Cathedral in New York City, introduced the book and acknowledged its value for "students, clergy, and the faithful."
Fr. Rastko Trbuhovich, also a seminary alum ('73 M.Div.) and one of the editors of the book, accompanied Fr. Rodney to the presentation. Fr. Rastko briefly summed up the contents of the work-introductions to each major Orthodox feast with verse-by-verse reflections on scripture-and praised its ability "to reach different levels, from the spiritually basic to the spiritually challenging." Fr. Rastko is pastor of St. Stephen Serbian Orthodox Church in Lackawanna, New York.
Since 1986 Fr. Rodney has been the Director of Christian Education for the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Eastern America, and he is known among his flock for his prolific writing and tireless teaching. Comments from his "fans," some of whom traveled from as far as Pittsburgh to be at the presentation, attested: "Father will hold a class even if only one person is present." "Father's teaching is always 'simple,' but not 'simplistic.' "
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry will be campaigning in Bluffton and Hilton Head on Friday as part of his Palmetto State campaign blitz.
Perry and the other GOP presidential contenders are saturating the state ahead of the Jan. 21 first-in-the-South presidential primary election.
Perry's local stops scheduled for this Friday include a 9 a.m. appearance at the Hilton Head Diner, located at 6 Marina Side Dr., followed by a 12:30 p.m. visit to Bluffton's Squat 'N' Gobble, located at 1231 May River Rd.
On Monday the candidates will participate in a debate in Myrtle Beach, hosted by Fox News.
Perry and his GOP rivals are competing for the Republican nomination to take on President Obama in November.


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Ohio Haunted Places is a tour guide to haunted places through out Ohio and some selected places in Pennsylvania and Canada and more haunted places coming soon.
If anyone has their own favorite Ohio haunted places and they want to have them posted here please e-mail me.
And i am always looking for more haunted places i have missed or couldn't located the place.Posts are grouped by county.
If anyone has interesting stories to tell and we might feature them on Ohio Haunted Places please contact me.
All pictures are taken by me all rights are reserved by Ohio Haunted Places 2008.In less otherwise marked.
Some of these places are private property and some are hazardous.Enter at your own risk.


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Altimeter built at Goddard helped identify ice on Mercury
A Goddard-built instrument on NASA's MESSENGER mission provided one of three new lines of evidence that water ice exists near the north pole of Mercury. Most of the ice is covered by a thin layer of material that blankets and protects the ice, but in a few areas where sunlight never reaches, some ice lies exposed on the surface, the researchers announced Nov. 29 in three papers published by Science Express and at a NASA press conference.
The findings are based on reflectance measurements made by the spacecraft's laser altimeter and hydrogen concentrations from the neutron spectrometer as well as new computer modeling that explains how ice could persist for eons on the planet closest to the sun.
"Twenty years ago, radar astronomers made the startling proposal that there is abundant water ice at the poles of our solar system's innermost planet," says Sean Solomon of Columbia University. "But alternative explanations of the radar observations have since been suggested, and the MESSENGER team set a high priority on settling this question with orbital observations. The jury has at last returned a clear verdict." Solomon is the principal investigator for MESSENGER (short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging).
Despite Mercury's proximity to the sun, the north and south polar regions remain cold because they never tilt toward the sun. Evidence for ice deposits at both poles has been building since the early 1990s, when radar studies first spotted areas that looked very bright at radar wavelengths. These "radar-bright" regions suggested that some kind of reflective material lay on or very near the surface, and the locations turned out to be inside impact craters. More recently, extensive imaging by MESSENGER made it possible to match up the radar-bright areas with permanently shadowed regions in craters near the north and south poles.
The new studies focused on Mercury's north pole and the surrounding high latitudes. When researchers measured the reflectance at near-infrared wavelengths using the altimeter, they found more than a hundred dark regions, which reflected less than half the typical amount of light. A few exceptionally bright areas also were detected in the craters named Prokofiev and Kandinsky.
"Nobody had seen these dark regions on Mercury before, so they were mysterious at first," says Goddard's Greg Neumann, lead author of one of the papers in Science Express and an instrument scientist for the Mercury Laser Altimeter. This instrument was built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
Because the altimeter's main task is to map the contours of the planet's surface, Neumann and colleagues could see that these unusually dark areas occurred in places that stayed in shadow: on steep crater walls that faced the north pole or on the southern parts of crater floors. The researchers also matched up their dark regions with the reflective areas that looked bright to the radar signals. The regions that appeared radar-bright and unusually bright to the altimeter were located in places that never emerged from shadow.
In the meantime, measurements of hydrogen concentrations made by MESSENGER's Neutron Spectrometer indicated that the radar-bright deposits were water ice. David Lawrence of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., and colleagues found that the radar-bright areas contain a hydrogen-rich layer buried beneath a layer with less hydrogen.
The results from both instruments made sense if these radar-bright regions (also the altimeter's dark regions) represented water ice covered by a layer of other material. The much rarer bright regions seen by the altimeter would then indicate ice exposed on the surface.
Computer modeling by David Paige of the University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues showed that Mercury's average temperatures in these areas are low enough for ice to be stable over time. A blanket of insulating material is needed to maintain ice in the altimeter's dark regions, but other spots receive so little sunlight that ice could persist right on the surface.
The ice seems to be the result of a geologically recent or ongoing process, perhaps delivered by comets and other small bodies from the outer solar system. Organic chemicals from those same bodies might make up the material that covers the ice in most places. More work needs to be done before these follow-on questions can be answered definitively.
"But these new findings let us discard the proposals that the radar might be picking up other reflective materials instead of ice," says Neumann. "Now we can focus on understanding the processes that are emplacing volatiles at Mercury's poles."


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Real Housewives of New York: Thug in a Cocktail Dress
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Last night on the Americans Against Bullying Present Bully for You: A Fashion Celebration to End Bullies Bullying everyone was a bully, except for Countess Crackerjack. She was a thug. A thug in a cocktail dress. A thug is just like a bully, except it wears bigger necklaces.
What is that we hear? "Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir," it's the dulcet tones of someone speaking en Francais. "Laissez les bons temps rouler. Ou est la bibliothèque? Louis Quatorze. Poutin. Filet Mignon. Médecins Sans Frontières." It was the Countess, spouting off every Francophone phrase she could think of, the cedillas dangling out of her mouth like a bird trying to gnosh a trashing worm. Then Sonja arrived. "Oh, Sonja. Bonjour... I mean, hello. Obviously you don't speak French!"
Sonja arrived at a restaurant with her hair ruffled and her clothes a mess, with a misty glow about her face. "Sorry," she said. "I just came from working out. And by working out, I mean Michael my 'butler' working me out all over the chaise in my salon. Can I get a high five, sister!" While reaching for her chair, she put her palm out flat and pointed it at the Countess, who reluctantly tapped it with her own hand. She looked at the tips of her fingers and rubbed them together a bit before lowering them under the table and secretly wiping them on her napkin.
"Sonja, we all need to go on a trip and
the producers struck a deal with the Moroccan tourism bureau I've decided we should go to Morocco," Crackerjacks said, using her English.
"You mean that grey-haired lisping comedian? Why should we go see him?" Sonja asked.
"No, Sonja, not Mo Rocca. Morocco."
"What does Mariah Carey's son have to do with this?"
"Nothing. Oh, no, his name is Morrocan. That is kind of a stupid name. I was just saying the other day to my son Noel..."
"You want to take your son to a Mariah Carey concert?"
"No, Sonja. Will you pay attention. We're all going to Morocco. It's a country, with sand and camels."
"Are there men?"
"Yes, Sonja there are men."
"I'm in.
So, everyone's going to Morocco. LuAnn calls Jill and she's ready to go. Alex, as always, is game for just about anything. Ramona at first flat out says no, but then changes her mind and says she'll make it work. Zombie Cindy is all excited to go back to the Middle East where her undead ancestors who are now dead again originally came from. The only one who is wavering is Kelly Killoren Bensimon. I picture poor Kell-Kell visiting Morocco for a sand-themed bikini shoot in her younger modeling days, and she was just so scared to be so far away from home. She sat on set with her coltish legs pulled up in a director's chair wearing only a man's shirt and the swimsuit the stylist picked out for her underneath. She was trying to color in one of her coloring books (this one was based on Madeline her favorite book growing up because it was full of nice nuns and nothing comforts Kelly quite like a nun) but the only color she could find was Burnt Sienna and so she was coloring everything in that deep brown, blurring everything into one giant slab of color with black lines interrupting and making up the characters. And everything was the same, the color and the sand and the sky and her hair blowing in thick ringlets, and all Kelly really wanted was to go home. She didn't want to go to Morocco because it reminded her of that. Oh, that and the mental breakdown she had when the girls made her go to St. John. That too. Don't forget that.
But Kelly can't think about it right now, she's on her way over to Sonja's for a photoshoot. Sonja is having her picture taken for the Toaster Oven Cook Book that she's pretending to write. This is just like the Macrame Exercise Book and Left-Handed Parenting Manual she pretended to write before, but as usually happens with Sonja, after she's taken the pictures for the book cover, she gets bored with it and forgets about it and the pictures and the first seven sentences of the manuscript get forgotten about in the drawer like so many great American novels. Of course, when the photographer shows up Sonja has a big crush on him. "Let's get this started," she says to her latest bit of prey, bending over and sticking her ass out as she's trying to stick a tray in the toaster over. "Oh, do you like how I put the tray in the oven. I put it in and out and in and out, oooh!" she coos breathlessly. The photographer isn't buying it.
Sonja changes sets and dresses and now she's standing on her dining room table, where only the most noble of royal familes have stood before. "You know," she says to the photographer narrowing her eyes. "I'm not wearing panties!" That's when Kelly walks in and Sonja goes to sit down and says, "Look!" spreading her legs wide and her skirt hiking up, revealing her little toaster oven for the whole world to see. Well, maybe not the whole world, but at least the photographer and Kelly, both who couldn't care less, because they're both like, "Why the fuck is she sticking her twat out on the dining room table? That does not say 'Toaster Oven Cook Book.'" Kelly is so scarred by the flashing that she has to go and Sonja says, "I didn't want you here anyway. Hey, Mr. Photographer, why don't we go take the rest of these pictures (using her sexy voice) upstairs."
The photog says, "Um, that's a wrap."
"It's not a wrap. It's a ball gown. Wanna take it off me?"
"Sonja, that's it, I'm leaving."
While Sonja was trying to lure a photographer into bed, down in the West Village, Zombie Vector #1, Zombie Cindy was hatching a plan. How is she ever going to get these Housewives in a secluded location so that she could eat their brains? She finally figured it out: a trip! She's going to take them all to the big scary mansion from Clue and then pick them off one by one, eating a fine bowl of Monkey Brain Soup (a delicacy of Cantonese cuisine that isn't often found in Washington D.C.). So, Cindy and her zombie army invite LuAnn (whose brains taste like turquoise and stale Pall Mall smoke), Jill Zarin (whose brains taste like forgiveness), and Kelly (whose brains taste like Pop Rocks and coke at the same time and might be deadly if you ingest them) to Clue Manor. She tells them it's a spa, and when they get there, there's a box waiting for each of them with a different murder weapon in it. "Wait!" Cindy screams. "Those are the boxes for my zombie henchmen. These are the boxes for you." And she hands them each a box with a monogrammed bathrobe in it. Jill is so overjoyed that she puts hers on right there in the lobby. "Thanks so much, Cindy. That's so thoughtful," Jill says.
"Oh, it's nothing," Cindy replies. "Flesh tastes so much better when it's warm."
"Oh, nothing. You'll see!"
And they all head off for a good night's sleep.
Oh, I totally forgot the car ride there. So everyone is riding in the car and LuAnn and Kelly are talking about how hard it is to date in New York City. You tell it sister! Then Kelly says, "Everyone thinks you're going meet a great guy, but I only meet sharks, bottom feeders, and minnows." Wow! That's...Wow! It's like in the movies where the child is the wisest of them all and pipes up with some very sage advice at just the right moment. God, I hate when Kelly is the voice of reason. Then she's like "Oh, and my husband used to beat me." Say, wha? I can't really make fun of that (boys, don't hit girls, OK) but LuAnn gives Kelly this big hug and Jill and Zombie Queen Cindy are in the back seat flipping through magazines like nothing happened. They're not even curious about this giant bit of news. Ho Hum. Just another abuse confession on the Housewives. Snore.
While they're at Clue Manor, they all have a big supper, except Cindy isn't eating anything. "Oh, don't worry. I'll have a little nibble in the middle of the night, when you're all asleep." As they're eating dinner and drinking apple cider champagne, Kelly tells everyone that she can't go on a trip with Ramona. Everyone hates Ramona right now. She's the big drunk bully of the group. Jill is mad at her for yelling at her at the wine party last week. LuAnn is mad at her for not apologizing to Jill for yelling at her at the wine party after she told LuAnn she was going to apologize. Kelly is mad at her because she happened to be present when she had an emotional breakdown on an island. Cindy is mad at her because she dragged her to a midnight screening of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Cigars 3D and that movie sucked and she wants her $15 back. They all hate her. So Kelly is like, "I can go to a party with her" (which obviously she can't, because when Ramona confronted her at the Horse Riding Party, she freaked the fuck out and went into the Lisa Frank folder mind of hers and didn't emerge for three days) "but I can't go on a trip with her." Damn, Kelly, don't rob us of the pleasure of seeing you and Ramona on a trip.
And then, Kelly said she was feeling sleepy. In fact, they were all feeling sleeping. The tranquilizers in the cider finally kicked in and all the women were passed out in their monogrammed bathrobes right there on the table. It was Zombie Cindy, in the library, with the tranquilizers. As her zombie cohorts start to shuffle in and Cindy has her giant chompers fixed right on the Countess head, the drumming starts. All the zombie's clutch their ears and recoil in horror. They hate nothing more than sound, and there is currently some truth telling drum circle going on at Clue Manor, and it is driving all of the zombies insane. They lurch off, unbending leg after unbending leg, their green faces and tattered clothing fading into the woods once again. The Housewives are safe for another night.
They make it back into the city, and it's time for Jill's Gala to End All Bullying. It's some sort of dinner/fashion show/silent auction/raffle/dunk tank affair. Basically it's every fundraiser Jill could think up all at once. Oh, and there are goodie bags. If there's one thing I know, it's that Jill Zarin makes up a good goodie bag. No lie!
Ramona shows up with a pallet of white wine and plops it down in the middle of the event. "Oh, Ramona, I'm so glad you brought bottles for the goodie bags!" Jill says.
"Oh, no, that's not for the goodie bags, that's what I'm going to have with lunch!" Ramona says. Oh, Ramona. You're really helping the producers to give you the "wino edit," aren't you? And once Ramona gets boozy then the crazy happens.
Well, this time it wasn't even her fault. LuAnn sashays up to Ramona and says, "You know, it's really bitchy that you stole all the designers in Manhattan." And Ramona is like "WTF" (she didn't really say "what the fuck" and I'm just abbreviating it, Ramona would actually say the letters W, T, and F). Apparently Ramona told all the other girls that they can't use her designer David Meester, who is Leighton's gay uncle. She also told him that if he dresses any other Housewives, she would cut of his balls, throw them in the vat with all the grapes and have fat Italian women stomp on them at next year's harvest when they're making her Ramona Pinot Grigiot. This pisses LuAnn off and she starts a tiff about it. This makes Ramona think that LuAnn is a "real B.I." I'm not sure what a "B.I." is. Is that a bitch? Is that like a "Bitchy Investigator." That would make for an awesome title for a TNT show. Countess Crackerjacks (ka-chung) B.I..
But then LuAnn changes gears. "You know, I was just at Clue Manor with Zombie Cindy, Mrs. Peacock [Jill Z] and Miss White [Kelly and the flames..flames...on the side of her face] and they don't want to go to Morocco because you're going to be there." Oh, LuAnn, the jig is motherfucking up. That's what this whole thing is about. You want to join the dog pile on Ramona and make everyone hate her.
That's when Alex finally says it, the line that we have been teased with for months. We were waiting, dying to know just which one of these bullies would deserve the title of "thug in a cocktail dress." Really, it could be any of them. Really, it is all of them, but it was LuAnn. That was a bit of a shock. And she took the revolver out of her purse and said, "Who are you, Alex, Perry Mason," and threatened the whole charity event. "Don't bother, LuAnn," Alex said. "There aren't any bullets left in that gun. There was two to kill Zombie Cindy's minions, two to stop Simon from wearing his red leather pants again, one for that guy who wouldn't fuck Sonja, and one from when Kelly thought it was a toy and just shot into the ceiling. That's 2 plus 2 plus 1 plus 1."
"No, there was only one bullet to keep Simon from wearing those red leather pants again. That's 2 plus 1 plus 1 plus 1."
Anyway, LuAnn is the thug in a cocktail dress. And she really deserved the title last night. She was just trying to pick a fight for no reason at all. LuAnn, get out of the drama, especially if you're going to keep pretending to be all haughty. All these women do is bully each other. They yell and call each other names and scream and shout and whoever is the loudest and most persistent wins. Yes, they're just a big bunch of bullies.
But then something real happened. Jill's step daughter Jennifer got up in front of the crowd and told her story about being the victim of bullying. Jennifer has a large birthmark across her face and a tumor in her lower lip that makes her face look a little odd. She stands up there strong and proud and tells everyone how the names really do hurt, how her self-image was shaped by the people mocking her. She tells them that it's not easy to go to bed every night wishing you wouldn't wake up. But she doesn't cry. She doesn't want pity. She's past that. She's left that chapter of her life behind. She wants understanding. She wants all of these turd-brained dingbats to finally get it and stop with the harassment.
And at that moment, something came over the crowd, certainly our Housewives, that merry band of incorporated thugs. They looked at each other, one to the next, around the table, and they didn't have to say anything. They just placed their arms around each other as the smiles grew on their faces. Jill held Alex's hand under the table and LuAnn looked over at Ramona, a few seats away and mouthed, "I'm sorry." Ramona nodded and then raised her glass of Pinot to LuAnn toasting her health, and making a warm yellow splotch of light on her cheek.
Everything was good for a moment. They had all learned their lessons, as one does at this type of charity event, and they walked out the doors feeling something different, like their hearts were just a bit lighter, that the world was going to change. But this wasn't the end. No, it's never the end. If you looked closely at the sidewalk, you could see little whisps of sand on the wind. Little pellets blown all the way over from Morocco and they were chasing the women already, calling up all the other particles in the dessert and whipping them into tornadoes of fury. Just wait until you get across the sea, ladies. Wait until the sand is there to devour you, to whip against your bodies with unrelenting fury, ripping the flesh as you struggle against it, leaving nothing but the clean white carcass behind it. Leaving nothing but bone.


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"At this late date, rain does in fact do more damage to the crop than it is benefited," economist Dennis Gartman wrote in his daily newsletter. "Had these rains fallen two and three weeks ago, the crop might well have been greatly saved, but the fact that the rains have come now is almost sardonic."
Wheat for September delivery rose 0.8 percent to $6.0125 a bushel at 5:11 a.m. on the Chicago Board of Trade. Prices have slumped 19 percent from this year's peak of $7.44 on May 6 amid an outlook for ample global production. In Paris, milling wheat for November delivery increased 0.5 percent to 189.50 euros ($258.33) a metric ton on Euronext.
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SOMERVILLE, N.J. (AP) - A state prosecutor on Tuesday appealed the three-year prison sentence given to a former 'Melrose Place' actress for a drunken driving death, saying the judge improperly focused on the personal circumstances of the defendant, who has a sick and disabled child.
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Prosecutors say she was driving with a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit when her SUV slammed into a car driven by Fred Seeman as he was turning into his driveway in Montgomery Township, in central New Jersey. His wife, Helene, 60, was killed, and he was seriously injured.
Locane-Bovenizer, 41, had faced a prison term of five to 10 years on the most serious count. But citing the needs of her two young children, one of them sick and disabled, the judge last week decided to sentence her at the bottom of a lower sentencing range for a lesser crime, and to have the sentence run concurrently with the term given on the assault charge.
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A few months ago, The Scientist asked several prominent science bloggers who their favorites were, and I was incredibly flattered to find out PZ had me on his list (incredibly flattered, especially considering who else was on The Scientists list and PZs blog-roll).
That list stirred up a bit of controversy because no women science bloggers were asked, and few women science bloggers were listed. I have to admit, while I too was a little annoyed at this, I also thought it was kinda funny that some people who were protesting this point didnt know I was a female ;)
For people who dont read my blog or are new to my blog, ERV=SA Smith.
Steven Alexander Smith?
Stephanie Alexis Smith?
Stephanie Alexander Smith?
Because of my... *ahem* 'aggressiveness'... and my atheism, I get pegged as a dude online sometimes, so Im used to it, but I never thought about how my initials and writing style would be taken in my publication and grant submissions.
Some people have told me that women do not produce scientific results that are of the same high quality as those produced by men (nor do they write life science blogs as well as men, apparently) and that male reviewers can readily recognize when a woman is the lead (or sole) author of an article because "women do science differently from men."If this article is representative of the scientific community, Im going to stick to 'SA Smith'. 'Behavioral Ecology' switched to a double-blind review process, and female publications popped up from being under-represented to right where they should be. I dunno, I like being a chick that can kick viro-ass, and there are a lot of women at the top of the field of virology, like our visitor last week. Why cant I be S. Abigail Smith? Eh but even someone as 'big' in retrovirology as Dr. Dudley brought up biases against women in science in one of our conversations.
I guess Ill stay in cognito with SA Smith, then present at a conference so everyone can whisper to one another "OMG SA SMITH IS A CHICK! SHE WRITES SCIENCE LIKE A DOOD!" hehehehehehe!