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You are having a great time on vacation, but now you have to buy souvenirs for your friends and family. But what do you get?

Anyone can just run into the airport souvenir store and get that mug or t-shirt. But if you want to buy good souvenirs that your family and friends will like and you will not be wasting money on your credit card, then buy local souvenirs.

Don't wait until the last hour of your vacation, but don't be stressing about it the whole time either. Plus keep your list very short. I was on vacation with my friend and she spent half the time worrying about the gifts and souvenirs she needed to take back to her large extended family. There was no room for anything for herself or really enjoy the trip. It just seemed like a daily mission of trying to find the right souvenir, it was just as stressful as Christmas shopping!

Buying souvenirs for your friends and family is a nice gesture. But you really only should buy souvenirs for the closest ones. But also when buying souvenirs, take a really good look at the local craft market. Many local artists make their living selling their crafts as souvenirs. Rewards Visa Card
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Personally, when traveling I despise all the "made in China" souvenirs. Unless I am in China! If you are in a exotic place, then try and find some local artwork or sculptures or something. You should not have to resort to that large souvenir store on the corner that is selling massed produce items.

A true souvenir, should remind you of the country or place you are visiting. Tell your family and friends, that you will be in an area that may not cater to gift buying and that you are on a budget. You saved all year for this trip, and won't be able to afford gifts.

It puts too much pressure on the traveler. Now, that you have told them all of this, if you happen to see a great craft that would be great for your mom or your sister or your best friend, then buy that souvenir.

They will be extra surprised when you get home.

Buying souvenirs, for everyone puts too much pressure on yourself. Plus if you are the friend or family don't be expecting gifts when they get back. The only souvenirs I personally buy are for the house sitter who watches my house, dogs and cats. But only if it is something they would like or wear or use. What is the point in buying some t-shirt you know they will never wear?

So, on your next trip, take the pressure off yourself, this is not a selfish gesture. You took this trip to de-stress right? If you have to spend half the holiday shopping for gaudy souvenirs, then why bother?

My friend hardly had any money left for local sight seeing trips and fun things to do on her holiday, she was so set on getting these souvenirs at every corner we were at. Until finally we were in an area of no commercial stores, but local venders and their artwork and crafts. She calmed down and bought some great souvenirs for herself and her mom.

She decided right then and there that the beautiful scarves would be worn by her mom and herself, and left it at that. She felt a lot better and less stressed.

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It seems that for some people acquiring a tattoo is a quick decision that doesn't require a lot of thought or planning ahead. However, when it comes to tattoo removal the road is often a lot more difficult. Even if at one time you were quite fond of your tattoo there may come a day when you decide it no longer fits your image or perhaps it needs to be removed for professional reasons. There are a few options for tattoo removal but none are quick and painless.

If you're looking for cheap tattoo removal options chances are you're looking for something that won't require you to take a out a second home loan. If you only have a hundred dollars or less to spend on having your tattoo removed you're going to be disappointed with the results. There simply aren't any cheap options that are also effective. Laser tattoo removal prices will vary depending on the size and coloring of your tattoo but expect to pay at least 10 times the original cost of your tattoo to have it removed.

Probably your cheapest option is some of the many brands of tattoo removal cream you'll find available online. There are oodles of choices available but even the best brands will only fade the appearance of your tattoo at best. If you want your tattoo completely erased you basically only have two choices: laser treatments or surgical excision--both which require quite a bit of money.

If you don't have a lot of money upfront to pay for your tattoo removal you might want to look into a credit service called Care Credit. This is a type of credit card you can use for medical services and is accepted at many clinics that perform cosmetic surgery including laser tattoo removal and excision. If you spend over a certain limit you have the ability to pay off the balance either within 6, 8, or 12 months with no interest. This option might be worth considering if you don't want to put any more money on your credit cards or don't have the cash saved upfront. You might want to do a little investigative research to find out what treatment centers in your area accept Care Credit before applying.

There is also special makeup you can use that is developed to cover up a tattoo and blends in with your skin. It works very much like foundation and usually involves a couple different layers including a powder and paste. Usually many different layers are needed. This type of concealer is usually referred to as tattoo camouflage. Using this type of concealer may work for special occasions or on those days when you just don't feel like sharing your tattoo with the rest of the world but is hardly suitable for everyday use.

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Classical Mythology

The Model Hero: Perseus

Could there be a hero more virtuous than Perseus? A model of chivalry, he rescued his future bride, Andromeda, from a monster and his mother from a lecherous and powerful king. A brave and resourceful adventurer, he ranks among the greatest monster-slayers of classical mythology.

A paragon of fidelity—one of the rarest virtues seen in Greek and Roman myths—Perseus remained true to Andromeda throughout their marriage. A beloved king, he not only ruled Tiryns for many years, but founded the neighboring city of Mycenae and fortified Midea as well.

Little wonder, then, that Homer called Perseus the “most renowned of all men.”

Against All Odds: Perseus's Conception, Birth, and Youth

The More Things Change ...

Sibling rivalry—over inheritance or political succession—pops up frequently in mythology. The most famous battling brothers in Greek mythology are the sons of Oedipus, Eteocles and Polyneices, who killed each other over the throne of Thebes. Romulus slew Remus in a fight for the leadership of Rome. Much more recently, J. R. and Bobby Ewing fought for control of their daddy's oil empire in Dallas.

As so many classical myths do, the story of Perseus actually begins two generations earlier. His grandfather, Acrisius, king of Argos, had a twin brother named Proetus. Talk about sibling rivalry! Acrisius and Proetus were enemies even before their birth. While still inside their mother's womb, the two brothers began their lifelong quarreling.

The two brothers were supposed to grow up to rule Argos (a city in southern Greece) together. But as soon as they reached manhood, Acrisius and Proetus fought for the throne of Argos. Acrisius emerged victorious and forced his brother into exile. Proetus then became king of Tiryns, a neighboring city in Argolis—the region surrounding Argos. (The mighty fortifications of this city were so impenetrable, and the blocks of stone that comprised the wall so large, that the construction had been attributed to the Cyclopes—one-eyed giants who were renowned stonemasons—rather than to mere men.)

The Golden Shower

After many years of marriage to Aganippe, Acrisius had but one child: a daughter named Danaë. Wanting a son to inherit his kingdom, Acrisius consulted an oracle and got nothing but bad news. He learned that not only would he have no sons, but his sole male heir, his daughter's son, would kill him.

Acrisius desperately tried to prevent this prophecy from coming true. He locked his daughter up in an underground chamber cast of bronze.

Despite these preventive measures, Danaë conceived a child. Though some rumors held that the exiled Proetus had stolen into his niece's cell and impregnated her, Danaë always insisted that Zeus had fathered the child. The god appeared before her in the form of a shower of gold, which poured through the roof of her chamber and fell into her lap. Thus Danaë, despite her imprisonment, gave birth to a child, whom she called Perseus.

Some storytellers insist that Acrisius, alerted by a baby's cry, discovered his grandson almost immediately after his birth. Others maintain that mother and child spent more than a year imprisoned together—until Acrisius heard the toddler playing in the underground chamber. In any case, Acrisius acted quickly upon the discovery. He placed both Danaë and Perseus in a large wooden chest and set it adrift in the Aegean Sea, consigning his daughter and his grandson to death.

A Fine Kettle of Fish

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Some storytellers insist that Polydectes, as king, claimed whatever his brother caught in his net. When he learned that Dictys had netted Danaë and Perseus, Polydectes either took Danaë as a slave or he married her. In either case, the king brought her into his home, while Perseus grew up as a ward of Athena in her temple on Seriphus.

Fortunately for Danaë and Perseus, Zeus guided the chest across the sea to the island of Seriphus. This island had its own pair of brothers. Though not so hostile toward each other as Acrisius and Proetus, these brothers were by no means close. Polydectes, king of Seriphus, enjoyed royal privileges, while Dictys lived the life of a poor fisher.

Dictys was out fishing one day when he spied the chest floating nearby and caught it in his net. After rescuing and releasing Danaë and Perseus, kind Dictys took the two refugees into his home, claiming they were distant kin. (This claim turned out to be true, since both Dictys and Danaë were descendants of Danaus, a former king of Argos.) Dictys cared for Danaë and Perseus for many years, until the boy was fully grown.

Something Fishy Going On

The More Things Change ...

Like many heroes both ancient and modern, Perseus is called upon to do the impossible. Heracles (see The Labors of Heracles) performs a series of impossible tasks, including fetching the three-headed dog Cerberus from the gates of Hell. Just so, Dorothy Gale must bring back the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West. In accomplishing what all thought impossible, our heroes show their mettle.

While mother and son were living in Dictys's home, King Polydectes fell in love with Danaë. The king asked her to marry him, but Danaë rejected his offer. Polydectes might have taken her by force, but by this time, Perseus had become a formidable young man. Perhaps afraid of opposing Perseus, Polydectes pretended to accept Danaë's rejection with good grace. Yet he never stopped scheming to have her.

Soon after Danaë's rejection, Polydectes announced his intention to ask for the hand of Hippodameia, a daughter of King Oenomaus of Pisa, a city in southwestern Greece. Polydectes arranged for a banquet in which each invited guest must traditionally bring a present for the intended bride. Polydectes demanded that each of his subjects bring a horse as a contribution.

This demand left Perseus in quite a bind. Whether the ward of a poor fisher or the son of a slave, Perseus had no horses. In all likelihood, Polydectes hoped that Perseus would be shamed into fleeing the kingdom. Instead, Perseus offered what must have seemed to Polydectes an even better solution. The young man acknowledged that he had no horses, but rashly promised to bring to the king anything else he desired—even the head of Medusa!

Polydectes, his evil intentions toward Danaë well disguised, eagerly accepted Perseus's offer. For he knew that no man had ever survived a meeting with the Gorgon whose face turned men to stone.

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Beaux, Cecilia (bō) [key], 1855–1942, American figure and portrait painter, b. Philadelphia. She studied in Philadelphia under William Sartain (see under Sartain, John) and Thomas Eakins, in Paris in the Julian and Lazar schools. A skilled technician, she won many honors through her long career. She painted a number of wealthy patrons and celebrities, among them Henry James, Clemenceau, and Cardinal Mercier. Well-known paintings include The Dancing Lesson (Art Inst., Chicago), Sita and Sarita (Corcoran Gall.), Portrait of Mrs. Dupont (Mus. of Fine Arts, Boston), and self-portrait (Uffizi).

See her autobiography, Background with Figures (1930).

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Europe Deploys Next Generation Speed Cameras

Spain deploys speed camera helicopter while France begins using a roving speed camera car.
Mar. 25, 2013

Struggling European economies are investing big money in stealth speed camera technology designed to mail tickets to motorists who have no way of knowing they are being watched. Eurozone economies have been shrinking, with both France and Spain under heightened scrutiny for failure to meet deficit reduction targets set by the European Union. Ratings agency Standard and Poor's called the situation in Spain and France "socially explosive" in a statement to Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung. Both countries are now deploying the next generation of speed cameras.

On Thursday, Spain's Direccion General de Trafico (DGT) announced it was deploying "Pegasus," a speed camera-equipped helicopter that would begin issuing tickets by Easter weekend. A Wescam MX15 camera is mounted on the side of the helicopter that claims to accurately measure speed while flying at an altitude of 1000 feet and up to a kilometer (.6 miles) from a target vehicle traveling a maximum of 220 MPH. Once locked on, the system takes a speed reading every three seconds and produces a final speed by averaging results over nine seconds.

The telephoto lens can also film drivers and passengers, opening the possibility of additional tickets for mobile phone users and other surveillance uses. The government agency had announced the program six years ago, but deployment was put on hold pending certification of the speed measurement capabilities by the Ministry of Interior's labs at the Centro Espanol de Metrologia.

France embraced the same concept of surprise with a much more cost-effective, ground-based roving speed camera. Instead of taking to the air, a radar antenna is hidden behind the license plate of a Renault Megane that is intended to blend in with ordinary traffic and issue citations while moving on the highway. The French government began deploying twenty of the moving speed camera cars across 18 departments on March 15, less than a month after receiving type approval of the technology from a government agency. Deployments have begun in: Alpes-Maritimes, Bouches du Rhone, Calvados, Essonne, Gironde, Haute-Garonne, Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, Moselle, Nord, Oise, Paris, Pyrenees-Orientales, Rhone, Somme and Vaucluse.

The system uses a "Gatso Millia" K-band radar that claims to be able to automatically photograph and ticket any vehicle traveling 12 MPH faster than the speed camera car. An on-board GPS unit attaches the location to the ticket so that the jurisdiction and speed limit can be verified. The system uses an infrared flash invisible to motorists to avoid detection.

A copy of the DGT announcement is available in a 260k PDF file at the source link below.

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Susan Podziba couldn’t enter a federal building near Washington this month because her driver’s license revealed an unacceptable home state: Massachusetts.

Bay State residents can no longer use their driver’s licenses to get inside some government agencies because the state is one of nine that have not signed on to a federal law called REAL ID. If nothing changes, they will even lose the ability to display their licenses to board a plane.

The REAL ID measure presses states to verify citizenship and update security standards when they issue licenses. Congress intended the act to prevent terrorists who arrive in the country illegally from boarding planes. But officials in Massachusetts and elsewhere have balked at a program they claim costs millions, raises privacy concerns, and infringes on state’s rights.

States face no direct penalty other than the frustration of their citizens.

Some restrictions — such as the one that kept Podziba, a public policy mediator from Brookline, out of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — began in late July.

Unless the state decides to participate, Massachusetts residents without other identification will find themselves banned from White House tours next year and commercial airplanes as soon as 2016.

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CSC expands cloud management capabilities with ServiceMesh acquisition

Purchase of startup gives CSC customers ability to orchestrate applications across private, public, hybrid cloud environments

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Forrester research analyst Dave Bartoletti said CSC picked up one of the few independent hybrid/multicloud management vendors still around, and he identified three reasons why he believes the acquisition makes perfect sense.

First, CSC needed a unified service catalog, orchestration, and governance platform to pull together its successful and growing cloud business and enable faster enterprise cloud migrations to its multiple cloud offerings (public, virtual private, private), Bartoletti said.

Second, he noted that CSC needed to maintain some degree of cloud neutrality, and ServiceMesh provides that ability having built its reputation as a cloud-neutral governance and orchestration platform.

Finally, Bartoletti pointed out that everyone else already has an orchestrator:

HP and IBM have catalogs and orchestrators built to bridge their public IaaS platforms, converged infrastructures, and customers' existing kit. BMC and CA have rich stacks of ITSM-derived cloud infrastructure management tools. VMware and Microsoft have cloud automation+orchestration, too, and are both now in the public IaaS game. And every one of these claims to be cloud agnostic and is chasing the DevOps buyer. With CSC's IaaS offerings gaining steam so quickly, it needed an answer to these rich competitive stacks.

After the acquisition, ServiceMesh will continue to operate within CSC's cloud unit. However, the purchase will allow ServiceMesh to grow and expand even faster than before by allowing it to tap into CSC global sales, marketing, delivery, and solution resources. Existing customers will be able to leverage CSC's global network of industry consultants, application developers, software engineers, cyber security experts, and infrastructure professionals.

Together, CSC and ServiceMesh will offer enterprises increased agility, flexibility, and the opportunity to fully leverage their multivendor cloud landscape.

While financial terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed, you can bet it came with a substantial price tag.

The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of next year.

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Researchers investigate aggression among kindergartners

Not all aggressive children are aggressive for the same reasons, according to Penn State researchers, who found that some kindergartners who are aggressive show low verbal abilities while others are more easily physiologically aroused. The findings suggest that different types of treatments may be needed to help kids with different underlying causes for problem behavior.

"Aggressive responses to being frustrated are a normal part of early childhood, but children are increasingly expected to manage their emotions and control their behavior when they enter school," said Lisa Gatzke-Kopp, assistant professor of human development and family studies.

"Kids who don't do this well, who hit their classmates when they are frustrated or cause other types of disturbances in the classroom, are at especially high risk for long-term consequences including delinquency, violence, dropping out of school, abusing substances and even suicide. Research tells us that the earlier we can intervene, the better the chances of getting these children back on track."

Gatzke-Kopp and her colleagues, who include Mark Greenberg, professor of human development and family studies and of psychology, asked each of the kindergarten teachers in all 10 of the elementary schools in Pennsylvania's Harrisburg School District to rate the aggressive behaviors of their students on a six-point scale with items such as "gets in many fights" and "cruelty, bullying or meanness to others." Using these data, the team recruited a group of high-risk children (207 children) and a group of low-risk children (132 children) to undergo a range of neurobiological measures aimed at understanding how aggressive children experience and manage emotions differently than their non-aggressive classmates.

The team assessed all of the children's cognitive and academic skills using standardized tests that identified the children's developmental level of vocabulary, spatial reasoning and memory. In addition, the team asked teachers to provide ratings of each child's behaviors, including their levels of aggression, disobedience and sadness, as well as their social skills and level of self-control in the classroom.

The researchers also assessed the children's brain functioning using a mobile research laboratory they brought to the schools. Within the mobile lab, the team measured the children's heart rate and skin conductance activity during tasks designed to elicit emotional responses, including showing the children short video clips of a cartoon character in a variety of situations depicting fear, sadness, happiness and anger. The researchers wanted to understand how emotional and physical arousal to different types of emotions differed between children who engage in aggressive behavior and children who don't engage in aggressive behavior, as well as how different children who engage in aggressive behavior react.

According to Gatzke-Kopp, the assessments enabled the researchers to understand how cognitive and emotional processing may contribute to the development of aggressive tendencies. Specifically, the team found that 90 percent of the aggressive kids in the study could be characterized as either low in verbal ability or more easily physiologically aroused. The results appeared in a recent issue of Development and Psychopathology.

"What we may be seeing is that there are at least two different routes through which a child may act aggressively," Gatzke-Kopp said. "Because these are very different processes, these children may need different approaches to changing their behavior."

The first group of kids was characterized by lower verbal ability, lower levels of cognitive functioning and fewer executive function skills.

According to Gatzke-Kopp, children need verbal skills to understand the feelings of others and guidance from adults, and to express feelings without hitting. They also need adequate cognitive and executive-function abilities to manipulate information and to think of alternatives to hitting and fighting.

"This group of kids may be functioning at a cognitive level that is more akin to a preschooler than a kindergartner," Gatzke-Kopp said. "They have a harder time extracting what other people are feeling. They don't have a nuanced sense of emotions; everything is either happy or sad to them. So they might not be as good at recognizing how their behavior is making another child feel. They may literally have a hard time 'using their words,' so hitting becomes an easier solution when they are frustrated."

The second group of kids had good verbal and cognitive functioning, but they were more physiologically aroused. They were more emotionally reactive, and tended to have more stressors in their lives.

"These children may be able to tell you that if somebody pushed them on the playground they would go get a teacher, but the push happens and they kind of lose it and it doesn't matter what they should do, they just act on impulse," Greenberg said. "One possibility is that the threshold for managing frustration is quite low for these kids. So what we might consider a minor annoyance to them is a major threat. When they are calm they function very well, but when they lose control of their emotions, they can't control their behavior."

In the future, the team plans to examine how these different types of children respond to an intervention delivered over the second half of kindergarten and the first half of first grade.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health funded this research. Other authors of the paper include Christine Fortunato, postdoctoral fellow, and Michael Coccia, statistical consultant, both in the Penn State Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development.

Sara LaJeunesse | EurekAlert!
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Winter weather turns on flowering gene

In four months, when flower buds spring up from the ground, you may wonder how plants know it’s time to bloom. This question has baffled plant biologists for years. Now, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have an answer: a gene that functions as an alarm clock to rouse certain plants from a vegetative state in the winter to a flowering state in the spring.

According to the researchers, the findings, published in the Jan. 8 issue of the journal Nature, could lead to new methods for manipulating the productivity of crop plants, as well as a better understanding of how organisms control the fate of their cells.

Most people may not know that some of our favorite salad ingredients - carrots, cabbage, radishes, beets and parsley - take two seasons to flower and produce seeds because we harvest them before they have the chance to flower. These plants, called biennials, require a season of cold to flower.

"We’ve known that winter does something to the plant’s growing tip, or meristem, and makes it competent to flower," says Richard Amasino, a UW-Madison biochemistry professor and senior author of the paper. "If biennials don’t go through winter, they won’t flower." But why, he adds, has remained a mystery.

This mystery started to unravel in 1999, when Amasino and his colleagues identified two genes central to the flowering of Arabidopsis thaliana, a small, flowering plant that’s a member of the mustard family. The genes work together to block blossoming. As they observed, one of these genes is no longer expressed in the spring, when the plants can flower and complete their life cycle.

How winter switches off this flower-inhibiting gene in the second growing season, says Amasino, was the next obvious question. So, the Wisconsin scientist and UW-Madison biochemistry graduate student Sibung Sung looked to a biennial variety of Arabadopsis, a plant that’s widely used as a model organism in plant biology and genetics. They screened for mutants that wouldn’t bud after surviving temperatures just above freezing, and they found three - all lacking a gene now called VIN3.

After further investigation, the researchers learned that an extended period of cooler temperatures prompts the VIN3 gene to turn on. Once activated, the gene starts the process of vernalization, whereby the plant becomes competent to flower after exposure to cold. As this process begins, the expression of the flower-suppressing gene identified in 1999 wanes until it is completely blocked.

The researchers report that the VIN3 gene is expressed only after plants have been exposed to conditions effective for vernalization, suggesting that the VIN3 gene functions as an alarm clock rousing biennial plants to bloom.

But how do plants know they’ve been exposed to the right temperature for the right amount of time? "This is an intriguing question," says Sung. "Without a nervous system, plants must have a mechanism by which they can remember they have been through the winter season." Although plants don’t have a brain like humans do, they do have cellular machinery that appears to remember cold exposure, according to the new research.

The Wisconsin scientists show that the expression of VIN3, which occurs after exposure to cold, initiates a series of changes in one of the flower-suppressing genes. Specifically, VIN3 activation permanently modifies the structure of histones, a group of proteins over which DNA is wrapped. These changes block the flower-suppressing gene, switching the plant from a fixed state where it won’t flower to a fixed state where it can flower.

Scientists speculate that changes in histone structure play a major role in the development of higher organisms and the formation of cancer cells. Says Sung, "Histone changes in model plants could give us the opportunity to extend our understanding of how organisms control their cell fates during development."

The findings by Amasino and Sung also could lead to improvements in agriculture.

"This new molecular understanding could provide information to help design tools to manipulate flowering," the biochemistry professor says. For example, agronomists could engineer biennial crops that lack VIN3 and never flower, potentially increasing yield. But as Amasino clarifies, he’s in the business of basic science - it’s up to others to use the information.

Further Contact: Sibum Sung, 608-262-4640,

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Genetics a factor in PSA levels

Genetics causes some men to test higher on the blood test for prostate cancer – even when they don’t have the disease – report researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues in the July 16 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

The discovery could lead to more accurate testing and fewer unnecessary biopsies, said Scott D. Cramer, Ph.D., lead researcher, from Wake Forest.

"Up to 20 percent of men may have genetic variants that cause levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA) that are about 30 percent higher than other men, which could result in needless biopsies," said Cramer. The research was in collaboration with St. Louis University and Washington University School of Medicine.

The PSA blood test, which measures a protein made by prostatic cells, is the most widely used marker to screen for prostate cancer. Cramer, an assistant professor of cancer biology, said the new findings potentially could lead to changes in how PSA results are interpreted and which men are referred for biopsies.

"Further research will be needed to determine how this genetic marker can contribute to making PSA a more accurate screening tool," said Cramer. "Because of the huge importance of accurately diagnosing prostate cancer, we need to find the best way to use PSA to determine who has prostate cancer and who doesn’t."

The researchers analyzed blood samples from 405 white males, with a mean age of 63.7 years, who were part of a study looking at asbestos exposure. The researchers excluded men with prostate cancer. Using DNA sequencing, the researchers identified three variations in part of the gene that controls PSA levels. They found that the variations together contributed to a 30 percent increase in PSA levels. Their analysis suggests that if a man has one variation, he has all three. Approximately 20 percent of the study subjects had the variants.

Testing for the variants is quick and inexpensive, said Cramer, and could one day become part of the PSA screening process.

"If a man has the genetic variants, for example, perhaps he would have a higher PSA cutoff before a biopsy is recommended," said Cramer.

Cramer said additional research should focus on black men, who are known to have higher PSA levels and a greater risk for developing prostate cancer than white men, to see if they have the same variants as the study group.

In addition to race, other factors known to influence PSA levels include age and the presence of non-cancerous prostate disease. The research by Cramer and colleagues is the first to identify specific genetic variants that are responsible for genetic differences in PSA levels. "We’ve known that age, race and disease can influence PSA levels," said Cramer. "Now, we can add genetics to the list."

Currently, many physicians recommend biopsies when PSA levels are greater than 4 nanograms per milliliter (ng/ ml). However, there is considerable controversy about cutoffs, said Cramer.

In the study, which excluded men with prostate cancer, PSA levels ranged from .2 to 20 ng/ml. The group of men with the genetic variants that raised PSA had mean levels of 2.0 ng/ml. The other men had mean levels of 1.5 ng/mg. Cramer is conducting additional research to learn if the genetic variants may contribute to prostate cancer development.

"PSA has a biological role in the prostate – to digest proteins," said Cramer. "It has been shown that PSA can process proteins that are important for prostate growth. One hypothesis is that the higher PSA levels caused by the genetic variants may contribute to prostate cancer development, which would make testing for the variant even more important in the screening process."

Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer found in American men, other than skin cancer, and is the second-leading cause of cancer death in men, exceeded only by lung cancer.

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  1. Markus says:

    Hi Jason,

    I have a question related to your new blog. I think you are using the template Twenty Ten which comes with word press. Would you share with me how you got a background image behind the text?

    Thank you in advance!

  2. Patrick says:

    For fun, I’m working back to the original Greek on the prayer in your book Strategic Sorcery that begins “I invoke the cup of god.” I’ve got a couple questions for you:

    1> What’s the origin of this? It’s weirdly lacking in definite articles, but the grammar looks good so far. Is this from the PGM or somewhere similar? Or was it composed more recently?
    2> When I finish it, at some point in the near or distant future, could I post a recording of it being read in Greek on my blog, or alternately give such a recording to you? It might be handy for people.

    • inominandum says:

      By all means, do it! I would love to see the results.

      I got the incantations from a friend, I will ask where he grabbed them from.

  3. lindy says:

    I am starting a new digital magazine and have been reading your wealth book. I’m intrigued by the use of sigils such as the seal of Jupiter and wanted to incorporate it into my logo or project design somehow.

    Is there anywhere I can get a copy of it to copy as it’s a bit difficult to draw it and get it to my designer.

  4. Tyler says:

    I’m currently reading your book “Protection and Reversal Magick” and had a few questions about Servitors. The questions all come from academic curiosity and you must be a very busy man so if you never get back to me, or even read this, I’ll understand. I love to ask questions but not usually to people I’ve never met – or when I’m afraid I’ll sound redundant. My first question is “Can artificial spirits perform phsyical tasks”. I don’t intend to attempt to create a spirit to clean my room, I was just curious. My second question is “Can Dittany of Crete help in the creation of spirits since it helps them manifest in the physical world”. My last question is “In what ways can a spirit quantify itself”. Ordinarily I would write this in a letter but, resourceful as I am, I can not figure out how to send this to you and thought this would be eaiser. Lastly I would like to state that I love your work and that you’re one of my favorite authors on Witchcraft. – Tyler,13 (nearly 14)

    • Inominandum says:

      Hello Tyler,

      Thank you for the kind words about my work and excellent questions. Just knowing about Dittany of Crete’s powers of manifestation at your age is quite impressive. I will answer them one by one:

      1. Artificial spirits can perform most of the tasks that regular spirits do. Occasionally physical objects move or are effected by them directly, but it is not common or sustained enough to perform a task. So you might get a shattered glass or moved wand here and there, but you will still have to take out the garbage.

      2. Dittany of Crete has a tradition in ceremonial magic for manifesting things and does indeed help them form and effect events in the world. Dittany is connected in the Quabalah to the sphere of Malkuth or Kingdom, and also was mentioned by Blavatsky as being a potent herb for this purpose. Incidentally in Hoodoo, it is mostly used for love spells.

      3. Can you further elaborate on what you mean by quantify itself?

      You can answer here or write me directly at inominandum@gmail.com

      • Tyler says:

        Thank you for responding and I really appreciate you answering my questions. What I meant by quantify itself is I was wondering if there was a way to make spirits visable on the physical plane. I think I remember reading somewhere that there was a ritual that allowed you to spirits. However I am unable to find this sorce of information and though it a better idea to ask an expert then trust my memory. And also (another question if you have the time) “Is it possible to recreate a servitor that has been summoned and banished”. Again thank you for answering my previous questions. -Tyler

        • Emilio says:

          If I may politely interject, I would recommend looking into Ceremonial magick (High Magick, as it’s also known) with the questions you’re asking in general.

          And the nature of servitors being as they are, it would be possible to recreate a previously “deconstructed” servitor, as you already have tapped into the “pattern” of it’s energies and such, but you do run into the possibility of it being less useful than one created specifically for the new purpose, charged to it, and released. Unless it is a spirit used for one specific task, over and over, (I think there is an artificial spirit in Protection and Reversal Magick that is mentioned like this) it’s not, in my own opinion, the most efficient way of using Servitors. Like Jason recommends in the book, Servitors are best used as one-shots, I commonly refer to them as “Paper Plate Sorcery”, IE, you wouldn’t normally refuse a paper plate from one meal to the next, as it retains the elements of the previous meal.

          Hope I helped some, and maybe gave a giggle with my analogy.

  5. Inominandum says:

    Seeing spirits with the physical eye has happened on many many occasions, but there is no way to do it consistently. If there was, the scientific world would recognize their existence and people like me would make millions of dollars :-) However, it does happen on occasion.

    yes you can re-create a servitor.

  6. Tyler says:

    Thank you.

  7. Tyler says:

    I’m sorry to bother you again, I don’t mean to take up so much of your time. I tried to find more information on the subject of the Tanglefoot charm but was unable to find much except for a whole host of other binding spells. I mean, what does binding yourself to your alter even mean? I finished “Protaction and Reversal Magick” a week ago and now wished I hadn’t because I keep picking up the book hoping I missed a chapter and there was more to read. My question is “When you were talking about the Tanglefoot charm in your book I didn’t understand what you meant to say with the order 1-3-5-7-9-8-6-4-2”. I know I probably come across as some think skulled teenager who can’t understand something that’s staring him right in the face. I asked my mom as well but when she didn’t understand it she did more research and still came up with nothing. Again I’m sorry for asking so many questions. – Tyler

    • inominandum says:

      Not bothering me at all Tyler. Re-reading the section, I could definately have been clearer.

      The order refers to how they get tied on the string. Imagine that you were holding a string in front of you. The first knot would be on the far left, the second on the far right. The third would be on the left – one in from the first. The fourth would be on the right, one in from the second knot. You follow this pattern until the ninth and final knot ends up in the center.

      I am impressed with your questions and would love to send you a copy of my most recent book as a holiday gift. It’s called Financial Sorcery. I would need your Mom to write me at inominandum@gmail.com with an address. Do not post your address here, and please get permission from your parents first.

  8. Tyler says:

    Thank you! I can’t even begin to think of a word that fully expresses my gratitude (for answering my questions and even more so for offering to send me a copy of “Financial Sorcery”). I’m sure there are plenty of authors out there who would love nothing more then to shove off their adoring fans (of course many of them don’t have time to answer all the questions they receive between their personal lives and writing their next book). Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. Usually I drive my self crazy trying to figure out questions with my limited resources (my mom restricts me to about 300 books). I’ll be sure to ask my mom if she’ll Email you our address. She’s glad that I finaly had the nerve to write an author which I’ve always wanted to do. Again, I cannot thank you enough. – Tyler

  9. Tyler says:

    In chapter six of “Protection and Reversal Magick” you talked about how a group worked the Pulsa Dinura curse on Ariel Sharon. I was just wondering if it would be possible for anyone to bring him out of his comma or reverse the curse. Has anyone tried? Or since the spell has already taken effect would it be possible to reverse it. – Tyler

  10. Joe says:

    Good day Mr. Miller. I’ve been reading this section and your responses and one of them has sparked a question in me. You stated to Tyler that there is no way to consistently view spirits on the physical plane. What about all the books (both classical and modern) on the subject of evocation? These books claim to teach one to evoke demons, angels, planetary spirits, etc to visible appearance. It seems like in your statement to Tyler that such a thing is not true. Is this the case? Thanks for your time.

  11. Tyler says:

    Today I received your book Financial Sorcery and took a few moments before opening the package. Mom strolled through the kitchen and asked if I still hadn’t opened it yet. Then she felt it nessicary to add “I mean it’s not as if it came from a professional author whose books you obsess over”. After pointing out that I do not “obsess” she proceeded to talk about how dramatic a child I was. I can’t say I’m not but but still…. After I finally tore open the package my euphoria mounted when I’d realized you’d written (and signed) a letter. I found it funny that “Keep writting” and “keep doing magic” were 2/3s of my New Years resolution (the last one being to stop getting annoyed when my best friend talked about her favorite comic book – especially since she puts up with me blabbering about Witchcraft). It took me a moment (but no longer I feel I should add) to realize that you wrote “Keep asking questions” twice. I laughed to myself. I’ve been trying to think of a way to express my thanks for sending me your book. I didn’t want to over do it and come across as some creep who’d had enough sugar to kill an elephant, but I also don’t want to understate it. I’m hoping a very endearing “Thank you” can emcompass my appreciation. I also happen to have another question which I’ve been wondering about but figured was in one of your books and I hadn’t noticed it. What is “Inominandum”? It has a very mysterious ring to it and I’d assumed that it was a name you used when you were in the Circle. However I can’t be sure without asking you myself. Again, thank you for the book.

  12. Tyler says:

    After reading both “The Sorcer’s Secrets” and “Financial Sorcery” I have come up with a variety of new questions which will undoubtedly multiply the more I reference them. My first few is about the Money Box as after telling my mom about it she became interested in the idea. First, “Do you have to dress all of the money that goes into the Money Box with Mercurial seals or just the cash that’s put in initially?” “Are you supposed to spend the money in the Box every Thursday that it contains it or just any Thursday that you feel like spending the money?” . I was also wondering about the chapter on influencing Magick. “Is BendOver oil/powder used for influencing work like Domination oil/powder or is it used specifically for binding,” I ask because in “Protection and Reversal Magick” BendOver powder was mentioned as a means to bind someone, but if it’s used for influencing Magick I can also see how it can assist binding spells. I also wanted to ask if the influencing spell that requires a witch’s lader to be dangled over incense has to be done while the target is asleep (although obviously it would help) and weather or not it can be done with a dressed candle of the appropriate color instead of incense. Becaue a good deal of my friends are moving away at the end of the school year I was asked if I could make Venusian talismins to help them draw friends to them in their new schools and weather or not it would work for that purpose. I told them there are other ways to use Magick to draw friends but they seemed adament on the talismen. Which leads me to ask if the seal nessicarily has to be inscribed on copper as the book says. Back to “Financial Sorcery” I found it to be highly informative and intersting. I remembered picking my jaw up off the ground when I read about Compound Interest which I fully plan to invest in as soon as possibe. How come nobody’s every told me about it. Moving back towards “Protection and Reversal Magick” I’ve been writing a paper on servitors for no particular reason other then it captured my intrest and I was trying to distinguish the diffrence between the link used to help you summon a servitor and a spirit house. Of course the link helps the connection while a spirit house actually has a spirit residing in it, but other then that their properties are relativly the same aren’t they?. In the past I’ve had a lot of luck with servitors, the last time I made one I actually had a dizzy spell as I sent the spirit off. The last thing I wanted to talk about is really more of a theory I have than a question. I’ve noticed that there seems to be a correlation between people’s magickal abillities and their mundane talents/ astroligical sign. For example, your friend Mathew Brownlee is a gifted seer and a talented artist. Or how I’ve noticed I’m really good at binding spells while I was born on a Saturday. And by the fact that your gifted at protective Magick it could also be assumed that you’d be great in a bar fight. It’s just a theory with not much ground but I wanted to get you oppinion on it. And as you know a lot more people in the magickal community than I do you might have more chances to see the relationship between people’s Magickal abillities and their mundane talents/ astrological birth factors. – Tyler (14 since January 16th)

  13. Christian Reid says:

    Hey, I’m just a beginner in practicing Witchcraft, and you seem like a very good teacher. I’m only 16, but I know that this is for me. I can’t pay for the Sorcery packet, and I don’t know anyone I could study under. Would you be willing to teach me more Magick/Witchcraft?

  14. rev says:

    I am a pastor,I need mephenaij phaton.

  15. mick says:

    Hey Jason, just wanted to drop by and tell you how awesome you are.
    What you do for a living and your work, is super cool =D

  16. Jeff says:

    People like you do make millions of dollars.

  17. Hello There ! I Am Gilbert Singh Frm Fresno Cal . I Bought BoTH Of Your Book’s So Far , I Like Them . I Also Ordered The Garuda door amulet ? Does This Have To Charge ,For It To Work Properly ? & I Need Also Need Info Of This Goddess Hekate, I Hope That I Don’t Have To Give My Soul, To Her ,For Her To Work The Spell’s ? Humm! Because (My Soul Belongs To Hashem Master Of Legions), I Need More Info On Hekate ! I Respect All Goddess & God’s It’s That I read A section ,Not To Promise Something That I Can’t Keep ? But Anyhow I Hope To Hear Frm You ,Thk You My Brother In Life .

  18. David J says:

    Hi Jason,

    I thoroughly enjoyed your book Sorcerer’s Secrets. I do have a question that came up for me when reading it. I’d like to hear more from you about pour breathing the different planetary energies.

    You mention pour breathing with Venus, and Jupiter in Sorcerer’s Secrets.

    Now, from Bardon’s works I’ve a bit of experience with pour breathing the elements, but had never even thought about pour breathing the planetary energies before. This idea really excited me.

    So I’ve experimented now with Venus, and Saturn. While each had a strong effect on me (Saturn had a VERY strong effect on me, not in a bad way but was more than what I expected). I’ve so far used planetary hexigrams to call the force and then pour breath, as well as just visualizing the planetary symbols around me. Venus had a literally feeling of “sweet” or “sweetness” to it, Saturn felt like earth a bit to me, but had a strong component of the emotion of command, silence, time, power.

    These are my experiences trying on my own, but my mind wants a simple pattern to cling to like I have with the elements such as “Earth: dry, cold, heavy”

    Write now I’ve been using the king scale colors of the GD to see the energy of the planet, and then try to be open to it’s physical sensations.

    Would you please share with me any other thoughts or experiences you may have around this for me? I would greatly appreciate it!

    Thank you.

  19. Shalanda says:

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  20. Rob says:

    I submit to your blog the strange recording of a magic rite, in Brussels (Belgium) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Yj6UtMleY&feature=share
    See you soon,

  21. Wayfarer says:

    Hi Jason,

    I wanted to touch base with you just because we share similar interests. While I’ve not yet read any of your books, I was referred to your blog while discussing use of reality as a symbol set and the importance of using symbols meaningful to oneself, as the essence of magic is symbol and phenomena.

    Particularly I was interested in asking you some things from the other side of your coin, specifically, I am a Drikung Kagyu practitioner, having wound up here after following the circuitous life courses we tend to find ourselves in, having practiced in the Western tradition after some time, given it a rest, and recently, finding myself enjoying a sort of semi-retirement in my Buddhist practice, though of course these things never leave us.

    I’m curious about your interactions with Western deities / spirits / etc. after your experience as a Nyingmapa. I’m also always curious about other people’s spiritual paths through other traditions, but that’s a bit much to discuss in a comment chain so I’ll limit it to: how do you balance your Nyingma obligations in dealing with magic requiring dealings with Western deities (either by client preference or when the work requires it), and do you find it complicates things? Do you find any interference between your magical workings and maintaining your lineage traditions? Also, in your experience in the East, I’d love to hear about your observations of how magic works in these traditions in their home field, so to speak, as my impression is that much of what we get in the West deemphasizes the esoteric to make it more palatable, whereas I know in the East there tends to be a closer relation with local guardian spirits and so on even for the lay people. Do you have any specific advice for Buddhists who find themselves involved in other forms of magical working outside their traditions?

    So I guess that got pretty involved, but I’d love to discuss it with you.

    Thanks for adding a great voice to the conversation by the way, I really enjoy your blog and hope to hear from you.

    Tashi Delek!

  22. Ken Pinson says:

    Howdy Jason Miller,

    I am a student of Tao Semko, who suggested two of your books for studying psychic self defense. I liked the humor in Sorcerer’s Secrets by the way. My problem with magic of this sort, and your book in particular is with words that seem not to be defined. As examples Io Evohe, Tiriel and, TAPHTHATHARATH.

    I looked for these on multiple dictionary and word history sites, including three occult only sights. Io Evohe was defined only in application, with guesses of its origin. Tiriel only had a definition that was clearly not what was intended, and TAPHTATHARATH was completely undefinable.

    It would seem that not knowing what these words mean would prevent the mind focusing, and the fears -‘am i selling my soul or something?’ are be even worse.
    I would love to hear a response, not just on the words, (Though an annotated glossory or some reference book i can use would be welcomed) but also on the concept.

    I apologize for the long email.
    Thank you for your time,

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    Hello Mr.Miller, I am a young novice with not too much experience with practical sorcery, but I have been a huge fan of yours for a while ( Stratigic Sorcery was my first book on magick that I got) but the reason I am contacting you is that in meditation a had a thought that occurred to me: if magic travels the quickest and easiest path toward manifestation them why must a sorcery ( or anyone for that matter ) walk a difficult path to be able to work with magic effectively?
    I conceptualize this as a situation were someone is trying to redirect a stream that flows from the top of a mountain so it will run closer to his village. The person must make an difficult journey up the mountain in order to get the font of the stream.
    I came up with this answer a while back but I wanted to posit this question to some who has a lot more experience with magic than me.

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Women's Lacrosse: Sacred Heart Edges Manhattan, 10-9

Monday July 23rd, 2012 4:07pm

Louisville, KY, February 21, 2010  -- Manhattan College sophomore Chrissy
Gutenberger scored five goals, but the Lady Jaspers were edged 10-9 by Sacred Heart
University in a game played at the University of Louisville.

Julia Lavelle talled two goals for Manhattan and Tara Convery and Caralyn Hickey
chipped in with a goal each.  Hickey and Lavelle had two assists each; Gutenberger and
Helen Kerrisk each also had an assist. Defensively, Kerrisk had an outstanding game
with four caused turnovers and 6 ground balls.  Kristen Brenner had 3 caused turnovers
and 4 ground balls, while Keri Morrison caused 2 turnovers and collected 4 ground balls.
In goal for Manhattan, Julia DiBernardo had eight saves.
For Sacred Heart (now 1-1 on the season), Carissa Hauser had five goals and
goalkeeper Laura Staffin posted 14 saves.  Manhattan outshot Sacred Heart 28-22.
Manhattan (now 0-2  on the young season) found themselves down 3-0 within the first
three minutes of the match, but then Gutenberger scored her first goal at 26:06. Sacred
Heart scored again a minute or so later to make the score 4-1, but then Gutenberger
scored two more and Lavelle added one to bring the Lady Jaspers back even at 4-4 with
19:23 to go in the first half.
However, Sacred Heart then went on a 4 goal run over the next eight minutes to take the
score to 8-4 before Gutenberg ended that run with just over 6 minutes to go in the half to
make the score 8-5, which is where the teams stood at halftime.
Manhattan scored two goals in the first 11 minutes of the second half – one by
Gutenberger and one by Lavelle -- to make the game 8-7 Sacred Heart, but the Pioneers
brought a two goals back to make the score 10-7.  The Lady Jaspers scored a
comeback in the last four plus minutes, getting a goal from Hickey and one from
Convery to bring the game to within a goal, but Manhattan couldn’t find the tying goal in
the waning minutes.
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Kobe Bryant, shooting guard:

At the end of the season, no one looked more worn out and in need of a vacation in the warm sun than the Lakers’ best player. He wobbled down the stretch and into the playoffs on tired legs and it showed as the Lakers were bounced from the postseason in a four-game sweep at the hands of the older but less fatigued Dallas Mavericks in the second round. The Lakers’ run of three straight trips to the Finals ended at just the right time, as far as Kobe-watchers should be concerned. A long summer could be just what Bryant needs to regain his fitness after he played an average of 99 games (regular season plus playoffs) over the last four seasons. The figure rises if you add his Team USA commitments in 2007 and ’08 plus exhibition games.

Stats: 82 games, 25.3 points, 5.1 rebounds, 4.7 assists.

Grade: A.

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Vietnamese flags in Rosemead

I got a call from one Rosemead resident who said that she spotted a Vietnamese flag flying side-by-side an American flag on Valley Boulevard in Rosemead. Apparently, the flags have created quite a stir, and several residents have complained. I haven’t had a chance to make any calls yet to see if this is a story or not. Have you seen the flags? Were you irritated?

  • On streetlight poles near city hall, the U.S. flag and the flag of the former Republic of Vietnam were put up (and paid for, including the actual hanging and removal) by a Vietnamese association in recognition of the 33th anniversary of the fall of Saigon (Saigon surrendered to the communists on April 30, 1975.

    In Rosemead, the flags went up a few days before April 30, and came down a few hours after. [I don’t know for sure what day they went up and came down, but I first noticed them around the 28th of April, and they were down by this weekend].

    The U.S. Flag Code and international norms require that the US flag fly at the same height, but to the viewer’s left (the flag’s right), of other “national” flags. On a street, this meant that if you were driving down Valley Blvd, if you looked to either curb, at each streetlight pole, you would see the US flag would be to your left, and the flag of the Republic of Vietnam to your right.

    It is somewhat debatable if the flag of the Republic of Vietnam still qualifies as national flag. But, in either event, all the flags I saw were placed in accordance with this rule. If they were not at the exact same height, they were as close to equal as could be reasonably be done.

    Over 50,000 Americans died to defend the nations represented by both of those flags. Also, Rosemead has a large proportion of Vietnamese American residents. Given that, I thought the display of flags was appropriate and respectful.

  • Man, I sure wish I could go back and edit my posts. That should be the “33rd,” not the “33th.”

    And the “few hours after” should say “few days after.”

    That is all. 😀

  • Concerned

    I have a question, now that the City of Rosemead has let the Vietnamese Association put up and pay for, the former Republic of Vietnam Flags, does that mean any group who is willing to pay put up flags? An example of this would be the KKK wanting to put up Confederate Flags in honer of the end of the Civil War. How would the city deal with that?

  • Anyone can ask, but (IMHO) the city is under no obligation to approve all comers.

    In the case of the “Vietnamese American Heritage and Freedom Flag” (the flag of the former Republic of Vietnam) the city council had previously (and unanimously) approved a resolution acknowledging the flag as a symbol of freedom and democracy in Vietnam.

    Barring a similar council resolution of acknowledgement for the flag of the KKK or the Confederate States of America, there’d be no basis for the city needing to allow their flags on the streetlight poles in front of city hall.

    Nonetheless, the city is currently working on a more formalized policy concerning future displays.

  • Anonymous

    Is Rosemead going to pass a resolution supporting our brothers and sisters defending democracy in Irag and flag Iraq’s flag?

  • Anonymous

    Would you like them to?