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Guest contributors: Wayne Burton, MD and Jack Mahoney, MD
Dr. Burton is a healthcare advisor and consultant and former Global Corporate Medical Director at American Express.
Dr. Mahoney is an experienced healthcare strategist and employee health expert. He is currently the Medical Director at the Florida Alliance for Healthcare Value.
Approximately 13 percent of Americans experience migraine headaches, a recurring type of headache that causes severe, throbbing or pulsing pain and can be accompanied by nausea and sensitivity to light and sound. In the working population, migraine headache is the fifth most disabling medical condition in the United States.¹ It is responsible for significant absenteeism, presenteeism (at work but not fully functioning) and healthcare expenditures. A recent editorial in the medical journal Headache provides guidance for treatment of migraines during the COVID-19 pandemic with the goal of keeping migraine patients out of the Emergency Department and hospitals to avoid unnecessary exposure to individuals carrying the virus.
Offering a virtual migraine education program that empowers employees and their families to manage migraine headaches
Expanding access and coverage for telemedicine
Considering elimination of prior authorization requirements for migraine medications to reduce delays due to poor access to physicians, knowing that access to physician offices and pharmacies may be more challenging during the pandemic
How prevalent is migraine headache?
About one out of every 10 American men and women suffer from migraines which occur three times more often in women (18%) than in men (6%). Migraines most often affect the working-age population with a peak incidence between the ages of 30 to 50 years old. In addition, there is a hereditary component. If one parent has migraines, there is a 40% chance of their child having migraines. If both parents have a history of migraines, there is a 75% chance of their child experiencing migraines.
What distinguishes a migraine headache?
Headache described as pounding or throbbing
Generally occurring on one side of the head
May be preceded by sensory changes known as an aura which may continue through the duration of the headache
May be associated with nausea and vomiting
Duration of 4-72 hours
Unable to work or function normally during the headache (reported by 90% of migraine sufferers)
What triggers a migraine headache?
Migraines often begin in association with a specific trigger, and this varies from person to person with some people having more than one. Triggers can be classified as follows:
Environmental (e.g., flickering lights, noise, changes in weather, odors)
Lifestyle (e.g., fasting, irregular sleep patterns, irregular meals)
Dietary (e.g., aged cheese, alcohol, monosodium glutamage {MSG}, caffeine)
Physical (e.g., hormones, fatigue)
Emotional (e.g., stress, behavioral health conditions)
By avoiding a trigger, a person can diminish or even prevent having a headache.
How do healthcare providers diagnose migraine?
There is no specific test for migraine. Healthcare providers typically reply on a detailed history and physical examination to make a diagnosis. Imaging of the brain with MRIs, CT scans, etc., is usually not needed.
How are migraines treated?
Treatment options can generally be classified into three groups:
Complimentary/non-pharmaceutical: This approach includes avoiding migraine triggers, making lifestyle behavioral changes such as stress reduction with relaxation exercises, wearing dark glasses, undergoing acupuncture, meditating, and participating in cognitive behavioral therapy or biofeedback.
Acute treatment: Used at the onset of a migraine to either relieve pain or stop the symptoms from fully developing, medications might include:
Over-the-counter drugs such as analgesics (e.g., acetaminophen, aspirin, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs)
Triptans which can abort the migraine when taken immediately at the onset of symptoms
Opioids which pose a risk of addiction and are associated with greater disability and healthcare utilization (The American Academy of Neurology and others strongly recommend that opioid and butobarbital medications NOT be used for the treatment of migraines except as an absolute LAST resort.)
Preventative medications: These medications are used to reduce the frequency of migraines in people who suffer four or more migraine days a month. Examples include anti-seizure medications, antidepressants, beta-blocking drugs, calcium channel blocking drugs, "ACE" inhibitors and botulinum toxin injections.
Other migraine medications: A new category of migraine drug is now available and targets a specific molecule called CGRP (calcitonin gene-related peptide). Blocking CGRP can help to reduce the migraine frequency and severity. This class of medications can be used for the acute treatment of migraines and to prevent their occurrence.
¹ Source: International Association for the Study of Pain
Employer Toolkit: Working with Migraine (To access, send your Name, Role, Organization Name and e-mail address to workingwithmigraine@amgen.com. Once registered, an e-mail will be sent with access information.)
Burton WN et al. Evaluation of a workplace-based migraine education program. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 2016; 58(8); 790-795
National Headache Foundation: www.headaches.org

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Americans should be used to the high political drama coming out of Washington. Oh, there are the stories of marital infidelities, disappearing Congressional aids, toe-tapping senators and the like. Then there are the great debates where both sides of an issue scrap and claw their way to political pay dirt. Healthcare reform and the recent battles on raising the debt ceiling come to mind. Funny how things always come together at the 11th hour?
Currently on the docket is the payroll tax cut extension. Passed in 2011, the payroll tax cut reduced a taxpayer's contribution toward Social Security from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent. The goal of the legislation was to put more money in taxpayers' hands in order to stimulate the economy. The measure expires on December 31, 2011.
Now, the drama comes in because the Democratic controlled Senate approved a two month extension to the measure while the Republican controlled House rejected the Senate plan in favor of a one year extension. Democrats are bent on their bill and Republicans on theirs with time quickly running out. If an extension is not approved by December 31, 148 million Americans will see their taxes go up – at least that is the story coming out of the White House.
In the first place the name of the measure is a bit of a misnomer intended I am sure to confuse many taxpayers. The payroll tax cut is not a cut to a worker's income tax amount. It is a reduction in the amount that workers pay into the so-called Social Security Trust Fund. In other words, it is akin to paying less on a retirement annuity each month but still maintain eligibility for full retirement benefits under the original policy. An annuity holder would never expect this allowance. For the life of me, I can't understand how the average taxpayer would – unless they have been confused.
Secondly, the propaganda pundits on the MSM are claiming that if the tax cut is not extended it will potentially push the U.S. economy into a recession. Of course, that is the knee-jerk reaction of all Keynesians when it comes to government intervention in the economy. They believe in the more the better with no regard for tomorrow since "in the long run we are all dead".
And essentially this tax cut extension is a Keynesian spending program because the tax pays for an entitlement that has to be paid to retirees. With a drop in tax revenues the government will have to print money in order to meet Social Security obligations. Those obligations simply aren't going away and have to be met.
The problem with more spending is that it doesn't work to stimulate the economy out of recession. Since January 2009 the federal government has spent $4.5 trillion. Unemployment is higher, food stamp rolls are at an all-time high, and many Americans are still losing their homes. When is enough enough?
Lastly, how smart is it to cut funding for a program that is already bankrupt? The Social Security Trust Fund already pays out more than it receives in tax revenues. Future unfunded obligations for both Social Security and Medicare are over $50 trillion. Given the program is not going to end anytime soon, putting it in even worse fiscal condition borders on the criminal.
The payroll tax cut is nothing more than another something for nothing proposition. It has not helped the economy so far and an extension would further devastate the fragile balance sheet of Social Security and Medicare. Once again Washington is offering the world – more free money, Social Security intact, no spending cuts, and a blind eye to trouble down the road. It is amazing that Congress and the President can't find a measly $100 billion to cut from the enormously bloated federal budget to pay for the plan. With leadership like that in Washington it will be a miracle if the economy doesn't eventually fall over a cliff. But have no fear, I am sure Congress and the President will get together at the 11th hour to produce the tax cut extension.
Article first published as We Can't Afford the Payroll Tax Cut Extension on Blogcritics.
In the debates for the Republican nomination for president, it is no accident that Newt Gingrich constantly invokes the name of conservative icon Ronald Reagan. Gingrich continually reminds us that he was in Congress fighting for Reagan's tax cuts and his military budgets in the early 1980s. Naturally this is a calculated political strategy on the part of Gingrich since the most faithful Republican primary voters are Reaganites. But, the strategy is more than political; it is an indication of how he would govern if elected president.
According to Gingrich's official campaign website, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives is essentially proposing the same program that Reagan foisted on America in the 1980s. The key elements of which are huge tax cuts and military spending.
In terms of taxes, Gingrich's plan would lower individual tax rates, lower the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 12.5 percent and eliminate the capital gains tax. Any lover of small government should love these proposals, however Gingrich never addresses how he would pay for the tax cuts. On his site, he proposes no specific spending cuts and claims he will balance the budget by "growing the economy" through tax cuts.
For his part, Ronald Reagan based his entire economic platform to get the economy moving again on tax cuts. He also claimed that lowering taxes would grow the economy and balance the federal budget. After eight years in office he managed to triple the federal debt. The problem with Reagan wasn't that he cut taxes (he also was the biggest tax raiser in history to that point) it was that he didn't cut spending. He proposed cuts when he ran for president, but didn't follow through on his rhetoric.
At least Gingrich is not being dishonest about his intentions not to cut federal spending, but his overall policy will have the same effects as Reagan's – an enormous increase in the national debt. Given that our debt has already reached a critical point, we can ill afford a return to 80s style economics; thus we can ill afford a President Newt Gingrich.
So while he proposes to cut taxes drastically and offers no spending cuts, he also would seek to at the very least keep spending enormous amounts of money on military adventures that don't contribute to our safety and security. In fact, by defending Israel unconditionally his policy would make us much less safe.
There is no doubt that Ronald Reagan's legacy is still very much with us today. Indeed, Newt Gingrich has co-opted the Reagan governing plan as his own. It is a simplistic plan that set us on the road to an astronomical national debt. We are currently at a breaking point with that debt and all Newt Gingrich can do is propose more of the same?
It is uncommon, but I must admit that I totally agree with Obama. However, my agreement with him is for a reason that he did not intend with his remark. He was espousing the view that it would take many more years of Keynesian economic policies to dig ourselves out of the economic ditch. I am saying his position is precisely why it will take many years to recover from the Great Recession. Essentially history proves that Keynesian economic theory does not work. In fact, it has been proven to make things worse.
An often forgotten (either intentional or not) economic depression took place in 1920. It was in 1920 that the spending of Congress and the inflation of the dollar by the Federal Reserve in order to fight World War I finally caught up with the U.S. economy. After the artificial boom brought on by government policy busted, unemployment increased from 4 percent to 12 percent. At the same time, GNP contracted by 17 percent. Relatively speaking, the depression of 1920 was as severe as any in U.S. history.
In those days America still believed in free market capitalism. President Harding's response was to slash the federal budget almost in half between 1920 and 1922. He also reduced tax rates for all income groups and decreased the national debt by one-third. Additionally, the Federal Reserve did not use its powers to increase the money supply to fight the contraction.
No, the federal government and the central bank's response were to let the economy liquidate the mal-investments that had built up during the spending and inflating of the war years. It wasn't to try to "stimulate" the economy back to growth and the Federal Reserve did not attempt to re-inflate the economic bubble.
By 1922, unemployment was back down to 6.7 percent and it was only 2.4 percent by 1923. Recovery occurred within two years of the onset of depression and opened the gate for a decade of enormous economic growth.
Now fast forward to the Great Depression of 1929-1946. The common myth is that Franklin Roosevelt brought us out of the Great Depression with his New Deal policies. The New Deal represented the first time in our country's history that the federal government attempted, in a robust way, to remedy an economic downturn with "stimulus" spending and other bureaucratic interventions. Roosevelt's program included make work schemes, industrial codes of fair competition, guaranteed trade union rights, the regulation of working standards, minimum price fixes on agriculture, petroleum and other products, and other assorted welfare programs. Essentially Roosevelt had taken over the U.S. economy and then over time he found it necessary to raise excise taxes on business to pay for his schemes.
And this is why Barack Obama was correct in his statement that it will take many more years to turn the economy around. History proves that government intervention in an economic downtown only worsens the situation. Since taking office in 2009, Obama has spent trillions through make work projects, Cash for Clunkers, First Time Homebuyers' credits, extensions to unemployment benefits, and other schemes. He reappointed Ben Bernanke to Chairman of the Federal Reserve precisely because he favors the Fed's long term quantitative easing program which has pumped trillions more new cash into the economy.
What do we have to show for it? – an economy still in shambles 4 years after the downturn with real unemployment north of 16 percent, a lackluster GDP, 46 million Americans on Food Stamps, and $4.3 trillion more in debt. Obama is right, it will take years to undo the damage caused by his policies. The question is, why doesn't Timothy Geithner have the same honesty that Henry Morgenthau Jr. did?
Article first published as Obama is Correct But for the Wrong Reason on Blogcritics.
How could the panic not happen? When something cataclysmic occurs, we can't predict when it will arrive, and we don't know just how it will unfold, but no one who looks up can doubt that something is on the way.
The same holds true now for the social turmoil that is on the way. We don't know exactly when it will arrive, and we don't know just how it will unfold. Actually, the Tea Party and the Occupy movements have yielded some interesting evidence about where we are headed. So has the government's response to any number of questions about civil liberties. We are headed for a period of turmoil that could make the 1960s look quiet by comparison. We just don't know how it will unfold.
Just as we prepare our houses when we know a hurricane coming, we can do a few things to prepare our country for the coming storm. Our republic almost didn't make it through the Civil War. At that time, 150 years ago, democracy survived while the country fell apart. Today the nominal country stays intact while democracy dies. We have to prepare for the worst. Three items come to mind. The first two I have discussed elsewhere: I'll mention them briefly here. The third one sounds over-dramatic, but it's worth thinking about.
Item one: Look for new leaders in unusual places. We will not find leaders we can trust in the usual way. The usual way relies on two political parties to recruit candidates for high office. Citizens vote for candidates based on their expectations about the quality of leadership they can expect from the candidates. We have reached a point where the citizenry is fed up with its leaders. The current, institutionalized system for selecting leaders has not served the country well. It has given us leaders who do not preserve and protect our Constitution. Therefore we have to ignore them. They claim legitimacy, all the authority of law and tradition, but we have to turn our backs on them. We have to do so with faith that we'll find new, effective leadership in unlikely places.
Item two: We have to seek constitutional change that occurs without undue violence. We want to avoid violence not only because non-violence is more defensible morally, or because it is less painful physically and emotionally. These statements may be true, but as citizens we choose non-violence primarily because it yields better outcomes. It is clearly the most demanding path: non-violent constitutional change requires discipline, commitment, a high degree of skill and planning, restraint, faith, joint action, courage, sacrifice, and judgment. We as heirs of the Founders have not shown a clear willingness to go down this path – yet. I would say the willingness will come when we have found leaders we want to follow.
Item three: The last thought arises in connection with the violence we can expect from the government during the upcoming storm. The Syrians have lost 5,000 of their number in a non-violent effort to rid themselves of the tyrant who rules them. That is no small amount of violence. What if something similar happens here? What if government responds with force to arrest large numbers of citizens who want their voices heard? It has already done so.
We want to prepare for the time when people who have to use force against their fellow citizens begin to defect. We have seen the phenomenon already in Syria. Many members of the armed forces no longer want to shoot at their unarmed brothers. If they depart their station to defect, though, they have no place to go. They'll be shot in the back if they walk over to the other side. Fear restrains them: the same tyrant who orders them to shoot at crowds will shoot them as well without thinking twice.
Our government is not so wicked as Syria's right now, and we cannot tell how it will react to extreme pressure. It's behavior during the last ten years is not encouraging. It places security ahead of liberty – especially its own security. It places force and intimidation ahead of its own legitimacy. It places lies, propaganda, chronic dishonesty and hypocrisy ahead of anything that even resembles candor. When political speech becomes this corrupt, government itelf becomes illegitimate. When government trashes the Constitution, it commits a unique form a betrayal. It practices gradual treason from inside the republic's own institutions of power.
To prepare, then, we have to think about how to help those who wield instruments of force against unarmed citizens. We have to help people who reveal the truth about how government operates. We must offer people who refuse to follow orders some protection, some place of refuge. People who say "Enough," who turn and set an example of courage, should not be left alone and vulnerable. They need to know they have support. They need some place to go for help during the storm. They need to have an option to go underground long enough to protect themselves and their families.
I'm thinking of course of Bradley Manning's example. He said "Enough," even though he was completely vulnerable and without any kind of protection. We have seen how government treats people who act on behalf of the truth. We have seen how government deals with anyone it regards as a threat. It has held Manning in solitary confinement since May 2010, without bringing charges and without granting a hearing of any kind. We have seen how government deals with people who are vulnerable and who act to reveal government's crimes.
In the coming struggle, we want to offer assistance to people who have courage to resist. We want to help them before government can imprison them. We want people who take the lead in this struggle to know that their fellow citizens stand behind them. Then non-violent action with good leaders can happen. Then civil resistance that leads to change can occur. Then citizens can restore constitutional governance.
Secretary Clinton addressed a Conference on Internet Freedom at the Hague yesterday. Why would she accept an invitation like that? Her department suffered the most embarrassment from the diplomatic cables leaked to Wikileaks. Consequently she led the Obama administration's successful public effort to destroy that Internet news outlet. She took a strong stand that Internet freedom does not extend to people who publish information that makes government agencies look bad. You might want to ask her: if Internet freedom does not extend to Wikileaks, what is it good for?
The invitation to speak at the conference came from a friend, and she didn't want to say no.
The invitation came from some other source where circumstances made it difficult to say no.
Secretary Clinton does not know the meaning of hypocrisy.
The Obama administration needed a prominent person to say all the right things about Internet freedom. As our chief ambassador overseas, Secretary Clinton was a good pick.
Secretary Clinton, together with other Washington mucky-mucks, lives in a bubble. Therefore she doesn't realize, or doesn't care, what people think of her.
People have short memories. Politicians have even shorter ones. Secretary Clinton just forgot about the Wikileaks business.
It suits a diplomatic, public relations, or other short term purpose of the Obama administration to speak out on a non-controversial topic like Internet freedom. See the point about ambassadorial pronouncements above.
Secretary Clinton knows she's hypocritical, and doesn't care if other people know it, too. From this point of view, you don't care because we all play the same game.
Secretary Clinton tries her best to do the job in front of her each day. If that job involves saying contradictory things from one day to the next, so be it.
Unless Secretary Clinton tells us why she gave the speech, we can only guess the reasons. In fact, we would have to guess the reasons even if she did tell us why she gave the speech. So let's set guessing aside and linger a bit over the third point. We know hypocrisy when we see it. It's pretty common. Adolescents become aware of it fairly soon. They talk about it because it's not something they were aware of when they were children. When they do become aware of it, they wonder how they could have lived so long without seeing it.
What exactly is hypocrisy? The definition I remember from early on is to say one thing and do another. The meaning is actually a little more complicated than that. It means to pretend, to act, to play a part. Now of course playing a part is integral to almost everything we do, where we take on roles in our families, our workplaces, and so on. Hypocrisy is different because the pretense takes on a moral component. You actually tell people to behave one way, when it's obvious to everyone who listens that the example you set is just the opposite. Even if people don't follow your example, they will dismiss your words.
That's why we want to ask the question, why would Secretary Clinton deliver a speech about Internet freedom on the world stage in the Hague? Why would she waste her time? The destruction of Wikileaks transpired recently. Secretary Clinton did not wield the hammer, but in her position as head of the State Department she publicly approved the actions of all who did. The federal government would not have destroyed Wikileaks had she disapproved.
When she delivered her address, Secretary Clinton spoke for her government and her country, not for herself. Why she thinks blatant hypocrisy serves her country's interests is the riddle. More narrowly, why would she think hypocrisy serves her government's interests? Hillary Clinton is not dumb, clueless, or parochial in her outlook. She can recognize moral contradiction just as well as we can. She can see that the destruction of Wikileaks is clearly inconsistent with her remarks at the Conference on Internet Freedom.
Let's take up the obvious response on Secretary Clinton's behalf. She and the rest of the government would say that the Wikileaks disclosures were not just embarrassing. They bore on key issues of national security. The nation's chief diplomat would say that the nation's security is in jeopardy when diplomats cannot conduct their business confidentially. She and the government she represents would argue that national security trumps Internet freedom. Freedom of information has to give way when the survival of the state is at stake. Wikileaks had to be destroyed that the state might thrive.
People who see blatant hypocrisy in Secretary Clinton's words believe the opposite. They believe that when a government conducts its business in secret, as our government does, the state is already destroyed. At least, the democratic state we cherish is gone. The only important goal is to open the government's conduct to public scrutiny in order to retrieve the democracy we cherish. Blatant hypocrisy on the world stage does not advance that goal. Moral misconduct like that means we continue to play our designated part, where our government lectures other countries about how to behave. In secret, we do what we like.
While the so-called "mainstream" media is reporting with great glee that 2011 Black Friday retail sales was up 6.6 percent over last year to a record $11.4 billion one other tidbit of data was ignored that probably says more about our social condition than anything: the FBI reported that background check requests for prospective gun buyers on the same day shattered the single-day, all time high by 32 percent. According to Deputy Assistant FBI Director Jerry Pender on November 25th, 129,166 checks were submitted far exceeding the previous high of 97,848 on Black Friday 2008.
Now it could be argued that the record gun sales are a result of more Americans all of sudden taking an interest in hunting or gun collecting. But this explanation seems far-fetched as these two things are not normally associated with fad behavior. Furthermore, the recent surge in gun sales is part of a larger trend in gun ownership. According to the Gallup Organization, 47 percent of Americans report they keep a gun on their properties. This is up 15 percent from a year ago and the highest Gallup has reported since 1993.
Make no mistake about it, the massive increase in firearm purchases has everything to do with the miserable shape America is in socially. For one thing, as the economy continues to deteriorate with rising price inflation and chronic high levels of unemployment, Americans know that it is only a matter of time before they could become the victims of crime.
Americans also understand that social unrest like has been seen in Europe is possible in the U.S. Even though it has been relatively peaceful, the Occupy Wall Street Movement is seen by many as a harbinger of things to come. Given that there are many Americans who feel betrayed, disenfranchised, and totally frustrated by a system that has taken their sustenance in order to bailout those that produced the Financial Crisis of 2008 and the resulting prolonged depression, it is possible that as a society we could be one financial shock away from social upheaval. This may sound paranoid, but given the recent surge in gun sales I may not be alone in my thinking.
So while robust retail sales on Black Friday is being construed as a hopeful sign for the economy, the surge in gun sales on the same day is an indication that many Americans don't feel the optimism. Things are bad everywhere and they are going to get a lot worse before they get better. Black Friday gun sales are proof that this commentator is not alone in his prognostication.


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\section{Introduction}
If $J$ is a positive integer, then we write $\sigma(J)$ for the sum of the divisors of $J$.  A number $L$ is \emph{perfect} if $\sigma(L)=2L$.

An even perfect number $M$ is said to be given in \emph{Euclidean form} if $$M = (2^p - 1)\cdot{2^{p - 1}}$$
where $p$ and $2^p - 1$ are primes.  We call $M_p = 2^p - 1$ the \emph{Mersenne prime} factor of $M$.  Currently, there are only $48$ known Mersenne primes, which correspond to
$48$ even perfect numbers.

An odd perfect number $N$ is said to be given in Eulerian form if $$N = {q^k}{n^2}$$
where $q$ is prime with $q \equiv k \equiv 1 \pmod 4$ and $\gcd(q,n) = 1$.  We call $q^k$ the \emph{Euler part} of $N$ while $n^2$ is called the \emph{non-Euler part} of $N$.

It is currently unknown whether there are infinitely many even perfect numbers, or whether any odd perfect numbers exist.  It is widely believed that there is an infinite number of even perfect numbers. On the other hand, no examples for an odd perfect number have been found (despite extensive computer searches), nor has a proof for their nonexistence been established.

Ochem and Rao \cite{OchemRao} recently proved that $N > {10}^{1500}$.  In a recent preprint, Nielsen \cite{Nielsen1} has obtained the lower bound $\omega(N) \geq 10$ for the number of \emph{distinct} prime factors of $N$, improving on his last result $\omega(N) \geq 9$ (see \cite{Nielsen2}).

Sorli conjectured in \cite{Sorli} that $k=\nu_{q}(N)=1$ always holds.  Dris conjectured in \cite{Dris3} and \cite{Dris5} that the divisors $q^k$ and $n$ are related by the inequality $q^k < n$.  This conjecture was made on the basis of the result $I(q^k)<\sqrt[3]{2}<I(n)$.

Broughan, et.~al.~ \cite{BroughanDelbourgoZhou} recently showed that for any odd perfect number $N = {q^k}{n^2}$, the ratio of the non-Euler part $n^2$ to the Euler part $q^k$ is greater than $315/2$.  This improves on a result of Dris \cite{Dris3}.

In a recent paper, Chen and Chen \cite{ChenChen} improves on Broughan, et.~al.'s results, and poses a related (open) problem.

We denote the abundancy index $I$ of the positive integer $x$ as $I(x) = \sigma(x)/x$.

\section{The General Multiplicative Form of All Perfect Numbers}\label{Section1}
Suppose that $N = {q^k}{n^2}$ is an odd perfect number given in Eulerian form.  Since prime powers are deficient and $\gcd(q, n) = 1$, we know that $q^k \neq n$.  (In particular, it is also true that $q \neq n$.)  Consequently, we know that either $q^k < n$ or $n < q^k$ is true.

Observe that the Euclidean form $M = (2^p - 1)\cdot{2^{p - 1}}$ for an even perfect number $M$ possesses a multiplicative structure that is \emph{almost} similar to that of the Eulerian form $N = {q^k}{n^2}$ for an odd perfect number $N$.  Here is a table comparing and contrasting the underlying properties of these two forms, which we shall refer to as the \emph{Euclid-Euler heuristics} for (odd) perfect numbers:

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\begin{tabular}{|l|l|}
\hline
(E-1) (Euclid-Euler Theorem)  & (O-1) (Conjecture, 2010 \cite{Dris4}) \\
The Mersenne primes $M_p$ are in one-to-one  &  The Euler primes $q$ are in one-to-one \\
correspondence with the even perfect numbers. & correspondence with the odd perfect numbers. \\
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(E-2) The Mersenne primes $M_p$ satisfy & (O-2) The Euler primes $q$ satisfy \\
$M_p \equiv 3 \pmod 4$. & $q \equiv 1 \pmod 4$. \\
(Trivial) & (Trivial) \\
\hline
(E-3) The exponent $s = \nu_{M_p}(M)$ is one. & (O-3) The exponent $k = \nu_{q}(N)$ is one. \\
(Trivial) & (Sorli's Conjecture, 2003 \cite{Sorli}) \\
\hline
(E-4) If $M \equiv 0 \pmod 2$ is perfect, & (O-4) If $N \equiv 1 \pmod 2$ is perfect, \\
then given the Euclidean form & then given the Eulerian form \\
$M = {2^{p - 1}}(2^p - 1) = \displaystyle\prod_{i=1}^{2}{{p_i}^{\alpha_i}}$, & $N = {q^k}{n^2} = \displaystyle\prod_{j=1}^{\omega(N)}{{q_j}^{\beta_j}}$,\\
then ${{p_i}^{\alpha_i}\sigma({p_i}^{\alpha_i})}/M = i$, & then ${{q_j}^{\beta_j}\sigma({q_j}^{\beta_j})}/N \le 2/3 < j$, \\
for $i = 1, 2$. & for all $j$, $1 \le j \leq \omega(N)$. \\
(Observation, Dris 2011) & (Theorem, Dris 2008 \cite{Dris5}) \\
\hline
(E-5) There are infinitely & (O-5) There do not exist \\
many even perfect numbers. & any odd perfect numbers. \\
(EPN Conjecture) & (OPN Conjecture) \\
\hline
(E-6) The density of even & (O-6) The density of odd \\
perfect numbers is zero. &  perfect numbers is zero. \\
(Kanold 1954 \cite{Kanold}) & (Kanold 1954 \cite{Kanold}) \\
\hline
(E-7) $1 < I(M_p) \leq \frac{8}{7}$ for $p \geq 3$. & (O-7) $1 < I(q^k) < \frac{5}{4}$ for $q \geq 5$. \\
$\frac{7}{4} \leq \frac{2}{I(M_p)} = I(\frac{M_p + 1}{2}) < 2$ & $\frac{8}{5} < \frac{2}{I(q^k)} = I(n^2) < 2$ \\
In particular, & In particular, \\
$\frac{8}{7} < \sqrt{\frac{7}{4}} < I(\sqrt{\frac{M_p + 1}{2}}) < 2$. & $\frac{5}{4} < \sqrt{\frac{8}{5}} < I(n) < 2$.  \\
\hline
(E-8) An even perfect number $M$& (O-8) An odd perfect number $N$ \\
has exactly two distinct prime factors. & has more than two distinct prime factors. \\
(i.e., $\omega(M) = 2$)  & (In fact, we know that  $\omega(N) \geq 9$ \cite{Nielsen2}.) \\
\hline
(E-9) $\gcd({2^p - 1}, 2^{p - 1}) = 1$ & (O-9) $\gcd(q^k, n^2) = \gcd(q, n) = 1$ \\
(Trivial) & (Euler) \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}

\begin{rem}\label{Remark1}
We excluded $p_1 = 2$ from (E-7) because $\displaystyle\frac{M_{p_1} + 1}{2} = 2^{p_1 - 1} = 2^{2 - 1} = 2$ is squarefree.
\end{rem}

In the next section, we give some \emph{known} relationships between the divisors of even and odd perfect numbers.  We will also discuss a conjectured relationship between certain divisors of odd perfect numbers, which first appeared in the M.~Sc. thesis \cite{Dris5} that was completed in August of 2008.

\section{Inequalities Relating the Divisors of Perfect Numbers}\label{Section2}
From Section \ref{Section1}, note that the heuristic (E-4), upon setting $Q = {2^p - 1}$, $K = 1$, and ${\bar{n}}^2 = 2^{p - 1}$, actually gives

$$\frac{\sigma(Q^K)}{{\bar{n}}^2} = \frac{\sigma(2^p - 1)}{2^{p - 1}} = \frac{(2^p - 1) + 1}{2^{p - 1}} = \frac{2^p}{2^{p - 1}} = 2,$$
and
$$\frac{\sigma({\bar{n}}^2)}{Q^K} = \frac{\sigma(2^{p - 1})}{2^p - 1} = \frac{2^{(p - 1) + 1} - 1}{(2 - 1)(2^p - 1)} = \frac{2^p - 1}{2^p - 1} = 1.$$

We state this result as our first lemma for this section.

\begin{lemma}\label{Lemma1}
If $M = {Q^K}{{\bar{n}}^2} = (2^p - 1)\cdot{2^{p - 1}}$ is an even perfect number given in Euclidean form, then we have the inequality
$$\frac{\sigma({\bar{n}}^2)}{Q^K} = 1 < 2 = \frac{\sigma(Q^K)}{{\bar{n}}^2}.$$
\end{lemma}

\begin{rem}\label{Remark2}
Except for the case of the first even perfect number $M = 6$ (as was pointed out in Remark \ref{Remark1}), the abundancy indices of the divisors of an even perfect number given in the Euclidean form $M = {Q^K}{{\bar{n}}^2} = (2^p - 1)\cdot{2^{p - 1}}$ (where the relabelling is done to mimic the appearance of the variables in the Eulerian form of an odd perfect number $N = {q^k}{n^2}$) satisfy the inequality
$$1 < I(Q^K) \leq \frac{8}{7} < \frac{7}{4} \leq I({\bar{n}}^2) < 2,$$
as detailed out in heuristic (E-7).  In particular, the inequality $I(Q^K) < I({\bar{n}}^2)$, together with Lemma \ref{Lemma1}, imply the inequality
$${\bar{n}}^2 < Q^K.$$
(In other words, we have the inequality
$$2^{p - 1} < 2^p - 1$$
where $p$ and $M_p = 2^p - 1$ are both primes.  Compare this with the inequality
$$q^k < n^2$$
for the divisors of an odd perfect number given in the Eulerian form $N = {q^k}{n^2}$ [see \cite{Dris3}, \cite{Dris5}].)
\end{rem}

The following result is taken from \cite{Dris3} and \cite{Dris5}.

\begin{lemma}\label{Lemma2}
If $N = {q^k}{n^2}$ is an odd perfect number given in Eulerian form, then we have the inequality
$$\frac{\sigma(q^k)}{n^2} \leq \frac{2}{3} < 3 \leq \frac{\sigma(n^2)}{q^k}.$$
\end{lemma}

Going back to the relabelling $Q = {2^p - 1}$, $K = 1$, and ${\bar{n}}^2 = 2^{p - 1}$ for an even perfect number $M = {Q^K}{{\bar{n}}^2} = (2^p - 1)\cdot{2^{p - 1}}$ given in Euclidean form, we now compute:

$$\frac{\sigma(Q^K)}{\bar{n}} = \frac{\sigma(2^p - 1)}{2^{\frac{p - 1}{2}}} = \frac{(2^p - 1) + 1}{2^{\frac{p - 1}{2}}} = \frac{2^p}{2^{\frac{p - 1}{2}}} = 2^{p - (\frac{p - 1}{2})} = 2^{\frac{p + 1}{2}},$$
and
$$\frac{\sigma(\bar{n})}{Q^K} = \frac{\sigma(2^{\frac{p - 1}{2}})}{2^p - 1} = \frac{2^{\frac{p - 1}{2} + 1} - 1}{(2 - 1)(2^p - 1)} = \frac{2^{\frac{p + 1}{2}} - 1}{2^p - 1}.$$

Now observe that
$$2^{\frac{p + 1}{2}} - 1 < 2^p - 1$$
since $1 < \frac{p + 1}{2} < p$, while we also have
$$2^{\frac{p + 1}{2}} \geq 4$$
because $p \geq 3$.  (Again, we excluded the first (even) perfect number $M = 6$ from this analysis because it is \emph{squarefree}.)

These preceding numerical inequalities imply that
$$\frac{\sigma(Q^K)}{\bar{n}} = 2^{\frac{p + 1}{2}} \geq 4 > 1 > \frac{2^{\frac{p + 1}{2}} - 1}{2^p - 1} = \frac{\sigma(\bar{n})}{Q^K}.$$

We state the immediately preceding result as our third lemma for this section.

\begin{lemma}\label{Lemma3}
If $M = {Q^K}{{\bar{n}}^2} = (2^p - 1)\cdot{2^{p - 1}}$ is an even perfect number given in Euclidean form (and $M \neq 6$), then we have the inequality
$$\frac{\sigma(Q^K)}{\bar{n}} \geq 4 > 1 > \frac{\sigma(\bar{n})}{Q^K}.$$
\end{lemma}

\begin{rem}\label{Remark3}
In particular, observe that the inequality
$$\frac{\sigma(\bar{n})}{Q^K} < 1$$
from Lemma \ref{Lemma3} implies that
$$\bar{n} < Q^K,$$
which, of course, \emph{trivially} follows from the inequality
$${\bar{n}}^2 < Q^K$$
in Remark \ref{Remark2}.

Likewise, compare the inequality (from Lemma \ref{Lemma3})
$$\frac{\sigma(\bar{n})}{Q^K} < \frac{\sigma(Q^K)}{\bar{n}},$$
for an even perfect number $M = {Q^K}{{\bar{n}}^2} = (2^p - 1)\cdot{2^{p - 1}}$ given in Euclidean form, with the inequality
$$\frac{\sigma(q^k)}{n} < \frac{\sigma(n)}{q^k},$$
for an odd perfect number $N = {q^k}{n^2}$ given in Eulerian form.  This second inequality was originally conjectured in \cite{Dris3-1}, and in fact, it has been recently shown (see \cite{Dris}) to be equivalent to the conjecture $q^k < n$, which originally appeared in the M.~Sc. thesis \cite{Dris5}.

Details for the proof of the biconditional
$$q^k < n \Longleftrightarrow \sigma(q^k) < \sigma(n) \Longleftrightarrow \frac{\sigma(q^k)}{n} < \frac{\sigma(n)}{q^k}$$
are clarified online in \url{http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/548528}.
\end{rem}

The next section will explain our motivation for pursuing a proof for the following conjecture:

\begin{conj}\label{Conjecture1}
If $N = {q^k}{n^2}$ is an odd perfect number given in Eulerian form, then the conjunction
$$\{k = \nu_{q}(N) = 1\} \wedge \{q^k < n\}$$
always holds.
\end{conj}

\section{On the Conjectures of Sorli and Dris Regarding Odd Perfect Numbers}\label{Section3}
We begin this section with a recapitulation of the two main conjectures on odd perfect numbers that have been mentioned earlier in this article.

\begin{conj}\label{Conjecture2}
Sorli's conjecture states that if $N = {q^k}{n^2}$ is an odd perfect number given in Eulerian form, then
$$k = \nu_{q}(N) = 1$$
always holds.
\end{conj}

\begin{rem}\label{Remark4}
Dris gave a sufficient condition for Sorli's conjecture in \cite{Dris3}.  Some errors, however, were found in the initial published version of that article, and Dris had to retract his claim that the biconditional
$$k = \nu_{q}(N) = 1 \Longleftrightarrow n < q$$
always holds.  (The current published version of \cite{Dris3} contains a proof only for the one-sided implication $$n < q \Longrightarrow k = \nu_{q}(N) = 1.$$
In two [continually] evolving papers [see \cite{Dris} and \cite{Dris2}], work is in progress to try to disprove the converse
$$k = \nu_{q}(N) = 1 \Longrightarrow n < q$$
and thereby get a proof for Conjecture \ref{Conjecture1}.)

Moreover, Acquaah and Konyagin \cite{AcquaahKonyagin} \emph{almost} disproves $n < q$ by obtaining the estimate $q < n\sqrt{3}$ under the assumption $k = \nu_{q}(N) = 1$.  (Since the contrapositive of the implication $n < q \Longrightarrow k = 1$ is $k > 1 \Longrightarrow q < n$, we know that Acquaah and Konyagin's estimate for the Euler prime $q$ implies that the inequality
$$q < n\sqrt{3}$$
holds unconditionally.)

Curiously enough, the two papers \cite{Dris3} and \cite{Dris-2} by Dris are cited in OEIS sequence A228059 \cite{OEIS-A228059}, whose description is reproduced below:

Odd numbers of the form $r^{1+4L}s^2$, where $r$ is prime of the form $1+4m$, $s > 1$, and $\gcd(r,s) = 1$ that are \emph{closer to being perfect than previous terms}.

\emph{Coincidentally}, the ``Euler prime'' of the first $9$ terms in this OEIS sequence all have exponent $1$:

$$45 = {5}\cdot{3^2}$$
$$405 = {5}\cdot{3^4}$$
$$2205 = {5}\cdot{(3\cdot7)}^2$$
$$26325 = {13}\cdot{({3^2}\cdot{5})}^2$$
$$236925 = {13}\cdot{({3^3}\cdot{5})}^2$$
$$1380825 = {17}\cdot{({3}\cdot{5}\cdot{19})}^2$$
$$1660725 = {61}\cdot{({3}\cdot{5}\cdot{11})}^2$$
$$35698725 = {61}\cdot{({3^2}\cdot{5}\cdot{17})}^2$$
$$3138290325 = {53}\cdot{({3^4}\cdot{5}\cdot{19})}^2.$$
\end{rem}

\begin{conj}\label{Conjecture3}
Dris's conjecture states that if $N = {q^k}{n^2}$ is an odd perfect number given in Eulerian form, then
$$q^k < n$$
always holds.
\end{conj}

\begin{rem}\label{Remark5}
Prior to the paper \cite{AcquaahKonyagin} by Acquaah and Konyagin, and the data from OEIS sequence A228059 \cite{OEIS-A228059} as detailed out in Remark \ref{Remark4}, the only heuristic available to justify Dris's conjecture that $q^k < n$ was the inequality
$$I(q^k) < \frac{5}{4} < \sqrt[3]{2} < \sqrt{\frac{8}{5}} < I(n).$$
(See the paper \cite{Dris3} for a proof.)  In particular, the \emph{heuristic justification} is that the divisibility constraint $\gcd(q^k, n) = \gcd(q, n) = 1$ appears to induce an
``ordering property'' between certain divisors of an odd perfect number related via an appropriate inequality between their abundancy indices.  That is, Dris expects his conjecture $q^k < n$ to follow from the last inequality above, in the sense that the inequality $q^k < n^2$ appears to have followed from the related inequality
$$I(q^k) < \frac{5}{4} < \sqrt{2} < \frac{8}{5} < I(n^2).$$

Additionally, note that all of the $8$ terms (apart from the first one) in the OEIS sequence mentioned in Remark \ref{Remark4} satisfy Dris's conjecture.
\end{rem}

\section{Conclusion}
To conclude, a recent e-mail correspondence of the author with Brian D. Beasley of Presbyterian College revealed the following information, quoted verbatim from page 25 of \cite{Beasley}:

``Before proceeding with Euler's proof, we pause to note that his result was not quite what Descartes and Frenicle had conjectured, as they believed that $k=1$, but it came very close. In fact, current research continues in an effort to prove $k=1$. For example, Dris has made progress in this direction, although his paper refers to Descartes' and Frenicle's claim (that $k=1$) as Sorli's conjecture; Dickson has documented Descartes's conjecture as occurring in a letter to Marin Mersenne in 1638, with Frenicle's subsequent observation occurring in 1657.''

It might be wise (at this point) to delve deeper into this little bit of history in mathematics, to attempt to answer the particular question of whether Descartes and Frenicle used \emph{similar} or totally different methods to arrive at what we have come to call as Sorli's conjecture on odd perfect numbers.  Perhaps they \emph{both} used methods similar to the ones used in this article - who knows?  Besides, Mersenne's predictions for succeeding primes $p$ for which $2^p - 1$ turned out to be a Mersenne prime were already stunning as they were.  Did Mersenne use an \emph{algorithm}, for testing primality of Mersenne prime-number candidates, that remains unknown to the rest of us to this day?  Only time can tell.

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The author would like to thank Dr. Severino V. Gervacio for having served as his M.~Sc. thesis adviser, and for pointing out to him the (potentially) feasible approach of tackling Sorli's conjecture as a simplifying (and working) hypothesis to narrow down the search space (for an odd perfect number) to a bare minimum.  The author is also greatly indebted to Dr. Fidel R. Nemenzo for consenting to be an external defense panelist to his M.~Sc. thesis, and is also grateful to Dr. Leonor A. Ruivivar and Mrs. Sonia Y. Tan for their help in scrutinizing the manuscript drafts during the thesis proposal and final defense stages.  He thanks Professor Carl Pomerance for pointing out the relevance of the paper \cite{AcquaahKonyagin}, as well as Peter Acquaah for helpful e-mail exchanges on the topic of odd perfect numbers.  Lastly, he would like to express his gratitude to his research collaborator at Far Eastern University, Keneth Adrian P. Dagal.

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A new study could overturn the long-held belief that full-fat dairy products are not beneficial to good health. Since the 1940s, doctors, nutrition experts, and researchers have promoted a low-fat diet as a healthy way to avoid cardiovascular disease–related deaths. Heart disease and stroke have long been assumed to be a result of a diet high in saturated fat.
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The new research adds to a growing body of evidence that flips the fat discussion. Indeed, the study suggests that the much-maligned fats may in fact help protect people against these health conditions, not increase their risks.
For the 22-year study, researchers evaluated biomarkers of dairy-related fatty acids in blood samples of more than 2,900 adults ages 65 and older. The amount of three specific dairy-related fatty acids in blood plasma were taken at the study's initiation in 1992, and then 6 and 13 years later. During the study period, 2,428 people died of which 833 were from heart disease.
The study found that participants who had high circulating levels of dairy-related fatty acids were less likely to die from heart disease than people with lower levels. Moreover, people with the highest circulating levels of one particular fatty acid — heptadecanoic — were 42 percent less likely to die from stroke. This fatty acid, the researchers suggests, may have protective benefits against stroke.
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Kim Kardashian, Superstar (également connu simplement sous le titre de Kim K Superstar) est un film pornographique américain de 2007 mettant en vedette la personnalité de la télévision américaine Kim Kardashian et le chanteur-acteur Ray J. Il montre le couple ayant des rapports sexuels en octobre 2002 pendant ses vacances à Cabo San Lucas au Mexique.

Contexte
Le film met en scène Kim Kardashian et Ray J en octobre 2002, dans un complexe de luxe Esperanza à Cabo , au Mexique, pour le 23 anniversaire de Kardashian. Ray J a filmé une grande partie de la fête avec un caméscope de poche, le capturant lui et Kim Kardashian "en train de faire des bêtises " et aussi avoir des rapports sexuels.

Kim Kardashian était relativement inconnue avant la sortie de la vidéo. Elle était principalement connue comme la fille de Robert Kardashian, qui a été l'avocat de la défense d'O. J. Simpson lors du procès pour meurtre de celui-ci en 1995. Kim Kardashian était également connue comme une amie et une styliste personnelle pour Paris Hilton après qu'elle est apparue dans 4 épisodes de l'émission de Paris Hilton, The Simple Life, de 2003 à 2006. Kim Kardashian a rencontré Ray J en 2002, alors qu'il travaillait comme styliste personnel pour sa sœur, Brandy Norwood.

En décembre 2018, Kim Kardashian a admis qu'elle avait pris de l'ecstasy (MDMA) pendant le tournage de la cassette.

Sortie
Le film est sorti le 21 mars 2007 par Vivid Entertainment. Selon un communiqué de presse publié par Vivid Entertainment, la société a acheté la bande à un « tiers » pour 1 million de dollars.

En février 2007, avant la sortie du film, Kim Kardashian a poursuivi Vivid Entertainment pour invasion de la vie privée et pour les profits et la propriété de la bande, mais elle a abandonné le procès à la fin avril 2007, se mettant d'accord avec Vivid Entertainment pour 5 millions de dollars.

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Battle for Syria gas field after jihadists execute hundreds: NGO
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BEIRUT: Syrian government forces launched an offensive Saturday to retake a gas field in Homs province seized two days ago by Islamic State jihadists who killed 270 people, most of them executed, a monitoring group said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported that a woman accused of adultery was stoned to death by the jihadists in the northern city of Raqa, in the second such case in as many days.
Syrian troops backed by warplanes pressed a counter-attack Saturday around Shaar, recapturing large areas of the gas field, said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.
"They are advancing in Shaar and have managed to regain large parts of it, while trying to control surrounding areas that fall under the control of the Islamic State," he said.
"Regime forces are conducting air raid and clashes are taking place on the ground," he added.
The counter-attack had killed at least 40 IS militants and 11 soldiers while 10 other troops were wounded, said the Observatory which relies for its information on a network of activists and medics on the ground.
It described Thursday's takeover of the Shaar field as the biggest anti-regime operation by the IS since the jihadist group rose to prominence last year among rebel groups in the Syrian conflict.
The watchdog said it had documented "the deaths of 270 people killed in the fighting or executed" by the jihadists. "A large majority of the men killed were executed at gunpoint after being taken prisoner following the takeover of the camp," said Abdel Rahman.
"Eleven of the dead were civilian employees, while the rest were security guards and National Defense Forces members," he added.
The fate of nearly 100 people who worked at the site remains unknown.
There was no official confirmation of the reports but supporters of President Bashar Assad's regime posted photographs of the dead.
One pro-regime Twitter user said: "Thirty martyrs were brought to Homs hospital from the Shaar gas field... Homs is still bleeding."
Gruesome footage apparently recorded by the jihadists at the gas field and distributed via YouTube showed dozens of bodies, some of them mutilated, strewn across a desert landscape.
One video shows a jihadist posing with the bodies as he speaks in German interspersed with religious terms in Arabic, seemingly celebrating the killings.
On Friday night on a main square in Raqa, IS jihadists stoned to death a woman they accused of adultery, the Observatory said, citing residents of their stronghold.
"Because residents refused to take part in the stoning, the IS fighters themselves executed the woman," it said, adding that they pulled up a truck filled with rocks for the killing.
The jihadists also stoned a young woman to death for adultery in Raqa on Thursday. Abdel Rahman identified her as a 26-year-old widow.
According to a local activist, who said that the public stoning took place in a square in the Raqa provincial town of Tabqa, residents are "terrified but do not dare react to such barbaric methods."
The jihadists proclaimed an Islamic "caliphate" straddling Syria and Iraq last month and have also taken over Syria's oil-rich Deir Ezzor province.
Deir Ezzor borders Homs province as well as Iraq, where the jihadist group has spearheaded a major Sunni militant offensive that has seen large swathes of territory fall out of the Baghdad government's control.
On Saturday regime forces clashed with IS jihadists in the western part of the province, the Observatory said.
Meanwhile nine people were killed in a car bomb attack in the rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of Damascus, it said.


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By Charles J. Hynes	• April 17, 2013 @ 7:00 pm
A friend recently had the unfortunate experience of being a victim of a crime. The individual who stole the property was arrested and we are not sure what exactly happens at this point.
A criminal case usually starts with a person's arrest by the police. After the arrest, basic personal information is gathered, and the person is fingerprinted and photographed. The person is then brought before a Criminal Court judge to be "arraigned" on the charges he or she is accused of committing.
At arraignment, the prosecution officially begins. The accused person, now called the defendant, is told about the pending criminal charges. He or she enters a plea of guilty or not guilty. If a not guilty plea is entered, the judge decides if the defendant will be released on bail. Also, the judge will assign a lawyer to represent the defendant if he or she cannot afford one.
If the defendant is accused of committing a misdemeanor, the case remains in Criminal Court and is adjourned to a later date. If the defendant is accused of committing a felony, a crime for which a prison sentence of more than one year can be imposed, and the defendant is not released on bail, the case must be presented to a grand jury within 120 to 144 hours unless the defendant waives this requirement.
If the grand jury does not indict the defendant within that time frame, the court must release the defendant unless certain exceptions apply. Even if the defendant is released, the grand jury may still hear the case and indict the defendant.
In New York State, if a defendant is charged with a felony, the case must be presented to a grand jury unless the defendant waives this right. A grand jury consists of 23 community members.
At least 16 must be present to hear a case, and 12 are needed to vote and return a "true bill," also known as an indictment. Grand jurors are selected from the same jury rolls used for all of us when we are called to jury duty.
During a grand jury proceeding, an assistant district attorney presents evidence in a secret proceeding. If the grand jury votes to indict a defendant, he or she is arraigned once again, this time in New York State Supreme Court, where a new bail determination is made. The case will remain in Supreme Court until its final resolution.
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Saskatoon police investigated	Greg Pender / The StarPhoenix
Saskatoon police are looking for two males and one female in connection to an armed robbery at a Diefenbaker Drive business Monday evening.
Police say three people entered a business in the 3000 block of Diefenbaker Drive at 8:30 p.m. and demanded money and had a knife.
In a media release, police say the three got away with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Police say the female was described as wearing a black jacket and dark grey pants, while one of the males, described as 5'11 tall and approximately 200 pounds, was described as wearing a black jacket with brown fur trim around the hood, blue jeans and a Chicago Bulls cap. The other male is described as 5'10 tall, approximately 170 pounds, wearing a black jacket, black Adidas pants and a black hat.
Police are asking anyone with information to contact them or Crime Stoppers.
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9 Funny Things About Table Tennis No One Talks About
by admin, under tabletennis
One of the cool things about table tennis is that although there is some work involved, you probably aren't going to log as many miles as you would chasing a real tennis ball around an actual concrete court. So, with that in mind, here are a few of the funny things you probably don't already know about table tennis.
1 – Playing Table Tennis For Real Is Different Than On Your Smartphone
To acknowledge your level of nerd-dom, we get that you can spend all day playing table tennis without breaking a sweat. However, just because there are several apps on your phone to do this doesn't mean you are playing the game. Table tennis is played on a table surface. If it were not intended as such, it would have been named tablet tennis or app tennis and what kind of attractant would that be?
2 – Historically, Table Tennis Was Used For Hunting Purposes
Okay, Brainiac, how do you think the great hunters of ancient times (we're talking pre-1970 here) used their table tennis skills to hunt for food on the open plain? If you said they threw the tables at the animals to spook them out so other hunters could fire arrows at them…you'd be wrong. You also would not have the ability to understand the mechanics of the game truly. By the way, the ping pong balls were paddled at the animals until they could not take it anymore and gave up. Or at least that's what our Uncle Gary used, and he was a smart guy.
3 – A Very Important Phrase Came From Table Tennis
You've heard it many times, and likely have used it yourself. When someone is going up a crappy creek without a paddle, it is pretty much an indication that they are in some serious trouble. The common misconception is that this well-known saying came from canoeing. Actually, it originated from a sport once played that was called 'Shoreline Table Tennis.' It was usually played during flood season and was a rite of passage for young boys. If your camp got flooded out, wiping out your table tennis set up, you were said to be drifting up a creek without your paddle. The canoe community stole that some time ago to try to make their boring sport seem hip.
4 – Table Tennis Is Illegal In Some States
Typically in the States that are referred to as being home to Rednecks or other, shall we say, Southern-Americans, table tennis is viewed as a sport that does not belong in such macho territory. Testosterone rules this part of the world and tennis playing in any form is labeled as a 'sissy sport' and is punishable by one of several types of tortures related to manly activities. They fall under the categories of hunting, fishing and general lack of personal hygiene. You may be able to dodge the embarrassment if you can fake the part. In other words, start learning how to chew tobacco and swill beer…today!
5 – There Is An Underground Table Tennis League
Because playing table tennis has a stigma with it in many places around the Western World, a number of underground Table Tennis Leagues have formed. They are organized to the point where they will award franchises to cities and conduct regularly scheduled team matches. The Championship Playoffs and final game are so popular that they are broadcast on two different 'illegal' television networks and garner tens of thousands of dollars in advertising revenue. Donald Trump owns a few of the leagues.
6 – A Table Tennis 'Ping Pong' Ball Sits On The Surface Of The Moon
NASA won't admit to this, but during the exploits of at least two lunar landings, there was more than golf played on the surface of the Moon. In fact, unconfirmed reports point to the fact that several of the astronauts who walked and played on the giant floating piece of cheese was known to be considered experts in their respective table tennis leagues. Apparently, a feud between two of them (and we will not reveal who they were) led to a grudge match just outside the thingy they used to land on the Moon. No one knows who won, but there is most definitely one ping pong ball covered in Moondust up there and at least one more flying around the gravitational field with millions of other pieces of random space junk.
7 – Table Tennis Is The Politically-Correct Term For The Game
We've mentioned it a couple of times already, but table tennis is not ping pong. Ping pong is not table tennis. Well, at least not in the Free World. Several decades ago it was determined by a governing body that protects all the rules and regulations related to table tennis that the name ping pong was too um, pedestrian. It lacked something. You know, the name wasn't sexy nor was it interesting. So, the sport became known as table tennis, which, by the way, is also not very sexy or interesting. Regardless, the reputation of the sport has not really improved much at all as the name is considered an insult to professional tennis players the world over.
8 – Table Tennis Has Been Shrouded In Controversy
You may have never heard about the Olympic scandal that revolves around table tennis. The Korean team clearly beat the United States team in the final round during the Summer Games in Rio. However, a video replay of a movie called 'The Full Monty' shows that the player who executed that move had lifted off the floor for a split second. International rules are picky and point out that a table tennis player must have at least one foot touching the floor at all times. A Korean television network owns the only existing video evidence of this error. All other game footage mysteriously disappeared or was erased. Because the 'winning' team is also from Korea, the Gold Medal was not awarded and continues to be noted as an incomplete final match in the record books.
9 – You Can Get A Good Cardio Workout Playing Table Tennis
If you happen to eat a lot of fast food and smoke a lot, table tennis is going to give you a real workout. It is a sport you can start playing seated at the end of the table, but eventually, you'll want to try to win a few games which means putting the rest of your body into it. Doctors claim that four out of five players dislike the game but play it to avoid injuries from participating in more strenuous sporting activities.
10 – Table Tennis Is Not The Official Sport In Prison
Thanks to the wizards in Hollywood, most films that are either set in prison or feature a scene or two in prison often show a playful game of table tennis either in the background or as the main event. This is not to be taken seriously as most prisons have outlawed the game due to its violent nature and that the paddles and balls can be used to inflict injury. The only reason why you see table tennis appearing in these movies is because of clever marketing and product placement. In an effort to 'macho-up' the reputation of the sport, the table tennis governing bodies work tirelessly to lobby filmmakers to include table tennis somewhere in a movie.
Table Tennis Is Actually A Lot Of Fun For Everyone
Okay, we went a little overboard here. Table tennis is actually a very popular and inexpensive activity that is suitable for anyone to play. Dorms, schools, and most anywhere young people congregate usually have a table somewhere for this purpose. If you are seeking a fun and active game you can play indoors that offers a bit more challenge than online poker, table tennis may be your new best friend. It is easy to learn how to play, and beginners need little skill other than some hand and eye coordination in order to pick the game up.
If you are a whiz and any online game that you play on your tablet or iPhone, table tennis is a perfect match for you. If you have been looking for a new drinking game or just a way to meet new people in your dorm or local community center, this game will help you with all of this and more. Plus, if you get really good at it, you may end up at the Olympics one day. Or at least an extra in the background of a prison scene in a movie!
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On Prophecies Come To Pass, saxophonist Sabir Mateen's Shapes, Textures, and Sound Ensemble delivers a rousing program of classic free jazz that rarely relents in its intensity. Recorded live in Brooklyn, this album captures the group at its rapturous best. Dedicated to late trumpeter Raphe Malik, the ensemble pushes its post-Ayler dynamics to the heavens.
Multi-instrumentalist Mateen coaxes an array of sounds from his many horns; his alto is light and buoyant, with an assertive edge; his raucous tenor stylings are delivered with a robust tone; the fluid tendrils from his alto clarinet end in keening cries; his flute is somber and delicate. Both trumpet player Matt Lavelle and trombonist Steve Swell generate brassy fanfares and blustery exhortations in line with Mateen's delivery. Swell has a brash timbre, with a tendency towards growling and gutbucket avant gardism. Lavelle's trumpet is brassy and strident, leaving a scorched path in its wake.
Bassist Matthew Heyner and drummer Michael T. A. Thompson are a rough-and-tumble pair, with just enough of an edge to keep the horn players alert and on their toes. Heyner meshes well with Thompson's nervous percussive energy, driving the rhythm section into a flurry of activity.
From the onset of "Sekasso Blues," the front line swoops in with a swaggering gospel-tinged blues that grows increasingly fertile. "Everyone's Got Something To Say" features blistering collective free improvisation and "Children Of The Creator" ends the session with an Ayleresque climax. The title track recalls a more dynamic variation on John Coltrane's "Ascension" theme, sounding epic in its sweep and diverse range of emotions.
Even during the most intense passages, the quintet knows when to leave space. There are numerous periods of frenzied group improvisation, yet the most blisteringly intense moments tend to be balanced out by brief interludes of relative calm and space. Mateen includes a pair of lower intensity numbers. The abstract blues of "Sentimentally" and "The Beauty Within," a poignant set piece for Mateen's delicate flute work and Heyner's bowed bass, provide sonic respite.
The live recording is rough and a bit ragged at times, but that lends itself well to this sort of impromptu document. While nothing in this program veers far from free jazz traditionalism, this is music of conviction and soul. Prophecies Come To Pass is a invigorating example of today's finest free jazz musicians keeping the flame alive.
Track Listing: Sekasso Blues; The Beauty Within; Everyone's Got Something To Say; Prophecies Come To Pass; Sentimentally; Children Of The Creator.
Personnel: Sabir Mateen: tenor and alto saxophones, flute, Bb and alto clarinets; Matt Lavelle: trumpet, pocket trumpet, flugelhorn, cornet; Steve Swell: trombone; Matthew Heyner: bass; Michael T.A. Thompson: drums, percussion.


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Is American Liberty Toast?
Posted on February 12, 2016	by TPOL Nathan
Libertarian Commentary #16-06D By Nathan Barton
IT'S OVER. TOAST. Townhall reports that the last four people at the Malhour National Wildlife Refuge standoff have surrendered, apparently without bloodshed and with no promises of no arrests and no prosecution (not that such promises by the FedGov OR the State of Oregon would have been kept). Despite some final drama by one of the four, the 41-day standoff ended without gunfire. [Except the murder at the roadblock, of course. ML]
I still believe that it was too little, too early, and in the wrong location and setting. There will be another one, and another one. There are many lessons to be learned from this, and sadly, most people (on any and all sides) will NOT learn them. Finally one of these WILL spin out of control, and the killing will eclipse Ruby Ridge and Branch Davidian/Waco and Kent State and similar recent examples. Indeed, it may be the scale of violence as not seen since the Ludlow Massacre (striking miners in Colorado, killed by company police and National Guardsmen) or even Wounded Knee (Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Ghost Dancers and families killed by the 7th US Cavalry (which also took a fair number of casualties, possibly from friendly fire). The chickens WILL come home to roost.
Same thing when we look at other enemies of the people, peace, prosperity, and liberty of the Fifty states. An interesting piece in Eagle Rising reports that a Muslim in Detroit had targeted a church meeting for attack because it would be easy, since people are not allowed (in Michigan) to legally carry weapons in the church meeting house. "When investigators asked Abu-Rayyan why he allegedly wanted to target a church, he said, "It's easy, and a lot of people go there, plus people are not allowed to carry guns in church. Plus it would make the news. Everybody would have heard. Honestly, I regret not doing it. If I can't go do jihad at the Middle East I would do a jihad over here." Supposedly, unlike most of these incidents where some DHS or FBI instigator has egged on would-be jihadists, Abu-Rayyan had been preparing for quite some time and had even purchased an Ak-47 because he'd seen pictures of ISIS terrorists carrying them. He also kept a sword in his car because he had a fantasy of beheading someone, "It is my dream to behead someone,"he told investigators. The Muslim Michigander even spoke of killing the police officer who originally arrested him after hearing that the cop had had a heart attack and was in the hospital. Abu-Rayyan said that he wanted to do a "martyrdom operation" and attack the hospital in an effort to kill the recovering police officer.
The National Center for Political Analysis has a good analysis of the recent SCOTUS decision downchecking the current White House and EPA interpretation of the Clean Air Act. "Yesterday, the Supreme Court vote dealt a major blow to President Obama and his Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Air Act. The Clean Air Act requires EPA to set national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for ozone and five other pollutants considered harmful to public health and the environment. However, the Clean Air Act would have severe consequences, as emphasized here by the Supreme Court vote."
This is near and dear to my heart, because EPA and State interpretations of what Congress put into the Clean Air Act and all the amendments to it over the years, hurt my clients constantly, and cost a great deal of money for VERY little (if any) impact on air quality. Remember that basically, the CAA and all the thousands of pages of regulations and thousands of permits issued to everyone from pet cremators to sand and gravel crushing and screening to paint spray booths in car repair shops, ALLOWS people and their activities TO POLLUTE, in violation of common law. But as far as the EPA and the various State (and Tribal) agencies are concerned, it is a source of power and creates the opportunity for even more corruption than would be the case otherwise (no government is free from corruption).
Mama's Note: The common denominator seems to be that some can purchase an indulgence to pollute at will, while others are forbidden to engage in normal business endeavors that don't even produce pollution of any kind. The massive C02 as "pollution" being one of the largest, but by far not the only example.
Politics 2016: feelings are mixed about John McAfee's bid for the Libertarian nomination for President this year. Personal Liberty has an article about the centerpiece of his campaign: cybersecurity and the FedGov. He is, generally, for the first and against the other. But his software (no longer under his control, I understand) stands as a monument against him. And this "centerpiece" has an air of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. American liberty may not be toast but it seems to me that the LP is: Johnson and McAfee and ???
Mama's Note: Sorry, but the Libertarian Party was "toast" the day the non-aggression principle was overshadowed by a dozen non libertarian platform planks… somewhere before 1980. Has been the fifth leg of the same old political dog since then.
Really? Katie Pavlich at Townhall looks at the results of this week's primary in New Hampshire and jumps immediately to an unsupported claim and fear that "the millennial generation now sees socialism as better than capitalism." She is referring to the free market, but is basing her claim on how DEMOCRAT voters in that age cohort were overwhelmingly in favor of Sanders and NOT Clinton. First, the major difference on economic issues between the two is that Clinton lies about being a socialist; Sanders does not. The other point she missed is that New Hampshire, and Democratic voters, do NOT represent ALL of that generation (or any other). Doesn't mean that the country isn't toast, but the real root reason is NOT socialism versus capitalism, but the state. If we accept the mandatory government idea of the state, in the long run, it is ALL socialism.
Mama's Note: Far too many people have no idea what either term actually means, or how their chosen overlords plan to use them. They mostly want their cake and to eat it as well. They wish to be free to do what they like, of course, but reserve the idea that their government can and should redistribute the wealth to them, as well as prohibit things and actions, even feelings and thoughts of which they disapprove.
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1 Response to Is American Liberty Toast?
Darkwing says:
I agree with Mama Liberty: the Libertarian party has just become another party. Their policy's have changed, the state party's disagree with the national party and the national party does nothing. On the crap in OR: it is not Ruby Ridge or Waco. The feds started both, the crap in OR was started by the Bundys, they were told not to come and starte anything but they did. Taking over the federal build was WRONG. The Bundys wanted a fight and they got one. I hope they all rot in prison.


About me (who I am depends on my mood) | Why is her so stroppy?
A stroppy older mum's reflections on parenting – after 10 years of hit-and-miss motherhood, gut-wrenching guilt, endless frustration.
Find out why my blog is called Why is her so stroppy? ( apart from obviously summing up my daily state of mind since turning 40 a few years ago).
I'm also an expat mum, who has lived in Berlin (before kids), Paris (with a newborn) and since then London (on the outskirts) and whose heart will always be somewhere on Table Mountain taking in the most beautiful view in the world.
This is awesome! Thanks for the nomination, I accept! Will attempt to answer the questions and nominate another blogger soon.
I nominated your blog for the Liebster Award! Congratulations! If you hate me for that just ignore this. It means I enjoy reading your blog and you have under 200 followers and someone nominated me so I'm paying it forward! So now the request is that you do the same – answer the following 11 questions, nominate 11 (I only had 8) blogs under 200 followers you like, and relish in the glow of the liebster.
6) What's you're remedy for cleaning your stove top?
8) Organic or who cares?
11) If you believe in a "higher power", how do you define it and/or what do you call it?
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Thanks for stopping by my blog, i look forward to reading yours!
Love this description…don't we all have multiple selves depending on the day/time/mood? As a fellow "older mom", I can relate 🙂 I lived in London for years (and before that Brighton) before moving to Canada. Great place to raise a family (got 2 boys) but missing England a lot. Plan to be there this summer, husband and kids in tow.
And as an expat don't you find you also end up feeling not quite yourself in almost any culture – including your own? You don't quite fit in anywhere any more, apart from communities of expats with similar experiences? Throw into the mix a cross-cultural marriage and you're constantly having to invent new versions of yourself.
Actually, I love being multi-cultural. But it seems to be confusing for others because most people like to have a simple answer to "where are you from?". To say that I was born in Hong Kong and spent my childhood there, people assumed a specific stereotype that does not apply to me..and then through my accent people were confused….a Brit-sounding Chinese in Canada…But all makes for great convo openers.
I do feel significantly out out place in my younger years when England was my home (teenager, both degrees, work) but not according to the UK government (no right of abode), and across the pond Canada reminded me to go back to my legal home (family moved there when I was a minor)….that was very weird. We do have a cross-cultural marriage and it feels very normal and comfortable, especially in a place like Canada.
Love long replies. You and I seem to have a lot in common, although you don't sound nearly as stroppy as I am! I am South African with a German husband, having lived in Cape Town, Berlin, Paris and London. My husband is constantly threatening to move us elsewhere and although I'm terrified, there's a part of me that thrives on new challenges and being multi-cultural like you.
Will go and check out your latest post now.
Thank you for your nomination! I have indeed been nominated twice before and before my head gets too big 😉 – should probably pass on this opportunity – thanks for stopping by and nominating me. Love your gravatar pic. Will check out your blog shortly.
I totally understand. Enjoy your blog : ) Thank you!
Oh dear! Now I am blowign up your head even more. http://jessicaslavin.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/im-a-liebster/. But, you do rock!
Hi there, would it be ok if I mentioned your blog in a list of my favourite blogs that I am planning to add to my blog? I really enjoy your's.
I would be so delighted and honoured. Thank you!
Hi there! I was reading up on your blog just now and had a quick question. Could you please email me back when you have a moment, thanks!


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