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Russian adoption ban delay gives Kingwood family hope
The Kingwood family whose adoption process for a 9-year-old girl was halted after a law banned Russian adoptions to the U.S. last month now feels "cautiously optimistic."
President Vladimir Putin's chief spokesman Dmitri Peskov told the RIA Novosti news service Thursday that the new Russian law would not go into effect for another year because of a previous bilateral adoption agreement with the U.S. that requires 12 months' notice before withdrawing.
The law banning U.S. adoptions threw the 46 families in the process of adoptions and the hundreds, like the Andersons, that had just begun the steps into limbo. Since the 1990s, 60,000 children have been adopted from Russia to the U.S.
Thursday's news gave the Anderson family hope.
"We are hoping that it will be able to follow through," said Aimée Anderson, who had been in the middle of an adoption process before the law halted her plans. "We are just believing God wouldn't take us on this journey and not follow through."
She said the adoption agency alerted her to the news this morning, but said there are a lot of unknowns and it was unclear if her family would be affected. The best case scenario, she said, is that she and her husband would be able to resume the process and submit their completed dossier, which is basically a packet of required paperwork, next week. Anderson said she hopes that their child would be able to be with them by this summer.
"We are really hoping this is the first big glimmer of hope, and it means people who are moving in the process will be able to continue," Anderson said.
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Dec. 28: Putin signs anti-US adoptions bill


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The masses of the tech world will, more often than not, refuse to agree on anything. But there are still those few bits of magic that mysteriously and periodically bring joy to almost every single disgruntled cynic out there. Everyone, that is, except you.
For me, it's Temple Run. I've downloaded both versions, forcing myself time after time to try and find some modicum of pleasure in the game, but I can't. I'll smile and nod when friends discuss it; when someone opens my phone, they'll even still find the icon on the screen. By all appearances, I'm one of them. Everyone seems so happy, who am I to disagree with the source of that happiness? But it's all a lie. I officially declare here and now that I hate Temple Run. And it feels good. It feels free.
You next. What do you hate that, up until now, you've just found easier to go along with? It's ok, say whatever's in your heart. This is a safe space.
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You've got that feeling again: Your nose is stuffy, your head seems heavy, and your sinuses feel swollen and on fire. You once again, have Nasal Congestion.
Many people think that their nose gets congested from too much thick mucus. But, usually, your nose gets stuffy when the tissues lining it become swollen. The swelling is from inflamed blood vessels. Your nose can become stuffy because of a cold, the flu, and allergies. Sometimes the congestion goes away in a week, sometimes you have it nearly every day or during certain times a year, especially if you're allergic or sensitive to something like pollen, tobacco smoke, or pet dander.
If your baby is congested, you can make your own saline drops, adding a quarter teaspoon of salt to a half-cup of lukewarm water. Lay your child on his or her back, put a rolled up towel beneath their shoulders, and put two or three drops into each nostril. After 30 seconds, turn the child on their belly to help the fluids drain. You can also use an infant nasal bulb, called an aspirator, to help remove some of the mucous in their nose.
Other tips for helping kids include raising the head of your child's bed; Have your child drink plenty of fluids; Use a cool-mist vaporizer in your child's room at night; DO NOT use over-the-counter cough and cold medicines for any child under the age of 6. They don't help much anyway, and they can cause serious health problems in kids.
Older kids and adults can take over-the-counter medicines to help relieve their stuff nose. Oral decongestants can shrink the blood vessels throughout the body, including in the lining of your nose. Nasal decongestants are more targeted, but shouldn't be used more than 3 days in a row. Antihistamines may reduce the amount of mucus in your nose. But these medicines don't treat the problem, just the symptoms. You can also try gentler solutions, like a Neti pot, saline irrigation, saline nasal drops, using a vaporizer or humidifier when you sleep, and drinking plenty of fluids such as hot tea or chicken soup.
A stuffy nose will usually go away in about a week. But if it doesn't, or you get congested at certain times of year or when you're around pets or smokers, your doctor can help you find out if you have allergies and get you the right treatment to make any allergies less of an annoyance.
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Ohio University campus and City of Athens officials will closely monitor the effects of Bobcat Lane on local traffic patterns and public safety once it opens.
Jul 1, 2014
From staff reports
City of Athens Mayor Paul Wiehl and Ohio University President Roderick J. McDavis today announced plans for the temporary opening of Bobcat Lane, which will connect Baker University Center directly to Richland Avenue. According to City and University officials, the opening of Bobcat Lane will enable a new drop off/pick up site for public transit vehicles while improving access for campus visitors and emergency response services.
The agreement to open Bobcat Lane stems from a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) forged between the City of Athens and Ohio University in 2012. Ongoing conversations, coupled with recent studies of public transit and visitor parking, further prioritized the initiative. Mayor Wiehl also attributed the decision to open Bobcat Lane to the ongoing success of the GoBus intercity program.
"We are a victim of our own success, and the current configuration on campus does not adequately support the mission of inter-city transit," Mayor Wiehl said, "By relocating the drop-off/pick-up location we hope that it will address both safety and health issues for the riders."
"As Ohio University grows its transit system in partnership with the City and welcomes more visitors to campus, providing a safer option for accessing visitor parking areas, the GoBus and other public transit options is a shared priority," said President McDavis. "We have confidence that the opening of Bobcat Lane will serve to accomplish these goals – improving campus traffic flow, expanding regional mass transit services, and advancing the safety of our pedestrians."
Under the terms of agreement, public transit and passenger vehicles will be permitted to access Baker Center lots via Bobcat Lane for six months. During this timeframe, campus and city officials will closely monitor the effects of Bobcat Lane on local traffic patterns and public safety. Access between Richland Avenue and Bobcat Lane will be limited to right-turning traffic. Commercial trucks, including delivery vehicles, will be prohibited from accessing the thoroughfare.
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In the background you see the two towers to the Manchester Grand Hyatt, which sits just behind Seaport Village. Just behind the main sail of the sailboat, you see a military carrier permanently docked. This is the USS Midway which is a floating museum located in this area of downtown San Diego. The Convention Center is just to the right of this shot along with Petco Park.
The usage of black and white photography as a wall art print lends itself to many different types of interior design, from contemporary to traditional. I think what dictates the final look is the subject matter of the photograph and the manner in which it is framed and matted.
On the printed version of this art print, the copyright watermark will not appear. The print is done individually using a giclee technique (Giclee: a technology for fine art or photograph reproduction using a high-quality inkjet printer to make individual copies). This will be printed on Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper. The paper is 10 ml in thickness, with 97% opacity and a 92 ISO brightness rating. The print is then hand cut, signed by me and depending on size packaged in either a firm oversized mailing envelope or a mailing tube for protection.
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Endeavour touched down at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida today at 11:55 a.m. central time, returning the third resident space station crew to Earth after 129 days in space.
Concluding a successful mission to the International Space Station, today's landing brings to an end a voyage of more than 4.8 million miles for Endeavour and marks the 57th shuttle landing at the Florida spaceport.
On Endeavour's flight deck are Commander Dom Gorie, Pilot Mark Kelly and Mission Specialists Linda Godwin and Dan Tani. On the middeck, strapped into recumbent chairs to reduce the effects of reentry, is the Expedition Three crew, Commander Frank Culbertson, Pilot Vladimir Dezhurov and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin.
Following routine medical examinations, the STS-108 and Expedition Three crewmembers will enjoy a reunion with their families. All seven crewmembers are expected to return to a public welcome home at Hangar 990 at Houston's Ellington Field about 1 p.m. Wednesday.
During their 12 days in orbit, the STS-108 crew worked with both the returning Expedition Three and newly-arrived Expedition Four crews to transfer more than three tons of material, hardware and supplies from Endeavour to the station. Godwin and Tani also conducted a spacewalk to install thermal protection on motor assemblies that control the motion of the station's large solar arrays.
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This problem is a poll (and a little bit of "white hat hacktivism" as well) regarding Cody users sentiment about the use of regexp to reduce the size/score of Cody solutions.
Your function should return one the following strings, reflecting your opinion on the question: would you like the regexp (?@cmd) functionality to be banned in Cody?
'no!' 'no' 'yes' 'yes!'
note1: the score of your solution will be 10 for 'no!' 20 for 'no', 30 for 'yes' and 40 for 'yes!' (so that a quick glance at the solution scores should give you an idea of the poll responses). If you want to solve this problem but do not have an opinion on this question -or if you are really interested in getting a low score-, just return an empty string (and you will get a 0 score).
note2: the question regards only the use of dynamic expressions of the form (?@cmd), it does not ask whether you would like regexp to be banned entirely)
The syntax:
regexp '' '(?@a=1)'
is equivalent to
eval 'a=1'
Hiding the functionality inside an eval or a regexp string allows Cody players to achieve a very low score regardless of the true complexity of the evaluated syntax. While the function eval is banned in Cody, the function regexp is too useful to be banned entirely, so it is not uncommon to see the leading solution to many Cody problems using this regexp trick.
There are, nevertheless, relatively simple ways to ban the use of dynamic expressions of the form (?@cmd), while still allowing the rest of the functionality of regexp. This poll asks your opinion about having such a ban in Cody.
This problem testsuite includes a little hack that temporally disallows the use of dynamic expressions of the form (?@cmd) in all of Cody (not just this problem), while allowing the rest of regexp functionality to work normally. And your vote decides whether to implement or not this temporal fix:
There are typically around 5 Matlab servers running Cody solutions, and these are reset every hour approximately, so each "hack" will have a relatively short lifespan, and it will also only apply to a small proportion of all Cody solutions (but note that the effect is cumulative, answering ~5 'Yes!' questions is going to disallow the use of (?@cmd) dynamic expressions for all solutions sent to Cody for ~1 hour; answering ~5 'No!' questions is going to revert to the normal behavior).
This allows Cody users to not only express their opinions but also assert some form of 'decentralized' control over Cody behavior (which might, or might not be after all, a good idea). For now I am planning to leave this behavior only for a short time as a small 'hacktivism campaign', and revert this problem to being a pure poll (no longer affecting solutions to other Cody problems) after that. Feel free to take a look at the testsuite to explore how this is implemented (and please use responsibly), and/or leave your thoughts in the comments.
Another form of activism would be to weed out uses of regexp as in http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/944-create-incremental-spiral-without-using-eval-or-feval/solutions/new.
This problem is also working correctly again after a few-weeks glitch. Rescored the last few votes to get those right.
Is there a way to parse the code inside the regex and assign an appropriate size to it? That would seem like the most fair thing to do.
I had fun with this paradox! ;-)
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Central Connecticut took third place overall in the waste minimization category of the U.S Environmental Protection Agency's 2012 Game Day Challenge following fan participation in proper disposal of waste and recycling at this seasons' football games.
This is the third year the Blue Devils have participated in the Game Day Challenge, a friendly intercollegiate competition dedicated to reducing the amount of waste generated at college football games and increasing participation in waste-reduction programs. Each school involved in the challenge designed a waste-reduction plan for a regular-season home football game last fall and then measured and submitted their results to the EPA for the contest. Central used the November 10 game against Bryant as the target date for the Game Day Challenge.
Of the 79 schools to participate in the challenge, CCSU was the only school to represent the state of Connecticut and the Northeast Conference. Blue Devil fans finished second among FCS schools and third overall in the waste minimization category with game attendees generating only .061 pounds of waste per attendee. This year marks the second-consecutive season in which the Blue Devils achieved a top-three finish. Last year, Central was crowned "Waste Minimization Champion," generating .06 pounds of waste per fan.
This fall season, 5.4 million fans across the nation diverted nearly 1.09 million pounds of waste from college football games, which prevented more than 1,732 metric tons of carbon dioxide from being released into the earth's atmosphere. These numbers more than doubled last year's totals. In 2011, 2.7 million fans diverted over 500,000 pounds of waste and prevented nearly 810 metric tons of carbon dioxide.
"We are proud to participate in such an important effort," Director of Athletics Paul Schlickmann said. "Recycling, sustainability and environmental awareness is an important institutional initiative on campus. In order to make this effort more widespread among the CCSU community, we are using athletic events as a vehicle to bring awareness to such a significant issue."
Idaho State University placed first among FCS schools just ahead of Central, generating .047 pounds of waste per person and Earlham College earned first overall, generating a mere .029 pounds per fan.
For more information on the EPA's effort toward waste reduction and complete 2012 Game Day Challenge results, please visit: http://gamedaychallenge.org/results/.


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White House: Tsarnaev won't be tried as enemy combatant
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday that Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will not be treated as an "enemy combatant."
The White House announcement comes after some Republicans lawmakers called over the weekend for Tsarnaev, who remains hospitalized with gunshot wounds, to be tried as an enemy combatant.
"He will not be treated as an enemy combatant," Carney said. "We will prosecute this terrorist through a civilian system of justice. Under U.S. law, United States citizens cannot be tried in military commissions. It is important to remember since 9/11, we have used the federal court system to convict and incarcerate hundreds of terrorists."
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., argued on CNN Sunday that Tsarnaev, who was born in Kyrgyzstan and is a naturalized U.S. citizen, should be held as an enemy combatant for interrogation purposes. That would allow authorities to take their time gleaning information from him. Graham agreed that Tsarnaev, 19, is not eligible to be tried by a military commission because he was not caught on a foreign battlefield.
"Most Americans want to find out what he knew, who he associated with, does he know about terrorist organizations within or without the country that are trying to hurt us?" Graham said. "Does he know about a future attack?"
Carney noted that the federal courts have been used as the venues for the prosecution of Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American citizen in the failed May 2010 Times Square car bombing, and of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man known as the "underwear bomber" who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day 2009.
He added, "The system has repeatedly proven it can successfully handle the threat we continue to face."
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May 2018
Recent Releases
You Were Never Really Here
Jonathan Ames
former FBI agent Joe, who, t
raumatized by his past and by his work rescuing the victims of human trafficking,
is now looking for the missing 13-year-old daughter of a New York State senator.
Is it for you?
Only 100 pages long, this is a dark and violent book; rumor has it that it's the 1st in a new series.
Book buzz:
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Christine Mangan
two former college friends, Alice and Lucy, who are reunited in 1956 Morocco a year after their friendship imploded
Why you might like it:
In addition to a vividly depicted setting, this tale of love, obsession, friendship, and betrayal offers plenty of intrigue and slow-simmering tension.
For fans of:
Patricia Highsmith's
The Talented Mr. Ripley.
Warning Light
David Ricciardi
What it's about:
Weapons analyst Zac Miller literally falls into a job as a spy when his plane crash lands in Iran, right near a secret nuclear facility. Beat up and tortured by Iranian security for taking photos, he eventually decides to escape, launching a thrilling and dangerous journey to safety.
Series alert:
This rip-roaring debut is said to be the 1st of many starring the quick-thinking Zac. Fans of espionage novels will likely hope to see more of him.
All the Beautiful Lies: A Novel
Peter Swanson
What it's about:
Harry's father Bill has seemingly died by suicide, but when Harry returns home, he becomes convinced that his father was murdered.
Prime suspects:
Harry's femme-fatale stepmother, Alice, whose attentions to Harry border on inappropriate; the mysterious woman whom Alice claims Bill was seeing.
What reviewers say:
All the Beautiful Lies
is "a gripping exploration of delusion and deceit" (
The Games People Play
Dead Letters
Caite Dolan-Leach
irresponsible Zelda Antipova, who appears to have died in a barn fire, and her distant twin sister Ava, who doesn't really believe it.
What happens:
After the fire, Ava starts receiving cryptic messages from Zelda; her scavenger-hunt-like quest to figure out what actually happened is hampered by her alcoholic mother, her estranged father, and her hyper-critical grandmother.
Is it for you?
If you like twisted, manipulative games full of red herrings, you'll devour
this literary debut.
Daniel Palmer
What it's about:
In order to pay for his wife's cancer treatment, John Bodine steals a customer's identity; when the customer finds out, he demands that John play a life-or-death game in which John must commit increasingly criminal acts -- or risk the lives of his loved ones.
Why you might like it:
uspenseful and fast-paced (if at times quite brutal), this unsettling cat-and-mouse game is a good bet for fans of Harlan Coben.
Try this next:
Tom Hunt's
Killer Choice
, which likewise forces a desperate man to make terrible choices to save his wife.
The Lying Game
Ruth Ware
What it's about:
Four boarding-school friends, expelled 17 years ago, are brought back together after the discovery of a human bone stirs up the past -- and threatens to unearth their secrets.
Why you might like it:
Well-developed characters, an atmospheric British setting, and slow-building tension keep the pages turning.
Where does the game come in?
So glad you asked -- these four girls developed an elaborate score-keeping system, all based on how many schoolmates and teachers they could get to believe their outlandish lies.
Black Chalk
Christopher J. Yates
six Oxford students who bring a twisted idea for a game to the Oxford Game Society; the elaborate, humiliating challenges that result have tragic consequences.
Why you might like it:
Alternating perspectives portray the unfolding of the game itself as well as an unreliable first-person point of view years after the game's beginning.
For fans of:
Donna Tartt's
The Secret History
, Tana French's
The Likeness
, and other college-set novels of psychological suspense.
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This is a little bit like one of those chicken and egg scenarios. Madonna had a song in 2001 — "Don't Tell Me" — that felt pretty country. She's even dressed like a cowgirl in the video. And now Keith Urban has taken some inspiration from that song for his own hit "Little Bit of Everything." So did she go country, or has he gone a little Madonna? It doesn't matter, obviously. "She had a staccato acoustic guitar part in there that I thought was very cool," Urban told USA Today . "On the demo that Kevin [Rudolf] did, it was more of a strummed part, just a straight-up 'Hey Soul Sister' thing," Urban says. He also talks about the ukulele parts and other cool things that happened in the studio. But I'd love to find out more about Urban's fondness for '80s pop. Let's not forget that he wrote his 2000 debut hit "But for the Grace of God" with Jane Wiedlin and Charlotte Caffey of the Go-Go's.


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Who knew our child loved Boursin so much? He adjusted nicely to the French wines and cheeses!
Saturday night we stayed in and waited for the rest of the crew to arrive. We hit up the grocery store in town to stock up on wine and when I say we stocked up, I'm not playing. Too bad I couldn't partake in any of it.
Deaner was my official tea towel holder.
I know he was thrilled. Evans was in heaven having "Omple Sam" to tote him around.
And cars to ride! This is the child who has never been interested in a carnival ride in his life. Buddy took him over the cars and bought him 5 rides. I thought, well, that was a waste of money! Lo and behold, Evans got right on and even handed the ticket man his own ticket.
This was just the beginning of his new car ride obsession that Dada is happy to indulge. I need to find my iphone cord so I can transfer the rest of the France pictures to my computer. It took way too long to email all these to myself from my phone. I promise to get that done asap but considering Evans wet the bed at 4:30am and I was up changing sheets, I think I will allow myself a nap this afternoon (who am I fooling really? I nap everyday). Stay tuned for the rest of the week!


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It's five hours before Toki Underground opens its doors to customers, but the cubbyhole of a restaurant perched above a bar along H Street in Washington, D.C., is already busy. Inside the impossibly small kitchen, owner and chef Erik Bruner-Yang '07 and a colleague dump buckets of pork marrow bones into cavernous metal pots and set them to simmering on the stovetop. Behind them, a third member of the team chops fresh vegetables that will season steaming bowls of ramen later that evening. A few feet away, a fourth sorts curly strands of noodles into uniform piles. The restaurant's bar is papered with invoices as deliverymen come and go, dropping off beverages, crates of plastic carryout containers, and bunches of fresh ginger, garlic, and mustard greens. The deliveries come daily to 1234 H St. NE for two reasons. First, Bruner-Yang will use only the freshest ingredients when whipping up dishes like mom used to make. Second, at 675 square feet, the tiny Toki Underground − … [Read more...]
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Leading tech companies are increasingly recognizing the potential of neurological diversity, and are launching dedicated autism hiring initiatives to attract this often overlooked talent pool.
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Grand Republic of Cleveland
The Grand Republic of Cleveland is a small and independent nuclear province on the eastern edge of Megatexas. Founded in 1947, shortly before the initial occupation of Megatexas, the people decided that the best way to defend themselves against the Martians would be to develop the world's most powerful nuclear army, rather than going on hunger strikes.
On February 31, 1947, the Council of Technology submitted a proposal, [RCP U235, suggesting the construction of seven nuclear power plant|nuclear power plants in order to create a local source of electricity and nuclear weapons. The High Council of the People approved it, voting 18 to 3 in favor, and $8 billion was given to the Council of Technology to fund this project.
On March 19, 1947, construction began at the Four Mile Peninsula nuclear power plant. This plant was originally designed to have four cores, but was later increased to six because of underbudgeting. On April 7, the first two cores were started, with the remaining four cores remaining offline until April 26. The plant produces approximately 0.75 tons of Plutonium-239 per month, all of which is used to produce nuclear warheads.
Between April 24 and July 17 of 1947, the remaining six nuclear power plants all went online, one of which was a fast breeder reactor to produce isotopes for use in the production of nerve gas and nuclear medicine.
The Initial Occupation[edit]
In 1948, Martians invaded the United States, having already conquered Australia, and formed Megatexas. The Martian army reached the outer limits of Cleveland in August of that year. The Cleveland Nuclear Army reacted by detonating 46 warheads in a circle about two hundred miles outside of Cleveland, forming a massive radiation moat that kept the Martians out. The Martians responded by firing an EMP into the area, triggering a meltdown of Core 3 at the I-9548 Nuclear Power Plant.
The Isolation[edit]
Between August of 1948 and February of 2007, the nuclear moat managed to keep Cleveland fully isolated from the outside world. The radiation killed anyone who tried to enter or leave, and interfered with all radio transmissions. The nuclear army continued to develop new types of weapons, including the antimatter bomb and the ionized ICBM. With the abundance of available electricity from the power plants, electricity prices dropped to close to 0, and gasoline engines were replaced with hydrogen fuel cells. During this time, Cleveland became the most technologically advanced state in the world.
The Siege[edit]
In February of 2007, the Martians developed a radiation-neutralizing technology that allowed them to clean up large portions of South America after the War of 1986. The Martian warlord Kabol-Iksor launched a campaign to take over Cleveland, and began to clean up the nuclear moat. This entire process took slightly under a month. On March 26, Martian HAZMAT tanks rolled into the the moat, besieging the entire Grand Republic. They did not take into account the fact that Cleveland had become a fully independent and isolated state during the Isolation, and would not be affected by a siege. The Cleveland Nuclear Army pointed large numbers of NBS-34 tactical atomic missiles at the Martian tanks, halting any further progress. The standoff is still continuing.


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Since Jamaica achieved its independence from the United Kingdom in the 1960s, it has struggled with lingering post-colonial inequality and racism, high crime and severe austerity measures imposed by the IMF. But a country is its people, not its problems.
That's why Jamaican expat Sean Stewart, a writer, and photographer Alexander Richter, set out to document the country in a way that doesn't reduce it to the usual conflicts or punchlines. The pair didn't avoid the typical subjects, but they gave them context and moved on to Jamaica's cultural core: its artists, athletes, musicians and regular folk.
"Because I'm from Jamaica," says Stewart, "the benefit is that I can avoid some of the more obvious bullshit. I can just kinda sidestep some of the things that people tend to write about. The sensationalism." (Disclosure: Stewart is a personal friend of this writer.)
The project is called Sevens Clash. The name derives from the warning that early-20th century Jamaican political leader Marcus Garvey gave that all hell would break loose on 7/7/77. Kingston, the capital, actually shut down for that day, though like 8/8/88 and 9/9/99 after it, nothing apocalyptic happened, as you might have noticed (and though the project was shot over seven days, the pair say it's just a coincidence).
They set out to report Jamaica with no editorial oversight. Stewart's childhood friend acted as a fixer, and they had no budget and no real agenda, other than to paint a genuine picture of the country, blemishes and all.
"I just want to write about what I'm seeing on the ground, regardless of where I am," says Stewart.
Stewart and Richter stress this organic structure of the project. They didn't mean to cover gun culture. And they certainly didn't schedule a shoot with prostitutes on a Kingston road at 2 a.m. on a Tuesday. Whatever presented itself, they took: from wildly popular schoolboy football to interviews with a tattoo artist and a dancehall fashion designer.
"People have given me shit even when I wasn't in Jamaica," Stewart said. "Talking to people, it was like, 'Oh, we were up at this and this place and guns came out and we took photos of the guns, and I was going to write about it.' They were like, 'Oh, you can't show that kind of Jamaica.' And for me I have no qualms, as long as it's an honest portrayal."
And Richter reflects that honesty in his photos.
"Each thing came from Sean and I putting out the energy and vibing or not vibing with people," says Richter. "And I think what you see in the photographs is the human element – there was no strobe, there was nothing. Everything throughout the whole seven days was shot with available light."
Finding good subjects to photograph in Jamaica isn't difficult, especially, Richter says, "if you're a big white dude down there with a camera rolling the way we were, you can't help but stand out a bit."
The Hasselblad around his neck certainly helped. And the Polaroid. And the Land Camera. And the modern DSLR. The subjects often came to them, sometimes asking for cash for the privilege of an interview, which the pair politely declined.
"At the end of the day," says Richter, "I think that the stories that we got from it were a result of Sean's good vibes and my intentions, and people really seeing that we were transparent in our aim and directive to try to capture culture. Nothing more and nothing less. If they wanted to contribute, we wanted to work with them. That was the exchange."


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The Yucatán Peninsula (Spanish: Península de Yucatán), in southeastern Mexico, separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico, with the northern coastline on the Yucatán Channel. The peninsula lies east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a northwestern geographic partition separating the region of Central America from the rest of North America.
- Etymology 1
Human history 2
- Maya 2.1
- Spanish conquest 2.2
- Current administration 2.3
- Economy 2.4
- Geology 3
- Water resources 4
Flora and Fauna 5
- Vegetation 5.1
- Fauna 5.2
- Climate 6
- References 7
- External links 8
- See also 9
The proper derivation of the word Yucatán is widely debated. Hernan Cortes, in the first of his letters to Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, claimed that the name Yucatán comes from a misunderstanding. In this telling, the first Spanish explorers asked what the area was called and the response they received, "Yucatan," was a Yucatec Maya word meaning "I don't understand what you're saying." [1][2] Others claim that the source of the name is the Nahuatl (Aztec) word Yokatlān, "place of richness."
Human history
The Yucatán Peninsula comprises a significant proportion of the ancient Maya Lowlands (although the Maya culture extended south of the Yucatán Peninsula, through present Guatemala and into Honduras and highland Chiapas). There are many Maya archaeological sites throughout the peninsula; some of the better-known are Chichen Itza, Tulum and Uxmal.[3] Indigenous Maya and Mestizos of partial Maya descent make up a sizable portion of the region's population, and Mayan languages are widely spoken there.
Spanish conquest
Current administration
The peninsula comprises the Mexican states of Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo; the northern part of the nation of Belize; and Guatemala's northern El Petén Department.
In the late historic and early modern eras, the Yucatán Peninsula was largely a cattle ranching, logging, chicle and henequen production area. Since the 1970s (and the fall of the world henequen and chicle markets due to the advent of synthetic substitutes), the Yucatán Peninsula has reoriented its economy towards tourism, especially in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. Once a small fishing village, Cancún in the northeast of the peninsula has grown into a thriving city. The Riviera Maya, which stretches along the east coast of the peninsula between Cancún and Tulum, houses over 50,000 beds. The best-known locations are the former fishing town of Playa del Carmen, the ecological parks Xcaret and Xel-Há and the Maya ruins of Tulum and Coba.
The peninsula is the exposed portion of the larger Yucatán Platform, all of which is composed of carbonate and soluble rocks, being mostly limestone although dolomite and evaporites are also present at various depths. The whole of the Yucatán Peninsula is an unconfined flat lying karst landscape. Sinkholes, known locally as cenotes, are widespread in the northern lowlands.
According to the Alvarez hypothesis, the mass extinction of the dinosaurs at the transition from the Cretaceous to the Paleogene Period, the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (K–T boundary), 65 million years ago was caused by an asteroid impact somewhere in the greater Caribbean Basin. The deeply buried Chicxulub crater is centered off the north coast of the peninsula near the town of Chicxulub. The now-famous "Ring of Cenotes" (visible in NASA imagery) outlines one of the shock-waves from this impact event in the rock of ~66 million years of age, which lies more than 1 km below the modern ground surface near the centre, with the rock above the impact strata all being younger in age. The presence of the crater has been determined first on the surface from the Ring of Cenotes, but also by geophysical methods, and direct drilling with recovery of the drill cores.
Water resources
Due to the extreme karst nature of the whole peninsula, the northern half is devoid of rivers. Where lakes and swamps are present, the water is marshy and not palatable for drinking water. Due to its coastal situation, the whole of the peninsula is underlain by an extensive contiguous density stratified coastal aquifer, where a fresh water lens formed from meteoric water floats on top of intruding saline water from the coastal margins. The thousands of sinkholes known as cenotes throughout the region provide access to the groundwater system. The cenotes have long been relied on by ancient and contemporary Maya people.[4]
Flora and Fauna
Short and tall tropical jungles are the predominant natural vegetation types of the Yucatán Peninsula. The boundaries between northern Guatemala (El Petén), Mexico (Campeche and Quintana Roo), and western Belize are still occupied by the largest continuous tracts of tropical rainforest in Central America. However, these forests are suffering extensive deforestation.[6]
See Category:Birds of the Yucatán Peninsula region
Like much of the Caribbean, the peninsula lies within the Atlantic Hurricane Belt, and with its almost uniformly flat terrain it is vulnerable to these large storms coming from the east. The 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season was a particularly bad season for Mexico's tourism industry, with two forceful category 5 storms hitting, Hurricane Emily and Hurricane Wilma. The 2006 Atlantic Hurricane Season was a typical year which left the Yucatán untouched, but in the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane season Yucatán was hit by Hurricane Dean (also a category 5 storm), nevertheless Dean left little damage on the peninsula despite heavy localized flooding.
Strong storms called nortes can quickly descend on the Yucatán Peninsula any time of year. Although these storms pummel the area with heavy rains and high winds, they tend to be short-lived, clearing after about an hour. The average percentage of days with rain per month ranges from a monthly low of 7% in April to a high of 25% in October. Breezes can have a cooling effect, humidity is generally high, particularly in the remaining rainforest areas.[7]
- ^ Cartas y relaciones de Hernan Cortés al emperador Carlos V (in Spanish). Paris: A. Chaix y ca. 1866 page 1 footnote 2. Retrieved 2010-12-13.
- ^ "Ibero-American Electronic Text Series: Primera Carta de Relación, PREÁMBULO" (in Spanish). Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. 1945. Retrieved 2010-12-13.
- ^ "Yucatan map".
- ^ BBC: Planet Earth, part 4: Caves.
- Juan Luis Pena Chapa, Manuel Martin Castillo, and Juan Carlos Gonzalez Avila, The Performance of the Economy of the Yucatan Peninsula from 1970–1993 [8]
- Marcio L. Teixeira,The Impact of the Geologic History of the Yucatán Peninsula on the Present Day Aquifer,2004 [9]
- Angelo Heilprin,Observations on the Flora of Northern Yucatan [10]
External links
- Yucatan Wildlife - Information about wildlife of the Yucatán Peninsula
- Yucatan Living - Online magazine about culture, destinations and residents of the Yucatán Peninsula.
- Yucatan Weather and Climate
- Yucatan Terra - Yucatán Peninsula land manager
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- Yucatán Peninsula
- Peninsulas of North America
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- Landforms of Central America
- Geography of Mesoamerica
- Peninsulas of Mexico
- Landforms of Belize
- Landforms of Yucatán (state)
- Landforms of Campeche
- Landforms of Quintana Roo
- Southern Mexico
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Came to Atheism after seeing the movie Marjoe in 06. Became quite the expert on both the film and the man. The rabbit hole led to Dawkins, Hitch, Randi and more. This caused me to walk away from my superstitions.
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I heard somewhere that it might need to import resources from another browser in order to play flash videos. I don't know if that is true but I would preferably have the flash work without help from any other browser but if it needs to have Firefox installed to play flash then that's okay too.
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New associate dean for academic affairs appointed at UH Manoa School of LawUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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HONOLULU — Professor of Law Hazel Beh has accepted the appointment of Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the William S. Richardson School of Law beginning this semester and serving until January 2008. Beh will provide academic leadership in this new position, serving as a key liaison between the faculty and the rest of the law school community, and assisting with academic planning and administration.
"Hazel already has done great service to the law school community in innumerable ways, including prior service as the acting associate dean. Her willingness to undertake and to help define this new role is hugely appreciated," said Dean Avi Soifer.
Beh, a 1991 alumna of the School of Law, returned in 1995 as acting associate dean and joined the faculty in 1996. She teaches contracts, advanced torts, and insurance law, and is also an advisor to the school's Law Review. Beh is a former director of the legal writing program and teaches higher education law in the College of Education.
She also was recently elected chair of the American Association of Law Schools, Insurance Law Section, and previously served as the chair of the Education and Contracts Sections of this leading national legal education organization.
Beh served as Hawaiʻi Supreme Court Justice Herman Lum's administrative law clerk after receiving her law degree, and as research and appellate coordinator for the City and County of Honolulu Corporation Counsel from 1993-1994. In addition to receiving her JD from the William S. Richardson School of Law at UH Mānoa, Beh received a BA from the University of Arizona, and both a MSW and a PhD in American Studies from UH Mānoa.
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Wednesday, March 3
Oscar Night Food Ideas: Maple Walnut Popcorn (Recipe)
This Sunday night is the Oscars, the night when millions of Americans will tune in to see which actress is wearing the ugliest gown. Since this event will drag on for hours, you'll need lots of snack foods, like my Maple Walnut Popcorn.
This New England inspired popcorn is everything a snack food should be: sweet, salty, sticky, and crunchy. Since the Oscars are at least three hours long, you might want to make a double batch. You might also want to make a Blood Orange Vodkatini.
Maple Walnut Popcorn
Yields 10-12 cups
Print recipe only here.
3 tablespoons canola oil
1/2 cup popcorn kernels
1 cup coarsely chopped walnuts
1 cup pure maple syrup
2 tablespoons butter
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Coat two large rimmed baking sheets with cooking spray.
2. Pour oil in a large saucepan over high heat and cover. After 1-2 minutes, toss a couple of kernels inside. Listen for the shimmering oil as it heats up, then drop a couple of kernels in the pan. When they start sizzling and spinning, the oil is ready. Add remaining kernels. Cover the pan, and give it a couple of shakes so the kernels get coated with oil. Now listen for the popping. Once it really starts popping quickly, listen carefully. Remove the pan from the heat once the popping slows down to every few seconds, or it could burn quickly. Pour popcorn into a big bowl coated with cooking spray, and add nuts.
3. In a small saucepan over medium heat, bring maple syrup, butter, and salt to a boil. Cook 1 minute. Lower to a simmer for 2 minutes. Pour syrup over popcorn and nuts, stirring to coat. Transfer popcorn mixture to prepared baking sheets. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and cool. Break into small clusters.
You might also enjoy these snack foods from Food Blogga:
Spicy Black Bean Dip
Buffalo Wings with Blue Cheese Dressing
Goat Cheese and Poblano Quesadillas with Pinapple-Mango-Habanero Salsa
You might also enjoy these popcorn recipes:
Peanut Butter Popcorn recipe at The Kitchn
Truffled Popcorn recipe at Alice Q. Foodie
Caramel Popcorn with Almonds and Pecans recipe at Lisa is Cooking
Popcorn with Brown Butter, Rosemary, and Lemon recipe at Andrea's Recipes
20 comments:
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
Terribly addictive, yummy!
- March 3, 2010 at 6:06 AM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
I love maple-anything! Great idea, and the cocktail sounds like fun - can I come over to watch the show?
- March 3, 2010 at 6:19 AM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
I'll have both Susan a vodkatini and maple popcorn.
- March 3, 2010 at 7:41 AM
- Manggy said...
That looks verrrry munchable ;) Won't be able to stop! I do a similar thing with just walnuts - dry toasted in the oven, then in boiling maple syrup and brown sugar in saucepan till the sugars crystallize on the surface. I think butter would be a nice touch too :)
- March 3, 2010 at 9:39 AM
- The Teacher Cooks said...
MMM! Popcorn!!
- March 3, 2010 at 11:00 AM
- lisaiscooking said...
I'm in the middle of figuring what snacks to make for an oscar party. The popcorn sounds fantastic with the vodkatini!
- March 3, 2010 at 12:18 PM
- The Curious Baker said...
hmm these sound pretty good and really healthy, I was about to buy some walnuts for a banana loaf so I might as well give these a go too!
- March 3, 2010 at 1:52 PM
- Rambling Tart said...
Oh how wonderful! I love maple so much and never thought of putting it with popcorn AND nuts. Yum, yum!
- March 3, 2010 at 1:55 PM
- Abby said...
I tried making the Kitchn popcorn in 2008. Big fail for me. This, however, seems more do-able (and tasty!)
- March 3, 2010 at 2:52 PM
- Anh said...
Yum! Too bad the Oscar night actually occurs in the day time for us, people in Australia. Never mind. I will make this for my movie night @ home!
- March 3, 2010 at 3:45 PM
- przepisy said...
Love popcorn, cannot watch movies without! I'll definitely try
- March 4, 2010 at 2:58 AM
- Tasty Eats At Home said...
I haven't watched the Oscars in years, not really my thing. But this popcorn? TOTALLY my thing!
- March 4, 2010 at 5:45 AM
- angela@spinachtiger said...
I haven't seen hardly any of the movies, but I'd like to see this popcorn.
- March 4, 2010 at 12:49 PM
- Cookie baker Lynn said...
Is it OK if I make the popcorn but skip the Oscars?
- March 4, 2010 at 2:54 PM
- Kelsey said...
- March 5, 2010 at 8:41 AM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
rosa-Addictive like a drug!
TW-Sure! We'll have a ball! ;)
val-Smart girl.
mark-It is verrrrry munchable. ;) Now, I've got to make your recipe for the maple nuts!
theteachercooks-So yummy!
lisa-Make them both! Make them both! ;)
curiousbaker-Well, I don't know about healthy, but it is definitely delicious.
ramblingtart-You'll wonder how you lived without it! :)
abby-It is do-able. I promise. :)
anh-I can tell you from experience that it tastes great with anything you're watching on TV.
przepisy-Then I hope you try this popcorn!
tastyeatsathome-Then this maple popcorn will so be your thing. :)
angela-Now, that's what I like to hear!
lynn-Absolutely! ;)
- March 5, 2010 at 1:37 PM
- Christine said...
I love popcorn and that's some porn-y popcorn, Susan. AND a vodkatini? I'm such an alcohol wuss, I probably couldn't drink a whole one. The popcorn though ... yum!
- March 5, 2010 at 2:21 PM
- Cooking Foodie said...
Lovely popcorn... and I really like your lead up posts before events! Liked the Superbowl one and like this one too...
- March 6, 2010 at 1:37 AM
- Mimi said...
Thank you so much for this. We've been on a no refined sugar kick lately and this popcorn totally fits the bill!
- March 8, 2010 at 1:33 PM
- Sarah said...
I just discovered your blog (and mine, really ;) and loving it! I actually hosted a little party for the Oscars, and I did popcorn with bacon! Was a HUGE hit, had to make several batches.
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A Message to Baruch.* 1The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch, son of Neriah, when he wrote on a scroll words from Jeremiah's own mouth in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah:a 2Thus says the LORD, God of Israel, to you, Baruch. 3You said, "Woe is me! the LORD has added grief to my pain.b I have worn myself out with groaning; rest eludes me." 4You must say this to him. Thus says the LORD: What I have built, I am tearing down; what I have planted, I am uprooting: all this land.c 5And you, do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them! I am bringing evil on all flesh—oracle of the LORD—but I will grant you your life as spoils of war, wherever you may go.d
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Collaborative Stories 2: Revising
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Using a story which has been written collaboratively, students engage in a whole-group revising process by having each student add a sentence at a time (see the ReadWriteThink lesson Collaborative Stories 1: Prewriting and Drafting). The teacher leads this shared-revising activity to help students consider story content. Students begin by reading their collaborative story and then discuss ways of making changes. Then, after revisions have been made, they reread the story as a group. Finally, students come to a consensus on a title for their story.
In "Editing: Permission to Start Wrong," Sydney Gurewitz Clemens reminds us that professional writers "edit their own work, and they also use the editing expertise of others" and that "both are necessary for excellent writing." She poses the idea that the "most important and hardest thing to grasp about writing is that you write it wrong at the start. Then you change it a lot. Then you throw away most or all of it" and that "few children of any age know that writers may write a hundred pages and keep just eight or ten. The lesson so often in school is to get it right the first time."
Engaging children in the revising process is as important as engaging them in the drafting process, but often it's difficult for a young writer to let go of a personal idea. Bruce Saddler states: "Given manageable strategies and a classroom culture of support, students should come to realize that a first draft is just that-a draft, and that the need to revise is not a sign of failure, but rather an expected step in the writing process." (26) In this lesson, the path to revision is made less personal by asking students to revise not only their own ideas, but the ideas of others, in a collaborative environment that in essence does not include the intimidation of focusing on just one child's words and ideas.
Further Reading
Clemens, Sydney Gurewitz. "Editing: Permission to Start Wrong." Early Childhood Research and Practice 1.1. (Spring 1999).
Saddler, Bruce. ""But teacher, I added a period!" Middle Schoolers Learn to Revise." Voices from the Middle 11.2 (December 2003): 20-26.


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James Madison's Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention, May 25, 1787
James Madison was thirty-six years old when the convention that wrote the United States Constitution met from May 25 to September 17, 1787, at the statehouse in Philadelphia (later renamed Independence Hall). The convention was called for May 14, but it was not until May 25 that an adequate number of representatives had arrived to make a quorum of seven states. On that day the delegates unanimously elected George Washington, a delegate from Virginia, president of the convention. They elected a secretary and named a committee to create the rules for the convention.
Washington was fifty-five years old. He delayed making the decision to attend for several months after receiving his appointment. Washington had retired to his estate, Mount Vernon, after resigning his commission as commander in chief in December 1783. He had promised never to serve in public office again. Personal obligations at home and uncertainty about the effectiveness of this convention fueled his indecision about returning to public service, but his ultimate choice to attend lent the convention legitimacy. During the proceedings he almost never participated in the debates, but it was known that he supported a strong central government.
Madison had reached Philadelphia on May 5, 1787. He had long recognized the inadequacies of the Articles of Confederation, and he had devoted himself to studying historic confederations, government structures, and political theory. He believed from the outset that simply amending the Articles would not be sufficient, and he looked forward to creating a new system of central government. Madison outlined the problems and achievements of regimes throughout history, and he developed his proposal for the new United States Constitution in the Virginia Plan.
A leader of the convention from its outset, Madison also took detailed notes of the convention's proceedings. Although not the convention's official secretary (William Jackson was chosen for that post), Madison selected a seat in front of the presiding member and took notes, which he painstakingly transcribed in the evenings and days off during the convention. He also obtained copies of other delegates' speeches, which he inserted in the appropriate places. From the outset it was decided that the convention was to be closed to the public, and its proceedings kept secret while it met. After it adjourned, secretary Jackson destroyed all of his working papers, leaving only the official proceedings, a record of resolutions and votes. Other delegates made notes as well, but Madison's notes remain the most-thorough account of the debates and day-to-day deliberations of the convention.
Madison kept his notes after the convention and seems to have intended from the beginning to publish them. Over the course of his life he worked on the notes, adding a draft introduction and making numerous insertions and deletions, many made from other accounts of the proceedings. He held the notes however, waiting for the deaths of all the convention members (even his own) before permitting the publication of the notes. They were first published in 1840 by Henry D. Gilpin in The Papers of James Madison.
1. How did George Washington react to being chosen as president of the convention?
2. Why wasn't Benjamin Franklin present on May 25?
3. How many people were nominated to be secretary? Who won the election?
Further Discussion
1. Why was George Washington a good choice for president of the Constitutional Convention? Do you think he was nominated purely because of his abilities as an arbiter?
2. How can informal documents such as this one be even more informative than formal printed documents such as the official proceedings of the convention?
3. Why was secrecy important to the proceedings of the convention?
Madison bequeathed his papers to his wife, Dolley Payne Todd Madison, and they passed to her on his death in 1836. In 1837 the Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention was in a batch of papers that the United States State Department purchased from her. In 1856, William Cabell Rives borrowed the papers, taking them to his home in Albemarle County, Virginia, in order to write a biography of James Madison, The History of the Life and Times of James Madison (3 vols.). He returned some of the papers, including the Notes, to the State Department in 1866. In 1903 by an executive order from President Theodore Roosevelt, the State Department turned over the papers of many of the founding fathers, including James Madison, to the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
Library of Congress Bibliographic Information-Madison's Notes from the Federal Convention
Suggested Reading
The Papers of James Madison. Vol. 10. Edited by Robert A. Rutland and others. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.
Farrand, Max, ed. The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911.
Jensen, Merrill, ed. The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1976– .


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Our imaginations race toward finality. No matter how elevated or sublime our thoughts become, this state of mind adds to our pain and brings despair.
How our friends talk to us as we are going through this and recovering can be a source of further pain.
I have been catheterized for clogged arteries in my heart two times in the last 10 years, once with an angioplasty and once with a stent.
For a recent angiogram to see what might be causing some new arrhythmia, I found myself in the hospital on the same day that my son was being operated on for a severely broken collarbone.
We were greeted by all kinds of comments from friends and associates that prompted these reflections on what people say to those who are ill.
I offer them as a guide to those who want to talk in a helpful way to those who are ill and also to reveal some painful aspects of our current culture.
And they may empower the ill to speak up for what we need.
Connecting with sympathy
These comments focus on the patient and what he or she needs -- sympathy, not advice.
* How are you feeling?
* Is there anything I can do to comfort you?
* I'm really sorry you have to go through this.
* I missed your friendship and warmth while you were down.
* I'm very glad to have you back.
* I want to support you through your recovery. I'll call you in a day or so.
* And later: Would you tell me the story of your illness, and what happened to you?
Offering advice
This critical approach shifts focus away from the patient and features the advice-giver as a knowledgeable exemplar of good habits.
* You should lose weight, exercise, stop your unhealthy behaviors, etc.
* You should follow my health example to avoid future problems. Do what I do. I'll e-mail you my list.
* I had a similar problem and here's what I did. All my tests are now great, and I take the following vitamins, supplements and teas.
* Maybe you shouldn't take all those pills. I don't take any pills. I'm as healthy as a horse.
* There is none of that in my family. You should get some genetic counseling.
* I've read articles about things you should do to fix your problem. Would you read them?
* I can recommend a great doctor/healer/therapist who can fix your problem.
This hurtful approach is an all-out assault on the patient and reveals the underlying disgust, anger and fear one's illness can provoke in others.
* I could see you were headed for this by the way you behaved but I didn't say anything because you won't take any advice.
* I could see you would come out fine; I can see such things, really. And see, I was right. Your worries were groundless. Trust your future to my clairvoyance. You're fine.
* You need to change your way of thinking. Think positive thoughts, which can actually shape what comes your way. Read "The Secret."
* I interpret what happened to you as a sign of your avoidance of your life purpose, your archetype.
* If you believe as I do, this would never have happened.
* Deep down it's your fault; and you have only yourself to blame. Your whole life is wrong.
Our society seems unable to accept illness as a normal part of life. We don't think it's "natural," despite its potentially transformative and ennobling power and, of course, its inevitability.
Some would give all the credit to our genes; others would make illness our personal, conscious responsibility. Whatever the correct ratio of genetic factors to personal behavior, we're likely to blame people for their diseases.
A character in Tolstoy's great story of disease, "The Death of Ivan Ilych," signals the meaning of Ivan's death to his fellow worker: "He has made a mess of things -- not like you and me." We are a culture of blame and we can persecute the sick as deserving victims.
Compassion and sympathy are tough. They require us to express how we feel about one another. They expose our inner life. They reveal the depth and character of our being.
When you open yourself to another, especially one who is sick, it heals you too. And that may be the most powerful medicine we both give and receive.
Robert Louis Chianese is a professor of English at Cal State Northridge and a coronary heart patient.


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There was some commotion out by our bird feeder yesterday under our oak tree! Mom caught this guy up on the fence after the commotion subsided.
Who knew that RoadRunners could fly? I sure didn't! Well, he had flown up into the tree, and it looked like he was trying to catch some of my little birdie friends!
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