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Unlike in the past, the country is now living at a time where diabetes seems to be the norm. Ask someone you know, and he or a member of his family is having this chronic disease.
“We live in an age so conducive for developing diabetes,” says Dr. Joy Arabelle Fontanilla, section chief of Endocrinology at Asian Hospital and Medical Center. “Though diabetes is not spread by contagion, its breeding grounds are ubiquitous nonetheless.”
Diabetes has something to do with the pancreas, about six inches long, and sits across the back of the abdomen, behind the stomach. It plays an important role in converting the food you eat into fuel for the body’s cells.
Diabetes happens when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces. Insulin is a hormone that regulates blood sugar.
“Uncontrolled diabetes leads to serious complications such as stroke, heart attack, end-stage kidney disease, blindness, and lower limb amputation, among others,” says the Department of Health (DOH).
The number of people with diabetes rose from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014, according to the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO). Prevalence has been rising more rapidly in low- and middle-income countries than in high-income countries.
In the Philippines, diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death, the health department states. The number of people with diabetes has considerably increased: from 3.4 million in 2010 to 3.7 million in 2017. “Each day, there at least 100 deaths due to diabetes-related acute or chronic complications,” a study reported.
Among the 770 people with diabetes coming from general hospitals, diabetes clinics, and referral clinics, who were included in a survey conducted in 2008, it was found that 85% of them had uncontrolled diabetes, and almost all (99%) had cardiovascular complications. Foot problems (82%), kidney diseases (81%), neuropathy (67%), and eye difficulties (62%) were the other complications reported.
Actually, there are two general types of diabetes. Type 2, formerly known as non-insulin-dependent, is the most common form; more than 95% of people with diabetes have this type.
“Type 2 diabetes results from the body’s ineffective use of insulin,” the United Nations health agency explains. “This type of diabetes is largely the result of excess body weight and physical inactivity.”
Type 2 diabetes is also used to be called adult-onset diabetes. But later on, it was found that this type also affects children and teenagers, mainly because of childhood obesity. In the Philippines, “children as young as five years old have been diagnosed with diabetes,” says the Philippine Diabetes Association.
“If you have type 2 diabetes, cells don’t respond normally to insulin; this is called insulin resistance,” the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains. “Your pancreas makes more insulin to try to get cells to respond. Eventually, your pancreas can’t keep up, and your blood sugar rises, setting the stage for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.”
More often than not, symptoms of type 2 diabetes develop over several years and can go for a long time without being noticed (in some instances, there aren’t any noticeable symptoms at all). So, there are those who may have diabetes already but don’t know they have the disease.
Sofia Evangelista was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2003. “I’ve experienced all the symptoms,” she told beyondtype2.org. “I was always thirsty, frequently using the bathroom, a yeast infection, and my vision blurry. I was also always hungry. I would eat and then an hour or two later, I was hungry again. It was also tough to sleep at night at times.”
Despite all these symptoms, she was still shocked to learn when the doctor diagnosed her of having diabetes. “I didn’t think the symptoms I was experiencing were due to diabetes,” she said. “No one in my family has it, plus, I didn’t think I was doing anything extraordinary to lead me to this kind of illness.”
Filipino medical experts are in unison that type 2 diabetes cases may surge in the coming years. “The high-risk populations for the development of diabetes that we commonly see are those with family history of diabetes, and those who are obese or overweight,” warns Dr. Jocelyn Capuli-Isidro, a consultant endocrinologist at the Makati Medical Center.
“Similarly important are those who are taking medications that can increase blood sugar,” she continues. “Another important risk for diabetes is a history of gestational diabetes which can lead to more than 40% increased risk for having diabetes in the future.”
The most basic risk factors for type 2 diabetes, according to Dr. Capuli-Isidro, are obesity and a family history of diabetes coupled with poor eating habits and a sedentary or inactive lifestyle.
“Westernization plays an important role in the increasing prevalence of diabetes,” Dr. Capuli-Isidro states. “More white-collar jobs are made available, most of them encouraging sedentary lifestyle. Most people, when at work, are just sitting down and are hooked to their computers.”
There are several ways you can prevent developing type 2 diabetes. Dr. Capuli-Isidro shares the following tips:
Go for an active lifestyle: “Physical activities allow us to burn the calories that we take everyday especially if we take more than what we need,” she says, adding that some effective forms of exercise include bicycling, running, swimming, brisk walking, and even climbing up the stairs.
“Children are encouraged to limit their use of electronic gadgets or television viewing to one hour a day only and instead engage in sports such as basketball, volleyball, and swimming for boys or gymnastics for girls,” Dr. Capuli-Isidro says.
Eat proper diet: Eat a high fiber, low calorie, and low-fat diet. Highly recommended are vegetables and fruits. “These are high in vitamins and minerals and high in fibers, which allow us to feel full right away, preventing undue indulgences in food,” says Dr. Capuli-Isidro.
Choose steamed or roasted food over fried ones. “Home-cooked are preferred over foods that we buy from fast-food chains since these are less fatty,” the doctor says. Red meats should be avoided as they “can increase the risk for diabetes by 20%.”
Maintain an ideal body weight: “Overweight and obesity increases the chance of having diabetes in the future,” Dr. Capuli-Isidro says. Overweight is defined by a body mass index (BMI) greater than 25, while obesity relates to a BMI of 30 or above. The BMI is calculated by dividing body weight (in kilograms) by height (in meters) squared. For example, a person who is 1.7 meters tall and weighs 6.5 kilograms would have a BMI of 22.5.
“Maintaining ideal body weight cuts the chance in half,” Dr. Capuli-Isidro says. “If you are obese or overweight, 7% weight loss at a rate of one pound (0.453592 kilogram) weekly is desirable.”
Get enough sleep every day: Just as diabetes can cause sleep problems, sleep problems also appear to play an important role in diabetes. Too little sleep can increase insulin resistance, the CDC claims. It can also make you hungrier the following day and reduce how full you feel after eating.
“Adequate sleep everyday consists of at least eight hours for adults and 12 hours for growing kids,” Dr. Capuli-Isidro says.
Know your family history: A family history of type 2 diabetes is recognized as a significant risk factor of the disease. “If one parent has diabetes, you have a 3.5-fold higher chance of having it, too, more so if both parents are afflicted causing as high as a 7-fold higher risk of diabetes in the future compared to those without family history of diabetes.”
Consult early with the doctor if obese or overweight: An ounce of prevention, so goes a saying, is better than a pound of cure. This is true in the case of type 2 diabetes. Cleveland Clinic says a person who is obese is about six times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those at a healthy weight.
“In cases of obese or overweight children or adults, having realized the risk for diabetes in them, early consultation with a specialist is very important,” Dr. Capuli-Isidro says. “They can be given a dietary prescription and/or weight-reducing exercise program to follow. If warranted, they can also be prescribed safe weight-reducing medication that can work effectively with their diets and exercise.”
The health department says screening for diabetes and educating the people on its signs, symptoms, ways to prevent and avoid complications play a great role in addressing the debilitating disease.
“Diabetes keeps on increasing in prevalence, but we shouldn’t give up the fight against the disease,” says Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III. “It may be chronic and incurable but diabetes can be managed.”

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Planted in the 1970s, the Frank Herbert Vineyard is owned by winemaker Marco Cappelli. Newsome-Harlow winemaker Scott Klann made a great Zin from this vineyard in 2009, but the 2010 seems sweeter, dialed up on a lot of levels, with more intensity of fruit and alcohol and less of the savory spice that was so attractive last vintage. Still, it's worth tasting for the sake of understanding the vicissitudes of vineyard, vintage and vintner.
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text: Andrew Norwell, former guard of the Carolina Panthers, is expected to sign with the Jaguars at the start of free agency according to NFL.com. The deal is expected to be $66.5 million over 5 years with $30 million guaranteed. The 2017 all-pro would add stability to an offensive line that needs to help Leonard Fournette and the run game continue to improve, and help give Blake Bortles the comfort he needs in the pocket to make good decisions. The Jaguars led the league in rushing, and sacks allowed in 2017. And adding the top graded pass blocking guard from 2017 can only improve those numbers.

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The Horrors and Moon Duo grace The Fillmore with some stunning psychedelic rock.
Los Angeles’ Airborne Toxic Event take over The Fillmore for a three-night residency.
Brits Maxïmo Park bring their inspired and witty performance to San Francisco along with Virgina’s Eternal Summers.
Gary Numan climbs to new heights in San Francisco, along with Big Black Delta and Roman Remains.
Ume blasted through new songs and old favorites during their set at Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco.
The Strypes lead their brand new British Invasion through San Francisco.
The Black Lips brought their antics to San Francisco in support of new album “Underneath the Rainbow”.
The Kooks return to the US, bringing their Brit pop tunes to the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.

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This will be the first matchup of the season between Golden State and Oklahoma City. The Warriors currently own a six-game winning streak over the Thunder with their latest matchup resulting in a 110-98 win on Feb. 7, 2022. Tonight, Golden State will get and up-close look at Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Oklahoma City’s star young player has had a phenomenal start to the season averaging 30.
9 points on 51. 3% shooting from the field, 5. 6 assists, and 4. 8 rebounds per game. Fortunately, the Warriors should have several defensive wings to throw at him including small forward Andrew Wiggins who is slated to return for tonight’s game after missing the last two due to illness. Andrew Wiggins is set to return for the Warriors to open their road trip in Oklahoma City tomorrow night. Not listed on the injury report. — Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) January 29, 2023 Golden State could also use second-year wing Jonathan Kuminga who has continued to impress on both sides of the floor for the Warriors this season.
How to watch Warriors at ThunderThe Golden State Warriors will take on the Oklahoma City Thunder Monday night in their first of a three-game road trip. The game will be played at 5:00 PM PT in Oklahoma City and can be watched on NBC Sports Bay Area. The Warriors enter this road trip winners of their last two, including their latest game played on Friday night when they beat the Toronto Raptors, 129-117. The Thunder meanwhile, are 2-2 in their last four games with their most recent game resulting in a 112-100 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
While defense has been the reason for his increase in minutes, Kuminga got it done with his offense as he hit several critical threes against the Raptors on Friday, Without playing a game this weekend, the Warriors jumped to sixth place in the Western Conference standings. This just shows how tightly packed the West is this season as the Thunder, with a record of 24-25, hold the 11th seed while trailing the Dubs by just one game.


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Worlds Awaiting - Season 4, Episode 15 , Segment 2
Episode: Early Readers, Family Reading, and Web Games
- Apr 27, 2019 4:00 pm
- 4:56 mins
Libraries are known for their storytimes and we are too. Each week at around 15 minutes past the hour, tune in to hear book reviews or live readings of picture books or poetry. Today Rachel shares one of her favorite books "Mr. Jeremy Fisher" by Beatrix Potter.

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Everything is lush and green as far as the eye can see, but after a while there is something that interferes with the green.
Golden glimpse between tall pines. Buttercups. Billions of buttercups.
As if that weren’t enough, the beautiful Icelandic horses adorn the meadow and immortalise this vibrant summer day
That’s what walking is all about:
Beautiful discoveries ❤
There must be fairy miners
Just underneath the mould,
Such wondrous quaint designers
Who live in caves of gold.
They take the shining metals,
And beat them into shreds,
And mould them into petals
To make the flowers’ heads.
Sometimes they melt the flowers
To tiny seeds like pearls,
And store them up in bowers
For little boys and girls.
And still a tiny fan turns
Above a forge of gold,
To keep, with fairy lanterns,
The world from growing old.
By Wilfrid Thorley
The party was at 17 o’clock. We can take a walk in the area before our arrival.
My suggestion was based on the fact that “The adventure is waiting for anyone who understands to grab it.” ¹
Knud Rasmussens adventures were great, but small adventures also have their time on Earth especially when time is short 🙂
It was not a sleigh ride on Greenland, an experience Knud Rasmussen would have preferred, but a hike at an old castle tower and through a tunnel system formed by the last ice age.
¹”The adventure is waiting for anyone who understands to grab it.”
You can walk for hours in the oldest forest in Denmark without seeing a soul.
Then suddenly you see a movement among trees and grasses and sometimes those beautiful animals come to greet you or maybe check your bag for carrots 🙂
He knows when you’re happy
He knows when you’re comfortable
He knows when you’re confident
And he always knows when you have carrots.
The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact
with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit and freedom.
Sharon Ralls Lemon
The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse’s ears
A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
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Baden case goes to superior court
By Andrea Lamberti
Steven H. Baden '92 pleaded innocent Wednesday to charges of burning a dwelling and five counts of armed assault with intent to murder in connection with a fire in the "kosher suite" in Burton-Conner House Jan. 18, The Middlesex News reported yesterday.
Baden was arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court Wednesday, and a pre-trial conference date was set for Feb. 28. Yesterday, the case was dismissed from Cambridge District Court and moved to Middlesex Superior Court.
Wednesday, Judge Paul A. Chernoff reduced the bail from $50,000 surety or $5000 cash to $10,000 surety or $1000 cash on the conditions that Baden be placed on pretrial probation, that he stay away from all prosecution witnesses, and that he stay away from MIT during the trial, The Middlesex News reported.
Both Baden and his attorney, Deborah Finkel, declined to comment on yesterday's court proceedings.
According to The Middlesex News, Assistant District Attorney Crispin Birnbaum declined to comment on a motive, but defense lawyer Eric Levine said the prosecutors may allege that a "previous altercation between Baden and another student over using the suite kitchen" had something to do with the fire being set.
The other student was identified by some sources last month to be David E. Borison '91, Baden's next-door neighbor in Burton Suite 252 -- the kosher suite.
The relationship between Baden and Borison had been on shaky ground for some time before the fire last month, sources said at the time. Borison and Baden "quarreled often. It was a clear case of personality conflict," Shifra S. Teitz '92, president of MIT Hillel, said last month.
One week before the fire, Baden and Borison had had an argument on the standard of kashrut, or "kosherness," in the suite. Borison admitted at the time that this issue had been a point of contention between the two.
Baden was arrested Jan. 18, the day of the fire, after Cambridge Police officers investigated the burned suite, which keeps one of two kosher kitchens on campus.
Baden indicated yesterday that he would like to communicate, but in the end, he said, "No comment." He inquired about the news on campus because he has not been on campus recently.
Borison said yesterday that, to his knowledge, Baden has not communicated with people on campus. "I haven't spoken to him; I don't think anybody's spoken to him since that day, at least in the suite," he said.
Baden first became suspect for the fire the morning it occurred, according to a Jan. 18 Cambridge Police report. The fire had been set with "what appeared to be gasoline," according to the report.
The "pour mark" of the gasoline in the suite existed in front of all the other doors in the suite except Baden's, according to the police report. After examining the scene, the police interviewed the members of the suite.
The officers "spoke to Steven Baden, the occupant of room 252A -- the only room that the fire did not block the door -- and . . . also in this room was found a newspaper rolled up to approximately 36 inches and burnt on the end," according to the police report.
Soon after speaking with the police, Baden "admitted to setting the fire and that he bought the gas [the afternoon before] and placed it in his room" until early in the morning of Jan. 18, the report states, when he "removed the gas from the two plastic containers into a waste basket.
"[Baden stated] then later on he took this basket and poured the gas on the floor" in front of all the other rooms in the suite.
He then "set the basket across from [252B] and took a paper torch and set the gas on fire," the report states. The fire then "flared up, scaring him," Baden said to the police that day.
Baden also admitted to the police that he unlocked Borison's door with a key and that the fire blew the door of Borison's room open.
Borison said he and the remaining members of the suite moved back into a refurbished suite over the weekend of Feb. 1-3. The suite had been repainted, and new rugs and shades were installed, he added.


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In posing the question, what is a country, the documentary also poses related questions. What does it mean to belong or to believe? And how might anyone imagine another way to do either?
I thought [Seborga] was a nice example of a town that literally the entire population believed in this idea of them being an independent principality, of not recognizing Italy.
-- Jody Shapiro
It's an idea. Being a country, being in a country, belonging to a country: all of these are states of mind. Citizenship is also a legal matter, of course, and entails political and social responsibilities. But the country, that begins with an idea. How to Start Your Own Country begins in the Republic of Molassia, the smallest sovereign nation in the world, population 06. President Kevin Baugh wears a military-seeming uniform, medals and sunglasses, as he explains the national Peace Pole, "dedicated to promoting peace around the world." In this tiny country, near the border of California and Nevada, he thinks about the world. "We hope that all people would get along, borders notwithstanding," he says, "We are sort of one big world and we all sort of need to take care of each other."
Does it matter that President Baugh's fellow Molassians are dogs?
As he points out in the early moments of Jody Shapiro's documentary on micronations -- the idea and the practice -- Molassia has an anthem, a post office, a cemetery, and a time zone (39 minutes ahead of Pacific time). The flag, he says, flies over that square pretty much every day, unless it snows and "we don't feel like putting it up." Molassia is defined mostly by what it is ("No real negativity" he says of reactions to his country, "And I'm quite okay with being eccentric") and on occasion, by what it is not. "My wife took off and went to Texas," President Baugh says as he stands over a remarkable outdoor train set. "Which is why most everything from Texas is banned here in Molassia."
The micronation is an idea born of good will and faith, or resistance and sometimes frustration. As it's presented in How to Start a Country -- which screens 18 October at Stranger Than Fiction, followed by a Q&A with Shapiro -- the micronation is also an idea born of basic questions. What is a country? Who defines or recognizes it? Whom and how does it benefit? Some experts cite a country's need "have people" and "have territory," as well as "be viable" and "sustain itself." A country needs to be recognized, too. South Sudan is newly formed, voted by its citizens to be different from Sudan, and voted by the United Nations as a member nation in July 2011. Palestine, the film notes, is still waiting to be recognized.
Plainly, the process of recognition can be fraught. And the film gets at such difficulties obliquely, by observing self-declared micronations, like Mossalia or the Principality of Sealand (with a coat of arms and an official shop) or the Seasteading Institute (where members are planning the exploration and exploitation of resources in the ocean, via floating platforms). In each location, citizens or leaders describe their reasons for so identifying themselves, their pursuits of freedom, or coherence, or even disorder. The film also visits the Free State of Caroline, which recently claimed an island for its location, though it also proclaims itself a "state of mind, an island of people that can grow as larges as it needs to be," according to Consul General Sean Miller. Founder Gregory Green sees an art project in his country: "An artist trains themselves to think creatively," he says, his own art visible in the citizens who pose for their film image, arms outstretched and costumes colorful, "To think outside of the box, to think of new models and new ways of looking at things." And in the mountainside principality of Serboga, a knight named Georgio Pistone notes it has "instruments of a state," as the film shows a soccer game, a kindergarten and elementary school. The country even as the "capacity to create a hydro electric system," Pistone says, then adds, "Of course, there is the issue of size which is limiting." That is, 340 people. Still, he goes on to explain that those officials in Italy who say they don't recognize his nation actually have it backwards: Serboga has existed since 820 AD, a thousand years before Italy was established. The question is, does Serboga recognize Italy?
The issue of how a place is marked and known -- and who benefits from such agreements -- comes up again when the film visits the Principality of Hutt River, in Australia, a country with passports and a website, money, and stamps bearing the image of Prince Leonard George Casley. Having achieved legal status in 1972, the Hutt River Province seceded "on principal as well as necessity," explains Leonard, that "we had to use the law," when the family's farm (some 18,500 acres) was threatened by the Australian government. Since then, the country has welcomed tourists and stamped visitors' passports, sold souvenirs, planted wheat, and maintained independence. His brother, Prince Ian, adds, "If your economy is taken from you and there's a threat of the loss of the land, you're entitled to start a self-preservation government."
He wears jeans and a t-shirt, at ease in a chair near a stone wall, sunlight glinting through the trees behind him. As he sits in his office, backed by insignias of the country, as the camera cuts to close ups of stamps or road signs or monuments, the idea of the country seems more concrete. Seeing the country, on a road or from a distance, on a map or designated on a border marker, you see how other countries, more conventionally powerful and more traditionally recognized, are also based in ideas and emblems, understood and recognized because they have been.
This isn't to say that How to Start Your Own Country offers an actual how-to, or that it observes its subjects ironically. Rather, it presents them as individuals, some representing broader populations, some looking after their dogs, who have thought through what it means to be a citizen, to feel obligation or to see in others a similar inclination, to share a belief. And as they have thought through what it means to constitute an individual and a community, they have also come to embody their micronations.
In posing the question, what is a country, the documentary also poses related questions. What does it mean to belong or to believe? And how might anyone imagine another way to do either? As much as anyone has come to believe in globalization (concept or practice), or even in the global effects (in and as economies, climates, and political alignments), the micro remains a place to begin.


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A global survey has found that that the number of serious international conflicts diminished this year.
Of 193 countries evaluated by the National Defense Council Foundation, 59 have had serious conflicts this year, from separatist-ethnic violence and political fighting to drug trafficking, religious turmoil and a mutiny.
The figure is nine fewer than in 2000, but far more than the cold war average of 35 countries.
The annual report found that most conflicts were ''low-medium intensity and were normally fought between the state and one or more sub-state actors such as a rebel force or a terrorist organization.''Continue reading the main story

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Axess — Seashore
(Spheric Music SMCD 8013, 2018, CD)
by Peter Thelen, Published 2018-12-08
Axess is the electronic musical project of one Axel Stupplich, active since his First Light album was released in 2002, and with about ten albums since, some released with fellow electronic musician Maxess (Maximilian Scheifele), but the one at hand is strictly a solo work. My last exposure to Axess was around nine years ago with his album Fusion, which seemed to be more of a heavily sequenced affair in the Berlin EM style. With Seashore we are in a more surreal floating ambient world of dreamy and otherworldly atmospheres with chill-out beats that maintain a subtle cadence while ideas flow endlessly forward. The tranquility and seeming simplicity of the seven tracks herein are built upon layers and layers of synths underscored with synthesized beats, low-end pulses, and some interesting samples to pique the imagination as each track goes forward. Some of the pieces have defined melodies and even hooks peering through the wall-to-wall atmospherics, “Pure Obsession,” at well over ten minutes being the first of these in the program, following a groove that releases bursts of melodies at times, and sounds that echo through the background flow. Additionally there are sampled spoken voices, just low enough in the mix so one can’t discern what is being said, but nonetheless ramping up the interest level for their duration. “Tranquility Base” goes through several distict phases that flow smoothly from one to the next, and around the eight minute mark fades away completely. The title track is a living, breathing, atmospheric entity that brings on a subtle yet haunting three note melody that marches forward among swirling threads of colorful melodic beauty, until the 4:30 mark when trancey percussives join the parade and run along with it until the piece crosses its twelve minute conclusion. All taken, listening to Seashore is a wonderful and beckoning experience that a listener will want to repeat over and over.
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The Star Trek: Original Series episode “Tomorrow Is Yesterday” takes viewers on a thrilling journey through time and space. As the Enterprise finds itself unexpectedly catapulted back to 1960s Earth while attempting to evade a black star’s gravitational pull, the crew faces a series of challenges that test their moral compass and ingenuity.
The episode begins as the crew realizes their predicament in orbit around Earth during a pivotal period in human history. When an inquisitive U.S. Air Force pilot, Captain John Christopher, spots the Enterprise, the crew is faced with the dilemma of how to handle their newfound visitor. They decide to beam Captain Christopher aboard to prevent him from revealing their existence to the world.
However, complications arise when it is revealed that Captain Christopher’s yet-to-be-born son will play a crucial role in Earth’s first successful mission to probe Saturn. The crew of the Enterprise must now grapple with the ethical implications of their actions. Is it right to alter the course of history by detaining Captain Christopher, potentially jeopardizing humanity’s future space exploration endeavors?
Enter Spock, the ever-logical Vulcan, who devises a plan to ensure both the preservation of the timeline and the safety of the Enterprise. Spock proposes erasing Captain Christopher’s memories of recent events while simultaneously enabling him to fulfill his destiny as the father of an influential astronaut. This delicate balance between maintaining the integrity of time and allowing individuals to fulfill their potential forms the crux of the episode’s narrative.
“Tomorrow Is Yesterday” is a testament to the thematic depth that Star Trek often explores. It raises thought-provoking questions about the consequences of interfering with history and the ethical responsibilities of time-traveling individuals. The episode’s plot showcases the crew’s resourcefulness in navigating complex moral dilemmas, emphasizing the show’s commitment to exploring ethical quandaries through the lens of science fiction.
Moreover, the episode captures the essence of Star Trek’s enduring appeal. It combines elements of adventure, suspense, and intellectual stimulation, while also presenting a hopeful vision of the future. The crew’s ingenuity, teamwork, and unwavering commitment to doing what is right resonate with audiences, making “Tomorrow Is Yesterday” a standout episode in the Star Trek canon.
“Tomorrow Is Yesterday” is a classic episode of the Star Trek: Original Series that masterfully combines time-travel, ethical dilemmas, and a captivating storyline. It showcases the show’s ability to entertain and engage viewers while exploring complex themes. With its thought-provoking narrative and memorable characters, this installment continues to captivate audiences and exemplify the timelessness of the Star Trek franchise.
Star Trek on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek
Dink Ninja Paddle Review: High-Quality Performance!
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118th Toy Fair: Global Toy Companies Showcase Innovative Toys in NYC
Discover the latest innovative toys from global toy companies at the 118th Toy Fair in NYC. Don’t miss this exciting event!
New York, NY – The 118th Toy Fair is set to take place from September 30 to October 3 at the Javits Center in New York City, bringing together over 1,000 global toy companies. Spanning nearly eight football fields, this event showcases the latest and most innovative toys from around the world. From nostalgic ’90s toys to cutting-edge tech gadgets, attendees will get an exclusive, hands-on experience with hundreds of thousands of brand-new toys and games. This is not only an opportunity for trade guests and media to discover this year’s hottest toys but also a chance to catch a glimpse of what’s to come in 2024. The Toy Fair promises exciting visuals, insightful presentations on toy trends, and a parade of costumed characters to kick off the event. Registration is mandatory, and media credentials will be verified. Don’t miss out on this unparalleled play-focused experience that unifies the toy industry’s ecosystem and sets the stage for the holiday shopping season.
About Toy Fair® www.ToyFairNY.com
Toy Fair® is the largest and most comprehensive play-focused experience unifying the toy industry’s entire ecosystem with key players to help with business development and sourcing the latest products from across all forms and stages of play. Featuring thousands of new and unique toys, games, edutainment, entertainment-driven experiences, and more from around the world, Toy Fair offers attendees a competitive edge no other trade event can match.
About The Toy Association www.toyassociation.org / www.thegeniusofplay.org / www.playsafe.org
Founded in 1916, The Toy Association™, Inc. is the business trade association representing hundreds of companies including manufacturers, retailers, licensors, and others who are involved in the youth entertainment industry. The Toy Association leads the health and growth of the U.S. toy industry, which has an annual U.S. economic impact of $102.4 billion. Our manufacturing members account for 93% of U.S. toy and game sales driving the annual $40 billion U.S. domestic toy market. The Toy Association serves as the industry’s voice on the developmental benefits of play and promotes play’s positive impact on childhood development to consumers and media. The organization has a long history of leadership in toy safety, having helped develop the first comprehensive toy safety standard more than 40 years ago, and remains committed to working with medical experts, government, consumers, and industry on ongoing programs to ensure safe and fun play. As a global leader, The Toy Association produces the world-renowned Toy Fair®; advocates on behalf of members around the world; sustains the Canadian Toy Association; acts as secretariat for the International Council of Toy Industries and International Toy Industry CEO Roundtable; and chairs the committee that reviews and revises America’s widely emulated ASTM F963 toy safety standard.
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Hollywood Writers Strike Ends: Guild Approves Contract with Studios
Hollywood writers strike ends as guild approves contract with studios, bringing production back after months of halt. Scriptwriting resumes.
After nearly five months of uncertainty and halted production, the Hollywood writers strike has finally come to an end. The governing boards of the Writers Guild of America, representing both the eastern and western branches, along with their joint negotiating committee, have approved a contract agreement with studios. This decision marks a significant milestone for the industry, allowing the resumption of scriptwriting and the gradual return to normalcy.
Key Highlights of the Contract Agreement:
The contract, spanning three years, encompasses several vital victories that writers had fought for since the beginning of the strike. These wins include improved compensation, longer employment terms, increased staff sizes, and control over artificial intelligence. The agreement closely aligns with the initial demands of the writers, reflecting a compromise between both parties.
Compensation and Employment:
The writers’ union sought higher pay and future residual earnings from shows, and the compromise deal resulted in a raise ranging from 3.5% to 5%. Additionally, the contract introduces new residual payments based on the popularity of streaming shows, ensuring writers receive adequate compensation for their contributions to highly watched properties.
Staffing and Artificial Intelligence:
The contract addresses the issue of staffing, with a requirement that shows intended to run at least 13 episodes must have a minimum of six writers on staff. The number of writers will be adjusted based on the episode count. While the initial desire for guaranteed staffs of six on shows yet to be ordered was not achieved, a guaranteed minimum of three writers was agreed upon.
Furthermore, the agreement grants writers control over the regulation and use of artificial intelligence. AI-generated storylines will not be considered “literary material” or “source” material, protecting writers’ creative contributions and avoiding competition with computer-generated content.
The end of the Hollywood writers strike brings relief to the entertainment industry, allowing the resumption of production and the creation of new scripts. The approved contract represents a significant achievement for the Writers Guild of America, securing important gains in compensation, employment terms, staffing, and control over emerging technologies. As late-night talk shows prepare to return, the agreement paves the way for the gradual comeback of scripted shows as negotiations continue. The Hollywood writers strike, while disruptive, ultimately led to a more equitable and sustainable future for the talented individuals who shape the narratives we love on screen.
For more on the writers and actors strikes, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/hollywood-strikes/
Source: Associated Press
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Beam Physics Seminar
Various techniques for detection of concealed explosives will be reviewed.
Nuclear methods appear to be the most realiable and efficient. Certain
nuclear reactions induces by photons in the energy range of tens of MeV
may signal presence of high concentration of nitrogen and oxygen
characteristic for explosives. Implementation of appropriate techniques
would require continuous beam electron accelerators with variable energies
under 100 MeV.
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When I’m not writing, or spending time with the family, I’m geeking out in one fashion or another.
Last Saturday was International Table Top Day, a day to celebrate a quintessential form of geekery – board games. After a late night writing session around midnight, a fellow author and I decided to kick off celebrations early. I mean, you can’t claim to be a true connoisseur of geekery unless you are up until all hours of the night funking up a room and slamming caffeine. Of course, it was my house after all, so I hung a tree on the chandelier and we got to work.
If I’d simply read about Devastation of Indines, I’d probably have given it a pass. Anime along with Street Fighter type games, while fun, aren’t really my preferred form of social suicide.
In Indines, you control an anime character in a duel. Each character has a distinct style represented by cards which you play in conjunction with a base card to create combinations. A simple flip and reveal mechanism and comparison of the numbers provides the basis for resolving actions. Each character also has abilities which they can add to their maneuvers and an ante system gives players tokens they can spend to charge these abilities.
I played a character with a defensive counter striking powerset and my opponent was a nimble striker. I did well until I completely misread my range during one round and pulled the equivalent of “attacking the darkness”. Still, the game ended very close with the striker eviscerating me final turn.
The game has many other modes – team play, co-operative versus Big Bosses and even allows for solo play. The base set also included around thirty unique characters with their own styles and abilities making for excellent replayability. I’m looking forward to trying that one again.
The next morning, I dragged myself out of bed and headed to the local game shop to play a few other board games – one new and one already a classic.
Tsuro is a tile placement game where you take on the role of a dragon soaring through the sky. With each tile, you place a path and must follow one of the swerving trails. You keep playing until everyone has flown off (or been forced off the board) and the final player is declared king of the swirly-tile-land. I prefer my games to be a little denser in strategy and rules but it was the perfect appetizer for the next game.
I’ve never played the Battlestar Galactica board game but it has become legendary in many gaming circles. Even after a three (four?) hour session, I’m not sure I can claim to have truly played it yet. The rules aren’t necessarily complicated, but there is a lot of turn order fluidity that can really confuse you on your first time through. Generally, I don’t like games where they provide a token to track player turns because you KNOW there is going to be a lot of out of sequence events going down. This one is maybe worth the hassle though.
At the start everyone picks a human member of the crew and is given cards to indicate whether they are in fact, a disguised cylon agent sent to destroy the humans. Due to my noob status, Admiral Adama (me) was apparently soooo unhelpful, Baltar wasted his once per game ability to check if I was one of the fracking toasters.
I wasn’t. I just sucked.
For the entire game, we’d been set upon by basestars and raiders only to find out that not one but BOTH of our pilots were skinjobs (I had one pegged, but didn’t want to believe both pilots were compromised). By the time that information was revealed we were already limping through space, half-starved, down to enough humans to fill a phone booth and several jumps away from Kobol.
I will play that game again and seek VENGEANCE. Or maybe pursue some weird ending where my character transcends the whole conflict and magically disappears.
ITTD is the brainchild of Wil Wheaton, formerly the most annoying STNG cast member, and now highly-regarded gaming ambassador. If you haven’t already, check out Tabletop season 3’s fundraiser over at Indiegogo.

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COMIC CON IS ON!:
Costumed characters pose outside of the convention center on day 1 of the 2014 Comic-Con International Convention held Thursday, July 24 in San Diego. Photo: Associated Press/Denis Poroy/Invision
Wall Street was off more than 1 percent on Thursday, pushing the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones industrial average down 10 percent for the year, as investors jettisoned stocks and scurried toward safer shores.

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Adoptable Pets Available Saturday at Petco Bridgehampton Opening
This Saturday, September 20, Petco will celebrate the grand opening of its new location at the Bridgehampton Commons, and Southampton Animal Shelter will be on hand with pets available for adoption.
The next closest Petco is in Hampton Bays, so this new store inside the shopping center off Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton will save many Petco fans on the South Fork a long trip.
The store is open now, but festivities will begin at 8:55 a.m. Saturday with a ribbon cutting ceremony. The first 100 Petco Pals Rewards customers Saturday will get a $10 gift card. Then on Sunday, the first 50 Rewards customers will receive a Petco tote bag.
The animal shelter will be showing off pets that need a forever home between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.
To view photos of dogs, cats and more animals that are available, visit southamptonanimalshelter.com/pets.
The Bridgehampton Commons are located at 2044 Montauk Highway, Bridgehampton. Call Petco at 631-537-1853.

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Saturday, September 24, 12:30PM-2:30PM
Meeting will take place in the Poetry Center's Alumni Room, Room 205; limit 12 students. Register here.
Writing about the future is far more challenging than simply imagining what might come next. It is a personal act between poet and the world; one that requires us to connect history and what has not yet been seen in order to craft an image of what might be possible. Poets can, in an instant—with one word, or line, or image—lead us (and themselves) from one day to the next, from one world to the next. The future is a contract that states: we will survive the present moment. In this workshop, we will read poems that ask us to believe in what might exist beyond what we know right now. I will provide writing prompts and exercises built around this practice of imagining and ask you, as you write your own poems, to consider how you might be your own guide into the future.


While I certainly think having a regular dialogue between President Obama and the opposition would be a good thing, I hope that if he’s going to give time to the GOP, he also gives time to Democrats, particularly progressive Democrats, for public questioning and debate. This can’t be just about engaging his conservative opponents. He has progressive ones too, progressive Democrats whose legislative agenda he has repeatedly undercut or opposed.
I enjoyed watching Obama swat down dumb Republican talking points last week in Baltimore, but hearing a centrist Democrat tell me why positions slightly to his right are wrong is not interesting to me. Hearing him justify why he is not fighting for health care reform nor labor reform nor immigration reform, on the other hand, would be educational.


China has set a new world record after scientists managed to run their nuclear-powered ‘artificial sun’ at a very high temperature for more than 100 seconds.
According to state media reports, China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) has set a new record in the latest experiment, where it achieved a plasma temperature of 216 million Fahrenheit (120 million C) for 101 seconds.
Not just that, the scientists working on the “artificial sun”, also achieved 288 million Fahrenheit (160 million C) for 20 seconds. The previous record for a maintained plasma temperature was 180 million F (100 million C) for 100 seconds.
Situated at the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) in Hefei, the Tokamak device has been designed to reproduce the nuclear fusion process, something natural to the Sun and stars. The experiment is being carried out to provide infinite clean energy through controlled nuclear fusion.


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Mergers and acquisitions will rise in the UK’s food and drink manufacturing sector in 2014 as business confidence grows, according to financial advisory firm Grant Thornton.
Ashley Clarkson, associate director for food and beverage at Grant Thornton, said private equity firms that acquired companies at the top of the market between 2005 and 2007 were looking to sell them off without taking too much of a hit.
Whereas other businesses, which are “sitting on a lot of cash”, were looking for good investment opportunities in the sector, he added.
Clarkson predicted we would see an increasing interest from potential overseas purchasers of UK companies and food and drink brands. He added that the drink sector would be a likely target.
To view our interactive timeline marking a growing trend for British food and drink brands being sold overseas, click here.
“Going into 2014 there is a lot more optimism – it’s the drip feed of good news and good indicators. Because we have been in such a slow growth economy, if you are going to grow your business, organically it’s a long journey so therefore you look to acquisitions for quicker growth.”

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In March, we started documenting the lives of LGBTQ people who have died from COVID-19. With over 5 Million positive cases and over 180,000 deaths in the U.S., the pandemic continues to impact the country. A lack of LGBTQ-inclusive data makes it difficult to know the full impact of the coronavirus on our community.
I have a confession to make: I missed my hometown Equality Rally for Unity and Pride in Fort Lauderdale. I was on my way south from gay summer camp when I got caught in a massive tie-up that stopped my car for hours — no surprise to all who have to drive on I-95 from Jacksonville and Miami. Looking back, I could have gone to the rally in Nashville, which was close to the camp, or even to the National March in Washington, D.C. Or, I could have gone to the rally in West Palm Beach, had I known about it. But I tried to make it home on time, and I failed.


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Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (November 10, 1879 – December 5, 1931) was an American poet. He is considered a founder of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted.
Lindsay was born in Springfield, Illinois where his father, Vachel Thomas Lindsay, worked as a medical doctor and had amassed considerable financial resources. The Lindsays lived across the street from the Illinois Executive Mansion, home of the Governor of Illinois. The location of his childhood home influenced Lindsay, and one of his poems, "The Eagle Forgotten", eulogizes Illinois governor John P. Altgeld, whom Lindsay admired for his courage in pardoning the anarchists involved in the Haymarket Affair, despite the strong protests of US President Grover Cleveland.
Growing up in Springfield influenced Lindsay in other ways, as evidenced in such poems as "On the Building of Springfield" and culminating in poems praising Springfield's most famous resident, Abraham Lincoln. In "Lincoln", Lindsay exclaims, "Would I might rouse the Lincoln in you all!" In his 1914 poem "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (In Springfield, Illinois)", Lindsay specifically places Lincoln in Springfield.
LLindsay studied medicine at Ohio's Hiram College from 1897 to 1900, but he did not want to be a doctor; his parents were pressuring him toward medicine. Once he wrote to them that he wasn't meant to be a doctor but a painter; they wrote back saying that doctors can draw pictures in their free time. He left Hiram anyway, heading to Chicago to study at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1900 to 1903. In 1904 he left to attend the New York School of Art (now The New School) to study pen and ink. Lindsay remained interested in art for the rest of his life, drawing illustrations for some of his poetry. His art studies also probably led him to appreciate the new art form of silent film. His 1915 book The Art of the Moving Picture is generally considered the first book of film criticism, according to critic Stanley Kauffmann, discussing Lindsay in For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism.
While in New York in 1905 Lindsay turned to poetry in earnest. He tried to sell his poems on the streets. Self-printing his poems, he began to barter a pamphlet titled "Rhymes To Be Traded For Bread," which he traded for food as a self-perceived modern version of a medieval troubadour.
From March to May, 1906, Lindsay traveled roughly 600 miles on foot from Jacksonville, Florida, to Kentucky, again trading his poetry for food and lodging. From April to May, 1908, Lindsay undertook another poetry-selling trek, walking from New York City to Hiram, Ohio.
From May to September 1912 he traveled—again on foot—from Illinois to New Mexico, trading his poems for food and lodging. During this last trek, Lindsay composed his most famous poem, "The Congo". Going through Kansas, he was supposedly so successful that "he had to send money home to keep his pockets empty". On his return, Harriet Monroe published in Poetry magazine first his poem "General William Booth Enters into Heaven" in 1913 and then "The Congo" in 1914. At this point, Lindsay became very well known.
Unlike Lindsay's more purely intellectual contemporaries, the poet declaimed his works from the stage, complete with the extravagant gestures of a carnival barker and old time preacher, from the beginning declaring himself to be a product of what he termed 'Higher Vaudeville': "I think that my first poetic impulse is for music; second a definite conception with the ring of the universe..." (Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters 1935, page 62) This is evidenced by the 1931 recording he made just before his suicide, his still-radical performances of 'The Mysterious Cat', 'The Flower-Fed Buffaloes' and parts of 'The Congo' exhibiting a fiery and furious, zany, at times incoherent delivery that appears to have owed more to jazz than poetry, though the highly religious Lindsay was always reluctant to align himself thus.
Part of the success and great fame that Lindsay achieved—albeit briefly—was due to the singular manner in which he presented his poetry "fundamentally as a performance, as an aural and temporal experience...meant...to be chanted, whispered, belted out, sung, amplified by gesticulation and movement, and punctuated by shouts and whoops."
His best-known poem, "The Congo," exemplified his revolutionary aesthetic of sound for sound's sake. It imitates the pounding of the drums in the rhythms and in onomatopoeic nonsense words. At parts, the poem ceases to use conventional words when representing the chants of Congo's indigenous people, relying just on sound alone.
LLindsay's extensive correspondence with the poet W. B. Yeats details his intentions of reviving the musical qualities of poetry as they were practiced by the ancient Greeks. Because of his identity as a performance artist and his use of American midwestern themes, Lindsay became known in the 1910s as the "Prairie Troubador."
In the final twenty years of his life, Lindsay was one of the best known poets in the U.S. His reputation enabled him to befriend, encourage and mentor other poets, such as Langston Hughes and Sara Teasdale. His poetry, though, lacked elements which encouraged the attention of academic scholarship, and, after his death, he became an obscure figure.
Most contemporaries acknowledged Lindsay's intention to be an advocate for African-Americans. This intention was particularly evident in the 1918 poem "The Jazz Birds", praising the war efforts of African-Americans during World War I, an issue to which the vast majority of the white US seemed blind. Additionally, W.E.B. Du Bois hailed Lindsay's story "The Golden-Faced People" for its insights into racism. Lindsay saw himself as anti-racist not only in his own writing but in his encouragement of a writer; he credited himself with discovering Langston Hughes, who, while working as a busboy at a Washington, D.C., was at the restaurant where Lindsay ate and gave Lindsay copies of his poems.
However, many contemporaries and later critics have contended over whether a couple of Lindsay's poems should be seen as homages to African and African-American music, as perpetuation of the "savage African" stereotype, or as both. DuBois, before reading and praising "the Golden-Faced People," wrote in a review of Lindsay's "Booker T. Washington Trilogy" that "Lindsay knows two things, and two things only, about Negroes: The beautiful rhythm of their music and the ugly side of their drunkards and outcasts. From this poverty of material he tries now and then to make a contribution to Negro literature." DuBois also criticized "The Congo," which has been the most persistent focus of the criticisms of racial stereotyping in Lindsay's work.
SSubtitled "A Study of the Negro Race" and beginning with a section titled "Their Basic Savagery", "The Congo" reflects the tensions within a relatively isolated and pastoral society suddenly confronted by the industrialized world. The poem was inspired by a sermon preached in October 1913 that detailed the drowning of a missionary in the Congo River; this event had drawn worldwide criticism, as had the colonial exploitation of the Congo under the government of Leopold II of Belgium. Lindsay defended the poem; in a letter to Joel Spingarn, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the NAACP, Lindsay wrote that "My 'Congo' and 'Booker T. Washington Trilogy' have both been denounced by the Colored people for reasons that I cannot fathom.... The third section of 'The Congo' is certainly as hopeful as any human being dare to be in regard to any race." Spingarn responded by acknowledging Lindsay's good intentions, but saying that Lindsay sometimes glamorized differences between people of African descent and people of other races, while many African-Americans wished to emphasize the "feelings and desires" that they held in common with others.
SSimilarly, critics in academia often portray Lindsay as a well-meaning but misguided primitivist in his representations of Africans and African Americans. One such critic, Rachel DuPlessis, argues that the poem, while perhaps meant to be "hopeful," actually "others" Africans as an inherently violent race. In the poem and in Lindsay's defenses of it, DuPlessis hears Lindsay warning white readers not to be "hoo-doo'd" or seduced by violent African "mumbo jumbo." This warning seems to suggest that white civilization has been "infected" by African violence; Lindsay thus, in effect, "blames blacks for white violence directed against them."  Conversely, Susan Gubar notes approvingly that "the poem contains lines blaming black violence on white imperialism." While acknowledging that the poem seems to have given its author and audiences an excuse to indulge in "'romantic racism' or 'slumming in slang,'" she also observes that Lindsay was "much more liberal than many of his poetic contemporaries," and that he seems to have intended a statement against the kind of racist violence perpetrated under Leopold in the Congo.
LLindsay's fame as a poet grew in the 1910s. Because Harriet Monroe showcased him with two other Illinois poets—Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters—his name became linked to theirs. The success of either of the other two, in turn, seemed to help the third.
In 1932, Edgar Lee Masters published an article on modern poetry in The American Mercury that praised Lindsay extensively and wrote a biography of Lindsay in 1935 (four years after its subject's death) entitled Vachel Lindsay: A Poet in America.
LLindsay himself indicated in the 1915 preface to "The Congo" that no less a figure than William Butler Yeats respected his work. Yeats felt they shared a concern for capturing the sound of the primitive and of singing in poetry. In 1915, Lindsay gave a poetry reading to President Woodrow Wilson and the entire Cabinet.
Lindsay's private life was rife with disappointments, such as his unsuccessful courtship in 1914 of fellow poet Sara Teasdale before she married rich businessman Ernst Filsinger. While this itself may have caused Lindsay to become more concerned with money, his financial pressures would greatly increase later on.
In 1924 he moved to Spokane, Washington, where he lived in room 1129 of the Davenport Hotel until 1929. On May 19, 1925, at age 45, he married 23-year-old Elizabeth Connor. The new pressure to support his considerably younger wife escalated as she bore him daughter Susan Doniphan Lindsay in May 1926 and son Nicholas Cave Lindsay in September 1927.
Desperate for money, Lindsay undertook an exhausting string of readings throughout the East and Midwest from October 1928 through March 1929. During this time, Poetry magazine awarded him a lifetime achievement award of $500 (equivalent to about $7445 in 2012 dollars). In April 1929, Lindsay and his family moved to the house of his birth in Springfield, Illinois, an expensive undertaking. In that same year, coinciding with the Stock Market Crash of 1929, Lindsay published two more poetry volumes: The Litany of Washington Street and Every Soul A Circus. He gained money by doing odd jobs throughout but in general earned very little during his travels.
Lindsay had a serious love affair with Lucy Bates, a professional modern dancer who lived in New York City. His poem "How a Little Girl Danced" was dedicated to her.
CCrushed by financial worry and in failing health from his six-month road trip, Lindsay sank into depression. On December 5, 1931, he committed suicide by drinking a bottle of Lysol. His last words were: "They tried to get me; I got them first!"
TThe Illinois Historic Preservation Agency helps to maintain the Vachel Lindsay House at 603 South Fifth Street in Springfield, the site of Lindsay's birth and death. The agency donated the house to the state, which then closed it for restoration at a cost of $1.5 million. As of October 8, 2014, the site was again open to the public, with guided tours available on Thursday through Sunday from 1 to 5 pm. Lindsay's grave lies in Oak Ridge Cemetery. The bridge crossing the midpoint of Lake Springfield, built in 1934, is named in Lindsay's honor.
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I have finally put my hands on a copy of Gierach’s most elusive title, Motel Thought in the 70’s. This book of poetry was self-published and self-printed by him in his living room. It is devoid of any decoration or illustration, and is also without copyright or Library of Congress info (he owns the copyright to his own work, of course). This is in contrast to his second work, Signs of Life, which in comparison is executed much more professionally.
The book is 8 ½ by 11 printed on plain-paper size sheets and contains 16 poems. The cover is mustard brown and has the title in block letter and his name in same font, smaller size. A few of the poems are titled but most are not. Exactly two poems contain a line which mention fishing: “wilderness fishing example” and “fishing is over”. Most of the content reveals the struggles of one man’s life: the weather (lots of rain), employment, coffee, cigarettes mostly. After reading it the first time I literally wondered if he was actually living in a motel while writing it. Clearly I am not a critic of poetry, but I felt a sense of desperation, of someone trying to sort out the cards he was dealt.
I’m not quite sure how many copies exist, but I do know it is nearly impossible to find a copy in the open market. I had all but given up finding one until I cold called the owner of the only extant copy I know of, Mike Clark, the famed cane rod builder in Lyons, CO and one of Gierach’s friends. Mike’s website listed it along with all of Gierach’s work for sale – clearly a website long overdue for an update. Kathy (Mike’s partner) explained it is not for sale and even informed me that John does not promote his early poetry because it is not “who he is now”. But to me that is exactly the point- it is who he was and it provides a unique view into his past and it shaped who he is now. I tried to squirm my way into ‘borrowing’ the copy in order to make a photocopy or scan of the contents, and she all but called the cops on me for copyright infringement. We parted ways amicably and I was able to firm a difficult negotiation from them: the copy of Motel Thought in the 70’s in exchange for a 7’ Granger Registered (which is the only rod size missing in Clark’s extensive Granger collection). After doing a few minutes of research I realized they would be getting the better end of that deal.
The conversation sparked renewed interest and I found another copy through an academic channel. But this copy was also non-circulating. In response I reinforced my quest with the help of a resourceful librarian who facilitated an Inter-Library Loan transaction, albeit only temporarily. I now have the title for a very limited time and am enjoying absorbing it.
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Bankers say Google IPO may disappoint
Googleâs innovative online auction of its shares is likely to end up looking a lot like a traditional initial public offering, according to senior bankers.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page, founders of the internet search engine, have opted for an auction in which the price will be determined through bids so that retail and institutional orders are treated equally. Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse First Boston are joint bookrunners for the offering, which is expected to raise $2.7bn (€2.3bn).
However, senior bankers at rival banks are sceptical about how the auction will work in practice. A head of syndicate at a European bank said: “There has been a huge amount of talk and it will be curious to compare the statements out now with the final outcome. In practical terms, I am not sure what the difference will be from a normal IPO.”
In a traditional IPO, the price and allocation is determined by the investment bank with the client. A head of equity syndicate at a rival US bank said: “The two founders obviously wanted to do something different. But, given the involvement of Morgan Stanley and CSFB, there is not going to be a dramatic change.”
WR Hambrecht, the US investment bank, pioneered an internet-based auction system, OpenIPO, in the late 1990s. It failed to take off and Hambrecht has led just nine IPOs using the system since 1999, according to Dealogic, the investment banking research firm.
One argument against an auction is that it leads to allocations to short-term holders who immediately sell. Another is that the issue price is divorced from the company’s fundamentals. Google is attempting to overcome both problems, but its flotation could still end up resembling a traditional offering.
The underwriters will collect all the bids in a master book open to Google but not to bidders, and they will be able to reject “speculative” bids or those that “manipulate or disrupt the bidding process”, according to Google’s SEC filing.


Over the past five years, a CPS employee who worked at two struggling high schools milked them of almost $900,000 in a large, multi-faceted purchasing and reimbursement scam, according to today’s release of the Inspector General’s annual report.
Also, the inspector general report details incidents in which parents falsified their addresses to make it easier for their children to get into selective high schools; and cases in which two high schools mis-categorized dropouts to improve their graduation rates.
The employee accused of the fraud scheme resigned from CPS under investigation and is designated as “Do Not Hire.” The inspector general’s office has been working with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, but no arrests have been made yet.
The report does not name the schools involved, but sources have identified them to Catalyst as Gage Park and Michele Clark.
While this is one of the largest, if not the largest single scheme in the district’s recent history, just two years ago, Lakeview High School’s technology coordinator was found dead after being accused carrying out a similiar scheme. In both cases, the employees worked with associates to funnel money to companies for goods and services that the schools never received, and the scheme was carried for years without being noticed.
CPS spokesman Bill McCaffrey says that CPS “continues to evaluate its procurement processes to increase safeguards and adopt best practices to prevent these occurrences.”
But for several years, the inspector general’s office has been encouraging CPS to provide more resources the internal audit and the inspector general’s office, noting that CPS contracts are lucrative and thousands of people in schools have the authority to request and approve payments to vendors.
This case was flagged during a financial audit, which led to the Inspector General’s report.
In the report, IG Nicholas Schuler notes that his office was able to investigate only 20 percent of the complaints received. The office is limited because it is often investigating big, complex issues and has a small staff of only 13 investigators, plus Schuler and his deputy, to scrutinize the $6 billion school district with 41,000-some employees.
By contrast, Houston Independent has 20 professionals to investigate a school district that is half the size of CPS. In 2011, the IG report noted that Chicago has one inspector for every 2,300 employees, while Cook County has one inspector for every 1,100 employees and the city’s municipal government has an inspector for every 455 workers.
“The inability to investigate more complaints creates a substantial risk that instances of fraud and employee misconduct go undetected,” he writes.
In an interview, Schuler added: “We are undersized and understaffed compared to other IGs in the area.”
Fraud at two high schools
Employee records show that the administrator who orchestrated the fraud in question worked at Gage Park High from at least 2009 to 2012. In 2012, he made $104,000. In the 2013 employee roster, he shows up as a 0.5 (half-time) position at both Clark and Gage Park, with an annual salary of $109,168.
Gage Park High School has seen its enrollment drop by more than 70 percent in the past five years. This summer, when teachers got wind of the investigation, they were outraged.
“We are sinking and nobody cares,” Susan Steinmiller, a 23-year veteran teacher and a representative on the local school council, said this summer. “We have no newspaper, no library, no band, why would anyone want to be here?… I am just really upset because we really need the money.”
In September, however, Gage Park’s principal abruptly retired and CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett hand-picked the principal’s replacement. Byrd- Bennett has said she is personally invested in the revitalization of the school.
According to the IG’s report, the principals of the two high schools did not seem aware of the scheme. But they did put a lot of trust in this one particular employee and one of them gave him their password to the district’s IT system, which helped facilitate the fraud.
Still, questions remain about how so much money could be paid for such an extended period of time without coming to attention of school or district leadership.
The employee used a variety of methods to siphon money to himself. But the majority of the scheme was carried out by engineering payment to a number of companies for more than $700,000 in goods and services that were never delivered to the schools. The Inspector General’s report confirms that the CPS employee in question received at least $100,000 in kickbacks from one of the deals and indicates that the office suspects he received much more.
“In addition to the large cut that Business Owner 4 was keeping, the OIG could not eliminate the possibility that Business Owner 3 or Business Owner 4 kicked back portions of the $581,947 to Employee A, who made over $122,000 in cash deposits—usually round amounts—during this scheme,” according to the inspector general report.
The employee also steered false reimbursements to three of his CPS colleagues and, in at least one case, had the bulk of money given back to him in cash.
The employee also participated in “stringing,” meaning that purchases were distributed to several companies in order to avoid the non-competitive purchasing limits of $10,000.
Beyond the Gage Park case, several incidents of stringing were identified in the Inspector General report and it has been a consistent problem noted in previous reports. At another high school, the school operations manager strung together purchases for office supplies among four businesses and got kickbacks from the companies. The employee was laid off and is designated as Do Not hire.
In two other situations, companies tried to promote “stringing” to schools by getting multiple vendor numbers and advertising the fact that they have them to schools.
Schuler says CPS needs to do a better job of informing operations managers and clerks about stringing and the fact that it is illegal. Also, he acknowledges that some stringing may be done to avoid paperwork or to speed up purchasing.
The report also points to several individual incidents of fraud or ethics violations. One of them, in which two teachers also work as police officers, is not a violation. The IG is recommending that CPS look into making it one.
Dropouts, selective admissions
The inspector also honed in on two high schools, linked by a common administrator, that wrongly labeled a few hundred students as transfers to GED programs or verified transfers, but without confirming them. The report concludes that these students should have been labeled as dropouts or “unable to locate.”
It is unclear whether correctly labeling these students, which as far as the IG knows never happened, would have lowered CPS’ graduation rate—which, at 69 percent, is regularly touted by Mayor Rahm Emanuel as a major accomplishment. Also, many more schools may be miscoding students, as the IG only focused on the two high schools where there were complaints.
None of the three school administrators in this case have been disciplined as recommended by the Inspector General, and one of them has been promoted.
Meanwhile, parents, including some who are CPS employees, got themselves into trouble this past year for falsifying their addresses in order to give their children an edge in getting into selective enrollment high schools–confirming suspicions that parents would try to game the admissions system that now relies on neighborhood and family socioeconomic characteristics rather than primarily on race, as under the former desegregation decree.
According to CPS, last year, 16,000 students applied for 3,200 selective enrollment seats.
Schuler says his office has looked into individual cases of abuses in the past, but wanted to take a hard look at it this year.
“Everyone in the city is trying to get these seats,” he says. “They are highly sought after and we want to make sure the process is fair and honest.”
McCaffrey says that parents should be aware that district leaders are taking misrepresentation seriously and working to try to prevent it. “This may include future audits of students in selective enrollment schools,” he says.
Schuler’s office found12 cases in which parents provided false addresses that would put them in a better position to land a seat; and, in half of those cases, the parents worked for CPS. Schuler says that this is by no means the full scope of the problem, but that his office looked for particular “red flags” and this was the result of that review. In addition, he says the fact that CPS employees tried to cheat the system is particularly egregious.
In two of the cases, the students would have gotten into the selective enrollment high school even if their parents had used their true address. Those students were allowed to continue attending the school and the parents weren’t subjected to any discipline.
However, eight students were dis-enrolled, one student withdrew on their own and another one was allowed to stay because she was going into her senior year. Four of the employees were either fired or resigned.


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Career Transitions & Depression
Depression is a common symptom of many types of life changes, including career transitions. Depending on the specific situation, career transitions can be stressful, anxiety-provoking and depressing times for many people. Job loss, impending unemployment and the stress of job-hunting are not only some of the most common career transitions, but also some of the most common causes of depression, says Linda Parent in an article for Everyday Health.
Career Transitions and Depression
Transitions involve change and adaptation --- two things that cause anxiety, fear and depression in most people, says counselor Melissa Wright in an article for GoodTherapy.org. While job loss and unemployment might be some of the more common career transitions related to depression, many other types of career transitions can also trigger depressive symptoms. Any type of loss involves adaptation to change and can result in depression, whether it's the loss of a coworker to illness, death or job change, retirement, or the loss of your own career dreams. For example, you might have hoped to earn a specific promotion by a certain age -- if this doesn't happen, the realization that it may never occur can spark depression. Changing jobs or making a completely new career change can be exciting, yet can also cause depression because they involve change and adaptation to new, unknown circumstances. Furthermore, for many people, retirement can be a mixed bag of emotions -- the loss of a sense of purpose and set schedule sometimes results in symptoms of depression.
Some of the possible depressive symptoms you might experience when dealing with a career transition include feeling a lack of motivation, feeling hopeless or down, feeling like you'd rather stay in bed all day, avoiding social contact, sadness, or changes in appetite or sleep habits. You might feel lethargic or low on energy, and you might stop participating in activities you once enjoyed. People who face job loss and unemployment might experience feelings of grief or feel hurt, vulnerable and angry, according to authors Melinda Smith, MA, and Robert Segal, MA, in an article for Help Guide.
What You Can Do
To a certain extent, it's normal to feel depressed during and after a career transition. But you can take proactive steps to help ease your symptoms, says psychologist Sara Denman in an article for PBS's This Emotional Life. It can be tempting to isolate yourself from others, but socializing can be a helpful way to distract yourself from your problems and provide you with a sense of support. Staying active is also important -- especially if your feelings of depression are triggered by job loss, job-hunting or retirement. Try to keep a regular schedule and include daily exercise. Physical activity stimulates the production of certain brain chemicals that can help depression, says the Mayo Clinic. Go outside and get some fresh air and sunshine. Staying indoors all day can make you feel cooped up and lackluster. Acceptance of the current situation and staying as positive as possible can also help, say Smith and Segal.
Despite your best efforts, symptoms of depression might linger, especially if your situation doesn't improve. Sometimes, speaking to a mental health professional, like a clinical social worker or psychologist, or even medication, such as antidepressants, are necessary, even if it's just for a short time to help you get back on your feet. Feelings of depression can become worse if left untreated -- if you feel depressed and unable to function, talk to your physician and obtain a referral to a qualified mental health provider.
Ashley Miller is a licensed social worker, psychotherapist, certified Reiki practitioner, yoga enthusiast and aromatherapist. She has also worked as an employee assistance program counselor and a substance-abuse professional. Miller holds a Master of Social Work and has extensive training in mental health diagnosis, as well as child and adolescent psychotherapy. She also has a bachelor's degree in music.

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