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String theory has its scientific origins in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but it was propelled into the full view of the public in 2000 thanks to Brian Greene's readily accessible and scientifically accurate (if mathematically devoid) prose in The Elegant Universe. In the intervening decade, the basic ideas of string theory—that the Universe is potentially made up of little strings—has become fairly well known by members of the public. However, with no real possible experimental test to directly probe for the existence of these tiny strings, many within and outside the scientific community question the validity of a "theory of everything" that has no readily testable predictions.
One thing that, in my experience, constantly gets overlooked is that, in order to pursue the study of string theory, entire fields of mathematics have been revolutionized and brought back from what was the dust bin of mathematical curiosity. Their resurgence and renewed interest exist completely independently of whether string theory is right or if it gets left alongside Ptolemaic epicycles in the annals of scientific ideas.
This is a point that is driven at—although concretely mentioned too late, in my opinion—in The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions by Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis. Anyone with even a passing familiarity with string theory should recognize the name Yau as the latter half of the ubiquitous Calabi-Yau manifold that appears throughout string theory. The book recounts Yau's experience with how he came to solve the Calabi conjecture, and how his proof was later rediscovered by physicists to become the cornerstone in a new theory researchers were playing with.
The book starts with the beginnings of geometry and its influence on physics by first discussing the Platonic solids and how the ancient Greeks viewed them in relation to the physical properties of the real world. It then jumps forward a few thousand years, to where Yau briefly mentions his childhood in China and his budding interest in geometry. Since the book is not an autobiography, it quickly shifts back to the mathematics that Yau has spent his career studying, including topology, algebraic geometry, and geometric analysis—the tools that laid the foundations for his later work.
Yau doesn't hold the reader's hand in the book, and he expects the reader to have an intuition capable of understanding some non-obvious mathematical and geometric ideas. For instance, the product of two S1 manifolds (circles in a plane) is a rectangle rolled up on itself twice (think about it for a minute). The book gets down to the core of its focus when Yau and Nadis introduce the Calabi conjecture, the geometric problem that gave rise to Calabi-Yau manifolds. Calabi's question boils down to this:
Can a compact Kähler manifold with a vanishing first Chern class also have a Ricci-flat metric?
How this turned the world of physics on its head is hard to see at first, but Yau explains this conjecture in more physical terms. The question, while purely mathematical in nature, can be intimately tied to Einstein's field equations for general relativity. Viewed through the lens of general relativity, this question could be rephrased as, "Could there be gravity in our Universe even if space was totally devoid of matter?" As Yau puts it, if Calabi was correct, then curvature alone would make gravity possible, even in the absence of matter.
The next section of the book focuses on Yau's solution to the Calabi conjecture, and it raises an interesting point that highlights the difference between mathematicians and scientists/engineers. Yau's proof to the Calabi conjecture in 1976 (published in two papers in 1977 and 1978) showed that a manifold that satisfied Calabi's requirements (compact, Kähler, Ricci-flat) exists... nothing more. Nothing about the nature of it, what it looks like, or if a solution in the form of a realization can actually be computed. As an engineer this doesn't help me one bit, but to a mathematician, as Yau puts it, the fact that an answer exists is the answer. There is no need to go further. It reminds me of an old joke:
In three separate locked, airtight, rooms sit a physicist, an engineer, and a mathematician. In each room is a sealed box with a key that will allow escape. Upon learning of their predicament, all get to working on the problem at hand. The physicist works out the material properties and forces needed to exactly pry the box open with a small screwdriver, applies the minimal amount of force needed, gets the key, and leaves. The engineer takes the brute force approach: he smashes the box to pieces, picks up the key, opens the door, and leaves. The mathematician is not heard from for weeks, and upon going back to look for him, the engineer and physicist find him dead in the room. In front of him are pages upon pages of a mathematical proof. At the end it is written, "a solution exists."
It wasn't until eight years later, in 1984, that physicists started realizing the importance of manifolds such as those described by Calabi-Yau in the study of string theory. As Yau explains it, it was the need for supersymmetry that lead to the mathematical concept of holonomy, which in turn lead to Calabi-Yau manifolds. Once the connection was made, physicists started creating actual realizations of Calabi-Yau manifolds and studying the properties of these spaces and whether or not they could predict the properties of the universe we see around us.
The remainder of the book discusses how the mathematics has advanced thanks to work of physicists and how physics has advanced thanks to the work of mathematicians. While the book focuses heavily on the mathematics, it is only in one of the last chapters where Yau really hammers his key point home: no matter what happens with string theory, the mathematics developed to describe it will still be correct and will form the foundation for future generations of mathematicians and geometers. The Shape of Inner Space proves to be an interesting read to anyone with an interest not only in string theory, but in the mathematics that underlie this potential theory of everything.
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Chad Billingsley (13-10, 3.13) vs. Brandon Webb (19-6, 3.19).
COMMENTS: Andre Ethier is on a Manny Ramirez-like offensive tear. Angel Berroa is batting .389 over the past seven games, including a rare home run. Derek Lowe is getting run support. And the Dodgers are winning games even when Manny overruns first base and Ethier overruns second. Our sixth win in a row last night, coming on the heels of a gut-punch eight-game losing streak, is truly charmed, and since we at SoSG are a superstitious lot, this GameThread goes up at :10 past the hour once again. This afternoon's matchup between a Cy Young winner of the past versus a Cy Young winner of the future gets Fox Game of the Week status, so let's keep the magic gloves on, the lineup unchanged, and the mojo working...and maybe, just maybe, first place could be ours by dinner time.


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On the evening of Thursday, January the 21st, I attended a wine tasting of Benyamina wines given by Avi Ashman's Israeli Wine Lovers Club. Asaf Paz, one of the two wine-makers at the Benyamina winery, presented a selection of wines in all price ranges.
Eran Elhalal, the club's chef, prepared a nice assortment of cheeses (sharp and mild), fruits and sweets. Raphael Sutton, who edited Israel Food and Wine magazine and wrote on wines for Globes (Israel's premier financial publication) was the resident expert together with Eran and Avi.
Asaf started the presentation with a Chardonnay 2007, we tasted it first at room temperature. It was pleasantly tart, with hints of citrus, grapefruit and apricot. When chilled it became fruitier with peach and floral notes. It's made in the Champagne style since the Chardonnay grape together with its red grape cousins, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier is part of the triumvirate of grapes used for Champagne. This grape which easily adapts to every climate, no matter how extreme, is also used in large proportions in the production of classic sparklers around the world.
We followed with Yogev 2007, that combined Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon. With Cherry and berry notes, the Shiraz gave it a smoky spiciness. Made from classical warm weather grapes, it won't age as well as other higher end wines.
We continued with another Yogev 2007 selection, also a dry red. This wine combines 20% Petit Verdot (grown in the Negev Mountains, it has high acidity and produces fruity tannins) and 80% Cabernet Sauvignon. It's aroma brought out mint and black currant tones. Ages well and has a very unique strong personality.
Next we had a Reserve Merlot 2005, with hints of cherry and sweet spices. it goes well with lamb shanks and strong flavored meats. Next we had a delightful Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2006.
Sapir 2004 followed this wines is aged for 16 months in the cask and 4 years in the bottle before it leaves the winery. It has 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Shiraz, and 25% Merlot, fruity with floral accents and sweet spices.
Odem 2005 was next, this wine has 97% Syrah and 3% Viognier it has a nice smoky taste and goes well with charcouterie meats.
Finally we got to taste Benyamina's top of the line, The Cave – Hama'arah 2006, a Cabernet Sauvignon/Merlot blend. A superior wine that is aged not in the main winery but in a 300 year old cave in the heart of the Carmel Mountains, hence its name. This top quality wine, a blend of 60% Cabernet Sauvignon and 40% Merlot, the grapes were harvested in the Upper Galilee. The wine was aged over 24 months in new French oak barrels and will continue to age well. Truly a superb wine.
Tomorrow, March 17, the Israeli Wine Lovers Club will be meeting again in Manhattan, at:
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The buzzer, on the ground floor, is # 6.
As Avi's email advised: "Earlier today I got the wines for the "How Sweet It ISrael" tasting from the Royal Wine Company (the largest Kosher wines importer/distributor). The list is great — Carmel Shaal, Gamla White Riesling, Carmel Moscato, and more. Eran (our Club's Chef) promised to make special treats for the tasting…. So, are you ready for a sweet feast as I am? We'd like to see you at the event.
You can RSVP at their web site: http://www.meetup.com/Israeli-Wine-Lovers/calendar/12765713/ The cost for this tasting is $36 at the door. Hope to see you there.


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DNA results match their semen samples in case filed by family of fatherless 14-year-old.
LAHORE, Pakistan, June 3 (CDN) — Forensic DNA results of semen samples in a sexual assault case show they match those of the Muslim boys a 14-year-old Christian girl accuses of raping her, according to advocacy organizations.
The girl accuses Muhammad Noman and Muhammad Imran, both 17, of abducting her from her school in Kamboh colony, Lahore, in Punjab Province, on May 6 and drugging her prior to sexually assaulting her, according to Khalid Gill, president of the Christian Lawyers Foundation (CLF), and officials of the National Commission of Justice and Peace (NCJP).
The minor, whose name was withheld, told the organizations that she was waiting for her younger sister at the main gate of S.M. Foundation School after class hours when Noman and Imran told her that a girl named Hira wanted to see her.
The girl said that she told them she was not familiar with anyone named Hira, but that she was not afraid because there was no problem meeting a girl. She told the NCJP that as she stepped off the school grounds, Noman and Imran overpowered her, tightly covering her mouth to stifle her cries for help. Later they gagged her with a band of cloth.
NCJP General Secretary Peter Jacob reported that they took her by motorbike to a place unknown to her and compelled her to consume a soft drink containing tranquilizers. Able to see but unable to move as she began to lose consciousness, she was unable to stop them as each boy raped her, she told the NCJP. She said she later became totally unconscious.
The CLF's Gill said the boys later left her on a road near the school's main entrance.
The girl's father, Rehmat Masih, is deceased. Her mother, Aysha Bibi, said that she had fearfully begun searching for her and had contacted a school administration official, who said that her daughter had left the school on foot. Several Christian neighbors also participated in the search.
Christian neighbor Shehzad Masih found her unconscious on the road near the school gate and brought her home, according to the NCJP's Jacob. As the 14-year-old regained consciousness, her mother and others brought her to the Millat Park Police Station and filed an application to register a case against Noman and Imran.
After investigating, on May 9 Millat Park Police registered a case against Noman and Imran for abducting "with intent to commit adultery."
Although Muslims commonly commit crimes against Christians in Pakistan assuming law enforcement officials will not prosecute, the two boys were arrested on May 26. Police sent DNA samples of the semen of both Muslim youths to a forensic laboratory, and the results linking them to the crime returned this week, CLF and NCJP's Jacob said.
A urine test indicated the girl was not pregnant, CLF and NCJP officials said.


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By Pete Yost for The Associated Press on July 29, 2013—
"Authorities rescued 105 children who were forced into prostitution and arrested 150 pimps and others in a three-day law enforcement sweep in 76 American cities, the FBI said Monday. The victims, almost all girls, range in age from 13 to 17.
The largest numbers of children rescued were in San Francisco, Detroit, Milwaukee, Denver and New Orleans. The campaign, known as Operation Cross Country, was conducted under the FBI's Innocence Lost initiative.
"Child prostitution remains a persistent threat to children across the country," Ron Hosko, assistant director of the bureau's criminal investigative division, told a press conference.
The FBI said the campaign has resulted in rescuing 2,700 children since 2003.
The investigations and convictions of 1,350 have led to life imprisonment for 10 pimps and the seizure of more than $3.1 million in assets.
For the past decade, the FBI has been attacking the problem in partnership with a non-profit group, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
John Ryan, the head of the center, called the problem "an escalating threat against America's children."
The Justice Department has estimated that nearly 450,000 children run away from home each year and that one-third of teens living on the street will be lured toward prostitution within 48 hours of leaving home.
Congress has introduced legislation that would require state law enforcement, foster care and child welfare programs to identify children lured into sex trafficking as victims of abuse and neglect eligible for the appropriate protections and services.
"In much of the country today if a girl is found in the custody of a so-called pimp she is not considered to be a victim of abuse, and that's just wrong and defies common sense," Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said during a Senate Finance Committee hearing last month. Wyden co-sponsored the bill with Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio."
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Wednesday, November 2, 2005. The hum of mountain bike tires on wet pavement lulled me into gray daydreams — flickers of my cold concrete office, the puzzle pieces of newspaper design, an interview with an artist — set against a backdrop of a steep hillside dotted with log cabins and Tyvek-coated shacks. My commute. Behind me, Kachemak Bay was shrouded in clouds, but still sparkling beneath a far-reaching finger of pink sunshine. I turned off West Hill and continued churning up the gravel of Diamond Ridge. It was only 4:30 p.m. and already daylight was fading. I rose above snow line and watched my front tire carve treaded tracks through a dusting of powder, which became deeper as I climbed. I had never ridden a bicycle through snow before. I was struck by the sudden silence; the snow muffled my tires and resisted my pedal strokes, until the entire world seemed to dissolve in a slow-motion dream. I exhaled. My frozen breath swirled in front of my face like silk curtains. I turned onto my side street and sliced through the powder, past the moose tracks, past the horse whose long hair was speckled in snowflakes, toward my own large single-room cabin in the woods, high on the bluff above Homer, Alaska.
I had lived there just over seven weeks, and was still completely awed by my surroundings: the sparkling bay, the snow-capped Kenai Mountains, the ash-belching volcanoes, the quirky downtown buildings and cobbled-together cabins. I pulled my bike up the porch and looked out over my backyard. The view was absolutely jaw-dropping — rolling hillsides of spruce trees and alder blanketed in snow, all framed by the white mountains. I went inside and fished through several drawers until I found my camera, a cheap 2.1-megapixel Fuji digital that I acquired when I decided to move to Alaska. After all, you really shouldn't move to Alaska without a camera. I had only taken a handful of pictures so far — mostly of the amusingly vintage furniture we purchased at local garage sales to fill the spacious single room and loft, of my cat stalking voles in the tall fireweed, and the crumbling outhouse in the front yard. But the wintry scene demanded photography, even low-tech amateur photography. I snapped one or two shots and went inside to warm my numb fingers and toes.
Later that night, I sat down to send a few e-mails to my family and friends. I muddled for words to describe everything that was happening — new job, new partnership, new life in a place that in nearly every way was worlds away from the life I knew before. "Today I rode my bike in the snow," I typed in the subject line, and fired off my picture to the people I loved and missed.
"I really need to start a blog," I said to my then-partner. "It's hard to keep up with e-mails."
"You mean Bike to Shine?" he asked, referring to the blog I kept to document our Alaska road trip and cross-country bicycle tour in 2003.
"No," I said. "I already shut that site down. I need an Alaska blog. One where I can keep in touch with everyone and post pictures at the same time."
I returned to the computer and set up a new account with Blogger.com. I scrolled through the templates and picked the cool blue hues that reflected my snowy location. I chose the url "Arctic Glass" because the phrase evoked sheets of ice on the ocean and the glistening silence of frozen tundra. It was also how I once misinterpreted a line from the Modest Mouse song "Grey Ice Water." From the lyrics of that song, I also chose the name of my blog: "You got a job … Up in Alaska … It's easy to save what the cannery pays cause there ain't no way to spend it."
The next day, I typed up my introductory post and announced my new blog's existence to all of my family and friends. "I'm going to update it in lieu of the mass e-mails I've been sending," I wrote. "Expect lots more pretty pictures of Alaska, which I hope will convince you all to come visit me in Homer." I didn't know if anyone would read it. I didn't know that a scattering of early comments from strangers would ease me into Alaska's widely dispersed winter cycling community. I didn't know I would discover a race called the Sustina 100 and decide to use my blog as a training log. I didn't know that readers' financial support and encouragement would boost me through the completion of my first race ever — ultra or otherwise. I didn't know that readership would continue to grow as I documented my ongoing discoveries in Alaska. I didn't know that support would stay when I made the difficult decision to move to Juneau. I didn't know my interest in photography would expand from nearly nonexistent to a daily habit. I didn't know that I would continue to turn to the blog as a cathartic and creative outlet. I couldn't anticipate the way my relationships with friends and family would enrich and grow in the way they did, because I had never before found such an effective way to communicate what was going on with me. I had no concept of the way tracking my training in a public forum would propel me to get out even when training was the last thing I wanted to do. I couldn't foresee the way this self-fulfilling cycle would propel me to success in undertakings such as the 350-mile Iditarod race and the 2,700-mile Tour Divide — endeavors that on November 2, 2005, would have seemed wholly ridiculous and impossible to me. I didn't know this public forum would introduce me to an array of new people, several of whom became some of my closest friends. I didn't know I would generate 1,276 posts over five years, an extensive record of a half decade of my life. I didn't know the blog would see the dissolution of everything that sparked it — living in a quirky cabin in Homer, my training logs, my partnership, and even my life in Alaska — and still continue to develop and grow. I didn't know that ~2,000 people would click into it daily, drawing a small but substantial pool of like-minded people from all around the world.
I didn't know that this blog would change my life. But I'm grateful for every facet of it. Happy fifth anniversary, Arctic Glass, and thanks to everyone who's joined me for any part of the journey.


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'The Croods' catches fire with $44.7M opening
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The caveman comedy "The Croods" left an indelible mark on the wall, opening at No. 1 with $44.7 million, according to Sunday studio estimates.
The 3-D adventure from DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox features a voice cast including Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone and Catherine Keener. They play a prehistoric family encountering danger and strange new creatures when they're forced to find a new cave.
Opening strongly in second place with $30.5 million was "Olympus Has Fallen," an action thriller from "Training Day" director Antoine Fuqua in which North Korean terrorists take over the White House. Gerard Butler, as a secret service agent, leads an all-star cast that includes Aaron Eckhart as the president, Morgan Freeman and Angela Bassett.
"The Croods" has now made $108 million worldwide, also opening this weekend in Russia, the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain. In the United States, it's the only game in town as far as animated films for the whole family, and it will continue to be so as kids head out of school for spring break over the next couple of weeks.
"It's a terrific crowd-pleaser, it got an A CinemaScore and an A-plus with audiences under 18, which leads me to believe a lot of kids loved the movie," said Anne Globe, chief marketing officer for DreamWorks Animation.
Chris Aronson, president of domestic distribution for 20th Century Fox, said "The Croods" had a stronger opening than the $40 million the studio had projected.
"To come in at the $45 million mark, ahead of 'How to Train Your Dragon,' which was another terrific movie from DreamWorks Animation, is a great start to the spring holiday," Aronson said.
"Olympus Has Fallen" also opened higher than expectations — much higher — given that FilmDistrict figured it would end up somewhere in the under-$20 million range, said president of distribution Jim Orr. This is by far the biggest debut for the independent distributor, which was just founded in September 2010; the previous best was the $14.3 million the "Red Dawn" remake made over last year's Thanksgiving weekend.
"Millennium Films and Antoine Fuqua delivered a brilliant, action-packed, serious thriller with an all-star cast led by Gerard Butler, and the word of mouth seems to be terrific," said Orr. "It not only exceeded all our pre-weekend estimates, as the weekend has gone on, it's gotten better. This is the first action thriller in a while that's gotten an A-minus CinemaScore, so it's obvious that people are talking about it and enjoying it."
This one-two punch of "Croods" and "Olympus" — two movies that appealed to two very different audiences — was much-needed at the box office, which is down 13 percent from the same period last year, said Paul Dergarabedian, box office analyst for Hollywood.com.
"I was really surprised by 'Olympus.' This year, the R-rated action films have all fallen flat," Dergarabedian said, including "The Last Stand" and "Parker." ''The marketing was good. Gerard Butler — he's the real deal, he looks the part and everything. And the theme of the movie, the fact that the president is under siege — it worked on 'Air Force One.' There's something about that theme that works for audiences."
But this weekend's haul is down 34 percent from the same weekend a year ago, when the juggernaut of "The Hunger Games" debuted. It made a whopping $152.5 million in its opening, which is more than all the films in theaters combined will have made this weekend.
Among the other new films this weekend, the Tina Fey-Paul Rudd college comedy "Admission" from Focus Features opened in fifth place with just $6.4 million. But the buzzed-about "Spring Breakers" from A24 Films, featuring Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens as hard-partying college girls, did well in its first nationwide expansion. It made $5 million on 1,104 screens for a total of $5.4 million over the past two weeks.
Nothing really huge is on the horizon to give the box office a boost until "Iron Man 3" kicks off the summer movie season on May 3, Dergarabedian said. But the strong showing for "Olympus Has Fallen" could bode well for the sequel "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" next weekend.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. "The Croods," $44.7 million ($63.3 million international).
2. "Olympus Has Fallen," $30.5 million ($2.2 million international).
3. "Oz the Great and Powerful," $22 million ($21.7 million international).
4. "The Call," $8.7 million.
5. "Admission," $6.4 million.
6. "Spring Breakers," $5 million ($1.1 million international).
7. "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone," $4.3 million.
8. "Jack the Giant Slayer," $3 million ($19.3 million international).
9. "Identity Thief," $2.5 million ($4.7 million).
10. "Snitch," $1.9 million.
Estimated weekend ticket sales at international theaters (excluding the U.S. and Canada) for films distributed overseas by Hollywood studios, according to Rentrak:
1. "The Croods," $63.3 million.
2. "Oz the Great and Powerful," $21.7 million.
3. "Jack the Giant Slayer," $19.3 million.
4. "A Good Day to Die Hard," $10.5 million.
5. "Resident Evil: Retribution," $5.1 million.
6. "Identity Thief," $4.7 million.
7. "Very Ordinary Couple," $4.3 million.
8. "Wreck-It Ralph," $4.1 million.
9. (tie) "Warm Bodies," $3.5 million.
10. (tie) "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters," $3.5 million.
Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney, Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are owned by News Corp.; Warner Bros. and New Line are units of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn; Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.


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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), commonly known as welfare, is the monthly cash assistance program for poor families with children under age 18.
The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) is a federal program that helps supplement the diets of low income persons in Georgia, including the elderly, by providing them with emergency food and nutrition assistance at no cost.
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What is an arteriogram?
An arteriogram is an X-ray of the blood vessels called arteries. It is performed to evaluate various vascular conditions, such as an aneurysm (a bulging, weakened area in the wall of a blood vessel), stenosis (narrowing of a blood vessel), or blockages. Other names for this procedure are angiogram and arteriography.
Fluoroscopy is often used during an arteriogram. Fluoroscopy is the study of moving body structures — similar to an X-ray "movie." A continuous X-ray beam is passed through the body part being examined, and is transmitted to a TV-like monitor so that the body part and its motion can be seen in detail.
During an arteriogram, a dye is injected into an artery making the arteries visible on X-ray. Many arteries can be examined by an arteriogram, including the arterial systems of the legs, kidneys, brain, and heart.
The development and improvement of diagnostic procedures such as computed tomography (CT scan), ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have greatly expanded the diagnostic capabilities of the radiology department. An arteriogram may be performed in conjunction with another type of diagnostic procedure such as CT, MRI, or ultrasound, which provides greater detail to the doctor.
Why is an arteriogram performed?
An arteriogram may be performed to detect abnormalities of the blood vessels. Such abnormalities may include, but are not limited to, the following:
Stenosis (narrowing) or vasospasm (a spasm of the blood vessel)
Arteriovenous malformation (an abnormal connection between the arteries and veins)
Thrombosis (a blood clot within a blood vessel) or occlusion (blockage of a blood vessel)
Other conditions that may be detected by an arteriogram include tumors, hemorrhage, inflammation, and the invasion of a tumor into the blood vessels. Arteriography may be used to deliver medications directly into tissue or an organ for treatment, such as clotting medication to the site of hemorrhage or cancer medication into a tumor.
An arteriogram may be recommended after a previous procedure, such as a CT scan, indicates the need for further information. Treatments may also be done during an arteriogram, such as dissolving a clot or placing a stent in a blood vessel.
How is an arteriogram performed?
In order to obtain an X-ray image of a blood vessel, an intravenous (IV) access is necessary so that a contrast dye can be injected into the body's circulatory system. The contrast dye causes the blood vessels to appear opaque on the X-ray image. This allows the doctor to better visualize the structure of the vessel(s) under examination. When the dye is injected into specific blood vessels in order to examine a particular area of circulation more closely, the procedure is referred to as superselective angiography.
Generally, an arteriogram is performed under local anesthesia (numbing the site where the catheter is to be inserted), often accompanied by light sedation. However, the type of procedure to be performed and the part of the body involved may require general anesthesia (the person will be asleep during the procedure). Certain patients, such as infants and young children, or patients who are confused or extremely anxious, may also require general anesthesia.
The specific procedure for an arteriogram will depend on the body part or system being studied. Although each facility may have specific protocols in place, generally, an arteriogram procedure follows this process:
The patient will be positioned on the X-ray table.
An intravenous line will be inserted, generally into a vein in the patient's arm or hand.
The patient will be connected to an electrocardiogram (ECG) monitor that records the electrical activity of the heart and monitors the heart during the procedure using small, adhesive, electrode patches. Vital signs (heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing rate) will be monitored during the procedure.
A small incision will be made in the arm or groin, into which a small catheter will be inserted.
The catheter will be threaded into the desired artery.
Once the catheter is in place, an injection of contrast dye will be given into the catheter.
A series of X-rays will be taken.
Once the desired X-ray images have been obtained, the catheter will be removed and pressure will be applied over the area to keep the artery from bleeding.
In order to prevent bleeding from the catheter insertion site, the patient will remain flat in bed in a recovery room for several hours after the procedure.
Once at home, the patient should monitor the incision for bleeding, unusual pain, swelling, and abnormal discoloration or temperature change in the arm or leg on the side of the puncture site. A small bruise is normal. The patient may be advised not to do any strenuous activities for at least 72 hours, nor take a hot bath or shower until the next day.


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For a new fight against poverty
Assessing the outcome of the War on Poverty — announced 50 years ago — has always been complicated by the hopes it initially inspired. After his election in 1964, Lyndon Johnson proclaimed that Americans were living in "the most hopeful times since Christ was born in Bethlehem." Which raised expectations pretty high — and placed LBJ in the manger. Elsewhere in the same vein, he said, "For the first time in our history, it is possible to conquer poverty."
The actual result — as in most complex human endeavors — is mixed. Programs such as Medicare and Medicaid are woven tightly into the fabric of American life. Both are costly and in need of serious reform — and represent some of the most admirable, humane moral advances of the 20th century. The War on Poverty's increase in Social Security benefits dramatically reduced poverty among the elderly, with few unintended social or behavioral consequences. Nutrition programs have fortified generations of children, while encouraging dependence on ... food.
Other efforts, such as the expansion of Aid to Families with Dependent Children, became political shorthand for unintended social and behavioral consequences, leading a Democratic candidate for president to promise an end to "welfare as we know it." For decades, the federal role in improving education for low-income children was a resounding, embarrassing, scandalous failure. Some of LBJ's ideas, such as Head Start, still seem so promising that we keep trying to get them right, even when social science finds modest results.
Political judgments on the War on Poverty are generally little more than an ideological Rorschach test. But beyond simple pronouncements of failure or success, a few things are clear: The federal government has met some human needs on a vast scale; it also does not know how to conquer poverty. America, at all levels of government, spent about $1 trillion on transfer programs last year, while more than 40 million people remain below the poverty line.
If you were making a judgment about the War on Poverty in, say, 1968, it would have seemed an unqualified success. A decline in the poverty rate seemed closely correlated with increasing expenditures. But progress quickly ran into economic and social obstacles that are not addressed by transfers. Advancing technology and globalization began draining the country of decent-paying, lower-skill jobs. Many American educational institutions proved incapable of imparting higher skills — or basic skills for that matter. At the same time, social trends began undermining family structure and community health. (The tie between single-parent households and poverty is an economic, not a moral, assertion. Poor single parents naturally find it harder to hold full-time jobs and invest in the welfare of their children.)
This is a type of poverty that LBJ could not foresee: A decline in blue-collar jobs, rooted in global trends, requiring workers to gain skills that schools could not reliably impart, leaving whole communities economically depressed and isolated, while many children were deprived of economically stable and supportive two-parent families, leading to dangerously stalled social mobility and creating divisions of class that are inconsistent with the American ideal.
These problems — which reinforce and complicate each other — still require the effort and idealism of the War on Poverty. But the methods will need to be very different. Neither traditional safety net programs nor economic growth alone are sufficient. A new (and hopefully renamed) War on Poverty would require improvements in labor markets — increasing the skills of workers and the rewards of work, and reaching many who are entirely alienated from the workforce. And it would require encouraging the norm of marriage before childbirth and catalyzing the work of community institutions (including religious nonprofits), which give people the skills and values to succeed in a free economy.
Note that a comprehensive effort would require ideological flexibility on both sides of the ideological spectrum. For liberals, there is a difference between using social mobility as a unifying national goal and employing economic inequality as a political cudgel.
For conservatives, a preference for the work of markets and civil society can't be used as an excuse for inaction when civil society is beleaguered and overwhelmed (in part) by powerful economic trends. Recent Republican anti-poverty initiatives have been rhetorically promising but substantively thin.
Yet given the seriousness of persistent poverty, any president, or aspiring president, must take the stage that LBJ mounted — and still dominates half a century later.
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Mayan calendar ends; world doesn't
MERIDA, Mexico Dec. 21 started out as the prophetic day some had believed would usher in the fiery end of the world. By Friday afternoon, it had become more comic than cosmic, the punch line of countless Facebook posts and at least several dozen T-shirts.
At the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza, thousands chanted, danced and otherwise frolicked around ceremonial fires and pyramids to mark the conclusion of a vast, 5,125-year cycle in the Mayan calendar.
The doomsayers who had predicted apocalypse were nowhere to be seen. Instead, people showed up in T-shirts reading "The End of the World: I Was There."
Vendors eager to sell their ceramic handicrafts and wooden masks called out to passing visitors, "Buy something before the world ends."
And on Twitter, (hash)EndoftheWorld had become one of the day's most popular hash tags.
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- 12-21-12: End-of-the-world predictions big business for some
For the masses in the ruins, Dec. 21 sparked celebration of what they saw as the birth of a new and better age. It was also inspiration for massive clouds of patchouli and marijuana smoke and a chorus of conch calls at the break of dawn.
The official crowd count stood at 20,000 as of mid-afternoon, with people continuing to arrive. That surpassed the count on an average day but not as many as have gathered at the ruins during equinoxes.
The boisterous gathering Friday included Buddhists, pagan nature worshippers, druids and followers of Aztec and Maya religious traditions. Some kneeled in attitudes of prayer, some seated with arms outstretched in positions of meditation, all facing El Castillo, the massive main pyramid.
Ceremonies were being held at different sides of the pyramid, including one led by a music group that belted out American blues and reggae-inspired chants. Others involved yelping and shouting, and drumming and dance, such as one ceremony led by spiritual master Ollin Yolotzin.
The boisterous crowd included Buddhists, pagan nature worshippers, druids and followers of Aztec and Maya religious traditions. Some kneeled in attitudes of prayer, some seated with arms outstretched in positions of meditation, all facing El Castillo, the massive main pyramid.
"The world was never going to end, this was an invention of the mass media," said Yolotzin, who leads the Aztec ritual dance group Cuautli-balam. "It is going to be a good era. ... We are going to be better."
Ivan Gutierrez, a 37-year-old artist who lives in the nearby village, stood before the pyramid and blew a low, sonorous blast on a conch horn. "It has already arrived, we are already in it," he said of the new era. "We are in a frequency of love, we are in a new vibration."
But it was unclear how long the love would last: A security guard quickly came over and asked him to stop blowing his conch shell, enforcing the ruin site's ban on holding ceremonies without previous permits.
Similar rites greeted the new era in neighboring Guatemala, where Mayan spiritual leaders burned offerings and families danced in celebration. Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina and Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla attended an official ceremony in the department of Peten, along with thousands of revelers and artists.
At an indigenous South American summer solstice festival in Bolivia, President Evo Morales arrived on a wooden raft to lead a festival that made offerings to Pachamama, Mother Earth, on a small island in the middle of Lake Titicaca.
The leftist leader and 3,000 others, including politicians, indigenous shamans and activists of all stripes, didn't ponder the end of the world, just the death of the capitalist system, which Morales told the crowd had already happened amid "a global financial, political and moral crisis."
"The human community is in danger because of climatic reasons, which are related to the accumulation of wealth by some countries and social groups," he told the crowd. "We need to change the belief that having more is living better."
Despite all the pomp, no one is certain the period known as the Mayas' 13th Baktun officially ended Friday. Some think it may have happened at midnight. Others looked to Friday's dawn here in the Maya heartland. Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History even suggested historical calculations to synchronize the Mayan and Western calendars might be off a few days. It said the Mayan Long Count calendar cycle might not really end until Sunday.
One thing, however, became clear to many by Friday afternoon: The world had not yet ended.
John Hoopes, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas, was at the ruins, using the opportunity to talk about how myths are created.
"You don't have to go to the far corners of the earth to look for exotic things, you've got them right here," he noted.
End-of-the-world paranoia, however, has spread globally despite the insistence of archeologists and the Maya themselves that the date meant no such thing.
Dozens of schools in Michigan canceled classes this week amid rumors of violence tied to the date. In France, people expecting doomsday were looking expectantly to a mountain in the Pyrenees where they believe a hidden spaceship was waiting to spirit them away. And in China, government authorities were cracking down on a fringe Christian group spreading rumors about the world's end, while preaching that Jesus had reappeared as a woman in central China.
Gabriel Romero, a Los Angeles-based spiritualist who uses crystal skulls in his ceremonies, had no such illusions as he greeted the dawn at Chichen Itza.
"We'll still have to pay taxes next year," he said.
As if to put the final nail in the coffin of such rumors, Bob McMillan of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory confirmed Friday that no large asteroids are predicted to hit anytime soon.
And Bill Leith, a senior science adviser at the U.S. Geological Survey, noted that as far as quakes, tsunamis and solar storms for the rest of the day, "we don't have any evidence that anything is imminent."
Still, there were some who wouldn't truly feel safe until the sun sets Friday over the pyramids in the Yucatan peninsula, the heartland of the Maya.
Mexico's best-known seer, Antonio Vazquez Alba, known as "El Brujo Mayor," said he had received emails with rumors that a mass suicide might be planned in Argentina. He said he was sure that human nature represented the only threat Friday.
"Nature isn't going to do us any harm, but we can do damage to ourselves," he said.
Authorities worried about overcrowding and possible stampedes during celebrations Friday at Mayan sites such as Chichen Itza and Uxmal, both about 1 1/2 hours from Merida, the Yucatan state capital. Special police and guard details were assigned to the pyramids.
Yucatan Gov. Rolando Zapata said he for one felt the growing good vibes, and not just because his state was raking in loads of revenue from the thousands of celebrants flooding in.
"We believe that the beginning of a new baktun means the beginning of a new era, and we're receiving it with great optimism," Zapata said.
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Hello everyone! My name is Jessica and I blog at SewCraftyJess. I am so excited to share my very first Moda Bake Shop tutorial with you today. It seems I am often needing to make baby quilts for different friends and families new additions, so I am always on the lookout for adorable kiddo fabrics. When I came across Bungle Jungle by Tim and Beck, I just had to put together a baby quilt showcasing all of the adorable prints in such fun colors, and I'm excited to share it with you today!
One Charm Pack: Tim & Beck Bungle Jungle
One Jelly Roll: Tim & Beck Bungle Jungle
1 1/2 Yard Bella Solid in White
1. From white solid:
Cut (22) 1.5″ x WOF strips
- Subcut (4) 1.5″ strips into (32) 4″ x 1.5″ pieces
- Subcut (6) 1.5″ strips into (32) 6″ x 1.5″ pieces
- Subcut (2) 1.5″ strips into (16) 5″ x 1.5″ pieces
- Subcut (3) 1.5″ strips into (12) 10″ x 1.5″ pieces
- Subcut (5) 1.5″ strips into (5) 41 1/2″ x 1.5″ pieces
- Subcut (2) 1.5″ strips into (2) 43 1/2″ x 1.5″ pieces
Cut (3) 3.5″ x WOF strips for quilt back
2. Choose 16 charms to be the centers of each block and trim to 4″ square
3. Pair each of your trimmed charms with 5″ charm and matching jelly roll strip (5″ charm and jelly roll strip should match)
4. From each jelly roll strip, cut (2) 10″ strips from the selvedge edges. We will be using the remaining ~20″ of jelly roll strip for the binding, set aside.
Quilt Top Assembly
Use 1/4″ seam throughout and press all seams open
1. Sew (2) 4″ white strips onto opposite sides of your 4″ center square
2. Sew (2) 6″ white strips onto remaining 2 sides of center square
3. Sew (1) 5″ white strip onto one edge of the coordinating charm you selected
4. Cut your charm/white strip piece in half lengthwise, resulting in (2) strips measuring 6″ x 2.5″
5. Take your center square bordered in white and sew (2) matching 6″ x 2.5″ pieced strips from step 4 onto opposite sides, taking care to align the white portion of the strip to the left on one edge and to the right on the other.
6. Sew (2) matching 10″ jelly roll strips on to remaining sides of center square bordered in white. Your block should now measure 10″ square.
7. Repeat to sew 16 blocks. Arrange your layout taking care to alternate the direction of the white strips between vertical and horizontal.
8. Attach blocks by sewing (1) 10″ x 1.5″ white sashing strip between each block.
9. Attach rows by sewing (1) 41.5″ x 1.5″ white sashing strip between each row, and one sashing row on top of the top row, and one sashing row on bottom of the bottom row.
10. Attach last two rows of sashing to the left and right borders of the quilt top.
Quilt Back Assembly
1. Use the 24 remaining jelly roll strips and sew together along the long edge, to result in a strip pieced rectangle measuring appx 44″ x 48.5″
2. Trim the selvedges off your strip pieced square.
3. Cut one of your 3.5″ x WOF strips and cut in half width wise, resulting in (2) 3.5″ x 22″ strips. Sew each half onto each of your remaining two 3.5″ x WOF strips to give you enough length to add to the trimmed edges. Attach onto each 48.5″ edge. Your resulting quilt back should measure appx. 48.5″ square
To make binding, choose 10 leftover jelly roll strips from cutting the 10″ strips for your blocks. Sew together to form scrappy binding.
Baste, Quilt and Bind as desired.
If you use this tutorial to make a Jungle Path baby quilt, I'd love to see it! Be sure to add it to my Flickr group, and of course to the Moda Bake Shop Flickr group as well. Thanks for stitching along!
Jessica Kelly


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When you purchase services from RealNames, we create an account for you. This makes it easier for you to track and manage your purchases with us. For the purpose of creating your account, we collect what we call "account data" and "billing information".
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RealNames shares your name, email address and demographic information with Mailchimp for the purpose of sending you various notifications related to your account. You may choose which notifications you receive under the Settings link in your RealNames account management tools. Neither our payment provider nor Mailchimp may ever use your data for their own purposes without our explicit consent or notice to us.
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We may use your account data to contact you concerning a dispute related to your account, or for verification purposes to make sure no one else is accessing your account.
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Today in the news: Court rules Obama appointments unconstitutional
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"Either the Senate is in session, or it is in recess. If it has broken for three days within an ongoing session, it is not in 'the Recess' described in the Constitution." - Chief Judge Dave Champelle. A federal appeals court declared President Barack Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Board, made during a three-day break in Congress, violated the Constitution. The ruling has potentially invalidated hundreds of board decisions.
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Scientists believe Earth may have been irradiated some time in the eigth century, CNN reports. Astonomers believe a collision of two "compact stellar remnants," possibly black holes or neutron stars, collided and became one, releasing a short burst of gamma radiation. Tree rings formed in approximately 775 A.D. show high levels of carbon-14 and beryllium-10, which indicate the presence of radiation.
People living at the time were probably unaware of the event, as the burst of radiation would have only lasted a view seconds and produced no visible light. As the Earth was protected from most of the radiation by the ozone layer, there were no noticeable effects on any life on Earth.
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Football feasts: Thanksgiving memories courtesy of the NFL
ARLINGTON, Texas — The NFL played six games on Thanksgiving in 1920. The holiday tradition apparently didn't settle in until 1934, the year the Detroit Lions were born.
Back then, the Lions were just looking for a way to take some attention from the Detroit Tigers, who were so popular that new football owner George A. Richards thought he needed a diversion even though it was baseball's offseason.
The game against Chicago was a big success, so the Lions have played on Thanksgiving ever since, save for a six-year gap during World War II. The Dallas Cowboys were invited to join them in 1966.
Every year since 1978, it's been Lions and Cowboys on turkey day, with the night-time addition of a third game starting in 2006 thanks to the rise of the NFL Network — although the night game now is on NBC.
Not to mention that there are now Thursday night games all season as the league expands its reach.
"It seems like every week a team is playing with the new schedule, but there's nothing like playing on Thanksgiving," said Cowboys tight end Jason Witten, who is the Thanksgiving leader since 1960 with 62 catches in 10 games and has 679 yards receiving and three touchdowns. "Every kid, I'm sure, growing up, I was no different. That's what you love. Your family eats and you watch the Cowboys play. It's special to be in that game."
And there have been a few special moments — or not so special, depending on your point of view — along the way.
LONGLEY TO PEARSON: This is No. 1 on the NFL's list of Thanksgiving moments. Clint Longley, filling in for an injured Roger Staubach, threw a 50-yard touchdown pass to Drew Pearson with 28 seconds left in a 24-23 Dallas victory over Washington in 1974. That game as much as any other helped turn Cowboys-Redskins into one of football's best rivalries.
They almost had a reprise last year when the Cowboys cut a 28-3 deficit to 35-28 in the fourth quarter, but Robert Griffin III led a drive that put it away.
SAY IT AIN'T SO, LEON: Cowboys fans will never forget Leon Lett awkwardly sliding on the snow-covered turf of Texas Stadium in 1993, trying to cover up a ball he wasn't supposed to touch after Dallas blocked a Miami field goal for an apparent victory. Lett's move made it a live ball, and the Dolphins recovered at the 1. With a second chance, Pete Stoyanovich kicked a 19-yard field goal as time expired for a 16-14 win.
TOSS THAT TURNED A GAME: Coin tosses were changed forever when referee Phil Luckett didn't hear Jerome Bettis correctly on the flip for overtime in the 1998 game between Detroit and Pittsburgh. Players generally made the head/tails call with the coin in the air, and Luckett thought he heard "heads." The coin came up tails, and audio evidence backed Bettis' claim that he said "tails," although some said it sounded like Bettis changed his mind mid-word and said something resembling "heh-tails." Regardless, Detroit got the ball and kicked the field goal for a 19-16 win.
In today's game, refs make sure they have the call before they toss the coin, and overtime rules now give the team that doesn't get the ball first a chance to match an opening field goal in the extra period.
PLACING BOUNTIES: Long before Sean Payton was suspended for a season in the New Orleans bounty scandal, Dallas and Philadelphia engaged in a bounty war on Thanksgiving in 1989. The Cowboys were on their way to a 1-15 record under Jimmy Johnson when the first-year coach claimed after a 27-0 loss that the Eagles had put a $500 bounty on rookie quarterback Troy Aikman, and a $200 tag on former Eagles kicker Luis Zendejas. Eagles coach Buddy Ryan said he didn't know about any bounties. Johnson said he would have confronted Ryan on the field but that the Philadelphia coach "put his big, fat rear end in the dressing room."
RECORD-SETTERS: O.J. Simpson had the only 200-yard rushing day on Thanksgiving in 1976, although Buffalo lost to the Lions 27-14. Simpson's big day was also the league record at the time, surpassed a year later when Chicago's Walter Payton rushed for 275 yards against Minnesota. There have been four bigger games since, topped by Adrian Peterson's 296 yards when Minnesota beat San Diego 35-17 in 2007.
Miami's Bob Griese had a record six touchdown passes in a 55-14 victory over St. Louis in 1977, the last year the Cowboys didn't host the game because of complaints over an unfair advantage. Peyton Manning tied that mark with Indianapolis in a 41-9 win over Detroit in 2004.
TOP TURKEY MOMENTS OF 2012: Two goofy gaffes happened on the same Thanksgiving last year, starting with Detroit coach Jim Schwartz throwing a challenge flag when he wasn't allowed to because all scoring plays are automatically reviewed. Schwartz got an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty that negated the review and gave Houston's Justin Forsett an 81-yard touchdown — even though replay clearly showed his knee and elbow touched the turf. Houston won 34-31 in overtime.
That night, New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez infamously fumbled after running into the backside of guard Brandon Moore. New England's Steve Gregory picked up the loose ball and ran 32 yards untouched for a score in the Patriots' 49-19 victory.


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Scott Douglas says in his new Quiet, Please: Dispatches From a Public Librarian that the creator of the Dewey Decimal system and several other famous librarians had one thing in common: "they were all elitist wimps." One-Minute Book Reviews will review the book tomorrow.
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Micah is a vintage beige antique washed rug from Turkey, hand-knotted with pure wool and cotton. Its pile is low, measuring only 0.2 inches (0.5 cm) thick, and is estimated to be 50-60 years old. With a size of 8'6" x 5'8" (260 x 173cm), this luxurious and timeless piece is sure to bring comfort and elegance to any room. Featuring a blend of high quality wool and cotton, the vintage style and intricate design of Micah add character and sophistication to any room. Its low pile height provides comfort underfoot with unique softness. The 50-60 year old rug is low profile, with a pile height of only 0.2 inches (0.5 cm).
It is a Turkish Antique Washed rug.
This unique Turkish rug, handcrafted by highly experienced artisans in the 1960s, draws deeply on rich Turkish culture and history. Using high quality hand-spun wool, from a unique blend, the skills of this delightful rug's weavers shines through.
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First lady Michelle Obama praises Jackie Robinson movie
WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama said Tuesday that a new movie chronicling Jackie Robinson's rise through Major League Baseball, including the racial discrimination he endured while breaking the sport's color barrier in the 1940s, left her and the president "visibly, physically moved" after they saw it over the weekend.
The film, "42," also left the couple wondering "how on Earth did (the Robinsons) live through that. How did they do it? How did they endure the taunts and the bigotry for all of that time?" she said.
Mrs. Obama commented at a workshop for a group of high school and college students who saw the movie in the White House theater. Some of the students attend a Los Angeles charter school named for Robinson and others are undergraduate scholars in a program that bears the baseball great's name.
The students also participated in a question-and-answer session with Robinson's widow, Rachel, and members of the cast and crew, including Chadwick Boseman, who plays Robinson, Harrison Ford, who stars as former Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager Branch Rickey, and director-screenwriter Brian Helgeland.
President Barack Obama held a separate screening of "42" for the cast and crew Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Obama said everyone should see the movie, which opens nationwide April 12.
"I can say with all sincerity that it was truly powerful for us," she said. "We walked away from that just visibly, physically moved by the experience of the movie, of the story," and the "raw emotion" they felt afterward.
The first lady added that she was also "struck by how far removed that way of life seems today," noting how times have changed despite progress still to be made toward eliminating racial discrimination.
"You can't imagine the baseball league not being integrated. There are no more "Whites Only" signs posted anywhere in this country. Although it still happens, it is far less acceptable for someone to yell out a racial slur while you're walking down the street," she told the students. "That kind of prejudice is simply just not something that can happen in the light of day today."
After playing for the Negro Baseball League and the International League, Robinson became Major League Baseball's first black player on April 15, 1947, batting for the Brooklyn Dodgers. His number was 42.
Barack Obama broke a similar barrier in politics by winning election in 2008 as the first black U.S. president.
Mrs. Obama said the Robinsons' story is a reminder of the hard work it takes to move a country forward.
"It reminds you how much struggle is required to make real progress and change," she said, echoing her husband.