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Tension Headache
Principal Proposed Natural Treatments | Other Proposed Natural Treatments | Herbs and Supplements to Avoid | References
Related Terms
• Headache, Tension
Principal Proposed Natural Treatments
• Acupuncture; Chiropractic
Other Proposed Natural Treatments
• BODY-MIND THERAPIES: Biofeedback; Hypnosis; Relaxation Therapies
• 5-HTP; Aromatherapy; Butterbur; Massage; Osteopathic Manipulation; Prolotherapy; Therapeutic Touch
Herbs and Supplements to Avoid
• Kava
Modern life is stressful, and tension headaches are one result of that stress. People with such headaches often describe a sensation like a tight band around the head; this band may in fact exist as a contracted muscle. Other characteristics of tension headache include aching, dull, or throbbing pain, usually concentrated in the forehead, temples, or base of the skull. Symptoms may overlap those of migraine, cluster, or sinus headaches, and medical advice may be necessary to distinguish between them.
Medical treatment for tension headaches generally involves the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and possibly muscle relaxants. Physicians may also recommend physical therapy techniques in hopes of addressing the causes of tension headaches, such as muscle tension in the neck or jaw.
Principal Proposed Natural Treatments
Both acupuncture and chiropractic have undergone significant evaluation as treatments for tension headaches.
Placebo-controlled studies of acupuncture for tension headaches have yielded mixed results. One study compared six sessions of traditional acupuncture against sham acupuncture in 18 people with chronic tension headache.1 The real treatment caused a 31% reduction in pain and was found to be significantly more effective than placebo. And, a study of 29 students suffering from various types of headaches found that a single acupuncture treatment decreased the number of days during which headaches occurred, as well as total use of medications.2 A statistically insignificant reduction in the number of days of attacks was seen in the placebo group. Another small study, which involved 40 people with chronic daily headache, found that acupuncture point injections with Cathami-Semen (safflower seed) twice weekly for 4 weeks resulted in a 33% increase in headache-free days compared to the control group (that received regular saline acupuncture).44
Another study enrolled 43 children with headaches ( migraine or tension) and compared laser acupuncture against placebo laser acupuncture.37 An individualized treatment approach based on the principles of traditional Chinese medicine was used. The results indicated that use of real laser acupuncture was statistically more effective than placebo acupuncture. And, in a very large randomized trial involving 3,182 headache patients, the group that received 15 individualized acupuncture sessions over 3 months experienced significantly fewer headache days and less pain compared to the group receiving usual care.40 However, despite its large size and positive results, this study did not include a placebo group.
On the negative side, a study of 39 participants with tension headache found no convincing evidence that acupuncture was helpful.3 In addition, a single-blind study of 50 participants with tension headache found that a special brief-acupuncture style given once a week for 6 weeks did not reduce headache frequency.4 Several other trials also failed to find evidence of benefit with various forms of acupuncture.57,35-36 And, in a 2008 analysis of 5 randomized controlled trials that were considered highest in quality, researchers determined that real acupuncture has limited effectiveness over sham acupuncture for tension headache.38 While it is clear that many headache patients benefit from acupuncture, at present it is unclear whether or not this represents more than a placebo effect.
A review of 9 randomized controlled trials studying patients with migraine and tension headache found that acupuncture decreased pain compared to sham or no acupuncture. The results are more positive than negative, but the quality of the studies was undetermined.48 Similar results were found in a review of 12 randomized trials of 2,349 patients with periodic or chronic tension headache. Acupuncture compared to sham acupuncture and usual care was associated with marginally improved response rates and fewer headache days.50
For more information on this method, see the full acupuncture article.
Chiropractic Spinal Manipulation
Neck tension can cause tension and pain in the head. Such "cervicogenic headaches" overlap closely with tension headaches. Chiropractic spinal manipulation has shown some promise for these conditions, but the evidence is incomplete and somewhat contradictory.
In a controlled trial of 150 participants, investigators compared spinal manipulation to the drug amitriptyline for the treatment of chronic tension-type headaches.8 By the end of the 6-week treatment period, participants in both groups had improved similarly. However, 4 weeks after treatment was stopped, people who had received spinal manipulation showed statistically significantly better reduction in headache intensity and frequency and used fewer over-the-counter medications than those who had used the amitriptyline.
In another positive trial, 53 participants with cervicogenic headaches received chiropractic spinal manipulation or laser acupuncture plus massage.9 Chiropractic manipulation was more effective.
However, a similar study of 75 participants with recurrent tension headaches found no difference between the two groups.10 Other, smaller studies of spinal manipulation have been reported as well, with mixed results.11
In a more recent controlled trial, 200 people with cervicogenic headaches were randomly assigned to receive one of four therapies: manipulation, a special exercise technique, exercise plus manipulation, or no therapy.12 Each participant received at least eight to 12 treatments over a period of 6 weeks.
A review of 5 randomized trials with 348 patients found that spinal manipulation was more effective than medication ( amitriptyline), manipulation with placebo, sham manipulation with placebo, standard treatment, or no treatment. However, there was no significant difference in headache pain or intensity when comparing spinal manipulation to soft tissue therapy with placebo laser.47
Many approaches produced better results than no treatment, and approximately the same effect as each other. While these results may sound promising, in fact they prove nothing at all, since any treatment whatsoever will generally produce better results than no treatment due to the power of suggestion. Ordinarily, researchers get around this problem by using double-blind, placebo-controlled trials (For more information on this important subject, see Why Does This Database Rely on Double-blind Studies?) While it isn't possible to do a truly double-blind trial of chiropractic, the better trials noted previously used a form of placebo treatment, making them more reliable than this one.
For more information on this method, see the full chiropractic article.
Other Proposed Natural Treatments
A number of other alternative treatments have undergone some evaluation for their usefulness in the treatment of tension headaches.
Several techniques in the category of body-mind medicine have shown promise for the treatment of tension headaches. These include hypnosis, biofeedback, and relaxation therapies.13-25,34,39,41 For example, a randomized trial found evidence to support the use of relaxation therapy in improving sleep and well-being in people with tension headaches.45
A careful review of multiple controlled studies found that biofeedback is useful for tension headaches, particularly when combined with other relaxation therapies.42 Another review of 20 control trials found psychological interventions, such as cognitive behavioral therapy, biofeedback, relaxation and coping strategies, to be associated with reduced chronic headache or migraine pain in 589 children. These treatments were compared to placebo, standard treatment, waiting list control, or other active treatments.43
A topical ointment known as Tiger Balm® is a popular remedy for headaches, muscle pain, and other conditions. Tiger Balm contains the aromatic substances camphor, menthol, cajaput, and clove oil, making it a form of aromatherapy. A double-blind study enrolling 57 people with acute tension headache compared Tiger Balm (applied to the forehead) against placebo ointment, as well as against the drug acetaminophen (Tylenol).26 The placebo ointment contained mint essence to make it smell similarly to Tiger Balm. Real Tiger Balm proved more effective than placebo. In addition, it was just as effective as acetaminophen, and more rapid acting.
Another form of aromatherapy, peppermint oil applied to the forehead, has also shown promise, but current studies remain highly preliminary.27,28
Therapeutic touch (TT) is a form of "energy healing" popular in the American nursing community. In a blinded study, 60 participants with tension headaches were randomly assigned to receive either therapeutic touch or a placebo form of the therapy.29 The true therapy proved to be more effective than placebo.
A study of 28 people with tension headaches compared one session of osteopathic manipulation to two forms of sham treatment and found evidence that real treatment provided a greater improvement in headache pain.30 Another small randomized trial with 63 patients compared two myofascial release techniques to a control group. Myofascial release treatments resulted in fewer headaches for the 4-week trial period compared to the control group.46 Similar results were found in a randomized trial including 62 people with tension headache who were randomized to myofascial head and neck massages, ultrasound, or waitlist. Those receiving massage reported fewer headaches than those that received ultrasound or were on waitlist.49
Prolotherapy, massage, and reflexology (a special form of massage) have all been recommended for the treatment of tension headaches, but there is little evidence to support their use.
The herb butterbur is thought to have antispasmodic and anti-inflammatory properties, making it potentially useful for tension headaches.31,32
The supplement 5-HTP has shown some promise for migraine headaches. However, an 8-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of 65 people with tension headaches found that 5-HTP did not significantly reduce the number of headaches experienced.33 It did, however, reduce participants' need to use other pain-relieving medications.
Herbs and Supplements to Avoid
The herb kava is sometimes suggested as a muscle relaxant and stress reducer. However, there is no meaningful evidence that kava is effective for tension headaches (or any form of muscle tension), and it has been taken off the market in many countries for safety reasons: its use has been linked with severe liver damage.
Finally, numerous herbs and supplements may interact adversely with prescription drugs used to treat tension headaches. For more information on this potential risk, see the individual drug articles in the Drug Interactions section of this database.
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"[…] For all we know
This may only be a dream
We come and we go
Like the ripples of a stream […]"
- "For All We Know," Donny Hathaway
Illness has changed my life in tangible and intangible ways. For all I know, it may be simultaneously the best and worst thing that has ever happened to me. It has given me perspective.
I think it's easy to think about the things we can't do because of illness. But it's harder to think of the things that illness has allowed us to do. This is a much more introspective task.
Illness has shown me that I possess strength within me, but I do get tired of hearing that such and such experiences will make me stronger. Maybe I'm strong enough already, maybe I'm not that strong at all.
Illness has taught me how to fight, not in battling the disease, but in fighting for myself, and the treatment I deserve in all aspects of my life.
In illness, as in life, you have to pick your battles wisely. You have to be willing to fight the good fight, but also know when to step away and let others take the reins.
Illness has taught me, as I have discovered recently, that I'd take physical over emotional pain any day.
Illness has taught me not to hold back, to share my feelings, and love with my whole heart, body, and soul. And that makes me a far different person than I was before I got sick. Sure, I had crushes on guys, but I never really put it out there. Now, I grab the bull by the balls (pun intended). Yes, the bull, and yes, by the balls (my girlfriends will understand this).
The main thing illness has taught me is that we can't control everything. For all we know, this could be our last day on earth. For all we know, we might live another 80 years. Those of us who are chronically ill feel the ticking of time more acutely, the need to make every day, every minute, every hour count.
I don't think it was until I got sick that I realized I really wanted to have children. It's like discovering I didn't have the body I wanted, made me realize that I may never have the life I wanted. With the reality, at least in the beginning, that I may not live long enough or be healthy enough to have children.
With my ex-boyfriend, I even considered and almost relished the concept of being a stay-at-home-mom, of leaving academia behind for the most important role of my life.
Recently, several people have made the comment to me that you don't have to have a man to have children. But the problem is, there are going to be real physical challenges. As much as I want a child, there is no way that I would do that as a single parent, knowing that there may be times I won't physically be able to care for a child.
Illness has made me realize that the little stuff doesn't matter. It has shown me to take absolutely nothing for granted.
When life gets too hard and I think that I can't, I just keep telling myself "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can." Maybe I will, maybe I won't, but at least I tell myself I can before telling myself I can't.
Ultimately, if there is one thing that illness has done for me, as the name of my blog suggests, it has brought me closer to myself.


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DJ AM was laid to rest during private funeral attended by ex-fiancee Nicole Riche, former band mate Travis Barker and girlfriend Hayley Wood.
Dozens of family members flocked to Hillside Memorial Park in West Los Angeles yesterday afternoon to pay respects to the celebrity deejay who was felled by an apparent drug overdose in New York City last week.
The celebrity deejay -- whose real name is Adam Goldstein -- was honored by Barker, a former member of the band Blink 182 who reportedly tossed dirt on Goldstein's coffin after paying respects. He and Wood then walked side by side with Goldstein's family, MTV reported.
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The funeral was held under a canopy toward the rear of the cemetery, which is one of the city's most prominent Jewish graveyards, E! News reported.
A memorial for Goldstein will be held on Thursday night at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles -- on the same stage where he and Jay-Z played a month after he and Barker survived a plane crash in Southern California last year.
Goldstein, 36, was found dead last week in his New York City apartment of an apparent accidental drug overdose, though there is no official cause of death.
As Goldstein's friends and family paid their final respects, questions loomed about the future of the deejay's assets. Goldstein is said to be worth about $1 million but left no will.
His mother, Andrea Gross, filed court papers in an effort to have herself named as the sole heir to his estate. Goldstein reportedly had $3.5 million in property, $400,000 in personal assets and debt totalling $2.9 million. He left no will or indication of how he wanted to distribute his fortune, according to E! News.
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Could Facebook quit all negotiations with the City of Menlo Park and start its new headquarters somewhere else in the Bay Area? According to its chief financial officer, that's just what it could do if the city doesn't stop requests for community improvements.
Both parties are working on negotiating an airtight agreement for Facebook's expansion of its new headquarters in the city, but there was definitely a hint of a threat in the air.
"I believe the discussions over the next few months will prove to be the seminal, critical conversations that will determine whether or not Facebook will move forward with our plans to plant our long-term roots in Menlo Park and become deeply embedded in the community," David Ebersman, Facebook chief financial officer, told the Menlo Park city council, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
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Ebersman said he hoped the city had "approprrate, considerate expectations" about what the social network should provide for the city accommodating its new 6,600-employee headquarters, at the former Sun Microsystems site.
So far the city council and planning commission requested numerous improvements such as bicycle routes, landscaping an expressway, supporting local schools, providing affordable housing and subsidizing park maintenance. The city also wants ongoing payments from Facebook to make up for missed sales tax it would have received with a retail business.
City council members got the message from Facebook loud and clear. By the end of Tuesday's discussion, the council were asking only for lost sales tax revenue, support for affordable housing and local schools and bike route improvements.
Mayor Kirsten Keith duly noted that the city is in an envious position since Facebook decided to move out of Palo Alto to stake its headquarters at the old Sun Microsystems campus at the intersection of Bayfront Expressway and Willow Road."The company could have chosen to go somewhere else, and some cities offer tax credits and other incentives to actually pull businesses in," Keith said.Council Member Andy Cohen showed that he got it too, saying he hopes the city doesn't "screw it up" with Facebook by asking for too much.
Wow, Menlo Park definitely blinked in this staring contest. We're not saying that Facebook wasn't in its rights to say no to some of the ridiculous requests (really? beautifying a whole expressway?) but if the company is going to make traffic and congestion more of a problem -- and it's adding 3,000 more employees than ever was supposed to be at the campus -- it needs to alleviate some of that problem.


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Top 10 toilets in Tel Aviv
We gave you an insider scoop on the top 10 public toilets in Jerusalem. Now we offer a list of loos that made the grade in Tel Aviv.
Best public toilets in the city?
If you read our November 2011 guide to the Best public bathrooms in Jerusalem, you now know where to run if you're caught short while touring in the Holy City.
Now it's Tel Aviv's turn, just in time for summer travelers.
Like Jerusalem, the Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality provides a map of public restrooms on its Hebrew website. It's part of the recently launched iView web application, a free Geographic Information System (GIS) that shows you where to find Tel-O-Fun bike rental stations, parking lots and more.
Pick up a printed map at tourist information offices on the beach promenade and near the Jaffa Clock Tower.
City tourism spokeswoman Mira Marcus tells ISRAEL21c there are hundreds of publicly maintained bathrooms scattered around the city. "In the Yarkon Park alone, there are 16 sites that have dozens of bathrooms stalls, with signs pointing in their direction," she says.
There are restrooms at each municipal beach, too. Most charge one shekel for entry.
In our toilet trek around Tel Aviv, we focused on finding the top 10 WCs in the central part of the city, where visitors are most likely to be walking around if they're not on the beach. One word of warning: We found that bathrooms in public parks are sometimes locked even during the posted hours of operation.
1. 2theloo, 9 King George Street and inside the Dizengoff Center
It's not maintained by the city, but this ingenious for-profit public restroom chain (founded in Amsterdam) is undoubtedly the best option for a pit stop in central Tel Aviv, and it costs only NIS 3 (less than a buck).
A very welcoming attendant offered to show us around the King George branch without paying. (Once you've seen 2theloo, you won't think a bathroom tour is an odd concept.) Open from 10-8 daily except Saturdays, this spotless and inviting loo has seven toilets and two urinals. Each is brightly decorated by theme, such as the beach and the jungle. There's a low toilet for kids, a changing table for babies, and wheelchair access. In the corridor are relevant "gift" items for sale, from the practical (Kotex) to the fun (toilet-shaped candy).
- Even if you don't need the facilities, stop by for a tour.
2. Municipal building, 69 Ibn Gavirol
If you're wandering through Rabin Square, or visiting City Hall on business, you can take care of your personal business as well in its green-tiled public restroom. The ladies' has two well-stocked stalls, five sinks, a changing table and – very reassuringly – a posted check-off for cleaning personnel. Apparently it gets spiffed up every hour or so.
3. Gan Ha'Ir, 71 Ibn Gvirol
Rumor had it that this small upscale shopping center, near Rabin Square, boasts the best public toilets in the city. And indeed, they are really nice. Signs point the way as soon as you enter the mall, with a choice of upstairs or downstairs. We checked out the lower-level ladies room, which has 12 stalls (one with wheelchair access), six sinks, a changing table and ample soap and paper products.
4. Magen David Square, Allenby and Nahalat Binyamin streets
Open Sundays to Fridays, 8-8, this public restroom – down a flight of stairs from street level at the entrance to the Carmel Market — stands out for its size: 10 stalls and nine sinks (though two of the toilets were out of order when we visited). An attendant keeps it stocked with paper goods and soap, but there is a one-shekel charge.
5. Reich Community Center for Senior Citizens, 106 Arlozorov
Just past the information desk are small but nice bathrooms. The ladies room has two spacious stalls (one with wheelchair access), one sink and plenty of paper goods and soap. Open 8-1 and 4-7, Sundays through Thursdays.
6. Passageway between Dizengoff and Frishman, at 101 Dizengoff
You can access this large, clean, well-marked public john from either of these two main streets, Sundays to Fridays from 9am to 7pm. There are three sinks and three stalls on the women's side. No paper towels, but the automatic dryer works.
- Even if you don't read Hebrew, you can tell that these yellow signs point you toward bathrooms.
7. Beit Tami Community Center, Mordecai Park between Sheinkin and Merkaz Ba'alei Melaha
A child-friendly loo in this center off trendy Sheinkin Street has a changing table, two clean stalls, two sinks and ample soap. Hours: 9am to 1pm Sunday through Thursday; 4-8 Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday; 3-7 Monday and Wednesday. Beit Tami, as well as 2theloo and Magen David Square, are within easy walking distance of the Nahalat Binyamin street fair on Tuesdays and Fridays. (There is also a restroom in Mordecai Park, but it was locked when we visited.)
8. Magid Community Center, 63 Nordau
Magid serves an area of many English-speaking immigrant families. It offers a pleasant, spotless, yellow-and-gray tiled restroom with five stalls and three sinks. It was the only one we saw that had a sink designed for easy access to children and people in wheelchairs. Hours: Sundays through Wednesdays, 8:30am to 8pm.
- Magid's inviting loo.
9. Mitchell Senior Center, 12 Mandelstam
If you're shopping for wedding gowns (or anything else) on Dizengoff Street between Jabotinsky and Nordau, here's a perfect place to pop in for a bathroom break just one block to the east. The clean restrooms are one flight up from the main lobby – there is an elevator if you need it – and the ladies side has two stalls, one sink and plenty of soap and paper. The center opens at 8am Sundays to Thursdays and remains upon until 4pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30pm the other days.
10. Dizengoff Square at 1 Reines
Although this was closed due to short-term street construction on the day we visited, we are including this centrally located, freestanding public restroom on our list because it's right below the newly renovated Agam Fire and Water Fountain in Dizengoff Square – a very convenient setting – and it's open seven days a week, 10am to 8pm. Worst-case scenario, you can ask to use the restrooms in the Cinema or Center Chic boutique hotels just off the square.
mh- New York Jewish Guide.com


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Drug Policy Alliance - Cocaine Fact Sheet (2018)
Cocaine and Crack Facts
Cocaine comes from the leaves of the coca plant that grows in the Andes Mountains in South America. For thousands of years, many indigenous tribes in this region have chewed coca leaves to produce a mild, stimulating feeling, and continue to do so to this day.
Scientists isolated cocaine from coca leaves in the 1850s. Until the start of the 20th century, this new "wonder drug" could be found in countless medicines to treat a variety of ailments. It was also included in many of the popular health tonics of the day, including Coca-Cola.
Cocaine is a fine white powder, bitter to the taste. When inhaled or injected, it causes a numbing effect. "Crack" cocaine is a smokeable form of cocaine made into small "rocks" by processing cocaine with sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and water.
Many myths surround cocaine and crack cocaine use. Despite media reports claiming crack to be addictive with a single use, the best data, from government-sponsored surveys, have consistently shown that less than one out of four people who ever tried the drug used it more than once. Media stories of a "crack baby" epidemic, which began to appear in the late 1980s, are now considered greatly exaggerated. Research now indicates that other factors, such as poverty, are responsible for many of the ills previously thought to be associated with cocaine and crack cocaine use.
Criminal penalties for possession and sale of powder and crack cocaine are severe. Despite recent federal reforms of crack sentencing laws, much higher penalties still exist for possession and sale of crack, despite the fact that, pharmacologically, it is the same drug as cocaine. Possession of 28 grams of crack cocaine yields a five-year mandatory minimum sentence for a first offense; it takes 500 grams of powder cocaine to prompt the same sentence.
Most users sniff or snort cocaine, although it can also be injected or smoked. Crack is smoked. Since the 1980s, cocaine has become more plentiful and cheaper. Although cocaine HCL and crack remain widely available throughout most of the United States, the cost and purity of both drugs vary.
The duration of cocaine's effects depends on the route of administration. The high from snorting or sniffing powder cocaine may last 15-30 minutes. Smoking crack delivers large quantities of the drug to the lungs, producing effects comparable to intravenous injection. These effects are felt almost immediately after smoking, are very intense, and last 5-10 minutes.
Although cocaine is easy for teenagers to obtain, only a small percentage of them try it. According to government surveys, eight percent of high school seniors reported using cocaine at least once during their lifetime. This is markedly lower than the peak of 17 percent for the senior class of 1985. In terms of crack, 3 percent of eighth graders, 4 percent of tenth graders, and 4 percent of twelfth graders reported using the drug at least once during their lifetime in the same survey. In 2010, 23 percent of eighth graders, 32 percent of tenth graders, and 45 percent of twelfth graders reported that crack was "fairly easy" or "very easy" to obtain.
Reinarman, Craig and Harry G. Levine, eds. 1997. Crack In America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN: 0520202422.
Waldorf, Dan, Craig Reinarman and Sheigla Murphy. 1991. Cocaine changes : The experience of using and quitting. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN: 1566390133.
Community Epidemiology Work Group, National Institute of Drug Abuse. 2000. Epidemiologic trends in drug abuse, Volume 1: Proceedings of the community epidemiology work group, highlights and executive summary (December).
Goode, Erich. 1999. Drugs in American Society. Boston: McGraw Hill College.
Szalavitz, Maia. 1999. Cracked up: How did a drug whose addictive properties were once compared to potato chips become the scourge of America? May 11 <http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/05/11/crack_media/print.html>.
Johnston, L. D., O'Malley, P. M., Bachman, J. G., & Schulenberg, J. E. (2011). Monitoring the Future: National results on adolescent drug use, 2010. Ann Arbor: Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan.


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Darrin Grelle
posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008 - 9:20 pm
Hi, I have job performance data on individuals with varying numbers of time points due to turnover. Because of turnover, a multilevel random effects approach was more appropriate. I have reason to believe the change over time is non-linear, but I don't know how to include a quadratic term. When I do the following:
I get an error message telling me I can only estimate one random effect at a time. I've tried it a few other ways with no error message, but get very different results. I eventually want to try GMM and survival analysis, but I need to figure the quadratic part out first. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, March 21, 2008 - 7:32 am
It sounds like you have your data in the long format as shown in Example 9.16. If this is the case, you need two statements, one for the linear part of the growth and one for the quadratic and you need two time variables, time and time squared:
s | perform ON time;
q | perform ON timesq;
If this does not help, please send your input, data, output, and license number to
Darrin Grelle
posted on Monday, March 24, 2008 - 3:34 pm
Thanks for the response! I am wondering if you could help me with another issue. I have people in my dataset that only have 3 months of data and others with up to 9 (due to turnover). Within each individual, some missed measurement opportunities and have missing data. I have coded the missing data numerically, and for those that left the job, I left fields in subsequent months blank. I'm unsure if LGM (e.g. example 6.1) can handle the varying number of data points, or if I was correct in my original plan to use a multilevel design with data in the LONG format. How does Mplus handle the system missing data points? I realize there are probably several ways to go about doing this analysis, but considering your expertise in a wide range of growth models, your advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 9:18 am
I prefer the wide approach because it is more flexible, for example, you can obtain a residual variance for each outcome rather than a single residual variance. The difference in the number of measurement occasions is handled by missing data. Assign the same missing value flag to these occurrences as you do to any other missing data. The results will be the same as the long approach.
Darrin Grelle
posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 1:28 pm
Thank you for the advice. I wasn't sure how to handle the missing data issue. I thought it would be problematic to use FML imputation for measurement instances that occurred after a person was terminated/left the job. I have found that the wide approach is much more flexible for estimating the shape of the growth curve, so thanks again for the suggestion.
posted on Tuesday, June 04, 2013 - 9:06 pm
Hi, I have a question about Linda's response to the first post above. Linda explained that to add the quadratic term to a growth model using the long format, the following should be written in the WITHIN section of the model.
s | perform ON time;
q | perform ON timesq;
When I run this, Mplus tells me that I need to define timesq.
I tried to define it using the following. However, it doesn't work.
DATA: FILE IS data2.dat;
WIDE = y1-y3;
LONG = y;
IDVARIABLE = person;
REPETITION = time;
DEFINE: timesq = time*time;
Can you tell me how to define timesq so I can add the quadratic term?
Thanks for your help!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, June 05, 2013 - 6:13 am
You need to put timesq at the end of the USEVARIABLES list. If you still have a problem, send the output and your license number to
Xiang Zhou
posted on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 3:05 pm
Hi Dr. Muthen, I kept getting "TYPE=TWOLEVEL requires specification for the CLUSTER option" error message after entering the quadratic term, is "CLUSTER = id;" not sufficient enough? It seems to work with linear slope only scenario.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 3:23 pm
Please send the output to Support along with your license number.
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Well after the debacle that was the Manchester United team, I have surprisingly fared a little better with a shared Wigan Athletic team, even getting people in the right positions and players that have been registered players with both clubs.
Considering the two clubs share very little history it was relatively easy to pick a team and I even had a spare keeper (Dave Beasant)!
Here goes:-
Eric Nixon
Born in Manchester Nixon began his professional career in 1983 at Maine Road with City, while at the club he earned the feat of playing for a club in every English division in one season, while on loan at Wolves, Bradford, Saints and Carlisle in 1986/87. He made four appearances at The Dell in that season, providing cover for Peter Shilton. He eventually joined Tranmere Rovers and made over 340 appearances for the Wirral club before several loan moves in the mid-90's. He signed for Wigan in 1998 (initially on loan) and played three times before heading back to Tranmere. Nixon retired in 2004 and went into coaching and Elvis-impersonating!
Jeff Kenna
Dubliner Kenna joined the Southampton youth academy in 1987 and turned pro in 1989. He was a highly rated right full back during his time at the Dell and played in the defeated ZDS final team. Having played over 110 times for Saints he was sold to new money Blackburn Rovers for £1.5 million in 1995. He played over 150 times for Rovers but fell down the pecking order and was sent out on loan moves in 2001. One of those was to the DW Stadium. He played six times for Wigan before heading to Birmingham City. He returned to Ireland in 2008 and became player/manager of Galway United, he quit to take over the reigns at St. Patrick's Athletic in 2009 but lasted less than a year and now coaches in the United States.
Fitz Hall
'One Size' started his career in his native London with West Ham, but was released as a youth player, he signed for Barnet but it didn't work out there either and he dropped into non-league football. He was managed at Chesham United by Bob Dowie, brother of former Saints striker Iain who took him to Oldham Athletic in 2002. His fantastic first season in Greater Manchester saw him propelled to the Premier League in 2003 with Saints. Though Hall didn't perform badly for Saints, he couldn't force his way past Lundekvam and Svensson at the heart of Saints defence, having played just 11 times for the club he rejoined Dowie at Crystal Palace. It was 2006 when he made his way to the Latics, but his time at the DW seemed to be littered with injuries, own goals and suspensions. Once Peter Taylor moved on Hall was out of favour and left for QPR in 2008. Now playing at Watford.
Chris Makin
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Alan McLoughlin
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Tommy Widdrington
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Harry Penk
Local lad Penk joined Wigan in the early 1950's and was given the chance to turn pro with Portsmouth in 1955, things didn't work out for Penk at Fratton Park and he joined Plymouth in 1957. He lasted three season's with Argyle playing over 100 times and joined Saints in 1960. Penk made over 50 appearances for the club between '60 and '64 before moving to Salisbury City.
Henri Camara
Senegalese forward Camara came to England via France and Switzerland to sign for Wolves in 2003. He endeared himself to the fans by refusing to play for them in the Championship following relegation and was loaned to Celtic. He was signed on loan by Saints in January 2005 and was without doubt the most succesful of Redknapp's dealings while at the club. Camara's energetic performances couldn't stop Saints being relegated though and he headed to one of their Premier League replacements Wigan. Camara played over 70 games for the Latics, chipping with 20 goals. Later played for West Ham, Stoke and Sheffield United before heading to Greece.
Brett Ormerod
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David Connolly
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Over the past couple weeks, I've identified two deficits in our modern lives — the lack of sprinting [1] and the lack of walking [2] – and proposed a series of corresponding challenges to address (and hopefully fill) those deficits. Judging from the responses, I think these articles were successful. Today, I'm trying my hand at highlighting another problem, this time one that has nothing to do with physical fitness [3]. In fact, it deals with perhaps the most physically inactive activity you'll ever do: staring at a smartphone as the world gets on around you. Don't get me wrong. I'm not anti-technology (duh), or even anti-smartphone (got one myself). I have the accumulated knowledge of the world in my pocket, and that's pretty darn useful. I can find out where to get the best Greek food [4] within five miles. I can bank, I can order flights to far off lands, I can check traffic, I can check shopping lists, read email, text, tweet, friend, defriend, like, oh, and make phone calls – all from the comfort of my 3.5 inch touch screen. That's incredible. It also makes it really, really easy to get too comfortable and avoid actually experiencing the real, physical world.
I mean, when you stop and step outside of yourself for a second, and you think about the level of technology we can access, it starts feeling like we're in the future. Of course, the future will never actually feel like "The Future" because we'll have caught up to it and gotten used to it, but if a Connecticut Yankee appeared in our midst from the 19th (or even late 20th) century, he'd be blown away. It's awesome and empowering and all those great things, but is there a dark side to it, too?
Our relationship with technology is not quite as dire as a Philip K. Dick novel, with programmable moods and emotions replacing real ones and electric pets replacing organic ones. It's also not quite like the Jetsons, where flying cars, robot maids, moving sidewalks, auto-cooking kitchens, and other advanced tech enhanced human engagement with the world and its inhabitants. Ours lies somewhere in between. We're getting along, it's not a dystopia, but I think there are some very real problems that need to be acknowledged. Namely, smartphones, social media, and the Internet in general has changed the way we experience the world. For many, it has replaced engagement with the real physical world almost entirely. And that's bad. We're really missing out.
Okay, how about some stats? Let's see what we're dealing with.
In Britain [5], 81% of smartphone users have it on all day, every day. Almost half of smartphone users, upon being woken up by a phone call or text or misplaced alarm at night, end up using the phone instead of shutting it off and going back to sleep. Over half of adults and two-thirds of teens regularly use their phones while socializing with others in person (there's nothing like a tableful of people staring at their phones in unison, is there?). About a quarter of adults use their phone during dinner. A third of teens can say the same. 47% of teens use their phones on the toilet, while just over a fifth of adults do the same (don't they know the bathroom is for thumbing through the wife's Cosmo?).
In the US [6], 59% of teens admit that they go online too much, 58% say they use smartphones way too much, and 48% use Facebook (and other social media sites). Of course, they admit it, but they don't do anything about it. But hey, at least they're watching less TV!
Internet Addiction Disorder is now a real thing, gaining acceptance as a legitimate clinical disorder and characterized by the classic trappings of a substance addiction. A series of studies out of China have found large structural differences between the brains of Internet addicts and controls, including impairments in white matter fibers involved in emotional generation and processing, executive attention, decision making, and cognitive control (PDF [7]). I'm not saying we're all full-blown Internet addicts, but there's a spectrum, and I think a lot of people are hurtling along it.
Near as I can tell, this is a real problem. A recent study [8] even found that people who stopped checking their email for a week were more productive and experienced less stress (as indicated by the heart rate monitors attached to them for the duration of the experiment) than the folks who maintained their email habits. Those who checked emails switched windows an average of 37 times per hour, while the email abstainers switched windows just 18 times per hour. More than objective effects on productivity and stress, though, I just find it really sad to see people miss out on life because they "had" to check their phone. It's sad seeing strollers full of wide-eyed babies who are absolutely amazed at everything they're seeing – that bushy squirrel tail flashing across the powerline overhead, the cat sunning itself on the sidewalk, a garbage can left out from garbage day, a bush, a cloud, a man on a recumbent bike, a leaf fluttering down from treetops – pushed by moms and dads with their eyes glued to their 3.5 inch screens, totally oblivious to the sensory explosions going on in their offspring but completely up-to-date on whether or not someone "liked" their most recent status update. "Ooh, red notification!" At least take a photo of the kid or something, sheesh.
Okay, time to fess up.
In the past week, what's the longest you've gone without checking your smartphone, surfing the web, or checking Facebook, Twitter, or your email? Just give a ballpark figure. You don't need to be exact. Sleep doesn't count (nice try). Waking hours only.
So here's your challenge for the week: don't use your phone or check your email after 7 PM for the next seven days. Extenuating circumstances? Sure, fine. Don't lose your job over this or anything like that, but do your best to avoid those frivolous mindless thoughtless check-ins "just because."
This may sound easy. 7 PM? Psh. Assuming you go to bed around 10, 10:30, 11 PM, that's just a few hours of downtime. You can do that. Right? I was originally going to make it a bit more hardcore, but I think this is easy enough that everyone can hit it if they try, and dramatic enough that you'll see and feel a real difference.
We'll see. If it was so easy, if real life was so preferable to a smartphone, you'd already be doing it on your own. Don't disappoint me!
One more thing: don't just turn off the phone and close the laptop and turn on the TV. No, do something. Go out dancing [9]. Light some candles and have a game night. Go for a walk. Go for a night hike [10]. Take a short vacation (and leave the phone altogether). Engage with the physical world and its inhabitants, face to face. And let this engagement with the world carry over to the rest of your time, your "connected" time. Smartphone usage and being present are not mutually exclusive, believe it or not.
Please, whatever you do, keep that phone off, in your pocket, or back at home when you go on a walk with your kid. Don't shuffle along, oblivious to the world around you, eyes and attention trained on that screen.
Okay, I've said my piece. Now it's your turn. Get out there and stop missing out on real life!


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On rare occasions, I'll comment on political matters – typically, not to make a political statement, but to note how certain events have a "branding" twist to them.
Brand Hillary just lost the moon.
The juxtaposition of her fantasy-like description of dodging sniper bullets with the pictures and descriptions of the reality of the event have put, in my mind, the final nail in the coffin of her damaged image. How can any reasonable person respect someone who plays so fast-and-loose with the truth? Or feel confident in their leadership?
Companies that do that lose their chance to make the landing in our hearts, because it's a trust thing. When you begin to conclude that a person or a company will say or do anything to achieve power or influence, you have to shake your head and walk away.


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Watering the Tulips
March 13, 2013
"For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!" – 1 Corinthians 9:16
The primary message of the Lord's people is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This message is clearly defined in 1 Corinthians 15:3-4 which says, "For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures". The rest of the Bible certainly contains much "good news" for the children of God. However, the Word of God is specific when it refers to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
This Gospel is the message that we have been sent into the world to preach. When Jesus commissioned His infant church, He said, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15). This is not merely a suggestion, mind you. This is a clear Commission to every one of the Lord's churches. Our chief message for a lost world is the message of Jesus dying in the place of sinners.
The two ordinances of the church clearly portray the Gospel. In baptism by immersion, the death, burial and resurrection of Christ is clearly pictured. Every time a person is properly baptized they are declaring to the world that Christ is their Savior and Lord of their life. Baptism is a uniform, so to speak. It doesn't make anybody a Christian. But, it designates which side we are on by portraying that our sins were paid for when Jesus died.
Likewise, the Lord's Supper pictures the broken body and shed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. As an unleavened drink, wine pictures the sinless blood of our Savior. The unleavened bread pictures His sinless body. Every time a local church observes the Supper, they are collectively declaring the Gospel to all of those who look on.
Clearly, the Gospel is the subject of the Scripture. Everything in the Bible in one way or another hinges on Calvary's cross. The Fall if man is remedied thousands of years later when Jesus gave "His life a ransom for many" (Matthew 20:28; Mark 10:45). The eternal ages, which we find in Biblical prophecy, is only possible because Jesus broke down the barrier that separated God and man by dying in the place of fallen sinners.
Child of God, take time to study the Bible and Biblical doctrine. But, never get too far away from the Gospel. It is the truth which is weaved in and out of everything else we find in God's Holy Word. It alone is the foundation for all truth (1 Corinthians 3:11).
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DAMASCUS, Syria —
Opposition activists say at least 31 people have been killed in a car bomb attack in Damascus near the headquarters of the ruling Baath party and the Russian Embassy.
The Britain-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said most of the dead were civilians, but members of the Syrian security services were also killed in Thursday's attack.
Witnesses and opposition activists said the explosion targeted a security checkpoint central Mazraa neighborhood.
Syrian state TV also reported the blast, calling it a "terrorist" attack by a suicide bomber on a heavily populated area.


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Remember Australia Metro Train's PSA on "Dumb Ways to Die"? Teddie Films used their cheery little death anthem as their jumping off point for a Walking Dead spoof, reminding Walkers to shamble safely, especially when in proximity of Michonne.
Should we add letting your showrunner leave to that list?
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If you look at Google Flu Trends, you see that the entire nation seems engulfed in red, seemingly saying the nation is wallowing in a nightmare of sneezing, coughing and queasiness.
Google Flu Trends, which bases its data on flu-related search terms, can be more effective at real-time flu outbreaks than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Slate. The reason? Because the CDC's data comes from estimates made three weeks ago (or for the week of Dec. 23) and the health community isn't sure it wants to buy into Google's algorithm for health statistics.
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But the reality is that if Google's data is to be believed, then the flu outbreak could be worse than the H1N1 outbreak in 2009. The algorithm was studied by scientific journal Nature, and it was believed to detect outbreaks weeks before they show up in CDC releases.
So far, North America is bright red (high intensity flu outbreak) with only a few states in the West Coast, such as California, Nevada and Oregon, considered bright orange. This could make people want to get a flu shot, but there's a chance that may not help either, according to the New York Times. It seems there are several strains of flu working out there and the best flu vaccine now only counteracts 70 percent of them.
Still, it may be worth it to spring for that flu shot, especially if you will be surrounded by congested and coughing coworkers.


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In 1956, IBM announced the first hard drive, the IBM 350 Disk File, which was designed to work with the IBM 305 RAMAC mainframe computer.
The IBM 350 Disk File weighed about one ton, and stored up to 5 million characters of data on 50 spinning disks.
Jim Porter, the late storage industry analyst, told CRN years ago that he was an employee at San Francisco-based Crown Zellerbach, which was the first customer to receive the IBM 350. Porter said he would take visitors to the company into the computer room to see the hard drive in action. Such a tour was made easy because of the clear glass exterior of the drive.


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Central Michigan University is beginning its transition to the next generation of Internet Protocols while it still has plenty of IPv4 addresses left, giving network administrators plenty of time to listen, learn and then implement IPv6 on its network.
"We know IPv6 is coming," said the university's network manager, Ryan Laus. It is being driven largely by the exhaustion of new addresses available under the original protocols.
But starting the transition now rather than waiting for the transition to be forced on it by demand gives the school located squarely in the middle of the state's Lower Peninsula, whose main campus is in Mount Pleasant, a chance to move at its own pace.
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The Internet Protocols are the set of rules and specifications enabling communication and interoperability among components on the Internet and other IP networks. Version 4 of the protocols is commonly in use today. Its addressing scheme has a limited number of unique addresses which now is nearing depletion. This means that future growth on the Internet increasingly will require the use of IPv6, which has a much larger address space.
The two versions are not interoperable, however, and adoption of the new protocols has been limited. In an effort to spur the inevitable transition, the Internet Society is following up last year's World IPv6 Day test flight with global launch on June 6 when major service providers, equipment vendors and websites will permanently enable the new protocols on their networks, hardware and sites.
Laus said that although CMU is making a start, it will not have IPv6 up and running by launch day.
"We're moving at a slow pace," he said. "We are rolling out a dual-stack network," capable of handling both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. "We'd like to hit the low-hanging fruit first, such as the main Web server — the easy things. We're hoping to have the low-hanging fruit done by this fall."
The initial phase is expected to take years, he said. "Three years from now, we will probably have dual stacks in all locations. Then we might selectively start turning IPv4 off in some locations."
The need to begin planning for the transition to IPv6 became apparent with the change several years ago in students' online habits.
"About three years ago, we experienced a huge growth in the number of wireless devices," Laus said, and the number of wireless users now dwarfs the roughly 14,000 wired addresses on the campus network. When classes are in session, about 26,000 unique wireless devices touch the network each day. "That number will only go up."
The campus has 36,000 wired network ports, but many of them are in residence halls where they go unused in favor of wireless connections. Four years ago, most students still brought desktop PCs to school with them that used the wireline connections. Today they bring laptops, almost all of them wireless.
"It makes me sad as a network administrator to see those connections go unused," Laus said. But the writing is on the wall: Wireless connectivity now drives network development, and administrators are expecting large increases in demand as the number of mobile devices increases.
For the time being, that demand can be met with IPv4. The school started with a /16 block of about 64,000 addresses from its service provider, Merit Network, a member-owned nonprofit formed in 1966 to link the state's public universities. To accommodate the influx of wireless devices, it obtained a second /16 block.
"We figured that would hold us for the next few years while we transitioned," Laus said.
In preparation for the transition, the school also obtained a /32 block of IPv6 addresses, which dwarfs the available supply of IPv4 numbers. "It's an ungodly number," Laus said. "It has a lot of commas."
The question remained of when to make the transition. "So far we haven't seen that huge a demand" for the new addresses, but the decision was made to start the process now so it could be done "on our own terms." This will give the administrators time to get the training and experience needed to manage the new protocols and to understand how their networking tools and applications handle them.
"There are behavioral differences with IPv6," he said. "Dual-stacking will allow us to judge performance before getting hit with a flood."
Almost all networking equipment today will nominally support IPv6 traffic. But there is little real-world experience so far for how well it is handled. Many industry observers feel that the current capacity for handling IPv6 is "good enough," at least for the initial demands that will be made by the new protocols.
"I feel that there is a reasonable expectation," said Chris Smithee, network security manager for Lancope, which supplies network monitoring tools. "Will there be some hiccups when we see large-scale adoption? Yes." But he added that after four decades of experience, managing IPv4 remains an inexact science. "We are never really going to understand everything."
Much of the real-world experience with IPv6 today is coming from Asia, where IPv4 addresses were never as plentiful as in North America and where adoption of the new protocols has been more aggressive. Laus said he wants to take advantage of any experience he can to help his own transition. He is looking to his ISP, Merit Network, for some help and said he wants to take as many formal courses as possible, such as IPv6 security courses offered by the SANS Institute.
So far, he says, there is little help available from his peers, who typically are no further along in the transition than he is. "For the most part, they still have IPv4 on their networks," he said.
Although Laus said he could envision beginning to turn off IPv4 in some parts of the network within three to five years, the current protocols are not likely to disappear anytime soon. A wholesale transition of users to new addresses could be disruptive, meaning that legacy IPv4 addresses will be accommodated for the foreseeable future. And although networking equipment can handle IPv6, some older peripheral networked hardware does not and will have to be replaced before the shut-off occurs.
Some of the equipment such as printers probably will be updated on relatively short time frames. But some limited-use tools such as time clocks are liable to be in place for a long time, meaning IPv4 probably will be around with them.
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The story of Easter
Easter time is historically a widespread celebration of spring and rebirth.
Some say the name "Easter" derives from old Teutonic mythology, from Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, to whom the month of April was dedicated.
It's a roaming holiday; the date is different each year. At the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D., Emperor Constantine determined that Easter would be celebrated on the first Sunday that occurs after the full moon on or after the vernal equinox, or the first day of spring. Therefore, Easter must be celebrated between the dates of March 22 and April 25.
Though many people liken the holiday to Easter egg hunts, bunnies and chocolate, Easter is still largely a religious holiday: It's the most important celebration on the Christian calendar.
For Christians, Easter is a celebration of Christ's resurrection from the dead. It follows 46 days of Lent, during which time Christians focus on sacrifice, prayer and fasting. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, which got its name from the practice of putting ashes on the foreheads of the faithful to remind them that man is but dust.
Palm Sunday, which falls one week before Easter, celebrates the beginning of Holy Week, as well as the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, when the populace cut boughs from trees and strewed them as he passed.
Holy Thursday, or Maundy Thursday, is in memory of the Last Supper of Christ with his disciples, and Good Friday commemorates his crucifixion. Holy Saturday is the day Jesus was rested in the tomb. It's a day of reflection and waiting until the celebration of his rising.
Although Easter is primarily Christian, the holiday also has roots in pagan and Hebrew traditions.
The holiday was originally a pagan festival of springtime. When second-century Christian missionaries attempted to spread the word of Christ, they did so slowly and carefully, by allowing the populations to continue to celebrate pagan feasts, but to do so in a Christian manner. Thus, some of today's Easter customs stem from these early celebrations.
Easter is also closely tied to the Passover feast of the Jewish faith, observed in memory of the Israel's delivery from 300 years' bondage in Egypt. The resurrection of Jesus took place during the Passover, and early Christians celebrated the death-resurrection-exaltation on Passover day. But in the fourth century, Good Friday came to be observed as a separate occasion, and the Easter thereafter was devoted exclusively to the resurrection.
But whatever religious affiliation, Easter is widely recognized as a happy spring celebration, complete with feasting and family time.
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We just posted a few new videos to give you an update on mobile apps and the breadth of Flash content on the Web available on exciting new devices, like the upcoming Dell tablet.
Standalone Apps Outside the Browser
With dozens of tablets and new smartphones coming to market over the coming weeks and months, developers want to know how to deploy and monetize their apps across screens without having to rewrite apps for every platform and device – from smartphones, to tablets, netbooks, televisions, and others.
Today, we announced that more than 100 AIR apps, coming out of a limited pre-release program with developers, are available on Apple's App Store. Created with Flash Pro CS5 and wrapped as native apps (via the Packager for the iPhone, a capability of AIR 2), AIR apps can be distributed to the iPhone and Apple's tablet today, as well as Android, BlackBerry and other platforms in the coming months. Check out two videos for more details at:
Packager for iPhone Demos from Mark Doherty on Vimeo.
Browsing of Flash Content on New Mobile Devices
At the same time, Adobe and its partners believe in the free flow of content across screens and in enabling consumers to browse the full Web, including over 70% of games and 75% of video that are delivered with Flash. Check out this new video, which features different mobile devices including a sneak peak of one of Dell's new tablets (5" tablet, not released yet) plus Dell's 12" smartbook (Latitude Xt2) running a broad variety of Flash content.
We are excited to work with Dell to bring uncompromised Web browsing to its new devices. As previously announced, we're also working with HP on their new line of tablets that will deliver the full Web with support for Flash Player 10.1.


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FemShep – Cosplay of the Day
Do you know who you call when an ancient race of sentient machines try to wipe out the whole of galactic civilization? If you're smart, you'll call on Commander Shepard!
We start off the week in awesome cosplay with Meaghan, also known as Viverra, dressed up as everyone's favorite Spectre, Commander Shepard! Here she is rocking the official look for the character (since players can customize her in-game appearance), with her full N7 combat armor and pistol. From the lack of scars and eyes that burn with evil intent, we can guess that Viverra's a full-on Paragon and isn't the type of Shepard to punch Khalisah al-Jilani in the face over the course of three games.
The hair is right, the suit is right, and even the attitude is right. The only thing Viverra would need to truly portray Commander Shepard is to have her own Normandy floating outside of this con. The details on the outfit are so crazy-accurate that the heavy pistol even has the TFX brand stamped on it. If only it popped out heat sink cartridges, then we'd be really impressed. But as it stands, this outfit is kick-ass enough and is one of the best examples of Mass Effect cosplay out there, at least when it comes to a human character.
If you'd like to check out more of Viverra's cosplaying and art, check out her deviantART. We're Arcade Sushi, and this is our favorite FemShep cosplay on the internet!