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Surprisingly, to the eyes of many experts, DSM-5 better captures the essence of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) than previous versions did. Many clinicians (myself included) were dissatisfied with the descriptions of NPD in earlier versions of DSM. Persons with NPD are aggressive and boastful, overrate their performance, and blame others for their setbacks; current editions of DSM portray them as arrogant, entitled, exploitative, embedded in fantasies of grandeur, self-centered, and charming but emotionally unavailable. This portrayal of persons with NPD conveys only a minimal sense of their self-experience and misses their complexity.
Prototypical persons with NPD present with many interpersonal problems and comorbid disorders, such as depression and bipolar disorder, with consequent increases in risk of suicide, alcohol and substance abuse, and eating disorders.1,2 Romantic relationships are typically shallow, and narcissistic persons build and maintain them with difficulty. Conflicts at work are the rule rather than the exception, as are problems with commitment when faced with negative feedback. As these persons get older, mood disorders can worsen because of dissatisfaction with their personal and professional lives.1
Characteristics of NPD
The draft of DSM-5 gives hints of what persons with NPD experience and, most importantly, provides a snapshot of a complex set of their self-experiences and disturbed mental processes. This description, though it may not be complete, is consistent with much of what we know from clinical experience and personality research about both NPD and narcissistic traits in the general population. An inherent problem of NPD is a disturbed internalized representation of self and others.
Self-states and self-other schemas
Feelings of grandiosity and fantasies of power and success are certainly important but are not the core theme in a narcissistic stream of consciousness. The DSM-5 prototype notes how self-appraisal can swing from hypervalued to self-derogation along with fluctuations in self-esteem. This is consistent with the idea that nuclear narcissistic states are not lim-ited to "being the one who sets people's standards for the year to come," as the disdainful protagonist of The Devil Wears Prada loved to say.
NPD manifests as anger triggered by feelings of social rejection and tendencies to derogate those who give negative feedback. Persons with NPD often feel hampered in pursuing goals and blame others for being inept, incompetent, or hostile. States in which the self-image is extremely negative are important but are so hard to bear that fighting with others and blaming them for any personal flaws is a more suitable defensive maneuver. When shortcomings are impossible to deny (eg, being fired from work, breaking affective bonds), persons with NPD are likely to become depressed; as they age, the risk of suicide increases. Following the lead of the psychoanalysts Kohut 3 and Modell,4 states of emptiness, emotional numbing, and devitalization are now included in NPD models. Such states are quintessential to the disorder, but they are not included in the current DSM-5 prototype and have been overlooked by researchers. Other prominent narcissistic states include an inability to forgive and feelings of shame, guilt, and envy at others' successes.
In persons with NPD, self-experience patterns coalesce into self-other relational schemas: the dominant motives are concerns with social rank/antagonism, and the need to be admired and recognized by others as being special; the dominant image is of an "other" person unwilling to provide attention. The main schema is the "self" who desires to be recognized or admired and the "other" who is dominant and critical. In one schema, the self reacts with overt antagonism or by resorting to a metaphorical ivory tower.5 Another prominent schema is the self that needs attention while the other rejects and again criticizes the self, which, in turn, steers the self to compulsive self-soothing and denial of attachment needs.5,6 In general, such persons spend much time ruminating about issues of antagonism/social rank and avoid forming or thinking about attachments, thus concealing their vulnerable self. Empirical support has been found for the possibility that patients with NPD or narcissistic traits tend to seek self-enhancement, to overreact when they perceive others are setting limits, and to self-soothe.7
The development of NPD
There is no consensus on the causes of NPD, although lack of parental empathy toward a child's developmental needs may bear some responsibility. In the context of disturbed attachment, parents may fail to appropriately recognize, name, and regulate the child's emotions, particularly in cases of heightened arousal.8 The developing child is therefore left with intense affects that receive no appropriate recognition or appropriate responses, which leads to affect dysregulation. In children, with their basic needs unmet, attachment becomes an issue; this translates to being attachment-avoidant in adulthood yet, at the same time, constantly striving for attention and admiration.
Another trigger for NPD may be that the child is raised in a family where status and success are of utmost importance and only qualities that lead to sustaining a grandiose self-image are valued while other behaviors are disregarded or punished. Another possibility is that overt grandiosity is a reaction to slights and humiliation, a sort of armor used to avoid subjugation.
Other factors, such as an externalizing personality and the role of culture (the narcissistic society) in paving the way to narcissism, should also be explored. Although studies on causation are scant, Tracy and colleagues9 summarize some recent findings in which parenting styles, such as mixtures of overt praise and coldness, lack of supervision, corporal punishment, and authoritarian parenting, predicted future narcissism.
Regulatory processes
NPD features unrelenting standards for maintaining a sense of self-worth and personal goals valuable enough to be pursued. As a result, narcissism seems to include perfectionism as a trait and, after any accomplishment, the target is usually raised even higher, which results in never-ending dissatisfaction.5 Perfectionist standards are also set for others, which leads the narcissist to easily derogate others for not living up to his expectations. Other strategies for affect and interpersonal regulation are blaming others, withdrawing from relationships, adopting controlling and domineering strategies when facing problems and conflicts, and typically self-enhancing when facing others' expected feedback.
Dr Dimaggio is Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist at the Center for Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy in Rome.
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Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H Review
With the explosion of new processors, video cards, and other equipment came the increased standards for speed and quality. Multi-Core CPUs are now standard and over 1GHz speeds for memory and video cards are low compared to the limits being reached everyday. But with all of these fast components you need a strong foundation to operate them efficiently, right? Just like our parents have kept us running at optimum speeds and smartness, every computer needs a "Mother" to do the same for it. That is what the motherboard does, it keeps our hardware operating at the correct speeds and optimizes the transfer of data between the components. Just as the component market has been flooded with new technology, the motherboards that support them have been growing too.
ATI has released a fairly new chipset which brings a new technology called Hybrid Crossfire to the table. This enables the Integrated Graphics from the motherboard to be paired with a discrete graphics card to increase the performance without an increase in expense. This chipset is the 780G, which is designed for AM2 and AM2+ processors, and one of these new motherboards is the Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H. The Gigabyte 780G board offers the new technology paired with older proven technology to bring you the ultimate platform for your new components to push the envelope of performance.
Closer Look:
The Gigabyte board comes packaged nicely in a box with plenty of information right on the outside. Like I said above, the Gigabyte 780G board supports AM2 and AM2+ processors, including the Semprons, Athlon X2s, and the Quad Core Phenoms. There is also a claim that you can reach 1500 marks in 3DMark06 using only the onboard graphics, though I guess we will have to see about that. The back of the packaging does a very good job at bringing to light some of the features that the GA-MA78GM-S2H has to offer.
Gigabyte always does well with giving you the accessories you need and none of the ones you don't. That is no exception here. Included with the Gigabyte 780G motherboard is the manual, driver CD, I/O panel, one floppy cable, one IDE cable, and two SATA cables with 90 degree connectors on one end to help in installation.
Now that we have everything out of the box, let's take a better look at the board itself.

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Asian soybean rust may have been the most hyped fear but a late-season dry spell will be a much larger factor in deciding Georgia's yields.
"Our crop is comprised of a few Group IVs, some Vs and VIs and a lot of VIIs," said Phil Jost, Georgia Extension soybean specialist on Sept. 22. "Most of the IVs have already been harvested. The Vs and VIs are either being harvested or close to it. Our Group VIIs are almost at R-6.
"So the majority of our crop is past the point where we're concerned with soybean rust. Rust hasn't been as big a worry for the past two weeks."
Even with rust lurking, the state was expecting a great soybean yield. "It looked phenomenal — USDA had us pegged at around 33 bushels per acre. That would have tied a record we set a few years ago."
However, positive expectations have been quieted in the past couple of weeks. Since Labor Day, the state has suffered from a lack of rain.
"Our beans will be hurt," said Jost. "I have no doubt the Group VIIs will take a yield hit due to this dry weather."
Although a lack of moisture has slowed the disease, new rust findings are still popping up. The latest findings are in commercial fields in Johnson (Sept. 21), Lanier (Sept. 20) and Terrell (Sept. 25) counties.
"The rust finds in those counties are so late I don't think yields will be hurt," said Jost. It's safe to say the over-riding issue for Georgia's soybean yields will be the late drought.
"Considering what was expected out of rust, that's an interesting development. We did a lot of talking about disease but yields, ultimately, will again come down to a well-timed rain and the environment."
In its movement, the disease didn't act as expected. Weather patterns early through mid-season were "perfect" for rust to take advantage of.
"But it didn't take hold. It's really surprising how sporadic the rust locations were. We'd find it in the southwest part of the state and then in the central. There wasn't the geographical progression we'd hoped for. If it hadn't jumped around so much, it would have been easier to make predictions on movement and helped us with spraying plans."
In Alabama, Asian soybean rust continues to show up at low severity.
Since Sept. 9, there have been two new rust findings in the state. One was in a Clarke County sentinel plot near Jackson, about an hour north of Mobile. The second discovery was in a small commercial field in Geneva County by Slocumb.
Most of the fields in north Alabama are "yellowing up" into R-7, said Ed Sikora, Alabama Extension plant pathologist. Many fields are being harvested.
Is Sikora seeing any defoliation due to soybean rust?
"The most interesting case we've had is one of the first commercial fields we found infected in Baldwin County. The grower has 50 or 60 acres he treated with Stratego about 21 days apart. He put the first fungicide on before knowing the disease was in his crop."
Sikora visited that field earlier this month. There was very little defoliation.
"What's interesting is across the road from the main field, the producer has a one-acre soybean patch — a different variety in the same maturity group."
The farmer was unable to spray the patch with a fungicide. "He was aerial spraying and the patch is surrounded by power lines and trees. He left the patch as a check."
As a result, the single acre was hit hard by rust.
"Last week, it was thoroughly defoliated. That acre is a complete loss, I imagine. But right across the street, where he sprayed twice, the crop was protected from rust. That illustrates the power of a fungicide."


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Chapter 17: Spying and dates?
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Vanna: Yay chapter 17!
Rima: Is chapter 17 special?
Vanna: No I just like saying it! And maybe something special for fangirls!
Nagi: Wow....
Ikuto: Hey hey Vanna-chi a Amuto fanfic-
Vanna: No! I stay dedicated to Rimahiko!
Rima and Nagi: Yeah so Vanna is ours! *pulls Vanna's arm*
Vanna: OW! Hehehe no one owns anybody! Esspecially me! I don't own Shugo Chara!
Ikuto: Awww well she wishes she did.
Rima: If Vanna did then I would be dating Nagi, Kutau would happen, Amuto and Tadamu turn into side couples then the fights would be much better!
Nagi: That sounds like a plan....
Vanna: Yes...Heheheheh...*rubs hands together evily* Enjoy while I think.....hehehehe...
Nagihiko's POV-
"Kyo!!! Here is your Shugo Chara egg!!!" Rima and I watched Kirino run to Kyo with his Shugo Chara egg.
"What? I just come from school and you got my egg?" He looked at us. We all nodded our heads.
-10 minutes later-
"Wow that sounds bad.....but atleast we have our eggs back." He sighed in relief.
"So are we going or not?" Rima whispered in my ear.
"Yeah hold on." I whispered back. I looked up. "Can you guys walk Rima to her house?"
"Sure but why?" Kyo asked me.
"Ummmm well....I need to go to my house right now!" Nagi said nervously.
"Yeah and?" Kirino asked.
"We are kinda going on a date........" Rima mumbled beside me.
"Awwwww wittle Wima is finally going on a date with Fujisaki!" Kyo said teasingly.
"Shut up!!!" Rima yelled blushing and Kyo was laughing. I smirked, then I gave Rima a kiss on her cheek and left running to my house.
"Bye Rima-chan!!!" I yelled and looked back at Rima who was yelling at me and holding her cheek at the same time.
"Ugh! Bye Nagi-koi!!!" She yelled back. Wow she called me by my nickname and without being in her chara change. It was so cute!
Rima's House
Rima's POV-
We finally reached the door of our house that we dreaded to go in to. It's a good thing that I had a spare key.
I held the key up to the cold doorknob as we all held our breath and are hearts were thumping of nervousness.
"Just open the goddamned door!" Kirino yelled at me irritated. I opened the door and the house was such a mess.
We all went up to our rooms and got all of our stuff. Well most of it. I grabbed my favorite gag manga, my clothes, and all that stuff.
We all met back downstairs with all of our bags.
"Okay now back to Fujisaki's house...." Kyo said grabbing his coat.
The atmosphere here feels really bad or something. I hope my mom is alright. She is in the hospital so I guess she is fine.
"Alrighty then." Kirino grabbed her bags and started going to the door.
Nagihiko's house-
Nagi's POV-
I was forced to take a shower since my mother found out that that I was going on a date with Rima.
"Oh I see then you guys are willing to do that for me!" My mother said cheerfuly on the phone. I wonder who she's talking to.
"Mother.....I'm-" She suddenly hung up on the phone.
"Oh I'm not talking to anybody!! Go take a shower for your date Nagihiko!" She said pushing me upstairs.
"Wait how did you know that I was-"
"Umm it was a guess!" She jerked me violently into the bathroom and left me with only basketball shorts and a towel. I sighed and then I started unbuttoning my shirt. (A/N:OMG! Rima you are hurting my ear for fangirling!)
-end of flashback-
I just hope Rima is safe right now. (A/N: Btw Nagi is still taking a shower while thinking- Rima: KYAAAHHH!!!)
Rima's POV-
I just got to Nagi's house to hear Baaya and Nagi's crazy mom fangirling over something.
"Oh Rima-sama it looks like you are here!" Baaya said running over to me. She completely ignored Kirino and Kyo.
"Y-yeah b-but-" She suddenly started dragging me to go upstairs.
"No time for talking! Go put all of your stuff away!" She threw me in Nagi's room and threw my bags at my face. I rubbed my head and sat on Nagi's bed.
Nagi's POV-
I got out of the bathroom with only my basketball shorts on and a towel that was drying my hair with. (A/N: Yup he's shirtless- Rima: KYAHH!! Vanna: Goddamit you are hurting my ear!)
I twisted the doorknob of my door and pulled inward only to discover that my girlfriend is already here, sitting on my bed. (A/N: Now don't take advantage of the situation Nagi...-_-lll)
"Uhh N-Nagi.....Sh-shirtless!" She looked at me blankly.She was blushing very deeply. I smirked.
"Do you like looking at me like this Rima?" I asked her teasingly.
Rima's POV-
N-N-Nagi is shirtless and he has a six pack! Ugh! Rima you are such a pervert! Oh who am I kidding he has a nice toned chest and he is also slender and-
"Well Rima?" Nagihiko asked me teasingly.
"Sh-shut up!" I said looking away. I noticed Nagi turned off the light.
"So is that a yes?" He said close to my face. I glared/blushed at him.
"N-Nagi..........close........f-face.....mine.....n-no shirt..." Great, I'm studdering and I can't even get my sentences right. He put one of his hands over my hand.
"Hmmm what was that Rima-koi?" He whispered in my ear. I shuddered because I can feel his warm breath going down my neck, (A/N: Nagi and Rima: I don't like where this is going..... Vanna: Don't worry my mind won't go perverted........I think...)
"Don't. Even. Try. Anything. You pervert." I said getting back into my senses, but I was still blushing. I felt him smirking.
"What would I do Rima-koi? You seem to like me with my shirt off." He said teasingly.
"I do not-"
"Would you like this?" He was just about to lick my neck but I quickly put my arm over his neck and kissed him square on the lips before he did so.
He looked shocked but he reacted and kissed back. Heheh, we were making out until.....
"Awww my little honey is all grown up now!" Said Nagihiko's crazy mom. I pushed Nagi right off of me.
"Mother!!" Nagi whined. Hehe, he sounds like a 6 year old. I giggled.
"Go on ahead and do your little things! Just act like we aren't here!" Baaya said all cheerfully. I swear they are--unexplainable.
"Ugh, Get out of my room so that I can change!" Nagihiko yelled irritated and pushed his and Baaya out. I got out too considering he might do perverted things.
Half an hour later at the ice cream shop.
Nagihiko's POV-
"What kind of ice cream would you like Rima?" I looked down at Rima who had that bored expression on her face. I smiled.
She looked up. "I don't care." Was all she said. I looked back at the cashier.
"Can I have one double-scoop ice cream cone?" I asked the cashier.
"WHAT NOW?!" Rima yelled at me out of her bored expression.
"Awwww!!! You guys are on a date and sharing one ice cream!!! What flavor would you like?" I smirked and Rima was glaring at me.
"Well? What flavor do you want Rima?" I asked the little cute blonde chibi that was glaring at me.
"Chocolate." Rima said looking away.
"Okay then Mint chocochip and chocolate please!" I said to the cashier lady.
"KYAAAHH!!! So cute!!! Coming right up!" The crazy fangirl/cashier said getting an ice cream cone. Rima sighed, then looked up at me and smiled. I smiled back.
Kirino's POV-
"Ow! Ow! Ow! Frick! That hurts!" I said as I was being dragged by certain people.
"Shut up!! Act natural!" Neko hissed at me and we sat at one of the booths of the ice cream shop.
Well apparently I was told to spy on Rima and Nagi with Au-chan, Neko, and Hina. Ama-chan just kept visiting us from time to time.
"Remind me why I'm here again?" I asked Au-chan while looking up from a menu that we were hiding our faces in.
"We are spying on Rima and Nagi!" Au-chan hissed at me.
"But you barely know them!" I hissed back.
"That's why you are here!" Hina told me.
I sighed and turn to Neko. "Do you have the camera?" I asked Neko.
"Yeah! All we need is--"
"Quick! Hide your faces!" Au-chan hissed at all of us. We quickly did so because Rima and Nagi were just passing our booth and sitting in a table across the room from us.
"That was close..." We all sighed in relief.
Rima's POV-
"Hey Nagi do you feel like someone is watching us?" I asked Nagi was just sitting down.
"Kinda." He said. "Anyways do you want to lick the ice cream first? Or me?" He asked me.
"Me." I leaned on the table to take a lick of the ice cream but on the way I saw Nagi's trademark smirk tugging on his lips. I ignored it and then Iicked the ice cream.
Hina POV-
"Holy crap!! Hina!!" Kirino started hitting my arm violently and looking in Rima and Nagi's direction.
"What?! What?!" I hissed back irritated. I looked in Rima and Nagi's direction. "Ohhhh....."
"Indirect kiss!" Somebody shouted out.
They both pulled away from the ice cream and started looking around. The voice did sound familiar though.
"Kirino-chan!!!" Au-chan hissed at Kirino
"What?! I didn't say anything!" Kirino hissed back.
"We didn't either!" Neko and I both told Au-chan.
"Then who did?!" Au-chan asked us looking around.
"I don't see anybody that I know Nagi." Rima said walking around and looking. She started walking in our direction and we hid our faces in the menus franticily.
"Is there anyone there Rima-chan?" Nagi asked Rima who was walking around.
"Um, Hold on...." Rima came over to our table."Excuse me do you know the person that shouted out?" Rima asked us. I guess she doesn't know.
We were hiding our faces in the menus so she couldn't see us, I think.
"Uh, Well I think you have the wrong people. I'm sorry." Neko said trying to imitate a guy as best as she can.
"Yeah we don't even to happen to know who you are! If we did then maybe we would have shout out something!" Kirino said all nervously but trying to imitate a guy's voice.
"Oh okay then......" She started to walk back to Nagi."Hey Nagi we should go walk around th amusement park or something!" Said Rima who suspiciously looked at us.
Rima and Nagi both exited the ice cream shop. We all breathed in a sigh of relief and then we followed them.
Following Rima and Nagi
Kirino's POV-
"Hey guys I have to go get something to drink! You all go and follow Rima and Nagi!" I told them while running to where all the food are at the amusment park we were at.
"Okay Kirino-chan!" Au-chan and the others said while walking in the direction of Rima and Nagi.
I sighed as I kept walking to the food counters. I wonder if Rima's mother is alright and I also wonder about Rima's dad being on the loose somewhere.
I sighed again and then I bumped into something. I looked up. I didn't bump into something, I bumped into someone.
"I'm sorry are you okay?" He asked me. He looked really familiar. I blinked.
"Yeah, Uhhh do I know you from somewhere?" I asked him. Well he had silverish white hair and he wore the uniform to our school.
"Um, I don't think so." He said but he looked a little nervous. I saw his chara fly out of nowhere.
"Akio aren't you--" Wait, his name and voice sounds really familiar.
"Just ignore my chara he is just being funny." He said putting his chara to the side.
"Okay if you have a chara then does that mean you are part of the guardians?" I asked him.
"No, But my name is Akio Kisaragi. It's nice to meet you." He said putting his hand out to me and smiling. I swear, I think I know this guy.
"Kirino Tokunawa. Don't wear it out." I purposely ignored his hand and started walking to the drinks.
"It looks like you are stubborn like you used to-I mean it looks like you're the stubborn type!" He said correcting his own sentence. Wait, it sounded like he already knew me.
"Okay yeah but I'll see you at school because I'm really busy." I told him like I was in a rush.
I heard his phone ring.
"Excuse me for a sec." he said to me and answered his phone. "Hello? Okay I'm on it sir." He hung up and put his phone back in his pocket.
"I'm sorry I wish we can talk more but I have to go now! So bye!" He said running somewhere. I waved at him. That was really wierd.
"I think you do know him Kirino-chan!" My chara said happily. I sighed. "Or maybe it's love-" I grabbed my chara to make her shut up.
I felt my cellphone vibrate. I got a text.
My eyes widened by the contents of it.
I started running in the direction of the others.
Rima's POV-
There were guy's in suits around us and we didn't really know what to do.
"I'm sorry but you kids are under arrest." The man with cool shades said. It's not my fault he had cool sunglasses.
"For what? We didn't do anything!" Nagi said standing in front of me.
Then all of a sudden Au-chan, Neko, Hina, Ama-chan came from a near-by bush. No wonder I felt like someone was spying on us.
"Are you guys okay?" Au-chan asked us.
"Yeah but what are you guys doing here?" I glared at them.
"You kids cannot escape from us." The shortest guy said. (A/N: Just imaginethere being three guys in suits there.)
"Oh yeah! I got a Mafia!" Hina said all of a sudden.
"What?" We all looked at her weird.
We are doomed. Doomed I say.
Rima: Vanna are you a pervert?
Vanna: What's with the random question?
Rima: Just answer it.
Vanna: Well my mind is 25% perverted so sort of.......
Rima: Wow...well I Nagi is 99% perverted.
Nagi: Hey! That's not nice!
Rima: Do you want a hug or a kiss to make you feel better?
Nagi:*blushes* Uhhh.....
Rima: See! Pervert!
Vanna: That's also being a flirt Rima.....
Rima: Who Nagi?
Vanna: You! whatever! Hey I'm kind of glad that Ikuto isn't here to interupt-
Rima and Nagi: You spoke too soon......
Vanna: Man......
Ikuto: Please review!
Chapter 18: Real spies and the incident.
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Vanna: Hola! Como estas!
Rima and Nagi: Huh?! Vanna your Mexican?!
Vanna: Haha I'm kidding!! I'm asian! Go asian pride!
Hina: Yeah! Asians rock! I'm asian too! *Hi-5's Vanna*
Vanna: *Hi-5's back* Where did you come from?
Tofu: The front door......*points to the front door thats open*
Au-chan: Hi people!
Neko: Hey guys!
Ama-chan: Yo......
Rima and Nagi: Hey I thought this was only for us and catboy?!
Vanna: I have no idea how they got in.......
Au-chan, Neko, Hina, and Ama-chan: Vanna-chan owns nothing!
Vanna: -_-lll Please-
Rima: We want to do it!
Nagi: Yeah!
Vanna: Fine!
Rima: Please......
Nagi: Enjoy!
Amu's POV-
Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. What the hell is happening?!
I am pacing back and forth at the Royal Garden and I keep looking at the humpty lock.
"What's wrong Amu-chi?! Why did you call us here?" Yaya asked me worried when she came rushing in the Royal Garden with the others.
"DON'T YOU FRIGGIN KNOW THAT WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE HUMPTY LOCK?!?!?!" I finally spazzed out and shook Kairi violently by the shoulders.
"Okay then take out the damned lock!" Utau yelled at me annoyed.
I took out the lock and showed it to everyone. "See! The stupid thing is getting duller and duller!" I told them. Everyone was looking at the lock that was in my hand.
"That's what's happening to the dumpty key..." Ikuto said and took out the dumpty key. "It's a good thing that it only gets duller only little by little." He said in a serious tone.
"Does it mean that there is something up with your guy's relationship?" Kukai asked Ikuto and I. Thank god, Tadase isn't here yet.
"No, there isn't a thing wrong. It's all the same." I replied worried and looking down at the lock in my hand.
"You mean that your dense self can't pick between Tada-chi and kittyboy?" Yaya asked me menacingly.
"Shut up sugar-high kid! Your gonna go diabetic one day! There is no time to be joking around." Ikuto said in a serious tone. Yaya pouted.
"Wow I didn't know that catboy could be so serious!" Kukai snickered.
"Your just jealous because Utau kissed her own brother instead of you!" Ikuto said with a smirk tugging on his lips. Kukai suddenly stopped snickering.
"Oh really? Well I wasn't jealous at all!" Kukai said walking over to Ikuto while rolling up his sleeves.
They started arguing and Utau was in it too so she started arguing.
"Guys...." I said trying to calm them down. Nothing but arguing. "Guys!" I yelled louder. Nothing. "GUYS!!!!! STOP ARGUING BEFORE I THROW SOMEONE OUT THE WINDOW!"
"What?!" They all looked at me irritated.
"Where is Rima, Nagi and the others?!" Yaya asked them worried.
They all looked at Yaya blankly.
Nagihiko's POV-
"A Mafia?! You have a Mafia?" I asked Hina anxiously.
"No! I'm trying to scare them!" Hina yelled back.
"Well it ain't working." The tallest man said cracking his knuckles.
"Uh, What do we do?" Rima asked us.
"This is what you do!" I heard a familiar voice say.
The next thing I know, one of guys are knocked out on the ground and Kirino is there holding a Shinai. (A/N: A bamboo blade like used for kendo class.)
"You guys alright?" Kirino asked us.
Kirino's POV-
These guys looked at me in a weird way though. Like they were scared to death.
"Wait what?--" I turned around and--
Rima's POV-
Oh my gawd this guy just knocked Kirino out
"Kirino!!!" Hina and I ran over to her.
"Nnggh....." We shook her a little.
"Are you okay?" I asked her.
"Butterflies are made of butter and flies...." She mumbled under being knocked out. We both sighed and picked her up and put her on our shoulders.
"Now you kids are next." The shortest man stated. We all smirked.
"Ha you and what army?" Au-chan said.
"You'll see....." Then black vans came here all of a sudden and guys in suits came out of it.
"We're screwed." Nagihiko said all of a sudden.
They all surrounded us and we started steeping back slowly.
"So what do we do?" Neko asked us.
"I got it!" Au-chan said all of a sudden.
"What?!" Nagihiko replied desperately.
"RUN LIKE HELL!!!!!" Au-chan yelled and started dragging us in a chain somehow.
"You won't be getting away!!" the men in suits shouted and started chasing us.
I looked back at the men and they looked like they were smirking for some kind of reason.
"Hey I think I see Tadase and Ikuto making out some where!" One of them yelled out loud.
Au-chan stopped dragging us immediately." Where?!" She started looking around and finding her camera. We all sweat-dropped.
"Uh, what do we do now?!" Hina asked all of us looking back and forth.
"Kick them in the place where the sun don't shine......" I heard Kirino mumble under her breath. "Wait, she's awake?"
She suddenly jumped off my shoulder."Yeah I'm awake!"
"Wait, she can read my mind?"
"No you damn idiot, You are talking to yourself." Kirino said putting her shinai over her shoulder. I glared in response.
"I'm not kicking him in the place where no man wants to be kicked!" Neko retorted.
"STOP! You are all surrounded!" the man with the different looking suit said in a megaphone.
"Great, you guys got us stuck with your dumb conversation." Nagihiko muttered.
"Shut up! Look at Au-chan!" We both hissed and pointed to Au-chan who was looking around for Tadase and Ikuto. Naghiko rolled his eyes in response.
"You kids are surrounded! We all know your weaknesses so you have no chance!"
"Stalkers..." Hina and Kirino murmured under their breath.
"Wait, why don't you guys charanari since you guys are the only ones with your charas?" Neko asked Me, Nagi, and Kirino.
"Oh.....we knew that!" Kirino replied with a hint of nervousness in her voice. They all facepalmed except for me and Nagihiko who were sweat dropping.
"Charanari: Beat Jumper!
"Charanari: Clown Drop!"
"Charanari: Shining Shinigami!"
............................. Nothing happened.............................
"The hell is going on?!" Kirino looked back and forth from us to her hands. I was surprised too.
"I don't know! Why isn't the charanari's working?!" Nagihiko asked Rhythm.
"I don't know man! I'm not doing a thing to make this happen!" Rhythm replied while putting his hands in his pockets.
"I told you there is no point in running!" the men started surrounding us. Then we batted our heads up to so a flash of lightning.
"RAIKIRI!!!" Some familiar voice shouted. (A/N: I know it's from Naruto but what heck! And I don't own it BTW!)
Then in a blink of an eye I see Amaterasu standing infront of all the guys in suits that are fainted on the ground.
"Yo....." She said and turned around to us."We should be heading back now...." She started walking away.
"What about them? Do we leave them there?" Nagihiko pointed to the guys that were knocked out. Amaterasu nodded her head.
We all sighed and started walking off to somewhere.
-Normal POV-
"Greeeeat! Now they have been molested by the H and D!" Ikuto yelled sarcasticly and threw his arms in the air. He kept muttering stuff to his self and stormed out of the Royal Garden.
"We have no idea where they are! Maybe their locked in a prison!" Yaya said worried.
"Or raped!" Ikuto yelled from outside. The guardians all sweat dropped.
"Do we go help them?!" Amu asked everyone looking back and forth from eachother.
"Noooo we just leave them to be chased by the H and D!" Utau yelled sarcasticly. Amu rolled her eyes.
"Who's phone is that?" Kairi asked looking back and forth to everyone.
"Mine!!!" Ikuto yelled and ran back into the Royal Garden.
"Then show us the damn text!" Kukai said impatiently. Ikuto showed his text to everyone that said:
We are heading to the RG right now so don't worry about us.
"How did Au-chan get your number?" Amu asked Ikuto.
"I don't know! I think the rapist gave out everyone's numbers in the guardians!"
"No wonder..." everyone murmured.
"WE'RE HERE!!!!!" Neko yelled out. Everyone walked in and looked beat and tired to death.
"What happened while we were gone?" Kirino asked the pinkette with a hint of dizzyness in her voice.
"Oh nothing....maybe we have a fading humpty key and dumpty lock!" Amu spazzed out and threw her lock and Amaterasu who catched it perfectly.
We were all in silence for a moment."WHAT?!" We all yelled at Amu. "Explain." We all demanded.
Ikuto, Kairi, Utau, Amu, and Kukai all sighed.
Vanna: Sorry for the suuupper late chapter! School and yeah.....
Ikuto: Jeez you kept everyone waiting for a long time!
Vanna: I know and you people should review too!
Awesome Chapter Cant wait to see the rest Update soon ~
hi guys :3
i think you've either been hanging around me too much or you're hanging around perverted people too much oh well GO PERVERTS XD lol i got a Mafia update soon!~
i saw lightening >:DDDD ~Vanna is my twin~
OMFG Nagi is 99% Perverted XD
I liked the story (well I guess the others in the fanfic knew about me being a shinobi T_T)
Oh well
Do people still go here?
Hell yeah i used Raikiri! xD
Lolx Amu spazzed and threw the humpty lock!
Do people still go here?
Love this story best rimahiko i have read so far
Enjoying life offline with those I love!
lol i laughed a lot in this chapter hehe update soon!~
i saw lightening >:DDDD ~Vanna is my twin~
AWESOME!!!!!! CAnt wait for the next chapter
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Oregon's unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent in October, a five-year low.
The state Employment Department released the numbers Tuesday after a one-month hiatus caused by the federal government's partial shutdown.
State economists said the number was a sign of an economic expansion gradually accelerating in Oregon.
A significant factor is additional construction jobs up 9.3 percent year over year. The sector has rebounded sharply after the Great Recession and a slow recovery.
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No. 5 Georgetown pulls away from Cincy at Big East
NEW YORK (AP) — After coughing up a big lead in the middle of the game, Otto Porter Jr. and his Georgetown teammates showed off all the attributes that make them a championship threat this March.
Porter scored 18 points and the fifth-ranked Hoyas advanced to the Big East tournament semifinals by pulling away from Cincinnati for a 62-43 victory Thursday.
"I want to say the first three, four possessions of the second half, we looked extremely flat. But then we turned it up at the defensive end. We started getting stops, which then helped our offense," Georgetown coach John Thompson III said. "For the most part, this group doesn't get rattled."
Markel Starks had 14 points and D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera added 13 off the bench, including a tiebreaking 3-pointer that sparked a game-turning run for the top-seeded Hoyas (25-5). They will play Friday night against 19th-ranked and fifth-seeded Syracuse, a 62-59 winner over Pittsburgh, in a marquee matchup of original Big East heavyweights.
Georgetown swept its longtime rival in two games this season, including a 61-39 blowout last Saturday.
Looking to land a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, the Hoyas squandered an early 16-point cushion against Cincinnati and fell behind briefly in the second half before clamping down with their signature defense.
"They have very, very good players, and the first half we were letting them get open shots," Thompson said. "In the second half, I think we were much more attentive."
Georgetown, looking for its first title since 2007, improved to 15-1 as the top seed in the Big East tournament. The only loss came against West Virginia in the 2010 championship game.
Porter, the Big East Player of the Year, made all 11 of his free throws — most of them in the final minutes — to offset a 3-for-9 performance from the field.
"All the attention Otto is getting is well-deserved, but at the same time, knowing that going into games that he's going to have that attention, we have to step up," Starks said. "We don't just say, hey, it's just Otto. No, we play as a team. We play as a unit. We're going to continue to do that, and we will continue to get better."
Cashmere Wright scored 14 points on 4-of-5 shooting from 3-point range to lead the ninth-seeded Bearcats (22-11), but running mate Sean Kilpatrick was off his game. The team's top scorer at 17 points per game, he managed only four on 2-for-12 shooting and missed all eight of his tries from beyond the arc.
Cincinnati committed 15 turnovers and went 14 for 38 from the floor (37 percent).
"We just really struggled on offense," coach Mick Cronin said. "Tough to win when you can't get the ball in the basket."
After losing six of their last nine regular-season games, the Bearcats dispatched Providence 61-44 in their tournament opener Wednesday. Despite the shaky finish, Cronin is confident his team has done enough to cement a spot in the NCAAs.
"I don't know how anybody could question that," he said.
JaQuon Parker had 12 points for Cincinnati, which lost to Louisville in last year's Big East final.
Sitting behind the scorer's table, next to his son's bench, was former Georgetown coach John Thompson — a rather large reminder that the Hoyas are tied with Connecticut for the most Big East tournament championships (seven). They won the first one 33 years ago in Providence behind Eric "Sleepy" Floyd and Craig Shelton, and would love to close this era with one more to bring it all full circle.
Georgetown is one of seven basketball-centric Catholic schools breaking away from the conference to create their own league, which will begin play next season and retain the Big East name. Several other member institutions are headed to the ACC, and Rutgers leaves for the Big Ten in 2014-15.
"The whole thing is tragic," Cronin said. "Nobody cares about student athletes. All anybody cares about is money. Everybody in the NCAA, in college administration, they talk about academics and student athletes. If people cared about student athletes, West Virginia wouldn't be in the Big 12 with 10 teams flying 800 miles to their closest home game. That's really conducive to studying. The whole thing is a hypocrisy. ... The money has ruined it. If I was a fan, I'd be very disenchanted."
The game was a rematch of a tightly contested Big East quarterfinal last year, won by Cincinnati 72-70 in double overtime. But the Hoyas had control most of the way this time and secured their 13th victory in 14 games.
Cincinnati climbed out of a huge deficit and opened the second half with a 9-2 spurt to take a 33-31 lead, its first since the first few minutes. Nate Lubick beat the shot clock with a baseline hook to tie it, and then Georgetown took over again behind Smith-Rivera.
The freshman guard stroked a 3-pointer and a pull-up jumper during a 22-6 run that included him sneaking underneath for a nifty putback. Two free throws by Porter capped the surge and gave the Hoyas a 53-39 lead with 3:30 to go.
"I never really lost any confidence in my game," Smith-Rivera said. "It's just understanding what my role is on the team and understanding the concept of our offense. Once I started to get comfortable with it, I think everything started to roll from there."
Cincinnati center Cheikh Mbodj went to the bench after getting whistled for his second foul with 10:59 remaining in the first half, and Cronin drew a technical for protesting after Kilpatrick was called for a personal with 8:27 to go.
Georgetown made three of four free throws, and when Smith-Rivera followed Porter's 3 with one of his own, the Hoyas suddenly had a 24-8 cushion.
But the Bearcats called timeout and got back in the game with some sharp outside shooting.
Wright drained consecutive 3s, Parker added another and Kilpatrick hit a jumper. When Wright connected on his third straight attempt from long range, the deficit was down to seven with 1:02 remaining. Mbodj made two free throws and the Hoyas went into halftime with a 29-24 advantage.


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To vaccinate or not to vaccinate -- that was the dilemma Katie McBride* faced when her daughter Jenna was born. On the one hand, she knew moms who questioned the safety of childhood vaccines; on the other, she knew scientists who trusted the testing behind them. "Obviously I didn't want my child to die from some horrible disease," says the Evanston, Illinois, mom, "but I was uncomfortable not knowing the risks and benefits of the vaccinations either." McBride ultimately chose to have Jenna vaccinated but opted to stagger a few of the shots.
Today's children are immunized by age 13 against some 16 diseases (or 53 vaccine doses), including measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus (lockjaw), pertussis (whooping cough), hepatitis A and B, meningitis, pneumonia, polio, chicken pox, flu, rotavirus and the human papillomavirus (HPV). Whew! That's more vaccines than ever -- 30 years ago, children received only seven -- but it doesn't necessarily mean babies have more injected into them than they used to. "Immunizations today are more purified than those of the past," says pediatrician Ari Brown, M.D., a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and co-author of Baby 411. For example, the DPT shot (diphtheria/pertussis/tetanus) that children received in 1980 was made from a blend of more than 1,000 bacteria, or antigens (substances that prompt the body to make disease-fighting antibodies). Today's vaccine, DTaP, delivers only three to five antigens. And whereas the polio vaccine at one time had a live virus that would trigger a minute case of polio for the body to fend off, the newer shot has no live virus. "It's a win-win for babies because they receive protection from more diseases from a smaller number of antigens," Brown says.
This year alone, the shots will prevent some 14 million cases of illness and 34,000 deaths from disease, according to research estimates by Fangjun Zhou, Ph.D., a health scientist in the Immunization Services Division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). To ensure safety, all vaccine-manufacturing facilities and products are licensed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and every vaccine lot is tested by the manufacturer. The FDA then reviews those results and requires a sample of its own to test.
Yet some parents still choose not to vaccinate. They have doubts about the safety of the vaccines, or they believe the threat of the diseases has passed. But recent outbreaks of measles and whooping cough, which were ultimately traced to unvaccinated children who traveled to other countries, suggest that immunization may be as critical as ever. "There are lots of myths about vaccines, but the reality is that they are one of the most important things you can do to protect your kids against serious, sometimes life-threatening, infections," says Brown. "As a mom and a pediatrician, I vaccinate my own kids for that reason."Pediatricians immunize children as part of routine care using guidelines devised by the AAP, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and the CDC. Here's what you need to know to help you make informed decisions about vaccinating your child.
Question: Can vaccines cause autism?
The concern stems chiefly from the preservative thimerosal, a compound containing mercury. It was used in many vaccines until it was phased out in 2001 as part of an FDA-led campaign to reduce mercury exposure in children. Some people believe thimerosal is a neurotoxin, a substance that damages nerve tissue, and that it harms developing brains.
Cornelia Read of Exeter, New Hampshire, blames the ingredient for her daughter's autism. "Lila was perfectly fine -- talking, making eye contact and very social -- until she was 13 months old," says Read. "Now, at age 15, she is nonverbal and cognitively about the level of a 1-year-old." Read became suspicious of thimerosal after reading an article depicting autism as a form of mercury poisoning.
Though thimerosal has been ousted from most vaccines (it's still used in some versions of the flu shot), some parents continue to blame the rise in autism and other developmental disorders on environmental toxins they claim the shots contain.
Facts: "There are a large number of well-designed studies involving thousands of children over the past decade that show no connection between vaccines and neurodevelopmental problems such as autism and ADHD," says Jeanne Santoli, M.D., deputy director at the CDC's National Immunization Program. Even after thimerosal was removed from most vaccines, autism rates have continued to climb. "You'd expect that if a link was there, we'd have seen a decrease after thimerosal was removed," Santoli says. "But we've seen no such drop-off." It's important to note that methylmercury, which contaminates fish and pollutes lakes, can build up in the body and lead to nerve damage; but thimerosal contains ethylmercury, a different type of mercury that is much less likely than methylmercury to accumulate in the body and has not been shown to have adverse effects.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled that vaccines do not cause autism, rejecting the high-profile cases of three unrelated plaintiffs. The rulings found no evidence that the MMR shot, which immunizes children against measles, mumps and rubella, had caused the children's disorders.
Question: Do vaccines contain toxic ingredients?
Along with weakened or killed viruses or bacteria, vaccines also contain preservatives and agents called adjuvants that stimulate an immune response. Some parents worry about the adjuvant aluminum, which is found in several new vaccines. Pediatrician Robert Sears, M.D., a co-author of the Sears Parenting Library and author of The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child, is concerned about the lack of scientific evidence to confirm that aluminum is safe for infants when injected. He notes that doctors delay those vaccines containing aluminum for premature babies in neonatal intensive care units until they reach a certain weight because it may damage brains and nervous systems that are not fully developed. For those reasons, Sears recommends his patients limit the aluminum-containing vaccines to one per month.
The amount of aluminum and other ingredients being given to babies in vaccines has scared away some parents entirely. "Something is causing so many children to be diagnosed with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, autism, allergies, and other diseases and disorders," says Samantha Remeny of Brentwood, California, who has opted not to immunize her 13-month-old son. "I believe that the vaccines that contain neurotoxins like aluminum, and the massive vaccination schedule recommended by the CDC, are at the root of the problem." Remeny once worked in sales at a pharmaceutical company and knows how important it is to read the package inserts and understand the risk of adverse reactions. "When you read the ingredients of these vaccines, it's scary to see that they routinely use substances -- aluminum, ammonia and formaldehyde -- that can cause neurological damage," she says. "There was a big deal a couple of years back about aluminum in deodorants and a possible link to Alzheimer's disease, so if a topical preparation containing aluminum [raised red flags], why would an injection be any safer?"
Facts: "If you dig a little deeper, you'll find that all of the ingredients in vaccines have been studied and found to be safe and nontoxic," says Brown of the AAP. Aluminum, for example, is not like the foil you use in the kitchen but is a type of salt whose role is to provoke the body into mounting an immune response. Not only do we get aluminum from our environment -- in air, water, soil, formula, even breast milk -- but research on animals shows that after aluminum is injected, the body effectively and rapidly eliminates it. "Although aluminum salts in a vaccine do circulate through the bloodstream, most of it binds to a protein called transferrin that then carries it out to the kidneys, where it gets eliminated in urine," Brown explains. "Fifty percent of the aluminum in vaccines -- as well as from food -- comes out in your pee in less than 24 hours." (Some 85 percent is gone in two weeks, and 96 percent is gone within three years.)
The formaldehyde in vaccines is not the same stinky stuff from your high-school anatomy class. This type actually occurs naturally in the body as a byproduct of metabolism, and there's more already in your system than in any vaccine. "These ingredients are not put in there willy-nilly," Brown says. "They're probably more studied than Tylenol."
Rebecca Leibowitz of Scotch Plains, New Jersey, works in research and development for a medical device company and is aware of the rigor that pharmaceuticals -- including vaccinations -- go through to earn FDA approval. "I know that substantial proof of safety is required," says the mother of two boys, 6 and 4. "And just as I look to a professional plumber to recommend the best water heater for my house, I also look to a professional pediatrician to recommend what's best for my children."
Question: Can vaccines cause dangerous side effects?
Isabelle Wilder* of Delray Beach, Florida, stopped vaccinating her four children after the third was 15 months old. "My belief is that vaccines interact negatively with the chemical or biological makeup of some individuals, and there's no way to predict who will be affected," she says. Wilder herself has an autoimmune disease and once broke out in a rash from handling a prewrapped croissant from a foreign country. Her children have shown sensitivities to all kinds of substances from milk to cosmetics to penicillin to oak pollen. "Our family presents a pattern of immune system reactions, possibly triggered by vaccines," she says. Wilder's eldest child has an auditory processing disorder (his brain has trouble processing sounds and spoken language); her second child has ADHD; and her third child was diagnosed with autism. Her youngest, who was never vaccinated, seems fine.
Facts: The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, a CDC and FDA safety surveillance program, has been tracking vaccine side effects since 1990. According to the FDA, most side effects are mild and temporary, including a sore arm, mild fever, headache and fatigue. (A fever is a sign that your body is fighting off something.) According to the CDC website, 1 in 20 patients will develop a mild rash after the MMR vaccine, and 1 in 25 might develop a mild rash after the varicella (chicken pox) vaccine. Although side effects vary by shot, around 1 in 16,000 patients will develop a fever of 105 degrees Fahrenheit or higher, and around 1 in 14,000 will have seizures after the DTaP vaccine. Fewer than 1 in 500,000 children will have a severe allergic reaction involving major swelling, difficulty breathing and a significant change in behavior -- acting very sluggish, seemingly out of it. (As with any significant change in behavior or appearance, call 911 if you notice this in your child,) According to the CDC, "so few deaths can plausibly be attributed to vaccines that it is hard to assess the risk statistically."
Question: Can too many vaccines overload a young immune system?
Some 40 percent of parents recently surveyed said they worry about too many vaccines given in a single doctor's visit, according to CDC findings presented earlier this year at the National Immunization Conference in Dallas. Judy Van de Water, Ph.D., is an immunologist at the University of California, Davis, who is directing an investigation, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), into the potential environmental risk factors that may be behind the rise in autism. "A healthy child should do fine with our current vaccination schedule," she says, "but you can't always know how robust a child's immune system will be prior to vaccination."
Some experts suggest that some children who develop autism have faulty immune systems. A 2008 study published in the journal Autism Research compared levels of immunoglobulin (antibodies that play a role in immunity) in normally developing children with the levels in children with autism. It showed that children with autism had lower levels of immunoglobulin, suggesting "an underlying defect in immune function." A 2009 study published in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity did a similar comparison and found abnormalities in the "natural killer cells" (the big guns of the immune system) of children with autism spectrum disorders, which "may predispose them to the development of autoimmunity and/or adverse neuroimmune interactions during critical periods of development."
"Since some vaccines are designed to mimic infections," Van de Water says, "you can imagine how sick you could be if you get nine at once and your immune system is not working optimally -- for any number of reasons." She and her team are developing a heel-stick test that will determine the health of a child's immune system before immunization, but it's still years away from FDA approval. In the meantime, if your child has a bad response to an early vaccine -- acting very lethargic for more than 24 hours and running a fever of 100 degrees Fahrenheit or higher -- Van de Water suggests that it may sound a warning about future vaccinations. For other signs of how the state of a patient's immune system impacts immunization, visit the CDC website (cdc.gov).
Facts: "Just by breathing air, eating food and sticking toys in their mouths, babies and kids encounter many more foreign substances every day than the ones in their vaccines," says Martin G. Myers, M.D., a pediatrics professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and author of Do Vaccines Cause That?! A Guide for Evaluating Vaccine Safety Concerns. "Consider that a baby's immune system is assaulted with billions of foreign substances within seconds of birth, whereas all the childhood vaccines put together have far less antigens."
As Brown notes, vaccines today are not only highly purified, packing a bigger punch using less vaccine material, but the material itself is safer. "With smallpox, the first successful vaccine ever developed, your body would mount an immune response to a tiny bit of a real germ to prepare the body for exposure to an actual infection," she explains. With advanced medical technology, most of today's vaccines rev up your immune system to make antibodies (like smart bombs with memory) for the germ's signature or calling card -- not the germ itself. This way, if your body does encounter the germ, it will recognize its calling card and launch the smart bombs to fight it off.
Question: Is it okay to skip or delay vaccines?
Bernadine Healy, M.D., former head of the NIH, has argued that parents can legitimately question the need to give a 1- or 2-day-old baby a vaccine against hepatitis B, a sexually transmitted disease, when babies have almost no risk for that disease. "That's a heavy-duty vaccine given on day two [of life]," Healy has said.
Robert Sears agrees that parents have the freedom to delay vaccinations for diseases that they feel don't pose a high risk to infants. He offers patients an alternative vaccination schedule that includes the most critical jabs -- for whooping cough, meningitis and rotavirus, for example -- and holds off on the others, including hepatitis A and B, chicken pox, polio and flu. "More and more parents are choosing not to vaccinate because they don't want to follow the overloaded schedule that the government mandates," he says. "I think more parents would vaccinate if doctors offered to spread the shots out in a manner that more babies can safely tolerate." Sears does believe the missed shots should be made up eventually, from age 2 to around 9, when immune systems are more developed.
Kellyx Nelson of San Francisco chooses to stagger shots for her son, Spyder, 15 months. "I space them out to help reduce discomfort," she explains, "and to isolate the variables if he does have a reaction." But she admits that it makes her nervous when the family travels around the country.
Facts: The timing of vaccines is designed to maximize children's immunity when they're most vulnerable to disease, according to the CDC. "Whooping cough is a lot worse in a 2-month old than in a 2-year old," Brown says. "By delaying vaccines, you're putting children at risk precisely when they need disease protection most."
Andrea Panico of Montclair, New Jersey, was initially disappointed that she wasn't able to split the MMR shot into its individual components for her daughter Thea, 17 months. "A week later there was a suspected case of measles in Thea's day-care," Panico recalls, "so I was pretty glad she'd gotten the vaccine for it."
If you have concerns about the timing of your child's vaccinations, discuss them with your pediatrician. What's more, not all vaccinations are mandatory in all states, and some allow for exemptions based on religious and philosophical views. (Go to immunizationinfo.org to see vaccination requirements by state.)
Ultimately, the most important question you can ask pediatricians is how they handled vaccinations with their own kids. "We wouldn't do anything different for our own children than we do for our patients," Ari Brown says. "I vaccinated my kids, and I recommend vaccinations for my patients. My patients are my kids too."


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February 26 (Wednesday):
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February 15 (Saturday):
Today JP participated in several one-on-one meetings with youth, private bus and lorry drivers. This was done in the 6th Phase Park, MMTS and our party office, and Kukatpally Super Market.
February 4 (Tuesday):
JP will inaugurate several developmental works in KPHB and Kukatpally Division. First, it would be a new Community Hall worth INR 8.3 lakhs in the 6th Phase of KPHB. Later he would start a new tool shed work in DharmaReddy Phase-2 and a compound wall to protect open land in N.R.S.I. Colony. He would later start water pipeline works worth INR 12.25 lakhs from SeshadriNagar to PrakashNagar, worth INR 5 lakhs in SangeethNagar and work INR 3.75 lakhs in RajeevGandhi Nagar.
February 3 (Monday):
JP inaugurated the newly constructed Community Hall in MotiNagar Division's TulasiNagar. Later he inaugurated a Community Hall along with the MP Mr. Satyanarayana at Syamlal's Basti. Afterwards, he inaugurated CC Road works in PrakashNagar. Later he inaugurated UGD works in GuruMurthy Line.
January 26 (Sunday):
JP and team celebrated Republic Day in several places. At 830 AM, he hoisted the national flag at BalaNagar's Government School. Later he hoisted the flag at Lions Club's Eye Hospital. After 10AM, he hoisted the flag at the Malaysian Township.
January 12 (Sunday):
JP is inaugurating works worth INR 1.2 crores in Moosapet and MotiNagar. These include Community Hall in Moosapet, Community Hall in MotiNagar's VivekandandaNagar, CC Roads in SafdarNagar and RajeevGandhiNagar.
January 7 (Tuesday):
JP inaugurated development works worth nearly INR 70 lakhs in Kukatpally and Old Bowanpally. They include CC Roads near Prasanth Nagar's Brindavan Gardens, pipeline works near Naina Gardens, Compound Wall Construction near Pioneer College. Other works include UGD Remodeling near Sai Nagar Colony, CC Roads near Navjeevan Nagar, CC Roads in Syndicate Bank Colony.
January 6 (Monday):
JP inaugurated development works worth INR 88 lakhs in Moti Nagar. The include CC Roads in several colonies including Parvath Nagar, Friends Colony, Aditya Nagar, near Vivekananda Community Hall and more. Underground drainage works are being taken up in New Allapur.
December 24 (Tuesday):
JP inaugurated water works worth INR 48 lakhs in Silpa Park Colony. Subsequently he met his constituents in a face-to-face meeting in our office.
December 1 (Sunday):
JP is flagging off a rally for AIDS Awareness at 1030AM at Ramya Ground. This event is being organized by K.K. Reddy Chest Clinic.
November 11 (Monday):
JP started several developmental works in the constituency today worth INR 32.15 lakhs. At 930AM, he inspected an illegal compound wall constructed from VasanthNagar to Gokul Flats and directed GHMC officials to get it demolished. At 10AM, he inaugurated works related to CC Roads and underground drainage works in BalakrishnaNagar. At 1030AM, he inaugurated CC Raod works in GeethaNagar and BalaNagar. He later inspected underground drainage in PhoolBhag and asked for its completion. Finally, he inspected an illegal nala being dug in Jinkalavada and directed authorities to do the needful.
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Blue Jays 4, White Sox 3
Mark Buehrle found it "a little crazy" facing the White Sox
for the first time. Still, he kept his cool and shut down his
former team.
Buehrle pitched in and out of trouble into the seventh inning,
J.P. Arencibia and Maicer Izturis hit solo homers and the Toronto
Blue Jays topped the White Sox 4-3 on Monday night.
"It was different seeing the Sox uniform in the batter's box,"
Buehrle said. "Usually it's behind me. It's weird rooting against
those guys. I've rooted for them for 13 years and wanted them to
win every game. This is the first game in I don't know how long
that I'm actually rooting against them."
Buehrle (1-0) went 6 1-3 innings in his first career start
against the White Sox, allowing two runs and nine hits. The
left-hander walked two and struck out three. Both runs he allowed
came in the first.
"Once he got through that first inning it kind of became a
clinic on hitting spots, changing speeds," White Sox manager Robin
Ventura said. "You've seen this his whole career. He's just a
smart pitcher."
A four-time All-Star during his 12 seasons with the White Sox
from 2000-11, Buehrle starred for Chicago's 2005 World Series
championship team, pitched a no-hitter in 2007 and perfect game in
"He had a tremendous career there," Blue Jays manager John
Gibbons said. "He helped, in a lot of ways, make the White Sox
what they are. All those years when they were playing really well,
he was one of the key guys.
Buehrle said facing so many old friends forced him to be more
focused than usual.
"I tried not to take a look at too many guys stepping into the
batter's box because I knew I'd start laughing or something bad
would happen," he said. "I just tried to focus on the glove,
which is not me. Usually I'm out looking around and having
Buehrle acknowledged changing up some pitch patterns to keep the
White Sox guessing.
"It seemed like everything was working," he said. "J.P.
called a great game and we had a good game plan going in.
Obviously, knowing that they know me, we kind of changed a few
things up."
Arencibia went deep in the first and Izturis connected to begin
the second as the Blue Jays opened a seven-game homestand with
their third victory in four games.
Esmil Rogers pitched one hitless inning of relief before the
White Sox rallied in the eighth against Aaron Loup. Adam Dunn was
hit by a pitch, went to third on Dayan Viciedo's double and scored
on a sacrifice fly by Alexei Ramirez. Loup struck out Tyler Flowers
to preserve the one-run lead.
Casey Janssen finished for his fourth save in as many
Right-hander Gavin Floyd (0-3) remained winless as the slumping
White Sox lost for the sixth time in seven games.
Chicago jumped on Buehrle with two in the first as Paul Konerko
and Viciedo hit RBI singles.
Toronto quickly tied it in the bottom half when Emilio Bonifacio
led off with a double, advanced on a passed ball and scored on
Melky Cabrera's sacrifice fly. Arencibia followed with a homer that
bounced off the top of the wall in right center, his fourth.
Izturis made it 3-2 with a leadoff drive to right in the bottom
of the second, his second, and the Blue Jays tacked on one more in
the fourth when Munenori Kawasaki hit his first career triple and
scored on Bonifacio's sacrifice fly.
The White Sox put runners at the corners with two out in the
fifth but Buehrle escaped by fanning Konerko.
"Big situation right there and I just knew I had to make a
pitch," Buehrle said. "I know how great a hitter (Konerko)
Konerko said the experience of facing his teammate of 12 years
wasn't particularly enjoyable for either one of them.
"I didn't have much fun with it, and I don't think he did,
either," Konerko said. "But it was a good game, and he pitched
Toronto chased Floyd in the bottom of the fifth, loading the
bases with one out on a single and a pair of walks. Hector Santiago
came on and got Izturis to ground into an inning-ending double
Floyd allowed four runs and nine hits in 4 1-3 innings. He
walked three and struck out six.
"The first couple of innings everything was up in the zone and
they didn't miss," Ventura said.
Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista was held out of the starting
lineup with a sore back.
NOTES: A moment of silence was held before the game to honor
those affected by the bombings in Boston. … Players on both teams
wore uniform number 42 in tribute to Jackie Robinson. … Blue Jays
SS Jose Reyes visited a specialist Monday who confirmed that he
won't need surgery on his sprained left ankle. Reyes is expected to
miss three months. … The Blue Jays placed RHP Sergio Santos
(triceps strain) on the 15-day DL and will activate INF Brett
Lawrie (left ribcage strain) off the 15-day DL on Tuesday. Toronto
also selected RHP Ramon Ortiz from Triple-A Buffalo and designated
OF Casper Wells for assignment. … Promoted from Triple-A
Charlotte Sunday, White Sox infielder Tyler Greene made his season
debut at second base.


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Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Lab Employees Don't Treat Their Trash Like Garbage
Last year, the Lab recycled 47 percent of its solid, non-hazardous waste (which translates to about 1,275 metric tons of paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, and aluminum cans) by placing it in the recycling containers that dot the Laboratory landscape. The Lab's goal is to increase that amount by three percent, to a total of 50 percent, by 2015.
In addition, the Lab was able to recycle 93 percent of its construction and demolition waste (almost 7,000 tons of debris and scrap materials) and reused more than 5,000 of the 20,188 cubic yards of clean soil from onsite construction and demolition activities.
The Lab's recycle rate of 47 percent compares favorably with the current national rate of 34 percent, but it continues to work to reduce the amount of waste for disposal. Beginning last year, the Lab began to recycle a variety of batteries, including nickel cadmium, nickel metal hydride, lithium, silver oxide, mercury button cell, lead acid, and lithium ion for laptops and cell phones.
New Tool Helps Reduce Use of Hazardous Chemicals
During the course of their scientific work, Lab employees have used a wide variety of chemicals, ranging from acids to etch metals to baby oil (really), to delve into the secrets of the universe. A new tool, the "Green Chemical Alternatives Purchasing Wizard," will begin to help Lab employees choose the most benign substances possible for their work.
Developed for, and accessed through, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the tool allows researchers to input the chemicals or processes they wish to replace and suggests safer, and often less expensive, alternatives.
Of course, some materials have such unique properties that they cannot be substituted in some applications, but this tool will help them explore alternatives where feasible.


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Sorry guys, didn't get to bring a hammock, but I wanted to share my trip anyway. I had a lot of fun!
Went out with Julia, Rain, and new friend Katie from the East Coast. In comparison, the outdoors in SoCal probably doesn't hold a candle to her hometown. But she had fun none the less (I think).
On to the photos!
Julia looking for something
Was foggy
Brother Rain always with that look
I got excited at first, thinking it was a kick *** tooth of some sort. Ended up being some kind of seed pod.


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I'm desperate right now... My 5 week old has had a bottle twice in her life. The first time was when I went to the hospital (my mother had to watch her, pre pump, so no other options for her. lol) and the second time was just a minute ago. I have been working my butt off to keep breastfeeding exclusively. I found out I have a blood clot (bottle 1) and despite being assigned meds I couldn't take while breastfeeding, I got a second opinion with a second breastfeeding friendly prescription, but I am at my breaking point!
For the past couple weeks my daughter nurses constantly... Literally... The bottle today came after 4 hours of nursing, with very short breaks. She latches fine, and I know she is getting milk (the post nursing dribble reassures me there. lol), but it's just non-stop. I couldn't handle it anymore so I caved. I think my nipples were about to fall off...
I am the first person in my family (in generations) to breastfeed so I have no support system to rely on. No one has done it so no one understands it, and my questions are answered by google alone!
So, here is my question. Is this normal? She nurses all the time. I go through a million diapers a day, so she MUST be getting enough, but why does she seem so hungry and fussy all the time? What can I do to stop this?
She is gaining weight slowly, although her pediatrician isn't concerned since she IS gaining.
After the bottle, she is now full, content, and happy. What am I doing wrong? I know formula is harder to digest, but the longest break I get from nursing is at night, where she sleeps 4 hours. Aside from that, I'm lucky to get 45 minutes between sessions...
Help? I am feeling inadequate and so ready to give up... Losing that fighting spirit I did have! lol
Edit: On a related note, any tips on how to spare my poor boobies? I have nipple cream, so they aren't dry or cracked, just mega sore. =P


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I don't think we've commented yet on the abduction of two French journalists by Muslim extremists in Iraq. The extremists are demanding that France rescind its ban on the wearing of head-scarfs (as well as religious accessories worn by members of other religions) in public schools. In attempting to secure the release of the journalists, France has taken pains to point to its record of support for various Muslim and Arab groups and causes, such as the PLO. Indeed, they have enlisted Arafat to plead their case. And French foreign minister Michel Barnier has proclaimed that the "abduction is incomprehensible for all those who know that France, country of human rights, is a land of tolerance and respect of others."
Is it possible, three years after 9/11, to remain this clueless? Apparently, France is still proceeding on the assumption that Islamofascist terrorism is doled out only to citizens of countries that don't sufficiently respect Muslims and their causes. Thus, it is "incomprehensible" that a nation that thinks it has no guilt in this regard would experience terrorism.
Most Americans, and even most liberal Democrats, have figured out that this "why do they hate us" appproach is folly. Unfortunately, though, most liberal Democrats have not figured out that it is also folly to give a substantial say in how we combat global terrorism to countries as clueless as France.
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http://www.theravada-dhamma.org/pdf/Aja ... anatta.pdfConsciousness or vinnana is one of the khandhas and of course is not eternal. The citta is eternal. Just remember what the Lord Buddha said, the Thatagata after dead neither is nor is not. The citta is not individualistic, not personal. How could the Lord Buddha talk to Acharn Mun presenting Dhamma to him in the form of the Lord
Buddha, if there is nothing that is eternal and everything dies away? We grasp the term citta wrongly, we think every beeing has a citta, no that is not right, every being is part of that one citta, that is eternal.
Does anyone know what is meant here- how did the Lord Buddha talk to Acharn Mun?


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NRS Research Grants Announced by NRS Medical Advisory Board
The National Rosacea Society (NRS) has awarded funding for three new studies in addition to continuing support for five ongoing studies as part of its research grants program to increase knowledge and understanding of the potential causes and other key aspects of rosacea.
"We are pleased to award new grants for these additional avenues of rosacea research that may lead to important advances in its treatment and potential prevention or cure," said Dr. Jonathan Wilkin, chairman of the NRS Medical Advisory Board, which selects grant applications for funding. "Studies to date have made significant progress toward the more effective control of this disorder, and we are grateful for the support of the many thousands of patients whose donations make these studies possible."
Dr. Ferda Cevikbas, postdoctoral fellow at the University of California-San Francisco, and colleagues were awarded $25,000 to assess the role of PACAP, a neuropeptide that may affect rosacea. They plan to define the distribution of PACAP in skin samples from rosacea patients, determine whether PACAP induces inflammation and test whether cathelicidin — a known factor in rosacea's pathophysiology — modulates the release of PACAP. The researchers also plan to test whether countering the effects of PACAP is beneficial and may thus be used as a rosacea therapy.
Dr. Edward Wladis, assistant professor of ophthalmology at Albany Medical College, was awarded $12,100 to identify specific cytokines — molecules that regulate the immune system — that are involved in ocular rosacea by studying eyelid tissue from individuals with and without the disorder. Dr. Wladis noted that while inflammation is normally a healthy part of the immune response, aberrations in the cytokines' concentrations and functioning in rosacea may result in unhealthy and prolonged inflammation.
This knowledge may have significant therapeutic implications for ocular rosacea, as medications have been designed to suppress specific cytokines.
Dr. Richard Granstein, chairman of dermatology at Cornell University, and colleagues were awarded $25,000 to study the potential role of Th17 cells, a newly discovered class of cells that appear to be involved in a number of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders. Earlier study results strongly indicated that release of ATP — a neurotransmitter and carrier of chemical energy throughout the body — from nerves under stressful situations may initiate a sequence of events leading to or exacerbating inflammation in the skin. This study will investigate whether this inflammation results because Th17 cells are produced during this process in rosacea.
The NRS is also continuing to fund studies by Dr. Richard Gallo and colleagues at the University of California-San Diego on the potential role of cathelicidins in rosacea1; Dr. Joseph Rothnagel and colleagues at the University of Queensland, Australia, on kallikreins and rosacea; Dr. Thad Wilson and colleagues at Ohio University on nerve activity in rosacea; Dr. Aki Ikoma and colleagues at the University of California-San Francisco on the neurovascular system and rosacea; and Dr. Noreen Lacey and colleagues at the University College in Ireland on the effect of antibiotics on sebocyte cells in rosacea.
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Police say the man who stabbed 38-year-old Maria Guadelupe Rodriguez to death outside her Medford apartment Sunday night hid in the bushes, waiting to attack her when she returned home.
"He had been there before," said Medford Police Chief Tim George. "He knew the address. He was no stranger to that location. There was no question that he was lying in wait."
Police allege Jose Valencia-Gaona, 45, of Medford, jumped from his hiding spot at about 8:30 p.m. and stabbed Rodriguez several times with a knife in a rage before fleeing the apartment complex at 1990 Table Rock Road. They believe the two knew each other, possibly from a past relationship.
Rodriguez died at the scene. Police declined to give details about her wounds but said an autopsy was being conducted Tuesday to determine the official cause of death.
Police combed west Medford Tuesday looking for Valencia-Gaona and asked for the public's help in tracking him down.
"We've spent extensive time, energy and effort trying to locate this individual," George said, adding authorities believe Valencia-Gaona is still in west Medford, based on several witness sightings. "These people knew each other. This was a targeted attack."
Police said they believe Valencia-Gaona — who is also known by a street name "Pepe" — and Rodriguez got into a verbal argument when she arrived home. The fight turned physical, and Valencia-Gaona allegedly stabbed Rodriguez several times, threatened to kill onlookers who were trying to intervene and then ran away. Police said a neighbor went inside his home to grab a firearm but came back out too late.
Police said with the help of witnesses, officers have nearly apprehended Valencia-Gaona several times, coming within a half-hour of catching him. Police and a SWAT team have been to his home in the 2400 block of West McAndrews Road twice.
"We've got a ton of boots on the ground. We've been close a couple times," George said.
George said Valencia-Gaona has lived in the area the past four or five years. Court records don't show any criminal history for him in Oregon. George said Rodriguez did not have a restraining order against Valencia-Gaona, though she may have mentioned occasional concerns to friends and neighbors. He does not have a vehicle registered to his name, police said.
Neighbors said Rodriguez worked two jobs and was a kind and gracious neighbor. Police said two children survive her, a son who lives in Alaska and a daughter who lives in Eugene.
George encouraged the public to be on the lookout for Valencia-Gaona. He is 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs about 180 pounds. He has black hair and a faint mustache and beard. Anyone with information should call the Medford police at 541-770-4783 as soon as possible, George said.
"We need to know about it," George said. "He's out there, and we've got to think catch until we catch."
Reach reporter Ryan Pfeil at 541-776-4468 or by email at email@example.com.


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Mass. shoppers hit stores for sales tax holiday
BOSTON (AP) — Shoppers across Massachusetts are hitting the stores to take advantage of another summer tax-free weekend.
The one-time tax break will apply to retail sales, but will exclude any single item priced higher than $2,500 on Saturday and Sunday. It also excludes vehicles, motor boats, tobacco, meals and utilities.
The state sales tax is 6.25 percent. Some stores are adding extra savings on top of the weekend tax cut to lure in additional shoppers.
Another possible lure for shoppers will come in the form of expected nice weather.
Sales-tax holiday weekends have become something of a tradition in Massachusetts during the dog days of summers as lawmakers hope to give store owners and consumers a boost during a typically sluggish shopping season.


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Party: Republican
Residence: Yuma
Website: corygardner.com
Age: Age 38
Family: Wife, Jaime; daughter; Alyson; son, Thatcher
How long have you lived in Colorado? All my life. I am a fifth-generation Coloradan.
Professional background: I have worked in my family's farm implement dealership on and off since I was in middle school, including helping to manage a major relocation of the business in 1997. After college I also worked for the National Corn Growers Association and was the legislative director for U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard.
Political/community experience: Served in the Colorado State Legislature for five years (2005-2010) and elected to Congress in 2010.
Education: Third-generation graduate of Yuma High School. Graduated summa cum laude from Colorado State University with a B.A. in political science. Went to law school at the University of Colorado for my juris doctor.
Name a person you admire and explain why: Someone I admire more with each passing day would have to be my wife, Jaime. She does an incredible job raising our two children, juggling her own career, managing the family finances and dealing with a husband whose job requires a lot of travel. Jaime also keeps me grounded, never lets me off the hook from doing my chores, and never lets me forget my roots.