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While I Gently Weep For My Guitar
I think that I had to be sixteen or seventeen before I ever held an electric guitar.
It must have been a BC Rich as it belonged to the younger brother of my buddy Beej and younger brother was a metalhead who aspired to join Dave Murray and Adrian Smith in Iron Maiden.
The next time I ever held a guitar was a good five years later. A housemate in college, Billy, owned a white '64 Gibson SG.
Many nights we'd be hanging out in the living room watching some bad movie on late-night cable. Billy would be sitting there mindlessly playing scales and, on occasion, he'd show me a chord or two.
Over time, I'd grab the guitar from its case and monkey around with it when Billy was at work and I was likely supposed to be in class.
(cable and a couch trumps class on a cold winter's afternoon handily)
I figured out how to play Bob Marley's Redemption Song and I'm not sure I've ever felt more of a rush of accomplishment.
Billy noted my increased interest in the instrument. He told me tales of the guitar's history, of how it had supposedly once changed hands as part of a drug deal and how it had once belonged to a guitarist in a band called Mike & The Raiders.
(it was all so rock and roll)
Obviously I had no way to know how much was true, but the wear and tear apparent in the nicks and scratches on the guitar made anything seem possible.
Billy also had a bit of an agenda. He wanted a Fender Stratocaster.
And so, for a pittance of the SG's worth, the guitar became mine.
I'd like to tell of how I played it 'til my fingers bled, put a band together, and that I now have a mansion and a yacht. I have no doubt that, in some parallel universe, that is exactly how it played out.
In this universe, the guitar was stolen from our house less than six months after I bought it.
I caught a few breaks, a canary sang, and I tracked the perp – a high school student – to his hometown four hours away.
The police, the attorney of the kid's parents, and a co-worker that had done six years for armed robbery became involved, but, in the end, the guitar had been destroyed.
(or so I was told)
In some parallel universe, the co-worker did decide to go after the kid and shanked him.
I reaquired the SG, played it 'til my fingers bled, put a band together, and I now have a mansion and a yacht.
Here are four guitar songs…
The Jayhawks – Miss Williams' Guitar
from Tomorrow The Green Grass
Paloma and I spent innumerable hours listening to Tomorrow The Green Grass, the fourth record by the alternative country-rock band The Jayhawks. Though the group never really broke beyond having a devoted grass-roots following and a slew of swooning critics, the Minneapolis quartet was beloved at the record store where we worked at the time.
Miss Williams' Guitar had everything we'd come to expect from The Jayhawks – stellar songwriting and musianship delivered in an exuberant mixture of country, folk, and roots rock.
Tomorrow The Green Grass would be the final album that featured the glorious harmonies of vocalists/guitarists Mark Olson and Gary Louris as the former would leave the band and marry folk singer Victoria Williams, the subject of this song.
Steve Earle – Guitar Town
from The Essential Steve Earle
The title track from Townes Van Zandt-protege Steve Earle's debut album captures the wanderlust of life on the road with humor and twang.
It all rings true when delivered in the rough-hewn vocals of the hard-living Earle and makes the fact that the artist shared bills with Dwight Yoakam and The Replacements at the time seem totally appropriate.
Radiohead – Anyone Can Play Guitar
from Pablo Honey
Though it lacked the distinctiveness that caught the attention of listeners with Radiohead's more offbeat breakthrough hit Creep, Anyone Can Play Guitar is still a wonderful alternative pop song from the band's debut.
Mainstream Interest in Radiohead waned in the States following the initial excitement of Creep, but the band remained a favorite of our record store's staff with the brilliant follow-up album The Bends.
Then came O.K. Computer and Radiohead again – and deservedly – became the "it" band of the late '90s.
John Cougar Mellencamp – Play Guitar
from Uh-Huh
Growing up in Indiana, any new album from John Cougar was going to get a lot of play on radio.
But, as American Fool had sold millions and been one of the biggest albums of '82, the release of its follow-up in the autumn of '83 was treated by local radio as an event. Stations teased the arrival of Crumblin' Down, the first single, for weeks before its premier.
Though Uh-Huh wasn't quite the commercial juggernaut that American Fool had been, the singer was now a homegrown institution no matter what his moniker might be and radio latched onto – and played into the ground – almost every cut on the record including the raucous and rebellious Play Guitar.
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The Carnival Is Over, Let The Carnival Begin
There's a party semi-raging on the ground floor of our three-story treehouse. Paloma and I are sandwiched between it and a couple of Chinese grad students on the top floor.
We won't be attending.
(I doubt that the Chinese will either)
It isn't because of the music, though the organ-driven jam band is hardly a selling point. It's a lot of noodling and the kindest I could be in describing their efforts is symmetrical.
We won't be attending because there is nothing left that either of us could accomplish at such a scene.
Both of us managed to eke out a good decade or two more out of behaving like rock stars on tour than folks who were relegated to weekend warrior status by their early twenties.
I think we're still catching up on sleep we didn't get in the '90s.
And, we don't want to end up as carnies.
As if the universe knew of this impending soiree, I received a rare e-mail this morning from Kelso, one of our friends. We had all worked together at a record store in the mid-'90s and he had news of The Drunken Frenchman, who had also worked with us in the same store.
"He's working in a traveling carnival as a ride operator," the friend wrote. "He's a carny. This gives me great pause."
Such an outcome isn't really surprising. There are a finite number of record stores in the world – fewer each day – and, even then, The Frenchman seemed destined to work his way through most of them.
I guess he finally did.
And now he's a carny.
Of course, with his craggy features, hangdog eyes, and gruff, indifferent exterior and demeanor, The Frenchman is well cast in this role.
Paloma – though never having been fond of The Frenchman – was sympathetic, considering his gig with a shudder.
"He gets fresh air," I offered.
Any of us from that time could have ended up as carnies.
Here's hoping he finds love with the bearded lady.
It really wouldn't surprise me.
Here are four songs from fifteen years ago when all four of us – Paloma, Kelso, The Frenchman, and me – were still part of the carnival…
The Verve – On My Own
from A Northern Soul
The Verve just simply wasn't meant to happen in the States (at least not on the scale of success the band achieved in the UK). First, they were forced by the record label to change their name here to The Verve UK.
Then, in 1998, driven by its use in a Nike commercial, the group notched a mammoth global hit including in the US with Bittersweet Symphony only to see the Stones take all of the royalties in a controversy over a brief sample.
At the time, I thought that The Verve was one of the great rock bands on the planet and – listening again to their scant three albums from the '90s – I still feel the same.
Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees
from The Bends
Though it was released earlier in the year, The Bends was an album that was still in constant play for me in August of '95. The album failed to generate the enthusiasm that Creep had a year earlier from their debut Pablo Honey, but it was immediately apparent after one listen that Radiohead was a force with which to be reckoned.
Sometime in August or September, I caught the band opening for R.E.M. and told the friends I was with that – though I wasn't sure when it would happen – we had just seen a band that would in the near future be the biggest band on the planet.
(it would happen two years later with the release of OK Computer)
As for the soaring, atmospheric Fake Plastic Trees – it's quite simply one of the most gorgeous and compelling songs of that decade.
Natalie Merchant – Carnival
from Tigerlily
Ms. Merchant had just embarked on her solo career with Tigerlily following a lengthy and successful run fronting 10,000 Maniacs. Her former group had been a staple on college radio in the late '80s and Tigerlily brought Merchant to a whole new audience.
That album and the slightly funky Carnival wasn't much of a departure from her work with 10,000 Maniacs except for being a bit more polished and arriving at a time when mainstream radio was embracing artists once relegated to alternative outlets.
However, my enduring memory from that time is seeing Merchant on a bill with World Party at an outdoor venue with Paloma and the ten minutes during which she interrupted her set to save a moth that had made its way on stage.
Tricky – Ponderosa
from Maxinquaye
Once a member of pioneering trip-hop act Massive Attack, Tricky became a critically-acclaimed force in his own right with the release of Maxinquaye. It was impossible to ignore the clattering, hypnotic rhythm of tracks like Ponderosa.
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Col. Sanders Would Have Never Been Such A Slave To Vanity…Would He?
Has plastic surgery now become the norm, nothing more than regular maintenance for every other person I see? I caught Mary Tyler Moore while channel-surfing recently and she frightened me – truly, deeply, profoundly. She'd probably be a perfectly, attractive woman for her age, growing old with grace and style. Instead, she frightened me and made me think she and Joan Rivers should go bowling together.
And then, there's Kenny Rogers. A friend once used to joke about having calculated some formula for projecting the age of his next wife. The wives and girlfriends kept getting younger. Hey, older guys have always gotten the cool, younger chicks since junior high, right? Summer of eighth grade, Kate, a girl with whom I (and most of our class) was smitten) was dating some high school junior from our hated, rival high school. Drove a Trans-Am, as I recall (him, not her).
But I digress. I saw a picture of The Gambler online last week and…well…There are guys on the website, Men Who Look Like Kenny Rogers that look more like Kenny than Kenny these days. I think that he should have gotten a Trans-Am. I don't want Kenny to give me the heebee jeebees when I see a picture of him because, like Kramer and Newman, I thought the man made a mean bird. Do Kenny Rogers' Roasters still exist?
The point is that aging is a natural thing and I'm not quite sure who all of these people think that they are fooling with their nips and tucks, additives and preservatives. I want to see Mary Tyler Moore and think what a brilliant comedic foil she was for Dick Van Dyke, how lovely she looked in Capri pants, and wonder if Morey Amsterdam ever tapped that. I don't want to recoil, aghast with fear. I want to see Kenny Rogers and deeply ponder the life lessons he taught us as The Gambler, speculate if it was the wood that made that chicken so good, and not be concerned that, if he smiles too broadly, his eyes might burst from his head as though they were spring-loaded.
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition – Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
Cibo Matto – Know Your Chicken
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – Love Is All Around (Theme from The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
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I've been super busy lately and I took a short break from blogging after my audition. Anyway, I hope you're all well and that your week's manageable! We're halfway through, we can do this.
Do you ever feel stuck on what to work on? It's like you feel guilty sometimes for not knowing what to do to be productive and progress in life. We all have those days! I'd like to share with you what I do to keep track of my progress.
With each practice session, I reflect beforehand and plan out what I want to achieve, so here are some tips to write down a practice journal. Music students, this will be beneficial for you!
Goals: At least 3 will do!
Before each practice session/day, write down what you would like to achieve in your practice session. It will give you an idea of what to work on and give you a structure for practice.
Write down the warm ups and pieces you'll be practicing – each in a separate header. This will give you an outline on what you'll be working on today.
Write down what you enjoyed about your practice and your achievements. It will boost your confidence and self-esteem!
Write down what you aren't so satisfied with and still need to improve on. This will give you a good indicator of what to work on in your next practice session!
I hope that you'll find this useful! You'll be surprised as to how productive you'll be after taking time to set your daily goals – it also makes life a lot easier, who wouldn't want that? Let me know how you get on.
I hope your week goes well! How many of you plan ahead? Plan your week, day, what to wear or bring in advance? Or do you simply live in spontaneity and go with the flow? You could be either or even BOTH!
Sometimes, I tend to get carried away with the amount of work I have to do and catch up on. When it gets overwhelming, I always procrastinate and distract myself. Chores and work isn't going to magically do itself, you know. Guilty? I'm glad we're on the same boat.
It's also nice to have a little spontaneity in life, but I personally find it better when I have everything planned as I do not have to worry about anything I haven't done.
I take Sundays as my planning days to make my life slightly easier. I plan my week ahead, review my schedule and do as much as I can to progress – that's if I find the time. I have adjusted my work schedules so that I can have my weekends off to rest.
Previously, I was working non-stop, weeks in a row – balancing teaching and working part-time in retail. It's exhausting, I've burned out so many times to keep myself busy to the point where my body couldn't handle it.
Planning and preparation is essential, I need to get organised for me to think clearly and be stress-free as much as possible! It keeps me on track, as I tend to be forgetful (I am getting old!) which caused me to miss important appointments.
You never know who you might encounter or what opportunities may arise, you always have to be on your A-Game. First impressions last forever and you certainly do not want to be known for your unreliability, you could lose potential clients or connections.
I have a 2019 Diary, Weekly Overview and a Calendar and I keep them on my desk and in my phone, open to the current week and month. I keep it visible so that I am aware of what's on and plan what to do. Last thing I want is to be late and unprepared for anything – not a good impression.
I have an app which tracks my screen time and habits on my phone. The amount of time I spent on my phone is absolutely shocking – it tracks how many hours I spent on social media and how many times I have opened the apps. Ever since, I have cut down my time on my phone and my productivity has increased.
I am big on saving money, I keep a separate notebook as my budget tracker knowing my saving and spending habits. Keeping a budget for every category such as Food, Transport etc. (I could make another post about Budgeting, it is effective and I enjoy it a lot!) I also put a percentage of my income into my savings that is left untouched and I'm surprised by how much I have saved in a short amount of time.
I have 2 journals – one for reflections and the other for Piano & Teaching practice (Music). I like to keep a personal diary to jot down my thoughts and feelings as it calms me. I use my Music journal to take down notes and establish my goals during each Practice session, the same goes for my Teaching and Audition preparation. Seeing how far I have come is very fulfilling especially when you're feeling stuck.
After starting some serious planning, I have seen huge improvements and achieved more than I expected. If you're feeling like your schedule is hitting you like a truck, I suggest you start planning and preparing. It makes your life a whole lot easier.
Here's to a stress-free lesser stressful life!
I have had a hectic start to 2019, preparing for my Piano recital and Bachelor of Education (Music) audition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. It has been a rollercoaster of emotions, panicking here and there internally during practices and then having an unusual wave of calmness on the day itself.
Last year, in November, I sat an ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) Performance Assessment for the first and third movements of Beethoven's Sonata 'Pathetique' in C Minor, op. 13. I challenged myself to play from memory under pressure and pushed through! The examiner definitely enjoyed my performance and gave me lots of feedback on it, areas to develop and improve on.
I took her advice and started working on the whole Sonata, November to January may seem like a lot of time but it wasn't. I barely had time to have consistent practice as it was peak season in retail so I had to work a lot with long hours, many days in a row, leaving me too exhausted to practice. Once January came, I had more time to focus on it in practice and during lessons – playing from memory under pressure is a huge obstacle for me and fear overwhelms me always.
I did all the work, I knew the piece inside out, knew all the notes as I have been working on this Sonata for over 2 years now. I hesitated performing the whole Sonata as it was daunting – it was 18 minutes long and it really tested my performance endurance.
When the day came, I was still in panic mode in the morning at the Piano Day in Glasgow City Halls. My mentor and Piano teacher who organised the event spoke to me to help me calm my nerves, reassuring me that everything is going to be alright. I taught some upper secondary school students in groups and individually on Piano, giving them a masterclass style lesson on how to improve their playing and performance. It was inspiring to see them progress and enjoy performing on Piano in front of an audience, as if no one was watching. It reminded me of when I first started playing and how much I loved and enjoyed it.
I took that inspiration from the students and focussed during my pre-recital practice. Reminding myself that I love performing, bringing me back to that feeling of enjoyment instead of performing for the sake of getting it done and over with. Within that hour, I managed to change my mindset and performed the whole Sonata from memory.
I was the finale performer, so the pressure was on but I find speaking about the composer and the piece to the students calming and eased me. It was a huge achievement for me to have played the whole Sonata from memory, all of the years of hard work was worth it! It was so fulfilling to receive the reception from others and I am glad to have inspired the young Pianists. I hope to perform again soon!
Soon after the Piano Recital, I got my head back in gear for the audition. This is my third time auditioning, after unsuccessful ones.
I was at the Royal Conservatoire for 4 hours and spent Valentine's Day auditioning – who needs a Valentine anyway?
The audition pieces I chose for Piano were the Brahms Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118 No. 2 and Bartok's Bulgarian Dance No. 3 from 'Mikrokosmos' Vol. 6. It shows an interesting contrast between pieces, Brahms was a Romantic style piece and Bartok was a folk song in the 20th Century period. The singing audition piece I chose was Handel's Aria Lascia Ch'iopianga from the Baroque period. I had an interesting programme and showed different styles from different musical periods.
In the audition, I had to present a singing piece, two audition pieces, a set piece, keyboard harmonisation and sight reading – all in a 20 minute audition. In preparation for this, I attended regular Vocal and Piano lessons at the Royal Conservatoire as part of the Transitions programme and also some audition preparation courses. It was an advantage for me as I knew the audition panelists as they have taught me before.
I was surprisingly calm the day before and when I entered the audition room. I warmed up in one of the practice rooms with a Steinway Grand Piano and I enjoyed it, I took it as an opportunity to showcase what I have to offer – the nerves went away as I started to play. There were 3 panelists in the audition: a specialist of your principal study, head of department and a principal/school teacher. I loved how calm they made me and I found time to settle down before starting. It wasn't as daunting as before. It was ecstatic to get my hands on a Steinway Grand Piano again, as this is a rare opportunity.
I then took a Grade 5 Theory Paper which lasted for an hour. I found it manageable, although I did forget one music concept and it was a basic one. How could I have mistakened Largo for fast? For those of you who do not know, it is a Tempo marking (speed of the piece) that means slow and stately. That was probably my only regret of that day. Other than that, I was satisfied with the exam.
Lastly, I had my interview with the department of Education. The head of the panel remembered me from last year. I spoke about my performance and teaching experience in the classroom. Music has always been something so dear to me as it helped me discover who I really am and it gave me a way to express myself. With the guidance of my Music teachers, I was inspired and want to pass on the experience and knowledge that I got to the next generation of Musicians. It introduced me to a community that made me feel welcome, I found my sense of belonging playing and performing with others in ensembles and bands. It helped with my discipline and kept my passion burning.
Believe in yourself, challenge yourself to grow and keep striving for your dreams!
I hope everyone had a great week! I had a lot of challenges to face this week, I even fell in a slump with the amount of workload I had to do. I started my work experience in my previous high school in the Music department where I observed classes and instrumental lessons. I was blessed to have such a great opportunity and to finally see the classroom from the teacher's perspective.
It was great to see my previous Music teachers again and to finally work alongside them, it feels like I have come a long way – and yes, I do feel old! It's a joy to see how they teach and it made me dream of getting my own classroom. I helped the students out and I am glad I made a great impact on them, seeing them improve and give an effort because of my encouragement and motivation is very fulfilling.
I've also had some funny moments, especially with the first years, they're really excited and keen to learn. One of my previous teachers had me play in front of her first year class to inspire them and a young boy came up to me asking if I knew Anime. I tried so hard to contain myself from laughing. I am also surprised by the different maturity levels in different year groups, it is a challenge to maintain the whole class with different learning abilities. I applaud all teachers for that, it is not an easy job.
My week in general, has been stressful – felt like a rush all the time, like I'm falling behind. Balancing with work experience, RCS, teaching and work; it took a toll on me physically and mentally that I had to give myself time to rest. I tend to be forgetful and scattered in my thinking at situations like these, I made mistakes but I have to accept, learn from it and move on.
Making time for rest is essential, it's for your own good too. To recalibrate and reflect on yourself, it keeps you on track and it brings you back to the present moment. I spent some time this weekend with my family at home, went to see the Royal Scottish National Orchestra yesterday and Alita: the Battle Angel earlier on. Moments like these are the ones that matter the most, to relax and spend time with your loved ones.
Every week, I head to the Conservatoire for my lessons and practice. I'm quite fortunate to get music lessons from one of the best music conservatories in the world and get to use the facilities, making my experience worthwhile when I still have the time before heading off to do Music at university level.
A typical day for practice, on an ideal day is 4 hours, split morning and evening. I spend my evenings in the practice rooms in RCS on their grand pianos, to get used to the feel and touch of it – every piano has a different feel.
I usually have a routine, starting off with Hanons, scales and arpeggios as warm ups and usually spend 15-20 mins on it, then I take a tiny break to plan what to practice and what I want to get out of the session. I take my pieces apart, section by section, hands separately then together, focussing on the quality of sound rather than getting through it mindlessly.
Guilty for practising mindlessly, I get nothing good out of it and it does more harm than good.
When I start to get restless, I take a 10-15 min break then resume practice again. I like to change up my practice routine from time to time so it doesn't get boring. I record the pieces I feel that are performance ready.
After my practice session, I write a reflection in my practice journal and see where else I can improve on. It works whenever I have a goal to reach. Consistency is key!


An historically significant Queenslander-style home, set in a small rural town of rolling hills and green valleys.
The town is close to the Sunshine Coast and Frazer Coast, which are hotspots for camping, watersports, fishing, swimming, kayaking and bush walking.
The home has four bedrooms plus a study, and two bathrooms.
There is a large covered verandah at the front, with a fantastic view of distant mountains, and there is an entertainment/barbecue area at the back.
There is a large, fenced and tree-planted yard.
Four hundred metres to clubs, pubs, parks and shops.
The home is in the rural town of Gympie, which has 30,000 people.
There are some national retail stores.
Three quarters of an hour drive to beaches - Noosa, Rainbow Beach, Maroochydore.
Train to North Queensland and Brisbane. Two hours' drive to the capital city, Brisbane.
Gympie is an old mining town full of history, and surrounded by rolling hills and green pastures.
A hop, step and jump to the seaside and local dams.
Walking trails, water sports, fishing, kayaking, horse riding, music, camping and more.
I work for local goverment in the library, and my sister works in a bank.
My sister and I are reasonably well travelled. We are quiet living, and enjoy history and sightseeing.
We are able to do basic garden maintenance if required.


India's financial inclusion efforts have won recognition from the World Bank as their data indicate that 55 per cent of new bank accounts opened are from India, Financial Services Secretary Rajiv Kumar said.
"WorldBank Global Findex Report recognises India's Financial Inclusion efforts. Of the 51.4 crore bank accounts opened from 2014-17 globally, a whopping 55% from India" he said in a tweet.
The World Bank report released on Thursday cited the success of the Jan Dhan Yojana -- the government's initiative aimed at bringing masses within the formal banking system.
As per the WorldBank Global Findex Report, adult bank account holders in India increased to 80 percent in 2017 as compared to 53 percent in 2014 and 35 per cent in 2011, he said.
Women at the forefront, he said, highlights a sharp fall in gender gap from 20 per cent in 2014 to 6 per cent in 2017 in bank accounts due to Government efforts.
The report acknowledges impact of government policy in reducing gaps in bank account ownership between rich and poor to 5 per cent in 2017, down from 15 per cent in 2014, he added.
The Global Findex Report, 2017 released by the World Bank noted the rapid increase in financial inclusion that has taken place in India and how the number of account holders in the country has risen from 35 per cent of the adults in 2011 and 53 per cent in 2014 to 80 per cent in 2017.
This, it states, is comparable to 80 per cent of adults in China who have an account.
The Report also attributes this progress as being driven by the Jan Dhan Yojana policy which has used biometric ID to expand access to financial services.


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next answer is green – for Debbie Meyer boxes color.
This next answer is Monday!
I knew the answer but the question changed just as I got ready to enter it darn it !!
Ahh! The first question was Amy's last name – Morrison.
Thanks Terri, I already had the answer & entered it for my 100 tickets & I thought it was the 2nd one I just missed getting my answer in for the 1st one darn it !!
Happy Birthday Nathan, hope it is a day filled with your favorites! Have a blast!
Happy Birthday!Wish I was 22 again!
Happy, Happy Birthday Nathan! I hope your day is filled with lots of love and fun. What day is your birthday?
May your day be filled with joy and happiness…and fun, but mostly LOVE.
You are at such a wonderful age.
Enjoy every minute of every day of your life!!!!
HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY, BIRTHDAY INDIANSNATHAN13! You enjoy your day…..all day! Make everyone wait on you..lol. On your birthday I wish you alot of fun, excitement, good health, knowledge throughout the entire year. Enjoy yourself "NOW!" Twenty-two you know only comes once and it is "SUCH A GREAT AGE".


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Distinguishing Features: Broad heart-shaped or kidney-shaped leaves, coarse, rounded teeth, petite flowers, onion or garlic odour, slender pods that contain the seeds.
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What Is a Solecism?
Dale Marshall
A solecism is a misuse or misapplication of rules or customs. It's often understood to mean the misuse of language or grammar, often unintentional and generally unacceptable. Solecisms are usually committed out of ignorance.
For example, American schoolchildren are vigorously taught not to say "Me and John went to the store," because "me" is an object pronoun, not a subject pronoun. They're taught that the proper construction is "John and I went to the store." Unfortunately, what they actually learned, apparently, is that "Me and John" is incorrect under any circumstance, and in a classic example of hypercorrection, will think they're avoiding the "John and me" solecism by saying something like "Harry was talking to John and I."
William Shakespeare wrote thousands of solecisms, though it is believed he did it on purpose.
Double negatives are another very common type of solecism: "We ain't got no bananas," technically speaking, actually expresses that we do have bananas, if one considers that "no bananas" is the same as "zero bananas" and "ain't got" is the opposite of "have." Of course, solecisms are often understood as meant. When a shopkeeper says "We ain't got no bananas," the savvy shopper will avoid correcting his grammar and simply seek out bananas elsewhere. Some solecisms are illogical: "I could care less," for instance, is an unfortunate mutilation of "I couldn't care less." The two are opposite in meaning on paper, yet some people use the former when they mean the latter.
A solecism is a misuse or misapplication of rules or customs, typically in relation to language or grammar.
Solecisms can also include the misuse of words. For instance, when a disaster is anticipated, authorities might call for the evacuation of a town, but people are not evacuated — they may depart, be moved, or transported, but evacuate means to empty a thing or a place of its contents or inhabitants. "Literally" is frequently abused as equivalent to "figuratively" — as in, for example, "The speaker got so excited his head literally exploded!" "Unique" is frequently abused by modifiers — if unique means "one of a kind," calling something "very unique" or "singularly unique" as many do just doesn't make sense.
The one thing "irregardless," "preventative" and "orientate" have in common is that they're not actually words. They've come into being as a result of misuse of their correct counterparts: "regardless," "preventive" and "orient." Quite a number of people use the incorrect versions in place of the actual words.
Some solecisms are pet peeves for many. The misuse of the reflexive pronoun "myself" is one. Such constructions as "How's yourself" and "Harry and myself went to the store" fuel a never-ending debate between those who consider it abuse of the language and those who insist that the dynamic nature of the language requires that prescriptive rules established in centuries past should be at least relaxed for the 21st century.
In everyday conversation, solecisms are usually accepted, though, even while they're considered unacceptable in prose. Artistic license also permits solecisms in the world of entertainment, and "I Can't Get No Satisfaction," for instance, is widely considered an acceptable expression of Mr. Jagger's level of frustration. William Shakespeare penned thousands of solecisms, but the conventional wisdom is that he did so deliberately, often to highlight aspects of his characters' personalities.
Solecisms aren't restricted to grammatical errors. A breach of etiquette is also considered a solecism. This can be something as inconsequential as using the wrong fork to eat one's salad or wearing white after Labor Day, or something as egregious as addressing England's queen as "Liz" without having first been invited to do so.
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What Is a Speech Error?
What Is Prescriptive Grammar?
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The Jewish Ethicist: Pharaoh's Tax
Taxes need to have both substantive and procedural fairness.
Q. What are the principles of fair taxation in Jewish tradition?
A. Last week we discussed a few principles of fair taxation in Jewish law. One was that taxes should ideally be proportional to the benefit received. This week we will discuss two other principles, which can be inferred from what is recounted in the beginning of Exodus.
We read in the beginning of the book of Exodus (1:8-11, Living Torah translation):
A new king who did not know of Joseph, came into power over Egypt. He announced to his people, 'The Israelites are becoming too numerous and strong for us. We must deal wisely with them. Otherwise, they may increase so much, that if there is war, they will join our enemies and fight against us, driving [us] from the land. [The Egyptians] appointed conscription officers over [the Israelites] to crush their spirits with hard labor. [The Israelites] were to build up the cities of Pithon and Ra'amses as supply centers for Pharaoh.
The Onkelos translation renders the word "conscription officers" as "wicked overlords," condemning Pharaoh's levy. Subsequent to the conscription described here, this wicked Pharaoh decreed that the Israeli babies be cast into the Nile, and his successor further advanced the subjugation of the children of Israel.
What made his conscription so infamous? After all, King Solomon also made a massive conscription to build his cities (I Kings 5:27-29):
And Solomon raised a levy on all of Israel, and the levy was thirty thousand men. He sent ten thousand men a month to Lebanon by turns, one month in Lebanon and two months at home, and Adoniram was appointed on the levy. And Solomon had seventy thousand porters, and eighty thousand quarriers in the hills.
The difference is the purpose of the levy. Solomon's levy was intended to build public buildings for the kingdom; the burden on the workers was a regrettable side effect. But Pharaoh's levy was intended to oppress and cause misery; the building of the store cities was a bonus.
Misuse of public authority is considered a major sin in Jewish tradition; we learn this from the story of King David and Uriah. David was severely censured and punished by God for sending Uriah to fight in a dangerous battle. It is true that some soldiers had to be sent to fight, but since David's motivation was to kill Uriah, this was likened to murder, as the prophet told him: "Uriah the Hittite you have smitten with the sword"(II Samuel 12:9).
Another lesson learned from this story is the need for taxes to have public legitimacy. Pharaoh did not impose the tax in an autocratic way; he felt the need to lay out the need for the levy and establish its legitimacy. This is a principle mentioned by many commentators regarding fair taxes; there is a need not only for substantive fairness but also for procedural fairness, that the tax be imposed in a transparent and politically legitimate fashion. (1)
SOURCES: (1) See e.g. Tosafot BK 58a.
This article drew significantly on an article by Yaakov Potchebutzky, Esq. on the Daat site.
The Jewish Ethicist: Fair Tax
The Jewish Ethicist: Estate Taxes
The Jewish Ethicist: Estate Tax
(2) Fred Foldvary, December 29, 2010 2:28 AM
Justice in taxation
The source of the tax matters. Since we are not slaves, we own ourselves and thus also our labor and wages. But G-d made the land, for our equal benefit. Thus the just tax is on land value, not labor. "The profit of the earth is for all."
(1) David Greenberg, December 28, 2010 3:11 PM
Not autocratic?
I don't understand why it says "Pharaoh did not impose the tax in an autocratic way...". Pharaoh did not consult anyone but did because he wanted to; i.e. he was concerned the Jews would take over Egypt. That to me is autocratic.
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Alan D. Dodkowitz
Instead of tariffs, try apprenticeships
The Trump administration is banking on new tariffs to boost the steel and aluminum industries and bring back manufacturing jobs. But those tariffs could lead to job losses in other industries, ultimately costing the US more jobs than they create.
Meanwhile, the manufacturing industry is facing a skills gap estimated to result in 2 million unfilled jobs by 2025. Instead of enacting tariffs, we should train workers to fill these jobs. And to do that, we should invest in apprenticeships.
The tariffs are meant to save jobs, but they won't
The tariffs are designed to preserve and create jobs in the steel and aluminum industries and prevent dumping—that is, deliberately underpricing products to gain market share—while bolstering domestic American manufacturing.
This is an understandable effort because the United States has lost about 7 million manufacturing jobs since its peak nearly 40 years ago, including 5 million since 2000. But, as my colleague Steve Rose explained, only 10 percent of these jobs lost were because of our trade deficit, which these tariffs attempt to reduce. The remaining 90 percent have been lost because of increased productivity and technological advances. Further, these tariffs might actually cost jobs.
The last time steel tariffs were enacted in 2002, roughly 200,000 jobs were lost. This time would be no different. According to a recent analysis by the Trade Partnership, the proposed tariffs would save 33,000 jobs but would cost the economy 179,000 jobs for a net loss of 146,000 jobs. Even the manufacturing sector, which the tariffs are designed to protect, would lose 2,500 jobs.
This analysis doesn't take into account the potential for additional tariffs and retaliatory actions by China and other countries, which could lead to further job losses. China might have already cut off purchases of many US products, including soybeans, threatening thousands of jobs. This analysis also doesn't account for the potentially increased costs to consumers.
To save and create jobs, let's try apprenticeships
Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs in recent years, the United States faces a lack of skilled workers for existing jobs.
The number of unfilled jobs is at its highest level ever, including for high-skill manufacturing jobs. An estimated 3.5 million manufacturing jobs need to be filled between 2015 and 2025, but the skills gap means that 2 million will likely go unfilled. That's more than what the tariffs are attempting to save.
To fill these jobs, the United States should focus on apprenticeships to build the skills of tomorrow's workforce. Apprenticeships allow people to get on-the-job training along with classroom learning to earn credentials and certifications for a fruitful career without the enormous costs of a four-year college.
But few employers offer apprenticeships in the US and not nearly enough to train enough people for future high-skill manufacturing jobs.
To address this situation, and building on the Obama administration's initial efforts, President Trump signed an executive order last year that would streamline federal efforts to increase the number of apprenticeships to 5 million over the next five years, which is double the Obama administration's previous effort. The executive order also called for doubling (to $200 million) the funding for learn-to-earn programs.
Also, the US Department of Labor is creating industry-recognized, competency-based, occupational frameworks that companies can use to design and develop apprenticeship programs. These frameworks will offer a standardized way for employers, unions, and schools to train apprentices in various industries.
Getting hundreds of thousands of young people and hundreds of companies engaged in apprenticeships is a critical challenge for this country. But investing in apprenticeships can create or preserve more jobs than any tariff could, so it is a challenge worth accepting.
President Donald Trump speaks to a crowd at the Local 18 Richfield Facility of the Operating Engineers Apprentice and Training, a union and apprentice training center specializing in the repair and operation of heavy equipment on March 29, 2018 in Richfield, Ohio. Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images.
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Dr. Weinshilboum received B.A. and M.D. degrees from the University of Kansas, followed by residency training in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, a Harvard teaching hospital, in Boston. He was also a Pharmacology Research Associate at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Dr. Julius Axelrod. Dr. Weinshilboum began his affiliation with the Mayo Medical School and Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1972 where he is presently Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine and Mary Lou and John H. Dasburg Professor of Cancer Genomics Research. Dr. Weinshilboum's career has been devoted to the development of "Precision Medicine", specifically, the use of genomics and other "omic" science to individualize drug therapy. He currently directs the Pharmacogenomics Program of the Mayo Center for Individualized Medicine and he is Co-Principal Investigator of the long-standing US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pharmacogenomics Research Network Center at the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Weinshilboum has authored over 400 scientific manuscripts which address personalized drug therapy. A major area of investigation initially was the pharmacogenetics of drug metabolism but, in recent years, he has increasingly applied genome-wide pharmacogenomic techniques to study individual variation in response to the drug therapy of breast cancer and depression. Dr. Weinshilboum has been the recipient of many awards and honors including an Established Investigatorship of the American Heart Association, a Burroughs Wellcome Scholar Award in Clinical Pharmacology Award, the Oscar B. Hunter Award of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, the Harry Gold Award of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, the Catecholamine Club Julius Axelrod medal, the Edvard Poulsson Award from the Norwegian Pharmacology Society, Distinguished Medical Alumnus Award from Kansas University Medical School and Mayo Distinguished Alumni Award. He has also served on the Advisory Councils for two US NIH Institutes, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) and the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).


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I went to edit settings and re-entered my password to make sure that it had been picked up correctly.
All the settings were fine so I saved them and tested the connection to the controllers again.
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CHICAGO — Marcus Ottey scored 20 points and Godwin Boahen drained a career-high five 3-pointers as UIC rallied in a hot-shooting second half to put away Division-II's Wisconsin Parkside 94-74 Saturday.
Four players for UIC (3-3) reached double-figure scoring with Boahen adding 19, Rob Howard and Jacob Wiley coming off the bench for 15 and 10, respectively. The Flames shot 72 per cent from the floor (23-for-32) in the second half, outscoring Wisconsin Parkside 55-39.
The game was a battle, with three ties and 15 lead changes. Boahen ended the first half with a 3, boosting UIC ahead 39-37, but the Division II Rangers led again by as many as six, 58-52. Howard scored a quick four points on a pair of free throws and a dunk, starting a surge that saw the Flames leading 74-64 five minutes later.
Full-court pressure led to 24 points off 14 Rangers turnovers and UIC also scored 24 off the fast break.
D'Aaron Owens and Brandon Trimble led the Rangers with 16 points each, and Adam Bonk added 13.


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Report Claims Nissan Leaf Will Be Discontinued by 2025
Once a pioneer for the all-electric scene, the Nissan Leaf will reportedly be discontinued and replaced with a sportier, more modern electric car.
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Nissan's New Lidar-based Advanced Driver Assist Technology in Development Will Automatically Intervene to Avoid Collisions
Japan's Nissan Motor Co is working on an advanced driver assist system (ADAS) that will significantly reduce the likelihood of a collision, the automaker announced on Monday. Nissan refers to its technology as "ground truth perception". It works by fusing data from high-performance LIDAR sensors, as well as radar and cameras on the vehicle.
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2023 Nissan Leaf Arrives With Updated Design, Smaller Lineup
Nissan has updated the Leaf to ensure consumers have a competitive electric vehicle to buy from the brand before the Ariya arrives at dealerships.
Nissan's First EV With Solid-State Batteries Coming in 2028
The Japanese automaker expects to have a pilot factory manufacturing solid-state batteries for electric vehicles by 2024.
Nissan Planning $500 Million Investment for Two New EVs
One of the new electric vehicles will have a Nissan badge while the other will be sold as an Infiniti. Both will be sedans and be built in Nissan's plant in Mississippi.
Nissan to Sell Electricity From Renewable Energy to Employees in Japan to Charge Their EVs
Nissan Motor Co. announced this week it will sell electricity generated from virtually 100% renewable energy sources to its employees in Japan as part of the company's carbon-neutrality efforts. Nissan will also identify the ideal energy provider to offer attractive renewable energy pricing plans to owners of Nissan electric vehicles, such as the Nissan LEAF and Nissan Ariya.
Nissan is Investing $17.6 Billion Over Five Years to Electrify its Model Lineup, Will Introduce 23 New Electrified Models by 2030
Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. announced it will make a massive investment in electric vehicles in one of the biggest financial commitments in its history. The automaker is investing $2 trillion yen (US$17.6 billion) over the next five years to accelerate the electrification of its vehicle lineup and boost the company's technology innovation. The bold initiative is called "Nissan Ambition 2030".
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Japan's Nissan Motor Co Hopes to Get its Mojo Back With the New Z Sports Car
Nissan unveiled its seventh-generation Z sports car in New York on Wednesday night that might help bring back some of the automaker's former glory. It's a trend in the auto industry to resurrect iconic models and bring them back to life as modern, technologically advanced vehicles. The 2023 Z offers a sleek exterior with a silhouette that's reminiscent of the original model with a long hood and low rear stance.
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Why is Harper government silent about alleged secret talks on integration of Canadian-US militaries?
Silence as well from NDP and Liberals who have no objection to further integration of forces.
"The Canada-US military integration talks are being deliberately ignored by all of the parties because they have no desire to warn the population about the implications of the Canadian military's further integration with the Pentagon, which has been engaged in war in one part of the world or another continuously for the past quarter century…. The more ambitious of the proposals discussed…would essentially make it impossible for the US to engage in military conflict without Canada becoming immediately involved." —Roger Jordan
Why are Canada's politicians mute about the Canada-US military integration plans? by Roger Jordan, World Socialist Web Site, October 6, 2015
The revelation that the most senior commanders of the Canadian and United States militaries held a series of meetings in 2013 to consider the possibility of fully integrating their countries' armed forces has been met with a deafening silence from Canada's political leaders and the corporate media.
Canada's state-owned broadcaster, the CBC, prominently featured two articles on the integration talks last week. The CBC cited an October 2013 briefing note prepared by the Canadian Armed Forces' "Strategic Joint Staff," which it had obtained through a freedom of information request, and anonymous Canadian military sources.
Apart from these two reports, not a single politician or major daily newspaper has so much as referred to the integration talks, let alone discussed their implications or demanded further information from the military or government about them.
That Canada is in the midst of a federal election campaign makes this silence all the more extraordinary. Elections purportedly give Canadians the opportunity to debate and make an informed choice about the make-up and direction of their government. Yet none of the parties has seen fit to comment on or even raise a single question about a hitherto secret "Canada-US Integrated Forces" program that, to cite the CBC, "was led at the highest levels" of the countries' respective militaries.
The then head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, and Canada's Chief of the Defence Staff, Tom Lawson, met on "several occasions" to personally direct the integration program and "hash out a plan."
Three proposals for deepening the already extensive collaboration between Canada's military and the Pentagon were actively considered: further enhancing interoperability; establishing a permanent joint foreign intervention force made up of air, sea, land and Special Forces drawn from both militaries; and the full integration of the Canadian and US militaries. The establishment of a "standing integrated force" was framed in explicitly offensive terms, with its primary goal being the capacity to deploy to "hot spots" around the globe.
None of these proposals was ever explicitly ruled out, with the plan for full integration merely being rejected "at this time," in the words of Lawson.
In the only public statement released on the talks, a spokesman for the Conservative government of Stephen Harper asserted that the government knew nothing whatsoever about them.
There is good reason to believe that this denial is a cover-up, motivated by electoral considerations. After all, the Conservative government has championed the military and Canada's leading role in the US's major military-strategic offensives.
However, if it is indeed the case that Canada's military top brass discussed plans to integrate the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) with the US military without government approval, it would signify that civilian control over the military has virtually broken down.
The alternative—that the government is lying to the public and was conducting secret talks about unifying the Canadian and US militaries—is no less chilling. The more ambitious of the proposals discussed by Dempsey and Lawson would essentially make it impossible for the US to engage in military conflict without Canada becoming immediately involved.
During close to a decade in power, Harper and the Conservatives have shown no qualms about employing anti-democratic methods to enforce their reactionary agenda. In December 2008, Harper prevailed on the unelected governor general to shut down parliament so as to prevent opposition MPs from exercising their right to oust his minority government. This constitutional coup had overwhelming support within the ruling elite, which backed Harper as the "strong leader" Canada required to slash public services and workers' social rights and pursue Canadian imperialism's predatory interests on the global stage.
The Conservatives are currently waging an extreme rightwing election campaign, combining anti-Muslim chauvinism, fear-mongering over the threat of terrorism, and the promotion of military interventions in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. To divert attention away from growing social inequality and deepening economic crisis, Harper has whipped up a reactionary hysteria over a handful of Muslim women wanting to wear the niqab during citizenship ceremonies.
The Canada-US military integration talks are being deliberately ignored by all of the parties because they have no desire to warn the population about the implications of the Canadian military's further integration with the Pentagon, which has been engaged in war in one part of the world or another continuously for the past quarter century.
As it is, the CAF and the US military are already the most closely integrated armed forces in the world, with extensive cooperation on North American air defence having existed for decades within the framework of NORAD. But as was made clear by the content of the latest discussions, this relationship has been increasingly transformed into collaboration in offensive military operations, both through the NATO alliance and bilateral Canada-US agreements.
The growing danger of war between the major powers would have been a central consideration for the top brass from both armed forces in their 2013 talks. The Strategic Joint Staff briefing note was written in October 2013, just prior to the conclusion of a secret agreement between the Canadian and US armed forces for enhanced cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region in line with the Obama administration's "pivot to Asia." This strategic reorientation is explicitly aimed at isolating China economically, strategically, and militarily. As part of its own "pivot to Asia," the Canadian military is seeking new forward bases in Singapore and South Korea.
The CAF is also playing a crucial role in Washington's aggressive moves against Russia. Canadian troops were recently deployed to Ukraine to work alongside US soldiers to train Ukrainian forces for their war against pro-Russian separatists in the east. Within NATO, Canada is increasing its participation in the alliance's provocative operations in the Baltic and Black Seas, and Eastern Europe, which carry the danger of triggering a conflict with Moscow, the world's second-largest nuclear power.
In Syria, where divisions between US imperialism and Russia have flared up in recent weeks, Canada is one of the few western powers flying bombing raids alongside the US air force, meaning that it could quickly be pulled in to an emerging conflict with Moscow. And in the Arctic, US military planners are keen to integrate Canada into a missile defence system explicitly aimed at intimidating the Putin regime and asserting US and Canadian territorial claims.
The opposition NDP and Liberals are in full agreement with Canada's long-standing strategic partnership with the United States and have no objection in principal to the further integration of the Canadian and US militaries.
Their commitment to the most basic bourgeois democratic principles is so minimal that it is of no concern to them that the military may have been acting without the knowledge of the government, or that the government has been lying to the Canadian population about plans to further integrate Canada's military with that of the world's most aggressive imperialist power.
During last week's foreign policy debate, which took place the same day as the CBC revealed the plan for a permanent Canada-US foreign intervention force, both NDP leader Tom Mulcair and the Liberals' Justin Trudeau pledged to strengthen Ottawa's relations with the United States. Trudeau, whose bid to return the Liberals to power is winning increasing support from the corporate-controlled media, hailed the US as Canada's greatest ally in the fight for freedom and democracy.
At the same time, the party leaders raced to outdo each other in their denunciations of Russia. Trudeau responded to Harper's declaration that Canada would not permit Russia to hold "one square inch" of "Ukrainian territory" by denouncing Putin as an aggressor. Mulcair affirmed that an NDP government would continue to support the pro-western, far-right Ukrainian regime, before assailing Harper from the right for allegedly failing to implement sufficiently stringent sanctions against the Kremlin.
All three parties are fully committed to an increase in military spending and the rearmament of the CAF. The Conservatives are in favour of an additional $11 billion in defence spending over ten years beginning in 2017, the expansion of the CAF's Special Forces by a third, and the purchase of a new fleet of jet fighters and warships. The Liberals have vowed to spend more on the navy by abandoning the planned purchase of the F-35 stealth fighter in favour of a cheaper model. The NDP has strongly criticized the Conservative government for failing to provide the CAF with greater firepower and other resources, with defence spokesman Jack Harris calling for an "agile" military capable of intervening around the globe.
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Flu, Alzheimer's Have Similar Patterns But No Apparent Relationship
Jeannette Y. Wick, RPh, MBA, FASCP
Alzheimer's disease, a neurological disorder expected to more than triple in incidence by 2051, has some interesting similarities with infections like the flu.
Alzheimer's disease, a neurological disorder expected to more than triple in incidence by 2051, has some interesting similarities with infections like the flu.
Drug developments related to the "amyloid hypothesis" have failed to produce clinically effective drugs, but neuroinflammation is an emerging pathogenesis candidate for Alzheimer's disease.
Researchers have previously found the following similarities between Alzheimer's and the flu:
· Mental status changes, including confusion, delirium, convulsions, and encephalopathy.
· Neuropsychiatric disorders later in life among pregnant patients' unborn babies.
· An immune response in the hippocampal regions of mice that kills cells in a manner reminiscent of Alzheimer's.
Might a study of the relationship between influenza and Alzheimer's be in order?
An article published ahead-of-print in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity indicated that there is no association between influenza infection and the risk of Alzheimer's disease development. The authors used data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink, which includes 10 million primary care patients, for their analysis.
They assessed patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's, any unspecified dementia, or first prescriptions for acetylcholinesterase inhibitors between January 1998 and July 2013 for past influenza.
Neither the severity nor the number of influenza infections were associated with increased risk of Alzheimer's.
More than 90% of patients with Alzheimer's had no history of influenza infection, and only 1% had multiple infections in the database's lifetime. Less than 1% of patients with Alzheimer's had a history of neurological complications during a past influenza infection.
Comorbid chronic inflammatory disorders were not associated with increased risk of Alzheimer's, either.
A previous study found no relationship between influenza and Alzheimer's, but it did suggest that influenza may exacerbate Alzheimer's and that other viruses may also have an impact.
A lack of universal viral testing limited the ability to confirm influenza diagnoses. In addition, it is possible that Alzheimer's may be tied to influenza infections farther in the past than what was available in the digital record.
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If you look around a little, in your home, take a look at all the drawers and cabinets, pick up all the chemical preparations and put them one place, it will not be that hard to understand that you are being exposed to a very dangerous battlefield of weapons, and if only half of that came in contact with drinking water, you should seriously consider throwing them away. In order to use precise main water there are a few things to know of.
Do you wonder, why are you doing this? Is there really any need to have all these chemical products?
One of the worst thing is that the manufacturer on the label says in large letters "kills", it kills 99.9% of bacteria, stains, grease, fungus, mold, ants, beetles… it actually kills everything. But they forgot to write the most important thing, "This product kills people, children and all living organisms." It should be clear just like those horrible messages on cigarettes. So, it should read "This product is dangerous to your health, the ingestion and inhalation causes permanent consequences to your health, possible outcome is death, this product can cause cancer, epilepsy, eczema, bronchitis, asthma, disorientation, redness, itching, insomnia. "So, every time you find yourself in the action in front of shelves on which there are chemical products have this message in your head, and think twice, whether you need to buy them or not.
Next to the operating instructions it is necessary to put gloves and a mask, clean and rinse.
If you realize, all packages are made of plastic. So, when you throw it in the trash you should consider how much harm you cause to our planet. Approximately it will take about 1,000 years for plastics to degrade.
What you can do about this is make sure that you perform an effective and inexpensive cleaning and hygiene in your home. And it is much easier and simpler than you think. As you progress you will advance your interest and techniques.
It will significantly will save you a lot of money because you no longer need to buy expensive chemicals.
You will not encourage the development of the chemical industry, which in addition to selling you poison, they are dangerous for the environment.
The family will be grateful, because the clothes you wear will not be poisoned by toxins from detergents.
The water in which you wash laundry or dishes can be used for watering garden flowers.
And most importantly you will be independent and willing to make your way around where you are and your confidence will grow knowing that you have taken things into your own hands.
It is always easier to go to the store and buy chemical products to maintain hygiene, but the real challenge is to make them by yourself and feel the benefits. So, start doing that today.
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With autumn well underway and coughs, colds and flu already starting to circulate, Stafford and Surrounds Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is urging parents of children between the ages of two and seven to make sure their child has their flu nasal vaccination.
The nasal spray vaccination is available free on the NHS. It's quick, effective and painless and available to children aged 2-4 years, as well as those in school years one and two.
The vaccination is given by squirting a single dose of nasal sp ray up each nostril. Not only is it needle-free, it works even better than the injected flu vaccine with fewer side effects.
It's important to protect your children from flu. The vaccination is the best protection against what is an unpredictable virus. It can cause severe illness and can even be fatal amongst those with a long term health condition, or the elderly. The vaccine will protect your child, and those they come into contact with, against the flu virus.
Dr Paddy Hannigan, Holmcroft GP and Chair of the CCG said: "Flu can be a very unpleasant illness in children. They suffer the same symptoms as adults including fever, chills and aching muscles. Some children may develop complications such as bronchitis, pneumonia and painful middle ear infection which may need hospital treatment. In serious cases a child may even die from flu.
If you have children aged two, three or four, or in school years one and two, don't put off taking up their free flu vaccination.
You should have already been contacted by your GP about getting your child vaccinated before the winter. If you don't hear anything or you want more information about when and how your child will be vaccinate against flu, talk to your GP or practice nurse.
Children in school years one and two will be offered flu vaccination as part of the NHS childhood vaccination programme.


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President Obama: Marijuana Less Dangerous Than Alcohol; Legalization in WA and CO "Important"
by Erik Altieri, NORML Executive Director
In a profile published online over the weekend in New Yorker magazine, President Barack Obama continued his softening towards marijuana legalization. In the interview, the president alluded to his own youthful marijuana consumption and clarified that, while he doesn't believe it to be a healthy pastime and has discouraged his daughters from its use, it is a less dangerous substance than alcohol. President Obama also stated that current moves towards legalization are important experiments that can help end discriminatory arrest practices.
"As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol." President Obama stated when asked about the growing public support for ending marijuana prohibition.
When asked to clarify if he thought it was "less dangerous," Obama replied that he thought it was less dangerous "in terms of its impact on the individual consumer." He continued that "it's not something I encourage, and I've told my daughters I think it's a bad idea, a waste of time, not very healthy."
"Middle-class kids don't get locked up for smoking pot, and poor kids do and African-American kids and Latino kids are more likely to be poor and less likely to have the resources and the support to avoid unduly harsh penalties." he stated, "we should not be locking up kids or individual users for long stretches of jail time when some of the folks who are writing those laws have probably done the same thing."
"It's important for it [marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington] to go forward because it's important for society not to have a situation in which a large portion of people have at one time or another broken the law and only a select few get punished."
You can read the full article on the New Yorker's website here.
Perhaps President Obama will continue to evolve and find himself on the right side of history when it comes to marijuana legalization. It would take just one simple Executive Order to deschedule marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act and help institute some real lasting change in our nation's failed war on cannabis. At a minimum, these statements show just how far we have come from the "Just Say No" era of American politics.
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Dave Evans says:
The president is not wise or thoughtful on marijuana. He is showing clear bias against marijuana will at the same time brewing beer in the whitehouse. That's just silly, not wise. He said, "I don't think marijuana any worse than VODKA". Really??? Cause that is funny as VODKA does kill people thanks to it chemistry which unlike strong marijuana is extremely toxic! Several joints cannot intoxicate a person while several beers or shots will. You might feel odd, but your nerves and you nervous system is still in working order. Unwise comparisons filled with huge amounts of bias. 'I tell my daughters pot is a waste of time' suggesting marijuana is for losers. Yeah, no bias there!
ted dunhill says:
If he signed an Executive Order, he would be trying to take down an out-of-control monster, he'll end up a sitting duck for the rest of his term.
Legalization has to happen state by state. No one person is going to martyr themselves. I would say his latest comments and the clearance for cannabis banking by order of the DOJ, were milestones for any president.
Compared to Reagan, who said that "marihuana" is probably the most dangerous drug on earth and also kills brain cells, Obama's was a bold statement, forward-looking in regards to the states deciding for themselves eventually, trumping federal law (that is hypocritical, problematic, and unjust).
In reality, cannabis is a neuroprotective which can help protect the brain after stroke, aneurysm, seizure, over-drinking alcohol drugs, and can help prevent Alzheimers and can be taken as a palliative neuroprotective.* Cannabis has been shown to promote neurogenesis, or the growth of new brain cells, thought impossible only 15 years ago. Dr. Melamede at the University of Colorado, CO Springs, found that regular smokers of cannabis have lower rates of lung cancer, and cancers in general, than people who smoke nothing at all.*
The President could however, commission a group to study cannabis before signing the order, for the sake of procedure.
Alas, Nixon's Shafer Commission, where eight of the fifteen members were selected by him, reported that cannabis shouldn't be illegal, shouldn't carry criminal penalties, and had shown anti-tumor properties with only the scant few studies that were not fudged by the NIDA's intellectual dishonesty. Yet Nixon went ahead with the CSA drug war and put cannabis in the worst category. The CSA's drug-related agencies (over 20 of them), created by Nixon's Drug War, universally accepted as a failure and at best an ineffective and harmful policy that looted the coffers in order to eliminate competition for special interests and control people.
The scheduling system is a sham. It's not about scientific data that has thorougly demonstrated all potential harms or lethality of drugs or medicines, while considering the possible benefit(s) to the willing patient, in spite the risk. Nor is the scheduling scheme concerned with the overall welfare of people, considering all the drugs that are legal at present yet are highly toxic and kill people in droves every year, like prescription drugs that are taken according to the doctor's orders, but end up fatal. (Sanjay Gupta, almost the Surgeon General, wrote:
"I even wrote about this in a TIME magazine article, back in 2009, titled "Why I would Vote No on Pot."
Well, I am here to apologize.
I apologize because I didn't look hard enough, until now. I didn't look far enough. I didn't review papers from smaller labs in other countries doing some remarkable research, and I was too dismissive of the loud chorus of legitimate patients whose symptoms improved on cannabis.
on cannabis.
Instead, I lumped them with the high-visibility malingerers, just looking to get high. I mistakenly believed the Drug Enforcement Agency listed marijuana as a schedule 1 substance because of sound scientific proof. Surely, they must have quality reasoning as to why marijuana is in the category of the most dangerous drugs that have "no accepted medicinal use and a high potential for abuse."
They didn't have the science to support that claim, and I now know that when it comes to marijuana neither of those things are true. It doesn't have a high potential for abuse, and there are very legitimate medical applications. In fact, sometimes marijuana is the only thing that works. Take the case of Charlotte Figi, who I met in Colorado…
…We have been terribly and systematically misled for nearly 70 years in the United States, and I apologize for my own role in that.
I hope this article and upcoming documentary will help set the record straight.
On August 14, 1970, the Assistant Secretary of Health, Dr. Roger O. Egeberg wrote a letter recommending the plant, marijuana, be classified as a schedule 1 substance, and it has remained that way for nearly 45 years. My research started with a careful reading of that decades old letter. What I found was unsettling. Egeberg had carefully chosen his words:
"Since there is still a considerable void in our knowledge of the plant and effects of the active drug contained in it, our recommendation is that marijuana be retained within schedule 1 at least until the completion of certain studies now underway to resolve the issue.
Not because of sound science, but because of its absence, marijuana was classified as a schedule 1 substance.
Most frightening to me is that someone dies in the United States every 19 minutes from a prescription drug overdose, mostly accidental. Every 19 minutes. It is a horrifying statistic. As much as I searched, I could not find a documented case of death from marijuana overdose.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/08/health/gupta-changed-mind-marijuana/
"that marijuana be retained within schedule 1 at least until the completion of certain studies now underway to resolve the issue."
Forty five years of lies.
The scheduling system is not a guide to good health.
It is a ranking order of how severe the punishments are.
It means that even though the drug war is unjust and undermines Constitutional and Human rights, schedule I related crimes means you'll be stripped of your civil and human rights, and treated like violent person or police-chase driver.
The ideals of personal property, privacy, and freedom from arbitrary persectution, just disappear. Schedule I means no holds barred.
Then after the actual punishment, they stigmatize people, denying them financial aid or scholarships when convicted sex offenders have no such limitations at University, resulting from past misdeeds. Worst, cannabis use is not a crime at all. What is that common definition of insanity again? Deemed ineffective, and often a failure, some people are gluttons because 45 years is a long time to be insane.
Using cannabis isn't "a crime," it is defying a wholly unjust and arbitrary federal law. Non-violent protest during the civil rights movement meant not fighting back against attackers while simply participating in activities afforded to other citizens, what was called "breaking the law."
"An unjust law is no law at all," was a quote by Martin Luther, in Letters from a Birmingham Jail, by MLK.
"only a few of those who break the law get punished at present!"
Roughly one-third, or 33% of all arrests are for cannabis related charges, and of those, certain racial groups predominate. Think of all the different crimes out there, including violent crime, theft, sexual assault, fractional reserve banking, and so on. One-third for cannabis use? That is hugely significant in a country that imprisons more per capita than any other. That's a broken system.
So the prisons are filled with murderers, armed robbers, and flower gardeners and medical patients (?). Cannabis was likely the first plant ever cultivated by humans, the male and female (dioecious) forms of the plant, their sexual reproductive process, leading to seeds (abundant in omega fatty acids, hemp oil) that become full grown plants. The agrarian revolution didn't start with corn, wheat, rice, potatoes, but cannabis hemp, which co-evolved with humans. Exocannabinoids in the cannabis plant resemble and mimic the function of endogenous, or endocannabinoids made in the body, like anandamide. The body's immunity doesn't see cannabis as a threat, it is so non-toxic, there's no rush to excrete it.
In contrast, the other drugs tested for during employment-related, govt. coerced pee tests, are so toxic the body excretes them ASAP as with alcohol-drug, so coke, crack, meth, heroin users can pass the coerced employment screening in a day or two. Cannabis which looks just like certain endocannabinoids, non-threatening, and at home, but which can lead to a postive test result even after two weeks of non-use.
Forced drug testing is only a test for cannabis, since job applicants who take the hard drugs only appear drug-free because they planned it that way. A farce.
The gateway "theory" or propaganda, that cannabis will lead to heroin use, was thought up by none other than Harry Anslinger and amazingly is still parrotted by people who don't realize that cigarettes and alcohol are the gateway drugs, like legal rites of passage, but are "legal" yet deadly, and unscheduled.
Cannabis is a gateway.
It's a gateway to health.
*Marijuana Gateway to Health: How Cannabis Protects Us from Cancer and Alzheimer's Disease by Clint Werner
http://www.amazon.com/Marijuana-Gateway-Health-Cannabis-Alzheimers/dp/098342618X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y
However, if he did bear the burden of an Executive Order (which could mean worse than low ratings considering the Dark Ages mentality of the drug war), he earn that Peace Prize, a few times further, by ending drug cartels, black markets, turf/territorial killings, unregulated drugs sold on the street, easier for kids to obtain than regulated beer. The end of paper (toilet paper!) from trees? Clothes of high durability and quality from Made in the USA manufacturers? Plastics that don't require petroleum as a starting material? "Canvas" used to be made of hemp till inferior substitutes like cotton and linen became common. What if master painters had used cotton or linen instead of hemp canvas? If drafts of the Declaration of Independece are still intact for our posterity, it's only because they were printed on hemp paper, not tree paper.
Johnny V.. says:
I agree the President needs to step up and Sign the Order to Reschdule Marijuana to harmless, this way state governors can be free to let the people vote on legalization.
Our Next Target should be president obama, have him get this schedule changed so we can move forward at a quicker pace. Its obvious change is Inevitable, but in the meantime, people are still without medical pot, and people are still being arrested for its use and carriage.
The president needs to act NOW, not a month from now! WAKE UP OBAMA< Sign the Paper, let us get to work!
Johnny V.
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R I think we have failed ourselves as a country when i can drive 20 minutes and and score primo herion but as a 44 yr old responsbl. i cant get a bag of pot…well i can…and i m facing a dui for a minor car accident for ganja in my system..i
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