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Recently the water supply to my suburb failed for 5 hours. A few days later while watching the cult classic zombie apocalypse movie Shaun of the Dead I realised that being prepared for that is similar to what's required for dealing with more likely disasters.
The rise of zombies in pop culture has given credence to the idea that a zombie apocalypse could happen. In such a scenario zombies would take over entire countries, roaming city streets eating anything living that got in their way. The proliferation of this idea has led many people to wonder "How do I prepare for a zombie apocalypse?" or other disasters.
Whether you live in a flood prone area, near a fault line where earthquakes are more likely or in an area which is at risk from bushfires during hot dry weather there are things that you can do which don't take much time or expense but can make responding to natural disasters, emergencies and essential utility outages much easier.
Power adaptor cable so you can recharge your mobile phones via your car.
Keep at least a litre bottle of water in the fridge. Preferably 2-3L.
In Australia two of the most common natural disasters we suffer from on a regular basis are fires and floods.
While there are elements of bushfire that you cannot control, like the weather, there are a wide range of planning and preparation activities that you can undertake which will dramatically increase the chances of you, your family and your home surviving in the event of a bushfire., including the maintenance of adequate levels of insurance.
It's well worth checking out the Fire & Rescue NSW advice regarding how to make a Bushfire Survival Plan for your family.
The people of Queensland have had to deal with a lot of floods in the last few years including flash flooding which can result from relatively short, intense bursts of rainfall and is the most dangerous in terms of potential threat to loss of life.
There's a great page with advice about how to prepare for floods on the Emergency Management Queensland website.
Although they are a small nation, New Zealanders are especially good at being prepared for disasters such as earthquakes. The NZ Civil Defence "Get Thru" website has excellent advice for dealing with earthquakes, storms, floods, tsunamis, volcanos and landslides.
Back to the topic of Zombies.
The US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) has an excellent graphic novel "Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic" which demonstrates the importance of being prepared in an entertaining way that readers of all ages will enjoy.
Readers follow Todd, Julie, and their dog Max as a strange new disease begins spreading, turning ordinary people into zombies. Stick around to the end for a surprising twist that will drive home the importance of being prepared for any emergency. Included in the novel is a Preparedness Check list so that you can get your family, workplace, or school ready before disaster strikes.


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Здравоохранение в городе Воронеже представлено широким комплексом медицинских учреждений, как общего, так и широкого профиля.

История

Эпоха царства Русского и Российской империи
В местах строительства флота находилось большое количество людей. Из-за антисанитарных условий и плохого питания возникали эпидемии. Летом 1701 года помощник адмералтейца П. М. Игнатьев в донесении царю сообщал о болезнях в Воронеже, которые продолжались и потом. В июле 1705 года в Воронеже, Таврове и в месте впадения реки в Дон за год заболело 2218 человек. Все эти события в Воронеже и других городах привели к тому, что был издан сенатский указ о том, чтобы «в знатных городах» появились лекари. При этом приписывалось содержать их на средства города, предоставить им квартиру и освободить от других обязанностей. В 1778 году в доме иностранца Зегеля была открыта аптека, которая стала первой в истории города. В 1780 году — первая больница..

В 1870 году в Воронеже начинают работать фельдшерские и акушерские школы. В 1867 году стала организовываться земская медицина, видным деятелем которой был К. В. Федяевский. В 1860—1896 годах он возглавлял медицинское общество в Воронеже. В 1871 году была открыта первая лечебница для приходящих, на основе которой в 1882 году появилась городская больница. Система земской медицины прекратила свою работу в 1918 году.

Среди работников сферы здравоохранения этого периода:

 Балеев — ветеринарный фельдшер Давыдовского участка;
 Веревкин Алексей Иванович (1863—1926) — ученый-ветеринар, активный земский деятель, основатель и руководитель первой в России земской четырёхклассной ветеринарно-фельдшерской школы, на базе которой впоследствии в Воронеже были созданы ветеринарно-фельдшерский техникум и ветеринарный институт;
 Канонников Михаил Иванович — врач Коротоякского уезда, служивший до этого военным врачом в Дагестанской области;
 Мемнонов Н. — врач Коротоякского уезда перешел на частную службу в г. Орёл
 Неверовский Алоизий Антонович (1859-06.12.1918) — ветеринарный фельдшер Давыдовского участка, потом ветеринарный фельдшер в селе Старая Безгинка Ново-Оскольской волости Коротоякского уезда, Курской губернии, проработал с 1895 по 1918 гг.;
 Саввин Иван Андреевич (1862—1939) — земский врач в фельдшерском пункте № 97 в селе Колбино Коротоякского уезда Воронежской губернии;

Советская эпоха
В 1920 году в Воронеже был создан первый пункт скорой медицинской помощи, станция которой 12 лет располагалась при 1-й поликлинике, а в 1932 году переместилась в здание на территории 2-й клинической больницы имени К. В. Федяевского. В 1985 году в городе была создана больница скорой помощи, которая заняла специально построенные 1976—1985 годы отдельные здания в Юго-западном микрорайоне. Первые в Воронеже операции по язве желудка острого аппендицита, абсцесса мозга, удаления желчного пузыря, первое в городе внутривенное вливание физиологического раствора и первое переливание крови в Воронеже были сделаны Андреем Гаврииловичем Русановым, который в 1907 году работал старшим врачом Воронежской губернской земской больницы, тридцать лет руководил кафедрой госпитальной хирургии. В апреле 1930 года «конные кареты» скорой помощи в Воронеже стали заменяться на автомобили. 2 января 1931 года в городе официально открыли медицинский институт, который возник на основе медицинского факультета ВГУ. Летом и осенью 1941 года в Воронеже начали разворачиваться военные госпитали, под которые использовались здания школ и других учреждений. В послевоенные годы система городской медицины была восстановлена.

Современная Россия

 Областная клиническая больница № 1
 Областная клиническая больница № 2
 Областной клинический центр специализированных видов медицинской помощи
 Областная детская клиническая больница № 1
 Областная детская клиническая больница № 2
 Областная клиническая инфекционная больница
 Областная клиническая офтальмологическая больница
 Открыта 22 июля (3 августа) 1898 года как бесплатная «Александро-Мариинская глазная лечебница Попечительства Императрицы Марии Александровны о слепых». В 1911 г. лечебница переведена в специально построенное здание по проекту архитектора М. Н. Замятнина. В 1979 году введён в эксплуатацию новый шестиэтажный корпус больницы.
 Областная клиническая стоматологическая поликлиника
 Областной клинический кожно-венерологический диспансер
 Областной клинический наркологический диспансер
 Областной клинический онкологический диспансер
 Областной клинический психоневрологический диспансер
 Областной клинический противотуберкулезный диспансер им. Н. С. Похвисневой
 Областной клинический консультативно-диагностический центр
 Областной клинический центр профилактики и борьбы со СПИД
 Областной клинический центр общественного здоровья и медицинской профилактики
 Областной клинический центр медицины катастроф
 Областной клинический центр лечебной физкультуры и спортивной медицины «Реабилитация»
 Областная станция переливания крови
 Городская клиническая больница скорой медицинской помощи № 1
 Городская клиническая больница № 2 им. К. В. Федяевского
 Городская клиническая больница № 3
 Городская клиническая больница № 4
 Городская клиническая больница № 5
 Городская клиническая больница скорой медицинской помощи № 8
 Городская клиническая больница скорой медицинской помощи № 10
 Городская клиническая больница № 11
 Городская больница № 14
 Городская больница № 16
 Городская клиническая больница № 20
 Городская детская клиническая больница
 Центр охраны здоровья семьи и репродукции
 Родильный дом № 2
 Родильный дом № 3
 Городская клиническая поликлиника № 1
 Городская поликлиника № 3
 Городская клиническая поликлиника № 4
 Городская клиническая поликлиника № 7
 Городская поликлиника № 10
 Городская клиническая поликлиника № 18
 Городская поликлиника № 22
 Стоматологическая поликлиника № 2
 Клиническая стоматологическая поликлиника № 3
 Клиническая стоматологическая поликлиника № 4
 Стоматологическая поликлиника № 5
 Стоматологическая поликлиника № 6
 Клиническая стоматологическая поликлиника № 7
 Детская клиническая стоматологическая поликлиника № 2
 Станция скорой медицинской помощи
 Медико-санитарная часть МВД
 Медико-санитарная часть № 36 ФСИН
 Медико-санитарная часть № 97 ФМБА
 Пансионат с лечением «Репное»
 Графский санаторий для детей
 Сомовский санаторий для детей

При некоторых из них действуют центры амбулаторной хирургии. С 5 марта 2003 года, между Воронежской и Борисоглебской епархией и Управлением здравоохранения администрации городского округа города Воронеж действует соглашение о сотрудничестве. В Воронеже действует отделение Общероссийской общественной организации «Красный крест». В 2009 году в муниципальном здравоохранении реконструирована амбулатория в микрорайоне Тенистый, создан Центр амбулаторной хирургии женской консультации городской поликлиники № 3, в каждом районе города появились кабинеты амбулаторной реабилитации пациентов, которые перенесли острый инфаркт миокарда и острое нарушение мозгового кровообращения.

В августе 2010 года воронежскую медицину в своём интернет-дневнике раскритиковала гражданка Израиля под названием «Ужасы нашего городка». Молодая женщина рассказала о том, как она лечилась в городской больнице скорой медицинской помощи, в которой ей вовремя не была проведена УЗИ-диагностика и не был взят необходимый анализ крови. Отрывки записей были перепечатаны региональной газетой «Моё!», что вызвало большой скандал, так как пациентка сообщала также о больших нарушениях санитарии, необходимых условий для содержания больных и об отсутствии профессионализма у медицинского персонала. Статью прокомментировали многие читатели, которые подтвердили слова женщины. По просьбе журналистов руководитель департамента здравоохранения администрации города Сергей Бредихин также высказал своё мнение о случившемся:. Он подтвердил несовременность воронежской медицины и непрофессионализм её сотрудников. Также чиновник заявил о том, что в 2007 году на закупку медоборудования из городского бюджета было выделено около 35 млн рублей, а в 2010 году — 87 миллионов рублей.

Специально созданная комиссия, возглавляемая проректором Воронежской медицинской академии Виктором Бурлачуком, серьёзных нарушений в деятельности врачей не выявила и пришла к выводу, что медперсонал действовал согласно принятым в российской медицине правилам, но его поведение было недостаточно этично. Комментируя результаты проверки комиссии, заместитель главврача ГК БСМП № 1 Владимир Хаустов заявил о том, что он ими доволен. Главная медицинская сестра ГК БСМП № 1 Е. И. Землянухина, высказывая своё мнение о случившемся, обратила внимание на то, что зарплата у санитарок — 4 тысячи рублей, а медсестёр — около 5 тысяч. Так что уровень медицинского обеспечения вполне соответствует данной оплате труда.

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Feminist Newswire / On the Hill / Political
Gender Gap Prominent in Support for Trump Impeachment
by Feminist Newswire on Dec 18, 2019 • 5:49 PM No Comments
Recent polls have shown that American women support impeachment and removal from office by around 10 points more than men—a gender gap that is reflected in national politics as well.
Since the 2016 election women in the U.S. have led the fight against the rampant misogyny, racism, and xenophobia that is the hallmark of the presidency of Donald Trump. According to a Fox News poll from December 15, 54 percent of women surveyed strongly support impeachment.
By contrast, only 44 percent of men support the impeachment of President Trump. Trump's overall approval ratings also reflect the gender gap. Polls show that only 32 percent of women approve of the president, while 52 percent of men approve of Trump.
One factor in the gender gap is party affiliation. Fifty-six percent of women identify as Democrats nationally, and 90 percent of Democrats support the impeachment of Donald Trump.
Women are leading the call for impeachment at every level. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has been at the forefront of the impeachment proceedings. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), chairwoman of the House Finance Committee, and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee, have also been key players in the impeachment process. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) served as speaker pro tempore—a constitutional representative who presides during the absence of the Speaker of the House— and presided over the House debate about the articles of impeachment.
At the impeachment debate today, dozens of female Democratic House representatives gave impassioned speeches in support of the articles of impeachment, condemning Donald Trump's conduct and citing the responsibility of Congress to uphold the Constitution and defend our democracy and the freedom and fairness of U.S. elections.
Sources: TWP 11/27/19; Vox 11/26/19; Denver Channel 12/18/19; Fox News 12/15/19
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Home Health & Fitness Alzheimer's Disease – Causes and Cure
Alzheimer's Disease – Causes and Cure
Alzheimer's Disease – Causes and Cure
Research into Alzheimer's disease has identified a 'susceptibility gene' called apolipoprotien E (ApoE). It has been demonstrated that the risk of developing the disease in old age depends at least in part on the configuration of ApoE genes that an individual has inherited.
Alzheimer's Disease Causes and Cure
Who is at the risk?
A wide variety of environmental factors have also been investigated as possible triggers of the disease, especially in genetically susceptible individuals. ApoE plays a role in cholesterol metabolism and heart disease – and people with high cholesterol or high blood pressure, and those who smoke, are all known to have increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Those who have suffered head or whiplash injuries also seem to be at risk. However, research has failed to support the idea that exposure to aluminum increases the risk of Alzheimer's.
Characteristics of the disease
Many people complain of poor memory as they grow older, but those with Alzheimer's disease become increasingly forgetful and confused, and this may make them frustrated, angry or frightened. As often happens in elderly people, old memories may remain intact whereas recent events are soon forgotten. People with Alzheimer's also have difficulty finding appropriate words and solving basic problems, and they may show signs of language impairment, such as rambling speech, long pauses and repetition. They are likely to become disorientated and perhaps get lost in familiar places.
As the disease progresses, everyday activities such as dressing, shopping and cooking become increasingly difficult. People with Alzheimer's find it harder to communicate with these around them. They may become depressed and lose interest in the outside world; they are likely to give up interests and hobbies and become indifferent to social conventions and the opinions of others.
Alzheimer' disease is not the only reason why elderly people become confused. Circulatory problems, strokes and the side effects of certain medicines can also cause dementia-like symptoms. It is therefore important to seek medical help for anyone who is becoming confused or forgetful, so that any problems can be swiftly assessed and treated by an expert.
What is Alzheimer`s Disease
First described in 1907 by Alois Alzheimer, a German neurologist, the disease attacks the thinking parts of the brain, including the hippocampus, one of the memory centers. Nerve fibers become tangled (neurofibrillary tangles) and clumps of abnormal protein (neurotic plaques) appear. Cells are destroyed and the brain shrinks. Some of these changes – the shrinkage of brain tissues and enlargement of the fluid-filled ventricles at the centre of the plaques are visible under the microscope only when cells from the brain of someone with Alzheimer's are examined after death.
The nerve damage observed in Alzheimer's disease includes a fall in the nerve transmitter acetylcholine, one of a group of chemicals in the brain that carries messages from one nerve to the next. Drugs currently used to treat the disease are aimed at restoring acetylcholine levels. They include donepezil (brand name Aricept), rivastigmine (Exelon) and galantamine (Reminyl). These drugs, if taken in the early stages of the illness, can slow or halt the deterioration of some patients for several months. They seem to improve the quality of life of people with Alzheimer's disease, enabling them to feel more alert and more willing to take part in social activities.
Complementary treatments such as music therapy and aromatherapy may be helpful to some people.
A possible vaccine
Future treatments are likely to be targeted at two proteins that seem to play key roles in the development of neurofibrillary tangles and neurotic plaques. The first protein, called tau, normally holds nerve fibers together so that they can carry messages efficiently. In Alzheimer's, a chemical change in tau makes it break away from nerve fibers, which then get tangles. Researchers are therefore looking for drugs that can stabilize tau so that nerve fibers stay neat and tidy.
The second protein, called beta amyloid, forms the core of neurotic plaques. Some types of beta amyloid are more harmful than others, and scientists are trying to design drugs that will block production of the harmful varieties.
Trials are also underway to test a vaccine that uses one type of the beta amyloid protein to try to trigger a protective immune response. If this is strong enough, it may help to prevent formation of neurotic plaques.
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A place for atheists in the state of KY.
Where are the Kentucky Freethinkers? Show yourself on a map (zipcode only)!
Coming "out" to family and friends.
You need to be a member of Kentucky Atheists to add comments!
Kiwi living in Catlettsburg, Boyd County, here. Homeschooling my son and feeling as if I am the only atheist for a good hour's drive! Hubby and son are atheist too, but we are the only ones as far as we know. We are also the only homeschooling family within a 45-minute, as far as I know - the KDE won't say either way. Hoping to find other like-minded people nearby.
K.h. ky, if you're in Ohio County, Ky the Owensboro Humanists are right next door.
Crazy fundies abound. Having their pro - life rallies and easter parades on the sidewalk on main street. All ten of them.
I'm right next to Cincinnati so really either side of the river will do.
Ky may have one atheist per county in the counties without cities. Which is the majority of them. I'm the atheist in Ohio county. I've yet to meet another. I had my doubts there were any others in the state till I came upon this group.
Anyone in Northern Kentucky? Really looking for a group that meets to discuss.
Are there any other atheist families in, or around, Danville? My wife and I are going nuts here without friends in the area. I work in Cybersecurity and she's a stay at home mom. We have a little girl and a boy on the way. Would be nice to have some other friends to hang out with from time to time without being asked what church we belong to.
BC you are definitely in trouble. You'll be limited to activities in Lex or Louisville at the very least. There are good music venues in those cities but everywhere else will definitely be full of the religious. My wife and I have been here 2 years and haven't found any rational friends. It's tough. But if you're ever in Danville I'll buy you a beer.


In the face of uncertainty, buy options.
Yesterday I posted about how the streetlight effect pulls us towards bad choices in systems engineering. Today I'm going to discuss a different angle on the same class of challenges, one which focuses less on cognitive bias and more on game theory and risk management.
In the face of uncertainty, buy options. This is a good rule whether you're doing whole-system design, playing boardgames, or deciding whether and when to carry a gun.
An underappreciated fact about U.S. Constitutional law is that it recognizes sources of authority prior to the U.S. Constitution itself. It is settled law that the Bill of Rights, in particular, does not confer rights, it only recognizes "natural rights" which pre-exist the Bill of Rights and the Constitution and which – this is the key point – cannot be abolished by amending the Constitution.
A&D regulars will probably not be much surprised to learn that I'm something of a topic expert on the history of the duel of honor. This came up over on Slate Star Codex recently when I answered a question about the historical relationship of the duel or honor with street violence.
I've read all the scholarship on the history of dueling I can find in English. There isn't much, and what there is mostly doesn't seem to me to be very good. I've also read primary sources like dueling codes, and paid a historian's attention to period literature.
I'm bringing this up now because I want to put a stake in the ground. I have a personal theory about why Europo-American dueling largely (though not entirely) died out between 1850 and 1900 that I think is at least as well justified as the conventional account, and I want to put it on record.
An expectation of casual, cynical lying has taken over American political culture. Seldom has this been more obviously displayed than Barack Obama's address to police chiefs in Chicago two days ago.
Stephen P. Halbrook's Gun Control in the Third Reich is a book that every advocate of "gun control" in the modern U.S. and elsewhere should read – but almost certainly never will.
Most other historians have ignored or outright suppressed the role of weapons law and weapons confiscations in the Nazi imposition of totalitarianism on Germany before World War II. Thus it is forgotten that the legal pretext for the infamous Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938 was the confiscation of all firearms from Jewish owners. And that most of the first major wave of Jews sent to the concentration camps went there on charges of illegal possession of weapons.
Gun control was not an incidental feature of Nazi tyranny, it was one of the central tools of totalitarian repression and genocide. If Halbrook's book had no other virtues, the reminder of this stark fact would be enough to recommend it.
There's a story in that picture. To read it, you have to be familiar with pistol shooting and the kind of pistol self-defense training that cops and amateur sheepdogs like me engage in.
In the remainder of this post I'm going to walk you through the process of extracting the story from the picture.
Does firearms competency testing do any good?
My distant friend Kent Lundgren, one of the most capable and thoughtful firearms instructors out there, has written a blog post addressing the tricky question of how we might filter potential carriers of concealed weapons for competence without involving the government.
If you follow these rules, you will never unintentionally injure anyone with a firearm. They are easy to learn and very safe. They are appropriate for civilians.
Some elite military units have different rules, with a different tradeoff between safety and combat effectiveness. I learned them from an instructor who was ex-SOCOM. The way I learned them is sufficiently amusing that the story deserves retelling.
A few weeks ago I blogged an alternate-history story in which the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was abused and distorted in the same ways the Second Amendment has been in our history. The actual point of the essay, though, was not about either amendment; it was about how strategic deception by one side of a foundational political dispute can radicalize the other and effectively destroy the credibility of moderates as well.
Here's a thought experiment for you. Imagine yourself in an alternate United States where the First Amendment is not as a matter of settled law considered to bar Federal and State governments from almost all interference in free speech. This is less unlikely than it might sound; the modern, rather absolutist interpretation of free-speech liberties did not take form until the early 20th century.
In this alternate America, there are many and bitter arguments about the extent of free-speech rights. The ground of dispute is to what extent the instruments of political and cultural speech (printing presses, radios, telephones, copying machines, computers) should be regulated by government so that use of these instruments does not promote violence, assist criminal enterprises, and disrupt public order.
The weight of history and culture is largely on the pro-free-speech side – the Constitution does say "Congress shall make no law … prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press". And until the late 1960s there is little actual attempt to control speech instruments.
Then, in 1968, after a series of horrific crimes and assassinations inspired by inflammatory anti-establishment political propaganda, some politicians, prominent celebrities, and public intellectuals launch a "speech control" movement. They wave away all comparisons to Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, insisting that their goal is not totalitarian control but only the prevention of the most egregious abuses in the public square.


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Spring is in full swing and by the look of many playful athleisure and activewear collections, summer is just around the corner! Tie-dyed sweats and workout sets are especially catching our eye lately, and thanks to the look's resurgent popularity from Pharrell to Anthropologie — there are ample opportunities to shop this style. I can dig it – you?
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Can a Dry Cleaner Remove Urine Odor from Drapery?
What I should ask the dry cleaner after I discover that my cats urinated on my draperies/Curtains.
This is the story of Mrs. Elizabeth from Tampa, Florida.
I realize this morning that my cat urinated on my draperies.
Later I reach the point of madness and aggravation, I believed it will be an easy job to get rid of the stain and wipe out the urine smell.
I call my dry cleaner and I ask them "do you clean draperies?" And his answer was absolutely.
I took down my draperies and place them in a box.
I left the draperies at the dry cleaner, hoping that they'll take out the urine odor.
Two weeks later, I picked up the draperies from the dry cleaner, they were folded on the hanger in a plastic bag.
I hang the drapery in the closet until they finish painting the dining room.
A month later I opened the drapery bag and discovered, the urine odor still there, I said to myself I cannot believe it, it's still smells.
I called back the dry cleaner remind him who I am, and demand explanation, why my draperies still smelling? His answer was, sorry we did the best we could.
I Should have asked the dry cleaner before "if he guaranteed to remove the urine odor from my draperies".
My name is Meir Martin I'm the owner and the inventor of PetPeePee system.
Ask more questions about odor removal, notified the business provider that upon delivery, you will smell the item thoroughly, and if any odor of: deodorize or chemicals will remain on the drapery, or the area rug, you're not going to pay for the service.
This is the only way to find a real business that specialize to remove the urine odor the right way.
in writing: upon delivery put your nose, whatever you like on the clean item guarantee in writing, no trace of deodorize, chemical smell, enzyme in 100% urine odor removal permanently.


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Two Christian filmmakers are asking a federal appeals court to reinstate their lawsuit and prevent the government from controlling their stories.
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorneys representing a pair of Minnesota filmmakers filed their opening brief on appeal Friday in a lawsuit (Telescope Media Group v. Lindsey) challenging a state law that allows the government to control the stories they tell (see video below). The law allows Minnesota to punish Carl and Angel Larsen (pictured right) with fines and jail time if they create wedding films consistent with their faith while declining to create wedding films promoting contrary views.
"We filed an appeal brief at the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of our clients, asking the 8th Circuit ... to reinstate their lawsuit and to instruct the lower occur to issue an injunction in their favor," explains ADF attorney Jeremy Tedesco. "... Not only did [the lower court] disagree with our claims in the case, but it threw the case out – so we're asking the 8th Circuit to change that."
The attorney adds: "The state doesn't have any interest whatsoever in threatening filmmakers with fines and even jail time simply because they declined to create films that violate their beliefs."
The issue is similar to that of another ADF case, this one involving Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop near Denver, Colorado.
"The Masterpiece case will be decided by the United States Supreme Court this year – and that certainly could have an impact on how Carl and Angel's case plays out," Tedesco states.
"We see this problem across the country. Jack's case, of course, is in Colorado, and it's gone all the way up to the Supreme Court; but we've had cases in Arizona, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, all asking the same basic question: Does the state really have the power to force people to promote ideas, through their speech [or] through their expression, that they disagree with?"
On that note, Tedesco says the case law and legal principles are very clear.
"The First Amendment doesn't allow the government to co-opt a private person's speech and force them to say things that they disagree with or object to," he explains, "but the states are saying they have that power and some courts are saying they have that power – and we're trying to make sure that that principle stays strong in our law."


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import uk.co.chrisjenx.calligraphy.CalligraphyContextWrapper;

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Long Beach councilman's trial goes to jury
Long Beach City Councilman Michael Fagen leaves the Nassau County Courthouse in Mineola. (Jan. 28, 2013) Credit: Howard Schnapp
By PATRICK WHITTLE patrick.whittle@newsday.com Updated January 29, 2013 9:29 PM
Prosecutors in Michael Fagen's larceny trial said in closing arguments Tuesday that the Long Beach councilman knowingly set about to "lie and cheat and steal" from the state when he illegally applied for unemployment benefits.
Fagen's defense attorney said in his final statement that his client's case belongs in civil court, and the two-week criminal trial was "inappropriate" from the start.
Fagen, a Democrat, faces 40 criminal charges stemming from his collection of more than $15,000 in unemployment benefits between January and September 2010 while serving as a city councilman. The jury began deliberating Tuesday afternoon and will reconvene Wednesday.
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Fagen's attorney, Marc Gann of Mineola, did not dispute that Fagen collected the money. But, he said, Fagen was entitled to unemployment benefits because his work as a councilman is part-time. "They want you to believe he's a double-dipper, much the way you read about school administrators who retire and who take a pension and go back to the same job," Gann said of Fagen, who earns about $20,000 per year as a councilman.
Prosecutor Marshall Trager said Fagen's work is full-time; Long Beach officials have agreed with that position.
"The councilman was working essentially every day," Trager said. "That work needs to be reported and will disqualify someone like the defendant from unemployment benefits."
Fagen faces felony charges of third-degree grand larceny, petty larceny and 38 counts of offering a false instrument for filing. He faces up to 7 years in prison if convicted.
During closing statements, Gann criticized prosecutors for calling witnesses who did not work with Fagen during the time of the alleged crimes. The prosecutors called current city Comptroller Jeff Nogid but not former Comptroller Sandra Clarson, a political enemy of Fagen, Gann said. Gann also chided prosecutors for not calling another Fagen rival, former City Manager Charles Theofan, who now works as a deputy Nassau County executive.
Gann likened the witnesses to Rhoda Morgenstern, a character on "The Mary Tyler Moore" Show who worked as a window dresser.
"Nothing more than window dressing," he said.
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Trager brushed off the criticism. "This case is not about who wasn't called," he said.
By PATRICK WHITTLE patrick.whittle@newsday.com
Larceny trial of councilman beginsMichael Fagen deliberately exhibited "deceit and thievery" when he falsified applications for unemployment benefits, a ... Lawyer: Councilman told to record activitiesLong Beach City Councilman Michael Fagen was asked to keep a record of his activities ... Official: Fagen not exempt from reporting incomeLong Beach City Councilman Michael Fagen's status as an elected official did not exempt him ... Councilman's larceny trial to wrap upThe trial of indicted Long Beach city Councilman Michael Fagen will reach final arguments Tuesday, ...
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Back pain could simply be all in our minds and we may have the power to cure it ourselves
Dr. Jeremy Howick: A placebo alone did not make an enormous difference. The dual effect of prescribing a pill coupled with a positive message was striking
Back pain keeps people off work, prevents them from playing with their children and quite often stops them from exercising.Getty Images
Dr. Jeremy Howick
Back pain costs the NHS over a billion pounds each year. It keeps people off work, prevents them from playing with their children and quite often stops them from exercising.
The most common treatments used are imperfect at best: paracetamol has been shown to have a negligible effect, while ibuprofen produces a small benefit but has been found to produce severe adverse reactions in some. Stronger medication — morphine — is effective in the short term but less so in the long term, can lead to dependency and even opioid addiction — and sometimes even death.
But what if the answer was far simpler — and far cheaper — than prescription drugs? What if our own minds had the power to cure us? This question lies at the heart of a new BBC Horizon documentary, The Placebo Experiment: Can My Brain Cure My Body?, which grapples with the still not fully understood relationship between the mental and the physical.
The experiment itself was Britain's largest ever trial to investigate the placebo effect in this way. As an Oxford University researcher with a background in the subject, I was the one who designed it: because Blackpool has a high prevalence of chronic back pain — one in five of the local population suffers from it, far in excess of the national average — it was decided we should recruit the participants from there. So we enlisted 117 people from all walks of life, all of whom self-identified as suffering from back pain. These people, who for years had failed to find relief in conventional medication, were allocated to one of three groups.
The first group was given a real consultation with a real doctor, although the GPs were instructed to spend only nine minutes and 20 seconds with each volunteer — the length of an average GP consultation in the U.K. At the end of the consultation they were prescribed a course of blue and white pills. (Curiously, blue and white pills have been shown to have a greater painkilling effect than pills of other colours.) They were told that the pills were completely safe and had been shown to help other people with back pain, but what we didn't tell them was that the pills contained nothing but ground-up rice.
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The second group also received our special placebo pills but could have up to half an hour with the doctor. The GPs carrying out these appointments were also instructed to be as empathetic as possible (we recruited GPs to participate in the trial, too).
Finally, we had a control group, who received the GP consultation but no placebo — this way we could ensure that any positive effects were down to our pills and not just because the volunteers would have improved over time anyway.
Back pain is complex: it is often accompanied by depression and obesity, both of which can be caused by the pain. Teasing out these things often takes longer than the average GP appointment allows. GPs who show greater empathy, meanwhile, have been found to achieve better results; nothing dramatic, but we have seen reductions of pain by one or two points when patients of empathetic doctors are asked to score it out of 10. Telling a patient that "this works for 90 per cent of people like you" therefore beats "this doesn't work for 10 per cent of people like you".
The effects of our televised trial, presented by Michael Mosley, were exciting: for a large proportion of our volunteers, the effect of the placebo pill coupled with the positive messaging about it was clinically significant. Almost half the participants in the study told us they were feeling better afterwards, and 45 per cent showed a medically significant improvement.
For some, the effects were dramatic. Before the trial, one patient was in a wheelchair and had been taking morphine for 10 years. After it, he was able to walk, and felt able to stop taking the medication.
The placebo alone did not make an enormous difference, and nor did the extra empathy. But the dual effect of prescribing a pill coupled with a positive message about the likelihood of its efficacy was striking.
In 380 BC, Plato described the cure of a headache thus: "… it was a kind of leaf, which required to be accompanied by a charm, and if a person would repeat the charm at the same time that he used the cure, he would be made whole; but that without the charm the leaf would be of no avail."
Today, we might describe it less poetically: when someone takes a pill, they remember what the doctor told them. A positive message about the medication activates the brain's reward mechanism, causing the patient's body to produce its own painkilling endorphins, which in turn make them feel better.
Even after we'd told the participants in the study that what they'd been taking had been just a placebo, some wished to carry on taking it. This is known as an open label placebo — when the patient knows they are taking what is effectively nothing but a sugar pill — and even this can achieve good results. Indeed, 70 per cent of those who carried on taking the pills actually continued to feel better.
Why? Because even if the patient lacks a conscious expectation that what they are taking will help them, their body can still have a Pavlovian response, and the pain may still start to subside. That is, if they trust the person prescribing the pill and this person tells them, "it is just a sugar pill but has been used to help some patients with your condition", you may still at some level believe it could work; and believing it could work can be enough to make it work.
When the patients in our trial discovered they'd been taking a placebo, all but a few were pleasantly surprised. One of them, however, was in tears. For years, she told us, she had been unable to play with her children, due to the severity of her back pain. Did this mean she'd been faking it for all these years?
The answer, I told her, was absolutely not. The mind is not separate from the body, and her pain was no less real than anyone else's.
So although the efficacy of placebos might tempt us to conclude that it's "all in the mind", this phrase is misleading. That placebos can work does not mean the pain is imaginary, rather that the brain can produce its own drugs.
Placebos, of course, cannot work for everything. While they can be effective for pain, depression and anxiety (all major drains on the NHS budget), a patient suffering anaphylactic shock won't thank you for presenting them with a placebo in lieu of adrenalin; nor will someone in need of an antibiotic to treat a specific infection.
Positive messaging, too, has its limitations: there's little point in telling someone with stage four metastatic breast cancer that they'll be attending their granddaughter's wedding many years from now. Yet combining the two could save the NHS huge sums, and GPs would do well to bear in mind how damaging a focus on the negatives can be. And positive messages also help people overcome fear of exercise. Many sufferers worry that it might make things worse: in fact, safe exercise helps cure back pain.
It is not about lying to patients; it's just about framing the truth in a positive way. It's hard to imagine a cheaper way of making a significant difference.
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namespace gdata {
namespace util {

namespace {

const char kGDataSpecialRootPath[] = "/special";

const char kGDataMountPointPath[] = "/special/gdata";

const FilePath::CharType* kGDataMountPointPathComponents[] = {
  "/", "special", "gdata"
};

const int kReadOnlyFilePermissions = base::PLATFORM_FILE_OPEN |
                                     base::PLATFORM_FILE_READ |
                                     base::PLATFORM_FILE_EXCLUSIVE_READ |
                                     base::PLATFORM_FILE_ASYNC;

class GetFileNameDelegate : public FindEntryDelegate {
 public:
  GetFileNameDelegate() {}
  virtual ~GetFileNameDelegate() {}

  const std::string& file_name() const { return file_name_; }
 private:
  // GDataFileSystem::FindEntryDelegate overrides.
  virtual void OnDone(base::PlatformFileError error,
                      const FilePath& directory_path,
                      GDataEntry* entry) OVERRIDE {
    if (error == base::PLATFORM_FILE_OK && entry && entry->AsGDataFile()) {
      file_name_ = entry->AsGDataFile()->file_name();
    }
  }

  std::string file_name_;
};

GDataFileSystem* GetGDataFileSystem(Profile* profile) {
  GDataSystemService* system_service =
      GDataSystemServiceFactory::GetForProfile(profile);
  return system_service ? system_service->file_system() : NULL;
}

void GetHostedDocumentURLBlockingThread(const FilePath& gdata_cache_path,
                                        GURL* url) {
  std::string json;
  if (!file_util::ReadFileToString(gdata_cache_path, &json)) {
    NOTREACHED() << "Unable to read file " << gdata_cache_path.value();
    return;
  }
  DVLOG(1) << "Hosted doc content " << json;
  scoped_ptr<base::Value> val(base::JSONReader::Read(json));
  base::DictionaryValue* dict_val;
  if (!val.get() || !val->GetAsDictionary(&dict_val)) {
    NOTREACHED() << "Parse failure for " << json;
    return;
  }
  std::string edit_url;
  if (!dict_val->GetString("url", &edit_url)) {
    NOTREACHED() << "url field doesn't exist in " << json;
    return;
  }
  *url = GURL(edit_url);
  DVLOG(1) << "edit url " << *url;
}

void OpenEditURLUIThread(Profile* profile, GURL* edit_url) {
  Browser* browser = BrowserList::GetLastActiveWithProfile(profile);
  if (browser) {
    browser->OpenURL(content::OpenURLParams(*edit_url, content::Referrer(),
        CURRENT_TAB, content::PAGE_TRANSITION_TYPED, false));
  }
}

}  // namespace

const FilePath& GetGDataMountPointPath() {
  CR_DEFINE_STATIC_LOCAL(FilePath, gdata_mount_path,
      (FilePath::FromUTF8Unsafe(kGDataMountPointPath)));
  return gdata_mount_path;
}

const std::string& GetGDataMountPointPathAsString() {
  CR_DEFINE_STATIC_LOCAL(std::string, gdata_mount_path_string,
      (kGDataMountPointPath));
  return gdata_mount_path_string;
}

const FilePath& GetSpecialRemoteRootPath() {
  CR_DEFINE_STATIC_LOCAL(FilePath, gdata_mount_path,
      (FilePath::FromUTF8Unsafe(kGDataSpecialRootPath)));
  return gdata_mount_path;
}

GURL GetFileResourceUrl(const std::string& resource_id,
                        const std::string& file_name) {
  return GURL(base::StringPrintf(
      "%s://%s/%s/%s",
      chrome::kGDataScheme,
      kGDataViewFileHostnameUrl,
      net::EscapePath(resource_id).c_str(),
      net::EscapePath(file_name).c_str()));
}

void ModifyGDataFileResourceUrl(Profile* profile,
                                const FilePath& gdata_cache_path,
                                GURL* url) {
  GDataFileSystem* file_system = GetGDataFileSystem(profile);
  if (!file_system)
    return;

  // Handle hosted documents. The edit url is in the temporary file, so we
  // read it on a blocking thread.
  if (file_system->GetCacheDirectoryPath(
          GDataRootDirectory::CACHE_TYPE_TMP_DOCUMENTS).IsParent(
      gdata_cache_path)) {
    GURL* edit_url = new GURL();
    content::BrowserThread::GetBlockingPool()->PostTaskAndReply(FROM_HERE,
        base::Bind(&GetHostedDocumentURLBlockingThread,
                   gdata_cache_path, edit_url),
        base::Bind(&OpenEditURLUIThread, profile, base::Owned(edit_url)));
    *url = GURL();
    return;
  }

  // Handle all other gdata files.
  if (file_system->GetCacheDirectoryPath(
          GDataRootDirectory::CACHE_TYPE_TMP).IsParent(gdata_cache_path)) {
    const std::string resource_id =
        gdata_cache_path.BaseName().RemoveExtension().AsUTF8Unsafe();
    GetFileNameDelegate delegate;
    file_system->FindEntryByResourceIdSync(resource_id, &delegate);
    *url = gdata::util::GetFileResourceUrl(resource_id, delegate.file_name());
    DVLOG(1) << "ModifyGDataFileResourceUrl " << *url;
  }
}

bool IsUnderGDataMountPoint(const FilePath& path) {
  return GetGDataMountPointPath() == path ||
         GetGDataMountPointPath().IsParent(path);
}

FilePath ExtractGDataPath(const FilePath& path) {
  if (!IsUnderGDataMountPoint(path))
    return FilePath();

  std::vector<FilePath::StringType> components;
  path.GetComponents(&components);

  // -1 to include 'gdata'.
  FilePath extracted;
  for (size_t i = arraysize(kGDataMountPointPathComponents) - 1;
       i < components.size(); ++i) {
    extracted = extracted.Append(components[i]);
  }
  return extracted;
}

void InsertGDataCachePathsPermissions(
    Profile* profile,
    const FilePath& gdata_path,
    std::vector<std::pair<FilePath, int> >* cache_paths ) {
  DCHECK(cache_paths);

  GDataFileSystem* file_system = GetGDataFileSystem(profile);
  if (!file_system)
    return;

  GDataFileProperties file_properties;
  file_system->GetFileInfoByPath(gdata_path, &file_properties);

  std::string resource_id = file_properties.resource_id;
  std::string file_md5 = file_properties.file_md5;

  // We check permissions for raw cache file paths only for read-only
  // operations (when fileEntry.file() is called), so read only permissions
  // should be sufficient for all cache paths. For the rest of supported
  // operations the file access check is done for gdata/ paths.
  cache_paths->push_back(std::make_pair(
      file_system->GetCacheFilePath(resource_id, file_md5,
          GDataRootDirectory::CACHE_TYPE_PERSISTENT,
          GDataFileSystem::CACHED_FILE_FROM_SERVER),
      kReadOnlyFilePermissions));
  // TODO(tbarzic): When we start supporting openFile operation, we may have to
  // change permission for localy modified files to match handler's permissions.
  cache_paths->push_back(std::make_pair(
      file_system->GetCacheFilePath(resource_id, file_md5,
          GDataRootDirectory::CACHE_TYPE_PERSISTENT,
          GDataFileSystem::CACHED_FILE_LOCALLY_MODIFIED),
     kReadOnlyFilePermissions));
  cache_paths->push_back(std::make_pair(
      file_system->GetCacheFilePath(resource_id, file_md5,
          GDataRootDirectory::CACHE_TYPE_PERSISTENT,
          GDataFileSystem::CACHED_FILE_MOUNTED),
     kReadOnlyFilePermissions));
  cache_paths->push_back(std::make_pair(
      file_system->GetCacheFilePath(resource_id, file_md5,
          GDataRootDirectory::CACHE_TYPE_TMP,
          GDataFileSystem::CACHED_FILE_FROM_SERVER),
      kReadOnlyFilePermissions));

}

bool IsGDataAvailable(Profile* profile) {
  if (!chromeos::UserManager::Get()->IsUserLoggedIn() ||
      chromeos::UserManager::Get()->IsLoggedInAsGuest() ||
      chromeos::UserManager::Get()->IsLoggedInAsDemoUser())
    return false;

  // Do not allow GData for incognito windows / guest mode.
  if (profile->IsOffTheRecord())
    return false;

  // Disable gdata if preference is set.  This can happen with commandline flag
  // --disable-gdata or enterprise policy, or probably with user settings too
  // in the future.
  if (profile->GetPrefs()->GetBoolean(prefs::kDisableGData))
    return false;

  return true;
}

std::string EscapeCacheFileName(const std::string& filename) {
  // This is based on net/base/escape.cc: net::(anonymous namespace)::Escape
  std::string escaped;
  for (size_t i = 0; i < filename.size(); ++i) {
    char c = filename[i];
    if (c == '%' || c == '.' || c == '/') {
      base::StringAppendF(&escaped, "%%%02X", c);
    } else {
      escaped.push_back(c);
    }
  }
  return escaped;
}

std::string UnescapeCacheFileName(const std::string& filename) {
  std::string unescaped;
  for (size_t i = 0; i < filename.size(); ++i) {
    char c = filename[i];
    if (c == '%' && i + 2 < filename.length()) {
      c = (HexDigitToInt(filename[i + 1]) << 4) +
           HexDigitToInt(filename[i + 2]);
      i += 2;
    }
    unescaped.push_back(c);
  }
  return unescaped;
}

void ParseCacheFilePath(const FilePath& path,
                        std::string* resource_id,
                        std::string* md5,
                        std::string* extra_extension) {
  DCHECK(resource_id);
  DCHECK(md5);
  DCHECK(extra_extension);

  // Extract up to two extensions from the right.
  FilePath base_name = path.BaseName();
  const int kNumExtensionsToExtract = 2;
  std::vector<FilePath::StringType> extensions;
  for (int i = 0; i < kNumExtensionsToExtract; ++i) {
    FilePath::StringType extension = base_name.Extension();
    if (!extension.empty()) {
      // FilePath::Extension returns ".", so strip it.
      extension = UnescapeCacheFileName(extension.substr(1));
      base_name = base_name.RemoveExtension();
      extensions.push_back(extension);
    } else {
      break;
    }
  }

  // The base_name here is already stripped of extensions in the loop above.
  *resource_id = UnescapeCacheFileName(base_name.value());

  // Assign the extracted extensions to md5 and extra_extension.
  int extension_count = extensions.size();
  *md5 = (extension_count > 0) ? extensions[extension_count - 1] :
                                 std::string();
  *extra_extension = (extension_count > 1) ? extensions[extension_count - 2] :
                                             std::string();
}

}  // namespace util
}  // namespace gdata


Home Brain & Behavior Do you really know what you want in a partner?
Do you really know what you want in a partner?
So you're flocking to online dating sites with a wish list of ideal traits that you desire in a mate. Not so fast!
Once you actually meet a potential dating partner, those ideals are likely to fall by the wayside, according to new research from Northwestern University and Texas A&M University.
People liked potential partners that matched their ideals more than those that mismatched their ideals when they examined written descriptions of potential partners, but those same ideals didn't matter once they actually met in person, according to a new study by psychologists Paul W. Eastwick, Eli J. Finkel and Alice H. Eagly.
Say you prefer a partner who, online or on paper, fits the bill of being persistent. "After meeting in person, you might feel that, yeah, that person is persistent, but he can't compromise on anything. It's not the determined and diligent kind of persistent that you initially had in mind," Eastwick said.
The idea is that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, said Finkel, associate professor of psychology at Northwestern University and co-author of the study.
Scores from answers to questions such as "How much money do you earn?" or "Are you extroverted?" provide two-dimensional facts rather than three-dimensional humanness, Finkel said.
For those seeking prospective partners, don't be surprised if you end up ignoring your preconceived notions about what would make an ideal mate.
The study, "When and Why Do Ideal Partner Preferences Affect the Process of Initiating and Maintaining Romantic Relationships?" will appear in the November edition of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.


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Ryerson men's basketball wins over York in home game
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By Andrew Roberts
Despite playing without their head coach Roy Rana, the Ryerson men's basketball team (9-2) defeated the York Lions (5-5) 89-51 Wednesday night at the Mattamy Athletic Centre.
Both teams entered the contest on a high note with the Lions winning their last three and the Rams winning their last two. The games opening moments were back-and-forth, but Ryerson was able to pull away 21-12 after the first quarter.
"We came out, showed some aggression, and had a fairly good first half," said Rams assistant coach Patrick Tatham. "It's always nice to see them do well without the head coach around." Rana was unable to attend Wednesday's matchup due to family matters.
But beyond the impressive start, York continued to commit bad turnovers and Ryerson was able to convert off 32.4 per cent of their shots beyond the arc. The Lions only managed to hit 26.5 per cent of their long range attempts, and at the end of the first half, York had committed 16 turnovers leading to a commanding 42-26 Rams lead.
Just 16 seconds into the second half, York's head coach Tom Oliveri picked up two technical fouls and was ejected from the game.
Naturally, this did not boost the Lions' moral and the Rams offense continued to power through. Rams guard Jahmal Jones led all players with 19 points and Ryerson's second-highest point getter, Aaron Best, made a huge slam dunk at 6:22 in quarter three to set the tone of the blowout performance.
"We shared the ball, got rebounds, and had good transition," Jones said. "We feed off our crowd and our bench, so that's all we want to do."
As anticipated, the Rams officially doubled the Lions in scoring three minutes later, leading an incredible 72-34 heading into the game's final quarter. But the score notwithstanding, Ryerson continued to play a hard game from start to finish.
"Every game we try to bring that defensive intensity," Best said. "That's our identity, that's always going to be what we focus on no matter who the opponent is."
The Rams are back in action on Friday, Jan. 16 when they visit the last place Algoma Thunderbirds [0-9] at the George Leach Centre at 8 p.m.


RICHBURG -- There was a lot of congratulations and back-slapping when area high school football coaches met at the Front Porch Restaurant for their weekly Founders Federal Tri-County Coaches Association meeting Tuesday.
All seven region 3-AAAA teams won last week, as did Nation Ford, playing as an independent, Andrew Jackson from Region 8-AA and Lewisville from Region 3-A.
The only team that lost was Chester, which played Region 3-AAAA's York.
After the weekly awards were voted on, Nation Ford coach Rusty Jester and Fort Mill's Ed Susi agreed to sit down and talk about their game this week, the beginning of a new rivalry that has Nation Ford going to Bob Jones Stadium next to Fort Mill High School on Friday night.
It was a lively interview and the coaches weren't shy about answering questions about the game. Rather than giving anything else away, you can hear it online. Go to heraldonline.com and then click on sports. Once in sports, go to preps.
• AP FOOTBALL POLL: The latest Associated Press South Carolina Prep Football Polls were released Tuesday (see sidebar), with Clover jumping up to No. 2 in Class AAAA, its highest ranking ever. The Blue Eagles are in just their second season of Class AAAA, and won the Region 3-AAAA championship last season with a 6-0 record and an 11-2 mark overall. Clover is 4-0 this season and is idle this Friday after opening its season in Week 0.
• CROSS COUNTRY POLL: The latest state South Carolina Track and Cross Country Coaches Association's cross country poll is out and Fort Mill's boys are still ranked No. 1 in Class AAAA and No. 1 in the overall poll that covers all four classifications.
Northwestern was the only other Herald-area team in the Class AAAA poll, at No. 7.
• NATION FORD CROSS COUNTRY: In Nation Ford High School's first ever cross country race, the Falcons earned a trophy in all three divisions in which they competed. The meet -- Run Wild Cross Country Festival -- was held in Columbia at Sesquicentennial State Park.
The varsity girls and varsity boys were runners-up in an eight-team race and the JV boys were third. The varsity boys finished two points behind Class AAA top-10 Dreher.
Nation Ford is coached by Scott Barefield, who led the Fort Mill High boys to the Class AAAA state championship last fall.
• EYE-OPENER: The cross country teams from Clover and Rock Hill competed in the Eye-Opener Invitational last weekend in Spartanburg.
Rock Hill's Hannah Robinson was second overall in the girls' race and the Lady Bearcats finished 11th with 45 points. Clover was 40th with 976 points.
Rock Hill's boys placed 11th with 445 points, and Clover, led by Mick Francis, was 23rd with 620.
• WESTMINSTER CATAWBA: The boys' and girls' cross country teams from Westminster Catawba recently won a three-way meet against Gaston Christian and St. Anne's.
The girls' scores were WCCS 20, Gaston Christian 41 and St. Anne's 59.
In the boys' meet, WCCS and Gaston Christian both posted 18 points, and St. Anne's was third with 42.
Westminster Catawba hosted its inaugural Cross Country Meet at its new cross country course last week. The course is located at Westminster Park on India Hook Road only a few miles from Westminster Catawba Christian School.
Westminster Park consists of 212 acres on the bank of the Catawba River downstream from the dam. Cameron Kirby, a sophomore at Westminster, constructed the 3.1 mile course and walking trail for his Eagle Scout Project. Building the 3.1 mile course was a very arduous task that Kirby was able to accomplish with the assistance of more than 30 volunteers who volunteered more than 300 hours to work on the course.
Westminster Catawba will host the MAC Cross Country Championship Meet on Oct. 18 at its new course.
• SWIMMING: Rock Hill's boys recently beat South Pointe in Class AAAA swimming.
The Bearcats nipped the Falcons 75-73. South Pointe easily won the girls meet, outscoring Rock Hill 142-19.
Audio interview: Barry Byers talks to Fort Mill coach Ed Susi and Nation Ford coach Rusty Jester about Friday's matchup.


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A 2024-es labdarúgó-Európa-bajnokság döntőjét 2024. július 14-én Berlinben, az Olimpiai Stadionban játsszák majd.

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A döntőt a berlini Olimpiai Stadionban rendezik, Németországban, amely a berlini Olympiaparkban helyezkedik el. 2017. szeptember 15-én jelentette be a német labdarúgó-szövetség, hogy tíz városban rendeznék meg a 2024-es labdarúgó-Európa-bajnokság mérkőzéseit (köztük Berlinben). Az Európai Labdarúgó-szövetség végrehajtó bizottságának 2018. szeptember 27-ei ülésén bejelentették, hogy a 2024-es labdarúgó-Európa-bajnokság házigazdája Németország lesz.

Az Olimpiai Stadiont az 1936-os nyári olimpiai játékokra építették, amelyet 2004-2005-ben felújítottak. A stadion az Olympiastadion Berlin GmbH tulajdona, a Herta BSC itt játssza a hazai mérkőzéseit. A stadionban az 1974-es és a 2006-os labdarúgó-világbajnokság számos mérkőzését játszották, utóbbi esetében a döntőt is Olaszország és Franciaország részvételével. Az Olimpiai Stadion ezen kívül a 2011-es női labdarúgó-világbajnokság egyes mérkőzéseinek, illetve az FC Barcelona és Juventus részvételével zajló 2015-ös UEFA-bajnokok-ligája döntő helyszíne volt.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - APRIL 8: Sally Clawson leads a class at Voice One, a school for voice-over work, Monday, April 8, 2019, in San Francisco, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - APRIL 8: Sally Clawson listens to Adriana Echandi at the microphone during a class at Voice One, a school for voice-over work, Monday, April 8, 2019, in San Francisco, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - APRIL 8: Sally Clawson (right) leads a class at Voice One, a school for voice-over work, Monday, April 8, 2019, in San Francisco, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - APRIL 8: A script sits on a music stand at Voice One, a school for voice-over work, Monday, April 8, 2019, in San Francisco, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
By Jim Harrington | jharrington@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: May 22, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. | UPDATED: May 28, 2019 at 3:43 p.m.
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The slight brunette approaches the microphone, steeling herself as she casts a glance at the script sitting on a clear acetate music stand.
"Bow, my servants," she says. She clears her throat and repeats the line — commandingly, imperiously. And then —
"Bow, my servants!" she bellows. "Kill them all!"
It's just another day of murder and mayhem at San Francisco's Voice One, the voice-over acting school where today's game plan clearly involves some Lannister-level Game of Thrones-ian menace. Depending on the day and class, those voices could just as easily be channeling pipsqueak toons, perky ad copy or quirky fictional personalities.
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Some of these students are lawyers. Others are former techies. There's even a professional dancer or two among the ranks learning to create funny voices, interesting characters or highly accented international men — or women — of mystery.
Voice One owner Sally Clawson was one of those professional dancers back in 2002, dancing with the Bay Area-based Margaret Jenkins Dance Company when she was sidelined for a few months.
"I was on tour in Chicago, and I injured my hip," she remembers. "I started answering phones while healing, and people told me I had a nice voice."
So when she picked up a magazine at her doctor's office and started reading about Voice One and its founder, Elaine Clark, it seemed like a sign.
"I checked (the school) out, and I loved it," Clawson says. "I studied with Elaine for about a year, made my demo and met a talent agent in one of the classes – and I got signed and started booking work."
She's been there ever since. This year, Clawson bought the training school from Clark, who still runs a recording studio on site.
Of course, voice-over acting — where you hear the voice, but don't see the person — is nothing new. It's long been a mainstay in the entertainment business. Think Tom Hanks playing the voice of Woody in "Toy Story" and every movie trailer that starts with the words "In a world…"
It was a bit of a niche field in 1986, when Clark founded Voice One on the bottom floor of the KPIX building, says Clawson, whose own resume includes voice-over work for Toyota, Pixar, Apple, Google and Lucas Film.
"Elaine was an actress – a theater and teaching major – and started doing voice over. People started asking her for advice and tips, so she started teaching," Clawson says. "She built it up to what it is now, really the premier school in San Francisco for voice over and acting."
The voice-over realm has expanded dramatically in the last decade. It's not just movies and TV, now. These narrators drive audio books, podcasts and video games, and they voice Alexa, Siri and your car's navigation system.
"With this digital age, there's so much. Audio books are all the rage right now. Our devices speak to us," Clawson says.
And those serious, baritone "in a world" voices no longer resonate.
"That announcer sound – that purely technical, deep, male voice that speaks perfectly – is an antiquated sound," she says. "(Instead) it's really real voices, very diverse voices. The skill is learning the technique, then learning how to vary the technique to sound real."
Ironic as it is, it takes considerable training and practice to sound authentic. Hence the range of classes that students and alumni, such as Angeli Fitch, take. Voice-over requires a specific skill set. You have to know how to hold a listener's attention, breathe life into characters and do different kinds of voices. There are articulation exercises, dialect and accent mastery and recording skills to learn. Step into a soundproof WhisperSoft recording studio, and it's just you and the microphone, says Fitch. It helps to have a coach, no matter how long you've been doing this.
A criminal defense trial attorney, Fitch does a range of voice-over work, including corporate narration videos for companies such as Intel, Panasonic, Salesforce, Mastercard and Coldwell Banker. The Pacific resident says she was drawn to both the business end and "the craft of voice acting and all the different areas, corporate narration, animation, commercial, audio books."
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"I took all the core curriculum classes, so I could explore where I thought my voice fit in the industry," says Fitch, who now teaches a class on the business aspects of voice-over. "The essence of voice over is acting, not the sound of your voice. It is important to get continuous coaching, as there may be things that I'm not aware of when I'm alone in my WhisperRoom vocal booth."
The profession draws a wide variety of people, Clawson says. Some are entering the field as a second career; they've raised their kids or worked in the tech industry or want a creative outlets. Fitch isn't the only lawyer in the group, either. San Mateo attorney Pam Kelly may have a background in information technology, but she's hoping to make a transition into voice-over work in commercials and narration, she says.
And then, Clawson adds, "There's the younger generation, who is listening to video games and watching Cartoon Network, who want to come in and learn how to do (this for) animation or video games."
To them, Clawson has just one thing to say: Step up to the microphone. The future awaits – and those servants are at your command.
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By following the cycle path that starts from Porlezza it is possible to reach Menaggio, a very popular location on Lake Como which is located in the center of the lake, where Bellagio, Varenna and Tremezzo with its Villa Carlotta also overlook. The village has a romantic lakefront, historic fairytale villas surrounded by beautiful gardens and spectacular hiking trails.
A nice walk is the path of the ancient Strada Regina, dating back to Roman times. A very important way of communication in the past, which connected Como with the Alpine passes. Nearby, in the locality of Croce, you can climb Monte Crocetta and reach one of the most beautiful panoramic points in the area.
Como is a lively and pleasant town with an appealing historical centre and a scenic location at the southern end of the weast branch of Como lake.
The city centre is perfect for walking and shopping, and with its many bars and restaurant a classic "aperitivo" is not to miss! The lakeside offers a "romantic promenade" giving citizens and tourist a wonderful itinerary rich of beautiful sights of the lake and the historical buildings.
Bellagio is a must — it is called "La Perla del lago" (the Pearl of the Lake) due to its characteristic sophisticated retro style and Art Nouveau. We recommend taking a walk to Villa Melzi and its gardens. The village is easilly accessible from menaggio and tremezzo, every hours ferry boats depart from theyr shores in the direction of Bellagio.
Lugano is the largest Italian-speaking city outside of Italy and is a perfect mix of Swiss and Mediterranean culture. Its historic center full of buildings and museums, the lake, the mountains and a dense program of cultural / sporting events make it a destination worth visiting. Lugano can be reached from Porlezza by car, bus or boat (only in the summer months).
To visit is the beautiful Civic Park "Parco Ciani", with its well-kept flower beds directly overlooking the water. Not to miss is also a walk in the historic center with its narrow streets and alleys including the Via Nassa, where "luxury" is the key word!
Lugano is not "for all budgets", the quality of life is quite as high as the prices. We recommend changing a few euros to francs.
A maze of narrow streets, alleys, gardens, squares and views of the lake and the mountain: a set of houses, terraces, flowered balconies, ancient archways... this is Valsolda. Valsolda is magical, nostalgic and mysterious, a small ancient world ... Nine hamlets connected by roads and ancient mule tracks, starting from Porlezza towards Lugano the villages that overlook the lake are Cressogno, San Mamete, Albogasio and Oria which borders with Switzerland. Higher up, on the slopes of the mountains, Loggio, Drano, Puria, Dasio and Castello overlook the valley, offering breathtaking views.
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Located in the Como mountains, it connects Lake Como with Lugano. The valley offers diversified landscapes from the lake to the mid-mountain up to 1700 meters above sea level on the peaks of Monte Generoso and Monte Galbiga. Among the best-known mountains, the Sighignola peak stands out with its "Balcony of Italy", a place in the heart of the FAI and a true pearl of the valley from which it seals an incomparable panorama of the Alps. it is perfect for walkers and cyclists, who on weekends reach it from nearby cities to face its beautiful medium mountain roads, perhaps with a few stops in the cultural and artistic places that animate the villages of the valley. On all the pedestrian path of Scaria, a hamlet of Lanzo.
One of the most famous Italian cities, Milano has plenty of attractions and things to do. We suggest parking at "Lampugnano" parking and reaching the center with the metro. Once in the centre you are spoiled for choice: visiting the Duomo, do some shopping in Via Monte Napoleone, taking an "aperitivo" by the Navigli are just a couple of examples of the many things you can do in this historic City.
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A place away from urban centers where you can take refuge to live moments of relaxation, discover its treasures, walking through paths surrounded by nature, and admire breathtaking views. Val Cavargna and Val Rezzo extend over an altitude range of over 1000m and border on Val Sanagra and Valsolda. This wide valley can be reached via a single ring road from Corrido to Carlazzo and there are the small towns of Cusino, San Bartolomeo, San Nazzaro, Cavargna and Buggiolo (in Val Rezzo). There are many possibilities for trips and ascents to the surrounding mountains, including the most beautiful excursions in the whole province of Como


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