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Alzheimer's Breakthrough
Doctors know that the main culprit in the onset of Alzheimer's Disease is a sticky protein called beta amyloid, which accumulates in the brain as synapse-destroying plaque. How it collects there was something of a mystery until Harvard Medical researchers found evidence that this substance forms as protection against pathogens that cross the blood-brain barrier, forming a "cage" around them. The problem seems to be that the beta amyloid stays in the brain after the invading bacteria has been eliminated. The Harvard team believes that further research could reveal ways to treat or even prevent Alzheimer's.
No Blind Mice
Whoever wrote the song "Three Blind Mice" probably never imagined that, one day, they would regain their sight. Last month, the journal Nature Neuroscience reported that Stanford University scientists reactivated the optic nerve cables of a blind mouse, reestablishing the link between eye and brain. In a functioning eye, photoreceptors in the back of the retina send information to the brain through axons, whic act like electrical wires. When axons in the brain are damaged- from injury or disease- it had been assumed that they don't regenerate. The Stanford project proved otherwise. Researchers were able to reactivate the retinal pathway with a combination of high-contrast visual stimulation and biochemical manipulation.
Large, But In Charge
Many obese mothers-to-be are resigned to producing overweight children. A new study, funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, shows that there is something expecting moms can do during pregnancy to tilt the odds in their favor. Researchers found that adequate maternal folate appears to mitigate the effects of a mother's obesity on her child's health. An essential B vitamin, folate is known to reduce a fetus's risk for malformations affecting the brain, spine and spinal cord. In this study, children of obese mothers with adequate folate levels had a 43% lower risk of obesity than children of obese moms whose folate levels were considered too low.
Do Opiods Ease Pain?
The short answer is Yes. However, the longer-term impact of painkillers such as Oxycontin and Vicodin is less clear. Neuroscientists at the University of Colorado conducted a lab study in mice that suggests that painkillers may actually prolong pain. It took mice treated with morphine up to 12 weeks to recover from chronic nerve pain, while untreated mice recovered in an average of five weeks. The researchers suspect that opioids reshape the nervous system in ways that amplify pain signals long after an injury (or illness) heals, prolonging discomfort.
Waist-Reducing Carbs?
"Pasta doesn't make you fat," celebrity chef Giada de Laurentiis likes to say. "How much pasta you eat makes you fat." Well, now she's got some science to back her up. Researchers from the Mediterranean Neurological Institute studied more than 20,000 people throughout Italy, comparing their pasta intake, body measurements and other criteria. They concluded that consuming pasta in moderation (traditionally Italians eat a small serving as an opening course) appears to contribute to a healthier body mass index and better waist-to-hip ratio. The results of the study do not prove that pasta helps you lose weight—only that the carbs it contains are not unhealthy. It probably doesn't hurt that many in the study ate foods associated with a Mediterranean diet. They are, after all, Mediterranean.
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Infographic: Mychal Kendricks' Career
The Best Of Mychal Kendricks
The Eagles signed linebacker Mychal Kendricks to a four-year contract extension on Monday that will keep him in Philadelphia through the 2019 season ...
Linebacker Mychal Kendricks is so excited about his four-year deal he already has his helmet on
Kendricks is one of only three Eagles since 1982 to post at least four sacks and three interceptions in a single season, recording four sacks and three picks in 2013
The 2011 Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year at Cal, Kendricks appeared in all 51 games during his four-year college career.
A second-round draft choice of the Eagles in 2012, the speedy and instinctive Kendricks was immediately inserted as a starter on the Eagles defense in his rookie campaign and has since developed into one of the unit's top playmakers.
Kendricks finished second on the team in 2014 with 108 tackles and tied for third with three forced fumbles.
Kendricks led the team with a season-best 16 tackles and forced his third fumble of the 2014 season when he stripped the ball loose from Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch vs. Sea. (12/7)
Kendricks forced a fumble of RB DeMarco Murray and intercepted QB Kyle Orton at Dal. (12/29) in 2013. The two turnovers led to 10 points by the Eagles on their ensuing drives.
Forced his second fumble of the season early in the third quarter vs. Ten. (11/23) in 2014, which ultimately set up an Eagles touchdown.
Recorded his third sack of the season - his sixth in an eight-game span - when he brought down Panthers QB Cam Newton for a 10-yard loss in a win vs. Car. (11/10) in 2014.
Kendricks registered a strip-sack of Texans QB Ryan Fitzpatrick in the first quarter at Hou. (11/2) in 2014.
Kendricks paced the team with 13 tackles and notched a sack of Jaguars QB Chad Henne in a 2014 season-opening win vs. Jax. (9/7).
Kendricks forced a fumble vs. Was. (9/21) in 2014, stripping RB Alfred Morris in the first quarter.
Kendricks sacked Washington QB Robert Griffin III for a 10-yard loss in the second quarter at Was. in 2014 (12/20)
Kendricks led the NFL with four fumble recoveries and finished the 2013 year ranked second on the team with a career-high 137 tackles.
Kendricks posted a career-high two sacks of QB Jay Cutler vs. Chi. (12/22) in 2013.
Along with DeMeco Ryans, the duo became the first pair of linebackers in team history to post 4+ sacks and 2+ interceptions in the same season in 2013.
Kendricks ranked third on the team with 88 tackles and ranked third on the team with 11 knockdowns in 2012.
While in college, Kendricks earned several All-America selections as a senior in 2011 and was named the Pac-12's Defensive Player of the Year. He played in all 13 games with 11 starts, leading the team in tackles with a career-high 106, while adding two interceptions and three sacks.
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Say Hello to My...Little Friend
Just because it's the part of you that goes forth first into the world does not mean that you must always follow.
By Ron Carlson
It would be exciting if, in writing about the most openly celebrated and reviled body part, I could shatter a few myths and create a few others, but we all know already that it is the center of so many of the world's mythologies, the source of all major and minor religions, the focus and motor of all marketing, in fact the basis of capitalism (to which it gave its name) and every nonsocial economy, the name and nickname of every rock group and many musical chorales, the true axis of planet Earth in this solar system, the hinge that opens the door to understanding, the axle in the big wheel of desire and regret, the bolt that keeps the door to understanding forever sealed, the first radical pillar of society, and the lone last digit of the secret combination on the lock to heaven, so I am going to have to settle for a few minor remarks about the penis, which, like nuclear power, has been best described as mankind's most potent friend and foe.
MARVIN'S QUESTION
The relationship between a man and his private parts is never serene; there are always elements of intrigue, mystery, and open conflict in the mix. For years, of course, having a penis is an absolute convenience. You get nine, ten, eleven great years of simple and efficient water work out of the thing, and the lesson it has for boys is clear: Point that thing out there. It does not engender introspection, inspection, circumspection, or any other form of spection. That's what is necessary to know about the way men are trained: They are not practiced in second thinking. You're ten years old, hiding in a bush during a twilight game of tag, and you have to piss, so you unzip there quietly as the kid who is it approaches. Get it over with, because you're going to have to run for your life in ten seconds. It's what you do.
Then it starts to get unnerving. In the spring of sixth grade, the girls at Edison Elementary are all called into the auditorium to see a film with their mothers. The boys are kept in Mr. Durrant's room and not told one word about the whole deal, except it's clear from the looks on everyone's faces that the world as we know it is coming to an end. And we boys know it well, have mastered this world--in fact, we like it, love it, really, and it is over. They are complicating it. Nothing will ever be the same. This moment is the moment that will give all future conspiracy theories a chance. Something's going on.
Mr. Durrant sits with the sixth-grade boys in his classroom. We have a talk in which he deflects all our questions with phrases full of "hygiene" and "maturity." He throws around a few mystery words, among them genitals. I sit there in the blond afternoon light of Mr. Durrant's classroom and wait for the bell to ring.
At the corner of Concord Street after school, Marvin Hilbar stops me. "Hey, Ronnie," he says. "What's going on?" I tell him I don't know. Behind him I can see all the girls and their mothers drifting out of the school in pairs toward their cars. They all look down, serious and brave, as if burdened with some new grief. They walk away as if from a state funeral.
Marvin Hilbar's face has a look I've never seen before, the kind of worry that will engender and fill volumes of self-help books for the next forty years, and he says, "I heard Mr. Durrant say 'genitals.' How many you got? Because I just got the one." And for a real minute there, on a corner that is as real a place for me as any in my memory, I, too, feel the little twinge of worry. It hadn't hit me sooner because I was in denial. We are at that place where we cross over, and now it will be other people giving our bodies words. Genitals? Get out of my way. We don't want any. We want to be boys.
Childhood ends on that corner. It was a garden, lush and carefree, and then the girls see a movie and we're all asked to pack up and get out.
THE SECOND PURPOSE
Then the rest of the news descends. The second purpose of the penis makes itself manifest. It's been behaving strangely for years, changing shape of its own accord, standing for who knows what reason, many times getting right in the way. We understand only part of this; that is, we know it is possible to cause the phenomenon. But other times, the phenomenon arrives unannounced, an open surprise, like a spaceship full of hormones landing on the front lawn; where is it from, and who sent it? Is it friendly?
And the language! We never, ever use the word genitals. Ye gods, scrotum, a word that could easily make the finals for most ungainly, unlovely body word, is easier to say than genitals, because scrotum is inscrutable, but genitals has that blatant Latin root that could link us with fatherhood in a hearty synapse. Meanwhile, we use everything but Latin roots to name this male member--although I've heard it called "the Latin root" (a prep-school joke)--and it has the honor of having more nicknames than any other facet of the human body. Listing them here would take ten thousand words, if not eleven, and they've been cataloged elsewhere already. There are quiet but real connotative differences between single- and multiple-syllable words, and, as any man will tell you, there are times when it has more than one syllable. There are names that accurately describe it as a goofy and benign gadget and those that make it seem like an uncontrollable and savage weapon. There are pet names, ridiculous names, people's names. What all the nicknames speak to louder than anything is the sense of dichotomy that this appendage creates in the hearts of men.
I've heard it called Little Davey, Dick, Peter, and Johnson, as well as unit, member, thing, and, of course, thingee. If we were really looking at the penis, its form and function in the body, it might more often be called Che or Fidel, because there it is, standing at the crossroads of the body politic, in the center of town, where all roads converge, stopping traffic and waving its flag, and when it stands, the rest of your quiet little town listens. Your body may have had perfectly logical and well-measured plans for the day, and now there's this uprising, and not way back on the wrong side of the tracks at the edge of town. This is the first thing about you--when you walk into a room, it goes first.
The human penis, of course, is a fleshy member containing no bones or cartilage. The walrus penis has a bone in it, an evolutionary device called the oosik, which is a great help in cold water. The human penis becomes erect when engorged with blood, and the blood it takes to inflate the male member is exactly the amount of blood needed in the portion of the brain used for conscientious behavior. You cannot, as some of the vernacular goes, think with it, but it can certainly detour and delay and rewire what should have been thinking.
RETURNING THE SPELLING TESTS
Nocturnal emissions, many times, are a young man's first experience with ejaculation. They make you realize, even more than the random unbidden erections of boyhood, that life in a male body is going to be, some of it, beyond your managing. You go to sleep during a period of your life when your cells are screaming and singing with growth, and sleep--though you resist it--is like nectar. And you wake up having committed something. Evidently, Little Willy has decided to act on your behalf, and he and his sidekicks have gone out and struck in the night. You sit on the edge of the bed and check out this little mess, viscous and confus-ing and daunting, and then the dream emerges through the mist: You are talking to Veronica LaMonge, speaking to her beautiful face--a girl who sits three desks ahead of you and one over in social studies, a girl so ideal you've never spoken to her in person or touched her hand (or made eye contact) when she passed back the spelling test--and in the dream you are talking to her, explaining how you raised the handlebars on your bicycle and painted it yourself, speaking real close to her face, in fact, so close that your arms are around her and you can feel the warmth of her breasts and feel the pressure of them, their very curves against you, curves you've only seen indented against the ledge of her old school desk, and then your hands are in her back pockets, on her healthy bottom, pulling her without compunction or worry directly against the hot place where Fidel stands beaming, waving his flag and shouting his raw and inflammatory exhortations, commencing once and for all the revolution. Of course, the moment fuses, and there's an explosion.
About this same time in a young man's development, the location of the male appendage becomes a source of comfort and anguish. It's right there within easy reach, an incredible design advantage. If it were closer to the knee, masturbation might be more of a challenge. But not much. In case young men are slow to catch on, the penis is put right in front of everything, and when the hand falls at arm's length, the fingers naturally curl, and it is this length of arm and curve of hand that helps tailors cut suit sleeves perfectly and helps every man find his little revolutionary.
We've been told day and night for years to keep our hands to ourselves, and now, finally, that seems like a good idea. For the untutored, which is exactly the condition of every incipient masturbator, it is a remarkable activity: so clever and stimulating, with such clear result!
I remember having first stumbled across that frontier and being certain in my guilty heart that I had invented something dire. My junior-high team was playing a Saturday-morning game at the National Guard armory on Sunnyside Avenue, and I have a vivid recollection of the couple dozen people in the big, cold, empty room, parents and siblings and coaches and the two pale, skinny teams--I was worried about them all as I ran the hardwood floors. The tide had risen for me the night before, and I had sought (and found) its release (one of sixteen thousand ways to describe that and not be too indelicate), and I felt--at twelve years old, in the seventh grade--that if I could find a way to tell them all about this thing that was happening to me, which I had certainly created, they, too, could have knowledge. It was a burden. I know that for three or four weeks that strange year, I was the least innocent person on this round world.
Size--does it matter? Bigger is better; less is more. The rule of thumb (a nice phrase in itself) became that size doesn't matter. It was what you did with what you had, the sexperts told us. It didn't matter, they said, whether you carried a pen or a peninsula. The reality for a man is simply that when the penis grows erect, it is in the way, which is another way of saying plenty. The blue whale's penis is nearly sixteen feet long; the grizzly bear, more closely related to man, has erections that average six inches in length and require more cooperation from his mate. This size thing has generated its own macho mythology, the way that any concealed weapon might.
Size matters, of course, but not in the obvious way. When the penis first does its little parlor trick, standing at attention or even parade rest, of course it is arresting. That the penis could grow alert enough to transform into the rigid, single-minded agent of sperm delivery, every orgasm containing enough male gametes to populate four of the seven continents, is a wonder that handily eclipses the other side of this phenomenon. But size matters through the regular days of regular guys, those moments, hours, days, weeks, and months that make up the 99 percent of our lives when the riot of sex subsides and the smoke has cleared and the citizens have gone to their homes or work and we're walking around not tall but small. Size matters most frequently to every man in that his penis can shrink, adjust, do everything but disappear and retract like the head of the sage--and long-lived--turtle. We're not talking normal here but smaller. This isn't flaccid, another word that has been utterly appropriated for the male organ. This is much tighter than that. The testicles go north, and the penis buttons itself up against the abdomen. It wants one thing now: to be out of the way. This is a fabulous design feature, but not one that men are quick to note or illustrate. It becomes effective and necessary when we run a marathon, ride a horse, sprint across a tennis court to slice a backhand winner, change a tire, sit perfectly still in that chair in the boss's office going over our expense accounts with the boss himself and the comptroller, or wake suddenly to the ringing phone at quarter past three in the morning. We are not, however, going to read a scene in which a man celebrates how small his little penis was able to become at a moment when he needed it to be tiny, just real tiny: "I was so small, man, it was amazing!"
There's an obligatory moment in every recent American film when the good guy kicks the bad guy in the groin. It's a square shot and has the bad guy doubled up in a second, both hands cupped over what we actually call the family jewels. He can't breathe. His eyes are crossed. He goes down. It's a kind of coup de grâce in stupid film fighting, and I, for one, have seen enough of it. The testicles, part of the plural of genitals, have a near-perfect design, as the scrotum is engineered to hold them tight or let them float. When someone actually kicks you in the balls, as the testicles are called from here to Provo, most often--but not always--they slide off the blow with the same motion that makes bobbing for apples a viable sport. In my neighborhood, we walked the top bar of steel fences, and I became a champion at it, able to tightrope along for a hundred yards. There was no one more surprised than I when my tennis shoes slipped one day and I fell to a sharp straddle on the steel bar. My buddies froze, anticipating the groan, the gasp, the fall, but not this time: My tender testicles, sensing first contact with the metal, rose softly up and let my bottom take the blow, and I dismounted intact and, after a moment's inspection, with a smile.
I wasn't always so lucky. I took a couple of direct hits. The worst was in the batter's box when I was fourteen, during an automotive-league baseball game. Every pitcher knows that the way to brush a batter back is to throw inside; the way to hit him surely is to throw behind him. You know the batter will instinctively twist back into it. I don't know why this kid wanted to hit me, but I know he did, for he threw a sidearm fastball behind me, and I turned in the half second I had and took the pitch as solidly in the balls as any blow I've ever received. On the ground in an instant, I curled up and waited. The pain from such an injury is not unlike a sharp ice-cream headache (in the abdomen, just below the navel) in that, when the first wave hits, you know there'll be five more large, rolling swells that work toward a kind of crescendo and then only gradually subside. That day, after a minute looking up into my coach's face, I took first base under my own power, standing shakily in the strange new day. A moment later, after they'd retired the side, I stood in the outfield, and the tremors of pain continued, large and regular, and then as the sun tilted, I swooned, crashing into the grass, the only time I ever fainted in my life. Center field was lush and green and probably the best place a boy could choose to go over like a door.
THE REAL GIRL
For every boy, there are two girls: the one you know pretty well because she is featured in your fantasies, and though you know her only in photographs, there is some posture or expression that has become for you a sweet, single ticket for release. Your wild Fidel rises--needs to, really--and with a little manipulation and the right spread in Playboy, he speaks his piece. This is just physical.
The other girl is something else; the other girl is a real girl, and she embodies the quandary that is at the center of so much of our literature. She complicates everything wonderfully with a notion we sometimes call love. When I was seventeen, I sat in the window of a Mexican restaurant in deep downtown Salt Lake City with such a girl. This was near Exchange Place, in the shadows of the old office buildings, their gray facades ornate and metropolitan in a city with so few glimpses of urban note; the restaurant has been gone so long now that it feels like something I'm making up, which I am not, but that is how it felt to us then, too: that this was simply a set arranged so we could transcend the ordinary errands of a school day. There was honestly a red-checked tablecloth, and we sat there like what we were, that is, young people about to enter the world. It was like being lost in our city for that moment, and I noted her smile and her auburn hair, and I had a faint sense even then that I was in, that this was it for me. I'm setting this all down because there I was with a member--as the saying goes--of the opposite sex, thirty months away from bringing any sex into the equation, and when we did begin the exploration and adventure of sex, there was my old friend, the penis, but things were different for us now. He wasn't the first guy through the door. I was first, and he followed. It makes sense to separate us this way. He'd had his way with me from time to time and would again at the odd moment, but now the penis played only a supporting role. I was in love and wouldn't get out. I was happy for all of it; these thirty years since, it has been my life. The lesson ends here. The oldest lesson. You think you know the pains and pleasures of living in a body, and then love doubles everything and then doubles that again. The penis makes sense at last.
After having been pushed and pulled and rent in twain at times--fires in the streets of my heart, people running in panic through the alleyways, breaking glass, sounding alarms--suddenly there was quiet, and the streetlamps came on, and people came to their porches to listen for music, which also arose, and the revolution had done its work, found its reason. Important alliances had been formed, and in the new, vigorous peace, there was a discussion, a banquet of new proportion, and then dancing.
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How You Might Be Climbing The WRONG Ladder In MLM And Not Even Know It!
It wasn't until I opened my mind to evaluate another network marketing company that I started considering to leave the company where I had planted my flag and had been locked into for SO LONG.
I had been with this company for 9 years and had already built a massive team of 9 thousand reps with a massive customer base and I was the 3rd highest rank in the company from the top.
Let's call it company A. Its funny, because the first letter of name of this company actually does start with an A. There . . . that'll get guessing.
So why would I even consider leaving?
Well, there were many factors. To put it plainly, over the years, the company had gone one direction and I had gone in another.
But the needle that broke the camels back was when I got to see the consensus in the industry around company A and I had blinded myself from that truth for far too long.
The way this all unravelled, was I got invited to fly to Italy to evaluate this MLM company, let's call it company B, during the company's official European convention.
And who in the right mind would say no to a FREE paid trip to Italy anyway, right? So I accepted the offer to fly in and spend intimate time with the key leaders steering the company's ship and give it a serious consideration to potentially join it.
On the day I arrived I was gifted a beautiful leather journal to take my notes in throughout the convention.
I have scribbles in this journal saying: Italy is beautiful. Loved the pastas, the colosseum is glorious and extraordinary.
The convention so extravagant, with dance skits? So weird. Big hype. Weak Training and event schedule. But 20 year old youngsters with no industry experience are just killing it with record breaking incomes. How is that possible?
On another day, I will share with you how this was possible because it was rigged. For now let's circle back to a conversation that happened the last day of my stay at the hotel lobby with another industry professional who was also invited there to evaluate company B. Let's call him John.
That afternoon, a bunch of us were hanging out in the lobby, recovering from a long convention weekend and I had just been introduced to John by one of the company B leaders.
I turned to John and asked:
So John, what company are you with?
He responded: Veema.
At the time, Veema had been just shut down and was going through an investigation and law suit and John was looking for a new company he can call his home.
John shared with me the inside scoop of what happened with Veema and returned back the question to ask what company I was in.
I told him: the A -word company.
His reaction: Man, that's a hard company.
I said: Really?
He said: yeah, it's a real hard company. I can't believe you were able to build that big and make 6 figures with that company. It's a nightmare. The compensation plan is a nightmare. It doesn't pay much. There's no money.
John was right and for so long I had chosen to ignore this truth.
You see he had no vested interest to jab my company to recruit me into his. He was not playing the "mine is better than yours" game that many network marketers get into. John had no vested interest at all, he was simply sharing his expert evaluation of why he would never join the A-word company. In all truth, he was right.
That same evening several other high level networkers from other companies who were evaluating company B shared the same perspective John had about company A. In a way, I felt defeated because "I couldn't recruit colleagues in the industry to company A if it tried!"
Come to think of it, no one in company A was recruiting professionals from other companies because it already had a reputation of being an impossible build.
These conversations were so revealing. They allowed me to realize that the only people in the industry that thought company A was a good company were the people that were in it who either didn't know or didn't want to know what else was out there!
Every professional outside of company A, shared John's perspective.
Every professional who had already left company A, felt the same way.
Every professional who had evaluated it all felt the same way.
They all said the same things. They said things like:
"That company is hard"
"That's a tough build"
"That compares a nightmare"
"Those guys over there are crazy"
"I don't want to work that hard."
"Wow, you stayed for 9 years? You're a beast" and so on.
It was only until I allowed myself to have conversations with colleagues who were not invested in me leaving company A and were not invested in me joining them in something new, where I got a real validation that what people on the outside thought about company A was much different than the people thought who were on the cool-aid. LOL.
If you're evaluating an MLM right now, try your best to get other industry insider's perspective who don't have a reason to give you slanted view on the company you're considering to join.
Finding out what other network marketers think about a company may be misleading but it can also be insightful. Just be careful of their agenda.
Most networkers will always share with you an opinion that favors and validates their own position, sometimes however, you can get great insight from networkers who either aren't committed to a single company or are more invested in advancing the industry rather than one specific company.
There may be a general understanding in the industry about an opportunity if it's been around long enough for the seasoned veterans of the industry to have all had consistent interaction with it. Their experience and insight is PRICELESS.
Ultimately you have to make up your own mind about whether you feel like you can be successful with a company. You have to decide whether or not you feel like it gives the people you anticipate bringing into it the best chance to be successful.
If the company you're evaluating agrees with your personality and spirit, and you're excited about helping others be successful in it, then you might have found the company you can call your home.
But also give your decision a pause by speaking to industry professionals.
Their insider's perspective and veteran experience in the industry could save you thousands or even 10's of thousands of dollars, and years and years of climbing the wrong ladder. Industry veterans are the guardians of the industry, one priceless conversation with one can keep your reputation in tact for the right opportunity when you find it.
The questions to ask are:
#25. What is the reputation of this company among industry insiders?
#26. Who can I ask about this company who will give me an objective viewpoint?
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I'm going to tell you about two more yellow flowers that are found in my garden. Let's start with the one that I am always distressed to find, the Italian Arum Lily, which is a noxious weed. 😦 These plants have come back into the new garden even more heartily than they grew in the old, probably because they can reproduce by means of cormlets, and I imagine those pieces of rootstock got scattered in all the rearranging of dirt while landscaping.
This picture is one I took just last week when I was finally getting to the weeds after prolonged rain. I don't like to let them get to the point of flowering, but I did pull this one before the seeds formed. The seeds are not likely to be nearly as effective at spreading this weed as the cormlets, though, because they are few, and easy to prevent.
The pleasing non-weed yellow flower is the Jerusalem Sage. I have three of these that were planted so as to look nice against the hopbushes, and now that they are blooming, we can see that the two plants do indeed complement one another.
I planted a red helianthemum nearby, and it doesn't look bad, either!


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Even if you are not an oil and vinegar kind of salad eater it's handy to know how to whip up a great salad dressing. I love a little olive oil and lemon juice on my salads, but with just a little effort, I can whisk up something really special. By adding an emulsifier, such as a little mustard or mayonnaise, you will come up with a thicker dressing that will really stick to your salad greens. There are many good bottled dressings on the market, but lots of them are high in sugar, fat, and salt — not very healthy. A great dressing can be stirred up with healthy choices such as olive oil, or canola oil. And you can control the sugar and salt and still have an explosion of great flavor. Choose from an array of fresh or dried herbs, and add a little minced garlic. But this comes with a warning; once you try this it is difficult to go back to bottled dressings.
Some research shows that mayonnaise acts as a better emulsifier than mustard, and it "holds" the dressing together longer than when we use mustard alone. The only difference is that the dressing will separate a little more quickly when not using mayonnaise.
If you love the taste of a good mustard and simply prefer it without mayonnaise, just whisk together again when it separates. But honestly, even if you do not like mayonnaise, it takes such a tiny bit to "emulsify" that you really won't even taste it. It's all about choices and making it a flavor you enjoy.
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Venezuela: the fierce political battle for Barinas, Chávez's home state and his family's electoral stronghold
Guillermo D. Olmo @BBCgolmo
Image source, YURI CORTEZ / Getty
The last elections in Venezuela are not over yet.
The battle for Barinas continues after the Supreme Court of Justice on Monday ordered the repetition of the governor's election there in a controversial decision.
The Court recognized that the opposition candidate, Freddy Superlano, I had obtained more votes that Argenis Chávez, candidate of Chavismo and brother of the late President Hugo Chávez, but resolved that the vote be repeated on January 9 because Superlano had a previous disqualification imposed by the Comptroller's Office.
The Supreme Court ruling came more than a week after the polling stations closed, amid delays in the announcement of the results and without impediments having been raised before to the candidacy of Superlano, whom the government had included before the elections in a list of convicted opponents pardoned by the decision of President Nicolás Maduro.
Barinas is a state of great importance for Chavismo because it is the cradle of its founding leader, Army Commander Hugo Chávez. Since the triumph of his "revolution" in 1998, the government of Barinas has always been in the hands of one of his direct relatives.
Superlano described what happened as "constitutional coup"and assured that he will protest in national and international instances to assert his victory.
After hearing the ruling of the Supreme Court, the rector of the National Electoral Council CNE Roberto Picón, appointed at the proposal of the opposition, said in a statement that the electoral power was unaware of the disqualification that weighed on Superlano and assured that it was with the repetition of the elections " Not only is the authority of the National Electoral Council seriously lacking, but also to the will of the people of Barinas".
Jorge Rodríguez, president of the National Assembly and a key leader of Chavismo, said on Tuesday that Venezuela had held "the cleanest election in the world."
Argenis Chávez announced his "irrevocable" resignation as governor and will not be a candidate in the repeat elections in January.
What happened has increased doubts about the past local and regional elections in Venezuela, which the Maduro government presented as proof of the cleaning of the Venezuelan electoral system. For the first time in four years, the opposition had agreed to participate and the European Union sent election observers.
But the fight for Barinas continues.
What happened to Barinas
On December 21, Venezuela held local and regional elections.
Amid low turnout, Chavista candidates won all the country's governorships except three states (Cojedes, Nueva Esparta and Zulia).
In Barinas, the final results were delayed without there being a winner.
The minutes of the Arismendi municipality, an isolated area in the east of the state, did not reach the city of Barinas, capital of the homonymous state, where they had to be counted and a winner proclaimed.
On Friday, when the legal deadline for the proclamation of a governor had expired, the CNE ordered the delivery of the missing acts of the military operation known as "Plan República" so that they could be sent to Caracas, where the National Electoral Board had to complete the process and declare a victor.
According to the latest results released by the CNE, Superlano had a very narrow advantage over Chávez: 103,809 votes to 103,693 of his rival.
But, in the middle of growing doubts about scrutiny and the complaints of the opposition candidate, who demanded that his victory be proclaimed, the Supreme Court settled the matter on Friday in two sentences in which it ordered to paralyze the count, declared Superlano disqualified by an August resolution of the Comptroller's Office and ordered the Repetition of the vote on January 9, 2022.
The Court did not mention the pardon for Superlano announced by the government before the electoral campaign.
Image source, Twitter Freddy Superlano
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The opposition candidate, Freddy Superlano.
In conversation with BBC Mundo, Luis Lander, from the Venezuelan Electoral Observatory NGO, asked himself: "Why did they let him appear if he was disqualified?"
"The candidacy overcame all barriers and was told that he was disqualified only after he won the elections." For Lander, "it is clearly an arbitrary use of the disqualification mechanism."
BBC Mundo did not receive a response to its request for comment from the CNE.
Why is Barinas important
Located in the interior plain of Venezuela, Barinas is an eminently livestock region.
According to various reports, in recent years it has seen a boom in drug trafficking and the arrival of Colombian guerrilla groups.
It is also the birthplace of Hugo Chávez.
Image source, THOMAS COEX / Getty
Adán Chávez (i) and Argenis Chávez (d) have succeeded each other in the government of Barinas.
His family is credited with great power and influence in the territory, which has controlled the government throughout the Chavista era.
First his father, Hugo de los Reyes Chávez, was governor. Then came the two brothers of the "eternal commander" of the "Bolivarian revolution," Adán and Argenis, who held office until Tuesday.
The importance of Barinas for Chavismo was made clear in recent statements to state television Diosdado Cabello, a historic Chavista leader and vice president of the government party: "For us, Barinas is Chávez."
Cabello announced: "Even if we win by one vote, we will contest; we don't care what the world says."
Maduro was confident that the recent election of mayors and governors, with the return of the opposition to the electoral route, would serve to discredit the complaints of alleged irregularities that his detractors have presented for years and that he has always denied.
The government embarked on a negotiation process with the opposition in Mexico and invited a mission of electoral observers from the European Union.
But after the EU mission published its report on the elections, in which it reported an improvement in conditions but also the persistence of "structural deficiencies"Maduro called European observers" spies "and" enemies, "and said they" tried to tarnish Venezuela's impeccable and democratic electoral process. "
EU observers noted that "the lack of judicial independence and disrespect for the rule of law continues."
Barinas is an eminently livestock state.
Phil Gunson, an analyst at the International Crisis Group, told BBC Mundo that "the last elections have once again made it clear that the conditions for the opposition are very adverse and that the government is not willing to give up power. "
Superlano is a member of Voluntad Popular, the party of opposition leader Juan Guaidó, and Gunson believes that "Chavismo cannot accept that in the land of Chávez a candidate from the party most hated by them wins."
From Chavismo, Jorge Rodríguez, the same person who announced the pardon to Superlano before the campaign, insisted that the new elections will have all the guarantees.
However, Mari Pili Hernández, minister in the governments of Hugo Chávez, questioned what happened around the election in Barinas.
What happens with Barinas is also crucial for the opposition, within which different positions coexist on how to face the electoral processes.
The current led by Henrique Capriles has advocated desisting from the electoral boycott of recent years and trying to gain space despite the difficulties. Others, led by Guaidó and Voluntad Popular have been more reticent because they saw electoral participation as a way to legitimize Maduro.
What will happen now
In compliance with what was dictated by the Supreme Court, the CNE officially announced on Monday the convening of the new elections.
Doubts persist about who the candidates will be.
Superlano denounced as "irrito" the ruling that annuls him as a candidate and insists on running as "governor-elect" of Barinas.
It is not yet clear what strategy his party will follow, since Superlano called on his followers to continue supporting peaceful protests.
But it is not known yet who will be the candidate to replace Argenis Chávez on the official side.
Gunson assures that "on December 21 it revealed that the electoral strength of the government is very diminished", which is why it requires a candidate capable of dragging the Chavista bases.
Lander regrets that "in recent years there had been a sustained erosion of electoral participation and in these elections a certain recovery had been achieved, so the decision to repeat the elections is a disaster."
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package com.example.views;

import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.graphics.drawable.ClipDrawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.GradientDrawable.Orientation;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Gravity;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.SeekBar;
import android.widget.SeekBar.OnSeekBarChangeListener;
/**
 * 图片裁剪:
 * ——默认是0,即完全裁剪
 * ——最大是10000,即完全不裁剪
 * ——通过setLevel设置裁剪大小
 *
------------------android:gravity
top	将这个对象放在容器的顶部,不改变其大小。当clipOrientation 是"vertical",裁剪发生在drawable的底部(bottom)
bottom	将这个对象放在容器的底部,不改变其大小。当clipOrientation 是 "vertical",裁剪发生在drawable的顶部(top)
left	将这个对象放在容器的左部,不改变其大小。当clipOrientation 是 "horizontal",裁剪发生在drawable的右边(right)。默认的是这种情况。
right	将这个对象放在容器的右部,不改变其大小。当clipOrientation 是 "horizontal",裁剪发生在drawable的左边(left)。
center_vertical	将对象放在垂直中间,不改变其大小。裁剪的情况和"center"一样。
fill_vertical	垂直方向上不发生裁剪。(除非drawable的level是 0,才会不可见,表示全部裁剪完)
center_horizontal	将对象放在水平中间,不改变其大小。裁剪的情况和"center"一样。
fill_horizontal	水平方向上不发生裁剪。(除非drawable的level是 0,才会不可见,表示全部裁剪完)
center	将这个对象放在水平垂直坐标的中间,不改变其大小。当clipOrientation 是 "horizontal"裁剪发生在左右。当clipOrientation是"vertical",裁剪发生在上下。
fill	填充整个容器,不会发生裁剪。(除非drawable的level是 0,才会不可见,表示全部裁剪完)。
clip_vertical   额外的选项,它能够把它的容器的上下边界,设置为子对象的上下边缘的裁剪边界。裁剪要基于对象垂直重力设置:如果重力设置为top,则裁剪下边,如果设置为bottom,则裁剪上边,否则则上下两边都要裁剪。
clip_horizontal  额外的选项,它能够把它的容器的左右边界,设置为子对象的左右边缘的裁剪边界。裁剪要基于对象垂直重力设置:如果重力设置为right,则裁剪左边,如果设置为left,则裁剪右边,否则则左右两边都要裁剪。
------------------android:clipOrientation
裁剪的方向。
horizontal	水平方向裁剪
vertical	垂直方向裁剪

 * @author seven
 *
 */
@SuppressLint("NewApi")
public class D_ClipDrawable extends Activity {

	@Override
	protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
		setContentView(R.layout.activity_d__clip_drawable);

		ClipDrawable clipDrawable = new ClipDrawable(
				getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.animate_shower),
				Gravity.CENTER,
				ClipDrawable.VERTICAL);

		final View v = findViewById(R.id.tv);
		v.setBackground(clipDrawable);
		v.getBackground().setLevel(100);
		/**
		 * xml
		 * <clip xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
		    android:drawable="@drawable/android"
		    android:clipOrientation="horizontal"
		    android:gravity="left" />
		 */
		SeekBar seekbar = (SeekBar) findViewById(R.id.seekbar);
		seekbar.setMax(10000);
		seekbar.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(new OnSeekBarChangeListener() {

			@Override
			public void onStopTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {
				// TODO Auto-generated method stub

			}

			@Override
			public void onStartTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {
				// TODO Auto-generated method stub

			}

			@Override
			public void onProgressChanged(SeekBar seekBar, int progress,
					boolean fromUser) {
				// TODO Auto-generated method stub
				v.getBackground().setLevel(progress);
			}
		});
	}

	@Override
	public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
		// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
		getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_d__clip_drawable, menu);
		return true;
	}

}

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The Mighty Pen, the Almighty Dollar, and the Holy Hammer and Sickle: An Examination of the Conflict between Trade Liberalization and Domestic Cultural Policy with Special Regard to the Recent Dispute between the United States and China on Restrictions on Certain Cultural Products
Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 313-344, September 2007
32 Pages Posted: 5 Oct 2007 Last revised: 10 Oct 2012
See all articles by Henry S. Gao
Henry S. Gao
Singapore Management University - School of Law
The relationship between trade and culture has long been a hot topic in the debate on the conflicts between free trade and non-trade values. The recent case brought by the United States against China in the WTO on the measures affecting trading rights and distribution services for certain publications and audiovisual entertainment products is regarded by many as the latest example of the conflict. This article argues, however, that this case is more about the conflict between economic liberalization and political control. Applying the legal rules under the WTO Agreements and public international law, this paper concludes that the United States has built up a very solid case and it would be difficult for China to try to defend its measures by invoking the exception clauses under the WTO Agreements or some other non-WTO agreements, such as the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. Politically, it would be awkward for China to openly defend this case in the WTO as well. Given the legal difficulty and political sensitivity surrounding the case, China might decide to settle the case privately with the United States.
Keywords: WTO, China, International Trade, Dispute Settlement, Public International Law, Treaty Interpretation, Political Censorship, International Economic Law
JEL Classification: k33
Gao, Henry S., The Mighty Pen, the Almighty Dollar, and the Holy Hammer and Sickle: An Examination of the Conflict between Trade Liberalization and Domestic Cultural Policy with Special Regard to the Recent Dispute between the United States and China on Restrictions on Certain Cultural Products. Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 313-344, September 2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1019394
Henry S. Gao (Contact Author)
Singapore Management University - School of Law ( email )
55 Armenian Street
HOME PAGE: http://www.law.smu.edu.sg/faculty/law/henrygao.asp


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Rita Sauerman Dion helped save, improve young people's lives | Laurence Reisman
A social services pioneer, she spent 30-plus years turning a fledgling Youth Guidance into a major program for at-risk youths in Indian River County.
Rita Sauerman Dion helped save, improve young people's lives | Laurence Reisman A social services pioneer, she spent 30-plus years turning a fledgling Youth Guidance into a major program for at-risk youths in Indian River County. Check out this story on tcpalm.com: https://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion/columnists/laurence-reisman/2018/06/13/rita-sauerman-dion-obituary-youth-guidance-indian-river-county-united-way-boys-girls-club/696555002/
Laurence Reisman, Treasure Coast Newspapers Published 4:14 p.m. ET June 13, 2018 | Updated 1:34 p.m. ET June 27, 2018
Rita Dion, (second from right), retired director of the Indian River County Youth Guidance Program, died June 8, 2018, at Indian River Medical Center. She is shown here in a file picture from Jan. 26, 2003.(Photo: ALEX BOERNER/TCPALM)
Rita Sauerman Dion was a magnet for volunteers.
"She made everything fun," said Barbara Schlitt Ford, who succeeded Dion in 2006 as executive director of Youth Guidance, Indian River County's oldest youth mentoring program. "Everybody wanted to be a part of it."
"It was just a magic touch," added Laurie Wykoff, who knew Dion for 40 years as a volunteer mentor, board member and friend. "Rita had that innate ability to connect with people so they felt close to her."
Dion became one of the brightest lights in local social sciences circles when she moved here with her two children and first husband in 1965. She was a professor at Indian River Community College before becoming the second chief executive at Youth Guidance in 1975.
Dion, 78, died Friday at Indian River Medical Center. A celebration of life will be held 6-8 p.m. July 9 at Waldo's restaurant.
"She never aged," said Wykoff, noting Dion planned to work with Felix Cruz, Youth Guidance's current executive director, to raise $500,000 to $750,000 to renovate the nonprofit's building at 1028 20th Place. The agency plans to restore the county's old library across from City Hall.
Rita Dion (Photo: CONTRIBUTED PHOTO FROM INTA CLOUD)
In December, the agency announced the new building would be called the Rita Dion Mentoring Academy. It would include a multipurpose room for large group activities, a learning lab and a kitchen and dining room to serve meals and for cooking classes.
Dion never had to work magic on buildings. She worked in cramped quarters on a shoestring budget. The program, begun by the county in 1973 partly with state grants, was designed to match at-risk children with adult mentors.
Brian Connelly, then 9, was one of the first students involved. His mentors were Sam and Jacelyn Block, who started the program.
"I didn't know at the time what was going on," said Connelly, a lawyer in Vero Beach. The Blocks, before they had children of their own, took him to baseball games and for dog walks and boat rides. "When I access these memories, they come with a warmth of emotion."
Connelly, who lived with his two brothers and divorced father, said his home was like a "modern-day Animal House."
But with the Blocks, "here was this beautiful family that seemed so normal." They had such a positive influence that when he returned to Vero Beach, he and his wife, Laurie — now the agency's events coordinator — were compelled to volunteer.
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"It was the full circle," said Connelly, noting Dion remembered him when he returned to town. "(As a child) I didn't know people like Rita existed and cared."
Few, if any, cared more, said Michael Kint, CEO of United Way of Indian River County.
"She epitomized true devotion," Kint said. "She was totally, totally committed and passionate about the kids and programs of Youth Guidance. She knew every one of those kids."
With dozens, then hundreds, of youngsters in the program, Dion had no easy task. For years, Dion worked hard to match children and adults properly.
Ford was in the local Exchange Club in 1990 when it hosted a party for Youth Guidance children. She was paired with a little girl, Donna.
Toward the end of the party, Dion approached Ford.
"Wouldn't you like to be a special friend for Donna?" Dion asked Ford, noting she could be a big sister to Donna once a week.
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Ford agreed, and it changed her life. A lawyer, Ford returned to college for a master's degree in education and became a teacher. Years later, she was the perfect fit to replace a retiring Dion.
"To be able to spend your time positively impacting kids — I can think of very few things that are more rewarding," Ford said.
Those rewards made it easy, Ford said, for Dion to ask people to volunteer for Youth Guidance.
"You are inviting (would-be volunteers) into something that will make their lives better," Ford said of Dion's philosophy.
In other words, Dion didn't just help children who craved more adult interaction. She helped adults.
Larry Reisman (Photo: PATRICK DOVE/TCPALM)
"It seemed like I've learned everything from her," said Wykoff, 19 when she began volunteering for Dion. "Everything" includes leadership, fundraising and human interaction.
"(Rita) touched so many lives," Wykoff said.
Dion began doing it long before the Gifford Youth Achievement Center, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Indian River County and Big Brothers and Sisters.
"She was there for the kids," said Pat Callahan, who, as director of the county-city Recreation Department, welcomed Youth Guidance children in summer camp. "One of her greatest qualities was her humility. She was just a hard worker."
Dion's untimely death struck her friends and relatives hard.
"It's very tragic," Ford said. "She had a lot of life left. ... But look at her legacy."
It's a legacy that not only survived spinning off from a county program into a standalone nonprofit and continuing to thrive.
It's a legacy of building an agency that now serves almost 300 children per year with after-school programs, cooking classes and more. It's a legacy that will be celebrated by friends and relatives in the coming weeks.
"We don't have any more Ritas," Wykoff said. "She's going to be greatly missed."
This column reflects the opinion of Laurence Reisman. Contact him via email at larry.reisman@tcpalm.com, phone at 772-978-2223, Facebook.com/larryreisman or Twitter @LaurenceReisman.
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