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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Karol?na Kurkov?: Why I Chose Natural Childbirth
"Of course we had the midwife, we had the doula, but that's something we really did a lot of research on and we wanted to do," Kurkov?, 28, tells Access Hollywood Live.
Leading researchers warn of 'brain drain' as scientists struggle to find funding
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New survey outlines funding deficiency in brain and eye disease research
Clarksburg, Md. BrightFocus Foundation, a nonprofit organization that funds research worldwide to save sight and mind, today released the results of a survey of more than 170 leading biomedical scientists that explores the most significant barriers to progress in ending brain and eye diseases. The survey indicates that a lack of dependable funding is threatening to create a deficit of highly skilled scientists at a time when the nation could soon face a health care crisis brought on by devastating disorders like Alzheimer's, macular degeneration, and glaucoma.
"Cures for these brain and eye diseases can be found if we give researchers the resources and tools they require," said Stacy Haller, president and chief executive officer of BrightFocus Foundation, formerly named American Health Assistance Foundation. "Nearly 20 million people in the U.S. are affected by Alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, or glaucoma. That number is climbing with an aging population, threatening our families, our health care, and our economy. Eradicating these diseases should be a much higher national priority."
The new survey taps into the attitudes and opinions of more than 170 top brain and eye disease scientists from around the world who have received foundation research grants in recent years. Respondents expressed near-consensus on the impact that funding sources play in their field:
- 94 percent agreed that a lack of federal funding for brain and eye disease research is impeding scientific discoveries.
- 91 percent agreed that a lack of research funding is driving scientists from the field.
- 96 percent identified limited funding as a top barrier to entry for new scientists in the fields of brain and eye disease research.
"By now, it should be clear that the cost of adequately supporting efforts to prevent and treat cognitive and vision diseases is minuscule compared to the cost of failing to do so," said Guy Eakin, Ph.D., vice president of Scientific Affairs for BrightFocus Foundation. "The total U.S. health care cost for Alzheimer's alone is $200 billion annually and is expected to soar to $1.1 trillion per year by 2050 if we don't have the scientific discoveries made possible by research funding. Yet budget cuts for research continue, and we're losing the talents of a generation of scientists."
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For more in-depth analysis of survey results and recommendations, visit www.brightfocus.org/ResearcherSurvey2013.
About BrightFocus Foundation
BrightFocus Foundation is the new name, as of February 1, 2013, for the nonprofit American Health Assistance Foundation, celebrating 40 years of support for health research and public education. The new BrightFocus name reflects our redoubled commitment to advancing knowledge that saves mind and sight. Our three programs Alzheimer's Disease Research, Macular Degeneration Research, and National Glaucoma Research focus on the toughest challenges facing brain and eye health. For more information, visit www.BrightFocus.org.
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New survey outlines funding deficiency in brain and eye disease research
Clarksburg, Md. BrightFocus Foundation, a nonprofit organization that funds research worldwide to save sight and mind, today released the results of a survey of more than 170 leading biomedical scientists that explores the most significant barriers to progress in ending brain and eye diseases. The survey indicates that a lack of dependable funding is threatening to create a deficit of highly skilled scientists at a time when the nation could soon face a health care crisis brought on by devastating disorders like Alzheimer's, macular degeneration, and glaucoma.
"Cures for these brain and eye diseases can be found if we give researchers the resources and tools they require," said Stacy Haller, president and chief executive officer of BrightFocus Foundation, formerly named American Health Assistance Foundation. "Nearly 20 million people in the U.S. are affected by Alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, or glaucoma. That number is climbing with an aging population, threatening our families, our health care, and our economy. Eradicating these diseases should be a much higher national priority."
The new survey taps into the attitudes and opinions of more than 170 top brain and eye disease scientists from around the world who have received foundation research grants in recent years. Respondents expressed near-consensus on the impact that funding sources play in their field:
- 94 percent agreed that a lack of federal funding for brain and eye disease research is impeding scientific discoveries.
- 91 percent agreed that a lack of research funding is driving scientists from the field.
- 96 percent identified limited funding as a top barrier to entry for new scientists in the fields of brain and eye disease research.
"By now, it should be clear that the cost of adequately supporting efforts to prevent and treat cognitive and vision diseases is minuscule compared to the cost of failing to do so," said Guy Eakin, Ph.D., vice president of Scientific Affairs for BrightFocus Foundation. "The total U.S. health care cost for Alzheimer's alone is $200 billion annually and is expected to soar to $1.1 trillion per year by 2050 if we don't have the scientific discoveries made possible by research funding. Yet budget cuts for research continue, and we're losing the talents of a generation of scientists."
###
For more in-depth analysis of survey results and recommendations, visit www.brightfocus.org/ResearcherSurvey2013.
About BrightFocus Foundation
BrightFocus Foundation is the new name, as of February 1, 2013, for the nonprofit American Health Assistance Foundation, celebrating 40 years of support for health research and public education. The new BrightFocus name reflects our redoubled commitment to advancing knowledge that saves mind and sight. Our three programs Alzheimer's Disease Research, Macular Degeneration Research, and National Glaucoma Research focus on the toughest challenges facing brain and eye health. For more information, visit www.BrightFocus.org.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Strings for a CURE: Where the Arts meet Humanities ? New Mexico ...
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Resident NM Guitar God, Ryan McGarvey has teamed with the innovative, life-enriching organization StringsforaCURE?, saying:
?I?m so incredibly honored to work with this organization, and to help for such a worthy cause. Please take a look at the great pieces of jewelry that they were able to make from my guitar strings. All proceeds go to help those with breast cancer.?
Elisa Guida, a two-time breast cancer survivor and jewelry designer, transforms guitar strings into one-of-a-kind bracelets, earrings, pendants and rings. Net proceeds are used to fund the foundation?s efforts to educate, comfort and support cancer patients. The foundation focuses primarily on helping those with breast cancer.
The StringsforaCURE? Foundation helps women and men diagnosed with cancer, primarily breast. Our mission is to provide education, comfort and support to cancer patients, focusing on the breast cancer patient. We help the patient directly by providing gas, grocery or pharmacy gift cards. We also provide educational materials, comfort baskets and medical grants. We want to ease the burden during their cancer journey. We raise awareness on how important nutrition and wellness plays a part in the recovery of the cancer patient.
National and international musicians donate their used guitar strings to StringsforaCURE?, and I transform them into one-of-a-kind bracelets, earrings, pendants and rings. We also raise funds through our online Virtual Quilt, our Pennies2Patients Program and Pickin? On Cancer fundraiser and also through private donations.
My dream is to recruit many nationally known musicians ? including Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow, Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen, among many others ? to donate their strings to the foundation. We have received strings from several famous musicians, such as Jon Bon Jovi, Melissa Etheridge, Paul Rodgers, Joe Bonamassa to mention a few. -Elisa Guida, Executive Director
The StringsforaCURE foundation is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization, and a Green Foundation. Their jewelry is made in the U.S.A. with net proceeds used to fund the foundation?s efforts to educate, comfort and support cancer patients.
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Israel to Reprimand Argentina in AMIA Bombing
The Argentine government rejected Israel?s decision to summon the Argentine ambassador in Tel Aviv to discuss recent agreement between Argentina and Iran, saying it considered it an ...
Good and bad news for Argentina disputes at World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization decided to implement two dispute resolution panels, one to probe accusations of unfair trade practices against Argentina by the US, the EU and Japan and another ...
Kingmaker of Argentine soccer stepping down in 2015 after 36 years
Argentine Football Association (AFA) chief Julio Grondona will step down in 2015 after 36 years in the job, he said on Tuesday. The 81-year-old senior FIFA vice-president, widely criticised for the ...
Argentina on hedgie ?ship? list
Billionaire hedge-fund honcho Paul Singer is still riled about losing control of Argentina?s naval training vessel, the Libertad, after a UN court told Ghana to release the ship in December. ...
Argentina Energy Stocks Gain YPF Surges 11
BUENOS AIRES--Shares of Argentina's state-run oil company YPF SA (YPF, YPFD.BA) surged Tuesday, posting sharp gains both here and in New York, on a day in which the South American ...
Argentine woman becomes first to give birth after heart transplant
In what doctors Tuesday said was a medical first, an Argentine woman with a transplanted heart has given birth to a baby girl following an in vitro ...
Israel to Reprimand Argentina in AMIA Bombing
Israel will summon Argentina's ambassador to issue an official reprimand over a decision to establish a "truth commission" with Iran over a 1994 bombing. The bombing of the AMIA ...
Argentina-Iran truth body angers Jewish community and Israel
TOM HENNIGAN in Sao Paulo and MARK WEISS in JerusalemArgentina?s Jewish community and Israel have both reacted with anger to a decision by Argentina to set up with Iran a so-called ...
Israel slates Argentine bomb probe deal with Iran
Israel has called an agreement between Iran and Argentina to investigate jointly the bombing 19 years ago of a Jewish centre in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people ';like inviting a murderer to ...
Argentina ambassador to Israel faces reprimand over truth commission with Iran
Two countries set up commission to investigate 1994 bombing of Jewish center in Buenos Aires; Deputy FM Ayalon: Inviting Tehran is like inviting the murderer to a murder ...
Israel summons Argentina?s envoy over deal with Iran
January 29, 2013 JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel's Foreign Ministry summoned the Argentinian ambassador over his country's agreement with Iran to jointly investigate the 1994 bombing of the ...
IHT Rendezvous Argentina Celebrates Its First Queen ...
stepping down in favor of her eldest son , Prince Willem-Alexander, has generated a flurry of excitement in faraway Argentina, the homeland of his popular and charismatic wife, the former Mxima ...
Argentina mulls shame of naval decay
Argentina is weighing options after a prized old warship sank in port, apparently due to poor upkeep of the vessel. Although senior aides said sabotage couldn't be discounted, Argentine ...
Argentina-Iran bomb deal angers Israel
Israel is furious over an agreement between Iran and Argentina to jointly investigate a terror bombing of a Jewish centre that killed 85 people, almost two decades ago.Israel's Deputy Foreign ...
Argentina?s shameful pact with Iran
Ever since I left my country, Argentina, 10 years ago, I have remained silent and made no statements to the press regarding Argentinian internal affairs. But what has just happened in relationship ...
Vale Rift Could Drag Argentina ETF Lower
Argentina is in real danger of losing frontier market status . Since 2011, President Cristina Kirchner has made it nearly impossible for foreign mining firms operating in Argentina, of which ...
Israel Angry Over Argentina-Iran Accord on 1994 Bombing Inquiry
JERUSALEM - Israel on Tuesday strongly criticized Argentina, summoning its ambassador to the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem to explain Argentina's agreement with Iran to establish a joint commission ...
CELAC leaders support Argentine claims
The 6th CELAC summit of Latin American and Caribbean states ended yesterday in Santiago, Chile, with the approval of various statements proposed by member states, including support for ...
Thousands in Buenos Aires Without Electricity
have been without electricity since last night and in a few cases without water in Buenos Aires City and Buenos Aires Province. Those who have announced that they are without electricity live ...
Grondona to Quit Argentine FA Presidency in 2015
(Reuters) - Argentine Football Association (AFA) chief Julio Grondona will step down in 2015 after 36 years in the job, he said on Tuesday. The 81-year-old senior FIFA vice-president, widely ...
UK wants to control South Atlantic access and resources claims Argentina
Argentina claimed at the CELAC summit in Chile that the UK has converted the Falkland Islands into one of the "most militarized territories in the world" with the sole purpose of ...
Israel angered over Argentina-Iran bombing probe
In this March 17, 1992 file photo, firemen and rescue workers walk through the debris of Israel's Embassy after a terrorist attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Israel summoned the Argentinian ...
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Spring may come earlier to North American forests, increasing uptake of carbon dioxide
Jan. 29, 2013 ? Trees in the con?ti?nen?tal U.S. could send out new spring leaves up to 17 days ear?lier in the com?ing cen?tury than they did before global tem?per?a?tures started to rise, accord?ing to a new study by Prince?ton Uni?ver?sity researchers. These climate-driven changes could lead to changes in the com?po?si?tion of north?east?ern forests and give a boost to their abil?ity to take up car?bon dioxide.
Trees play an impor?tant role in tak?ing up car?bon diox?ide from the atmos?phere, so researchers led by David Med?vigy, assis?tant pro?fes?sor in Princeton's depart?ment of geo?sciences, wanted to eval?u?ate pre?dic?tions of spring bud?burst -- when decid?u?ous trees push out new growth after months of win?ter dor?mancy -- from mod?els that pre?dict how car?bon emis?sions will impact global temperatures.
The date of bud?burst affects how much car?bon diox?ide is taken up each year, yet most cli?mate mod?els have used overly sim?plis?tic schemes for rep?re?sent?ing spring bud?burst, mod?el?ing for exam?ple a sin?gle species of tree to rep?re?sent all the trees in a geo?graphic region.
In 2012, the Prince?ton team pub?lished a new model that relied on warm?ing tem?per?a?tures and the wan?ing num?ber of cold days to pre?dict spring bud?burst. The model, which was pub?lished in the Jour?nal of Geo?phys?i?cal Research, proved accu?rate when com?pared to data on actual bud?burst in the north?east?ern United States.
In the cur?rent paper pub?lished online in Geo?phys?i?cal Research Let?ters, Med?vigy and his col?leagues tested the model against a broader set of obser?va?tions col?lected by the USA National Phe?nol?ogy Net?work, a nation-wide tree ecol?ogy mon?i?tor?ing net?work con?sist?ing of fed?eral agen?cies, edu?ca?tional insti?tu?tions and cit?i?zen sci?en?tists. The team incor?po?rated the 2012 model into pre?dic?tions of future bud?burst based on four pos?si?ble cli?mate sce?nar?ios used in plan?ning exer?cises by the Inter?gov?ern?men?tal Panel on Cli?mate Change.
The researchers included Su-Jong Jeong, a post?doc?toral research asso?ciate in Geo?sciences, along with Elena Shevli?akova, a senior cli?mate mod?eler, and Sergey Maly?shev, a pro?fes?sional spe?cial?ist, both in the Depart?ment of Ecol?ogy and Evo?lu?tion?ary Biol?ogy and asso?ci?ated with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmos?pheric Administration's Geo?phys?i?cal Fluid Dynam?ics Laboratory.
The team esti?mated that, com?pared to the late 20th cen?tury, red maple bud?burst will occur 8 to 40 days ear?lier, depend?ing on the part of the coun?try, by the year 2100. They found that the north?ern parts of the United States will have more pro?nounced changes than the south?ern parts, with the largest changes occur?ring in Maine, New York, Michi?gan, and Wisconsin.
The researchers also eval?u?ated how warm?ing tem?per?a?tures could affect the bud?burst date of dif?fer?ent species of tree. They found that bud?burst shifted to ear?lier in the year in both early-budding trees such as com?mon aspen (Pop?u?lus tremu?loides) and late-budding trees such as red maple (Acer rubrum), but that the effect was greater in the late-budding trees and that over time the dif?fer?ences in bud?ding dates narrowed.
The researchers noted that early bud?burst may give decid?u?ous trees, such as oaks and maples, a com?pet?i?tive advan?tage over ever?green trees such as pines and hem?locks. With decid?u?ous trees grow?ing for longer peri?ods of the year, they may begin to out?strip growth of ever?greens, lead?ing to last?ing changes in for?est make-up.
The researchers fur?ther pre?dicted that warm?ing will trig?ger a speed-up of the spring "green?wave," or bud?burst that moves from south to north across the con?ti?nent dur?ing the spring.
The find?ing is also inter?est?ing from the stand?point of future changes in spring?time weather, said Med?vigy, because bud?burst causes an abrupt change in how quickly energy, water and pol?lu?tants are exchanged between the land and the atmos?phere. Once the leaves come out, energy from the sun is increas?ingly used to evap?o?rate water from the leaves rather than to heat up the sur?face. This can lead to changes in daily tem?per?a?ture ranges, sur?face humid?ity, stream?flow, and even nutri?ent loss from ecosys?tems, accord?ing to Medvigy.
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- Su-Jong Jeong, David Medvigy, Elena Shevliakova, Sergey Malyshev. Predicting changes in temperate forest budburst using continental-scale observations and models. Geophysical Research Letters, 2012; DOI: 10.1029/2012GL054431
- Su-Jong Jeong, David Medvigy, Elena Shevliakova, Sergey Malyshev. Uncertainties in terrestrial carbon budgets related to spring phenology. Journal of Geophysical Research, 2012; 117 (G1) DOI: 10.1029/2011JG001868
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
'Storage Wars' Lawsuit: A&E Strikes Back at Claims Show Is Fake
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - A&E says in a legal filing that former "Storage Wars" star David Hester concocted a "tabloid-worthy drama" when he claimed the series was faked. In response to a lawsuit he filed last month in Los Angeles Superior Court, A&E said the complaint was groundless and a "transparent attempt to distract from the issues."
Hester alleged unfair business practices, among other claims. He said the show sometimes planted objects in the storage units that contestants bid on in hopes of finding discarded treasures.
A&E's response focused on its defense that the unfair business practices portion of Hester's complaint cannot go forward, partly because he cannot prove a probability of winning the suit. The network says he also cannot prove he suffered sustained injury.
Hester claimed in his suit that he was fired after he complained that elements of the show were staged. His lawsuit claims that, in one instance, A&E planted a stack of newspapers reporting singer Elvis Presley's death. In another instance, Hester said, a BMW minicar was found under a pile of trash.
In Thursday's motion to strike, however, A&E says that Hester was let go after the network complained that he improperly used its trademarks, and after Hester attempted to renegotiate his contract.
Now, A&E says, Hester is trying to obscure the facts by painting himself as a crusader for truth.
"In a transparent attempt to distract from the issues - and maximize any potential recovery - Plaintiff's complaint tries to convert a garden-variety breach of contract claim into a tabloid-worthy drama, in which Hester portrays himself as a crusading whistleblower," the response reads.
A&E also claims Hester is no victim, but in fact took part in "salting" storage units with valuable items.
The network is also seeking compensation from Hester for its attorneys' fees and court costs.
In his suit, Hester claims to have suffered more than $750,000 in damages from what he claims was his wrongful firing.
Hester's attorney has not yet responded to TheWrap's request for comment.
(Pamela Chelin contributed to this report)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/storage-wars-lawsuit-e-strikes-back-claims-show-180247453.html
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Hey Y?all,
My friend Amy Friedman?who wrote a terrific essay that appeared in Stricken, an anthology about grief that I co-edited-- has a new memoir out. Desperado?s Wife, about the time in her life when she was married to a man in prison for murder. You can get the book by visiting AmyFriedman.net, Pages A Bookstore in Manhattan Beach, California and on Amazon. Watch her website for an airdate announcement for her interview with Katie Couric. Below, Amy answers questions about her life and her book. SG: Hi Amy. Great to be back in touch. Will you start out by giving us a little background re: your writing career? AF: I began writing short stories when I was a teenager, inspired at first by a desire to give voice to a grandmother who had stopped speaking and whose story I wanted to know. And then I never stopped, though throughout my teens and 20s and into my 30s I was a devout fiction writer. I received my MFA in creative writing from City College of New York, worked for years as an editor and writer, and in 1985 moved to Kingston, Ontario, Canada where I happened upon a newspaper that was, at the time, a literary wonder. The Kingston Whig Standard had a beautiful Saturday magazine. I sent off a couple stories to the editor who invited me in for a talk and offered me a weekly column. That column is what turned me into a personal essayist and memoirist. Over the eight years I wrote Hard Lines, that column, I also published two memoirs and hundreds of stories and essays. I also began writing Tell Me a Story for The Whig, a newspaper feature of adaptations of myths, legends, folk and fairytales and within a year I was under contract with Universal Press Syndicate?to syndicate the column internationally. Twenty years later, I?m still writing that weekly column. I also teach personal essay and memoir in Los Angeles where I moved in 2002. SG: Your new book, Desperado's Wife, is a memoir about a time in your life when you met a prisoner who was behind bars for murder, married him, and what ensued. I'm guessing a question you are often asked is, "What were you thinking?" or "How could you marry a murderer?" Is that right? Will you give me a little laundry list of FAQs you get hit with and a couple of answers you perhaps have memorized by now? AF: Why is definitely the question, and it?s often followed by an eye roll or two. And quickly followed by the question: Did you ever get to sleep together? And how did you get past the fact that he had killed someone, were you afraid? The shortest answer is you have to read the book, which of course leads me to your next question?why I decided to write it. So I?ll take those two together. Will and I were married for 7 years, 5-1/2 of which he was in prison (I met him during his 7th year inside); when he was paroled (and yes, even those who have been sentenced to murder receive parole?though less and less in the States), and the last 18 months of our marriage we lived together, but the marriage disintegrated when our strongest bond?the fight we were waging together to win his parole?was gone. He also did not cope well with the world when he was first released?he fell apart emotionally and that put a strain on our relationship?a strain that finally broke us apart. ?But he did not fall apart in the way most people imagine released prisoners do. The general image of a ?murderer? is someone who does nothing else?who moves through the world seeking to kill. When I was an official visitor (I first visited prison as a columnist so that I could learn about prison), and during the years Will and I were married, I came to know dozens of men serving time for murder. It?s important to understand that each of these people were individuals, each one with a story?bar fights gone awry, drug rivalries, accidents, drunk driving. Most of the stories involved drugs and/or alcohol. I did not meet any serial killers (though it is the women who marry psychopaths and serial killers that seems to me to inspire psychologists to write books about ?those prisoners wives.?) But Will and I fell in love the way people do outside?at first I was drawn to him because he was intelligent and when I asked him questions about prison, he was the person who gave me the answers that made most sense. For instance, the very first thing he told me was that if I wanted to understand prison, I ought to talk to prisoners? families because they understand prison and never did anything to hurt anyone. And so I began to talk to families. I also continued to talk to Will (and many other prisoners, guards and administrators) until one day a prison official told me I was welcome to continue visiting, that I was welcome to write stories about prison for the paper, but that I was NOT permitted to talk to one inmate. That inmate was Will. I was na?ve enough to think that the official had just given me valuable information?had told me that it was Will who was telling me the truth about prison. I ignored his instruction and continued talking to Will, at which point prison officials wrote a letter to my editor letting him know the prison was expelling me, refusing to allow me in. My editor who had always been my staunch supporter did not support me in my effort to fight for the right to keep visiting. The prison I later learned (by accessing their letter through the Privacy Commission Act) had accused me of inappropriate behavior (which was untrue)?I argued with my editor: This was, I said, Canada, a free country; prison officials could not decide who could and who could not investigate what went on behind those walls, who a writer could or could not talk to. Alas, at just that point in time the prison had been purchased by a large corporate syndicate and my editor, worried about his own job, turned his back on me. I?m rebellious by nature, and that literally pushed me into Will?s arms because once I was forbidden to visit prison, the only way I could continue going in was to sign on as a personal visitor. And I did. And soon after that, Will?s mother and children invited me to join them in what were known as Private Family Visits (colloquially conjugal or trailer visits). I applied to do so, but the warden (whom I had interviewed many times and knew well and with whom I had always gotten along) refused my request. He told us we could have a trailer visit in a year?if we ?behaved.? Will asked me to marry him?if we were married, the prison could not refuse us the visit. By that time I was so angry and alienated from those around me who were judging without knowledge and turning their backs on me, and I was so attracted to and engaged by and in love with Will, I quickly agreed. Again, that?s the snapshot. What followed were years of great difficulty because overnight after I married Will, I became, in the eyes of the prison system and of many outside, just as suspicious and subject to invasion of privacy as were all prisoners. All prisoners? wives, children, parents, sisters and brothers and friends suffer the humiliation of things like strip searches and long waiting lines and hostility and job loss and every other imaginable indignation. Indeed, the publisher canceled my column, friends turned their backs, for a while so did my family, a board of directors on which I had long served kicked me off its board, and I wound up in combat against prejudice and misunderstanding?the sort that I think inspires those eye rolls, and the question. That?s not to say I don?t understand why or how people ask, but one of the reasons I knew I had to write the book was to continue what I started out to do when I first visited prison?long before I met Will. That was to paint a picture of the world that is prison, to try to better understand and then describe in writing what happens to those impacted by prison, to write about what it is like trying to have a have a relationship against the odds. When the relationship collapsed, I collapsed for about a year. I knew I would have to write about it to find my way back to making sense of the story, of all the specifics of what happened. ? There?s another important piece to the book and that is that Desperado?s Wife is actually two love stories?the love story between me and Will, but maybe more important, the love story between his daughters and me. They were 14 and 8 when we met, and I helped to raise them for most of those years. And they are still two of the most important loves of my life. One of the reasons I wanted to write the book was to help to lift the mantle of shame from them, a mantle that is the result of others? lack of understanding and prejudice against anyone who loves a prisoner.?SG: Has writing it been healing?
AF: Yes, but also painful. The book took ten years to write?because it started out filled with the fury I felt towards those who had turned their backs and full of the despair the divorce left me feeling. After several drafts of writing with an agenda of sorts (to prove prisoners wives are no different from other women who love someone), I realized I had to give up trying to prove anything. I decided to try to write the book as a novel from the point of view of a prisoner?s child?that way readers wouldn?t come to the book with a built-in question (how could you love him?) because everyone understands a child?s love for a parent (no matter how flawed that parent is). And after another three years of working on the novel, I finished it and a good friend and colleague read it and looked me in the eye and said, ?You do realize you have to write this as a memoir.? At first I wanted to punch him, but I knew he was right. I went back to the drawing board, back to beginning as if I were walking into prison for the first time, open and ready to learn what there was to learn, to find what there was to find. The journey led me to a deep understanding of how this story happened, to my realization that ever since childhood I?d longed to know what prison does to human beings in large measure because I am the daughter of a man who was a Jewish prisoner of War in World War II and granddaughter of a man who was a prisoner of War in Siberia in World War I. That is how I know that prison seeps deep under the skin not only of those who are imprisoned but of their loved ones, and future generations. SG: Where is your ex-husband-- does he know about the book? AF: He was released from prison in 1999, and he has remained out, living and working in Canada. There is no animosity between us, and though I haven?t consulted with him about the book. We did have a conversation a few years ago when an excerpt of the book was published in the NewYork Times Modern Love column,?and he found out about it and read it. I was worried?that?s why I hadn?t told him about it. I thought he would object to my telling this story. But in fact he called me and told me he fully supported me in anything I wrote, that he knew me to be a person of integrity, and he was confident that my writing would always reflect that integrity. SG: This is probably one of those stupid questions, since I know we should take life on a case-by-case basis, but if I told you that I was going to marry a prisoner, would you counsel me one way or the other, for/against? AF: Not stupid at all, but the answer has two parts. The first is yes, I would. In fact, a friend of mine has a daughter who is engaged to a man in prison, and I?ve been talking to her for months, trying to convince her to wait until he is released to marry him. But the counsel does not come in the form of ?he?s a loser, why would you do that?? or ?you?re throwing your life away.? Rather it?s that the life of a prisoner?s spouse is full of suspicion and hostility and loneliness and a kind of poverty of the soul. Part two: I know that my counsel and anyone else?s is likely useless. People in love do what they feel they need to do, what they must do. Love is powerful medicine, and I don?t think there?s a verbal antidote, and if you?re anything like me, if I counsel you for or against, you?ll rebel against my counsel. SG: What was your publishing process-- agent, NY publisher, etc? Or more DIY? Whichever it was, will you tell us the pitfalls and rewards you encountered? AF:?Ah publishing! For the last 10 years, ever since I moved back to the States, it?s been more or less the bane of my existence. I have an agent (my second in the last ten years), and both have loved the book and sent it out far and wide. The rejections have come mostly in this form: This is a fascinating story and beautifully written but it would not interest enough people. One editor even wrote, ?But there aren?t enough prisoners? wives to make this saleable.? But my agent convinced me she could keep at it. In the meantime, a producer at the Katie Couric show came to me?she?d read my piece in the New York Times and another excerpt in Salon and a third in your book, Stricken: 5,000 Stages of Grief, and she wanted me to appear on Katie to tell my story and feature the book, and I decided I would not appear on the show without a book. So I went the self-publishing route. The reward is I have a book between covers, the pitfall?because the book is self-published it is ineligible for all kinds of reviews and awards for which I wish it were eligible and the cost, of course?in terms of money and time invested in doing everything on my own?hiring my own editors, copyeditors, designers, and so on, and working with no publicist or machine behind me. But I?ve reached out for reviews and so far these have been more positive than I could have dreamed?most people have told me that once they picked up the book they couldn?t put it down?and I think it?s opened some eyes, and hearts. That?s my hope. And of course it would be nice to make back the investment ? And meantime my agent has the self-published version out for consideration too. We shall see. SG: How's the marketing going? My experience is that it's pretty tough out there to get noticed. On the other hand, I really am pleased that, as a self-publisher this time around-- I got to write exactly what I wanted. But the marketing can be a bit exhausting. Agreed? AF:?Absolutely agreed. I?ve gone this route before with a series of CD Audiobooks I?ve produced from Tell Me a Story, and when I put those out into the world, I developed a schedule which was this: For three years, each day I wrote one letter to someone?to librarians, to reviewers, to bloggers, to schools, to churches, to women?s groups. And now, six years since the release of the first CD, I do nothing and the CDs continue to sell?not gangbusters but it?s always amazing to me, and I sell at least one CD or story each day to someone somewhere. I thought to do that with this book, but in some ways I?d prefer now to put that energy into writing the next book. That?s why people like you, and interviews like this, are blessings. I?m scheduled to do a radio interview with KPFK (Experience Talks) in early February. But you?re absolutely right. Making this book be and say precisely what I wanted it to be and say is, ultimately, what matters. And that it exists has left me with the energy to begin to put prison behind me. SG: Working on another big project now?? AF: Slowly, slowly bringing myself back into an old novel I first wrote when I was in graduate school, and ?I have another book recently completed that?s coming out in September. This is with St. Martin?s Press, it?s a co-authored memoir with Anne Willan. In other words, I?m the ?ghost? (I?ve ghosted several books, though for this one I have an author credit). Anne is a well-known cooking teacher and author of 30 books who had a famous cooking school in Paris, and the book?s called One Souffle at a Time, and I love her and the story and the book?and it couldn?t be more different from Desperado?s Wife. Her story is one of travel, adventure, food, life in a chateau in Burgundy?very little darkness, lots of light, and Anne?s amazing recipes, too. SG: What else would you like to tell me? AF: Without you and Stricken, I don?t know that I would have ever finished Desperado?s Wife. The writing and the efforts to entice editors was such a slog until the day your co-author, Katherine Tanney, called to tell me you and she had submitted my excerpt to Dan Jones at Modern Love and that he wanted to run a portion of my piece. That opportunity seriously turned everything around for me, first because at the time so many editors were telling me no one cared about the story of a prisoner?s wife, and then because Dan cared so deeply, and afterwards because the feedback was oceanic, and 95% was positive. So I honestly feel that without you and Katherine on my side, I might not have made the long trek to publication.And this: That 95% of prisoners get out of prison eventually, and families of prisoners are the single best hope that that release will end up being positive and nurturing. And as Will told me on the first day we met, prisoners? families understand prison, and they never did anything wrong. Before I was a prisoner?s wife, I thought all those women (wives, moms, daughters, sisters) standing at the bus stop outside the prison waiting to go home were probably smuggling drugs or knives. Ninety-nine percent of them not only aren?t smuggling knives and guns and drugs, they?re only trying to hold tight to their love, despite the burden of sorrows.
Source: http://writewithspike.blogspot.com/2013/01/normal.html
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Market Chatter-Corporate finance press digest
Jan 28 (Reuters) - The following corporate finance-related
stories were reported by media on Monday:
* Internal reviews by banks in Singapore have found evidence
that traders colluded to manipulate rates in the offshore
foreign exchange market, according to a source with knowledge of
the inquiries.
* Bank of America has begun moving $50 billion of
derivatives out of its Irish-based operations into its British
subsidiary, The Financial Times reported.
* Barclays and Credit Suisse are both
preparing collateralised loan obligations - which bundle
corporate loans primarily for leveraged buyouts into a single
vehicle - for investment groups Pramerica and Cairn Capital,
said sources close to the deals. ()
* British insurer Admiral plans to buy law firm
Lyons Davidson to limit the financial impact of a ban on lawyers
paying for accident victims' contact details, the Mail on Sunday
reported, citing an unnamed source.
* BlackRock, the world's largest asset management
company, has taken an $80 million stake in Twitter Inc, a person
with knowledge of the deal said.
* Indonesia-focused miner Bumi Plc will announce
plans for a smaller board and a new company name as it seeks to
break with two years of damaging battles between investors, a
source familiar with the matter said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/market-chatter-corporate-finance-press-digest-041345754--sector.html
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Sunday, January 27, 2013
ParknPool Heads into New Year with Five Account Managers
As the leading online and catalog distributor of commercial grade furnishings and site amenities such as picnic tables, park benches, bleachers and playgrounds, it is important for ParknPool to have the knowledgeable staff available to answer the many questions of their existing and potential clients. Along with the launch of their new website, ParknPool has also made some changes in their staff.
Lexington, VA (PRWEB) January 25, 2013
For the first time in ParknPool?s history, they headed into the New Year with five account managers instead of the standard four. With an expectation of a rise of sales, both online and by phone, it became necessary to add a fifth account manager.As the leading online and catalog distributor of commercial grade furnishings and site amenities such as picnic tables, park benches, bleachers and playgrounds, it is important for ParknPool to have the knowledgeable staff available to answer the many questions of their existing and potential clients. They take pride in their customer service abilities and have used this skill to set them apart from their competitors. Ryan McClure, ParknPool?s newest account manager, began his career with ParknPool as the customer service representative. Ryan, who is originally from New Jersey, moved to Lexington, VA at a very young age and is excited for the opportunity he has been given to help clients. ?I am looking forward to the 2013 season as an account manager, I can?t wait to begin building my client list and helping others with their purchases,? explained Ryan.
Gilmore Ayres, like Ryan, began his career in the customer service position and was promoted to an account manager position in 2012. Gil is a Lexington, VA native and enjoys spending time outdoors as well as selling outdoor furniture. ?I used 2012 as a year to gain the knowledge needed in order to fully educate my clients throughout the entire buying process. I am excited to use that knowledge as we head into 2013,? stated Gil. According to the National Park Service of Great Falls, ?Gil?s knowledge of your products, professionalism and willingness to ensure customer satisfaction was and is appealing to our organization. Your customer service is very consistent.? As the most experienced account manager, Tammy Bryant came to ParknPool from the health care profession. Her experience and heart for helping people are exhibited to all of her clients. ?I enjoy helping each and every phone call and online visitor that makes their way to my desk. It is rewarding to receive pictures of an area that I helped to furnish,? said Tammy when asked what she liked most about being a ParknPool account manager. ?Working with Tammy on all of our outdoor projects has been a joy! She?s very customer service oriented and goes above and beyond to make my job (and hers) as easy as possible,? stated Fox River Resort in response to a client survey.
As an Army veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, Chris Lopez, has been an account manager at ParknPool for the better part of a year. ?Chris answered all my questions and was very helpful in the entire process. I look forward to doing business with him and your company again,? complimented RPI Design Goods. Chris enjoys applying the variety of skills he learned while being in the armed forces to help his clients. ?After coming to ParknPool by way of the military, it is definitely a much more relaxed environment to work in. All of my clients are great to deal with,? explained Chris. As one of ParknPool?s leading account managers, Sarah Dudley is originally from Lexington, VA and though she moved away for a brief time, is now back in the area. When asked what she enjoys about her job, she excitedly remarked, ?It?s important, at the end of the day, that you take pride in what you do on a daily basis. It?s not every day that I get to truly make a difference but when the occasion arises, it makes it all worthwhile. After helping to save a Tennessee high school homecoming with bleachers, Sarah was complimented with this remark by the White House Heritage High School Booster Club, ?Sarah was responsive and cared about our school and community ? we couldn?t have achieved our goal without her!?
Educating and serving their clients, is very important to ParknPool and they are excited with the account managers that they have in place to further exceed expectations and enhance earnings. For more information on ParknPool visit http://www.parknpool.com to view their complete product line. To learn more about their friendly staff go to their Our Team Page on the website or call 877.777.3700.
About ParknPool Corporation:
ParknPool is a Veteran Owned SBE/WBE Company and is the leading online supplier of commercial grade furniture and site amenities such as picnic tables, trash receptacles, park benches, bleachers and playgrounds. ParknPool was founded in 1998 in Orlando, FL and moved their headquarters to Lexington, VA in 2005.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/parknpool-heads-five-account-managers-173656120.html
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Is there a way to mark a branch in the tree as a dead end? - Family ...
I am wondering if it is possible ot mark a branch of the family tree as a dead end, so I can stop going into that branch and looking for people that do not exist. I keep forgetting which family either did not have kids or died out without kids and spending time every once in a while researching to find someone that does not exist.
On a side note - is it just my family or is it common for many branches in a family to die out? I do not have a number on it off the top of my head, but this has happened probably 20 times so far since my GGG grandparents. At least 4 of their 7 kids lines died out, and of the other 3 kids who had kids, I keep running into descendant lines that die out.
Anyway - hope the original question is not too weird. Just looking for a way to easily mark a line as done so I can stop poking around.
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
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Most people are familiar with the phrase ?thoughts become things,? and in a manner of speaking that is true. However, the more accurate way to explain that concept would be to say that thoughts become emotions.
Emotions in turn drive the machine of your life that creates the things that you think about. The fact that emotions need to be part of the equation is easily verified by thinking back to any time in your life whenever you thought long and hard about having or doing something, but those thoughts never manifested into whatever it was that you were thinking about. For example:
?Many people think very often about having enough money to enjoy certain material possessions or experiences.
?Almost all people give considerable thought to weight loss, physical fitness, or their overall health.
?The majority of people also spend plenty of time thinking about satisfying romantic or other social relationships.
However, despite the massive amount of thought that is dedicated to some or all of those things, it is often the case that we do not have the level of success in those areas that we desire.
The reason for that is because we do not have the appropriate emotional attachment to the things that we want to bring into our lives. When giving thought to the things that we want, more is not necessarily better, since emotionless thoughts have no real power, no matter how many times we think them.
However, a consistent thought about something that also evokes a positive emotional response from you almost always serves to ultimately bring that thing into your life.
In order to illustrate this concept, simply think back to any job interview, health improvement program, date, or other social situation that you were involved in that you felt very positive and confident about. In most if not all of those situations, one of two things happened:
1)You attained or enjoyed the experience of whatever it was you felt positive about, or
2)You realized after the fact that you didn?t really want it after all.
By feeling positive and confident about attaining something, you put yourself in charge of the outcome, as opposed to how a lack of confidence will tend to make you feel powerless to get what you want out of any given situation.
You need to be honest with yourself, however, when considering whether or not you truly feel positive and confident about attaining something. Strongly desiring something does not equate to feeling positive or confident about acquiring it. Everyone wants whatever they consider to be financial, health, or social success, but actually believing that we will attain it is another matter entirely.
It is this difference between giving a high quantity of thought to something vs. giving a high quality of thought to something that is ultimately the deciding factor in whether or not we attain it.
High quality thoughts about something are thoughts that evoke a consistent positive emotional response in relation to that thing. These thoughts fill you with the belief that ? sooner or later ? you will attain whatever it is that you are thinking about.
Compare that to the thoughts that most people have about attaining their desires. You will see that often people?s thoughts about their dreams tend to evoke negative, disempowering emotional responses, such as doubt, fear, uncertainty, concern, lack of confidence, etc.
Rarely in history has anything of note been accomplished by someone thinking of how scared they were about whether or not it was actually going to happen. Disempowering thoughts such as fear do not tend to manifest positive results.
That is not to say that fear or similar feelings are not part of the process, because often they are. However, they are used only as tools to bolster the confidence and belief level of the person involved, as squashing disempowering feelings has the immediate effect of causing us to feel empowered! If you have ever faced down a fear, then you know this to be true.
The bottom line solution to using the power of your emotions as the fuel for self improvement is to make a conscious recognition of how you feel about something that you want to accomplish.
If the thought of improving your finances, your health, your social life, or any other area of your life causes you to feel anything other than positive and confident, you must embrace the fact that you have mental roadblocks that need to be cleared before you will achieve success in that area.
Those roadblocks can then be cleared by engaging in whatever activity will eliminate those negative feelings. That may include getting educated about what it will take to accomplish your goal, it may mean practicing affirmations or visualizations, it might involve doing research on the topic, hiring a professional to help you, or even something as simple as voicing the disempowering belief to yourself.
Once the dark things in our subconscious are brought into the light, they are often seen to have very little actual power over us, if any at all. Ferret out your negative, disempowering beliefs by being 100% truthful with yourself about how you feel about something that you want to attain.
Once you have recognized whatever it is that is causing your negative feelings, drag it kicking and screaming into the light, eliminate it, and you will leave yourself with nothing but positive and confident feelings about your ability to succeed. Then you will do exactly that!
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Ray West.
Source: http://www.secretlawofattraction.co/?p=226
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