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When Yemen?s beleaguered President Ali Abdullah Saleh scolded women for violating Islamic law by joining men in demonstrations on the streets of Sana?a, more than 10,000 Yemeni women flooded those streets to denounce their president.
The women had joined the pro-democracy demonstrations in February 2011, the event that catapulted Yemen onto the world stage. The nation?s constitution gave women equal rights in 1994. But not until the national uprising and their April 16 march, could their veiled voices be heard. Their chants for the president?s removal echoed throughout Change Square.
Dr. Ahlam Mothanna, a medical doctor was one of 10 women who first joined the men in Change Square.
?Females in Yemen who participated in demonstrations were exposed to violence by military forces,? Dr. Mothanna said. In response, more and more women are demanding their rights be respected, she said.
Anita Kassem, a student from Aden and a friend, Madiha Ahmed, are two young women inspired by the revolution.
?We had to get out of our houses because our sons, our husbands, our brothers, and our fathers are dying in the square,? explained Anita.
She and her friend began working for charities as volunteers. They wanted to get more involved in the protests in Sana?a, but they had to calculate the political environment of the distant capital city, to get family permission to travel and overcome the fear of persecution.
Most women in Yemen are marginalized. Anita and Madiha said Yemen is unlike Iran and Afghanistan where the opinions of women are grounded in law, constitution, and religion. Instead, Yemen?s opinion of women is based on tradition and custom. By law, you can work, you can talk to men and you do not have to wear a burqa or a hijab. But while the law gives women these rights, husbands and parents usually forbid it.
Some women have begun to leave their homes to go to college and to become teachers, social workers, nurses, and doctors like Ahlam. That?s possible in the capital city, Sana?a, but it?s a new phenomenon for Anita and Madiha, who live in Aden.
Madiha says that before the revolution, women accepted the conservatism and traditions that bound them to the home. They accepted this subordination, she says, ?because they were unsure of themselves. They lacked self-esteem, lacked self-respect, and lacked self-responsibility.?
Now, women in Sana?a and Taiz have joined the revolution, carrying food and water to protestors, teaching in the streets, or standing with the men, chanting, ?The people want to overthrow the regime!?
Hamza al-Shargabi, a veteran of the protests, has watched women join his colleagues on the streets of Sana?a.
?Not so many people know that Yemeni women are very strong. They have been protesting in the streets with us since the first day," al-Shargabi said. "On the political level, the humanitarian level, and the logistical level, on the ground, women have stood beside men very, very naturally.?
It?s normal now to see a woman talking to men on the streets. They say they now have the support of their families and the respect of men. Proudly, Anita boasted that she and other women broke the chains of traditions and conservatism.? Women have proven that they are full citizens of the country who ?stood hand in hand with men,? she says.
The pro-democracy revolution does not promise more rights to the women of Yemen, but the protesters believe women who joined the protests will be more than mothers and wives; they will be recognized as citizens of Yemen.
?The revolution demands equal treatment of one another,? said Hakim AlMasmari, editor of the Yemen Post. He thinks women have achieved greater equality -- and the men, as well.
?I do believe that Yemen will see more freedom after the revolution,? AlMasmari said.
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Runaway June Takes Fans Behind The Scenes of Carrie Underwood's Tour
By Taylor Fields
May 14, 2019
Carrie Underwood's "Cry Pretty 360" Tour just kicked off at the beginning of May, and the country star has made the trek an all-female endeavor, bringing along Runaway June and Maddie & Tae to open the show. And while you can enjoy everything that happens on stage during the concert, Runaway June is taking fans behind the scenes, giving a glimpse into their rehearsals for the tour, what their pre-show rituals are, and what it feels like to hit the road with Carrie.
Runaway June released their self-titled five-track EP last September, which featured their empowering hit single "Buy My Own Drinks," a song with a message that makes them so perfect for this tour. In fact, the band told iHeartRadio of the song in a previous interview, "We hope that it kind of empowers everybody to just have fun on their own. And, it's just a fun song about [how] you don't need anybody else. You don't need your friends, you don't need a partner, you can do it all on your own."
While recently rehearsing for the tour, the ladies exclusively tell iHeartRadio of touring with Carrie Underwood just days before the journey kicked off, "It still hasn't sunk in. We're about to leave in a couple days. This weekend, I think finally it'll sink in once we're really on that stage, but it's just a dream come true to be on a tour like this. We couldn't be more excited."
The girls add that they are also excited to learn from Underwood, especially performing on such a big stage. They tell us, "Getting to play on a stage that big and that elaborate, it's like a smart stage with all this technology and lights and stuff. It's going to be a whole new experience. We're so excited and grateful for her giving us this opportunity."
The band rehearsed for "Cry Pretty 360" at Nashville's Soundcheck Rehearsal Studios, of which they explain, "A ton of great artists rehearse here. We're kind of starstruck looking around."
To get ready for their performance each night of the tour, Runaway June has some pre-show rituals they do with their band to help them "get into the zone." They explain, "We do have a few pre-show rituals that we're pretty dedicated to. We like to get together with the band like 10 minutes before we take the stage and get all of us get in the zone. We listen to music, we do a few cheers or say what we're grateful for, something like that to get into the mindset before we take the stage."
And then there's this ("sometimes") pre-show ritual:
Go behind the scenes with Runaway June during rehearsals for Carrie Underwood's "Cry Pretty 360" Tour in the video above!

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Ready Player One
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Immersing himself in a mid-21st century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.
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Excerpt: Ready Player One
I was jolted awake by the sound of gunfire in one of the neighboring stacks. The shots were followed by a few minutes of muffled shouting and screaming, then silence.
Gunfire wasn't uncommon in the stacks, but it still shook me up. I knew I probably wouldn't be able to fall back asleep, so I decided to kill the remaining hours until dawn by brushing up on a few coin-op classics. Galaga, Defender, Asteroids. These games were outdated digital dinosaurs that had become museum pieces long before I was born. But I was a gunter, so I didn't think of them as quaint low-res antiques. To me, they were hallowed artifacts. Pillars of the pantheon. When I played the classics, I did so with a determined sort of reverence.
I was curled up in an old sleeping bag in the corner of the trailer's tiny laundry room, wedged into the gap between the wall and the dryer. I wasn't welcome in my aunt's room across the hall, which was fine by me. I preferred to crash in the laundry room anyway. It was warm, it afforded me a limited amount of privacy, and the wireless reception wasn't too bad. And, as an added bonus, the room smelled like liquid detergent and fabric softener. The rest of the trailer reeked of cat piss and abject poverty.
Most of the time I slept in my hideout. But the temperature had dropped below zero the past few nights, and as much as I hated staying at my aunt's place, it still beat freezing to death.
A total of fifteen people lived in my aunt's trailer. She slept in the smallest of its three bedrooms. The Depperts lived in the bedroom adjacent to her, and the Millers occupied the large master bedroom at the end of the hall. There were six of them, and they paid the largest share of the rent. Our trailer wasn't as crowded as some of the other units in the stacks. It was a double-wide. Plenty of room for everybody.
I pulled out my laptop and powered it on. It was a bulky, heavy beast, almost ten years old. I'd found it in a Dumpster behind the abandoned strip mall across the highway. I'd been able to coax it back to life by replacing its system memory and reloading the stone-age operating system. The processor was slower than a sloth by current standards, but it was fine for my needs. The laptop served as my portable research library, video arcade, and home theater system. Its hard drive was filled with old books, movies, TV show episodes, song files, and nearly every videogame made in the twentieth century.
I booted up my emulator and selected Robotron: 2084, one of my all-time favorite games. I'd always loved its frenetic pace and brutal simplicity. Robotron was all about instinct and reflexes. Playing old videogames never failed to clear my mind and set me at ease. If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.
I spent a few hours blasting through wave after wave of Brains, Spheroids, Quarks, and Hulks in my unending battle to Save the Last Human Family! But eventually my fingers started to cramp up and I began to lose my rhythm. When that happened at this level, things deteriorated quickly. I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: game over.
I shut down the emulator and began to browse through my video files. Over the past five years, I'd downloaded every single movie, TV show, and cartoon mentioned in Anorak's Almanac. I still hadn't watched all of them yet, of course. That would probably take decades.
I selected an episode of Family Ties, an '80s sitcom about a middle-class family living in central Ohio. I'd downloaded the show because it had been one of Halliday's favorites, and I figured there was a chance that some clue related to the Hunt might be hidden in one of the episodes. I'd become addicted to the show immediately, and had now watched all 180 episodes, multiple times. I never seemed to get tired of them.
Sitting alone in the dark, watching the show on my laptop, I always found myself imagining that I lived in that warm, well-lit house, and that those smiling, understanding people were my family. That there was nothing so wrong in the world that we couldn't sort it out by the end of a single half-hour episode (or maybe a two-parter, if it was something really serious).
My own home life had never even remotely resembled the one depicted in Family Ties, which was probably why I loved the show so much. I was the only child of two teenagers, both refugees who'd met in the stacks where I'd grown up. I don't remember my father. When I was just a few months old, he was shot dead while looting a grocery store during a power blackout. The only thing I really knew about him was that he loved comic books. I'd found several old flash drives in a box of his things, containing complete runs of The Amazing Spider-Man, The X-Men, and Green Lantern. My mom once told me that my dad had given me an alliterative name, Wade Watts, because he thought it sounded like the secret identity of a superhero. Like Peter Parker or Clark Kent. Knowing that made me think he was must have been a cool guy, despite how he'd died.
My mother, Loretta, had raised me on her own. We'd lived in a small RV in another part of the stacks. She had two full-time OASIS jobs, one as a telemarketer, the other as an escort in an online brothel. She used to make me wear earplugs at night so I wouldn't hear her in the next room, talking dirty to tricks in other time zones. But the earplugs didn't work very well, so I would watch old movies instead, with the volume turned way up.
I was introduced to the OASIS at an early age, because my mother used it as a virtual babysitter. As soon as I was old enough to wear a visor and a pair of haptic gloves, my mom helped me create my first OASIS avatar. Then she stuck me in a corner and went back to work, leaving me to explore an entirely new world, very different from the one I'd known up until then.
From that moment on, I was more or less raised by the OASIS's interactive educational programs, which any kid could access for free. I spent a big chunk of my childhood hanging out in a virtual-reality simulation of Sesame Street, singing songs with friendly Muppets and playing interactive games that taught me how to walk, talk, add, subtract, read, write, and share. Once I'd mastered those skills, it didn't take me long to discover that the OASIS was also the world's biggest public library, where even a penniless kid like me had access to every book ever written, every song ever recorded, and every movie, television show, videogame, and piece of artwork ever created. The collected knowledge, art, and amusements of all human civilization were there, waiting for me. But gaining access to all of that information turned out to be something of a mixed blessing. Because that was when I found out the truth.
I don't know, maybe your experience differed from mine. For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking.
The worst thing about being a kid was that no one told me the truth about my situation. In fact, they did the exact opposite. And, of course, I believed them, because I was just a kid and I didn't know any better. I mean, Christ, my brain hadn't even grown to full size yet, so how could I be expected to know when the adults were bullshitting me?
So I swallowed all of the dark ages nonsense they fed me. Some time passed. I grew up a little, and I gradually began to figure out that pretty much everyone had been lying to me about pretty much everything since the moment I emerged from my mother's womb.
This was an alarming revelation.
It gave me trust issues later in life.
I started to figure out the ugly truth as soon as I began to explore the free OASIS libraries. The facts were right there waiting for me, hidden in old books written by people who weren't afraid to be honest. Artists and scientists and philosophers and poets, many of them long dead. As I read the words they'd left behind, I finally began to get a grip on the situation. My situation. Our situation. What most people referred to as "the human condition."
It was not good news.
I wish someone had just told me the truth right up front, as soon as I was old enough to understand it. I wish someone had just said:
"Here's the deal, Wade. You're something called a 'human being.' That's a really smart kind of animal. Like every other animal on this planet, we're descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago. This happened by a process called evolution, and you'll learn more about it later. But trust me, that's really how we all got here. There's proof of it everywhere, buried in the rocks. That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling to one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
"Oh, and by the way . . . there's no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid. Deal with it.
"You're probably wondering what happened before you got here. An awful lot of stuff, actually. Once we evolved into humans, things got pretty interesting. We figured out how to grow food and domesticate animals so we didn't have to spend all of our time hunting. Our tribes got much bigger, and we spread across the entire planet like an unstoppable virus. Then, after fighting a bunch of wars with each other over land, resources, and our made-up gods, we eventually got all of our tribes organized into a 'global civilization.' But, honestly, it wasn't all that organized, or civilized, and we continued to fight a lot of wars with each other. But we also figured out how to do science, which helped us develop technology. For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things. Computers. Medicine. Lasers. Microwave ovens. Artificial hearts. Atomic bombs. We even sent a few guys to the moon and brought them back. We also created a global communications network that lets us all talk to each other, all around the world, all the time. Pretty impressive, right?
"But that's where the bad news comes in. Our global civilization came at a huge cost. We needed a whole bunch of energy to build it, and we got that energy by burning fossil fuels, which came from dead plants and animals buried deep in the ground. We used up most of this fuel before you got here, and now it's pretty much all gone. This means that we no longer have enough energy to keep our civilization running like it was before. So we've had to cut back. Big-time. We call this the Global Energy Crisis, and it's been going on for a while now.
"Also, it turns out that burning all of those fossil fuels had some nasty side effects, like raising the temperature of our planet and screwing up the environment. So now the polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and the weather is all messed up. Plants and animals are dying off in record numbers, and lots of people are starving and homeless. And we're still fighting wars with each other, mostly over the few resources we have left.
"Basically, kid, what this all means is that life is a lot tougher than it used to be, in the Good Old Days, back before you were born. Things used to be awesome, but now they're kinda terrifying. To be honest, the future doesn't look too bright. You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out. Human civilization is in 'decline.' Some people even say it's 'collapsing.'
"You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.
"What happens when you die? Well, we're not completely sure. But the evidence seems to suggest that nothing happens. You're just dead, your brain stops working, and then you're not around to ask annoying questions anymore. Those stories you heard? About going to a wonderful place called 'heaven' where there is no more pain or death and you live forever in a state of perpetual happiness? Also total bullshit. Just like all that God stuff. There's no evidence of a heaven and there never was. We made that up too. Wishful thinking. So now you have to live the rest of your life knowing you're going to die someday and disappear forever.
OK, on second thought, maybe honesty isn't the best policy after all. Maybe it isn't a good idea to tell a newly arrived human being that he's been born into a world of chaos, pain, and poverty just in time to watch everything fall to pieces. I discovered all of that gradually over several years, and it still made me feel like jumping off a bridge.
Luckily, I had access to the OASIS, which was like having an escape hatch into a better reality. The OASIS kept me sane. It was my playground and my preschool, a magical place where anything was possible.
The OASIS is the setting of all my happiest childhood memories. When my mom didn't have to work, we would log in at the same time and play games or go on interactive storybook adventures together. She used to have to force me to log out every night, because I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked.
I never blamed my mom for the way things were. She was a victim of fate and cruel circumstance, like everyone else. Her generation had it the hardest. She'd been born into a world of plenty, then had to watch it all slowly vanish. More than anything, I remember feeling sorry for her. She was depressed all the time, and taking drugs seemed to be the only thing she truly enjoyed. Of course, they were what eventually killed her. When I was eleven years old, she shot a bad batch of something into her arm and died on our ratty fold-out sofa bed while listening to music on an old mp3 player I'd repaired and given to her the previous Christmas.
Excerpted from Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. Copyright 2011 by Ernest Cline. Excerpted by permission of Crown.


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Each child thanks him for his generosity.
Jordan wanted to shop, but not for himself. He wanted to purchase toys and clothes to give to the homeless children in his community in California.
News spread of this 12-year-old boy – dealing with the life-threatening challenges of his brain tumor – wished to help others.
With help from Make-A-Wish® Greater Bay Area, Jordan's wish was coming together. Two local organizations compiled a shopping list to identify items most important to homeless children, and retailers and shoppers chip in by making purchases ahead of time.
With excitement in the air, it's time for Jordan's shopping spree.
His first stop – Wal-Mart. Every manager, associate and clerk stands outside to greet him with smiles and tears of joy. Since the big-hearted boy had previously been featured in a newspaper story, many of the shoppers recognize him. They offer Jordan words of encouragement and more. Some even give him money to add to his shopping spree allowance, while others buy items right off the gift registry.
As he continues from store to store, he finds carts and bins filled with merchandise already purchased by shoppers and store employees to support his wish. Every store gives him a discount, a check to supplement his spree and a special gift just for him.
With the shopping done, Jordan wants to meet the kids benefiting from everyone's kindness. So Make-A-Wish volunteers throw a celebration at a ranch in Napa for Jordan's friends and family, and the families of the homeless children.
This wish kid arrives at the party aboard a fire truck with its sirens blaring. And all the kids greet him with hand-made banners, cheers, applause, and thank-you cards. Then everyone feasts on Domino's pizza, donated cookies and Cold Stone Creamery ice cream. The 150 guests enjoy the sing-along music, animals, a clown and face painting.
In addition to the gratitude of the children, Jordan earns the admiration of the Mayor of Napa. The mayor announces how proud he is of Jordan and presents him with a key to the city. In another highlight, Jordan cries with happiness as he tears open the gift wrapping on his new video camera.
At the end of the day, Jordan gives each kid a hug and a specially-selected present, wrapped that morning by his family and Make-A-Wish volunteers. Each child thanks him for his generosity and compassion.
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Wow! I have never seen a kid so special like Jordan. He is so selfless and so kind to the other people in need. I greatly look up to him as my model.
August 30, 2006 - 2:56 PM
At 27 years old, you have made cry from your outpouring of love and generosity, right here at work at my desk! Good hearts, kindness, and selfless acts of kindness is way more than anyone can ever ask for, especially from a very special young man such as yourself. May God Bless you and anything or anyone that you touch, and I Pray that others follow your lead. Good luck!
December 29, 2006 - 10:02 AM
I think the love in this kid's heart was the most thoughtful thing anyone could do. The love he showed put shining smiles on those kids' faces. Jordan inspired me and I'm sure many others. Jordan is a very special kid who made a big difference for many lives. Jordan, I think you did great. I am more than proud of you. Jordan in you will recieve very true blessings. We are thinking of you and how kind-hearted you are. MAY GOD BLESS AND BE WITH YOU!!!!
January 09, 2007 - 12:39 PM
Jordan is the kind of person that these kids look up to. He is so kind and giving. We definitely need more people like him in this world.
May 28, 2007 - 6:25 PM
This was truly a remarkable story. Amazing! Jordan you're an angel sent from God. You made a wish that benefited the children around you, and not yourself, and that alone is wonderful. You have a big heart, and that will take you a long way. You care about other people, and you want to help in every way you can. You are a hero, and don't let anyone tell you any different. When I read your story, it made my day, for I have never seen a child more selfless than you. My eyes are filled with tears of joy, because I know that God will indeed bless you for your good deeds. There will come a day, when you will be rewarded for all your hard work and dedication. Keep up the good work, and good luck in the future! God bless!
August 01, 2007 - 1:40 PM
I am 11 yrs. old. My sister is 17. She is a wish kid too but hasn't chosen her wish yet. Your's is the best one I've ever read! I wish everybody's wish was as nice as yours! It made my mom cry to read about your day. I hope you are better now. You are a nice boy. Bye!
September 17, 2007 - 7:30 PM
I need to tell you that you are an amazing young man. Your parents have done an amazing job raising you to be such a fine, caring and selfless person. Cheers to you and I wish you luck in everything you pursue. I wish there were more young people like you out there in our world. God bless you.
September 21, 2007 - 9:28 AM
You truly are an angel. Flowers leave some of their fragrance on the hands that bestows them, and I couldn't agree more. Life is painful, as things we all must battle such as cancer or misfortune striking down. I had skin cancer as a little girl, and I can only imagine your own battle. Out of all the things you could've wished for, you gave back to those in need. You deserved that key to the city and so much more. Jordan, we're all behind you to the max. I am only fifteen, but I have made up my mind to join Make-A-Wish as a volunteer thanks to you. I know so many people are saying this (and who can blame them?) But, if you are reading this, You're in the Make-A-Wish hall of fame-the national-THE WORLD hall of fame. God bless you, your family, and those who love you....and, trust me, kiddo, that's A LOT!
July 09, 2008 - 8:34 AM
You're such a kind young man, Jordan. You just became one of my idols. I also want to help many people that are in need.
August 14, 2008 - 3:30 PM
This story inspired me.....made me cry......and i love u Jordan and God Bless U....................
August 07, 2013 - 12:08 PM
God bless and keep Jordan!
October 21, 2013 - 8:29 AM
You are an amazing young man. May all be wise to realize your gifts, and heed the leadership you have offered. Through your selflessness, you honor Him who makes all things possible.Congratulations on delivering more smiles than most can throughout their entire lifetimes. You are a treasure, and a beacon of light to all those who get to know you.God bless!
December 23, 2013 - 6:27 PM
la toya k.
This is sooo wonderful...brought tears to my eys
December 27, 2013 - 4:49 PM
May God bless this unselfish and caring young man. :-)
February 02, 2015 - 2:42 PM
This is wonderful. Amazing that these kids who face such personal challenges are able to be so selfless. A model for all of us.
May 29, 2015 - 10:26 AM
I wish to give a playground to my elementary school
I wish to give back comfort and hope
liver transplant
I wish to go on a birthday shopping spree
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TONGLEN by JOAN HALIFAX…….
Meditation: Tonglen or Giving and Receiving: A Practice of Great MercyRead More
1. Cultivating Mercy
The practice of Tonglen or Giving and Receiving is done to develop our compassion and our ability to be present for our own suffering and the suffering of others. It is also a practice of great kindness that opens up our whole being to the overwhelming presence of suffering and our strength and willingness to transform alienation into compassion through the energy of mercy and the cultivation of openness. Tonglen is one of the richest and bravest practices that we can do. In teaching this practice for more than twenty-five years, I have been told again and again that this one practice has helped many people immeasurably in attending to their own fears around pain, suffering, dying, and loss and has given them a real basis for the joining of compassion and equanimity.
THE OPENING OF SISTER MARY JANE ROBERTSHAW'S ART SHOW AT THE COLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE 2016For the 65th anniversary of Sister Mary Jane Robertshaw's graduation from CNR, a retrospective of her art was enthusiastically and lovingly …Read More
LINDA MARY MONTANO: TALKS ABOUT MARILYN ARSEM I just recently, 2016, had the opportunity to be with Marilyn Arsem for a few days at Jill McDermid and Hoke's Rosekill Farm, performance site in Rosendale NY. It was a reunion of the Crone…Read More
CHICEN WOMAN and WARREN MONTANO: Photo by Anica Montano
LINDA MARY MONTANO as CHICKEN WOMAN: CHICKENARAMA: Re Seed Saugerties: Curated by Jennifer Zackin ;Photo Anica MontanoRead More
LINDA MARY MONTANO: RAPID PULSE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL 2016: Blog: Jennie Klein
Linda Mary Montano: Glands and SleepRapid Pulse 2016 concluded with a performance by Linda Mary Montano's Interactionarama: Cry/Laugharama : An Interactive Lecture Honoring the 7 Glands of the Body. Montano was aided by three volunteers, who help…Read More
ART/LIFE COUNSELING 4 HOURS by LINDA MARY MONTANO: RAPID PULSE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL: JENNIE KLEIN BLOG for RAPID PULSE
The following morning the festival opened on a more serious note, with Mother Superior Linda Mary Montano conducting Art/Life Counseling (your choice). Garbed entirely in orange clothing, Montano counseled festival goers for approximately eight hours …Read More
VIDEO LIST(TENTATIVE) RAPID PULSEVIDEO LIST: RAPID PULSE1. AS PEOPLE ENTER: ONE LOVE2. INTRO AND DANCE: CHICKENARAMA3. GLAND 1: INTIMACY…PRIMAL SCENES4. GLAND 2: SECUIRTY…. BOB DYLAN5. GLAND 3: COURAGE…Read More
Meditation, Improv, Forced Chuckling, and More at a Gallery SleepoverParticipants choose cots before Linda Mary Montano leads the group in a series of laughter and crying exercises for 'Sleepathon' at Defibrillator Gallery (all images by the author for Hyperallergic)
CHICAGO — I bend my head down, eyes shut tight, and reach my hands up over my head towards the center of the circle. While flinging my arms upward I make a whooshing sound, starting low and gaining volume the further my fingertips stretch away from my core. Fifteen surrounding bodies immediately repeat my actions, myself standing still as I watch them recreate my improvised movements. Directly across from me is the artist Linda Mary Montano, her gray curls bouncing up over the blue temporary tattoo of a diamond at the center of her forehead. Gracefully she throws her arms up over her head, my whoosh now projected out of her mouth. She and the strangers around me present their own personalized movements, each of us reproducing what the other performed. These "self-portraits" are one of many group exercises that served as a precursor to Montano's "Sleepathon" last Sunday, the culminating all-night performance/ceremony/art piece of the Rapid Pulse performance art festival at Defibrillator Gallery.
Asked by Montano to bring a pillow, pen, piece of paper, and sleeping garments, all 15 participants came prepared to spend the night with the artist on cots that were temporarily set up in two neat rows against the gallery's walls. The arrangement, which mimicked army barracks, orphanage chambers, or camp cabins, was a collaboration between Rapid Pulse Director Joseph Ravens and Montano. To Ravens, the set-up was a metaphor for finding family through community rather than blood, individuals joined together by their art rather than a given past. "Artists are often in this situation, especially queer or 'othered' individuals, who family has cast aside," said Ravens. "Knowing someone 'has your back' is a very important thing, and without it we feel untethered. Finding a new family when one isn't readily available is a testament to the human spirit and a product of our need to feel connection and communion with others."Linda Mary Montano post-"Sleepathon"
Montano led a series of exaggerated and guttural laughing and crying exercises to bond the group of mostly strangers. We were first instructed to walk intentionally through the space yet not create a conscious pattern, just glide through the room while passing and acknowledging each other's energies. We were then asked to greet one another with high-pitched laughter and clasped hands, making sure to lock eyes before wandering to the next interaction. Forced chuckling from the group soon melted into genuine amusement, an act that seemed to me both contrived and profound as my abs became sore and the corners of my mouth began to sting.
After several iterations of these interactions, Montano had us lie down on our chosen cots, outlining a guided meditation of the seven chakras, a structure she incorporates into many of her performances, including one titled "An Interactive Lecture Honoring the 7 Glands of the Body" that was performed at Defibrillator for the public just prior to the "Sleepathon." During the meditation I felt my root chakra, I felt my sacral chakra, I felt my solar plexus, I felt my body slip into sleep. Coming to just after the conclusion of the meditation, I slowly regained awareness as Montano instructed us to write a love letter to one of our chakras that needed healing or attention, and to read it out loud if we felt so inclined. I wrote mine to my sacral, while others wrote and read messages of love to their hearts, throats, and dicks. After listening to each other we drifted to sleep, our letters tucked safely under our pillows, attempting to pierce our dreams.
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There was no disagreement that the elected officials in Palo Alto County do and outstanding job for the taxpayers. Members of the Palo Alto County Compensation Board met Monday afternoon and on a split vote, voted to recommend a raise of three percent for the elected officials in fiscal year 2013-14.
John Spies was elected the chair of the board by the membership and asked for the feelings and thoughts of the seven-member group, which is appointed by the elected office holders.,
Ned Munn, representing County Recorder Bonnie Whitney, opened the discussion by noting Social Security had announced a 1.7 percent increase in benefits, as well as the fact that some governmental units were talking about 3.0 percent increases to salaries.
Spies asked what the current cost of living increase had been set at, and Munn answered that 3.2 percent seemed to be the figure.
Francis Schealler, representing the Board of Supervisors, noted that 1.7 percent seemed to be fair, but pointed out that after the supervisors had granted 1.5 percent raises the previous year, that amounted to only about 33 cents per day for the officials.
Allen Stangl, the second representative of the Supervisors, thought otherwise. "We need to start holding the line on these expenses. The county paying 100 percent of the healthcare coverage for employees I can't believe that. I've never lived in that kind of world. To me, you have to figure that as a part of a salary."
"We are just to set a limit for a maximum a mount that can't be exceeded," Munn said. "The Supervisors have to decide what they can do when they do their budgeting."
John Brown, representing Auditor Carmen Moser, asked Supervisor Ron Graettinger what Supervisors were paid, and how many hours they worked for that salary.
"We get $24,000," Graettinger answered. "But the hours, that's hard to say. Sometimes you work 30 hours or more with all the meetings we have to go to and then sometimes there's less. It all averages out."
Newly appointed member Laura Petersen, representing County Treasurer Mary Hilfiker, noted that salaries locally appeared to be in the middle of the road with other counties. "I'd like to see our treasurer at least at the state average."
"I'm wondering how many counties pay 100 percent of the health insurance for their employees?" Spies asked Sheriff-elect Lynn Schultes, whom he represents.
"According to what I've found, 70 counties pay the full cost of employee health insurance," Schultes answered.
With that, Spies asked the office holders for any comments. Auditor Carmen Moser commented that any raise the Compensation Board felt appropriate would be greatly appreciated.
County Treasurer Mary Hilfiker wondered if the public really knew and understood what the officers did in their jobs. "Until you walk in someone else's shoes, its hard to know what their job is like. To me, the question that always comes to mind when you talk about cutting expenses is 'Why always start with the staff level?'" Hilfiker said. "I think we all can look at other areas and other ways to cut expenses."
Hilfiker concluded, "I'm game for and I appreciate anything you folks recommend."
Stangl asked Hilfiker if she could give any examples of additional budget cutting areas. "I agree in not always cutting the staff salaries to save money."
"If every department head would look long and hard at their own budget area," Hilfiker said. "Maybe its cutting office supplies, maybe not doing remodeling in an office, something like that."
"I just wish that the employees had to pay part of your health insurance," Stangl said. "It's too big of a cushion not to be considered part of your salaries."
Supervisor Ron Graettinger explained that because of the insurance coverage, salaries were lower because of that tradeoff. "The health insurance isn't as high-priced in this county as it is in others, and that's because we've partially self-funded it over the last few years and saved a lot of money from that."
"Our elected officials also don't come before us with inflated budgets, either," Graettinger continued. "They all cut as much as they can and it shows."
"Being that I have not even taken office yet, it wouldn't be right for me to come in and ask for any kind of raise," Lynn Schultes told the group. "But, I don't want that to affect the employees in the sheriff's office, because they are all very deserving."
Both County Recorder Bonnie Whitney and County Attorney Lyssa Henderson stated they would be most appreciative of anything the group was willing to propose.
"This is the hardest part of my job," said Supervisor Ed Noonan. "All of these people do a fantastic job for the taxpayers, and I've come to appreciate them more and more each day since I took office. But, I also have to answer to the taxpayers to keep expenses low. So, whatever you folks offer as a recommendation, I will consider it when the time comes to set the salaries."
With that, Spies called for a motion.
"I would move to set a limit of a three percent raise for the elected officials of Palo Alto County," Ned Munn said. John Brown offered a second to the motion, but in the voting, Stangl, Schealler and Spies voted nay, while Munn, Brown and Petersen voted aye, leaving the deciding vote to Fred Perkins, representing County Attorney Lyssa Henderson. "I vote aye," Perkins said, breaking the tie and passing the motion on a 4-3 vote.
In final action, the board raised the salary of secretary Marge Schmidt by $1 per hour to a wage of $16 per hour.
The recommendation goes to the Board of Supervisors, who may approve the recommendation, lower the recommendation by an equal amount, or choose to grant no increases. However, the Supervisors cannot raise any salary over the Compensation Board recommendation.


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No if it was me Id want to play for Leipzig. But Im just thinking from efc point of view.
I wouldn't expect any player to though. And with 3 years left on his contract, he doesn't really hold all the cards either.
Id expect a young player too, I think.
I'm not sure I'd agree with that.On the face of it, Derby might make more sense to Everton but, in general, I don't think we've really put a lot of thought into some of these development loans. Galloway going off on loan to a Pulis side last season was always a massive risk, for example. Did we loan to them because we thought that was the best option at the time - or did they, perhaps, just pay us the biggest fee?I suspect youth players are going to become more powerful in this regard in the near future. The player (and their agents!) have much more at stake than the club in these matters after all.
Maybe! Well see if hes improved with more appearances for us next season
I mean the 90 minute match they play every weekend is just a snippet of a footballers week really. Will be much more beneficial to him training every day with world class coaching and team mates than getting vollied by a bunch of yard dogs for 90mins of a weekend in the championship. He's already proven he can do it in the championship
He came from League One.
There have been rumours around for a while that he was homesick. Which might have played into his choice of wanting a clean break and to experience somewhere completely new and different rather than moving to another place in the UK just to be homesick in a different city here.
Homesick young English footballers dont go to Germany to get over said homesickness.
Youd never send players out on loan if that was the case as wed always have better facilities coaches than lower league sides. I can see the argument that if he gets 30 min run outs for them then thats better than 90 mins at championship level. But training doesnt have the risk factor that real games do.
I get your point that game time is important. But to a player like Lookman I really think he's better off with say 15 mins in a top league that 60 in a lower league where they'll boot him everywhere due to his style
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The U2 concert stage has arrived. Parts of it anyway. The 360º Tour, with its spider-like stage, requires a reported 120 trucks in all, and Steve W. Shifflett spotted some of them when he shot this photo around 5:15pm Friday, September 25 at Fashion Square mall, an apparent rendezvous site before the final trek to Scott Stadium.
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Rumors quickly started flying around about it being "bridge parts" for the new bridge under construction on Rio Road. If this had been true, they had enough parts to build a dozen bridges. :)
Here's a very interesesting link with more information about the stage itself.
Boy, 120 rigs. those boys are real "green."
Jimi Hendrix, there's weight limits in all of these united states. And most of the stage parts are pretty heavy. The stage appears to be built better than our space shuttles. :)
so overrated!
Steve, is this your pic?
Well, it was. Until I gave it to The Hook.


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Longtime Shroud of Turin devotee Ray Rogers, a retired research chemist, now admits there is the equivalent of a watercolor paint on the alleged burial cloth of Jesus. By tortuous logic and selective evidence, however, he uses the coloration to claim the "shroud" image was not the work of a medieval artist (Rogers 2004, 2005). Rogers follows many other shroud defenders in attempting to discredit the medieval date given by radiocarbon testing (Nickell 1998, 150—151).
In a paper published in Thermochimica Acta, Rogers (2005) claims that earlier carbon-14 dating tests—which proved the linen was produced between 1260 and 1390 (Damon et al. 1989)—were invalid because they were conducted on a sample taken from a medieval patch. "The radiocarbon sample has completely different chemical properties than the main part of the shroud relic," Rogers told BBC News ("Turin" 2005).
In fact, the radiocarbon sample (a small piece cut from the "main body of the shroud" [Damon 1988, 612]) was destroyed by the testing. Rogers (2005) relied on two little threads allegedly left over from the sampling,1 together with segments taken from an adjacent area in 1973. He cites pro-authenticity researchers who guessed that the carbon-14 sample came from a "rewoven area" of repair—"As unlikely as it seems," Rogers admitted to one news source (Lorenzi 2005). Indeed, textile experts specifically made efforts to select a site for taking the radiocarbon sample that was away from patches and seams (Damon et al. 1989, 611—612).
Rogers compared the threads with some small samples from elsewhere on the Shroud, claiming to find differences between the two sets of threads that "prove" the radiocarbon sample "was not part of the original cloth" of the Turin shroud (as stated in his abstract [Rogers 2005, 189]).
The reported differences include the presence—allegedly only on the "radiocarbon sample"—of cotton fibers and a coating of madder root dye in a binding medium that his tests "suggest" is gum Arabic. He insists the sampled area was that of an interwoven medieval repair that was intentionally colored to match the "older, sepia-colored cloth" (Rogers 2005, 192, 193).
However, Rogers' assertions to the contrary, both the cotton and the madder have been found elsewhere on the shroud. Both were specifically reported by famed microanalyst Walter McCrone (1996, 85) who was commissioned to examine samples taken by the Shroud of Turin Research Project (STURP). After McCrone discovered the image was rendered in tempera paint, STURP held him to a secrecy agreement, while statements were made to the press that no evidence of artistry was found. McCrone was then, he says, "drummed out" of the organization [Nickell 1998, 124—125; 2004, 193—194]. As evidence of its pro-authenticity bias, STURP's leaders served on the executive committee of the Holy Shroud Guild.
Not only did McCrone find "occasional" cotton fibers on the Shroud, but the source of Rogers' sample, Gilbert Raes, has since been challenged as to his claim, cited by Rogers (2005, 189), that "the cotton was an ancient Near Eastern variety." In fact, others—including French textile expert Gabriel Vial and major pro-shroud author Ian Wilson (1998, 71, 97)—believe the cotton may be entirely incidental. They point out it could have come from the cotton gloves or clothing of the Turin's cloth's handlers or a similarly mundane source.
On the tape-lifted STURP samples (affixed to microscope slides), McCrone found a variety of substances (including mold spores and wax spatters). Major pigments were red ocher (in "body" areas) and vermilion (together with red ocher in the "blood" areas), contained in a collagen tempera binder. He also found the madder,2 orpiment, azurite, and yellow ocher pigments, as well as paint fragments, including ultramarine and titanium white—together suggestive of the shroud's origin in "an artist's studio" (McCrone 1996, 85, 135)..
Astonishingly—and with serious implications to the spirit of peer review—Rogers omits any mention of McCrone's findings from his report while insisting elsewhere, "let's be honest about our science" (Rogers 2004).
Although Rogers is a research chemist, unlike McCrone he is not an internationally celebrated microanalyst with special expertise in examining questioned paintings. Working in his "home laboratory," he did not, as far as his report informs, use a "blind" approach as McCrone did to mitigate against the subjectivity that has continually plagued the work of shroud advocates. Moreover, McCrone once referred to Rogers' and his fellow STURP co-author's "incompetence in light microscopy" and pointed out errors in the test procedures they relied on (McCrone 1996, 157, 158—171).
Rogers (2005) now also reports the presence of vanillin in the lignin of the radiocarbon-sample area, in contrast to its reported absence in other areas of the cloth. This is a dubious finding given his extremely limited samples. He attempts to date the shroud by the amount of the lignin decomposition but admits that that method can offer only an accuracy range of a whopping 1,700 years (contrasted with about 150 years by radiocarbon dating). He concedes that the decomposition could have been accelerated by the baking of the cloth in its reliquary that occurred during the fire of 1532, but thinks it unlikely the cloth is medieval.
However, apart from the fire damage, the cloth is remarkably well preserved for a reputed age of nearly 2000 years. Also, no examples of its complex herringbone weave are known from the time of Jesus when, in any case, burial cloths tended to be of plain weave (Nickell 1998, 35; Wilson 1998, 98—99, 188; Sox 1981). In addition, Jewish burial practice utilized—and the Gospel of John specifically describes for Jesus—multiple burial wrappings with a separate cloth over the face.
Other evidence of medieval fakery includes the shroud's lack of historical record prior to the mid-fourteenth century—when a bishop reported the artist's confession—as well as serious anatomical problems, the lack of wraparound distortions, the resemblance of the figure to medieval depictions of Jesus, and suspiciously bright red and picturelike "blood" stains which failed a battery of sophisticated tests by forensic serologists, among many other indicators. These facts argue against Rogers' assertions that the shroud is neither a forgery nor a miracle—that "the blood is real blood"3 and the image was produced by "a rotting body" (Rogers 2004).
Science has proved the Shroud of Turin a medieval fake, but defenders of authenticity turn the scientific method on its head by starting with the desired conclusion and working backward to the evidence—picking and choosing and reinterpreting as necessary. It is an approach I call "shroud science."
- Ian Wilson (1998, 187) reported that the trimmings "are no longer extant."
- Red lake colors like madder were specifically used by medieval artists to overpaint vermilion in depicting "blood" (Nickell 1998, 130).
- Rogers (2004) does acknowledge that claims the blood is type AB "are nonsense."
- Damon, P.E., et al. 1989. Radiocarbon dating of the Shroud of Turin. Nature 337 (February): 611—615.
- Lorenzi, Rossella. 2005. Turin shroud older than thought. News in Science, January 26.
- McCrone, Walter. 1996. Judgment Day for the Turin Shroud. Chicago: Microscope Publications.
- Nickell, Joe. 1998. Inquest on the Shroud of Turin: Latest Scientific Findings. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books.
- —. 2004. The Mystery Chronicles. Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky.
- Rogers, Raymond N. 2004. Shroud not hoax, not miracle. Letter to the editor, Skeptical Inquirer 28:4 (July/August), 69; with response by Joe Nickell.
- —. 2005. Studies on the radiocarbon sample from the Shroud of Turin. Thermochimica Acta 425: 189—194.
- Sox, H. David. 1981. Quoted in David F. Brown, Interview with H. David Sox, New Realities 4:1 (1981), 31.
- Turin shroud "older than thought." 2005. BBC News, January 27.
- Wilson, Ian. 1998. The Blood and the Shroud. New York: The Free Press.


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In New Jersey, Lanza's older brother Ryan, 24, of Hoboken, was being questioned by police but is not under arrest. He was co-operative during questioning and is not believed to have had any involvement in the attack, police added. He told investigators his brother, who lived with their mother in Connecticut, was believed to suffer from a personality disorder and be "somewhat autistic".
The shootings took place in one section of the school, in two rooms, according to Lt Vance. Speaking to journalists he said: "The shooter is deceased in the school, there's a great deal of work going on relative to that.
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Connecticut governor Dan Malloy gave an official statement to the press on behalf of the state, saying that "evil visited this community today". Many of the victims were, he said, "beautiful, beautiful children, who had simply come to school to learn". He continued: "Their day ended a very different way than any of us could possibly have imagined. Quite frankly, as we stand here today, still can't imagine what transpired there."


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Palestinian NGO Al-Haq has been the latest victim of an attack and smear campaign that resulted in a series of death threats targeting its senior staff members.
In an official public statement, Al-Haq confirmed that their General Director, Shawan Jabarin, along with a senior staff member of the organization, have received phone calls to their private contacts from an anonymous caller who sent out death threats concerning their work at Al-Haq.
This was not the first time that the Palestinian human rights NGO and their staff members have received threats.
Al-Haq says it has confronted various forms of harassment by Israeli authorities since its inception, many of which have led to detentions or travel bans imposed on its staff members and false accusations against its operational transparency.
According to Al-Haq, those attacks, however, have intensified in the recent months as a response to the organisation's achievements at international level.
"We have reasons to believe that these attacks have increased with the success Al-Haq has achieved at the International Criminal Court and with EU's decisions to label settlement products", says Tahseen Elayyan, Head of Monitoring and Documentation Department at Al-Haq.
"Based on the techniques and methods [of these threats], we believe that it was not by an individual, but there is an organization behind it", Elayyan added.
Since September 2015, Al-Haq has received a number of anonymous calls, emails and Facebook posts accusing the organization of fraudulent activities and lack of financial transparency. The attacks claimed to come from the Palestinian Authority.
During the same period, Al-Haq's partners and donors also received messages asserting that Al-Haq was under investigation by Ernst and Young for corruption.
All of these allegations turned out to be unfounded. The Palestinian Authority released a statement that rejected the false accusations while expressing its support for Al-Haq as a "leading civil society organization", while Ernst and Young also stated that no investigation on Al-Haq was undertaken.
Despite all this, the harassment still continued. It took an extreme turn when Al-Haq's staff members were exposed to death threats roughly two weeks ago.
The source of the attacks remains anonymous, but Al-Haq convinced that they are part of an institutionalized and organized campaign against the NGO.
"There have been direct attacks on Al-Haq from the Israeli Minister of Justice, Israeli newspapers and Israeli organizations and institutions both at the local level and abroad", Al-Haq's statement reads.
Investigation is underway to identify those responsible for the threats.
"We have no secrets in terms of the work that we do. [These threats] will not affect us and we will continue our work to defend for the victims of Israeli occupation through legal means," Elayyan told the Palestine Monitor.
Al-Haq is one of the leading NGOs in Palestine that pressured the Palestinian Authority to appeal to the International Criminal Court for Israel's war crimes and violations of international law. The organization is also active in calling on international communities for a ban on settlement products.
In November 2015, the European Commission released guidelines on labeling the origins of products from the territories occupied by Israel since 1967.
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Dog 'saved life' of missing Polish girl
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Firefighters in Poland say a small dog probably saved the life of a three-year-old who went missing from her home overnight in freezing temperatures.
The child, Julia, vanished on Friday and was found lying in marshes several kilometres from her house on Saturday morning, with the dog by her side.
She is now in hospital in western Poland, suffering from frostbite after temperatures fell to -5C (23F).
Firefighter Grzegorz Szymanski said the dog kept the child warm enough to live.
"For the whole night the animal was with the girl, it never left her. Remember, it was 5 degrees below zero and the child was wet," he said, adding that the animal was the most important factor in the girl's survival.
More than 200 people had searched for the child overnight. It is thought she spent hours wandering through the forest near her home in the village of Pierzwin.
Her parents had last seen the three-year-old playing in the backyard with the small black mongrel.
She was eventually discovered by firefighters after she was heard crying for her mother.


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The most common reason for an amputation is poor blood flow. This happens when arteries become narrowed or damaged. When this occurs in the arms or legs, it's called peripheral arterial disease or PAD. PAD most often occurs between the ages of 50 to 75 years. It usually results from diabetes or atherosclerosis, a buildup of plaque inside the artery wall. Poor blood flow causes infection and death of tissue.
Other reasons for you might need this procedure include injury, such as severe burn or accident, or a cancer in a limb.
Amputation may also be done for serious infections that do not respond to antibiotics or other treatment. In some cases, it may be done due to neuroma (a thickening of nerve tissue), or frostbite.
There may be other reasons you may need an amputation.
People with diabetes, heart disease, or infection have a higher risk of complications from amputation than others. Above-knee amputations are riskier than below-knee amputations.
Other complications may include:
You may have other risks, based on your condition. Be sure to talk with your health care provider about any concerns you have before your amputation.
Ask your health care provider to tell you what you should do before your amputation. Below is a list of common steps that you may be asked to do:
Talk with your health care provider about what to expect during your procedure. An amputation requires a stay in a hospital. Procedures may vary depending on the type of amputation, your condition, and your doctor's practices.
An amputation may be done while you are asleep under general anesthesia, or while you are awake under spinal anesthesia. If spinal anesthesia is used, you will have no feeling from your waist down. Your doctor will discuss this with you in advance.
Generally, an amputation follows this process:
After the procedure, you will be taken to the recovery room. Your recovery will vary depending on the type of procedure done and anesthesia used. The circulation and sensation of the affected extremity will be monitored. Once your blood pressure, pulse, and breathing are stable and you are alert, you will be taken to your hospital room.
You may get pain medications and antibiotics as needed. The dressing will be changed and watched closely.
You will start physical therapy soon after your surgery. Rehabilitation is designed for your specific needs. It may include gentle stretching, special exercises, and help getting in and out of bed or a wheelchair. If you had a leg amputation, you will learn how to bear weight on your remaining limb.
There are specialists who make and fit prosthetic devices. They will visit you soon after surgery and will instruct you how to use the prosthesis. You may begin to practice with your artificial limb as early as 10 to 14 days after your surgery, depending on your comfort and wound healing process.
After amputation, you will stay in the hospital for several days. You will get instructions as to how to change your dressing. You will be discharged home when the healing process is going well and you are able to take care of yourself with assistance.
After surgery, you may have emotional concerns, such as grief over the lost limb or a physical condition known as phantom pain. This is a sense of feeling pain or sensation in your amputated limb. If this is the case, you may receive medications or other types of nonsurgical approaches.
Once you are home, it is important to follow the instructions given to you by your doctor. You will have detailed instructions on how to care for the surgical site, dressing changes, bathing, activity level, and physical therapy.
Take a pain reliever for soreness as advised by your doctor. Aspirin or certain other pain medications may increase the chance of bleeding. Be sure to take only recommended medications.
Tell your doctor to report any of the following:
You may resume your normal diet unless your doctor tells you differently.
Your doctor may give you other instructions, depending on your situation.
There have been many advances over the past several years in the surgery, rehabilitation, and prosthetic design. Proper healing and fitting of the artificial limb help to reduce the risk of long-term complications. An amputation requires adapting many parts of your life. Physical therapy can help.
If the amputation was the result of PAD, continued steps will need to be taken to prevent the condition so that it does not affect other parts of your body.
You may be advised to adopt the following lifestyle modifications to help halt the progression of PAD:
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NEA survey: school staffs need more help to prevent bullying
Report released at White House Conference on Bullying Prevention
WASHINGTON - March 10, 2011 -
A new survey on bullying by the National Education Association (NEA) finds that school employees know bullying is pervasive in schools and that they believe it's their job to intervene—but that they need more training to do so effectively. The NEA Bullying Survey was released today at the White House Conference on Bullying Prevention, where individuals from across the nation gathered to address this issue—those who have been affected by bullying as well as those who are actively working to address it.
"To our knowledge, this study is the only large-scale nationwide study that has been fielded to examine different staff members' perspectives on bullying intervention and prevention," said NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. "Our members know that bullying is a significant problem, and teachers and education support professionals need and want more training to address it. Findings of this study will inform the creation of professional development and training materials tailored for different school staff. "
"Bullying robs students of the opportunity to learn. The administration is to be commended for convening this conference to address the growing problem of bullying," Van Roekel added.
Key findings of the NEA survey show:
- 62 percent of school employees report they have witnessed bullying two or more times in the last month
- 98 percent believe it is their job to intervene when they see bullying happening in their school
- 46 percent of school employees—teachers and education support professionals alike—say they have not received training on their district's bullying policy
- 61 percent say they would benefit from additional training on when and how to intervene in bullying situations when they are related to perceived sexual orientation or gender nonconformity issues
- 74 percent say they could benefit from training on when and how to intervene with cyberbullying
The survey also found that education support professionals are just as likely as teachers to witness bullying, and they are just as committed to solving the problem. Also, results indicate that bullying is a problem in every kind of school setting—rural, suburban and urban schools.
Survey responses were received from more than 5,000 teachers and education support professionals. The survey of student-to-student bullying, conducted in the spring of 2010, was extensive, covering such topics as members' knowledge, needs, and experiences with various types of bullying, and experiences with bullying of special populations, for example, GLBT, religious groups, etc. NEA collaborated with Catherine Bradshaw, associate director of Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence, on the survey.
"Bullying is serious, it can come in many forms, and it always hurts," added Van Roekel. "Bullying affects one-third of our students nationally on a weekly basis. We know that one caring adult can make a world of difference to a bullied child. One caring adult, who takes the time to listen, who steps in when they see or hear bullying, can change a child's life. Teachers, counselors and all school employees are united in tackling this problem. Our students are counting on us."
Last week NEA announced a new initiative, "NEA's Bully Free: It Starts With Me," a national campaign to engage adults in helping bullied students. Van Roekel said NEA is encouraging educators to take "NEA's Bully Free: It Starts With Me" pledge to take whatever steps necessary to make sure that all of our students are safe and ready and able to learn.
Information on "NEA's Bully Free: It Starts With Me" campaign, as well as resources and training information, can be found at www.nea.org/bullyfree. Adults who pledge to help bullied students will make themselves known as individuals who will listen carefully to the student who comes to them with a concern about bullying. They will also agree to take action to stop the bullying. NEA, for its part, promises to provide those caring adults with the tools and resources they need to provide solace and support for the bullied student, to ask the right questions, and to take the appropriate actions to stop the bullying.
NEA offers training programs to help teachers and education support professionals deal with student-on-student bullying and sexual harassment. The National Education Association Health Information Network (NEA HIN) is also active in preventing and responding to school violence as it results from bullying, both in person and online. NEA HIN, in partnership with Sprint, offers bNetS@vvy (www.bnetsavvy.org), a resource for families and educators who want to help kids connect smartly and safely on the Internet. In addition, the NEA School Crisis Guide (www.neahin.org/crisisguide) offers tools and resources to help schools prepare for, react to, and respond to a school crisis.
"It is up to all of us to ensure that every child realizes his or her own potential and this means that bullying and harassment cannot be accepted," said Marguerite Kondracke, President and CEO of America's Promise Alliance. "We commend the National Education Association for their efforts in this area and we encourage others to join forces to ensure that children have access to caring adults – and that adults have the resources they need to stop bullying and harassment once and for all." The Alliance, founded in 1997 with General Colin Powell as chairman, is a cross-sector partnership of more than 400 corporations, nonprofits, faith-based organizations and advocacy groups that are passionate about improving lives and changing outcomes for children.
Van Roekel encourages parents to take notice of their children's behavior, appearance and mood, both for signs of a child being bullied or one who may be engaging in bullying behavior. "We need to continue to foster the active involvement of teachers, administrators, education support professionals, parents and the larger community in a whole school initiative to eliminate bullying and harassment. It is our shared responsibility to make sure that every child feels safe at school. Working together, we can make our nation's public schools bully free," he said.
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Hawaii Five-0 Review: The Hookman ComethGabrielle Moss at .
I hope you used your week off to rest up, folks - because "Hookman" was all about action, action, gun control debates, action, prosthetic arms, creepy engraved bullets, action, total bromance, and, oh yeah, action.
I'm getting exhausted just re-reading my notes!
Eagle-eyed viewers may have noticed the groovy, retro font used in some of this week's opening credits - a subtle nod to the fact that "Hookman" is a re-make of an episode from the original Hawaii Five-0.
This re-boot did a clever job of keeping many elements of the original episode - like the names of the killer and his victims, the nature of Curt Stoner's injury and the taunting phone call that Stoner makes to McGarret after he busts into the Stoner's apartment - while updating many others (the original's hooks were updated into state-of-the-art robotic hands, and, as the original was shot in 1973, I can't imagine that it contained 1/10 of the charming bromancitude seen in this episode).
The biggest update, however, would have to be the nature of the killer's vengeance mission. In the original, Stoner simply wants to do away with everyone who foiled his bank robbery, mangled his hands and sent him to jail. But in this version, the Hookman's pursuit of Steve McGarrett is for the "sins" of his father - and Steve's emotional reaction to fighting for the lives of his father's friends (and for his father's memory) added a real depth and feeling to the proceedings.
Of course, not so much depth that it slowed down the quips. Steve and Danny owned the Hawaii Five-0 quotes this week, managing to get in some great lines while also re-affirming, once again, how deeply they care about each other (in a manly way, of course).
And no discussion of this episode would be complete without bringing up this week's two guest stars; that'd be Charlie Murphy (of "Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories" fame) as the sassy drug dealer that the Hookman sets up (yes, I know his name is Curt, but it's more fun to call him Hookman, okay?) and Max Weinberg (of E Street Band fame, y'all) as Norm, the gun shop owner. Which reminds me: do you think Danny's snappy exchange with Norm in the gun shop was a commentary on the recent gun control debate? Or am I reading in too much here?
Hawaii Five-0 has been experimenting a bit with its in this half of Season 3 (see "Kapu (Forbidden)'s choose-your-own-ending contest), and I love it. I thought this experiment was not only great fun, but also a clever investigation of what it means to be a re-boot of a beloved TV show from the past.
And, yes, you got me: I'm a sucker for anything that involves Charlie Murphy. "He took us back inside and made us pancakes!"
What did you think of Steve's reaction at the end? Have you seen the original "Hookman" episode? Are you going to watch it today, at work, while telling your boss that you're "working on some spreadsheets?"


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The way it is: Brian Henderson back for TV doco
THE iconic newscaster Brian Henderson is returning to television, but like a true screen legend he is returning for a one night engagement only.
A decade after he ended an extraordinary 46-year career reading Australia's most watched nightly news bulletin on Channel Nine, "Hendo" has been lured out of retirement by Foxtel.
The 81-year-old will narrate a documentary, The Train: The Granville Rail Disaster, which explores the aftermath of the 1977 rail disaster and the heroism of the rescue workers who attended it.
Though the date was not chosen deliberately, it comes serendipitously on the 10th anniversary of Henderson's retirement.
Since retiring, the veteran newscaster says, there have been occasional pangs of regret, but only momentary ones.
"It was a hell of a long time to do news, and I was very lucky I was in it at the stage I was, the early times anyway, because there weren't as many options, and I worked with very good people," he says.
When Henderson stepped down from his position at Nine, the network was at the top of the ratings ladder and winning a long-standing war with rival Seven.
Watching Nine's ratings decline from the sidelines, he says, was difficult. In recent years he says he was greatly heartened by Nine's clawback.
"I still refer to Channel Nine as 'we', but I am not one of them, I am an outsider, I have left, but it's hard not to use that word," Henderson says.
On Nine's current chief executive, David Gyngell, who pulled off the deal of the decade in convincing Nine's debtors to exchange their debt for equity, he says: "David is a really good risk-taker."
Henderson agreed to narrate the Granville documentary because its producers – Graeme McNeice and Rob Hurst – are old friends and colleagues.
The documentary will screen on Foxtel in January.
The disaster claimed the lives of 83 people and injured more than 200 more when a morning commuter train came off the tracks and slammed into the supports an overhead road bridge.
The derailment split open some of the carriages, caused overhead bridge to collapse and, as a result, brought masonry, cars and their passengers down onto two of the train's carriages.
For Henderson, what remains clear in his memory of the disaster is the "horrifying" images.
"The rescuers were amazingly brave and persistent," he says. "Some of the pictures were very good in the sense of quality of picture. I suppose what I remember is a mixture of things," he says.
The veteran newsman, who is also remembered as the host the iconic 1960s music series Bandstand, admits nightly news has been a tough habit to break.
"I still watch Nine News, I want to see how Peter [Overton] is going," he says. "But I like to keep a check on the lot, I watch the ABC. It's a hard habit to break and anyway, news is interesting."
Henderson admits he tries to watch the news as a viewer, but can't resist taking mental notes on style and delivery.
"I try to watch it as a viewer, but I'm like an ex-footballer," he says. "I'll think, that's the wrong emphasis, or sometimes thinking they can't do another bloody whale story, they've done two this week. It intrudes into my resolution to watch as a viewer."
At the age of 81, Henderson still looks fighting fit. He and wife Mardi are just back from a holiday to Thailand.
But the legendary newsreader rules out any chance of a permanent return to the small screen.
"No, I look different now, I sound different. And what am I now? 81?" he says. "I have very fond memories but I wouldn't even contemplate it. I went out around about the right time."
He doesn't rule out narrating more documentaries for television, though he admits he is his own harshest critic.
"Let's wait and see how this one comes out," he says. "If it's fine, good, if it makes me cringe a bit, I won't. I'm very self-critical."
On the subject of news itself, which has undergone enormous transformation since his departure from Nine – including resource cutbacks, digital evolution and a faster news cycle - he abstains from judgment.
"I don't like to [judge]," he says. "Any criticism shouldn't really come from me."
Michael Idato is the culture editor-at-large of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.


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