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Four seconds.
That was Robert Knars latest victory.
His life, for the last six months, has been measured in similarly small increments.
Its the small victories that keep you going, Knar said. Those are what Ive been living for lately.
Weeks ago, when Knar bent his knee again for the first time in what seemed like an eternity, it was a victory. A small victory, but a victory nonetheless.
When he eventually walked again, it was a victory. When he swam, and biked, and jogged and shot baskets again it was victory after small victory in his quest for the big return he is so desperately hoping for.
Knar should be back on the Lake County basketball scene in a couple of weeks, just in time for the state tournament. His absence this winter has been unmistakable.
Knar would have been the headliner of all the top returning boys basketball players in the area this season. But the sharp-shooting Mundelein guard blew out his left knee on July 29 during his final AAU game of the summer at a national tournament in Florida.
Surgery to reconstruct his torn anterior cruciate ligament followed. Ditto for weeks and months of grueling rehab.
While diligently moving through each and every stage of his recovery, Knar has missed all but four seconds of his senior season.
Those four seconds blindsided Knar on Saturday, almost as much as his injury did.
Knar had been healthy as a horse before his injury. A three-year starter at Mundelein through his junior year, he averaged 22 points per game last season and was poised to obliterate Mundeleins all-time scoring record of 1,920 points held by former star guard Kyle Kessel. Knar stands just 24 points shy of surpassing that mark.
Knar was also set to lead what could have been, and what still could be, one of Mundeleins most successful teams in years. The Mustangs returned four college-bound scholarship players, including two Division I signees in Knar (Northern Iowa) and Sean OBrien (Southern Illinois) from a team that went 26-8 and advanced to the sectional championship game last season.
But instead of racking up points and wins, Knar has been riding the bench, watching longingly from the sideline game after game after game.
Then on Saturday, Knar earned another small victory.
In Mundeleins North Suburban Conference tilt against Warren, he finally got to exchange his spot on the bench for a spot on the floor.
Knar did so for only four seconds, but, for him, they were the most glorious and most prized four seconds of his life, the biggest small victory of his six-month journey to recovery.
I was in awe, said Knar, who is able to do most drills in practice, but is waiting to get clearance for full contact participation. All I kept thinking was, Im back on the court, Im back on the court!
The plan by Mundelein head coach (and Knars father) Dick Knar was to use Robert as a decoy in the half-court set. Mundelein and Warren were tied at 60-60 with 14.6 seconds remaining. The Mustangs had the ball and Knar set up in the corner along the baseline in the hopes of stretching the Warren defense with the threat of his 3-point shooting skills.
Knars presence helped as Mundelein weaved a nice pass inside to Chino Ebube, who got fouled.
Knar, who never touched the ball during the quick sequence, left the game at that moment perched on Cloud Nine. But he then watched in agony as Ebube missed his free throws and Aarias Austin hit a buzzer-beating 3-pointer at the other end to give Warren a 63-60 victory.
The moment was certainly bittersweet for Knar, who seems to take losses from the bench just as hard as he does from the floor. Yet, he will never forget how great he was feeling just seconds before Warrens buzzer-beater went down.
Fans in the stands stood up and gave Knar a standing ovation while he was checking in at the scorers table.
I was trying to be all cool and act like I didnt notice that, but I did, Knar said. Its was an amazing moment, one of those feelings you cant replicate. The hairs on the back of my neck were standing up.
I was just excited to be going into the game. It was a shock to me that I was going in because it wasnt planned. I had no idea that would happen. So I was just trying to take it all in as much as possible. Then, I saw people standing up as I took my warmup off. That was so cool, pretty unbelievable. I have gotten so much support from all of those people as Ive been on my six-month journey. Its really helped me through.
Knar has been cheered on the most by his teammates, who visited him in the hospital after his surgery and brought him ice cream while he sat at home recovering in bed. He says theyve vigorously encouraged him during each and every step of his rehab.
Also offering plenty of support has been older sister Toni, who blew out her knee just weeks before her senior season at Mundelein. She missed every single game that year.
Now a successful college player who is climbing the record books at Missouri S&T for 3-point shooting, Toni has proven to Robert that life goes on, and can go on quite well, after major knee surgery.
I know I can come back strong. I just have to get used to the contact and Ive got to get back in basketball shape, Knar said. The first time I went hard at practice, and started doing some fast break drills, I felt like I was going to have a heart attack.
Im getting there, though. It will probably be that Im back in time for a few regular season games and then the tournament. I want to go out with a bang.
If not with the fireworks of a deep run in the tournament, Knar will certainly leave high school with plenty of valuable lessons learned. He says his injury has been not only a bad part of his senior year, but a good part as well.
The good thing is that its been life-changing for me, Knar said. It let me step back and see how blessed I was. Ive seen how many good friends I have through all the support Ive gotten, and Ive learned to really appreciate basketball.Getting to play in the Warren game was kind of a tease. But its made me even more excited than I already was to get back on the court. Im champing at the bit because I miss it so much. I want to feel that feeling again. I know it wont be right away, but its going to be soon.


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|Photo: Michele Crosera for La Fenice
Or, perhaps, someone should make an opera out of the life of Lou Andreas-Salomé, novelist, poet, and psychoanalyst, friend to Freud and mistress to both Rainer Maria Rilke and Friedrich Nietzsche, and someone who could teach Don Giovanni a thing or two.
|Angeles Blancas Gulin as Lou Salomé
Giuseppe Sinopoli was born on the Day of the Dead, November 2, 1946 in Venice. He died, spectacularly, of a heart attack on April 20, 2001 at the age of 54 while on stage at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, conducting Verdi's Aida -- the same opera with which he made his debut in Venice in 1978. In addition to being a composer and conductor, he had a degree in medicine, wrote books, and was just about to receive his Laurea in Archeology. From Wikipedia:
|Giuseppe Sinopoli
Every October since 2005, Taormina Arte has dedicated a festival to Giuseppe Sinopoli, the artistic director of the Music section of the Taormina Festival from 1989 to 1997. The Giuseppe Sinopoli Festival does not only celebrate the man as a musician and as a conductor but also as a composer, a doctor, an archaeologist and intellectual, with a variety of events from music and literature, theatre and art to conferences, exhibitions, publications and, of course, concerts.
Now that I have seen the opera, it seems obvious that someone who was raised in Venice would find the subject matter of Lou Salomé fascinating enough to create an opera based on her life. There is an intellectualism particular to Venice, which other parts of the world might find difficult to relate to. In fact, Sinopoli's obituary in the British newspaper, The Guardian, highlights just that unique quality -- although David Nice, the author, describes it as "Italian." Sinopoli was the principal conductor for the Philharmonic Orchestra in London from 1984 to 1994.
His compositions, like his later conducting, combined structural rigour with sensuous textures. Yet few of them have been heard in this country; and after the 1981 Munich premiere of his opera Lou Salome, taking as its protagonist the far-from-bluestocking colleague and muse of Nietzsche and Freud, composing took a back seat to conducting.
The players, of course, remained baffled by Sinopoli's peculiarly Italian brand of intellectualism; London musicians never like too much talk, let alone an analytic seminar on the work in question. The Philharmonia relationship, buckling under the weight of the critical opprobrium, nearly came to an end in early 1990; but Sinopoli stayed on in his ennobled capacity as music director until 1994. There was too much at stake - the ever-fruitful contract with Deutsche Grammophon and tours to countries such as Japan and Germany, which idolised the maestro as Britain never did.
|Photo: Michele Crosera for La Fenice
The opera was in German with Italian subtitles, which were projected behind the orchestra, who were seated onstage -- which sometimes made it difficult to view the action in the center and the words at the same time, but that is a minor quibble. The performers were excellent; the lighting superb; when La Fenice started burning, the theater boxes slowly consumed in flame, up, up, up towards the ceiling... there was a silent gasp... even though it was a lighting trick, it brought back too many familiar memories of when La Fenice had really burned to the ground on January 29, 1996, sixteen years ago.
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To me, the opera was about a daring, intelligent woman, daughter of a General, who came together with group of profound thinkers before, during, and after great European wars -- World War I: 1914-1918 and World War II: 1939-1945 -- wars of destruction that the United States has not experienced on its own soil for a very long time. Salomé was 52-years-old when World War I broke out; she died a week before her 76th birthday, two years before World War II officially began.
From Wikipedia:
A few days before her death the Gestapo confiscated her library (according to other sources it was an SA group who destroyed the library, and shortly after her death). The pretense for this confiscation: she had been a colleague of Sigmund Freud's, had practiced "Jewish science," and had many books by Jewish authors in her library.
What was the SA? They sound a bit like today's "Special Forces." Again, from Wikipedia:
The Sturmabteilung (SA) English: Storm Detachment; or English: Stormtroopers) functioned as a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (or Nazi Party). It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. SA men were often called "brownshirts" for the colour of their uniforms (similar to Benito Mussolini's blackshirts).
Giuseppe Sinopoli's opera about Lou Salomé, to me, could only have been written by a European intellectual, and it needed a Venetian intellectual in particular to do it justice. It made me aware, once again, what a rich cultural texture is missing from the United States of America. Those great minds, all together, at the same time... loving each other, having sex with each other... operatic material...
Lou Salomé played to packed houses here in Venice all last week, the week of the Giorno della Memoria. On January 27, 1945, the Russians liberated the survivors of Auschwitz. Later, the Americans, too, liberated more death camps. General Eisenhower and General Patton (remember when we used to have real generals?) ordered that as much as possible be documented so we would never forget what horrors human beings are capable of. Here is an especially poignant tale from Jewish Life entitled, 'It Was Skin and Bones: Soldiers Remember Auschwitz by Heather Robinson:
Anatoly Shapiro, 92, has never forgotten what he saw at Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945. That was the day Shapiro, who says he is the first Russian officer to enter the infamous concentration camp, led his battalion to liberate it.
In an interview Saturday in his apartment in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, where he sits alongside his wife, Vita, his tall, thin form is upright and his eyes are clear as he describes, through a translator, the things he says he still sees in nightmares 60 years later.
"We saw German soldiers, and when we opened the gate, we saw one barrack, then the next, on and on for a hundred barracks," he recalled.
"When I saw the people, it was skin and bones. They had no shoes, and it was freezing. They couldn't even turn their heads, they stood like dead people."
"I told them, 'The Russian army liberates you!' They couldn't understand. Some few who could touched our arms and said, 'Is it true? Is it real?'"
I predict that Hollywood will soon get their hands on this woman, Lou Salomé, though if the film industry in Italy were clever, they would do it first.
Never forget. Or they will soon be back.
Ciao from Venice,
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Fresh off the success of Coraline, director Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) signed a deal with Disney to make stop-motion animated films for the Mouse House. He was set to adapt Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book in the long-term, but his first Disney stop-motion feature was scheduled for release in October 2013. All appeared to be going well until this past August, when the studio decided the project was moving too slowly (and reportedly too dark), so they abruptly cancelled production.
Selick was free to shop the project around to other studios to see if he could get it made elsewhere, and now it looks like he may have found a new home for the film. Hit the jump for more. [Update: Sadly, Oregon Live reports that a source close to LAIKA tells them the talks with Selick went nowhere and the studio won't be financing this project after all].
Thompson on Hollywood reports that the director is in talks with LAIKA—the studio behind Coraline and this year's fantastic ParaNorman—to finance this new project. He certainly has a rapport with them from working on Coraline, and LAIKA's previous and future releases reflect a decidedly offbeat and darker tone than most animation houses, so it seems a perfect fit for this project.
Little is known about the plot for the latest feature from Selick, but ToH! notes that the story revolves around two brothers and features some breathtaking sets (including one of Central Park). Selick's sensibilities are wonderfully inventive, so hopefully the deal goes through and we can see his next feature on the big screen sometime next year.


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Your pregnancy: weeks 5 to 8
Your baby
Over these next few weeks, your baby will grow to be about 1 inch long and develop arms, legs, muscles, and skin. If you could see your little one, you'd notice that the head is much bigger than the rest of his or her body, because your baby's brain is growing faster than any other organ.
What's happening this week?
5 weeks pregnant
I'm 5 weeks pregnant. My baby's the size of a grain of rice.
Right now, there's a little lump forming in the center of the embryo. It's my baby's heart, and I'm in love.
- Your baby is about the size of a grain of rice.
- A long tube is developing that will eventually become the spinal cord and brain.
- There's a tiny lump in the center of the embryo that will soon become your baby's heart.
- The placenta that will nourish your growing baby has formed.
6 weeks pregnant
I'm 6 weeks pregnant. My baby's the size of a lentil.
My little one's heart has started to beat (almost twice as fast as mine!).
- Your baby is about the size of a lentil.
- Hands, feet, fingers, and toes are starting to form, but look more like paddles.
- The brain and nervous system are developing fast.
- The head is folding forward over the body in a more recognizable "baby" shape.
7 weeks pregnant
I'm 7 weeks pregnant. My baby's the size of a blueberry.
What a difference 7 days make! My baby is twice as big as last week. Wonder if I'll grow that fast...
- Your baby is about the size of a blueberry.
- Brain cells are producing rapidly.
- A little face is starting to develop, with outlines of eyes, ears, nostrils, and mouth.
- The umbilical cord has formed to supply oxygen and nutrients your baby.
8 weeks pregnant
I'm 8 weeks pregnant. My baby's the size of a kidney bean.
My baby bean is changing every day. Pretty incredible, when you think about it...
- Your baby is about the size of a kidney bean.
- Your uterus is starting to grow, but you won't notice a change in your shape yet.
- Teeny, tiny elbows are emerging.
- Your baby's genitals are starting to form, but we can't tell if your baby is a boy or a girl until around week 20.
Your body
You may start to notice early signs of pregnancy: Feeling tired, tender breasts, and nausea are all common. So are craving new foods and suddenly being disgusted by foods you used to love. Your sense of smell might be in overdrive — some women can't even stand the smell of their favorite flowers during pregnancy. All of this is normal, and temporary.
Feeling moody? That's your hormones working overtime. And with so many changes happening in your life, it's natural to feel many different emotions. Talking things over with a trusted friend can help you handle the ups and downs.
Your to-do list
- Schedule your first prenatal care visit. We typically recommend having your first prenatal appointment between weeks 7 and 12.
- If you take medication, ask your doctor if it's okay to keep taking it while you're pregnant.
- Talk to your doctor about whether testing for birth defects is something you want to consider.
- Get lots of rest. Fatigue is very common in early pregnancy. Take it easy when you need to.


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I received a photo this week of a scan of an old tin type that is Milo Riley Sharp as a young man. I had never seen the photo before and am happy to make it available.
I wrote about Milo and Lilly Sharp previously (and I added this picture there too).
Milo Riley Sharp was born 23 July 1857 in Lehi, Utah, Utah. He married Lillian "Lilly" Musgrave (formally Mary Ann Stoker) 11 May 1879 in Plain City, Weber, Utah. He died 24 June 1916 in Plain City. You can read more of him at the post linked above.


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As Predicted, BP Tries to Pretend New Leak is a "Natural Seep"
Listening to the news this morning as I drove to work, I heard that BP is saying that the seep discovered near the blownout well might be a natural seep .
Reuters notes:
A BP spokesman said the seepage was detected by its engineers but it was unclear whether the source was the blown-out well, adding that seepage was a natural phenomenon in the Gulf.
Indeed, a breaking news headline across the web reads:
"BP spokesman says seepage nearly 2 miles from its ruptured Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico is natural and is unrelated to the oil leak."
As I pointed out on June 24th (and again yesterday):
The Washington Post made a very important point yesterday:
Bruce Bullock, director of the Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University, said additional leaks are a possible source of deep-sea plumes of oil detected by research vessels. But this part of the gulf is pocked with natural seeps, he noted. Conceivably the drilling of the well, and/or the subsequent blowout, could have affected the seeps, he said.
"Once you started disturbing the underground geology, you may have made one of those seeps even worse," he said.
Remember that geologists have said that if the well casing is substantially breached, the oil and methane gas will find a way through fractures in the surrounding geology and make it into the ocean. For example, the Houston Chronicle notes:
If the well casing burst it could send oil and gas streaming through the strata to appear elsewhere on the sea floor ….
Obviously, if there are natural oil or gas seeps nearby, there are already pre-existing channels up to the seafloor … so that may very well be the path of least resistance for the subterranean oil to flow up to the seafloor.
Therefore, if there were a substantial breach in the well bore, nearby natural oil and gas seeps could very well increase in volume.
Because BP would like to minimize leak estimates to minimize the damages it has to pay under the Clean Water Act, BP would undoubtedly try to pretend that the nearby natural seeps always had the same volume. In other words, the owner of the oil drilling prospect where the spill is occuring – BP – may be the only party to have mapped out the nearby seeps ….
So don't be surprised if – when formerly tiny seeps become gushers – BP tries to pretend that they were always that large.
Indeed – given BP's track record of prevarication – don't be shocked if BP pretends that brand new gushers are ancient, natural seeps.
Today, recently-retired Shell CEO John Hofmeister told MSNBC:
There are many people, including in the White House, including The Department of Energy, who doubt the integrity of the well casing [and] who believe that the well casing could well be ruptured or damaged in some respect and that could cause leaks way down in the well where oil could be… working its way out of the casing into the space between the wellbore and the casing itself.
That oil could be moving up the geology of the earth… and could be emerging somewhere as… the seepage … the possible seepage.
Thad Allen said today that there are anomalies on the seafloor within 100-200 meters of the blown out well. And oil expert Bob Cavner told MSNBC today:
You know, these seeps that the admiral talked about within 100 meters of the well concern me some… The ones close really concern me.
And there is a possibility, if you look at the well diagram which is complicated and I won't get into it. There is a path for oil and gas to get out into the sub strata. And I'm concerned about that.
A 20-year petroleum geologist – with 13 years spent in offshore exploration in the Gulf of Mexico – "gasmiinder" noted yesterday:
Mapping of natural methane seeps is required as part of the process of obtaining a drilling permit in the Gulf of Mexico. This is required because the "methane seep communities" are considered environmental "havens" as it were – you have to demonstrate you're not disturbing the critters. [My comment: There are ecosystems which can thrive around small natural seeps. But huge gushers like the BP blow out can kill everything in sight, especially given the large amounts of methane which have spewed from BP's well]. The process does not measure the rate of seepage but you would have some guess based on the areal extent of the communities. This report is filed with the MMS and should be available. I'm surprised and enterprising reporter hasn't requested a copy from the MMS. (Of course enterprising reporter might be an oxymoron in the modern era)
I attended a scientific talk about 20 years ago where the study results estimated about 1 million barrels of oil a year seep into the Gulf from natural seeps. Of course that is spread over a huge area on an entire year.
In response to the above post, blogger CD notes that page 16 of BP's Initial Exploration Plan for the well states:
There is no evidence for the existence of high-density chemosynthetic communities within 1,500 ft of the proposed well location.
Gasmiinder responds:
The statement regarding the chemosynthetic communities requires a seafloor survey – that's what I'm referring too where there will be a report available having mapped them (the partners will have copies of that report as well).
Gasmiinder adds:
Here is a copy from the webpage of a company that consults on the interpretation of the hazard surveys. It should give at least a feel for the level of information that is believed to be present in the data (meaning this is what they claim to be able to accomplish with the datasets):
• Assess seafloor conditions and stratigraphy, and geologic processes to evaluate well site locations
• Identify shallow gas and shallow water flow potential [my note: they are referring to shallow layers that could be hazards to drill through)
• Interpret and map geologic constraints, such as faults, gas vents, seafloor depressions and mounds, and any other geologic phenomena that are detectable with seismic data
• Identify potential chemosynthetic communities, archaeological sites, and man-made infrastructure and debris
• Assess mooring spread, anchor locations, and foundation zones
• Produce supporting maps to show water depth, topography, shallow structure, and seafloor and shallow geologic conditions and features in an area that may have an impact on drilling
• Prepare final reports needed for permit application to governmental and insurance bodies
So BP (and its partners in the well, Anadarko and Mitsui) would have maps of all of the nearby seeps which were there before well blew out.
In addition, there are logs of where BP's underwater submersibles (ROVs) have traveled since they arrived at the scene. Tracking the logs would show whether any ROVs had visited the current seep before today. If so – and my hunch is that they have – then the corresponding footage would show how big those seeps were previously.
Indeed, enterprising citizen journalists who have recorded and stored the footage from BP's underwater cams could compare the compass readings from the current feeds showing seepage to previous similar compass readings, and find the footage themselves.
NASA has also demonstrated that natural seeps show up in satellite images when photographed in sunglint. However, I am not sure whether the seep near the blown out well is big enough – or of the right chemical composition – to see from satellite images.
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text: Thought some might find this interesting http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/vertigo-a-common-problem-that-left-one-man-teetering-for-months-and-months/2014/04/21/0e11dc9e-7718-11e3-af7f-13bf0e9965f6_story.html March 27, 2009. I was fine the night before. The little cold I'd had was gone, and I'd had the first good night's sleep all week. But when I woke up Friday morning at 6:15 and got out of bed, the world was whirling counterclockwise. I knocked against the bookcase, stumbled through the bathroom doorway and landed on my knees in front of the sink. It was as though I'd been tripped by a ghost lurking beside the bed. Even when I was on all fours, the spinning didn't stop. Lightheaded, reaching for solid support, I made it back to bed and, showing keen analytical insight, told my wife, Beverly, "Something's wrong." Graphic Anatomy of vertigo. Click Here to View Full Graphic Story Anatomy of vertigo. Related story Understanding vertigo, and what to do if you have it Understanding vertigo, and what to do if you have it Nora Krug Some high-tech diagnostic tools often lead to a low-tech treatment: a series of careful repositionings of the head. Click here to subscribe. Click here to subscribe. . The only way I could put on my shirt was to kneel on the floor first. I teetered when I rose. Trying to keep my head still, moving only my eyes, I could feel my back and shoulders tightening, forming a shell. Everything was in motion, out of proportion, unstable. I barely made it downstairs for breakfast, clutching the banister, concentrating on each step and, when I finally made it to the kitchen, feeling too aswirl to eat anyway. I didn't realize it at the time, but those stairs would become my greatest risk during this attack of relentless, intractable vertigo. Vertigo — the feeling that you or your surroundings are spinning — is a symptom, not a disease. You don't get a diagnosis of vertigo; instead, you present with vertigo, a hallmark of balance dysfunction. Or with dizziness, a more generalized term referring to a range of off-kilter sensations including wooziness, faintness, unsteadiness, spatial disorientation, a feeling akin to swooning. It happens to almost everyone: too much to drink or standing too close to the edge of a roof or working out too hard or getting up too fast. But according to the National Institutes of Health, "more than four in 10 Americans will experience an episode of dizziness sometime during their lives that's significant enough to send them to a doctor." That would be approximately 125 million of us. If it came with a soundtrack, vertigo's would sometimes be a train's wheels grinding and screeching on the tracks as the car turns and almost tips over. Other times it would be a treetop filled with the ruckus of rioting crows in a sudden windstorm. I remember feeling helpless and untethered, needing to reach out for something stable to steady me but finding that there was too much give in everything I sought. Vertigo is a carnival world and I was the Human Bumper Car. I moved without authority because the simple act of shifting my head's plane threw me into chaos. But so did remaining motionless. I was never comfortable or relaxed, never at ease, at home in my world. But I was not alone. In part, that was because I had Beverly's support and my daughter's steady concern. I was also not alone because, as a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine in 2009 noted, 69 million Americans age 40 and older, or 35.4 percent of the population during the four-year study period, had some form of vestibular dysfunction — a term that includes vertigo. When I was struck by vertigo, I had no idea it was such a common occurrence. I was also not unfamiliar with balance problems. In 1988, I contracted a virus that targeted my brain and left me neurologically disabled. Besides damage to my memory systems, abstract reasoning, word-finding and other cognitive powers, my brain's ability to process information — including information necessary to maintain balance reliably — had been compromised. I'd had to walk with a cane for 15 years. Disembodied Human balance is a multi-system operation. "It begins with a series of signals within the tiny balance organs of the inner ear," according to hearing and balance expert Daniel Sklare. "These organs work with your brain's visual system to give you a sense of your body's position." Other parts of the body — skin, joints, muscles — also relay balance information to the brain. All it takes to trigger a balance disorder is a malfunction in one of these delicate components. Researchers have identified more than a dozen different balance disorders, NIH reported in 2012. On that March morning in 2009, my primary-care physician thought my problem was the most common of those disorders, benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, or BPPV. He explained that "ear rocks" — small deposits of calcium carbonate, probably dislodged by the viral infection I'd caught the week before at the coast — had collected in the inner-ear canals of my right ear. Such debris, or otoconia, jitters at the least movement and sends all sorts of confusing signals through the balance system. Until it dissolved, I could expect the symptoms to persist. It could last two days or two weeks or two months, he said. It lasted five months. To be precise, by the time I'd seen the neurotologist — who spun me in an Omniax system chair, a diagnostic device that looks like a futuristic carnival ride or an apparatus for training astronauts to endure zero gravity — and the neurologist specializing in balance disorders — who sent me for an MRI of the brain and then left for a month's vacation — and the acupuncturist, who was also a doctor of Chinese medicine, my vertigo had been going on for 138 days. And it wasn't BPPV, reasonable though that initial diagnosis seemed. Beverly and I had gone home and researched it. We watched several YouTube demonstrations of the Particle Repositioning Procedure, or Epley maneuver, intended to relocate the otoconia. I'd lie supine on our bed with my head turned to the right and dangling dizzily off the edge into Beverly's hands. After 30 seconds, she shifted my head to the left, waited another 30 seconds and helped me rotate onto my left side, face down, where I looked at her kneecap. When 30 more seconds passed, I slowly sat up and gathered myself for a minute, trying not to puke. Three times a day. For 69 days. Not that I was counting, but that was 1,656 hours of my life during which I had to walk with a cane, couldn't safely manage the stairs, couldn't drive, could barely endure being a passenger in a moving vehicle, fell in the grocery store while reaching for a package of paper towels, sagged to my knees while trying to walk along the street beside Beverly, couldn't write or sustain focus on reading, grew lightheaded when tree limbs moved in a breeze or swallows changed direction in flight. Through all that time I felt so disembodied, while also feeling trapped inside my body, that I believed I was losing myself hour by hour. My vertigo had never been benign in any sense of the word; had never been paroxysmal, since it didn't come and go; had never been a function of position; had involved more than simply vertigo; and had not been resolved by 207 repetitions of the Epley maneuver (nor by drinking ginger tea). As a result, we thought I might not have benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. My doctor agreed. Unplugged After weeks of intensive testing — during which I had electrodes stuck deep in my ears, I was barraged by piercing sounds and by air puffed into my ear canals, and I was subjected to jerking/tilting floor platforms and those crazy loop-the-loops on the Omniax chair — I was given the diagnosis of endolymphatic hydrops. This condition, a fluctuation of the volume and concentration of fluid in the inner ear, can occur as a result of infection, allergy, tumor, degeneration of the inner ear, head trauma or unknown causes. In my case, the neourotologist thought the cause was a viral endolabyrinthitis — a virus attacking my inner ear. He felt it might be a reactivation of some earlier virus in my system, most likely the herpes zoster I'd contracted in 2002, when I had chickenpox for the first time at age 55. Since the neurotologist prescribed a potent antiviral drug, Valtrex, I wanted to consult my primary-care physician again before taking the medication. He was skeptical of the diagnosis. After all, besides vertigo I had none of the classic symptoms of endolymphatic hydrops. My symptoms didn't fluctuate according to position or activity, I had no hearing loss, no ringing or buzzing or feeling of fullness in the ear. Technology and medical science confirmed that I was dizzy. They still didn't know quite why. On Day 95, I consulted with the neurologist, who talked about strokes in the brain stem and tumors and said, "Let's have a look, so we can rule things out." On Day 97, I had an MRI of the brain. On Day 101, my 62nd birthday and the day before the neurologist was heading off for a vacation, he called to say there was no sign of anything worrisome, though there might be a slight area of contact between a blood vessel and nerves of the inner ear. He thought I was in no danger unless I fell, so I shouldn't fall. We'd meet when he returned. He prescribed a tiny dose of Valium twice a day to dampen nerve response in case there was that contact with a blood vessel. At 8:09 on the evening of Aug. 12, Day 138, Beverly and I were sitting on the couch in our living room. It had rained all day. I'd had my ninth acupuncture treatment the day before. I was reading, slowly, Willie Morris's memoir about his friendship with James Jones, when there was a great burst of outward pressure inside my head. It plugged my ears. I dropped the book, opened my mouth wide, put both hands to my ears. In two seconds, the pressure reversed, vanished. "Did something happen?" Beverly asked. Delighted that I could still talk, move both arms and shift position on the couch, I said, "I don't think it was a stroke." She looked at me for several seconds and smiled. "Stand up. I wonder if your vertigo is gone." I did. It was. Twelve days later, when I told the neurologist what had happened and that, except for some residual lightheadedness, the symptoms hadn't returned, he said, "You were in such bad vestibular shape. I'd like to take credit for this, but I don't think I can." The vanishing, he felt, confirmed a theory he'd been considering: intracranial hypertension, a buildup of pressure inside my skull, brought on by a virus. A buildup of viral material in the spinal fluid plugged the holes through which the fluid normally drains. That led to a buildup of fluid and pressure, which caused the symptoms. "So, it came unplugged on its own?" "It's a pretty elegant theory." He smiled. The symptoms haven't returned. They've looked in on me occasionally, teasing — wooziness when I move my head quickly, lightheadedness when I look out the window or see great blue herons land in a swaying cottonwood tree — but that's all. It's been four years, eight months and 10 days. Skloot's most recent book is "Revertigo: An Off-Kilter Memoir."


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fmluder wrote:Is the Legends set still available? I don't see it on the official site.
man at ye old well wrote:My only complaint is the yellow flags and arches, and the lack of shields.
man at ye old well wrote:I took another look at the set and I don't mind the flags any more, but the yellow arches just don't seem to fit in. They are just to sudden of a change from the gray. I just don't really like them and the red arches on the Black Falcons Castle.
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I learned, this summer, that by eating the right things and moving as much as I needed to for recovery, I have actually become healthier than I was when I was preaching "health" and parading my six-pack (and osteopenia) around the gym.
Here's what a typical day looked like for me these part few months* (and, granted, I'm still working on the sleep and adrenal fatigue portion of the equation, especially now that I have things like late-night rehearsals to go to and friends who give me a reason to stay up late. And I'm still learning about how to go low enough carb and high enough fat to feel balanced, so I'm sure that there are still many tweaks I could be making–but I'm not that worried about it right now).
- Wake up at 6:30 am (8 hours after going to bed). Skip the gym because my ankle is on fire. Take a guilt free shower, make my bed, and go downstairs with Frida. No extra stress, just waking up and getting on with my day. Got enough sleep, so I'm feeling okay.
- Have cup of organic coffee with coconut butter mixed in. No idea how many tea- or tablespoons…just enough to be delicious. I don't need the coffee to wake up, I just like the way it tastes. This will be the only cup I have all day.
- Breakfast of bone broth with wakame and a side of bacon, or else two eggs (hard boiled or scrambled with ghee) with bacon and raw sauerkraut. Supplemented with fermented cod liver oil/butter oil blend, raw maca root powder, vitamin C, Celedrin, MSM/glucosamine chondroitin. Getting in my share of bone building vitamins and minerals as well as probiotics. Also, the maca, a phytoestrogen, is helping me rebalance my depleted female hormones. (More on the maca in a coming post…)
- Head to Starbucks to work on freelance projects or else get some quality blogging done. Drink orange blossom tea and kombucha. More probiotics. And if you haven't tried Starbucks orange blossom tea, you're missing out.
- Lunch around 1 or 2. Roasted garlic, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and carrots with some kind of fish–usually tuna or salmon–and olive oil and balsamic vinegar on top. Or a coconut milk and macadamia nut smoothie with spinach, broccoli, and a couple of strawberries (and cinnamon and cocoa powder for good measure!). A high fat, moderate protein lunch keeps me full all afternoon.
- Energy is high and no need for snacking. Green tea and writing, followed by a walk with my dog or a short trip to the gym for rehab exercises if I'm feeling up to it. I've been working up to walking for about 40 minutes a day. I spend the majority of the day on my butt writing, so this walk is great for strengthening my leg and getting my cardiovascular system back into shape. And now I'm returning to the gym three days a week to do rehab and strengthening exercises for my legs.
- Dinner around 6:30. Ground beef (20% fat–until I can find a good grass fed higher fat source around here) and chicken liver burgers with kelp noodles and a mushroom and tomato salad, or some variation of meat and salad thereof, sometimes dressed with homemade cashew, basil, and kale pesto. Supplement with vitamin C, food-based Magnesium, more Celedrin & MSM. Again, enough fat to keep me satiated, enough protein for satiety and muscle building, enough green, non-starchy vegetables to keep me healthy and rolling in nutrients. Supplements serve the same purpose as those at breakfast.
- Dessert, if I'm feeling it. Coconut butter with maca root, cinnamon, and cocoa, or a couple of squares of Alter Eco 85% chocolate (organic, fair trade, and NO SOY LECITHIN). I don't have to eat dessert. But if I want it, it's there, and I eat it without guilt, without weighing/measuring, without binging until I feel sick. When I start to feel any of the negative dessert-related thoughts, I remind myself that there's always tomorrow, and the food will be there then, too.
- Usually asleep by 10:30 pm. Best case scenario. I'm usually in bed by 8, but I have a bad habit of staying up late on my computer. I've at least taken steps to install f.lux, which dims and warms the light emitted by the computer in order to minimize the melatonin-depleting effects of the blue, artificial light.
And I know that it's not perfect, but it's perfect for me, right now, today. I'm not doing nutritional ketosis or measuring my calories. All I know is that I can eat until I'm full and I'm not desperately spending my day searching for snacks, pounding coffee, and trying to stay awake through sugar crashes during four hour stretches of writing. And the best part is, if I go out to meet a friend for lunch or dinner, I don't feel tied to any meal plan or predetermined number of allowable calories or macros. And there are no "wrong things" to eat. I avoid the stuff that makes me feel awful (grains, starches, legumes, dairy), and by default I eat only the stuff that makes me feel well.
Now that I'm back at work and in rehearsal, I'm getting much less sleep, but I know that it's a short-term stressor. And the experience of being in a musical is worth the month of raised cortisol levels and unbalanced melatonin.
I'd love to hear about what you are all doing, and how it's been working for you. What steps have you taken to healing your relationship with food, both mentally and physically?
*I started writing this post in the middle of October. This was before the insanity of work/rehearsals/freelance projects/dating/etc. happened. I still try to stick to this as closely as I can–so bed times and wake times and sometimes snacks and workouts are different from what I've written here. But the cool thing is: that's life. I know what works, and I can tweak based on what my temporal and physical limitations are for that day.


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In 1943, Albert Schatz, a young Rutgers College Ph.D. student, worked on a wartime project in microbiology professor Selman Waksman's lab, searching for an antibiotic to fight infections on the front lines and at home. In his eleventh experiment on a common bacterium found in farmyard soil, Schatz discovered streptomycin, the first effective cure for tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest diseases.
As director of Schatz's research, Waksman took credit for the discovery, belittled Schatz's work, and secretly enriched himself with royalties from the streptomycin patent filed by the pharmaceutical company Merck. In an unprecedented lawsuit, young Schatz sued Waksman, and was awarded the title of "co-discoverer" and a share of the royalties. But two years later, Professor Waksman alone was awarded the Nobel Prize. Schatz disappeared into academic obscurity.
For the first time, acclaimed author and journalist Peter Pringle unravels the intrigues behind one of the most important discoveries in the history of medicine. The story unfolds on a tiny college campus in New Jersey, but its repercussions spread worldwide. The streptomycin patent was a breakthrough for the drug companies, overturning patent limits on products of nature and paving the way for today's biotech world. As dozens more antibiotics were found, many from the same family as streptomycin, the drug companies created oligopolies and reaped big profits. Pringle uses firsthand accounts and archives in the United States and Europe to reveal the intensely human story behind the discovery that started a revolution in the treatment of infectious diseases and shaped the future of Big Pharma.
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Update: As of 5 PM today (Tuesday), the Sat. Rays game against the Detroit Tigers is sold out. The only seast that remain are a few obstrcuted view seats in the upper level of the Trop.
Look out for scalpers on your trek to the Trop. on Sat night.
I am getting such a kick out of some of the names blurted out concerning trades before Thursday evening. Some are big names, others have not gotten to the households of America yet. But you can be sure that the Rays policy to keep all trade talks mum is alive and kicking in the front office.
Most of the accusations and mumblings have come out of the other club's office, and not the Rays' management. This keeps the other teams guessing on their "place" in the trade talks for players. Tampa Bay has put a high regard on such silience, and has paid well for their closed lips.
Last year, we never saw the Dan Wheeler for Ty Wiggington trade coming. Neither did we see "Big Red", Seth McClung going north for Grant Balfour. These trades last year looked like minor adjustments to our roster and would not be a major impact .
Wheeler is just leading all Rays in the "hold" category, and has been as reliable as any other player in the majors in the clutch for the team. Balfour might have not made the Opening Day roster, but when he came back, he was pitching like a different pitcher. He had more confidience and was using his control and location better in his releiever roles.
Balfour might just be our closer of the future, or he could replace Wheeler as the 8th inning guy if injury or another unexpected trade hits the books. I have a feeling this Tuesday will be quiet silient for the Rays, but Wed evening, and Thursday morning you will hear our name a few times with surprises and upgrades to our squad.
I am going to get this off my chest now while it is still burning a hole in me. The Rays need to find a centerfielder to fill in until B J Upton can learn to play the angles correctly and give us more of a chance on those 50-50 balls in the gap area.
B J is an excellient ballplayer, but he is just not getting it in center right now. On two consecutive plays, he was beaten by himself by taking either a late route or a wrong route to the ball. The results were two triples, one by a Brad Wilkerson, that was his first of the season.
With the Jays up 2-1, Wilkerson came up and threaded a ball into that Upton left his feet to try and snare into a double. Upton was off by about 2 feet and the ball skirted to the outfield wall. Joe Inglett came up next and hit a hard hit fly to the gap in rightcenterfield. B J made a bad run toward the ball and it cruised to the wall while Inglett sprinted to third.
I get so upset some games when I see B J and his "big strides" cruising to a ball he missed, and Carl Crawford is right there next to him and could have made the play after running from leftfield. It gets to be a routine to see Upton cruise, while Gross, Hinske and Crawford race for balls and put more effort into their actions.
The Rays defense kept them close in that game last night. The middle infield was spectacular on several plays that could have gone for extra bases. Evan Longoria went vertical to rob Rob Barajas of a base hit in the 2nd inning. Longo went towards the hole at second and went vertical before coming up and throwing Barajas out by almost 2 steps.
Considering he is throwing to Carlos Pena, who has a .999 Feilding Percentage this season at first, currently best in the majors. But then again, Longoria is not a bad fielder either, currently fielding at a .971, which is 4th in the majors. All the contending third basemen with better percentages are in the American League ( Toronto's Scott Rolen, Boston's Mike Lowell, and Chicago's Joe Crede).
Jason Bartlett is also keeping the Rays in game with his defense. In the 4th inning, Bartlett took a ball deep in th hole towards second base and threwa 2-hopper to Pena to get Alex Rios, one of the fastest Jays by a step. The play is a reminder of the outstanding up-grade we have at both third and short this season.
With 9 weeks left in the season, the Rays have to start to committ to an upgrade on offense. The Rays have been getting some timely hitting, but in the Rays' last 18 games, they have scored only 48 runs ( 2.7 runs/game ). To make that matter even worse, last night the Rays also went 0-10 with men in scoring position, and have gone 19-138 ( .138 ) in recent games.
This stat in particular can be posted to show the struggle the team has had on offense to get the runs needed to win thses close contests. The Rays are 2-9 on the road in July, batting .196, and hitting .141 with men in scoring position. Their seasonal average with runners in scoring position is last in the majors at .241.
The Rays have hit over 10 hits in a single game only once in the last 17 games. During their winning streak, that was almost a nightly event. But there is light at the end of the tunnel, Carlos Pena is starting to see the ball better and hitting some great balls into the gaps in the outfield, and the team is the best in the majors in 1-2 run games this year, at 33-16.
Last night, the top 4 batters' in the Rays lineup each got a hit off A J Burnett. The Rays were going for a 3-game win streak against Burnett.
Burnett had never lost 3 straight to any team. Burnett countered by striking out 5 of the first 6 Rays he faced last night. Eric Hinske got 3 walks off him last night and Jason Bartlett got the other walk issued by Burnett.
The Rays did not get a hit until Akinora Iwamura led off the 3rd inning with a single and Upton hit a shot to rightfield that got Aki to second . Carl Crawford got on base after Rolen's misplayed a ball down the line and loaded the bases for the Rays.
Longoria struck out, but Carlos Pena came through on a ball hit to Lyle Overbay at first that was juggled and allowed Aki to score the first run of the game for the Rays.
Eric Hinske was picked off first by Burnett in the 4th inning while leaning towards second base. Hinske treid to dive under Overbay's tag, but got caught off the bag by a quick throw by Burnett.
In the 5th inning, Crawford hit his 10th double of the season and was stranded their when both Rays batters could not move him. In the 7th inning, Upton got on with a walk and avanced to third on his 32nd stolen base and advanced to third on a Wild Pitch by Burnett. Upton was left on third after Crawford struck out, but Barajas dropped the third strike and Crawford ran safely to first. Longoria finished the inning by hitting into a 6-4-3- double play.
The Rays went down 1-2-3 in both the 8th and 9th innings to end the game.
James Shields came into the game going 2-0 against the Jays this season with a 1.9 ERA and 9 strikeouts. He was also gunning for his 10th win to tie him with Sonnanstine for tops on the Rays.
Shields went 7.1 innings and gave up only 5-hits for 3-runs against the Jays. He also got 5 strikeout to move into 10th place in the Al with 116 for the season. Shields threw only 4 pitches in the entire 6th inning. Shields gave way to Grant Balfour after throwing 94 pitches.
Balfour inherited Joe Inglett at thrid and retired the Jay with 9 pitches in the inning. Balfour leads all major league relievers with a .111 average (10-90), with 4 extra base hits, all doubles. His 13.01 strikeouts per 9 innings, leads all AL pitchers and is 2nd among MLB relievers.
19 of his 22 appearance have all been scoreless this year. Amazingly enough, he is the only Rays reliever to not surrender a run at the Trop. this year in 11 appearances and 14 innings.
I am again going to warn anyone wanting to go to this Sat night;s concert at the Trop to buy your tickets today. the team has unofficially announced that it is a sold out event with limited seating, mostly single throughout the stadium.
To secure your place to watch LL Cool J, you need to call the ticket office or go to raysbaseball.com and get yout tickets today. Walk-up's will not be happy on Sat night when they find out the game is an offical sellout. And remember, the Rays are 14-1 when 30,000 or more fand attend a Rays game.
On Sat. night, Roccoa Baldelli played 5 innings in rightfield for the Montgomery Biscuits. Rocco reposrted to Rays trainer Ron Perterfiedl that he felt great and was looking forward to his next start. This is a great thing to hear since the Rays are searching for a right-handed bat, and one might just fall into their lap again.
Baldelli is currently hitting .333 at Montgomery, and went 2-3 Sat night with a 3-run homer in the 1st inning, and a single in the 4th for the Biscuits. Rocco was replaced by Erold Andrus in rightfield at the start of the 6th inning.
More great news out of Montgomery is that David Price earned his 5th straight Double-A victory last night against the Huntsville Stars. Price threw a 2-hitter and struck out 7 in his 8 innings of work for the Biscuits Both of the Stars hits were homers against Price, but also gave up 0 walks in the game.
With this kind of sucess at the Double-A level, Price might be in Durham or above in the next few weeks.


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There seems to be a bit of a learning curve when users first start using the site as we've seen with the OP adding an answer rather than editing their question or responding with a comment. I've seen a few different sites that offer some video tutorials offering quick intros along with some dos and donts.
I've seen the videos be a part of FAQ pages, part of a training page, and also included at the end of the registration process before the user would try to begin asking some questions, etc.
Why not create these videos for the trilogy sites?
It's quite obvious that folks feel pretty strongly against this. The comments and answers on this thread are all self reflecting and don't seem to place much thought about how others may or may not interact with the site. In fact, I agree with much of what people have said here, but this really is not about me or you, it is about the noob who may not know how the site works and never reads anything (like FAQ)...
I'd apply the following metaphor that really sums up my thoughts...
If you buy Madden 2010 for the XBox, you can simply pop the game in the XBox and grab the controller and start playing. You can open up the box and read the 42 page booklet on how-to play the game, or you can watch some of the game demos and go through the training modules embedded into the game. You can do 3 different things in this scenario, choosing the one that fits
I'm simply saying that if you apply this metaphor to the SO sites, we only allow you to simply pop the game in and start playing and provide the booklet. Why not the 3rd offering?


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Utopia III: Contemporary Russian Art and the Ruins of Utopia
In February, I attended the Utopia III conference held through the Cambridge Courtauld Russian Art Centre. The conference was the third in a series addressing the theme of 'utopia' within Russian art, with each focusing on a different time period; Utopia III focused on contemporary art. This was the first of the conference series I was able to attend, and it left me regretting that I had missed the previous two.
Days later, I still found myself thinking about the idea of utopia, both as it concerned Soviet art and as it connected to other realms of my academic and non-academic interests— particularly, my penchant for reading dystopian novels, which normally constitutes a wholly non-academic escape. I found the keynote speaker, Mikhail Epstein, particularly intriguing in this respect. His topic, 'The Philosophical Underpinnings of Russian Conceptualism', drew parallels for me between the concept of the utopian he described, which he argued was grounded in philosophical ideas predating Soviet ideology, and the philosophical exercise that seems to be at the heart of many dystopian novels. Central to the genre, of course, is the desire to posit the ramifications of Soviet-era politics and totalitarian moments of 20th century history, but also often motifs drawn from classical-era philosophies of government.
Though by a strict definition, 'utopian' and 'dystopian' are opposing ideas, they exist in tension, with the second reliant upon the first to exist. Both are united in a joint exercise in constructing an alternate version of reality: one optimistically plausible, the other existing in order to identify the fundamental flaws in the former. Though the term 'dystopia' was not investigated at this conference, I often detected the blurry line between the two. One example, used by multiple speakers, was Ilya Kabakov's "The Man Who Flew Into Space from his Apartment." This installation artwork depicts the aftermath of the apartment belonging to the eponymous man in space. His cramped living quarters, wallpapered with Soviet propaganda, are now furnished by the aftermath of his successful space mission. Through the work's highly narrative composition, the viewer is able to infer the action that preceded the current tableau, while simultaneously detecting the cracks in a supposedly utopian Soviet society: the propaganda feels suffocating, and must be escaped.
Epstein proposed that conceptual art is the visual counterpart to philosophy, and has been understood this way by some of the artists themselves. This proved somewhat controversial in the Q&A portion following his talk, although I found his argument fairly convincing. In my understanding of dystopian literature the connection seems apt: conceptual art, like literature, becomes a method of exploring abstract ideas in a concrete sense, as if running a simulation to prove exactly where grand theories, in our imperfect reality, will fall short.


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DWTS Sharna Burgess Attends 4th Annual Beyond The Bell's Take Action Leadership Campaign
Pictured above is Dancing With the Stars Dance Troupe member Sharna Burgess. On May 19th, Sharna attended California's L.A. Unified School District High Schools 4th Annual Beyond The Bell's Take Action Leadership Campaign which benefits after school and in-school activities and programming as a vehicle to reduce violence, increase attendance, improve grades, and prepare students for college and the job market. You can view more pictures of Sharna at the event as well as other celebrities who attended at Getty Images. There is a fun little article at the Huffington Post and some pictures of the talent show part as well.


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Prospects Kelly, Wisdom among Cards' cuts
JUPITER, Fla. -- With their first major wave of cuts this spring, the Cardinals reduced the number of players in Major League camp to 49 after Monday's 17-5 loss to the Tigers. Among those sent out were three of the organization's top 10 prospects, according to MLB.com's rankings.
Right-hander Angel Castro, outfielder Mike O'Neill and outfielder Rafael Ortega, all of whom are on the club's 40-man roster, were optioned to Triple-A. They'll be joined in Minor League camp by six players who were in the big league clubhouse as non-roster invitees: right-hander Boone Whiting, right-hander Kurt Heyer, third baseman Patrick Wisdom and catchers Carson Kelly, Casey Rasmus and Cody Stanley.
In addition, the Cardinals reassigned lefty Marco Gonzales, the team's top pick in the 2013 First-Year Player Draft, to Minor League camp on Sunday. Gonzales appeared in only one Grapefruit League game due to a brief setback with forearm tightness.
Gonzales (No. 5), Kelly (No. 8) and Wisdom (No. 9) all cracked the top half of the Cardinals' Top 20 prospects for 2014. O'Neill is No. 19 on that list.


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Royal Perthshire Militia (68th) copper gilt domed button, with backmark of I Nutting & Son King St Covent Garden. 1803-33.
Royal Perthshire Militia (68th) copper gilt domed button, with backmark of I Nutting & Son King St Covent Garden. 1803-33.
Single shoulder title of 5th (Angus and Dundee) Bn with original backing plate 1910-20.
Boer War period cane top.
Looks like a home made item, WM Victorian crown button fixed to a sleeve mounted with a P1897 collar badge.
Heavy service wear evident.
Tortoise shell and silver sweetheart badge hallmarked FRG Birm 1917 (Fredrick Gomm).
Mounted with a hand engraved badge.
an interesting QVC ORs badge. On the reverse, each end of the cross is struck with a number, perhaps representing a service number (?). 307D5709-931E-4C06-B216-BCECE5FA9EEC.jpeg 707F9432-F629-441A-A3E0-6FBAF3E4A19C.jpeg 36F92E9A-6A04-467C-B842-783DF73A9A6B.jpeg DAAB9E1D-7933-499D-92D6-C012F3495AE4.jpeg 2B49C092-A056-471F-A81B-834CE0571869.jpeg BEF38E85-F60D-476E-8929-312CFFF19683.jpeg
Assuming that the inscriptions are indeed the wearer's service number and assuming that the service number begins with one of the digits at the top of the badge, there are four possible combinations by moving counter-clockwise or clockwise around the badge: 6348, 6843, 8436, or 8634. Using the data from Army Service Numbers 1881-1914, the join dates for each of those numbers would be:
6348 - early 1896
6843 - late 1897
8436 - late 1901
8634 - early 1902
Each of these numbers makes sense for a badge with a Victorian Crown. VC badges from existing stocks continued to be issued even after the death of the Queen.
Thanks Mike. That makes sense. Well, at least we can narrow it down to 4 likely candidates!
If it were me I would be inclined to go one of two ways. Clockwise from top left making it 6843 or top left, right - bottom left, right making it 6834
Seems logical. Sadly, we'll never be sure. Has anyone encountered a badge numbered in this manner??


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In the Spotlight: Rich Schak, Director of Criminal Justice program
by Mark Donahue
If you try to imagine the classic Chicago cop — the guy on the beat, the detective working a fresh crime scene, the supervisor in the field — he might look something like Rich Schak. The Chicago native is a 30-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, but he's also an experienced educator. And he's brought both phases of his professional life to NLU as head of the new Criminal Justice program.
In a long, rewarding career in police work, Rich said he learned empathy from his interactions with the people of Chicago, and the experience changed him forever. He's now sharing that life perspective — and those decades of skills working a beat, investigating crime scenes and much more — with students looking to find a path in CJ.
There's no doubt Rich knows law enforcement and investigation, but he also knows the experience of adult learners and other non-traditional college students. Rich wants to give students as much exposure to career options as possible through real-world work in NLU's crime lab classroom, hoping to inspire them to find their calling — just as he once did.
A Job to Look Up to
"When I was young, policemen in the neighborhood where I grew up on the West Side of Chicago were important figures," Rich said. "Key figures. They were leaders; they were coaches; they were the guy you went to when you had an issue, a problem, you couldn't get home they found a way to get you home. And I always looked up to them."
Out of high school, Rich wanted to become one of these police officers. In the '60s, the Chicago Police Department had an entry option for young people in college called the cadet program, so Rich first took a test to become a police cadet while also beginning his college studies. The cadet program was like a paid internship, with cadets doing things like clerical work at police stations. It was a humble start, but it paid dividends throughout Rich's career.
He also served in the Army, and when he returned he had already taken the police officer's test, so he was sworn in at age 20, younger than the standard CPD age requirement because of his cadet time. Rich's first patrol was the 18th District, an assignment that included Michigan Avenue and the Gold Coast but also the old Cabrini Green projects — "a very interesting place to work" in the late '60s and early '70s, he said.
He moved to a tactical team as a plainclothes officer then was part of a pickpocket detail on Michigan Ave. Because of his cadet time, he was able to take the detective test early and was promoted to detective in 1973, assigned to the homicide unit at Area 5 on the Northwest Side. As a young detective, Rich said his peers helped him find some much needed maturity.
"I was there and I was young and I was cocky and I was arrogant, and I had some growing up to do, and some of the fellas I worked with helped me and I still maintain relationships with some of them today 40 years later — they helped me grow up," he said.
Rich worked 27 years on homicide, taking part in some of the highest-profile cases in Chicago over the last 10 years of his career. In between this he was detailed in the FBI for a short time investigating organized crime, and he also worked as a hostage negotiator on more than 30 incidents. He did some TV work as well, was profiled in the Chicago Tribune and even met three presidents.
Near the end of his police career, Rich realized that because of his early days in the cadets, he would be able to retire at 50. He took the sergeant's test — for the better pension — and was promoted and assigned to the 15th District on the West Side, in the area where he grew up. It seemed like a nice poetic ending to his long career, but it was not without danger. In 1999, Rich was shot in the chest in the line of duty. By that time his oldest son had become a police officer too and was one of the first cars on the scene. A Kevlar vest saved his life.
Rich received a CPD Blue Star for this and in 2000 turned in his gun and badge. He loved the job and loved the work but said he knew it was time to retire. With more time now on his hands earlier in life than many Americans, it was also time to think about what to do next.
Launching a Program
Rich was the director of a private investigation company for a while but felt it was too much like his old job. He had been an adjunct professor at Lewis University at the end of his police career and once trained police in Albania for the State Department, so he decided to jump full time into education. He worked at three institutions prior to NLU, including two for-profits as the chair of their criminal justice departments.
At NLU, Rich has had the opportunity to build a CJ program from the ground up. Launched in the fall of 2012, the B.A. in Criminal Justice offers two majors for students: administration and forensic social justice. Rich said there are currently around 60 students enrolled in the program, with 15 adjunct professors teaching. A third of the classes are offered in Chicago, a third in Wheeling and a third online.
He's come around to a new way of describing what students get when they come to NLU.
"I don't necessarily like the term 'hands-on,'" Rich said. "I like the word 'experiential.' The reason being is that it's not really hands-on training. I'm not teaching anybody to be a fingerprint expert. I'm teaching somebody what it's like to do the work."
NLU's program boasts an impressive array of equipment in the new Chicago crime lab classroom to get students acclimated to that work, including an automated fingerprint identification system the size of something a small- or medium-sized police department would have. There's also a fuming chamber, which uses heated superglue fumes to coat objects and bring fingerprints into relief for better analysis.
In the intro to forensics class, taught by a forensic scientist, students tackle weekly topics, including not only fingerprinting but analysis of blood, tire tracks and bullets. Rich said he tries to make things as realistic as possible, from mock interviews and interrogations to NLU's new shooting simulator.
Housed in a room at Chicago campus, the simulator is the same system used to train police officers and certify military service members for use of firearms. It's also portable, so Rich can take it to other campuses. The shooting simulator places students in high-pressure situations that might require the use of force: a hostage-taking on a bus, a man wielding a knife inside a hospital, etc.
"I'm not making you into a gunfighter," Rich said. "I'm doing nothing more than letting you experience what it's like to be in a situation."
This is certainly the most bracing way of getting someone's feet wet that NLU's CJ program has to offer, but all of it is part of one goal: to help students find the path that's right for them.
Preparing for the Next Step
"I find that criminal justice people don't change their major if they do a good job," Rich said. "They change what they want to do with their major, and that's what I'm looking at."
NLU's Criminal Justice program can prepare students to take their careers in any number of directions: from police work to private security or investigation, corrections, juvenile justice, counseling, victim advocacy, cyber-security and much more.
Rich is continuing to promote this kind of career diversity as he looks to expand CJ offerings to a third NLU campus this year and have more online options for classes while still maintaining the experiential touch in the crime lab.
In addition, he's also launched a live speaker series focusing on different aspects of criminal justice. One event earlier this year, "In Her Shoes," took the experiential approach to showing participants the hard place victims of domestic violence find themselves in. Attendees were given roles of victims and depending on subsequent cards they received, had to shuttle children and possessions back and forth from homes and hospitals.
Ultimately through these efforts, Rich wants to help students discover their niche in a field that they can find rewarding, perhaps for a lifetime.
"I want them to get on a career path that will work for them, so if their thinking is flawed, we try to fix those flaws," he said. "If their thinking is on point, then we solidify it and at the same time give them some experience in a few areas that maybe they can use."


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Exclusive Interviews and a Tour of the Showtime House 2010!
Exclusive Interviews and a Tour of the Showtime House 2010!
On Tuesday, the third annual Showtime House opened its doors in Manhattan, showcasing high design and cutting-edge interiors inspired by the network's original series Californication, Dexter, Nurse Jackie, United States of Tara, Weeds, The Big C, and The Borgias. It's open to the public on Saturdays 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Oct. 27. Tickets are $15 and all proceeds benefit Harlem Children's Zone.
I got in touch with the stellar group of interior designers and architects responsible for this year's inspired interiors and asked them each a couple questions about how their rooms came together. Check out this slideshow to read the designers' responses and get a peek at all of the fabulous rooms!
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Money to fund environmental cleanup and restoration work
At least seven Superfund sites in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7, including five in Missouri and one each in Kansas and Nebraska, will receive a total of $282 million, plus interest, to fund environmental cleanup and restoration work as a result of a legal settlement in the largest environmental bankruptcy case in U.S. history, according to a release issued by the EPA.
The seven sites in Region 7 are among more than 80 Superfund sites in 19 states receiving portions of a $1.79 billion settlement from the reorganization of the American Smelting and Refining Company LLC (ASARCO). The funds will be used to pay for past and future costs incurred by federal and state agencies to address environmental contamination caused by ASARCO's operations around the country.
Region 7's affected sites and their respective funding amounts include Big River Mine Tailings/St. Joe Minerals Corp. ($17,072,427), Federal Mine Tailings ($7,743,418), Madison County Mines ($12,684,155), all in southeast Missouri; Jasper County/Oronogo-Duenweg Mining Belt ($21,402,000) and Newton County Mine Tailings ($11,484,000), both in southwest Missouri; Cherokee County ($25,114,000) in southeast Kansas; and Nebraska's Omaha Lead Site ($186,500,000). These amounts do not include interest payments, as required by the settlement.
ASARCO, an Arizona-based mining company that, according to the release, is responsible for multiple sites around the country that are contaminated with hazardous waste, filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. bankruptcy code on Aug. 9, 2005. Funds paid to the United States from the reorganization settlement will be placed into special Superfund accounts to pay for cleanup work. Funds will also be placed into accounts at the Department of Interior and the Department of Agriculture to pay for natural resource restoration at the sites.
Nationwide, the settlement will encompass the cleanup of 10.5 million cu yd of soil, or enough to cover nearly 2,000 football fields 3 ft deep. The funding will also address the cleanup of 5 million cu yd of contaminated water at the various sites, or enough to fill more than 1,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools.


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ATLANTA -- Student activities continued without disruption and two gyms remained open while new sports flooring was installed in the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Building (HPER) at Utah State University, thanks to careful planning.
Usage demand for the 50,000-square-foot facility on the main campus had increased so much that university administrators decided to replace the 30-year-old maintenance-intensive hardwood floor with sports flooring. Utah State Facility Planning Director Stanley Kane said the project was challenging because of limited time and the fact that HPER gets between 2,000 and 3,000 daily visits from the 25,000 students attending the university.
"One problem we faced was that the time between classes ending in May and summer camps beginning in June left only six weeks to re-surface or replace the entire floor system in four multipurpose gymnasium rooms and six racquetball courts," explained Kane. "The process involved getting buy-in from the facility managers who were excited to improve the quality of the playing surface."
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Though Slick Rick's last reception in Brooklyn was decidedly frigid, with the legend being booed during a halftime performance at the Brooklyn Nets' Barclays Center, The Ruler found a warm welcome on his birthday.
AllHipHop reports that Slick Rick celebrated his birthday with a sold-out performance and was joined by friends and family at Brooklyn Bowl in New York.
Slick Rick was accompanied by a full band and deejay as he performed some of his classics.
During the party, videos of Raekwon, Talib Kweli, Special Ed, Biz Markie, Chubb Rock, MC Lyte, Sway Calloway, and others wishing Rick a Happy Birthday were played.
"Last night was an incredible night for me as well as the Golden Era of Hip Hop. It is always great to see and perform for my fans, but to share my birthday with them at the Brooklyn Bowl was out of this world," said the rapper.
"The highlight of the night was the Birthday shout out video from my peers. I was shocked and honored by all the kind words and stories about my career. To sum it up, I am blessed, and humbled by all the love for all of the years."
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 9:13 pm
Post subject: Foodie fundraising events
Apart from the usual bake sales, coffee mornings and food-themed raffles, what kind of food-related fundraising ideas (for charity) can anyone think of? Particularly those which are fun and low-budget! I'm interested into what everyone can come up with, although practical reasons (namely very strict hygiene and catering rules) might prevent me from using them! I'm at university and sometimes it suffices to freshen up old ideas (converting mommy's coffee mornings into afternoon tea) but sometimes having something completely new is an important goal, too.
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Solicit the cooperation of local upscale restaurants and chefs, and auction off a dinner for two.
Might even combine it with a cooking demonstration by the chef and the drawing venue.
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We do a book and bake sale each year. It combines cakes that people have donated (mostly cut into slices which you buy by the slice) and everyone brings in the books they have read and do not mind donating and you have a swap with a fee of 1 euro per book swapped.
Maybe you could do similar. It is a great day and everyone looks forward to it. We all sit around and discuss recipes, books and all the latest news while enjoying a coffee/tea and slice - or two - of cake.
Another thing we do is a jam, chutney, pickles and preserves day. This is my one where I make hundreds of jars of the above and donate them. Some people make 4 jars (a small batch) of jam and donate that. You pay a few euros per jar and we have a lunch of sandwiches and cupcakes which you pay a fee for as well. Once again a great day.
Why not get everyone to write down their fave recipe and collate them into a small booklet? We have done that also. You charge a small amount per booklet and it covers costs and gives a little left over as well. Just plain black and white so you can photocopy. If you speak to your local photocopy place they may be able to help with ideas and may even be willing to support a small proportion of the cost if it is for charity.
Hope these ideas help. These are ones that we use each year and are tried and true for us. Good luck!
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Thank you! These are all lovely ideas. The only problem in implementing them is the apathy of students and the strict rules regarding prepared domestic foods on campus.
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Alana I'll get my thinking cap on
Years back I can remember auctions at schools..when our children were in high school..
I used to make many many rum balls..it became a fun thing..I reckon over the years I've made zillions..
If people are having fun you've more chance of more $$$$s coming in methinks..for some reason a jar of Vegemite with some numbered anniversary of its creation scored quite an amount at one auction..two people were bidding and I think it became a sort of ego thing...not that I worried!
ok now to put on my thinking cap..
am sure there'll be doable ideas coming soon...given the readership out there in cyberspace..
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This mountain retreat offers a flowing floorplan to accommodate everyone comfortably with multiple gathering spots. Featuring a grand master retreat, a junior master, game room, study and a spacious backyard boasting beautiful landscaping. This stunning home sits on a quiet street within the gated community of Arrowhead, offering golf and world-class skiing.
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