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An Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, and Ethnic Slurs in the English-Speaking World. Editor: Geoffrey Hughes. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2006.
The most powerfully taboo term for copulation over several centuries, fuck is still regarded as unmentionable by the vast majority of middle-class people. It was unlisted in standard dictionaries from 1728 until 1965, being therefore omitted by Dr. Johnson (1755), by the monumental Oxford English Dictionary in 1898, and even by Webster III in 1961. The simple appearance of the word was for many decades regarded as grounds for obscenity or pornography, an assumption not properly challenged in the courts until 1959 in the United States and 1960 in Britain. The Supplement to the OED (1972), it carried the following usage note: "For centuries, and still by the great majority, regarded as a taboo-word; until recent times not often recorded in print but frequent in coarse speech." The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (1994) has a broader and more concessive note: "usually considered vulgar," the dictionary's standard designation for a great variety of vulgar, obscene, and profane language. Fuck has generated a great number of meanings, compounds, idioms, and tones.
The history of the word is full of surprises. Contrary to popular misconception, fuck is not an Anglo-Saxon term, the first recorded instance being only in 1503. This lateness might suggest a lexical gap, but in fact two ancient terms, sard and swive, now both obsolete, did service in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times. These and other synonyms are covered fully in the entry for copulation. However, John Ayto notes that the personal name John le Fucker is recorded from 1278 (1991, 242).
The ulterior etymology of the term is uncertain, a surprising fact considering the relative modernity of the word. Etymologists have long puzzled over the relationship between fuck and its Continental semantic partners, French foutre, recorded from the twelfth century, and German ficken, meaning "to strike." There are problems with both phonetic and semantic links. Eric Partridge, in his etymological dictionary Origins (1977), stressed the link between Latin futuere (the root of French foutre) and Latin battuere, "to strike." These connections invoke the slang metaphorical terms for sexual intercourse in terms of aggression, namely knock, bang, and the recently fashionable British bonk. (The relevant metaphors for "penis" are also suggestive: tool, prick, chopper, and weapon, a basic term in Anglo-Saxon.) Another potentially germane root, not usually canvassed in standard works, lies in Old Norse fukja, "to drive," which generates the forms windfucker (an alternative to windhover) and Scots fucksail, "a foresail." According to William Craigie in A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (1931-), fucksail acquired the transferred sense of "a woman's skirt" and was also reduced to plain fuck. The link between Old Norse fukja and the earliest forms such as Scots fuk still remains metaphorical. Random House (1994) follows this Scandinavian connection very plausibly, categorizing the word as "an English reflex of a widespread Germanic form." It cites as cognates Middle Dutch fokken, "to thrust, copulate with," a Norwegian dialect form fukka, "to copulate," and Swedish focka, "to strike, push, copulate."
More unexpectedly, fuck first appears, not as part of the language of the gutter, but in a noble context, in the work of major Scots poets and aristocrats. William Dunbar has the first recorded instance, dated 1503: "Yit be his feiris he wald haue fukkit" (Poems, lxxv 13), while the noted Scots satirist Sir David Lindsay commented scathingly in 1535 on the hypocrisy of the clergy: "Bischops … may fuck their fill and be unmarryit" (Satire of the Three Estates, l. 1363).
Another early instance is, amazingly, in a swearing match, or flyting, in this case Lindsay's Flyting with King James (ca. 1540), which contains this piece of riotous alliteration: "Aye fukkand [fucking] lyke ane furious fornicatour." In another flyting match between two major poets, Sir Walter Kennedy dismisses William Dunbar as a "wan fukkit funling" ("an ill-conceived foundling") (l. 39). Flyting is an archaic term referring to a verbal contest of insult and obscenity. As these and other instances suggest, the term was initially more widely used in the North, a tradition continued by Robert Burns in his Merry Muses (ca. 1800):
When maukin bucks, at early f―ks,
In dewy glens are seen, sir.
(ll. 67-68)
There were in the past a number of cognate terms, such as fuckable, fuckish, and fuckster (a good performer), in addition to the surviving fucking and fucker. This proliferation suggests a vigorous, albeit scandalous, currency.
In England, it took some time for fuck to be recorded. Unexpectedly, the word did not appear in any of the "canting" dictionaries recording the argot of the underworld from the late sixteenth century, first emerging in John Florio's comprehensive English/Italian dictionary, A Worlde of Wordes (1598). Translating the relevant Italian verb, Florio ran through the whole gamut of available English synonyms with Renaissance exuberance:
Fottere: To iape [jape], to sard, to fucke, to swive, to occupy.
We notice that out of this extensive word field, only one term has survived into Modern English in the copulatory sense. There is no usage note suggesting that any of the words was taboo. However fuck does not appear in the major literature of the times (see, however, E. Wilson's article, 1993, 29-34). The natural explanation is that bilingual dictionaries had greater freedom than their "native" equivalents. Thus Randle Cotgrave's contemporary Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues (1611) uses a fair amount of coarse language. As one might expect of a dramatist subject to certain constraints, Shakespeare avoids direct use of the term, preferring euphemistic forms from various other languages, such as foutra, a variant of French foutre (Henry IV, Part II, V ii 98). Likewise in The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597), there is a pun about "the focative case" (IV i 53). These would obviously be risqué in-jokes.
During the Restoration, a period of decadence reacting to the Puritan Commonwealth, the taboo was jauntily violated by such outrageous poets as the Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), who begins his deceptively titled poem "A Ramble in Saint James's Park" in this fashion:
Much wine had past with grave discourse
Of who fucks who and who does worse.
The Prologue to Rochester's attributed play Sodom is spoken by a character called Fuckadilla, who announces that "A little fuck can't stay our appetite" (l. 19). Four-letter words also abounded in contemporary poems by various upper-class figures, partly as displays of aristocratic insouciance. Thus "A Letter from the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. George Etherege" opens an exchange of letter-poems about the various women they had shared:
Dreaming last night on Mrs. Farley [a noted actress]
My prick was up this morning early.
Etherege responds:
For by a gentler way I found
The nymph would fuck under ten pound.
(ll. 43-44)
These were, of course, matters of individual taste as well as class. Whereas Rochester and his set flaunt the word, Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), avoids it, preferring French euphemisms, even in the private record of his Diary, written in his own shorthand code.
The taboo became more entrenched in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when dictionary policies were understandably reticent: Nathaniel Bailey (1728) printed the full form, oddly giving a Latin definition, feminam subagitare; Dr. Johnson (1755) omitted it; and Francis Grose (1785) minced it to f―k, a convention that was to become virtually standard in subsequent centuries as the word went underground. The OED also famously omitted the term, and even in a private letter of 1869, Dante Gabriel Rosetti wrote: "If Byron f―d his sister, he f―d his sister and there an end."
Of course, it is extremely unlikely that fuck was unheard in the streets, taverns, and brothels from the eighteenth century onward, possibly being used by even the best mannered citizens. But it virtually disappeared from the public page. A typical example of the double standard between the public persona and the private person lies in two anecdotes covered in the entry for Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784). These show that Johnson used the word in company, but omitted all vulgar sexual terms in his Dictionary (1755), a model of decorum.
From 1857 the word fell under the category of "obscene libel," which meant that a publisher could be prosecuted for printing it. Sir James Murray, the broad-minded editor of the monumental Oxford English Dictionary (1884-1928), fastidiously recorded a huge range of the vulgar and obscene terms, but drew the line at fuck and cunt. These topics are discussed in more detail in the entries for Oxford English Dictionary and the major contemporaries, John S. Farmer and William E. Henley, who included an astonishing thesaurus of over six hundred synonyms. Their compendium shows that obscenity and profanity were thriving behind the Victorian facade of respectability.
The ensuing spirit of censorship, prudishness, and Comstockery, as well as stringent laws against obscenity, ensured that fuck remained taboo for decades on both sides of the Atlantic. It first reappeared lexicographically in the United Kingdom in the Penguin English Dictionary in 1965. Naturally, the omissions from the original OED were made good in the first volume of the Supplement (1972). Having understandably been excluded in the earlier American dictionaries, notably those of Webster (1806 and 1828), fuck remained unlisted in the United States, even being omitted from the Third Edition of Webster (1961). This despite the pioneering article, "An Obscenity Symbol" by Allen Walker Read in American Speech, December 1934. It was eventually included in Stuart Berg Flexner's I Hear America Talking (1976) and The New Dictionary of American Slang (1986) but did not find a place in the Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology(1988). However, the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (ed. Jonathan Lighter, 1994-) provided truly comprehensive treatment.
The wording of the Obscene Publications Act (1857) upheld a traditional notion of obscenity as being "of a nature calculated to shock the common feelings of decency in a well-regulated mind." Although the test for obscenity from 1868 focused on "the tendency of the matter … to deprave or corrupt" rather than on the language per se, the mere existence of "four-letter" words clearly influenced decisions. The entries for censorship and obscenity deal more fully with these and the more notable trials on the grounds of obscenity, while that for Lady Chatterley's Lover covers the novel and the celebrated lawsuit of 1960 (Regina v. Penguin Books).
The victory of the publishers in the lawsuit led to a radical increase in publications in the United Kingdom with obviously pornographic titles such as Screw, Orgy, Pleasure, Suck, and Cunts and Grunts. However, in 1965, Kenneth Tynan, the noted theater critic and producer, provoked a scandal through the first broadcast utterance of fuck on B.B.C. television. Yet Tynan's comments were tame compared with some of the slogans in violent protests in the United States against the Vietnam War. The most notorious of these were "Fuck the Draft" and "Fuck the Pigs." Commenting on the new vocabulary of protest in an article entitled "The Rhetoric of Violence" in 1970, E. Goodhart observed "The operative words are 'pig,' 'bullshit,' 'motherfucker.' It is the language of left militant students … the 'alma-mater fuckers'" (399).
In common with many powerful terms of abuse, fuck has developed a great range of grammatical functions and tones. Among them are fuck all, fuck about, fuck it! fuck off, and such phrases as fuck a duck!, fuck you Jack, I'm all right, I'm fucked if I know, fuck that for a lark!, and go fuck yourself. Most of these idioms are comparatively recent in the great time span of the language, although Fuck you! is dated ca. 1895, Fuck you Jack, I'm all right, ca. 1915, and fuck a duck!, ca. 1934. The last expression was possibly more literal: Grose (1785) has the humorous entry: "Duck f-ck-r, The man who has care of the poultry upon a ship of war." The surrealistic flying fuck dates from James Jones's war classic From Here to Eternity (1946). Another typical feature is the infixing of the term into other words like unfuckingbelievable and phrases such as get the fuck out, a process noted in Sagarin (1962, 148). American usage uniquely includes the insulting use as a noun, as in "You blooming fuck!" recorded from ca. 1927, but current only in recent decades. Jonathon Green's The Slang Thesaurus (1999) lists forty-three different forms and idioms. A veritable thesaurus of usage is recorded in Jesse Sheidlower's coyly titled study, The F-Word (1995), in which, according to the blurb, "every sense of the word f#@k is examined in detail."
Among the multitudinous euphemisms are French foutra (ca. 1592), fut (ca. 1605), foot (ca. 1735), footering (ca. 1735),frigging (ca. 1785), footling (ca. 1905), effing (ca. 1929), and fugging (coined by Norman Mailer in The Naked and the Dead (1947, 10), still mainly confined to American usage. This historical sequence, set out in the accompanying figure, shows the continuing need for new euphemisms, as the more remote forms are no longer generally recognized as related to the core term. (Frig carries in British slang the sense of "masturbate.") Various polite but knowing euphemisms exist in formulas in British English. These include "the f-word," "to eff off," and "effing," first recorded in Robert Graves's reminiscences of World War I, Goodbye to All That: "(The bandmaster, who was squeamish, reported it as: 'Sir, he called me a double effing c―)" (1929, 70). This instance provides a clear verification of the time gap between actual and recorded use. Although eff is generally regarded as British, Ernest Hemingway is accorded the first use in Across the River and Into the Trees (1950): "'Eff Florence,' the colonel said" (98). In the phrase "effing and blinding," blinding is a less obvious reference to bloody, also found in usages like "He didn't take a blind bit of notice."
Although still widely considered taboo and marked as such in most dictionaries, the actual currency of fuck is steadily encroaching on areas of polite discourse. Naturally, there is still a great variation of individual tolerance and diversity of use. Alan Clark, minister of trade in Margaret Thatcher's last cabinet, recorded in his devastatingly frank Diaries his final meeting with the prime minister, a highly decorous personage, just prior to her resignation. When Thatcher mentions the possibility of Michael Portillo as her successor, Clark snaps back: "Who the fuck's Michael? No one. Nothing. He won't last six months" (1993, 366). Clark's diaries record many similar idioms and a great variety of coarse language used in the presence of important political figures, without demur or rebuke. The wider aspect is simply shown in the recent French characterization of the English as les fuckoffs, on account of their copious use of the phrase. The clothing retailer French Connection gained considerable publicity by styling itself FCUK in Britain about 1994.
The most obvious global influence accelerating the acceptability of the term has been popular culture, especially in film and television. Hollywood, initially an influence for restraint, has become one for license. Under the Production Code of 1930, "pointed profanity or vulgar expressions, however used [were] forbidden." The Code was revised in the course of the 1960s, so that a number of Vietnam War films, such as Apocalypse Now! (1980), Platoon(1987), and Full Metal Jacket (1988), subjected the audience to a veritable verbal bombardment of obscenity. Similar in style were such significant works as The Commitments (1991), Trainspotting (1996), Kids (1997), and most of the films of Spike Lee, notably Do the Right Thing (1989). Publicity material for Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994), winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Globe Award for the Best Screenplay, claims with a mixture of coyness and pride, that "the f-word is used 271 times." In several of these instances the content and the milieu concern the gangster underworld or the military, both notorious for swearing and profanity. However, some works showing a similar proliferation have quite different content and questionable qualifications for the category of "popular culture." Thus David Mamet's play Glengarry Glen Ross (1983), set in a real estate office, was suffused with copulatory idioms, as was Mark Ravenhill's directly titled Shopping and Fucking (1996).
Within the realm of poetry, Philip Larkin, a reclusive librarian at Hull University suggested as the successor to Ted Hughes as Poet Laureate, caused a minor sensation with his poems using demotic language, notably "This Be the Verse" (1971), which opens with this "Freudian" insight into family relationships:
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
Fiona Pitt-Kethley's collections, notably Sky Ray Lolly (1986), uses similarly earthy language. Recent fiction has produced many works in the same vein, among them Erica Jong's Fear of Flying (1973), Martin Amis's Success (1985), and James Kelman's How Late it Was, How Late (1994). This book's principal lexical feature is the astonishingly concentrated use of the word fuck and other four-letter words (up to a dozen times per page): "Fucking bunk man it was fucking hollow, he was lying on the fucking bare spring and it was killing him man his fucking shoulder, jesus christ; he turned on to his front" (1994, 29). (The "decapitalization" of Jesus Christ is a more provocative eccentricity.) The novel won the prestigious British Booker Prize in 1994, but only after a division in the jury and a critical furor. A less acrimonious controversy surrounded the copious use of fucken in the Booker Prize-winner for 2003, D.B.C. Pierre's Vernon God Little. Organs of "quality journalism" have not been left behind. The Anniversary Issue of the prestigious New Yorker magazine (February 19 and 26, 2001) carried an article "Fast Woman," by Susan Orlean about Jean Jennings, a high-speed driver, who complains about a slow-moving truck: "Un-fucking-believable" (152). Such copy would not have been countenanced in earlier decades, let alone a century ago.
Other global varieties of English have tended to be less persistent and exploratory in their use of the term. In South African English fuck is still generally regarded as taboo and is seldom printed, uttered in public, or broadcast. However, it has a fairly vigorous demotic usage, particularly among second-language speakers, for whom the taboo is less real. The phonetic proximity of the Afrikaans cognates fok, fokken, and fok-al supplies a common euphemistic outlet. Australian English, notable for its colorful and vigorous slang, is oddly reticent over the use of the term, generally preferring the euphemisms, the naughty and to do the naughty. However, it includes fuckwit for an idiot, the ironic fucktruck for "a panel van, especially one fitted with a mattress," and the spoonerism "No wucking furries."
The entry for copulation deals with the related word field. The use of fuck and its variant forms as swearwords and terms of abuse is relatively recent, dating from the early decades of the twentieth century. Overall, the term has developed from being powerfully taboo to a split status, still shocking to many, but nevertheless increasingly current. In its grading of word frequency, the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (1995) listed fucking in the top 1,000 most spoken words and fuck in the top 3,000 most spoken. Timothy Jay's studies into the language of college students similarly showed a high level of taboo and of frequency (1992, 143-57). As is typical of swearwords, increased currency has led to the semantic trend of loss of intensity.


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Please take a look at this samples, are they metonymy or not ? If not, please explain.
> The red car overtook blue car. (car instead of person) - Somebody in red car overtook blue car.
> Hammer hit Joe. (tool instead of person) - Kate hit Joe with hammer.
What are rules, if any that tool can replace person in the sentence, the second sentence seems to be incorrect.
> Joe smeared the bread with a knife.
*Knife smeared the bread.
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Use Offline Events To Drive Online Engagement
Sometimes posting good content on your company's or brand's Facebook Fan Page simply isn't enough to drive engagement
You're seeing week-on-week organic growth of between 3%-5%, but there isn't any sense of community. The people who "Like" your page aren't responding to content.
If you find yourself in this position, instead of reflexively throwing together an "awareness campaign" via Facebook Ads, consider how an off-line event such as a meeting or organized outing to a relevant event might impact the page.
When people who have interacted online, are suddenly brought together in an offline environment, often there is a stronger bond that is created. People feel more connected to the cause or the topic that is bringing them together, because they're being connected with other like-minded people.
If you have a base of fans to start off with, then you are well-positioned to develop test events and determine the value.
Whatever your industry, there's likely an opportunity to bring people together in an offline event, which celebrates the connections made in the online environment.
Over time you are likely to see an increase in engagement levels on the Fan Page.
By creating these offline events, you are bringing the page to your fans' attention. Instead of being just another page they clicked Like on, it's a page with a pulse, reaching beyond Facebook to create connections and get people talking.
If you're a non-profit group, NGO or cause-based organization, then you're even more likely to be successful.
Ultimately it should go both ways: You are using online to create offline engagement, but you also want to use offline events to drive activity on your Facebook Fan Page.
Once you've arrived at a comfortable place where the organization is able to do that, you will see increases in activity and new Likes.
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Spirit win in shootout over Sault
SAULT STE. MARIE - The Saginaw Spirit defeated the
host Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds Saturday 6-5 in a shootout in an Ontario
Hockey League game.
Ryan McDonough scored the lone goal in the shootout as
the Greyhounds missed all three of their attempts.
Tomas Zaborsky had two goals to go along with two assists
for the Spirit while Tyler Murovich, Chris Chappell and Jack Combs each had a
lone goal. Combs and McDonough each chipped in an assist.
Spirit goalie Ryan Daniels stopped 37 shots. The
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Plant bug pressure is really ramping up this week. With a lot of corn beginning to mature and silks turning brown, we are seeing migration of plant bugs out of corn into adjoining cotton fields. We have a unique situation right now. With a lot of cotton beginning to bloom, this is the time we usually switch to shake sheets and put away the sweep nets. With this migration of adults from corn (and wild host, early soybeans, etc), it's a good idea to keep that sweep net going for a little while. We put out a couple of plant bug trials this week outside Marianna. We are finding about 10 adults per 25 sweeps but only a nymph or 2 with a shake sheet. The sweep net is so much better for detecting adults than a shake sheet that at least for a little longer you might want to keep that sweep net in the game plan. The shake sheet is still the preferred method for detecting nymphs, but at least in the fields we are checking right now, the sweep net is giving a better reflection of numbers because the adults are moving into the fields now. As always, monitoring for square retention is critical. In the trials we are conducting, square retention next to corn is really falling fast due to adult feeding, and several plots had less than 80% square retention. We want to maintain square retention at 80% or greater to maintain yield potential.
In our trials, the standard treatments appear to be reducing plant bug numbers, but it appears that to maintain square retention another application will be needed. With numbers like 10 adults on 25 sweeps, we are about 4x threshold of 9-12 per 100 sweeps. With mass migration into the cotton from the corn field next to us, it's really hard to determine how good an application is at this point without monitoring square retention. In this situation, multiple applications may be required to knock numbers down to an acceptable level. This situation is obviously worst right next to the corn, and the further away from corn, the lower the number of plant bugs, so strip treating may be the way to economically treat this situation. If you don't have to treat the whole field, save some money and treat only as much of the field is necessary to achieve adequate control. At our location, numbers of plant bugs really drop off about 35-40 rows into the cotton field. Some fields have corn on two or three sides, and it may not be possible to strip treat every field, but where possible, it can certainly save the grower some money.
There have been a lot of questions about Transform, which recently received a section 18 for use in cotton. I strongly urge you to read the 18 before considering use of the product. One issue is the plant back restriction for all other crops of 360 days; therefore, use of Transform will mean cotton has to be planted back in the field next year. If the product receives a full label that restriction will be lifted. While a full label is expected, you never know what will happen. At a projected cost of $12 per acre the product will, in most cases, be limited to situations where plant bugs are problematic and difficulty in control is experienced. At the 1.5 oz/ A rate, control is very good on moderate populations but may not achieve the level of control expected for the price tag if plant bug numbers are really high. We have worked with this product for the last several years, and I have no qualms in saying that this product performs equal to or better than currently labeled insecticides for plant bug control, but just like everything else there are no silver bullets. I just don't want to see expectations too high, especially in the situation I described above where massive numbers of plant bug are moving into the field. Just remember, nothing out there is going to "zero out" plant bugs in the field. In my experience, we never see that with any product.
Transform has the potential to really help with plant bug control. It's a new class of chemistry and can help take the pressure off of some of our other insecticides with resistance issues looming. In high populations, like other products, tankmixing Transform may improve control, particularly at the 1.5 oz/ A rate. Also, we have seen benefit with sequential applications of the product to maximize control. If you have the right situation, you should try the product and see how it performs for you.


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Feed prices blamed for £16m losses at 2 Sisters
2 Sisters Food Group posted a £16m loss before tax in the year to 27 July 2013.
The meat processor blamed rising feed costs as a key reason for the losses, which had climbed substantially from £1.83m the year before.
Losses were despite an increase in turnover from £778m in the year ending 28 July 2012, to £855.1m in the last financial year.
The accounts report cited "a change in sales mix and the difficult trading conditions experienced from increased feed prices," as the primary reasons for the financial losses. It also said that rising feed costs would remain a challenge in the following financial year.
See also: 2 Sisters faces £1m equal pay claim
Losses continued this financial year, with the company posting a loss of £27.5m in its second quarter, which included the newly acquired Vion business. However, like-for-like sales, not including Vion, were up 3.9% to £647.2m.
The company has sought to rationalise its operations in the last year by selling its Letham site and closing Haughley Park, a poultry cooking site. The impact of these was not included in the accounts as they happened after the end of the accounting year.
UK poultry represents about half of the company's sales, but it also processes red meat and manufactures ready meals, chilled and frozen foods and baked goods. 2 Sisters is still privately owned by its founder, Rajit Singh, and has 49 sites in the UK, Ireland, Holland and Poland.


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Molly Zwerdlinger
The pathway to motherhood isn't the same for everyone. For young women who find out they have a genetic mutation, which increases their risk of breast cancer, everything – including the prospect of children – changes. Susan G. Komen® Colorado recently talked with Molly Zwerdlinger, who at 27, learned she has the BRCA2 mutation. Zwerdlinger shares the tough family planning decisions that come with having this genetic predisposition.
In Molly Zwerdlinger's words, "Cancer runs rampant in [her] family." Her aunt passed away from ovarian cancer at age 34 leaving behind two young children.
"Which has always stuck with me," Zwerdlinger says. "A young child should not have to live without their mother."
It was her aunt's death that prompted her to get tested for the BRCA mutation.
"Based on the fear of dying from cancer at a young age, I decided to get tested," she says.
At age 27, Zwerdlinger, of Denver, found out she inherited the BRCA2 genetic mutation.
BRCA1/2 genetic mutations are inherited from a parent, mom or dad, and they increase an individual's risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer over one's lifetime. These genetic mutations are rare. Studies show 5-10 percent of breast cancers in the U.S. are related to an inherited gene. While this mutation increases cancer risk, some people with it will never have breast cancer.
Deciding to get genetic testing is a personal decision. Some people get sense of relief or empowerment no matter the results, while others develop feelings of fear or anxiety. If testing indicates a mutation, there are also a number of decisions to make, especially if you're a woman who desires a biological child.
Zwerdlinger's first reaction to her genetic test results was to have a prophylactic mastectomy and total hysterectomy.
"It is quite astonishing how fear can impact your decision making," she says. "At 27 I had to decide if I wanted to remove my body parts, excessively screen, or do nothing."
That wasn't the only decision she had to make. Zwerdlinger and her husband want children.
"My feeling was, I would rather be alive than keep the parts I need to be a mother," she says. "I went from wanting to be a mother, to trying to keep myself alive at all cost."
After the initial shock of the news settled, Zwerdlinger met with an oncologist and obstetrician/gynecologist to discuss her options. Doctors felt it was safe for Zwerdlinger to try to have a child, but they recommended she do so before her 33rd birthday. After that time doctors say her risk of developing cancer increases.
"I was basically given five years to make myself a mother," she says.
Zwerdlinger, now 29, has put the prophylactic surgeries on hold to try to have a baby.
If she cannot get pregnant in the five year time frame, she says she'll consider freezing her eggs and move forward with prophylactic surgery. In the meantime, Zwerdlinger will have breast MRIs, mammograms, and ultrasounds as her preventive plan.
Making the decision to move forward with trying to have a child was not easy. There is a 50 percent chance Zwerdlinger will pass on the BRCA2 mutation to her children. This left her fraught with guilt.
"I was worried that my husband would blame me for giving 'this' to our child," she recalls. "I was also worried about my future child blaming me for giving them a mutation."
Zwerdlinger, though, doesn't bear any resentful feelings toward her father who, as later testing would indicate, passed on the mutation to her. After all, the BRCA1/2 mutation had not even been discovered when Zwerdlinger was conceived.
With advancements in science, couples who have BRCA1/2 have more family planning choices than ever before. Today, an IVF embryo can be tested prior to implantation for a variety of genetic conditions, including BRCA1/2 mutations.
Zwerdlinger's husband assured her no one is to blame, and they looked into the expensive embryonic testing.
"It…hit me one day, if my parents had genetic testing for BRCA available to them when they were trying to get pregnant, neither my brother nor I would be here," Zwerdlinger says. "It was at that moment that I decided not to include BRCA in my decision to get pregnant."
Zwerdlinger says the past couple of years have meant difficult decision making, especially for a woman her age. In addition to considerations about her fertility and future children, she worried about how she would feel about herself with no breasts and no estrogen.
"I have gotten over that worry, as I would rather be alive than have breasts," she says. "If it was not for my desire to be a mom, my breasts, ovaries, fallopian tubes, and uterus would already be gone."
By sharing her story, Zwerdlinger wants other young BRCA women to know their situation does not have to be "survival versus motherhood," though it may feel that way at first.
"I learned the hard way that this is not the case. There are options available," she says. "There is no one size fits all solution, but there are options. Motherhood comes in all forms."


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Years before Kajol hit the big screen, her mother Tanuja was one of the top actresses in Bollywood. The legendary actress received recognition for her remarkable performances in Jewel Thief, Nai Roshni, Jeene Ki Raah, Haathi Mere Saathi and many others.
She was last seen in A Death In The Gunj, a film written and directed by Konkona Sen Sharma.
We recently learned that the actress was admitted in Mumbai's Lilavati Hospital after she complained about abdominal pain on May 29. It has now been revealed that the actress has been diagnosed with diverticulitis. According to PTI, the actress will undergo an operation to treat the medical condition.
Sources revealed, "The actress will be operated for the medical condition wherein there is an inflammation or infection of small pouches called diverticula."
In an interview with a media portal, Kajol spoke about her bond with her mom. She said, "She is one of the most forward-thinking women; she brought me up with a lot of bravery."
She also talked about what her mother told her before she entered her teens. The Helicopter Eela actress said, "As a child, I would get a lot of beating, but the biggest thing my mother did was that when I was 12, she told me, 'You will be 13 soon, you are becoming a teenager from today. I will never raise a hand on you again. Now is the time to take responsibility for your actions. You have to practice whatever I have taught you till now. I will guide you if you make mistakes, but I will not shout or beat you henceforth.'"
This week has been tough for the Devgn family. Two days before Kajol's mother got admitted to the hospital, Ajay Devgn's father Veeru Devgan passed away on May 27 of a prolonged illness. Various Bollywood celebrities including Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Anil Kapoor and Arjun Kapoor visited the family to pay their last respects.
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Wrangler has come out with a super-cute high-waisted flared denim, and the brand hit the jackpot by selling (or, more likely, gifting) a pair to Selena Gomez who wore them at a Chicago meet and greet. Selena could probably wear any old Wranglers and millions of young women would be dying to get their hands on them. But the Marfa high-rise cropped flares look particularly amazing on the actress and singer, and they also happen to be very on trend.
I wrote last year about Wrangler's efforts to get beyond nostalgia in the wake of skinny jeans' apparent demise (which turned out to be false), but I wasn't sure that the brand intended to appeal to the trendy crowd. Checking the Wrangler website, I saw no evidence of Selena's trendy jeans.
As it turns out, Wrangler has teamed up with Urban Outfitters to officially get the cowboy brand on millennials' radar. The Marfa high-rise cropped flare jeans retail for $110 exclusively at UO, about three-times more expensive than Wrangler's typical price tag.
The style is quite a departure from anything I could find for sale on the brand's website, with these being the closest match, so I wonder if they are having a bit of a brand identity crisis. But I really love those "W" pockets, and Wranglers bring back fond memories of my childhood, so I hope this is the beginning of more great styles to come!
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Men's tennis sizes up ACC play after UVA win
By Conner Farrell —
Men's tennis opened their conference season March 3 in the midst of a five-match win streak. U of L hosted the three-time defending champions, Virginia Cavaliers.
"They've been the marquee program in our sport almost for a decade, they've probably spent more time at No. 1 than any program in the country for the last eight years," coach Rex Ecarma said.
Aware of the competition they were about to face, the team was locked in from the start.
To kick off the match, U of L was able to battle tooth and nail to obtain the vaunted doubles point, crucial for any match against a top opponent. The Cards swept all the double's matches 6-3, 7-6 (7-4), and a win by the No. 18 doubles team of Chris Morin-Kougoucheff and Parker Wynn 7-5.
"We've got a script that we run in doubles, we just stay with the script and wait for our opportunity to put it away," Ecarma said.
With that point in the bag, the team shifted to single's play, where they only dropped one match of six to put the Cavaliers away with a dominating 6-1 victory.
"It's a great victory in a sense that you have to mentally overcome who they are and the program that they are, it's not just a physical battle but also a mental battle that you can believe to beat a program that dominate," Ecarma said.
Now that the men's team has won their inaugural ACC match of the season, the road doesn't look any easier.
The ACC schedule features five matches against ranked teams, including the team's first ACC road match on March 10 against Notre Dame, who is currently ranked No. 21.
"They're hot, if we can have the good fortune of stealing a win over there in South Bend it'll take an unbelievable effort," Ecarma said.
The other ranked ACC foes on the schedule include Wake Forest, North Carolina, Duke, Florida State and North Carolina State.
Of the top 25 opponents on the conference slate only two of them will be played at home including a date with current No. 1 Wake Forest on April 13.
"We have several ACC matches at home, it's like you can turn the corner and say, 'Well they're coming to our house' and it's where we feel really good," Ecarma said.
With 11 matches left on the ACC season, the Cards are poised to continue their six match winning streak and solid play before the postseason begins on April 25.
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GARY Anderson survived being taken to a deciding set for the second successive round at the World Darts Championship, but eventually saw off Chris Dobey to reach the quarter-finals.
Burnham-on-Sea resident Anderson, world champion in 2015 and 2016, started with a stellar 123 check-out, only for Dobey to hit back to take the first set and then went 2-0 up after reeling off three consecutive legs.
But Anderson averaged 104 for the third set, barely giving his opponent a look-in, and then pounced after Dobey missed a dart at bullseye, levelling at 2-2.
Yet with an average of 112 for the fifth set, it was Dobey who moved ahead again, 3-2, before Anderson held off a fightback in the sixth to force a deciding set.
The pair traded legs up to 2-2, Anderson went 3-2 up, although he missed three darts for the match, another big miss from Dobey allowed the Burnham star to sneak through.
Anderson will now face either Jamie Lewis or Dave Chisnall in the last eight at Alexandra Palace, with the quarter-finals to be played on Saturday, December 29.
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I'm tired. But, it's January – who isn't tired in January?
The days are dark, it's (seriously) cold, I think we are all just trying to make it through, right? Trying to stick to New Year's resolutions, trying to be 'good'. In fact; who thought it would be a good idea to make resolutions to in some way change your life, when it is hard going anyway with the dreary days, dark evenings and the knowledge the party season is over?! And, that's before we even think about the mess our country's politics is in!
For the first time in years, this year I didn't actually make any resolutions. I've had a bit of a declutter, and I have a bit of a list going on of what I would like to achieve, and how I would like this year to pan out – but nothing to STOP doing, which is a refreshing change! Resolutions are good – if you have the will power and true desire to do whatever it is you are doing. But all too often, very easy to just 'give up' and then feel weak and berate yourself as a 'failure' when, actually, you are just trying to get on in life, in January of all months! Be kind to yourself.
With that in mind – one thing I think perhaps I – and most of us to be honest – should do, is exactly that as a 'New Year's' resolution: to not be so hard on ourselves. Be kind.
I, in particular set myself high standards. I get these ideas of things that need to be done and have to be achieved – but I need to stop and remind myself that actually no-one else has said that has to happen. I have set the targets, I have set the goal posts – so if it doesn't work out exactly as I imagined, then maybe I can move the goal posts and actually stop and reflect not on what HASN'T been achieved, but what HAS.
That's quite hard for me to write – as I quite LIKE getting lots done, I LOVE being almost too busy – but actually, sometimes I do (and you if you are reading this knowing you do too!) need to stop. Watch more TV. Read a magazine. Paint my nails. Time out. And do NOT feel guilty for it either! Time on yourself is time well spent. And, referring back to the first sentence of this blog post. I'm TIRED. And that is partly my own fault!
I am also tired, because I have an all too often sleep thief toddler, who is in the 'terrible' twos (they aren't that terrible ALL the time – sometimes the tantrums can be slightly amusing… although often in hindsight, not at the time while you try to placate a screaming, anger filled little person.) Who knew it needed to be THAT specific spoon, and actually it IS the end of the world if their biscuit breaks in half. I understand that to them it actually is devastating… but sometimes to take a step back and look at the bigger picture to see that while it is a challenge to resolve, this is NORMAL toddler behaviour – learning about what they want, they don't want and that things aren't always their own way. Obviously, you tell them it'll be OK, but they learn that sometimes Mummy cannot just 'fix' the biscuit.
I am tired, because in addition to the aforementioned beautiful, challenging, amazing bundle of energy that is our little man – life is happening. The house. The dog. The (attempt at a) social life. Running a business. (Or, trying to!) And, I am growing a whole other human being.
Into the second trimester now, in fact literally approaching half way as I write (time slow down, please?!) I am feeling MUCH better. Christmas was crazy – with all our amazingly busy workshops and events, and actual Christmas to do in addition to morning (all day?) sickness and feeling like a walking zombie for 3 months wasn't ideal – but, I got through it. Things went well. Classes were booked, people attended and from what I can see – lots of happy crafters!
There, point one of congratulating myself! Well done.
I am winding down now though, I need to start…
When I first found out I was pregnant, of course – we were delighted. But, I did: Panic. What is the business going to do?! How will it sustain over the next year, or two, or five?!
The answer to the above questions are of course, it will be OK. Just like a toddler realises they can still eat the biscuit, just in two halves – it will be OK!
I think in the background of this worry lies the buzz word(s) 'Imposter Syndrome'. I have heard a lot about this recently and actually, I think we all do feel like this from time to time… Where you question if you are good enough, question if you are essentially a 'fraud'! Obviously, I am not a fraud in the true sense of the matter – but there is certainly self-doubt at times.
A lot of self-doubt can come from comparison. Believing that what you see on social media is what you get. You've (and I've) got to remember it is not what you get. It isn't always real. Or, it IS real – but it isn't just the photos that are filtered, it is the content too! You certainly don't see photos on The Crafty Lass Instagram of our little man having a meltdown as he lost 'his' leaf on a walk and demanding to sit IN a puddle. Or the days I cannot be bothered to craft – and sit and watch First Dates instead! Obviously, I and anyone else that 'filters' their content doesn't LIE – they just post relevant and appropriate things. I want my feed to be full of colour, and fun and making and creating. As a business, I need to reflect positivity. Not piles of washing and grumps!
I am currently reading Cath Kidston's 'COMING UP ROSES – The Story of Growing a Business' – and for anyone building a business, or a brand – or actually just loves Cath Kidston – I would highly recommend. Very inspiring! There is a quote on the back of the book that really hit a nerve with me:
"When you're self-taught you always worry that you will be found out."
That is IT!
I (think I) am more than qualified to be 'The Crafty Lass'… however, I need to ensure the business grows, expands, onwards and upwards. What if I can't do that?
After a very successful year, with so many amazing things achieved – the timing of this pregnancy actually couldn't be better. Although I will need to stop whilst things are on a high – it will be chance to reflect, plan, decide how the business will move forwards, and in what direction.
The husband came up with a brilliant and timely appropriate analogy – that the car was now designed, built and running. And, once the baby arrives, I won't need to de-ice the car – the engine is still ticking over. And, he is right – the business won't die a death. People won't forget – mainly because I won't let them! And, the business is flexible enough to adapt to the new (likely even more sleep deprived) life we will be boldly treading in. I quit my 9-5 to allow for a flexible life, and I need to ensure I grab that opportunity with both hands and not let it go – as I am forever grateful that although where The Crafty Lass is now has come about due to lots and lots of hours and hard work – and it didn't happen overnight – but, I am grateful that it can and does work. And, work around family.
People keep asking me about when I will be 'stopping'. And the answer is I don't know – and I can't really see me fully stopping! When you run your own business, you are never truly 'off duty'. I mean, I literally am The Crafty Lass. OF COURSE I WILL stop! I won't be writing posts in the labour ward… although saying that, I was induced with our little man and to distract myself from the process, I was crocheting most of the time in hospital! But, seriously – I will stop when the new bundle of joy arrives for a period of time – length of such to be decided there and then, and focus on them and us and little man – they are only very little for such a short time, but I am sure the craftiness will dip in and out of life too.
I do have some big plans for maternity leave – I have already started on a book (well two actually, but one is more of a general idea with a contents page and hundreds of thoughts and images in my brain, and the other is an actual full in the writing stages) and it would be great to make that the project I really get up and running with in the early how have we made a person months. Or, to be kind to myself – if that doesn't happen as it is more important to sleep, then that's OK too. All in good time, as the vision and desire to achieve won't go away.
So, that's it – ignore the Imposter Syndrome. You ARE good enough. You CAN do whatever you set your mind to, but just do what you can. Stop to take time out for yourself. You are doing GREAT – it is January don't forget – and we are all in this together! Stop to eat the biscuits – even if they are broken.
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The Crafty Lass currently features in the BOOTS Health and Beauty magazine for January/February 2019 – in an article all about conquering our fears. What better way to start the New Year with a blog post featuring a little bit more about mine, and what resolutions and steps I took to change this…
Phobias: they are illogical, irrational, frustrating and very real.
It doesn't matter whether you are frightened of spiders, the dark… or in my case: needles (not the crafty type, thankfully) – it is certainly a really overwhelming, all-consuming emotion that you cannot and will not do the thing you need to face. Well, sometimes you have to – but under much protest!
Admitting you have a phobia to other people, well it did for me anyway – it made me feel weak. I am quite a positive and 'strong' person – why would I be frightened of something?
Well… there was an 'incident' when I was younger that seemed to be the trigger… What an irony that a craft kit likely caused my phobia! Who knows, the mind is a funny thing sometimes. A large tapestry needle went into my thumb. It was Boxing Day, I got up early as I was so excited to play with my new crafty items from Santa! But, I didn't quite understand that I shouldn't be using it unsupervised, and not in the way I was using it… Much to my parents horror when they awoke to my tears! But – I was ok, it wasn't as bad an injury as perhaps I considered at the time at a young, tender age – was that enough to cause all this stress in my adult life?
When it came to needles, I wasn't 'in control' – I knew my reaction would be to pull away, to scream – in one particular incident I sadly and instinctively hit out at the nurse, as my gut reaction was to get it and her away from me. All that panic and movement ironically would be MORE dangerous and painful and stressful – than if I just let them get on with their job! Sorry Miss Nurse from my school days as a teenager…
Phobias can cause crying, breathing difficulties, panic attacks – and avoidance of the said thing… but sometimes fears need to be faced.
I decided enough was enough. Something needed to give. I didn't need tests and jabs all the time, but what about holidays, and children? And what better way to face my fear than by helping others.
I had always wanted to 'give blood'. I was healthy, I had no reason to 'not' – except the sitting there giving blood part. Involving needles.
I decided to just sign up – and go for it. If everyone else there could, why couldn't I? And, if I could sit there for 20 minutes or so with a needle pumping blood out of my arm – surely, I could have inoculations if needed, or blood tests if required – without all the panic and crying and desperation beforehand?
I felt panicky in the build-up that week – I questioned if I was losing my mind. I questioned if I could even go through with it. But there was a big difference in donating blood to a 'normal' blood test or inoculation. I was in control. I didn't HAVE to do this, and even stranger – I WANTED to do this.
And, I did it.
I unbelievably DID IT! I couldn't believe that I, Paula Milner, had donated blood! And, as a bonus, I got free squash and chocolate biscuits too!
And, I was right – as a result, after donating several more times and from taking back more control – my phobia HAS calmed down. Yes, I don't LOVE needles now (who does?) I certainly won't be first in the queue for a tattoo, and sometimes it is still hard to have tests – but you can get a blood test out of me within a few minutes, with only often a few tears afterwards rather than the huge panic before… and actually, usually tears as I did it, I am proud I have just let the nurse do their job without panic! Currently pregnant with all the tests required, feeling like a human pin cushion is becoming regularly common place, so this lack of fear is becoming albeit useful and time saving!
Giving blood is something that doesn't take long, and is such a needed and worthwhile and needed cause. You're not allowed to donate whilst pregnant, or have visited certain countries within a certain time frame – so I have had to have a little break on donating since our honeymoon and little man – but it will be on my New Year's resolution list for 2020!
What phobias do you have? Have you ever attempted to 'overcome' them? Would you like to change how you feel? Sometimes, I think you sadly can't always change how you feel no matter how hard you try – but perhaps, hopefully there might be a way.
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Hyderabad, Oct 1 : Inspired by a Telugu film, two Class 10 students committed self-immolation over fear of failure in love affair in Telangana's Jagtiyal town, police said on Monday.
Contrary to initial reports that they allegedly died in a clash over an affair with the same girl, the investigations revealed that they took the extreme step after their parents chided them for continuously chatting with girls.
Both the students, aged 16, consumed liquor before pouring petrol on themselves and committing self-immolation. The incident occurred in the town about 190 km from here.
The police officer said the students were inspired by recent film 'RX 100' in which the hero ends his life for his lover.
K. Mahender died on the spot while Ravi Teja, who sustained critical injuries succumbed in a hospital.
Their families had suspicion that there could be some conspiracy. The police, however, found that there was nobody else on the scene.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Venkatramna said the boys purchased petrol and consumed liquor before immolating self.


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Today in menswear-land, Prada accessorized superhero-print shirts with colorful neckerchiefs and jaunty newsboy caps, while McQueen's baggy striped pants billowed down the runway. Meanwhile, Gucci took a more grown-up approach, with slim pants and lapels so sharp they could cut glass. See the full collections, plus many more, in our runway galleries.
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By Mark Horwedel, CEO, Merchant Advisory Group
December 6, 2018
The United States payments system is falling behind many other countries. Innovation provides the opportunity to inject competition into the U.S. payments system, but will stakeholders and regulators make the necessary changes to allow that to happen?
Payments innovation abounds throughout much of the world, while in the U.S. innovation is almost non-existent. Colleagues point to India and China as markets where payments innovations are changing the fabric of society. The innovations provide unapparelled convenience through mobile apps capable of addressing a wide range of consumer needs, while delivering payments to merchants at a small fraction of the cost of over-priced and fraud-prone card payments in the U.S.
It's been several years since M-Pesa revolutionized payments in Kenya, a country none of us would have considered a likely candidate for payments leadership. A May 2014 publication proclaimed, "To serve the local population, online businesses need to be able to accept mobile payments. Safaricom's M-Pesa is the dominant mobile payment platform, used for 98.5% of transactions by value. M-Pesa has become the de facto choice for both customers and businesses." Meanwhile, the U.S. has only recently began to modernize the peer to peer payments upon which M-Pesa first was introduced in Kenya. Not surprisingly, a non-bank, Venmo moved first, and U.S. banks followed suit only after realizing the threat of loss of business.
In Europe and many other countries, payments innovation has been sparked by government regulation. Rampant payment fraud has often served as the catalyst for change by policy-makers forcing private companies to develop technological solutions to address the growing fraud problem. EMV and 3DS are examples. More recently, privacy and competition concerns have led to another round of payments legislation and regulation (see Herzig article below) that will further protect consumers from payments fraud and safeguard their privacy, while opening the doors to FinTech competition with traditional banks. Regulators expect new competition will lead to more innovation and price competition in these markets.
Almost overnight, Alipay and WeChat Pay have achieved dominance in China, the world's biggest payments market, by capitalizing on the convenience and ubiquity of barcode technology which doesn't require expensive upgrades to merchant point-of-sale systems and doesn't invoke the competitive concerns associated with Near Field Communication (NFC). It is rumored that China Union Pay lost 25% of its card payment volume last year as the mobile platforms came to dominate the payments landscape.
Payments innovation continues to accelerate in much of the world, often encouraged or mandated by governments seeking to modernize their payment systems, to address the incidence of growing payments fraud or simply trying to stir competition in markets where competition is lacking or non-existent.
Meanwhile, U.S. payments remain overpriced, plagued by rampant and growing fraud and by almost a total lack of innovation by traditional financial institutions. Today, what passes for payments innovation in the U.S. is primarily associated with a continuation of cards reward battles fueled with the excessive interchange fees collected from merchants. Banks' protected status keeps innovators at a distance while enabling the banking industry to enjoy a monopoly on payments. They have no real incentive to innovate.
While it is doubtful that the U.S. payments paradigm is sustainable in the face of a growing international economy, growing payments fraud, and growing awareness by the public and policy-makers that we are lagging behind, there appears to be no near-term effort to change things. The near-term prognosis is not positive, and real change may not occur until the inevitable next banking crises motivates policy-makers to take actions to address the sad reality of payments in this country.


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Last year, "plant artist" Azuma Makoto and a team of collaborators created Exobiotanica – Botanical Space Flight, sending a bonsai tree and some floral arrangements to the stratosphere using space balloons. Azuma and his team executed the launch last July in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, reaching an altitude of some 30,000 meters (or just under 19 miles). Azuma offers this poetic mission statement for the launch:
Plants on the earth are rooted in the soil, under the command of gravity.
Roots, soil, and gravity–by giving up the links to life, what kind of "beauty" shall be born?
Within the harsh "nature" of an attitude of 30,000 meters and minus 50 degrees Celsius, the plants evolve into EXBIOTA (extraterrestrial life).
A pine tree confronting the ridge line of the Earth.
A bouquet of flowers marching towards the sun, hit by the intense wind.
Freed from everything, the plants shall head to space.
You can see more photos of the balloon rigs they used, the launch, and the… "plants in SPAAAAAAACE" on the project's website.


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Here is a discomforting fact: 911 has voicemail. Florida resident John Breau discovered this the hard way, in the middle of an armed robbery when his child, wife and stepmother were in the house.
At what exact point the attacked man called the police is unclear, however, local news station Fox 13 reported that the call went to voicemail as the robbers returned to the house:
A man called 911 after four robbers with guns broke into his home, demanded money and prescription drugs.
The dispatcher tried to transfer the call from the fire department to law enforcement side of things – but he got a voicemail just as the crooks returned to the home.
Chaos ensues. The man takes matters into his own hands and shoot one of the robbers.
He then tells the dispatcher that he's been robbed, and two women in the home were physically hurt.
Breau used a shotgun to protect himself and his family while the call went to voicemail not once, but twice. It took 3 minutes and 41 seconds for the station to dispatch emergency aid, according to WTSP. Even then, the deputies were "sent to the wrong address while a gunfight was in progress."
This is a jarring reminder that systems are flawed, humans (such as the person operating Breau's call) make mistakes, and owning a gun just might be your best option for protecting yourself and your family.
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Before you get excited, I should probably state for the record that the headline is totally fake. There's no way to tell whether Jesus actually recommends this robot &mdash he's just holding it. He might not like it at all. But if that's the case, I would have to respectfully disagree with him there, because this little robot looks like a lot of fun.
It's a pretty simple little guy, as robots go: all it does is follow any line you put it on, at a speed of up to 3ft/s. That's pretty fast for a robot the size of a CD.
It seems that at a recent robotics conference they were having a blast with these little things. They're called Pololu 3pis, and they cost about a hundred bucks. I think any party would be livened up by a few high-speed rollerbots, but I lack the programming skill to make these guys go. I might start taking night classes, all these little Arduino setups and coffee bots are making me jealous of the creative hackers out there.


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Though it is not surprising that governance is on the agenda of regulators, the coincidence of three of Ontario's largest regulators looking at the issue at the same time is unusual. Within a couple of weeks the topic is on the agenda of the College of Physicians and Surgeons (see p 95 at https://www.cpso.on.ca/CPSO/media/documents/Council/Council-Materials_2018Dec.pdf ), the Ontario College of Teachers (https://www.oct.ca/-/media/PDF/Governance%20Review%20Report/Governance%20Review%20Report.pdf ) and the Law Society of Ontario ( p. 114 at https://lawsocietyontario.azureedge.net/media/lso/media/about/convocation/2018/convocation-governance-task-force-2016-report-november-2018.pdf )
Each of the Reports and the Task Force/Committee responsible for them pays deference to the groundbreaking work of the College of Nurses of Ontario whose Vision 2020 Report designed a new direction and articulated a vision for regulatory governance in Ontario. See http://www.cno.org/globalassets/1-whatiscno/governance/final-report—leading-in-regulatory-governance-task-force.pdf .
What is most striking about the reports and proposals being debated now is how out of step the Law Society is. When the nursing regulator began its work it was urged to 'Be bold!' and it took that challenge to heart. With the benefit of expert governance advice, it adopted some key principles that are also reflected in the proposals being considered by the teacher and the physician regulators. These include:
• create a board of about 15 (plus or minus) as every study of decision making shows that is the optimum size for a Board of Directors;
• the Board should be equally split between members of the profession and public members
• selection of Board Members should be based on skills and competence and done primarily by an open and transparent selection process. Elections via 'politicized process' should not be the means to select Board members;
• there should be a complete separation between the Board as the organization's governing body and the regulatory work. Board members ought not to be doing front-line regulation as members of regulatory committees (think discipline);
• the diversity of perspectives and membership is crucial to public interest regulation and is more easily achieved through a robust selection process where the attributes and characteristics of Board Members are clearly articulated and selection is done accordingly.
• Linkages to the profession, for consultation, input and perspective are best done through a variety of mechanisms the regulator should establish in order to hear the voices of a wide range of professionals. Geographic, nature of practice, ethnic, racial and other characteristics and perspectives are crucial for a regulator's effective decision making.
The Law Society likely was not urged to 'be bold' and its approaches do not come close to that standard. What is striking is that almost none of the noted best practices has been proposed in the Law Society's Governance Report. The scope of the Task Force's work was limited by its terms of reference. Anyone who watches the Law Society understands the degree to which tradition drives its thinking about what is possible. I have no doubt that Benchers have been inundated with calls and comments from the ex-officio Benchers who are still at the table and very much want to remain there. So maybe it was practical to address the ex-officio Bencher and the length of term issues first but when you compare the narrow focus with what the other regulators have done, it's hard not to wonder if a golden opportunity has been lost.
Each of the other senior regulators has recognized the work they are responsible for is to regulate in the public interest; it is not to represent or speak for the profession. Yet as LSO embarks upon a Bencher election it is easy to see from social media that many who are contemplating a run for elected office are frequently doing so by invoking the 'interests of lawyers' as a key plank in their platform. A review of campaigns of the past (a concept which the other governance reports suggest is completely misplaced) shows that many seek office primarily to assert the interests of lawyers. I do not suggest that once in office, that motivation is not moderated considerably, but by having a politicized process, much of what public interest regulation ought to be is sullied.
The Attorney General, Caroline Mulroney, in her letter to the Governance Task Force urged a result that would have governance be 'streamlined and effective'. Though reducing the number if Benchers may make Convocation smaller, it is hard to see, especially in light of the policy directions being adopted by other regulators, that the Law Society's model will meet either of the criterion sought by the Attorney General.
Given that legislative amendments will be required for the Colleges to achieve their policy goals and the direction they are going reflects best practices for modern governance of regulatory oversight bodies, one hopes the Law Society will recognize it has not even begun to address real governance reform. It should know the government will likely be asking 'If this is appropriate for CPSO, CNO and the OCT, why is it not the direction the Law Society has advocated?'
Surely the events of earlier this year in Toronto should cause the Law Society to pause. Then it should extend the mandate of its Governance Task Force. It should direct them, as a matter of urgency, to address the means by which the Law Society's governance will be brought into the 21at century so it operates, at the Board level, in a manner appropriate to its role and responsibilities.


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Dell has staged its first foray into the Tablet PC jungle with the Latitude XT – a convertible that combines lightweight form with heavyweight power. While it might be Dell's first attempt, it has already proven popular and successful since its launch at the beginning of the year.
For those of you wondering, a convertible tablet PC is one that can be used like a standard laptop with vertical screen or it can be twisted so that the screen lies flat like a tablet PC. Where the Latitude XT does differ from many models is that offers the choice of stylus or touch input making it a versatile offering.
As is the Dell way, there are many options available to you when purchasing but you can enjoy 2GB of memory, a 1.2GHz ultra-low voltage Core 2 Duo processor and a 120GB hard drive. All of this hardware is designed primarily to help keep the weight of the system down and it does this particularly well without sacrificing power or usability.
Connectivity is a major part of the Latitude XT and you get pretty much every available connection going. HSDPA Modem, Wi-Fi, and bluetooth are all standard although the vnunet Latitude XT review did report some problems attempting to connect to the Internet using HSDPA – apparently, it's all good in London but can be shaky (to say the least) anywhere else.
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Thomas Edison
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of Thomas Edison, one of the great inventors and cultural figures of modern America.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the innovations and influence of Thomas Edison, one of the architects of the modern age.Edison is popularly remembered as the man who made cheap electric light possible. Born in 1847, he began his career working in the new industry of telegraphy, and while still in his early twenties made major improvements to the technology of the telegraph. Not long afterwards he invented a new type of microphone which was used in telephones for almost a century. In the space of three productive years, Edison developed the phonograph and the first commercially viable light bulb and power distribution system. Many more inventions were to follow: he also played a part in the birth of cinema in the 1890s. When he died in 1931 he had patented no fewer than 1093 devices - the most prolific inventor in history. As the creator of the world's first industrial research laboratory he forever changed the way in which innovation took place.With:Simon SchafferProfessor of the History of Science, University of CambridgeKathleen BurkProfessor of History, University College LondonIwan MorusReader in History, University of AberystwythProducer: Thomas Morris.
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