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The purpose of the present study was to address perceptions towards Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in soccer. Twenty-four male, elite academy soccer players (M age = 20.04) completed a custom-made questionnaire which included education on CBT. The results found that: i) initially, only 8% of players had heard of CBT whilst only 4% of players knew what CBT was, ii) players strongly agreed that CBT should be offered to all players, iii) not knowing how/where to seek help was identified as the main barrier to CBT, iv) players indicated a preference for one-to-one and face-to-face CBT, as opposed to small-group or online-CBT, and v) players perceived they would receive most support from family/friends, and least support from teammates, if they were to undertake CBT. These findings demonstrate that whilst initial awareness and knowledge of CBT is low, general perceptions towards CBT are positive once athletes are educated on the area.
Luke Wilkins, Jen Sweeney, Zoella Zaborski, Carl Nelson, Simon Tweddle, Eldre Beukes, and Peter Allen
Diane M. Wiese-Bjornstal, Kristin N. Wood, Amanda J. Wambach, Andrew C. White, and Victor J. Rubio
The purpose of this study was to explore religiosity/spirituality (R/S) in coping with sport injuries, based on predictions of the integrated model of psychological response to the sport injury and rehabilitation process. A concurrent mixed methods design framed an online survey incorporating quantitative measures of R/S identification and commitment, health locus of control for sport injury, and ways of coping with sport injury, as well as qualitative open-ended questions about mechanisms through which R/S affected and was affected by coping with sport injuries. Participants included 49 physically active adults who experienced sport injuries, with 37 identifying as R/S. Quantitative findings among R/S participants showed religious commitment was a predictor of God health locus of control and positive religious coping. Quantitative results relative to differences between R/S and no-R/S participants showed that those self-identified as R/S relied on a God health locus of control and utilized active coping more so than did those self-identified as no-R/S, whereas no-R/S participants relied more than did R/S participants on an internal health locus of control. Thematic analyses exploring qualitative data revealed three main themes characterizing mechanisms through which R/S affected and was affected by coping with sport injuries: positive, negative, and no R/S coping strategies and effects. Findings support the predictions of the integrated model of psychological response to the sport injury and rehabilitation process and provide evidence-bases for clinical and counseling interventions that reflect cultural competence in accommodating patient or client R/S during recovery from sport injury.
Emily Kroshus, Sara P.D. Chrisman, Jeffrey J. Milroy, and Christine M. Baugh
Purpose: Assess whether athletes with a prior concussion diagnosis are more likely to continue play with a possible concussion. Additionally, explore whether reasons for concussion under-reporting are different among athletes with a prior concussion when compared to other athletes. Methods: Cross-sectional survey of 328 collegiate athletes. Results: Athletes with a prior concussion diagnosis had significantly greater relative risk of continuing play while symptomatic of a possible concussion during their most recent season compared to athletes without prior concussion diagnosis. Significant differences exist in the reasons that athletes provided for not reporting by history of concussion. Conclusions: Findings suggest that learning may have occurred as a result of the prior diagnosis; however, this learning did not appear to result in safer reporting behavior. Additional research is necessary to clarify why athletes who have been previously diagnosed with a concussion are more likely to continue playing while experiencing concussion symptoms.
Anne Holding, Jo-Annie Fortin, Joëlle Carpentier, Nora Hope, and Richard Koestner
Retirement from competitive sports significantly influences former athletes' well-being. We propose that disengaging from the former athletic career is a crucial factor in retired athletes' adaptation. Using the theoretical framework of Self-Determination Theory (SDT) we propose that sport motivation at the career peak and motivation for retirement are important determinants of athletes' disengagement progress from a terminated athletic career. We also seek to examine how motivation for retirement and disengagement progress predict retired athletes' well-being. Using a mixed-retrospective/prospective longitudinal design we followed 158 government-supported elite athletes who had recently retired from an athletic career. In two online surveys administered 1.5 years apart, retired athletes reported on motivation, disengagement, and well-being. Results suggested that SDT motivation factors are important predictors for elite athletes career disengagement and well-being in retirement. The clinical implications of these findings for athletic career transition and support programs are discussed.
Leonardo Ruiz, Judy L. Van Raalte, Thaddeus France, and Al Petitpas
More than 1,400 Latin American professional baseball players, age 16-21, are employed by 30 Major League Baseball (MLB) academies in the Dominican Republic. The popular press has highlighted scandals related to professional youth baseball player recruitment, selection, and exploitation in the academies, but little attention has been given to the academy experiences of youth baseball players from the perspective of the players themselves. For this research, 11 professional baseball players residing at an MLB Academy in the Dominican Republic participated in semi-structured interviews. Players described their transitions into the baseball academy system, their experiences in the academy, and their perceptions and expectations upon leaving or being released from the academy. Themes that emerged from the data included athletes' hopes and dreams, stress, faith, and career transitions. Clinical implications of these findings for sport psychology practitioners are discussed.
Karin Moesch, Andreas Ivarsson, and Urban Johnson
Injury is a serious setback for athletes and might jeopardize mental health. The aim of this study is to investigate if a mindfulness- and acceptance-based intervention can improve mindfulness (nonreactivity and acting with awareness), acceptance, and well-being, and decrease the level of symptoms of anxiety and depression. A single-case design with multiple, staggered, and nonconcurrent baselines was used. Six seriously injured athletes took part in an 8-week intervention and repeatedly completed questionnaires on all variables for the duration of the study. The results showed that, on average, there were significant clinical changes between phases in nonreactivity, well-being, and acceptance. No effect was seen in the two remaining scales. On an individual level, two participants showed effects in all scales, two participants in some of the scales, and two participants in the scale nonreactivity. Results are discussed in light of existing research, and implications for practitioners' clinical methods are presented.
Linda Corbally, Mick Wilkinson, and Melissa A. Fothergill
Fatigue, boredom, pain, performance anxiety, and negative thoughts are challenges characteristic of competitive running. One psychological technique that is gaining support and has been successfully implemented in sport is the practice of mindfulness. Where conventional psychological skills training interventions aim to change dysfunctional thoughts and emotions, mindfulness focuses on altering the relationship to physiological and psychological states. This could help in dealing with the demands of distance running but this has yet to be examined. This article was focused on reviewing mindfulness interventions on performance and performance-based factors in long distance running, assessing (a) mindfulness scores, (b) physiological performance-related factors, (c) psychological performance-related factors, and (d) performance outcomes. A search of relevant electronic databases yielded seven studies which met the inclusion criteria. The review provided some tentative support for the use of mindfulness interventions regarding: reducing competitive anxiety, attenuating immune responses to high-intensity running, and increasing state mindfulness. However, due to the methodological weaknesses of studies more research is required using high-quality randomized controlled trial designs.
William C. Way, Ashley M. Coker-Cranney, and Jack C. Watson II
Using the framework of multidisciplinary best practice recommendations promoted by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, this study used a mixed-methods approach to investigate Division I student-athletes' perceived access to and satisfaction with mental health service availability. Participants were asked about their satisfaction with direct (e.g., counseling, psychiatry, assessment) and indirect (e.g., mental health outreach, educational workshops) service availability, both on campus and within athletics. Results from a researcher-generated survey indicated that participants were moderately satisfied with service availability in each of the four contexts. Hierarchical multiple regressions revealed that student-athletes' satisfaction was predicted by different factors for each service type-location combination. Qualitative data contained requests for more athlete-centered mental health services as well as more preventative outreach in general. These data provide a foundation for understanding factors that influence student-athletes' satisfaction with mental health service availability and offer practical implications for current best practice recommendations.
Tobias Lundgren, Gustaf Reinebo, Markus Näslund, and Thomas Parling
Despite the growing popularity of mindfulness and acceptance-based performance enhancement methods in applied sport psychology, evidence for their efficacy is scarce. The purpose of the current study is to test the feasibility and effect of a psychological training program based on Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) developed for ice hockey players. A controlled group feasibility designed study was conducted and included 21 elite male ice hockey players. The ACT program consisted of four, once a week, sessions with homework assignments between sessions. The results showed significant increase in psychological flexibility for the players in the training group. The outcome was positive for all feasibility measures. Participants found the psychological training program important to them as ice hockey players and helpful in their ice hockey development. Desirably, future studies should include objective performance data as outcome measure to foster more valid evidence for performance enhancement methods in applied sport psychology.


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I didn't have the energy to decorate and put up the Christmas tree...... I bought some poinsettias and did a couple of vignettes and called it a day!
I had to remind myself that its not about the decorations, but its about a birth and giving.....
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Mailbox Monday and It's Monday! What Are You Reading?
Mailbox Monday
Mailbox Monday was created by The Printed Page. It is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their home last week.
Mailbox Monday is currently on tour, hosted by a different blog each month. The May host is Marths's Bookshelf.
This was a good week. I received several review books for upcoming tours, a contest win and an audiobook I've been looking forward to. I even received a book from Goodreads. I think that is the first book I've won from them in two years.
For review from HarperAudio:
The Shoemaker's Wife
by Adriana Trigiani
A breathtaking multigenerational love story that spans two continents, two World Wars, and the quest of two star-crossed lovers to find each other again. The Shoemaker's Wife is replete with the all the page-turning adventure, sumptuous detail, and heart-stopping romance that has made Adriana Trigiani one of the reigning queens of women's fiction.
Two books for upcoming tours:
Beautiful Ruins
by Jess Walter
The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea—blue as his eyes—and sees a vision: a slender blonde woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying. And it begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot—searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel fifty years before.
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
by Rachel Joyce
Recently retired, sweet, emotionally numb Harold Fry is jolted out of his passivity by a letter from Queenie Hennessy, an old friend, who he hasn't heard from in twenty years. She has written to say she is in hospice and wanted to say goodbye. Leaving his tense, bitter wife Maureen to her chores, Harold intends a quick walk to the corner mailbox to post his reply but instead, inspired by a chance encounter, he becomes convinced he must deliver his message in person to Queenie–who is 600 miles away–because as long as he keeps walking, Harold believes that Queenie will not die.
A win from Quirk Books:
Bedbugs: A Novel
by Ben H. Winters
Susan and Alex Wendt have found their dream apartment. Sure, the landlady is a little eccentric. But the rent is so low, it's too good to pass up. Susan soon discovers that her new home is crawling with bedbugs . . . or is it? She awakens every morning with fresh bites, but neither Alex nor their daughter Emma has a single welt. An exterminator searches the property and turns up nothing. The landlady insists her building is clean. Susan fears she's going mad — until a more sinister explanation presents itself: she may literally be confronting the bedbug problem from Hell.
For review from Goodreads:
Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting,and Andrew is thrilled all the more to be assigned to the ship's Xenobiology laboratory. Life couldn't be better . . . until Andrew begins to pick up on the fact that (1) every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces, (2) the ship's captain, its chief science officer, and the handsome Lieutenant Kerensky always survive these confrontations, and (3) at least one low-ranked crew member is, sadly, always killed.
It's Monday! What Are You Reading?
Share what you read last week and what you are currently reading.
I only finished one audiobook last week and half of a print book.
I'm still looking through all those landscaping books from the library that I mentioned last week and wandering around the garden centers looking at plants for the new perennial garden. This is going to be a lot more work than I originally planned on doing, but that seems to be the way most home improvement projects end up.
Finished Listening/Reading Last Week:
I finished and reviewed The Lost Years by Mary Higgins Clark.
After a few hours of listening I gave up on All I Did Was Shoot My Man. I just couldn't stay interested and my mind kept wandering.
Reading/Listening This Week:
I'm reading a little of The Secret Garden each week this month for the read-a-long hosted by Book Journey.
I'm half way through Year of the Gadfly for an upcoming tour and I'm listening to The Shoemaker's Wife.
What Are You Reading?
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23 CommentsLeave a Comment
Jess resides here (@frellathon) / May 14 2012 6:10 am
Excellent books. I love Quirk books!
kaye / May 14 2012 7:08 am
What a fantastic bunch of books! Trigiani book should be fabulous. Have a wonderful week and happy reading
Kristin T. / May 14 2012 8:16 am
I LOVED The Shoemaker's Wife – I think it is my favorite book of the year so far!!! I haven't read a Mary Higgins Clark book in a while, but The Lost Years looks really good.
Have a great week!
Kristin @ Always With a Book
Amy / May 14 2012 10:05 am
I tried reading the same Walter Mosley book this past week but after 3 chapters I couldn't pay attention to it! uh-oh!
I also received "Beautiful Ruins: , and "…Harold Fry". Enjoy!
I read some great reviews of The Shoemaker's Wife. I hope you like it. And I'm not sure I can read Bedbugs. It intrigues me but also makes my sking crawl. I am looking forward to your review!
Happy Reading!
mary Ann Langan / May 14 2012 11:05 am
Liked The Shoemaker's Wife a lot , nice mailbox.
Brunette Librarian / May 14 2012 8:21 pm
The Secret Garden is a GREAT read – you can re-read it and find so many new things. Have fun!
Happy reading this week!
What are YOU reading??


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OSCAR PARTY: Having an Oscar party? Here's how to make yours a winner - A bowl of popcorn and a big-screen TV just won't cut it on Oscar night. Not if you're having guests over to watch the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony March 7. By Kathryn Rem of the State Journal-Register.
ELDER ABUSE: Physically dependent on caregivers, fragile seniors prime targets of abuse -- At least Judy Groteler still has her pets ‹ four dogs, six birds and a cat, to be exact. The 69-year-old widow says she needs them more than ever after someone disguised as a caregiver allegedly stole thousands of dollars from her while she was recovering from a broken neck. Bob Blancato, national coordinator of the Elder Justice Coalition, expects more stories like this as the elderly population grows amid a bad economy.
RAISING AWARENESS: Elder abuse a growing concern -- An estimated one in 10 adults older than 60 are abused every year, according to the National Institute of Justice. The grim truth is most of the perpetrators are family or friends of the victim.
ENERGY-EFFICIENT HOME: Energy-efficient home includes rich aesthetic environment - SMITHFIELD – Down a gravel road that cuts through steep wooded river bluffs along the Spoon River is a passive solar home with international provenance. With input from Mother Earth News, books and friends, the home rose from a footprint positioned in a small clearing to capitalize on views and the transit of the sun across a winter sky. In the middle of summer, the sun does not enter the house at all. By Clare Howard of the Peoria Journal Star.
MICHELLE TEHEUX: Counting down the days until spring - The first day of spring is March 20. I wish I could hibernate until then. Is it just me, or has this winter been colder, snowier, slushier, and all-around more "miserabler" than normal?
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LOST IN SUBURBIA: Three strikes and I'm out - This year I had resolved to lose weight and get in shape. What would have been a better use of my resolution was to promise not to kill any more appliances. By Tracy Beckerman.
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I'm trying to construct a class named Card that will eventually deal and print a certain number of cards.
I'm having trouble generating random strings from two arrays called suitArray and faceArray. Im trying to pass the arrays into the nextLine method, but it's not working. How can I make this work?
import java.util.Random; class Card{ String suit,face; String[] suitArray={"hearts","diamonds","clubs","spades"}; String[] faceArray={"2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10","J","Q","K","A"}; public Card(String s, String f){ Random gen = new Random(); s = suit.gen.nextLine(suitArray); f = face.gen.nextLine(faceArray); } }


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On February 18, 2004 President Bush called on Congress to make his tax cuts permanent and discussed with taxpayers his plan to create jobs in America and to continue to grow and strengthen the economy.
New figures released by the Treasury Department demonstrate the real benefits of the President's tax relief for all Americans.
The President's Tax Relief is Working
America's economy is strong and getting stronger. More Americans than ever own their homes. More businesses are investing. Indicators of manufacturing activity are the highest in the last two decades, and economic growth in the second half of 2003 was the highest in almost 20 years. Stock market wealth has increased by more than $4 trillion over the past 12 months, and more than 365,000 jobs have been added in the last five months. Because of the continuing effects of President Bush's tax relief, workers will continue to keep more of what they earn in the future, and small businesses will be better able to invest and grow. The President's policies are helping to put the economy on a path to sustained growth and job creation, but we cannot rest until every American who wants to work can find a job.
Over the past three years, President Bush has proposed and signed into law three separate tax relief measures, resulting in significant tax relief for millions of American families and businesses. Failure to extend the President's tax cuts permanently would dramatically increase the burden on American taxpayers in future years. For example:
The cumulative effect of tax relief on the economy has been strong, laying the groundwork for increased economic growth and job creation. According to the Treasury Department, by the last quarter of 2003, the tax relief signed by President Bush had:


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Thursday, February 15, 2007
Tea - Larsen and Thompson
This isn't your usual looking tea - these are Jasmine Pearls, a type of Chinese Flower Tea. These are by local tea merchant Larsen & Thompson.
They are basically green tea that has been allowed to dry next to jasmine, thus absorbing it's aroma. The leaves are then rolled to forms these pearls.
To brew, you'll need to use 6 per cup but you will be able to keep topping up the water. The water should be just below boiling point and if you use a see-through glass you'll be treated to the sight of the pearls opening.
The flavour is more pure in comparison to the more usual jasmine tea - a wonderful honeysuckle scent wafts from the glass. It's very refreshing and visually quite appealing.
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Born with a pearl spoon in her mouth, Haalo's future was soon decided..
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You never cease to amaze. My mum would just love this after 30 years of camomile.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 17, 2007
I'd love to have a cup of this tea to warm me up. We just had a snow and ice storm. The weather is freezing. *sigh*ReplyDelete
Thanks Trig - you're making me blush ;) I'm sure you'll be able to find this type of tea in london and surprise your mum!ReplyDelete
I'll make you a cup Paz but I'd gladly trade your snow and ice for the heat wave we're in the middle of.
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This tiny drum is perfect for the drum enthusiast who wants a very subtle charm.
Only a quarter inch tall,
this tiny Djembe holds the texture of the big ones:
wood, tiny ropes and a drum head being played by very small hands.
One of the playing hands resolves into a loop for hanging on a chain,
cord, may be tied to your drum as a reminder of the Rhythms of the Drum circle,
a favorite event or perhaps woven into your dreads,
braids or other hair ornaments.
This tiny Djembe Dangle is available in Silver and Bronze.
Gold prices upon request.


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Any aquatics center manager will tell you that lifeguard, money managing, and lesson personnel arranging is a headache. Multiple changes, part time workers (each with their personal list of organizing demands), in-services trainings and staff events, diverse skill units or certification specifications, firmly described course schedule, along with a better-than-average quantity of staff members who happen to be minors (necessitating careful adherence to labour regulations) – along with fielding countless queries about next week's plan (or a whole lot worse, scrambling to load a overlooked transfer due to misunderstandings over schedules) – make aquatics facilities and swimming pools one of the more challenging market sectors for move scheduling and attendance checking.
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Hello, hello?
Anyone out there?!
I know it's been ages since I've posted anything on this little blog of mine! I really hope there are still some subscribers or readers out there to hear these words I have for you today!
As some of you know from my last post almost ten weeks ago, I have been absent from At The Patisserie because I have been out of the country. In fact, I am posting this with spotty internet connection from a rural town in the Northern Region of Ghana! Here's the link to my journal blog if you're curious!
But something very important has brought me back, even as I am here (about three weeks to go in Saboba)! It's called the San Diego Food Blogger Bake Sale, and it's something I am WAY excited for.
I need to tell you all about this fabulous event happening in happenin' Pacific Beach, San Diego on the 28th of April at Great News! Discount Cookware and Cooking School, from 10am to 2pm. Yes, that is about 2 days after my plane touches down, but baking is one of the first things I would absolutely love to do as soon as I get back! It's been a long (but awesome) nine weeks here, and I miss my mixing bowl and oven!
Here is why you should participate!
– One in five children in America struggles with hunger. The funds raised form this branch of the National Food Blogger Bake Sale will go to Share Our Strength to help combat childhood hunger in America!
– Deliciousness. Need I say more?
– Meet new people, socialize, and network with the food blogging community in San Diego
– Have fun experimenting in the kitchen
– Show off your culinary expertise
– Or just pick up some thoughtful treats for friends and family members!
Whether you want to contribute to this collection of tasty desserts or just stop by to sample and support, we would love to see you there! If you want to get more involved, or if you're curious about more information, check out the website!
This branch was started by Gaby of What's Gaby Cooking? And is headed this year by Marie of Meandering Eats. They have worked so hard on this even in the past years, and I am sure that with our contribution from San Diego this year, we can double the amount of donations raised from $25,000 to $50,000 nationwide!
If you feel called to add to this campaign, but don't have the time (all of us get super busy sometimes!), there is also the option to donate directly online via this link! Click on the "DONATE" button to send support to the San Diego branch efforts. Every little bit counts! Together we could help a lot of hungry children! J If you're in the San Diego area at the time, we would LOVE to see you there, and I would especially love to meet you all!
Love from Saboba, Ghana
P.S. More on what I am baking later! I want to make it really good, but I really only have one day to prep everything!


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Many Seed Bread
1.25 cups warm water
1 tablespoon demerara sugar
3 cups flour (stone ground whole wheat is what I use)
2 tablespoon sesame seed
2 tablespoon flax seed
2 tablespoon sunflower seed
2 tablespoon sliced almond
2 tablespoon poppy seed
1 teaspoon celery seed
1 teaspoon dill seed
1 teaspoon dry yeast, 1 teaspoon salt
This is for a bread machine. Place water and seeds in the bread machine basket. Add the flour. Make a well in the center and put the vegan sugar and yeast in it. Place the salt around the edges of the basket so it isn't mixed with the yeast and vegan sugar. Select a setting for a 1.5 lb. loaf. This recipe also makes great vegan breadsticks if you stop the machine at the end of kneading and shape the dough into thick long rolls, brushe'd with oil. Allow them to rise until double in size and bake at 375 F for 25 to 35 minutes.
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The following article was drawn from statements and presentations commemorating the launch of the Brasil: Nunca Mais Digital website and from project documentation.
In June 2011, the Center for Research Libraries and LAMP announced a major partnership effort with the Ministério Público Federal in Brazil to digitize nearly one million pages of the collection Brasil: Nunca Mais, which contains court documents (processos) from Brazil's Military Supreme Court. These proceedings document the cases of more than 7,000 persons arrested, convicted, and/or executed by the Court between 1964 and 1979.
Project History
In 1979, a group of religious officials and lawyers began an extremely ambitious project: to access records of the Superior Tribunal Militar (STM) containing information and evidence of human rights violations committed by agents of the repressive apparatus of the state during the military dictatorship (then still in power). The project aimed to avoid possible loss of the documents due to destruction during the country's democratization process. The parties involved in the effort—including lawyers involved in the defense of political prisoners—viewed the preservation of these records as essential for future study on this phase of Brazil's history.
The project's founders realized that the processos could be accessed and taken off site for reproduction, taking advantage of a 24-hour period permitted by the Court to remand the cases. Reverend James Wright of the United Presbyterian Church of Brazil and Cardinal Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Paulo, volunteered to coordinate the activities from São Paulo. The organizers requested and obtained financial resources from Philip Potter, the secretary general of the World Council of Churches, with the assistance of Charles Roy Harper, pastor and member of that entity.
In early 1980, Wright and his colleagues rented a room near the Court and leased three Xerox machines to copy the processos as they were delivered by lawyers sent to withdraw each case. They sent the copies to Sao Paulo, first in night buses, and later by car or airliners. During the course of the project, the organizers became increasingly concerned over the possible seizure of the material. They decided to microfilm the copied pages of all court records and send them abroad for safekeeping.
After nearly six years of working in secrecy, the organizers completed the task. Reproduction of the 707 lawsuits consulted totaled about one million copies on paper and 543 rolls of microfilm. The project team also created a 12-volume index called Projeto A to provide organizational access to the contents. Projeto A contained, among other data: (i) how many prisoners passed through the military courts, (ii) how many were formally charged, (iii) how many were arrested, (iv) how many people reported having been tortured, (v ) how many people disappeared, (vi) what methods of torture were practiced, and (vii) where prisoners were detained. Additional information contained names of doctors and employees, as identified by political prisoners.
Considering the difficulty of reading and even handling this material, Dom Paulo commissioned Projeto B, a volume summarizing the major components of Project A in a space 95 percent smaller. Journalists Ricardo Kotscho and Carlos Alberto Libanio Christo (Betto) were selected to undertake the task, coordinated by Paulo de Tarso Vannuchi. Editora Vozes (linked to the Catholic Church) agreed to publish the book, naming it Brasil: Nunca Mais (Never Again). In fear of possible censure, the organizers also found an overseas publisher; Random House released the work under the title Torture in Brazil.
On July 15, 1985, four months after the resumption of the country's democratic rule, Brazil: Never Again was published. The national and international press highlighted the publication, which was reprinted 20 times in its first two years, reaching a 37th edition in 2009.
Dom Paulo decided to donate the original project documentation to an institution to make it public. The State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) accepted the documentation, with the promise that the material would be made widely available for consultation and reproduction. Both the complete copies of the 707 cases (about one million pages), and annexes containing about 10,000 documents ("arquivo de material apreendido") were transferred to the "Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth" at UNICAMP.
The original 543 rolls of microfilm with the full contents of the cases were sent to the Latin American Microform Project (LAMP) at the Center for Research Libraries. LAMP became interested in the Brasil: Nunca Mais project in 1987, when Lygia Ballantine, director of the Library of Congress field office in Rio de Janeiro, reported to LAMP on the project and the status of the microfilm, which at the time was in the possession of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Europe. In June 1987, LAMP chair Laura Gutierrez-Witt (University of Texas at Austin) proposed to Wright that the collection come to LAMP, where it would be widely accessible to researchers from academic and research institutions throughout North America. Wright immediately accepted this proposal, and the collection was transferred to the Center for Research Libraries in October 1987.
Making the Collection Accessible
While the collection has been available through CRL since 1987, the content was until recently largely inaccessible due to a lack of a finding aid for the microfilm. LAMP made several attempts to devise a means of access to the collection, but given the size, complexity, and relatively rushed nature of the preservation process, easy solutions proved elusive. In 2000–01, CRL staff painstakingly combed through each reel to identify the location and content of every processo and related files. The final reel guide (accessible through CRL's online catalog) serves as a research complement to the 12-volume printed index, and is sorted both by reel number and by BNM (project) number.
In January 2011, Marlon Alberto Weichert (Procurador Regional da República, Ministério Público Federal) contacted CRL to explore a partnership to digitize the full collection of reels. Weichert had found that over time, the paper archive in Campinas had suffered losses in the course of its use. Essential pages of historical significance were missing, including testimony of political prisoners that included the names of their torturers. LAMP's Executive Committee discussed the project at length and readily agreed to collaborate on this endeavor. LAMP contributed duplicate negatives of the reels for scanning in Brazil.
The collection of case files, indexes to the collection, supporting documentation from the arquivo de material apreendido, and other materials related to the project are currently being scanned at the Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo, after which the files will be accessible as open access material on the Internet. The Ministerio is expected to contribute up to $200,000 to the project, with additional contributed funds and work by the project collaborations.
CRL and LAMP are pleased to have been guardians of the Brasil: Nunca Mais collection until it could be made more broadly accessible. After more than 40 years of relative obscurity, the Brasil: Nunca Mais Digital project seeks to restore this valuable contribution to Brazil's historical and cultural patrimony, while boosting the availability of the material for research by civil society and Brazilians seeking the truth.


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What makes people healthy?
That's a question researchers at Google X, along with scientists at Duke University and Stanford University, are looking to answer.
Google has launched a new project, dubbed the Baseline Study, that seeks to develop a greater understanding of what it means to be healthy.
"Most research studies focus on a particular disease. We're going to study health. We want to understand what it means to be healthy, down to the molecular and cellular level," the company noted in a release. "We think this could someday yield powerful insights for how diseases are understood, detected, and treated."
Google said it is in the process of enrolling 175 healthy people this summer. As the project, which is being led by Dr. Andrew Conrad of Google X, goes on, the patient base will be expanded.
Any results, according to the company, will be made available to other medical researchers.
Everyone in the study will undergo a physical exam similar to what they would get from a primary care physician, including the collection of body fluids like blood and saliva, Google noted.
"The biochemical fingerprint of a healthy individual would be a hugely important contribution to medical science, and it's possible that this study could bring that within reach," said Rob Califf, vice chancellor for clinical and translational research at Duke, in a statement. "This is worth striving for, because it could speed the pace of clinical research for decades to come and enable the development of new tests and techniques for detecting and preventing disease."
According to the researchers, it's important to study the makeup -- down to the molecular and cellular level -- of the healthy so researchers can create what's being called a baseline map of health. It's a "biochemical fingerprint" of what makes up a healthy person.
The map is important because a healthy person doesn't suddenly fall ill, for example, with heart disease or cancer.
"In reality, our body's chemistry moves gradually along a continuum from a state of health to a state of disease, and we only have observable symptoms when we're already far along that continuum," Google noted. "But long before those symptoms appear, the chemistry of the body has changed -- its cells, or the molecules inside cells. Unfortunately, the medical profession today doesn't understand at that molecular level what happens when a body starts to get sick."
Since doctors can't discover that someone is ill until the patient shows symptoms, the disease may have had time to progress to a dangerous state.
"If we could somehow detect those changes earlier, as soon as a body starts to move away from a "healthy" chemistry, this could change how diseases are detected, treated, or even prevented," Google noted.
Google said it's not working on the project to develop a new product but to contribute to medical science.
"It may sound counter-intuitive, but by studying health, we might someday be better able to understand disease," said Conrad. "This research could give us clues about how the human body stays healthy or becomes sick, which could in turn unlock insights into how diseases could be better detected or treated."
Google -- a company known for its search engine, the Android platform, its maps and digital eyewear -- isn't new to medical research.
In December 2010, Google launched a tool to provide users with a layered, 3D view of the human anatomy. Called Body Browser, the tool explores inside the human body, using features initially created for the company's popular Google Earth and Maps applications.
Body Browser was built to enable users to identify various parts of the human body while searching for bones, organs and muscles. With the tool, users can rotate a 3D image of the body, peel away skin and investigate the different layers inside.
This article, Google's next frontier: What it means to be healthy, was originally published at Computerworld.com.
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Network infrastructure vendor Infoblox this week announced a new hardware appliance to help accelerate DNS delivery.
The Infoblox-4010 DNS appliance is all about helping service providers deliver DNS services at scale. The new appliance can service more than 200,000 DNS queries per second, according to Infoblox. When clustered together with multiple appliances the system can scale up to as many as 3 billion DNS queries per second.
"ISP infrastructure is increasingly being stressed by the advent of smartphones, driving bandwidth requirements higher while also stressing the DNS infrastructure, where even a single smartphone wake-up requires 36 DNS lookups," Kevin Dickson, vice president of product management at Infoblox told InternetNews.com.
Inside the Infoblox 4010 is a an Intel Xeon 5650 running at 2.66 GHz with 6 Cores and 4 x 300 GB hard drives and 24 GB of DDR3 RAM. The base operating system is the Infoblox NIOS (network infrastructure operating system) which is built on top off a Linux kernel. For the DNS features, the Infoblox system is based on the open source BIND DNS server, including what Dickson referred to as, "extensive enhancements to add management functionality."
"ISPs typically run their DNS caching services on open-source BIND software running on generic servers, which require frequent patching to the software and underlying operating systems," Dickson said. "As a result they end up spending considerable staff time and effort, which equates to significant operational cost, to administer and upgrade these systems."
In addition to the core DNS functionality, Infoblox also has a feature that enables service providers to monetize their DNS traffic.
"This feature allows service providers to redirect Internet search errors – such as typos or incorrect URLs – to a third party landing-page that includes additional information, sponsored links, advertisements.," Dickson said. "ISPs can generate additional revenue from purchases made through these advertisement links."
Dickson noted that NXDOMAIN Query Redirection provides a potential revenue increase of $1-3 USD per customer per year.
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of Internet.com, the network for technology professionals.


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Kim Loik says she told her 15-year-old son Todd to ignore the bullies and the constant barrage of insults they were sending to him on Facebook and through texts on his cellphone.
On the night of Sept. 8, he received another taunt, she said.
"I told him to go to bed and not worry about it," his mom recalled Wednesday, though sniffles and sobs.
The next morning, she found her son dead in their home in North Battleford, Sask., northwest of Saskatoon. He had killed himself.
RCMP are looking into whether bullying played a role in the death. Sergeant Neil Tremblay said the investigation is in the early stages and officers are trying to get the required legal authorization for access to the boy's online and phone messages.
Ms. Loik said she has spoken with the mother of 15-year-old Amanda Todd, who committed suicide in British Columbia last year. The girl had posted a heart-wrenching video online about the relentless bullying she experienced, and her subsequent death sparked a nationwide anti-bullying effort.
Ms. Loik said Carol Todd linked her with a private group that was able to dig into her son's cyber and phone files. "They have pages and pages of taunts and abuse."
She said her son wouldn't let her read his Facebook page and he only shared a few of the messages he received. Ms. Loik can't bring herself to read the pages of insults but, from what she does know, they're vile.
"They were the nastiest things I've ever heard. I can't even repeat – some of the things were just disgusting."
Ms. Loik said she's unsure why her son was the subject of such torment. He was just a normal kid who wanted to fit in.
He loved shop class and talked about becoming a welder. He was excited about taking his driver's test on his 16th birthday, Sept. 20. And he had showed his mom pictures of his favourite car he hoped to drive someday, a classic Buick Skylark.
The single mom said the bullying started in the schoolyard five years ago, shortly after she moved with her only child from Edmonton. As her son got older, the insults came through his computer and phone.
"It was usually at night when it would happen. There was no peace."
She said her son didn't want her to get involved or call his school; it would only make things worse.
The harassment continued through the summer, said Ms. Loik. She sent her son with his cousins to go camping for a week in the Rocky Mountains near Jasper, Alta. "He had a little bit of peace and came home and he was smiling and happy."
Ms. Loik said they had decided to move back to Edmonton so he could have a fresh start. They were packing and house-hunting and he was looking forward to the move later this fall, she said.
He was a week into Grade 10 at North Battleford Comprehensive High School when he died.
Shannon Lessard, a spokeswoman with the Living Sky School Division, said school officials are just now hearing about the bullying and it's unfortunate Ms. Loik or his mom didn't report it. Bullying can be reported anonymously, she said.
Ms. Loik said she wants justice. For her that includes criminal charges against the bullies who tormented her child, as well as a move by Ottawa to enact federal anti-bullying legislation.
Provinces have been tackling the issue in different ways.
In the past year, Nova Scotia has passed a Cyber-Safety Act allowing people to sue or seek a protection order from the courts if they or their children are being cyberbullied. Manitoba has also passed anti-bullying legislation and is considering more measures that could include protection orders, mandatory penalties and an anonymous tip line.
Ms. Loik said the laws need to be the same across the country.
"It can't be province-to-province. It has to be one law preventing this from ever happening again to anybody. There's so many kids out there in pain and suffering that deal with this daily and they shouldn't."
Federal Justice Minister Peter MacKay sent a tweet Wednesday saying his thoughts are with the Loik family. "More proof that cyberbullying must be addressed. #BullyingHurts," he wrote.
Federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair also talked about the boy's death on Twitter: "Let's all work together to fight bullying and put an end to these tragedies."
Earlier this week, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall sent Ms. Loik an email offering his condolences.
He told reporters Wednesday that the province is looking at anti-bullying initiatives, including an online way for kids to report bullying.


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The basic objective of Unified Engineering is to give a solid understanding of the fundamental disciplines of aerospace engineering, as well as their interrelationships and applications. These disciplines are Materials and Structures (M); Computers and Programming (C); Fluid Mechanics (F); Thermodynamics (T); Propulsion (P); and Signals and Systems (S). In choosing to teach these subjects in a unified manner, the instructors seek to explain the common intellectual threads in these disciplines, as well as their combined application to solve engineering Systems Problems (SP). Throughout the year, the instructors emphasize the connections among the disciplines.
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The problem with Republicans today on public policy isn't that they're stuck in the 1980s; it's that they've given up entirely. More often than not, what passes for Republican "policy" is just symbolic, not substantive...But lets take it a step further and understand WHY they don't have an substantive policy ideas.
The first step out of the policy wilderness for Republicans, then, is for them to decide that developing substantive public policy ideas is a good idea at all.
Remember a few weeks ago when several Republicans and conservative commentators were suggesting that President Obama was trying to destroy the Republican Party. Well, they had a point.
If you look at what the President has embraced in terms of policy - he's stolen all the good ideas the Republicans had and turned them into pragmatic solutions. For example:
- On national security - he targeted al Qaeda, killed bin Laden and negotiated an agreement with the rest of the world on tough sanctions against Iran
- On immigration - he secured our borders while working towards a pathway to citizenship for those who are undocumented
- On gun control - he embraced the 2nd amendment and proposed common sense gun control
- On the federal deficit - he cut spending and called for a balanced approach to deficit reduction
- On energy - he increased oil drilling while calling for an "all of the above" approach to energy independence
Tell me where he's left room for the Republicans to develop any meaningful alternative. As I've said many times, their choice has always been to either work with him or paint themselves into a marginalized extremist corner.
We see this playing out right now as Sen. Rubio works desperately to both embrace meaningful immigration reform AND tries to pick a battle with the President. He's having one hell of a time trying to find some real estate not already covered by President Obama on which to make a stand.
While the extremes on both the right and left continue to fight their battles, President Obama has turned all of their ideas into pragmatic solutions to actual problems. That leaves both groups with the choice of either fighting for ideological purity or getting to work with him on finding real policy solutions. With the American people behind him now, those who choose the former are seen to not be terribly interested in the latter. That's why they're losing.


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Second suspect accused of starving boy waives arraignment: Charged with acting in concert with Christina Thomas in New Durham case
DOVER — Peggy Starr, a former New Durham woman accused of starving a young boy in her care, remains free on personal recognizance bail after she waived her arraignment at Strafford County Superior Court on Thursday.
Starr, 55, is the mother of Christina Thomas, who was found guilty in February on a first-degree assault charge for failing to provide proper nutrition to a young boy under her care, causing his "failure to thrive."
Starr was indicted on the same charge earlier this month. The grand jury indictment alleges that she, in concert with Thomas, caused serious bodily injury to the boy by failing to give him proper nutrition. According to testimony during Thomas' three-week trial in February, the victim was abnormally small for his age, weighing 23 pounds when he was 6½ years old.
The victim in this case, now 9 years old, lived with his biological mother in Thomas' home on Birch Hill Road in New Durham for several years. His biological mother, who has a developmental disability, was also allegedly abused by Thomas, and Thomas has several pending charges against the alleged abuse.
In January 2011, Thomas was indicted on three misdemeanor simple assault charges, alleging she assaulted the boy's mother by striking her in the face, causing her lip to bleed, and shoving her face into a cake pan in April 2010. She was also indicted on a felony criminal threatening charge, for allegedly putting a knife to the boy's mother's throat in 2008.
Strafford County Attorney Thomas Velardi said Thomas' simple assault and criminal threatening charges will likely be addressed after her sentencing hearing on May 15, for her first-degree assault conviction.
The first-degree assault charge for Thomas was enhanced because the victim was a child; therefore, Thomas could face a maximum sentence of 10 to 30 years in prison for the charge.
Starr, formerly of Kings Highway and whose address in court documents is now listed as 165 Stage Road in Nottingham, also has other pending charges in connection to the case. She is facing a second-degree assault charge for allegedly striking the boy with a spatula, causing lacerations, in December 2009. She is also facing two counts of endangering welfare of a child, for allegedly making the boy sit in a snowbank naked, and placing the boy naked in a spring, in winter 2010.
A final pretrial conference for Star is scheduled for 9 a.m. April 11 at Strafford County Superior Court.


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Sophie Crumb, daughter of comic artists Aline Kominsky and Robert Crumb, followed in her parents' footsteps and created her own comics. Some comics she drew as a child appeared in Weirdo magazine, and she collaborated with her parents on Dirty Laundry Comics. Sophie then began her own series of comix under the title 'Belly Button Comix' and published by Fantagraphics in the USA, and Oog & Blik in Europe.
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We're delighted to announce that today, the Getty has released the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)® as Linked Open Data. The data set is available for download at vocab.getty.edu under an Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC BY 1.0).
The Art & Architecture Thesaurus is a reference of over 250,000 terms on art and architectural history, styles, and techniques. It's one of the Getty Research Institute's four Getty Vocabularies, a collection of databases that serves as the premier resource for cultural heritage terms, artists' names, and geographical information, reflecting over 30 years of collaborative scholarship. The other three Getty Vocabularies will be released as Linked Open Data over the coming 18 months.
In recent months the Getty has launched the Open Content Program, which makes thousands of images of works of art available for download, and the Virtual Library, offering free online access to hundreds of Getty Publications backlist titles. Today's release, another collaborative project between our scholars and technologists, is the next step in our goal to make our art and research resources as accessible as possible.
What Is Linked Open Data?
Linked Open Data is a way of publishing information so it can be connected with other information (linked) and freely used (open). Making data both linked and open makes it widely accessible and easy to recombine with information from other sources to create new knowledge. (For a great demonstration of Linked Open Data, see this video from Europeana.)
Publishing information as Linked Open Data unlocks the full knowledge potential of databases, allowing researchers to access, query, and recombine data created and stored by institutions of all kinds—libraries, museums, archives, laboratories, universities, research centers, governments, publishers, and others. It is a tool with enormous potential to advance scholarship, within the humanities and beyond.
Why Does Linked Open Data Matter?
Because Linked Open Data is specifically structured to "talk" to other data across the Internet, it makes new webs of connections, and therefore new discoveries, possible.
Let's take a work of art—Van Gogh's Irises—as just one example. Linked data makes it possible to find information available globally about Van Gogh—images and information about his other works previous owners, conservation treatments, exhibitions, other artists in his circle, current events at the time and place he painted Irises, letters and primary documents, sales records, the location of the actual painting, and more.
What's Next
Over the next 18 months, the Research Institute's other three Getty Vocabularies—The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)®, The Union List of Artist Names®, and The Cultural Objects Name Authority (CONA)®—will all become available as Linked Open Data. To follow the progress of the Linked Open Data project at the Research Institute, see their page here.
The release of the Vocabularies as Linked Open Data will help link cultural heritage information across cultures and between disciplines, leading to new advances in the humanities. I am always delighted to see the new ideas and profound revelations that come from cultural research—and I'm especially excited to see what this 21st-century approach to research will yield.
As always, we welcome comments and input from the user community. If you have a suggestion or find the Getty's Linked Open Data useful in your own work, please share it here or email the Getty's Linked Open Data team at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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African Americans are routinely under-treated for their pain compared with whites, according to research. A study released Monday sheds some disturbing light on why that might be the case.
Moreover, those who held false beliefs often rated black patients' pain as lower than that of white patients and made less appropriate recommendations about how they should be treated.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could help illuminate one of the most vexing problems in pain treatment today: That whites are more likely than blacks to be prescribed strong pain medications for equivalent ailments.
A 2000 study out of Emory University found that at a hospital emergency department in Atlanta, 74 percent of white patients with bone fractures received painkillers compared with 50 percent of black patients. Similarly, a paper last year found that black children with appendicitis were less likely to receive pain medication than their white counterparts. And a 2007 study found that physicians were more likely to underestimate the pain of black patients compared with other patients.
Researchers who study health disparities have said that unconscious stereotypes about African Americans likely contribute to this problem, as well as physicians' difficulty empathizing with patients whose experiences differ from theirs.
The University of Virginia study buttresses arguments that physician bias is a factor. Its research had two parts: One looked at a random sample of 92 whites from across the country. The second queried 222 white medical students and residents at the university and elsewhere. In both cases, participants were given a series of statements that contained accurate or inaccurate information about the biological differences between blacks and whites.
"We were expecting some endorsement" of the false beliefs, said Kelly Hoffman, a U-Va. doctoral candidate in psychology who led the study. But she said the researchers were surprised so many in the group with medical training endorsed the false beliefs, some of which she called "more outlandish."
For example, 58 percent of the study's general group said they believed that "blacks' skin is thicker than whites'." About 40 percent of first- and second-year medical students also thought that was true, as did 25 percent of residents -- doctors who recently completed their studies and now are receiving more specialized training.
Also surprising was that so many of the students and new physicians did not believe true statements about biological differences between the races, Hoffman said. For example, only half of residents knew that whites are less susceptible to heart disease than blacks.
The medical group was given one extra test. After reading brief case studies of two patients in pain, one white and one black, the students and physicians were asked to rate each individual's pain as well as make treatment recommendations. The researchers then compared the results with recommendations from 10 experienced physicians who had analyzed the case studies without any racial information included.
"What we found is those who endorsed more of those false beliefs showed more bias and were less accurate in their treatment recommendations," Hoffman said.


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A group of people from my online writing class decided to eliminate the anonymity of the electronic blackboard and have a Saturday meet up. "Carry a copy of Bird by Bird," was the instruction given so that we'd recognize each other. It worked and that book will always remain on my writer's shelf. The title comes from a story eloquently told by Anne LaMott about her brother's struggle with a homework assignment and her father's enduring advice that he tackle the avian research report by writing about one bird at a time.
It's a stellar suggestion along the same lines as Bill Hogan's overused elephant eaten one bite at a time. As a writer, it educates us to keep writing in order to produce and as a life lesson it reminds us that we can endure by moving forward step by step. In fact, the world famous productivity consultant, David Allen suggests that we organize our lives by keeping a list of the single next actionable steps we must take in order to accomplish our goals. Big audacious dreams can be intimidating and also set us up for disappointment but broken into single-action steps, they're more reasonable and it's much easier to correct if we get off track.
My single next action? Open the fridge. Count the heads of lettuce. Seven! It's in season and abundant and while I enjoy a green salad, I can't consume them in the quantity it will take to use this up. So I'll heed to the advice of Anne Lamott's dad, Bill Hogan and David Allen and start with a single head.
Head by Head7 Ways to Use up lettuce
1. Lettuce juice – My juicer is my go to gadget when I need to use something up fast. Throw in a head of lettuce, a few oranges and a carrot or two and presto, I have a lovely healthy morning beverage.
2. Lettuce sauce – Whip up this Emeril special to accompany eggs, fish or in our case, roasted vegetables. There's no ingredient inside this recipe that I don't enjoy. In a food processor: a head of lettuce, an egg yolk, 2 tsp capers, juice of 1 lemon, 2 Tbs. fresh parsley, 2 Tbs red onion, 1 clove garlic, 1/2 tsp dijon, basil to taste, 1/2 cup good olive oil, salt and pepper. Slather it on.
3. Lettuce salad – We enjoy dense chopped salads that can be eaten as a meal. Frankly, they're worthy of a post on their own but lettuce can is a key component.
4. Lettuce soup – was a five thumbs up hit with no two hands on any one body. Easy, delicious, not thought of. Try it.
5. Lettuce wraps – Use lettuce like a taco shell or a tortilla. My husband and kids fill them with seasoned ground beef (locally raised), tomatoes and cheese. I love to slather it with some of Ani Phyo's Ginger Almond Paté. I won't give you the recipe though – you'll have to buy her book!
6. Lettuce grilled – I didn't feel like going outdoors and so did these on the griddle but they worked very well. I served them with crumbled blue cheese, balsamic and cherry tomatoes halved.
7. Lettuce Smoothie – Efficient, easy, full of goodness. Throw a couple of cups of lettuce into your high-speed blender with other morning treats like a frozen banana and some berries. If it's too bitter, add a couple of drops of stevia.
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Commissioners believe if recipients of work-related assistance are educated, they're in greater position to find way out of poverty
WILLMAR -- With statistics showing that a lack of education is a sure ticket to poverty, the Kandiyohi County Commissioners want to make a high school diploma mandatory when receiving work-related public assistance.
WILLMAR -- With statistics showing that a lack of education is a sure ticket to poverty, the Kandiyohi County Commissioners want to make a high school diploma mandatory when receiving work-related public assistance.
Not incorporating a diploma or a general educational development requirement is a "disservice" to people who are striving to achieve economic independence and employment stability, said Commissioner Harlan Madsen.
"It's a glaring hole that we do not have that as a requirement," he said.
Currently, people who are 19 years old and younger are required to work toward completing a GED as part of their employment development plan while receiving assistance, like the Minnesota Family Investment Program and the diversionary work program, said Barb Kavanagh, family services supervisor. Only people with dependent children are eligible for the programs.
But a GED is not mandatory for those who are older than 19.
When welfare was reformed in 1998, the new focus was on "the most direct route to employment," said Pat Jacobs, from the Workforce Center in Willmar.
Madsen said financial support for education was taken away at that time for people needing work-related assistance.
At its meeting Tuesday, the County Board of Commissioners asked staff from the county Family Services Department and the Workforce Center to seek changes with state and federal decision-makers to put an educational requirement back into the programs.
At a minimum, said Madsen, a high school diploma or GED should be required.
Madsen said he'll carry the request to Washington, D.C., when he goes there next month to meet with lawmakers along with the state and national county associations. "I fully intend to take this forward," he said.
Madsen said the proposal is "controversial and it'll cost some dollars," but the investment will be worth it.
"The short-sightedness and lack of investment now will come back to bite us really, really hard in the long term in our community and our county and our state unless we emphasize education," he said.
Madsen said it's irresponsible not to provide incentives and encouragement for people to "better their lives" and obtain basic education while they're also receiving assistance and seeking employment. "Shame on us," he said.
With the tight economy and few jobs, Jacobs said, "The folks without an education and poor work history are going to have an even tougher time."
"Education is a critical aspect to independence," said Jay Kieft, family services director, and there should be ways -- either through mandates or incentives -- to encourage "behaviors that lead to success."
Getting the changes made on the state or federal level won't be easy, but county officials said they'll begin the process.
"We'll put it on paper and send it off to legislators and (the Department of Human Services)," said Jacobs.
Nobody knows what the outcome will be, but Madsen said without discussing the proposal, nothing will happen.


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Dad of woman involved in shooting honors victims
LAS VEGAS — The father of a woman whose June rampage with her husband left two Las Vegas police officers and a good Samaritan dead visited the restaurant and store where the three were gunned down, saying he was still in disbelief and thinks about the victims' families every day.
Todd Woodruff of Lafayette, Indiana, laid flowers Friday against the window of a pizza shop where his daughter, Amanda Miller, and her husband, Jerad Miller, killed officers Alyn Beck and Igor Soldo in an ambush during their lunch break.
"I can't believe they went in and did that," he said of the couple, who espoused anti-government views.
Woodruff then went to a nearby Wal-Mart where the Millers fled after shooting the officers. His 22-year-old daughter shot and killed shopper Joseph Wilcox when he approached Jerad Miller, 31. The couple died during an exchange of gunfire with police inside the store.
Woodruff told KLAS-TV that he realizes his daughter caused a lot of hurt and said he will never forget the three victims.
"I can see their faces right now," he said. "I can't tell them (the victims' families) I'm sorry enough. I think about it every day."
At the Wal-Mart, he passed through the same doors where his daughter and her husband announced, "The revolution has started."
He also passed by the spot where his daughter killed Wilcox as he pulled his legal concealed weapon to stop Jerad Miller.
Woodruff then made his way to the back of the store, where his daughter shot herself in the head and her husband was killed during the shootout.
As he left the store, he said it was almost as if he could hear his daughter's voice in his head.
"She apologized. She just said, 'I'm sorry, Dad. I didn't mean to disappoint you,'" Woodruff told the television station.
He said he never imagined his daughter could be capable of killing anyone, and he blames Jerad Miller for brainwashing her with his anti-government rhetoric.
"We were so against this, that marriage, that I just threw up before I walked her down the aisle," he said.
Police have said the Millers shared an ideology with militia and white supremacists that law enforcement officers were oppressors. The couple had temporarily joined supporters of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who engaged in an armed standoff in April with U.S. Bureau of Land Management agents trying to round up Bundy's cattle amid a public land trespassing dispute.
Woodruff not only came to Las Vegas for "closure" but to bring back to Indiana his daughter's two cats, who had been at a foster home since the June 8 rampage.


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Common Word Community Service Silicon Valley 2011
SAN JOSE, California — On Sunday, November 20, 2011, thirty-four Muslims and Christians joined together to build peace by serving nearly 300 meals to residents of Cityteam Men's Recovery Center, and to the homeless. Orientation began at Pacifica Institute, Silicon Valley Branch in Sunnyvale. Christian and Muslim volunteers were paired into buddy groups and got to know each other by discussing fun questions about fond childhood memories, favorite holidays, and faith heroes. Afterwards, buddy groups worked together to make fruit salad, green salad, a tasty halal beef entrée, rice, and revani, a sweet Turkish dessert. When all food was prepared, volunteers brought the meal to the CityTeam Men's Recovery Center for service. After all guests had eaten, volunteers dined together and enjoyed more conversation. A member of Pacifica Institute closed our time together with a prayer of thanksgiving to God that the hungry and homeless were fed, new friendships were made, and bridges of peace and understanding were built between our Muslim and Christian communities.Read More
Photos courtesy of Murat Sezgin, Ray Rodriguez, and Loureen Murphy
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September 18, 2007
Kenadie Jourdin-Bromley is four years old and weighs a scant ten pounds. She is a rare primordial dwarf. Her
little younger brother weighs three times as much.
Some easy math shortcuts everyone should know. I have come to realize that you can't really understand math until you've tried to explain it to someone.
Jotting down the weather in your journal or blog may be boring now, but useful in a few hundred years. Medieval diaries are now giving us clues to how much the climate has really changed.
See how the cover of OJ's book "If I Did It" has been changed. Last month, rights to the book's profits were transferred to the Goldman family, who added a commentary titled "He did it".
People call 911 with problems that don't need police help. Some of them, however, might benefit from psychiatric help!


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Khiva khē´və, khēvä´ [key], city (1989 pop. 40,001), S Uzbekistan, in the Khiva oasis and on the Amu Darya River. Industries include metalworking, cotton and silk spinning, wood carving, and carpetmaking. The city, in existence by the 6th cent., was the capital of the Khwarazm (Khorezm) kingdom in the 7th and 8th cent. From the late 16th until the early 20th cent., Khiva was the capital of the khanate of the same name (see Khiva, khanate of. The city was a significant trade and handicraft center in the late 18th and early 19th cent. It passed to Russia in 1873. It served as the capital of the Khorezm Soviet People's Republic from 1920 to 1923 and of the Khorezm SSR in 1923 and 1924. The ancient quarter of the city has been set aside to preserve such landmarks as an 18th-century fort, the khan's palace (now a museum), and a 19th-century mausoleum and minaret.
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