Tuesday, Tuesday

<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.archidose.org/wp/">A Weekly Dose of Architecture</a> Updates:</span><br /><br />This week's dose features <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/04/23/dead-garden/">Dead Garden</a> in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by Vasio S/A:<br /><a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/04/23/dead-garden/"><img alt="this week's dose" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Apr13-22.jpg" title="This week's dose" width="640" /></a><br /><br />The featured past dose is <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2011/07/18/285-montevideo/">285 Montevideo</a> in Belo Horizonte, Brazil by Vazio S/A:<br /><a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2011/07/18/285-montevideo/"><img alt="this week's dose" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Jul11-18.jpg" title="featured past dose" width="640" /></a><br /><br />This week's book review is <a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/04/23/entre/"><i>Entre: Architecture from the Performing Arts</i></a> by Carlos M. Teixeira:<br /><a href="http://archidose.org/wp/2013/04/23/entre/"><img alt="this week's book review" src="http://archidose.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/entre.jpg" title="This week's book review" width="500" /></a><br /><br />: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">American-Architects <a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/pages/50x50">Building of the Week</a>:</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/projects/project-current-review/40868_roth_trailhead">Roth Trailhead</a> in Lawrence, Kansas, by Dirt Works Studio:<br /><a href="http://www.american-architects.com/en/projects/project-current-review/40868_roth_trailhead"><img alt="this week's Building of the Week" src="http://c214210.r10.cf3.rackcdn.com/files/projects/40868/images/900:w/rothtrailhead1.jpg" title="Current Building of the Week on american-architects.com" width="640" /></a>

Tuesday, Tuesday

A Weekly Dose of Architecture Updates: This week's dose features Dead Garden in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by Vasio S/A: The featured pas...

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Starting my quilt

When I've made quilts in the past I used to just make it up as I went along. For this quilt I decided I would do it right. I've just bought some kit that one of the books said was essential.<br /><br />The green board is a cutting mat and there also is a special ruler. The yellow tool is a rotary cutter which seems a bit scary because I've only ever used a scissors a before.<br /><br />Wish me luck! <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Cf0fhdObgextCiEXgz07qdCag_MhqTSJ9K6B81PODEr-0FESwAff8-vJGXYgbiTzjDor8d1uJwk1vNgLkZHD5oyMbYTjcNuIn6kBrt4luUKNR1sV46I8OLOeuC4DVzNM0SfRq1F3Ho8P/s640/blogger-image--2058332627.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Cf0fhdObgextCiEXgz07qdCag_MhqTSJ9K6B81PODEr-0FESwAff8-vJGXYgbiTzjDor8d1uJwk1vNgLkZHD5oyMbYTjcNuIn6kBrt4luUKNR1sV46I8OLOeuC4DVzNM0SfRq1F3Ho8P/s640/blogger-image--2058332627.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihFLb8BhjjxcheV62POuMa8vH-1v4ooUZd2aYNMtEijNyI2b3TSJEdPVbfdZvYXXuN-ElFBr6VxLUFHiWT4xS8Ud7_wbys6RxaQ-C-ruE9xp58BMItjtzmmWe9qD5TlWpMNZNRjlk8wl4A/s640/blogger-image--185317265.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihFLb8BhjjxcheV62POuMa8vH-1v4ooUZd2aYNMtEijNyI2b3TSJEdPVbfdZvYXXuN-ElFBr6VxLUFHiWT4xS8Ud7_wbys6RxaQ-C-ruE9xp58BMItjtzmmWe9qD5TlWpMNZNRjlk8wl4A/s640/blogger-image--185317265.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXyxIkLhyhzVohdWZ35hxYsYo92Qv7JQC93NVpc7pqm0JSZmeut0GHkWxihnfPbRMN6a8ySLhfXvl-L5jVP7aYSPrV2LLGNPMdHu5rkT8Ig-hCX7yg3HekyiMikPH7kVcMloV1i61Zmzpr/s640/blogger-image-466850294.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXyxIkLhyhzVohdWZ35hxYsYo92Qv7JQC93NVpc7pqm0JSZmeut0GHkWxihnfPbRMN6a8ySLhfXvl-L5jVP7aYSPrV2LLGNPMdHu5rkT8Ig-hCX7yg3HekyiMikPH7kVcMloV1i61Zmzpr/s640/blogger-image-466850294.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1HFENW_2f4Lx8H0PdLy9h0g8utUsLp2WmMAmZX7BSTpbzZFc8FjYKyL8KPNOiW4BIcQ8jRkD3jkkQ-pYo4C6F7bP440m7HcKPXcOuTUpX9CDWChlSPwqsDykxGKddj27WHIoGSYttrWmH/s640/blogger-image-1985708011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1HFENW_2f4Lx8H0PdLy9h0g8utUsLp2WmMAmZX7BSTpbzZFc8FjYKyL8KPNOiW4BIcQ8jRkD3jkkQ-pYo4C6F7bP440m7HcKPXcOuTUpX9CDWChlSPwqsDykxGKddj27WHIoGSYttrWmH/s640/blogger-image-1985708011.jpg" /></a></div>

Starting my quilt

When I've made quilts in the past I used to just make it up as I went along. For this quilt I decided I would do it right. I've ju...

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Viral Voices

Last May was the <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/2012/05/going-viral.html">Going Viral</a> panel discussion, which "explore[d] the impact that social media, technology and device culture are having on our design process, and ultimately the way we practice." This year it's <a href="http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=calendar&evtid=5700&rsvid=64733&msg=">Viral Voices</a>, a continuation of last year's discussion, with many of the same "voices" (Morpholio, GSAPP, ArchDaily).<br /><br /><img alt="ViralVoices.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/ViralVoices.jpg" title="Viral Voices" /><br /><blockquote><a href="http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=calendar&evtid=5700&rsvid=64733&msg="><b>Viral Voices: Global Dialogues</b></a><br /><br /><b>When:</b> Thursday, May2, 6:30-10pm<br /><b>Where:</b> Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY<br /><b>Cost:</b> Free (<a href="http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=calendar&evtid=5700&rsvid=64733&msg=">RSVP required</a>)<br /><br /><b>Viral Voices: Global Discussions</b> will explore the impact that social media, technology and device culture are having on our design process, and ultimately the way we practice. How do we shape a global conversation? How are we changing the relationships between academia and the profession? What is the impact of hyper information sharing and critique? Throughout the evening, the topics of communication, research, collaboration, and data distribution will be addressed and debated.<br /><br /><b>Mark Wigley</b>, Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University and <b>David Basulto</b> with <b>David Assael</b> of ArchDaily will come together for an evening discussing how these technologies affect the relationships between academia and profession. Following their talks, <b>Carlo Aiello</b> from eVolo, <b>David Fano</b> from CASE, <b>Jill Fehrenbacher</b> from Inhabitat, <b>Toru Hasegawa</b> from The Morpholio Project/the GSAPP Cloud Lab, <b>Tim Maly</b> from Wired magazine and <b>Cliff Kuang</b> from Fast Company will join the speakers for a panel discussion addressing the impact that social media, technology and device culture are having on our design process, and ultimately the way we participate in a global discussion. </blockquote>

Viral Voices

Last May was the Going Viral panel discussion, which "explore[d] the impact that social media, technology and device culture are hav...

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I have cancer

I had my total abdominal hysterectomy on April 11. After the surgery my oncologist surgeon told me everything looked good. She was sure I didn't have cancer. Since there was less than 1% chance that my fibroid was cancerous I felt confident that everything was good. <br /><br />The surgery went well, although the pain after the surgery was hideous. I have a six inch vertical cut from my belly button down to right above my pelvic bone. It's not pretty but it was necessary to remove my uterus and the fibroid intact. <br /><br />When I came out of the recovery room my three best friends were there waiting for me. I'm really lucky to have such great friends that care for me. I don't know how I'd get through this without them.<br /><br />My body parts, uterus, fibroid, cervix and one ovary (one was left inside of me) were all sent to the lab to be biopsied. On April 17th I received a phone call from my surgeon's associate (my doctor was on vacation) that I have Uterine Leiomyosarcoma. She told me it was an extremely rare and aggressive cancer. The conversation was short since I had a followup visit with my surgeon on April 24.<br /><br />After researching Uterine Leimyosarcoma (ULMS) online, I was very upset. This isn't the good uterine cancer, the one with a 90% five-year survival rate. This one is different. It's so rare that there isn't much known about it. It affects six in one million women.<br /><br />I called my doctor's associate back last Thursday and asked several questions. I'm in Stage 1B which sounds good, but even at this stage it only has a 50% five-year survival rate. Those aren't very good odds. Also, the larger the tumor is over 5 cm (mine was 12 cm) the more likely it will reoccur even if all of it was removed during surgery. I'm thankful I'm not in Stage II since that stage only has a survival rate of 0 - 20%. <br /><br />I stumbled across a blog by a woman that was diagnosed four and half years ago with Stage II ULMS. She's still going strong, but she had to completely change her life. From removing stress factors to changing her diet to all organic, natural foods and no sugar. Cancer feeds off of sugar.<br /><br />Cancer also feeds off of estrogen, which is why I have to have my second ovary removed as soon as possible. Even though I'm postmenopausal it's still producing a minute amount of estrogen.<br /><br />Fat also produces estrogen, so I'm on a diet. Not a crazy, starve myself type of diet, but a whole foods, healthy diet. <br /><br />Other than the cancer, the criminal trial is on schedule for June 11 and the divorce in November. Very stressful events that I'm trying to handle without making myself crazy. I can't wait for this to all be over. <br /><br />I will fight this cancer as hard as I can, and I'll do the best to change my life. It's not going to be easy, but it'll be worth it. <br /><br /><br /><br />

I have cancer

I had my total abdominal hysterectomy on April 11. After the surgery my oncologist surgeon told me everything looked good. She was sure I di...

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Physician-Assisted Suicide — NEJM

<div class="section case-vignette" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); outline: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h3 id="articleCase Vignette" style="margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 0.875em; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: arial;">CASE VIGNETTE</h3><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 0.813em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.4em; ">John Wallace is a 72-year-old man with metastatic pancreatic cancer. At time of diagnosis, the cancer was metastatic to his regional lymph nodes and liver. He was treated with palliative chemotherapy, but the disease continued to progress. Recently he has become jaundiced, and he has very little appetite. He has been seeing a palliative care physician and a social worker on an ongoing basis. His abdominal pain is now well controlled with high-dose narcotics, but the narcotics have caused constipation. In addition to seeing the social worker, he has also been seeing a psychologist to help him to cope with his illness.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 0.813em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.4em; ">Mr. Wallace has been married to his wife, Joyce, for 51 years, and they have three children and six grandchildren. He and his wife have lived in Salem, Oregon, for the past 23 years, and most of his family lives nearby. He understands the prognosis of the disease, and he does not wish to spend his last days suffering or in an unresponsive state. He discusses his desire for euthanasia with his wife and family members, and they offer him their support. The next day, he calls his physician and asks for information about physician-assisted suicide.</div></div><div class="section" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div class="section treatment-options" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h3 id="articleRecommendations" style="margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-size: 0.875em; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: arial;">TREATMENT OPTIONS</h3><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 0.813em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.4em; ">Do you believe that Mr. Wallace should be able to receive life-terminating drugs from his physician? Which one of the following approaches to the broader issue do you find appropriate? Base your choice on the published literature, your own experience, and other sources of information.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 0.813em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.4em; ">To aid in your decision making, each of these approaches is defended in the following short essays by experts in the field. Given your knowledge of the patient and the points made by the experts, which option would you choose? Make your choice and offer your comments at <a href="http://NEJM.org">NEJM.org</a>.</div></div><ul class="treatment-options-list" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li class="firstChild" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 0.7em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">Option 1</strong>: Physician-Assisted Suicide Should Not Be Permitted</li><li class="lastChild" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 0.7em; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline;">Option 2</strong>: Physician-Assisted Suicide Should Be Permitted</li></ul><br><a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMclde1302615#t=cldeOpt2">http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMclde1302615#t=cldeOpt2</a>

Physician-Assisted Suicide — NEJM

CASE VIGNETTE John Wallace is a 72-year-old man with metastatic pancreatic cancer. At time of diagnosis, the cancer was metastatic to his re...

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Doctors describe "death with dignity" program for cancer patients - latimes.com

<p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;">A majority of Americans support the idea of allowing terminally ill patients to end their lives with the help of their doctors. For instance, 55% of people questioned for the <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="ORNPR0000040" title="NPR" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/economy-business-finance/media-industry/radio-industry/npr-ORNPR0000040.topic" style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-decoration: none; ">NPR</a><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/12/27/168150886/americans-support-physician-assisted-suicide-for-terminally-ill" style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); text-decoration: none; ">-Truven Health Analytics Health Poll</a> last  year said they were in favor of legalizing physician-assisted suicide. A <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="ORCRP001723173" title="BBC" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/economy-business-finance/media-industry/bbc-ORCRP001723173.topic" style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-decoration: none; ">BBC</a><a href="http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/HarrisPolls/tabid/447/mid/1508/articleId/677/ctl/ReadCustom%20Default/Default.aspx" style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); text-decoration: none; "> World News America/Harris Poll</a> from the year before found that 58% believed that physician-assisted suicide should be a legal option for patients who request it.</p><div class="p402_premium" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">It's one thing to endorse physician-assisted suicide in principle. But how should it be implemented in practice? That's a difficult question that doctors, social workers and public health experts in Seattle have grappled with as they set up the Death with Dignity Program at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, or SCCA. They describe their program in Thursday's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Washington and Oregon are the only states that allow physician-assisted suicide (though Pennsylvania, Vermont and Hawaii are currently considering it), and cancer patients are among those most likely to seek it. The SCCA -- which serves cancer patients being treated at the <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="ORNPR000145" title="Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/health/health-organizations/fred-hutchinson-cancer-research-center-ORNPR000145.topic" style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-decoration: none;">Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center</a>, the University of Washington and Seattle Children's -- is the only federally recognized comprehensive cancer center serving those states.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">So it was natural for leaders there to consider a death with dignity program after the <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="ORGOVV0000221" title="Washington Legislature" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/politics/government/washington-legislature-ORGOVV0000221.topic" style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-decoration: none;">Washington Legislature</a> passed the Washington Death with Dignity Act in November 2008.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The first step was to poll doctors to see if enough of them would be willing to help patients who wanted to end their lives. Among the 81 who responded to the survey, 50 said they would be comfortable consulting in such cases; among them, 29 were also willing to write the prescriptions for lethal medications. That was enough for the planners to move forward.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">After much discussion and debate, the planners set up the following rules:</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">* Nobody who works at SCCA is required to participate in the Death with Dignity Program.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">* The program is only available to patients under the care of the SCCA, and patients may not begin treatment at SCCA just to gain access to the program.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">* SCCA does not advertise the program, even in its own buildings.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">* Patients are eligible only if they are terminally ill and have no more than six months to live.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">* They must pass a psychological assessment to insure they are competent to make a decision of this magnitude.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">* All patients who request a lethal prescription are told that <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="HETHT00000018" title="Palliative Care" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/health/health-treatments/palliative-care-HETHT00000018.topic" style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-decoration: none;">palliative care</a> and hospice treatment are available to them (although 54% of Death with Dignity patients are already in hospice care at the time they make their inquiries).</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">* Patients must agree that if they do take their lethal prescriptions, they do so only in a private place and in a private manner. (One patient was dropped from consideration for failing to agree to this requirement.)</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">* After patients have met all the requirements, they must wait at least 15 days before getting a prescription for a lethal dose of <a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a682386.html" style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); text-decoration: none;">secobarbital</a>, a barbiturate.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Between March 5, 2009, and Dec. 31, 2011, 114 SCCA patients made at least initial inquiries about the Death with Dignity Program, according to the report. Among them, 44 -- or 39% -- went no further and 30 -- or 26% -- began working with a social worker but either changed their mind or died before they received a prescription.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">That leaves 40 patients who did get a prescription. All of them have died, but only 24 did so as a result of taking secobarbital.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">For some patients, simply having the medication on hand and knowing it was available was enough.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"Both patients and families frequently express gratitude after the patient receives the prescription, regardless of whether it is ever filled or ingested, typically referencing an important sense of control in an uncertain situation," according to the report.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">There have been a few <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="HEISY000026" title="Hiccups" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/health/symptoms/hiccups-HEISY000026.topic" style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-decoration: none;">hiccups</a> here and there, including one patient who remained alive overnight after taking secobarbital. Considering that the drug is usually lethal in about 35 minutes, the patient's family became quite distressed. (It kicked in eventually.)</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Another hiccup is that 11 patients wound up living for longer than the six months they were expected to have left. In these cases, social workers have opted not to inform physicians out of fear that the doctors will wait until their patients are closer to death before they have a frank conversation about their prognosis.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Most of the patients who wound up receiving prescriptions for secobarbital were white men who had graduated from college. They were also more likely than Washingtonians in general to have jobs.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">When asked why they entered the Death with Dignity Program, 97% of patients surveyed said they feared the "loss of autonomy" that was sure to come as they deteriorated. In addition, 89% cited an "inability to engage in enjoyable activities" and 75% were concerned about "loss of dignity." Actual pain and fear of future pain were mentioned only 22% of the time, according to the report.</p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">You can read the study, <a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1213398?query=featured_home#t=article" style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); text-decoration: none;">Implementing a Death with Dignity Program at a Comprehensive Cancer Center</a>, on the New England Journal of Medicine website. In addition, two doctors debate the merits of allowing a hypothetical 72-year-old man with metastatic <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="HEDAI0000033" title="Prostate Cancer" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/health/diseases-illnesses/prostate-cancer-HEDAI0000033.topic" style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-decoration: none;">prostate cancer</a> to end his life with the help of his physician on the website <a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMclde1302615" style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(34, 98, 204); text-decoration: none;">here</a>.</p></div><br><a href="http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-death-with-dignity-seattle-20130410,0,7934455.story">http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-death-with-dignity-seattle-20130410,0,7934455.story</a>

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Buildings That Lie About Their Age

In case you missed it last week, Christopher Gray's <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/classifieds/realestate/columns/streetscapes/index.html">Streetscapes column</a> in the <i>New York Times</i> used my <a href="http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=23058"><i>Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture</i></a> as a jumping-off point for a discussion of neo-traditional architecture in NYC. "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/realestate/buildings-that-lie-about-their-age.html">Buildings That Lie About Their Age</a>" questions the absence of neo-trad architecture among the 200+ buildings in my book. <br /><br /><img alt="streetscapes-hill.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/streetscapes-hill.jpg" title="Buildings That Lie About Their Age" /><br />[Screenshot from "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/realestate/buildings-that-lie-about-their-age.html">Buildings That Lie About Their Age</a>"]<br /><br />Here is a snippet from the beginning and end of Gray's article, where my book is mentioned: <br /><blockquote><i>John Hill’s book “A Guide to Contemporary New York City Architecture” is filled with examples of the crazy new forms of the last decade, like Frank Gehry’s white wind-filled “sail” on the West Side Highway in Chelsea. They are startling, creative, amusing, sometimes even hilarious.</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>And yet, the United States is in the middle of a great revival of traditional architecture — Georgian, neo-Classical, Arts and Crafts and so forth — that is almost absent from Mr. Hill’s stimulating and enjoyable work. So, what isn’t contemporary about traditional design?</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>...</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>Mr. Hill includes a few neo-traditionalist buildings in his 10-year review, including Robert A. M. Stern’s 1920s-revival apartment house at 15 Central Park West, and George Ranalli’s prairie-style Saratoga Community Center in Brooklyn. But out of 200-plus projects, that’s it.</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>Does he have a bias against the neo-traditional movement?</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>He doesn’t think so. “I thought about including the Carhart town house,” he said, “but just didn’t get around to it.” As for the Ralph Lauren store, “it was being completed just as I was finishing the book” in late 2010. But he does include other projects scheduled for 2012 and even 2013.</i><br /><i><br /></i><i>This suggests that there is probably space for a guidebook of neo-traditional architecture. At the moment, it might not be more than a couple of chapters, but it is sure to grow.</i></blockquote>The addition to the Carhart mansion can be seen on <a href="http://www.johnsimpsonarchitects.com/residential/residential_16.html">John Simpson's website</a>. As Gray mentions, for a long time I had that project in my book, as a means of discussing how "contemporary" has many meanings, one of which includes neo-traditional architecture. The project was eventually replaced by another one, also in the Upper East Side, more fitting with what's in the rest of the guidebook. There was also the question of, "If one project is in the book to point out that neo-traditional is also contemporary, then why not include more?" That's probably the stronger reason of why I did not include a project so overtly traditional.

Buildings That Lie About Their Age

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12 new Camera launches by Canon in India

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvDocRr20K8UPp-1SvBBkso0F5lMl3LiBn9zIeH8fN7INh1bTDX-DCFRbQTnZs3kDRsgXNhZ8I38bUa62xrDAUb-D4HBGKCPrbH7KSSgdEOrQzjdbX4NwrRFuWBA-Gv9lh9BS21VRs7wA/s1600/CanonI.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvDocRr20K8UPp-1SvBBkso0F5lMl3LiBn9zIeH8fN7INh1bTDX-DCFRbQTnZs3kDRsgXNhZ8I38bUa62xrDAUb-D4HBGKCPrbH7KSSgdEOrQzjdbX4NwrRFuWBA-Gv9lh9BS21VRs7wA/s640/CanonI.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>12 new Camera Prices</strong></span><br /><br /> PowerShot A3500 IS —  9,995 Rs<br /> PowerShot N — 20,995  Rs<br /> IXUS 132 —  7,995 Rs<br />PowerShot 2500 —  5,995 Rs<br /> PowerShot 2600 —  8,995 Rs<br /> IXUS 135 —  10,995 Rs<br /> EOS 700D —  53,995 Rs<br /> EOS C100 — 5,00,000 Rs <br /> IXUS 140 — 12,495 Rs<br /> IXUS 255 HS —  12,995 Rs<br /> EOS 100D —  48,995 Rs<br /> EOS-1DC —  9,00,000 Rs<br /><br />EOS-1DC —  9,00,000 Rs camera  best for Movie shooting . In all camera's   IXUS Series five camera are Wi-Fi enabled  such as IXUS 135, IXUS 255HS, IXUS 140 . IXUS 132 which is not Wi-Fi enabled.<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"India is a prime market for Canon and it is imperative for us to keep introducing high-end technology to stay ahead in such a competitive market. Success of futuristic technology only adds onto the confidence to experiment and helps a brand to provide its customers with a promising and unusual experience" said Mr. Kazutada Kobayashi, President and CEO, Canon India stated</blockquote><br /> I am not saying that canon is the best but I believe on that because I use this .....its my opinion ...write your comment after buying this accessories..<br /><br /></div>Published by <br /><a href="https://plus.google.com/109838201058606610638" rel="author">Narendra Saini</a></div>

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12 new Camera Prices  PowerShot A3500 IS —  9,995 Rs  PowerShot N — 20,995  Rs  IXUS 132 —  7,995 Rs PowerShot 2500 —  5,995 Rs  PowerShot 2...

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Peter Zumthor: 1986-2013

The most recent monograph—the only one, actually—on Swiss architect Peter Zumthor was released in 1998. It's so desirable that <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0817660992/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0817660992&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20">used copies are being sold on Amazon</a> for around $1,500. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3858817236/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=3858817236&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20">A forthcoming monograph</a> from <a href="http://www.scheidegger-spiess.ch/">Scheidegger and Spiess</a> may temper the desirability of that book, since it will cover Zumthor's work from 1986-2013 (the earlier one covers 1979-1997) and will be more than twice as big (800 pages versus 318). Sure, it comes with a $250 cover price and won't be released until September, but if anybody can find me a more anticipated architecture book I'd like to know about it.<br /><br /><img alt="zumthor1986-2013.jpg" src="http://www.archidose.org/Blog/zumthor1986-2013.jpg" title="Where Are the Utopian Visionaries?" /><br /><br />Book description <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3858817236/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=3858817236&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20">via Amazon</a>: <br /><blockquote>Unquestionably one of the most influential and revered contemporary architects, Peter Zumthor has approached his work with a singular clarity of vision and a strong sense of his own philosophy, both of which have earned him the admiration of his peers and the world at large. Choosing to only take on a few projects at a time and keep his studio small, Zumthor has produced a comparatively few number of realized buildings, but they rank among the world’s most stunning: St. Benedict’s Chapel in Sumvitg, Switzerland; Therme Vals in Vals, Switzerland; Kunsthaus Bregenz in Bregenz, Austria; and the Kolumba Art Museum in Cologne, Germany number among his most famous buildings. This collection, however, explores his entire body of award-winning work from 1986 to 2012 in five volumes, including his lesser-known but nonetheless critically acclaimed works such as the Field Chapel for Brother Klaus near Mechernich, Germany, and the <i>Steilneset. Memorial for the Victims of the Witch Trials in Vard</i><i>ø</i><i>,</i> Norway.<br /><br /><i>Peter Zumthor </i>presents around forty of his projects, both realized and unrealized, through Zumthor’s own writing, and with photographs, sketches, drawings, and plans. A complete catalog of his works starting in 1979 rounds out the book. Richly illustrated and beautifully designed, this book serves as both an introduction to Zumthor’s work and philosophy for the layperson and a required addition to any architect’s library.</blockquote><br />(Many thanks to Jim G. for the heads up!)<br /><br />Pre-order your pricey Zumthor monograph here:<br /><b>US: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3858817236/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=3858817236&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.com" border="0" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan.gif" /></a> CA: <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/3858817236/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=3858817236&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.ca" border="0" height="28" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan-ca.gif" width="90" /></a> UK: <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/3858817236/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=3858817236&linkCode=as2&tag=aweeklydoseof-20" target="_blank"><img alt="Buy from Amazon.co.uk" border="0" height="28" src="http://www.archidose.org/books/buy-from-tan-uk.gif" width="90" /></a></b>

Peter Zumthor: 1986-2013

The most recent monograph—the only one, actually—on Swiss architect Peter Zumthor was released in 1998. It's so desirable that used copi...

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Mmmm!

Now this is my kind of soup!<br /><br />Carrot, sweet potato and coconut!!<br /><br />There is something spicy in there too that is giving a little kick to the soup. Yum, creamy and delicious! <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimmDQgGRgcxqxJKXfo8QbcbaIjduzsg83wBk4bOqGwIhlW4H8sdquN2tIhx8Btt4lmE8gfhbmuQXlfZw40IQFGMmMStY2e4_YU_ipsfUNCgCbg1Jd6gW5rNDy182dD5ig1p97HMnJI6-R5/s640/blogger-image--854051668.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimmDQgGRgcxqxJKXfo8QbcbaIjduzsg83wBk4bOqGwIhlW4H8sdquN2tIhx8Btt4lmE8gfhbmuQXlfZw40IQFGMmMStY2e4_YU_ipsfUNCgCbg1Jd6gW5rNDy182dD5ig1p97HMnJI6-R5/s640/blogger-image--854051668.jpg" /></a></div> <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTWOnL3WdMmvoh8R5XI2fHHhBk8Urnd4RvVPUEwZGWQnRsR10h0BF99K596xE8A-t3m-D_77HV18tIST8NbiaCtQnDX6F76al2i5wopw_xN9CTby5KIgsYVzIrFoCXVq5WArNZGZ3C4pqC/s640/blogger-image--1552848799.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTWOnL3WdMmvoh8R5XI2fHHhBk8Urnd4RvVPUEwZGWQnRsR10h0BF99K596xE8A-t3m-D_77HV18tIST8NbiaCtQnDX6F76al2i5wopw_xN9CTby5KIgsYVzIrFoCXVq5WArNZGZ3C4pqC/s640/blogger-image--1552848799.jpg" /></a></div>

Mmmm!

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Baidu Rejected in fake press release

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV-QLlySJ6XJruEbNGN3dHAaOfIJyv2x7wmQqvG4OrifVI0EXyQQmls-wQK8s3uSICmBi_f0p8CMpoiOjgm7so6PS6nNeiLSiv33B1qh6YA3Qpbabt7ieX7s5tD-OBIUTv4cmP4ZHtx3s/s1600/baidu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV-QLlySJ6XJruEbNGN3dHAaOfIJyv2x7wmQqvG4OrifVI0EXyQQmls-wQK8s3uSICmBi_f0p8CMpoiOjgm7so6PS6nNeiLSiv33B1qh6YA3Qpbabt7ieX7s5tD-OBIUTv4cmP4ZHtx3s/s640/baidu.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span class="hps"></span> In Monday fake press release rise 4% share of U.S. social gaming company Zynga Inc. In  news wrote that Zynga Inc company cancel deal with Chinese search engine firm Baidu Inc .<br /> One website www.prurgent.com write something about baidu that it would offer $10 per share for the company.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"> The statement was false. Zynga was not available for comment. said "Baidu's director of international communications, Kaiser Kuo".</blockquote>This news removed from  the prurgent website at since Monday mid morning.On that time Zynga  Inc company get high peak share in market.<br /><br /></div>Published by <br /><a href="https://plus.google.com/109838201058606610638" rel="author">Narendra Saini</a></div>

game jacob news Baidu Rejected in fake press release

 In Monday fake press release rise 4% share of U.S. social gaming company Zynga Inc. In  news wrote that Zynga Inc company cancel deal with ...

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indie mats winner and a feature

And the Indie Mats winner is...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Albertina at Mimosa Lane!</span></b></span></div><br />Congrats Albertina, I'll be in touch shortly. And thank you to all who entered, I'll have another great giveaway soon, promise.<br /><br /><br />Also, I'm taking part in the <a href="http://bliss-athome.com/2013/04/23/great-reads-behind-that-little-black-door/" target="_blank">Great Reads feature</a> today over at Bliss At Home. <a href="http://bliss-athome.com/2013/04/23/great-reads-behind-that-little-black-door/" target="_blank">Check it out</a>!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZZ4k5EkX-KkmTX7jhtPnGkUc2Rkf6s4JM_trjDDJAsJLsKb9v9w7mchPtQZzDs7Omk3lST5RkRENlXDd8a2xdsytS2XeYs0FYm7ZbFsK9glpbf7dy_O_Flwjcla1xsWXMSe81MhMSbbWm/s1600/a2b4de0054e9e2040be0334fdfb3b2d3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZZ4k5EkX-KkmTX7jhtPnGkUc2Rkf6s4JM_trjDDJAsJLsKb9v9w7mchPtQZzDs7Omk3lST5RkRENlXDd8a2xdsytS2XeYs0FYm7ZbFsK9glpbf7dy_O_Flwjcla1xsWXMSe81MhMSbbWm/s1600/a2b4de0054e9e2040be0334fdfb3b2d3.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />

indie mats winner and a feature

And the Indie Mats winner is... Albertina at Mimosa Lane! Congrats Albertina, I'll be in touch shortly. And thank you to all who entered...

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9 Fine Reasons to Keep a Journal (and how to help kids do it too)

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container zemanta-img" style="float: right; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/23872901@N03/4310645750" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: clear:right;"><img alt="Gratitude Journal" border="0" class="zemanta-img-inserted" height="180" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4061/4310645750_387884aca6_m.jpg" style="border: none; font-size: 0.8em;" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center;">A Gratitude Journal <br />can improve your well being<br />more than winning a million<br />dollars in the lottery.<br />Why not start one today?<br />(Photo credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/23872901@N03/4310645750" target="_blank">limevelyn</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table>Journaling is on my habit list every day. I keep 2 kinds of journals daily:<br /><br /><ul><li><b>Narrative journal.</b> Observations on life. God's blessings. Questions I'm seeking to answer.<br /></li><li><b>Joy Journal</b>. I aim to write 20 things a day I'm thankful for. <a href="http://happierhuman.com/benefits-of-gratitude/">Research studies</a> have shown that keeping a 5 minute a day gratitude journal will "increase your long term well being" more than winning a million dollars in the lottery. I started my joy journal this spring break as my eye was bandaged from skin cancer surgery. (See <a href="http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2013/04/11-ways-to-be-positive-when-your-spring.html">11 ways to be positive when spring break isn't all you planned</a>.)</li></ul><div>At first I just kept a journal because I think I'm just made to write. It is what I do. But I've been journaling now for 37 years and have shelves of them and a notebook in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.evernote.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Evernote">Evernote</a> and I'd like to share with you the ways that keeping a journal have improved my life.</div><div><br /></div><div>Keeping a daily journal has helped me:</div><div><br /></div><h2>1. Add meaning to the moments.</h2><div>There are times I look at my children when my heart overflows. I capture those emotions like a picture on the page of my journal. Other times, I'm frustrated, those pictures are there too. Life is a beautiful wonderful gift and it shouldn't be squandered.</div><div><br /></div><div>My son is graduating this year. It has been a joy to read my entries from when he was born. The prayers I prayed in writing when I found out I was pregnant with him. The struggles that we've come through together. My journal is a gift I gave to myself. Sometimes two sentences tell me all I need to know about a period of my life and blank dates scream out in sadness for the lost meaning.</div><div><br /></div><h2>2. Process emotions.</h2><div>When his wife died, <a href="http://flavorwire.com/367030/10-famous-authors-on-the-importance-of-keeping-a-journal/8">CS Lewis wrote</a>:</div><div><br /></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: CharisSILRegular, Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24px;">“What would H. think of this terrible little notebook to which I come back and back? Are these jottings morbid? ...But what am I to do? I must have some drug, and reading isn’t a strong enough drug now.”</span></blockquote><div>When we<a href="http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2011/11/10-ways-to-be-wonderful-happy-birthday.html"> lost everything</a> when our  pecan grove went under water in 1994 and as I became a stay at home Mom, I was full of emotions. Many <a href="http://www.writingthroughlife.com/why-write">advocate journaling</a> because of the <a href="http://www.writingthroughlife.com/why-write">catharsis</a>, or cleansing effect it has on your heart and life. I agree. Journaling keeps me emotionally healthy.</div><h2>3. Capture thoughts.</h2><div>It isn't always time to write, but it is always time to capture thoughts that you may want to write about later. I have a fantastic post drafted up on a stray page after I played paint ball the first time (when I turned 40.) I still read it and will at some point write it. I remember the event like it was yesterday because I captured it in ink.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://a1.phobos.apple.com/us/r1000/102/Purple/v4/9f/2a/fa/9f2afa20-1acb-b7c8-69c9-ef434bdbac96/mzl.kdzryzio.320x480-75.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://a1.phobos.apple.com/us/r1000/102/Purple/v4/9f/2a/fa/9f2afa20-1acb-b7c8-69c9-ef434bdbac96/mzl.kdzryzio.320x480-75.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I use <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vjournal-for-evernote-free/id556818858?mt=8">vJournal</a> that links to <a href="http://evernote.com/">Evernote </a>to journal daily. It creates a notebook by year and each note is a day. I snap pictures, add thoughts, put down things I need to do and review these as part of the daily review. </div><div><br /></div><h2>4. Gain clarity.</h2><div>When you're struggling and capture thoughts, you can gain great clarity by reading back through the days. The self-awareness I gain from looking back at moments and stressors helps me clearly make decisions. </div><div><br /></div><div>Why do I always mention that person when I'm upset? Why does that always bother me? In an emotional lather, what we think are our problems often aren't. As I goal set, scanning through the previous year helps me act with intention and purpose. Journals help you be more self-aware.</div><div><br /></div><h2>5. Leave a Legacy.</h2><div>I have special journals for each of my children. During times in their lives, I've gone into the journals and told them how I feel at that moment. When you're struggling with the tough teenage years or the terrible two's, telling your child that you loved them through it all is very affirming. </div><div><br /></div><div>My Mom has a journal for me that she's been keeping all my life. I'll get it one day. I'll do the same for my children. I want the last thing they get from me to be the words that I love them. In a legacy journal, you live on. I do tell them those things today but often, the words are missed amidst busy-ness.</div><div><br /></div><h2>6. Remember.</h2><div>There are things we all want to remember. For me, I want to remember the times when God has spoken very clearly to me on a matter I've been praying about. We all have important moments that we want to remember and use your journal for that, whatever they are whether they are dreams, Bible verses, or funny things that happen.</div><div><br /></div><h2>7. Develop your voice</h2><div>My voice wasn't developed on this blog, but in my journal over 37 years. There are times I played with words, rewrote things and tinkered. Journaling helps you find your voice and lets you write what you think without the pressure of anyone looking.</div><div><br /></div><h2>8. To Create.</h2><div>Journals are a great place to play "what if." I ponder on great leaders and ask questions about life. I write poetry and sketch silly things. I draft outlines for books I haven't written yet. My journal is a playground for my mind.</div><div><br /></div><h2>9. To Release.</h2><div>When I can't sleep because I keep replaying something or keep thinking about something, I grab my journal, head to the den, and write it down. Moments after getting the upset-ness on a page (usually combined with written prayers), I'm sleeping like I was hit with a brick. ;-)</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Journaling has so many benefits. You may not be a fantastic writer but your life will be improved if you journal. </div><div><br /></div><h3>How can teachers encourage journaling and respect privacy?</h3><div>I had a teacher in middle school who taught me all of the beauty and excitement of journaling with daily prompts. The feedback she gave me encouraged me to write. Of course, there are things you won't write when you know a teacher is watching and she let us fold back pages that we wanted to keep private as long as she could see that some text was peeking out of the left margin, she would respect that. </div><div><br /></div><div>I would love to know how you journal and teach journaling in the comments. </div><div><br /></div><div>Thank you, I read every comment. Sometimes when you comment the first time, there is a delay in posting it, but I review these and will approve you. This is to prevent spam.</div><div><br /></div><br /> <div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/?px" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_c.png?x-id=1fb1863f-590f-48db-8cd5-096a93ff27ea" style="border: none; float: right;" /></a></div>

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 04/23/2013

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://creativewriting40s.blogspot.com/2013/02/teaching-old-student-new-tricks.html">LA Class 2013: Teaching An Old Student New Tricks?</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Do you want to know what a student thinks about genius learning? Read Melina's thoughts about this practice in 12th grad english. ""What are the projects on?"-you might ask. The topic and the project is completely up to us to decide. If we are interested in how to make a good documentary or how to play an instrument, teaching ourselves and researching that topic can be our project. This new way of learning is very peculiar to me, but also very intriguing. For so long I have been told what to know and taught how to know it, but never once did I really felt in control of my learning. It felt like the knowledge went into my brain, stayed their until after my exams, and then was thrown away like a smooth stone into a lake, out of my reach forever. But when you are passionate about something and can lear"</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/geniushour">geniushour</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/genius">genius</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://geniushour.blogspot.com/2013/04/this-is-why.html">My Own Genius Hour: This is why...</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Here are some genius hour topics from Joy Kirr and her students. She's one of the 4 authors of the genius manifesto and I'm talking to them today. I love the simple genius plans of these students Joy contemplated about on this day. One is investigating the quesiton "what makes us human?" and the other wants to perform random acts of kindness after surveying others and finding the types of random acts of kindness they had enjoyed in their lives, if any.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/geniushours.">geniushours.</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/google20%">google20%</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/geniushour">geniushour</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/passion">passion</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.gallitzvi.com/2/post/2013/04/21st-century-learning-21st-century-leadership.html">21st Century Learning. 21st Century Leadership. - Integrating Technology: My Journey</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">I'm interviewing Gallit Zvi from British Columbia, Canada today on Every Classroom matters (should post in about a week) about genius hour and I was intrigued by this post on her blog about how her school "looks." While some of these points have inspired questions (they can cook for their family in lieu of copying spelling sentences, for example) others have me wishing we could do the same thing (entrepreneur fair where students have a sales idea, craft a business plan and make and sell products.) It is worth a peek inside this fascinating classroom and school which uses genius hour among other things.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/passion">passion</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/google20%">google20%</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/geniushour">geniushour</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/bestpractices">bestpractices</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='https://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 04/23/2013

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Sleep evaded me

Oh boy am I tired this morning. Last night was bad bad bad. It started with mating foxes making an awful racquet and them it continued with our small dog making the loudest snores in the bed with us. After finally getting asleep I was awoken by the police helicopter at 4.30am which circled overhead for about an hour. I think it was 6am when I finally got back asleep and then the alarm went off at 7am.<br /><br />I found it tough getting up and am sitting in Starbucks having an extra strong coffee to prepare me for a busy morning in work.

Sleep evaded me

Oh boy am I tired this morning. Last night was bad bad bad. It started with mating foxes making an awful racquet and them it continued wit...

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IWS Radio Exclusive!! We Have the Hand-Written Testimony of Dzhokar Tsarnaev !!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKnWXzyIut2o8fyUhu0B__0JHj3AJrbr6t9RnpWWJBGI-u1bElg1VTC8IXI6W8wKsA8FDAGvgsy3iWN0sjIA9Q-qAj5aS45K5LX9sbLdVHvceRHfOh1vq22fZW4M3KCA6MjjAvsV8Swfk/s1600/silhouette-male+face+monkey+wrench.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKnWXzyIut2o8fyUhu0B__0JHj3AJrbr6t9RnpWWJBGI-u1bElg1VTC8IXI6W8wKsA8FDAGvgsy3iWN0sjIA9Q-qAj5aS45K5LX9sbLdVHvceRHfOh1vq22fZW4M3KCA6MjjAvsV8Swfk/s200/silhouette-male+face+monkey+wrench.jpg" width="161" /></a>Good Morning IWS readers.<br /><br />I am the singular and sub-rosa Clandestine Reporter, Troubleshooter, and Black Ops Man of Mystery for IWS Radio.<br /><br />I am unable to reveal neither my name nor my identity, but you can refer to me by my code name…Monkey Wrench.<br /><br />Some of you may know that yesterday, at 0945 hours at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, members of the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice interrogated alleged Boston Marathon Bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.<br /><br />As Tsarnaev is yet unable to speak, the FBI and DOJ communicated back and forth with him using simple pen and paper.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I masqueraded myself as an Ear, Nose, and Throat doctor, and weaseled my way into the top secret interview. What I found out was incredible and incredulous.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">What follows are pictures of the actual back and forth written questioning of 19 year old Dzhokar Tsarnaev…</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The first question, why did he and his brother choose to attack the Boston Marathon?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8srhjHuL5Vjdxz6-lC1BcpjCBQZMyspmMilKj_Jx0M3jIRDgDn3LXB0GqDaiJR5H35X64nV2tEnlDUeG2fSNUVfxVY8HVpojOYeVFbpjbDrkx2kE5m8sUueE3hjWEu3YFla9hOOtxbzw/s1600/003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8srhjHuL5Vjdxz6-lC1BcpjCBQZMyspmMilKj_Jx0M3jIRDgDn3LXB0GqDaiJR5H35X64nV2tEnlDUeG2fSNUVfxVY8HVpojOYeVFbpjbDrkx2kE5m8sUueE3hjWEu3YFla9hOOtxbzw/s400/003.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />Some prudish looking DOJ chick sporting a wool skirt and a hair bun, wanted to know if others were involved in their deadly attack...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD-dzwhUdo7ME8XZ4SRXNjuXH2mQjD4TuCSPEZjjUlWUbS4TwKlEWJhDID_MO9pQ7_Dd8VvYvBNpdWRGC7T5fDVLlqa0wjanLVfVrTrdTD_PyPL1G4_XKQYBGuTrvQznWe7XFzMzsE308/s1600/004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD-dzwhUdo7ME8XZ4SRXNjuXH2mQjD4TuCSPEZjjUlWUbS4TwKlEWJhDID_MO9pQ7_Dd8VvYvBNpdWRGC7T5fDVLlqa0wjanLVfVrTrdTD_PyPL1G4_XKQYBGuTrvQznWe7XFzMzsE308/s400/004.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Turning the tables on the U.S. law enforcement officers, Dzhokar fired back with a question of his own...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIJhGtpdqu-pYzqKGc_414Dw3y9_vNxl4aeAhY0cua8jupjnWpdR-gclYLbdY2Ek8mCXlAFG7F_AqenLlqB_E9aUdBVOikfiYpPU5pDmPSHP_TGMDjRkwsEZaBXsy45_FLdo_rry8bGls/s1600/008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIJhGtpdqu-pYzqKGc_414Dw3y9_vNxl4aeAhY0cua8jupjnWpdR-gclYLbdY2Ek8mCXlAFG7F_AqenLlqB_E9aUdBVOikfiYpPU5pDmPSHP_TGMDjRkwsEZaBXsy45_FLdo_rry8bGls/s400/008.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />Upon knowing that his food would be sent for, the agents shrewdly continued to calm Dzhokar down...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9yIPI72xK0M5Rn9M3p0C9npIRf6HX1XME6rZXaU1Qrma0Wxqjx_2Cu4KD1pALyuxLOJpOpNx1bVOtIZNACh1e9NdNZlJCXT0VlUeKT8HuPTy0ZwxC4z_KV1cySjUA9lX-BpzmU_oyRps/s1600/005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9yIPI72xK0M5Rn9M3p0C9npIRf6HX1XME6rZXaU1Qrma0Wxqjx_2Cu4KD1pALyuxLOJpOpNx1bVOtIZNACh1e9NdNZlJCXT0VlUeKT8HuPTy0ZwxC4z_KV1cySjUA9lX-BpzmU_oyRps/s400/005.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />Many want to know why a recently Naturalized U.S. citizen such as dead, older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev had come to hate America.  Neither the FBI nor Dzhokar disappointed...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY2GJYRGLBedz3WBsEjk7ZE6FoXOvq-bR2YnmxYTsmC_XGuj8cV_X61gQBuLqMX69L_4mDGLX04L4kKsLy-k_yozDMQCXHi4ZXQrg76bNxl4gEc6ixzLxKwtIkHxMW9XaC-1GTf4SWLAM/s1600/006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY2GJYRGLBedz3WBsEjk7ZE6FoXOvq-bR2YnmxYTsmC_XGuj8cV_X61gQBuLqMX69L_4mDGLX04L4kKsLy-k_yozDMQCXHi4ZXQrg76bNxl4gEc6ixzLxKwtIkHxMW9XaC-1GTf4SWLAM/s400/006.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The FBI as many others have wondered, did the apparently sweet and well-adapted Dzhokar get roped into this heinous act by his non-sexually satisfied brother Tamerlan Tsaraev..?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZEAdYA8LAFeaABvh85ZaQqkJDFNqq8TXPiyuYFQD5jmPrv0cUiuQ_34531Z3hEmGJ-CPNwnZ6eBLSyAfZUPDLA5C6NtPvuS1JKbdwVRDKIYA0_cxF5CFLWRn8QaqhI2GweBeEWu-Ee1A/s1600/009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZEAdYA8LAFeaABvh85ZaQqkJDFNqq8TXPiyuYFQD5jmPrv0cUiuQ_34531Z3hEmGJ-CPNwnZ6eBLSyAfZUPDLA5C6NtPvuS1JKbdwVRDKIYA0_cxF5CFLWRn8QaqhI2GweBeEWu-Ee1A/s400/009.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div>And that was enough for authorities as they, at approximately 1450 Hours while Dzhokar was devouring a Wendy's double with cheese, pickles, and mayo, officially charged him with multiple capital offenses.<br /><br />And I?<br /><br />I disappeared into the tumultuous haze of the Boston skyline, hopped aboard a classified plane, and headed for an undisclosed hotbed of activity in an unnamed Sub-Saharan African country.<br /><br />That is my report for now, but fear not...I will report once again should you realize it or not.<br /><br />With justice on my mind, and a kevlar vest upon my chest,<br /><br /><i>Monkey Wrench</i><br /><br /><a href="mailto:mattmaniws@ymail.com">mattmaniws@ymail.com</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/MattMan_IWS" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">@mattman_iws</span></a></div><div><br /></div>Be sure to check out the I'm With Stupid podcast! <br /><br /><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.adobe.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" height="270" id="143577" name="143577" width="210"><param name="movie" value="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf?file=http://www.blogtalkradio.com%2Fim-with-stupid%2Fplay_list.xml%3Fitemcount%3D5&autostart=true&bufferlength=5&volume=80&corner=rounded&callback=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/flashplayercallback.aspx" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/btrplayer.swf" flashvars="file=http://www.blogtalkradio.com%2fim-with-stupid%2fplay_list.xml%3Fitemcount%3D5&autostart=true&shuffle=false&callback=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/FlashPlayerCallback.aspx&width=210&height=270&volume=80&corner=rounded" width="210" height="270" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" wmode="transparent" menu="false" name="143577" id="143577" allowScriptAccess="always"></embed></object><br /><div style="font-size: 10px; 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IWS Radio Exclusive!! We Have the Hand-Written Testimony of Dzhokar Tsarnaev !!

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Nokia Phone with physical keyboard

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghiTqZT6TMvZOsO2ZocI3A6WaamH9ZS3mvL5_0oYxisTMxhpxN5WJTqU69UtNSoS_y-iewiGLahdmLRPLz1EOWUu-rTQ4LE8a71WDWHZAPCnVQNhmQqQJSV6Ttp190tzzxMqqDMWE1mKg/s1600/nokiakeyboard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghiTqZT6TMvZOsO2ZocI3A6WaamH9ZS3mvL5_0oYxisTMxhpxN5WJTqU69UtNSoS_y-iewiGLahdmLRPLz1EOWUu-rTQ4LE8a71WDWHZAPCnVQNhmQqQJSV6Ttp190tzzxMqqDMWE1mKg/s640/nokiakeyboard.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Nokia enhance own <b>lumia</b> series with physical keyboard phone . Its has yellow color with shining designing also its a first hardware keyboard phone in nokia windows phone.It will launch on April 24 -2013.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">On Wednesday morning at 7am GMT (8am UK time) we will be announcing something new, followed by a Q&A session with Neil Broadley from our Mobile Phones team and a special guest. said <a href="http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/04/22/whats-up-at-nokia/">Ian Delaney (conversations editor of nokia blog) </a></blockquote><br /><br /><br /></div>Published by <br /><a href="https://plus.google.com/109838201058606610638" rel="author">Narendra Saini</a></div>

jacob Nokia-Phone Nokia Phone with physical keyboard

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Getting crafty

In the past I made a variety of cot quilts for my friends when they had babies. I haven't made one in over a year so I decided to start again. Tonight I'm going to look through these crafting books for inspiration. <br/><br/><div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicmpw3c2__nUhBzxRveW_dsp0etTgeSXPAPgvyjZQuwS1pyJocuXBydLRQGlisObEYyD_aZapf1AQzYxKWK9wDSxR2U_8_hg53_cjDNl5e_t9hhkjb4p7g34n0b1yfRL63LzC3DS7trAJb/s640/blogger-image--2097739781.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicmpw3c2__nUhBzxRveW_dsp0etTgeSXPAPgvyjZQuwS1pyJocuXBydLRQGlisObEYyD_aZapf1AQzYxKWK9wDSxR2U_8_hg53_cjDNl5e_t9hhkjb4p7g34n0b1yfRL63LzC3DS7trAJb/s640/blogger-image--2097739781.jpg" /></a></div>

Getting crafty

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30 days of writing #4: Have you spoken to your students about Online Safety/Digital Citizenship?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flamingtext.com/" target="_top"><br /><img alt="Logo Design by FlamingText.com" border="0" src="http://blog.flamingtext.com/blog/2013/04/22/flamingtext_com_1366656308_948072740.png" title="Logo Design by FlamingText.com" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Logo Design by <a href="http://www.flamingtext.com/">FlamingText.com</a></span></i> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When practising online digital writing or digital storytelling it is useful to consider issues around online safety (or Digital Citizenship as it is called) especially when working with students. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Digital Writing</u>: the art and practice of preparing documents primarily by computer and often for online delivery.<br /><u>Digital Storytelling</u>: </span><span style="text-indent: -0.38in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Digital Storytelling refers to using digital tools for writing stories</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A consideration of online safety is always good place to start now that the world is becoming increasingly digital, and connectedness with others via social media grows.  The Internet is an incredible resource – one of the greatest inventions of mankind in my opinion -  but the main thing for anyone to realise is that once one starts working online they develop a digital footprint and an online reputation. Best is to keep it good right from the start.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So it is a good idea to now and again chat to your students about the significance of a ‘digital footprint’, including what things are appropriate to post online, how to protect your identity and ways to interact with others in an online space.  </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Useful informative blog posts about online safety</strong> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) Jacqui Murray has a whole list of useful sites for teaching <a href="http://askatechteacher.wordpress.com/great-websites-for-kids/digital-citizenship/">Digital Citizenship</a> to students of all ages. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2) For older students this post from Lisa Nielson has a useful infographic to look at <a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/4-things-you-need-to-know-to-help-your.html">4 things you need to know to help your students manage their online reputation</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is really just an information post, but I would love it if you added any comments about this subject in the comment box below. </span></div></div></div></div>

30 Days of Writing 30 days of writing #4: Have you spoken to your students about Online Safety/Digital Citizenship?

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What's Tylenol Doing to Our Minds? - James Hamblin - The Atlantic

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The active drug in Tylenol, acetaminophen, is one of the best medications we have for helping people in pain. It's also one the most commonly overdosed substances in the world and puts about 60,000 Americans in the hospital every year. Several hundred people in the U.S. will die in 2013 from liver failure after acetaminophen overdose.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Tylenol isn't addictive like narcotics, and the kids don't take it to get high, which lends it an air of benignity and social acceptance not otherwise afforded to many pain medications. When people overdose on pills like Vicodin or Percocet, though, which contain acetaminophen, it's that component that often does the most damage.</p><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 150px; float: left; margin: 0px 20px 10px 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px; text-align: left; display: block; "><font face="georgia, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpz4Q5RmgzK8caE77rI5u4tVGZP1Tcb3bwVaAuXTEKZlEjfQdYaLXQaSpGHbk38UsCwCpfl7IgMKWD_5RPq78Tl38xGgtoBcCdXit4FmLOqAiktYwgJik7vzghj54QWrz8IuE0rDHin4s/s1600/tylenol+inset+200-769597.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5869770181610856418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpz4Q5RmgzK8caE77rI5u4tVGZP1Tcb3bwVaAuXTEKZlEjfQdYaLXQaSpGHbk38UsCwCpfl7IgMKWD_5RPq78Tl38xGgtoBcCdXit4FmLOqAiktYwgJik7vzghj54QWrz8IuE0rDHin4s/s320/tylenol+inset+200-769597.jpg" /></a></font><font style="font-size: 0.8em; "><div style="text-align: right; ">kate*/flickr</div></font></div><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Acetaminophen is also more accepted in that we don't think of Tylenol as altering our mental state. People can take it and still drive a car and go to work and remain fully present beings. But the more it's studied, the more it seems we may be overlooking subtle cognitive effects. In 2009, research showed that it seemed to <a href="http://www.livescience.com/5966-pain-pills-ease-hurt-feelings.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 89, 140); text-decoration: none; ">dull the pain of social rejection</a> -- sort of like alcohol or Xanax. The author of that study, Nathan DeWall at the University of Kentucky, said at that time, "Social pain, such as chronic loneliness, damages health as much as smoking and obesity."</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">New research this week found that Tylenol altered the way subjects passed moral judgments. Psychologists used that as a proxy measure for personal distress, a relationship that has been previously demonstrated.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Daniel Randles and colleagues at the University of British Columbia write in the journal <i><a href="http://www.academia.edu/2057894/The_common_pain_of_surrealism_and_death_Acetaminophen_reduces_compensatory_affirmation_following_meaning_threats" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 89, 140); text-decoration: none; ">Psychological Science</a></i>, "The meaning-maintenance model posits that any violation of expectations leads to an affective experience that motivates compensatory affirmation. We explore whether the neural mechanism that responds to meaning threats can be inhibited by acetaminophen." Totally.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">More plainly, "Physical pain and social rejection share a neural process and subjective component that are experienced as distress." That neural process has been traced to the same part of the brain. They figure that if you blunt one, you blunt both. As they <a href="http://www.livescience.com/5966-pain-pills-ease-hurt-feelings.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 89, 140); text-decoration: none; ">told LiveScience</a>, "When people feel overwhelmed with uncertainty in life or distressed by a lack of purpose, what they're feeling may actually be painful distress ... We think that Tylenol is blocking existential unease in the same way it prevents pain, because a similar neurological process is responsible for both types of distress."</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">In this study, Randles' team gave 120 people either two extra-strength Tylenol or a placebo. They then primed them by asking half to write about what happens when we die (meant to invoke or replicate existential anxiety) and the other half to write about a control, non-existential topic (going to the dentist, meant to focus people on concrete things). The rationale was that "thinking about death is incompatible with everyday thoughts ... and that it leads to the same anxiety ... as frustrated social interactions or perceived incongruities." </p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Then all were asked how high they would set bond for a hypothetical person arrested for prostitution.</p><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 300px; float: right; margin: 15px 0px 15px 20px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 11px; text-align: left; display: block; "><div style="text-align: right; "><font face="georgia, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11px; "><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgig0EG2dR2TofgJL67Q5iTJFggWnZ3E7scsndjYx2Qh0ZXzl7i0DXXX9eTKoUkgsMZU0z4YJuRKvmNTFKmcBtKDKhI5fYobEgju3sEmdxbLzIZkPMcnRlL_sg7euG2PslQfrppJKGWbOU/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-04-18+at+11.41.33+AM-771713.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5869770189783129346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgig0EG2dR2TofgJL67Q5iTJFggWnZ3E7scsndjYx2Qh0ZXzl7i0DXXX9eTKoUkgsMZU0z4YJuRKvmNTFKmcBtKDKhI5fYobEgju3sEmdxbLzIZkPMcnRlL_sg7euG2PslQfrppJKGWbOU/s320/Screen+Shot+2013-04-18+at+11.41.33+AM-771713.png" /></a></font><font style="font-size: 0.8em; ">Randles et al, <em>Psychological Science</em></font></div><font style="font-size: 0.8em; "><hr class="last-child" style="border-width: 1px 0px 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(216, 216, 216); "></font></div><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Among people who took the placebo pill, those who wrote about existential anxiety set much higher bail ($450) than those who wrote about the dentist ($300). But if they took Tylenol and wrote existentially, that sense of moral judgment seemed to be blunted. They set the same bond regardless of the priming.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Then in a similar, separate experiment, they primed the subjects by having them watch video clips. They either watched <em>The Simpsons</em> or a film by surrealistic neonoir writer/director David Lynch, in which <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jSBVo59j9U" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 89, 140); text-decoration: none; ">humans with rabbit heads wander an urban apartment muttering non sequiturs</a>. They then passed judgment on people arrested in a hockey riot. Again, the people in the existential mindset imposed harsh sanctions, but the people who'd watched <i>The Simpsons</i> were lenient. If they'd taken Tylenol first, though, the David Lynch-induced anxiety was apparently blunted. They recommended the same sanctions as the Simpsons-primed group.</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">This all raises more questions than it answers. This study was small. The<a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=tylenol&oq=tylenol&gs_l=news-cc.3..43j0j43i53.2293.3211.0.3363.7.4.0.3.3.0.39.145.4.4.0...0.0...1ac.1.2U_bPbLPmIw" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 89, 140); text-decoration: none; ">headlines are grandiose</a>. The way people pass moral judgments is not necessarily indicative of their level of existential anxiety. But acetaminophen indeed appears to be affecting people's perspectives, which further muddies our already complex relationship to the drug. </p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">As Randles <a href="http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/04/17/acetaminophen-seems-to-ease-some-existential-fears/53821.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 89, 140); text-decoration: none; ">sees the value</a> of their findings, "For people who suffer from chronic anxiety, or are overly sensitive to uncertainty, this work may shed some light on what is happening and how their symptoms could be reduced."</p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">Even though these changes in judgment are abstract and seemingly for the better, inclining people to benevolence and forgiveness, what other cognitive effects of acetaminophen might we yet discover? For the millions who take acetaminophen on a semiregular basis unaware that it might be confounding their value system, as well as the artists whose livelihoods are contingent on their work invoking profound existential angst, the question is not just academic.</p></div><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/whats-tylenol-doing-to-our-minds/275101/">http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/whats-tylenol-doing-to-our-minds/275101/</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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