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Interview with David Emerson, March 13th, 2012
{This is part two in the ongoing series, "At Attention, At Peace,"which shares interviews with veterans, yoga teachers and military officials as they discuss the uses of yoga and meditation in recovery from post traumatic stress disorder. Part One of the series can be found here.}
In this interview, he discusses the rehabilitative role of physical movement, current research on the effects of yoga in recovery from trauma, the difficulties of placing blame in the context of inter-connection and how healing from past trauma begins in the present.
Full Interview:
Lilly: Could you tell me a little bit about the work that you're doing right now? I know you're at the Trauma Center, and that you've been working with veterans for a while, and that your work with veterans has been kind of a parallel track to the trauma center, is that correct?
David: Yeah, I started the Black Lotus Yoga Project about 11 or so years ago. The U.S. was starting to ramp up for the Iraq war, and right near my yoga studio there's a shelter for people who are active drug and alcohol users and a lot of the people there are Vietnam vets. So, I would see them every morning when I would go to clean the studio, they would be there, you know, coming out and heading off for their day.
And just thinking about the next generation of veterans that would be headed for this shelter, once we started these wars… What could I do as a yoga teacher, what made sense?
I was a social worker too, by trade and then by training, I was going to become a clinician. I had done about a year of school, to become a therapist, but really decided that the talking wasn't for me. I did get to read some of Bessel's book, Traumatic Stress. He talked about engaging the body as an important thing for trauma healing and it felt like yoga would be the perfect fit, the perfect way to integrate the body holistically into the process of healing.
Lilly: And what is the Black Lotus Yoga Project? What is the mission statement, and how has that mission changed over time?
David: To teach yoga to people with PTSD. That was it. Early on I partnered with Bessel van der Kolk and with the Trauma Center. So I started that little non-profit and then partnered with the Trauma Center, and then as we started to look, do studies, and get things moving, I was hired by the Trauma Center a few years later. And so most of the work I do with trauma is there now.
But we had Black Lotus and luckily we kept it because there's a program called There and Back Again, which you may know about, that grew out of it and which serves younger veterans who are experiencing trauma symptoms specifically. We've also been donating the studio to Kripalu for a study they've been doing with veterans. I also have my veterans group that meets at the studio; we've been together for about eight years or so now.
Lilly: And how long overall have you been working with veterans and how long have you been working with PTSD? Is that the same amount of time?
David: It's about 10 years.
Lilly: Do you have a class that you meet with regularly now?
David: Yeah. The first class that I did was at a VA in Bedford, Massachusetts. Some of the VA's in the country have places where you can stay at this place for a certain number of months in your lifetime, so it's kind of like a respite place. So then, on the campus of the VA, they have a shelter. I did yoga classes there.
It was there I met this group that I'm with now. For the past six years they've come down to the studio. Every other week, they come down. They make a drive, it's about a 45 minute drive down, every other Friday. We do Chair yoga. Pretty much the same thing we've been doing together for eight years. It's great. We like each other quite a bit. It's quite fun.
Lilly: Who's your longest standing student?
David: That group is the longest group. The core group of guys there have been the whole eight years. They are Vietnam veterans, all of them. Every now and then I've met a younger guy, but this particular group is kind of specialized.
It's Vietnam veterans. They've also been diagnosed with major mental illness. There's a lot of psychosis and schizophrenia in the group, and there are a lot of medications. I would say that medications are the biggest sort of impediment to actually practicing yoga; even more so than physical challenges. There are some heavy duty drugs that have significant physiological side effects.
These guys are incredibly devoted to themselves, to the practice, to me and me to them… I think we all kind of lift each other. They want to do more! Usually we meet every other week, but the past couple of months they've been coming every week. And they've been wanting a little more, like a little more physicality to it, staying in the chair but with a little more muscular energy.
So it's been kind of cool. It's evolved. It's been kind of a slow evolution, like we will be doing the same thing for a while and then they will really want to do a little more.
Also, in terms of long-term students, I've known and had some students over at the trauma center now since our second pilot study in 2005. We've done three studies to this point, two pilot studies and one big study we just finished, that was funded by the National Institute of Health. Those are the longest term relationships I've had, six to eight years.
Lilly: As it's been directly shared with you or as you sense it, what keeps your students coming back?
David: The veteran's group especially, I think they feel better after every class or session.
I always kind of check in as much as I can, "What do you notice?" "What does it feel like," "Did anything change for these 25, 30 minutes?" It's very consistent that they feel a little better every time and they notice it … I haven't tracked it long term, if there's an arc of feeling better over the course of months or years, but from when they come in, to when they leave, there's a better feeling. I'm sure that's one reason why they want to keep coming back. It feels good.
One guy said that he'll be walking around in the city where he lives, and he says "I get a yoga feeling sometimes", which he describes by holding his head high and expanding his chest a little.
So it's kind of like developed in his body, some sense of what that is. I think it would be a sense of well-being of some kind. You get to practice a sense of well-being for half an hour there every week, and, over time, they've developed a way to be well, to be with themselves. I think that's why they keep coming back.
And that's that specific group. I get really specific answers with other Trauma Center students because we've done so many studies, we've got a lot of archived feedback. So we get to hear some very specific things from people there, about why they do yoga, and why they come back.
Lilly: What are some of the things that have struck you?
David: Many people have said, "Feeling strong is helpful", or, "I Like to feel my muscles." People have talked a lot about the emphasis on choice and that is a very intentional approach on our part – turning over as many choices as possible to yoga students. All of the studies we've done have been women. Most of our students over the years at the trauma center have been women but I work with a lot of teenagers too, both boys and girls, in residential settings. Feeling strong and feeling likes one's body can be effective along with the ability to make real choices about what one does with one's body at any given moment are all themes that we have heard over the years.
Also, there's something about yoga that has helped people feel more fulfilled in their relationships and this is a thing we've noted that's really interesting to us. People feel like their intimate relationships are more satisfying and safer. And there's something about the yoga that's doing that. And we kind of speculate on that: if I feel safer in my own body, more confident and safe in my own body, then I can be more available to someone else.
So people say things like "I can't let my family touch me, I can't let my kids touch me, it's too much of a trigger, it just brings up too much. But after doing yoga for a while, I noticed I could be touched more by my family, by appropriate people." So that, to me, is huge.
With kids, with the teens, another thing I hear a lot is that yoga helps them feel more calm. It could be different things in yoga for different people, though that creates this sense of calm, so I am not prescribing anything particular here. It is more about working with each individual as they discover for themselves what helps them feel calm or strong or safe in their body.
Lilly: How do you teach a class differently to someone who has post-traumatic stress?
With the yoga there's a lot of emphasis on choices. We want to make it clear to people that they have choices, and give them ways to make those choices. Invitational language is important, so we really try to pay attention to not ordering people.
Many students tell me that being able to make real choices right in their bodies is critically important. So, everything we do, we're like, "here's something you can experiment with, if you'd like to. Here is a choice for you -whether you do a neck roll in one way or another for example."
It's not wishy-washy, but it really is an invitation. Other important stuff with trauma sensitive yoga is we recognize, clinically, what's happening, because everything we do is in conjunction with clinicians. So we know what the clinical goals are for trauma treatment, and we know the neuro-physiological impact of trauma. We have recently done some brain scans that are beginning to shine a light on what might be happening with yoga. We try to teach yoga with both the clinical and the neuro-physiological impacts in mind.
To me, therefore, if you're just a pure neuroscientist, the value of trauma-sensitive yoga is just that you'll start to reignite, reinvigorate those parts of the brain that are shut down by severe trauma, which causes a lot of the suffering. As a humanist, from a humanistic perspective, you're also reclaiming your body, y'know, 'this is my body, I'm in charge of it, I have control. To a reasonable, human degree, I have control.'"
We really try to help people get oriented physically, in every form, to what's happening.
The other part there that's kind of new, based on the implications of our recent brain scans, is locating yourself spatially. So, something like triangle, we'll give a cue, like, "see if you can keep track of your top hand, when you move your fingers you can look at your hand if you want, but just experiment with moving your fingers. Feel where your hand is, and then you'll know that you're maybe moving your arm a little bit, but you're practicing tracking yourself, in the space." We know those parts of the brain that help us feel ourselves, feel our bodies, our muscles, and feel ourselves in space, those parts of the brain are really damaged by trauma.
A lot of the suffering of trauma is not being able to feel yourself. Bessel talks about it as, "you just aren't". At this moment in time, you just aren't anymore. You may be able to trace that experience, that feeling that sometimes people actually articulate ("I can't feel myself" etc.) to these areas of the brain. So we work on feeling ourselves, to sensing ourselves. There are parts of the body that are more safe, for some people, than others, and we just try to find where we can start with this process of sensing ourselves. Maybe it's feet on the ground. Maybe it's one hand in the space, moving your hand, moving your arm, maybe it's core strength etc. Different for everybody.
Lilly: What parts of the brain are associated with that lack of spatial awareness?
David: One is the medial prefrontal cortex. It's in the space, actually, amazingly, around the third eye. Bessel describes it as a Mohawk from between your eyebrows up toward the crown of your head. And there is the insular cortex, which is on either side, right and left hemispheres. The Insular Cortex has been pretty well identified as having a lot to do with feeling ourselves, and sensing ourselves dynamically and spatially. There have been some really good studies that show how it's almost completely off, with PTSD and trauma (see Ruth Lanuius, for example). It's almost totally shut down.
Lilly: Why?
David: I don't know. If you think about it philosophically, or if you just speculate, when we're hurt so badly, maybe over time the best thing we can do is withdraw from being, so we're not seeing, or we don't have to feel what's happening. So it makes sense to me that that part of the brain would be impacted, but that's just speculation.
Lilly: It's interesting to think about that defense coming involuntarily…
David: Yeah!
Lilly: …how it does provide a kind of protection or shelter, but how long-term, it's not a functional way to exist. So there's a disconnect for me there, when I think about how sometimes the long-term ways that we stay safe are different from the short-term. What are your thoughts on that?
David: That's a great point. I think that's what trauma is. The trauma response is unconscious. The "fight, flight, freeze, submit" response, we're going to respond to life-threatening, or integrity-threatening situations with something that's unconscious, really. Still, it's adaptive. It's what our organism is set up to do, to protect us.
But then what happens is, like you said, it becomes chronic. And then, after a while, especially if we're not in that circumstance anymore, it's still happening. That's suffering. How do we turn that off? How do we live in the present? Bessel talks about the primary treatment goal for severe trauma as helping people be present. Trauma is like a disease of not being present. What can we do to be able to live right now without being trapped by the past?
Lilly: What is the process like, of trying to offer somebody a present moment, if the present moment is painful?
David: So for us the present moment is a physical thing, it's not a cognitive thing, or an idea. It's feeling your feet on the ground, it's feeling your muscles working in Warrior II. So you're trying to help people get oriented to the present moment through their body, body mechanics, body dynamics, inter-spatial attention.
In my limited experience, the suffering of not being present is much worse than the suffering of being present. It's much more painful to try and be a parent, a lover, have a job, partner, anything, if you are constantly hijacked by the past. That pain is almost unbearable for people.
We can't really think ourselves into the present. But it seems like we can "do" ourselves into the present. When we do things, and notice/feel that they're happening, that's being present.
Lilly: Would it be fair to say that emotional pain usually has some relevance to the past?
David: I think so. That's how I would think about it.
Lilly: Would it be fair to say that emotional pain always has some relevance to the past? Or, is that too far of a stretch?
David: In the context of trauma, I would say yes, that's fair.
In the context of PTSD, when we're talking about the limbic system (the emotional brain) hijacking us at any given moment… That would be emotional material that's not related to the present. To me, the physical stuff is a much more reliable source of the present moment than what we think. So it's kind of an opportunity to realign what being in the present is.
There are studies with meditation, and how meditation can get some of those parts of the brain going too, but it never quite worked for me personally. And we found, especially with the really severe trauma, asking people to just sit still and breathe was like torture. All the demons would come up and they'd have nothing to do with them. Luckily it looks like yoga also can get those parts of the brain going as well.
Lilly: What is the relationship between the present moment and long-term recovery from trauma?
David: Bessel says straight up that the goal of trauma treatment is to help people be present. If you're limited to just talking about being present… your body is the most reliable source of that presence. Instead of talking about being present, with yoga, you are practicing it right in your body.
I think that somebody like Judith Herman, who's a great writer and trauma therapist, who is also a contemporary of Bessel's, also talks about an aspect of being present, which is the process of becoming empowered. We've got the present moment practice, and it's reverberating, it's got this deeper quality to it also of an immediate inhabiting of self, of a "claiming" of my body as my own. That's empowerment.
Trauma is this process of our selves being taken away, our body, our sense of self, everything is just stripped away. And then we have to take it back.
I've found that in the work that we do with people with really severe trauma it's not a fight to take it back, it's not like we're going into it as a fight; that doesn't help.
People that we know, veterans, the folks that we work with every day, kids, they've been through so much violence, that bringing any more violence to the process makes it worse. Fighting trauma makes it worse. So we have to bring in a very committed, strong, gentleness to the whole thing.
Lilly: I have this image of a haunted house, and the present moment being this one room in the house with nothing in it. And it's empty to give us the opportunity to redefine it, to say that in this room, we can be this way, and then slowly that room expands to the other rooms. That's a roundabout way of responding to the idea of how, over time, the relationship of one's self to the moment during to yoga practice affects the ability to reclaim and redefine the story of the past. Is that what you're getting at?
David: I hear what you're saying, and that's what I would say. I think Bessel would say, and I'm getting convinced about, and my students over the years would agree.
If you have an experience in a yoga class where you are present, that resonates. You start to stake out that little corner, like that room in your house. And from that little corner you stake out more space. And that doesn't go away! That corner doesn't go when practice ends. You just build on it. That's what seems to happen.
The next thing we're going to do is a longer study very much focused on the fMRIs, so that we can really see over time what happens to the brain as a result of these physical yoga practices. I picture that part of the brain getting brighter and brighter.
Lilly: This may be an assumption, but to work with veterans, as opposed to people who are not… Veterans being people who have fought, who have been involved in inflicting violence, and the people who you are working with at the trauma center are victims, more predominantly… Is that true?
David: That's a really interesting question. I think trauma, in my experience… "Victim" is a tricky word. I know what you mean, I totally know what you mean there, but I think the experience of severe trauma is very similar for all who experience it. PTSD is the only diagnosis we have and frankly, a great many of our students don't have the diagnosis though they have been through hell. Maybe, they were children in an abusive home and their capacity to fight was limited; the adults were bigger and stronger than them, but they were fighters, you know. They were fighting.
When we're threatened, we fight. We fight; we run; we try to protect ourselves. So, I think the experience of trauma is that you're fighting, you're trying to run.. I mean anything can happen in the course of a battle. There's gonna be fighting and there's gonna be running. People freeze, and submit. We do it all. So I think it's the experience we were talking about earlier, which is that those adaptive mechanisms become chronic. And that's trauma.
I really see more similarities than anything, between veterans, the kids I work with, the adults. Trauma is a vicious thing that cuts across all the lines. I mean think about the soldiers who have been victimized in some way apart from the actual war fighting (sexual assault by peers for example). It's part of war.
War is so unclean. It's combating and fighting and victimizing, it's everything, y'know? So it's just like what it's like to grow up in a chronic, dangerous environment. Sometimes you fight, and sometimes you are harmed.
I think that people like you, or myself, or any of us involved in the process of helping trauma, if we can't understand that kind of complexity, I think we're doing people a disservice. It's not clean cut, and that's exactly what trauma is, it's not clear.
Bessel was talking about our study the other day, y'know, publicly, and he was saying that he thinks yoga is pretty much the centerpiece of the trauma center's work at this point, because you have to feel safe and regulated before you can do anything, before talking, or anything. So having your body again is where it's at.
Lilly: Thinking about yoga as a philosophy of oneness and connection, and how on the one hand that idea has this sort of magic and excitement to it, but for someone who has experienced trauma, that idea of connection could not be exciting at all. So much of what the trauma-sensitive practice is seeking to do is to give somebody a sense of themselves… but how does that not carry over into one's sense of being safe in themselves only? Where and how does a sense of empathy or connection come back?
David: This is interesting. I'll go back to that stuff I was telling you about earlier, where people were saying, as a result of maybe 10 weeks or so of yoga, " I feel like my relationships are better." From what I've seen, if people are feeling safer, stronger, and more confident in their own bodies, then they can start to have relationships again. They can start to connect with the world again in a way that feels safe.
Trauma is absolutely isolating: me from myself; me from other people; and me from the larger, more universal experience of being alive. Being around other people in a trauma-sensitive yoga class and practicing reconnecting with oneself but with other people who are in the same boat has been very meaningful to some of our students.
People have said to me, "I like that I'm in this class because I know we're all in the same boat." Or, "this is the only social thing I do during the week. This yoga class is the only thing I do with other people." So there's that. That sense, like Judith Herman would talk about, of reconnecting with the larger society, the larger group.
In my work with kids, which is usually one on one, the focus there is always on your relationship to yourself which is where real empathy starts.


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How To Become A Networking Genius
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Homily for 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) 22nd July 2007
(SC in the text refers to Pope Benedict's Sacramentum Caritatis)
Today's readings present us with two images with two aspects: hospitality and listening. Hospitality provided to God, a word from God heard.
In the Genesis reading, set at the hottest part of the day, the Lord – in the form of three men – appears to Abraham by an oak tree at Mamre: a place of shelter. Abraham recognises these men as the Lord and begs Him to stay and offers hospitality:
- water to wash their feet
- shade from the heat of the sun under the tree
- food and drink for refreshment.
The three men ate, and they spoke: "I will surely return to you in the spring, and Sarah your wife shall have a son." Sarah laughed in disbelief at these words!
In the reading from Luke's Gospel, the Lord Jesus enters the home of Martha and her sister Mary. While Martha provides hospitality, Mary listens to the words of Jesus. Martha, we are told, is distracted with all the serving. The word "distract" comes from the Latin "detrahere", to pull apart, pull to pieces. You could say that Martha was at her wits' end with all the serving. Mary, on the other hand, was sitting at the Lord's feet and listening. She gave her full attention to the guest. Her quiet devotion displayed greater reverence for Jesus than Martha's anxious toil.
We should not discount Martha's role too quickly: she prepares food for the Lord – who had probably not come alone but with his apostles. He may even have come unannounced, and in keeping with the renowned hospitable nature of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern people, she set about getting food ready. Jesus, after all, did have a body that needed feeding. God chose to experience hunger and thirst, just like the rest of mankind and Martha sought to satisfy the Lord's hunger and thirst and that of his followers.
But Jesus' real hunger and thirst is not physical, rather is it spiritual.
In St John's Gospel we read how Jesus said to the Samaritan woman at the well of Sichar, also at the hottest part of the day: "Give me a drink." When his disciples found him talking with the woman they said "Rabbi, eat." But he replied: "I have food to eat of which you do not know... My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work" (Jn 4) Later, on the Cross, Jesus would exclaim: "I thirst."
What satisfies Jesus is the bread of the Father's will; on the Cross he thirsted for the last drops remaining of the cup of suffering that could not pass him by; through the fulfilment of his Father's will and the suffering of the Cross, the Lord Jesus would gain the salvation of the world. And in the house of Martha as at the well at Sichar, Jesus' true hunger and thirst was for a soul who would come to him and be fed by him. This hungry and thirsty man comes not to be fed but to feed. It is Jesus who is feeding Mary: on His Word, on Truth, on His very Self: "I am the … Truth…", and by feeding on Jesus Himself, Mary is feeding on the Bread of Life: "I am the bread come down from heaven", said Jesus, a bread that nourishes and never diminishes.
The "better part" that Mary had chosen will never be taken from her, Jesus says. Martha's role – service of the body – can only last as long as the body is there to be fed. Jesus would one day depart this world and return to His Father, yet he remains in the Church, in His Spirit, in His word proclaimed to be listened to and in the Eucharist to be our food. Death would overtake both Martha and Mary. Martha's distraction with serving would be no more, but Mary's contemplation of Christ would be perfected and continue for eternity in heaven.
Consequences for us:
1. Before being 'doers' we must be 'hearers'. Before a police operation, there is a briefing to ensure everyone knows and understands his role in the operation. One error by one person could jeopardise the whole mission. To be good disciples, we must first be sure that we understand the Lord's grand plan, his design.
2. Therefore, priority should be given to prayer in our lives: time for daily prayer, time in the presence of the Lord – at home and, if possible, before the Blessed Sacrament.
3. At Mass: to ensure we seek recollection – the opposite of distraction: putting together what has, perhaps, been pulled apart. The Mass consists of two principal parts: the liturgy of the Word and the liturgy of the Eucharist. There is a fundamental unity between these:
"From listening to the word of God, faith is born or strengthened; in the Eucharist, the Word made flesh gives himself to us as our spiritual food… From the two tables of the word of God and the Body of Christ, the Church receives and gives to the faithful the bread of life." (Sacramentum caritatis 44)
4. "The Liturgy of the Word (must) always be carefully prepared and celebrated." "Every effort (must) be made to ensure that the … proclamation of the word of God is entrusted to well-prepared readers." This means that readers must always ensure they are well prepared: never reading without first having read over the text and, if possible, meditating upon it, to know already the words on which the Lord wishes to feed his people. You know what it's like in a restaurant: you see something on the menu and you ask the waiter/waitress what a particular item is, and they have to go and ask the chef. They haven't familiarised themselves with the menu. A reader must know what he/she is going to be serving up to God's people before embarking on his/her ministry.
"Let us never forget that 'when the Sacred Scriptures are read in the Church, God himself speaks to his people, and Christ, present in his own word, proclaims the Gospel… The word we proclaim and accept is the Word made flesh." (SC 45)
In his word, Christ is present in our midst. He "does not speak in the past, but in the present."
Our icon of the Hospitality of Abraham is really an icon of the Blessed Trinity. Both the Son and Holy Spirit are gazing towards the Father and he to them. As they spoke a word of promise to Abraham and as Jesus spoke to Mary and Martha, so we have heard them in the Scriptures and they now invite us to the table of the Eucharist and to be fed with the Body of Christ for whom we truly hunger and thirst.
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published in Volume 7, Issue 1 on April 24th, 2000
On the first day six died and 14 the day after that and by Sunday, when our Labor Day picnic was supposed to take place over behind the firehouse, it seemed at least half the town had bit the dust.
On Tuesday, Dr. Corwin, our town doctor died and there was a meeting. Bob Pratt, our mayor and now full owner of Bob and Sam's Ammo and Butcher Shop after Sam died, asked if anyone had gone down to the hospital in Kallispell. Tilly Loveless, the 4th through 7th grade teacher said that her sister Meg had brought the twins down yesterday.
"And what happened?"
"They got there and died."
There were no symptoms. People were fine one minute, then they became short of breath, a little red in the face and died. The dead people didn't look like they were in pain as so much as stunned or surprised, like they had let slip a fart in church and then God pushed their Off buttons.
Everybody had their theories. Matty, my school bus driver, said it was definitely fucking AIDS. He said Fried Egg, the homeless guy who'd buy kids beer, brought it back with him from Spokane Correctional Facility. Some people said Hollywood big shots were putting something in our water so we'd all die and then they could have our homes and not pay taxes and keep wages at next to nothing. My mom said it was because no one went to church anymore. When she said that my dad said Jesus Christ, Molly, will you give this church crap a rest. Just for fucking once.
People were also a little suspicious, pissed off even, that none of the Indians were dying. My dad said that he thought that that is what Indians did. "Suffered. Died. That was their shtick." He said that there was a time when you couldn't sneeze without killing a bunch of Indians. But for some reason they seemed immune to whatever was killing the rest of us.
My Indian friend Charles, who I play hoops with was like "Boo fucking Hoo. Of course only white people are dying. Look at you. All pale and shit. You people were born dead. Plus, you can't play basketball to save your life. You don't have an outside shot. You can't even play D. All you got are lay ups. If you can't do anything but lay-ups, you should die."
We started boiling the tap water and Mrs. Wilden opened her the grocery store giving out free juice and two-liter bottles of soda. My father drank the bottle of Jameson's that he'd been saving for Christmas.
Only a few people died on Wednesday and we began thinking the we were going to be okay, but then 25 people died on Thursday despite the fact that Fr. Virralie got on his knees in Main St. and stayed there all day, saying the rosary over and over again before dying.
My father said that the whole town would be dead by the end of the week. And if we don't leave soon, us with them.
"Where will we go?" my mom asked.
"I don't know? Anywhere. How about your brother's?"
"I'd rather die, thanks." She laughed at this for a second, before breaking into unearthly moans.
The team of doctors arrived on Friday and immediately most of them died. The ones that didn't said they had to go get some more equipment in Kallispell and left early Saturday morning.
After Mrs. Kelly died, Pauly her 30 year-old retarded son just roamed around the streets with his big hands cupped over his crotch like he had to pee, crying and talking loudly about his new haircut and about how Mrs. Kelly wouldn't stop playing sleep. No one could get him to calm down. The forecast called for rain, possibly snow, over the weekend so a few people tried unsuccessfully to coax him inside. As fate would have it, it did snow; snowed a shit load and he died.
Luckily this all happened during one of the months of the year when the ground isn't frozen, and we had no problem getting everybody in it. And after the zillion stupid ceremonies which my mom said were all different but the same, like snowflakes, and life started getting back to normal, Susan Foster made a sculpture for Sallow Park to commemorate all 186 people who died. It was a tall skinny iron thing that was supposed to symbolize the 'human spirit,' which they said hadn't yet died. My father said that the statue looked like an ostrich made out of dog shit. He went around calling it the dog shit ostrich until it disappeared one night in October.
After U.S.A. Today did a small article about what came to be known as the Chinsee Plague of '00, the little fishing and hunting tourism we had vanished completely. Although people usually complained about the tourists, they seemed pretty pissed when they never showed up this year. My mother was a little excited about the article because a reporter called and interviewed her over the phone, but I guess "the Lord works in strange and mysterious ways" isn't what he wanted to hear, because she didn't make the article.
Many of my friends died that week, but not Kenny. But his whole family died, and he came live with us for a few months before he got sent somewhere near Seattle. But while he was staying with us, we snuck out one night and painted the names of some of our dead friends on the water tower out by the tannery. It was freezing that night and we couldn't see very well and the spray paint ran a little. You couldn't read a single one of the names. It looked like an art on par with the dog shit ostrich.
I got a letter from Kenny last March just before my 15th birthday, telling me about his Sega and his girlfriend, Melanie, who has tits and chews Skoal Bandits and how he now lived in the birth place of grunge and telling me to come visit anytime I want. I asked my father and he said we'll have to see. Which basically means "No, and hopefully you'll forget you ever asked."
It's weird having most of your town die. There are whole blocks of empty houses. A bunch of closed stores, and not just the dumb ones like drum shops and candle stores. Everyone talks softer now. Labor day is pretty much the same, except now people stay at home to drink. The Mr. Vollmer the varsity basketball coach let me on the team this year, since most of last year's team died.
But I guess, since I'm just a kid, it's not that weird. I mean, I'm sad and everything. People dead makes me sad. I don't want to die and I wish Melissa Grosse hadn't, so that we could go in-lining together this summer and maybe she'd let me put my hand down her pants like she did with Gary Gerst or we could make-out on the Chellburg's trampoline. That would have been okay. But since she's dead, I'll probably just do all that stuff with some one else, maybe Vicki Ross or that new girl whose locker is next to mine.


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- n. Hindi and Urdu, viewed as essentially the same language with respect to their grammar and core vocabulary, though widely divergent in their literary forms.
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- proper n. The name of the language which constitutes the Hindi and Urdu registers.
Sorry, no etymologies found.
But then, instead of calling the etymon "Hindi-Urdu cakor" or "Hindustani cakor," they invented a completely spurious distinction between what look to the untutored eye like two different preforms, apparently because their transcription system for Hindi uses c for the unaspirated \ch\ (presumably using ch for the aspirated consonant), whereas the one for Urdu uses ch for the same phoneme (and presumably chh for the aspirated one).
That's the point where English, Spanish, Hindi-Urdu and Arabic will have the same number of native speakers, according to predictions.
The recorded conversation in Hindi-Urdu suggests that the security force personnel suspected the young men of being involved in throwing stones at the security forces, and that they had been caught after a long chase.
Music, news, entertainment and celebrity chat in Hindi-Urdu and English
Asked if her weak knowledge of Hindi would become a handicap in Hindi-Urdu speaking Lucknow, Nafisa claimed: 'Certainly not; this is not a state assembly election, where the local language is important; in the national parliament, what one requires is fluency in a key link language like English.
Music, news, entertainment and celebrity chat in Hindi-Urdu and English.
"Our goals are for the participating students to acquire the linguistic and cultural competence to communicate successfully in the language and obtain various learning strategies and skills," said Sungok Hong, a lecturer and Hindi-Urdu language coordinator in the India Studies Program.
Written by Javed Siddiqui and directed by Feroz Abbas Khan, the Hindi-Urdu play is part of a drive to raise funds for the Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Centre in Kavre.
She's not officially in the Hindi-Urdu Flagship program this year - turns out first-year Hindi at Woodstock was not sufficient preparation for second-year Hindi at UT.
Welcome back Saleem bhai! "he says, smiling broadly, using the common Hindi-Urdu word for" brother. "


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EIA: World Energy Use Up 49% By 2035, Led By Emerging Nations
May 25, 2010 -Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Global energy consumption will rise 49% between 2007 and 2035, led by economic growth in developing nations, the US Energy Information Administration said Tuesday.
While use of renewable fuels will grow rapidly in the period, "fossil fuels are still set to meet more than three-fourths of total energy needs in 2035, assuming current policies are unchanged," Richard Newell, EIA administrator said.
Average U.S. benchmark oil prices will rise to $133 a barrel in 2035 from $79 a barrel, hitting $108 in 2020, in a reference case scenario, the EIA said.
In the U.S., the world's biggest energy consumer, total energy use will rise by 0.4% annually in the period, while Japan's energy consumption eases 0.1% a year. For all of the major industrialized nations comprising the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, energy consumption will grow at an average of 0.5%
China, the second-largest oil consumer after the U.S., will see energy demand growth of 3.1%, while India's appetite will increase at a 2.2% annual rate. Other non-OECD Asian economies are expected to show 2.5% annual energy demand growth. Brazil's energy use will rise by 2.4% annual, while Middle East nations will collectively post an average 2.2% rise each year through 2035, matching the average non-OECD demand rise. Total world demand is expected to rise 1.4% annually in the forecast period.
Petroleum and other liquid fuels remain the world's largest energy source through 2035, the EIA said, but higher oil prices will erode their share of total energy use to 30% in 2035 from 35% in 2007.
World liquids consumption will rise by 0.9% annual over the forecast period, to 110.6 million barrels a day in 2035, from 86.1 million barrels a day in 2007, led by 2.9% annual increases in China. Demand in China will rise to 16.9 million barrels a day by 2035 from 7.6 million barrels a day in 2007. World-leading U.S. demand will rise by 0.2% in the period, to 22.1 million barrels a day, from 20.6 million barrels a day in 2007. OECD liquids demand is expected rise to decline in the near-term, but returning in 2035 to a level of 49.5 million barrels a day, where it stood in 2005.
The forecast assumes the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will make investment to maintain its roughly 40% share of world liquids production through the period.
Transportation fuels will account for 61% of liquid fuel consumption, up from 53% in 2007, the EIA projected.
World output of unconventional resources, such as biofuels, oil-sands, and coal- and gas-to-liquids, will increase nearly four-fold to 12.9 million barrels a day in 2035, up from 3.4 million barrels a day in 2007.
Natural gas consumption is expected to rise 1.3% each year, to 156 trillion cubic feet in 2035. In the absence of policies limiting greenhouse gas emissions, coal use is projected to rise to 206 quadrillion British thermal units in 2035 from 132 quadrillion Btus in 2007, or an average annual rate of 1.6%. Chinese use of coal is expected to account for 78% of the expected net increase.
World electricity generation is expected to rise 87% to 35.2 trillion kilowatt hours. Use of renewables in power generation will rise by 3% per year, with coal-fired generation expected to rise by 2.3% annually.
Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are expected to rise 43% to 42.4 billion metric tons in 2035, from 29.7 billion metric tons in 2007. Much of the rise is expected to occur in developing nations, especially in Asia.
The forecast expects annual world population growth of 0.9% in the period, and annual growth in global gross domestic product of 3.2%.
-By David Bird, Dow Jones Newswires; 212-416-2141; email@example.com


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Jefferson City, Mo. – Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley today announced that Reginald Clemons pleaded guilty to murder, rape, and robbery for acts committed in 1991.
In early April 1991, Clemons and his co-defendants Marlin Gray, Antonio Richardson, and Daniel Winfrey encountered Julie and Robin Kerry and their cousin Thomas Cummins at the Chain of Rocks Bridge over the Mississippi River in St. Louis. Clemons, Gray and Richardson raped the Kerry sisters. Clemons and Gray then robbed the sisters' cousin Thomas. All four defendants forced Robin, Julie, and Thomas under the bridge onto a platform. They proceeded to push Julie, then Robin off the bridge and into the Mississippi River. Under threat of being shot, Thomas was ordered to jump into the river and did.
Thomas survived. Julie's body was recovered three weeks later. Robin's body was never found.
On Monday, Clemons plead guilty to two counts of second degree murder, two counts of rape, and one count of robbery.
"I hope that this guilty plea brings some measure of peace to the Kerry and Cummins families and the community as a whole," Hawley said. "Violent acts like this will be prosecuted and perpetrators will not go unpunished in Missouri."
As part of the plea agreement, Clemons was sentenced to five life sentences, each to be served consecutively to each other and all consecutive to the sentence he is currently serving for assaulting a corrections employee.
The case was handled by Assistant Attorneys General Gregory Goodwin, Christine Krug, and Kevin Zoellner.
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Fitness is the trend of today. Many people are now starting to work towards being healthy than ever before. There are a few categories of fitness trackers and numerous options that make it difficult to select the right one. Here are some very thoughtful tips that can make choosing a fitness tracker an easy task for you.
Know Why
The first thing to consider when buying a fitness tracker is the core reason as to why you need to buy it. Each one is unique to a particular need. If you are sure of the need, then half your work is already done.
Right design
There are numerous designs in which the fitness trackers come in; you need to be quite sure as to which will suit your style. Most of these trackers are worn around the wrist like a watch if you feel uncomfortable with this; you can also choose dongles that can be clipped on to your clothing.
Water resistant quality
Once you decide on the purpose of buying a fitness tracker, you would also be sure if you need a water resistant one or not. Water resistant trackers could be a little more expensive than the others, but if it suits your need, just go for it.
Heart rate Tech
Heart rate is monitored by most of the fitness trackers of today. The type in which the tracking is done is different from each other. Choose that which will be suitable for your need.
Some fitness devices come with a screen and some without them. Those that have a screen give you the advantage to view the reading now and then, whereas those without a screen will only be sending information to your mobile for you to view later. It is better to go for the one with a screen.
In addition to all these, you need to make sure that you get all the data that you need. The application that comes with your fitness tracker is equally important to that of the tracker band.
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By next fall, kids returning to school should be able to drape themselves in Eminems new clothing line, Shady Gear, a play off the rappers controversial alter ego.
The deal was made with Nesi Apparel, the same company that makes the Bugle Boy jeans and clothing. Nesi also manufactures the widely popular School of Hard Knocks line of clothing that started out as a t-shirt company in Queens. The SOHK line now rakes in millions per year. In addition, the company will produce Roc-A-Wears upcoming line for ladies.
The Shady line will boast a Shady logo, but the rappers publicity didnt reveal design at press time.
Both companies expect the attire to sell well considering the Eminems raging popularity within mainstream America, an appeal that has even begun to appeal to parents that hated Slim Shadys misogynist and homophobic tendencies.
The company intends to start mass marketing prior to the 2003 school year.
To date, between his solo set, The Eminem Show, his movie "8 Mile" and adjoining soundtrack, the star has pulled in more than $300 million at the box office.


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it helps me train at a high level daily having to train three times a day is tough. With BioAstin it helps me recover faster, helps my cardiovascular system and supports my joints and tendons. Also being in the sun everyday BioAstin protects my skin. A great all natural product that has everything I need.
To be the best I can be. Not only as an athlete but as a person. I strive for greatness. Every day I try to be better than I was the day before.
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Full-color, double-page U.S. magazine creative for Zero-Knowledge's Freedom Internet privacy software ramps up in full this week. A series of ads in magazines such as Forbes, Fortune, Wired, Business Week and PC Magazine features innocent-looking young people marked with bar codes. "I am not a piece of your inventory," reads one spot, showing a little girl. "I am an individual and you will respect my privacy. I will not be bartered, traded or sold."
Zero-Knowledge's marketing director, Sharon McCarry, calls the $6 million campaign an attempt "to make our space" and bring cybersurfers to Freedom, which can mask all traces of a user's e-mails, chats or browsing on the Internet.
There's even a hidden message embedded in the creative's bar code, which, when deciphered, reflects the Montreal-based company's philosophy on privacy and encryption.
But the company's own strong belief in Internet privacy means that tracking customers and where they're from is difficult; for instance, Ms. McCarry has no access to the firm's log of Internet addresses of visitors download the Freedom software.
"That's totally against who we are and what we do," she says. "I can't use any of the traditional tools to tell if we're going in the right direction."
Media buying was done heavily on instinct through Pegi Lee Gross & Associates, Toronto, working from limited research profiling Internet users who would be interested in privacy issues. Creative was handled in-house.
Next up for the Freedom campaign is TV and outdoor, which will progress from the current print effort and should break in September or October.
Internet privacy software such as Freedom and other programs is "a great thing," says a major online advertising sales company, but warns consumers to realize the potential cost of their privacy.
"We think that privacy is an important issue," says James Green, president of online ad sales company 24/7 Media in New York.
Mr. Green estimates that only about 5% of Web users have some sort of privacy software installed, but he suggests that if the programs did become widespread they could affect the free nature of the Internet.
"Content isn't really free," says Mr. Green, noting that consumers are essentially trading personal information for online content. "Someone has to pay for it. If you're going to pay for it by advertising, then advertisers are going to want information" about site visitors.
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Grub is an open source distributed search crawler platform.
Users of Grub can download the peer-to-peer grubclient software and let it run during their computer's idle time. The client indexes the URLs and sends them back to the main grub server in a highly compressed form. The collective crawl could then, in theory, be utilized by an indexing system, such as the one being proposed at Wikia Search. Grub is able to quickly build a large snapshot by asking thousands of clients to crawl and analyze a small portion of the web each.
Wikia has now released the entire Grub package under an open source software license. However, the old Grub clients are not functional anymore. New clients can be found on the Wikia wiki.
The project was started in 2000 by Kord Campbell, Igor Stojanovski, and Ledio Ago in Oklahoma City.[1] Undetermined copyright, patent or trademark rights from Grub, Inc. were purchased in 2003 for $1.3 million by LookSmart, Ltd.[2] For a short time the original team continued working on the project, releasing several new versions of the software, albeit under a closed license.
Operations of Grub were shut down in late 2005. On July 27, 2007 Jimmy Wales announced that Wikia, Inc., the for-profit company developing the open source search engine Wikia Search, had acquired Grub from LookSmart[3] for $50,000.[4] On that same day, the site was reactivated and is currently being updated. The original developers are assisting with the new deployment, and investigating the robots.txt issue to ensure no repeat performance.
- ^ Grub Inc. Investors page as archived by Archive.org, December 2000
- ^ LookSmart SEC filing, 2003
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Ontario Institute for Cancer Research Announces $12.6 Million to Support High Impact Clinical Trials in Ontario
Aug 22, 2011, 02:30 ET
KINGSTON, Ontario, Aug. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Tom Hudson, President and Scientific Director of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), today announced $12.6 million in funding over four years for OICR's High Impact Clinical Trials (HICT) Program.
The HICT Program, led by Dr. Janet Dancey, will introduce more translational research into clinical trials in Ontario, ensuring the best research discoveries are developed into new approaches for treating cancer patients. The Program has been designed to evaluate innovative technologies that will lead to more personalized medicine, offering more targeted treatment potentially associated with greater efficacy and less toxicity.
"The McGuinty government understands that to overcome cancer we need to turn new ideas into treatments," said Glen Murray, Minister of Research and Innovation. "The High Impact Clinical Trials Program will help save lives, while reaffirming Ontario's leadership at moving discoveries from lab bench to bedside."
"The McGuinty government is a proud supporter of the High Impact Clinical Trials Program through the funding we provide to OICR," said John Gerretsen, MPP for Kingston and The Islands. "The world-class research taking place here at Queen's University and across Ontario will bring new therapies and new hope to cancer patients and their families."
"OICR created the High Impact Clinical Trials Program in collaboration with Cancer Care Ontario to enhance the environment for clinical trials in Ontario, attract new studies to the province and help ensure the best cancer research in the province is made available to patients as efficiently and rapidly as possible," said Dr. Hudson. "We are pleased to support the HICT Program in its mission to safely and effectively deliver more personalized medicine to patients."
Two major projects within the High Impact Clinical Trials Program were also announced today, both of which aim to better integrate recent advances in genomics research into regular clinical practice.
The Rare Tumour Clinical Trials Initiative is a partnership between OICR, Pfizer Canada, and the NCIC Clinical Trials Group (NCIC CTG), an academic clinical trials cooperative group based at Queen's University. The NCIC CTG, led by its Director, Dr. Ralph Meyer, and the Group's Investigational New Drug Program, led by its Director, Dr. Elizabeth Eisenhauer, will conduct a multi-centre clinical trial evaluating patients with rare tumours. The initiative brings together a multidisciplinary team of clinical investigators, pathologists and genomics researchers to investigate new solutions to treating rare tumours.
"This funding announcement reflects Queen's significant engagement in leading-edge cancer research, partnership initiatives, and multidisciplinary learning. Queen's is a world-class research-intensive university and I am delighted that this investment in the NCIC Clinical Trials Group will help advance understanding of these rare types of cancer," said Dr. Steven Liss, VP (Research) Queen's University.
According to Richard Fajzel, General Manager Oncology Business Unit, Pfizer Canada, "Pfizer is dedicated to the development of cancer medicines targeting various tumour types regardless of their prevalence. We believe this project will help accelerate treatments for rare cancers that will benefit patients who currently have limited options. We appreciate the collaboration and leadership of Ontario's research community to help get this rare tumour project established."
Due to their infrequency rare cancers are still quite poorly understood, severely limiting current treatment options for patients with these cancers. However, recent advances in genomics technology offer hope that better treatment options resulting from this initiative may be achieved within five years. The novel design of this trial can also serve as a template for future trials testing treatment options for other rare cancers.
Dr. Hudson also announced the Genomics Cohort Study for Ontario Clinical Trials, an HICT Program initiative in collaboration with University Health Network's Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH), led by Dr. Lillian Siu, Director of the Phase I Program at PMH. OICR's High Impact Clinical Trials Program will collaborate with genomics researchers to develop standard operating procedures that will help to safely and effectively integrate cutting-edge genomic technology with standard clinical practice and improve patient care. This will help to determine how best to match patients to the most optimal treatments using genetic information to maximize anti-tumour efficacy and reduce side effects. There are investigators involved in the study at cancer centres in Ottawa, London, Hamilton and Thunder Bay.
OICR is an innovative cancer research and development institute dedicated to prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The Institute is an independent, not-for-profit corporation, launched by the Government of Ontario in 2005. The annual budget for OICR, its research partners and collaborators exceeds $160 million. This supports more than 1,400 investigators, clinician scientists, research staff and trainees located at its headquarters and in research institutes and academia across the Province of Ontario. It has research hubs in Hamilton, Kingston, London, Ottawa, Thunder Bay and Toronto. OICR has key research efforts underway in small molecules, biologics, stem cells, imaging, genomics, informatics and bio-computing, from early stage research to Phase II clinical trials. For more information, please visit the website at www.oicr.on.ca
NCIC Clinical Trials Group
The NCIC Clinical Trials Group (NCIC CTG) is a cancer clinical trials cooperative group that conducts phase I-III trials testing anti-cancer and supportive therapies across Canada and internationally. It is a national research program supported by the Canadian Cancer Society. The NCIC CTG's Central Office is located at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
SOURCE Ontario Institute for Cancer Research