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By: Julianna Baggott
In The Prince of Fenway Park, Baggott (also known as N.E. Bode) takes a whimsical look at the fabled Curse, which legend has it began in 1919 with the sale of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees, and brings the reader into a fantastical world set in - and underneath - Fenway Park. The story’s protagonist is a twelve-year old biracial orphan named Oscar Egg who was adopted by white parents. His parents are divorced, and he lives with his mother. When circumstances force Oscar to go to live with his elusive father, he must reveal his secret to Oscar: the Red Sox are indeed cursed, and he is one of the Cursed Creatures who lives in Fenway Park.
Oscar soon discovers that he possesses a gift that may allow him to break The Curse so that his beloved Red Sox can win the World Series and reunite his parents. Yet if he fails, he is doomed to live all his days among the Cursed Creatures.
The novel takes the reader seamlessly back in forth between events, locations, and people that are both real and imagined. The story honestly recalls painful moments in Red Sox history, such as Jackie Robinson’s tryout at Fenway Park, as well as joyous moments, including David Ortiz’s game-winning home run in Game 4 of the 2004 American League Championship Series. Borrowing heavily from Irish Folklore, the Cursed Creatures include a banshee, a Pooka, conjoined radio announcers and many more outlandish creatures. Other characters that figure prominently in the book include Johnny Pesky, Pumpsie Green, Bill Buckner, Boston City Councilor Izzy Muchnick, and of course, Babe Ruth – like Oscar, an orphan who found his calling in baseball.
At its heart, The Prince of Fenway Park is a story about fathers, sons, and baseball – a chord that resonates through generations of Red Sox fans. The story is perfect for fans of sports, adventure, fantasy, history, and every combination thereof. Kirkus Reviews has high praise for The Prince of Fenway Park calling it, “Richly imagined… a thoroughly involving tale.”
The Prince of Fenway Park—By Julianna Baggott
Hc: 9780060872427 / $16.99
Lb: 9780060872434 / $17.89
March 24, 2009 Ages: 8 - 12
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PDF format was first introduced in 1993 with Adobe Acrobat 1.0 from Adobe Systems. Following the standardization of PDF for special requirements like PDF/X for pre-press, PDF/A for archiving and PDF/E for engineering, Adobe invested a great effort into getting PDF format standardized for universal use. In July 2008, PDF 1.7 was officially certified by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as an open standard – ISO 32000. The advantage: the open PDF standard is now manufacturer independent and offers long-term reliability. Changes and future developments to the PDF format are no longer dependent on Adobe. [...]
The European Publications Office (‘the Office’) is currently digitising its historic archive of around 130 000 publications dating back to 1952. The aim is to make the entire collection accessible for free download and online consultations by October 2009. Outsourced industrial, non-destructive mass digitisation enables production, delivery and upload of 1.5 million pages per month. The main delivery is a PDF/A-1b file containing bookmarks, basic metadata and a background text layer. [...]
These days, many cultural institutions (scientific and public libraries as well as state, private and ecclesiastic archives) are digitializing valuable cultural assets such as books, prints and maps. Along with the aim of enabling a broad public or scientific use or to protect valuable originals from direct access, this process is used in order to preserve the historic originals and to securely store them in the most optimal environmental conditions. [...]
The articles of this chapter contain the content of the Conference-Track A: Archives & Libraries, Public Sector/ eGovernment.
The articles in this chapter contain the conference presentations from Track 1: What you need to know about PDF/A, for novice to intermediate level users. [...]
A sometimes humorous look at the history of archiving and formats, from its origins up till the present day. Beginning with the Ark of the Covenant and then to TIFF and to COLD, followed by a look at how legal regulations changed the archive landscape, this article takes a look at the evolving technologies and requirements for archives. Would you like to brush up on your archive trivia? [...]
Office files and all other electronic documents that the hospital, care facility or medical practice create themselves or receive via e-mail can be converted easily and securely into PDF/A using a PDF printer. In doing so, fonts are embedded or, optionally, only those characters that are actually used. As a result, the files fulfill the ISO specifications for long-term archiving to PDF/A. [...]
There are many advantages to archiving documents and data from digital sources into PDF/A. The source applications are rapidly being developed further. As a result of this, after only a few years, the readability and the authentic display of data can no longer be guaranteed. Furthermore, a company must maintain all of the applications that are used and all of the platforms on which they operate. This incurs considerable costs. Even for documents and files that are created digitally, PDF/A is an excellent choice for long-term archiving and comes with great advantages with regard to uniformity, searchability and cost-effectiveness. [...]
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Chapter 12: Using Filtering Software to Block Access
Let me explain: teens are smart when it comes to circumventing blocking software. There are hundreds of sites called web proxies that allow you to visit other sites anonymously. The address bar will still show the URL of the web proxy so most filtering software will not be able to block the information served up by the proxy software. However, a teenager can type in myspace.com or some other domain and still be able to access the site even though filtering software is in place to block it. In order for you to fully understand this procedure you may want to visit some of the more popular web proxies listed below to see how they work.
Sites for web proxies are changed all the time on the web so there will never be a complete list, but visiting google.com and searching for something like
will bring up good results.
So what is the answer? Is there a filtering software that is able to block myspace.com as well as proxy requests for it?
I like a product called Content Watch. In the testing I completed, it was able to block not only domains, IP address and keywords but also proxy requests. You can find out more about Content Watch by visiting the link below.
For Macintosh Computers
The best filtering software I could find is a product called Content Barrier, although I did not personally test it, it appears to work on the same principles that Content Watch uses. You can find out more about Content Barrier by visiting:
Here are some good sites for reviews of other parental control and filtering software.
Review of Filtering Software
Parental Control Software Consumer Report
Alternatives to MySpace.com
Social networking sites like MySpace.com, Facebook.com, Xanga.com, and Tagworld.com are popular because they allow teens to chat and find other teens who have the same interests. In fact, MySpace.com has become a teen version of Match.com as far as dating is concerned. Since it’s completely interactive and teens can customize their own pages and add people to their list, there isn’t anything quite like it currently.
Alternatives such as normal Instant Messaging programs like ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and others provide the chat alternative but not the other interaction.
Because MySpace.com is so popular there are others following the same formula. MSN created their own version at http://spaces.msn.com, although it was never as popular
The best alternative is to talk to your teen and monitor what they are posting
to the site. Communicate with your teen about what you find acceptable and
unacceptable on their profile and work with them to change information that
can be harmful.
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A new customer has emerged for the Raytheon ADM-160 miniature air launched decoy jammer (MALD-J) as the company looks to expand the applications and roles of the turbojet-powered, expendable craft.
Offering no explanation, the US Navy has revealed its intention to at least experiment with the air force's developmental MALD-J, which is designed to disrupt flight tracks on enemy radar displays.
The Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC)'s Crane Division plans to sign an order with Raytheon worth up to $12.5 million for the MALD-J, according to an acquisition notice.
As part of Naval Sea Systems Command, the NSWC normally supports the navy's research on warships, but the Crane Division is often tasked with supporting the electronic warfare community within naval aviation.
Raytheon declined to comment on the navy's interest, and the NSWC did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
Meanwhile, Raytheon is attempting to expand the applications for the Teledyne Ryan TJ-50-poewred ADM-160. In March, the company conducted a self-funded release of a MALD shape from the cargo hold of a Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules.
The test involved the first use of the MALD cargo air-launched system (MCALS), a roll-on/roll-off launcher designed by Raytheon to eject ADM-160s from a variety of cargo aircraft, including the Boeing C-17 and V-22. Raytheon declined to describe how the MCALS releases the decoys from the cargo bay.
Work also continues on a new version of the decoy called the "MALD-V (truck)", which offers an empty payload compartment. The space can be used to install any sensor, data link or jammer that fits, transforming the decoy into a surveillance and reconnaissance system with 500nm range or 5h endurance.
It is possible that the MALD-V may need to be modified to be recovered like an unmanned aircraft system. Otherwise, the aircraft's customers will lose a possibly valuable sensor during each flight. But Raytheon declined to answer questions about possible recovery methods for the MALD-V, referring such queries to the Air Force Research Laboratory.
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U.S. student achievement at the end of high school has stagnated (reading and math) or declined (science) since nationally-representative NAEP tests were first administered around 1970. Meanwhile, education spending has risen by a factor of 2.3 over that same period, from $5,247 per student to about $12,000, in inflation-adjusted (2008) dollars. [To get the most up-to-date figures you have to use multiple sources and adjust to 2008 dollars yourself, but an older data series can be found in this table.]
What would the U.S. automobile industry look like if it were run the same way, and had suffered the same productivity collapse, as public schooling? To the left is a 1971 Chevrolet Impala. According to the New York Times of September 25th, 1970, it originally sold for $3,460. That’s $19,011 in today’s dollars. If cars were like public schools, you would be compelled to buy one of these today, and to pay $43,479 for that privilege (2.3 times the original price).
But, thank heavens, the automobile industry is part of the free enterprise system that thrives everywhere in our economy outside the classroom. A brand new 2008 Impala, pictured to the right, costs only slightly more in real terms than the 1970 model did: $21,975. But it is a very different beast.
Apart from its far superior fit and finish, it comes standard with technologies that could barely be imagined 40 years ago: OnStar satellite communications, side-curtain airbags, and anti-lock brakes, to name a few. And if you don’t like the looks of it, or if it doesn’t fit the needs of your family, you can buy something else — something bigger or smaller, faster or more fuel efficient.
So, do you wish the automobile industry were run like public schooling, or do you wish that public education was part of our free enterprise system, with financial assistance to ensure universal access to the marketplace?
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According to the Center for Disease Control, 25.8 million Americans (or 8.3 percent of the population) have diabetes, while an estimated 79 million people (aged 20 and older) have prediabetes — making it one of the most pervasive diseases in the U.S. Startups like Rock Health grad Omada Health and Glooko are addressing diabetes head-on, from prevention and intervention to making the lives of those who live with the disease better — through technology.
Glooko launched in late 2011 to bring those with diabetes a better way to collect and view the information they need to control their blood glucose readings, allowing them to download readings from their meter to their smartphone, for example. Essentially, then, Glooko is a digital logbook for those who regularly check their blood sugar levels. While you’ll find dozens of such logbooks in the App Store, most of them require the owner to manually enter their blood sugar data.
Glooko is differentiating itself from the pack by attempting to become agnostic to the type of glucose meters people use (of which there are many), allowing a wider set of people to connect their meters to their smartphones. That means that users don’t have to purchase and learn how to use a whole new measurement device.
Today marks an important step forward for the startup in its move toward being device agnostic: Glooko announced that it is releasing a new version of its “Glooko Logbook” app for iOS devices that supports six additional blood glucose meters, including those from Bayer, Walmart and ARKRAY.
This is especially relevant, as Walmart announced its new “ReliOn” meters back in July with the promise that it would save its customers $60 million annually. Supporting Walmart’s brand, Glooko co-founder Sundeep Madra says, goes along with its philosophy of innovating in conjunction with what people are already using. Succeeding in the health care space can mean having to go against what the tech-savvy startup mentality would do — if it’s too complicated and too new, too fast, it can be tough to succeed. But Walmart reaches a massive set of the population, and by supporting its meter, Glooko is opening itself up to a big audience.
But more importantly, with these new additions, Glooko now supports 17 different blood glucose meters, so now users can just connect their $40 Glooko cable to one of those meters and an iOS device and download all their readings into a Logbook with a few clicks. The app also gives users the ability to take notes about carbs, insulin, and other wellness factors, and lets them share their logbook summary with their doctors via email or fax.
Diabetes is one of the fastest-growing diseases, so it’s good to see the startup making progress in helping 25 million Americans to manage their health. And while this news may seem somewhat incremental, it’s also a sign that the startup is getting closer to meter agnosticism, a critical part of bringing that better health management to all of those 25 million.
Glooko raised $3.5 million in series A funding earlier this year from The Social+Capital Partnership, Bill Campbell, Vint Cerf, Judy Estrin and Andy Hertzfeld, Venky Harinarayan, Russell Hirsch and Xtreme Labs.
Glooko is a Silicon Valley startup with a unique solution for people with diabetes. Its products enable users with smartphones to easily collect and view the information needed to help them successfully control their blood glucose levels. Users download blood glucose meter results to a smartphone and obtain insight into the effect their daily activities have on these numbers. Glooko’s mission is helping people with diabetes live life while effortlessly managing their diabetes.
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New targeted drug for treating fragile X syndrome, potentially autism, is effective
Study finds drug treats social withdrawal and challenging behaviors in fragile X
An investigational compound that targets the core symptoms of fragile X syndrome is effective for addressing the social withdrawal and challenging behaviors characteristic of the condition, making it the first such discovery for fragile X syndrome and, potentially, the first for autism spectrum disorder, a study by researchers at the UC Davis MIND Institute and Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, has found.
The finding is the result of a clinical trial in adult and pediatric subjects with fragile X syndrome. It suggests, however, that the compound may have treatment implications for at least a portion of the growing population of individuals with autism spectrum disorder, as well as for those with other conditions defined by social deficits. The study is published online today in the journal Science Translational Medicine. A second article by the manufacturer of the compound is included in the same issue.
The "first-in-patient" drug trial was led by internationally recognized fragile X researchers Elizabeth Berry-Kravis of Rush University Medical Center and Randi Hagerman of the UC Davis MIND Institute. It examined the effects of the compound STX 209, also known by the name arbaclofen. The study was conducted collaboratively with Seaside Therapeutics, a Cambridge, Mass., pharmaceutical company that is focused on translating bench research on fragile X and autism into therapeutic interventions. Seaside Therapeutics is developing the compound and supplied it for the clinical trial.
"This study shows that STX 209 could become an important part of the treatment for fragile X syndrome, because it appeared to improve symptoms in those with significant social deficits or autism as well as fragile X syndrome," said Hagerman, medical director of the MIND Institute. "Additional studies also are suggesting that STX 209 could be helpful for autism without fragile X syndrome. Until now, there have been no targeted treatments available for autism. This appears to be the first."
Fragile X syndrome is the most common, known cause of inherited intellectual impairment, formerly referred to as mental retardation, and the leading known single-gene cause of autism. Social impairment is one of the core deficits in both fragile X and autism. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that about 1 in 4,000 males and 1 in 6,000 to 8,000 females have the disorder. An estimated 1 in 88 children born today will be diagnosed with autism, according to the CDC.
"There are no Food and Drug Administration-approved treatments for fragile X syndrome, and the available options help secondary symptoms but do not effectively address the core impairments in fragile X. This is the first large-scale study that is based on the molecular understanding of fragile X and suggests that the core symptoms may be amenable to pharmacologic treatment," said lead study author Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, professor of pediatrics, neurological sciences and biochemistry at Rush University Medical Center.
"This study will help to signal the beginning of a new era of targeted treatments for genetic disorders that have historically been regarded as beyond the reach of pharmacotherapy," Berry-Kravis said. "It will be a model for treatment of autism, intellectual disability and developmental brain disorders based on understanding of dysfunction in brain pathways, as opposed to empiric treatment of symptoms. We hope mechanistically based treatments like STX209 ultimately will be shown to improve cognitive functioning in longer-term trials."
Studies in mice genetically engineered to exhibit features of fragile X, including social impairment, have suggested that the behavioral abnormalities in fragile X result from deficiencies in the neurotransmitter gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA). Decreased GABA has been observed in a mouse model of fragile X in many areas of the brain, including the hippocampus, and has been hypothesized to be a basis of the social anxiety and avoidance characteristic of fragile X sufferers, the study says.
Arbaclofen is an agonist for gamma-amino butyric acid type B, or GABA-B, receptors. An agonist is a chemical that effectively combines with a receptor on a synapse to effect a physiologic reaction typical of a naturally occurring substance. Anxiety-driven repetitive behavior and social avoidance have been reduced in fragile X-engineered mice treated with arbaclofen. The current, first-of-its-kind study investigated whether arbaclofen would produce similar results in human subjects.
The double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial initially recruited 63 male and female subjects at 12 sites across the United States for the research, conducted between December 2008 and March 2010. The participants ranged in age from 6 to 39 years. Of the initial participants, 56 completed the clinical trial. There were no withdrawals related to drug tolerability. The majority of the subjects were treated with what was assessed as the optimum tolerated dosage of the study drug, 10 milligrams twice a day in younger patients and three times a day in adults. Compliance was monitored by patient guardians, who filled out a dosing form on a daily basis.
The study subjects returned for evaluations at two- and four-week intervals after beginning the six-week-long treatment. The drug then was tapered down over a one- to two-week period. After a week, the subjects entered a second treatment period.
The effects of the medication were scored on variables of the Aberrant Behavior Checklist (ABC), a behavior-rating scale for the assessment of drug-treatment effects. The checklist includes variables for irritability, lethargy/withdrawal, stereotypic (repetitive) behavior and hyperactivity, among other factors.
The study found improvement for the full study population on the social-avoidance subscale, an analysis validated by secondary ratings from parent observation of improvement in subjects' three most problematic behaviors. It found that the medication was the same as placebo, however, on the subscale for irritability.
The study is one of several at the MIND Institute aiming to help improve behavior and cognition for individuals with fragile X syndrome and autism spectrum disorder. Hagerman currently is leading larger controlled trials of STX 209 at UC Davis that also are carried out at multiple centers and are enrolling individuals with fragile X syndrome from ages 5 to 50. Individuals interested in enrolling may contact Lindsey Partington at 916-703-0471 or via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.org. Details of the study also can be found at ClinicalTrials.gov, an online resource for people interested in learning more about advanced clinical studies in a variety of different therapeutic areas.
"We are looking forward to further studies utilizing STX 209 in both autism and fragile X syndrome because the fragile X mouse studies demonstrate long-term strengthening of synaptic connections with continued use of this medication," Hagerman said.
Other study authors include David R. Hessl, Yi Mu and Danh V. Nguyen of UC Davis; Barbara Rathmell, Peter Zarevics, Maryann Cherubini, Karen Walton-Bowen, Paul P. Wang and Randall L. Carpenter of Seaside Therapeutics; Joseph Gonzalez-Heydrich of Boston Children's Hospital; and Mark F. Bear of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The study was funded by Seaside Therapeutics.
Rush is a not-for-profit academic medical center in Chicago comprising Rush University Medical Center, Rush University, Rush Oak Park Hospital and Rush Health. Rush University is a private, health sciences university offering more than 30 unique degree or certificate options in medicine, nursing, allied health and biomedical research. Rush University is comprised of Rush Medical College, the College of Nursing, the College of Health Sciences, and the Graduate College.
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A technology bond, approved by voters in the Northville Public Schools district in November, will start to make improvements to the schools' technology plan this spring.
The bond will be issued in two series, the first at $16.27 million will start this year and the second at $4.6 million will start in 2017. Improvements through the series will support the schools' technology plan for at least the next 12 years.
Despite the millions of dollars that will be invested, residents' taxes will not change from last year.
The millage rate will stay the same, said Mike Zopf, assistant superintendent for finance and operations for Northville Public Schools. Residents currently pay about 4.3 mills and will continue to pay that much, he said.
Zopf said the rate remains the same because the district has been paying back its long-term debt.
"Assuming taxable values were unchanged, the tax would have gone down," he said.
He said it would have been reduced to about 3.9 mills but will instead remain unchanged to fund the technology bond.
The district completed a technology needs assessment last year with input from teachers, principals, parents and other staff that led to the bond proposal, said Dave Rodgers, Northville Public Schools human resources director.
"The district has been without any notable technology improvements for several years," he said.
A similar bond request was turned down by voters in 2006, he said. The district made good use of the technology it had, he said, but classrooms need new instructional technology.
Schools to get new PCs, interactive white boards
"Year one is the big push," Rodger said. "We're really trying to do as much as we can."
He said they are in the design phase now, working with technology consultants Wright & Hunter, and will begin improvements as early as this spring at Meads Mill Middle School, Hillside Middle School and Northville High School.
He said summer vacation will give the district the opportunity for more improvements. Middle school and high school classroom improvements will be completed by the start of the 2013-14 school year, and elementary work will begin over the summer but will carry over into the fall, according to Rodger.
"We're most excited about, from an educational standpoint, our classrooms getting outfitted with interactive audio visual systems," he said.
Identified classrooms will be outfitted with technology such as:
- Multi-Touch Promethean Board (interactive white board)
- document camera
- audio enhancement system
- new teacher desktop computer
"All of our PCs throughout the district will be refreshed and replaced this summer," he said.
The classrooms getting these updates have already been selected, he said.
"Any general classroom is included in phase one," he said. "Others like auditoriums and gymnasiums will be handled further down the road in the bond in year two or three."
He said at the end of the second bond series, the district will replace all of the PCs again.
"We have the opportunity to refresh the district’s computers twice in the span of this bond," he said.
Other changes include replacing TVs with digital video systems that function through PCs, replacing the district's phone system and updating the security cameras in years two or three, according to Rodger. The district will also purchase replacement school buses to retire some of the aging vehicles in its 46-bus fleet.
Bids for various projects are already out, he said, and the district will receive them in the next few months to make the final decisions.
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Upper School Arts
Photo Credit: Isabella Zemella '13
Upper School graduation requirements include 1 1/2 credits in the Fine Arts, distributed between both the visual and performing arts. There are two Upper School instrumental groups the Symphonic Band and Jazz Ensemble. Four vocal groups the Bonnies, the Scotsmen, the Varsity Singers and the All-American singers provide additional opportunities for musical performance. Upper School dramatic productions include plays, musicals and one act play series. Music and drama appreciation courses are also offered for non-performers. Saint Andrew's recognizes that many performing arts rely on collaboration. Cooperation and teamwork, so students are allowed amply studio and theater rehearsal time. The School is blessed to have Andrews Hall - The Center for Performing Arts as its home base for all student performances.
In the Visual Arts, Upper School students begin their study with a course titled Foundations in Art. From there they may select studio courses that include Drawing, Design, Printmaking, Sculpture, Photography, Digital Darkroom, technology based courses in graphic design, and higher level courses in Drawing Honors, Portfolio Honors, Advanced Placement Studio Art, and IB Art. Students are also offered Advanced Placement Art History. Qualified students may elect to further explore the visual arts through independent study. The Domenico Mazzone Visual Arts Building houses an art history classroom with resources that consist of an extensive slide collection, art reproductions, books, and periodicals. Other facilities include, three fully equipped classroom studios designated for specific areas of study, an eight-station darkroom, and a spacious gallery to showcase student art. Space is also allocated for future development of a fully equipped graphic arts technology studio.
View the Fine Arts Curriculum Guide
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A geographic information system (GIS) allows us to view and understand data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns and trends in the form of maps, reports and charts. A GIS helps us solve problems by examining data in a way that is quickly understood and easily shared.
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suppose take one ex: Baby is a child class is extending from Cow class and Dog class, and both Cow and Dog classes are having the same method that is walk() . If Baby class calls walk() method, jvm raises the problems... So these types of problems may occure while working with MI. But these problems are avoided using Interfaces...
Reading this site helped me understand a lot, also seems to be an issue with the diamond problem when multiple inheritance is allowed:
as James Gosling said that some C++ features like this is purposefully removed to keep Java simple. Anohter reason is Diamon pattern problem. Why Java does not support multiple Inheritance
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|Bushy deciduous shrub grown for its long clusters of fragrant flowers throughout the summer. Panicles 12 inches to 24 inches long of dense fragrant flowers are bright fuchsia to pink and grow in summer. Arching branches bear pointed silvery-green leaves to 10 inches long. Reaches up to 10 feet tall and about 15 feet wide. Ideal for attracting butterflies. Combines well with other perennials, especially daylilies and shasta daisies. This is one plant that thrives on severe pruning.
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Have you ever felt worried or distressed? Right, I know, that’s a ridiculous question because we have all felt worry and distress. Today, as we continue our ||40days|| journey, we want to follow Jesus into a life marked by peace. The Bible is not far away from these real experiences of our lives. In fact, the writer of Psalm 4 expresses thoughts we all could likely relate to:
Answer me when I call to You, my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; have mercy on me and hear my prayer. (Psalm 4:1)
Where do you turn to find peace in these times? Often, we turn to friends or family for support, or look to distractions like television or reading a book. In Psalm 4, we are directed in another way. the psalmist instructs us in the way we should turn in our distress.
God’s Strong Presence
First of all, the psalmist shows us to whom we should turn. ‘Of course,’ you might say, ‘you are going to say that I should turn to God.’ Yes, that is true, but it is not enough of the truth in this case. The psalmist says that Read the rest of this entry »
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Marketing transactions create utility, which refers to the sum of the benefits we receive when we use a good or a service. Utility is the use or satisfaction a person gets from a product. If you purchase a chain saw you anticipate that you will receive a certain amount of utility from it. You will be able to use the saw to cut fire wood, prune trees, and take care of a variety of jobs around your home.
Marketing makes life of people easier by ensuring people have the type of product they want, where and when they want it. Utility is what creates value. Marketing process creates different kind of utilities, let us look at them. There are four types of utility.
It is the benefit marketing provides by transforming raw materials into finished products. A product must be processed into a form that the customer wants or needs. For example, wheat is processed into bread, trees are processed into lumber, and potatoes are processed into French fries. If you ordered French fries with your lunch and the waiter brought you a raw potato, you probably wouldn’t be too happy.
Example – Baskin Robbins turns cream, sugar and milk into ice cream
Place utility involves transporting products to the location where consumers can buy them i.e. making it available where the demand is. If you live in Alaska, you certainly wouldn’t want to have to drive to California to buy oranges. Thanks to our modern transportation systems you don’t have to; you simply drive to the local grocery store and oranges are there ready to add to your shopping cart — place utility.
Example – Food truck at construction site
Possession utility establishes legal ownership of a product. It ensures the consumers own the product use it and enjoy the benefits of it. When you purchase something you normally receive a receipt; this provides legal ownership and the right to use the product. Some products, computer software, for example, also provide a user license. A license of this kind gives you the right to use the product within certain guidelines.
This could be described as being in the right place at the right time when a customer is ready to purchase a product. Creating and keeping customers means having products available for when they want them, and often this requires some type of storage facility. Wheat is one example of a commodity that must be stored after it is harvested. It is stored in silos until processors are ready to convert it into food products such as bread or cereals.
Example – Noble Chemists, open 24 hours, 365 days a year, have time utility when compared to other chemists
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Withholding information does no one any good. That’s why I am an advocate for the sexual health and rights for young people everywhere.
American culture and trends are changing and as a nation, and it is our responsibility to realize what is best for the youth. That is why I believe a sound education is of utmost importance. The type of education I’m referring to is holistic, and includes sexual health education.
Sex and reproductive health are seen as sensitive topics when it comes to youth, but I welcome the task and that is what drives me to make sure that every adolescent and young adult has ALL the information necessary to make the RIGHT decision for them. Since I didn’t have a person to turn to or an educator to inform me what sexual and reproductive health really was, I want all future generations to have that information available to them.
On a college campus where many students had been taught only about abstinence until marriage, not about safer sex practices, I saw a need. A group of students and I created a pamphlet, PowerPoint presentations, and an impromptu skit that connected with students on a realistic level and actually made them think about certain decisions. Withholding information does no one any good. That’s why I am an advocate for the sexual health and rights for young people everywhere.
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Although Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and the Troika killers refuse to admit it, the impossibility of bailing out Spain and its banks under the current system and current policies, no matter how fast the printing presses print, provoked renewed talk of trashing the euro in Britain. On Sept. 27, Britain's Daily Telegraph posted not one, but two columns with the message that "Spain Must Leave the Euro," as DT Assistant Editor Jeremy Warner titled his column, which was not missed by nervous Spanish media.
The Eurozone crisis is back in full, with Spain the epicenter where political and economic developments are "threatening to combine into an uncontrollable firestorm," Warner wrote. He pronounced Rajoy "already fatally wounded... a dead man walking.... Spain is chasing its tail into austerity-induced fiscal and economic meltdown. There is only one conclusion to be drawn from all this; though the short-term costs would be profound, Spain must leave the single currency. Spain is damned if it leaves, but damned for eternity if it stays. Eurozone policy as it stands offers no plausible way back to prosperity."
Warner is right on the latter point, but leaving the euro and monetarism generally, if combined with Glass-Steagall bank separation and a credit system, would pull Spain rapidly out of hell.
Writing in the same edition of the paper, DT columnist Daniel Hannan, a Conservative MEP, warned that under current policies, parliamentary politics itself are at risk in Spain. "The trouble is that, while Spaniards recognize the folly of imposing cuts while at the same time bailing out banks, they shy away from the logical conclusion: that leaving the euro is now the least bad option. The real threat to Spanish democracy is not internal but external; not a pronunciamiento but a Brussels-imposed civilian junta, as happened in Italy. Mario Monti, the EU's proconsul in Rome, indicated yesterday that he might seek a second term. (Oddly, I don't remember him seeking the first.)
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Shoulder Pain and Problems
The shoulder is made up of several layers, including the following:
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- bones - the collarbone (clavicle), the shoulder blade (scapula), and the upper arm bone (humerus).
- joints - facilitate movement, including the following:
- sternoclavicular joint (where the clavicle meets the sternum)
- acromioclavicular (AC) joint (where the clavicle meets the acromion)
- shoulder joint (glenohumeral joint) - a ball-and-socket joint that facilitates forward, circular, and backward movement of the shoulder.
- ligaments - a white, shiny, flexible band of fibrous tissue that binds joints together and connects various bones and cartilage, including the following:
- joint capsule - a group of ligaments that connect the humerus to the socket of the shoulder joint on the scapula to stabilize the shoulder and keep it from dislocating.
- ligaments that attach the clavicle to the acromion
- ligaments that connect the clavicle to the scapula by attaching to the coracoid process
- acromion - the roof (highest point) of the shoulder that is formed by a part of the scapula.
- tendons - the tough cords of tissue that connect muscles to bones. The rotator cuff tendons are a group of tendons that connect the deepest layer of muscles to the humerus.
- muscles (to help support and rotate the shoulder in many directions)
- bursa - a closed space between two moving surfaces that has a small amount of lubricating fluid inside; located between the rotator cuff muscle layer and the outer layer of large, bulky muscles.
- rotator cuff - composed of tendons, the rotator cuff (and associated muscles) holds the ball of the glenohumeral joint at the top of the upper arm bone (humerus).
Shoulder pain may be localized in a specific area or may spread to areas around the shoulder or down the arm.
Common shoulder problems include the following:
The shoulder joint is the most frequently dislocated major joint of the body - often caused by a significant force that separates the shoulder joint's ball (the top rounded portion of the upper arm bone, or humerus) away from the joint's socket (glenoid).
The shoulder becomes separated when the ligaments attached to the collarbone (clavicle) are torn, or partially torn, away from the shoulder blade (scapula). Shoulder separation may be caused by a sudden, forceful blow to the shoulder, or as a result of a fall.
Bursitis often occurs when tendonitis and impingement syndrome cause inflammation of the bursa sacs that protect the shoulder.
- impingement syndrome
Impingement syndrome is caused by the excessive squeezing or rubbing of the rotator cuff and shoulder blade. The pain associated with the syndrome is a result of an inflamed bursa (lubricating sac) over the rotator cuff, and/or inflammation of the rotator cuff tendons, and/or calcium deposits in tendons due to wear and tear. Shoulder impingement syndrome can lead to a torn rotator cuff.
Tendonitis of the shoulder is caused when the rotator cuff and/or biceps tendon become inflamed, usually as a result of being pinched by surrounding structures. The injury may vary from mild inflammation to involvement of most of the rotator cuff. When the rotator cuff tendon becomes inflamed and thickened, it may become trapped under the acromion.
- rotator cuff tear
A rotator cuff tear involves one or more rotator cuff tendons becoming inflamed from overuse, aging, a fall on an outstretched hand, or a collision.
- adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder)
Frozen shoulder is a severely restrictive condition frequently caused by injury that, in turn, leads to lack of use due to pain. Intermittent periods of use may cause inflammation and adhesions to grow between the joint surfaces, thus restricting motion. There is also a lack of synovial fluid to lubricate the gap between the arm bone and socket that normally helps the shoulder joint to move. This restricted space between the capsule and ball of the humerus distinguishes adhesive capsulitis from the less complicated condition known as stiff shoulder.
A fracture is a partial or total crack or break through a bone that usually occurs due to a impact injury.
Although the shoulder is the most movable joint in the body, it is also an unstable joint because of its range-of-motion. Because the ball of the upper arm is larger than the socket of the shoulder, it is susceptible to injury. The shoulder joint must also be supported by soft tissues - muscles, tendons, and ligaments - which are also subject to injury, overuse, and under use.
Degenerative conditions and other diseases in the body may also contribute to shoulder problems, or generate pain that travels along nerves to the shoulder.
In addition to a complete medical history and physical examination (to determine range-of-motion, location of pain, and level of joint instability/stability), diagnostic procedures for shoulder problems may include the following:
- x-ray - a diagnostic test which uses invisible electromagnetic energy beams to produce images of internal tissues, bones, and organs onto film.
- arthrogram - a test in which dye is injected into the shoulder joint and x-rays are taken to outline structures of the shoulder. When the fluid leaks into an area that it does not belong, disease or injury may be considered, as a leak would provide evidence of a tear, opening, or blockage.
- magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) - a diagnostic procedure that uses a combination of large magnets, radiofrequencies, and a computer to produce detailed images of organs and structures within the body; can often determine damage or disease in a surrounding ligament or muscle.
- computed tomography scan (Also called a CT or CAT scan.) - a diagnostic imaging procedure that uses a combination of x-rays and computer technology to produce cross-sectional images (often called slices), both horizontally and vertically, of the body. A CT scan shows detailed images of any part of the body, including the bones, muscles, fat, and organs. CT scans are more detailed than general x-rays.
- electromyogram (EMG) - a test to evaluate nerve and muscle function.
- ultrasound - a diagnostic technique which uses high-frequency sound waves to create an image of the internal organs.
- laboratory tests (to determine if other problems may be the cause)
- arthroscopy - a minimally-invasive diagnostic and treatment procedure used for conditions of a joint. This procedure uses a small, lighted, optic tube (arthroscope) which is inserted into the joint through a small incision in the joint. Images of the inside of the joint are projected onto a screen; used to evaluate any degenerative and/or arthritic changes in the joint; to detect bone diseases and tumors; to determine the cause of bone pain and inflammation.
Specific treatment of shoulder problems will be determined by your physician based on:
- your age, overall health, and medical history
- extent of the condition
- your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
- expectations for the course of the condition
- your opinion or preference
Treatment may include:
- activity modification
- physical therapy
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Tobacco Tax Petitions
Fri January 20, 2012
Tobacco tax petitions seek approval for circualtion
Reporting by KCUR's Elana Gordon was used in this story.
Two petitions that would affect taxes on tobacco products in Missouri are going through the approval process for circulation.
One would give cities and counties the ability to set and control tobacco taxes. The state has preempted local tobacco taxes since 1993.
Petitions supporters say local communities should have the right to determine how tobacco tax dollars are used. But Misty Snodgrass with the American Cancer Society says the proposal is problematic.
"It doesn't have any significant public health benefit to the state," Snodgrass said, " and it won't go towards all the activities that we're focused on."
Snodgrass is leading a separate petition effort by a coalition of health groups. Their proposal would raise the state cigarette tax by 73 cents. Half the additional revenue would be directed to elementary education, a third would go to higher education and the rest would go to tobacco prevention programs.
Both groups need to collect more than 90,000 signatures by May in order for the proposals to be brought up for a vote this year.
Missouri Cigarette Tax
Health - smoking
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Although William Logan is entitled to his opinion of Hart Crane and has every right to defend these views, I take issue with the bitter and parochial tone of his attacks. Furthermore, “On Reviewing Hart Crane” seems more concerned with addressing superficial objections to the original article, rather than tackling its manifest prejudice.
Logan’s Times review was a lazy piece of character assassination, rather than an honest engagement with the poet’s work, taking issue with everything from Crane’s lack of formal education to his debauched lifestyle and homosexuality; even his spelling. These criticisms can be leveled against several of the most prominent names in the canon, including Poe, Byron, and, in the case of the last, the patriarchal Chaucer. Personally, I would much prefer it if Crane’s ideas were lifted from “the daily paper” or a “high-school history textbook,” but if they are, then I have yet to locate them there. I also disagree that the well-traveled, cosmopolitan Crane is “closer to a peasant poet like John Clare,” which is an example of the most ardent snobbery.
Logan’s formal criticisms of Crane included a vague complaint that the poems “showed more style than talent,” as well as the unsupported assertion that imagery such as “the pirouettes of any pliant cane” constitute deliberate “obscurity” and conspire to create a “dreadful mess.” In fact, the poem in question, “Chaplinesque,” employs very specific imagery in relation to its subject matter and is among the most linear and concrete examples of the poet’s work. In other places, Logan willfully misrepresents or else misunderstands Crane’s “logic of metaphor,” which focused on the sound and connotations of certain words, rather than their precise definitions; any unfavorable comparison with Eliot is thus necessarily void.
On the subject of “Chaplinesque,” I am also at a loss to understand why Logan chose Angelina Jolie as a suitable comparison for Charlie Chaplin in his discussion of the latter’s visit to the poet. One is a genius, an artist, and a genuinely talented dramatist, the other is Angelina Jolie. Such an obvious incongruity strikes me as
wholly unnecessary, except as a vulgar exercise in levity.
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Domesday Book on Exhibit
Release date: September 28, 2006
A selection from the facsimile itself, along with illustrations and other information, is now on display in the library. See it in the display case on the left just in front of the Circulation Desk.
What is the Great Domesday Book?
At Christmas 1085 William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey to discover the resources and taxable values of all the boroughs and manors in England. He wanted to discover who owned what, how much it was worth, and how much was owed to him as King.
There is still some debate about the exact purpose of Domesday Book. One theory suggests that Domesday might be the first written tax document. However there is no question that it was a massive enterprise, and that the record of the survey, Domesday Book, was a remarkable achievement.
How did Goucher get the Domesday facsimile?
This facsimile edition of the Domesday Book was published in Great Britain on the occasion of the 900th anniversary of the completion of the work, which has been said to rival the Bible and Koran in historical importance.
Dorothy Stimson, former Goucher dean, acting president, and professor of history, gave this spectacular reproduction of Domesday Book to the Julia Rogers Library.
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Reading time: About 1 minute
If you build your vocabulary, you’ll not only benefit your reading, you’ll also become more precise in your writing. Here is my word of the week.
As a former journalist, I am immeasurably cheered to see fellow scribes write novels. I remember when I heard that English novelist Faye Weldon (Life and Loves of a She-Devil) began her writing life in TV and radio, although, in truth, she actually began it in advertising. She once said (and I’m paraphrasing here), “I had to look myself in the mirror every day and say, ‘You are allowed to make things up.‘”
In Canada, where I live, well known investigative journalist Lindon MacIntyre has also turned himself into a successful novelist. Last year, I read and enjoyed The Bishop’s Man and this summer I tackled his provocatively named book Why Men Lie. I didn’t enjoy it quite as much but it still gave me my word of the week, extirpated. Here’s the sentence in which it appeared.
The system didn’t want the world to see this face, the face of an old, tired man, the violent passions in him long since extirpated.
Extirpated means to be destroyed completely, wiped out, pulled out by the root or cut out by surgery. The word dates back to the early 15th century and comes from the Latin extirpare/exstirpare meaning to root out.
I think MacIntyre used this very strong word because “violent passions” is such a strong term itself. “Eliminated” seems too weak by comparison. And “wiped out” isn’t quite formal enough for his language.
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Posted September 19th, 2012 in Word of the week
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Earthquakes have the Midas touch, a new study claims.
Water in faults vaporizes during an earthquake, depositing gold, according to a model published in the March 17 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience. The model provides a quantitative mechanism for the link between gold and quartz seen in many of the world's gold deposits, said Dion Weatherley, a geophysicist at the University of Queensland in Australia and lead author of the study.
When an earthquake strikes, it moves along a rupture in the ground — a fracture called a fault. Big faults can have many small fractures along their length, connected by jogs that appear as rectangular voids. Water often lubricates faults, filling in fractures and jogs.
About 6 miles (10 kilometers) below the surface, under incredible temperatures and pressures, the water carries high concentrations of carbon dioxide, silica and economically attractive elements like gold.
Shake, rattle and gold
During an earthquake, the fault jog suddenly opens wider. It's like pulling the lid off a pressure cooker: The water inside the void instantly vaporizes, flashing to steam and forcing silica, which forms the mineral quartz, and gold out of the fluids and onto nearby surfaces, suggest Weatherley and co-author Richard Henley, of the Australian National University in Canberra.
While scientists have long suspected that sudden pressure drops could account for the link between giant gold deposits and ancient faults, the study takes this idea to the extreme, said Jamie Wilkinson, a geochemist at Imperial College London in the United Kingdom, who was not involved in the study.
"To me, it seems pretty plausible. It's something that people would probably want to model either experimentally or numerically in a bit more detail to see if it would actually work," Wilkinson told OurAmazingPlanet.
Previously, scientists suspected fluids would effervesce, bubbling like an opened soda bottle, during earthquakes or other pressure changes. This would line underground pockets with gold. Others suggested minerals would simply accumulate slowly over time.
Weatherley said the amount of gold left behind after an earthquake is tiny, because underground fluids carry at most only one part per million of the precious element. But an earthquake zone like New Zealand's Alpine Fault, one of the world's fastest, could build a mineable deposit in 100,000 years, he said.
Surprisingly, the quartz doesn't even have time to crystallize, the study indicates. Instead, the mineral comes out of the fluid in the form of nanoparticles, perhaps even making a gel-like substance on the fracture walls. The quartz nanoparticles then crystallize over time. [Gold Quiz: From Nuggets to Flecks]
Even earthquakes smaller than magnitude 4.0, which may rattle nerves but rarely cause damage, can trigger flash vaporization, the study finds.
"Given that small-magnitude earthquakes are exceptionally frequent in fault systems, this process may be the primary driver for the formation of economic gold deposits," Weatherley told OurAmazingPlanet.
The hills have gold
Quartz-linked gold has sourced some famous deposits, such as the placer gold that sparked the 19th-century California and Klondike gold rushes. Both deposits had eroded from quartz veins upstream. Placer gold consists of particles, flakes and nuggets mixed in with sand and gravel in stream and river beds. Prospectors traced the gravels back to their sources, where hard-rock mining continues today.
But earthquakes aren't the only cataclysmic source of gold. Volcanoes and their underground plumbing are just as prolific, if not more so, at producing the precious metal. While Weatherley and Henley suggest that a similar process could take place under volcanoes, Wilkinson, who studies volcano-linked gold, said that's not the case.
"Beneath volcanoes, most of the gold is not precipitated in faults that are active during earthquakes," Wilkinson said. "It's a very different mechanism."
Understanding how gold forms helps companies prospect for new mines. "This new knowledge on gold-deposit formation mechanisms may assist future gold exploration efforts," Weatherley said.
In their quest for gold, humans have pulled more than 188,000 tons (171,000 metric tons) of the metal from the ground, exhausting easily accessed sources, according to the World Gold Council, an industry group.
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RN (Nursing) Programs in Brady TX
If you are looking for
Nursing Schools in Brady TX
then I think you will find the article below has some useful suggestions on becoming a nurse. Choosing the correct Nursing Program can be a really hard decision, but it is good to be prepared, so you can be certain you have chosen one of the best Nursing Schools in Brady TX
How You Can Become A Registered Nurse: Training And Job Planning
More and more registered nurses are required on a daily basis as health care advances and people live longer. As people get older, they are more likely to be diagnosed with diseases. In the same way, older people will have more time during which they can get injured or develop ailments related to old age. In addition, the large number of people in the world means that more people will become pregnant and more will require physical exams. For those of you who enjoy working with others and have an interest in medical issues, a nursing career could be right up your alley. According to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing there is always room for new students in
Nursing Schools in Brady TX
There is a wide scope of responsibilities associated with registered nurses in the medical field. RNs employed in entry-level positions are usually assigned the task of caring for the patients in a hospital or clinic. With higher qualifications, nurses can apply for tasks in specific areas such as labor wards, geriatrics, or pediatrics.
With higher qualification, an RN can even assume many of the duties a doctor normally performs. Nurse practitioners are allowed to diagnose patients and prescribe treatments. Nurse practitioners can work on a team with doctors or on their own.
If you are still in high school, you should take classes such as biology and chemistry to prepare yourself for a career in nursing. Strong science skills will help you score well on your ACT or SAT exam. Solid science studies will help you in your degree program, as well.
The least requirement needed to become a registered nurse is a two-year associate’s degree. You will qualify for higher nursing jobs if you work toward a higher degree. This means that if you get a bachelor’s degree, which requires four years of higher education, you will acquire advanced skills related to caring for patients and supervising other nurses. Regardless of the degree program that you pursue, it is vital that you choose a program that has been accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission.
Four separate degree programs are available to aspiring registered nurses. Nurses can apply for work if they have a master’s degree, a bachelor’s degree, a three-year program diploma, or a two-year associate’s degree in nursing.
Regardless of which kind of degree you obtain, you will have to take and pass the National Council Licensure Examination. You will sit for this exam following graduation from your degree or diploma program. Ask the board of nursing in your state for specific requirements as well.
Once you finish your schooling and have passed the exam, you will need to take steps to gain make yourself more hirable. One of these is by improving your practical experience in the field. You can volunteer your services at non-profit organizations such as the Red Cross or work at a local hospital or clinic. This will give you an inside look at the responsibilities of nurses, which will, in turn, give you more qualifications to list on your resume. It will also train you how to react better in real-life situations. You can continue to improve your skills and training by working toward a higher degree or attempting advanced certification programs.
Did you get any useful ideas from the article? If you did, please feel free to share the article with your family and friends who live in Brady TX. You just never know when they might be looking for Nursing Schools in Brady TX.
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The Battle for Syria
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|Elizabeth Ferris||July 25th 2012|
The Brookings Institution
An estimated 19,000 people have died in Syria since the conflict began in March 2011. But well over a million Syrians have been forced to flee their homes and the number is increasing. In fact, people are reportedly being displaced multiple times within Syria as they search for safety. If history is any guide, the displacement crisis in Syria is likely to create further tensions and to last much longer than anyone now anticipates.
The United Nations refugee agency reports that it has registered over 117,000 Syrian refugees in the neighboring countries of Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. These numbers probably underestimate the number of Syrian refugees in the region as many are staying with family or friends and simply do not register. While the largest number of registered refugees are in Turkey, it is telling that over 7,000 Syrians have sought safety in Iraq; the two countries only normalized relations in early 2011 and it wasn’t that long ago that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis sought protection from their country’s violence by moving to Syria.
And in fact, at least until earlier this year, there were still more than 100,000 Iraqis registered with UNHCR in Syria, down from some 150,000 in August 2010. Many of the Iraqi refugees have undoubtedly returned home; some with the assistance of the Iraqi government which sent planes to Syria to bring some of them home. For the other countries in the region, the arrival of thousands of desperate Syrians on their borders leads to fears that the violence in Syria will spill over into their countries and strains infrastructure. Refugee camps have been and are being established and the international community is mobilizing support for the refugees – and for the governments that host them. Although the host populations seem to have responded generously to the new arrivals, there have been a few signs that their presence might not be so popular and tensions may well increase if the Syrian conflict drags on.
But the refugees in neighboring countries, in spite of sometimes harrowing journeys and difficult conditions, are luckier than those who are displaced within Syria’s borders. Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are closer to the violence than refugees and more difficult to assist. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent revised its estimates of the number of Syrians displaced internally from 500,000 a few weeks ago, to one million last week, to 1.55 million a few days ago.
Collecting accurate statistics on IDPs in times of war is always problematic, but if these figures are accurate, they indicate that more than one in twenty Syrians have been displaced within the country and that there are more than ten times as many IDPs as registered refugees. Many have been displaced more than once, fleeing from Homs to Damascus, for example, and then moving elsewhere in search of safety. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent has had to evacuate shelters housing IDPs when the conflict got too close. While the Syrian Arab Red Crescent is encouraging those who fled to Damascus to return to their homes, many cannot return because their homes have been damaged. Given the security situation, it is difficult for aid workers to deliver assistance to the displaced – or even to identify them when they live with host families. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent, which channels most humanitarian relief inside Syria, reports that it has only been able to reach two-thirds of the IDPs. Working with IDPs is dangerous for humanitarian workers as the Syrian Arab Red Crescent has already lost four staff to the violence.
While people have been displaced for the past sixteen months, as the violence escalates, the pace of displacement is picking up. When fighting erupts in a neighborhood, people grab what they can and flee toward a place they hope will be safe. But while displacement is occurring quickly, experience shows that it can take a long, long time for solutions to be found. And the longer displacement lasts, the more likely that hospitality of friends and family runs out and the more difficult it becomes to find solutions.
The Middle East has the dubious distinction of having the world’s longest refugee crisis as the Palestinians enter their sixty-fourth year. It is in everyone’s interests – the refugees and IDPs, the governments of host countries, the humanitarian agencies already stretched thin with other crises – that the conflict in Syria be brought to an end. It is also in everyone’s interest that the displaced receive the support they need. Presently, only one-fifth of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs appeal of $180 million to aid those displaced within Syria has been received. And only 26 percent of the $192 million appeal to assist Syrian refugees throughout the region has been funded.
More funds are needed, urgently needed. But providing funds (hard as it is these days) is an easier task than bringing an end to the violence. Until the international community – or the armed opposition – can bring this war to an end, parents will continue to grab their children, fork over money to smugglers, and run in search of safety.
Elizabeth Ferris is co-director of the Foreign Policy, Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement, from where this article is adapted.
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A big bowl of crisp greens and colorful veggies may seem like the ideal vitamin- and mineral-packed meal. But in order to get the full nutrient punch from a salad, you've got to fatten it up – or else your body won't absorb the vegetables' carotenoids, which are plant pigments that can reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease.
You should still hold off on creamy dressings, bacon crumbles, and garlic-butter-soaked croutons, though – new research finds that when it comes to unlocking carotenoids' full potential, all fats are not created equal. Purdue University scientists discovered that heart-healthy monounsaturated fat, found in certain plant oils, provides the best carotenoid absorption per gram, while artery-clogging saturated fat (that's your blue cheese, bacon, and butter) offers by far the worst.
To determine this, researchers fed testers salads dressed with 3, 8, or 20 grams of canola oil (monounsaturated), soybean oil (polyunsaturated), or butter (saturated), each whisked with vinegar and water, and then checked their blood for absorption of key carotenoids such as lutein, lycopene, beta-carotene, and zeaxanthin.
Surprisingly, with both the butter and soybean oil, absorption capabilities increased as the dose sizes got larger, but the canola oil pulled in the same amount of carotenoids at 3, 8, and 20 grams. Translation for lunchtime: You'd have to use a whole lot more of a saturated-fat-based dressing – which would also tack on tons of extra calories – to get the same amount of carotenoids that just a drizzle of a monounsaturated fat–based salad topper could net you.
When shopping for salad dressing, check labels to see which types of fat are used, and go with monounsaturated canola, olive, or almond oil, says Jennifer McDaniel, MS, RD, spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics."Typically, the shorter the ingredients list, the healthier a dressing will be," she says. "Simple vinaigrettes tend to have a nutritional advantage over cream-based options." And steer clear of nonfat dressings: They merely add calories while offering zero health benefits. McDaniel also suggests whipping up your own dressing from ingredients already in your kitchen, such as olive oil, vinegar, lemon juice, shallots, and garlic.
If you don't dig dressing, McDaniel says nuts, avocados, and olives are solid monounsaturated fat sources that can easily be tossed in with your greens to aid nutrient delivery, not to mention make them more filling. "Fat is satisfying, so if a salad is your main meal, adding fat will help it stick with you longer," she says.
McDaniel also points out that, along with carotenoids, fat aids absorption of other salad nutrients such as vitamins A, D, E, and K.
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|Rediff India Abroad Home | All the sections|
The Rediff Special
November 11, 2004
Former Foreign Secretary Romesh Bhandari was a personal friend of Yasser Arafat, and was sent by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi several times to meet the Palestinian leader.
Their last meeting was barely three months ago, at Arafat's besieged headquarters in Ramallah, West Bank, on August 11.
Bhandari walked down memory lane with Senior Editor Sheela Bhatt:
India has always supported the Palestine movement. When Arafat created the Palestine Liberation Organisation, he became a symbol of the cause of Palestine. India always had close ties with him, particularly Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. He was warm in personal relationships.
Arafat considered Indira Gandhi his sister! There are memorable pictures of two when he visited India to attend Non-Alignment Movement's meeting. Both had tremendous respect for each other.
Rajiv and Arafat got along very well. He loved Rajiv.
Arafat was always worried about his security. He used to talk directly with Rajiv without anyone's knowledge. The PLO has a huge intelligence network. He used to share information with Rajiv Gandhi.
He kept track of terrorist organizations all over the world. When I told him about Indians who were abducted in Iraq, he immediately told me that he would like to help. He said, "we have information network and we will find out how we can help India."
Once, I was in meeting with him in Tunisia and I got a message about my sick son. I asked him to pardon me, and took a first flight home. After two days my son died.
Arafat asked his Ambassador, who was in Tunisia, to fly immediately to India. He instructed him to not waste time but straight visit my home to convey his condolences. I was moved. When he came to India he made it a point to come home to mourn. He had magical aura around him, which attracted people.
When not on formal visits I used to call him Abu Aamar, like his supporters call him.
He is the Gandhi of the Palestine freedom movement. History will consider his role as important as Gandhi's role in India's freedom movement. His movement for the independent nation for Palestine has just begun.
The meetings with Arafat used to be quite an event. It was very difficult.
He would never give a fixed time. We were alerted just 30 minutes before the scheduled time. We were taken to him in own car. That too, on the way we would change vehicles twice. I have met him many times in Beirut and other cities, but never at same place.
In the past, he never lived at one place for more than a night. His security was unusually tight. His supporters always feared that Israelis will assassinate him. (But) He was not afraid of death.
We met many times in Tunisia too. Our nature of talks was about the future course of action of his movement. We always talked in English. Sometime he would speak in Arabic, but he would always get it translated with the help of a translator.
India always advised him to not delay the acceptance of reality of Israel. We told him that time can't be reversed. The UN resolution of 1947, which helped create Israel, is part of history. India was part of Commission which was set up by the UN. Nothing can be done about the UN resolution.
We told him that it was unrealistic to believe that all the Jews would go back to their country of origin and vacate Israel. And that that vacated land will again become Palestine is impossibility.
But it was difficult for him to believe us.
What the leading nations are saying today, India was talking about from the beginning. Acceptance of Israel and establishment of Palestine nation, both should co-exist. India has contributed a lot in this thinking.
It was wrong on part of Israel and America to brand Arafat as a terrorist. He was a very fine human. Rather, he was the only one who could exercise some form of control over radical Palestine movement like Hamas. Otherwise, who knows how much more destruction they would have caused?
After all, Palestine's hurts are deep and their pain is excruciating. Their land was given away to Israel. They became homeless. Their camps in Lebanon were destroyed without mercy. When women and children died, Palestinians asked: is it not terrorism? is it not a human rights violation to take away the land of Palestine? How is it that Israel can do whatever it wants?
These were the issues Arafat was struggling with throughout his life. He was not against Jews but he opposed Israel. He knew that for centuries Jews and Islamists have lived together. The Crusade was between Christians and Muslims.
He had to fight tough battles. First he took his people to Gaza and Ramallah. He had to struggle a lot to get something out of tough bargainers in the international arena.
He didn't know what his options were apart from bloody confrontation. What can I do if people just don't respond to injustice, he asked. How can he not oppose injustice?
He believed, like many others, that American foreign policy is decided by the Jewish lobby in Washington, and so Americans can't be neutral on this issue.
Also, he argued that Israel is a creation of America and Britain. After the First World War Balfour Declaration was signed, and this paved way for Israel. And things move conclusively when the Nazis launched their Holocaust. Jews sufferings at hands of Nazis led to the UN resolution.
I always advised him that if you feel America is not listening to you, why don't you move around in US and put forward your views vigorously? Somehow he could not do so.
Of course under no circumstances did we support violence by the PLO or anybody else. Israelis have been killed mercilessly by suicide bombers.
He understood our stand against violence. And our support to Israel on the issue because we have fought non-violent battle against British.
On August 11, I was in Jordan, and sought an appointment with him. He gave me time at 6 pm the same day. I went to West Bank, and met him for 45 minutes.
It was a lovely meeting. He was happy to talk about old days. He said he was a prisoner in his own house. He could not get out of his home in Ramallah since last two years. Israelis had bombarded his Presidential palace too. The wreckage of planes and cars and other things were still lying around.
He seemed very happy to talk about India. He said that now, China and Japan are also supporting them. NAM countries support was always with him. And even the European Union has been talking in Palestine's favour. If all the supporters come together the cause of Palestine would benefit, he felt.
"Too many are against us and too many are protesting. I tried my level best. I even conceded the road map for peace," he said.
Supporters of Palestine didn't take even a step forward to make success of 'road map to peace" which was a result of the UN resolution, he lamented. No concrete steps were being taken.
In his last days he was worried that nothing is moving much. He was ready to step forward but a response from the world community was missing. An implementation programme for the creation of the State was missing.
He said that when Cold War was on, Russia supported them and America went on to oppose them. And now the only superpower is America and without US support nothing can move. Who can fight American might?
The reality of the world is that without the superpower's response, the cause of Palestine can't move.
President Bush has wished that a secure Israel and Palestine State can live in peace together. But what will be the basis of creation of Palestine State?
Whatever territories have gone to Israel in 1967 through UN resolution should go back to Palestine. Israel is not ready for that. In that case justice will not been done.
Even today to visit Ramallah, Palestine forces don't stop you from entering, it's Israeli police everywhere. Without consent of Israel forces no Palestinian can enter Ramallah.
All these facts made Arafat unhappy. He was religious but not fanatical. He married very late in his life. Before his marriage he used to say that he is married to a cause of Palestine.
He has one child. Lately he was talked about as one of the richest men of world, but nevertheless I believe he did his best to serve his cause.
His biggest strength was the massive support he enjoyed amongst Palestinians and Arabs. Lack of response from powerful nations failed Arafat.
The icon is dead and a legend has been born.
The Rediff Specials
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When would I use a tap and die set and how would I properly use them?
Tap and dies are metal threading tools. Taps make internal threads inside a hole and dies make external threads on a round rod. They are often used for rethreading (cleaning up existing threads).
HOW TO USE A TAP
1a) To create new threads inside a hole you must first redrill the existing hole. Refer to the tap / drill chart in your set to determine the correct drill bit size for the new hole. Drill your new hole.
2a) Place the square of the tap into the tap holder and tighten. Place the tip of the tap into the hole. Keep the tap as perpendicular to the hole as possible. Press down and turn the tap in the hole. The tap should begin cutting threads into the wall of the hole. After making 2 - 3 full turns, turn the tap backwards 1/2 - 3/4 of a turn. This will break the chip loose.
3a) Continue the above steps until finished.
Dies are used in the same manner except they are used on a round rod instead of in a drilled hole. The die size you select should be the same size as the rod. IE If you want a 3/8" rod, you would use a 3/8" die.
We always recommend using a quality cutting fluid. This will extend the life of the tools and improves the quality of the threads.
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Each of the three chandeliers in the Poughkeepsie Train Station sports 36 bulbs in two rings. When the station opened in 1918 they installed those newfangled incandescent bulbs that were all the rage at the time. The color of the bulbs in this Wikipedia picture, dated October 2007, suggests that tungsten ruled for at least nine decades:
Since then, they installed chunky compact fluorescent bulbs that probably provide the same amount of light, minus the pinpoint highlights from tungsten filaments in clear bulbs. This view from below the central chandelier shows the layout and some detail of the carving & decorative sockets:
In addition to being decorative, those chandeliers also give useful data on the reliability of compact fluorescent bulbs. With the contrast stretched the other way to make the bulbs easier on the eye, count the number of deaders in …
I took each picture from a vantage point showing all the deaders; the bulbs hidden behind the central dingus work.
Let us assume all 108 bulbs were installed at the same time and, given the number of deaders, haven’t been touched since then (although they’re not covered in fuzz, which suggests that they’ve been dusted within living memory). I was there in mid-afternoon, so the bulbs probably burn 24 hours/day and aren’t subject to early failure from frequent starts.
So, in no more than five years, 108 CFL bulbs have a 4.6% failure rate, which works out to 0.9%/year, more or less, ignoring any infant mortality. If they’ve been up there for the last 2.5 years, then it’s 1.8%/year. Replacing deaders since installation, of course, makes it worse than that.
Over the course of a decade, a compounded 0.9% failure rate will kill 9.4% of the bulbs. After 20 years, 20% will be dead. A 1.8% annual failure rate kills 20% and 43%, respectively.
Now, I’ll grant you that tungsten bulbs burn far more energy over that time, but replacing a percent or two of those complex and somewhat eco-hostile CFL bulbs every year cuts away a big chunk of the rainbows-and-pink-unicorns delight involved in Saving The Planet.
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This is an extremely interesting document that everyone should read. A BBC article wrote this about the document (these are excerpts that I found especially poignant),
The operations described in the document include a surprising range of military activities: public affairs officers who brief journalists, psychological operations troops who try to manipulate the thoughts and beliefs of an enemy, computer network attack specialists who seek to destroy enemy networks.
“Information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and Psyops, is increasingly consumed by our domestic audience,” it reads.
“Psyops messages will often be replayed by the news media for much larger audiences, including the American public,” it goes on.
“Strategy should be based on the premise that the Department [of Defense] will ‘fight the net’ as it would an enemy weapons system,” it reads.
In closing the author wrote,
And, in a grand finale, the document recommends that the United States should seek the ability to “provide maximum control of the entire electromagnetic spectrum”.
US forces should be able to “disrupt or destroy the full spectrum of globally emerging communications systems, sensors, and weapons systems dependent on the electromagnetic spectrum”.
Consider that for a moment.
The US military seeks the capability to knock out every telephone, every networked computer, every radar system on the planet.
Are these plans the pipe dreams of self-aggrandising bureaucrats? Or are they real?
The fact that the “Information Operations Roadmap” is approved by the Secretary of Defense suggests that these plans are taken very seriously indeed in the Pentagon.
And that the scale and grandeur of the digital revolution is matched only by the US military’s ambitions for it.
Now read it for yourself and come to your own conclusions.
Department of Defense Information Operations Roadmap Full PDF
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College-Bound Girls May Feel Pressure to 'Speak Properly'
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 26 (HealthDay News) -- As they near the end of high school, some teen girls feel increasing pressure to speak properly, while others don't feel the need to change the way they talk, a small new study finds.
"It seems as if in high school, students who want to go to a good college are the ones who early on begin to dial back their use of nonstandard language," Suzanne Evans Wagner, an assistant professor of linguistics at Michigan State University in East Lansing, said in a university news release.
"And the ones who have no aspirations to leave their local community, or who have no particular aspirations to raise their social class, are the people who have no obvious social incentives to change the way they speak," she added.
In her study, Wagner monitored the language trends of a small group of 16- to 19-year-old females in Philadelphia from their high school senior year into their college freshmen year. She recorded how often they used the suffix "-ing" instead of "-in'" in words. For example, did they say "running" or "runnin'"?
Girls who attended or planned to attend a national research institution increased their use of the more socially acceptable "-ing" pronunciation the most. There was only a slight increase in the use of "-ing" among those who planned to attend a community college, a liberal arts college or a regional small school.
Major research institutions attract students from around the country and these students seem to be happy to adopt a level of speech that's acceptable to society, Wagner said. But students who attend a regional or two-year college often come from the local area and may feel pressured to sound "local," she added.
The study was published in the journal Language Variation and Change.
The Nemours Foundation offers tips for parents on how to communicate with their teen children.
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3D printing is here, it's just not really all that pervasive yet. This may change soon enough now with the arrival of MakerBot's sub-$2K 3D printer. The home manufacturing contraption offers an endless range of possibilities for the extreme tech hobbyist: household gadgets, toys, home decor and more. Is this the future of DIY?
Imagine a place where you can go to download open models and plans for a handy spare part, children's toy, replacement chess piece, or iPhone case. That place exists today at Thingiverse.com. Where users and cutting-edge hobbyists share their 3d models to the public so they can print their designs on 3D printers such as a MakerBot replicator.
The MakerBot 3D printer uses a wax-like plastic resin that hardens; the resulting model is sandable and paintable. The consumer tech has only been around for a few months, but the enthusuiasm is already gaining steam. And as these units drop in price and become more affordable to the general public, we imagine a future when manufacturers simply send customers schematics to print directly from a 3D printer to replace that broken part, or bracket. This could also eventually evolve into an Etsy-like shop where you pay for a 3D file of a vase, sculpture, iPad stand or home decor element that you simply print at home.
We're excited to see where this goes, and if you're curious but don't want to spend money on the printer there are services out now that'll print the item for you. such as i.Materialise.
Check out this fun video of a fingerboard skateboard made with 3D printed pieces from Makerbot.
It's an interesting future indeed, and we'll leave you with a gallery of useful 3D models you can find on Thingiverse today - giving you a sample of what this technology can already do in its infancy.
(Images: 1. MakerBot 2. Makerbot 3. MikeQ from Thingiverse 4. cc203a from Thingiverse 5. Makerbot from Thingiverse 6. PropellerScience from Thingiverse 7. MangoT21 from Thingiverse 8. Madsci1016 from Thingiverse 9. Oblomobka from Thingiverse 10. Minifacture from Thingiverse)
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Secure Socket Layer and HTTPS, the bread and butter of internet website security, certainly seem to be getting a bad rap lately – and now they’re about to receive yet another blow: SSLStrip, a man-in-the-middle attack tool for spying on and screwing with SSL web sessions, was released Tuesday – and prematurely to boot.
Despite the fact that SSLStrip’s webpage was unfinished, an unknown hacker managed to guess the tool’s download URL and in turn had it broadcasted on Slashdot for all to see. SSLStrip’s author, Moxie Marlinspike, then quickly cleaned up the webpage and gave it a full release.
SSLStrip was originally unveiled during the recently-concluded Black Hat DC computer security conference, in a presentation titled, “New Tricks for Defeating SSL in Practice.”
So how exactly does it work? SSLStrip uses a well-known technique called “ARP Poison Routing” to fool a computer on a network into routing all its traffic through the hacker's machine, after which the user is presented with an environment that he or she may think is an HTTPS browser session – but actually isn’t. This is reinforced by what Marlinspike calls a switch from “positive” to “negative” feedback: whereas once upon a time web browsers informed users of a successful SSL session through a prevalence of little lock icons and colored URL bars (a.k.a. “positive reinforcement”), they now choose to present users with error messages when something is wrong (“negative reinforcement”).
Complicating this is the fact that most sites use a button on login forms, so users can’t hover their cursor over a link to figure out where it goes. And since “nobody types https://,” the only way that most people experience SSL is through either clicking on links or following webpage redirects.
That’s exactly where SSLStrip fits in: since more often than not the website itself is what users look at to determine if something is “secure”, why not just silently strip out all that pesky HTTPS stuff and feed the user HTTP instead? It avoids the “negative feedback of death”, and most users are none the wiser – and it will even change the site’s favicon to a picture of a lock, just in case.
While the actual attack isn’t that simple, of course, it is pretty close. There are a few additional things – such as handling compression and manipulating users’ cookies – that SSLStrip also performs to make sure the attack works; in his own testing Marlinspike says he grabbed 117 e-mail accounts, 16 credit card numbers, and 7 PayPal logins – all with having absolutely no user response.
So let this be a warning: the only way you know if your session on a website is secure is by looking specifically for the https:// prefix. Be careful when you log in to a site from a public network, because unless you go mucking through a page’s source code, you can never really be sure if the login process is secure or not.
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6/13/11 | 7:45:00 AM
(Cross-posted from the Google Public Policy Blog)
Studies show when people have more direct feedback on their electricity consumption, they make simple changes that save them energy and money. Take Tom Tassi from Kenosha, Wisconsin, for example. He cut his monthly electric bill from $300 to $85 – more than $2,500 per year – by using a home energy monitor to immediately see what was using the most power in his home and changing fixtures and bulbs. Making better energy information widely available could result in billions of dollars in savings by consumers and businesses. It can also provide a foundation for innovation as new technologies and apps are developed to help people manage energy.
With that in mind, last year Google joined more than 45 companies and other organizations in calling for consumers to have more ready access to their energy data.
We’re excited to see that momentum continue. This morning the White House announced a series of measures aimed at making energy data accessible to consumers. Part of a national effort to modernize the nation’s electricity grid, the plan calls for ensuring people can access their energy data in “consumer-friendly and computer-friendly formats” and includes measures to track progress, assistance to states to implement data access policies, and funds for supporting smart grid innovation.
Today’s announcement comes on the heels of bipartisan legislation introduced by Senators Mark Udall and Scott Brown that would ensure consumers can access digital information generated from “smart” electricity meters.
We hope these recent developments will help unlock energy information and ensure that everyone can use that data to save energy and cut their power bills.
Posted by Michael Terrell, Energy Policy Counsel
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The use of Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences (MI theory) has been increasing by leaps and bounds in countries across the globe. In many countries, it has become part of national policy. In India, for example, as part of its National Curriculum Framework for School Education teachers are required to have familiarity with the concepts of multiple intelligences. Gardner himself writes: “…I have been amazed to learn of jurisdictions in which the terminology of MI has been incorporated into white papers, recommendations by ministries, and even legislation…I have heard from reliable sources that MI approaches are part of the policy landscape in such diverse lands as Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, China, Denmark, Ireland and the Netherlands” (Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice, p. 248).
At the same time, research studies based on multiple intelligences have multiplied in higher education institutions around the world. Journal articles dedicated to this subject have covered populations from areas as diverse as Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa, Malaysia, China, and Japan. In Geneva, Switzerland, the prestigious International Baccalaureate (IB) Organization, which offers programs to over 600,000 students in 128 countries, has acknowledged Gardner’s role in influencing its own approach to learning: “Howard Gardner has been influential in changing views about learning and the ways we learn. Access and equity within the IB today is much wider than it was previously. It is acknowledged that all students have strengths and weaknesses which must be supported in a strategic way for them to meet their potential.” (IB World, September, 2007).
In the Phillipines, the MI International High School in Quezon City (a suburb of Manila) puts MI theory to work in the cause of promoting entrepreneurship among its students. Students are challenged to develop real-world business plans based on ideas that emerge from MI lessons. A linguistic group, for example, developed Flash Range, a media center that creates books for teens that deal with environmental and personal and emotional growth issues. A musical group created a business called Boom Box Music, which offers musical composition and record production services. A group of people-smart students conceptualized their own family restaurant –Pastuchi- featuring a fusion of Italian and Japanese cuisines.
In Denmark, the industrial manufacturer Danfoss, has created a theme park—Danfoss Universe– that incorporates many strategies and ideas from multiple intelligences. They have essentially created a multiple intelligences interactive museum, where children and adults participate in over fifty activities designed to both test their multiple intelligences and also raise awareness concerning the many different ways of being smart.
In my own work with multiple intelligences, I’ve given keynotes and workshops in twenty countries including Iceland, Singapore, and the tiny province of Andorra. I’ve had my books on multiple intelligences translated in over fifty foreign editions into twenty-three languages (including 11 editions in Chinese alone). It’s truly been marvelous to see the broad impact that MI theory has been making internationally.
To learn more about the impact of multiple intelligences in cultures around the world, see: Multiple Intelligences Around the World, Jie-Qi Chen, Seana Moran, and Howard Gardner (eds), San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2009. To read my chapter from the book, click on the title: “When Cultures Connect: Multiple Intelligences Theory as a Successful American Export to Other Countries
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Lately we've been reusing some of our (BPA-free
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Proper breathing helps us achieve physical and mental health and attain higher states of consciousness. Science of Breath describes the anatomy and physiology of breathing, as well as the subtle yogic science of prana. Basic yogic breathing techniques are explained so that we can immediately begin working with this powerful science.
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Lyme Disease: A clear and present danger
Thanks for this article go to WENDY FOX, Chair of Borreliosis and Associated Diseases Awareness UK (BADA-UK), a charity promoting understanding and prevention of Lyme disease.
Before embarking on a trip, travellers obviously should take health protection into account. Many opt for vaccination against diseases, generally associated with travel abroad, but few realise there is an increasing threat within the British Isles, and one that is not vaccine preventable.
Tick-borne disease is increasing in the UK and Ireland. Ticks are the most common arthropod vector of disease and a hard tick (Ixodes species) usually causes infection in the UK. Ticks are most abundant in forested, heathland and moorland areas, but also in suburban parklands. Owing to several factors, including land management and climate changes, parasite numbers have increased and so has their distribution.
Borreliosis (also referred to as Lyme borreliosis or Lyme disease) is most prevalent tick-borne disease. Cases reported via a voluntary surveillance system have trebled in England and Wales since 2001. In Scotland (where the disease is notifiable) they have increased by a factor of eight.
The Health Protection Agency admits that data for reported cases are incomplete because information doesn't include cases diagnosed and treated on the basis of clinical features, without laboratory tests. They estimate an additional 1,000-2,000 cases each year, with an annual total of approximately 3,000.
Cases in England and Wales are most frequently reported in Exmoor, the New Forest, the South Downs, parts of Wiltshire and Berkshire, Thetford Forest, the Lake District and the North York Moors. However, they have been reported from most counties and the HPA states that any area harbouring ticks may have the potential for borreliosis transmission.
Dr Darrel Ho-Yen, head of the national Lyme Disease Testing Service in Scotland, believes that the known number of proven cases should be multiplied by 10 "to take account of wrongly-diagnosed cases, tests giving false results, sufferers who weren't tested, people who are infected but not showing symptoms, failures to notify and infected individuals who don't consult a doctor".
Borreliosis is caused by a spirochaetal bacterium of the Borrelia genus. Lyme disease is generally associated with Old Lyme, Connecticut, in the United States, acquiring its name after a cluster of cases of Borrelia burgdorferi infection was identified in 1974. Since then, other strains of Borrelia which can have different clinical presentations have been discovered in Europe.
Identifying an infection presents a problem for health care practitioners. There is only one sign specific to Borreliosis - an expanding rash (Erythema Migrans), generally occurring three-to-30 days after a tick bite. This rash doesn't always occur and can vary in presentation (sometimes misdiagnosed as ringworm, cellulitis or allergic reaction). Of cases reported to the HPA in 2007, only one third had documented Erythema Migrans.
Early symptoms are non-specific and flu-like (tiredness, headaches, arthralgia and myalgia). In the following weeks or months more serious symptoms may appear in untreated patients, affecting the nervous system, joints and the heart or other tissues. Neuroborreliosis (infection of the nervous system) can cause facial palsy, viral-like meningitis, pain, weakness or altered sensation of limbs or trunk.
Lyme arthritis, usually affecting the knee, is more common with disease acquired in North America or some parts of Europe.
Too tiny to detect
Another diagnostic problem occurs when patients don't recall a tick bite. Of the cases reported to the HPA in 2007, only 43 per cent reported a bite. Because of anaesthetic and anti-inflammatory properties in their saliva, ticks can bite and feed without discovery.
Nymphal ticks (the second stage in a tick's life-cycle) are the most common cause of infection as they resemble a poppy seed and are seldom seen. Ticks prefer attaching to inaccessible places, like skin folds, armpits, groin, or under hair on the scalp. Body hair will often hide small ticks.
A two-tier system is employed in the UK. First, antibody screening tests are performed, followed by immunoblotting (western blotting) of reactive or equivocal samples. Such tests have limitations. Because an antibody response takes several weeks to develop, antibodies may be undetectable in the few weeks after infection. A second sample may then show sero-conversion. Sometimes those with more established infection can be seronegative.
Conversely, people may have antibodies to Borrelia bacteria without having a current infection (regular occupational or recreational exposure to tick bites) and other conditions (for example, glandular fever, syphilis, rheumatoid arthritis) can result in false positive reactions.
A cocktail of infection
Ticks in the UK can carry multiple infections including anaplasmosis, Q-fever, babesiosis and bartonellosis. Clinicians should be aware of the possibility of co-infections, which may cause cases of borreliosis to present atypically and influence treatment choice.
The threat to travellers abroad
Tick-borne diseases are a worldwide concern, with many diseases specific to certain areas. Lyme borreliosis is the most prevalent, being endemic to North America and Eurasia. Tick-borne relapsing fever is also caused by a species of Borrelia bacteria and found primarily in Africa, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Asia and certain areas in the western USA and Canada.
Other risks to travellers include:
- tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBE) - endemic in temperate regions of Europe and Asia
- tularemia (bacterial) - reported from all European countries except Great Britain, Iceland and Portugal. Endemic to the south east, south central and western USA
- Colorado tick fever (virus) - endemic to the western USA
- Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (virus) - endemic in Asia, eastern Europe and the Middle East, but especially common in east and west Africa
- Anaplasmosis (rickettsial) - endemic in the USA and Europe, but recently identified in China
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever (rickettsial) - diagnosed throughout the Americas. Some synonyms in other countries include "tick typhus", "tobia fever" in Columbia, "São Paulo fever" or "febre maculosa" in Brazil and "fiebre manchada" in Mexico.
- Babesiosis (protozoal) - endemic in many regions of Europe and the USA
- Tick paralysis (toxins) - cases occur in the USA and Canada, Australia and Africa. Cases in Eurasia are sporadic.
Apart from vaccination (where applicable) the best defence is tick awareness. Using repellents and dressing to deter ticks getting under clothing is good policy. Regular body checks will identify ticks before or soon after they attach, minimising the risk of disease transmission which increases the longer the tick remains attached.
Correct removal of ticks is vitally important and should be performed using a tick-removal tool or fine-tipped tweezers, easily carried (with antiseptic wipes) in pockets or rucksacks. Freezing, burning or smothering a tick with any substances is likely to result in regurgitation of infective fluids. Detailed instructions on tick-removal techniques are available at: www.bada-uk.org ("Defence" section).
When evaluating a patient it is important for health care practitioners to be aware of places people have visited or intend visiting.
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Photographed by NED MATURA; Goggles courtesy of Hilco and See Worthy.
By Barry Santini,ABOM
Last month’s Lens Choices, “Get Going With Goggles,” discussed why goggles are an excellent eyewear choice for many types of sports and other recreational activities. Part 1 of the article explained the key criteria for dispensing goggles and examined the use of goggles in skiing and swimming. In Part 2, we look at dispensing goggles for cyling, ball sports and driving.
As noted before in our discussion of acuity-specific considerations, bicyclists and motorcyclists have very different needs with respect to head posture, position and gaze angle. In addition, bicyclists are very sensitive to the weight of the eyewear and favor lightweight eyewear and eye shields. Fitting comfort is also important to these riders. Since their impact exposure and risk in traffic is greater than in motorcycling, eyewear that stays in place during rapid head movements and offers excellent peripheral vision is paramount. Most eyewear constructed for cyclists feature rigid but lightweight frames made from high-impact plastic, titanium, aluminum and/or carbon fiber. Rx insert eyewear and eye shields should be Rx “wrap compensated,” depending on the face form angle and vertex distance of the individual fit. Be sure to take into account the vertical position of the optical center and its relationship to both the effective pantoscopic tilt as well as where the visual axis will intersect the Rx lens.
Whereas bicyclists generally do not prefer eyewear with a complete wind seal, motorcyclists find that eye dryness from hours cruising at highway speeds requires eyewear or goggles that deliver effective wind management. Some manufacturers feature moisture-chamber construction to prevent tear film evaporation. Others have gill and louvertype structures designed to direct some of the wind flow down and directly along the rear surface of the lens in order to reduce fogging.
Cyclists find polarizing lenses valuable in reducing the glare encountered on the road. Today, there are polarized tint options that offer more than just dark gray and brown densities. Yellow, rose, vermilion, amber, green and other shades are available for both plano and prescription use.
For presbyopic considerations, do not rule out conventional bifocals. For both types of cycling, dynamic head and eye movements will require lenses that feature a large, stable distance fieldof- view. A properly placed flat top bifocal (or even the round segment) represent ideal options for this activity specific need.
Ball sports (football, basketball, baseball, racquetball, tennis, golf, etc.) differ from other recreational activities in that they emphasize hand-eye coordination more than others. For this reason, anyone who requires a correction for maximum acuity, no matter what the strength, should be encouraged to wear eyewear and/or contacts. In all these sports, significant impact exposure is present and protection is therefore required. Even if one doesn’t need corrective lenses, protecting the eye and orbital structure from a flying ball, racquet or a flying elbow and/or dust and dirt is important. Because every player in football wears a face-cage and the ball used is large, generally only players requiring Rx lenses wear eyewear or contacts. For sports such as basketball, racquetball, lacrosse, all players, whether they wear corrective lenses or not, should have sports eyewear featuring highimpact lenses with superior lens retention. For these activities, clear lenses coated with a good anti-fog treatment are recommended.
Tennis and golf differ from other ball sports because participants have less impact exposure and therefore less need for protective eyewear, but will often benefit from vision and acuity enhancing tints and coatings. In addition, both sports are often played in bright conditions, so wearing the properly tinted eyewear is especially important for achieving maximum performance. Today, special, sports-tinted contacts are now available to enhance athletic performance. This product category has significantly impacted everyone in the vision community, since these lenses clearly demonstrate the importance of activity-specific colors for enhancing vision.
Tennis and golf eyewear must also be lightweight and rigid. They should fit somewhat away from the face to reduce fogging and perspiration staining. Eyewear should feature rubberized construction on the nose and/or temples to reduce slippage. Fixed-tint lenses should not be too dark or they will reduce depth perception. Photochromic lenses, such as Transitions, are an ideal choice for both Rx and plano eyewear. All lenses and lens shields should be large enough to permit unrestricted peripheral vision. If Rx wrap-around eyewear is chosen, it is especially important to have the prescription wrap-compensated for maximum acuity.
There’s driving… and there’s performance driving. One is an everyday activity, the other is a passion. Although your practice may not count amongst its clients many professional race drivers, there are many amateur club racers that belong to car marques clubs with local chapters across our country. (These local clubs are often looking for new speakers and topics for their monthly meetings.) This audience will readily embrace the idea of separate performance eyewear optimized for driving. The sad fact is no one has told them what performance drivewear is… or even that this product category exists at all. For everyday driving, proper sunwear, including polarized lenses, are essential. For presbyopic Rx wearers, try introducing the idea of separate single-vision pairs, mounted in a wrap-around frames, one for day and one for night. If you take the time to have your office verify and demonstrate that their vision will be enhanced (even if they have only a minor Rx strength) with a special pair of driving eyewear, you will realize the dividends. Also suggest trying one of the new photochromic acuity-enhancing polarized lenses that have just entered the market.
GOGGLES ARE EXCITING
Today, the market for goggles has so much more potential for sales growth. As patients place increased emphasis and value on their “playtime,” they are prime candidates for showing how their vision can be enhanced and maximized. Tapping into this recreational market, as the athletic footwear industry has done, will not only be fun and exciting, it will fatten your bottom line. Put featuring the newest in goggle technology at the top of your business plan for 2007. LT
Barry Santini is a New York State optician based in Seaford, N.Y.
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FIG. 1: The Fletcher-Munson Curves, or equal loudness contours, show the degree to which our ears are nonlinear with regard to frequency. They favor upper-mid frequencies and struggle with quiet lows and highs.
Illustration: Chuck Dahmer
The human auditory system is a fascinating and complex affair. As sound reaches you, it is in various parts deflected, absorbed, and otherwise filtered by your shoulders and head. It is then collected by your pinnae (the external part of your ears), whose dimensions and geometry further affect the sound on its way to the inner ear. There, vibration is translated into neural signals, which are interpreted by your psyche. In the 1930s, two scientists at Bell Labs tried to objectively measure the linearity of this elaborate affair, and what they discovered has profoundly affected everything from the design and measurement of audio gear to the development of audio data-reduction codecs.
Harvey Fletcher and Wilden Munson discovered that our hearing is decidedly nonlinear with respect to frequency and perceived loudness, and they mapped this data at various levels to produce what have come to be known as the Fletcher-Munson Curves, or more generally the equal loudness contours (see Fig. 1).
The two researchers asked subjects to compare the loudness of sine waves at different frequencies, identifying those that they felt were comparable in loudness to a 1 kHz sine wave at a fixed reference level. In general, tones at the high and low ends of the audible spectrum had to be significantly more powerful than the reference tone to be perceived as the same loudness. For example, to be “as loud as” a 40 dB SPL 1 kHz tone, a 10 kHz tone needs to be about 50 dB SPL, and a 100 Hz tone must be more than 60 dB SPL. The curve actually dips between 1 kHz and 5 kHz, with its nadir between 3 kHz and 4 kHz, depending on the reference level.
At lower SPLs, the variation is greater, while at higher levels, the variations are less significant, coming closest to leveling off at around 90 dB SPL. This is why wise mix and mastering engineers monitor at levels in the 85 to 90 dB SPL range, where our hearing is particularly flat.
The ways in which this nonlinear sensitivity is demonstrated in our audio experiences are myriad. Consider the sound of AM radio, low-bitrate audio codecs and public-address systems, all of which favor the overtones that give clarity to speech above all else. The Loudness button on consumer stereo receivers is an equalization circuit that boosts the highs and lows as the volume is lowered so the music will sound the same whether soft or loud. Noise-shaping circuits filter dither and quantization noise into the extreme upper range, where we will simply notice it less.
To describe the concept of equal loudness regardless of frequency, the unit phon was developed. Each curve of the equal loudness contours defines a single phon level. For example, the curve that is 40 dB SPL at 1 kHz is defined as 40 phons; 40 phons at 10 kHz is therefore approximately 50 dB SPL and at 100 Hz slightly more than 60 dB SPL. Phons and decibels SPL are the same for a 1 kHz tone — an increase of 10 phons is equal to an increase of 10 dB at 1 kHz, but it may be more or less at other frequencies.
Many audio measurements are made using weighting curves that attempt to skew the results in favor of the way we actually hear. For example, the signal-to-noise ratio of a microphone preamp might be listed as 108 dB A-weighted, or sometimes just 108 dB(A). This means that the noise was filtered before measurement to exclude the extreme lows and highs to approximately the same degree our ears do at 40 phons. The rationale is that if we listen to the device at that level, then we will perceive the noise floor to be very low, even if there is significant noise in the low end of the spectrum because our ears are too insensitive to notice it. It's a reasonable proposition, except manufacturers sometimes use A-weighting for measurements at which a 40-phon reference level is of debatable relevance. Other weighting curves exist, but only C-weighting, whose curve resembles the 100-phon contour, and Z-weighting (zero-weighting), which is really no filter at all, are in common use.
Since the 1930s, other scientists have validated Fletcher and Munson's work, most notably D. W. Robinson and R. S. Dadson in the 1950s. The collective wisdom has been codified by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 226:2003.
Brian Smithers, author of Mixing in Pro Tools: Skill Pack, from Cengage, teaches at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Fla.
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10 May 2011. TDP-43 and FUS: so alike. Both the TAR DNA binding protein-43 and the fused in sarcoma genes, when mutated, cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Both encode RNA-binding proteins with prion-like domains and, during disease, they exit the nucleus and form nasty aggregates in the cytoplasm. Small wonder, then, that scientists expected they might damage cells in the same manner. Not so, according to two papers in the April PLoS Biology. Using yeast models, Aaron Gitler and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found crucial differences between how FUS and TDP-43 aggregate, and how they affect the cell downstream. In the same journal, scientists led by Gregory Petsko at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, report complementary results from their own yeast model for FUS toxicity, showing some of the same FUS domains and other genes involved in the protein’s killer activities as the Pennsylvania team. And if multicellular organisms are more to your liking, consider the Drosophila FUS model published online in Human Molecular Genetics April 12. The authors found that FUS and TDP-43 mutants interact synergistically to cause neurodegeneration, suggesting their distinct pathways do intersect at some point in the toxicity process.
Yeast models are definitely in vogue. Gitler made a TDP-43 yeast model some years ago, and showed that, when overexpressed, the protein moves into the cytoplasm and gloms together, leading to a toxic phenotype (see ARF related news story on Johnson et al., 2008). More recently, the lab pinned an ataxin-2 homolog as an enhancer of TDP-43 toxicity in yeast, leading the researchers to discover that ataxin-2 polyglutamine expansions are linked to ALS in people (see ARF related news story on Elden et al., 2010). Two other yeast models for FUS were also published recently (Kryndushkin et al., 2011; Fushimi et al., 2011).
Gitler teamed with joint first authors Zhihui Sun and Zamia Diaz and co-senior author James Shorter for a repeat performance with a yeast model for FUS. At the same time, Petsko, first author Shulin Ju, and joint senior author Dagmar Ringe were making their own version. “From the start, we were kind of expecting [TDP-43 and FUS] to behave very similarly,” Shorter said. “We were surprised when many differences turned up.” FUS aggregation requires an extra domain, in addition to the RNA-binding and prion-like domain that TDP-43 needs to form inclusions. While ALS-linked TDP-43 mutations affect the protein’s toxicity, the common FUS mutations only influence its location. Plus, in suppressor and enhancer screens, the researchers found that the genes that mediate each protein’s toxicity are very different sets.
Not surprisingly, mutant versions of FUS formed cytoplasmic inclusions in yeast, and high doses of the mutant protein were deadly. But wild-type FUS, the researchers found, behaved the same way. “Both turned out to be toxic,” Petsko said, concluding, “disruption of FUS localization is sufficient for toxicity.” Thus, the groups concentrated on wild-type protein in further experiments.
FUS contains a non-classical nuclear localization sequence (NLS) at its carboxyl terminus, where most ALS-linked mutations in FUS are; however, in yeast, FUS was primarily in the cytoplasm. Ju, in Petsko’s lab, confirmed that FUS’s unconventional NLS does not work in yeast cells, making it a good model for cytoplasmic gain of toxic function, but a poor model for nuclear effects of FUS mutations. When the researchers artificially routed FUS to the nucleus, it failed to aggregate, or kill cells, confirming that the cytoplasmic location is key for aggregation and toxicity. These data confirm that an early event in FUSopathy is the protein’s mislocalization (see ARF related news story on Dormann et al., 2010). In TDP-43 proteinopathy, too, cytoplasmic mislocalization of the protein is a key event.
FUS and TDP-43 are similar in structure: Both contain RNA recognition motifs (RRMs), prion-like domains, and glycine-rich segments. In TDP-43, the RRMs and the carboxyl terminal prion domains are involved in aggregation; most ALS-linked mutations are in this region. What about FUS? Sun and colleagues created truncated versions of the protein and examined the localization and toxicity of each. Like TDP-43, FUS requires the RRM and prion-like segments to aggregate, but also a region rich in arginine-glycine-glycine (RGG) repeats, which are not found in TDP-43. Diaz and Shorter confirmed the RGG requirement in in vitro experiments. However, removing the carboxyl terminal NLS of FUS—the site of ALS mutations—did not prevent aggregation, further confirming that those mutations do not promote aggregation directly. They simply alter the protein’s location. In contrast, TDP-43 mutations seem to affect mainly the aggregation pathway.
The researchers also examined which parts of the proteins contributed to toxicity. In TDP-43, those were the same regions contributing to aggregation, the RRMs, and the carboxyl terminal prion domains. In FUS, the RRM, the prion-like domain, and an RGG region were necessary to kill yeast, but the carboxyl terminus was unnecessary. In fact, both groups found that FUS was more toxic when the carboxyl terminus was missing, matching reports that people with nonsense mutations in that region get sick earlier and progress more rapidly (Waibel et al., 2010).
Accessories to Toxicity
Having identified the parts of FUS responsible for its toxicity, both teams set out to discover what other happenings in the cell might intensify or alleviate that toxicity. Each team screened some 5,500 overexpressed yeast genes. Petsko and colleagues looked for suppressors, while Gitler and colleagues sought both suppressors and enhancers. The Petsko team identified five suppressors. Gitler’s group picked out those five as well, plus 19 more, and 10 enhancers. The five overlapping suppressors were translation terminator ECM32, RNA binding protein NAM8, snRNP associate SBP1, transcription factor SKO1, and transcriptional activator VHR1.
Do any of these also modulate the toxicity of TDP-43? In unpublished work, Gitler and colleagues identified 40 yeast genes that do, but only two of those overlapped with the FUS list. Thus, the proteins not only aggregate differently, but they also cause cell death by different pathways.
Genetic screens frequently yield up to 100 or more hits, leaving Petsko surprised at his modest catch. “Such a small number of genes were found, and they were all RNA binding proteins,” he said. In line with what many other studies have suggested, Petsko concluded that “RNA homeostasis lies at the heart of FUS toxicity.”
Among the Gitler group’s hits were suppressors Pab1 and LSM7. Both participate in assembling stress granules: clusters of RNAs and RNA binding proteins that temporarily form to protect cells from stress (see ARF Webinar). Gitler said that this is the first direct evidence that FUS not only goes to stress granules, but also that the granules are part of its toxic modus operandi. Those granules might trap necessary RNAs, and their loss could contribute to toxicity, suggested Richard Gardner of the University of Washington in Seattle, who was not involved in the current works.
Curiously, the genes that suppressed FUS toxicity did so without dissolving FUS aggregates. That is good news for therapy, Petsko said. While he could not imagine how a drug could bust the globs and send mutant FUS back to the nucleus, he easily envisioned a small molecule acting in downstream toxicity. Another reason to be optimistic about future therapies is that the Petsko team showed that the human homolog of one of the FUS suppressors, hUPF1, also ameliorated toxicity in yeast. This suggests that the human FUS-response system mirrors the yeast system in at least some respects. The yeast FUS models would be suitable for screening potential drugs.
Separate, But Intersecting
The study authors conclude that TDP-43 and FUS are not interchangeable killers. They use different domains to form inclusions, and interact with different genes. “Yes, both proteins misfold, but they are probably engaging quite different downstream pathways to become toxic to the cells,” said Paul Muchowski of the Gladstone Institute at the University of California, San Francisco, who was not involved with either study.
“Pathogenic differences between FUS and TDP-43 argue compellingly that ALS is not a single disease, but rather a spectrum of clinically convergent but mechanistically disparate disorders,” wrote Lary Walker of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, in an e-mail to ARF. “Hence, for both practical and theoretical reasons, it makes sense to define these variants according to the main proteins involved in their pathogenesis,” added Walker. He was not involved in either study.
For all their differences, the new fruit fly model suggests that the TDP-43 and FUS pathways are not wholly separate. First author Nicholas Lanson, Jr., and senior author Udai Pandey of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, and colleagues created flies that carry human FUS genes. FUS mutants caused neurodegeneration and defects in locomotion. The nuclear localization signal worked in the flies, so that wild-type FUS was nuclear, but mutants were cytoplasmic. Corroborating the yeast work, the scientists also found that forcing FUS into the nucleus was not toxic. In addition, the researchers co-overexpressed wild-type FUS and mutant TDP-43, and found the two together wrought four times the damage to the fly eye than either alone. This synergistic interaction suggests that the pathways by which each causes toxicity may intersect at some point.—Amber Dance.
Sun Z, Diaz Z, Fang X, Hart MP, Chesi A, Shorter J, Gitler AD. Molecular determinants and genetic modifiers of aggregation and toxicity for the ALS disease protein FUS/TLS. PLoS Biol. 2011 Apr;9(4):e1000614. Abstract
Ju S, Tardiff DF, Han H, Divya K, Zhong Q, Maquat LE, Bosco DA, Hayward LJ, Brown RH Jr, Lindquist S, Ringe D, Petsko GA. A yeast model of FUS/TLS-dependent cytotoxicity. PLoS Biol. 2011 Apr;9(4):e1001052. Abstract
Lanson NA Jr, Maltare A, King H, Smith R, Kim JH, Taylor JP, Lloyd TE, Pandey UB. A Drosophila model of FUS-related neurodegeneration reveals genetic interaction between FUS and TDP-43. Hum Mol Genet. 2011 Apr 12. Abstract
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A Passage to India
Poised to become the next big ethnic trend in North America, the flavors of India are about to make the big leap from restaurants to your supermarket shelves.
A Regional Approach
Immigrants from India are becoming one of the largest minorities in the U.S., and a new generation of chefs is catering to the affluent. But these new citizens come from many diverse regions.
There are as many flavor styles in India as there are regions â vindaloo from Goa, sambar from Tamil Nadu, molee from Kerala, kadhi from Maharashtra, and korma from Kashmir. There are also the more narrowly defined regionals, such as Bengali, Moghlai, South Indian, Gujarati, Hyderabadi, Jewish-Cochini, Chettinad, Punjabi, Madras, Parsi or Balti. The spices and sauces of each are specific, subtle and often surprising.
Contrary to how Indian meals are portrayed in the Western world with meat or chicken as the main entrée, Indian meals are traditionally centered around grains. The south features rice as the centerpiece while wheat based foods are pivotal in the north. Meats and fish are relatively less in proportion and served along with vegetables to flavor the central grain offering, while condiments complement with flavors and provide essential vitamins and minerals. Practically every meal is complemented with plain or seasoned yogurt or buttermilk.
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Indian cuisine, confined to ethnic neighborhoods for years, is thus emerging with its exotic flavors and aromas to transform the mainstream American palate in an unprecedented way. The mainstreaming of Indian culinary fare is spurred by demands of increasingly sophisticated diners hungry for new and authentic tastes. Consumers today desire authenticity in cultural cuisines and are increasingly sophisticated about what’s real and what’s not.The Prepared Foods Arena
Indian cuisine is entering the prepared foods market in a big way. Many of the instant prepared food mixes and ready-to-prepare processed foods on the U.S. retail scene are imported from well established brand leaders, including Ambika (www.ambikaappalamdepot.com
) of Chennai, India, and Patak’s (www.worldfood.com
) of London. These brands continue to hold major market shares in the Western world emphasizing the value of growing loyalty among consumers.
Ambika evolved from a tiny, nondescript shop in the 1980s to a bustling enterprise with distributors all over the world, and mostly by making appalams. Appalams are similar to papads, fried wafers popular in North India and served as an appetizer in Indian restaurants all over the U.S. A new entry into the marketplace is Naturally India (www.naturallyindia.com
), Neshanic Station, N.J. Harshad Parekh, president, launched simmer-sauce packages of prepared spices and herbs to combine the essential first steps of a number of popular recipes. Parekh, a seasoned veteran of the food processing industry, recognized the value in providing culinary aids to consumers so they can enjoy wholesome, restaurant-quality meals at home for a fraction of the cost.Selling Coals To Newcastle
Patak’s, started in Britain in the 1950s by an Indian immigrant from Kenya. This successful brand favored by consumers and professional chefs across the U.K. and North America is now doing the unimaginable. Meena Pathak, chef and chief marketing officer, is successfully exporting Patak’s ready mixes and pickles to India, capitalizing on the growing need for taste, quality and convenience in a culture where leisurely home-cooked meals were the norm.
Pathak is paving the way for others. Despite rather sophisticated advertising and promotion programs in local Indian newspapers and magazines, Indian food processors tend to shy away from advertising and marketing in mainstream U.S. markets. She developed a series of cookbooks for the North American chef, and astutely partnered with Hormel’s (www.hormelfoods.com
), to take advantage of the Austin, Minn., firm’s efficient specialty food distribution network. Together they are poised to take Indian food where it has never gone before: to rural markets and local grocery stores.
Annie Whitney, co-founder and corporate conscience at Annie’s Homegrown Foods (www.annies.com
), Wakefield, Mass., understands the importance of the mainstream market for Indian flavors. Annie’s started Tamarind Tree Vegetarian Indian Entrees to combine American convenience with practiced food preparation to serve the evolving demand for restaurant-quality packaged Indian specialties.
Tamarind Tree frozen entrees are made with authentic blends of savory spices, and each microwavable entrée comes with its own basmati rice pouch to create a complete meal rivaling those made from scratch. Annie’s is opening the door for Indian flavors to reach more consumers and to teach them there’s a lot more to the cuisine than palate-burning curry or tandoori chicken.
Without a doubt, Indian cuisine is coming of age in the U.S. It has migrated from home-cooked to commercially produced frozen meals and fancy fare in mainstream restaurants and foodservice. And this is creating new opportunities for service providers and new product developers. This trend is bound to gain momentum as more American chefs adopt Indian spices and food preparation techniques. With conscientious players like Naturally India, Patak’s and Ambika, consumers stand to benefit from health as well as taste and convenience.
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Published: 11:45 GMT Daylight Time - Friday 24 August 2012
Barnabas editorial: Will outrage over detention of Down’s syndrome girl for blasphemy lead to lasting change in Pakistan?
Country/Region: Pakistan, South and East Asia
It is rare for a case of anti-Christian persecution to attract such widespread and sympathetic media coverage and international condemnation. But the severe beating and subsequent arrest of an 11-year-old Christian girl with Down’s syndrome in Pakistan over a flimsy and false blasphemy accusation is so shocking as to outrage even the most disinterested of people.
Both the United States and France have spoken out, calling for the Pakistani authorities to take action. And voices from within Pakistan have also made bold statements.
One of the country’s most high-profile politicians, Imran Khan, described the detention of Rimsha Masih as “shameful”, and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan summed up the sense of utter disbelief that a vulnerable young girl could be so inhumanely treated:
The fact that the girl is a juvenile and suffers from Down’s syndrome only makes the charge more preposterous and barbaric... It is deplorable that the country’s political leadership refrains from speaking out against extremism and the injustices towards non-Muslims.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zadari ordered a report into the matter and called for the protection of the vulnerable, especially those who may suffer from misuse of the blasphemy law. Police have since filed a case against 150 people over violent protests against Rimsha; they were charged with destroying public and private property, damaging cars and blocking roads by burning tyres.
While the statements of condemnation are both fitting and welcome, will they turn out to be just hot air once attention to this particular case has died down? How many Rimsha Masihs, Aasia Bibis, and Aslam Masihs will there need to be before someone in a position of authority has both the courage and the support to effect real change regarding Pakistan’s pernicious “blasphemy laws” and the mistreatment of the country’s Christians?
The blasphemy laws, which prescribe the death penalty for “defiling the name of Muhammad” and life imprisonment for desecrating the Quran, are routinely used against Christians and other non-Muslims. The accused become targets of Muslim citizens, who often respond with threats and violence, even if the person is cleared by the courts. Some have even been killed.
Those who have campaigned for reform have been silenced by extremists in one way or another, most notably Punjab Governor Salman Taseer and Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, who were both assassinated last year over their opposition to the blasphemy laws.
Sustained pressure from both outside and within Pakistan is now required for the government to take the decisive action required.
The international community, especially Western governments, need to work actively to promote change by putting the plight of persecuted Christians and other minorities at the forefront of their relations with Pakistan, until the country demonstrates both its willingness and its ability to uphold human rights.
And Muslim leaders within Pakistan need to show responsible and constructive leadership. Instead of promoting peace and communal harmony, mullahs often incite aggression in their communities over blasphemy allegations. In Rimsha’s case, the accusation against her was broadcast over the loudspeakers of the mosques in the area, provoking local Muslims to beat the young girl and attack other Christians and homes. And in an utterly deplorable act, one Muslim cleric called for the youngster to be publicly burned.
Can you imagine the indignation if a Christian leader in any country expressed such venomous intent towards any Muslim, regardless of the nature of their offence, let alone a child with Down’s syndrome who had been falsely accused?
Few Muslim leaders in Pakistan appear to have spoken up for Rimsha. They need to take heed of calls such as this from World Muslim Congress president Mike Ghouse, who said on Tuesday (21 August):
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March 17, 2009
Greetings Gardeners and Potential Gardeners!
Okay, amazing, renewing, lovely, lovely, could Spring really be here sort of weekend.
Here's the answer to the most asked question at the store over the last few days:
Early to mid April.
Was the question when will we get plants on the lot, or when should I start raking off my leaves and getting into my garden? We were actually answering customer's queries about when the plants arrive, but to all those itching to get into the soil, have patience. Here is a nice article from Organic Gardening Magazine about why it's best to wait: http://www.organicgardening.com/feature/0,7518,s1-3-81-1431,00.html.
Gardening paraphernalia arriving daily - we are still heavily into seed starting mode and we have gotten more light kits. The popularity of seed starting and vegetable gardening has made seed starting mix a bit scarce, but we are working all of our vendors and are still stocked. If it gets rough, we will put together a little DIY seed starting planting mix kit.
Our biggest concern at the moment is our lovely cat, Jolly, for whom we've yet to find a home. Please pass along to anyone you might know who would like to love a new pet.
Beyond that, our seminars are all full, but we are considering a third veggie gardening class in mid April. If you would be interested , then please drop us an email so we can gauge whether to hold another class. We have active waiting lists and there has been movement if anyone would like to be put on a list for any of the remaining classes. Here is the list of the last three:
March 25th: Using Permaculture to Create Productive and Abundant Landscapes.
How do we design landscapes to mitigate the impacts of climate change? How can we create beautiful, productive and abundant landscapes in these challenging conditions? Permaculture offers a set of design principles and tools to do just that. Paula Westmoreland of Ecological Gardens will discuss the ways you can apply them to build natural wealth in your own backyard.
April 1st: Made in the Shade: The Many Options for Gardening with Shade Loving Plants.
All we need to say is Russ Henry of the Seward Coop gardens will be the instructor, but beyond that, we sure live with a lot of shade in the city, and there are lovely and surprising options for filling your shady spots.
April 8th: Natural Lawn Care and the Use of Corn Gluten Meal.
Another popular class from last year, it is led by Brian Tjiaden, a natural lawn expert and our corn gluten distributor. He will explain how this all natural, non-toxic pre-emergent herbicide and fertilizer works, and how to work with it.
Thank you all again for your support and interest in our classes; we really enjoy them and are thrilled that you do too. After that Chicken class, we want chickens in the back garden!
We'll see you at the store....
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Injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament are the most common surgically treated knee ligament injury. There is no consensus regarding the optimal graft choice between allograft and autograft tissue. Postoperative septic arthritis is an uncommon complication after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. The purpose of this study was to compare infection rates between procedures with use of allograft and autograft tissue in primary anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.Methods:
A combined prospective and retrospective multicenter cohort study was performed over a three-year period. Graft selection was determined by the individual surgeon. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were equivalent for the two groups (allograft and autograft tissue). Data collected included demographic characteristics, clinical information, and graft details. Patients were followed for a minimum of 5.5 months postoperatively. Our primary outcome was intra-articular infection following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.Results:
Of the 1298 patients who had anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction during the study period, 861 met the criteria for inclusion and formed the final study group. Two hundred and twenty-one patients (25.6%) received an autograft, and 640 (74.3%) received an allograft. There were no cases of septic arthritis in either group. The 95% confidence interval was 0% to 0.57% for the allograft group and 0% to 1.66% for the autograft group. The rate of superficial infections in the entire study group was 2.32%. We did not identify a significant difference in the rate of superficial infections between autograft and allograft reconstruction in our study group.Conclusions:
While the theoretical risk of disease transmission inherent with allograft tissue cannot be eliminated, we found no increased clinical risk of infection with the use of allograft tissue compared with autologous tissue for primary anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction.Level of Evidence:
Therapeutic Level II. See Instructions to Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.
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No matter how the U.S. Supreme Court rules in the two gay marriage cases it will hear this spring, writes Jacob Sullum, polling data suggest it is only a matter of time before legal recognition of same-sex unions is the norm throughout the country. Something similar is happening with marijuana, which became legal in Colorado and Washington in December. With both pot and gay marriage, Sullum observes, familiarity is breeding tolerance.
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Google to Launch Algorithm Change to Supercharge Freshness!
Google has today announced that it will be implementing an algorithm change which will affect a staggering 35% of sites. This change will be aimed at supercharging the caffeine infrastructure which they implemented last year, a change intended at displaying the most recent information at the top of SERPs. This will primarily affect those sites which specialise in either breaking news or current affairs, and those which frequently update their stock or services.
The nature of the update is to assure information about events and hot topics, or from sites which update on a daily/hourly/minutely basis; appear in searches quickly. This is considered desirable for live events, as searchers want the most recent news and by placing the most recent content in the top positions, Google will deliver this.
This is an improvement on the Caffeine infrastructure Google launched back in 2010, which was originally designed to quicken the process of getting new relevant content indexed and to the forefront. Google has pitched the Caffeine update as an assumption that when you search for a current event you want to see results relative to the most recent instance and not that which occurred years ago but may have better ranking metrics. An example is made of a search for the Olympics, which it will now be assumed is relative to the 2012 games as opposed to those which occurred in the 1900’s.
Keeping in mind that the Panda update only affected 12% of sites the impact of this update is significant and it will be interesting to see how this may affect Search Engine Optimisation tactics for sites which publish frequently. For More Info read what Google has to say here.
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From ‘The Hunger Games’ to ‘Kick-Ass’: How Hollywood is falling in love with female leads
In the 1985 comic strip The Rule, Alison Bechdel introduced a simple test that troublingly highlighted the gender bias present in mainstream movies. In order for a film to pass what is now known as “The Bechdel Test”, it must meet three criteria.
First, there must be a minimum of two (named) female characters in the movie; second, there must be a scene in which two of these characters have a conversation; and third, that conversation must concern something other than just discussing a man.
While this standard may seem fairly easy to meet, an alarming percentage of films fail the test. According to bechdeltest.com, a user-edited database that tracks how well new releases fare against the test, only 54 per cent of movies on average pass all three criteria. Despite the conceivable limitations of The Bechdel Test, it does serve as a simple formula that illustrates the strong dominance of male characters within male-orientated movies.
During the ‘Golden Era’ of Hollywood, a film like All About Eve could focus entirely on female characters discussing the pressures on women in a considerably more conservative society, and still manage to achieve a record-breaking 14 Oscar nominations. Similarly, the only actor to win four Academy Awards, Katherine Hepburn, could sell a movie on her name alone.
However, since the beginning of the blockbuster age, the overwhelming opinion in Hollywood seems to be that leading female characters uttering non-male-orientated dialogue are likely to alienate the male demographic, whereas films almost exclusively starring straight white men can apparently be enjoyed by everyone. This kind of thinking is undoubtedly the reason why studios have rarely attempted to sell big-budget blockbusters on the strength of female leads, leaving the most interesting feminine roles instead to cult films directed by the likes of Pedro Almodóvar, Quentin Tarantino and Ridley Scott.
Of course, it is not just the dearth of female leading roles that is frustrating but also the way in which supporting female characters are often portrayed. In my opinion the recent crime dramas Lawless and Killing Them Softly both seemed to unapologetically portray female characters either as quiet, bewildered victims or one-dimensional sex objects. The reluctance of young female actors to accept such roles, therefore, inevitably leads to pigeonholing.
When Michelle Rodriguez (Avatar, The Fast And The Furious) was asked how she felt about being typecast as “the tough chick”, she responded: “ I only wanna be someone I respect or someone that I consider interesting or fun. I’m here to entertain people and make a statement about female empowerment and … saying no to the girlfriend, saying no to the girl that gets captured, no to this, no to that, eventually I just got left with the strong chick that’s always being killed”.
However, despite the undeniable androcentrism of the modern movie industry, a quick look over the box office statistics from the last year seems to indicate that 2012 may mark the point at which the tide has finally begun to turn. After years of either being ignored or force-fed stories about pretty pink princesses coyly awaiting Prince Charming, it would appear that studios have finally realised that teenage girls not only exist – but also may actually appreciate a movie in which a heroine is allowed to step out of the shadow of a man and think, struggle and fight on her own terms. Perhaps influenced by the more progressive female roles present within young adult literature, teenage girls seem to be tiring of the traditional Disney princesses and damsels in distress and beginning to invest in more interesting, intelligent and strong-willed heroines more in the mould of Hermione Granger.
Of the year’s top 20 highest-grossing films, there seem to be four strong female leads that best represent the current rise of screen heroines. Snow White And The Huntsman saw the familiar sweet, singing princess hiding in fear, rebooted as a young Joan Of Arc figure leading an army of men into battle. Pixar’s Brave also chose to focus on a more contemporary Disney princess whose strong relationship with her mother forces her to put her intelligence and willpower to the test. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 transformed Bella Cullen from the protected and forlorn mortal of the previous films into a strong, fast, blood-hungry vampire desperate to keep her daughter safe. Jennifer Lawrence’s role as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games helped make it the third-highest grossing film of the year – and followed a young archer who must utilise her cunning, resourcefulness and skill in order to be recognised and survive the inhumane central spectacle of an oppressive dystopian regime.
Strong female characters also managed to emerge amongst the supporting cast of more traditionally male-orientated franchises. The Amazing Spider-Man featured Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacey, who wasn’t afraid of getting her hands dirty and ignoring Spider-man’s orders to stay out of trouble – a far cry from the constantly-in-peril Mary Jane of Sam Raimi’s franchise.
Avengers introduced audiences to the Black Widow, the expert gymnast, martial artist and superspy. The Dark Knight Rises portrayed Selina Kyle as an assertive, witty and motivated cat burglar, who is ultimately responsible for saving Batman and Gotham. Even the stereotypically sexist Bond franchise saw its latest installment, Skyfall, focus heavily on Judy Dench’s M and her courage in the face of adversity.
Approaching Oscar season, it seems that there will also be strong competition amongst female actors and filmmakers outside of blockbuster moviemaking. Beasts Of The Southern Wild, Silver Linings Playbook, and Rust And Bone all seemed to be strongly tipped for awards thanks in no small part to their strong female leads. Furthermore, Katheryn Bigelow will be eager to compete for her second Best Director Oscar with her war drama Zero Dark Thirty, starring Jessica Chastain.
As for the next year, 2013 looks as though it will be a bright one for movie heroines. Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire will see Katniss Everdeen re-entering the Hunger Games and inspiring a rebellion against the totalitarian Capitol. Blue Sky Studio’s 3D animation Epic features an all-star voice cast led by Amanda Seyfried, and will tell the story of a teenage girl who must save both a fantasy world and her own. Michelle Rodriguez will be reprising her role as the guerrilla leader Shé, alongside Lady Gaga, in grindhouse homage Machete Kills. Whilst Chloë Grace Moretz will be appearing in the remake of revenge horror Carrie as the eponymous destructive telekinetic force, and also returning as the foul-mouthed blood-spilling superhero Hit-Girl in Kick-Ass 2: Balls To The Wall.
Even though the proportion of movies passing The Bechdel Test has risen by a minute two per cent in the last year, it seems that the increasing demand amongst young women for more interesting and involving female characters is beginning to shake Hollywood’s preconceptions about selling a blockbuster on the strength of a leading lady. Even though gender equality at the multiplex may seem a long way off, it’s impossible to ignore the potential profit available for any studio that is willing to break the mould and allow a strong young women the chance to compete at the box office.Tagged in: Alison Bechdel, avatar, Avengers, Bella Cullen, Brave, Emma Stone, Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain, Katniss Everdeen, Killing Them Softly, kristen stewart, Lady Gaga, Lawless, Machete Kills, Michelle Rodriguez, Pedro Almodóvar, Quentin Tarantino, ridley scott, Snow White and the Huntsman, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Rises, The Fast And The Furious, The Hunger Games, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, twilight, Zero Dark Thirty
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Nail Problems and Injuries
Minor fingernail and toenail problems are common. At one time or another, almost everyone has caught a nail on something, causing it to rip, or has smashed a finger in a door, leaving blood under the nail. These kinds of injuries can be quite painful but are usually not serious. You can often relieve pain and prevent infection of minor nail problems at home.
Normally, fingernails grow about one-tenth of a millimeter each day. Toenails grow at about one-half or one-third the rate of the fingernails. Aging and diseases that decrease blood flow to the hands and feet may slow nail growth.
Common nail changes include:
- Splitting, peeling, or brittle nails. These are common problems that develop when your hands are frequently exposed to water, strong soaps, and other chemicals. You may be able to prevent some of these problems if you use lotion and avoid repeatedly putting your hands in water.
- Little white marks (leukonychia) often appear after minor injuries. They may last for weeks or months and usually go away on their own.
- It is common for a nail to turn black after an injury. The black or purple-black color is caused by blood under the nail and will go away as the injury heals.
- Black, brown, or purple discoloration under a nail that has not been injured may be caused by melanoma.
- Changes in the shape or texture of nails, which may occur for a variety of reasons. Some nail changes, such as the formation of ridges, are normal with aging. Thick, brittle, or dark nails are more common in older adults who have poor circulation.
- Ingrown nails , which are often caused by improper trimming, tight shoes, or heredity. Your nails may grow into the surrounding skin, causing pain, swelling, and infection. In rare cases, an abscess may develop under a nail (subungual abscess).
- Separation from the nail bed. Once your nail separates from its nail bed, for whatever reason, it will not reattach. Nails grow back slowly. It takes about 6 months for fingernails and up to 18 months for toenails to grow back attached to the nail bed.
- Infection and allergic reactions. These are common problems caused by artificial nails.
- Fungal nail infections , which can vary in appearance depending on the type of fungus infecting the nail or the location of the infection. It is not unusual for fungal nail infections to follow athlete's foot infections. For more information, see the topic Fungal Nail Infections.
Nail problems can also be caused by:
- An injury to a nail.
- Hangnails , which may lead to a minor infection next to your nails (paronychia), causing the skin around the nails to become swollen and tender.
- Nail-biting, which can lead to fingertips that are red and sore and cuticles that bleed. Nail-biting also increases the chance of bacterial infections around your nail beds and in your mouth.
- Side effects of medicines, such as chemotherapy and antimalarial medicines.
- Diseases of the skin, such as psoriasis and eczema.
- Skin growths, such as warts, cysts, and moles.
- Other diseases such as Addison's disease, peripheral arterial disease, and HIV infection.
Check your symptoms to decide if and when you should see a doctor.
Home treatment can help relieve pain, prevent infection, and promote healing. To relieve pain from an injury to the nail, try the following:
- Apply ice and elevate the injured nail area as soon as possible after the injury.
- Trim a torn or detached nail, and tape the nail in place.
- Drain blood from under the nail . Note: Do not drain blood from under your nail if you have diabetes, peripheral arterial disease, or an immune system problem, or if you think a bone is broken.
Consider trying home treatment for the following problems:
- An ingrown toenail
- A hangnail
- Problems with an artificial nail
- A weak, brittle, or splitting nail
- An infection of the skin around a nail
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Symptoms to watch for during home treatment
Call your doctor if any of the following occur during home treatment:
- Signs of infection develop.
- Symptoms become more severe or frequent despite home treatment.
To prevent common nail problems:
- Apply hand cream frequently throughout the day. Be sure to massage the cream into the nail and cuticle.
- Wear gloves when you are working in your garden or when the weather turns cold.
- Wear cotton-lined rubber gloves or disposable plastic gloves to protect your hands from overexposure to water, detergents, and other chemicals.
- Trim your fingernails weekly, after bathing, when they
- Do not trim nails too short.
- Use an emery board and sharp manicure scissors or clippers to trim your fingernails. Nails that are smooth and well-cared for are less likely to become damaged.
Trim toenails monthly
, after bathing.
- Cut them straight across and leave the nails a little longer at the corners so that the sharp ends don't cut into your skin.
- If you have a chronic disease, such as diabetes, peripheral arterial disease, or a disease that causes problems with your immune system, discuss with your doctor the best way to trim your toenails before trimming them yourself.
- Be especially careful when trimming your baby's nails.
- Avoid trimming your cuticles. Even a minor cut alongside your nail can cause infection.
- Do not bite or pick at your nails.
To prevent a fungal nail infection:
- Keep your feet clean and dry. Dry feet are less likely to become infected. Apply powder to your feet when needed.
- Wear clean, dry socks. Change your socks once a day or more frequently if they become wet.
- Wear roomy shoes that allow air to circulate around your feet.
- Wear shower sandals or shower shoes when you use public pools, spas, and showers.
To prevent problems with artificial nails:
- Test for a reaction to the artificial nail by having just one nail applied. Wait several days to see whether redness, itching, pain, or rash around or under the nail or separation of the nail from the nail bed develops.
- Do not apply an artificial nail if the nail or the skin around the nail looks irritated or infected.
- If an artificial nail does separate from the nail bed, dip your fingertip into rubbing alcohol for 15 seconds before reattaching the artificial nail. This will clean the space between the nails.
- Do not wear artificial nails for longer than 3 months at a time. Give your natural nails a month to rest before reapplying artificial nails.
Preparing For Your Appointment
To prepare for your appointment, see the topic Making the Most of Your Appointment.
You can help your doctor diagnose and treat your condition by being prepared to answer the following questions:
- When did your nail problem begin?
- Was there an injury?
- Have you had a nail problem like this in the past? If so, how was it treated?
- Did you try any home treatment? If so, what? Did it help?
- Has anything improved your nail problem or made it worse?
- Are you taking any medicines?
- Do you have any health risks?
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Tom Parrent was home alone with his son 3-year-old Sam -- better known as "Spike" -- when after lunch the boy told his father he was "really, really tired" and needed to take a nap.
The North Carolina preschooler couldn't even make it upstairs to bed, so he collapsed on the couch and drifted off to sleep.
"A few minutes later, I heard this animal scream and he was in grand mal seizure," said Parrent, 51, a senior managing director at AIG. "Up to that point he had been a perfectly healthy boy. It was absolutely terrifying."
The event in January 2011 lasted about five minutes, but in the grueling year ahead, Spike's seizures escalated to 70 to 100 a day. Doctors were ready to put him in a coma, and his parents feared that he would die.
By November, Spike was referred to the Cleveland Clinic's Epilepsy Center where surgeons removed half of the frontal lobe of his brain, a radical step, but one that saved his life. Today, the boy is in kindergarten and is not only seizure free, but is as healthy as any other boy his age.
"He's doing exceptionally well," his father said. "Although specialists can see some differences in the timing of his development from his peers, in every other way he is just a normal, happy, healthy kid."
In a study published this week in the Annals of Neurology, researchers have found that for the youngest epilespy patients for whom medication doesn't work, frontal lobe surgery can stop seizures -- in many cases forever.
Doctors say the brain essentially rewires itself to compensate for the removed lobe or lobes. Where the seizure originates is essentially damaged and so removing it actually helps the health of the brain.
"We have a chance with this surgery to really give people their life back," said Dr. Lara Jehi, lead study author and director of the Cleveland Clinic Epilepsy Center, where about 100 pediatric surgeries are performed each year.
Researchers reviewed 158 patients who underwent frontal lobe epilepsy surgery from 1995 to 2010. They found that patients who had a shorter duration of epilepsy were almost twice as likely to be seizure free after surgery.
Epilepsy is a chronic medical condition marked by recurrent seizures, an altered brain function caused by abnormal, excessive or electrical discharges from brain cells.
It affects an estimated 3 million Americans, or about 1 percent of the population, according to the Cleveland Clinic. About 1 in 4 patients do not respond to medication, and for them, a frontal lobectomy can provide a "cure."
Those with the worst form of epilepsy -- with convulsions and big seizures with stiffening and shaking -- usually have malfunctions in the frontal lobe, according to Jehi.
Those who are resistant to medication are apt to suffer injuries and accidents. They are also three to 12 times more prone to sudden death.
"They go to sleep and never wake up," she said.
Most epilepsy patients wait decades before being offered surgery and doctors say more might seek this option.
The frontal lobe part of the brain, which controls executive functions and language, was once considered "difficult to tackle," Jehi said.
"We found that the mere fact of time -- waiting too long before you do surgery -- is the most harmful thing you can do to a patient's brain," Jehi said.
Patients who have surgery within five years of epilepsy onset have an 80 percent to 90 percent chance of being seizure-free for life, she said.
"If you wait more than five years, it drops to 10 percent," she said.
Surgery may sound daunting, but Jehi said the mortality rate is less than .02 percent. And the earlier it is done, the better the outcome.
Such was the case with Spike, but the family's journey to get answers was difficult.
After Spike's first seizure, doctors told Parrent and his wife Jo Jo, 41, that it was likely caused by a fever and was "normal."
"They said it's scary, but that's the end of it," said Parrent. "He resumed all his activities and was fine."
But soon, the boy had more seizures, "less severe, but still horribly frightening," his father said. "Then one day, he had six of them."
Spike was put on seizure medication, drugs that made him hyperactive and still didn't curb the epileptic episodes. On a visit to a neurologist, the boy had a seizure right in the office.
The seizures increased to 10 a day, then 20 a day. "Sometimes, he'd get a cluster of them, four or five at once," Parrent said.
In late January, the family took Spike to Duke University to see one of the world's leading pediatric neurologists, Dr. Mohamad Mikati.
"Spike was completely bedridden, but aware," Parrent said. "In the middle of seizure they would say a phrase completely out of context -- 'pink giraffe' -- and when they would ask him, 'What did I say?' when he was fully conscious, he would get it right. He could hear everything."
A series of drugs didn't work. Now the seizures were coming 50 times a day. At one point a team of specialists convened just to discuss Spike's unusual condition.
"Often at a conference, a patient will have three doctors involved -- Spike had 24," his father said. "We had absolutely everybody and kudos to Duke for flooding the resources in."
Soon the seizures were up to 70 a day and brain imaging couldn't find what was causing them, Duke doctors recommended surgery.
Surgeons drilled through the skull and took a biopsy to rule out cancer.
"The surgeon came out shaking his head -- he had never seen anything like this," Parrent said. "It was a material they couldn't identify. ... It indicated something might be going on, but nothing obvious."
Grasping at straws, Spike's family tried alternative medicine: a strict ketogenic diet that can change the body chemistry.
The ketogenic diet forces the child's body to burn fat around the clock by making fat the main food and keeping carbohydrates or sugars low. According to the Epilepsy Foundation, doctors don't know why a diet "that mimics starvation" by burning fat for energy works, but for some, it prevents seizures.
"We measured to the 10th of every gram for every meal, typically a cup of heavy cream and several ounces of butter and small piece of meat and one piece of broccoli," Parrent said. "It was horrible and he never had any relief from it."
After three days on the diet in the hospital, Spike's seizures subsided for 24 hours.
"We were stunned," he said. And at home, Spike "stuck the diet like no one else. He didn't go off it once."
At one point a technician doing an EEG offered the boy a lollipop and Spike refused.
Spike, now 4, never lost his upbeat personality.
"He was a favorite on the ward," his father said. "He accepted everything without a complaint the entire sickness."
And he never lost his sense of humor.
"Dr. Mikati met with us and showed us the actual EEG tracings. After he left, Spike asked to see what the EEG looked like," Parrent said. "He looked at the tracings for awhile and then pointed to the more active parts of the EEG. 'So,' Spike said, 'This part shows the spikes and these are slowing and here are the seizures.'"
His father confirmed he was right and Spike added, "From now on, I want to be called Mr. Smooth. I don't want any more spikes."
Spike stayed on the ketogenic diet for six months, but by August the seizures came back with a vengeance. A series of MRIs revealed a shadow, suggesting a genetic malformation of the right side frontal lobe of his brain.
Doctors at Duke referred Spike to the Cleveland Clinic. Doctors thought the brain was operable and surgery was scheduled.
Spike's last seizure was on Nov. 9, 2011, the day of his final surgery.
Today, at 6, Spike is thriving.
"His attention span is better," his father said. "His intelligence is fully there and he reads and writes. As we took him off the drugs, he's doing much better in school and is still incredibly bright and happy. Nothing prevents him from doing anything he wants. He's a normal kid in all regards."
His family later learned a malformation from birth was causing the seizures and surgery had corrected that.
"It was waiting there like a bomb," his father said. "It would have killed him."
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On April 13, 1954, Wally Moon hit a home run in his first big league at-bat. While not the first in franchise history to do so, he would go on to become the first Cardinal named as the Rookie of the Year. Moon is one of eight Cardinals who hit home runs in their first MLB at-bats and is the only one to have accomplished the feat on his way to Rookie of the Year honors. The other seven "first at-bat sluggers" are Eddie Morgan, Keith McDonald, Chris Richard, Gene Stechshulte, Hector Luna, Adam Wainwright and Mark Worrell.
Rarely in baseball does a trade occur including two MVP-caliber players, but this was precisely the case on March 17, 1969, when the Cardinals dealt former NL MVP Orlando Cepeda for future NL MVP Joe Torre. Many fans were upset with the move, as Cepeda was a popular player and a driving force behind back-to-back pennant winners in 1967 and 1968. Torre was no slouch though, and proved himself as a Redbird as he captured the 1971 MVP title and batted over .300 during his time in St. Louis.
Stan Musial's following extended throughout Cardinals Nation all the way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. With Presidents Day this month, it's interesting to note that "The Man" met eleven U.S. presidents including Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush (41), Clinton, Bush (43) and Obama. From serving as the director of President Johnson's Council on Physical Fitness to being awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Obama, it's clear that Musial has had an impact on the Oval Office.
January 16 marks the birthday of one of the greatest Cardinals, Dizzy Dean. Born Jay Hanna Dean in 1910 in Lucas, Ark., Dizzy claimed that his education ended after the second grade and that he honed his baseball skills by throwing hickory nuts at squirrels. After he retired from pitching, he broadcast games for the Cardinals and Browns and would even break into song. Shown here is 'The Dizzy Dean Dictionary,' created to humorously help fans better understand his 'language' such as when he used slud for slid.
On Dec. 5, 1957, a magnificent Flood hit the Cardinals. His name was Curt. Acquired in a trade from the Reds for three obscure pitchers, Curt Flood would soon make his mark on the Cardinals and help them to three World Series appearances. A favorite with the fans for his superior defensive play, Flood would win seven consecutive Rawlings Gold Glove Awards from 1963-69. Shown here is his home jersey from 1967, his second world championship season.
One of the greatest seasons from a Redbird was honored in The Sporting News on Nov. 27, 1946, when Stan Musial was named the National League's Most Valuable Player. Musial, who had returned from his service in the U.S. Navy in 1945, led the league in batting average (.365), runs scored (124), hits (228), total bases (366), doubles (50) and triples (20). The Cardinals wrapped up the season by defeating the Boston Red Sox to claim their sixth World Series crown. Featured here is "The Man's" 1946 home jersey.
The 2006 Cardinals struggled down the stretch, but captured the NL Central Division title on the final day of the season. Plagued by injuries during the season, the finally-healthy club fought their way to the seventh game of the National League Championship Series. With the game tied 1-1 in the ninth inning, Yadier Molina used this bat to hit a two-run home run which ultimately sent the Cardinals to the World Series. The Redbirds would go on to defeat the Detroit Tigers and capture the franchise's 10th World Series crown.
With little sleep the night before, Stan Musial stepped to the plate on Sept. 10, 1963, and provided a moment never before seen in the history of Major League Baseball. He had been up the previous evening waiting for the birth of his first grandchild, and in his first at-bat to follow, Musial clubbed a round-tripper, making him the first grandfather in MLB history to hit a home run. Featured here is Musial's trophy ball, which now resides in the Cardinals' museum collection, awarded to Musial for his "grand" moment.
August 1980 provided a unique twist in Cardinals history. Whitey Herzog succeeded Jack Krol as manager of the Redbirds, but turned his managerial duties over to Red Schoendienst when he was named the General Manager of the club on August 29. The itch to get back in the dugout for Herzog would be too strong, as he came back to the post during the offseason. Herzog would go on to lead the club to three World Series in the 1980s. Pictured here is Herzog's "Victory Blue" 1981 jersey.
Bob Gibson is one of the greatest pitchers in Cardinals history, but for all of his work off the mound he holds one of the most unique records for Cardinals' hurlers: He has hit the most grand slams. There have been 11 pitchers in franchise history to drive in four on a round-tripper, but Gibson holds the mark with two. His second, and record-setting grand slam, came on July 26, 1973, at home against the New York Mets. Featured here is one of Gibson's jerseys from that era.
June marks the tenth anniversary of the passing of two Cardinals greats, Jack Buck and Darryl Kile. Following the deaths of Buck (6/18/2002) and Kile (6/22/2002) within one week of one another, a makeshift memorial appeared outside of Busch Stadium as fans left notes, flowers and other items. The team also donned patches on their jerseys for each man. But, Kile's jersey included just one patch for Buck; where every other player would receive a second memorializing Kile.
Stan Musial collected his 3,000th career hit on May 13, 1958. The historic moment occurred in Chicago at Wrigley Field. Stan was left out of the line-up in hopes that the achievement would come in St. Louis, but with the Cardinals trailing by two, manager Fred Hutchinson called upon Musial in the sixth inning. He hit a pinch double off Moe Drabowsky. The following day Musial was honored at Sportsman's Park in pre-game ceremonies and provided fans with another thrill -- a home run in the first inning.
Happy Bird-day! 90 years ago on April 8th, the birds on the bat made their debut on the Cardinals' uniforms during a pre-season "city series" game against the American League St. Louis Browns. The now-iconic redbirds have enjoyed their perch as they have stayed on the jerseys in some form since their debut, except for a brief vacation in 1956.
Plans for a new downtown ballpark were announced on March 12, 1963, with this scale model of Civic Center Busch Memorial Stadium. Crafted by Theodore Conrad Model Makers, this piece includes spectators, automobiles and even landscaping so that civic leaders and fans alike could visualize the new facility before ground would be broken just over a year later.
February's themes include an equipment bag used in the 1970s by Hall of Fame outfielder Lou Brock, an interesting fact about Red Schoendienst and a poem written by Mary Schoendienst.
The themes for January cover the groundbreaking at Busch Stadium III, commemorative "black bats" awarded by Louisville Slugger and Diamond Elite model gloves worn by Dave Freese.
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BioCycle February 2012, Vol. 53, No. 2, p. 12
Biosolids Composting Facility Expansion
The City of Austin’s Hornsby Bend Biosolids Management Plant has been composting digested solids with ground yard trimmings since 1989. Last year, a new 15-acre pad was constructed, doubling the size of the composting area. Yard trimmings (about 120,000 cubic yards/year) are collected by the city solid waste department, and brought to the Hornsby Bend facility, where they are processed in a Diamond Z grinder. “We mix by volume in roughly a 2:1 ratio of amendment to biosolids, which are about 18 to 25 percent solids,” says Jody Slagle, Compost Manager. “Windrows are 500-feet long and about 6-feet high. In the summer, we make the mix a little richer because we don’t add water to the windrows.” The facility has two SCARAB turners, one for the active composting phase and one for curing.
Dillo Dirt, the finished product, is sold in bulk for $12.40/cy. It then can sell for as high as $25 to $30/cy retail. Currently, about one-third of the biosolids produced are composted. The remainder is land applied as a Class B product to fertilize 500 acres of onsite hay fields; a portion goes off-site for land application on a farm. “With the new pad, we are hoping to compost about half of the biosolids generated,” say Slagle. “Land application is actually more expensive for the city than composting. The economics are better producing a Class A compost.” He estimates about $650,000/year is spent to operate the composting facility. Revenues from sale of Dillo Dirt are about $400,000/year.
Ithaca, New York
Researching The Suppressive Qualities Of Vermicompost
Researchers at Cornell University report that vermicompost added to potting mix may help protect seeds from the mobile spores of a pathogen that has been a particular problem for greenhouse growers. Building on previous research by professor Eric Nelson’s research group in the Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell PhD candidate Allison Jack found that beneficial microbes in the vermicompost colonize the surface of seeds and release a substance that interferes with the chemical signaling between the seeds and the mobile spores of Pythium aphanidermatum. “We know that microbes are actually adding something the zoospores don’t like,” Jack told Cornell’s Chronicle. (Zoospores are asexual mobile spores that use a tail-like protrusion for propulsion.) “Now we just have to find out what it is.”
Eric Carr, a master’s student in Nelson’s lab, is focusing on the suppressive qualities of vermicompost on a different stage of the life cycle of Pythium aphanidermatum, a pathogen responsible for seedling damping off (withering at the soil line) shortly after germination.
While research has documented that certain composts can suppress disease, what’s still unknown is which of thousands of undescribed microbes in healthy compost are responsible for suppressing which diseases. To help crack that code, Jack teamed up with New York vermicomposter Tom Herlihy, whose company Worm Power produces 2.5 million pounds of vermicompost a year using dairy manure. Because the dairy manure is a relatively consistent feedstock and his vermicomposting process is controlled, the business presents an excellent opportunity for experimentation. “Most seeds are treated in this country with chemicals,” Herlihy said. “If we know our vermicompost can suppress Pythium, wouldn’t it be nice if we could come up with a vermicompost-based solution, rather than a chemical one?”
Charleston, South Carolina
New Business Offers Organics Pick Up
Recently launched, Food Waste Disposal offers businesses an economically feasible and environmentally friendly alternative to sending food residuals and other organic waste to the landfill. The new business supplies clients with collection bins and transports the collected organics to Charleston County’s Bees Ferry Landfill Compost Facility, the first in the state to initiate a food waste composting pilot program. Food Waste Disposal offers the service, at a cost comparable to traditional waste disposal, to restaurants, hospitals, grocery stores, schools or any business/organization looking to reduce the amount of organic waste sent to landfill. Learn more at www.wastefwd.com.
Kansas City, Missouri
University Steps Up To Plate To Recover Food Waste
The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) is striving for zero waste in its dining hall operations. UMKC Sustainability Coordinator Kay Johnston participated in a recent US EPA webinar entitled “Food Recovery at Universities and Colleges,” relating what the school is doing toward that end. The university recently signed up for EPA’s Food Recovery Challenge, established to help organizations improve their bottom line while feeding people and protecting the environment. And several years ago, UMKC began working with food service vendor Sodexo and Missouri Organic Recycling’s FRED (Food Residual Environmental Diversion) program. “In 2008, we contracted with Missouri Organic to provide bins and haul away our compostables,” says Johnston, adding that partnerships have been critical to meeting the school’s zero waste goals. In 2010, UMKC formalized its zero waste goal and offered composting services throughout the campus.
In addition to the Sodexo and Missouri Organic, partners include the Campus Garden Collective, where a small-scale composting project serves as a laboratory as well as an example for students. The campus facilities lawn and landscaping department is an additional partner. “It’s not just an initiative by one person or one department, there are a lot of people involved,” Johnston told webinar participants. And that is critical to the program’s success, she says, as has been dining staff training. “It’s really important to get everyone on board.”
As far as managing preconsumer food waste in the back of the dining halls, Johnston explained that each sous chef has a 5-gallon collection bucket for organics. These are emptied into five 96-gallon toters with biodegradable liners that get picked up once a week. Compostable serviceware is utilized in the front of the house and plate scrapings are diverted to composting. Peer-to-peer education and signage help deliver the message that just about everything can be recycled. Plastic straws were an initial contamination challenge as were single-serving condiment packets, which the local health department had required in lieu of bulk packaging. “The health inspector said we couldn’t go with bulk packaging, but the [Kansas City] Department of Environmental Services also had a zero waste goal, and we were able to negotiate having condiments in bulk.” A sneeze guard provided the solution. Paper straws, although a little more expensive than their plastic counterpart, provided the other contamination solution.
Lorain County, Ohio
Fostering Community Gardens
Late last spring, Ohio community organizations and volunteers gathered to “Serve Lorain County a Garden” by distributing a Filtrexx GardenSoxx kit filled with compost media, as well as 20 plants, a watering can, a recipe book and a gardening guide, to low-income families. A total of 750 gardens were given in 2011’s Family Garden Initiative program, helping to feed around 2,000 people. The program began in 2010 as a service project through the Church of the Open Door in Elyria, Ohio, and the Filtrexx Foundation in Grafton, Ohio. Each garden is capable of producing 80 to100 pounds of produce in a growing season. “The gardens have added a greater sense of community and brings people together,” says Dawn Sommer of Faith House, a housing program for single-parent homeless families that received 11 gardens for its facility.
Because of the many difficulties of gardening traditionally in urban cities, the Family Garden Initiative uses the 2-foot long filled mesh socks that can be placed on any surface that may be available, including impervious surfaces such as asphalt or concrete. The system is also designed to require minimal maintenance because weed seeds rarely blow through the mesh into the compost. More details can be found at www.FamilyGardenInitiative.org.
USCC, Keep America Beautiful Partnership
National nonprofits Keep America Beautiful (KAB) and the U.S. Composting Council (USCC) aim to increase waste reduction through composting by collaborating on education and activities nationwide. The organizations plan to share educational resources to promote awareness of composting’s role in reducing waste, improving soil structure and water quality, and reducing soil erosion. “Teaming up with KAB to share resources and promote our complementary messages of diverting organic materials from the waste stream and into compost will be of great benefit to local communities and the environment,” says Michael Virga, USCC’s Executive Director.
Recycler Of The Year Composts On Lunch Break
Amy Donovan, program director for the Franklin County Solid Waste Management District, has been given the Gold Award for Recycler of the Year by MassRecycle, the state’s recycling coalition. The recycling award recognizes individuals and organizations for exemplary service in reducing waste. Donovan is so committed to the task of recycling organics that she reportedly spends many of her lunch breaks collecting compostables from school cafeterias within the Gill-Montague Regional School District. “I’m very glad to receive this award because it gives the spotlight to the work I’ve been doing that is very important,” Donovan told The Republican, a local newspaper. To keep organics from the mouths of incinerators and landfills, Donovan’s projects have included establishing a recycling and composting program at the Franklin County Fair and founding the Shelburne Falls Compost Collaborative. She also set up an organics drop-off program at four municipal transfer stations.
Connecting Food Waste And Soil Fertility
When Denver area Waste Farmers began composting three years ago, it operated with a pickup truck and processed about 1 ton/month of feedstocks into compost. Today, the company is processing about 300 tons a month, and produces agricultural inputs like fertilizer, potting soil, worm castings, and compost tea. The company’s objective is to create a closed-loop system that encompasses organic waste collection all the way through food production, and in doing so, create stronger market demand for high-quality compost. If all goes well, the model will be replicated in other cities.
Dan Matsch of Eco-Cycle, a nonprofit recycling and zero waste service provider in nearby Boulder, Colorado, says that both Waste Farmers and Eco-Cycle are trying “to create an association in people’s minds between food waste and soil fertility.” Waste Farmers products are currently sold in bulk, and the company plans to move into the retail home and garden market this year.
Tags: Austin, Biosolids, Charleston, Colorado, community gardens, Denver, Diamond Z, Dillo Dirt, Food Waste Disposal, Greenfield, Ithaca, Kansas City, Lorain County, Massachusetts, Missouri Organic, Scarab, Sodexo, Texas, USCC, vermicompost, Waste Farmers
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'China Syndrome' at Davos
Davos: It's "decoupling" day in Davos. Or that's how it feels. Everyone's talking about the Eastward shift in the balance of global economic power - and China, especially, as the key engine of global growth in 2010.
Even the World Economic Forum is moving its centre of gravity Eastwards. The WEF is holding a special Davos-style event in Tianjin later this year. "At least it might be a bit warmer," one Central Bank President muttered to me while brushing the snow off his coat. We're expecting 12cm of snow here today, and not everyone came well-equipped.
But "decoupling" doesn't seem the right word for what's happened to the relationship between the emerging and advanced economies. A better word would be "deconstructed".
How so? Well, it's certainly true that the emerging market economies have brushed off the troubles of the major developed economies in fine style. A year ago, one of the things that was making participants extra-gloomy about the crisis was the perception that the developing economies were being sucked into it as well. News was coming in of mass lay-offs in Brazil, as domestic car production fell off a cliff. Exports across Asia were falling at double-digit rates.
But for many of those economies, all that now seems like just a bad dream. Most of the Asian tigers have come back roaring, their long-term development story intact, and their position relative to the US and Europe rather stronger than before.
HSBC hosted an interesting breakfast on the subject this morning with the FT. A new report by HSBC's chief economist has the key headlines for the story:
"No longer is it possible to argue convincingly that the US or European nations determine the agenda for the world economy as a whole. 2009 will surely go down as the year when we both uncovered the scale of the crisis in the developed world and celebrated the resilience of much of the emerging world in the face of what appeared to be a perfect economic storm. We found, in particular, that China was able to stand on its own two feet, capable of delivering rapid economic growth even while its export engine was badly misfiring."
It's all true. It's also true that China has some important challenges to address in managing its economy - short-term and long-term, which will have important consequences for all of us.
But I wonder whether we've gone from expecting too little of China to expecting far too much. That's what I mean when I say the relationship has been deconstructed.
China does indeed need to rebalance its economy in favour of domestic demand. I've written a lot about that in the past, and there was much talk about it this morning. Reducing its chronic over-saving will help deliver more efficient, and more sustainable economic growth in China. And it will help the rest of the world as well.
But it won't magically provide a new engine for US and European demand. Nor will it make the problem of global imbalances go away.
This might sound obvious. But listening to the rhetoric of US politicians in Washington - not to mention many economists and officials here in Davos - you could easily come away with a different view.
The way US congressman tell it, all that's needed to transform the outlook for US exports (and jobs) is a stronger renminbi. And even the likes of Martin Wolf, the FT's distinguished economic commentator, can sometimes give the impression that a balanced China will balance the world.
It won't. For the simple reason that China, for all its new ascendancy, is still just one economy - about one-fifth of the size of the US.
As the UBS economist Larry Hathaway points out, even if the Chinese current account surplus (in effect, the "excess" that it lends to the rest of the world in return for buying so many Chinese goods) fell to 2% of GDP over the next few years, instead of the 6% of GDP now forecast, at most that could only add about 0.2-0.3 percentage points to US and European annual growth. And that's if those countries were able to take full advantage of the shift in demand. It's far from clear that they would.
True, in their current state, the US and Europe will take every scrap of growth they can get. But it's not the solution to global growth or global imbalances. Nor are you going to make it happen by simply pushing up the Chinese currency.
If there's one thing that the average Davos participant and the average US congressman has in common it would be a fervent belief that the Chinese need to revalue. They do - and the signs are that they will, probably in the second half of this year.
But remember, we've had enormous swings in the value of the dollar and of the yen in the past 30 years. It hasn't made a big difference to the rate of growth of imports or exports in the US - or the Japanese desire to save.
China's going to play an increasingly pivotal role in the global economy in the next few years. But it's one piece of the global economic puzzle coming out of this crisis. It can't solve the whole thing.
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4. Two Weeks Later
Set New Goals
Every athlete has bad races — even the ones who do this for a living. Britain's Paula Radcliffe dropped out of the 2004 Olympic Marathon, but three months later, staged an impressive comeback by winning the New York City Marathon. Elites like Radcliffe are able to bounce back because they have to, says sports psychologist Neal Bowes, of McLean, Virginia. If they allowed themselves to get caught up in a single bad race, they'd be out of work. You may not get paid to run, but you can adopt this mind-set. "Your running career isn't about one race," Bowes says. "Use your disappointment to fuel your next success." When setting your next goal, though, make it manageable. If you struggled to put in training miles for your last marathon, you might want to target a shorter distance. Also, to increase your chances of reaching your ultimate goal, set smaller goals along the way. If prerace jitters threw you off, race a few 5Ks
before your next big race so you learn to calm those butterflies. "Small victories help rebuild confidence after a disappointing experience," Cogan says.
5. Before Your Next RaceManage Expectations
"I go into a race knowing full well that part of running is taking the chance that something will not go right," says Kim Maxwell, a coach in Stillwater, Minnesota. Also, before you toe the line again, remind yourself that your performance — good or bad — doesn't define you (see "Embrace the Process," below). Running is part of a healthy lifestyle; it can make you feel stronger, happier, and saner. Those benefits outshine any post race glow.
What you do during the hours you're not running can make (or break) your workout. Make sure you're getting enough rest
If you're still mopey weeks after a race, consult a sports psychologist. Red flags of depression include lack of energy and motivation, appetite loss or overeating.
Embrace the Process
To enjoy your racing, sports psychologist Neal Bowes recommends being process-focused rather than outcome-focused. This allows you to see ups and downs as part of becoming a stronger athlete, rather than tying your self-worth to a time goal.OUTCOME-FOCUSED:
You focus on a highly ambitious, perhaps unrealistic, time goal.PROCESS-FOCUSED:
Your time goal is based on training runs and recent races. You also focus on mind-set, pacing, fueling, nutrition.
Your confidence as a runner is based on race times. You're driven by how people will view your achievements.PROCESS-FOCUSED:
Your confidence is based on your ability to execute a race plan, your development as a runner, and the role running plays in your life.
Your routine is strict — you train through pain and risk injury.PROCESS-FOCUSED:
When you notice a potential sign of trouble, you back off and give your body time to rest.OUTCOME-FOCUSED:
You measure race-day success in terms of times and placing. If you miss a goal time, you feel like a failure.PROCESS-FOCUSED:
You measure race-day success based partly on times and placing, but also on the experience — what you can learn and how you can apply it to future races.
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U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three of his staff members were killed in Benghazi, Libya on Tuesday. According to the Associated Press, Stevens and embassy employees were trying to evacuate staff from the consulate in the face of an attack by an angry mob shooting machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
The violence began in protest over a film that was perceived as denigrating Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. The movie was made by a man claiming to be an Israeli-American filmmaker using the pseudonym Sam Bacile, whom a representative says is now in hiding. It is being promoted by the incendiary anti-Muslim pastor, Terry Jones of Florida as well as the group Courageous Christians United, who run several anti-Islamic websites.
Stevens and other officials were reportedly moved to a safer building but, according to a Libyan Minister of the Interior, Wanis al-Sharef, the Libyan security team seems to have signaled where the Americans were to the mob. The building was then set on fire. Details are still emerging about the deaths, but the ambassador was taken to the Benghazi Medical Center. A doctor there said he died of ‘severe asphyxia’, or suffocation, apparently from smoke inhalation that caused bleeding of the stomach. He was the first U.S. ambassador to be killed in the line of duty since 1979.
In a written statement, later affirmed as he spoke from the Rose Garden, President Obama said:
“I strongly condemn the outrageous attack on our diplomatic facility in Benghazi, which took the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Right now, the American people have the families of those we lost in our thoughts and prayers. They exemplified America’s commitment to freedom, justice, and partnership with nations and people around the globe, and stand in stark contrast to those who callously took their lives.
“I have directed my Administration to provide all necessary resources to support the security of our personnel in Libya, and to increase security at our diplomatic posts around the globe. While the United States rejects efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, we must all unequivocally oppose the kind of senseless violence that took the lives of these public servants.”
He further praised Ambassador Stevens’ service as a career diplomat and his courage in working for freedom. As he spoke from the Rose Garden, he affirmed the government’s commitment to working with the Libyan government to bring to justice those responsible for the deaths.
Immediately, Mitt Romney seemed to politicize the crisis in comments that have been roundly condemned across the political spectrum. In response to an early statement from the U.S. embassy in Cairo that criticized religious intolerance, made before the deaths were reported, Romney said, “It’s disgraceful that the Obama administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.”
Even on Fox News, Peggy Noonan said, “I don’t feel that Mr. Romney has been doing himself any favors in the past few hours,” she said. “Sometimes when really bad things happen, when hot things happen, cool words or no words is the way to go.” According to the Huffington Post, conservative blogger Erick Ericson warned Romney to be “cautious.” NBC’s Chuck Todd, called Romney’s words “irresponsible” and a “bad mistake” while National Journal’s Ron Fournier said the statement was “ham-handed” and “inaccurate.”
Nevertheless, Romney spent Wednesday ramping up his criticism of Obama at a time when the nation tries to absorb and mourn its loss.
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Extension Educator, Horticulture
Catalogs and ads offer a utopia of fragrant flowers and vibrant veggies. Each plant bigger, better and easier to grow than its counterparts.
As you are plant shopping keep in mind the secret language of the plant people. A few examples include: "grows vigorously" which means it will envelop your car overnight. "Unique fragrance" equals a smell that will peel paint.
Do your homework and read the fine print. I know many people are not familiar with botanic names, but that is the only way to know what you are getting. Once you know the botanic name, even if you can't pronounce it, you can find information about the plant. Botanic names are unique. Common names can be very misleading.
A good example is an ad I saw recently in the newspaper. It was touting the luxurious beauty and fragrance of Siberian lavender. I had never heard of anything called Siberian lavender so I kept reading. The ad stated (with lots of exclamation points) how Siberian lavender produces "thousands of flowers"and has the "delicate scent of lavender perfume year after year." Wow sounds pretty fantastic. I continued to look to find the botanic name. In the minuscule fine print it said "Variety: perovskia atripliafolia" (which I assume to be the misspelling of Perovskia atripicifolia) also known as Russian sage. Russian sage is a nice perennial plant with silvery white leaves and soft bluish-purple flowers held in loose spikes. However, even from far away on a foggy day I doubt Russian sage would hold even a slight resemblance to lavender. Russian sage does have a fragrance, but it's more reminiscent of sage than of lavender.
As we all know if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is ... on our shopping list. Sorry there are no miracle plants.
Or how about the grass that provides a great-looking lawn in sun or shade requiring little mowing, watering, or fertilizing, regardless of how many kids, dogs and ATVs play on it. Ads say such grasses exist, yet the traditional grass species used in our area, Kentucky bluegrass, fine fescue, or perennial ryegrass, don't fit these claims. Are there "miracle" grasses out there? Unfortunately the ads don't always tell the whole story.
Bruce Spangenberg formerly with U of I Extension shares turfgrass examples of so-called "miracle plants." Zoysiagrass is frequently promoted in magazines or catalogs as very heat and drought tolerant, and creating a vigorous lawn. This is true, but zoysiagrass is actually adapted for southern locations and will be dormant for much of the season in most of Illinois. In spring and fall when other lawns are nice and green, zoysiagrass is usually straw colored.
Another grass advertised as needing little care, little water, and little mowing is buffalograss. There is no question buffalograss is a very drought tolerant North American native. However, buffalograss takes a long time to get established thus allowing weeds to invade. Quality is very low for home lawn use. Like zoysiagrass, buffalograss will be dormant for much of spring and fall.
In our climate with plenty of moisture, buffalograss does not compete well with weeds. However, research is being conducted to develop improved varieties, so perhaps buffalograss will someday be a good choice for Illinois lawns.
Other advertisements may promote super grass hybrids or mixes that will stay green and grow very easily regardless of the situation. Once again, examine the product closely. Many times inferior turfgrass species may be in the mix, such as annual ryegrass.
Seek catalogs that give botanic names. Do some checking with your local library or U of I Extension to see what plants are right for your area. It may save you some frustration energy better used on the weather, insects, and diseases.
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With each passing day, Pakistan becomes an even more crucial player in world affairs. Home of the world's second-largest Muslim population, epicenter of the global jihad, location of perhaps the planet's most dangerous borderlands, and armed with nuclear weapons, this South Asian nation will go a long way toward determining what the world looks like ten years from now. "The Future of Pakistan" presents and evaluates several scenarios for how the country will develop, evolve, and act in the near future, as well as the geopolitical implications of each. Led by renowned South Asia expert Stephen P. Cohen, a team of authoritative contributors looks at several pieces of the Pakistan puzzle. The book begins with Cohen's broad yet detailed overview of Pakistan, placing it within the context of current-day geopolitics and international economics. Cohen's piece is then followed by a number of shorter, more tightly focused essays addressing more specific issues of concern. Cohen's fellow contributors hail from America, Europe, India, and Pakistan itself, giving the book a uniquely international and comparative perspective. They address critical factors such as the role and impact of radical groups and militants, developments in specific key regions such as Punjab and the rugged frontier with Afghanistan, and the influence of - and interactions with - India, Pakistan's archrival since birth. The book also breaks down relations with other international powers such as China and the United States. The all-important military and internal security apparatus come under scrutiny, as do rapidly morphing social and gender issues. Political and party developments are examined along with the often amorphous division of power between Islamabad and the nation's regions and local powers. Uncertainty about Pakistan's trajectory persists. "The Future of Pakistan" helps us understand the current circumstances, the relevant actors and their motivation, the critical issues at hand, the different outcomes they might produce, and what it all means for Pakistanis, Indians, the United States, and the entire world. Praise for the work of Stephen P. Cohen "The Idea of Pakistan": "The intellectual power and rare insight with which Cohen breaks through the complexity of the subject rivals that of classics that have explained other societies posting a comparable challenge to understanding". ("Middle East Journal"). "India: Emerging Power": "In light of the events of September 11, 2001, Cohen's perceptive, insightful, and balanced account of emergent India will be essential reading for U.S. foreign policymakers, scholars, and informed citizens". ("Choice").
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In April, President Amadou Toumani Touré was re-elected for a second five-year term. Voter participation was low at 36.24 per cent. In July, President Touré’s ruling coalition, the Alliance for Democracy and Progress (Alliance pour la démocratie et le progrès) won an absolute majority in parliament.
Conflict in Kidal region
In May 2007, unrest broke out again in the Kidal region in the north, despite the peace agreement signed in Algeria in July 2006 between the Touareg armed group, the Democratic Alliance for Change (Alliance démocratique pour le changement) and the government. An armed group, led by Ibrahim Ag Bahanga, launched a series of attacks.
Following an attack by an armed group on a security post in Kidal in May, eight members of the armed group and two members of the Malian armed forces were killed. In August, around 50 soldiers and civilians were abducted by an armed group led by Ibrahim Ag Bahanga. Ten of them were released in September after a military operation led by the Malian army and 16 others in December after mediation by the Algerian authorities.
Freedom of expression under attack
In July, a teacher and five journalists were arrested for causing offence to the head of state. This followed the publication of an article commenting on an assignment set by the teacher, Bassirou Kassim Minta, which concerned the mistress of an imaginary head of state.
Bassirou Kassim Minta was sentenced to two months in prison, banned from teaching and fined following a trial which was held behind closed doors. Seydina Oumar Diarra, a journalist from the Info Matin newspaper, was sentenced to 13 days in prison and a fine. Diarra’s editor, Sambi Touré, was given an eight-month suspended sentence and a fine. The editors of three other national newspapers, Ibrahima Fall (Le Républicain), Alexis Kalambry (Les Échos) and Hameye Cissé of the daily Le Scorpion, received four-month suspended sentences and a fine.
Death penaltyIn September, the government proposed a new law that would provide for the death penalty for those convicted of being the authors of acts connected to terrorism. However, in October, the government adopted a draft bill to abolish the death penalty which was awaiting parliamentary approval at the end of the year.
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Our eco-friendly solution of Automatic Bike Sharing uses IT technology and automation to provide an economical and environmental friendly mean of modern transportation. Easily and effectively, citizens using their credit cards or sending an SMS can rent a bike and drop it in a near bike-station while enjoying a complete navigation support. Our system is totally interconnected with transportation networks such as underground metros, trams and busses.
Our Automatic Bike Sharing System is best implemented in dense, core areas of towns and cities where bicycle paths offer a safe activity. Our system is also suitable for large archeological areas, parks and grand resorts.
With an embedded navigational system the biker can identify points of interest while at the same time is checking online the availability in free slots in the near bicycle-station and the times or arrival and departure of complementary transportation means.
Visitors can use their credit card or prepaid SMSs in order to release their bikes whereas citizens can use their citizen ID card to unlock their bike.
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I've been working on some UAV stuff and thought I would share a little bit about I'm doing, and also see if anyone would be interested in getting together and working on a joint project.
My end goal is to do a solar-powered, high altitude, high speed UAV with a wifi-based ground station (possibly another protocol like zigbee 900mhz, if wifi proves to be impossible). I would be happy to break any of the following: Flight above 30k feet, Breaking 400mph, 10 hour flight time, wifi-based fpv and my pie in the sky goal is to fly at 100k feet @ 900mph, which is the orbital speed at that height. While technically possibly, I doubt its feasible. :)
I have a couple of RC planes, a 400-sized electric trainer (currently smashed, heh) and have a 2.6 meter "Super Easy Fly" powered glider that is on the way. In the end, due to the speed goal, I'd like to have a custom designed plane that will probably resemble the X-43A hypersonic scramjet test plane.
For the ground station, I have a telescope mount ordered that will be here next week that has drive motors, a 24dBi parabolic dish antenna, a laptop, wireless routers (one for the plane, and possibly one for the ground station), usb wifi adapters (5 of them, so that I can compare power levels and automatically point the dish antenna), and a surprisingly good IP-network camera. The camera and router run from 5v, so I also picked up a Castle 10amp BEC that I can use to power everything.
I've also got a couple LiPo batteries on the way, a 14.8v 5000mAh and a 11.1v 4400mAh.
This weekend I intend to cobble together some of the parts and put the the router, network camera, BEC, and a small LiPo battery in a plastic container at the top of Mission Trails park and test the range of the wifi setup that I've got. I can see the top of the mountain from my apartment, which is about 1.5 miles away, so that makes it an easy target. :)
If anyone would be interested in collaborating, please send me a message or post a reply. Also, feel free to ask any questions or note any concerns.
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Eugenics pioneer, Francis Galton, defined eugenics as “the study of all agencies under human control which can improve or impair the racial quality of future generations.”
Global warming can be defined as: “The study of all agencies under human control which can improve or impair the environmental quality of future generations.”
The eugenics movement and the global warming movement are similar in many respects. Both ideas were introduced by scientists, advanced by politicians, popularized by the media, embraced as a moral necessity, resulted in severe consequences and eventually rejected as harmful hogwash.
Eugenics, thankfully, has run its course. Global warming, however, is approaching its zenith, just before imposing severe consequences, and is, perhaps, still a generation away from being rejected as the hogwash it is.
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A Crossroads in the Ed Tech Industry
5/15/2007 By: Susan McLester
from Technology & Learning
An unmistakably chill wind blew through a room where digital curriculum publishers were lunching during a keynote at the Software and Information Industry Association conference in San Francisco this April.
The featured speaker was Barbara Kurshan, executive director of Curriki, the new open source Web learning community where educators can both post and download free multimedia school resources from around the globe. More than remaining simply an elephant in the room, the question was asked directly: "If you're giving away content for free, where does that leave us?" Kurshan, who thanked the group for "not throwing tomatoes at me," outlined the vision of the Web 2.0 resource as an "imprint" that would work in tandem with the publishers' proprietary content. Though the presentation ended on a note of low-key skepticism, it was hard to shake the feeling of having witnessed a crossroads moment in the history of the ed tech industry.
I guess we'll stay tuned to see how things unfold.
Also on the SIIA agenda were discussions of the Institute of Education Sciences' report to Congress ("Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products") which found classroom software did not impact achievement. I had the opportunity to continue the discussion on an April 17th WAMU NPR radio show, with a county technology director and a representative from the IES. Although the latter conceded her organization was definitely not trying to say software was not valuable in schools, it will be the headlines the public remembers—dealing yet another blow to federal technology funding for American schools.
And so on to the issue. This month you'll find T&L chock-full of practical information on a range of subjects from vendor negotiations to "Professors Who Blog" (our new Higher Ed department), to integration tips and much more. In our cover feature, "Vital Signs," Judy Salpeter takes a comprehensive look at best practices for using data to differentiate instruction. We'd also be interested in hearing your expert thoughts on this topic. Please e-mail me at smclester@nbmedia with opinions.
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This is the end of “National Migration Week” (Jan. 6-12). And this year, my brother bishops and I in the United States are stressing the urgent need for comprehensive reforms that would end deportation policies that break up families and that would offer illegal immigrants a path to make restitution and become citizens.
It is long past time for our nation to address this issue. So I urge you to become involved in the debates in these coming weeks. As the largest and most racially and ethnically diverse local Church in the country, our Church here in Los Angeles has an important role to play in this national conversation.
Because our Church in Los Angeles is an “icon.” It is a sign of God’s plan for his Kingdom and his Church – which is to be one family of God that joins families of many colors, races, nationalities and languages.
But our local Church is also a sign of the promise of America – which is meant to be one nation under God and a light of freedom, hope and welcome for peoples of all nations.
That is why one of my five pastoral priorities for the years ahead is to promote our sense of unity as one family of God. I really believe that in God’s Providence, we are meant to be an example to our nation, and also a model of the Church’s universal nature and mission.
The word “catholic,” as we know, means “universal” or literally, “embracing the whole universe.”
As we have heard throughout this Christmas season, Jesus came as a “Son of David.” That is, he came as a child of the Jewish people. But at the same time, he came as the “Son of Man,” as a child of all humanity.
His coming this way is a sign of his Church and his Kingdom. And it is a sign for our own identity as Catholics. We are all children of some people or another. We are Filipinos or Salvadorans or Mexicans or Irish. But no matter where we come from, in Jesus Christ we are made children of God and brothers and sisters as one family in his Catholic Church.
Jesus gave to his Church the mission to proclaim this good news to everyone and to make this beautiful vision of God a reality in our world – beginning in every human heart.
That’s still the mission of our Church and that’s still a call to conversion for each one of us. That’s the challenge of the new evangelization in a world that has become “globalized.” But before anything else, this Gospel is a challenge to our conscience.
We are called to break down every barrier, whether it comes from our pride or racism or fear, that keeps us from loving one another as brothers and sisters.
In a practical way, for us that means we can’t stay “stuck” in our own communities. We can’t look at ourselves as “Filipino Catholics” or “Hispanic Catholics” or Catholics from this or that neighborhood community. Our ethnic and cultural identities are important to who we are and who God wants us to be. But our identity in faith calls us to be much more than what we are by blood.
We need to remember always that line from the start of St. John’s Gospel: “To all who … believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God – who were born, not of blood … but of God.”
To be Catholic means understanding ourselves as sons and daughters – not only of our earthly parents, but of God. Our Catholic faith requires us to reach out beyond our boundaries. Beyond our own backgrounds and our own customary ways of doing things.
That’s what makes our Catholic Church so beautiful. We all have so much to share with our brothers and sisters and so much we can learn from them.
We need to make this process of sharing and learning a priority and a habit in our parishes and in our Archdiocesan ministries. Simple gestures can go a long way. Let’s look for ways to pray and worship with Catholics of different backgrounds and neighborhoods. Let’s learn about one another’s saints and customs.
So let’s pray for one another and for our country this week. Let’s ask for the grace to get to know people better and to love them as brothers and sisters.
And let us ask our Mother Mary to help us to realize that the love we are called to as Catholics is a love that has no borders.
Reprinted with permission from the Tidings, official newspaper for the archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Most Rev. José H. Gomez is the Archbishop of Los Angeles, California.
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This must be one of the most bitingly funny introductions to a book about agricultural policy and food safety regulations there ever was!
"That Aunt Mathilda at the Lutheran church can't make pickles and sell them to the Sunday School teacher in her own church... we've never had this kind of disconnect to our ecological womb." says author Joel Salatin here.
"Folks This Aint Normal" is about the extent to which the last 100 years has veered from normal, common sense farm practices and food politics.
Joel Salatin is an outspoken agriculture revolutionary with designs to redeem our food system. He was profiled at length by Michael Pollan in The Omnivore's Dilemma, and is the author of a number of books including Holy Cows and Hog Heaven, Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal, You Can Farm, Pastured Poultry Profit$, and Family Friendly Farming, and in 2011: Folks, This Aint Normal.
He is indeed a farmer. From the website of his Polyface Farm in Virginia:
"We are in the redemption business: healing the land, healing the food, healing the economy, and healing the culture. Experience the satisfaction of knowing your food and your farmer, building community."
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By: Alfredo D'Aniello
|Gianni Origoni Grippo Cappelli & Partners|
Via delle Quattro Fontane, 20
Telephone: +39 06 478751
Fax: +39 06 4871101
Visit website: www.gop.it
Partner, Gianni Origoni Grippo Cappelli & Partners
The term corporate joint venture is used here to refer to corporate vehicles participated by two or more ventures (shareholders) in order to carry on the business activities envisaged by the shareholders. In Italy, the most common forms of legal entities used as corporate joint venture include limited liability company (SRL) and joint stock corporation (SPA).
One of the key issues which arises when dealing with a corporate joint venture is how to regulate the relationships between the ventures with respect to corporate governance, transferability of interests and exit strategies. All rules governing a corporate joint venture are, generally, included in a shareholders agreement entered into by the shareholders at the time the joint venture is created. Very commonly, most of the provisions of the shareholders agreement are also included into the by-laws of the company so that those provisions could be opposable vis-à-vis third parties and could survive the termination/expiration of the shareholders agreement.
Article 2341 bis of the Italian Civil Code (ICC) provides that shareholders agreement relating to joint stock corporation (SPA) or companies (including SRL) controlling joint stock corporations cannot set out a duration exceeding five years, although shareholders agreement can be voluntarily renewed by the parties upon expiration. The third paragraph of article 2341 bis ICC provides, however, an exception to the above time limitation (in case of shareholders agreement linked to cooperation agreement for the production and supply of products/services relating to the corporate joint venture entirely held by the parties to the cooperation agreement).
The shareholders agreement and/or the by-laws should set out clearly the rules applicable to the corporate governance. Generally in joint venture with a majority shareholder and a minority shareholder, routine decisions would fall within the competence of the former (or the director(s) appointed by same), while the minority shareholder (or its directors) will have a veto right on the strategic decisions.
Very commonly, shareholders agreement and/or by-laws will also place limits on the parties' ability to convey their shares to third parties for a certain period of time. Lock-up provisions, although included in the by-laws, will be anyhow subject to certain (time) limitations. Indeed, article 2355 bis ICC provides that the by-laws of an SPA can include a prohibition to transfer the shares for a period not longer than five years; article 2469 ICC provides that if the by-laws of an SRL prohibits the transfer of participations, the quota holder will have the right to withdraw from the company and will be entitled to receive the liquidation value of its quota (however, the by-laws can provide for a maximum two-year term during which the withdrawal right cannot be exercised).
Ventures typically wish to have the possibility to exit at some point in time in the life of a joint venture. Depending upon the strategic intent of the ventures, exit strategy alternatives may include an IPO either upon the approval of both shareholders or pursuant to each joint venture's right, put and/or call, drag along and/or tag along, The drafting of such clauses is a delicate exercise and particular attention should be given to ensure compliance with the legal requirements. Recently, Italian courts have scrutinised some of those clauses and, in certain cases, declared the exit provisions unenforceable, as the relevant clauses were found not compliant with legal requirements. Therefore, the draftsman should carefully review those clauses in order to avoid or minimize the risk that their validity or enforceability could be challenged.
Alfredo D'Aniello specializes in merger and acquisitions, take over bids on listed companies, joint venture, LBO and LMBO, and, more in general, in extraordinary transactions.
He graduated in Law maxima cum laude from the University of Naples "Federico II" in 1999. Starting from 2001, he attended several training courses in Corporate Finance and Global Banking in London and Berlin. In 2005-2006, he gained a significant experience with one of the most prestigious American law firms, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in the New York offices. In 2006, he completed in New York a course in Corporate Finance and Accounting with the New York University – School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
He is a member of the Italian Bar Association.
He speaks Italian and English.
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Murray Energy Corporation
The Murray Energy Corporation is a coal mining company producing produces approximately 30 million tons of high quality bituminous coal per year. It has operations in southern Ohio, in southwestern Pennsylvania, the Illinois Basin (Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois), and central Utah.
Salt Lake City-based coal miner UtahAmerican Energy is a subsidiary of Murray Energy Corporation. UtahAmerican is a company with approximately $65.1 million in annual sales in 2008, and was started in 1996.
Coal slurry spills
In October 2010, water contaminated with coal dust "spilled" for the fourth time since 2000 into a Belmont County creek that is home to an endangered salamander, Ohio state agencies reported. The coal slurry - water used to wash newly mined coal and filled with potentially toxic heavy metals - came from a pipeline that runs from Murray Energy's Century Mine across Captina Creek to the company's Ohio Valley coal waste slurry impoundment, said Mike Shelton, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The break occurred in a joint in the pipeline about 250 feet north of the creek in a hayfield, Shelton said, spilling slurry into the field and the creek.
The Ohio Environmental Council (OEC) estimates the spill at about one quarter of a million gallons. According to the OEC, 7 leaks were found in Murray Energy's impoundment pond and two were in the pipeline, one in 2005 and then this 2010 spill. The 2005 pipeline spill cost Murray Energy $50,000 dollars in fines for killing thousands of fish and polluting a half mile of the same creek. In this spill, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Division Spokesman Mike Shelton said, "so far 3500 fish and 850 other salamander, crayfish and frogs died in the creek."
Murray Energy was denied a permit to build a new slurry pond in 2008 by the Ohio EPA, but have applied again for another permit to build a pond.
Ohio's environmental agencies are seeking $91,000 in damages from Murray's American Energy for the Oct. 1 coal slurry spill.
Crandall Canyon Mine Disaster
Crandall Canyon Mine was an underground, bituminous coal mine in northwestern Emery County, Utah, owned by UtahAmerican Energy, a subsidiary of Murray Energy, and was located about 15 miles (24 km) west north-west of Huntington, Utah. On August 6, 2007, at 2:48 A.M., the mine collapsed, trapping 6 workers inside. The workers were approximately 3.4 miles (5.5 km) from the mine entrance and 1500 feet (457 m) underground. The collapse registered recorded seismic waves in magnitude 3.9 to 4.0, by seismograph stations of the University of Utah.
A Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) report the mine was "destined to fail" because the mining company made critical miscalculations and didn't report early warning signs. MSHA itself was faulted by the Department of Labor, of which MSHA is an agency, for lax oversight before the collapse, and for mismanaging the failed rescue attempt.
The largest mining fine until the 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster was levied against Murray Energy for the Crandall collapse: $1.85 million for 20 citations, including nine that were "contributory."
CEO Murray and political donations
2010 election and climate denial
In February 2010, Murray Energy’s political committee and executives, including CEO Robert Murray, combined to contribute nearly $25,000 to California GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina’s campaign against Barbara Boxer, the incumbent Democrat. (At the same Ohio fundraiser, Fiorina obtained an additional $39,000 from Midwestern companies that sell coal mining equipment and supplies.)
In May 2010, Murray Energy donated $30,000 to California’s Proposition 23, which would suspend the state’s AB 32 anti-global warming measure until the state economy rebounds from the recession. Another donor, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, a Washington, D.C.-lobbying group, gave $5,000. Prop. 23 is sponsored by the energy industry, and its biggest booster is the Valero Energy from San Antonio, Texas.
It is assumed that the company targeted Boxer and the anti-AB 32 proposition because of CEO Murray, who has dismissed global warming as “hysterical global goofiness." Murray and Boxer went head-to-head over the issue at a 2007 Senate hearing on environment and public works. Former Vice President Al Gore and "Silent Spring" author Rachel Carson were also criticized by Murray, who said: "The hysterical and out-of-control climate change or global warming issue, and the legislation that you have proposed, will lead to the deterioration of the American standard of living and the accelerated exportation of more of our jobs to China and other developing countries, which have repeatedly advised, as recent as last week, that they will not limit their carbon dioxide emissions.... Albert Gore touts that his role model has always been Rachel Carson, with her picture on his wall, who led the environmental movement to ban DDT. She and her environmental followers killed millions of human beings around the world with the ban on DDT, which has since been found by the World Health Organization to be very safe to humans in controlling global epidemics."
Employee donations and coercion
In May 2012, Murray hosted a $1.7 million fund-raiser for Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, whom Murray employees had thus far given more than $120,000 for the 102 election cycle. The accounts of two sources who have worked in managerial positions at Murray, and a review of letters and memos to Murray employees, suggest that Murray has for years pressured salaried employees to give to the Murray Energy political action committee (PAC) and to Republican candidates chosen by the company. Internal documents show that company officials track who is and is not giving. The sources say that those who do not give are at risk of being demoted or missing out on bonuses, claims Murray denies. Yet the Murray sources say that, at the time of hiring, supervisors tell employees that they are expected to contribute to the company PAC by automatic payroll deduction – typically 1 percent of their salary, a level confirmed by a 2008 letter to employees from the PAC’s treasurer. Employees are given a form to sign, explaining that the giving is "voluntary."
Mitt Romney visited Murray Energy's Century Mine in August 2012 to promote jobs in the coal industry. Hundreds of coal miners and their families attended. It was later found that Murray's Pepper Pike company told workers that attending the Romney event would be both mandatory and unpaid, a top company official said in a West Virginia radio interview.
Existing Coal Mines
Murray Energy Corporation
29325 Chagrin Boulevard
Pepper Pike, Ohio 44122
Email: info AT coalsource.com
Articles and resources
Related SourceWatch articles
- ↑ Murray Energy Corporation, "History", Murray Energy Corporation website, accessed June 2009.
- ↑ "Utah American Energy, Inc." ZipperPages.com, November 2009
- ↑ Doug Caruso, "Coal slurry spill threatens Belmont County creek" The Columbus Dispatch, Oct. 1, 2010.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Rick Reitzel, "Ohio Coal Company Has A Large Coal Slurry Spill" NBC, Oct. 6, 2010.
- ↑ Casey Junkins, "$91,000 Slurry Spill Fine Appealed" The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register, April 21, 2011.
- ↑ "6 miners trapped in Utah coal mine collapse" CNN.com, August 6, 2007
- ↑ "Year after mine collapse, many failures clear", Associated Press, Aug. 6, 2008
- ↑ Kris Maher, "Record Fine Seen in Mining Disaster" Wall Street Journal, Dec. 6, 2011.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Lance Williams, "Ohio coal company that backed Fiorina also gave to Prop. 23" CA Watch Blog, July 27, 2010.
- ↑ Stephen Lacey, "Coal Workers Say Murray Energy ‘Coerces’ Them To Make GOP Donations: ‘If You Don’t Contribute, Your Job’s At Stake,’" Climate Progress, Oct 5, 2012.
- ↑ Sabrina Eaton, "Coal miners lost pay when Mitt Romney visited their mine to promote coal jobs," The Plain Dealer, August 28, 2012.
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Dysphagia - self-care
What to Expect at Home
Some people have a hard time swallowing foods or liquids. This is called dysphagia.
Symptoms of swallowing problems are:
- Coughing or choking, either during or after eating
- Gurgling sounds from the throat during or after eating
- Throat clearing after drinking or swallowing
- Slow chewing or eating
- Coughing food back up after eating
- Hiccups after swallowing
- Chest discomfort during or after swallowing
- Unexplained weight loss
Symptoms may be mild or severe.
Most people with dysphagia should have a medical evaluation, but these general tips may help with swallowing problems:
- Keep mealtime relaxed.
- Sit up as straight as possible when you eat.
- Take small bites, less than 1 teaspoon of food per bite. Chew well and swallow your food before taking another bite.
- If one side of your face or mouth is weaker, chew food on the stronger side of your mouth.
- Do not mix solid foods with liquids in the same bite.
- Do not try to wash down solids with sips of liquids, unless your speech or swallowing therapist told you it is OK to.
- You may need someone to remind you to finish swallowing.
- Do not talk and swallow at the same time.
- Sit upright for 30 - 45 minutes after eating.
Do not drink thin liquids without checking with your doctor or therapist first. It may help to ask caregivers and family members not to talk to you when you are eating or drinking.
When to Call the Doctor
Call your doctor if:
- You cough or have fever or shortness of breath.
- You are losing weight.
- Your swallowing problems are getting worse.
David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, and George F Longstreth, MD, Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, San Diego, California. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc.
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Cedars-Sinai researchers have linked Kawasaki Disease, a serious childhood illness that causes inflammation of blood vessels throughout the body, with early-onset and accelerated atherosclerosis, a leading cause of heart disease in adults.
In a study published in the August 2012 print edition of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, an American Heart Association peer-reviewed medical journal, a team of researchers showed how Kawasaki Disease in young mice predisposed them to develop accelerated atherosclerosis, often called hardening of the arteries, in young adulthood. The study also suggests that aggressive early treatment of the blood vessel inflammation caused by Kawasaki Disease may reduce the future risk of developing accelerated atherosclerosis. Up to 25 percent of children with Kawasaki Disease will develop inflammation of the coronary arteries, making it the leading cause of acquired heart disease among children in developed countries.
"Heart disease is the leading cause of death in this country and this study suggests that adult cardiovascular diseases likely start during childhood and that Kawasaki Disease may play a role in the childhood origin of adult heart disease," said Moshe Arditi, MD, executive vice chair of research in Cedars-Sinai's Department of Pediatrics in the Maxine Dunitz Children's Health Center and director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology. "By recognizing the connection between this vascular inflammatory disease and hardening of the arteries in young adults, physicians will be better prepared to provide preventive care to these vulnerable patients."
Arditi said the study's findings also may have implications for children with Kawasaki Disease in that they may need to be closely monitored for future development of early-onset atherosclerosis. Also, doctors treating children who have had Kawasaki Disease should closely monitor other known cardiovascular disease risk factors such as obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking, Arditi said.
The study is available online at the journal's website.
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Independent Living Services
QEF helps people with complex disabilities to acquire key life skills and greater independence. Our unique transitional service enables people to set and achieve their own goals.
Independent Living Services
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Criteria for admission
At QEF Independent Living Services we endeavour to offer placements to people with physical and/or learning disabilities, who we feel can benefit from our help, support and services.
We will consider referrals for people:
- Aged between 18 and 65 years of age
- Of either gender
- Who have physical and/or learning disabilities
- Who need short/medium term placements
- Who aspire to a greater level of independence in their lives
- Who require respite care
- Who are recovering from some form of illness
- Who are going through some form of crisis in their lives
Referrals will not be considered for the following:
- People with severe mental health issues
- People who are habitual offenders
- People who require nursing care
- People who are Schedule 1 offenders
Admission procedure for residential clients
We will offer a placement to a person if, after reading the reports and undertaking assessments, we genuinely believe we can provide a safe, caring environment for that person and that we can address, with some expectation of success, his or her needs.
Initial enquiries can be received directly from a client, their advocate, family or social worker.
An initial visit to look around, ask questions and meet staff and other clients is welcomed from the client and their family.
The social worker would also be invited to visit Dorincourt, to ensure the placement and environment are suitable.
Dorincourt will send out requests for appropriate referral information regarding the person, including educational reports, psychological assessments, social history, and their current situation.
Once all the information has been received it is assessed and, if appropriate, the person will be invited to attend a residential assessment for between 3 to 5 days. This would need to be agreed by social services. Clients are required to bring all of their equipment with them for the assessment in order that their needs can be fully assessed and understood. This would include equipment like shower chairs, bespoke mattresses or sleep systems etc.
Once the assessment is completed, Dorincourt will produce a written report outlining what we can offer to the person, the weekly charges and an offer of a placement.
If the needs of the person can not be met appropriately a placement will not be offered. We would, however, ensure that the funding authority was given clear reasons as to why we felt unable to do so.
Agreement to the funding of the placement is normally the responsibility of social services. Once funding has been agreed, an admission date can be set.
On admission, it is expected that the social worker will notify the relevant social service departments as required.
The placing authority is responsible for arranging and conducting any reviews.
Dorincourt is open for 52 weeks a year, although there are short breaks in the sessions and activities provided around Christmas, Easter and in August.
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“We have something that will radically save the pharmaceutical industry,” says Susan Solomon in an interview on the social floor of TEDGlobal 2012, in Edinburg, Scotland. Solomon is the founder and CEO of the New York Stem Cell Foundation. She spoke with the TED Blog about the NYSCF’s new array of automatically created stem-cell lines, which she talked about for the first time onstage at TEDGlobal.
On Wednesday, Solomon gave a talk on the promise of stem cells in research. In that talk, she discussed the process of drug development: it’s spectacularly expensive and time-consuming, taking 13 years and costing around $4 billion for a single drug, which will have a 99% failure rate. “That,” she says in the talk, “is a terrible business model, but also is a horrible social model.”
Part of the problem is, it’s impossible to test a new drug on a large and representative sample of the human population (which would be spectacularly unethical). But it means that a drug that tests well on some people will have side-effects, or be ineffective, on other people — a problem that’s sometimes not apparent until the drug is on the market and being prescribed to real patients. It’s not known exactly why this happens, and it could be due to differences in genes or other unknown factors.
To allow for much broader testing, Solomon and the team at NYSCF have created a machine that can roboticize the creation of stem-cell lines. This will produce a comprehensive array of stem-cells which can serve as a testbed for new drugs, allowing testing on a wide sample of human types. As she said in her talk:
By 2008, a scientist at the NYSCF was able to take skin cells, turn them into stem cells, then into motor neurons — the kinds that are damaged in ALS, or motor-neuron disease. Using that, he could watch the progress of the disease in a dish in living human cells. He found they were dying in very different ways than thought: They were being attacked by other cells. This was not possible to see before the model provided by the stem cells; it would have been like looking at a plane crash before the black box. Says Solomon, “Stem cells are the black box for diseases.”
The idea is that, if researchers had access to 25,000 different stem-cell lines, instead of just a few, they could test new drugs on a wide sample of human stem-cells before releasing it. That would not only avoid disasters like the deaths from adverse reactions to Vioxx, but also give people a sense ahead of time of what side-effects they might experience. “You want to know not just a list of side-effects,” said Solomon, but when looking at a specific side-effect, “Am I that person?”
The new array is built and is already producing stem-cell lines. It will be able to make 2,500 lines by the end of the year, a stunning increase over previous numbers. (In the past, all stem-cell lines were created by hand.) “We have the best stem cell scientists,” Solomon says of the NYSCF, “and we recapitulated their methods in software.” And they’ve designed the machine in a way that can adapt to new developments: ”The only thing we know for sure is that techniques will improve.”
The next question: funding. Currently the NYSCF runs one shift on one machine, which produces the 2,500 lines a year. They could increase this by adding shifts or even a second machine — their eventual goal is to produce 25,000 stem-cell lines each year. They also plan to move the machine into a clean-room facility, to enable the lines to be used in research with more stringent requirements.
Solomon and her team are quite excited. “The goal is to change things so that we’re not waiting 13 years to find out a drug doesn’t work, or it harms you.”
Photo: James Duncan Davidson
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Saturday, January 12, 2013
Noah Pozner: war and peace
These facts are indisputable. Yet my mind can't seem to hold them together in coherent thought. We are taught those who went to war fought so that we could live free. I wasn't born in this country and have only been a citizen for twenty-five years. That may be the reason why I have a hard time understanding that, to some Americans, freedom means having the right to procure, own and learn to use weapons that can obliterate classes full of children in seconds.
I have heard the old canard that guns don't kill, people do. That is certainly true. Guns cannot walk themselves into a school, a movie theater or a shopping mall and pull their own triggers. At least they can't yet. Who knows about tomorrow? If we can fly drones, is it far-fetched to imagine a world where affordable robots could be armed and programmed to go and kill?
Thousands cannot have died or nearly starved to death in prisoner camps -as my father did- to protect the right of gun enthusiasts to own and use weapons that were not even invented in their lifetimes. They died or starved to protect the lives and freedom of their families and fellow citizens, including the right of little children to get an education without being afraid of "bad men" blasting their way into their schools and the rights of parents everywhere to see their children peacefully grow into responsible adults.
Gun people may be entrenched in their conviction that their right to any deadly weapon under the sun is God-given and shouldn't be tampered with. Because of the powerful interests that stand behind them and skillfully manipulate at least some of them, they are very vocal and their voices carry far and wide.
Many of them are parents though. Because of our shared humanity, I know that in private these fathers and mothers are thinking: "What if it had been my kid? Would I still feel that the right to own semi-automatic weapons is more sacred than the right of my child to his or her life?"
To them I say, take my grandson, take all twenty of Newtown slaughtered children, take all the kids who die from gunshots every year in our country and make them your own. They were real boys and girls, just like your sons and daughters. Before raising your voice to be heard, in Washington or elsewhere, please listen for theirs in your heart and think of your own kids. Make it personal. Believe me, there is nothing more personal than grieving for a murdered child.
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[Dateline: New York | Author: iSeek]
The 2009 theme for the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust (Tuesday, 27 January) -- "An authentic basis for hope: Holocaust remembrance and education” -- honours the memory of the victims and recognizes the positive trend toward Holocaust education around the world and the importance of these lessons today.
In a message issued for the occasion, the Secretary-General said, “Our world continues to be plagued by ruthless violence, utter disregard for human rights, and the targeting of people solely for who they are. On this fourth International Day of Commemoration, let us remember the victims of the Holocaust by reaffirming our faith in the dignity and equal rights of all members of the human family. And let us pledge to work together to turn today’s hope into tomorrow’s better future” (full message).
The Secretary-General is delivering remarks before the congregation of the Park East Synagogue in New York on Saturday, 24 January at the invitation of Rabbi Arthur Schneier who has organized the solemn event.
Over the next week, a variety of events are planned in observance of the day, including exhibits, a memorial ceremony, a panel discussion, a documentary screening, a reading, a book signing and a briefing. Additional details, including dates, times and locations, are available online.
Around the world, the network of United Nations information centres (UNICs) have been invited to join the Footprints for Hope Project, the outreach programme’s newest initiative, developed in partnership with Paul Salmons, Head of Curriculum Development, Holocaust Education Development Programme, Institute of Education, University of London, and Cornelia Reetz, United Kingdom Holocaust Centre, Nottinghamshire.
The educational materials for the Footprints programme include a lesson plan, a power point presentation and a film that centre around one of the most painful graphic images from the Holocaust, the shoes of the victims who perished in Nazi death camps. Following this lesson, the students, age 13 and older, will draw inspiration for a more hopeful future by creating colourful art out of used footwear. The aim of this activity is to further the students’ understanding of the Holocaust and encourage respect for human rights and the dignity and worth of every person.
Additional educational materials and discussion papers are available online.
About the day
In a 2005 resolution, the General Assembly designated 27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, as an annual international day of commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, and also requested the establishment of an outreach programme on the Holocaust and the United Nations (A/RES/60/7).
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Can’t seem to get something to synth right? Curious about what lens is best? Ask your fellow Photosynthers here.
How do you do a landscape that has people moving in it? Different photos of the same landscape have the people in different positions.
Normally, if one is standing in one place and just panning your camera across the horizon, a panorama (the photos fused into one large piece of photography with Microsoft ICE or Adobe Photoshop) is a better choice than a synth (the photos positioned relative to each other by the Photosynth app).
Moving people won't stop either Photosynth or ICE from completing their matching of the parts of the scene that stay still, however ICE may accidentally stitch only part of a person where they change positions between photos, or possibly show them multiple times in the same panorama. If you would like more control and you want a panorama, rather than a photosynth, look into Adobe Photoshop with the panorama publishing plugin for Photosynth.
For ease of use for you, though, if you simply drag all the photos into the Photosynth app to make a synth, the photos will stay separate (no half stitched people) and will only match each other based on the parts of the scene which stay still, so the moving people won't affect anything. The important thing is only to make sure that the shots of the landscape truly do overlap each other.
Photosynth will only be able to figure out the parts of the photos which overlap each other and are not extremely different angles or distances.
If I didn't answer your question satisfactorily, please feel free to help me better understand what you'd like to do.
Have you tried using Photosynth to create a synth ( http://photosynth.net/create.aspx ) or ICE to create a pano ( http://bit.ly/microsoftice ) yet?
It might help you to just go ahead and try the two approaches out first and then if you have trouble or don't like the results, then you can show us exactly what you don't like or do like and get a little more specific about what you'd like to do differently.
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From the Swelblog, written by William S. Swelbar, a Research Engineer in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s International Center for Air Transportation, where he is affiliated with the Global Airline Industry Program and Airline Industry Research Consortium.
Find the original post here: http://www.swelblog.com/articles/is-the-union-leadership-at-american-really-representing-the.html
Delta is cutting international capacity by 3-4 percent in the face of economic weakness. In an effort to improve profitability, United has announced capacity cuts for 2013. Federal Express just announced a 3-year plan to cut $1.7 billion in costs mainly in its Express unit as revenue suffers from high oil prices and the fact that customers have found cheaper alternatives. The cost cuts will largely be accomplished through headcount reductions which work to eliminate fixed costs.
If FedEx is seriously evaluating headcount at a perpetually profitable business unit, then so should those who believe that American and US Airways together would not need to trim costs any more than has been done at each airline in restructuring.
This is why it is so puzzling to me that Laura Glading, president of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants at American, continues to beat the drum for a merger between American and US Airways.
My guess is that Glading negotiated some concessions for flight attendants in talks with American because she is convinced, or has been promised, that a deal with US Airways will come with some sort of snapbacks or other icing that benefit her members and, perhaps, her position in what would be a larger, more powerful union.
That theory, however, ignores the economic reality of consolidation in today’s domestic market which has proven time and again that airlines with the highest costs have a distinct competitve disadvantage. So Glading continues to view her world through rose-colored glasses, preaching the purported labor benefits of a merger that can’t hope to succeed without the strict cost discipline neither she nor Parker are willing to acknowledge.
Recently, Glading asked flight attendants at both airlines to petition AMR’s Board of Directors to pursue a merger. The petition reads:
Dear AMR Board of Directors,
American Airlines is no longer the brand it used to be. Instead, this once great airline is now at the mercy of a dwindling network and an inferior product.
Fortunately, not all hope is lost. There is a way to right this ship. If American Airlines could merge with US Airways before this bankruptcy has run its course and the AA brand completely destroyed, we can all work together to get American Airlines back on top.
The US Airways merger plan is the best option to correct the problems AA faces. I encourage you to pursue the only path available that will lead American Airlines out of bankruptcy stronger than the day it entered: a merger with US Airways.
American Airlines + US Airways: Our Future Depends On It
One has to wonder exactly what Glading was promised to press so hard for a plan with such limited economic foundation. If US Airways brings so much to the table, then why did the Delta employees band together to block Parker’s ardent overtures? Why did United leave US Airways at the altar at the eleventh hour when a better partner emerged? Yet at American, the unions’ leadership seems to believe that a marriage with US Airways is some sort of panacea that represents no pain/all gain for employees.
Labor and management united to save the airline then; but those moves have led to a wider gap between them
Unions for US Airways flight attendants and pilots reacted angrily to CEO Doug Parker making $9 million on stock options.
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Facebook Inc. (FB) co-founder Mark Zuckerberg drew inspiration for the world’s most popular social- networking site from an unexpected place, according to the video being shown to would-be investors in the company’s initial public offering.
Zuckerberg kicks off the video by saying he was a big fan of Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) when he was in middle school. Yahoo, along with Google Inc. (GOOG), was his search engine of choice for scouring the Web.
“It was this complete symbol of the age in which we live where now you have access to all of this information,” he said.
Zuckerberg, who was 11 when Yahoo sold shares to the public in 1996, is now preparing for an IPO that will probably value his company at close to $100 billion. That’s about five times Yahoo’s value. In terms of sales, Zuckerberg’s almost caught up to the site he idolized: Facebook’s $4 billion in revenue over the past year trails Yahoo by just $1 billion, Bloomberg.com reported on its Tech Blog.
While Zuckerberg, a celebrated 27-year-old college dropout, is on the road selling the world’s biggest investors on his company’s greatness, Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Scott Thompson is embroiled in a crisis surrounding his resume, which falsely stated that he graduated college with a degree in computer science.
Now Thompson’s job is on the line, something his predecessors can relate to. The 54-year-old joined Yahoo in January, becoming its fourth CEO since Zuckerberg started Facebook in 2004. Thompson was hired months after Carol Bartz was unceremoniously fired, and tasked with figuring out the future of a company that was bleeding talent and lacking coherent direction.
The Yahoo that Zuckerberg grew up with looked very different, more closely resembling the Facebook of today. The Web portal’s co-founders, Jerry Yang and David Filo, were computer geeks who started the site as a project at Stanford University. And like Zuckerberg, they were heavily involved in the company’s strategy and product development.
Those days are long gone. For Zuckerberg, the cool site he loved to navigate the Web in middle school may now serve as an example of how not to grow up.
To contact the reporter on this story: Ari Levy in San Francisco at firstname.lastname@example.org
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Tom Giles at email@example.com
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A disturbing article this week in the FT reports how cassiterite sourced through the use of child and slave labour has made it into the supply chains of global electronic goods manufacturers. Cassiterite is a derivative of tin ore necessarily used in circuitry and its use has, ironically, enabled devices to become more eco friendly. But at what cost?
Prices for tin ore have soared on the London Metal Exchange from around $5,000 per tonne in 2003 to more than $19,000 today driven by the demand for consumer electronics. War torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is home to a huge concentration of tin mines and now a renegade army division has moved in to take control of some of the mines with disastrous results. I spoke with Nicholas Garrett and my former colleague, Harrison Mitchell who penned this report for the FT and they elaborated more on their investigation. According to Nicholas who visited the mines in the Walikale region of DRC:
The manner in which the artisanal miners in Bisie - some as young as twelve years old - are forced to work is a human rights disaster. Under the watch of the 85th brigade some are forced to spend up to 72 hours in narrow tunnels, some of which do not exceed 70cm in diameter. The general safety conditions are appalling, with regular accidents occurring on site.
I highly recommend checking out Mark Craemer's site to view an extensive collection of moving images from his investigative mission to the DRC tin mines to get an idea of the plight of the artisanal miners at the sharp end of this trade. (Mark kindly gave permission to use the picture displayed here.)
To be fair, managing commodities sourced unethically out of the supply chain is exceedingly difficult. Nicholas and Harrison described the labyrinthine supply chain process in the FT piece:
Cassiterite from Bisie is bought by middlemen linked to exporters and international traders who sell the ore on to smelters that purchase on the open market. At the smelters, the tin from North Kivu is mixed with other tin, refined and sold either directly to solder manufacturers, or through international metal exchanges. Finally, tin solder is sold to manufacturers for use in the production of electronic gadgets.
Microsoft's response on this issue was quoted in the FT article:
we don’t have visibility into the activities of commodity suppliers participating at the beginning of the hardware supply chain
will review levels of compliance amongst its primary suppliers with these guidelines and ensure that business practice standards are met by all companies operating within the supply chain
Samsung said that it had now requested that its component providers investigate their suppliers of tin and stated that it is working closely with the Electronics Industry Code of Conduct Extractive Work Group to find the best solution to the problems of sourcing from countries such as Congo
takes any alleged breach of the code of conduct seriously and will investigate further
I reached out to the joint industry initiatives looking at this issue GESI (Global E Sustainability Initiative) and the EICC (Electronic Industry Code of Conduct) and clearly this is an issue of concern now under detailed and considered review. A study of the social and environmental responsibilities for industry sourcing from the extractive sector is underway and will report next month. The group has recently consulted with human rights NGOs, trade unions and others on the best way to tackle this issue and I am told the group is making good progress:
Our research is expected to be complete at the end of April but we have seen enough data that we're hoping to begin to determine our next steps
The easy thing here would be for the industry run away from the problem and source elsewhere. But actually, the economic might of the global IT industry could make a real difference through exertion of collective downward pressure on the supply chain. I spoke to others involved in the reform process in DRC for a view on this and according to Peter Eigen, Chairman of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a global initiative advocating transparent revenue flows in producer countries:
Pulling out of DRCongo would be the wrong approach. Instead, the global electronics industry has to acknowledge its responsibility, and start to conduct proper due diligence when sourcing their mineral inputs as well as proactively to support the general reform process in the DRCongo.
So there you have it - inextricable proof that we live in a truly connected economy both for better and for worse and when it come to sustainability, environmental issues are nearly always closely linked to human rights. Cassiterite is an issue of industry concern that will continue to be on the radar screen for some time with the ethical supply chain risk rising proportionately with international tin ore prices.
(Disclosure: I am employed by SAP and SAP together with the German government has offered technical assistance towards supporting enablement of the EITI process)
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Mike Shanahan (Under the Banyan) reports on the rapid decline of seed dispersing and other animals in the world’s most botanically diverse forest. (And no, it doesn’t have anything to do with that bug-bear of northern-hemisphere conservationists, overpopulation, as he details in a comment.)
Mike at Under the Banyan Tree reports on the seemingly daunting but ultimately encouraging struggle to recover a forest devastated by loggin in Borneo.
The national park managers showed us before and after photographs that revealed how they were slowly turning a wasteland into something that once more resembled a forest. Since 2005, they have planted more than a million trees on 5,000 hectares of the burnt and deforested land. In 2012, they aim to plant trees on another 2,000 hectares.
This is just a start. Because forests like that at Sebangau store vast quantities of carbon below ground in their buried peat and above ground in their trees, they can play an important role in limiting climate change.
It means that efforts to reforest Sebangau could be among the first projects in line for funding under an international scheme called REDD+ that will allow polluting companies and countries to offset their carbon emissions by paying to plant trees and protect forests.
Read the rest of the post to learn how this could help save one of our closest animal cousins from extinction.
In a recent post at Under the Banyan, Mike rails at the FAO’s definition of “forest” and the poor policy decisions that can lead to:
Scientists have tried to explain how important real forests are for limiting climate change, tackling poverty and creating green economies based on timber and other forest products.
But the fate of forests gets decided in concrete capitals where policymakers pour over green-tinged maps and financial spreadsheets that only show some of the costs and benefits of changing a real forest into anything else.
Right now, somewhere in the world, one of these policymakers is reading a technical document about forests — they are reading small black print on a dull pale page and they are probably wishing the document or the day was shorter.
It makes me wonder how many of the bureaucrats who will decide the fate of the world’s tropical forests have actually walked in one. And how the protectors of the forests can encourage more policymakers to take that journey.
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The Great Seal of Louisiana
The official state seal of Louisiana was adopted in 1902. It features a pelican tending its three young chicks in their nest. The story is that the pelican is actually tearing some of its own flesh to feed the chicks, which apparently a pelican will do rather than allow its young to starve. This seal has changed over the years, and at one point there were a dozen chicks in the nest. Since pelicans normally do not have large numbers of chicks at one time, the present version is more realistic. It also makes you feel a bit better knowing that the pelican doesn't have to pull itself apart for more than three of the young. The Louisiana motto "Union, justice, confidence" surrounds the birds on the present seal.
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Study: 74% of Internet users read local newspaper content
Arlington, Va.—In an average week, 74% of all Internet users rely on local newspaper content—whether in digital or print format—according to a report from Frank N. Magid Associates for the Newspaper Association of America. The report also showed that 54% of Internet users are using more than one platform to access newspaper content.
The report also indicated that users are interacting with newspaper advertising. Almost two-thirds (66%) of digital newspaper media users said they act on digital ads. Similarly, 61% of tablet users said they act on newspaper tablet ads, and 59% of smartphone users act on ads viewed on their mobile devices. Almost three-quarters (73%) said they used newspaper printed circulars in the past 30 days.
To compile the report, Frank N. Magid Associates conducted 2,518 online interviews of adults 18 and older in January and February.
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Second Sunday Cinema presents “The Koch Brothers Exposed.” The new full-length documentary depicts how the super-PACs are being funded due to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United.
According to the film, the Koch brothers, Charles and David Koch, are using their billions to put a stranglehold on American democracy and don’t just spend on luxury homes and boats. They’ve been using their wealth to shut out the voices of the American people — pledging to spend at least $100 million on the 2012 elections.
According to the documentary, the Koch brothers don’t oppose big government as such, they oppose government period — including taxes, environmental protections, safety-net programs, social security and public education.
Robert Greenwald’s film, “Koch Brothers Exposed,” will be shown at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Universalists Community of the Mountains, 246 Church St., in Grass Valley. Watch the film and stay for the lively facilitated discussion. Popcorn and refreshments will be available. For information, contact the Peace Center at (530) 265-0200 or visit the Peace Center’s website at ncpeace.org.
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Balance Transfers of Credit Card Debt
|Paying off high interest credit cards or loans by putting the balances on credit cards with lower interest rates or with a zero interest rate.|
- If you can substantially lower the interest rate that you are paying, it should help you to pay the balance in a shorter amount of time.
- It is never wise to incur additional debts when you are already struggling and new credit can encourage new debt.
- The 'low interest' credit card company may notify you in writing of a change to your account terms, which increases your interest rates to whatever the company says. In general, these notifications ask you to 'accept' the new terms of the contract, but if you do not accept, you are required to close the account.
What to Avoid
- Avoid 'cross-default clauses' and other 'tricky' provisions that can provide nasty surprises. 'Cross-default clauses' is fine print in the contract that makes it a 'default' if you become late on anything you owe, such as a phone bill or medical bill, then the interest rate goes from the low or 0% to a very high 'default rate.'
- Be certain the low interest rate doesn't apply only to new purchases.
- Find out if balance transfers will be considered 'cash advances' and therefore carry a much higher interest rate.
- Is there a limit on how long the low interest rate is guaranteed?
- Avoid assuming that your financial status is good simply because you receive pre-approved credit offers.
What to Look for
- Look for the answers to all of the questions above, in writing, before you commit.
- Be certain that you can afford the monthly payment and that it will allow you to pay off your debt in a reasonable period of time.
- Know whether this is a realistic option for you by doing the calculations to see how long it will take you to pay off the debt at the new interest rate based upon the amount you can afford to pay per month. Financial calculators are available on the Internet.
Potential Impact on Your Credit
Transferring balances may or may not affect your credit scores. Your credit reports and scores will be negatively affected by using more than a very small percentage of the credit you have available with any single lender. Closing credit accounts or opening new credit accounts is also likely to negatively affect your credit rating.
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Politics and Government
Cuomo: State to miss fracking deadline on Thursday
The state’s environmental agency confirms it will miss a key deadline and delay approval of hydrofracking in New York once again. Anti-fracking forces see an opportunity in the new delay, while those waiting to benefit economically from the gas drilling process are feeling frustrated.
Governor Andrew Cuomo says he expects the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation will fail to meet a November 29 deadline to propose new rules for the gas drilling process known as hydrofracking.
“We are not going to be able to,” Cuomo said. “The state wont finish the review by November 29th.”
Speaking in Rochester, Cuomo says the environmental agency will have to apply for an extension, which could delay the process for up to another six months.
The Health and Environmental Departments have agreed that a health review needs to be finished before new fracking rules can be finalized. The state Health Commissioner, Dr. Nirav Shah, just a few days before Thanksgiving, contracted with three nationally known health experts to help him examine the material.
Groups who oppose fracking say they will use the new delay as an opportunity to try to prevent the drilling from ever happening in New York . Walter Hang, with Toxics Targeting, says his group will be writing letters to the three health experts to urge a thorough health review.
“We’re going to call upon them to make sure that they address all of those concerns,” Hang said.
Hang says there have been reports of past drinking water contamination, and failure to clean up past pollution from drilling. But he worries that the review will be narrowly focused, and not address opponents’ concerns, and he says he is frustrated that the details of the review have not been made public.
“What are they supposed to do? That has never been disclosed,” said Hang. “We don’t know what the scope of their review is.”
Pro-fracking groups say they are fed up with all of the delays. Dan Fitzsimmons is president of the Joint Landowners Coalition, a group of 77,000 landowners, who he says have been working to see that New Yorkers who sign leases with the gas companies get a fair deal. The coalition has written its own letter to the governor, saying the latest obstacle is a “breach of faith” in government. He says Cuomo, who has maintained that science would determine whether fracking goes ahead in New York, is getting cold feet in the face of growing opposition.
“He seems to not be looking at the science anymore,” said Fitzsimmons. “He’s basing his decisions, and a lot of what he’s doing, on emotions.”
Fitzsimmons says health effects of fracking have already been studied extensively, and numerous other states and nations have fracked successfully for years. He says he and his neighbors have only to look across the southern border into Pennsylvania, to see the economic benefits that gas drilling can bring.
“It’s so frustrating,” said Fitzsimmons, who says he sees thriving businesses in Pennsylvania, and farmers repairing their homes and barns and buying new tractors.
“It’s incredible to see the benefits that this has brought,” said Fitzsimmons. “But yet, that border that’s sitting here, that invisible line, we can’t take advantage of that.”
There is one thing that pro- and anti-fracking forces can agree on. Both say there’s been a disturbing lack of transparency in the fracking review process.
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- Year Published: 1922
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: United States of America
- Source: Fitzgerald, F.S. (1922) Tales of the Jazz Age. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 12.0
- Word Count: 248
Fitzgerald, F. (1922). MAY DAY Chapter XI. Tales of the Jazz Age (Lit2Go Edition). Retrieved May 24, 2013, from
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "MAY DAY Chapter XI." Tales of the Jazz Age. Lit2Go Edition. 1922. Web. <>. May 24, 2013.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "MAY DAY Chapter XI," Tales of the Jazz Age, Lit2Go Edition, (1922), accessed May 24, 2013,.
In a bedroom of a small hotel just off Sixth Avenue Gordon Sterrett awoke with a pain in the back of his head and a sick throbbing in all his veins. He looked at the dusky gray shadows in the corners of the room and at a raw place on a large leather chair in the corner where it had long been in use. He saw clothes, dishevelled, rumpled clothes on the floor and he smelt stale cigarette smoke and stale liquor. The windows were tight shut. Outside the bright sunlight had thrown a dust–filled beam across the sill—a beam broken by the head of the wide wooden bed in which he had slept. He lay very quiet—comatose, drugged, his eyes wide, his mind clicking wildly like an unoiled machine.
It must have been thirty seconds after he perceived the sunbeam with the dust on it and the rip on the large leather chair that he had the sense of life close beside him, and it was another thirty seconds after that before that he realized that he was irrevocably married to Jewel Hudson.
He went out half an hour later and bought a revolver at a sporting goods store. Then he took a took a taxi to the room where he had been living on East Twenty–seventh Street, and, leaning across the table that held his drawing materials, fired a cartridge into his head just behind the temple.
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Is it possible to run a windows form application or a console application under system account... Like asp.net application can run under system account by changing machine config file . This is to give more privileges to the program ...
Two ways to get a program to run under a different user context than the one you're currently logged on as:
Use the RUNAS command
This will pop open a console window asking for the password. The RUNAS command can not be given a password through the command line, it has to be typed in by the user for security reasons.
Create a shortcut to the program that runs it under different credentials
First create the shortcut, then edit the properties of it, and on the first tab, click Advanced. On the dialog that pops up, check the "Run with different credentials".
When you start the program through the shortcut, it will pop up a dialog asking for which username and password you wish the program to run under. Again you cannot store the username and password for security reasons.
If you want to create a shortcut or similar that automatically selects a new user context, then I'm afraid you need to find a tool online, unless you mean to run the program as a service or similar.
Yes. You can run any app under the system account. One technique is to launch it as a scheduled task, or by using the "at" command line utility.
Unfortunately, however, since Windows Vista, applications run in this way can't interact with the user, since they run in a different session.
This means that running a WinForms (or any kind of GUI, really) application in this way is kinda pointless. Similarly for a console app, if you want to see the output.
If it's for a one-off, you can probably live with it. Otherwise, you should be looking at creating a Windows Service, which can be configured to run under any user account (including SYSTEM). If you want to interact with it, you'll need to implement a separate app that talks to it through (e.g.) .NET remoting.
It sounds like you're attacking the symptom rather than the problem. What exactly does your program need to do that requires additional permissions? Maybe there's a different way of accomplishing that task without requiring any kind of elevation.
That depends on what your goal is. If you want it to run under the system account and let a user interact with it, you can't do that. If you absolutely need to do this your best bet it to create a service that handles the operations that require additional priveleges and runs as System, and the connect to that service from a GUI running as user. However, if you go this route, realize that you're creating a hole in the security boundary between what a standard user can do and what System can do so be sure you protect the connection between the GUI and the service and limit the scope of the service to only what you absolutely need it to do.
As lassevk mentions if you just need to do this once or occasionally you can use runas to run in another security context but still have an interactive GUI / console.
On the other hand, if you just want it to run unattended at a certain time, you should be able to use the task scheduler like Martin suggests.
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Visionary Leadership: Courageous Behavior Yields Big Payoffs
When Nick Craig works with executives on leadership, he begins with identifying their "True North." Craig defines this concept in terms of knowing yourself, your purpose, and your vision. "Leadership is highly personal," Craig says. "It begins with the self. If you're not sure about who you are, if you haven't defined your unique purpose and vision, why should anyone follow you - especially during these times?" President of the Authentic Leadership Institute and co-author with Bill George of Finding Your True North, Craig is slated to lead an authentic leadership session in the June running of Wharton's Advanced Management Program.
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Well Child Care at 2 1/2 Years
Family meals are important for your child. Letting your child eat with you makes her feel like part of the family. Let your child feed herself. It is good to let your child help choose what foods to eat. Be sure to give her only nutritious foods to choose from. Lower fat content in milk and other dairy products is often a good idea. Ask your healthcare provider about 2% or skim milk.
It is very important for your child to be completely off a bottle. Ask your healthcare provider for help if she is still using one.
Two-and-a-half year olds often have lots of energy and curiosity yet they often lack social and language skills to know the limits of appropriate behavior. As such, this is a time when parents and child alike need lots of support. A parent needs lots of energy, patience and interest in teaching her child.
Some children show signs that they are ready for toilet training. When your child starts reporting wet or soiled diapers to you, this is a sign that your child prefers to be dry. Praise your child for telling you. Toddlers are naturally curious about other people using the bathroom. If your child seems curious, let him go to the bathroom with you. Buy a potty chair and leave it in a room in which your child usually plays. It is important not to put too many demands on the child or shame the child about toilet training. When your child does use the toilet, let him know how proud you are.
Testing the rules and limits is common. Parents need to be consistent in following through with reasonable rules. Rules should not be too strict or too lenient. Enforce the rules fairly every time. Be gentle but firm with your child even when the child wants to break a rule. Many parents find this age difficult, so ask your healthcare provider for advice on managing behavior.
Here are some good methods to help children learn rules and keep them safe:
- Divert and substitute. If a child is playing with something you don't want him to have, replace it with another object or toy that he enjoys. This approach avoids a fight and does not place children in a situation where they'll say "no."
- Teach and lead. Have as few rules as necessary and enforce them. These rules should be rules important for the child's safety. If a rule is broken, after a short, clear, and gentle explanation, immediately find a place for your child to sit alone for 2 minutes. It is very important that a "time-out" comes immediately after a rule is broken.
- Make consequences as logical as possible. For example, if you don't stay in your car seat, the car doesn't go. If you throw your food, you don't get any more and may be hungry.
- Be consistent with discipline. Don't make threats that you cannot carry out. If you say you're going to do it, do it.
Spend time teaching your child how to play. Encourage imaginative play and sharing of toys, but don't be surprised that 2-and-one-half year-olds usually do not want to share toys with anyone else.
Mild stuttering is common at this age. It usually goes away on its own by the age of 4 years. Do not hurry your child's speech. Ask your healthcare provider about your child's speech if you are worried.
Reading and Electronic Media
It is important to set rules about television watching. Limit total TV time to 1 hour per day. Watch television shows with your child. Ask your child questions about what the characters were doing and how they were feeling. Children should not be allowed to watch shows with violence or sexual behaviors. Find other activities you can do with your child. Reading, hobbies, and physical activities are good alternatives to TV.
Child-proof the home. Go through every room in your house and remove anything that is either valuable, dangerous, or messy. Preventive child-proofing will stop many possible discipline problems. Don't expect a child not to get into things just because you say no.
Fires and Burns
- Practice a fire escape plan.
- Check smoke detectors. Replace the batteries if necessary.
- Check food temperatures carefully. They should not be too hot.
- Keep hot appliances and cords out of reach.
- Keep electrical appliances out of the bathroom.
- Keep matches and lighters out of reach.
- Don't allow your child to use the stove, microwave, hot curlers, or iron.
- Turn your water heater down to 120°F (50°C).
- Teach your child not to climb on furniture or cabinets. Do not place furniture (on which children may climb) near windows or on balconies.
- Install window guards on windows above the first floor (unless this is against your local fire codes.)
- Lock doors to dangerous areas like the basement.
- Use an approved toddler car seat correctly.
- Sometimes toddlers may not want to be placed in car seats. Gently but consistently put your child into the car seat every time you ride in the car.
- Give the child a toy to play with once in the seat.
- Parents wear seat belts.
- Never leave your child alone in a car.
- Hold onto your child when you are near traffic.
- Provide a play area where balls and riding toys cannot roll into the street.
- Continuously watch your child around any water.
- Keep all medicines, vitamins, cleaning fluids, and other chemicals locked away.
- Put poison center number on all phones.
- Buy medicines in containers with safety caps.
- Do not store poisons in drink bottles, glasses, or jars.
- Children who live in a house where someone smokes have more respiratory infections. Their symptoms are also more severe and last longer than those of children who live in a smoke-free home.
- If you smoke, set a quit date and stop. Set a good example for your child. If you cannot quit, do NOT smoke in the house or near children.
- Teach your child that even though smoking is unhealthy, he should be civil and polite when he is around people who smoke.
Routine infant vaccinations are usually completed before this age. However some children may need to catch up on recommended shots at this visit. Children over 6 months of age should receive an annual flu shot. At age four, your child will need additional vaccinations. Ask your healthcare provider if you have any questions about whether your child needs any vaccines.
A three-year old check-up is recommended. Bring your child's shot card to all visits.
Written by Robert Brayden, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Published by RelayHealth.
Last modified: 2008-08-20
Last reviewed: 2009-04-23
This content is reviewed periodically and is subject to change as new health information becomes
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This area is dedicated to instruments that are less popular than those traditionally used by rock bands and brass bands. Including instruments used in Brazilian music such as surdo, timbales, repiniques and agogo bells, instruments of African origin such as congas and djembes and instruments developed in Europe and America such as the concertina, accordion and harmonica. At Review Centre, we have unbiased consumer reviews to help you choose which musical instruments to buy, and because they're written by musicians who have used them, there isn't a better source of advice.
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Compensation for chief executives at American companies grew 15 percent in 2011 after a 28 percent rise in 2010, part of a larger trend that has seen CEO pay skyrocket over the last three decades. Workers, on the other hand, have been left behind.
Since 1978, CEO pay at American firms has risen 725 percent, more than 127 times faster than worker pay over the same time period, according to new data from the Economic Policy Institute:
From 1978 to 2011, CEO compensation increased more than 725 percent, a rise substantially greater than stock market growth and the painfully slow 5.7 percent growth in worker compensation over the same period.
In 1978, CEOs took home 26.5 times more than the average worker. They now make roughly 206 times more than workers, EPI found. The pay isn’t always tied to the performance of their businesses — as ThinkProgress has noted, CEOs at companies like Bank of America often pocket huge pay increases even as the company’s stock price plummets and jobs are cut.
Workers’ wages aren’t tied to productivity either. Despite substantial gains in productivity since the 1970s, worker pay has remained flat. According to Labor Department data cited by the Huffington Post, inflation-adjusted wages fell 2 percent in 2011.
As a result, American income inequality has skyrocketed, growing worse than it is in countries like Pakistan and Ivory Coast. Wealth inequality is worse than it was even in Ancient Rome. And, as pay skyrockets and tax rates fall for the richest Americans, the rising inequality has left the bottom 95 percent of Americans saddled with more debt than ever before.
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Ridge and ValleyArticle Free Pass
Ridge and Valley, physiographic province, part of the Appalachian Highlands in the eastern United States. It is bordered on the east by the Blue Ridge and Piedmont provinces and on the west by the Appalachian Plateau. As its name implies, the province is a series of alternating ridges and valleys extending for nearly 1,200 miles (1,930 km) from the St. Lawrence Valley in upstate New York to the Coastal Plain of central Alabama. Its width varies from 14 to 80 miles (23 to 130 km). In the north, the Hudson Valley section extends southward along the Hudson River valley from the Vermont–New York border and southwestward along Kittatinny Mountain into eastern Pennsylvania. The Middle section curves through central Pennsylvania, western Maryland, and eastern West Virginia to the Tennessee Valley Divide in western Virginia and includes the renowned Shenandoah Valley of northern Virginia. The Great Valley that is central to this section continues southwestward as the Tennessee, or Southern, section.
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rom delicious billion-dollar scandals to uplifting tales of the human condition and narratives about the country's economic progress, India boasts a bountiful supply of compelling stories.
Parimala Bhat wants to know about all of them. But the 52-year-old Mumbai resident is blind and for years she had to rely on TV news channels to satisfy her craving for news.
For the past several years, Bhat has subscribed to Sparshdnyan, a local newspaper that has carved itself an unusual niche in India's surging media industry: the paper, whose name translates to "knowledge by touch" is written in Braille, making it one of the world's few newspapers to cater to the visually impaired.
"You know how satisfying it is to sit and just read," says Bhat, a healthcare worker with Air India. "It's the same for the blind. The TV and radio are fine, but I love being able to save my paper for the night-time when I'm by myself and get involved in a story. It's a different sense reading the paper instead of listening to news. It's just incredibly satisfying."
Published twice a month, Sparshdnyan is sent to about 400 subscribers in Maharashtra. While its circulation may be modest, readership is growing fast. Most issues are sent to institutes for the blind, where each copy is read by an estimated 60 people. The paper's readership is estimated at about 24,000, says editor Swagat Thorat.
Three-year-old Sparshdnyan would seem to be a notable success story in India's vibrant media sector. A team of local journalists volunteer their time to write for the paper, which averages about 48 pages per issue, and readers and government officials alike praise its coverage of local politics and social issues, Thorat says.
"We get about 600 to 700 letters to the editor every month," says the 50-year-old. "We have readers from ten-years-old to 80 but I think more than half, probably 60%, are between 18 and 35."
Thorat isn't the first news editor who has recognised there's a market for the visually impaired.
Some newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal, offer a service that reads newspapers over the phone at a 300-words-a-minute clip, twice the speed of the average conversation. It maybe informative, but it can hardly be called relaxing. There are also computer programs offering text-to-speech programs that similarly read stories aloud.
And while technology sure has improved the immediacy of news for the visually impaired, there are still a handful of newspapers that rely on centuries-old Braille.
A student at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth in Paris, Louis Braille in the 1820s adapted a cipher language of bumps, called night writing, which was created by a French Army officer for soldiers to send secret messages in the dark. Braille developed a method of writing using a pattern of dots aligned in two vertical rows — the letter "A" for instance, is a represented by a single dot in the upper left corner.
Braille newspapers have been published in locations including Italy, Japan, Ethiopia and California.
But even Braille supporters say there are drawbacks to the practice. The paper required for it is expensive and thick, making publications expensive to produce. The National Braille Press in Boston, for instance, recently printed the Harry Potter series in Braille, a 56-volume effort with each volume nearly a foot tall.
Sparshdnyan's news slant is eclectic. A recent issue featured the review of an autobiography by a local college professor who is blind, an editorial on corruption, an issue that has dominated headlines across newspapers this summer, and a feature story about doctors who overmedicate.
There was also a section giving advice about public speaking, a travel story on the Maharashtra district of Raigad, where tourists flock to hiking trails 1,000 metres above sea level, a recipe for keema pulao, and a general knowledge quiz.
"We cover almost everything," Thorat says, "but there are a few topics we don't like."
One, surprisingly, is India's national passion: cricket.
"The paper we use is very expensive because it's so thick for the Braille and I just don't want to waste it on a topic that is covered in so many other places," he says. "I want to make sure we have more on things like science technologies, missions to Mars, and maybe more on India's foreign policy." Despite positive reviews from his readers, it hasn't been all happy news for Sparshdnyan.
For three years, the advertising company that has worked with Thorat has failed to sell a single ad in his paper. It begs the question, why hasn't he sacked his partner and found someone else to broker deals with local advertisers.
"I still want a future with them and hope they can turn it around but I am starting to think about getting someone new," says Thorat, who refuses to identify the company that's said to be searching for ads for Sparshdnyan.
Thorat, who also produces documentary films about India's wildlife, says he covers his Rs 30,000 administrative costs by selling wildlife photos and films. A group of supporters pay the monthly bill of Rs 30,000 for paper. Since the paper is written in Braille, postage is free.
"It's important that this newspaper be published," says Suchita Shaha, a Mumbai psychologist who has raised Rs 50,000 from friends and neighbours to help cover Thorat's expenses. "It's not like it is in the West. There are no facilities here in India for the blind, no seeing-eye dogs. We need to do more to help."
Despite his difficulties attracting advertisers, Thorat says he believes that there's a demand for more Braille newspaper coverage. An estimated 10 million Indians are visually impaired and within a year, Thorat plans to launch a daily title.
"It will require about Rs 400,000 and this time I'll be running it as a proper business investment only," he says.
One reason he's optimistic about a daily is that government policy in Maharashtra prevents public-sector advertising in publications that don't publish at least weekly. A daily Braille newspaper, Thorat says, would draw ads for various employment schemes and other government programs.
"I still think private companies will come around," Thorat says. "Right now, the blind in India just aren't being looked at as consumers. Companies don't realise that they still buy hair oil and toothpaste and cellphones."
Sitting next to a roadside tea stall where local men sipped on steaming masala tea, despite the oppressive Mumbai summer heat and humidity, Bhat, the Air India official, says she's come to love her bi-weekly newspaper fix.
"It seems like I start saying 'is it here yet' on the first day of every month until it finally comes," Bhat says with a gleeful laugh.
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Downed trees, wires litter region; many coastal areas flooded; Stonington borough cut off
Buffeted by wind gusts from Hurricane Sandy approaching 80 mph and facing a ferocious tidal surge that caused flooding along the shoreline from Old Saybrook to Westerly, hundreds of southeastern Connecticut residents flowed into local emergency shelters Monday, hoping that the homes they had left behind would remain intact overnight.
Flooding risk along the shoreline was expected to be highest during high tides at 10 p.m. Monday and 10 a.m. today in New London.
At 7 p.m. Monday, streets in Stonington borough quickly flooded, and the village was cut off from the mainland. Emergency officials worked to set up a makeshift shelter at the borough firehouse for residents who were trapped by the flood waters. The shelter was set up on the second floor because the first floor was flooded.
“The borough is an island right now. There’s nothing we can do about it,” Director of Emergency Preparedness George Brennan said.
Flooding and downed wires and trees were making it almost impossible for emergency personnel to get around town. “A lot of this town is isolated right now. We’re in dire straits if we have to get a firefighter or police officer anywhere,” Brennan said.
Also Monday, the roof of the Quality Inn in Mystic peeled off, and water leaked into the building and flowed into the electrical system.
Officials across the region were most concerned Monday about coastal flooding and downed trees. But today, the biggest problem may be the lack of electricity for the thousands of residents who lost power Monday.
As of 9:30 p.m., Connecticut Light & Power reported 475,839 customers were without power, about 38 percent of the total households served by the utility. Thousands more were expected to lose electricity before the storm finished delivering its worst by Monday evening.
In southeastern Connecticut, the hardest-hit communities were East Lyme, Stonington, Montville, Waterford, Groton, New London, North Stonington, Salem and
“Everybody is affected,” CL&P spokesman Mitch Gross said.
NL, Stonington hard hit
At his 6 p.m. briefing, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy reported that the New London and Stonington areas experienced the worst hurricane wind lashings in the state, with ferocious gusts as high as 80 mph, and the highest number of power outages.
“Southeastern Connecticut seems to be the most heavily impacted,” Malloy said.
Malloy had ordered that all major roadways be closed off to non-emergency vehicles by 1 p.m. Monday. New London followed suit, with Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio ordering that city streets also be closed to non-emergency vehicles by 1 p.m.
“To put it in perspective, we’re talking about twice as much water in Long Island Sound than in Irene,” he said.
“I’m not going to mince words,” Malloy said. “This is the most catastrophic event that we have faced and been able to plan for in any of our lifetimes.”
Hundreds of people checked into American Red Cross shelters throughout the region as of midday Monday. Many of the evacuees were fleeing from homes affected by warnings of flooding, which quickly became reality Monday.
In East Lyme, Atlantic Street and Shore Road were flooded. Main Street at Cini Park was closed, as was Route 156 at the Niantic River bridge. Oil Mill Road in Waterford was closed by emergency personnel. Groton Town police reported that Water Street and River Road near Route 27 had flooded.
Dozens of other roads in the region were blocked by downed trees and live wires.
Monday morning’s high tide inundated parts of downtown Mystic, flooding the public parking area and portions of the riverside docks and streets along the Mystic River. Downtown shops, sandbags stacked at their entrances, were closed, and the Mystic River was creeping precariously close to the drawbridge.
Outside the Tradewinds Gallery on West Main Street, John Sarpu made some last-minute preparations, covering the glass entrance with plywood. Sarpu works for Jerome Properties, which owns several downtown buildings.
He said awnings had been cranked in and signs removed. Along with plywood and sandbags, he was using silicone to fill in some of the cracks where water could seep in.
On the Stonington side of the Mystic River, onlookers gathered near the flooded park to watch the water rise. Mystic resident Kathy Gauthier snapped some photos of what she said was “history in the making.”
“I grew up here, and I’ve never seen it like this,” she said.
Gauthier said even her mother, who lived through the Hurricane of 1938, said she was impressed by the height of the water.
In New London, the Cross Sound Ferry parking lot and Water Street were under water, and the city’s animal shelter was crushed by a downed tree. Docks along Pequot Avenue were under water even as low tide approached and winds gusted over 50 mph Monday afternoon.
Both the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and the Naval Submarine Base were closed Monday.
Electric Boat closed all three shifts — the first time since the February 2010 blizzard. Robert Hamilton, company spokesman, said no significant damage had been reported at the shipyard.
Unit 3 at the Millstone Power Station reduced its power to 75 percent Monday and installed flood barriers around the plant.
Ken Holt, spokesman for Millstone owner Dominion, said Unit 3 will be better able to handle any storm surges that could affect its intake water system at a lower power output. The lower output will also ensure that the plant would not destabilize the regional power grid if the plant has to shut down due to Hurricane Sandy, he said.
Day Staff Writers Joe Wojtas and Jennifer McDermott contributed to this story.
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The Boca Raton Resort and Club, Boca Raton, Florida
From the Print Edition:
Sylvester Stallone, Mar/Apr 98
Today, Mizner's Dream is a ferryboat, shuttling seemingly blessed hotel guests over the IntraCoastal Waterway to a pure white beach, shaded by majestic palms on the Atlantic Ocean shoreline. But in the 1920s, long before Boca Raton became a fashionable retreat reputed for its sun-kissed pleasures, eccentric architect Addison Mizner realized another sort of dream that's been charming vacationers for decades.
At a then-astounding cost of $1,250,000, and with the financial backing of such notables as Irving Berlin and Elizabeth Arden, Mizner built "the most expensive 100-room hotel ever." Complete with grand staircases and high-arched loggias, this Venetian-styled cloister became the talk of Palm Beach, as red-coated footmen darted past fountained courtyards to pamper the era's social register.
The playful Berlin is no longer helping guests with their luggage, and, along with the disappearance of Mizner's menagerie (monkeys would walk through the lobby with him), there have been other changes at the 356-acre estate over the years. A 27-story tower was added in 1969 to provide a wide range of accommodations, from presidential suites to equally plush rooms overlooking the ocean.
Only a short walk from the glittering tower, the 6,253-yard championship golf course has also been given a face-lift. Here golfers must brave doglegs framed by long, winding lakes, and if they encounter problems on the testy greens, they can find help a mere 9-iron shot away at Dave Pelz's internationally reputed Short Game school. A former NASA rocket scientist, Pelz offers three-day sessions with such teaching aids as Perfy the Putting Robot.
The resort's new owner, Wayne Huizenga, is leading the hotel into the twenty-first century with such contemporary flourishes as a revamped health and fitness center and a proposed spa, but the "Boca's" past grandeur of Roaring Twenties decadence lives on.
This "sit back and be spoiled" tradition is especially honored at The Patio, an airy, sun-lit dining room notorious for its breakfast buffets. While calorie watchers can enjoy the heaping mounds of tropical fruits, the better bet is to relish the dizzying array of freshly made breads, smoked fish, seafood crepes and Cuban omelets.
After a relaxing day, diners can choose between Nick's Fishmarket, a lively oceanside spot where three-pound lobsters and juicy filet mignons are punctuated with a fine assortment of cigars in an adjoining lounge, and the Top of the Tower restaurant, which specializes in northern Italian veal and seafood dishes. The stunning views from this 27th-story restaurant are an aerial show of twinkling lights and planes darting through the sky. But for real late-night fire and smoke there's the not-to-be-missed El Lago Lounge.
Though attractively situated next to the yacht basin on the IntraCoastal, amid a garden of stately palms and other tropical trees, this cozy, wood-beamed hideaway was long an after-thought to both guests and management. Now offering a wide selection of cigars from La Gloria Cabanas to Partagas and Montecristos, along with bimonthly appearances by cigar rollers, the El Lago has been transformed into a smoker's haven by Carlos Ferreira, Bogota, Colombia's answer to Rick of Casablanca fame. "After years of having this place go unnoticed, I wanted to create a club-like atmosphere where cigar smokers could enjoy a Cognac or after-dinner cappuccino, and just relax with a good cigar," says Ferreira. "The El Lago is beautiful, and I wanted to show guests its charms."
He has more than succeeded.--Edward Kiersh
Edward Kiersh, a Florida-based
writer, is a regular contributor to Cigar Aficionado.
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As a sweetener to last week’s Wye River agreement, the Clinton administration is offering new aid to the Palestinians and Israelis.
Aid Hinges On Congress
As a sweetener to last week’s Wye River agreement, the Clinton administration is offering new aid to the Palestinians and Israelis. But on Capitol Hill, already sour on foreign aid and not a hotbed of support for Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat, the aid package could be a hard sell.
The fight over foreign aid could be tougher than ever in the upcoming Congress
James D. Besser
The fight over foreign aid could be tougher than ever in the upcoming Congress, and Israel’s support on Capitol Hill could be buffeted by the new violence and political upheaval in the region.
Last week the pro-Israel lobby began a preemptive effort to shore up support, especially among African-American members.
Lobbyists for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), concerned about what some see as a gradual erosion of support among members of the Congressional Black Caucus, met with a handful of Washington representatives for leading Jewish groups.
Republicans were quick to criticize the Clinton administration for playing politics with appointments to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, but a current member of the panel who had his chair yanked out from under him claims the Bush administration is doing just that.
After a major campaign by the pro-Israel lobby, the Bush administration has ended its opposition to an extra $200 million in military aid to help Israel with the soaring costs of its fight against terrorism.
The price: Pro-Israel forces will have to swallow an extra $50 million in humanitarian assistance for the Palestinians.
President George W. Bush may get a boost in the polls after a U.S. air strike killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the top al Qaeda leader in Iraq, but a growing number of Jewish voices are speaking out against the war. This week the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism issued an action alert urging its network of activists to support a bill in the House that would require President Bush to “develop and implement a plan for the withdrawal of the United States armed forces from Iraq.”
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The perfect training supplement for martial artists, The Martial Artist's Book of Yoga shows how the ancient practice of yoga was the genesis of all martial arts. It clearly illustrates how specific yoga poses can directly improve one's martial arts abilities, with asanas that the reader can easily incorporate into a balanced workout. Designed for those practicing any martial art including judo, karate, kung fu, tae kwon do, jujitsu, and hapkido, the book explains the training needs and challenges of the various universal techniques: kicks, strikes, blocks, throws, falls, joint locks, and grappling. Then the author identifies the underlying fundamentals necessary to advance one's skill in each area and presents a series of yoga poses specially selected to make those improvements - from increased flexibility and strength to better body control and balance.
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De-designation of two Federal Manatee Protection Areas Frequently Asked Questions
Q1: Why is the Service withdrawing its designations at the Pansy Bayou and Cocoa Beach Manatee Refuges?
A1: In November 2002, the Service designated 13 manatee protection areas in Florida, including the Pansy Bayou Manatee Refuge in Sarasota County and the Cocoa Beach Manatee Refuge in Brevard County (67 FR 68450). In designating these areas, the Service recognized that the State might provide comparable protection in some areas.
The Pansy Bayou Manatee Refuge and Cocoa Beach Manatee Refuge are two such areas. State and Federal manatee-protection regulations both called for slow, year-round vessel speed. As such the Service has decided to withdraw its refuge designation and to defer to the State’s regulations governing waterborne activities currently in effect in both of these areas (F.A.C. 68C-22.026 and 22.006, respectively). Additionally, the Service believes the State’s variance and exemption regulations will not decrease manatee protection in these particular areas.
Q2: Was the public given an opportunity to participate in this process?
A2: Yes. During a 30-day public comment period, the Service solicited comments or suggestions from the public, other concerned governmental agencies, the scientific community, industry, or any other interested party concerning this rule.
Q3: Is the action a result of previous or current litigation?
A3: No. The original designations were determined by the Service to be warranted and prudent at the time. Because the State has subsequently implemented comparable protections in these areas, the Service believes it prudent to withdraw its Federal designations.
Q4: Will the Service make additional proposals to withdraw its designations in other areas where Federal and State overlaps exist?
A4: The Service continually reviews manatee conservation measures, will keep taking an active role in manatee protection and will exercise its right, if necessary, to designate, re-designate, or de-designate sites in the State.
Q5: The State’s regulations provide for variances and exemptions. Are their manatee refuge designations at Pansy Bayou and Cocoa Beach really comparable with the Federal manatee refuges?
A5: The State currently regulates the same two geographical areas that the Service is de-designating, and both State and Federal regulations require boats to proceed at slow speeds year round. The manner in which the State regulates manatee protection areas is not identical. Nevertheless, the Service does not believe that State or local regulatory mechanisms must be identical in language to be comparable in effect. The Service supports the efforts of the State and of local governments to properly protect manatees even if the regulatory mechanisms are not identical in language or effect.
Q6: Does the decision to withdraw these two Federal manatee refuge designations mean the Service is turning over management of Florida manatees to the State?
A6: No. The Service is the Federal agency responsible for manatee management and protection, and as such it must take an active role in regulatory activities involving the manatee.
However, the Service believes that the protection of the Florida manatee requires the active participation of Federal, State, and local government agencies. The Service is committed to continuing the protection of the manatee by working cooperatively with partners at the Federal, State, and local levels, as well as with private entities and members of the public.
Q7: How do you define comparable measures?
A7: Comparable measures are similar in scope and effect, thereby achieving the management objectives for that location.
Q8: How can I obtain copies of the final withdrawal rule?
A8: The withdrawal, fact sheet and a list of frequently asked questions are available online at http://www.fws.gov/northflorida. Paper copies may be requested in writing by email to email@example.com, by fax at 904-232-2404, or by regular mail to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Attn: MPA Withdrawal Rule, 6620 Southpoint Dr., South, Suite 310, Jacksonville, FL 32216-0958.
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The shoulder is a complex ball and socket joint that relies on muscles and tendons to function, and therefore is subject to many different types of injuries. Some of the most common shoulder injuries are muscle strains, capsule tears, bursitis (bur-SYE-tis), tendonitis (ten-duh-NYE-tis) and separated and dislocated shoulders. Muscle strains can result from acute, explosive injury or a chronic condition attributed to faulty mechanics or overuse. A partial or complete tear of any of your rotator cuff muscles can be very debilitating and may require the immediate attention of a physician, especially if you suffer a loss in range of motion. Most cases of bursitis or tendonitis are chronic conditions that signal overuse and poor mechanics. A separated shoulder typically occurs when you fall or get hit on the apex of your shoulder, tearing the ligament that holds the collarbone to the top of your shoulder. Shoulder dislocations, on the other hand, is when the ball comes out of the socket joint. In most cases, this injury is followed by immediate disability, and proper realignment is important so that no further injury to the surrounding tissue, nerves and blood supply occurs. Implementing a good stretching and strengthening program can help you avoid many shoulder injuries. In many cases, ice and rest from activities prompting pain can be a helpful remedy.
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