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Find Your Match Among the Many Types of Yoga
As studies continue to reveal yoga's many health benefits, this centuries-old Eastern philosophy is fast becoming the new fitness soul mate for workout enthusiasts. Contemporary devotees range from high-powered execs trying to keep hearts beating on a healthy note to image-conscious Hollywood stars striving for sleek physiques. Even prominent athletes are adding yoga to their training regime to develop balanced, injury-free muscles and spines.
Yet to applaud yoga for its physical benefits alone would only diminish what this entire system has to offer as a whole. By practicing yoga on a regular basis, you may be surprised to find that you're building much more than a strong, flexible body.
"Americans are usually drawn to yoga as a way to keep fit at first, but the idea behind the physical practice of yoga is to encourage a deeper mind-body awareness," explains New York yoga teacher and author Beryl Bender Birch. "Healing and balancing the physical body helps bring clarity and focus to the mind as well."
Initially, the sole purpose of practicing yoga was to experience spiritual enlightenment. In Sanskrit (the ancient language of India), yoga translates as "yoke" or "union," describing the integration of mind and body to create a greater connection with one's own pure, essential nature.
Read Beyond Power Yoga: 8 Levels of Practice for Body and Soul
Classes that have gained popularity in the United States usually teach one of the many types of hatha yoga, a physical discipline which focuses mainly on asanas (postures) and breathwork in order to prepare the body for spiritual pursuits.
To get started on your individual yoga quest, it's helpful to begin with a list that clearly prioritizes what needs you want to fulfill: Are you looking to sweat your way into a lean form, or does a gentler, more meditative approach sound more appealing?
"Not all practices fit into nice little cubby holes," warns Bender Birch. "There's a great deal of crossover among the various yoga schools, and there's even a diversity in teaching approaches within each discipline."
Try attending a few different types of classes, and you'll quickly discover the right match to suit your needs. Below you'll find brief descriptions of some of the hatha yoga disciplines that are being practiced in the United States.
Vigorous Vinyasas
Vinyasa-style yoga combines a series of flowing postures with rhythmic breathing for an intense body-mind workout. Here are a few different types:
The practice of Ashtanga that's getting mainstream attention today is a fast-paced series of sequential postures practiced by yoga master K. Pattabhi Jois, who lives in Mysore, India. Today, yogis continue to spread Jois's teachings worldwide, making it one of the most popular schools of yoga around.
The system is based on six series of asanas which increase in difficulty, allowing students to work at their own pace. In class, you'll be led nonstop through one or more of the series. There's no time for adjustments—you'll be encouraged to breathe as you move from pose to pose. Be prepared to sweat. For more information, visit Ashtanga teacher Richard Freeman's website, yogaworkshop.com.
Power Yoga
In 1995, Bender Birch set out to challenge Americans' understanding of what it really means to be fit with her book Power Yoga. Bender Birch's intention was to give a Western spin to the practice of Ashtanga Yoga, a challenging and disciplined series of poses designed to create heat and energy flow.
"Most people wouldn't take a class called Ashtanga Yoga, because they had no idea what it meant. Power Yoga, on the other hand, was something Americans could relate to and know that they'd get a good workout," says Bender Birch.
Power Yoga's popularity has spread to health clubs across the country and has taken on a broad range of applications. The common thread is a rigorous workout that develops strength and flexibility while keeping students on the move. For specifics, consult individual instructors before signing up for a class. For more information visit Thom Birch and Beryl Bender Birch's website, power-yoga.com or Bryan Kest's website poweryoga.com.
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Looking for a highly meditative but physically challenging form of yoga? Try Jivamukti. You won't be alone.
Each week, more than 2,000 people visit the Jivamukti Yoga Center in New York City. Its popularity lies in the teaching approach of cofounders David Life and Sharon Gannon, who opened their first studio in 1986, combining an Ashtanga background with a variety of ancient and modern spiritual teachings. In addition to vinyasa-style asanas, classes include chanting, meditation, readings, music, and affirmations. This spiritual resource center also offers specialized courses in Sanskrit and the sacred yoga texts.
"Over the course of time, students will get a broad yoga education," Life promises. "One week, a class may focus on a particular asana, while the next week's theme may discuss more metaphysical issues."
Beginner classes start by emphasizing standing poses, followed by instruction on forward bends, backbends, and inversions. These classes also introduce chants. For more information on class schedules or to find a certified instructor in your area, visit jivamuktiyoga.com.
Read Jivamukti Yoga: Practices for Liberating Body and Soul
Kali Ray TriYoga
A series of flowing, dancelike movements intuitively came to Kali Ray (Kaliji) while leading a group meditation in 1980. In 1986, after developing these movements into seven distinct levels, Kaliji established the TriYoga Center in Santa Cruz, California, offering a system of yoga that is taught in a meditative environment.
The first level is a slow, relaxing, and rejuvenating practice. The class, often accompanied by music, focuses on natural alignment and breath within the flow, and ends with meditation. A union of asana (postures), pranayama (breathwork), and mudra (seals), this practice is deeply meditative, promoting relaxation and inner peace. For more information visit kaliraytriyoga.com.
White Lotus
White Lotus Yoga is the collaborative effort of Ganga White and Tracey Rich, who meld two eclectic backgrounds and years of experience into a nondogmatic teaching approach dedicated to helping students develop a well-balanced personal practice. At their 40-acre retreat in the Santa Ynez Mountains of Santa Barbara, California, this husband and wife team offers a complete yoga-immersion experience with programs ranging from weekend and weeklong getaways to 16-day teacher training programs.
White Lotus Yoga is a flowing vinyasa practice which ranges from gentle to vigorous depending on your ability or comfort level. In addition, class formats incorporate alignment, breath, and the theoretical understanding of yoga. For more information, visit whitelotus.org.
Attention to Detail
This is the trademark of Iyengar Yoga—an intense focus on the subtleties of each posture.
In an Iyengar class, poses (especially standing postures) are typically held much longer than in other schools of yoga, so that practitioners can pay close attention to the precise muscular and skeletal alignment this system demands. Also specific to Iyengar, which is probably the most popular type of yoga practiced in the United States, is the use of props, including belts, chairs, blocks, and blankets, to help accommodate any special needs such as injuries or structural imbalances.
"In forward bends, for example, if someone's hamstrings aren't flexible, he or she can use a prop to help extend the spine. The wall is often used for support in a variety of poses," explains Janet MacLeod, who teaches at the Iyengar Yoga Institute in San Francisco. "Using props gives the student support, allowing them more freedom to breathe deeply into the pose." For more information, visit iyisf.org.
Read B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga: The Path to Holistic Health
Integrative Yoga Therapy
In 1993, Joseph Le Page, M.A., founded Integrative Yoga Therapy (IYT) in San Francisco. Le Page developed a yoga teacher-training program designed specifically for medical and mainstream wellness settings, including hospitals and rehabilitation centers.
Two-week IYT intensives are offered worldwide, training health-care professionals, yoga teachers, and bodyworkers to adapt gentle postures, guided imagery, and breathing techniques for treating specific health issues such as heart disease, psychiatric disorders, and AIDS.
"Healing happens through connection with the deepest part of who we are," says Le Page. "The program emphasizes the healing process in detail by addressing all levels of the patient—physical, emotional, and spiritual. An example of this therapeutic application is to teach patients with heart disease to become more aware of themselves and their condition at all levels, using yogic lifestyle changes, breathing techniques, asanas suitable for their condition, guided imagery for the circulatory system, and meditation with a focus on healing the heart." For more information, visit iytyogatherapy.com.
As we travel through life, it's no mystery that we are constantly evolving on all levels—physically, emotionally, and intellectually. So why not tailor a yoga routine that will help address and integrate these transitions? Viniyoga, in fact, is an empowering and transformative practice designed to do just that.
In this gentle practice, created by T.K.V. Desikachar, poses are synchronized with the breath in sequences determined by the needs of the practitioner. According to Gary Kraftsow, owner and teacher at The American Viniyoga Institute on the Hawaiian island Maui, Viniyoga is a methodology for developing an integrated practice for each person's needs as they grow and change.
"As children, our practice should support balanced growth and development of the body and mind. As adults, it should protect our health and promote our ability to be productive in the world. And as seniors, it should help us maintain health and inspire a deeper quest for self-realization," says Kraftsow. For more information, visit viniyoga.com.
This style of yoga teaches different ways of doing familiar poses, emphasizing the opening of the spine by beginning at the tailbone and progressing through each spinal area. Every pose integrates the foundational principles of asana, anatomy, and yoga philosophy, and emphasizes the development of transcendent inner experience, which is called svaroopa by Patanjali in the Yoga Sutra. This is a consciousness-oriented yoga that also promotes healing and transformation.
Svaroopa Yoga was developed by Rama Berch, who founded and directs the Master Yoga Academy and created the yoga program for Dr. Deepak Chopra's Center for Well Being, both located in La Jolla, California. Berch says teaching asanas became increasingly frustrating, because the students seemed to be trying to "impose the pose upon their body rather than unfolding it from within." She began looking for ways to guide her students to the deeper effects of each asana, speaking of them as "angles that provide opening, rather than poses to be learned." New students find this a very approachable style, often beginning in chair poses that are comfortable and have a deep healing effect in the spine. For more information or to find out if there is a teacher in your area, visit masteryoga.org.
When you take a Bikram yoga class, expect to sweat. Each studio is designed to replicate yoga's birthplace climate, with temperatures pushing 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
Why the sauna-like effect? "Because sweat helps move the toxins out of your body," explains Radha Garcia, owner of Bikram's Yoga College of India in Boulder, Colorado. "Your body is like a sponge. To cleanse it, you need to wring it out to allow fresh blood and oxygen to circulate and keep your immune system running smoothly."
This method of staying healthy from the inside out was designed by Bikram Choudhury, who sequenced a series of 26 traditional hatha postures to address the proper functioning of every bodily system.
Choudhury first visited the United States from India in 1971 on a trip sponsored by the American Medical Association to demonstrate his work using yoga to treat chronically ill patients. Today Choudhury continues teaching students of all ages and abilities from his studio in Los Angeles where he also conducts a certified teacher's training program. For more information, visit bikramyoga.com.
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy is a combination of classical yoga and elements of contemporary client-centered and body-mind psychology. It can facilitate a powerful release of physical tensions and emotional blocks. Through assisted yoga postures, guided breathing, and nondirective dialogue, you can experience the connection of your physical and emotional selves, encouraging release, personal growth, and the healing of body, mind, and spirit. For more information, visit pryt.com.
Ease Into Enlightenment
At its core, Sivananda Yoga is geared toward helping students answer the age-old question "Who am I?" This yoga practice is based on the philosophy of Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh, India, who taught disciples to "serve, love, give, purify, meditate, realize." In order to achieve this goal, Sivananda advocated a path that would recognize and synthesize each level of the human experience including the intellect, heart, body, and mind.
In 1957, his disciple Swami Vishnu-devananda introduced these teachings to an American audience. A few years later, Vishnu-devananda founded the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers, summarizing Sivananda's system into five main principles: proper exercise (asanas); proper breathing (pranayama); proper relaxation (Savasana); proper diet (vegetarian); and positive thinking (Vedanta) and meditation (dhyana).
There are more than 80 centers worldwide, as well as ashrams and teacher-training programs, all of which follow a hatha yoga practice emphasizing 12 basic postures to increase strength and flexibility of the spine. Chanting, pranayama, and meditation are also included, helping students to release stress and blocked energy. For more information, visit sivananda.org.
In 1966, the Reverend Sri Swami Satchidananda introduced an entire generation of young people to his yogic philosophy: "an easeful body, a peaceful mind, and a useful life." His goal was to help people integrate yoga's teachings into their everyday work and relationships, which he hoped would promote greater peace and tolerance worldwide.
"Integral Yoga uses classical hatha postures, which are meant to be performed as a meditation, balancing physical effort and relaxation," says Swami Ramananda, president of the New York Integral Yoga Institute in Manhattan. In addition to a gentle asana practice, classes also incorporate guided relaxation, breathing practices, sound vibration (repetition of mantra or chant), and silent meditation. For more information, visit integralyogaofnewyork.org.
For those who aspire to loftier goals than simply building a hard body, Ananda Yoga provides a tool for spiritual growth while releasing unwanted tensions. During the 1960s, Swami Kriyananda developed Ananda as a particular style of yoga after returning to California following a period of intense yoga training under Guru Paramhansa Yogananda (author of Autobiography of a Yogi). "The most unique part of this system is the use of silent affirmations while holding a pose," says Rich McCord, director of Ananda Yoga's teacher-training program at The Expanding Light retreat center in Nevada City, California. McCord explains that the affirmations are intended to help deepen and enhance the subtle benefits of each asana, providing a technique for aligning body, energy, and mind.
In a typical class, instructors guide their students through a series of gentle hatha postures designed to move energy upward to the brain, preparing the body for meditation. Classes also focus on proper alignment, easeful posture transitions, and controlled breathing exercises (pranayama) to facilitate an exploration into the inner dimensions of yoga and self-awareness. For more information, visit expandinglight.org.
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Kundalini Yoga, stemming from the tantra yoga path, at one time remained a closely guarded secret practiced only by a select few. In 1969, however, Yogi Bhajan decided to change this tradition by bringing Kundalini to the West. Yogi Bhajan's reasoning was based on the philosophy that it's everybody's birthright to be "healthy, happy and holy," and he believed Kundalini would help spiritual seekers from all religious paths tap into their greater potential.
The practice of Kundalini Yoga incorporates postures, dynamic breathing techniques, and chanting and meditating on mantras such as "Sat Nam" (meaning "I am truth"). Practitioners concentrate on awakening the energy at the base of the spine and drawing it upward through each of the seven chakras. For more information, visit 3HO.org.
ISHTA, an acronym for the Integrated Science of Hatha, Tantra, and Ayurveda, is the yoga brainchild of South African native Alan Finger, who currently runs workshops at his yoga studio in Irvington, New York. Finger blends 37 years of teaching experience with his eclectic studies under Sivananda and the tantric hermit Barati, helping students of all ages and abilities to get in touch with life's boundless energy.
"The sequence of postures is designed to help students integrate their individual sensations with a life energy force that's beyond sensing and perceiving," says Los Angeles-based ISHTA instructor Rod Stryker. "It's a tool for visualization and a way to become more fully oneself."
A typical ISHTA class mixes flowing Ashtanga-style asanas with the precise method of Iyengar, while including pranayama and meditation exercises as well. Instructors begin classes with warm-up poses, then gradually build to a more challenging practice. For more information, visit beyoga.com.
Located in the Berkshire region of Western Massachusetts, the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health has helped guide thousands of people along their path of self-discovery by teaching a system of yoga developed over a 20-year period by yogi Amrit Desai and the Kripalu staff.
During the 1970s, while studying under Indian guru Kripaluvananda, Amrit felt his body begin to move in a spontaneous flow of postures without the direction of his mind. This deep release of prana (life's energy force) brought about a profound transformation in Amrit, so he developed these movements into three stages of practice which he could then teach to others.
The three stages of Kripalu yoga include: willful practice (a focus on alignment, breath, and the presence of consciousness); willful surrender (a conscious holding of the postures to the level of tolerance and beyond, deepening concentration and focus of internal thoughts and emotions); and meditation in motion (the body's complete release of internal tensions and a complete trust in the body's wisdom to perform the postures and movements needed to release physical and mental tensions and enter deep meditation). For more information, visit kripalu.org.
Anusara means "to step into the current of divine will." Anusara Yoga is an integrated approach to hatha yoga in which the human spirit blends with the precise science of biomechanics. It is a new system of hatha yoga that can be both spiritually inspiring and yet grounded in a deep knowledge of outer and inner body alignment. It can be therapeutically effective and physically transformative. The central philosophy of this yoga is that each person is equally divine in every part—body, mind, and spirit. Each student's various abilities and limitations are respected and honored. Anusara Yoga differentiates itself from other hatha yoga systems with three key areas of practice:
Attitude: The practitioner balances an opening to grace with an aspiration for awakening to his or her true nature.
Alignment: Each pose is performed with an integrated awareness of all the different parts of the body.
Action: Each pose is performed as an artistic expression of the heart in which muscular stability is balanced with an expansive inner freedom. For more information, visit anusara.com.
Tibetan Yoga is a term used among Buddhists to describe a range of tantric meditation and pranayama practices. Though little is known in the West about the physical practices of Tibetan Yoga, in 1939, Peter Kelder published Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth, describing a sequence of postures of Tibetan origin called "The Five Rites of Rejuvenation." In 1994, yoga teacher Christopher Kilham published a modern version of these exercises called The Five Tibetans: Five Dynamic Exercises for Health, Energy, and Personal Power (Inner Traditions). Composed of five flowing movements, this active workout keeps students on the move. Beginners start with 10 or 12 repetitions and progressively work their way up to the 21 repetitions of the full routine. Classes may be difficult to find.
Tibetan Buddhist monk Tarthang Tulku adapted another ancient movement practice for the modern West called Kum Nye. More contemplative in nature than the vigorous Five Tibetans, Kum Nye strives to integrate body and mind and means "interaction with the subtle body." For more information, see Tulku's Kum Nye Relaxation or visit nyingma.org.
If you are browsing through a yoga studio's brochure of classes and the yoga offered is simply described as "hatha," chances are the teacher is offering an eclectic blend of two or more of the styles described above. It's a good idea to ask the teacher or director of the studio where he or she was trained and if the poses are held for a length of time or if you will be expected to move quickly from one pose to the next, and if meditation or chanting is included. This will give you a better idea if the class is vigorous or more meditative.
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Giving Back What She's Been Given
It's a lesson we've heard many times. If you're handed lemons, make lemonade.
That can be easier said than done. But it's a motto one KELOLAND woman has had to follow her whole life. It's a motto she's now using to start her future in health care.
For the last six years, 24-year-old Kendra Gottsleben has been getting enzyme treatments at Sanford Children's once a week. She's been given so much by the nurses and staff there, and now she says she's finally able to give back.
We first introduced you to Kendra last fall as she continued her education at Augustana College and as she went through her weekly routine of getting enzyme treatments for a progressive degenerative condition.
"The broad term is mucopolysaccharidosis. And then I have type six," Gottsleben said back in September.
It's hard to pronounce, and at times hard to live with, but it essentially means Kendra's cells build up with fatty tissue and her body doesn't produce an enzyme to clean the cells.
Without this enzyme treatment, she would have died.
"My heart could get worse. My eyes could get worse. My joints could get worse. It's just kind of stopping what could happen," Gottsleben said.
Without her doctors and nurses at Sanford Children's, her life would be very different. That's why she's giving back.
"Now the Children's Hospital will be pretty much a part of my life forever," Gottsleben said.
This month, Kendra has been working the ins and outs of a hospital that she calls her second home, as an intern for Children's Miracle Network.
"It's, you know, strange being in the hospital but not as a patient," Gottsleben said.
When she graduates with a degree in sociology and psychology from Augustana next May, she hopes to make a career out of working with children in a hospital.
"I'd like to counsel or be a confidante. Help during very difficult situations," Gottsleben said.
If anyone knows how to tackle a difficult situation, it's Kendra. At 3-feet, 2-inches tall her condition affects many of her organs, it narrows her airway, and it's the reason she stopped growing.
But it's not stopping her from giving.
"So I feel like with my experiences in a hospital setting that I can help them or children when they're having a tough time," Gottsleben said.
Working with CMN, an organization that touches every child's life at Sanford Children's Hospital is gratifying for this young woman and is helping her reach a life long goal.
For more information, visit Keloland.com.
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Just wanted to share the start of our adventure if anyone is interested or needs positive support to start
We notified the State and the Superintendent last week that we were pulling dd. These are some of the only state requirements (the last is that dd have yearly testing.)
I had thought they would notify our ps but they did not, so I sent an e-mail to the principal and cc'd it to my dd's teacher. We had a parent/teacher conference already scheduled for last night, which I opted to keep so I could discuss anything with her ps teacher that might be helpful. The principal opted to be there as well. To be honest, my dh and I were gearing up for a confrontation.
They were curious to know about my decision, but I found them extremely supportive. The principal directed me to a website about the Maine requirements.. which I had already visited but it was nice that she offered it anyway. They also let me know that dd was welcome to come to phys ed, art, and music class at the school as well. Again, I believe this is state law, but it is nice that they mentioned it. They offered to test dd if we would like to make sure she is on track (I'm still considering this but will probably decline). They repeatedly said to contact them if they could help in any way.
I just wanted to share this for anyone who is scared or nervous about dealing with the 'authorities'. I know all states, districts, and individual schools are different, but so far ours has been a very positive experience.
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I'm glad things went so well. What school system in Maine? We are in RSU21 down in southern Maine. They also were very supportive of us homeschooling our 7th grader.
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Jesus Is Coming Soon
1. When Jesus comes,
The Apostles with Him in Jerusalem
Will be at His side,
Clothed in robes of righteousness.
With crowns upon their heads,
With crown upon their heads,
Even as Jesus,
Even as Jesus.
2. When Jesus comes,
With the voices of angels and trump of God,
He'll call forth his saints,
Filling them with His glory.
May I be there that day,
May I be there that day,
Even with Jesus,
Even with Jesus.
Jesus is coming soon,
Coming to live upon the earth again.
Jesus is coming, as He has promised,
to live among men for one thousand years!
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TORONTO - Bustle offered a tip of the cap to docker style in its upscale yet cosy range of separates for fall and winter.
"Last season, we were kind of inspired by the florals and we were in Mexico, and we kind of wanted to do something a little more rugged and a little darker — but still Bustle," said creative director Shawn Hewson standing alongside his wife and label co-founder Ruth Promislow.
"We found these great quilting fabrics, and it took us in the direction of the Scandinavian longshoremen."
The soft, richly textured fabric served as a centrepiece in the line, with jackets and drawstring pants among the garments in the range fashioned from the material. The collection unveiled Thursday at Toronto's World MasterCard Fashion Week also included dual-toned turtlenecks, denim jackets, shawl collar cardigans and slim-fitting cargo pants, each showcasing the label's interpretation of casual seaport style.
Bustle dialled back on the use of ultra-bright hues, featuring a more muted palette encompassing black, grey and green. No flashy patterns either, sticking largely to tried-and-true mainstays like plaid, with the print showcased on shirts, coats, pants and the inner lining of jackets.
"It's always been a thing of ours to mix and match the patterns and textures," said Hewson backstage following the show.
"In this case, we didn't have a ton of variety in terms of the colours and the prints; so we were all about texture, mixing the textures and making sure those kind of made for interesting outfits."
In past seasons, Bustle has been among the select few menswear designers showing at Fashion Week. But their ranks are swelling, with Christopher Bates, Klaxon Howl, Thomas Balint and Hussein Dhalla of HD Homme among the labels also showing collections during the week.
Promislow called the surge in menswear representation on the runway "fantastic."
"I think just more and more men are paying attention to how they look," she said.
"Men's fashion is becoming something that people are paying attention to in the fashion world, and men on the street are thinking about what they wear and what's going on in fashion."
"I think having that many menswear labels here at World MasterCard Fashion Week this season is a sign that guys are starting to embrace their esthetic even more," Hewson added.
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Romantic Love Is An Addiction
See? It's not just your friendly neighborhood dating coach who says so.
As reported in the July edition of the Journal of Neurophysiology, Dr. Helen Fisher's new work indicates that for heartbroken men and women, looking at photographs of former partners activated regions in the brain associated with rewards, addiction cravings, control of emotions, feelings of attachment and physical pain and distress.
The love that endures is the one that remains steady.
Yep. That intense, yearning, magical feeling is a drug – and, like most tales involving drugs – it rarely has a happy ending. Love, as you undoubtedly know, is marked by high-highs and low-lows. Yet the love that endures is the one that remains steady.
That's the one I'm always talking about, the one I want you to achieve by making different decisions in dating.
The good news, Fisher points out, is that time heals all. The more time that had passed since the breakup, the less activity there was in a brain region associated with attachment.
So, are you still going to keep chasing that "feeling" that has never resulted in your own long-term happiness? And if so, why?


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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced today that historian Allison Blakely has been appointed to the National Council on the Humanities. Blakely was nominated by President Barack Obama on August 5 and confirmed by the Senate December 21.
Blakely is a professor of European and Comparative History at Boston University and previously taught at Howard University for 30 years. He is the author of Blacks in the Dutch World: The Evolution of Racial Imagery in a Modern Society; Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought and numerous scholarly articles on Russian populism and the various European aspects of the Black Diaspora.
The immediate past President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Blakely serves on its governing Senate and the Editorial Board of its journal, The American Scholar. He was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart for his service in Vietnam, was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in 1962-63, and an Andrew Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1976-77. He received the Outstanding Faculty Leadership Award from Howard University in 1992.
"With a background as a soldier as well as scholar, administrator as well as professor, Blakely brings wide-ranging perspectives to the issues of the day," noted NEH Chairman Jim Leach.
Blakely received his Ph.D. and MA from the University of California, Berkeley, and his B.A. from the University of Oregon. Fluent in Russian, Dutch and French, he is currently working on an overview of the history of blacks in modern Europe.
The National Council is the 26-member advisory body of the NEH. Blakely replaces entertainment executive Craig Haffner, whose term had expired. He will serve until Jan. 26, 2014.


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60 Doctors, Pharmacists Charged In Largest Opioid Prescription Bust Ever
By Bill Galluccio
April 17, 2019
Federal prosecutors announced that they have made the largest opioid prescription bust in U.S. history. Officials have filed charges against 60 people including doctors and pharmacists who wrote over 350,000 fraudulent prescriptions for opioid painkillers.
Those prescriptions flooded the streets of rural Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and West Virginia with nearly 32 million pills. Officials referred to the accused as drug dealers, who would hand out prescriptions to their friends or in exchange for sexual favors.
"You can rest assured, when medical professionals behave like drug dealers, the Department of Justice is going to treat them like drug dealers," said Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski.
The massive bust was the result of the newly formed Appalachian Regional Prescription Strike Force which was created to help bring an end to the deadly opioid epidemic that is taking the lives of 130 Americans every day.
Fourteen health care fraud professionals were sent to areas that have been hard hit by the epidemic and they began working with local officials in the health care industry to identify unusual trends that could suggest a health clinic or doctor was providing illegal prescriptions for the addictive drugs.
Once they shut down the prescription mills, they also stationed professionals outside to help guide people looking for illegal prescriptions toward counseling services and rehabilitation facilities to help them overcome their addiction.
"When these facilities are taken down, there are resources in place to give the best possible chance for those victims to get proper treatment," Benjamin Glassman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio said. "Opioids are the public health and safety crisis of our lifetime. This innovation, I hope, will be a road map for the future."
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MindGems Inc. tools are recognized for their quality and performance and the FREE Fast Duplicate File Finder makes no exception. Version 184.108.40.206 of this popular freeware duplicate remover tool adds even more features and performance improvements.
Two search modes in this release are optimized. The improvements in the "100% Equal Files" mode are tremendous when scanning large file volumes. The improved algorithm can be thousands of times faster depending on the quantity and size of the scanned files. There are huge performance optimizations also for the auto-check and the final stage of the scan where the application required longer time to finalize for large quantities of files.
The "Similar Files" mode which is available in the PRO version of the product is now also optimized and more stable. Nevertheless let me remind here that this is not the commonly advertised FUZZY search method that provides low quality results. The search for similar files inside Fast Duplicate File Finder PRO performs advanced algorithms in order to find truly similar files and can recognize two similar documents even if entire paragraphs are rearranged.
Some additional command line options are added to the PRO version of the tool in order to help with the automation of duplicate finding tasks. To the already present -run option our developers have added the options -s and -exp.
-exp <semicolon delimited list of export formats> – Export command line parameter. Depending on the file extension will export the corresponding file type. Multiple formats can be exported at once by separating the paths with semicolons. The variables {DATE} and {TIME} will be replaced with the current date and time.
-s – stands for SILENT. Using the option the GUI will not be displayed during the scan and the application will exit after the command line actions are processed.
Example: DupFileFinder.exe -run -s -exp "c:\result_{DATE} {TIME}.xml;c:\result_{DATE} {TIME}.fdff;c:\result_{DATE} {TIME}.csv"
The {DATE} and {TIME} variables are useful to keep track of the scan data and tag it with the corresponding date and time.
While Fast Duplicate File Finder is a great free tool, I would recommend you to check also the dedicated duplicate photo finder and duplicate music finder tools that are designed to organize photo and music collections. While Fast Duplicate File Finder can find duplicate files of any type you can read here why we provide dedicated duplicate finder tools.
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Toss-up: notebooks for students
As students head back to school, it's time to look for a notebook that won't break your back or your budget.
Both of these Windows 8 notebooks tip the scales at about 1.8 kilograms and sport 35-centimetre, 1366 x 768 widescreen displays, offering good portability and usability.
For $799, both notebooks offer an Intel Core i3 processor with 4GB of RAM, which might suffice for basic day-to-day tasks but will frustrate those who push their computers a little harder. Dell's alternative is to step up to the $1199 model with a more powerful Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM and AMD graphics, rather than Intel's built-in graphics chip. This could be overkill for students. It also relies on a small but fast 128GB solid-state hard drive, which might not be enough storage for some people.
Meanwhile, Toshiba's $999 Core i5 model sports 4GB of RAM and NVIDIA graphics. You'll also find a 500GB hard drive accompanied by 32GB of solid-state storage, offering the best of both worlds. Alternatively, there's a $999 Core i7 model that relies on Intel's built-in graphics.
Before you write off the Dell, it's worth noting that - depending on Dell's current special offers - it might come with Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010 pre-installed along with McAfee security. Toshiba only pre-installs a trial version of Norton security along with Microsoft Office Starter, which has limited versions of Word and Excel. Upgrading to a full version of Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010 will cost you a minimum of $100, plus at least another $50 for a Norton subscription.
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Ah ok, i'll wait the update..
Ah ok, i'll wait the update..
Any timescale for 4.2.1 GA?
4.2 has so many bugs, we hope the GA release will publish ASAP.
ExtJS 4.2.1 GA has been released quite a few days ago.
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ExtjJS 4.2 with a lot of bugs, i will still use the 4.1 version that is more stable.
I was having the same issue, luckily for me however I want to dynamically create tooltips from images, so in the following manner I'm able to set minWidth to the width of the image, hope it might help somebody:
Code:function applyIframeImgLinkTtips(iframeImgLinks) { for (var i=0, n=iframeImgLinks.length; i<n; i++) { link = iframeImgLinks[i]; (function(link) { var image = new Image(), imageSrc = link.href.split('#')[1]; // e.g. link.href = http://dexygen.com/static/README/SeoForExtjs/index.php#/imgs/cuesiteview_google_search.png image.onload = function() { Ext.create('Ext.tip.ToolTip', { target: link, html: Ext.String.format('<img src="{0}" />', imageSrc), minWidth: image.width }); } image.src = imageSrc; })(iframeImgLinks[i]); } }
Sadly my "solution" does not work completely in Chrome (need to try Safari too). The tooltip renders with the full width of the image *the first time* it is moused over, but not on subsequent mouse-overs when it reverts to some default.
Works in IE9 and FF21 however.
So what's the status on this getting fixed? Twitter Bootstrap's starting to look awfully freaking good to me in the meantime (and mind you I've been using ExtJS for 4.5 years)
4.2.1 still has a minor issue with tooltip widths that only affects Firefox on Mac. The following override makes FF/Mac behave. Make sure to remove this override when you upgrade because the fix will be included in the next 4.2.x release.
Code:Ext.define('Ext.SubPixelRoundingFix', { override: 'Ext.dom.Element', getWidth: function(contentWidth, preciseWidth) { var me = this, dom = me.dom, hidden = me.isStyle('display', 'none'), rect, width, floating; if (hidden) { return 0; } // Gecko will in some cases report an offsetWidth that is actually less than the width of the // text contents, because it measures fonts with sub-pixel precision but rounds the calculated // value down. Using getBoundingClientRect instead of offsetWidth allows us to get the precise // subpixel measurements so we can force them to always be rounded up. See // https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458617 // Rounding up ensures that the width includes the full width of the text contents. if (Ext.supports.BoundingClientRect) { rect = dom.getBoundingClientRect(); // IE9 is the only browser that supports getBoundingClientRect() and // uses a filter to rotate the element vertically. When a filter // is used to rotate the element, the getHeight/getWidth functions // are not inverted (see setVertical). width = (me.vertical && !Ext.isIE9 && !Ext.supports.RotatedBoundingClientRect) ? (rect.bottom - rect.top) : (rect.right - rect.left); width = preciseWidth ? width : Math.ceil(width); } else { width = dom.offsetWidth; } // IE9/10 Direct2D dimension rounding bug: https://sencha.jira.com/browse/EXTJSIV-603 // there is no need make adjustments for this bug when the element is vertically // rotated because the width of a vertical element is its rotated height if (Ext.supports.Direct2DBug && !me.vertical) { // get the fractional portion of the sub-pixel precision width of the element's text contents floating = me.adjustDirect2DDimension('width'); if (preciseWidth) { width += floating; } // IE9 also measures fonts with sub-pixel precision, but unlike Gecko, instead of rounding the offsetWidth down, // it rounds to the nearest integer. This means that in order to ensure that the width includes the full // width of the text contents we need to increment the width by 1 only if the fractional portion is less than 0.5 else if (floating > 0 && floating < 0.5) { width++; } } if (contentWidth) { width -= me.getBorderWidth("lr") + me.getPadding("lr"); } return (width < 0) ? 0 : width; } });
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Greenpeace have teamed up with Cowshed Studio London and Mi7 Records to create an unprecedented opportunity for all musicians who are coming to Glastonbury this year – a world-class recording studio complete with two performance stages, operating under the theme Raising Voices.
The stages will be made available to unsigned acts coming to the Festival, both to play and participate in song writing and other workshops. From these performances, eight acts a day will be chosen by audience vote to record in our purpose built studio overseen by professional producers, using vintage instruments and state of the art equipment.
Greenpeace are encouraging all writers, musicians and vocalists to participate under the theme Raising Voices, using their skills to promote positive change and in the process, create a body of work intended to stimulate interest in the protest song.
After five days of making music Greenpeace are also hoping that a new song will be composed and recorded during the festival which can be used around the world to celebrate the launch of the new Rainbow Warrior flagship when she joins the Greenpeace fleet later this year.
Aspiring performers who are attending Glastonbury can find out more by visiting http://cowshedglasto.tumblr.com.


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AQ Monitoring Results:
Hexavalent Chromium at Hollenbeck in Boyle Heights
This page last reviewed September 03, 2010
Chromium is an odorless, steel-gray, hard metal that is lustrous and takes a high polish, which is often seen as bright metallic coating on plastic or metal products such as shower heads or car bumpers. Hexavalent chromium can get into the air as mist if it is in sprayed liquids, dust if solid material containing this chemical is dumped,
scooped, or ground, and as fumes during welding or melting of metals containing hexavalent chromium. California has determined under Proposition 65 and Assembly Bill 1807 that hexavalent chromium is a cancer-causing compound. Hexavalent chromium is one type of chromium compounds (with a 6+ oxidation state chromium). The ARB has taken regulatory action to reduce hexavalent chromium emissions.
Exposure to inhaled chromium may result in lung cancer. Non-cancer effects of human exposure to hexavalent chromium by ingestion and inhalation include renal toxicity, gastrointestinal hemorrhage, intravascular hemolysis, contact dermatitis, and skin ulcers. Hexavalent chromium concentrations are usually highest near the sources of emissions. As a result, local exhaust ventilation systems are considered a good way to reduce exposure to people working near emission sources.
Chrome plating, welding, spray painting, leather tanning, and ship/boat building are examples of activities resulting in hexavalent chromium emissions. Chromium is extremely resistant to corrosive agents and is therefore used for surface coating to protect steel or other products. In California, stationary sources contribute 51% emissions, while other mobile sources such as jet aircraft and ships contribute 38%. There is no significant indoor source of hexavalent chromium, and there is no identified natural source of hexavalent chromium.
The ARB adopted an airborne toxic control measure in 1988 to reduce emissions of hexavalent chromium from chrome plating and chromic acid anodizing operations and to prohibit the use of hexavalent chromium in the circulating water of a cooling tower. Based on available data, the 2000 statewide-average ambient hexavalent chromium concentration was approximately 60% lower than that in 1990.
Ambient Monitoring Results
Ambient levels of hexavalent chromium are routinely monitored at approximately twenty sites in the California air
toxics monitoring network. The statewide average concentration of hexavalent chromium during 1998-2000 was 0.12
ng/m3 (nanograms per cubic meter), with values ranging from 0.1 ng/m3 to 1.2 ng/m3. Relative to the statewide average, the Los Angeles County region was 17% higher, with an average concentration of 0.14 ng/m3 for the same time period.
The ambient monitoring results at Hollenbeck are provided here:
- A graph comparing the monthly summaries of hexavalent chromium at the community with historical statewide and regional levels
- A table of summary statistics
- Raw data in Excel format
Cancer Risk
Cancer risk is the number of excess cancer cases among a million people if the people are exposed to levels of a toxic air pollutant over 70 years. Hexavalent chromium represents approximately 5% of the potential cancer risk of the nine measured compounds, excluding diesel particulate matter. Hexavalent chromium represents approximately 2% of the potential cancer risk of the nine measured compounds and the estimated diesel particulate matter.


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In light of the currently en vogue privacy debate raging all around the world and given the flippant stance of many of our often used communication platforms with regards to securing its users' privacy, it is becoming more and more evident that if the user wants privacy online, he'll have to snatch it, for it won't be easily given.
Talking of communication, email comes to mind. Privacy begins with encryption. And encrypting email isn't exactly an easy task. It is at best annoying. At worst it can be so cumbersome that most people don't bother. You can use desktop clients and PGP keys, like Lifehacker details. The annoying procedure of making and handling security keys is also mentioned by Arstechnica here in its editorial about why most people don't bother encrypting email.
So what do you do if you don't want peeping toms and evil governments looking into your email? The best idea would be to go stone age and use smoke signals, but of course, we're discussing technology here and I digress. A rather simpler alternative would be to encrypt the email text and share the password via other means. This is what the ingenious Google Chrome extension SecureGmail aims to do.
Let's discuss the pre-requisites here before we begin encrypting our Gmail messages! You and your message recipient both will need the following:
- Gmail accounts
- Google Chrome
- The Chrome Extension SecureGmail
What does the extension do? The extension will create a new button beside the usual Compose red button. When you click on it, the new mail window box appears but this one is different from the vanilla compose box as whatever you type in here won't be saved to Google's servers. For the technically curious, SecureGmail uses an open source JS crypto library from Stanford available here.
On completing the message, click the Send Encrypted button. You'll be asked to set a password for the message as well as a password hint. Your recipient will only see the password hint. If he doesn't have the extension installed, he'll see a link to install it. Otherwise, the password can be input right away and the email decrypted.
Only the encrypted copy is saved on Gmail's servers. If you check your Sent items folders, you'll see something like this.
The success of this method obviously assumes that you've sent your password to your recipient successfully via other means. Maybe it's the first word on the 37th page of a certain book, maybe it's an irrelevant word written as graffiti somewhere. Sci-fi movies will give you enough ideas to supply a hint.
What to do if you want to encrypt text with a password but don't want to use a chrome extension? Googling for "encrypt text" will give you a slew of options.
Interested in encrypting more kinds of files? Learn about the different tools we've written about here and here.


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For decades, investors have been offsetting their equity risk with allocations to fixed income. And as each of these asset classes sit on opposite sides of a firm's balance sheet, the resulting noncorrelation gives this strategy considerable heft. But as rates have plummeted toward nil—and in many cases sport a negative real yields return—it's time to rethink the role of bonds in a portfolio.
Let's face it: with a yield of less than 1.5% on a ten-year Treasury, bonds do not have much further to fall. The party will likely last a little while longer, as retail investors continue to buy bond funds with wild abandon, but after all their money has been spent we could be facing a trade with no more money left to fuel the 30-year bull market in fixed income.
If yields rise for the right reasons, which include economic growth and modest inflation brought about by more demand, equities will be a great hedge against falling bond prices. But if yields go up simply because there aren't any bond buyers left, companies will be facing more expensive financing and stocks will suffer as a result. Either of these scenarios will result in losses for bondholders.
Just because something has worked for a long time doesn't mean it will give the same results going forward. It's time to start planning how fixed-income allocations should change based on current economic realities.


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Underbelly: Brother of slain 'Mr Big' arrested at airport
THE brother of the slain "Mr Big" of Sydney's underbelly was last night dramatically arrested at the airport over a gangland shooting last April.
Mahmoud "Brownie" Ahmad left for Lebanon days after the shooting of Safwan Charbaji outside his brother's Condell Park smash repair business in April.
Ahmad - whose brother and gang kingpin Wally Ahmad was brazenly gunned down at a Bankstown shopping centre weeks after the Charbaji shooting - was arrested last night as he stepped off a flight from Lebanon via Qatar.
Police had issued an arrest warrant for murder following the Charbaji shooting, which was the start of a series of gangland executions that have rocked Sydney.
The 34-year-old was escorted by detectives out of the airport to Mascot Police Station, where he was charged with murder.
He will front court today.
The arrest comes more than one week after Ahmad crime family enforcer Kemel Barakat was gunned down in his bed at Mortlake.
"A man wanted for murder has been arrested at Sydney Airport after returning from overseas," a police statement said last night.
"The warrant relates to the murder of a 32-year-old man at Condell Park on Saturday April 9, 2016, which is being investigated by the Homicide Squad under Strike Force Admiralty."
It is understood police will claim Wally Ahmad was murdered in retaliation for the killing of Charbaji.
The 32-year-old died after he was shot in the chest and Abdullah El Masri, 35, was also shot but not killed outside Ahmad's smash repairs business in Condell Park on April 9
Charbaji is believed to have been shot during an argument over $100,000 that ignited the warring Ahmad and Elmir families.
Charbaji, his father-in-law Fawaz Elmir and two others had gone to Ahmad's smash repair business to broker a solution to the dispute.
But when they arrived a shootout involving up to five guns broke out and Charbaji was shot dead. El Masri, an associate of the Ahmad family, was shot in the jaw during the crossfire.
In October, known hitman Hamad Asaad, who had bragged to underworld figures that he had killed Wally Ahmad, was shot in front of his family at Georges Hall.
Asaad was also implicated in a failed assassination attempt on Mafioso kingpin Pasquale Barbaro in Leichhardt in 2015.
A second attempt to kill Barbaro, in Earlwood, succeeded in November. Several members of the Rebels bikie gang have been charged over that killing.
Shortly after Barbaro's death, police announced a dedicated strike force to investigate eight gangland and bikie-related murders - including that of Charbaji.


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2 boxes of chopped frozen spinach (well drained)
8oz of sour cream
8oz of cream cheese (softened)
1/4 c. Parmesan cheese
1 medimum onion (chopped)
1/2 stick of butter
pepper jack cheese
salt and pepper to taste
Saute onion in butter. Add cream cheese, sour cream and parmesan cheese, heat until creamy. Add spinach and mix well. Salt and pepper to taste.
Pour into a dish. Dip should be about 1 1/2 inches deep. Heat at 350 degrees until hot and bubbley. Take out of oven and shread pepperjack cheese on top and heat till cheese is melted. Serve hot with wheat thins.
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Donald M. Peaslee 1946-2014
A memorial service for Donald Peaslee was held Friday, Jan. 31, at the Joyce Funeral Home in Emmetsburg. Inurnment will be at a later date.
Donald Moody Peaslee, III was born May 22, 1946 in Berwyn, IL the son of Donald M., Jr. and Miriam (Olson) Peaslee. He attended elementary and middle school in Laurens and Glen Ellyn, IL, and he was a 1964 graduate of Coronado High School in Scottsdale, AZ.
Don entered the United States Air Force where he served for four years during the Vietnam War. Following his service, Don attended the University of Arizona where he was a 1972 graduate. While attending college, Don worked part-time with Walgreens. He continued his employment after graduation and was one of the youngest managers and the youngest district manager for Walgreens.
In 1987, Don was united in marriage to Carolyn Carter at San Antonio, TX. Don decided to retire from Walgreens in 1988, and three years later, the couple moved to Emmetsburg to raise their daughter, Krista. Don was a stay-at-home dad. He loved computers, and he was on the cutting edge of the internet. He worked with programmers and developers as a hobby. Don's 24 hour weather-cam at Lost Island is still active at this link: www.mycampage.com/lostislandlake cam.
Don also enjoyed cars, motorcycles and the mechanics of both. He treasured spending time at Lost Island, boating and enjoying the lake with family and friends. Don, affectionately called "Cappy" by family, will be remembered as an honest man who loved God and his family.
On Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, Donald M. Peaslee, III passed away at Spencer Hospital. He was 67.
Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Carolyn of Ruthven; his daughter, Krista of Brookings, SD; step-mother, Bobbie Peaslee of Laurens; three sisters, Leslie Behrmann of Glen Ellyn, IL, Mimi Lessett of Des Moines and Kris Guill of Naperville, IL; and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; sister, Jan Ahlers; and his aunt and uncle, Ruth and Clarence Carlson.
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The same young voters who elected Barack Obama can lead the nation out of debt.
According to Congress's watchdog agency, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), entitlements – Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security – will consume all tax revenue by 2040, leaving defense, education, and all other programs to be financed with debt.
To save the future, we need change now.
Youth activism presents a catalyst for entitlement reform. As Washington continues to rack up record deficits on the dime of future taxpayers, no voice would be more powerful in this debate than future taxpayers themselves.
Republican Paul Ryan gets this. He's the Wisconsin congressman with the bold plan for entitlement reform called the "Roadmap for America's Future," which continues to gain momentum across the country. His challenge is selling actuarial analysis to my younger generation.
Wake up, it's your future
In a phone interview a few weeks ago, Mr. Ryan confirmed to me that youth support is vital to the passage of these reforms. We should give it to him.
Ryan hopes to stop my generation from hitting the snooze button every time a politician mentions the looming debt crisis. The Roadmap enthralls us to "[l]ook at what the government is doing to you and your future, look at where we're headed, and know it can be avoided if we turn this around."
On the surface, the Roadmap looks like a boring policy document. Ryan's most formidable challenge is communicating terms like Medical Savings Accounts [MSAs] and unfunded liabilities to the iPod generation. Let's face it, we college students don't have the longest attention spans.
Young people like to organize for ostentatious issues like legalizing marijuana, protecting the environment, or stopping a war. They don't rally behind such un-sexy causes as fiscal responsibility.
The sky-high future taxes my generation will have to pay in service to the debt should shock them into action. But Ryan's communication strategy goes beyond appealing to logical self-interest. He follows the examples of other politicians who inspired youth action by appealing to their larger cultural ideals.
Look at the candidates younger voters supported in 2008: Barack Obama and Ron Paul. Young people love ideals and a flashy cause. We embrace broad principles simple enough for us to understand in our distracted lives.
Obama ran an attractive campaign with catchy slogans promising to bring his signature platitudes, "hope" and "change," to Washington. The youth supported him because they believed he would bring fresh ideas to the political scene.
Beyond rhetoric and flashy ideals
The campaign rhetoric turned out to be fresher than the policies. As Obama allowed Congress to control the agenda, he lost his idealism and along with it, his youthful base.
Ryan's Roadmap picks up where Obama's rhetoric left off, offering new solutions based in provocative, timeless principles. Before speaking to Ryan, I knew he had detailed solutions, but still thought his message lacked the simple idealism needed to spark youth interest.
Wrong. Matching "hope" and "change," Ryan's Roadmap champions "freedom, liberty, and choice."
It just so happens these same principles won Ron Paul tremendous support from college voters. "Ron's on to something for sure," Ryan says. He understands young people don't like being oppressed. We hate "the man." Ryan observes that the youth "have an ethos that says 'we want to be free to live our life the way we want to as long as we don't infringe on another person's right to do the same.' Young people are sort of natural libertarians."
Footing the bill for Obama's overspending
Not only are young people being billed for this administration's programs, many of these policies hurt young people. Obamacare forces us to buy insurance, whether or not we need it or can afford it. The young and healthy are being forced to enter the market to subsidize the old and sick.
The Man is telling us what to do.
Ryan says, "The progressive movement and ideology is a repressive, big-brother movement that drains you of your freedom and liberty, and therefore of your prosperity... The government is taking away your discretion, taking away your choices."
And taking away our money.
The interest of the debt alone will be $5,800 per taxpayer in 2020. As it gets harder and harder for the government to sell its debt, this cash will increasingly come out of my generation's paychecks.
Where do we turn?
The problem is, as young people figure this out, they don't know where to turn. In the last ten years, both parties centralized power and governed with gigantic deficits. Even Ryan, who served during the Bush administration, admitted the "[Republican] leadership was not focused on limited government."
Under a Republican president, we squandered a balanced budget in favor of No Child Left Behind, two wars, Medicare Part D (the prescription drug benefit for seniors), and the Wall Street bailout – all significant expansions of government.
Ryan proposes to shrink government with real spending cuts and a direct path to balancing the budget, rebuilding trust in the Republican Party. While some of the GOP leadership still cower away from the toughest issues, the Roadmap tackles entitlement reform – the infamous third rail of politics.
Looking at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) numbers, it's easy to see Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid will consume the budget and cause unsustainable deficits, taking away our future financial liberty.
Roadmap offers real change
Sure, many Americans rely on these programs, but the beauty of the Roadmap is that it reforms these programs quickly enough to stop a Greek-style debt crisis, yet gently enough to fulfill the government's promises to our most vulnerable. The plan maintains the same benefits for those over 55, while stopping the debt from growing to over 100 percent of GDP.
Young people voted to "change" Washington in 2008. The Roadmap can achieve this mission in 2010, but not with the Democratic majority's vision for reckless over-spending. We need more than good speeches; we need good policy. Ryan's Roadmap leads the way. Young people just need to follow. As Ryan told me, "It's their future."
Ron Meyer writes for Human Events and the Daily Caller. He is a senior at Principia College and hosts "We the People" Internet Radio Show.


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Texas Sen. John Cornyn is heartily endorsing Congress' latest effort to increase sexual assault prosecutions in the armed forces.
And he is questioning New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's quest for evidence of additional attacks to persuade Congress to impose even more far reaching changes.
The Victims Protection Act adopted by the Senate on a 97 to 0 vote on Monday coupled with earlier changes by Congress are "a big improvement" for prosecutions, says Cornyn, a co-sponsor of the measure that passed.
Cornyn says the breadth of the changes has been largely misunderstood. The measure is designed to strengthen victims' ability to win justice in a military courtroom and thereby deter an epidemic of attacks in the ranks of the 1.4 million strong armed forces.
An estimated 26,000 attacks took place in 2012 alone but only 3,374 were reported.
The Cornyn-backed proposal now awaiting follow up action in the House would expand scrutiny over commanders' decisions in sexual assault prosecutions but still allow commanders to decide whether to prosecute. If a commander shelved a prosecution recommended by a military prosecutor, that decision would be reviewed by the top civilian in that armed service.
Gillibrand had sought sweeping changes to the chain of command, handing military prosecutors rather than unit commanders' sole authority to decide whether to prosecute sexual assault cases. Gillibrand contends that change would boost reporting by victims.
Gilllibrand has been trying to unearth additional cases of sexual assault at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas and other major bases to help build political momentum for wider reform.
The Northeast Democrat is awaiting a response from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to a request for "information about the investigation and adjudication of sexual assaults cases" at each service's largest installation from 2009 to 2014. She heads the Senate Armed Services Committee's panel on military personnel.
That request "sounds awfully broad," Cornyn said in response to a question during a conference call with reporters on Wednesday. "There was actually a commission appointed by Congress that recently reported to Congress on what they saw as the problem and what they saw as the solution. So I'm not sure what else Sen. Gillibrand is seeking."
Gillibrand spokesman Glen Caplin defended Gillibrand's request in the face of a four-year delay by the Pentagon in response to an Associated Press inquiry into U.S. armed forces' handling of sexual assault cases in Japan and Okinawa.
The Pentagon delay showed the defense department "did not want to cooperate," Caplin said. "Therefore a further review of data from additional bases is essential to provide transparency and accountability in the system."


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An investigational technology combining a novel device to deliver sublingual sufentanil demonstrated efficacy for management of post-surgical pain, according to top line results from a phase III trial.
Patients randomized to sufentanil reported significantly less pain during the 48 hours following abdominal surgery than did those in the control group (P=0.001) and pain relief was durable for up to 72 hours (P=0.004), according to Richard King, company president and CEO.
The trial enrolled 178 patients, and 119 were randomized to sublingual sufentanil 15 mcg, with both active and placebo therapy delivered by the patient via the NanoTab system, which permitted patients to dispense treatment at 20 minute intervals. All patients could receive up to 2 mg morphine IV as rescue medication. "Pre-rescue pain scores were imputed to minimize the impact of this rescue opioid on efficacy evaluations," the company wrote in its release.
The primary endpoint was self-evaluated pain intensity at 48 hours compared with baseline measured by the Summed Pain Intensity Difference (SPID-48).
But even with rescue morphine, only about half of the placebo patients completed the trial -- 49% versus 70% of the sufentanil patients.
Two-thirds of the patients in each arm reported adverse events with nausea being the most common, followed by fever, vomiting, oxygen saturation, and hypertension.
King said the system is being developed as an alternative to IV patient controlled analgesia (IV PCA), and a trial comparing it to IV PCA is planned.


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The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation
The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation
"The New Authentics" are 21st-century American Jews. Free to choose their affiliations, they are Jewish culturally, religiously, spiritually, intellectually, emotionally, partially, biologically, or invisibly. The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation, curated by Spertus Museum Senior Curator Staci Boris, explored contemporary notions of Jewish identity through the work of 16 artists living in the United States. Engaged in the global art community, these artists inserted traces of, consciously draw from, or directly address their experiences as Jews, and they were brought together here for the first time in a Jewish context. Their work demonstrated how today, associations with Jewish culture intermingle with issues of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, politics, history, and nationality, posing questions, challenging boundaries, and defying easy definition.


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Irvine Co. Retail Eyes International Shoppers
Friday, February 1, 2013
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Newport Beach-based Irvine Company Retail Properties' marketing campaign for its Fashion Island and Irvine Spectrum Center is turning its focus to international markets amid a general upswing in tourism here.
The company held a kickoff event Thursday in conjunction with the Anaheim/Orange County Visitor and Convention Bureau for representatives from hotels and others in the tourism industry.
"International arrivals are up in the double digits, especially from China, Brazil and Australia," said Kathy Anderson, whose Anderson Retail Tourism Marketing firm is handling marketing efforts for the Irvine Co.'s new program. "It's easier for Brazilians and Chinese to get visas to travel here."
Anderson added the area has also seen an increase of visitors from Korea and Taiwan.
International service between John Wayne Airport and Mexico City, Guadalajara and Cabo San Lucas has also helped draw visitors from Mexico, according to Anderson.
The marketing program is currently focused on the business-to-business segment, working with tour operators and online travel agencies to offer free trips to Newport Beach and shopping sprees. It will also highlight discount packages from retailers and restaurants at the two shopping centers as well as the Irvine Co.'s Corona del Mar Plaza and Crystal Cove Shopping Center.
The company has already participated in trade shows in Sao Paulo, London and Beijing as part of broader efforts in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America.
The marketing push comes in the wake of a recent addition of retail shops and restaurants at both Fashion Island, which is putting the final touches on a $100-million renovation, and the Irvine Spectrum Center.
The Irvine Co.'s latest push comes as South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa continues its international and regional outreach programs, with its upcoming celebration of the Lunar New Year, which is celebrated by various Asian cultures.
It's the fourth year in a row that South Coast Plaza has celebrated the event.
Events are planned throughout the month of February and include an exhibit on display from Feb. 5-17 in addition to in-store events and promotions.


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The Sights and Voices of Dispossession: The Fight for the Land and the Emerging Culture of the MST (The Movement of the Landless Rural Workers of Brazil)
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