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How Might Socks Have An Impact On Daily Lower Extremity Issues?

After 20 years in practice, very little surprises me. I feel like I see almost everything come through my office, but one continually notable trend is the stream of poor quality socks I see on my patients. Every time I think I have seen the worst sock of my life, I find another one that is even more so. Sock problems come in all shapes and sizes; torn, worn through, frayed and mismatched are very, very common. This is just poor hygiene and support for the foot.

What I find even worse are socks that don’t fit right, have thick, horrible seams around the toes, bunch up in the arch, the heel or the toes and smell awful. Too often socks are ignored. They may be too small, slip off the heel, bunch up or so fit loosely you can spin them around without any real top or bottom. Why are socks a secondary consideration in our clothing choices? Why are socks not often considered as a helpful tool in foot and ankle support and pain relief? The answer is mainly because we do not educate our patients regarding the importance of socks, what to look for, what to avoid and how socks can potentially help with foot and leg pain.

This became an important issue for me and I began a long quest to figure out what is truly important in socks, how a sock should be constructed and what really matters. Over the course of a few years, I began to learn how socks are made, including areas for improvement, and began to gather my ideas about an ideal sock.

Key Considerations In Materials, Compression And Fit

In my experience, what matters and contributes to an ideal sock is a combination of the right materials, the right sock tension, a lack of irritation spots, arch support, blister prevention and odor control. Some of these factors already exist in socks on the market and are easy to find. Some have never been in a sock, but why?

I feel that the ideal material for a sock is a combination of a natural material in the weave, combined with a body yarn that is synthetic but offers stability, structure and support. Cotton and wool are two examples of a natural, potentially ideal weave of yarn for a sock. Both are excellent and offer warmth, which is more due to thickness than specific material. The structure yarn is often also a combination of polyester and nylon in differing amounts. In my experience, nylon has a dense feel and not much give, while polyester is moisture-wicking and also structurally sound. Spandex is often added but in very small amounts and is really not as important, in my opinion.

What about smell? Well, silver is often used as an anti-microbial weave material. However, my choice is to have the yarn soaked in an anti-microbial bath, which I find actually works better than silver, and can prevent odor and bacteria in any material. The perfect combination of material for a sock, in my opinion, is about a 50/50 ratio of cotton or wool to polyester and/or nylon. I find this will give a soft and comfortable feel with good structure and stability.

What about compression? That is the latest term that I hear from all of my patients. Well, I believe that one needs enough compression in a sock, but without too much squeeze preventing the muscle from working properly. This does not refer to medical socks for severe venous problems. I am talking about everyday compression to ease swelling, leg pain and keep you energized. That type of compression is usually at lower levels for most people and I find eight mm of mercury is great. This allows the socks to stay in place, squeeze without pain and can also reduce swelling.

A second point is, why do we wear compression socks that extend to the knee unless we have severe edema? The calf muscle is a natural compression device; as it pumps it milks fluid out of the leg. By wearing a tight compression sock to the knee, in my experience, we may limit the compression of the gastrocnemius muscle, which is not ideal. I find compression is great in the foot portion of a sock and also important to just below the calf. This may reduce swelling and possibly decrease muscle and foot fatigue while still allowing the calf muscle to work and stay functional. Again, the idea is not “more is better” but just “right is better,” which means when you take off your sock, you should find a lack of leg swelling and perhaps even signs of mild compression of the leg.

Seams are a real problem and come in all shapes and sizes. I most commonly find the problematic seams in the toe area, as that is the spot where the sock closes after it is woven. Poorly-made socks often have an ill-fitting, thick seam closure. A couple of other spots to watch out for are the heel seam area and around the top of the sock. All three of these are an issue and can cause blisters, cuts and irritation in shoes. I believe that a quality sock should not have any seams. The sock is closed with a special machine that makes a very fine seam, which is truly critical for comfort. If you have patients with diabetes, you already know that diabetic socks must be seam-free. But, why not use a seam-free sock for all patients? It just makes sense.

How Socks Can Better Address Blisters, Odor And Arch Support

Blister prevention can be tricky in a sock. Again, it truly comes down to the material used, the tension of the sock and making sure the sock fits properly and doesn’t move against the skin. Too loose and the sock will rub and irritate, as will thick stitching. Socks that retain moisture can cause blistering. That is why it is essential to use a combination of natural and synthetic materials in a good sock to wick moisture away from the foot. Blisters are a problem, but the right sock can help prevent them.

As we discussed in the materials section, odor can become a big issue. What some don’t realize is the unpleasant smell stems from microorganisms and therefore is a risk to foot health as well. If a sock holds bacteria and/or fungus, it causes odor but also causes high bacterial and fungal loads around the foot. Silver is a good sock material but, in my opinion,

you truly need an entire sock made out of silver to make sense. Many companies put a few strands of silver in the sock for marketing, but this makes no difference. Look for a sock with a truly antimicrobial material, such as a pre-treated material as I previously discussed.

A final point for one to consider is arch support. For the past 30 years, arch support meant the little strip of elastic around the midfoot portion of the sock. We know this does nothing to actually support the arch other than compress the midfoot a bit. Why do we not do something about this? For years I would tape my patients’ arches if they had foot pain. This allowed me to see if an orthotic would help and reduced their foot pain quickly. When I sent a patient to our physical therapist, they used a single or double strip of kinesiology tape to support the arch, running it from under the first and second metatarsal to the bottom or back of the heel.

This intrigued me, and I began to think about including this in a sock. I applied for and secured two patents on an arch support system for socks. Getting a sock patent is not easy, and getting two was even harder. My patent is a five-layer dense material that supports the arch from the heel to the toes in the arch area only. Much like taping the arch, I find this sock material firmly holds the sock attached to the foot in the desired area and reduces foot pain and strain.

In Closing

After all this research, I thought to myself that these patents and all this hard work needs to go to good use. I created Archtek Socks (, which includes dress socks with bold designs and are easy to match to outfits, scrubs and dress clothes. There is also an athletic line that is a bit more dense and has more arch support. The socks come in different styles but all have the patented arch support built into them. There is also a y-strap energy return system to the top of the sock which, in my experience, compresses and relaxes with each step, reducing foot muscle fatigue. These socks have targeted material combinations for each type of activity, no seams, leg compression that I feel is just right and also have an anti-microbial coating. I hope the application of these advances in development and technology lead to improved discussions with and outcomes for your patients.

Dr. Baravarian is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is the Director and Fellowship Director at the University Foot and Ankle Institute in Los Angeles (https://www.footankleinstitute. com/podiatrist/dr-bob-baravarian).

Dr. Baravarian also discloses that he is the creator of Archtek Socks.

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'I understand that there were a lot of tweets. I didn’t follow it carefully,' he said

Lehrer says he was 'effective'

Jim Lehrer has been widely criticized for his passive performance as moderator of Wednesday’s night’s presidential debate, but in his first post-debate interview, he tells POLITICO that he was simply fulfilling his new mission, which was to allow the candidates to engage one another without interruption.

“Based on what the goal was, I saw it as successful,” Lehrer told POLITICO. “I’ve always said this and finally I had a chance to demonstrate it: The moderator should be seen little and heard even less. It is up to the candidates to ask the follow-up questions and challenge one another.”

( Also on POLITICO: Media piles on moderator Lehrer)

“I don’t consider that being passive, I consider it being effective,” he said. “It’s not my job to control the conversation. If the candidates gave me resistance, and I let them talk, to me that’s being an active moderator, not a passive moderator.”

Both President Barack Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney commended Lehrer’s performance, but he was heavily criticized by politicians and pundits across the political spectrum for rarely challenging the candidates and for backing down from confrontation almost every time he tried to interject himself into the conversation.

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Fox News host Chris Wallace criticized Lehrer for seeming to “lose some control” of the candidates, while MSNBC host Chris Matthews “said the moderator did not moderate.” Discussing the multiple instances in which Romney spoke over Lehrer, Obama spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said she “sometimes wondered if we even needed a moderator because we had Mitt Romney.”

But Lehrer said that the new debate format, in which candidates each get two minutes to answer a question and an additional 11 minutes to debate with one another, was meant to give the moderator a less active role.

( Also on POLITICO: Wallace: Lehrer could have been better)

“I came away thinking this was a very successful debate because we accomplished what the mission was,” he said.

“The goal of the new format was to have the candidates talk directly to one another, in an extensive way, about things that matter,” he said. “One of the problems is that everybody is used to the old-fashioned debate system, which is very controlled, and where the moderator plays a more active role. But from the very beginning, everybody has been saying that what we really want is to have a real debate, not to have a moderator conducting a pseudo interview.”

Lehrer said he was aware of the criticism, but that he would have no trouble putting it behind him.

“I understand that there were a lot of tweets. I didn’t follow it carefully,” he said. “Everybody was learning here.”

“I’m not suggesting that everything I did was terrific,” he continued. “But we’re defining terrific here, in front of 67 million people. So yes, I’ve heard some of the criticism, but it’s not keeeping me awake at night. My conscience is clear.”

Though he defended his low-key role, there were many times throughout the debate when Lehrer tried to interrupt a candidate and was unsuccessful in doing so. On at least three or four occasions, Romney continued talking right over Lehrer, and Lehrer backed off. At another point, Lehrer informed Obama that his time was up, only to have the president smile and say, “I had five seconds left before you interrupted me,” and go right on talking.

Lehrer acknowledged that he wasn’t always successful in controlling the conversation but said that wasn’t his role.

“I didn’t see it as somebody talking over me. Yes, there were times when I wanted to stop them. Sometimes, I could get them to do it, sometimes not, but this is all part of the learning process,” he said.

Lehrer also said he was happy with the new, open debate format and preferred it to the traditional model in which the moderator dictates each exchange between the candidates.

“I am confident this is the way to go. It can be tweaked and improved upon, but this is the root,” he said. It gives the candidates a chance to engage with one another, and it’s more revealing than any other format I’ve seen.”

Lehrer would not comment on how the two candidates performed, though he said he was unfazed by Romney’s remark about cutting federal funding for PBS, where Lehrer is executive editor of “PBS Newshour.”

“I had absolutely no reaction. It didn’t surprise me at all,” Lehrer said.

Lehrer has moderated 12 presidential debates now, making him the most experienced debate moderator in history. Prior to the debate, Lehrer’s colleagues and contemporaries told POLITICO that he had a religious commitment to fairness and modesty. Lehrer, they said, has a reputation for staying out of the story.

That changed with the onslaught of criticism that followed Wednesday night’s debate in Denver. The next day, Lehrer was accosted in an airport by a cameraman from TMZ, the Hollywood-based gossip website — a sign of just how much national attention Lehrer had received.

Lehrer, who confessed to not knowing the cameraman was with TMZ, said that such attention is inevitable when 67 million watch an event and you’re one of the three men on the stage.

“Yes, some of that attention has come to me and I’m not comfortable with that, I could do without that,” he said. “It’s not about the moderator, and it shouldn’t be. But it’s inevitable.”

Asked if he would accept an invitation to moderate another presidential debate in 2016, Lehrer said he “couldn’t conceive of saying yes to that.” But, after promising once before to stay out of presidential debates, then accepting this year’s invitation, he’s learned never to say never.

“But let’s put it this way,” he said. “On a zero-to-10 scale, it’s negative-one.”

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A jury convicted Sterling on nine felony counts in January after a roughly three-week trial.

Former CIA officer sentenced to 3-1/2 years for leaking Iran details

A former CIA officer was sentenced on Monday to three-and-a-half years in prison for leaking to a New York Times reporter details of a secret U.S. operation targeting Iran’s nuclear program.

The sentence for Jeffrey Sterling, 47, was lighter than some of his supporters had expected.

However, the sentence U.S. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema imposed in a federal courtroom in Alexandria, Va. was the longest delivered to a convicted leaker in a civilian court during the Obama administration.

“There has to be a clear message sent … that there’s going to be a price to be paid” when the identity of someone cooperating with the U.S. government in a secret operation is disclosed, the judge said.

Defense attorneys said after the hearing that they considered the sentence fair. Prosecutors looked glum, with one telling the judge that the government objected to the sentence and was reserving its right to appeal.

“The judge today got it right,” defense lawyer Barry Pollack told reporters outside the courthouse.

A jury convicted Sterling on nine felony counts in January after a roughly three-week trial. Jurors found Sterling was a source of classified information that appeared in New York Times reporter James Risen’s 2006 book, “State of War.”

Sterling did not testify during his trial. He addressed the court only briefly Monday, thanking court personnel for their courtesy and the judge for delaying the trial briefly so he could attend his brother’s funeral. Sterling said nothing about the charges against him.

One of the oddities of Sterling’s sentencing was that neither the prosecution nor the defense ever specifically recommended to the judge how much prison time Sterling should get.

Prosecutors said sentencing guidelines called for a sentence of about 20 to 24 years, but the prosecution team never explicitly called for such a sentence, saying only that Sterling deserved severe punishment.

“He should be sentenced severely because what he did was deliberate. It was calculated….What he did was unconscionable,” prosecutor Jim Trump said during the hearing.

The reason for the government’s reticence on the sentence is not clear, but prosecutors have argued in Sterling’s case that leaking to the media is in some respects worse than old-fashioned espionage for a specific foreign government, because it makes the secrets available to all. That would seem to argue for at least as serious a sentence as in a typical espionage case, but prosecutors did not make that recommendation, which would have drawn an outraged response from transparency and whistleblower advocates.

Sterling’s defense argued for a sentence comparable to other recent cases involving unauthorized disclosure of classified information.

Defense lawyers pointed to former CIA director and retired Army Gen. David Petraeus, who got probation and a $100,000 fine for retaining classified information, sharing it with his lover and lying to the FBI about the matter; former State Department contractor Stephen Kim, who got 13 months for leaking an intelligence report on North Korea’s nuclear plans to a Fox News reporter; and former CIA officer John Kiriakou, who got two-and-a-half years for leaking to reporters the identities of CIA officers involved in the agency’s waterboarding of terror suspects.

Brinkema said at the outset of Monday’s hearing that sentencing Sterling in accordance with the sentencing guidelines would not be appropriate. She seemed to find the case most analogous to that of Kiriakou, who was also sentenced in her court.

However, the judge noted that Kiriakou pled guilty in a deal that spared the government the work of a trial and allowed it to avoid airing secrets at a trial, while Sterling exercised his right to a jury trial.

Brinkema caused some concern for Sterling’s supporters when she said she would have sentenced Kiriakou more sternly if the prosecution and defense in his case had not stipulated to a 30-month prison term.

The judge also sounded primed to impose a lengthy sentence when she spoke of the importance of CIA and other government personnel safeguarding the identities of people working with the U.S.

Prosecutors argued that Sterling leaked the identity of a Russian emigre, codenamed Merlin at the trial, who cooperated with the U.S. in delivering flawed nuclear blueprints to the Iranians. Details of his work appears in Risen’s book.

However, Merlin elected not to file a victim impact statement with the court in advance of Sterling’s sentencing.

“There is in my view no more critical secret than the identities of people” working as sources for the U.S. government, Brinkema said. “The information in that book put [Merlin] in a highly compromised position.”

Sterling was effectively fired from the CIA and claimed he was discriminated against as an African American. His lawsuit against the spy agency was dismissed on grounds it could expose state secrets. Speaking to Sterling Monday, the judge called that “a terrible part of your life,” but she said other aspects of his life were exemplary.

In the end, though, the judge gave Sterling just a year more prison time than Kiriakou.

“It was the least worst of the possibilities,” said Jesselyn Radack of the Government Accountability Project, which has criticized the Obama administration’s use of the Espionage Act to prosecute alleged leakers.

Prosecutors’ effort to call Risen as a witness against Sterling led to protracted delays and repeated legal battles as he claimed a “reporter’s privilege” against testifying.

Risen eventually lost that fight in a federal appeals court, and the Supreme Court declined to consider the issue.

That legal fight and others about evidence in the case led to years of delays resulting in a trial nearly 12 years after the investigation into the leak began.

In the end, despite the years of jockeying, the prosecution elected not to call Risen as a witness.

President George W. Bush’s administration persuaded the New York Times to spike Risen’s story about the CIA Iran-related operation. Former National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice testified at Sterling’s trial that her plea to the Times included claiming that millions of people could die if the Times’s story scuttled the CIA’s effort to set back Iran’s nuclear program.

Risen decided to include an account of the operation in his book three years later. While the book portrays the CIA operation as deeply flawed and possibly even advancing Iran’s nuclear program, prosecutors insist that Sterling distorted the facts in order to make the plan seem ill-advised.

“This was not a rogue operation … government abuse or government wrongdoing,” Trump said. “There was nothing of a whistleblower effect.”

Trump also pointed to Rice testimony that the operations was one of very few options the U.S. had to undermine Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon.

“We cannot overstate the significance of Classified Program #1, as it was referred to at trial,” the prosecutor said. He added that exposing the operation “was a substantial and costly blow” which ended the use of the nuclear-plans ruse against other countries.

Defense attorney Ed MacMahon noted that the government had not put on evidence of the damage caused by the leak and that a U.S. intelligence estimate produced in 2007 concluded that Iran did not have a nuclear weapons program at that time. He also noted the recent tentative deal between Iran and the U.S., as well as other world powers, over Iran’s nuclear program.

“Whatever happened in 2003 or 2005 is water under the bridge, frankly, at this point,” MacMahon said. “Whoever [Sterling] was in 2003, he’s not that person any more.”

The Justice Department made no direct comment on the sentence, but U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Dana Boente said in a statement emailed to reporters that Sterling’s fate was the result of his own actions.

“For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret,” said U.S. Attorney Boente. “His attempt to leverage national security information for his own malicious reasons brought him to this sentence today.”

Brinkema allowed Sterling to remain free on bond until he’s required to report to prison. She left open the question of whether he might be allowed to remain free while any appeal of his sentence goes forward.

After the sentence was imposed, Sterling hugged his wife as she cried in the courtroom gallery.

The defense said Sterling may appeal his conviction.

“We still believe in our client’s innocence and intend to keep fighting this case and take it up on appeal, if that’s what we have to do at this point,” MacMahon said.

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The hazing from the pundits doesn't mean that Paul Ryan's path to the speakership is doomed. | AP Photo

Conservative media mocks 'Emperor Ryan'

Paul Ryan's list of conditions upon which he would agree to the speakership aren't going over well.

Conservative media pundits chafed at Paul Ryan's list of conditions upon which he would agree to the speakership, mocking him as "Emperor Ryan" and "King Paul."

Ryan, the reluctant draftee to one of the most powerful offices in the United States, on Tuesday night said fine, he'll do it, but only on his own terms. Among them: endorsements from all the major caucuses in the GOP conference, time with his family and tweaking a rule to make it harder to toss the speaker out of office.

The demands aren't going over well in right-wing media.

At one point on Drudge Report, headlines blared: "KING PAUL: PLEDGE YOUR ALLEGIANCE TO ME," "DO IT BY FRIDAY," "HE'S A DEM FAVORITE," "OBAMA'S NEW PARTNER," 'F' conservative rating," and "WANTS TO SCRAP THOMAS JEFFERSON'S RULE."

“[Ryan] wants to get elected after it is made impossible to get rid of him, then he will really get into specifics ... Amnesty anyone?” Red State founder Erick Erickson wrote. “This would be a terrible, terrible deal for House Conservatives. It would gut their ability to pull the House Republicans to the right.”

The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro wrote, “This is wrongheaded in the extreme. Conservatives should not grant Ryan that sort of power simply in order to place him in the Speakership. Signing a procedural blank check to anyone, no matter how trustworthy they appear, is a recipe for disaster."

And conservative radio host Laura Ingraham let loose on Twitter, writing, "EMPEROR RYAN: How many co's wd choose the employee who issued demands abt personal time then said 'take it or leave it.'"

The hazing from the pundits is an amplified version of the early resistance to Ryan among House conservatives, especially members of the House Freedom Caucus. The criticism could also exert pressure on those lawmakers to oppose Ryan, who’s vowed to run only if he's the consensus pick of the party.

It doesn't mean that Ryan's path to the speakership is doomed. But a coronation does not appear likely.

Much of the displeasure was focused on Ryan's call to change a House procedure that allows members to force a floor vote to oust the speaker. But other conservative voices expressed frustration with the fact that Ryan — who has made it clear he has no problem staying in his current position as House Ways and Means chairman — is making the demands because he didn’t want the job in the first place.

“It is not the job of The Freedom Caucus to make Paul Ryan take the Speakership if he doesn’t want it,” Ben Domenech wrote in The Federalist.

Domenech, who pointed out that Ryan is “likely the most competent leader in the Conference and he would doubtlessly be a good Speaker on his own terms,” compared Ryan’s negotiations to those of a millennial negotiating for a job he doesn’t want.

“if you don’t want a job — really, really don’t want it — one way to approach the job interview is to act like a Millennial. That is, to make clear you have some very high expectations for what the new employer will do for you,” Domenech said. ”Like, twice as much vacation time, totally flexible telecommuting, setting up a new game room, stocking the right kinds of ethically sourced snacks, and getting rid of the two-century-old functional rules of the House of Representatives as written by Thomas Jefferson himself.”

Writing in Hot Air, Jazz Shaw laid bare his admiration for the Wisconsin Republican but called it “a mistake to rush rashly into the arms of a savior if the price is disastrously high.”

“I’m not opposing Paul Ryan as the next Speaker of the House, but I would much prefer to see the next Speaker elected in regular order, have them ready to commit to the full demands of the office and be sworn in knowing that they are still answerable to the members,” Shaw wrote.

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Former commissioner leaves political party after damning tribunal report.

Bertie Ahern, a former prime minister of Ireland, resigned at the weekend (25 March) from the political party that he used to head, after publication of the results of a tribunal of inquiry into links between politicians and property developers in Ireland. The tribunal’s criticism of Ahern was so damning that his expulsion from the party was certain, if he had not jumped first.

Another to walk the plank was our old friend Pádraig Flynn, who was
Ireland’s European commissioner from 1993-99. The tribunal’s verdict on Flynn was arguably even more damning than that on Ahern. It found that Flynn had corruptly sought and received a payment of €50,000 from a property developer in 1989. Flynn’s record as a European commissioner – never very impressive, except for its destruction of the English language – should perhaps be viewed in that light.

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How To Make Light Paintings With Burning Steel Wool

Ever wanted to make graceful and pyromaniacal long exposure images? Here's how.

Those crazy cats at PhotoExtremist have put together this rather involved tutorial on how to make light paintings using steel wool. If you don’t want to watch all 8 minutes of the video, here’s the short version: put fine steel wool inside of a whisk. Attach a cable to the handle. Ignite, and spin it all over the place.

But if you’re going to do this, please, please be careful. You’re shooting embers in all directions, which makes it very easy to burn yourself, and set things on fire. Protect your eyes and skin, and make sure you have a fire extinguisher on hand in case you ignite your surroundings.

The results are pretty astonishing, and far more dynamic than what you’d see using a flashlight or other light source — the sparks flying in all directions really make the shots.

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Enclosed is the announcement of a photo contest sponsored by a regional magazine . They require an entry fee, specify that all submissions become their property and NONE will be returned. The part that I really don’t like is the no return policy.

The local regional newspapers: Cap Cod Times and Boston Globe are equally guilty. They will not return submissions even when a S.A.S.E is included!

What angers me the most about the magazine (enclosed Cape Cod Life) is they charge an entry fee, require that entries be enlarged– and still not return photos.

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150 of these ultra-small bacteria could live inside a single E. coli cell
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Ultra-small bacteria are so little understood that they haven't quite been given an official place on the tree of life yet. At just 0.009 cubic microns, they're believed to be near the limit of how small life can get—150 of them could make themselves a comfortable home inside an E. Coli cell. And now we have a picture of one, thanks to a paper in Nature

Not surprisingly, these minute organisms are fragile and difficult to image. But a team from U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley managed to get the shot by freezing the bacteria at -457 degrees Fahrenheit, just two degrees short of absolute zero.

It's just the first step toward a better understanding of these common but hard-to-sequester forms of life. They could help researchers understand the origins of life itself and find out just how small organisms can get. Perhaps the next step is nabbing some of their genetic material.

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Students at Poquoson Elementary School are hungry for books! Although there are new safety procedures at the school this year, school librarian, Dory Holder, has developed a system to put books in the hands of students.

Students are able to order books online using the school's Destiny Library Catalog during their library encore class. The library cart then visits the class in the afternoon to drop off the mobile book orders in contactless bins. The next time that students have library, they return their books into a bin that is quarantined for 72 hours and order new books.


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The Lords of the Admiralty have expressed their dissent to the contemplate erection of a floating bridge, between Portsmouth and Gosport, and for which a strong memorial had been presented for their consideration

Hampshire Advertiser : Saturday 30 November 1839

Notice is hereby given, that application is intended to be made to Parliament, in the next season, for leave to bring in a Bill to alter and amend the powers and provisions of an Act passed in the first year of the reign of his present Majesty, entitled,”An Act for establishing a Floating Bridge or Bridges over the Harbour of Portsmouth, from or near a place called Gosport Beach, in the parish of Alverstoke, in the county of Southampton, to the opposite shore, to or near a place called Portsmouth Point, in the parish of Portsmouth, in the said county, with proper approached thereto;” and to enable the company incorporated by the said Act to improve, extend, and enlarge the landing place belonging to the said company, at or near Portsmouth Point aforesaid, and to improve the approaches thereto, in the said parish of Portsmouth,, and for these purposes to stop up and divert the public landing place of the width of seven feet or thereabouts, situate on the northern side of the landing place belonging to the company of proprietors of the aforesaid bridge situate at the Portsmouth Point aforesaid, and also a certain road or place or parcel of sea beach, situate between the aforesaid landing place, and a certain quay or wharf, messuage, or dwelling house and the hereditaments belonging to John Lindegren, esquire, also situate  at or near Portsmouth Point aforesaid, and to appropriate the said landing place of the width of seven feet or thereabouts, and also of the said road or sea beach, for the greater improvement of the landing place of the said company, and in lieu thereof to make on the northern side  of the said landing place, a certain other landing place of the width of seven feet in the clear, for the use of public on foot to land and embark in open boats and wherries.  And also in lieu of the aforesaid road or piece or parcel of sea beach to make another public carriage road, adjoining the said public landing place, of seven feet width.  And also and also to enable the said company to raise a further sum of money for the general purposes of the said undertaking, and for improving the said landing places and approaches ; duplicate plans and sections whereof, together with books of reference thereto, will be deposited for public inspection with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Southampton, at his office in Winchester, in the said county, and with the Clerk of the Peace for the Borough of Portsmouth, at his office in the said Borough, on or before the 30th day of November instant ; and on or before the 31st day of December next, a copy of the said plan, sections and book of reference, will be deposited with the Parish Clerk of the said Parish of Portsmouth, at his place of abode.

Dated this thirteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.

Hampshire Telegraph : Saturday 7 April 1849

Caution to Ship Owners - The Brig “Diamond” some short time since, ran foul of the Floating Bridge at the mouth of the Harbour, and did considerable damage to one of the brows.  As it turned out, upon enquiry, that the bridge had actually stopped when the accident occurred, and was at rest on the Portsmouth shore, leaving the habour open for the “Diamond”  there could no pretence for laying any portion of the blame on the bridge.  The matter was proceeding to a legal issue, but the owner of the “Diamond”, as we think, very prudently compromised the matter, by the paying of £47 10s being about £20 short of the full amount of loss sustained by the Company.  As this bridge is a great public convoulence, too much care cannot be taken by Masters of vessels and others to prevent any interruption of the the traffic, and so we trust this case may operate as a warning to them

Sussex Advertiser : Saturday 6 January 1866

Public house, coffee and eating house combined, near the Floating Bridge.  Income £200.

Hampshire Telegraph : Wednesday 4 January 1871

The omnibuses from the Napier Column, Landport to the Victoria Pier and the Floating Bridge, and vice versa, commenced running on Monday.  In the evening the returns were considered satisfactory.

Globe : Thursday 3 April 1879

This morning the Albert Floating Bridge running bewteen Portsmouth and Gosport shores caught fire.  The engineers, after lighting the fires, left the bridge and shortly afterwards flames were seen issuinf from the engine-room.  A government tug and fire engines from the Duke of Wellington flagship and St Vincent training ship went to assist, but the flames were not subdued until the interior had been completely gutted.  The Floating Bridge is the only means of coneying the vehicular traffic, which is very considerable, across the harbour from Portsmouth to Gosport.  The fire has completely stopped this traffic, which, until it is re-established, will have to proceed by road, a distance of some fourteen or sixteen miles round the harbour.  A Lloyd’s telegram says the fire is being goy under.

Portsmouth Evening News : Saturday 30 May 1885

Tram Service

Tram cars now from The Floating Bring Bridge, Portsmouth, to railway Station, Mile End and Stamshaw, without changing car.  Fare ...one penny

Hampshire Telegraph : Monday 21 August 1843

Port of Portsmouth Floating Bridge ; Tolls to let

Notice is hereby given ; That the Proprietors of this undertaking will assemble at the Company’s Office, on Tuesday, the 29th day of August, inst., at eleven for twelve o’clock precisely, for the purpose of receiving Tenders from parties desirous of renting the tolls of the bridge, for one year certain, from the said, 29th August inst.

Full particulars may be had on or after 22nd of august, at the offices of the Company.

Henry Deacon.  Secretary and Manager

Portsmouth Evening News : Friday 6 July 1894

The Floating Bridge between Portsmouth and Gosport will in future run on Sundays.

Portsmouth Evening News : Monday 30 January 1911

A mishap, which is not uncommon, but which might be avoided, was caused to the Floating Bridge in Portsmouth Harbour this afternoon by reason of its fouling the anchor of a Government Lighter on the bank near  the Gosport shore, as the bridge was leaving, laden, for Point about four o’clock.  The time was ebbing at the time.  The passengers were taken off by the Company’s steam launches, one of which also went aground, but the tradesmen’s vans and other vehicles on board had, of course, to wait until the bridge could be floated again on the rising tide, this being expected to occur about seven o’clock.

Portsmouth Evening News : Wednesday 11 October 1922

Before the ordinary business of the Portsmouth Police Court today, the Mayor (Alderman A E Porter) who sat with Mr J W Gieve, was asked to present to Mr George Street, 8 Albion Street, Mile End and Mr R G Pharoe, 12 Forbury Street, the medal inscribed, “For Humanity” of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The report of the incident which earned the men the award was as follows : -  At about 11.30 am on Tuesday 22 August, a horse attached to a van belonging to the Southsea Mineral Water Co took fright at a wave which broke over the slipway at the Floating Bridge, and the animal dashed into the sea at high water.  Mr Street, who was employed as a mate on the Floating Bridge, seeing the animal’s danger, at once waded in, and standing on the shafts, succeeded in keeping the animal’s head above water until Mr Pharoe put off in a boat and together they succeeded in cutting the harness and bringing the animal to shore.  The action was carried out at considerable personal risk, and but for the gallantry and promptitude shown by the men there was no doubt that the animal would have been drowned.

Portsmouth Evening News : Monday 18 July 1927

A number of passengers crossing Portsmouth Harbour on the Floating Bridge this morning were very effectively baulked by a German vessel named Borkum.

About 11 o’clock the Borkum, laden with a cargo of timber, was making for the Camber, and after entering the harbour dropped her anchor on the south side of the Floating Bridge and crossed to the northern side, trailing her anchor cable across the bridge chain.  The Floating Bridge which was about midway across the harbour at the time, was immediately stopped, and was unable to move either backward or forward.

Meanwhile the Borkum was manoeuvring to pick up her anchor, and several times went perilously near going aground off Point.  With the Floating Bridge out of commission streams of traffic collected along Broad Street and on the Gosport side, and quite small crowds of people watched the operations.  The obstruction was cleared shortly after 1 o’clock and the service was in full running order after that time.  The stoppage lasted about two hours.


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Stamp Name Cha.5 921 Earthquake Relief Surtax Stamps Souvenir Sheet
Stamp Cat Standard Surtax Stamps
Stamp Cat Relief
Issue date 1999-11-01
Suspension date 2000-04-30
Dimension of stamps(mm.)
Size of souvenir Sheet (mm.) 125 x 80 (mm)
Printer China Engraving & Printing Works, R. O. C.
Designer Lee Kuang-chi
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Print color Colorful
Process Deep etch offset
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Set No. Char 5 First day of issue: November 1, 1999 Paper used: Phosphorescent stamp paper Designer: Lee Kuang-chi Printer: China Engraving & Printing Works, R.O.C. Stamp size: 40 x 30 (mm) Souvenir sheet size: 125 x 80 (mm) Color: colorful Process: Deep etch offset Quantity to be issued: 1,000,000 sheets Suspension from sale: April 30, 2000 Stamp Designs: A devastating earthquake hit central Taiwan on September 21, 1999. To meet Government’s measures of rescue, resettlement and reconstruction, the Directorate General of Posts is issuing a souvenir sheet with the title of "921 Earthquake Relief Surtax Stamps." The souvenir sheet consists of 2 stamps with the designs featuring "Whenever one faces difficulties, assistance will come from all directions." and "We reconstruct our homes together." respectively. Mr. Lee Kuang-chi, a staff designer of this Directorate, painted the stamp designs. With NT$25.00 as the face value and another NT$25.00 as the surtax for each stamp, this souvenir sheet will be sold at NT$100.00 apiece. The quantity to be issued will be 1,000,000 sheets, which will be accumulated to a total amount of NT$100,000,000.00 as a relief fund to be arranged by the Government. The souvenir sheet is scheduled to be released on November 1, 1999. It has been 45 years since the issuance of "North Vietnam Overseas Chinese Relief Surtax Stamps", the first set of charity stamps ever released in Taiwan by the Directorate, on October 1, 1954. Now the Directorate will issue the second set of its kind after such a long time, we expect that this souvenir sheet will bring attention and enthusiastic response to the community. The philatelic items of FDC, folders and loose-leaf stamp album pages with plastic cover will not be issued jointly with this souvenir sheet.


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Barton Benes Twenty years, two decades, a score or even a generation—call it what you like, but for me reflecting on such a length of time feels like the end of an act in a play. Intermission. Time to get some air before the curtain goes up again.

As POZ marks 20 years of service to people with HIV/AIDS and our allies, I know how proud our entire staff is to be a part of telling the ongoing story of the epidemic. We will continue being a mirror for the HIV/AIDS community.

Reflecting back on what we see isn’t always easy because people living with HIV are a diverse bunch. We have a virus in common, but it often feels to many of us that HIV is all that we share. However, if that were true, POZ wouldn’t still exist.

As someone living with HIV for more than two decades, I believe the fact that we share this virus also means we share in the related stigma, discrimination and criminalization. Thankfully, we also share in the benefits of overcoming such foes.

Effective treatment has changed the image of the virus from a certain death sentence to a chronic condition. We all share in the comfort of knowing that effective treatment can now lead to a virtually normal life span.

For all of the hope that we rightfully share, we also share in the grief and loss that come from HIV/AIDS, which cannot —and can never—be swept neatly away. Too many souls were claimed too early by this virus. We must never forget them.

In this issue, we celebrate the survival of 20 people who have graced our cover. Doing so was an act of defiance, if it was anything. So many of our former cover guys and gals have passed away, as well as many more from within our covers.

To the countless faces I never knew across the country and around the world, may you rest in peace. To the many faces who graced the pages of POZ these past two decades, may you also rest in peace.

I would be remiss, however, if I didn’t take this opportunity to put actual names down on paper to underscore the fact that those we’ve lost to this virus were once flesh and blood.

To Anthony, I say that I’m sorry we never gave you what you needed most. To Manny, I say that I’m sorry I didn’t get to say goodbye. To Rafael, I say thank you for being a role model for me at a time when I had few. And to Michael, I say that I understand now and I forgive you.


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Domestic Arts Ministry has a rich history

8-photos_sisters-remember-mother-anna-brunner-with-special-celebration-1On the cover: Sister Joanella Whaley at the slicer in the kitchen of the former St. Gregory Seminary in Cincinnati; C.PP.S. photo. Left, Sister Dolorosa Oen; second, Sister Jeannine Kloeker; third, Sister Eva Roehrich; fourth, Sister Adeline Mertz. Michelle Bodine photos

They toiled in the shadows, rarely seen or heard.

In seminaries and retreat houses. In Bishops’ residences and assisted living facilities. From Cincinnati to Denver to Phoenix, generations of Precious Blood Sisters cooked, cleaned, did the laundry and kept house for more than a century. They lived in community in their own quarters, with their own chapel, often separated from the rest of the institution.

The work was challenging and physically demanding, yet they were dedicated to serving those who served the rest of us.

They were the backbone of the church.

“I just think those Sisters really supported the church in a very humble, simple way,” said Father Joseph Beckman, remembering the Sisters of the Precious Blood who worked at then-St. Gregory Seminary in Cincinnati when he was there as a student and later as a teacher.

Sometimes they were young, newly professed Sisters who had to learn on the job.

Sister Eva (M. Lelia) Roehrich was assigned to St. Gregory to cook shortly after her formation. A farm girl from North Dakota, the kitchen was new to her.

“I had never cooked. Then I had to go and cook the priests breakfast,” she said, laughing at the memory. “I didn’t know what to cook. I didn’t know how to fry bacon or pancakes. I didn’t know anything about that.”

The head cook, Sister Euthalia Boeke noticed Sister Eva standing in the kitchen and showed her young charge how to prepare the dishes. Soon Sister Eva was whipping up her own slices of heaven at mealtime.

Sister Eva went on to spend 23 years in kitchens in Cincinnati, Dayton and Colorado, including eight years in charge of food service at then-St. Thomas seminary in Denver. She remembers the special dinners her staff prepared for the students at St. Thomas each month. One Thanksgiving they prepared one turkey for a table of 16, poured brandy on the bird and lit it so it would flame up. There were carving sets for each table and a cornucopia with fruit flowing from it. Another dinner had a winter theme and someone brought in skis for decoration.

After leaving food service Sister Eva spent nearly 30 years as a receptionist in Dayton and Virginia.

Though now retired, the Sisters who served in domestic arts share with each other stories from their years of active ministry.

Sister Adeline Mertz worked in food service and housekeeping in Indiana and Ohio. She recalls one day while working at a seminary, she noticed a cherry tree bursting with cherries. The next day the Sisters went to pick the cherries, but they were gone. They first thought the culprits were students, but the Sisters quickly realized a flock of birds had pilfered the fruit.

In 1956 Sister Adeline was assigned to St. Gregory Seminary when the building housing the kitchen was destroyed by fire. She was visiting in Dayton the night of the blaze and heard about it the next morning.

Sister Verlina (M. Benet) Mescher, food service supervisor at St. Gregory then, remembers waking up that morning to see fire engines on the seminary grounds. The Sisters lost everything. Sister Verlina oversaw the relocation of the kitchen into the school’s auditorium. As the reconstruction progressed they moved their equipment four different times. “It was something,” she said.

Sister Verlina and her staff fed hundreds of people three times a day during her 26 years of food service at St. Gregory, at the former Fatima Hall in Dayton, at the Sisters of the Precious Blood motherhouse, and Lourdes Hall and at then-St. Thomas Seminary in Denver.

“Everyone worked together,” she said. “We made everything from scratch.”

While making beef stew one day, Sister Verlina accidently threw macaroni into the stew.

“It turned out real beautiful,” she said. “They liked it, too. It was real tasty.”

Sister Verlina transitioned into working with the elderly in 1981 until retiring to Salem Heights in Dayton in 2014.

8-photos_sisters-remember-mother-anna-brunner-with-special-celebration-2Left, Sister Ritamary Bulach, Michelle Bodine photo. Second, Sister Verlina Mescher; third and fourth, the dining hall and kitchen at the Athenaeum of Ohio, where some of the Sisters worked. Dave Eck photos

Growing up on a farm near Ft. Loramie, Ohio, Sister Jeannine (Leo Mary) Kloeker had little use for the kitchen. Her mom and older sisters did the cooking while she helped her dad with the farm chores. Besides, there were grander dreams than learning how to cook. Jeannine wanted to be a professional baseball player for the Ft. Wayne Daisies of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

But after she finished grade school, God intervened.

“I felt the calling,” she said.

Sister Jeannine entered Fatima Hall, the former aspirancy for the Sisters of the Precious Blood after eighth grade. After profession she began a 40-year career in food service in Dayton, Burkettsvlle, Carthagena, Maria Stein and Centerville, all in Ohio.

“I had to learn from scratch,” she said. “I really did.”

As food service director at the Maria Stein Retreat Center, Sister Jeannine planned the menus and ordered the food. Each year she packed away in a freezer all the packages of meat from a cow that they had butchered.

“Sometimes we worked from morning to night,” she said.

Business groups rented the center for seminars and requested certain dishes. One group wanted prime rib roasts. Sister Jeannine had never prepared the dish and was rather nervous about the order. The group had paid for the expensive beef.

“I worried about it all night,” she said. “I didn’t sleep very well. I read the recipes and figured out how to do it.”

She followed the directions and held her breath. After the dinner one of the businessmen came into the kitchen and told her it was the best prime rib he ever had.

“I never worried about it again,” Sister Jeannine said.

The center also hosted meetings of the Catholic bishops from Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. After one gathering then-Cincinnati Archbishop Joseph L. Bernardin came back and talked with each of the cooks.

“I never forgot that,” Sister Jeannine said. “He recognized what we were doing.”

Sister Jeannine moved away from cooking and spent 11 years as the assistant coordinator for the infirmed Sisters living at the Maria Joseph Center.

She’s still a baseball fan, often wearing a Cincinnati Reds t-shirt and staying up late to catch a ballgame on television. Though she never chased her own dream of professional baseball, Sister Jeannine feels she made the better choice in following God’s call.

“I just felt it was the right thing for me to do,” she said. “I have to say I’ve been happy. I really have.”

The Sisters at each institution formed their own little communities. They worked, prayed and played together. Mass in their private chapel was celebrated each morning. At some places there was an afternoon rest. After evening prayer, the Sisters talked or played cards.

It was a quiet, holy life that brought them closer to God.

“I think gradually we grew,” said Sister Adeline, who remembers feeding the Chicago Bears football team when they trained at St. Joseph College in Renselaer, Ind., in the 1950s. “I think we grew a little each day, each week and each year.”

“Your prayer life comes with what you put into it,” Sister Eva said. “No one else can put it in for you. You’ve got to build it up yourself.”

For Sister Ritamary Bulach work and prayer make up life. Her work in food service at Lourdes Hall, the former Precious Blood Sisters infirmary, complimented her lifestyle.

“I loved it there,” she said. “I got to know the older Sisters and what they did. You got the spirit that way. They were just holy souls.”

She later worked in food service and housekeeping at Maria Stein Retreat House before returning to cooking at the Maria-Joseph Care Center in Dayton.

Preparing food helped her fill her vocation.

“I was feeding people,” she said. “I was making people happy and what makes people happier than food?”

Prior to 1969, Sisters were assigned in ministry. In many cases Superiors of the Congregation chose the type of ministry a Sister would do, with or without dialogue before making the assignment. The talents of the Sister and the needs of the time were considered in making the decision.

Sister Dolorosa Oen, who at 103 is the oldest living Sister of the Precious Blood, freely admits that she didn’t particularly enjoy school. So after profession, she was glad to be missioned to domestic work.

After ministering in food service in Ohio and Indiana, Sister Dolorosa was assigned to the residence of then-Lafayette, Ind., Bishop John G. Bennett as a housekeeper. That was the beginning of a journey that took her to Columbus, Ohio, then St. Louis and even on a visit to Rome and an audience with Pope Paul VI.

After Bishop Bennett died, Sister Dolorosa continued working for his successor, Bishop John J. Carberry. She followed him when he was named bishop of Columbus and again when he was appointed St. Louis archbishop. She accompanied him to Rome when he was elevated to cardinal in 1969.

She remembers driving the cardinal’s family members to see the sights in St. Louis when they came to visit. There were trips to the St. Louis Arch and rides on the excursion boat Admiral with music and dancing.

Sister Dolorosa spent 40 years working for Bishop Bennet and Cardinal Carberry before retiring to Dayton in 1989. The Sisters provided companionship during the bishops’ downtime. The Sisters would sometimes eat with them.

“It was wonderful,” she said. “I enjoyed it. They were both so kind. They had a hard job, working for the people.”

Though the bishops could have hired anyone to serve in their homes, they preferred Sisters because they brought with them a deep spirituality.

“Those Sisters were a living evangelization,” said Sister Joyce Ann (Karen Edward) Zimmerman, who remembers the Sisters working in the motherhouse when she was a postulant. “That’s what those Sisters contributed. They didn’t teach anything. They didn’t speak anything. They simply lived through the work of their hands. The prayer life, their love of God [is what] they embodied.”

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Time to be proactive! In our video series, “Strong, Safe & True” we sit down with Retired Police Chief Bill Cooper to talk about risk assessments. The famous adage, it’s better to be proactive than reactive rings more than true in the security world. Being proactive can save lives when you’re talking about proper planning on a safety level.

The goal of course is to ensure companies are prepared and have taken proper precautions should present. An example of that would be an active shooter scenario.

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Show of hands! Does your car still have at least one fold-out state map or road atlas? This afternoon I’ll admit that my car has seven fold-out maps in the front passenger-side interior door pocket “cubby.” There are five maps from Illinois, one for Indiana (where I live) and one for Michigan. Obviously, you can tell that (1) I’m old, and that (2) I fear getting lost in Illinois.

That said, I do believe it’s important to know where you’re going. Of course, that applies to those driving cars as well as anyone driving a company’s R&D department.

Right hand raised, I also admit this December issue is one of my annual favorites. It can be tedious to shepherd as many as 24 small features through writing, editing and production. Yet we bring you some of the industry’s best-known experts and their insights for the year ahead. We hope these pieces help you map out some strategic direction(s) in 2021.

In a related note, let me reference that map you find in gigantic shopping malls. It’s the one with the red dot to indicate: “You Are Here.” During this reflective season, I’ll put this corporate question to you: “Do you know where you are—as a R&D department?” If you want or need to start that conversation within your company, I’d suggest a leadership piece from McKinsey & Company. It’s titled, “Building an R&D Strategy for Modern Times” and you can find it here:

The article authors assert:

“Amid a growing gap in performance between those that innovate successfully and those that do not, companies wishing to get ahead and stay ahead of competitors need a robust R&D strategy that makes the most of their innovation investments. Building such a strategy takes three steps: understanding the challenges that often work as barriers to R&D success, choosing the right ingredients for your strategy, and then pressure testing it before enacting it.”

So what next needs to happen?

“Given R&D’s role as the innovation driver that advances the corporate agenda, its guiding strategy needs to link board-level priorities with the technologies that are the organization’s focus,” says McKinsey. “The R&D strategy must provide clarity and commitment to three central elements: what we want to deliver, what we need to deliver it, and how we will deliver it.”

If you’re looking for real-life illustrations and encouragement, I’ll also refer you to Prepared Foods’ 2020 New Products Conference, which lives online in an on-demand video format. This year’s agenda featured as many as four R&D senior executives—including Kraft-Heinz, Del Monte, Ocean Spray and Planterra Foods—who connected corporate strategy and R&D innovation efforts. You can find them here at:

Where will your company go in 2021? Although it’s too soon to predict that, I extend best wishes to you on the journey. And if you need a fold-out state map—just let me know!


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To enhance the comprehension skills, you need to comprehend the easy piece of writing according to level but that piece of writing should be little challenging. Challenging articles will helps us to take stern content that makes our vocabulary more precise and reaches us on a new level of reading.

Learn To Read In Depth, Stay On The Same Subject For A While

If you have some idea about the article you are reading, then you can understand the things better.  Try to read novels and books. Avoid reading short articles. Try to stay on one author and if it’s possible try to read a few different books on same articles about the same subject.  By doing this activity, you will meet various ideas which helps you to learn in different ways.

Try Listening Therapy

Try to read out loud while reading the book or article. You are also advised to listen the audio books or audio files of the article to clear your vocab. You can also enhance your reading comprehensive skills by watching English movies with their subtitles. This will help you to narrate difficult content more wisely.

Don’t Worry About What You Don’t Understand
Most of your reading should be for pleasure. You can enjoy reading without understanding all of what you read. You may even understand some things in your own personal way. Neither you nor a teacher needs to “monitor” your understanding. Learn to enjoy reading, even while feeling that you do not fully understand or remember what you have read.

Reading Comprehension Strategies:

If we talk practically then the habit of reading everyday develop skills to understand the text. This method is a research-proven method which helps to make most effective strategies to enhance the comprehending skills.
  • Read Aloud
  • Stop and Ask Questions to Yourself As You Read
  • Talk With Someone Else About What Is Being Read
  • Look at the Headings and Other Information Before You Begin
  • Keep Paper Handy for Notes and Questions
  • Learn to Cluster Words
  • Use Graphic Organizers As You Read
  • Practice PQ4R
  • Stop and Summarize
  • Write Questions About the Material
  • Comprehension monitoring
  • Cooperative learning
  • Graphic organizers
  • Story structure
  • Question answering
  • Question generating
  • Summarization
  • Multiple Strategy
Speed is an important part in Reading comprehension. Most of the people reading slow approximately 150 to 200 words per minute but for effective reading require 800 to 1000 words per minutes with remembering.

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  • The passage suggests that......
  • What is the central idea of this passage?
  • According to author what he want to say?
  • Passage is concerned with...
  • Which of the following is true statement?

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A Barbie World

Don't Hate Barbie Because She's Beautiful

Barbie, as beautiful as she is, has had a tough life. She's not well liked by everyone. In fact, Barbie has taken a lot of heat for damaging women's body images, or at least being a symbol for it.

While I've never been a big fan of Barbie due to the casual link between body image issues and this blonde bombshell, my perception of Barbie recently changed after reading Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll and the Woman Who Created Her by Robin Gerber. This is a biography of Ruth Handler, the creator of Barbie.

The book seemed to point to this conclusion. The development of Barbie was not intended to damage women's self image but appeared to pump of the self-esteem of one woman, Ruth Handler. Her own self-esteem hinged on being a successful business woman and Barbie is simply how she got to the top.

The book begins with an overview of Ruth Handler early life. This is important to the story. She was the youngest of ten children and raised by her oldest sister. Ruth never lived with her biological, immigrant parents. Instead, her older sister, a business woman, was her surrogate parent.

Prior to manufacturing Barbie, Ruth and her husband, an artist, had a number of different businesses that eventually landed on toy making. Ruth modeled Barbie after a doll she found in Germany while on vacation. The German doll was actually fashioned after a prostitute and was a toy for men. Until this time, dolls were baby dolls and did not have the body of an adult woman.

When Ruth proposed the idea of Barbie, the people around her were clearly not in favor of it. In fact, they seemed a little shocked and appalled. They did not think that mothers would want their daughters playing with a doll that had a mature, sexualized body. Ruth was aware of this objection but was not deterred by it.

What was she thinking? She claims that she had no idea this doll would be linked with feminism or body image issues. As you read the book, you get the idea that her mind really was elsewhere. She didn't seem to grasp or be thinking about the big picture. Nor did she have real connections with friends, other mothers or children. True relationships may have helped her to understand that toys do impact kids' social development. To her, they were dollars and cents.

On the other hand, Ruth indicated that girls projected themselves into their fantasy play with dolls. Girls want to be older girls. They could project who they wanted to be onto adult dolls they played with. So, in some ways, she may have actually helped women to start practicing other roles, besides being a mother, earlier in their life. Barbie could do anything-travel, work, or play. Girls were not trapped into one role as a mother as was the case when they played with baby dolls.

Why did Ruth disregard baby dolls? She probably did so because she didn't have a strong bond with her own biological mother. She wasn't familiar with the roll of mother, as was later evident with her own two children. She struggled to have a close relationship with her children, Barbie and Ken (who she later named the dolls after).

Ruth was no stranger to controversial toys. Her company released the Burp Gun. She was aware that it was a controversial toy and hired a marketing psychologist to try to explain away the possible negative impact on children. The psychologist indicated that both the gun and Barbie doll could have some psychologically negative impacts on children. It's interesting that the Burp Gun has faded but Barbie is still around. Perhaps there were more objections to children playing with guns than possible body image disturbances?

Ruth's life was riddled by hardship. Throughout her life, she was constantly borrowing money, taking huge risks, hiring and firing people left and right. Sadly, she loses her homosexual son, Ken, to AIDS. She is charged with a crime and almost goes to jail. Again, the need to be successful and bolster her own self-esteem in superficial ways may have been Ruth's greatest downfall.

What is ironic is that Ruth, the person who introduced the word to dolls with breasts, lost her own due to breast cancer. What she took away from women's body image via Barbie, she redeemed herself a bit with women struggling with breast cancer. Ruth developed the first breast prosthetic created by a woman. Prior to this, the prosthetics were developed by men, uncomfortable and not life like. Her invention was remarkable and she changed the lives of women everywhere. Letters poured in from breast cancer survivors around the world thanking Ruth for helping their self-esteem after losing a breast. It was her first taste of a real connection with other women.

Barbie's negative symbolism and impact on body image clearly overshadows the rest of the story. Ruth was one of the first female entrepreneurs, was a woman who took risks, and someone who help women with breast cancer recover their self-esteem.

The Lesson: We all have to be mindful of how we build and nurture our own self-esteem. Enduring self-esteem comes from positive, genuine relationships, not success, in business or academics, that comes and goes. What keeps us grounded? Real connections with others. Thank you to the author of this interesting, well-written book. It's likely that I may not be in love with Barbie. But, I don't hate her anymore.

By Dr. Susan Albers author of 50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food and Eating Mindfully.

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