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Autumn has officially arrived, and after a summer of cool, light cooking, it's time for some homey, hearty meals. Braised meats, with their rich flavors, tender texture and intense, reduced sauces, are definitely homey, but you may never have tried to make them at home. They sound as if they might be complicated to prepare—like something best left to a restaurant chef—and what exactly is braising, anyway?
Relax. Braising is easy—there are only two steps: The meat is browned first, then covered and simmered in seasoned liquid. According to Cory Schreiber, the chef at Portland's super-popular Wildwood Restaurant & Bar, braising is a great way to cook lamb shanks. In the recipe here, he does something slightly unusual: He simmers the shanks uncovered in the oven. That way, he says, "the dry heat caramelizes the top of the meat—giving it a bit of a crust—which adds nice texture and color." The lamb is accompanied by a roasted squash purée and wilted Swiss chard.
With this recipe in hand, you can actually have your next homey meal at home. Add a salad and crusty bread, and you've got your first dinner party of the season.
Use a pot that's at least 12 inches across.
- Yield
- Makes 4 servings
- 4 3/4- to 1-pound lamb shanks
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter
- 1 1/2cups chopped onion
- 1 cup chopped carrots
- 1 cup chopped parsnips
- 4 fresh large thyme sprigs
- 2 whole garlic heads, unpeeled, cut horizontally in half
- 1 cup dry red wine
- 5 cups chicken stock or canned low-salt chicken broth
- 1 large orange, peel and pith cut away, orange quartered
- 2 whole cinnamon sticks
- 2 teaspoons fennel seeds, crushed
- 1 1 3/4-pound butternut squash, quartered lengthwise, seeded
- 1/2teaspoon (scant) ground nutmeg
- 1 fresh medium fennel bulb, trimmed, sliced (about 2 cups)
- 2 teaspoons grated orange peel
- 2 bunches red Swiss chard
- 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) butter
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Sprinkle lamb on all sides with salt and pepper. Heat oil in heavy large pot over high heat. Add lamb; cook until brown, turning occasionally, about 10 minutes. Transfer to plate. Add 1 tablespoon butter to drippings in pot. Add onion, carrots, parsnips, thyme and garlic. Sauté until vegetables soften and begin to brown, about 8 minutes. Add wine; boil until reduced almost to glaze, about 4 minutes. Return lamb to pot, arranging in single layer. Add stock, orange, cinnamon and 1 teaspoon fennel seeds; bring to boil. Place pot in oven. Braise lamb uncovered until tender, turning and basting often, about 2 hours 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, rub cut sides of squash with 1 tablespoon butter; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Arrange squash, skin side down, on baking sheet. Roast on sheet alongside lamb until tender, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Scrape squash from skins into bowl; add nutmeg and 2 tablespoons butter. Mash with fork until almost smooth; season with salt and pepper. Transfer lamb to plate. Strain braising liquid into bowl; spoon off fat, if desired. Return liquid to pot. Add fresh fennel, orange peel and 1 teaspoon fennel seeds. Simmer until fennel is tender and sauce is thick enough to coat spoon, about 15 minutes. Return lamb to sauce.
- Rewarm lamb shanks, covered, over medium-low heat, about 15 minutes. Rewarm squash in saucepan over low heat, stirring often, about 10 minutes.
- Chard and final preparation:
- While lamb and squash heat, cut out center stem from chard leaves; discard stems. Coarsely tear leaves. Melt butter in heavy large skillet over high heat. Add chard and toss until chard wilts, about 4 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
- Divide squash and chard among 4 plates. Arrange lamb atop vegetables; spoon sauce with fennel over.


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An evil, if provoked, hamster threatens to destroy the galaxy! It's up to four "brave" cats to stop him before he unleashes his super weapon and destroys all cat kind.
-Four different pilots so you can choose the cat you want to be
-Go farther with tons of ship upgrades
-Challenge your skills with fourteen bad guy types
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As a new member of the Ithaca College Community, we have some tips as you navigate through your first year on campus.
- Talk to your faculty members and get to know at least two during your first year.
- Read the Ithacan to become familiar with campus and community life.
- Assess your interests and personality by taking the Strong Interest Inventory and Myers Briggs.
- Network nights; spend an evening over winter break mingling with other students and alumni.
- Set up a meeting with your advisor to ensure that you are on track in your major for graduation.
- Find a part-time job on campus to start building your resume.
- Explore your interests by attending lectures and evening programs at Ithaca and in the community.
- Research job and internship opportunities on
eRecruiting and Opportunity Knocks.
- Stop by Career Services to get your resume and cover letter critiqued.
- Take the time to get involved in a club or organization during your first year on campus.
- Upload your resume onto eRecruiting and look for possible internship opportunities.
- Don't be afraid to ask questions or ask for help!
- Explore the Ithaca College course catalog.
- Navigate your way through the Alumni Online Community to find out what alumni are doing in your major.
- Take the time to define your career goals and values as they relate to your major.
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Absorbing puzzle warfare and deeply layered role playing are brought together in the rainbow fantasy world of Might & Magic Clash Of Heroes on PlayStation 3. Riotous colour and hand drawn lands teeming with everything from flaming demons to giant warrior trees make this one of the most memorable titles you can download from PlayStation Store.
Lose yourself in the captivating story of a band of young soldiers and wizards battling to overcome a demonic overlord and his crazed pursuit of the all-powerful Blade of Binding. Five distinct worlds form a bewitching backdrop to the adventure, a living storybook for you to explore.
The brightest sights and darkest corners of the world of Ashan await, in spectacular High Definition: thick, emerald forests in the elf land of Irollan; the Griffin Empire, patrolled by proud knights; a heavenly kingdom in the clouds known as the Silver City; the grim wastelands of Heresh; and the dank, infested prison, Sheogh.
No matter where you turn, this intricately crafted game never fails to delight. Its characters crackle and zing with witty dialogue and fluid animation, and thoughtful visual touches – pixie dust twinkling in the light, falling trees revealing new pathways – blend perfectly with a unique brand of mind-bending strategy.
Wily commanders and baying hordes lie in wait at every step of your quest in Might & Magic Clash Of Heroes – and your utter defeat is their only aim. Thrust yourself into a tense game of cat and mouse, and you might just survive.
The battlefield is split in two: the enemy above, and your forces ranged against them below. Smash through the defensive line and whittle down your opponent's health before they can do the same to you, and your overall power increases thanks to the experience points you gain.
Elegant mix and match formations and ingenious strategies soon become second nature. Line up three, like-coloured units to form barriers or powerful attack squads, then watch them charge up with each turn and land a telling blow on the enemy.
Before you know it, you're thwarting the forces of evil with a speed and grace you wouldn't have thought possible just an hour previously. New recruits offer faster, heavier attacks, while Hero Spells that allow you one-off attacks and mighty Champion units are introduced seamlessly.
Five separate campaigns and a world littered with treasure and side quests make this one of the most rewarding games on PlayStation Store. Chaos is truly compelling in Might & Magic Clash Of Heroes on PS3.
Discover powerful new artefacts by taking the struggle against the underworld online. Five special items have been scattered throughout the world of Ashan, and by taking on the best Might & Magic Clash Of Heroes masterminds via PlayStation Network, you can win these prized secrets for your own warriors.
Another example of the creativity of Capybara Games, the team behind this epic, these objects can be used to boost your chances against some of the most ruthless players around. If you want to claw your way to the top of the ultra-competitive leader boards, you must test yourself against the sharpest tacticians on PlayStation Network in gripping one-on-one showdowns.
Push yourself even further by taking part in the Co-op Battle mode against another pair, either on one PS3 system or online via PlayStation Network. In these intense scenarios you'll learn how to work together to share resources and suck opponents into your trap.
With a friend by your side, might and magic become two decisive elements of one battle strategy on PlayStation Network.


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A-Rod And Miami: What We Know
I broke the news here yesterday that representatives of the Yankees and Marlins – later identified elsewhere as New York team president Randy Levine and Miami owner Jeffrey Loria – had discussed a trade that would send the crumbling Yankee superstar Alex Rodriguez to the Marlins.
As the supplemental reporting of others indicates, this may have begun as a sarcastic response by Levine to a chimerical wish by Loria. But the ownership groups of both clubs know damn well this is no longer a joke, and they can ameliorate if not solve each other's problem. A lot of the blockbuster transactions in baseball history have begun as jokes or expressions of exasperations (Manager Leo Durocher's stunning move from the Brooklyn Dodgers to the New York Giants in mid-season 1948 comes to mind).
My sources have little else to add today, except to suggest that the Marlins might be willing to swap more of their overpriced stock for Rodriguez and the net differences in salary than previously indicated (say, Heath Bell and Mark Buehrle for Rodriguez and 60 million or so). That will all depend, I'm told, on just how much Miami season ticket sales drop after the disastrous 2012 season.
As to the key players, only Rodriguez is talking, saying after the Yankees' ignominious finish in Detroit that he wanted to remain in New York and would not waive his no-trade clause.
After Yankees' Senior Vice President/General Manager Brian Cashman had dismissed Wednesday's report as "100% not true," reporters Andrew Marchand and Wallace Matthews of ESPN New York and Jon Heyman of CBS then revealed the Levine-Loria conversation, and the sad fact that Cashman apparently didn't know about it, nor the hotline it created.
Today, another embarrassed executive who was clearly out of the loop – Marlins' president David Samson – insisted there had been no negotiations, while Heyman and others ran with the explanation that the Rodriguez talk was just a joke made last April during the Yankees' stadium christening exhibitions at Miami and that was that.
My primary source says Marchand and Matthews have it right. It was an offhand remark that has turned into at least an avenue to discuss an anything-but-offhand trade:
What began as a casual, joking conversation between New York Yankees president Randy Levine and Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria about the possibility of Alex Rodriguez playing for the Marlins may develop into serious trade talks this offseason, according to a source with knowledge of the conversation.
Others have dismissed the story because no team is talking trades while it is in the process of being humiliatingly swept out of the playoffs. Of course they don't. But nor does planning for 2013 freeze just because 2012 games are still being played. Anybody pay attention to the weekend of Yankees' bench coach Tony Pena? Sunday he had to manage the last three innings after Joe Girardi got ejected. Tuesday he was back in his adjunct role at Girardi's side. In between, on Monday, he was in…Boston. To interview for the Red Sox manager's job.
The off-season trades, free agent signings, hirings and firings – and the possible trade of Alex Rodriguez – are all starting now. Right now.
The logic behind moving Rodriguez to Miami is impeccable. Whatever damage A-Rod did not himself do to his reputation, the Yankees have – both on and off the field. They have devalued him as a player (he helped) by the extraordinary step of benching him while the team collapsed. They benched him even against Justin Verlander, against whom he could claim a career 8-for-24 mark with three homers.
They may have even baited him into insubordination. Supposedly by accident, the now imperiled-manager Joe Girardi submitted two different lineups for the rained out Wednesday night ALCS Game 4, one featuring Rodriguez, the other without him. A former major leaguer told me today he wouldn't be a bit surprised if A-Rod hadn't seen his name on the initial card and told Girardi where to go – which could easily have been what the Yankees wanted him to do. If you don't buy that bit of conspiratorial sci-fi, how about weighing whether it's more likely that for a game that could decide whether or not they kept their jobs Joe Girardi and his coaches 'accidentally' wrote out two line-up cards, or the Yankees decided to try to further mess with A-Rod's head?
It is also speculative, but the Yankees (particularly through the nefarious Howard Rubinstein Public Relations Agency) have long employed the Strategic Leak, with the receiving end usually being The New York Post (for whom Rubinstein also works, in a relationship that mainlines directly to Rupert Murdoch himself). What better and more authoritative source could there be for the Casablanca-like "I'm shocked, shocked, that gambling is going on in here" quality to the Post's splashy story that Rodriguez was trying to get the phone number of an Australian bikini model during Game 1 of the ALCS, than the Yankees themselves? Who would know she was there? Besides the principals, who would know what the ballboy saw? Who would know all of it? The Yankees. As I alluded to yesterday the autographed-ball-as-groupie-troll bait is probably attempted ten times a day in organized baseball.
But why hurt A-Rod when you're trying to get rid of him?
Well, that's easy. You don't just have to find somebody willing to take him off your hands in a trade that doesn't humiliate you. You have to convince Rodriguez to drop his no-trade clause. And nothing makes that likelier than being able to say to him 'did you like the last two weeks? The sports pages? And the gossip pages? Would you like five years of that?'
As many columnists noted today the Yankees have no choice but to put Rodriguez in another uniform ASAP. The reason they gave him a contract through his age 42 season – the pursuit of the career home run record – is now a pointless irrelevancy. The 2009 admission of steroid use has made the 'clean alternative' to Barry Bonds into a pathetic joke. And, given his rate of decline and frequency of injury, Rodriguez is a less-than-even-money bet to hit the first home run milestone for which he would get one of those $6,000,000 bonuses. It's Willie Mays' total of 660 and Rodriguez ended the 2012 season with 647. A-Rod needs thirteen. He had thirteen as of June 26 this past season. He would hit exactly five more thereafter, in 199 regular season at bats.
You know how many homers a rate like that produces over 500 at bats? Twelve. Thirteen if you round up with a vengeance.
But more relevantly, even if Rodriguez has some sort of Jeterian renaissance ahead of him, the Yankees have spent the last week all but neutering any chance it has of blossoming in New York. They have made him – and many of the other stars – into damaged goods. Ten days ago Girardi was extolling the pricelessness of a consistent line-up. Since that moment he used seven different batting orders in seven games. In the process, he threw virtually everybody in his line-up except Jeter and Russell Martin under the bus.
The Yankees ownership can thus, with fake mournful looks plastered onto their phony faces, not pursue free agent Nick Swisher, and unload Rodriguez at any price, and sign a bunch of cheaper alternatives, because of the crisis they themselves have facilitated. For weeks they've been reminding me of the 1983 Philadelphia Phillies.
This is not one of the great teams of history but it was one of the most instructive. The Phils cut through the slightly-favored Dodgers in the NLCS (1-0, 1-4, 7-2, 7-2). Ever seen that Gary Matthews homer slamming off the facade of the second deck at the Vet? That sealed Game 3 and it hit about two feet below my auxiliary press box seat and it sounded like a bomb exploding.
The Phils walked into the Series as nominal favorites over the Orioles. Baltimore seemed to have a slightly better offense but Philadelphia had the pitching. Back of John Denny and Al Holland the Phils took the opener on the road 1-0. But when the Orioles took game two, Manager Paul Owens pulled a stunning move. Even though first baseman Pete Rose had gotten within shouting distance of Ty Cobb's all time career hits record, and had gone 6-for-16 in the NLCS (5-for-9 in the last two games), Owens benched Rose, citing Rose's 1-for-8 start in the Series, and swapped in Tony Perez against lefty starter Mike Flanagan. Perez got a weak single and looked like a statue in the field, and Owens undid his move for Game 4, but by then it was too late.
In dropping the last three games, the Phillies scored six runs and they had to blow up the franchise. They released not just Rose but Joe Morgan, too. They sold Perez back to the Reds. They offed veteran reliever Ron Reed. And in the last week of Spring Training they purged Matthews (sending him to Chicago for almost nothing, where he led the Cubs to the 1984 NL West title) and reliever Willie Hernandez (sending him to Detroit for even more almost nothing – and Hernandez won both the Cy Young and the MVP as the Tigers rolled to one of the most dominant seasons of the last 50 years).
The Phils would bubble up to the surface for a fun 1993 NL Championship (the Joe Carter World Series). But excluding that, it would be nine managers and 24 years before they would again finish first.
And the dominos all began to fall when they benched a controversial superstar who was pursuing one of the seminal records of baseball. Now why does that sound so familiar?
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a comming decade of futility? Keith, say it aint so!~
Awesome. As usual. Spot on with my opinion and then some 600% more.
You have presented a very compelling case. I believe the Yankees have already made the decision and were just waiting for the final blow from the ALCS when they lost miserably tonight. It looked like the life was literally knocked out of them. I had thought they were pulling these stunts to spark some life back into the already comatose team by panicking the players into submission to produce. It didn't work. No great loss of A-Rod. I hope he finds better in Miami. It suits him.
Often people repeat tried and true processes to attain the same outcome. It was an exact parallel to the Pete Rose situation. Time will tell and so will the managers and owners in their own time. I think the Yankee organization should rethink Girardi too. He hasn't rendered any stellar performances lately either.
The thing that nudges me the most is the amount of money that is involved in the sport. Again the corporatists have infiltrated the last bastion of grass-roots, home-grown enjoyment and sucked the life out of it like they do with people. Thank you for keeping us informed of the shenanigans that go on in baseball. I'll get back to my reading now. The book is titled 'Ball Four'.
Good stuff K.O
Steering this thread back to baseball (sort of), shed not too many tears for the Yankees and the most bloated payroll in baseball.
Derek Jeter will surely find solace in his $80-million mansion and rehabilitate while fielding dates with Mariah Carey, Madonna or some such celebrity. Meanwhile, noisy A-Roid will return to "livin' la vida loca" in his $160-million mansion and resume dating Ricky Martin or whoever it is now.
Joe Girardi, suddenly imperiled…
Baseball in the Bronx… I'm wondering the team traded the Steinbrenner family if Keith would be consider becoming a fan again… In the play-offs, the song is usually "win or go home"; with them it's "win or die."
If Cashman can get Giancarlo Stanton in this deal he's a genius. My proposal: A-Rod, Cano (to be traded for prospects by Miami in July), Nova and Gardner for JJ, Buehrle, and Stanton plus $50 mil going from the Yankees to Loria's yacht collection.
I prefer not to politicize my comments here–like Keith Olbermann, I am here because I love baseball. I would note that whenever politics come up here, it comes from the right-wing that dislikes Olbermann. So let me just mention to them that their behavior, especially since the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, is proof that they are treasonous terrorist sympathizers who hate America and don't deserve to be in a country as great as this one.
Now to the topic at hand … back in the 1940s, Larry MacPhail ran the Yankees, got Tom Yawkey drunk, and talked him into trading Ted Williams for Joe DiMaggio. MacPhail believed–understandably–that they would do so much better in different ballparks. Yawkey sobered up and said he couldn't do it.
Another great trade happened at Toots Shor's between the Yankees of Dan Topping and the Dodgers of Walter O'Malley. The latter allowed that he hated Red Barber. Topping admitted to disliking Mel Allen. They agreed to a trade. The next day–"sans booze," according to the witness, Jim Woods, who was Allen's #2 broadcaster at the time–they changed their minds, but after that season (1953), O'Malley didn't try to keep Barber and he joined the Yankees.
IF A-Rod is still with NY for spring training and has a less than stellar spring send him to AA and re-invent him as a pitcher, a reverse Babe Ruth so to speak. He still has a killer arm.
He changed positions once, why not again? With more inter league play coming up this could be a brilliant move. He's out of the public eye, gets to rehab his image and game and regains some trade value.
Good BB Nerd as always Sir. Keep them coming.
"…jockingly talking about trading Arod…"
No wonder you're a KO fan.
I'm a fan, Keith, but you hate seems visceral for the Yanks. You left out that A-Rod was a left over from Old Man Steinies hobby of collecting future HOF candidates. I was a conflicted as all Yanks fans were during the play offs. A-Rod wasn't hitting and seemed fragile in his ineptness and indecisiveness at the plate. So what was Girardi to do? Keep him in a spot that Ibanez or someone else could have filled. If Girardi had done nothing, you and other piler's on would have vilified (or congratulated) him. It is so easy to second guess!


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250px Holy Trinity church in Pyongyang is an single orthodox church in North Korea. Permission of construction of the Orthodox church in North korea was given personally by President of DPRK Kim Jong-Il afer his visit of St. Innocent of Irkutsk church in Khabarovsk in course of the trip to Russia in 2002. Construction activity of the church was begun in 2003 year. The foundation stone laying ceremony was held by DECR Deputy Chairman archbishop Clement of Kaluga on June 24 and works were begun. The church was consecrated in 2006 by metr. Cyrill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad. During the consecration of the church was ordinated a first northkorean priest[1]
Now in the church two priests, Theodor Kim and John Ra, serve, both are citizens of North Korea[2] The temple is found at Chonbek district, tel./fax: (850) 238 14 650. Services are held every Saturday and Sunday.


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Mary Olive Teague was born on 1 Aug 1871 in Spencer County, Indiana to Elijah and Eliza Teague. In the 1880 census, Mary and her family were in Buffalo, Newton County, Missouri.
On 1 Aug 1886 Mary married Daniel Reese (or Reece) in Benton County, Arkansas. I don't believe they had any children. I don't know if Daniel died or if they got a divorced.
On 12 Oct 1891, Mary Olive married Jacob Henry Severs in Neosho, Newton County, Missouri. In the 1900 census, Mary was enumerated as Tige and she and Jacob had 4 children. Two more children were born but Mary died at the time that their daughter Mary was born in1906. This daughter also died at this time.
The children of Jacob Henry Severs, sometimes called James H. Severs, and Mary Olive were these:
Emma Mae Severs, 1892-1957 – married William Buford "Boots" Bumgardner about 1910 in Kansas. She then married Robert James Hatcher in 1926.
Elijah Daniel Severs (1895-1971). Elijah married May Lucille, last name unknown. They both died in Seattle, King County, Washington. I believe they had one daughter, Carra Severs, born about 1925.
Mattie Neice Severs (1895-1975)married Leander Hudgin on 17 Sep 1915 in Cowley County, Kansas. They had three daughters: Shirley, Mary, and Ruby.
Mamie Ivy Severs (1898-1906) died in Gueda Springs, Kansas, at age 8.
Jess Harlan Severs (1901-1968) married Katherine Elizabeth Trice on 6 June 1925 in Pittsburgh, Crawford County, Kansas. They had two daughters.
Jacob Henry Severs married Dollie Getrude Collins on 23 February 1924 in Newton County Missouri. However, in a marriage record on ancestry.com the notes state that James Henry Severs married Dollie Gertrude Stenfield on that date. Therefore, I don't know of Dollie was married before she married Jacob or not. I do know that Jacob and Dollie divorced before 1940 because she married William Franklin Christian.
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Cool Justice: Want to get the bum's rush? Go ask for a public record
Connecticut's Freedom of Information law was once the pride of the nation. It has withstood numerous assaults by judges, legislators and other officials with plenty to hide.
Mandated by the will of Gov. Ella Grasso in 1975, the FOI law even has a beautiful preamble:
"The legislature finds and declares that secrecy in government is inherently inconsistent with a true democracy, that the people have a right to be fully informed of the action taken by public agencies in order that they may retain control over the instruments they have created; that the people do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them; that the people in delegating authority do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for them to know . . ."
We, the people, do not yield sovereignty to the agencies that supposedly serve us. We do not give public servants the right to decide what is good for us to know. How often do you think this principle of self government is violated on a daily basis when citizens request a viewing or copies of the public records they rightfully own?
It depends on factors including what municipal or state office you enter, the demeanor of the public servants and the leadership. Some people actually believe in public service. They tend to be hospitable, even pleasant and helpful. Others act as if you have three heads or are a scout for Martians who are about to vaporize the building. They are backed up by lawyers well-practiced in the delay, deny, delay game.
"Who are you?"
"Why do you want those records?"
"Why are you investigating that?"
These words were uttered to my colleague Jack Coraggio of the Litchfield County Times and me during a recent visit to Danbury City Hall.
In what seemed to be a practice and perhaps a policy of intimidation, we were told that even the most rudimentary requests must be presented in writing and reviewed by a lawyer. This gave me new appreciation for lawyers as creators of fiction. They love to dance around the requirement of the law that documents must be produced promptly. As a practical matter, this means documents must be produced immediately, unless the agency can prove that this would interfere with the normal course of business.
We were also told that "a public agency may have to review certain files prior to disclosure to ensure that no documents are being disclosed that could be considered exempt under the FOI statute, or that are privileged."
Hmm. Why would privileged or exempt material be held in a public file? If that's the case, then the small army of lawyers ensconced therein is providing ineffective assistance of counsel.
For most of the life of Connecticut's FOI law, citizens could confidently state they were not required to give their name and that verbal requests for documents were sufficient.
Then came a faulty ruling in 2011 by the state's Appellate Court that is being applied over broadly. The Appellate Court, in defiance of the FOI law's plain meaning, upheld the denial by a zoning commission to produce public records following a verbal request at a meeting. So much for legislative intent: Some judges will shaft the public's right to know whenever they get a chance.
The Appellate Court also failed to give customary and appropriate deference to the FOI Commission's application of the law in this narrow and horrendous ruling. As a remedy, the FOI Commission has proposed a bill that would affirm the right of sovereign citizens to receive documents promptly via verbal requests. This is among many corrective measures that the Legislature should adopt forthwith.
If the governor and the legislature are truly serious about the public's right to know, they could also beef up the fines. The current maximum fine is $1,000. That should be doubled, tripled or maybe even given another zero. Public servants who knowingly violate the public's right to know should be personally accountable. Why does a hungry person who steals a loaf of bread get in more trouble than a public official who steals, hides or destroys public records?
The FOI law and its application have been under intense siege in the last decade. The public's right to know will continue to deteriorate unless citizens and journalists demand adherence to the intent of the FOI law as stated in the preamble.
Here are just a few examples as detailed by the Connecticut Council for Freedom of Information, the organization that labored from 1955-75 to establish the FOI law:
o The General Assembly has continued to pass, at the very end of legislative sessions, "midnight amendments" that further erode the people's right to know. These amendments bypass public hearings so necessary to understanding the effects of proposed legislation.
o The legislature has passed laws barring access to historical records that historians and other researchers need to shed light on societal issues.
o The governor's office has proposed shutting off access to economic development information that has historically been open.
o The state Appellate Court has ruled in favor of more secrecy in arrest records.
As CCFOI President James Smith and Legislative Chair Claude Albert note, the FOI Commission was folded into a so-called super agency last year, diminishing its autonomy, losing key staff and leaving it more overburdened than ever.
Right now, the FOI Commission is spending too much time merely fighting for its existence. It won't be able to help citizens much longer unless citizens use the law aggressively and hound lawmakers to reaffirm the public's right to know.
Or, try this: Just stop by a local government office, make eye contact, say hello and state politely: "We're here to look at some public records."
Andy Thibault is a contributing editor for Journal Register Co.'s Connecticut publications and the author of Law & Justice In Everyday Life. He formerly served as a commissioner for Connecticut's Freedom of Information Commission. Reach Thibault by email at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @cooljustice.


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PARIS, France - In the aftermath of the worst riots witnessed in Paris since 1968, the 18-month-old French government led by the young president Emmanuel Macron announced its first big decision made under pressure from the country's infuriated citizens.
On Saturday, France witnessed the third week of protests organized by the grassroots movement called 'Yellow Vests' (gilets jaunes), over the fuel price hikes announced by Macron, as part of his campaign for cleaner cars and fuel.
However, over the last two weeks, thousands of people have taken to the streets in various parts of the country, to protest not only the gas taxes, but also to express their anger over the high cost of living in the country and the President's highly criticized policies in general.
While the first two weekend protests witnessed some stray incidents of violence, and casualties, Saturday's protests caused widespread anger and alarm, especially in the French capital.
The riots that broke out in Paris over the weekend were said to be the worst unrest witnessed in the city's central region in five decades.
Protesters blocked roads, motorways, fuel depots, torched dozens of vehicles, smashed windows, looted boutiques, defaced historic structures in the capital, and engaged in violent clashes with the police.
Denouncing the riots, the Paris police chief Michel Delpuech said that the violence witnessed on Saturday was "on a level not seen in decades."
Police in Paris arrested 412 people, while 263 people suffer injuries across the country, including dozens of members of the country's security forces.
The alarming levels of anger and the subsequent riots that have followed forced the French government to huddle up to discuss ways to quell the protest.
Tax not worth jeopardizing nation's unity
On Tuesday, the French Prime Minister announced the government's decision to suspend the planned increases to fuel taxes for at least six months.
In response to the violent protests, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said that anyone would have "to be deaf or blind" not to see or hear the roiling anger on the streets over the fuel tax hike policy.
While Macron has defended the plan as being critical to combating climate change, Philippe stressed, "The French who have donned yellow vests want taxes to drop, and work to pay. That's also what we want. If I didn't manage to explain it, if the ruling majority didn't manage to convince the French, then something must change. No tax is worth jeopardizing the unity of the nation."
The French Prime Minister also stressed that lawmakers would spend some time to discuss measures to help the working poor and squeezed middle-class who rely heavily on vehicles to commute.
However, he warned citizens against expecting better public services and lower taxes at the time same time.
Philippe explained, "If the events of recent days have shown us one thing, it's that the French want neither an increase in taxes or new taxes. If the tax-take falls then spending must fall, because we don't want to pass our debts on to our children. And those debts are already sizeable."
'We're not idiots!'
While the government had been hoping that its decision to suspend the taxes would placate fears of an outright rebellion within the country, the announcement left the 'yellow vest' movement miffed.
A spokesman for the grassroots initiative, Benjamin Cauchy argued, "The French don't want crumbs, they want a baguette.
Cauchy said that the Yellow Vests wanted a cancellation of the taxes and said that the government move was "either a disguised political snub or... to make fun of the French and put the tax back in six months."
Meanwhile, another spokesman for the group, Christophe Chalencon declared, "We're being taken for idiots."
Further, commenting on the government's decision, the Senate leader of the centre-right opposition, the Republicans, Bruno Retailleau, said the suspension was "absolutely inadequate."
Further, Macron's chief opponent in the presidential elections and far-right leader Marine Le Pen tweeting that the government's postponement of the tax, instead of a cancellation did not change much.


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The U.S. has not endured a deep and prolonged recession in more than a quarter century — enough time for many Americans to forget what one feels like.
But unlike the last two relatively short recessions, this one could be much longer and more severe, potentially bringing with it anxiety and job losses not seen in many years.
"In thinking about recessions, people will naturally think back to the last couple" in the early 1990s and in 2001, said Paul Ashworth, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics in Toronto. "What they should be looking back at is further."
That requires dredging up memories of the economic slides in the 1970s, when an Arab oil embargo starved the nation of energy, and the early 1980s, when unemployment and inflation soared.
The last recession — coinciding with the collapse of the tech stock bubble and the terrorist attacks of 2001 — lasted just eight months. It was known more for the slow "jobless" recovery that followed than for the depth of the downturn.
Many economists agree that the nation won't be so fortunate this time.
"I don't think we can escape damage to the real economy," former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said this week in Singapore. "I think we almost inevitably face a considerable recession."
The Fed's current chairman, Ben Bernanke, delivered a more measured but similarly grave assessment in a speech Wednesday, saying that even if markets stabilize, "broader economic recovery will not happen right away."
Stock prices plunged, with major U.S. indexes down 8 to 9 percent on one of their worst days ever on concern about deteriorating economic conditions.
The signs of stress certainly are starting to show: The U.S. has lost 760,000 jobs since late last year, and retail sales in September plunged 1.2 percent, the largest drop in three years.
Every recession is driven by its own dynamic and psychology. The current slump started with the collapse in the housing market and got worse with sharp restrictions on credit that pressured consumer spending and businesses.
That is a different environment from 1973, when an oil crisis was the culprit, squeezing U.S. businesses and consumers. In the early 1980s, raging inflation and high interest rates took their toll.
Both periods saw millions of Americans out of work. In 1975, the unemployment rate peaked at 9 percent. In 1982, it jumped to 10.8 percent.
Most economists forecast a sharp increase in the number of people who lose their jobs. But they do not see it leading to unemployment on the scale of either the 1970s or 1980s.
The jobless rate is currently at 6.1 percent, and many economists expect it to rise to about 7 percent early next year — a level the country has not seen since 1993. Some analysts believe the unemployment rate could climb close to 8 percent, which hasn't happened since 1984.
But this recession could begin to feel like those of the past not just because of lost jobs, but because of fear about the future.
In the 1980s, as the nation struggled with inflation and a transition from a manufacturing economy to one based on services, Americans had "a huge amount of uncertainty and anxiety that lingered on for a long period of time," said Bart van Ark, chief economist for The Conference Board.
"That element I find comparable to what we're seeing today, but some of the underlying dynamics are very, very different."
In 1973, the U.S. economy had been growing for three years and unemployment had dropped to well below 5 percent.
Then, on Oct. 6, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched surprise attacks on Israeli-held territory while Jews were observing Yom Kippur. Arab members of OPEC soon cut off shipments of oil to the United States and other countries that supported Israel.
Oil prices rose sharply and forced rationing of tight supplies. Drivers lined up at filling stations on odd or even days depending on the number on their license plates. Some stations ran out of gas.
A recession is typically defined as a period in which the economy shrinks for two quarters in a row. In the shallow 2001 recession, the quarters weren't even consecutive.
But in the 1970s, the recession stretched on for a year and a half. Nearly 2.2 million people lost their jobs. By the end of 1974, the Dow Jones industrial average had lost more than 40 percent of its value. At the same time, the nation was focused on the Watergate scandal and the vacuum left by President Nixon's resignation in August 1974.
The economy began to recover in spring of the next year. But inflation, which had eased as the oil embargo was lifted, spiked again. By 1980, prices were rising at an annual rate of 13.5 percent.
Anxious about a hostage crisis in Iran and the Carter's administration inability to tame inflation, Americans elected Ronald Reagan president. But it wasn't at all clear how his plan to increase defense spending would cure the economy's ills.
Volcker, appointed by Carter to lead the Fed in 1979, took on inflation by sharply raising interest rates. It worked, but made life even more difficult for consumers at a time when the nation was doubtful about its economic future.
"That was the feeling at that time: hopelessness, in terms of how do we get out of this situation," said Anthony Campagna, author of "The Economy in the Reagan Years."
The next recession did not come until 1990, as preparations for the Gulf War drove up the price of oil. But the 1.6 million jobs lost was much less severe than in the previous downturn, and this one lasted for just eight months.
When it recovered, the economy staged its longest expansion on record — 10 years of growth. The next recession, in early 2001, was similarly short-lived. The number of people out of work rose sharply, but compared with some past recessions, unemployment rate was relatively mild.
The fact that the last two recessions were so short, the damage relatively limited and the preceding good times so long has helped many people forget the pain of a more severe economic slump.
"We've become a little spoiled, actually," said Todd Knoop, a professor at Iowa's Cornell College and author of "Modern Financial Macroeconomics: Panics, Crashes and Crises."
That could make this recession feel particularly intense.
Said Jay Bryson, global economist at Wachovia Corp.: "I think no matter how you measure it, this coming recession will be worse than the last one."


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OLIVEBRIDGE — Former Congressman Maurice Hinchey was the guest of honor at the new Ashokan Center's open house on Sunday.
OLIVEBRIDGE — Former Congressman Maurice Hinchey was the guest of honor at the new Ashokan Center's open house on Sunday.
About 200 visitors toured the facilities.
But the most heartfelt moments took place in the mid-afternoon during a tree-planting ceremony in Hinchey's honor.
"It's a living tribute to all that Maurice has done, particularly for the environment," said Frank Cardinale, the Ulster County Democratic Committee chairman.
Hinchey, who came impeccably dressed in a dark gray suit, picked up a shovel to help place the three sugar maples in the ground.
Although the 74-year-old retired lawmaker had written a prepared statement, so many people came forward to praise his nearly 40 years of public service that he almost didn't get chance to speak.
"He doesn't need to," said Bob Biditt of Kingston. "He's proven himself a winner, and we all know what he's accomplished."
Hinchey, who is battling colon cancer, said he's had four operations and completed chemotherapy two months ago.
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WASHINGTON -- Josh Wege is a No. 2 hitter. A speed guy. He has been with his current team for more than 2 1/2 years, traveling to 27 states and 58 cities to play roughly 100 games a year.
He also happens to be a double-amputee.
A Marine Corps veteran and baseball fanatic, Wege is one of nearly two dozen members of the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team. The 23-year-old and his teammates tour the country playing exhibitions, celebrity games and competitive tournaments.
After the Nationals' 11-2 win over the Phillies Sunday afternoon, the Wounded Warriors played with Nationals' coaches, players' wives, broadcasters and assorted celebrities in the third annual Wounded Warrior Softball Classic.
Brian Dietzan of CBS' 'NCIS', Sakina Jaffrey of Netflix's 'House of Cards', Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky and NBC's Luke Russert were among the game's participants. But the real celebrities were veterans like Wege.
"It's pretty much a comeback story," said Wege, who hit an inside the park home run in Sunday's game. "That's what we are. We're coming back, going from the battlefield to the ballfield. That's what we do."
At the center of the Wounded Warriors program is general manager David Van Sleet, an avid softball player and Army veteran who spent 30 years with the Department of Veterans Affairs. During his time there, he regularly worked with prosthetics and saw the athleticism of injured soldiers. The idea to form a Wounded Warrior softball team came naturally.
"It's changed their lives. It's changed my life. It inspires people," Van Sleet said. "They've recovered and gone on. I can't say that's the case for all veterans and active duty soldiers, but for our guys, they've done a good turn."
The group consists of players from around the country, mostly Army and Marine Corps veterans. Van Sleet hand-picked the team, which played its first game in March 2011. Wege was among the original members.
Raised in Campbellsport, Wisc., Wege was a three-sport athlete in high school, though he was always particularly drawn to baseball. He enlisted as a Marine after his high school graduation in 2008 and was in Afghanistan by 2009. While there, he rolled over a 200-pound improvised explosive device in a light-armored vehicle. Wege lost both his legs below the knee.
"Yeah, it's a bad thing," Wege said. "But you look at the situation I'm in now, you make lemonade out of lemons. You look at the glass half-full or half-empty, however you want to do it."
When Wege heard about the Wounded Warrior softball team, he said he was one of the first people to sign up.
"The kid is a stud," Van Sleet said. "He can play any position on this softball field. Any position. He would've been something if he hadn't gotten hurt."
Less than five years after losing his legs, Wege counts himself as blessed. He travels the country year-round playing softball, exploring new cities and inspiring people. Like Major League baseball, the schedule can be a grind. But Wege loves every minute of it.
"You get back and all you really want to do is get your life back, and then you get opportunities like this to come out and play," Wege said. "We get a second chance to be athletes, and I definitely don't take that for granted."


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Sciatica or Piriformis Syndrome - Which is It?
A large amount of confusion and misunderstanding exists concerning the conditions
and piriformis syndrome. There are some who insist that the two conditions are actually the same thing, but even though they can have symptoms that are very much alike, the underlying causes differ.
repairing the spine, a patient will benefit greatly due to chiropractic treatments that are meant to fix problems of the spine. While bed rest and staying off the back is one of the best things you can do, in terms of problems with the sciatic nerve, it is better to be safe than sorry, so those who suffer with pain should see a chiropractor.
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Piriformis syndrome, also known as "pseudo-
" (meaning "false sciatica"), is actually referral pain and other symptoms (tingling, numbness, etc.) caused by tightness and knots of contraction in the piriformis muscle, which runs from the upper femur bone to the edge of the sacrum, the triangular pelvic bone that is below the lumbar spine. The symptoms of piriformis syndrome are very similar and may be indistinguishable from true
As well, by visiting a chiropractor, an individual can ensure they do not do further damage to their spine due to a lack of treatment. Ont i ryggen Ischias
Here goes... Reason #1: Your
remains for the primary reason of habit. No you don't have habits that you must change like your posture or how you lift. Habit relates to the internal mechanisms of your body. Habits form because of consistent and repetitive acts.
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Reason #3: Most people fail to remove their back pain and
because they believe that to do so is too hard, too laborious, or too time consuming. You may also believe that unless you see results in a few minutes that things are not working.
Sciatica refers to irritation of the sciatic (often mis-spelled as syatic or psyatic) nerve, that arises from nerve roots in the lumbar spine. The most common cause of sciatic nerve irritation, or "true"
is compression of one or more of its component nerve roots due to disc herniation or spinal degeneration in the lower lumbar region. Sciatica usually begins in the buttock area and, depending on the severity of the underlying nerve comression and inflammation, may extend down the entire leg to the ankle and foot.
The second area to attack is inflammation. Sure this can be accomplished by medication, but medication can have side-effects. So use natural products such as Homeopathics, herbs etc first. If they fail to remove the inflammation, then use medication. Inflammation is not a major cause of
though, but should still be addressed.
In fact - research now shows that the majority of
cases are not caused by disc injuries. The majority are a result of spinal misalignment, muscle tension and inflammation of the sciatic nerve.
Therefore to change habits you need to use techniques your self, consistently, repeatedly at home to change habits. For
and back pain to disappear once and for all, you need to learn ways to help your self.
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The final area to correct is the spinal and pelvic misalignment. When the spine and pelvis tighten the muscles in the area tighten, which then leads to your
. To balance the pelvis and lower spine, you need to use techniques that re-align the spine and pelvis and maintain it. Simple ways to keep the spine moving freely and easily.
You also have emotional stress, general health, and fatigue levels that are just as important. To have a complete and permanent relief from
and back pain, you need to address all these areas. Which leads you to reason number 3...
driving you crazy, are you tired of waking up in pain and not being able to do want you want to do? Does your sciatica cause so much pain that life is just not enjoyable anymore?
It is important to distinguish between sciatica and piriformis syndrome, because the treatment for the conditions varies, and getting the diagnosis right typically leads to more effective treatment.
But since the most effective treatment for the two conditions varies signficantly, it is important to determine the correct diagnosis if at all possible. In most cases there is an easy way to distinguish between sciatica and piriformis syndrome.
So what should you do? Your
needs a collective approach. This means you need to eliminate all the causes of your
, no matter how minor they may be. If you don't ... your sciatica will return. Research has also shown that when it returns - it comes back worse the second time around. So eliminate properly the first time and save your self a lot of pain and money.
If you have your joints moving correctly, muscle low in tension and inflammation gone ... sciatica will disappear almost overnight. All these are achievable by you using techniques you can use at home. Sciatica does not need to be a pain in the butt. It can disappear simply and easily.
Two simple maneuvers will distinguish
from piriformis syndrome in the majority of cases (when the problem is one versus the other and not both conditions at the same time). First, in a seated position, if one straightens the leg on the painful side (so that the leg is parallel to the floor), and the
symptoms increase, this is usually a sign of true sciatic nerve irritation.
In the case of disc herniation,
can occur due to the pressing down on one of the sciatic nerve roots. Spinal Stenosis can also be a cause of sciatica because of the narrowing of the spinal canal, where the spinal cord runs, and compression of the spinal cord. This can be caused by herniated discs, bone spurs and vertebral dislocation, which then pinches the spinal cord that travels to the sciatic nerve and irritating it with friction.
Reason #2: Most
and back pain treatments fail as they only address one aspect of your problem. You will see some practitioners, and many internet sites, saying your problem is due to muscles. Then other will say it is joints. Then more who say it is inflamed tissues. And so on.
Stretching is the ideal way to reduce muscle tension. However, the most important ingredients are not what to stretch, but when and how to stretch. There are some simple and highly effective stretches that will reduce muscle tension in days.
Piriformis Syndrome is another cause of sciatic symptoms. However, this only occurs in 15 percent of the population who have the sciatic nerve running through the piriformis rather than beneath it. In case of trauma, the muscle shortens and is compresses the sciatic nerve under the muscle. Unhealthy posture and excess time in chairs or sleeping in the fetal position, along with no stretching or exercise can cause sciatic irritation and pain as well. Another common cause of pain in the sciatic nerve is pregnancy, usually occurring late when the uterus is pressing on the sciatic nerve, as well as due to muscle tension caused by the weight of the fetus.
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However, by visiting a professional chiropractor for chiropractic treatment, an individual can eliminate the pain in the sciatic nerve and begin walking proud and tall again. There is no reason to suffer with pain that an individual can eliminate with a short visit to a chiropractor or osteopath.
Conclusion One of the most painful spinal injuries can be to the sciatic nerve. The nerve can be compressed, or pinched, resulting in a great deal of pain to anyone who suffers from it. The pain can affect the lower half of one side of a person's body, making them immobile.
Treatment from a practitioner will not change habits. Why? It takes 31 days to change a habit. Do you know of any practitioner that does (or willing to) work 31 days in a row? Probably not.
Who is right and who is wrong. In fact they are all right and all wrong. Back pain and especially
is a combination of factors. Tight muscles, weak muscles, joints not moving correctly and inflammation - these all create your pain.
In some cases, piriformis syndrome may cause true sciatic nerve irritation, as the sciatic nerve may run underneath or even through the middle of the piriformis, so contraction of the piriformis may produce sufficient compression of the sciatic nerve to produce actual nerve symptoms. This is one of the main sources of confusion when it comes to distinguishing true
from piriformis syndrome.
... you know the pain that travels down your leg and makes life so horrible at times. Your back pain is affecting your life; you can't do so many activities you once could. You may have sought treatment from many different practitioners, you may even have purchased many products off the internet... but your sciatica remains.
Dr Graeme Teague is an expert in the structural field, and has been in practice since 1991. His newly launched web site The Back Pain Advisor - http://www.back-pain-advisor.com - strives to give you valuable and expert advice, tips and information on your back pain issues.
Treatment One of the best ways to treat sciatic nerve problems is through the use of a chiropractor or osteopath. By seeing professionals who specialize in
It is not strength of will or courage that wins the day... it is consistency. A famous quote from Winston Churchill about winning World War 2. It can be applied to winning your war against
and back pain. Learn to consistently target the areas causing your back pain and sciatica then... it will disappear once and for all.
Causes The cause of sciatica is generally the compression of the lumbar spine nerve root L4 or L5, or compression of the sciatic nerve itself, which is far less common.
The second maneuver is done in two parts. First, from the sitting position one bends the leg and pulls the knee on the painful side towards the same-side shoulder. In all but the most severe cases, there is usually no major increase in pain in this position. The second part of the maneuver is to pull the knee toward the opposite side shoulder. An increase in the
-like symptoms is a strong indication of piriformis syndrome.
Your attack needs to address the three main factors. If you target these then your sciatic nerve will heal. But as the saying goes... if pain persists see your doctor. Although the majority of
cases are not serious, if pain persists it pays to seek help. One to rule out the serious causes and secondly if it fails to heal quickly, professional help will speed your recovery.
If you have had your sciatica for over a month (yes it only takes 31 days to form a habit) then your body believes it is perfectly normal to have
and back pain. To remove your back pain and
, you need to change these habits. The big question is how?
Your sciatic nerve pain that you thought you were doomed to have forever, or at least need surgery for. Is able to be treated and treated successfully.
But back to the three pronged attack... Firstly you need to reduce tension in the Piriformis muscle. The Piriformis is the muscle that causes most cases of
. The sciatic nerve either runs through this muscle or close to it. When the muscle tightens, the sciatic nerve is irritated - you now have sciatica.
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You then decide to stop using the techniques and fail to consistently change the habits that cause your back pain or
. Reason #1 again. In reality, to change the habits, to correct the structural and general/emotional causes of your sciatica and back pain need only take a few minutes each day to apply.
Don't worry... It may feel like your life is getting worse, but in reality your sciatica is curable. Sciatica is commonly thought to be due to disc problems - you have a disc that bulges, that puts pressure on the nerve which then radiates down your leg...
. And the cure... medication and surgery are your likely options.
Did you know there are 3 simple reasons why your sciatica and back pain remain? Would you like to understand what these are so you can be finally free from your debilitating back pain? You may even be surprised to find that you can change most of these your self.
On average, symptoms will only happen on one side of the body. This is a very common form of back pain, however the term
actually applies to a set of symptoms rather than the diagnosis of what is irritating the nerve.
As mentioned earlier, the symptoms of true
are very similar to piriformis syndrome. Both cause pain, tingling, burning, "electrical shock" sensations, and/or numbness down the leg, often all the way to the foot. In addition, both sciatica and piriformis syndrome tend to be at least partially related to biomechanical functional problems in the joints of the back and pelvis and they may even be present simultaneously in the same person, so it an be difficult to tell them apart.
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Sciatica, I m sure you know, is a real pain in the butt . It affects your day to day life and stops you enjoying your work and leisure times. At times pin is constant and you may even get numbness in your legs. You may be frustrated that you can t even tie your own shoe laces, or play with your kids, let alone perform totally at work. You may have fears that it will become worse...
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Why Exercise is Important Many doctors, physical therapists and other health practitioners recommend exercises for sciatica treatment and prevention. While bed rest or inactivity might be advised for the first day or so, extended activity allows the muscles to weaken and the pain can become worse. Sciatica exercises help to strengthen and stretch the muscles that support the back,...
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A large amount of confusion and misunderstanding exists concerning the conditions sciatica and piriformis syndrome. There are some who insist that the two conditions are actually the same thing, but even though they can have symptoms that are very much alike, the underlying causes differ. Sciatica refers to irritation of the sciatic (often mis-spelled as syatic or psyatic) nerve, that arises...
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"During [one] visit of Senator Bob Menendez to the Dominican Republic, I had intimate relations with him on more than one occasion," the unidentified woman wrote, according to The Daily Caller's translation. She appears to be a new voice among what are now at least six women purported to have engaged in sex for money with Menendez.
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TUESDAY, May 4 (HealthDay News) -- A woman who smokes while pregnant increases her baby's risk of developing psychiatric problems in childhood and young adulthood, a new Finnish study suggests.
While there's plenty of evidence that smoking during pregnancy puts unborn children at risk for long-term health problems such as asthma, ear infections and respiratory disease, this research is among the first to find a connection between prenatal smoking and an increased risk for mental illnesses, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and depression, in the mother's offspring.
Researchers at Turku University Hospital in Finland analyzed the birth records of more than 175,000 Finnish children born in the late 1980s, as well as their use of psychotropic medications as children and young adults.
Children exposed to prenatal smoking were 32 percent more likely overall to have taken a psychiatric drug than children whose mothers didn't smoke during pregnancy, the researchers found. The risk was even higher in the offspring of women who smoked more than a pack a day while pregnant. Their kids were 44 percent more likely to use psychiatric drugs than children whose moms didn't smoke.
Study author Mikael Ekblad said animal studies have shown that prenatal nicotine exposure interferes with the development of fetal brain cells. "In our previous study, published in the Journal of Pediatrics in February 2010, we found that prematurely born infants exposed to prenatal smoking had smaller frontal and cerebellar brain volumes than the unexposed infants. These brain regions are important for normal cognitive development," said Ekblad, a medical student and pediatric researcher.
The researchers collected data on all children born in Finland from 1987 through 1989. In addition to information about maternal smoking, they looked at gestational age, birth weight and five-minute Apgar scores. Using records from Finland's Social Insurance Institution, they also examined the children's use of psychotropic medications between 1994 and 2007.
Roughly 12 percent of the young adults had used psychiatric medications, and of this group, about 19 percent had mothers who smoked during their pregnancies.
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The risk for all medication use was similar in males and females, and remained after adjusting for risk factors at birth, such as Apgar scores and birth weight.
Since mental illness often runs in families, the researchers also controlled for a possible genetic connection by analyzing records of the mother's psychiatric inpatient care prior to giving birth. "One of the strengths of our study is that we could control for maternal mental health diseases," said Ekblad, who added that the genetic effect is higher in psychiatric problems that require hospitalization.
"This is an interesting study which raises the important possibility that prenatal exposure to smoking may pose additional risks that have not been identified to date, but based on the information available so far, the effect seems to be small," said Neil Grunberg, a professor of medical psychology, clinical psychology and neuroscience at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md.
Grunberg also questioned whether the study adequately controlled for possible genetic and environmental factors. "In the U.S., there is a high correlation between smoking and psychological disorders," said Grunberg. In addition, many people have a family history of psychiatric disorders, even though they themselves have never been diagnosed with one, he said.
The findings were to be presented Tuesday at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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There's more on the dangers of smoking during pregnancy at the March of Dimes.
SOURCES: Mikael Ekblad, pediatric researcher, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland; Neil Grunberg, professor, medical psychology, clinical psychology and neuroscience, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Md.; May 4, 2010, presentation, Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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By Jareen Imam, CNN • Updated 4th April 2014
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Ashley Blackmon
sat down for her job interview for a marketing position in New York City, she didn't start off by talking about the business classes she had taken in college or her experience working at a financial services company.
Instead, she talked about the five months she spent studying and traveling in Spain.
"When I left the interview, I felt amazing," said Blackmon, 24, who studied at ESEI International Business School in Barcelona the year before she graduated Clark Atlanta University. She landed that marketing analyst job at a large food and beverage company and believes her study-abroad experience was the thing that set her apart. "I learned how to be a better businesswoman, critical thinker and relationship builder in a new culture," she said.
Studying abroad isn't a common experience for most U.S. college students. In fact, only 1% of students manage to study abroad.
Ashley Blackmon studied abroad in Spain.
Courtesy Ashley Blackmon
Finances, time constraints and safety are some of the challenges U.S. students face when deciding to spend a semester or two overseas. But globetrotting during or after college could give recent graduates an edge in the job market, which continues to be one of the
toughest on record
for 20-somethings.
The potential benefits are prompting new study-abroad initiatives in the States. Organizations such as the Institute of International Education have launched programs such as
Generation Study Abroad
in hopes of doubling the number of U.S. students who travel internationally.
An international push from the White House
First lady Michelle Obama is also working on efforts to promote more international travel among Americans.
She's in China with her daughters and mother
, speaking about the importance of education, youth empowerment and the benefits of studying abroad. The first lady conducted an exclusive interview with
CNN iReporters on Saturday, taking their questions on studying abroad
"The benefits of studying abroad are almost endless," Obama said during the CNN iReport interview. "First of all, it is going to make you more marketable in the United States. More and more companies are realizing that they need people with experience around the world."
Howard Wallack, vice president of global business development
at the Society for Human Resource Management
, has experience as a hiring manager and was an international exchange student. He says traveling abroad can introduce students to a host of skills.
"Living in another country, you learn to deal with a variety of people," he said. "You learn to listen, be proactive, be patient, assertive. All those are translatable skills."
Wallack's experience working in a rural health clinic in Guatemala after a major earthquake helped him find compassion and resiliency within himself.
"If you just stay in your own country, you have a certain mindset about your own culture. When you step out of that, you challenge your experiences and find out about yourself, which can translate in the workplace," he said.
The problem is students don't always know how to illustrate those experiences on paper. But some colleges are taking steps to teach soon-to-be graduates how to leverage their study abroad adventures for job interviews.
Take the trip, land the job
Heather White is the director of the
Career Resource Center at the University of Florida
. With an enrollment of 50,000 students annually, she says the key to standing out with your travel experience is to be strategic about how you exhibit it.
"Some students tend to write on their resume, 'study abroad France,' and that is it. We recommend expanding on that experience. Did they volunteer, work, study?" she said.
Jennifer Grasz, a spokesperson for job-posting site
, says to write out what you learned and how it's relevant to your professional performance on your resume.
"For example: Traveling abroad has provided me with a greater knowledge and appreciation of global communities and how to effectively navigate around communication and cultural barriers," she wrote in an e-mail to CNN.
Ashley Putnam, a fellowship director and writer for
Idealist, an online resource for finding nonprofit jobs
, is a bit more skeptical about the career benefits of studying overseas. "It depends on what they did," she explained. Running a public policy program, she looks for applicants who are realistic about job expectations.
"I find that people who paid to volunteer abroad sort of just take pictures and hold babies," she said. "It depends on your study abroad program, too. Just having studied abroad is good, but there is a whole other aspect to what you did while you were there."
That's exactly what
Alexa Basile
tried to keep in mind when she selected her study abroad program. The State University of New York at Potsdam student spent a year in Australia teaching social studies to a class of nine students.
It was during that immersion with her students, many of whom had behavioral problems, that she noticed her eighth-grade students were reading at a second-grade level. That inspired her to focus on more critical reading lessons. "And that made me realize I wanted to be a literacy specialist," she said, which she is now emphasizing as she interviews for graduate school.
Alexa Basile traveled to Australia for her study-abroad trip.
Courtesy Alexa Basile
Like Blackmon, Basile puts her study-abroad experience on her resume, but she also goes in depth about her trip in her cover letter. She's candid with interviewers about her successes and challenges overseas.
"I had times with this class that were really tough, and sometimes frustrating," she said. Her students routinely challenged her instructions, defied her and talked back to her.
"But my very last day, I walked into the classroom and they decorated it for me and they brought me treats and toys," she said. "I broke down immediately. It really proved to me they were tough, but they appreciated me."
Those frustrating and rewarding moments helped hone her classroom management skills. After Basile came back from Australia, she got her second student teaching job at an inner-city school in New York City.
It's exactly that sort of program involvement that Idealist's Putnam says will make hiring managers care about a study abroad trip. "Be self-aware as you are doing your job and take stock in what skills you are building. It's not just 'I go to a class and I teach the class,' " she said. "Be critical of the work that you are doing."
Basile, who is interviewing for graduate schools, says to approach studying abroad with realistic expectations. "To get most out of your travel, you need to go with the mindset that you are going to do a lot of things and be involved," she said.
"Get hands on and look for a program that has those experiences. You can be a tourist on a family vacation."
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Torrington instructor stresses safety, no distracted driving at SOLID Skills Driving School
Torrington >> A local driving instructor has a stark and assertive method for beginning his classes.
Kerry Washay founded SOLID Skills Driving School two years ago, and the way he introduced his class was by holding a cell phone in one hand and a small, empty bottle of vodka in the other.
"Which is more dangerous, the vodka or the cellphone?" Washay said he asks his students. "They raise their hands: 'Of course, it's the vodka, right?"
After correcting the students, who usually say alcohol is more dangerous, that the cell phone use while driving is actually resulting in more fatal accidents, he shows them a video of real life people who have lost loved ones due to distracted driving.
Washay operates his school from a building he owns at 184 South Main St., and his black Volkswagen Jetta is always parked outside, ready to take students for a practice drive. His students call him 'K Washay.'
"I started this school primarily because I wanted to make a difference in these kid's lives," Washay said. "The unfortunate thing that's happening out there is that accidents are the leading cause of deaths in teenagers, 16 to 19 years old. Every year we lose roughly 5,000 people from driving accidents."
Washay said that alcohol and speeding were the primary reasons teens got into driving accidents.
According to the official US government website for distracting driving, Distraction.org, 3,331 people were killed in car accidents involving a distracted driver in 2011. Additionally, the website says 11 percent of fatal crashes involving drivers under 20 were reported as distracted when they crashed.
The name of his school, SOLID, is acronym that stands for Save Our Lives Intelligent Driving, and was inspired by a personal story.
"A very good friend of our family, a very good friend of my son's, was killed by a drunk driver in his mid-20s," Washay said. "His favorite saying was if something was really good, it was 'solid'. His name was Josh. So I used that 'solid' idea, and that 'solid' thought to come up with SOLID skills."
Washay is fully licenced by the Department of Motor Vehicles and is an advanced driving instructor. His classes take five weeks to complete, and include 30 hours of classroom lecture and 8 hours of actual driving. He limits his classes to 16 students, and he said that he has at least 3 drives per day, seven days a week and holds classes three times a week.
"I keep my class size small and keep it intimate so if there's a one-on-one necessary for people, I've got the time do it," Washay said.
The main goal, he said, is to create safe drivers. He even offers classes for adults so they can get an idea of what their children are learning.
"This is not about getting your driver's license, it's about safe driving," Washay said. "I'm really passionate about what I do. I want them to be good, safe drivers and stay alive and stay healthy. That's what this is all about."
Reach Esteban L. Hernandez at (860) 489-3121, ext. 328.